Volume II, Chapter 30: Revenge
On the other side, the 10,000-strong army led by Fan Ming was marching mightily towards Aaron, and because of the victory in the first battle, the morale of the legionnaires was extremely high!
When some soldiers saw the beautiful girl, they deliberately puffed up their chests and arranged their white linen shirts to attract the girl's attention.
"Haha, look at these boys!
"Oh, are you very old? It seems that you are about the same age as them! How can you envy their attraction to recruit ladies! Then you can dismount and go on foot with them! Haha," Fan Ming laughed.
Bandas gave Fan Ming a blank look, but did not answer.
In this team, the most eye-catching is the Fan Ming Guards, which has now been expanded from the original 30 guards to 500 guards, all of whom are elites selected from the legions.
They rode horses with light chain mail, which were selected from the Wiluga Plains, which were good at raising horses, the best of which belonged to the Guards, followed by the cavalry, and finally the other army pack horses.
The soldiers of the Guards also wore a patchwork plate armor made by Ali using cold forging technology, which was as light as chain mail, but stronger than the traditional whole plate armor, and was called the Imperial Plate Armor!
Because Fan Ming envisioned the Guards as an army capable of both riding and shooting at the Mongol cavalry and slashing like the Mamluks. So they were armed with small hand crossbows. Of course, this is another masterpiece of Fan Ming, who can shoot with one hand while galloping on a horse, and is as fast as a bow and arrow. It is also extremely lethal and can pierce through iron armor. And it is also equipped with an imitation Damascus scimitar brought by Ali, although it is an imitation, in fact, it is not as gorgeous as the genuine, but it is durable and sharp because it is cold forged, so it is only excessive.
And it is equipped with a lightweight cavalry gun, which is convenient for short-distance charges.
Like the Guards, cavalry equipped with fully armed mounts and horses. He wears Imperial plate armor and a barrel helmet with a cross opening in the middle of the helmet to reveal his eyes.
But they differed from the Guards in what they were. They were armed with a completely different standard of armament from the Guards, although they were also armed with cavalry light crossbows and Damascus scimitars, but instead of knightly light robbery, they used strong knightly iron spears. The horses used were not the horses of the Guards with long-distance endurance. Rather, it is a war horse with short-distance explosive power.
Therefore, they have always deserved to be heavy cavalry, a heavy cavalry that is not weaker than the Mamluk and Swadia knights, and is equipped with light crossbows, which can also shoot from a distance. It can be regarded as a new type of cavalry of Fan Mingchuangzào. And there are 2,000 people, which can be regarded as a strong force.
Looking at the hoplites, these mobile bunkers have been fully trained into a loyal and powerful infantry king, also two thousand men, armed with a sword. Dressed in modified plate armor like the cavalry, he is the elite of Fan Ming like the cavalry.
The rest of the thousand crossbowmen were completely crossbowmen. The speed is fast and the damage is great, and the imperial sergeants and pikemen in the past are together, collectively referred to as the imperial sergeants, and the two sides learn from each other's strengths, retaining the pikemen's super long spears, and adding the military big shield and the pickaxe, the combined soldiers can fight near and far! The number of 5,000 is the main force of the legion.
The scythe soldiers who were used to cut the horse's legs earlier, under the leadership of Harold, successfully sniped Gong Xiang and his party, which also made Fan Ming see the shadow of the special forces, so he had a whim to build them into a team of soldiers who specialize in special tasks, still holding scythes like wolf teeth, and constantly training killing skills and action speed, becoming a Kadia version of the battlefield Sahaxin.
Although the number of people has not changed much, only 500 people, but to perform such a task, it does not take many people, but whether the strength is strong!
There is also the siege equipment that has to be said! These are all built by Fan Ming by using the first siege technology of the motherland in the past life.
First of all, let's talk about the battering ram, also known as the battering ram, a simple and bulky weapon composed of rope, wood, and metal blocks. It was this behemoth, which could only be carried by dozens of great men, that once made great achievements in the Crusades and became an important turning point in the development of collective combat weapons in the Middle Ages, thus going down in history.
The second is the trebuchet, which the Mongolian people call "return cannon", similar to a trebuchet, but several times more powerful! And the throwing is accurate! It is a "barge" import, which was learned from the Persians during the Mongol expedition to the west, and it is also a successful example of the introduction of knowledge in China's early days. A scale similar to a shooting calculation table appeared on the "return gun", which greatly improved the accuracy of shooting.
Ancient books once recorded the great role played by the "Huihui Cannon" in the attack on Xiangyang: "The Chinese people were killed immediately, and the middle ground sank three or four feet", and it was the "Huihui Cannon" that destroyed the city wall of Xiangyang with a salvo, and the three-year Xiangyang War finally settled in the roar of the "Huihui Cannon". It's a siege weapon!
Finally, there is the Chongcha and the crossbow, the crossbow is known to everyone, and the Chongcha is a siege tower with eight wheels and five stories high. The lowest level is the soldiers who push the cart forward, and the other four layers are filled with siege soldiers. The vehicle is about 12 meters high, 6 meters wide and 8 meters long.
Using its height, the cart is loaded with crossbows and grenades to shoot directly into the city, and can also be used to approach the city wall, destroy the female wall (battlement wall), and directly attack the defenders on the city wall. There are also crossbowmen at the top, which are used to shoot the enemies defending the city. It's an invincible weapon.
Fan Ming has a very good feeling about this army, and in terms of loyalty, and the force value is high, it is simply a top-level training unit!
"Your Majesty, if we can capture Aaron this time, will Djerkhara take the initiative to pledge allegiance to us?" asked Lem, who was already the commander of the entire legion at this time. Not only because he was the earliest with Fan Ming, but also because Fan Ming also liked his bravery and his ability to use his brains in battle! You know, for the commanders of this era. There are very few people who can use their brains, so Lem deserves to be the captain of this legion.
The Imperial Sergeant was held by Jill. Become the officer with the largest number of soldiers at your disposal.
As soon as Duke Matras died, the Djerkhara side fell into the midst of a seizure of power, and there was also Taqias of the Amera Fort, which was eyeing each other, and they were worried both inside and outside, and they urgently needed a strong foreign help, and unfortunately! That foreign aid was only us! Haha, so when the time comes, we will support a new lord of Djerkhala. Then the others will join us!" said Fan Ming confidently.
In fact, he was right, after the death of the lord, the land without an heir will inevitably cause fierce fighting. Therefore, raising puppets is the best way to rule.
Dan Fan clearly didn't expect that the addition of an unexpected power would save him a lot of trouble.
Van Min's army, carrying siege equipment, marched slowly towards Aaron. And at this very moment. Another group of cavalry, escorting a man of high rank, galloped out of the city of Aaron and toward the distant desert
The army carried all the siege equipment, and although it was slow, it was subject to good discipline and the fact that all the men would order the peasants' grain to be bought at a high price, not like any other army. robbed like a robber, so it was welcomed by more and more farmers and villages.
Van Ming also promoted his liberal Rhodok ideas from time to time. Assured the peasants that they would be given dignity and freedom after taking Rhodok, and that all the peasants would get the land they coveted, the peasants would be deeply grateful to the uncrowned emperor, this is the simple peasants, if you treat them well, they will treat you as their benefactor for life, and if you treat them badly, they will only bury them deep in their hearts.
It was the third day of the legion's march, and the army was only three days away from Aaron, and it might have taken about two days if it had been a day and night.
"Your Majesty! A few hours ahead we will be at Iovia, a rich village! And the villagers are very hospitable! We used to be hired there as mercenaries for a lord! So we know that wheat is abundant there, and it is the autumn harvest season, and we can go there to replenish it!" Lem told Fanmin.
"Haha, aren't there a few pretty girls there, Lem! You are so excited!" said Bandas quipped.
"Hehe, of course the girls, it's just that I haven't been there for a long time, so I've forgotten about me for a long time!" Lem said embarrassedly.
"Haha! Lem! You kid is not authentic! Look at your usual naught, I didn't expect you kid to be calculating! I underestimate you!" Fan Ming also quipped at this time.
The surrounding soldiers also laughed when they heard it, which made Lem embarrassed: "Why, Majesty, don't you know me! I have always only studied war! Who have studied women!" Lem squinted at the smiling soldiers around him, and then covered up.
"No, Brother Lyme! Didn't you say last time I drank with you that I wanted to find a beautiful woman for me and Bush? And said that you have the best knowledge of women! You have a big ass and a big breast! Ah! Isn't it Bush!" At this time, Jill also came over and quipped, and threw a look at Bush.
Bush immediately understood: "Yes, yes, yes! Brother Lyme also said that the woman brought back by His Majesty was your little friend, and that the cook of the castle was also yours! Even Miss Jamila didn't know what I told him, he knew it, how could he not understand women!" Bush didn't have any brains at all, and he was joking with him, and something was always going to happen!
Sure enough, when Lem heard Bush's words, he was already shouting in his heart that he was unlucky, how could he meet such a brainless person!
The corners of Fan Ming's mouth twitched, and he remembered that it was no wonder that when he was in Viruga, Jamila was fighting as soon as he arrived, and it turned out to be the devil who was making trouble: "Lem, you fucking bring me here!" Fan Ming shouted at Lem with a three-pointed halberd in his hand.
And Lem begged for mercy loudly and fled on horseback: "Majesty! I was wronged" (to be continued......