"See? This is the Han Empire of the East! ”

In front of the Romans was a regiment of cavalry in full gear, the cavalry lined up in neat columns, and in the process there were shouts of officers, and no soldiers spoke.

Of course, a regiment can not see whether it is strong or not just by looking at the formation, but it can complete the arrangement of columns in silence, and it can be called an army with perfect military discipline no matter which country it is in.

The military is not a stage for individual heroes, but about team coordination. An army that can also have tacit understanding in peacetime only shows one thing, that is, at least this army is well-trained.

"They don't know how powerful Rome is, and they don't deliberately put on a show like this for us." Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Culvers still has some observations. He glanced at the silent legion: "This is a unit that doesn't need too many orders to complete the column. ”

Rome had more than a dozen legions, but none of them were able to complete the column arrangement in silence, and it usually required the officers to constantly shout, and even then there would still be confusion, and it was impossible to want the Roman soldiers to remain silent during the process.

"Just looking at that, you can only see that you are well trained." As a soldier, Ulilius didn't want to demoralize his own people too much, so he raised his voice as much as he could, and said: "There are too many well-trained troops on the battlefield who look very unbearable on the battlefield, and everything depends on the performance of the troops on the battlefield!" ”

Some of the Roman soldiers shouted something, mostly in agreement with Ulilius' words.

"What are the Romans yelling at them?" Xu Zhi looked a little annoyed: "Go to a personal warning, and then yell indiscriminately, and directly pull out and hit the military stick!" ”

It's the autumn of the year again, and it's time for the Western Corps to go out again. This time, the 1st Cavalry Regiment and the 11th Mixed Regiment need to be pulled out to Wan, and they will uproot at least two Wanguo cities.

Last year, the Western Expeditionary Corps attacked Wanguo, and after uprooting a city, it was mainly aimed at the Maodun Xiongnu. This year, the Maotun Xiongnu had fled further west, and the empire did not continue to point its troops to a more western position, but needed to encroach on the Western Regions again.

Wan has been an enemy of the Empire from the beginning, and before Maudun was an offensive and defensive alliance but still could not defeat the Empire, and now Maudun has left with the remnants, and their quest for peace with the Empire has not materialized, turning into a kind of hysterical preparation.

"They're leaving."

The expression on Ullius' face was a little unpleasant, he had just been shouted by an ordinary Han Empire soldier, in front of his subordinates, which made him feel that his honor as a commander had been insulted.

When the Romans were insulted to honor, their usual practice was to start a duel, and Ulilius wanted to do the same, but he was killed by Chimesrivi. Luce. Scipio. Calvers stopped.

"Yes, their cavalry regiment departed."

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers had never seen so many cavalry, and from his field of vision, it was all cavalry, as if the cavalry could stretch to the ends of the world.

In fact, when people are full of 10,000, it is really boundless, especially if you look at it from the horizon, you can see the cavalry full of armed troops, and the visual senses of looking at it are really exciting. Rome appeared in front of not just 10,000 cavalry, but nearly 50,000 cavalry.

"Their infantry is also assembling."

Yes, the sound of trumpets and drums was beaten, and it was a kind of movement like thunder, so that people could not help but speed up the rhythm of their hearts and their blood as if they were burning.

Gradually, the sound of the trumpets and drums had a rhythm, but a sound joined in the transmission, and the Romans looked at each other in some confusion, and they could hear that it was footsteps, but the footsteps were too neat.

The gate of the Eleventh Mixed Regiment was opened, and a line of infantry marched out in a row, and the first to appear in the sight of the Romans were soldiers with banners.

"Don't tell me, it's a movement of a uniform pace."

"Yes, I can see how often they are stepping, and every soldier is raising their feet or stepping at the same time."

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers and Ulilius were looking at each other, and they saw the shock in each other's eyes.

The main force of the Roman Republic has always been the infantry, and they were able to embark on the path of rapid expansion because of the strength of the infantry. In Europa, Rome's infantry legion was the first to be defeated, and even Carthage, Rome's biggest enemy at this stage, could not compete with Rome in the field of infantry.

The infantry, coming out of several gates, was assembling towards the open space in front of the camp, with only the sound of trumpets and treadmills, including the voices of officers and soldiers, perhaps muffled by the sound of treadmills or trumpets, and no shouts were heard.

"What a spear, what a spear! At least six meters, right? ”

"Yes, at least six meters of spear! The soldiers of the Han Empire were generally tall, they had an absolute advantage in physical fitness, and with spears of this length, they looked more intimidating than the pikemen of Macedonia. ”

"If you look at the appearance, you can't compare. The average height of Macedonians is 1.6 meters, and the average height of Han Chinese is more than 1.75 meters, and they look very strong. ”

The pikemen have always been a proud branch of Macedonia, their pikemen are unrivaled in the Western world, and Alexander the Great relied on the Macedonian pikemen and the cooperation of cavalry to establish a huge empire across Europe, Asia and Africa. In Western history, Alexander was also the first to establish an empire that spanned three continents: Europe, Asia, and Africa.

The Imperial soldiers did look tall and very majestic, and if purely in terms of the physical condition of the soldiers, there really were no countries in the world that could compare with them.

"Physicality is only one aspect." Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers looked at the Romans present and saw some people who were about 1.6 meters tall, and he encouraged: "Combat is never just about physical fitness. ”

The soldiers of the Eleventh Mixed Regiment who left the camp followed the banners of this sequence and lined up in a large phalanx of 100 men horizontally and 100 vertically.

The phalanx of 30,000 people formed a zigzag, and after they set off, carriages began to appear one after another. It was a number of wagons loaded with baggage, most of which were covered with cloth, and those that were not covered with cloth could be seen as some grain in sacks.

"What's that long shape?" Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Culvers pointed to something strange looking in the convoy: "You have your own wheels, and you look heavy when you pull them on horses?" ”

Those strange things were none other than artillery, mostly twelve-pound guns. Twelve pounds is seventy-five millimeters, but forty-five in size.

For the first time, artillery entered the sequence of the Western Expeditionary Corps, and the number was small, only 32 guns, all of which were twelve pounderers. They were transported to the Western Regions this summer, accompanied by artillery to operate them.

The Romans were beckoned and told to follow the baggage caravan behind.

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Curious about the artillery, Calvers took a closer look, but couldn't tell what it was. Because the Imperial soldiers did not deliberately drive away, he gradually lost his curiosity and was soon attracted to something else.

The infantry of the empire used to be more miscellaneous, and after more than ten years of development, some types of troops have been eliminated, such as the spearmen who have withdrawn from the service sequence of the empire, and the current more active spearmen and shield-wielding sword soldiers will naturally not lack some equipped infantry.

Of course, it was not possible for the heavy infantry to march in armor, they were relatively lightly dressed, and only a normal sword hung from the armed belt around their waists, which made the Romans think they were light infantry without armor.

In fact, the 11th mixed corps of the Western Expedition Corps is not an integrated army, such as the Northern Expeditionary Corps in northern Xinjiang, even the infantry corps will be equipped with a sufficient number of vans, but there is no such thing as the Western Expeditionary Corps.

What does an army look like on the march? It depends on the terrain. For example, when marching on the plains, you can maintain a formation mode of advancement, but in areas with complex terrain, you can only march in the way of "long snakes".

From the southwest region of Beishan to the Wanguo region, the terrain was basically flat, so the imperial army maintained a military formation on the march.

"Look at them." Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers pointed to the Han Empire infantry who were marching on foot and said, "Their pace is out of order. ”

Ulilius had already noticed that he had also discovered a problem, that it was only after the drums of war stopped beating that the marching Han infantry began to be a little chaotic.

"Oh? So is it the sound of war drums that controls the rhythm of their strides? "Kirusrivi. Luce. Scipio. Calvers' eyes lit up, and he said, "We should learn this method!" ”

Ulilius nodded heavily, he was a commander of a thousand and had participated in actual combat many times, and he knew very well what a terrible thing it was to play the rhythm on the battlefield.

Well, the drummers of war who should have appeared in the Roman army would not have appeared in a hundred years, because of the great man of Chimesri. Luce. Scipio. Calvers and the others came to the Western Regions, and they discovered the secret in advance on the army of the Empire, and the result was also advanced.

The march of the army did not last long, and on the third day it appeared around a city of Wan. Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. By the time Calphus and the Romans arrived, the city of Wan was already surrounded by imperial troops.

The cities in the Western Regions naturally have city walls, and the height of the walls of the strong countries will generally be higher, and the cities of some weak countries are even just some low walls of fences mixed with wooden strips and mud.

Appeared in Kiruslivi. Luce. Scipio. In front of Calvers was a city with walls about five meters high, and he looked closely, and it seemed that the Eastern Han Empire had not begun to attack, at least he could not see any traces of the aftermath of the battle.

"Your Excellency, their general asks you to come to the front and watch the battle."

"Huh?"

"Xu Zhi, it's the general named Xu Zhi."

"Their title is Zhonglang General."

"Yes, Your Excellency."

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers arrived at the position, and Xu Zhizheng and Zhou Yin were chatting happily.

This time, it was the collective idea of some generals and colonels of the Western Corps to let the Romans come over to watch the battle. They also took the "traditional route" of the empire, regardless of what alien races appeared, and if those alien races were not adjacent to the borders of the empire, they would take the alien races to watch the war carried out by the empire on the spot. Doing so is usually a good deterrent to visiting aliens.

Xu Zhi called the Romans over, but he didn't plan to entertain him, and still chatted with Zhou Yin on his own.

It was a school captain who came forward to entertain the Romans, even if it was a school captain, Xu Zhi felt that it was enough to give the Romans face, after all, they really didn't know what kind of country Rome was, and it was purely a small and remote country in a certain place.

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers had been looking for an opportunity to show that Rome was not a small and isolated country, but it was clear that he had not found one. On the one hand, he felt humiliated by being belittled, and on the other hand, he knew very well that no one would believe in the power of words that were not supported by words.

Xu Zhi and others will not care about Ji Ru Si Liwei. Luce. Scipio. What Calvers was thinking or caring, they were still talking and laughing.

In the relaxed arrangement of the generals, the cavalry and infantry moved into predetermined positions, and then the artillery was pushed up.

On the walls of Wanguo City, Wanguo soldiers are looking at the movement outside the city, they originally thought that the imperial army would need to prepare before attacking, but looking at the posture, it doesn't seem to be like this?

"Seven hundred meters!"

The base of the gun had wheels and also had its own shaft, and after determining the firing distance, the artillerymen began to calibrate the scale and elevation angle, and then carried out the necessary clearing and charging.

The generals who were originally talking quieted down, they had only seen the test firing of artillery when they were in the imperial capital, and it was the first time they had witnessed the firing on the battlefield.

"His Majesty said that its appearance would change the course of the war. As the first navy to be armed with artillery, they had no rivals on the ocean and could not see the importance of artillery. Zhou Yin played with his beard and said with a smile: "There is no siege war in the war in Northern Xinjiang, and there is rarely a chance to use artillery in the field. ”

Xu Zhi rolled his eyes, he firmly believed that the imperial army was extremely powerful in any battlefield, so it was a very normal thing that the artillery at the bottom of the box had no chance to be used.

Ki Bru Wei. Luce. Scipio. Calvers could not understand the imperial Chinese, but he could see that the generals of the Eastern Han Empire were very relaxed. He estimated the height of the city wall, looked at the Han Empire army that had not prepared any siege tools, and wondered: "Just come here and look good?" (To be continued.) )