Land is too big a ship for me, a woman too beautiful, a trip too long, a bottle of perfume too pungent, a kind of music that I can't compose. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

- Giusebe Tornatore (upstart director of the Italian genre of realistic cinema)

With the formation and transformation of the Cheetah Legion and the Tasya Legion, the city of Rome now has two legions dedicated to fighting in the Macedonian phalanx, and the combat effectiveness of these two phalanx legions will be further improved in the future.

Judging from the current situation alone, the actual combat effectiveness of these two phalanx legions in Rome is still more than a star and a half compared to the real phalanx troops, and the Macedonian royal pikemen recruited by the temple can be called real phalanx troops.

As for the Spartan heavy infantry, needless to say, how many other troops in the entire history of mankind can be compared with the legendary Spartan heavy infantry?

If a quantitative data is used to show the gap between the barbarian phalanx formed in the city of Rome and the Macedonian royal pikemen, then the combat effectiveness of the Macedonian royal pikemen can be expressed in eight terms, while the combat effectiveness of the barbarian phalanx in the city of Rome is only one.

It was almost impossible for the barbarian phalanx troops in Rome to have the same combat effectiveness as the Macedonian royal pikemen, and Bai Feng's highest hope for the barbarian phalanx troops was to have the same combat effectiveness as the Greek heavy infantry.

But in fact, the combat effectiveness of the current barbarian phalanx troops is at most slightly stronger than that of the Greek militia, and whether they can compare with the Greek infantry is a question; there is no way, the discipline of the barbarian warriors is really too poor.

Even if discipline can be cultivated slowly, they don't know anything about the formation, but it is the most deadly, so it is not easy for Bai Feng to rely on his own efforts to form a phalanx force with the combat effectiveness of the Greek heavy infantry.

Thankfully, the city of Rome, which has entered the city stage, has opened a significant special training function, and only when the city of Rome enters the big city stage in the future and builds a legion barracks, the barbarian phalanx troops in the city of Rome can carry out special training with a surge in combat power!

By that time, the two phalanx legions of Rome would be truly elite armies, and neither their enemies would be able to shake their Macedonian phalanx, whether they were fearless barbarian warriors or well-armed civilized armies.

The lack of the Roman legion in the phalanx troops, Bai Feng has already made up for it by forming the phalanx legion, and the Roman legion is short in terms of cavalry strength, Bai Feng has not taken any effective measures in a short period of time.

The formation of cavalry was already difficult to form than infantry, and the previous Roman city was extremely short of high-quality war horses, and based on these limited objective conditions alone, Bai Feng could not form a cavalry force with strong combat effectiveness out of thin air.

And the existence of the Roman City system did give Bai Feng a chance to relax in this regard, because among the systematic armies that could be recruited in Roman City, there were already cavalry troops, and the number was quite large.

From the Roman light cavalry, which could play the role of reconnaissance, to the Roman auxiliary cavalry (javelin cavalry) that could act as archery cavalry, to the Roman legionary cavalry and the Roman janissary cavalry, which could charge head-on, the cavalry strength of the Roman city still had a lot of room for development.

The existence of Marius's reform only greatly improved the combat strength of the Roman legionary infantry, and did not have a great impact on the Roman legionnaires; the Roman legions themselves could form cavalry units with good combat effectiveness.

But the crux of the matter is that among the systematic cavalry that can be recruited in Rome, there is a lack of top cavalry that can really affect the situation of the battle; what is the top cavalry? The ironclad cavalry of the Seleucid Empire, the royal cavalry of the Macedonian Kingdom, that is the real top cavalry!

The importance of cavalry in the era of cold weapons does not need to be repeated; from the Warring States period of Chinese history, the importance of cavalry in warfare has been increasing, and it was not until the advent of the era of hot weapons that cavalry was gradually eliminated from war.

An army without cavalry units will not be able to exert much actual combat strength; in a war in which multiple arms are combined, extremely mobile cavalry has always been a key factor in determining who can win on both sides of the battle.

Especially when the strength of the two belligerents is not much different, the collision of cavalry forces is even more important, and the cavalry of the winning side can rush to the battlefield in time and help their main infantry to attack the enemy's weak flank or back.

On the earth where Bai Feng originally lived, it was impossible to ignore the role of cavalry in any major battle in the Cold Weapon Era, and the heavy cavalry that Bai Feng valued the most was the king of cavalry!

The heavy cavalry is different from the ordinary cavalry, the heavy armor will bring great weight pressure to the cavalry's war horses, and directly lead to the limited combat range of the heavy cavalry, and there are only two conventional attack methods:

First, relying on the speed and strength of the horse's impact, the cavalry held the cavalry lance and stretched it forward, causing tremendous psychological pressure and actual damage to the opponent with the help of the high-speed movement of the mount; on the battlefield, the heavy cavalry scattered and attacked the enemy's battle formation, creating an opportunity for the friendly army to win.

The second is to use the movement speed of the horses to be free from the range of the enemy's long-range attack troops, and use long-range attack methods such as bows and arrows and javelins to cause psychological pressure on the enemy, induce chaos within the enemy's army, and create more battlefield tilt for the cavalry and infantry that attack the enemy's formation.

The second type of attack is often carried out by other light cavalry, so the actual attack method of heavy cavalry is generally to break through the enemy's battle formation with scattered attack clusters and charge to disperse the enemy forces who want to gather together.

Tough hoplites can always play a decisive role on the battlefield, but their shortcomings are just as obvious. The high cost of weapons and equipment and high-quality riding horses are unavoidable practical problems in the formation of heavy cavalry.

The cost of assembling conventional cavalry is already higher than that of conventional infantry, and even more difficult than assembling hoplites in infantry, while the assembling of hoplites is much more difficult and costly than assembling ordinary conventional cavalry.

It is no exaggeration to say that the heavy cavalry was a national strategic force in the era of cold weapons, and it was the most important kind of assault force on the battlefield of cold weapons.

The success of the Mongols is not replicable, the nomads are a people who live on horseback, Bai Feng is not capable of forming a cavalry force similar to the Mongol cavalry, but the formation of heavy cavalry can be copied, and can be perfectly replicated!

The existence of cavalry stables has given the city of Rome a steady stream of high-quality war horse resources, and when the time is right, Bai Feng will set out to form a heavy cavalry belonging to the city of Rome to make up for the lack of top cavalry in the Roman legions!