A complete Roman army includes its own infantry, cavalry, javelinmen and equipment, they are based on small teams to form the basic basic formation, up are wings, battalions, brigades, such as the standard infantry is thirteen people for a team, forty to fifty people for a wing, to the hundred level there are centurions, thousands of people have battalion commanders, brigade commanders are flag bearers, and legions are legion commanders.
The captain of a Roman legion, he actually only has the right to command the battle, and there will be roles in the army such as tribunes, judges, and financial officers, in fact, those who all serve as some degree of role as a military supervisor, and it is just a matter of not interfering, once the interference is to represent the will of the Senate of the Roman capital, usually the legion commander can only submit.
The Roman army system has been changing, almost every dynasty has its own set, resulting in the fact that the army composition of each Roman dynasty is different, but one core has not changed, that is, every hundred people form a tactical squad.
What Wang Meng sees now is the most basic state of the Roman army, every hundred people are arranged into a phalanx, if they are infantry, each soldier will hold a shield in one hand and a short sword in the other, the soldiers in front, left and right will stand up the tower shield in their hands, and the soldiers in the second line will hold the tower shield in their hands high, and one after another tower shield will be interlocked with each other to form a shield wall, and all the people will march forward in the sound of neat trumpets.
"It's not much different from our shield formation."
Dou A observed it again and again and said: "The difference is that our tower shield is larger than theirs, and the weapons in our hands are longer than theirs. ” The tower shield of the Han army was larger than that of the Roman army, and that was a matter determined by height and physique itself.
To put it simply, the basic height of the tower shield soldiers of the Han army is one meter eight, and the figure of the Roman soldiers is generally one meter six.
"Your shields are much bigger than ours."
Marcus Marca of course also knew this, and said in an envious tone: "The innate advantage of your Han people is too strong. ” According to relevant historical records, the average height of the Romans was only about 1.6 meters, which was much shorter than some of the barbarians they named, but they had long beaten those who were taller than themselves.
In fact, it is quite simple, it is that Rome is ahead of those barbarians in terms of science and technology, military system, tactical level, etc., and then there are really no grasslands around Rome, basically forests and mountains, and it is difficult to give full play to the cavalry advantage of the barbarians.
"You have a lot of infantry, really too many."
Marcus Marca didn't feel like he was complimenting: "It also shows that your generals are very good and can command so many kinds of troops to engage in battle." ” There are really many types of infantry in the Han army, simple sword soldiers, knife soldiers, archers, spearmen, spearmen, short spearmen, shield soldiers, with shields are sword and shield soldiers, sword and shield soldiers, spear and shield soldiers, and short spearmen with shields, different types of troops have their own advantages, such as terrain and battle needs.
There are many types of troops, and when arranging the formation, it is necessary to reasonably arrange where each class should stay.
Marcus Marca thought countless times about what kind of command method he should have if he came to command the Han army, but the result was that he was dizzy when he thought of so many types of troops, not to mention the formation layout and the deployment of troops.
Zhuxia has a strange phenomenon for a long time, that is, he always likes to do things from difficult to easy, such as smelting technology, obviously two methods of casting and forging have been discovered, and the choice is to play casting, which is more difficult for the process at that time.
In terms of military affairs, most ethnic groups except Zhuxia emphasize that the more monotonous the troops, the better, even if they have to need too many troops, and use a limited number of troops to match the army structure that they think is reasonable, one of the reasons is that the arms are too miscellaneous to command.
Why didn't the generals of Zhuxia command too many miscellaneous troops feel anything, but take it for granted that it is not the case when they came into contact with military affairs, and then there are most systematic military books that can be learned.
For a long time, there was no such thing as a military book for peoples outside of Zhuxia, and even if there was a little military-related stuff, it could only be written under the name Codex.
Take Europa as an example, the book of war with the Eight Classics is in the era of hot weapons, and before that, it was basically passed on after the experience of the closest relatives, and it was usually only taught to the first heir of his eldest son.
Of course, there are geniuses in the world, and they can do anything without systematic learning, but the reason why geniuses are geniuses is because the generation rate of geniuses is too low.
Most people still need to learn, and after learning that kind of knowledge, they may not be able to apply it, and even if they learn it, there will be no difference between learning it and not learning it.
"They don't have paper."
Cai Mian tried his best to lower his voice: "Your Majesty also strictly prohibits the spread of paper technology. ” Actually, it doesn't matter if you don't have paper, it's not a restriction that restricts the spread of knowledge.
Without paper, there can also be stone molds and parchment, which are also tools to carry words, but it is too troublesome to make.
"They are in the most primitive stage of feudalism."
What Wang Meng said is the key: "In their society, the nobles are noble, and they don't want to be exchanged by trade, so they can only take them by force."
Usually no one wants to pass on their knowledge, and if someone wants to share it, it offends everyone. ” Dou A understood, in fact, it is the people who have knowledge to limit the spread of knowledge, mainly to form a monopoly so as to form a favorable position.
Wang Meng only mentioned the nobles, that is, the non-nobles have no ability to protect themselves at all, which means that the nobles can rob the commoners, even if it is not legal and reasonable, they can operate in a roundabout way until they get what they want, but once the commoners want to take something from the nobles, it is equivalent to being the enemy of all the nobles.
Cai Mian didn't need to think too complicatedly, and said bluntly: "We have also had such a stage of collective suppression. ” In the pre-Qin period of antiquity, the aristocracy who mastered knowledge also formed a monopoly.
In fact, this was the case for a long time in the future, but it slowly opened up the channels for ordinary people to study, but some people were always able to grasp exclusive knowledge.
It must be said that it is one thing to be willing to share or not, but to force those who have knowledge to share is robbery.
The strange thing is that for a long time, Zhuxia's sharing of the culture of robbery and robbery has been considered correct in public opinion, and anyone who cannot protect their intellectual property rights will not be spared.
For them, the Romans liked to show their strength just by showing it, just seeing the infantry forming a formation, and some equipment being busy assembling it, there was really nothing to arouse their interest for the time being.
In terms of war, the Han army has been fighting for more than ten years, even if it is Wang Meng, who has been on the battlefield at least, he has seen a lot of Yandi battlefield with Liu Yan, and he has fought in formation, and rushed forward when he encountered.
Purely from the scene, he looked at Rome, which only dispatched a few thousand people, and then saw those enemies who had not reacted to Rome now, there was really no place where the word "fierce" could be reached.
In any war, there will be a formation in the process, and then the soldiers on both sides will fight with their bodies, blood, will, and courage, and the ultimate goal is to kill the enemy and survive.
Waiting for firearms to appear, the fighting becomes more brutal and complex.
"The tortoiseshell formation, right" Dou A didn't hide his disdain at all: "If you meet us, gather a few artillery pieces and shoot them, and you'll burp." ” Well, now the Han State is the only one that has firearms, and even the Han State only has a small number of firearms troops, and the Romans have to deal with any artillery, that is, there are no catapults.
The army surrounded by the Romans, they just kept making noise, and there was no real movement from beginning to end, and when there was movement, they began to enter the defensive line.
The Han people who were watching the battle saw people in colorful clothes running into the trenches, and they didn't understand what it meant for people to squeeze into the trenches.
"I thought it was a ditch dug by the cavalry" Dou Ah touched his chin: "It doesn't seem to be" They really haven't seen the way the Roman legions fight, the cavalry in the Roman war has always been miscellaneous, and the few Roman generals who can use the cavalry to complete a war are all shocked, but they are more accustomed to letting the equipment troops bombard constantly, and then use the infantry to advance solidly to pick the fruits of victory.
Now, the Romans are already attacking with all sorts of equipment they have assembled.
The Romans used catapults the most, and what they threw was not round projectiles, but natural stones that they had gotten out of nowhere.
Some of the catapults continued to push forward under the cover of the infantry, and it seemed that they stopped at range, and when they hit small rocks such as pebbles, they were launched, which was a bit of a spread of large-scale attacks.
After the catapult attack, the battlefield was full of stones, and the attack of the Romans caused more confusion among the enemy, and it was inevitable that those who were hit by the stones were killed or wounded, and the battlefield was filled with screams and wails.
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"We really haven't played like that."
Dou A said that he was throwing pebbles, and he used his binoculars to see a guy who was hit in the eye by a pebble, and his eyeball exploded instantly, and the person fell straight down, lying on the ground and constantly convulsing his body: "We are playing with iron sand cannons, but it is much more fierce than this."
If you are hit by the iron sand cannon, you will disintegrate directly if you are close, and if you are far away, you will not have the strength to kick your legs if you don't die, and you will roll up and wail to death like a shrimp. ” Marcus Marca suddenly felt that everything was meaningless, he was one of the Romans who knew about the artillery of the Han State, and he had not seen the firing of the artillery with his own eyes, but he could know the approximate power from some people's descriptions.
Aulus Sexes Cicero was the only Roman envoy who had seen artillery fire and saw the power of artillery with his own eyes.
He wrote back to China repeatedly, in addition to asking for the purchase of artillery or the acquisition of technology at all costs, to state to any Roman the horror of artillery, the problem is that the vast majority of Romans did not believe in such power even if they knew, and did not even believe that artillery would have a sound similar to thunder when fired.
Not only did the Romans know about the existence of artillery, but the Persians also knew that only those who had seen the power of artillery knew about the horror of artillery as a weapon, and the rest were either ignorant or unbelieving.
There is a slight similarity between them, they all want to get their hands on the artillery, whether they covet it knowing the power or they don't believe in the joke.
Of course, the Han Kingdom wanted to block the information of artillery, but it had already been used on the battlefield, how could it be blocked, it was just to block some information that could be blocked, such as the production technology of bronze cannons, the formula of military gunpowder, and so on.
Although they didn't think it was interesting or pretty, it was impossible for Wang Meng and the others to turn around and leave, and they waited for a long time until the Roman soldiers continued to advance, that is, the equipment had destroyed the fortifications that stood in the way.
"To be fair, being able to use so many instruments is indeed rare in the world."
Doua has a little disdain for catapults, ballistas and the like, but he will not open his eyes and say nonsense: "There are very few nations in the world today that can make instruments, and the Romans have something to be proud of." ” "If we can make it, we won't match every army, the Roman legions have it" Cai Mian saw that the besieged forces finally sent troops to charge: "Mixed charge of infantry and cavalry, my heart is really big." ” That's right, the people who were besieged, their counterattack was that the cavalry and infantry mixed together and charged the Roman army, and there was a scene that was both funny and sad, and the people of the same camp were not often knocked down by their own horses and trampled by the horses' hooves.
"Why don't we have such an enemy" Cai Mian said a little speechlessly: "The Huns, Xianbei, Qianren, Qiang, and Di people, the opponents we face, no matter how stupid they are, they will not give in and charge together."
That is East Asia has always been a monster house, if the civilization produced is too stupid, it will definitely not survive the second year, leaving behind all civilizations that have merits, and they have absorbed the desired nutrients from repeated confrontations, and it is not only one side that is improving.
Marcus Maca, who had just left, returned, and with him came the Roman tribune Malus Utansi.
"I'm sorry to say that the opponent we are preparing seems to be too weak."
Marus Utansis was really apologetic: "I didn't let the guests see a wonderful performance.
As a sign of sincerity, I would ask Constantinople for a grand gladiatorial battle. ” Wang Meng and Cai Mian glanced at each other instantly, they knew that the Romans were extremely fanatical about gladiatorial fights, and they also knew that gladiatorial fights held by the monarch were usually very grand, and they did feel the sincerity from the Romans.
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