Chapter 148 New Military?

In fact, although these foreign merchants who auctioned the land in Amendolara and produced and sold special commodities benefited a lot under some preferential laws promulgated by the Union, except for a few such as Theos and Dickpolis After joining the alliance, most people are still hesitant to wait and see. Especially after the outbreak of the war with Syracuse, the failure of the South Italian coalition battle and even the destruction of the industrial manufacturing area by the Tarantum cavalry made them bearish on the prospect of the alliance, if not for Syracuse and the tower. The blockade of the Taranto Gulf by the Lantum fleet, they had already fled by boat.

However, the return of Davos, wiped out the Tarantum Sea and the army in one day, and defeated the powerful navy of Syracuse, creating a miracle of war in the impossible, which shocked these foreign merchants. Infected by the fanatical Dionysian populace, they also began to believe that Dionysus was indeed blessed by Hades. As these foreign businessmen who did business in the Mediterranean and dared to invest in Dionia, they did not lack adventurous spirit, let alone vision. When they began to have hopes for Dionia's prospects in this war, They found that if Dionysus really won the war, then Dionysian's power will inevitably expand as rapidly as after the previous wars, in the southern part of Greater Greece and even in the eastern part of Sicily. With the involvement of Dionysian forces, then the most important trade circle in the Western Mediterranean is under the control of Dionysian forces. What does this mean to anyone doing business in this region!

Therefore, under the instigation of Dickpolis and Theos, the merchants made a bold investment and entrusted Theos to deliver the list of supplies to the new king of Dionia, who they confirmed as a descendant of Hades. Firth's hands.

Davos carefully read the huge amount of materials recorded on the papyrus again. The sincerity of these foreign merchants was obvious. Of course, Davos also knew what they were longing for, so he said: "Theos, you go back. Thank them for me, and tell them that the Alliance will never forget the traitor who stabbed us in the back when we were in trouble! But it will never forget the friend who helped us in our most difficult time! There is an old saying, 'The kindness of a drop of water must be repaid with a spring of water!'"

After sending Tios away, Davos came to the training ground of the military camp. Here, freemen recruited by Capps are training.

Capps hurried to the sidelines when he saw Davos coming.

"Have all the soldiers been summoned?" Davers looked at the field. The training ground, which could accommodate more than 30,000 people, was occupied by a team of freemen, and it still seemed very empty.

"Only 2,570 people have arrived." Capps explained: "The others, because they are going to donate in Victory Square, they can only come tomorrow morning."

Davers expressed his understanding, then stared at the fairly neat queue on the field, and asked, "Are they all freemen who have received military training for more than a year?"

"Your Majesty, there are not so many freemen in the port who have been trained by us,

I recruited people from the baggage team, and only had enough 6,000 people. "Caps said truthfully.

"Will there be a problem with the next material transportation?" Davers asked again.

"I retained the managers and officers of the baggage team, and recruited freemen from the port to make up for the number. Now that Syracuse's maritime superiority has been broken, there should be no more enemies landing behind us and attacking us. Baggage team. Completing the transportation task should not be a problem." Capps explained.

"Hey, tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall!" Davos sighed, this war made him see that Dionia's population resources were still in short supply, and he had no better way in a short time: "Put the spear Post it, let them practice the queue first, I'll take a look."

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Tapirus used to be a slave at Cristoia's restaurant. After more than four years, he has been freed from slavery and has become a head of the restaurant in Turii. When Si went to the baggage team to recruit personnel, he took the initiative to ask to participate, because it took too long to become a citizen of the alliance according to the normal way. Only by participating in the battle can the time limit be shortened as quickly as possible. So Tapirus thought: This is a rare opportunity, although life-threatening, but this risk is worth taking, because King Davos is back, and this army is what he asked to form!

A lot of free people are forced to join this team with this idea.

Tapirus was appointed as the captain because of his high military quality (participated in a year and a half of military training), arithmetic and literacy (skills acquired in restaurants), but he is now standing in a different position. It is the left front of a team. This is the position of the team leader, because the veterans who should have been selected by each legion and served as the officers of this new team have been dismissed and returned home tomorrow, so they are temporarily replaced by new recruits. .

At this time, the city-state slaves handed out bundles of spears to every freedman.

Is this the weapon we're going to use? ! Tapirus looked at the spear in astonishment, which was much longer than the stinger he usually used for training.

After the freedmen got their own weapons, they were a little excited, and some even waved them. Who knows, the freedmen who are not proficient in using this kind of spear are not connected with other spears, or the tail of the gun touches the teammates next to them. , for a while, the formation was chaotic, and there was a lot of noise.

There was a rush of bugles on the training ground, and the freemen hurried to get up. Although the spears were still colliding with each other, few people made a loud noise. Those who had long experience in military training knew that if they did not obey the orders, the team officer would They are about to pull out the offenders and take off their pants in public to blame, that would be too dignified!

"You all pay attention!" Several training instructors shouted at the front of the queue: "You should hold a gun like this when you stand..."

According to the instructor's posture, Tapirus put the spear on his left side, the tail of the spear touched the ground, his left arm stretched down to hold the gun barrel, and his right hand crossed his left shoulder to hold the spear.

The soldiers did this one by one, and the spears no longer collided, but stood upright one by one, like a neat and dense grove.

Davers was satisfied that the freedmen on the field were able to do so quickly and quickly grasp the essentials of holding a gun.

"It seems that their military training for more than a year has not been in vain!" he said with relief.

At this moment, the long bugle sounded again, and the flag-bearers of each team immediately pointed to the front of the black flag.

"Go forward!" Tapirus shouted, the drummer rhythmically beat the snare drum, and the soldiers began to march forward with guns.

As the footsteps progressed, the originally neat formation became more and more uneven, and the array became somewhat scattered. The spears that were originally erected upright moved with the body, and the spear heads swayed left and right, hitting each other and issuing "Crash! Crash!" !..." sounded.

Seeing Davos frowning, Capps explained: "Your Majesty, because the team officers who served as veterans have all gone home, so the control of the entire team, the maintenance of the formation, and the execution of orders are all important. Much worse."

"I understand." Davers said, keeping his eyes on the performance of the freedmen on the court.

The bugle sound changed again.

"Defense!" Tapirus shouted.

The soldiers of the advancing detachment stopped and began to gather in the middle: after the soldiers in the first column laid their spears flat, the soldiers in the next few columns held their spears diagonally forward in turn, until the spears in the sixth column remained. It can cross the shoulders of the first column of soldiers and form part of the spear wall. At this time, the entire array that was originally scattered has become a dense and thick phalanx of spears.

Davos's brows still did not stretch, he turned to Capps and said, "Do you know why I have to use freemen to use this elongated stab gun?"

"Because we have to deal with the cavalry of the Syracuses." Capps said without hesitation, apparently thinking seriously about Davos' move.

"That's right, our cavalry can't defend against the Numibians and Celts who were raised on horseback, I designed this super-spear, indeed, to deal with the mercenary cavalry of Syracuse . However, what I want is not to use this rigid defensive formation to stop the cavalry's attack, what I want is to use the attack to smash the enemy's cavalry's attack!" Davos stared at Caps with bright eyes.

Caps was a little surprised: "Let them attack the Syracuse cavalry with four-meter spears?!"

"Yes." Davos said affirmatively: "Although they have to attack at the speed of the charge, they should try to maintain a denser formation during the attack. Therefore, I am not going to equip them with armor, just need both hands. Walking and running with a gun, it should be lighter and more agile."

The super-spear phalanx conceived by Davos is not to learn from the Macedonian pike phalanx of the previous life. He does not like that clumsy formation. Dionia already has his own phalanx of the heavy infantry regiment. The efficiency is no worse than that of the Macedonian phalanx. What he wants to learn from is the famous Swiss spearmen in the Middle Ages in Western Europe in the previous life. These sturdy mountain people from the mountains can even hold a 4-meter-long spear and halberd to launch the heavy armored medieval heavy cavalry. The entire phalanx charged and defeated the French heavy cavalry many times, thus becoming famous in Western Europe and becoming an important means of making a living for the Swiss in the Middle Ages. Even the French royal family and the Holy See hired them as palace guards.

Your Majesty, if you don't equip them with armor—" As the responsibility of the leading general, Capps had to remind: "Under the blows of bows, arrows and javelins, their casualties may be very large! "

"They are only protecting the flanks of the entire formation and will not be placed on the front. Besides, at this time, it is too late to make protective armor for them." Davos replied.