Chapter 45: The Army
The Empire has always had a strange attitude towards the freedmen of Blago Province.
On the one hand, they are recognized by the laws of the Empire, but on the other hand, they are not worthy of being subjects of the Empire.
Most of the freedmen in the empire are not strong-willed peoples, and their combat power is relatively weak, so they can only be used as auxiliary legions.
It is impossible to give them such an honorary title as a citizen of the empire unconditionally.
They had never contributed to the Empire, and they did not feel in their hearts the superiority of being citizens of the Empire.
Now that Zaga says he has a way to train the freedmen of Blago to enter the Empire's regular legions, the Empire is naturally ecstatic.
After all, citizens are the real wealth of the empire, and if they can die a few, they will die a few.
Citizens are all conscription, and all of them are excellent soldiers with very high skills and tactics, and even have a fighting spirit in their bodies.
Most of the freedmen are recruited, basically have no tactical training, and their tactical literacy is very low, and there are also such legions in the main battle sequence of the empire.
All of them are in the west, north and northwest regions, where there are several extremely fierce peoples, because they admire the bravery of the empire, submit to the empire, and follow the imperial army to fight, their combat effectiveness is very strong, probably comparable to the elven kingdom.
Of course, with their ancient way of fighting, it is estimated that they will kneel miserably when they encounter the elven kingdom.
After all, the elven kingdom has mastered more than eight layers of magical resources in this world.
Even if the will breaks through the spirit and manifests in the real world, it is impossible to resist the collective attack of so many magicians.
Moreover, they have no means to deal with air creatures at all.
Unfortunately, the Elven Kingdom has more than one air strike force.
Those legendary elven dragons, the Chimera, are magical creatures that can fly.
Even if Saga now got this rattan armor soldier in Blago Province, if he encounters these legendary legions, it is estimated that it will be the result of a string of rats.
Once people throw a few fires from the air, hehe, it is estimated that the dishes will be stopped.
After all, the vine armor is a typical short-range infantry, and its attack range is really limited.
Even if you successfully train a solidified aura in the future, it can only be a thorn aura, a vampire aura, a defense aura, and a hastening aura.
These auras are very beneficial for hand-to-hand combat, but they are of no use to the Air Force.
However, Sachar also had his own plans for this matter.
In this life, Ivan randomly summoned the will of two legions, one is the will of the vine armor soldiers, and the other is the will of the Wudang Flying Army.
The Wudang Flying Army is a lightly armed crossbowmen.
Among the curing effects of their aura, they have the effect of shooting farther and faster.
It can be used against armies flying in the air.
After all, this is not the 21st century, and those planes are flying so high.
After all, the air force of the Labral Great World is still a living thing, and it is impossible to fly too high, basically under a hundred meters.
If you want to launch an effective attack, you basically have to fall forty or fifty meters above the ground.
At this distance, a well-trained quick-reflex crossbowman is perfectly capable of counterattacking.
Of course, Sachar didn't feel that he would have a day to go to war with the elven kingdom, but he was just prepared.
Besides, although it seems that those Blago people in Nanshan don't have any decent means of attack.
But Sachar knew that behind them was a powerful kingdom, and even at the back was the mighty Inhuman Empire.
This is an opponent that the Emerald Empire should also pay attention to, and it has been fighting with the Empire in the south for many years, and there has always been some minor friction.
The Inhuman Empire's strategy has always been to send some men to fight against the Empire's Blago Province by supporting the Kingdom of Tunisia southeast of Blago, so as to ensure that the Empire remains mired in Blago.
However, this can be regarded as the middle of the Empire, where the province of Blago has restrained the energy of about seven layers of the Kingdom of Tunisia.
The province of Firodo next door is much less stressed, and has more energy to expand its territory.
One gain and one loss, there is no way to tell.
Now the war in the entire southern border is in a state of stalemate, and the empire has no will to send troops to this side.
His Majesty the Emperor did not have a good reason, so he commanded the army of the central province to go to the south, the senate did not want to send the army, and the governors and commanders of the southern border did not want the army of the imperial capital to interfere.
It is known that if Saga can break this stalemate as an army from the south, then it will naturally be a great achievement.
Sachar is still very confident in this.
The army in the entire southern territory is not particularly strong, there are fifty regular legions in the empire, and there are only eight in the entire southern territory. Not to mention the central provinces, which are full of citizens, even compared to the north and west, this number is not much.
Then with the addition of sixteen auxiliary legions, the entire southern field army was twenty-four legions, each with five thousand men, a total of 120,000 men.
Then add the servant armies of some vassal states of the empire in the south, and probably be able to gather an army of 200,000, of course, among these armies, the real elite is only 40,000 people of the regular army.
And these 200,000 people have to face two heavily armed and relatively powerful kingdoms.
According to the level standard of the elven kingdom's national strength, these should be two high-level kingdoms, and the strength of the low-level kingdom that acts as a vassal state of the Emerald Empire is completely different.
In the book "The Development and Evolution of National Strength" by the elves, it is explained that the high kingdom has initially seen the threshold of the empire, and as long as it takes a few more steps forward, it can open the door of the empire.
The elven kingdom is a little special, according to the strength, they have long had the strength of the empire, but because of the political system, and because they are not aggressive, they have never considered themselves to be empires.
But there is nothing wrong with it, the development process of the country is really a golden and jade good word, and the analysis of the country's strength is also very reasonable, and it has basically been recognized by all friendly countries.
Therefore, when facing the two high kingdoms, all the governors of the entire southern territory are still relatively cautious, although they generally do their own thing, but once there is a real big event.
They are usually able to unify their pace, report to the Emerald Capital, set up a war zone in the southern provinces, and appoint a war zone commander in order to better deal with the enemy.
Saga came to the south, and what he wanted was this, to become the commander of the war zone in the south, which would be a very lofty position.