In the Total War series of games, this original "Roman Total War" is extremely classic, in this virtual game world, there is naturally a virtual world guard, but unfortunately both its own strength and the military strength under its command are far less powerful than Ye Tianlong, so it was killed not long after those demons invaded.

However, before he died, he had a last word, that is, to let these subordinates find a way to escape to other game worlds that have not yet been occupied by demons.

After that, relying on the warships and sea ships of the Blue Roscipio family, these survivors have been drifting on the sea to avoid the pursuit of demons, but this is obviously not a long-term solution, and the food at sea can barely make do by catching sea fish, but this fresh water cannot be guaranteed to be obtained stably, after all, no one can guarantee that this god will rain every few days to collect fresh water for you!

So this time, after discovering this spatial crack, the survivors of this world immediately rushed over, but they didn't expect that this was a trap, and the demons discovered this spatial crack earlier than them, and mobilized more than two thousand elites to ambush here.

Then what happened, Ye Tianlong and they all knew, if it wasn't for the army of the Blue Dragon Empire rushing over in time to support, the last tens of thousands of humans in this world would have been killed by these demons.

Because this Roman war world belongs to an ordinary historical world with no extraordinary power, so the soldiers in this world are naturally ordinary people, and their strength is not very strong, most of the soldiers in Ye Tianlong's opinion are not even qualified to be the militia of the Qinglong Empire, but it can be used as an excuse for Ye Tianlong to enter Europe in the future, after all, this Europe should have been originally supposed to be Romans, and now the barbarians over there are just taking advantage of Rome's weakness to steal the land of the Roman Empire. However, after this group of barbarians occupied the original Roman land, they were unable to inherit the advanced technology and civilization of the Roman Empire, which made the level of technology and civilization in Europe regress for hundreds of years, and many so-called European nobles did not take a bath for several years. In Europe like this, Ye Tianlong must clean it up.

When the time comes, this group of authentic Romans, won't that be a ready-made excuse! When the time comes, he will not go to Europe to invade, but to reclaim his homeland for this group of Roman friends.

After dispatching 100,000 troops to guard the exit of the spatial rift, Ye Tianlong began to register the identity information of the rescued Romans, which would not only make it easier for him to manage this group of Romans in the future, but also screen out if there were any spies sent by the demons.

Maybe it's because they've been drifting on the sea for a long time, so the remaining tens of thousands of Romans are all young and strong, and there aren't many civilians among them, most of them are at least town militias, but this Roman town militia is far worse than the militia equipment and combat effectiveness of the Qinglong Empire, this Roman town militia, the equipment is just a helmet, a short spear and a big shield, oh yes, they also have a cloak, and it is precisely because of this riotous cloak, this Roman town militia is often called a small city manager, Because the most powerful hoplite in Rome, the Roman city management also has a cloak, but they are high-ranking soldiers who can even be cut down by the palace guards, not the town militia.

In addition to the town militia, the largest number of these Romans were the Roman youth and Roman prime, and the Roman army was known to be a unit with heavy infantry as the core of the battle. When it was still in the period of the republican system, the Roman young soldiers and Roman soldiers were the main force of its troops, these people were composed of those relatively wealthy citizens of Rome, and the reason why they chose those who were richer citizens was because the equipment of the soldiers of the early Roman army needed to be prepared by themselves, and if the family had no money, they could not afford to buy armor at all, and they could not be heavy infantry, so they could only be those lightly armed javelinmen and archers.

Most of these young soldiers were made up of relatively young and strong recruits, and were generally armed with a bronze breastplate, a bronze helmet, a short sword, two specially made heavy javelins, and a large rectangular shield.

As for the middle-aged soldiers, they are generally veterans with more combat experience, and their equipment is actually similar to that of young soldiers, at most the armor is more sophisticated.

In addition to these two kinds of heavy infantry, there is also a small number of Roman elite pikemen, more sophisticated, not only with armor to protect the body, but also with wrist guards and leg guards to protect the wrists and ankles, but their main weapons have been changed from short swords to spears, using the classical Greek pikemen phalanx to fight, from here it can also be seen that the Greek civilization is strong, and even the Romans who have not yet risen completely have to steal from them. These elite Roman pikemen were also often the last line of defense of the army, followed by javelinmen, archers, and artillery men who operated ultra-long-range weapons such as ballistas.

What, you said that the Roman cavalry, I'm sorry, before the military reform, the Roman cavalry was really Fera, and there were casualties in chasing a rout, so that it was jokingly called the Roman balloon horse by players, but in the introduction, these guys were all served by the children of the Roman nobility! Riding tall horses, carrying spears and small round shields, they look good, but this combat effectiveness is at the same level as the town militia, and they are all war scum, which can be said to be a model of uselessness.

After the Marius reforms, the Roman cavalry finally hardened, in fact, not only the cavalry, but also other troops such as infantry and archers were also strengthened a lot.

However, this Marian reform also laid the groundwork for the decline of Rome, you must know that most of the original troops of Rome were filled by Roman citizens, so they were naturally very loyal to the country, but with the increasing land area of the Roman Republic, coupled with the fact that many citizens made a lot of money in the war, they no longer wanted to continue to be soldiers, and just wanted to return to their hometown as a small landlord to enjoy life, which led to less and less soldiers in Rome.

In order to solve this problem, a Roman military strategist named Marius carried out military reforms, and began to recruit those barbarians in the newly conquered areas as soldiers, and these soldiers would be provided with weapons and armor by the state, and after a certain number of years of service, they could also obtain a large area of their own land and Roman citizenship. This is really a good thing for many barbarians who were still drinking blood before. And because the equipment is provided by the state, and the land and citizenship of those retired soldiers will be rewarded afterwards, which can be said to have relieved the soldiers' worries, so these soldiers do not need to worry about other things in peacetime, they only need to concentrate on training and combat, so the Roman Empire has a strong army composed of its own full-time professional soldiers.

With this powerful and well-equipped legion, the Roman Empire soon became a vast empire spanning three continents: Asia, Africa and Europe, with the Mediterranean Sea as its inland sea.

However, as the so-called prosperity must decline, because there were more and more barbarian soldiers in the army, the Romans gradually lost control of their army, rebellions occurred from time to time, and even the Praetorian Guards around the emperor began to join them, killing the emperor at every turn, and then supporting a puppet they could control. Being tossed in this way, how could the Roman Empire not die.

However, according to some online theories, the decline of the Roman Empire is actually related to the Romans' preference for lead water pipes.

Now everyone knows that heavy metals like lead are toxic. But the Romans didn't know it at the time! Because lead is a metal that is easier to process, and the water that flows through the lead water pipe will become sweet, so the Romans used this lead water pipe in large numbers in major cities in the country.

The long-term intake of lead, a toxic heavy metal, made the Romans' physique begin to get worse and worse, and even some people are unable to have offspring, resulting in a smaller and smaller population of Rome, and then those barbarians can take advantage of the opportunity to ascend to the throne.

While Ye Tianlong was busy registering the identities of those Romans, the demons on the other side of the spatial rift were discussing what to do next.

They had just been killed by the humans on the opposite side of the fire at once, and it was impossible for these demons not to take revenge, but if they continued to let them rush over to take the lead, these demons would not dare, after all, the cannon fodder of the humans on the opposite side was too fierce, and none of them could withstand it!

After deliberating for a while, the demons remembered the humans in this world who had been raised as livestock, and they decided to use their demonic blood to raise some half-demon warriors to use as cannon fodder to consume the enemy's ammunition and paralyze the defenders.

Soon, these demons returned to the city of Rome, which was originally the base camp of the Roman Republic, and began to select some stronger demon blood from those human captives and human puppet armies responsible for maintaining law and order, and cultivated them.

The potential of the half-demon warriors cultivated in this way was much stronger than those demonic warriors and beast warriors that Ye Tianlong and the others had encountered before. After all, the potions used by the demon warriors and beast warriors before all had great side effects, and the only drawback was that they could be used quickly.

And these half-demon warriors are mutated directly using the essence blood of those powerful demons, although the speed of strength improvement is a little slower in the early stage, but they can improve their strength to the second order or even the third order or above. The only one who can affect the upper limit of their strength is the demon master who gave them demon blood, and their strength cannot exceed that of their own master, once exceeded, the demons will rely on the traction between the bloodlines to absorb their power to strengthen themselves. However, most human warriors should not have a chance to touch this limit, after all, these demon warriors are all innate martial arts level masters now, and when those half-demon warriors finally cultivate to this level, I am afraid that their demon masters will soon increase their strength to the third order, which is equivalent to the level of human grandmaster martial artists.

And Ye Tianlong saw that those demon warriors had no intention of counterattacking, so he also began to recuperate, and he also began to reorganize and train the troops under his command, about 100,000 militiamen who had performed well in the previous campaigns were selected into the regular combat troops, which increased the number of combat troops of the Qinglong Empire to as much as 600,000, as for those militiamen, because most of them were newly recruited, they had not been trained in the use of firearms before, and now they have begun to conduct targeted training. In addition, military factories in various places have also begun to produce all kinds of firearms, and Ye Tianlong's request for them is to let those militiamen have a flintlock rifle at least next year.

Not only do soldiers need to be reorganized and trained, but even generals also need to take turns to come back to military schools to study again, after all, the tactics of cold weapons are completely different from those of firearms, and if they are not re-studied, even famous generals like Han Shizhong and Yue Fei will make a lot of low-level mistakes at that time, resulting in the inability to give full play to the full combat effectiveness of the firearms unit.

During this period, in order to prevent those demons who were still wandering in this world from entering the territory to make trouble again, in the border areas in all directions, Ye Tianlong asked the people to build a large number of castles on those important roads, so that only a small number of soldiers could be stationed in the castles, and these main roads could be effectively guarded, making it difficult for the demons to break into the territory and harass.

Maybe it's because those demons already know the power of the Blue Dragon, and a year has passed, and there hasn't been much time for demons to attack the borders of various places, so that the Blue Dragon Empire can develop with peace of mind.

Over the past year, under the guidance of a large number of agricultural instructors sent by Ye Tianlong, all parts of the country have basically obtained bumper harvests, especially in Vietnam, due to the hot climate, rice can be harvested here three times a year, so in a year, the Qinglong Empire has already harvested three crops of rice here, and the granary is almost unstacked.

In addition to various conventional crops such as rice, wheat and millet, Ye Tianlong also built a large number of fishing boats in coastal areas, and then carried out large-scale fishing operations under the organization of the state, each time at least thousands of tons of various marine fish were caught, and over the course of a year, at least a few million tons of fish were obtained, and then most of these catches were made into dried salted fish that could be stored for a long time, and then transported to the whole country, so that people everywhere could eat a little meat every few days. As for common livestock and poultry such as pigs, chickens, cattle, and sheep, Ye Tianlong has also been making efforts to expand the scale of breeding by a large number of his subordinates.