Chapter Two Hundred and Eighty Eighth, the War Is About to Break Out

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Seeing that more and more ancient Roman troops appeared, even Wei Xiaobei didn't dare to chase them rashly.

In such a street, it is basically impossible for these ancient Roman troops to encircle and kill Wei Xiaobei, but it is hard to say that killing too much will attract more powerful ancient Roman soldiers.

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

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

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

Of course, this premise must be not greedy.

Wei Xiaobei was rather curious about the fact that these ancient Roman troops were gathering towards the horn, so he climbed up to the buildings beside the street, relying on his ability to root under his feet, he was far behind these ancient Roman troops.

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

And with the advance of these ancient Roman troops, the buildings on both sides of the street gradually changed to the style of ancient Carthage. There are many buildings supported by tall stone pillars, tall stone gates, etc., which made Wei Xiaobei look like he was before. Withdrew from the sense of disobedience, and looked at these majestic buildings with interest.

In the process of following these ancient Roman troops, Wei Xiaobei did not have smooth sailing, many buildings were far apart, so Wei Xiaobei could only go down to the ground.

But often at this time, some ancient Roman troops would emerge from behind Wei Xiaobei. After killing two small groups of ancient Roman soldiers, Wei Xiaobei had no choice but to disguise himself as an ancient Roman soldier.

After all, the farther you go out of the city, the more ancient Roman troops will appear. Wei Xiaobei doesn't want to expose himself yet.

Put on a chain mail, put on a helmet, pull down the lower visor, and clutch a few javelins. After watching for a while, Wei Xiaobei sneaked in when a group of ancient Roman soldiers and a group of Carthaginian soldiers were fighting in front of them.

This team of Carthaginian soldiers was unlucky, surrounded by ancient Roman soldiers who outnumbered them twice in a dilapidated street garden.

Compared with the denser defensive formation of Carthage soldiers.

The offensive formation of ancient Roman soldiers is relatively sparse, and the interval between each soldier is about 1.5 meters wide. Whenever the soldiers in the first row swing their weapons to make a round of attack, the soldiers in the second row will start from the interval. Pounce everywhere and attack the enemy again.

This attack mode in turn. The physical strength of each soldier was better preserved, and the Carthaginian soldiers were exhausted and eventually killed.

After some fighting, the ancient Roman soldiers wiped out this group of Carthaginian soldiers at a relatively small cost.

From the beginning to the end, Wei Xiaobei did not show the strength of an ancient Roman reserve soldier.

After the battle, these ancient Roman soldiers didn't say much, but silently took away the more valuable things from the Carthaginian soldiers as trophies, and then gathered and lined up to move on.

Wei Xiaobei took the last position in the queue, with an adult soldier on the left. On the right is a young soldier.

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

In ancient Rome, citizens who owned property were classified according to the amount of property, which became the standard for military service.

They start military service at the age of 17. From the beginning of service to the end of the fourth year, they are called young soldiers, and then they are called adult soldiers. Veterans who have served for more than eight years have accumulated corresponding property, regardless of equipment or combat Skills are also much better than youth soldiers and adult soldiers. That's why it's called a reserve.

Just from this name, we can see their strength.

The initial poor people did not have to serve in the military because they had no property, but as the ancient Roman Empire continued to expand, more and more troops were needed. These paupers were thus conscripted into service, and because of their poor equipment they were only light infantry.

Of course, they don't serve as this kind of light infantry all their lives, as long as they collect enough spoils and accumulate wealth. Those who can survive among them can often become reserve soldiers.

When the whole team was advancing, no one spoke, and even the pace of progress was relatively orderly, which showed that the team was well-trained.

After all, in the BC era, the army did not have much unified training, and combat skills and so on needed to be honed by themselves. In this way, when marching, they could be more uniform and tidy, which could be regarded as well-trained.

This marching distance was a bit boring. After advancing five kilometers, Wei Xiaobei couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief when he passed through the huge hollowed-out city gate.

Outside the city is an extremely huge plain. A few kilometers away from the city gate, ancient Roman phalanxes are neatly arranged.

And behind Wei Xiaobei, groups of ancient Roman soldiers appeared from more than a dozen city gates more than ten meters high and twenty meters wide, and gathered towards the plain.

Wei Xiaobei's group of ancient Roman soldiers was inconspicuous at all, like a drop of water that melted into the sea in a blink of an eye.

Before their group of soldiers approached, an ancient Roman light cavalryman holding an eagle flag rushed over and shouted loudly: "Follow me."

"Yes, sir!"

Without any hesitation, the centurion leading the team followed the Eagle Banner Cavalry with his own group of soldiers, and ran towards a phalanx that was not yet fully formed.

Wei Xiaobei was among the soldiers, so it was impossible for him to act recklessly, but his eyes hidden behind the visor quickly looked around.

Precise calculation starts!

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

Here, each square has about four hundred people.

And Wei Xiaobei saw more than thirty-two phalanxes at this time.

In other words, the number of ancient Roman soldiers here has exceeded twelve thousand.

As far as Wei Xiaobei knew, the basic unit of battle in ancient Rome was the centurion, every two centurions constituted a squadron, and in actual combat, every three squadrons formed a large squadron.

Each legion has 1,200 light infantry, 1,200 spearmen (youth soldiers), 1,200 main soldiers (adult soldiers), 600 reserve soldiers, and 300 cavalry, for a total of 4,500 people.

In addition, in actual combat, each legion must also be equipped with some auxiliary arms.

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

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

There are also eight cavalry phalanxes, and each cavalry phalanx has about 200 cavalry, but it is also increasing.

In this way, 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 in the distance behind him, there were more than two regular legions of ancient Roman soldiers who wanted to gather.

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

Behind him stood an orderly holding a huge golden horn.

There is no doubt that this giant man should be the commander-in-chief of the ancient Roman army.

Is it Scipio? Or Quintus Fabian?

Some information immediately popped up in Wei Xiaobei's mind. Judging from this scene, it should be during the Second Punic War between ancient Rome and Carthage, and during the Second Punic War, the ancient Roman side was the most famous The commander in chief is these two.

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

And Great Scipio is known as the Great Scipio who conquered Africa. He completely defeated Hannibal in the Battle of Zama, and this battle was also the last battle of the Carthaginian commander Hannibal.

Thinking of this, Wei Xiaobei looked towards the opposite side.

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

Because the distance was too far, even with Wei Xiaobei's super vision, he could only see some blurred figures.

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

To be honest, it was the first time Wei Xiaobei saw an elephant that was over ten meters tall!

They are covered with a thick layer of chain mail, and the hem hangs down to the knees of the elephant's legs. The elephant's head wears a half-hollow helmet, and there is a small attic on the back, in which five ancient Roman soldiers sat. The driver, and the remaining four are adult soldiers with long spears and javelins, and even an extremely sharp spear head on the tip of the elephant's trunk.

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

Fortunately, there are not many such battle elephant phalanxes, counting from the beginning to the end, there are only four of them.

Except for these battle elephant phalanxes, the number of other Carthaginian phalanxes is no less than that of ancient Rome.

Compared with the ancient Roman side, the Carthage side seems to have fewer cavalry phalanxes. In addition, there seem to be several phalanxes that are stone throwers.

Well, Wei Xiaobei also has a little understanding of this kind of slinger.

Due to its developed business, Carthage also hired many mercenaries during the war, and these slingers should have come from Parma.

The slingers are not as useless as they are written in the novel. It is said that at a distance of 30 meters, these Parma slingers can hit a hundred shots. After the sling speeds up, the stones the size of a fist will hit people, even if they are wearing armor. All may be broken bones. (To be continued.)