"Chapter 2: The Question of Casualties"
Small knowledge makes a person proud, and a wealth of knowledge makes a person humble. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Thus the hollow ears of grain proudly raise their heads to the sky, while the full ears of grain bow their heads to the earth and to its mother.
- Leonardo da Vinci (typical artist of the Renaissance)
Campaign Stats:
First Legion:
Roman Youth: 697 killed, 4231 killed, 984 healed, 1223 (full 1920, 36.3% killed)
Barbarian warriors: 1,893 killed, 1,948 killed, 1,735 healed, 2,107 (4,000 full, 47.3% killed)
Subtotal: 2,590 killed, 6,179 killed, 2,719 healed, 3,330 (full 5,920, 43.7% killed)
Cheetah Legion: 3,648 killed, 3,988 killed, 2,931 healed, 5,352 (full 9,000, 40.5% killed)
LTTE: 2,639 killed, 4,836 killed, 3,217 healed, 7,361 (full 10,000, 26.3% killed)
Eagle Legion: 832 killed, 1379 killed, 573 healed, 9168 (full 10000, 8.3% killed)
Mobile Units: 476 killed, 2,635 killed, 327 healed, 5,524 (full 6,000, 7.9% killed)
Doge's Guard: 1,274 killed, 4,679 killed, 133 healed, 133 (full 1,407, 90.5% killed)
Special Army:
Cretan archers: 0 killed, 327 killed, 0 healed, 108 people (full 108, 0% killed)
Germanic Berserkers: 0 killed, 589 killed, 48 healed, 48 (full 48.0% killed)
Caster: 0 killed, 375 killed, 0 healed, 1 number (1 full, 0% killed)
Battlefield Ghosts: 0 killed, 124 killed, 0 healed, 1 number (1 full, 0% killed)
Allies: 5,793 killed, 4,679 killed, 0 healed, 12,674 (full 18,467, 31.3% killed)
Total: 11,459 killed, 25,111 killed, 9,948 healed, 31,026 (full 42,485, 26.9% killed)
Enemy: 29,790 killed, 24,378 captured, 0 (54,168 in total, 100% lost)
Just when the Roman army was collecting weapons and equipment from the gathered corpses on the battlefield, Bai Feng also clicked on the battle statistics report of this battle, and read the report carefully little by little, so that Bai Feng had a detailed understanding of the casualties in this battle.
Of all the Roman armies that took part in the battle, the most casualties were undoubtedly the Doge's Guard, which was nearly wiped out, but the soldiers of the Doge's Guard were worthy of their name as the best of the best, which is a staggering figure.
The Doge's Guard, which had only 1,407 warriors in battle, had killed more than 4,600 of them in the battle, and even though many of them had been killed by Antio and his general's guard, the great role of the other Doge's Guard soldiers could not be overlooked.
Killing more than 90 percent of the total force without collapsing is an army of the strong, killing more than three times the number of its own total strength is an invincible army, and combining the two is a real miracle army!
The strength and achievements of the Doge's Guard were evident to all those who participated in the battle, and with this miraculous battle as the foundation, the strength of the Doge's Guard would be recognized as a fact.
In addition to the existence of the bug of the Doge's Guard, the highest casualty rate is Licinius's First Legion and Gatus's Cheetah Legion, both of which have a death rate of more than 40%, but there is still a huge difference in combat effectiveness between the two!
Licinius's First Legion had less than 6,000 troops and more than 6,000 killed, while Gatus's Cheetah Legion, with a total strength of 9,000, had only 3,000 killed, and even the number of its own casualties was equal to the number of enemies killed.
If it weren't for the effective healing of the field doctor Hua Mu after the battle, I am afraid that the number of casualties of the Cheetah Legion would be twice as many as the number of enemies they killed, and this cruel reality made Bai Feng very helpless, and the Cheetah Legion turned out to be the weakest legion in Rome City.
You must know that the Cheetah Legion is Bai Feng's most optimistic army, and all the weapons and equipment produced in the blacksmith shop in Rome City are given priority to the Cheetah Legion, and even the barbarian warriors of Licinius's First Legion cannot get those sophisticated weapons and equipment.
In terms of weaponry alone, the Cheetah Legion is equipped with the Tiger Legion and the Eagle Legion, but in actual combat, the Tiger Legion and the Eagle Legion are far more powerful than the Cheetah Legion.
It seems that the most important thing that determines the strength of an army's combat effectiveness is really not the weapons and equipment, but the soldiers who use the weapons and equipment and the generals who command the army; looking at the miserable achievements of the Cheetah Legion, Bai Feng already has the idea of changing the commander.
Compared to the Roman legions, the friendly Tassia army was even more unbearable, and their own casualties outnumbered their kills, which was achieved with the help of the Roman army.
Had it not been for the reinforcement of the Tassia army by the phalanx of pikemen personally commanded by Gatus himself in the latter part of the battle, and without the final assault of the Nelson cavalry, the Tassia army would have killed less than half of their own casualties.
However, there is another factor that Bai Feng has to consider here, that is, Tasia's army is not under the control of the city of Rome, so it cannot enjoy the special treatment of the war doctor Hua Mu, which undoubtedly increases the number of casualties of Tasia's army.
In any case, it is indeed an indisputable fact that the combat effectiveness of the Tasia army is weak, and this battle between the city of Rome and the Eastern Alliance army made Bai Feng understand a lot of things, and also made him have a lot of different ideas.
Small and medium-sized tribes like the Tasya tribe before were all barbarian tribes with extremely limited strength, and Queen Boudicca's Aceni tribe was also the product of the division of the real Acenian tribe, which could not represent the true strength of the barbarians.
The emergence of the Eastern Alliance not only brought a new crisis to the city of Rome, but also allowed Bai Feng to see the powerful strength of the real barbarian overlord, and the current strength of the city of Rome was still too weak to be compared with such a strong enemy.
If the city of Rome wants to truly become the hegemonic power in the eastern region, it must do everything possible to improve its own strength; the expansion of the number of troops is only a part, and more importantly, it is necessary to improve the combat effectiveness of the army.
This ordinary army of the Eastern Alliance has the combat power of the strongest legion in Roman City, which has to be said to be a kind of irony for Roman City; Bai Feng, who was stimulated, has already made up his mind to improve the combat effectiveness of the Roman army!