"Chapter 11: Hoplites"

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The seven regular infantry wings of each auxiliary regiment are all standard infantry wings with a full strength of 2,000 barbarian warriors, which are not much different from the infantry wings of the field regiments;

Under the premise that the elite wings of the various field legions and phalanx legions in the city of Rome were equipped with the standard weapons and equipment of the Roman Youth Army, and the officers of the regular infantry wings were equipped with sword and shield suits, and the hoplite wings of the auxiliary legions were equipped with more sophisticated weapons and equipment.

The armor shop in the city of Rome can provide Bai Feng with 500 compound short bows and 500 sets of standard weapons and equipment every month, as well as 2,000 sets of spear and round shield equipment, which have been kept in the warehouse of the city of Rome except for the spear and round shield equipment.

Since the Thundercloud Equipment Manufacturing Center was able to independently forge the standard weapons and equipment of the Roman Youth Army, the 500 sets of standard weapons and equipment produced by the armor shop every month were adjusted by Bai Feng from the standard weapons and equipment of the Roman Youth Army to the standard weapons and equipment of the Roman heavy infantry.

After a year or two of accumulation, although Bai Feng in the middle had transferred weapons and equipment from the warehouse of Rome City more than once, there were still as many as four or five thousand sets of Roman heavy infantry weapons and equipment left in the warehouse, which was more than enough to arm three thousand barbarian warriors.

However, a mere set of Roman hoplite weapons and equipment was not all the weapons and equipment that Bai Feng provided to the hoplites with an experimental nature, after all, the nimble dagger was too small for these carefully selected barbarian warriors!

The barbarian warriors with an average height of 1.9 meters and an average weight of nearly 300 catties were all tigers and wolves; such warriors, even after special training in the urban military camp, could skillfully use Roman warriors in battle, and the use of short swords was still extremely incongruous.

In order to give full play to the combat effectiveness of these elite warriors as much as possible, Bai Feng also equipped each of them with a Xuantie Mountain Opening Axe weighing about 100 catties! The Mountain Opening Axe, which reflected the ghostly light in the sunlight, was held in the hands of the barbarian warriors, giving people a strong impact visually alone!

These Kaishan axes that Bai Feng spent a lot of money to buy from the armor shop, and the price of each one was as high as ten gold, you know, the treasury funds of ten gold can be exchanged for a thousand real gold coins, or a lot of money enough to buy a month's ration for a thousand people.

These 3,000 mountain axes alone cost Bai Feng 30,000 gold in the treasury funds! But this is not all the weapons and equipment of the hoplites; in order to provide the hoplites with independent combat capabilities, Bai Feng also equipped each of them with a crossbow made of fine iron!

Unlike the wooden crossbows equipped by the Doge's Guard, this kind of crossbow made of fine iron has a string made of Warcraft's tendons, which not only has a greatly improved range, but also has a much longer service life than ordinary crossbows!

Wearing Roman heavy infantry chain mail, carrying a Roman heavy infantry short sword on his left waist, a fine iron crossbow and a pot of crossbow arrows hanging on his right waist, holding a Roman heavy infantry shield in his left hand, and carrying a mountain axe in his right hand, this is the overall image of the hoplites formed by barbarian warriors.

Considering that the mobility of the hoplites was far inferior to that of ordinary light infantry, Bai Feng also planned to equip these hoplites with war horses to improve their mobility, but there were not many war horses that could withstand the hoplites, at least there were definitely no in the wilderness.

Fortunately, the cavalry stables in Rome City can provide Bai Feng with high-quality war horses, and even so, it is not easy for hoplites who have never ridden war horses to learn to ride war horses.

The barbarian warriors who could be selected by Bai Feng to form hoplites were all warriors with strong physiques and too large size, and they could not usually ride the war horses of their respective tribes;

When 3,000 high-quality war horses purchased from the cavalry stables were sent to the barracks of the auxiliary regiment, the appearance of the hoplites in order to ride the war horses made Bai Feng cry and laugh, and as a last resort, Bai Feng could only slightly modify the special training plan of these hoplites.

According to the original plan, the three hoplite wings belonging to the three auxiliary regiments will be concentrated in the urban barracks for special training next month; now, Bai Feng will add special training on a shooting range and cavalry stables to the original plan.

In other words, these 3,000 barbarian warriors, who had become hoplites, had to undergo special training in the urban barracks, as well as in shooting ranges and cavalry stables.

A hoplite who is fully clothed, skilled in the use of crossbows and bows, Roman tactics, and cavalry tactics, is exciting to think about, isn't it? Bai Feng, who was making up in his brain, suddenly remembered a term that did not belong to Rome and the barbarians-Iron Eagle Sharp Warrior!

It seems that the Iron Eagle Warriors of the Great Qin Empire are such an all-round elite division, right? The legendary Iron Eagle Warriors are not only superb in swordsmanship, but also as proficient in horse warfare and foot combat, and are equally skilled in any weapon.

At that time, the infantry soldiers of that era were the most elite of the Wei warriors, and the world called them the Wei warriors; the cavalry warriors of the Zhao State were called the elite of the Hu Dao knights and the skilled combat knights of the Qi State; and the new army of the Qin State was born in the battle to recover Hexi, and was exclaimed by the world as a sharp soldier.

Later, Sima Cuo, the general of the Qin State, used this name to create the Iron Eagle Ruishi, and the qualified line of each Iron Eagle Ruishi was: dismount and infantry combat to surpass Wei Wushu, and mount horse cavalry to surpass Zhao Qi knights and Hun Hu cavalry.

The method of drawing the Iron Eagle Ruishi is extremely harsh: first of all, the physique. Wu Qi trained Wei Wushu to hold a spear in his hand, carry 20 long arrows and an iron-tired hard bow, and carry three days of military food at the same time, with a total weight of about 50 catties.

In addition to this, Sima Cuo added a full suit of armor, a broad-bodied short sword, a fine iron dagger and a cowhide shield, with a total weight of about 80 catties.

In infantry warfare, one should rank first among the infantry troops of the new army of the Qin State, and in cavalry warfare, one should be ranked first among the cavalry of the new army of the Qin army.

In this way, almost all those who can become the Iron Eagle Warriors are invincible warriors! The Qin State has a new army of 200,000, but the Iron Eagle Warriors are only 1,600; the so-called elite soldiers are nothing more than that!

The three thousand barbarian warriors who were carefully selected from the hundreds of thousands of barbarian warriors were naturally stronger than the Iron Eagle Warriors; Bai Feng believed that after they underwent three kinds of special training, their combat effectiveness would inevitably surpass the Iron Eagle Warriors in an all-round way and become the strongest elite in this world!