Chapter 335: "·Roman Army·End"

Take a piano, for example, starting with the keys and ending again. You know that the piano has only 88 keys, no matter what the piano is. They are not infinite. You are infinite, the music made on the keys is unlimited. I like this, I am used to it.
-Giuseppe Tornadore (upstart director of the Italian realist film genre)
In addition to fighting against enemy forces using the Macedonian phalanx, we can also find from the many records at the time that the Romans were still inseparable from the traditional spear troops in the battle; for example, in the famous battle of Farsarus, Caesar placed a reserve infantry unit behind his cavalry. These infantrymen were required to carry javelins for assault operations instead of throwing heavy javelins like other troops.
After the famous Mallorian reform, in order to unify the equipment of the army, the Romans removed the spears of the reserve soldiers and replaced them with heavy javelins; this made the Roman legion lacking the pike force must rely on various allies and vassals in the battle. Force to provide spear troops.
After the establishment of the Roman Empire, Augustus implemented the imperial army reform and recruited a large number of auxiliary legions using spears; these troops were deployed in front of the legions using sword shields in the battle of Britain to resist the crazy charge of the local indigenous people .
So, why is such unsatisfactory weapons and equipment still able to make the Roman legions outstanding?
That's because the tactical superiority of the Roman Legion concealed their flaws in weapons and equipment. Compared with the improvement and optimization of weaponry and equipment, the advanced tactics of the Romans were the greatest advantage that the Roman Legion had when fighting the enemy!
In the military progress of the Romans, the equipment factor has always been a secondary factor; and the creative tactical progress of the Romans is the key to the Roman legion’s advantage over its surrounding opponents, and the key to the Roman legion’s victory.
In order to allow the front-to-back replacement scheduling of the third-tier troops and smooth execution, the Romans gave up the Greek phalanx establishment and set the basic establishment of the troops to a 100-person team; the two 100-person teams together form a complete combat team.
Compared with the past, hundreds of people were needed at will, and even more talents could form a battle formation in the Macedonian Greece. Such a deployment is flexible and convenient, and the subordinate officers responsible for commanding the detachment are also given random power on the battlefield.
In the Second Punic War, the famous general Sipiah let the troops in the back row directly carry out a large number of mobile outsourcing tactics, so that the entire Roman third-line tactics were activated at once, and the actual outbreak of combat power far exceeded the enemy's rigid side. Formation.
When opponents who still use the phalanx battle meet the Roman third line, they will often be quickly broken by the Romans in their weak links; once the stable phalanx is disrupted, the entire battle will soon be lost. .
If the Roman legion is in a reverse situation after the battle begins, the second and third rows of reserve teams can also be deployed to the two wings in time to cover the flanks of the army; or after the gap in front of the troops appears, make up in time to avoid the army front Crash.
In these cases, the Romans' heavy javelins, daggers, and square shields became equipment for combat convenience; compared with traditional Greek super-long guns and shields, the flexibility is unknown, and the battle is naturally more natural. Handy.
After the famous reform of Mallorca, the Romans merged the original squads in twos and became a larger tactical unit-the squadron; in this way, the Roman army had larger squads on the battlefield than the original squads, but smaller than the large The army's flexible tactical unit selection.
As a result, the Roman army that entered the hinterland of Asia and Gaul exerted a stronger fighting power than before, expanding Rome's territory to the Atlantic coast and the two rivers, and successfully eliminated a large number of powerful opponents.
After the powerful opponents have been defeated successively, all this makes the Roman legions rarely have strong opponents in a short time; the defects in the equipment will naturally continue to be ignored, or at this time, the disadvantages of the Roman legions' equipment have not been Pay attention to it.
After all, in addition to the main legion that uses heavy javelins and sword shields, the Roman Empire also has a large number of professional auxiliary legions that use spears and bows and arrows to serve it; the cooperation of the main legion and auxiliary legions jointly defended the powerful Roman Empire.
However, with the series of defeats and recessions that began in the 3rd century AD, the Romans once again began to make large-scale repairs to their military systems; cavalry became more and more the main strike force in the Roman army, occupying the weight Getting heavier.
The heavy infantry abandoned the heavy javelin and short sword, and gradually began to use spears and longer long swords to fight; this, in some people’s opinion, was a sign of the Roman army’s collapse, because it was difficult for the Roman legion to win Victory on the battlefield.
In fact, this was mainly due to the fact that the resources used by the Romans for army building began to lean towards cavalry and certain key legions; coupled with the vast land of the empire, there were too many enemies and potential enemies before eventually destroying Sheng The Roman Empire in an instant.
Excluding the external objective factors of the Roman Empire's destruction, only from the perspective of the Roman Empire's military; the mainstay of the Roman Empire, the Roman Legion, was a serious flawed army from beginning to end.
The vacancy and excessive dependence on cavalry forces were the direct cause of the Roman Empire's demise; these reasons were ultimately due to the Roman legion, rather than the overpowering external forces.
If the Roman legion already had strong cavalry and phalanx troops, then the Roman legion without major defects could completely get rid of its dependence on the barbarian auxiliary army and rely on its own strength to consolidate the rule of the Roman Empire.
Perhaps, no powerful empire can avoid the fate of its ultimate destruction, but the military strength can at least continue the existence of this empire; the Roman legion should have its own Phalanx troops and cavalry troops.
The reason for Bai Feng's deliberate formation of the two Phalanx regiments was on the one hand to imitate the Roman army's approach to the Gaul barbarian army, using the Phalanx pikemen to respond to the crazy charge of the barbarian soldiers, in order to reduce the cost of casualties of his army.
On the other hand, it is also to make up for the shortcomings of the Roman army itself; the system of arms that can be recruited by the Roman city alone. Before the Majorian reform, the Roman city’s army will be like the Roman legion in history. The cavalry is weak and the phalanx troops are almost No.
The only Roman elite troops that can be seen as the pikemen’s troops, the spears they use are just ordinary short guns, and they can’t form a phalanx to meet the enemy like the real pikemen; therefore, Bai Feng must form a phalanx of the Roman city separately. Legion.
After the reform of Mallorca, the city of Rome was still weak in the phalanx troops. Even the only arm that was barely regarded as a spearman, the elite Roman infantry could be cancelled; by that time, the spearman would disappear completely in Rome. In the battle sequence of the city.
Why did Bai Feng just think it might be cancelled? That is because the current Roman city system is no longer a concept with that Roman total war game, and Bai Feng himself is not sure whether the arms that can be recruited before the reform will be cancelled after the Mallorian reform.
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