Stab-proof suit + riot shield + motorcycle helmet, although such a set of things looks a little rustic and not gorgeous at all, the actual protection is definitely much stronger than those bullish gold helmets and silver armor. And the best part is that it's affordable—like the internal wholesale price, which adds up to a few thousand dollars. Even if the entire army of 6,000 people is equipped, it will only be enough for less than 50 million.

Although it seems to cost a lot of money, compared to the fact that a Roman soldier had to spend five years of salary to buy a set of clothes at his own expense, a medieval knight's full equipment can be exchanged for twenty oxen, which is already a very economical amount - this is a blessing in productivity and jishu progress!

In fact, Queen Cleopatra was not generous enough to redress the 1,000 private soldiers of the Egyptian nobility, but only equipped the 5,000 men directly belonging to her, and the remaining 1,000 sets of protective equipment were thrown away in the warehouse for replacement.

Seeing that many soldiers were still barefoot, Wang Qiu was very worried that this army called Hanako would be pierced by something in the battle, so he got them a batch of anti-smashing labor protection shoes lined with metal sheets, but unfortunately the result did not seem to be very popular - although those mercenaries admitted that the protection of this thing was good, but because they were used to playing barefoot, they always felt knocked when they wore labor protection shoes, and they were not breathable. Zuihou had to put these shoes away and use them as combat boots when he went into battle. Usually, they either continue to go barefoot or wear the plastic slippers that were given to them at the same time......

However, a stab-proof suit is essentially just a set of armor. Just like body armor, it is not a substitute for military uniforms. So, in order to achieve the regularization of the national army. To make these guys look like an army, the Egyptian queen's chengguan brigade obviously needs a uniform of military uniforms.

But the problem is that the dark uniforms of the chemical fiber cloth of the Chinese chengguan team members ...... To be honest, the breathability is really not very good, and it is completely unsuitable for the desert environment of Egypt with a scorching sun. Not to mention the kind of labor protection clothes and military coats that are commonly worn by migrant workers - if you travel to the Black Forest of Germany or the wilderness of Britain, you can also consider it. But in Egypt, where the sand and sun are blazing, wearing such thick clothes is simply looking for death. And if you go to order desert camouflage uniforms. The price seems to be too expensive, and now there is still a deficit on the account, and Wang Qiu and the others are somewhat reluctant.

Fortunately. Senior Sister Ma Tong really has a way, and she actually managed to get a large number of military uniforms of Japanese devils during World War II from the props store at a low price!

——A few years ago, the trend of filming anti-Japanese dramas in China was hot, and screenwriters and directors from all walks of life rushed to drill into this theme. What local films, romance films, spy war films, etc. have been put on the horse without mentioning. Even anti-Japanese TV series with strange themes such as Xianxia fantasy qigong have emerged. zuihou has made a lot of embarrassing bad movies, such as a martial arts master who single-handedly fights the command of the Japanese division, a group of beautiful nuns vs. the Japanese military police, etc., which makes people feel that the screenwriters of these domestic anti-Japanese dramas are probably taught by physical education teachers in the history classes in school.

When this meteor craze of anti-Japanese dramas, just like the situation when everyone swarmed to shoot the Qing Palace pigtail scene earlier, it began to gradually cool down, and the extras who played the Japanese devils no longer had to "die" eight times a day on average. There's a whole bunch of movie props left, especially those costumes. It has become a burden - if it is a gorgeous costume with wide robes and large sleeves, then there is still a bit of a market. Anyway, at present, the society respects the quintessence of the country and the popular Hanfu, whether it is rented out in the camera shop in the scenic tourist area, or directly sold to collectors who like this thing and the drama clubs of some universities, they can barely get back to their roots. But the earthy yellow military uniform of the Japanese devil ...... Who in China would want to wear such a shameful thing to go out!

Therefore, in this New Year, when the firecrackers shook the sky, Ma Tong happened to hear that several third-rate film and television companies had gone bankrupt and closed down a year ago, and the warehouse was stuffed with a large number of dusty old Japanese devil military costumes that no one wanted, and seeing that they could only be disposed of as rags, he took the opportunity to buy them at a very low price - it is said that they were sold cheaper than T-shirts. It was then packed and transported to ancient Egypt to serve as training uniforms for these Egyptian city management team members.

As a result, under the command of Queen Cleopatra, a large number of Western versions of "Japanese devils" wearing khaki military uniforms and curtains hanging on both sides of their hats appeared...... Although such a lineup makes people look very embarrassed, I have to admit that the practical effect of this costume is not bad.

Japan's modern army and navy, which was established after the Meiji Restoration, were modeled after Western France and Britain, respectively, and have obvious inheritances in terms of system and clothing. Therefore, the clothing of the Japanese army is very similar to the uniform of the French North African Legion - at that time, the French African colonies stationed in the desert area had a circle of cloth dragged behind their hats, which was very effective in preventing the sun from burning the back of the neck.

While the Japanese Army introduced this design, it also innovated by changing the circle of cloth behind the hat to two pieces of cloth that hung down on both sides of the hat. This is an ugly but practical design, which can not only protect against wind, dust, sun, mosquito and fly bites, but also act as a cushion when soldiers carry things on their shoulders to protect the skin of the neck from being worn out. The cloth is not connected together, which is also more conducive to ventilation. Therefore, although the Japanese army has never been to the African desert, the military uniform of the Japanese devil is unexpectedly suitable for use as a training uniform in Egypt.

In addition to the khaki military uniform, Ma Tong also got a bunch of "38 big cover" prop guns (of course, they are fakes, they can't shoot bullets, they can be imagined as more delicate wooden guns), ready to be used as training equipment. However, Wang Qiu and the others had no plans to equip the Egyptian queen's chengguan brigade with hot weapons for the time being, so these props and guns were thrown into the warehouse, and the bayonets were just distributed to the Egyptian army, so that they could stick them in their waists as daggers.

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The assault weapons of the infantry brigades of the city of Alexandria were relatively backward in comparison with completely modern protective equipment. In addition to the bayonet that replaced the dagger, Wang Qiu only issued them a high-strength alloy battle axe. It was used to split the shield walls of the Romans - the kind of large square shield was thinner than the door panels after practical testing. As for long-range attack weapons, we can only count on the bows and arrows and slings that these mercenaries have brought from Syria.

Such an attack capability. It really doesn't show the great superiority of the time-travelers who are more than 2,000 years ahead of the times. Also, it is impossible for you to stay in Egypt all the time to serve as a bodyguard for Queen Cleopatra, and you dare not leave the wormhole too far (for fear that the wormhole will disappear and be trapped in the other world and you can't go back), in order to maintain her rule, Queen Bixia must have an elite army that can fight independently.

So, after reading the history books, Professor Yang said. It is recommended that these mercenaries be given a batch of spears and train a phalanx of Macedonian hoplites - the strongest battle formation in the West invented by the Greeks before the rise of the Roman Empire!

Before the appearance of the hoplite phalanx. The military jishu of the Europeans was still in a state of ignorance, and the war was like a gang fight. Over time, the chaotic battles that resembled gangsters were gradually eliminated by the Greeks who entered the civilized era. In order to cover each other and fight more effectively. The tactics of the heavy infantry phalanx with spears and shields came into being. By the 4th century BC. The phalanx tactics reached their peak in the time of King Philip II of Macedon and his successor Alexander, forming a primitive multi-service mixed force that organically combined various arms and played a great role in Alexander the Great's crusades. It was with this legendary Macedonian phalanx that Alexander the Great crossed the Mediterranean Sea in more than ten years, unified the Greek Peninsula, destroyed the behemoth Persian Empire, and fought all the way from Greece to the Indus River.

The basic formation of the Macedonian phalanx consisted of a column of 16 men armed with 6-meter long spears. And there was cavalry and light infantry in loose formations to cover the coordination. The entire Macedonian phalanx resembles a steel hedgehog covered with huge spikes, in the middle of the phalanx. The shields in the hands of the soldiers protect the left side of their own side as well as the right side of the bodies of their neighboring comrades, and once the soldier in the front row falls, the soldier who was originally in the second row will quickly fill in the gap left by him. The soldiers in the first row generally squatted and pointed their spears in front of them, while the soldiers in the second row rested their spears on the shoulders of the soldiers in the first row, which increased the lethality of the frontal cavalry. The essence of the whole phalanx tactics was that all the soldiers worked together and marched together - according to the Athenians' description after being defeated by the Macedonians, every soldier who attacked the Macedonians had to deal with at least ten spearheads at the same time!

If the enemy's Macedonian phalanx had been arranged and prepared on a suitable plain terrain, Western military strategists at that time could hardly come up with an effective way to block this phalanx, and could only form another phalanx to collide. After the Battle of Gaugamela, which conquered the Persian Empire in 332 BC, the invincible prestige of the Macedonian phalanx spread throughout the West. The Ptolemaic dynasty, which ruled Egypt for nearly three centuries, was founded by the Egyptian governor of Alexander's empire, and in a sense, he was also enjoying the remnants of Alexander the Great.

According to Professor Yang, having the Egyptian queen's army train the Macedonian phalanx seems to be a reasonable choice to adapt to local conditions and time conditions.

However, after some discussion and research, the proposal was finally rejected - although judging from the graphics of the Hollywood movies "Alexander the Great" and "Total War", the Macedonian spear phalanx was indeed very exciting. But if you want such a crowded spear forest to be able to command like an arm, the difficulty of training and the tacit understanding required between the soldiers are not ordinarily high. Moreover, compared with the flexible and simple Roman phalanx, the Macedonian phalanx could not adapt to the rugged terrain and could only fight on the plains, and what was worse was that due to the complex composition of the phalanx, the whole formation was very slow: in the third Macedonian war of the last century, the Macedonian army was because it was too late to line up the phalanx, and the Romans were killed in front of them, and they had to fight in scattered formations, which eventually led to a crushing defeat and the loss of the country.

In general, if you don't have an extraordinary elite force, it's best not to play such difficult phalanx tactics.

In addition, the Macedonian phalanx was only relatively strong in frontal attack, and the vulnerable flanks and rear needed cavalry cover. However, the queen of Egypt could not muster enough cavalry troops for a while—in such a large rabble, only a few mercenary leaders could afford to raise war horses, and the others shared a pack horse to carry their luggage. And then add to that the fact that there are less than twenty female knights on the Queen's side. and about two hundred horsemen provided to the queen by the local nobles of Lower Egypt, for a total strength of less than three hundred. This amount is clearly not enough to cover the flanks of a Macedonian phalanx.

Of course, Wang Qiu and they crossed over. The cavalry was immediately replaced with modern saddles and stirrups, but the origin of these cavalry was complicated, and it was difficult to command them in a unified manner. Even with such an epoch-making invention as the stirrup, it may not be able to defeat the Roman cavalry, which had a numerical advantage.

However, although the Macedonian phalanx was rejected, the use of spears for untrained soldiers was a more appropriate option than the issuance of swords. In order for the newly recruited local soldiers of Alexandria to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible. Wang Qiu and his team made 3,000 high-strength alloy spears in modern Shijie, and the spearhead is the famous three-edged thorn, which is said to make people bleed to death as long as they poke out the wound. It can indeed be called murderous.

Although in the eyes of mercenaries like Captain Cleon, the lethality of these alloy tomahawks and triangular thorns is already terrifying. However, Wang Qiu and the others still felt that the damage output ability of this motley army was seriously insufficient. It would be better to rely on them to suppress the mob with sticks and stones, even against battle-hardened Roman legionnaires, even against a defeated rout. The number of casualties in Zuihou is likely to be large.

And the Egyptian queen currently has the military liliang in her hands. Especially experienced soldiers, there is really too little, this group of third-rate mercenaries is already the only team of decent soldiers, it is really expensive - without this group of backbone veterans, Queen Cleopatra will not even be able to pull up the shelf of an army - these are the seeds of the future officer corps!

Therefore, after breakfast on this day, Captain Cleon and several other officers received a batch of new weapons that were claimed to be blessed with "divine power" - rough looks. It's just a heavy jet-black stick, but if you press the next bracket. You can find out how powerful it is.

——This is the secret weapon of cold weapon combat with the characteristics of urban management: electric batons!

When the early Roman legions were still using wooden shield leather armor, because they were all equipped with insulators, electric batons were probably not very effective. However, the Romans today have conquered almost the entire Mediterranean Shijie and have upgraded a lot in terms of armament. Generally, the wooden shield must be reinforced with iron sheets and iron bars (that thing has a large protective area, and it has to carry a long march on its back, so there is a limit to the weight, and it cannot be made too thick, and if it is not reinforced with metal, it really can't carry the big axe of the Germanic berserker), and the more extravagant ones are to decorate the shield with brass and gold and silver. Pure leather armor is also rare, and it is common to insert a few pieces of metal armor on the back of the shoulder, or forge a pair of bronze cuirass...... As a result, it is equivalent to changing from the original insulator to a conductor, and can no longer withstand the electric shock of the electric batons.

However, in the first century B.C., the first unlucky people to taste electric shocks were the officers and soldiers of the Egyptian army who had just been given electric batons.

“…… Hiss-crackling...... Oh my God, this ...... Is this Zeus' thunder? ”

“…… Woohoo - snap! Help, help—"

“…… Really, why are they all so stupid! Hurry up and bring out two people to carry down this stupid guy who made himself stupid! ”

Ms. Xiao Se, the chief captain of the Chengguan Dogtooth International Column, carried a whip and whipped on the floor, and at the same time instructed the two strong men to carry down the stupid guy who was overturned by electricity and was foaming at the mouth, and threw him into the small black room to sober up, "...... You must remember that the fighting skills of this electric rod are completely different from swords and the like, don't be careless and don't overturn the enemy, but you will knock yourself down......"

“…… Yes, yes! The mercenary leaders immediately nodded yes, and at the same time stared at Ms. Xiao Se's every movement, for fear that they would miss something and lose their lives on the battlefield - at first, when they learned that this "goddess envoy" with a full face was going to be their instructor, these mercenaries, who were very sexist, felt very unhappy to accept it.

A muscular Thracian man approached with a hippie smile, saying that he wanted to try his hand at the "sturdy-looking" "goddess" in an attempt to kill her majesty. Who knew that only a moment later, the mercenaries heard a loud "boom", and saw this stunned young man being kicked upside down and flying out of the training ground, and then rolled to the ground and curled up in a ball, unable to get up for a long time.

And Ms. Xiao Se, who still maintained a sideways kicking posture, muttered while retracting her right leg amid the applause of Wang Qiu and others, "...... Hmph, this kind of country trick is vulnerable! Mother, I don't have a black belt in taekwondo, and you still treat me as a hollekitty (Hello Kitty)! ”

The power of this kick deeply suppressed these ancient mercenaries who had never seen modern fighting techniques.

Next, there was a wheel battle in Ms. Xiao Se's table tennis. After overturning twenty strong men in a row, the image of this short and fat woman became taller and taller in the eyes of the soldiers, and from then on, all of them were sincerely afraid of Ms. Xiao Se, and they did not dare to despise her.

Then, after three days of intensive training for the queen's chengguan brigade, the enemy was finally discovered in the east - another wave of Romans had arrived! (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )