"Chapter 32: The Cavalry Question"
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Speaking of the issue of gods, we have to mention the temple of the original Tasya tribe, at the beginning of the development of the city of Rome, Bai Feng once exchanged eight silver statues for the small gods in their temple, but the four big gods were never obtained by Bai Feng.
Later, when the Tasya tribal alliance was split, the druids in those temples actually entered the town of Tasia with the four great gods, and built their own temple of gods in addition to the temple built in Rome.
Helplessly, Bai Feng tried to persuade those druids to give up the four great gods and enter the new temple several times, but unfortunately the stubborn druids were unwilling, and even clearly told Bai Feng that they would never enter other temples with the great gods.
Unable to do anything, Bai Feng had to turn to their former leader Gamilios, who was clearly not aware of the status of the druids and the tribal leaders, and was kicked out before he could walk outside the temple.
Things have developed to this point, and Bai Feng, who adheres to the religious beliefs of the barbarian people, has to give up his coveting of the four great gods, and in this way, the four great gods that Bai Feng has always regarded as a bag of things have not been obtained by Bai Feng through the opportunity of migration.
After returning from the Temple of Apollo, the population of Rome had exceeded 20,000, and Bai Feng recruited a new tax collector and a tribune for the city, as well as a patrol guard, and after that, Bai Feng began to think about spending money.
The main affairs of this month have all been arranged, but there are still 1,100 gold left in the treasury of Rome City, and Bai Feng, who can't save the money, naturally has to find a way to spend this treasury funds, and the best way is undoubtedly to recruit spellcasters or battlefield ghosts.
These two special classes of troops, from a practical point of view, are more valuable than battlefield ghosts, after all, the caster is only a pure ranged attack force, and its existence value is basically equivalent to that of the mages of this world.
But the battlefield ghosts are different, they are not simply measured by high-level swordsmen, especially the performance of Adrien on the battlefield last time, which has infinitely elevated the status of the battlefield ghosts in Bai Feng's mind.
Perhaps the future assassins can have the strength to outperform the battlefield ghosts, but before the assassins are recruited, the battlefield ghosts are definitely more powerful than the spellcasters, and of course, Bai Feng can't completely deny the value of the spellcaster because of this.
Battlefield Ghosts do possess more power than spellcasters, but they also have their own unavoidable shortcomings, which is that their offense can only be used in group battles, and they are true melee masters.
Compared to the flaws of the battlefield ghosts, the casters are masters of long-range attacks, and the great power of the 'Spirit Gathering Blade' is something that Bai Feng has seen with his own eyes, and if the casters can upgrade to a higher level, then their attacks will be even sharper.
The strength of the army of the Roman City system is definitely not only supported by those ordinary troops, but also the melee coordination of the battlefield ghosts and the long-range assistance of the spellcaster; Bai Feng recruited three more battlefield ghosts last time, bringing the number of battlefield ghosts in Rome City to four, and they are led by the first battlefield ghost Adrian.
This time, Bai Feng planned to use the remaining 1100 gold to recruit four spellcasters, so that Webster, who was the leader of the spellcasters, also had some other spellcasters to deploy;
This September, the city of Rome will have to recruit five Roman youth troops, one town militia, seven double-lined warships, and four spellcasters, and the recruitment of these army ships alone will take the city seventeen days!
Fortunately, the recruitment time of Rome City is one team a day, if this is really the same as in the game, then Rome City will not develop;
Ever since the twin warships of Rome began patrolling the left flank of the Cangluo River, Nelson's patrol cavalry on the south bank had never spotted spies from the eastern alliance on the north bank, which also relieved the external pressure on the city of Rome to a certain extent.
The success of Gamilios and Brono has effectively solved the internal problems of the city of Rome, and now Bai Feng is waiting for the passage of time until all aspects of the city of Rome are ready, and it is time for the Roman army to unify the Esine tribe.
What Bai Feng was still waiting for at this time was nothing more than two things: first, the fleet of ten twin warships in Rome City was officially formed, and second, the combat effectiveness of all legions in Rome City had been greatly improved, especially the Cheetah Legion.
Under the strict instruction of the two Spartan heavy infantry, Gatus's Cheetah Legion had initially taken on the appearance of the Macedonian phalanx; although the coordination between the cavalry, longbowmen, sword and shield warriors and the pikemen phalanx was still not strict enough, the frontal super-long spear phalanx listed by the pikemen was really different from what it used to be, at least ten times stronger than before!
According to Bai Feng's standard, the Cheetah Legion's super-long spear phalanx before the Spartan heavy infantry was not strictly trained, and its combat effectiveness and anti-attack ability were similar to those of the Greek militia; after the training of the Spartan heavy infantry, the Geetah Legion's super-long spear phalanx already had the strength to surpass the Greek pikemen, about the same level as the Macedonian pikemen.
The task given by Bai Feng to the Spartan heavy infantry was to train the pikemen of the Cheetah Legion to the level of the Greek heavy infantry, so that the pikemen of the Cheetah Legion could truly exert the great power of the Macedonian phalanx.
In addition to the Cheetah Legion's super-long spear phalanx, the combat effectiveness of the longbowmen and sword and shield warriors did not need Bai Feng to worry about at all, and the combat effectiveness of these two arms of the Cheetah Legion was much stronger than the two arms under the command of Alexander the Great.
However, the problem of cavalry still bothered Bai Feng, the reason why Alexander the Great's Macedonian phalanx could dominate the world was inseparable from the powerful partner cavalry under his command, and there was no doubt that the cavalry combat effectiveness of the Cheetah Legion was still too weak.
Their combat effectiveness is more than a step worse than that of Nelson's cavalry, not to mention the companion cavalry who dominates the battlefield, but the improvement of cavalry combat effectiveness is much more difficult than that of other troops, especially under the premise that Bai Feng himself does not understand cavalry training.
In fact, the Essini tribe still has a hand in the training of cavalry, after all, Nelson's cavalry was received from Queen Boudicca, and the Aceni tribe was their trump card when it was in the time of Plasus.
It just so happened that Queen Boudicca had been living in the Doge's palace for some time, so Bai Feng asked Queen Boudicca about the cavalry, and Queen Boudicca confessed that the Essini tribe did have a large cavalry, but all of them were in the hands of her eldest brother Francis.