Chapter 288

Road friends, book friends! Do you have any monthly tickets? Let's take some pictures to stimulate me.

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Seeing the increasing number of ancient Roman troops, even Wei Xiaobei did not dare to rush after them.

It is basically impossible for these ancient Roman troops to encircle and kill Wei xiaobeibao in such streets, but it is difficult to say that excessive killing will attract more powerful ancient Roman soldiers.

Anyway, this killing has also brought 4100 evolution points to Wei Xiaobei, which can be regarded as a very rich profit.

Wei Xiaobei is very satisfied. The danger of the gray world here seems to be very low.

As long as you pay attention to it, you can quickly brush a large number of evolution points.

Of course, this premise must be not greedy.

Wei Xiaobei was curious about the past when these ancient Roman troops gathered towards the horn. He climbed up the buildings beside the street and hung far behind these ancient Roman troops with his rooting ability.

Gradually, Wei Xiaobei saw that the direction of these ancient Roman troops should be outside the city.

With the advance of these ancient Roman troops, the buildings on both sides of the street have gradually changed towards the ancient Carthage style. There are many buildings supported by tall stone columns, tall stone doors and so on, which makes Wei Xiaobei retreat from his previous violation of peace and look at these magnificent buildings with great interest.

In the process of following these ancient Roman armies, Wei Xiaobei was not plain sailing. Many buildings were far away, so Wei Xiaobei could only go down to the ground.

But often at this time, some ancient Roman troops will emerge from behind Wei Xiaobei. After killing two teams of ancient Roman soldiers, Wei Xiaobei has to disguise himself as an ancient Roman soldier.

After all, the more you go outside the city, the more ancient Roman troops will appear. Wei Xiaobei doesn't want to expose himself for the time being.

He put on a lock armour, put on a helmet, pulled the lower armour and grabbed several javelins. After watching for a while, Wei Xiaobei mixed in while a team of ancient Roman soldiers and a team of Carthage soldiers were fighting in front.

The Carthaginian soldiers were unlucky enough to be surrounded by twice as many ancient Roman soldiers in a dilapidated Street garden.

Compared with the dense defensive formation of Carthage soldiers, the attack formation of ancient Roman soldiers is sparse. The interval between each soldier is about 1.5m wide. Whenever the soldiers in the first row wave their weapons to make a round of attack, the soldiers in the second row will jump from the interval and attack the enemy again.

This mode of attack in turns saved the physical strength of each soldier, and made those Carthage soldiers tired of defense and finally killed.

After a fight, the ancient Roman soldiers wiped out the Carthage soldiers at a small cost.

From beginning to end, Wei Xiaobei did not show more strength than an ancient Roman reserve.

After the battle, these ancient Roman soldiers did not speak much, but silently took the more valuable things from the Carthage soldiers as booty, and then gathered and lined up in a team to move on.

Wei Xiaobei station reached the last position in the queue, with an adult soldier on the left and a young soldier on the right.

In fact, this division of Roman soldiers has a strong practical effect.

In ancient Rome, citizens with property were classified according to the number of property, which became the standard of service.

They began military service at the age of 17. From the beginning of their service to the end of the fourth year, they became young soldiers, and later they were called adult soldiers. Veterans who have served for more than eight years have accumulated corresponding property. Their equipment and combat skills are much better than young soldiers and adult soldiers, so they are called reserve soldiers.

Just from this title, we can see their strength.

The original poor people did not have to perform military service because they had no property, but with the continuous expansion of the ancient Roman Empire, they needed more and more troops. Therefore, these poor people were also recruited for service. Because of their poor equipment, they were only light infantry.

Of course, they do not serve as such light infantry all their life. As long as they collect enough spoils and accumulate wealth, those who can survive can often become reserve soldiers.

When the whole team moved forward, no one spoke, and even the pace of progress was relatively neat. It can be seen that this team is well-trained.

After all, in BC, the army did not have much unified training, and its combat skills needed to be honed by itself. In this way, when marching, it could be more unified and orderly, even if it was well-trained.

This military journey was a little boring. After five kilometers, through the huge hollow gate, Wei Xiaobei couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Outside the city is a huge plain. Several kilometers away from the city gate, ancient Roman squares are arranged neatly.

Behind Wei Xiaobei, teams of ancient Roman soldiers are emerging from more than ten gates more than ten meters high and more than twenty meters wide, converging towards the plain.

Wei Xiaobei, a group of ancient Roman soldiers, was insignificant at all. It was like a drop of water, which melted into the sea in an instant.

Before their group of soldiers approached, an ancient Roman light cavalry holding an eagle flag rushed over and shouted, "come with me."

"Yes, sir!"

Without any hesitation, the captain of the 100 people led the team, with his own team of soldiers, followed the eagle flag cavalry and ran towards a square array that had not yet been fully formed.

Wei Xiaobei was mixed in this group of soldiers. Naturally, he couldn't mess around, but his eyes hidden behind his face armor looked around quickly.

Precision calculation start!

In a twinkling of an eye, Wei Xiaobei came to a conclusion.

Here, there are about 400 people in each square array.

At this time, Wei Xiaobei saw more than 32 square arrays.

In other words, the number of Roman soldiers here has exceeded 12000.

According to Wei Xiaobei, the basic combat unit in ancient Rome was the hundred people's team. Every two hundred people's teams were a squadron. In actual combat, every three squadrons formed a brigade.

Each regiment has 1200 light infantry, 1200 spearmen (young soldiers), 1200 main soldiers (adult soldiers), 600 reserve soldiers and 300 cavalry, a total of 4500 people.

In addition, in actual combat, each regiment should be equipped with some auxiliary arms.

Wei Xiaobei's eyes fell on a square array not far away.

This phalanx is completely different from other phalanxes composed of soldiers. It is composed of some chariots. These chariots are dragged by four horses, with half meter long spikes on the sides of the wheels. On the chariot, there are three soldiers, one is responsible for driving, and the other two are holding long guns and javelins.

There are also eight cavalry squares, each of which has about 200 cavalry, but it is also increasing.

Thus, on the plain, at least two regular legions of ancient Rome had gathered at this time.

But looking at the ancient Roman soldiers pouring out of the city gate behind him, there are more than two regular legions of ancient Roman soldiers who want to gather.

At the front of all the phalanxes is a white chariot. On the chariot stands a giant man more than three meters tall. He is wearing a white robe in Greek style, covered with a bronze half body armor, holding a golden shield in his left hand and a huge mace in his right hand.

Behind him stood a messenger with a huge golden horn.

There is no doubt that this great man should be the commander of the ancient Roman army.

Great Hippias? Or Quintus Fabian?

Some information immediately appeared in Wei Xiaobei's brain. Looking at this scene, it should be during the Second Punic War between ancient Rome and Carthage, and these two were the most famous commanders of ancient Rome during the Second Punic War.

Quintus Fabian was the consul of ancient Rome at that time. At the same time, when Carthage commander Hannibal attacked ancient Rome, he adopted the famous delaying tactics, and finally saved ancient Rome and won the honorary title of delayer.

The great sippia was called the great sippia who conquered Africa. It completely defeated Hannibal in the battle of Zama, which was also the last battle of Carthage commander Hannibal.

Thinking of this, Wei Xiaobei looked opposite.

An army was also stationed more than five kilometers in front of the ancient Roman phalanx.

Due to the distance, even Wei Xiaobei's super vision can only see some vague human shapes.

The only thing that can be seen clearly is the battle elephant array composed of more than 30 elephants.

To tell the truth, Wei Xiaobei saw an elephant with a height of more than ten meters for the first time!

They are covered with a thick layer of lock armour, the lower hem falls to the knees of the elephant's legs, the elephant's head is wearing a half hollowed out helmet, and there is a small attic on its back. There are five ancient Roman soldiers sitting in it, one is the driver, and the remaining four are adult soldiers with long guns and javelins, and even a sharp gun head is installed on the tip of the elephant's nose.

It is conceivable that when such a war elephant starts to charge, what kind of terrorist scene will it be.

Fortunately, there are not many such battle elephant arrays. There are only four from the beginning to the end.

Apart from these battle image squares, the number of Carthage squares is no less than that of ancient Rome.

Compared with ancient Rome, Carthage's cavalry phalanx seems to be less. In addition, it seems that several phalanxes are stone throwers.

Well, Wei Xiaobei also knows a little about this kind of pitcher.

Carthage also hired many mercenaries in the war because of its developed commerce, and these pitchers should be produced in Parma.

The stone throwers are not as useless as what is written in the novel. It is said that these Palma stone throwers can hit a hundred shots at a distance of 30 meters. After the stone throwing rope accelerates, the fist sized stones hit people. Even wearing armor, they may be broken. (to be continued.)