Ancient Rome: Beginning With The Legionnaire

"It is not advisable to select knights from among Gaul slaves!"

Gaius Mario glanced at Brian and continued.

Someone once wanted to use Gaul slaves to form a cavalry team.

What they fancy is the innate strong physique of the Gauls, as well as their long-term riding experience.

But then that group of Gaul slaves rebelled, and the people who formed the Gaul Raiders died very miserably.

"Mr. Mario, you misunderstood my meaning! I mean that the upper Gaul tribe recruited cavalry, not the high slaves!"

Money can turn ghosts around these days.

Brian firmly believes that as long as you have money, there is nothing you can't do "870".

And now these Gauls live a life of bare hair and blood.

If Brian can give them some preferential treatment, it is possible to form a cavalry team.

"Little Brian, you have to be careful, don't go too crazy! I suggest that you can recruit Italian civilians to form a cavalry unit!"

Speaking of this, Gaius Mario fell into deep thought.

Recently, there are various signs that the entire Italian peninsula is no longer peaceful.

Although the reforms more than 10 years ago stabilized the position of the Roman Republic, the contradictions within the Roman Republic did not disappear because of this.

Just like most people in the Italian peninsula do not have Roman citizenship, they are just civilians.

These people had the obligation to join the army, but they did not have the rights of Roman citizenship.

Now most of the personnel of each legion are still Roman civilians, as for the citizens, there are only a small number of officers.

"Thank you, Mr. Marius, for your suggestion, but I will form the most powerful cavalry in Rome in the future."

All this time, Brian still had one killer weapon that he hadn't brought out.

It's stirrups.

This does not need to be provided by the system, and the structure is simple, and it only needs to be simply connected with the saddle.

With stirrups, you can actually exert all your strength while sitting on the horse.

Because there are no stirrups.

Roman soldiers can play against cavalry.

But if you have stirrups, it will be another scene.

The heavily armed heavy cavalry can definitely suppress the tortoise shell formation of the Roman legion.

Brian thought of forming his own heavy cavalry before the outbreak of the Confederate War.

"Ding dong! It is detected that the host has the idea of ​​setting up a cavalry brigade, and a reward task is issued. When the host builds a cavalry brigade of no less than 600 people, he can get 600 pieces of equipped stirrups."

If you really want to sleep, someone will send you a pillow.

"It's best if you have this confidence, but let's stop here today, everything that needs to be said has been said!"

"Little Brian! Hurry up and recruit some soldiers to replenish your legion, or the Senate may make trouble with it!"

Gaius Marius understood the rules of the Senate very well.

Often a small omission will become an Achilles' heel.

"Okay, thanks! Your reminder, Mr. Mallory!"

Seeing that it was getting late, Brian couldn't delay the old man for too long.

At such an advanced age, I always feel that Mario may die at any time.

In fact, Marius also confronted Sulla in his final years.

The ancient Roman reformer and military strategist was not defeated by his opponents, but fell in front of the years.

"My lord, we have discovered a large number of Gauls!"

A soldier came in and said respectfully.

"What? Gallic people?"

You must know that this is the garrison of the Roman Legion, and the nearby Gaul tribes are all at a respectful distance, no matter how hard you try to die, it is impossible to approach rashly...

Before that, Brian had caught many Gauls and sold them directly.

Since Brian captured 40,000 Gaul slaves during this period, the demand for these Gaul ordinary people is not small.

"Master Legion Commander, they said they are your servants and want to see Lord Legion Commander!"

Brian picked his nose, his servant!

Maybe it's those unlucky Basques.

"Lead the way ahead"

yes!

Soon, Brian led a procession to the south gate.

And the other party turned out to be the group of Basques, and their leader Baltas knelt on the ground as soon as he saw Brian.

"My master, Master Brian! I finally see you!"

Brian replied nonchalantly.

"Baltas, I remember I asked you to win over other Basques, how did you bring them all here now."

Brian looked up at the endless stream of Basques, perhaps three or four thousand in number.

But all of them are yellow and thin, and their clothes are ragged like refugees.

Right, it's 4.0 refugees.

Originally, he wanted him to gather strong men, but he ended up taking in so many refugees.

"Master! Fortunately, I noticed it quickly! I'm afraid I won't be able to see the master!"

Baltas knelt down in front of Brian without any scruples, and burst into tears.

Just to the east from here, five miles away, there is a group of Gauls in full arms.

"Boss! Those puny Basques are five miles ahead."

A Horde scout replied to their leader.

"but.....…"

"But what?"

"Where the Thirteenth Legion of Rome is stationed!".