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In the afternoon, Qin Dong ordered Muren to lead 200 archers and cavalry to defend Pana, supplemented by Tolong, leaving the 800 infantry to officially start training, and he rushed back to the Pazar camp with 200 archers and 400 light cavalry under the command of Su He.

Before leaving, he heard Batu come to report that Vatur's former deputy guard chief Yinduo was asking to see him outside the tent, and Yinduo was now the captain of the 100th infantry team, because several centurions who opposed him to take over the battalion were killed in the infighting, so Qin Dong had to send people like Yinduo to be infantry centurions.

"Let him in!" Qin Dong was putting on armor with the help of Liu San, and when he heard the name Yinduo, he commanded.

Liu San immediately said: "Young master, there is something I forgot to report to you, there is news that this Yin Duo is not a simple person, four years ago he used to be a general in the Western Roman Empire, and later he was framed and imprisoned for offending the powerful, and later became a slave, but soon escaped from the Western Roman Empire with the help of his former subordinates and came here to be taken in by Batur as a deputy chief of guard!" ”

Letting a general be the deputy chief of guard, Vatur is really a waste of talent, Qin Dong slandered and asked, "What's the matter with that woman?" Since she is a woman of Vatur, why did she get involved with Otodo? ”

At this time, Yinduo had already been led in by Batu, and when he saw Qin Dong, he stroked his chest with his right hand and saluted: "Meet your lordship, the humble position is to thank you for fulfilling me and Elena, Elena has already told the humble position, the adult is not a barbaric person, but a very thoughtful and wise general, from now on, the humble position will definitely swear allegiance to the lord!" ”

Qin Dong made a lot of multitones, this person was in his thirties, he didn't look particularly powerful, but he was also strong, and his eyes showed a light of wisdom, "Captain Duoyin, I heard that you used to be a general of the Western Roman Empire?" ”

Duoyin didn't expect Qin Dong to even know about this matter, except for himself, no one else here knew about it, it was an extremely secret matter, he had to admit: "Yes, my lord, I was the captain of the first wing of the 11th Legion of the Western Roman Empire before!" ”

"Co-Captain?" Qin Dong was very curious about the military system of the Roman Empire, and there was a military position of wing commander in this era? He asked, "Duoyin, can you give me an introduction to the military system of the Roman Empire?" ”

Duoyin didn't expect Qin Dong to ask such a question, it stands to reason that an officer should have a good understanding of the military system of the enemy country, otherwise how can he fight with the enemy country? However, since Qin Dong had a problem, Duoyin didn't think much about it, and still introduced: "My lord, do you know Emperor Diocletian?" ”

Of course, Qin Dong knew that Diocletian, the great emperor of the late Roman Empire, was relieved of the crisis within the Roman Empire because of Diocletian's reforms.

Emperor Diocletian was born as a slave, he rose from the ranks to become emperor in 284 AD, and after 21 years of reign, he came to power and carried out a series of reforms in the Roman Empire, he completely eradicated the remnants of the republican head and truly implemented the monarchy.

At the beginning of his reign, he put Maximian in charge of the western part of the empire, in Milan, northern Italy; He himself was in charge of the eastern part of the empire, and was seated in Nicomediaa (present-day Izmit, Turkey) in western Asia Minor, both of whom were called Augustus. In 293, the two co-rulers each appointed an assistant, known as Caesar, to govern parts of the region. In this way, the system of four emperors was formed. After the reform, the original provinces with larger jurisdictions were divided into smaller provinces, and the total number of provinces increased from more than 40 to 100, which belonged to 12 administrative regions. In the provinces, the military and administrative powers are separated.

In ancient China, there is such a saying: "There are no two heavens, and there are no two masters of the country", so there has never been an empire in ancient China at the same time and two emperors and it is still very harmonious, and the situation that there are two emperors or four emperors at the same time in such an empire is only available in the Roman Empire, but later the Huns followed suit, and Attila and his brother Breda also became the big single of the Xiongnu Empire at the same time, but there was a gap between them.

Diocletian also harmonized the tax system and eliminated certain tax exemptions. The poll tax and the land tax are combined as the main revenue of the government. In order to secure the source of taxes, agricultural labourers were forbidden to leave the land and handicraftsmen were forbidden to leave the guilds. In order to stabilize the value of the coin, a new standard for gold and silver in coinage was established in 301. In the same year, a price edict was promulgated, which regulated the prices of major commodities and the wages of labor. In 303 and 304, four edicts were issued, prohibiting the holding of worship, purging the army and officials of the congregation, confiscating church property, demolishing churches, burning scriptures, arresting clergy, and executing some believers.

It can be said that Diocletian's reforms were successful, and he allowed the crumbling Roman Empire to continue again, not only in terms of autocracy, but also in terms of the army, according to the actual situation.

Qin Dong nodded and said: "Of course, this is a great emperor, could it be said that the military system of the Roman Empire is still following the military system of his reform?" ”

"Yes, sir!" Duoyin said: "Emperor Diocletian adopted the military strategist Vicatiast's Jianyì, and carried out an all-round reform of the military system at that time, a regiment was divided into ten wings, the number of the first wing was twice as many as the strength of the other nine wings, there were 1,150 infantry and 132 cavalry, and the other nine wings each had 550 infantry and 66 cavalry, of which one wing was divided into 5 infantry teams and 2 cavalry teams. An infantry corps of 110 infantry, 33 cavalry, and the infantry of the first wing was twice as strong. On the command of the army, the corps commander is called the corps commander, the wing commander is called the wing commander, the infantry commander is called the captain, and below is the centurion and the ten. However, due to the age, many legions are not strictly implemented according to this system, some of them have as many as 10,000 people, and some have only 3,000 troops.

The formation of the army adopted the formation of Vicentia and the Yì, that is, two formations, each column of 5 wings, each of which was lined up

6~10 platoons, 1st row veterans, 2nd row of armored archers and selected spearmen, 3rd row of lightly armed young shooters and spearmen, 4th row of lightly armed archers with shields, javelin throwers and projectiles, 5th row of ballistaemen, slingers, 6th row of well-armed warriors. The first and second platoons are the pillars of the battle, the third and fourth platoons challenge in front of the formation, if the enemy retreats, they pursue the enemy with the cavalry, if they are repulsed, they retreat to the first and second platoons, and the first and second platoons fight, and the fifth and sixth platoons are the reserves, which do not intervene at the beginning until the final decisive battle with the enemy.

The army of the Western Roman Empire was divided into border armies and internal mobile armies, and now there were thirty-six legions, totaling about two hundred thousand men. The situation of the Eastern Roman Empire was relatively better than that of the Western Roman Empire, but it was not much better.

After listening to Duoyin's introduction, Qin Dong also had some understanding of the current situation in the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, and Qin Dong asked: "Where do you think the army of our Xiongnu Empire has advantages compared with the army of the Roman Empire, and where do you have disadvantages?" ”

Duoyin didn't know what Qin Dong meant by asking, he was just a soldier, not a politician, his mind didn't turn around all of a sudden, he didn't know that this was Qin Dong examining him, but he replied after thinking about it: "My lord, the advantage of the Xiongnu Empire's army is that it has many light cavalry with fast reactions, and the advantage of having so many light cavalry is its rapid reaction ability and mobility. And the Hun cavalry has the skills that the cavalry of other countries does not have, that is, cavalry archery, so in the previous wars, the army of the Hun Empire can gain the upper hand, even if it is defeated, it can also retreat calmly, and the loss is not large, the disadvantage of the Hun Empire army is that the army is too single, and now the Visigothic Kingdom has developed a mature heavy cavalry, in front of these heavy cavalry, if the advantage of the terrain lies in the side of the Visigothic Kingdom, it is very difficult for the Hun army to win, the battle of Shalong the year before last is a typical example, If the Huns had had strong infantry and enough siege equipment, they could have broken through Orleans before reinforcements arrived, and the Battle of Sharon would not have happened! If the Xiongnu army had a heavy cavalry to confront the heavy cavalry of the Visigothic kingdom at that time, Attila Da Danyu's right flank would not have been broken through by the coalition army, and the shape would have been completely reversed! ”

Qin Dong knocked on the desk and got up and said, "Yinduo, now Lord Ben has appointed you as the Chief Infantry Training Officer, and you are fully responsible for the training of all infantry in Lord Ben's territory!" Your official position is now Centurion, but your military pay is twice as much as other Centurions! Stay in Pana for the time being to assist Muren in training the 800 infantry here, and then you draw up a training strategy and send it to Pazar to show me, and write it in Latin! ”

"Yes, sir! The humble duty will do his best to repay the appreciation of the adults! ”