Rise of the Empire Total War

In a blink of an eye, it was less than half a month before the wedding of Richard and Stephanie.

Since entering November, the lively atmosphere of preparations for the wedding has also come with the cold wind. The court chief Majeri, who is in charge of arranging the scene, also went to Cuban Island with the court chief of the Ravana Kingdom, and met with the king in Nuremberg. Brandenburg on the hill is busy.

And Cardinal Peter Scanrel, who was to be the host, also sent his entourage to prepare the religious utensils to be used in the church in Nuremberg. During this time, the nave of the Nuremberg church was temporarily closed until Richard's wedding is over.

At the same time, the garrison on Cuban Island also began to enter martial law. The soldiers strictly checked the outsiders. The navy, which had been silent for a long time, also left the garrison, circled and patrolled the surrounding waters, and drove away any suspicious ships. It can be said that during this period, the law and order on Kuban Island was unprecedentedly good. In fact, Richard didn’t quite agree with being so nervous. In his eyes, Cuban Island was his hometown, and the residents living on it were undoubtedly very loyal and supportive of Richard. They saw that Richard was going to It's too late to be happy about holding a wedding in your own home, so how can you destroy it?

However, no matter what Richard thinks, none of his subordinates will change this behavior. In their eyes, only Richard's safety is the most important.

...While preparations for the wedding were in full swing, Richard's regiment reforms also began to be implemented. This corps reform will not involve finances, so the treasurer Volkoma has no objection.

Here, let’s talk about the personnel composition of the First Legion. The composition of the First Legion is 20 companies of spear sergeants, 33 companies of heavy armored soldiers, 20 companies of foot imperial knights, and 20 companies of civilian bows and arrows. Company of Hands, Twenty-two Companies of Civilian Crossbowmen, Twenty-three Companies of Giant Shield Crossbowmen, Twelve Companies of Hand Artillery, Sixteen Companies of Mounted Sergeants, Twenty Companies of Mail Knights, Fifteen Companies of Imperial Knights , twenty Teutonic knight companies, nine crossbow cavalry companies and five arquebus companies, which are also equipped with four siege artillery companies and five heavy siege artillery companies.

So many companies add up to a total of 20,186 soldiers, but due to continuous war reductions, there are nearly 18,000 soldiers left in this legion, which is all composed of Holy Roman Empire arms, of which 20 companies have 2,000 soldiers. A number of spear sergeants and five companies of 300 chain armor knights were deployed in Plange, the capital of the Cunha region, and five companies of heavy armored sergeants were sent to the Urif silver mine to perform necessary guarding and security tasks.

Because of the dispersion of the legion, Richard came up with the idea of ​​legion reform. He wanted to follow the example of the Roman legion and add a brigade on the basis of the company (the company in Richard's legion is the traditional centurion, here I Adopted the company setting of a mod called htb in Medieval 2). According to Richard's conception, an ordinary infantry brigade should contain five companies, and the commander of the brigade should be a noble among the five - this is also impossible, because in the tradition of the Middle Ages, only nobles can command the army .

The same is true for the knights. Five companies form a brigade, and the commander of the brigade is the person with the highest title among the five company captains. Richard was canonized as a baron of Keeneburg, and he happened to be the only baron among the five company commanders, so he was the brigade commander of the brigade. However, if the five commanders are all fief knights or barons, then the five of them should choose their own commanders. As for the companies equipped with firearms, they will not be affected by the reform, because they were unified into the firearms battalion by Richard before that, and Sandro, the arquebus commander, was the battalion officer.

After talking about the first legion, let's talk about the composition of the second legion by the way. The Second Legion had ten companies of spear militia, eleven companies of Nordic swordsmen, sixteen companies of sword and spear militia, five companies of heavily armed sergeants, five companies of feudal knights on foot, five companies of chivalrous knights on foot, six Dismounted battleaxe companies, four Norse axe companies, eight civilian archer companies, six crossbowman companies, eight crossbowman militia companies, six Norse archer companies, six scouter companies, six chivalrous knight companies companies, four companies of feudal knights, three companies of crossbow cavalry,

Finally, six companies of catapults and eight companies of siege scales.

The total number of the Second Army was originally 10,920 soldiers, but it experienced war attrition and the destruction of the company and the cancellation of the organizational system, so now there are only soldiers in the early 9,000s left. Due to the particularity of the number of companies included in the Second Army, the number of companies included in the brigade is not uniformly five, but depends on the situation. If there are more, the brigade will be expanded, while the Nordic axemen only have four. Companies can only form four companies into a large group, and crossbow cavalry with fewer companies can form three companies into a large group.

Of course, the last catapult company and siege scale company are not organized into a brigade, because they are directly managed by the regiment commander.

Speaking of the Second Legion, we have to mention their legion commander Charles. After the war, Charles had no reason to stay in the Second Legion's garrison, so Richard transferred him back directly and settled in Nord with peace of mind. Fort as his military commander.

After making reforms to the composition of the legion, Richard proposed the establishment of the legion logo. The idea of ​​setting the legion logo was not only because it was set up in the Roman legion he referred to, but also because it was seized after annihilating the main force of the Cunha Republic in the previous war. The magic deer military flag made of pure gold, the establishment of a military flag can well gather the morale and belief of the soldiers of the legion, and can also inspire the soldiers to fight bravely in the war. Therefore, Richard thought about assigning exclusive military flags to the two legions. After discussing with Charles who returned to Nord City, he finally made a decision. The soldiers in the First Legion were all from the Holy Roman Empire. , so the gold-made double-headed eagle flag (similar to the Roman eagle flag) was issued to the First Legion, and most of the soldiers of the Second Legion came from the Scandinavian Kingdom of Denmark, so they were issued Thor The Warhammer flag designed as a prototype of the Hammer-of course, this is not to go back and believe in the Norse gods, but to hope that the soldiers will be more heroic under the inspiration of the Warhammer.

In addition to the exclusive military flag of the legion, there is also the official assignment of the chaplain to the army. At Richard's suggestion to Cardinal Peter Scanrel, the latter agreed to assign the chaplain to the two legions on a large scale (of course, basically one-star ), it costs a lot of money, but it is very cost-effective. After each brigade has a chaplain, the soldiers can more conveniently pray to the chaplain in the army, which undoubtedly increases the morale of the soldiers.