Chapter 47: Expansion of the Army
The Romans never expected that Li Liguo, the king of Sparta, who had already achieved more than two-thirds of the territory of the Western Roman Empire, had not yet satisfied his ambitions!
Li Liguo, who is a special mother, used all his wealth to expand the army!
Could it be that Li Liguo, the tyrant, doesn't know what the fate of the reckless military force is? Or is it that he has an incurable disease and has a few years to live, so he has to go crazy in his lifetime......
Of course, this is all a joke, even if he doesn't think about himself, he has to think about the inheritance of the Spartan Kingdom, not to mention the Gaul region of the Spartan Kingdom and the Spanish Peninsula, the famine has already begun to appear!
The Italian Peninsula, which was originally quite rich, was captured and slaughtered by Li Liguo, which is also a typical portrayal of the devastation of life!
It can be said that the current territory of the Kingdom of Sparta looks very large, but the national strength is really not good, it sounds good to say that it is a nouveau riche who suddenly gained a huge amount of wealth, and it is difficult to say that it is a 'flash in the pan' that sits on the mountain and eats nothing, without any background, and sooner or later he will be played to death by himself!
It was such a shattered kingdom of Sparta, after the emancipation proclamation, Li Liguo squandered the wealth of the Roman city, selected soldiers from those sturdy slaves who were definitely not friendly to the Romans, and formed the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th ...... Corps!
The standard for a legion is about 20,000 people, and Li Liguo plans to directly double the military strength!
If it weren't for the lack of wealth in the city of Rome, Li Liguo would have been eager to rank the legion all the way to 10086......
Well, that's just a beautiful dream, in fact, the finances of the Kingdom of Sparta, after the recruitment of the Tenth Legion, have dried up, and the budget for maintaining the Legion can only last a year!
In other words, the seemingly huge army of 200,000 in the Kingdom of Sparta, Li Liguo can only maintain it for more than a year, and then, no matter how he taps the potential of the Kingdom of Sparta, he can't afford to raise this huge army......
Fortunately, the Romans had enough slaves, and the way the Romans treated slaves was really barbaric, most of the slaves had no sense of identity with the Roman Empire, and there was no problem in being elected legionnaires of the Kingdom of Sparta!
Of course, those slaves were not like the first 5 legionnaires of the Spartan Kingdom, with Li Liguo as their idol of personality worship, and their centripetal force was extremely strong!
In the newly recruited regiments, even if the officers and generals are transferred from the old units, the low-level slave-born soldiers are just holding the mentality of being paid as soldiers......
The quality of the newly formed legion can be imagined how low, a proper cannon fodder corps......
This is also where other countries do not understand, that Spartan king Li Liguo in such a good situation, stunned to exhaust the national strength and plundered wealth to expand the combat effectiveness of the army, even if he has a group of slave-born soldiers available, but the Spartan kingdom is not going to live in the future?!
Or, that Li Liguo just destroyed the Western Roman Empire, and he still wants to continue to destroy other countries?!
Well, as long as the rulers with a little bit of brains know that the king of Sparta is either crazy in this way, or he still wants to continue to wage a war of aggression, and the war will break out in a year!
This Spartan kingdom is really more war-loving than the barbarians!
Li Liguo, who didn't enjoy the service of a Roman girl for a few days, once again devoted himself to intense recruitment and training, and the slaves of the Romans Li Liguo selected all of them to be strong and strong, and even some slaves were gladiator-born warriors!
It can be said that in terms of the physical fitness of soldiers alone, Li Liguo's soldiers absolutely meet the standards!
In addition, it was Li Liguo who personally restored the freedom of these slaves and gave them a mouthful of food, these slave soldiers were actually very grateful to the Spartan Kingdom in their hearts, at least there was not much hostility!
If Li Liguo had recruited the Romans and civilians in Gaul and the Spanish Peninsula who were oppressed in dire straits, the thinking of the army would never be comparable to that of this group of grateful Roman slaves!
Li Liguo's approach caused the Eastern Roman Empire to rapidly increase the strength of several legions in the border area!
The war between the Goths and the Northern Frontier Legion of the Western Roman Empire, which did not surrender to Li Liguo, also stopped, and the weak Frontier Legion naturally did not go to the brutal Li Liguo, these people coerced a small number of Roman citizens, entered the territory of the Eastern Roman Empire, and took refuge in them. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Goths lived in peace, and sent envoys to the Kingdom of Sparta to pay allegiance, of course, the allegiance here is not unconditional, the Goths only nominally recognized the Kingdom of Sparta as their suzerain, taxes and military service, etc., are absolutely not paid!
The people of Sparta knew that the Goths would never push their own people into the pit of fire!
Li Liguo, who was busy training and expanding the army, also had no time to deal with the Goths, who were not in a good climate, and they did not even have a unified leader now......
When Li Liguo began to expand his army, the war between the Huns and the Eastern Roman Empire also stopped, which made Li Liguo a little depressed, because the Eastern Roman Empire had gathered heavy troops in the Mercia region on the border with the Western Roman Empire!
Even, more than half a year after the fall of Rome, when the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th legions of the Kingdom of Sparta were just taking shape, the Eastern Roman Empire and the Huns reached a very reliable peace agreement!
Li Liguo's approach is too terrifying and too provocative, the goal of the Huns has obviously changed completely, and the relationship with the Eastern Roman Empire has also entered a period of peace due to the comprehensive expansion of the Spartan Kingdom!
You know, at this time, the kingdom of Sparta and the territory of the Huns were just isolated from a Goth!
The Eastern Roman Empire moved very quickly, and they seemed to have decided that Li Liguo's next target was definitely themselves, and adopted the strategy of striking first!
The mighty army of 150,000 Eastern Roman Empire drove into the territory of the former Western Roman Empire, the Illyrian region, and the Ostrogoths living here could not resist the powerful army of the Eastern Roman Empire at all, and obediently became obedient people, and soon, the Eastern Roman Empire advanced all the way and occupied all the Lycia regions where the Visigoths lived!
Suddenly, the army of the Eastern Roman Empire had already conquered the actual territory of the Spartan Kingdom!
At the same time, the expansion direction of the Huns was also placed in the area where the Germanic barbarians lived, and constantly expelled the Germanic barbarians across the Rhine River into the almost undefended Gaul region of the Spartan kingdom, and all of a sudden, the northern border of Gaul fell!
The arrival of the armies of the Eastern Roman Empire and the fall of the northern frontier of Gaul gave great encouragement to the populace of the Spanish peninsula and other parts of Gaul in the Kingdom of Sparta, and a storm was coming! (To be continued.) )