"Chapter 12: Supplementary Preparation"

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In the case of the limited population increase in Rome City, Bai Feng did not expect that he could replenish Licinius's First Legion and Antio's Second Legion to full strength in a short period of time, and he could ensure that half of each legion was in the ranks, and Bai Feng was satisfied.

According to the Roman legion structure negotiated by Bai Feng and Licinius and Antio before, each full Roman legion will have four wings, one Roman light cavalry brigade and one Roman auxiliary cavalry brigade, and its establishment is as high as 9,640 troops.

This does not include the equipment units and mastiff units that will be strengthened to them in the future, and the archers, who were originally an extremely important long-range strike force in the Roman legions, were completely replaced by the three new longbow wings in the Roman legions.

There is almost no wild land in any city, and a slow-moving siege weapon like a ballista generally does not need to be attached, at least Bai Feng, who pays attention to the speed of soldiers, does not intend to equip the Roman legions with an equipment force composed of ballistas at this time.

With the current population and growth rate of the city of Rome, Bai Feng's goal is to replenish the legions of Licinius and Antio to half the strength by the middle of the year, that is, each legion has two standard wings.

The standard wing of the Roman legion consisted of four brigades and one Roman light cavalry, one Roman auxiliary cavalry, one each of the Roman light infantry, the Roman youth army, and the Roman heavy infantry, and a standard company that would include fourteen Roman infantry units.

In order to complete the two wings of the Roman legions, Bai Feng needed to recruit a total of eight Roman light infantry, eight Roman youth troops, eight Roman heavy infantry, two Roman light cavalry, and two Roman auxiliary cavalry.

There is another question involved here, that is, whether the two cavalry brigades directly under the Roman legions should be supplemented; from the point of view of establishment, these two cavalry brigades can be supplemented or not, after all, these two brigades are not the main force.

Although it is said that ten teams of Roman light cavalry and ten teams of Roman auxiliary cavalry are required to replenish the cavalry units directly under these two legions, which will greatly occupy the number of recruitable troops in the city of Rome, the presence of cavalry units will also significantly improve the combat effectiveness of the two legions.

With these Roman light cavalry and Roman auxiliary cavalry, the Roman legions could have a strong reconnaissance force and guerrilla force, the Roman light cavalry was a natural reconnaissance skill, and the Roman auxiliary cavalry was the javelin cavalry second only to the Parthian archers.

Compared with the Parthian archers occasionally summoned from the temple, the Roman auxiliary cavalry, which could be recruited and replenished on a large scale, undoubtedly had a higher combat value, and after some careful consideration, Bai Feng decided to add the Roman light cavalry and the Roman auxiliary cavalry to the formation.

In this way, if Bai Feng wants to replenish the two Roman legions to half full strength, he needs to recruit sixteen teams of Roman light infantry, Roman youth army, and Roman heavy infantry, and fourteen teams of Roman light cavalry and Roman auxiliary cavalry.

Previously, Bai Feng had already recruited thirteen teams of Roman light infantry and thirteen teams of Roman youth troops, as well as two teams of Roman light cavalry, and then he also needed to recruit three teams of Roman light infantry and three teams of Roman youth army, as well as sixteen teams of Roman heavy infantry, twelve teams of Roman light cavalry, and fourteen teams of Roman auxiliary cavalry, and it would take forty-eight days to recruit continuously!

The timing of recruitment is only a small issue, you must know that Bai Feng plans to use five months to complete the replenishment of half of the two legions, and the key question is whether the population growth rate of the city of Rome can meet the recruitment needs of the army.

Thankfully, last month, the population of Rome grew by leaps and bounds thanks to Bai Feng's efforts, and in one fell swoop it exceeded the 50,000 mark, so that Bai Feng had a new recruiting slot to recruit troops.

The urban military camp has not yet been built, and Bai Feng, who cannot recruit Roman heavy infantry for the time being, first recruited three teams of Roman light infantry and three teams of Roman youth army to complete the Roman light infantry and Roman youth army in the establishment, and the other branches of the army were postponed to recruit.

After determining the army that needed to be recruited and issuing the recruitment order, Bai Feng took his three retinues to the backyard of the Governor's Mansion to move the statues;

Maxi and the other three could only move three statues, and the other three Bai Feng were carried to the temple by Leng Gaoda with a few temple warriors, and the thirty god statues that Rome City still possessed were taken away by Bai Feng at once, leaving only twenty-four statues.

Coming to the door of the Apollo Temple, Maxi and the others, who were Bai Feng's entourage, were not allowed to enter the temple, while Leng Gundam and the temple warriors under his command entered the temple naturally, but Bai Feng didn't care about these things, he was going to find the high priest of Binglan.

Bai Feng, who walked into the temple today, didn't see the high priest of Binglan, and he didn't need to think that he knew that the high priest of Binglan must be in the backyard of the temple now, so he asked Leng Gundam to take the temple warrior to move the statue into the temple, and he went straight to the backyard of the temple.

When Bai Feng came to the backyard of the temple, he really saw the Binglan High Priest sitting in the pavilion in white clothes;

It is impossible for Bai Feng, who has the image of a pig brother, to expose his pervert nature, he pretended to be serious, walked to the pavilion where the high priest Binglan was, and then deliberately coughed and said:

"Bing Lan, you have been meditating and cultivating here this morning, and you really deserve to be the high priest of the temple!"

"Cultivation?" Bai Feng's words deliberately greeted the beauty, but unfortunately it didn't really make the beauty smile, but instead made her look puzzled: "Bai Feng, don't you know? ”

Well, Bai Feng, who slapped the horse's ass for the first time, directly slapped the horse's fart on the horse's leg; looking at the unexplained cute expression on the face of the high priest Binglan, Bai Feng, who felt embarrassed, had to quickly change the topic and said:

"Well, Binglan, after our efforts last month, the city of Rome is now finally ready to build the governor's residence that has entered the city stage! This time, I am here to ask you to help me continue to sacrifice the statues of the gods, so as to facilitate the rapid completion of the buildings of the city of Rome. ”

"Well, your city of Rome can enter the city phase, which is a great thing! When you have built the governor's residence and other important buildings, you can build the Temple of Apollo, and then I can go out of the temple!"

Bai Feng's transfer of the topic immediately attracted all the attention of High Priest Binglan, and when she learned that the city of Rome could build the governor's residence, the uncontrollable surprise expression on her face made Bai Feng feel slightly distressed.

All along, High Priest Binglan has lived alone in the temple, and no one has ever spoken to her, and she can't step out of the temple;