For the Romans, unless they have no resistance at all, they will never let the enemy army penetrate deep into their hinterland, let alone let the enemy army drive under the city of Rome!

Of course, even if they drive under the city of Rome, the former Romans will not give in!

Well, just once......

The 100,000 troops of the Western Roman Empire stood in front of the Spartan army in such a dignified manner, and then chose the gentle area they were best at, suitable for the infantry phalanx charge for a decisive battle!

The front listed by the 100,000 Roman army is also decent, and the commander of the Western Roman Empire has studied Li Liguo's fighting style, but there is nothing surprising about it, and the only thing worthy of praise is nothing more than the cavalry unit of thousands of people. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, with the size of the armies of both sides exceeding 100,000 people, thousands of cavalry could not play an absolute role at all!

The Franks were defeated only because they were very poorly organized, had been successfully attacked by the enemy at night and were still weak in their camps!

It was a miracle that the Franks were able to withstand the Spartan attack until dawn, and it was a matter of course that they could not stop the final charge of the cavalry units of the Spartan army!

The Romans wouldn't make the same mistakes as the Frankish barbarians!

The well-trained Roman regular legions would definitely tell the Spartan sneak attack troops what it means to be a can't escape!

And in the grand battle, the Romans' own cavalry troops won and weakened, which does not mean that their infantry cannot deal with the cavalry troops!

Otherwise, the Eastern Roman Empire would have been crushed by the cavalry-dominated Sassanid Empire!

If Li Liguo dared to let his cavalry attack the Roman legion infantry phalanx that had not collapsed, he would definitely suffer heavy losses!

Perhaps the Spartan cavalry was a greater threat to the light infantry of the auxiliary legions, but for the Romans, the auxiliary legionnaires were never considered the main force of battle, they were just a group of light infantry with long-range support and a second line of troops following behind.

The Romans and Greeks fought in a similar way, fighting with the regular army as the main force, and the light infantry as cannon fodder only to cover the flanks and provide some ranged forces.

Naturally, the Roman front is the most important middle lane of the Roman legion, and the auxiliary legion is arranged in the two wings, and everyone knows the importance of the middle lane army in the war in the cold weapon era, even if the flank is broken through, the auxiliary legion with a large number of people can delay the Romans in the middle lane enough time to change the formation, and will not let the entire army front avalanche!

It is very simple to say that flanking and outflanking or something, but if you want to do this to tens of thousands of troops, it is definitely a very test of the quality and combat effectiveness of the army!

The commander of the army of the Western Roman Empire knew very well that the Spartan army on the opposite side was just a new army formed by less than a year of looting and intensive training, and if these people could quickly break through the flank of the Roman auxiliary legions, and could also outflank the Roman regular legions in a complete formation, it was God who wanted the Western Roman Empire to fall......

Obviously, the commander-in-chief of the army of the Western Roman Empire did not think that the soldiers of the Kingdom of Sparta could do this, in fact, Li Liguo also knew very well that that kind of thought could only be imagined in a dream......

My family knows about my own family, and the army that has been pulled out in less than a year will be able to fight a regular war at most, and if there are any other tricks or something, don't fix it, self-defeating is definitely not a scaring thing!

An army that can fight all kinds of miracles, which one is not an elite who has been through a hundred battles and is full of centripetal force?!

It's a pity that the army of the Kingdom of Sparta didn't stick to these two points at all......

However, even if it is an upright battle, Li Liguo is also full of confidence!

Because he has a strategic vision beyond the Romans, and has the basic common sense of cold weapon warfare for thousands of years in the history of the earth, he understands very well how serious their flaws are when the Roman legions seem to be powerful!

If it were true, the Romans could achieve this achievement only because the enemy they faced was too weak, and if the army of the Han Empire in the same period and the army of the Roman Empire in its heyday were pulled out and touched, it would definitely be the army of the Han Empire that won!

The tactical and strategic vision of the two sides is almost an era apart!

The level of force of the Roman Empire is closer to the combat effectiveness of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in the Eastern World!

To put it mildly, there were not even horseshoe, and it was not easy for the Roman Empire to develop to this extent......

The basic unit of the Roman queue was a detachment, with each squad forming a group. It is an extremely common misconception to confuse it with the Greek phalanx.

The appearance of the tactics of infantry detachments, which rationalized the battle, especially for those unorganized barbarian armies!

The advantages of this tactic are as follows:

1. Prevent obstacles when wielding weapons.

2. In order to be able to move quickly, space is set aside between the detachments to accommodate the passage of a troop.

3. It can quickly replace the troops with heavy casualties.

4. It can deal with the movement of the enemy.

These are the most common difficulties in the era of cold weapons, and the reason why those barbarian armies are fighting chaotic is basically because of these reasons.

The Roman legions in the center were 40 men in each column and 3 men in the column. The distance between the two is 1.8-2 meters. Space was left between the horizontal detachments to accommodate the passage of a troop, and the detachments were staggered.

The entire queue usually consists of three-line columns. The three-line column of the Republic era was composed of the first horizontal column composed of young soldiers. The second column composed of the middle-aged soldiers. The third column of adult soldiers.

However, even if the three-line column remains unchanged in today's Western Roman Empire, the components have long changed, many people in the first and second columns are new soldiers, and the third column is not a so-called adult soldier, as long as you have combat experience and have been in the army for a long enough time and have enough training, you can stay in the third column......

After Marius's reforms, a Roman legion was generally composed of 4,500-6,000 men. At the same time, a Roman legion was accompanied by a subsidiary legion, also known as a combined legion. Both are similar in structure, but the cavalry of the secondary legions is 600 men, and the auxiliary legions vary depending on the region they are recruited.

The two Roman legions, together with the two subordinate legions, formed the army group under the command of the consul, commanded by a consul.

The Lieutenant Archon could command a Roman legion and an auxiliary legion.

However, according to Li Liguo's information, the Roman commander on the opposite side is not an archon, just a general, the regular legion has not changed much, but the auxiliary legion is much worse, the cavalry unit is definitely not satisfied, the equipment of the infantry is more chaotic, and most of the auxiliary legionnaires are equipped with their own weapons......

Just as Li Liguo was thinking, the Roman legions sounded the horn of attack! (To be continued.) )