"Chapter 64: Quietly Preparing for War"
People have a big requirement. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info people can not be satisfied with the present, for the infinite, there is longing and fear of piety. In other words, people can't be satisfied with a lifetime and want to be more valuable. This value becomes an ideal, a religion, and converts the heart.
- Edimonto de Amicius (famous Italian children's writer)
Last month, Bronno's Dragons had completed the special training of the urban barracks and shooting range, and this month only Eggers' Eagle Legion and the navy's 3,000 longbowmen needed special training, which was also the last special training force before the battle of Rome.
14,000 officers and soldiers of the Eagle Legion, plus 3,000 longbowmen of the navy, the 17,000 officers and soldiers who invested in special training this time required Bai Feng to spend 17,000 gold in treasury funds for this.
Two days ago, Bai Feng took advantage of the opportunity to deal with military affairs to arrange the special training of the Eagle Legion and the Navy Longbowmen; this morning, there was no need for Bai Feng to personally give orders, and these officers and men who needed special training would enter the urban barracks and shooting range by themselves.
In addition to the matter of special training, Bai Feng also needs to solve the problem of army recruitment in Rome City today; after the accumulation of the first two months, the army recruitment quota of the Roman City system has finally arrived, allowing Bai Feng to fill up the establishment of the two core legions at one time!
Of course, the replenishment here is not to complete the establishment of the two core legions, but to complete the cavalry establishment of the two core legions, and at present, the two core legions in the city of Rome are still missing ten Roman auxiliary cavalry.
With the addition of these ten Roman auxiliary cavalry, the legions of Licinius and Antio all had two wings of systematic soldiers, and the attached cavalry brigade and auxiliary cavalry brigade were also fully organized.
Although such a core legion still lacks two wings in terms of establishment, its combat effectiveness has been improved by leaps and bounds, especially the perfect brigade establishment of the core legion, which will inevitably make the three-line battle formation of the Roman legion reappear in this world!
The recruitment of ten teams of Roman auxiliary cavalry once again cost Bai Feng 4,700 gold of treasury funds, and there are still twenty recruitment places in Rome City this month, and these twenty recruitment places, Bai Feng thought about it for a while, and decided to continue to strengthen the naval strength of Rome City.
At this time, the number of warships in the city of Rome had reached 60, of which 20 were ordinary double-lined warships and 40 were more powerful three-column warships.
The naval warships of the city of Rome needed to guard against both the Eastern Alliance north of the Cangluo River and the Luxi Tribe, west of the tributaries of the Cangluo River.
In this attack plan of the Roman city against the Vitus tribe, the landing operation is an extremely important part, and in addition, Bai Feng has to leave enough warships to defend the port of the city of Rome, and the existing number of warships is somewhat insufficient.
War is never a reluctant thing, only the most adequate preparation for war can fight a war under control, so Bai Feng still decided to recruit twenty triremittant warships, so that the navy of Rome City can cope with the situation with ease.
In two days, the crop rotation that was being built in Rome would be completed, and at that time, Bai Feng would be able to build the last building of the city phase of Rome, the university.
The cost of building the university is only 1,600 gold, and the construction period is the same as the previous building of 30 days; when the university is completed, Bai Feng can consider the city of Rome to enter a higher level of big city stage, that is the real future!
After a series of treasury fund expenditures, the treasury funds of the city of Rome quickly dropped from 79,500 gold to 46,400 gold, and counting the upcoming construction costs of 1,600 gold, Bai Feng's treasury funds are still as high as 44,800 gold.
When Bai Feng first began to train the army of Rome, the cavalry wing of the Doge's Guard and the four cavalry wings of the two Macedonian phalanx legions entered the cavalry stables for expensive special training, and all of them were transferred to the high-quality war horses in the stables.
If the changes in the longbowmen before and after the special training are not very obvious, then the changes in the infantry soldiers are very obvious, and the changes in the special training of the cavalry are completely a change in appearance!
The combat mode of the barbarian light cavalry is to charge in a chaotic manner; this kind of combat method is okay against the ordinary barbarian army, but once it encounters a powerful barbarian army, the combat capability of the cavalry will be greatly reduced.
If it encounters a powerful army with hoplites like the city of Rome, the barbarian light cavalry with no formation to speak of can only be defeated, and the tens of thousands of elite cavalry under Nelson's command were defeated in the hands of the army of the city of Rome.
With the special training of the cavalry stables, the barbarian light cavalry learned the wedge-shaped charging battle formation of the Roman cavalry, and the overall combat appearance has been improved by leaps and bounds; it is no exaggeration to say that the barbarian cavalry that has undergone special training can be regarded as cavalry with real combat effectiveness!
The cavalry of the Governor's Guard and the two Macedonian phalanx legions have already completed the special training of the cavalry stables, and the scale of Nelson's cavalry corps is too large, and the special training costs required by tens of thousands of cavalry are also unaffordable for Bai Feng for the time being.
However, the cavalry of Rome was not limited to these: the Tiger Legion, the Eagle Legion, the Dragon Legion, and the Lion Legion, each of the four field legions was accompanied by a general guard of 500 cavalry, which served as the direct protection force of the legion commander.
The cavalry of these generals and guards, Bai Feng did not include them in the special training sequence before, in order to reduce the cost of special training in Rome City;
Upton's Lion Legion has always been excluded from the special training by Bai Feng, and it is even more unlikely that the most loyal general guards to Upton will be included in the special training by Bai Feng, so Bai Feng's idea is only for the general guards of the other three legions.
The total strength of the three general guards composed of 500 cavalry was 1,500 cavalry, and the cost of special training on a war horse for each cavalry was 10 gold, which was another 15,000 gold expenditure of the state treasury.
Bai Feng, who was in the late stage of obsessive-compulsive disorder, really didn't want to see that the legions of Bazel and others had left a general guard without special training, and it happened that the treasury of Rome City was quite rich, so he temporarily issued an order to let the three general guards enter the cavalry stables for special training.
With the issuance of this order, Bai Feng basically completed all the matters that needed to spend the treasury funds this month, and it was also from this time that the war plan of the Roman City against the Virtus tribe was officially put on the agenda of the Roman City.
The storehouse area of Rome, which was re-filled with grain, was transported by the convoys of Rome to the east bank of the Cangluo River and to the south of the city of Rome.