Ancient Rome: Beginning With The Legionnaire

"I think your legion is still too overstuffed, and it's still too much for a centurion to control 120 people!"

Mario pointed to a programming diagram of legion characters and said.

Although the reforms of Marxism-Leninism more than 10 years ago were implemented in all legions of the Republic.

But not all legions can implement Marius' strategy 100%.

Like the XIII Legion.

Each centurion commanded 120 to 180 men.

This is a typical Grand Corps quota.

What Marius wants to reform now is that each centurion can lead at most 60~90 soldiers!

This is also a problem left by the 13th Legion.

As for the centurions present, their expressions gradually froze.

After all, leading 120 people is not the same as leading 60 people.

If reforms like Mario's were followed, the power in their hands would be compressed.

But although they were very unhappy, these centurions could not say anything.

Inviting them to this kind of meeting is to respect them, but they are not qualified to speak.

"Mr. Mario, your proposal is very important. This will reduce the size of the establishment and improve combat effectiveness!"

Brian you nodded.

Compared with other legions of the Republic, the Thirteenth Legion is indeed somewhat larger.

For example, in a parade, most of the other legions of the Republic are composed of two centurions, but the Thirteenth Legion has only one.

This is a problem left over from history.

A few years ago, the Thirteenth Legion had a very tragic battle, and countless officers died in battle. It was an expedient measure for a centurion to lead more than 100 soldiers, but this habit has been studied until now.

"Little Brian! Now that you have this ability, you can reorganize the legion! And you have to train your auxiliary units. Although the formation of three privates is very useful, it is not invincible!"

"I see! Mr. Mallo!"

Brian turned around and took out a bow and arrow from behind him.

The bows and arrows of the Roman Republic period had limited power and were difficult to penetrate. The curved square shield and the plate armor of Roman soldiers.

"Mr. Mario, I plan to produce a powerful bow and arrow, so that his power can penetrate the large shield!"

Brian has always wanted to get the blueprint of the ancient Chinese powerful crossbow.

However, he still hasn't accumulated enough 10,000 points, let alone the design drawings that can only be exchanged for hundreds of thousands of points.

However, it seems that it will not be available in a short time, so he plans to order the craftsmen to unilaterally strengthen the strength of the bow and arrow, so as to achieve the strength to penetrate the large shield.

"A bow and arrow that can penetrate a large shield?"

Mario looked at Brian with a flash of inspiration.

This idea is simply too unbelievable.

You must know that ancient Rome has hundreds of years of experience in making large curved shields.

Basically, the large curved shield can block the attacks of all cold weapons.

Brian wanted to make a bow and arrow that could penetrate a large curved shield.

If the development is successful, it will be an epoch-making reform.

It is very likely that the large square shield with curved surface will be eliminated from the long river of history.

"Yes! Lord Marius, I'm just an idea, after all, it's hard to achieve with the current technology!"

Otherwise, he said with a wry smile, he was just an idea.

Now strengthen the bow and arrow, which is conducive to direct shooting!

After all, direct shots are much more powerful than projectiles.

If you want to get the kind of bow and arrow that penetrates the large curved shield, it is estimated that only crossbow arrows can do it.

"I understand your thoughts, you want to specialize in auxiliary arms, right! This is indeed a bold attempt, but you must have matching weapons!"

...asking for flowers...

Mario took the bow and arrow from Brian's hand, and then easily filled it.

Ancient Rome's bows and arrows were limited in strength, and a 67-year-old man like Marius could easily draw them to their full capacity.

"But you don't need to be too hasty, build up these auxiliary arms first, so your legion needs to recruit a lot of people!"

Then Marius put the bow and arrow on the table and continued.

"It looks like you need to recruit at least 2,000 more people!"

"And you need an auxiliary regiment!"

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"I've thought about this a long time ago, and I plan to hire a group of Gallic knights!"

Brian came up with a bold idea.

After all, ancient Rome has always been king of infantry, and rarely develops its own cavalry, at most it only uses cavalry as auxiliary arms, and some legions even directly hire foreign cavalry.

Just like Caesar's period, all his cavalry were Gaul cavalry.

Perhaps the light cavalry did not have much effect against the ancient Roman soldiers.

But the ancient Roman soldiers had nothing to do with the heavy cavalry.

Just like decades later, Crassus led 7 regiments to Parthia, but was still beaten by the opponent's 10,000 heavy cavalry.

In the end, Crassus died in Parthia. Part of his legion fled to the east, crossed the Pamirs, and reached the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty, but that is another story.

"Hire Gallic knights?"

Mario looked at Brian in surprise.

If it was someone else, it might be possible, but Brian, he just wiped out a tribe not long ago, so the Gauls probably hate him to the bone now.

"Mr. Mario, don't look at me like this, I also have a lot of contacts in Gaul.