"Chapter 34: Special Training"

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After Bai Feng paid 30,000 gold for the treasury, the person in charge of the cavalry stable quickly arranged for the horse trainer to transfer 3,000 sturdy and high-quality war horses from the stable;

Because there was no special place to keep these 3,000 war horses in captivity at this time, Bai Feng's order was to let Maxi take the horse trainers to send the war horses to the barracks of the cavalry regiment first, at least there was a place to raise war horses, and these war horses could be raised temporarily.

After handing over the matter of the three thousand war horses to Maxi to deal with, Bai Feng took Darnell and Bai Sheng to the urban barracks on the left side of the cavalry stables;

The three of them hurried to the urban barracks, which consisted of small barracks, and inside was a lively scene completely different from the cavalry stables, which were full of war horses, while inside the urban barracks were countless young men undergoing rigorous training.

Each of these young men, who did not know whether they were counted among the total population of the city of Rome, wore black military uniforms and carried a Roman youth dagger, and the one in charge of training the young men was a veteran dressed as a centurion.

According to Bai Feng's conjecture, once he recruited a group of Roman youth army or Roman heavy infantry in the recruitment column of the city of Rome, these young men who were training would be quickly armed and under the leadership of their instructors, they would become the official system army of the city of Rome.

The shrewd and capable veteran instructors were clearly very experienced in actual combat, and were extremely familiar with the training of the Roman army, and they were familiar with the soldiers they had trained themselves, and were undoubtedly the best centurions to command them.

Seeing the young men and those qualified centurions who were training in front of him, Bai Feng understood why those newly recruited Roman system troops had good combat effectiveness, all of which came from the hard training in this military camp.

However, Bai Feng is not here today to watch their training, his purpose is to gain new gains in the urban military camp, which needs to be introduced to Bai Feng by the person in charge of the urban military camp.

With the experience in the cavalry stables, Bai Feng did not waste any more time listening to the person in charge of the city barracks introduce those irrelevant things one by one, he asked the person in charge straight to the point what he could get from the city barracks with the funds of the state treasury.

The person in charge of the city barracks, who was also caught off guard by the person in charge of the cavalry stables, forcibly took back all the words of introduction he had thought of, and then gave Bai Feng his answer on the actual situation of the city barracks.

The urban military camp is actually a large recruit training camp, they themselves are unable to produce weapons and equipment, and can only conduct strict military training for the recruited young people, so the urban military camp cannot provide Bai Feng with any substantial resources at all.

However, this does not mean that the role of the urban military camp is not great; on the contrary, the actual value of this urban military camp is even greater than Bai Feng imagined!

The urban military camp that could not provide substantial resources could actually help Bai Feng train the non-systematic army of Rome City! In other words, the legion formed by barbarian warriors in Rome City could be trained in the urban military camp to improve their combat effectiveness!

According to the detailed introduction of the person in charge, Bai Feng has a deeper understanding of this kind of training; first of all, the scale of this training is extremely limited, and the training of 10,000 fighters can only be completed at most every month, and the price charged is also extremely expensive.

The training of each soldier needs to pay 1 gold of treasury funds, and the training of 10,000 warriors is 10,000 gold of treasury funds, but compared to what he gets, Bai Feng thinks that this level of effort is completely worth it.

After 10,000 barbarian warriors with ordinary combat strength enter the urban military camp for training, within a month, they can become a regular army that is not inferior to the Roman youth army in terms of battle formation coordination, which is very terrifying for the improvement of their combat effectiveness!

You must know that the individual combat effectiveness of the barbarian warriors is far superior to that of the Roman youth army, and even the individual combat effectiveness of the Roman heavy infantry is inferior to that of the barbarian warriors, and the most lacking place of the barbarian warriors is the familiarity and cooperation with the battle array.

Why the barbarian warriors of the Roman city can defeat the southern invasion army of the Eastern Alliance with a weak victory and a strong victory rely on the Roman battle formation that Bai Feng has spent a lot of effort to promote, but the barbarian warriors have a limited degree of learning after all, and there is a huge gap between them and the real Roman army.

Now that this kind of training function of the urban military camp has been discovered by Bai Feng, it is not of general significance; once the barbarian warriors with strong individual combat effectiveness are completely integrated into the battle formation of the Roman army, then their combat effectiveness will really improve by leaps and bounds!

It is no exaggeration to say that if a field legion with a full strength of 14,500 soldiers had been trained in this way, the systematic legions of Licinius and Antio would have been completely reduced to the worst fighting regiment in Rome, and even the chances of turning over would be extremely slim.

It is certainly a good thing to be able to greatly increase the combat effectiveness of the army of the city of Rome, but it is debatable whether the overly powerful barbarian army is in the interests of the city of Rome, after all, the army composed of barbarian warriors is not a systematic army that is absolutely loyal to Bai Feng.

If these field legions, which have been trained and improved by leaps and bounds, are used by some barbarian generals with ulterior motives, the city of Rome, which has no army that can completely suppress them, will fall into a very passive situation, and even have the risk of internal collapse.

Bai Feng didn't dare to guarantee that all the barbarian generals in Rome City were loyal to him, and he didn't dare to ensure that those barbarian warriors were really willing to risk everything for Rome City; too many uncertainties made him dare not easily make up his mind to give full play to the greater value of the city's military camp.

After some careful consideration, Bai Feng still decided not to train the barbarian army on a large scale for the time being, at least until the systematic army of Rome City did not have the absolute superiority of the strength, Bai Feng would not train the field army composed of barbarian warriors on a large scale.

Of course, not training on a large scale does not mean not training, the powerful role of the urban military camp, Bai Feng still does not intend to abandon it in vain, the Governor's Guard commanded by the system general Peris is the most trustworthy of Bai Feng in the army composed of all barbarian warriors.

Whether it is Perris, who is a general of the system, or the barbarian warriors who are carefully selected to join the Doge's Guard, they still trust Bai Feng in their loyalty to himself and the city of Rome, so the soldiers of the Doge's Guard will be the first army to enter the city's military camp for special training.

Originally, the Governor's Guard, which had only 6,000 soldiers, had a total strength of 6,500 men after a new crossbow brigade was built, and in this way, their training expenses were 6,500 gold treasury funds, which Bai Feng paid immediately.