Ancient Rome: Beginning With The Legionnaire

Three days later, Brian's fleet returned to their starting point, the north bank of the Ebro.

"Lukes, thank you for your company this time!"

Brian patted Lux ​​on the shoulder and said happily.

"It's an honor to serve Lord Brian!"

Roux said these words almost in tears.

Following Brian this time was safe and sound. Xi'an was robbed by Basques, and then had a big fight with pirates.

But now it's finally over.

clap!

As soon as Brian clapped his hands, two Roman soldiers walked in. They carried a small box, opened it and put it in front of Lux.

The "four eighty zero" inside is full of gold coins.

"Here is 1000 gold coins, it will be regarded as compensation for your loss! We still have the opportunity to cooperate in the future!"

"Ah, thank you so much, Lord Brian!"

Roux didn't expect that, otherwise, he would be given an extra reward.

"Well then, we look forward to the next cooperation!"

Then Brian led the legion north.

It only takes half a day to reach the garrison of the 13th Army, Red River Valley.

"What's all that pulling behind Brian?!"

Gaius Mario asked questioningly from the side.

Because the legion has arrived since 12:00 in the middle of the night, but the legion has been busy with these things throughout the second half of the night.

Now Gaius Mario is curious, what are the carriages behind?

The ship needs to be unloaded in the middle of the night.

"It's all gold coins!"

Brian replied bluntly, nearly 800,000 gold coins in gold.

I can't hide it even if I want to.

"It's all gold, isn't that too much?"

Gaiusma was a little surprised and opened his mouth from ear to ear.

At first he thought that all the carriages were loaded with stones.

But after thinking about it, what are you doing with so many stones? Stones are still full of things.

Brian didn't elaborate on that.

Anyway, he will know in the future, but it's only as long as he can hide it now.

Due to the gold they carried, the whole team slowed down a lot, and they didn't reach the Red River Valley until the morning of the second day.

"You actually built a fortress here?"

Gaius Mallius looked at a huge fortress in the valley ahead.

It was the soldiers of the 13th Legion of the Roman Republic who were stationed.

"Mr. Mario, this is my legion, please guide me!"

Time Brian had already notified Rex and ordered him to bring 4 soldiers from the brigade out to line up.

Now the soldiers of the four brigades have been neatly arranged around the entrance of the fortress.

But these 4 teams are already the limit of Brian's experience.

He went out to find Hannibal's treasure and took two large groups with him.

The remaining three brigades were to guard the slaves as well as guard the northern fortress.

"I've known for a long time that you have such a skill in Rome, but I don't know how you manage the legion. Today, the old man just took a look!"

Gaius Marius looked at the neat four columns of Roman soldiers.

Unlike the garrisons in other parts of the Republic, the 13th Legion was the first-line regiment facing Gaul.

Therefore, the soldiers are all heavily armored, and the thickness of the plate armor on the shoulders and helmets has also been reinforced.

"Your regiment is a heavy regiment!"

Gebus Mario saw that the soldiers were all plate armor.

"This will cost a lot of money!"

"Yes! Equipping this heavy armor alone will cost 60,000 gold coins!"

While speaking, Brian felt a pain in his flesh.

When he first became the deputy commander of the army, Cateus told him that the regiment needs to add some heavy armor...

And this part of the money for the heavy armor is paid by Brian.

At that time, it was necessary to replenish the heavy armor of the three brigades, which cost Brian 20,000 gold coins.

From that moment on, Brian wanted to kill Cateus.

"Well, the military is pretty neat. Why do you only have three privates? Don't you have any other auxiliary troops?"

But Mario took a look, and soon discovered the problem of the 13th Legion.

The standard ancient Roman phalanx of three columns.

The first line up, composed of young soldiers, armed with short swords and large shields.

The second line up is composed of middle-aged soldiers, holding short swords and large shields.

The third rank, composed of old soldiers, armed with spears and large shields.

Other than that, there are no auxiliary arms.

In fact, the Tian San Army is composed of auxiliary arms.

But some time ago, the legion's death rate was too high.

Brian has put the auxiliaries into the three privates.

It must be to throw away all the auxiliary arms, and now the 13th Legion only has 9 brigades.

"Little Brian, you can't do this, the auxiliary arms are also very important!"

Gaius Mario said.

"Since Lord Marius is here on 5.1, I plan to reorganize the armament in the near future, and I will trouble Lord Marius for guidance then!"

In fact, Brian intends to expand the regiment.

Now the entire corps is full of less than 5,000 people, and Brian plans to expand it to 8,000 people.

"This is the Legion of the Republic!!!"

The brothers of the Red Earl's mercenary group stared at the soldiers under Brian with dumbfounded expressions.

The imposing manner given by ordinary mercenaries is by no means better than yours.

Although in the eyes of Mario, the Thirteenth Legion still has many shortcomings.

But in the eyes of these mercenaries, they are definitely the elite of the elite. .