The Shenji Battalion is a special unit in the Macedonian army, which is good at reconnaissance and can strike forcibly and aggressively, as well as attack in depth by detouring the enemy. When they carried out their mission, they attacked fiercely and retreated quickly. A leader in ranged soldiers, and a master in close combat. It is said that the training of special forces has to go through a lot of unknown links.

After entering the Great Temple of Hunting, they will not only undergo a rigorous training mode, but also a kind of spiritual baptism. No matter what rumors are rumored, the Divine Machine Battalion is actually really powerful. Even small quantities can play a very important role.

Assemble new types of units to greatly increase the combat power of the legions. It was an important war preparation for Macedonia. Oonos considered the attack, he consulted information, interviewed a large number of engineers, skilled craftsmen. He wanted to further increase the Macedonian army's ability to destroy enemy countries—that is, to attack cities.

Because only by encroaching on the enemy's territory and occupying their cities can the enemy's ability to resist be completely weakened. That's the way to settle the battle and get a quick win.

Oonos learned that many eastern cities had also built strong stone walls, and that siege equipment was required to break them. The blind use of siege towers not only made the Macedonian army monolithic in urban warfare, but also suffered heavy losses or was repulsed due to encounters with resistance. Macedonia now has the ability to mass-produce stone catapults, which are powerful weapons for breaking cities in siege warfare and can be used as an area of effect weapon in field battles on the plains.

Increasing the long-range strike force in the Macedonian army will increase the overall combat effectiveness of the troops. This means reducing your own losses, and reducing the enemy's strength through long-range strikes in advance.

Oonos combined his years of experience in warfare and repeated calculations and deductions to determine the ratio of long-range equipment and bow troops in the regular new main army.

Blade Power is a melee fighter who is good at head-to-head combat, but does not have long-handed attack power. The Bow Power is a long-range projectile that provides long-range support to blade troops, and is powerful but requires close protection.

It is important to have a good grasp of the ratio of blades and bows to the strength of the force, and the two can only be most effective when they protect each other and support each other.

If there are too many ranged troops, then there will be a lack of resistance forces, and the entire force will become soft. At the same time, archers and stone throwers did not have enough cover.

If the ranged troops are too small, then the legion will appear weak in the early long-range attack, and once the enemy has a strong archer, it will even suffer a suppressive blow, and losses and passivity will be inevitable.

The standard long-range configuration of the main army is: the ranged soldier is an engineering battalion, also called a siege battalion; At medium and long distances were two or three archery brigades.

One of the engineering battalions consisted of 192 engineers, who were equipped with 6 catapults. The engineer corps worked in a squad of 64 people and operated two stone crossbows. Loading, launching, commissioning, assembly and other tasks are all clearly divided. One bow brigade has 160 people, and three brigades have nearly 500 bows, relying on a salvo of fire to bring a great threat to the target.

Oonos also stipulated that ranged units should be deployed at the front of the enemy when confronting them. This will ensure that the first shot is as effective as possible without injuring your teammates. In mid-to-late hot combat, engineers can stay away from the battlefield, while archers must turn on melee mode and must not leave the infantry line. This in turn made the archers safer and helped keep the battle line relatively intact.

Most of the archers in the Macedonian army came from hunter families, and they had a good foundation in their own right. However, the instructors treated the recruits the same way, because fighting a war was very different from hunting. Archery is a skill that requires time and patience, and the skill and strength of drawing a bow requires a lot of practice to master. The most important point is the fire training.

Good archers require skill, strength, and coordination, so they need space for a lot of regular practice, which is the military function of an urban range. The shooting range has all the conditions for forging archers.

On the battlefield, no matter how good a shooter is, it is difficult for a single person to form combat power. What the archers feared was the neat and fierce rows of arrows. The so-called attack on one point is not as good as the rest. This is the true power of archers in team combat.

Javelinmen originally belonged to the category of light infantry combat, but their battlefield role and training mode were closer to that of bow and arrow troops. As light infantry, they need to learn to raid effectively, learn to use rapid maneuvering and evacuation tactics flexibly. Practice throwing javelins at close range and joining in quick hand-to-hand combat. Therefore, it is necessary to have a drill ground for training javelinmen, which provides an open space for recruits to practice repeatedly.

The integration of the siege forces was carried out in the catapult range. The Catapult Range is a high-level military structure in large cities, and it is an upgraded version of the shooting range, which combines the functions of a drill range and a shooting range. This is where artillerymen, archers, and javelinmen can focus on training, and where engineers can build large long-range weapons, they can provide technical support at any time. The catapult range is a specialized factory for the manufacture of catapults, and it is here that the siege troops come from.

The catapult was sufficient for most sieges at the time, but it was obviously difficult to deal with the huge walls. That's where the Giant Catapult comes in, a much larger device that has a much greater ejection power and shooting accuracy than the Catapult, making them most effective in siege warfare. However, the manufacture of such a super-large long-range weapon requires advanced engineering technology and engineering principles to manufacture, and it has to be designed and manufactured in a siege technology institute, and it is expensive. Such structures are often found only in the most advanced cities.

There are advantages and disadvantages, a certain army is equipped with siege troops, which can often reduce casualties in confrontation battles, and can directly attack when besieging cities, which is advantageous. The disadvantage is that large siege engines are inconvenient to carry, which will affect the speed of marching. So not all legions will carry those behemoths.

In particular, legions that are good at fighting rapid reinforcements will not carry weapons such as catapults. When they encounter a well-defended city, they will bypass it without sacrificing their soldiers. Clever generals will lead their warriors to do what they do better, providing cover for friendly forces and intercepting enemy reinforcements. The rest of the hard bones will be handed over to the siege legions to show their skills.

Of course, when encountering a city with poor fortifications or weak defenses, these fast-marching troops will directly launch a fierce attack, using ladders and siege towers to climb the walls from many places, occupy the outer city and then take the city.

Backed by the solid national strength of the kingdom, the Macedonian army was replaced with new equipment, and its combat effectiveness was further improved. At this time, the strength of the armies of other countries in the civilized world is also improving, and new high-level arms are constantly being introduced.