The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

Among the Total War series of games, the first generation of "Rome Total War" is an extremely classic. In this virtual game world, there is naturally a virtual world defender. Unfortunately, both its own strength and the military power under its command are far behind. Not as powerful as Ye Tianlong, so he was killed not long after those demons invaded.

However, before he died, he left a last word, which was to let these subordinates find a way to escape to other game worlds that have not been occupied by demons.

Later, relying on the battleships and sea ships of the Lanroscipio family, these survivors have been floating on the sea to avoid the pursuit of the demons. However, this is obviously not a long-term solution. They can barely make do with catching sea fish for food at sea. However, there is no guarantee that this fresh water can be obtained stably. After all, no one can guarantee that God will rain and collect fresh water for you every few days!

So this time after discovering the space crack, the survivors of this world rushed over immediately. Unexpectedly, it was a trap. The demons discovered the space crack earlier than them and mobilized two thousand people. What elites, ambushed here.

Ye Tianlong and the others knew what happened next. If the army of the Qinglong Empire hadn't rushed over in time to support them, the last tens of thousands of humans in the world would have been killed by these demons.

Since the Roman Total War world belongs to an ordinary historical world without any extraordinary power, the soldiers in this world are naturally ordinary people and are not very strong. In Ye Tianlong's view, most of the soldiers are not even capable of serving as militiamen of the Qinglong Empire. He has no qualifications, but it can be used as an excuse for Ye Tianlong to march into Europe in the future. After all, this Europe should actually belong to the Romans. Now the group of barbarians over there just took advantage of Rome's weakness to steal the land of the Roman Empire. But this After a group of barbarians occupied the original Roman land, they failed to inherit the advanced technology and civilization of the Roman Empire, causing Europe's technology and civilization to regress for hundreds of years. Many so-called European nobles did not take a bath for several years. It's all normal. In a Europe like this, Ye Tianlong must clean it up.

When the time comes, this group of authentic Romans will have a ready excuse! When he goes to Europe, he will not go to Europe for aggression, but to regain his homeland for these Roman friends.

After dedicating 100,000 troops to guard the exit of the space crack, Ye Tianlong began to register the identity information of the rescued Romans. This would not only make it easier for him to manage this group of Romans in the future, but also allow him to identify them. Are there any spies sent by the devil here?

Perhaps because they have been drifting on the sea for a long time, the remaining tens of thousands of Romans are all young and strong, and there are not many civilians among them. Most of them are at least town militia. However, the Roman town militia is compared to Qinglong The equipment and combat effectiveness of the empire's militia were far behind. The equipment of the Roman town militia was just a helmet, a short spear and a large shield. Oh, by the way, they also had a cloak. It is precisely because of this An arrogant cloak, this Roman town militia is often called a small city guard, because the Roman city guards, the most powerful hoplites in Rome, also have cloaks, but they can even cut down the palace guards. Senior soldiers are not something that urban militiamen and other scumbags can fight against.

In addition to the town militia, the largest number of these Romans were Roman youth soldiers and Roman soldiers in their prime. As we all know, the Roman army was a force with heavy infantry as the core of the battle. When it was still in the republican period, the young Roman soldiers and the Roman mature soldiers were the main force of its army. These people were composed of the relatively wealthy citizens of Rome. The reason why they chose those relatively wealthy citizens was that Because the early Roman army soldiers had to prepare their own equipment. If the family had no money, they could not afford armor at all and could not be heavy infantry. They could only be lightly-armed javelin soldiers and archers.

Most of these young soldiers are composed of relatively young and strong recruits. Their equipment is usually a bronze chest plate, a bronze helmet, a short sword, two special heavy javelins and a large rectangular shield.

As for the prime-age soldiers, they are generally veterans with relatively rich combat experience. Their equipment is actually similar to that of the young soldiers. At most, their armors are more sophisticated.

In addition to these two types of heavy infantry, there is also a small number of Roman elite spearmen who are more well-equipped. They not only have armor to protect the body, but also wrist guards and leg guards to protect the wrists and ankles. However, they His main weapon was changed from a short sword to a long spear, and he fought in the classical Greek spear phalanx. From here, we can also see the power of Greek civilization. Even the Romans, who had not yet fully risen, had to steal from them. These elite Roman spearmen were often the last line of defense for the army. Behind them were javelinmen, archers, and artillerymen who controlled ultra-long-range weapons such as crossbows.

What, you mean the Roman cavalry? Sorry, before the reform of the military system, the Roman cavalry was really unbearable. Even if they chased a defeated army, there might be casualties, so they were jokingly called the Roman Balloon Horse by the players. According to the introduction, these guys are all served by the noble sons of Rome! They are all riding tall horses and carrying long spears and small bucklers. They look good, but their combat effectiveness is on the same level as that of the town militia.

After the Mariusian reforms, the Roman cavalry finally became tougher. In fact, it was not just the cavalry, but other troops such as infantry and archers were also strengthened a lot.

However, this Marian reform also paved the way for the decline of Rome. You must know that most of Rome's original troops were filled by Roman citizens, so they were naturally loyal to the country. But as the territory of the Roman Republic increased, As they grew older, and many citizens made a lot of money during the war, they no longer wanted to serve as soldiers. They just wanted to return to their hometowns and enjoy life as small landowners. This led to fewer and fewer soldiers in Rome.

In order to solve this problem, a Roman military strategist named Marius carried out military reform and began to recruit barbarians from newly conquered areas as soldiers. The weapons and armor of these soldiers would be uniformly provided by the country and they would serve in the army. After a certain period of time, you can also obtain a large piece of land of your own and the status of a Roman citizen. This is really a good thing for many barbarians who were still drinking blood from their hair before. And because the equipment is uniformly provided by the country, the retired soldiers will be rewarded with land and citizenship afterwards. It can be said that the worries of the soldiers are relieved, so these soldiers usually do not need to worry about other things. As long as it needs to concentrate on training and fighting, the Roman Empire has a powerful legion of its own full-time professional soldiers.

Relying on this well-equipped and well-trained powerful legion, the Roman Empire soon became a huge empire spanning three continents, Asia, Africa and Europe, with the Mediterranean Sea becoming its inland sea.

But as the saying goes, what goes up must come down, because the number of barbarian soldiers in the army increased, causing the Romans to gradually lose control of their own army. Rebellions occurred from time to time in various places, and even the Praetorian Guards around the emperor later began to join. They would kill the emperor at every turn, and then support a puppet they could control up there. After being tortured like this, how could the Roman Empire survive?

However, according to some rumors circulating on the Internet, the decline of the Roman Empire was actually related to the Romans' preference for using lead water pipes.