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At this moment, seeing the Roman tortoise shell phalanx in the battlefield of the exercise, Lu Ren really wanted to arrange for the regular infantry here to throw hundreds of grenades over and see the final result, but after all, he couldn't do that.

Not to mention here that this is just a tactical exercise, and it can't really cause human deaths. In terms of intention, Lu Ren's main purpose is to see the true strength of the Roman soldiers, and then use this as a standard to roughly calculate the combat ability of rest, so he can't use anything too much.

The distance between the two sides is not too far, and at this time it has also entered the stage where the strikers test each other. The Roman soldiers threw out some dart guns without spear heads, and Ma Chao returned some round-headed feathered arrows with no blades from a distance. In tactical drills, of course, the weapons used have been disposed of, so as not to cause any casualties. It's just that even so, both sides are more careful to save face, so this initial tentative attack is to determine their own effective range, and basically they haven't been able to touch the other side's side.

To be precise, the arrows on Ma Chao's side could reach the Roman soldiers from a distance, but the Roman soldiers' dart guns could not touch the side of the cavalry on Ma Chao's side. In fact, the Roman dart gun at that time was in the hands of veterans, and its maximum projection distance was only 60 feet, so according to the conversion of about 30.5 centimeters per foot, it was only 18.3 meters, less than 20 meters. Don't take the javelin event in modern sports competitions here, the difference between the two is very big, for example, the soldiers in the battle formation have no place to help them run, which can make the dart gun lose a lot of kinetic energy.

On the other hand, on Ma Chao's side, the cavalry used all the cavalry crossbows improved by Lu Ren. Based on the characteristics of cavalry, the range of this crossbow is of course not as good as that of infantry crossbows, but needless to say, it is easy to shoot about 50 meters horizontally, which can more than double the range of dart guns on the Roman side.

And when Ma Chao had made a tentative attack and found that the opponent's long-range strikes had fallen more than ten or twenty meters away from him, he laughed and led the cavalry to play the kite tactics of cavalry cavalry shooting. It's just that these feather arrows that shoot out only make some clanging sounds when they fall on the opponent's turtle shell, but they have no killing effect at all.

All in all, the current situation is that the Roman soldiers can't catch up with Ma Chao's cavalry, but the cavalry is also a little helpless against the turtle shells of the Roman soldiers, and it can be regarded as entering a stalemate stage.

The two sides fought quite well, but Chen Li stood on Lu Ren's side and asked in a low voice, "Lord, why don't you let Ma Mengqi use firearms to break the enemy?" Although he was a little unaccustomed to the arrogance of these Romans, he also admitted that their battle formations were unusually strong, and ordinary bows and crossbows could not break through their defenses. But if a firearm is used......"

Lu Ren waved his hand to interrupt Lu Li's words, and at the same time turned his head to look at Paleus, who was nervously watching the battle on the other side, and then turned back to Chen Li and said: "Ah Li, there are some things you don't understand very well, and it's not convenient for me to explain to you, you just need to know that I have my intentions in arranging this, and I don't want to have a fair duel." Besides, if firearms were to be used, the Roman soldiers would have suffered casualties, and I would not have been able to speak at a diplomatic level in retrospect. ”

Chen Li looked at Lu Ren's expression, nodded and stopped talking. And Lu Ren looked at the battle situation in the battlefield of the exercise, and the person also fell into deep thought.

Lu Ren has firearms, and he also knows that there are firearms on the rest side, but according to the information collected by Lu Ren, the firearms in the rest area are currently limited to artillery and a very small number of throwing gunpowder weapons. These things are basically siege weapons, but they are rarely useful in field warfare, so the war between Rest and Rome is still dominated by cold weapons, and a small number of hot weapons can only play some auxiliary role in field battles.

And this is the main reason why Rome can be in a tie and stalemate with rest at the moment. Of course, some of the firearms that Lu Ren exported to Rome also played a role in leveling the situation. However, in terms of the overall number, it is still relatively limited and does not play a key role. In this case, Rome can tie with Sabbath, which is enough to show that Sabbath's firearms are not very good.

Regarding this situation, Lu Ren's judgment was not that Wan'er couldn't figure it out, but that the basic industry on the rest side had not been able to keep up. It is important to know that Rest is not an agrarian country, to be more precise, semi-agrarian and semi-nomadic, and the proportion of agriculture does not meet a certain requirement, let alone its industrial capacity.

In fact, let alone rest in peace, Lu Ren didn't dare to say how strong the industrial capacity of his territory was. In terms of the development trend of the times, it has not yet been able to trigger the industrial revolution. At least in Lu Ren's own opinion, his own territory belongs to a semi-agricultural and semi-industrial situation at most.

Seriously, it is already very good for Lu Ren to reach this level at present, you must know that Lu Ren set a clear goal for the industrial aspect at the beginning, and then carried out more than 20 years and spared no effort to develop, the most important thing is that based on some characteristics of Lu Ren's territory, so that Lu Ren will not have any resistance when developing industry, and then under the superposition of many factors, this is the current level.

On the other hand, it has only been a few years since Wan'er appeared by Cass Eli's side? And in the beginning, he spent a lot of time helping Cass Eli stabilize his power, and at that time, at best, he set up a few workshops and laid a little bit of industrial foundation.

And after Cass Eli stabilized the regime, some things were on the right track, but due to the conceptual problems of the people over there, many related things were not very well spread. It's like saying that a person who is used to farming or herding cattle suddenly asks him to work in a factory, most of the people will not be able to adapt to it, and they will even have resistance. Therefore, at this point, it should be said that it is a hard wound to rest, and it is not as good as Lu Ren's control and guidance of the development trend in the territory.

All in all, the industrial capacity of Anxi is far inferior to that of Lu Ren, and there is too much difference in terms of the relevant foundation and foundation. But Lu Ren knew in his heart that he must not give Wan'er and rest too much time for development. Once Wan'er straightens out some problems, then Anxi's industrial capacity will stride forward, although it is still a little difficult to catch up with Lu Ren, but as long as it reaches a certain level, it will definitely add a lot of trouble to Lu Ren.

Or you can use a metaphor like this, that is, the current rest and Lu Ren are a bit like the island countries and the United States during World War II. The industrial capacity of the island countries is not comparable to that of the United States, but it has certain advantages in some aspects, and at one time the American fleet in the Pacific theater was almost unable to lift its head. Such a situation will occur as a result of the United States' laissez-faire towards the island nations, and Uncle Sam is also the standard self-inflicted bitter fruit.

Taking this as a lesson, where would Lu Ren ignore the rest? Moreover, rest is not a resource-poor island country, and Lu Ren is not a powerful United States. If you calculate it from some aspects, the national strength of rest is still above Lu Ren, once it enters the situation of full development, how long can Lu Ren maintain the advantage on hand? The most important thing is that after Wan'er was tampered with by "him", she simply rushed to Lu Renlai, okay? Therefore, if something is really developed by rest, Lu Ren is a little afraid to imagine what the result will be in the future.

This is also fortunate that Rome came in again at this time, delayed the pace of Anxi's development, and played a draw with Anxi, which bought Lu Ren relatively enough time for Lu Ren to play steadily here in Guishan.

Of course, this is a good thing, but for things like war, it is better to hold the initiative in your own hands, so Lu Ren didn't dare to expect Rome to hold on to rest all the time. In particular, the Roman envoys came this time, and didn't they bring the news that the Roman emperor was ready to negotiate a temporary truce with the rest because of the stalemate with the rest? From Lu Ren's point of view, how can he let the rest stop the war and enter the period of recovery and development?

Therefore, in addition to watching the real-life version of the blockbuster and learning some related things, the deepest purpose of this tactical drill arranged by Lu Ren is to teach the Romans how to behave...... Oh, I should say how to go against the cavalry who rested. After all, in a sense, the current tactical thinking of the Roman side is rigid and backward, and if some relevant changes are not carried out, and at the same time some things are developed by the rest side, then it is strange that Rome can continue to hold on to rest!

You must know that the rest of the country still has a nomadic character, tactically mainly cavalry, and its Parthian cavalry is also famous in history, and in some ways has too many similarities with the Northern Huns who later rampaged through Europe. The reason why it was not able to run rampant in Europe like the Northern Xiongnu may have a lot to do with the civil strife of the rest and the rise of the Sassanid Empire, which limited the expansion of the rest or the Sassanid into Europe.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the fact that Rome later split into Eastern and Western Rome, and its military strength declined as a result, but it is an indisputable fact that Rome's rigid and backward infantry tactics could not withstand the cavalry of the Huns. Now that Wan'er has come to rest with her knowledge, once some cavalry tactics are improved in advance and put into actual combat, can the current Roman infantry tactics withstand it?

It was because of these considerations that Lu Ren decided to seize the initiative, and it was precisely because of this that he hurriedly called Ma Chao, who was good at cavalry tactics, to Yangon to lead these drills. And now the cavalry tactics used by Ma Chao are relatively advanced, as long as these elite Roman infantry are hurt and afraid, Lu Ren can give some guidance to the Roman officials, so that they can carry out some reforms to Rome's current rigid tactics after they go back, and then continue to help Lu Ren delay the rest, not to give rest and not to give Wan'er that much-needed development time.

Lu Ren's intention ended here, only saying that on the current battlefield, although the turtle shells of the Roman soldiers were still strong, the upper hand was gradually biased in favor of Ma Chao.

Ma Chao at this moment is not in a hurry, not in a hurry at all. As a person with the "God Rider" stunt, Ma Chao has long analyzed the pros and cons of the battle, and he has long understood the tactics of the turtle shell, so he knows some of the weaknesses of the turtle shell. Although it was not possible to break through the defense of the turtle shell at this time, Ma Chao knew that the physical exertion of these hoplites was very huge, so he chose to use the fast horse to open the distance between the two sides first, and circle around the opponent while ensuring that his side was outside the effective range of the opponent.

You must know that the rest of the country still has a nomadic character, tactically mainly cavalry, and its Parthian cavalry is also famous in history, and in some ways has too many similarities with the Northern Huns who later rampaged through Europe. The reason why it was not able to run rampant in Europe like the Northern Xiongnu may have a lot to do with the civil strife of the rest and the rise of the Sassanid Empire, which limited the expansion of the rest or the Sassanid into Europe.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the fact that Rome later split into Eastern and Western Rome, and its military strength declined as a result, but it is an indisputable fact that Rome's rigid and backward infantry tactics could not withstand the cavalry of the Huns. Now that Wan'er has come to rest with her knowledge, once some cavalry tactics are improved in advance and put into actual combat, can the current Roman infantry tactics withstand it?

It was because of these considerations that Lu Ren decided to seize the initiative, and it was precisely because of this that he hurriedly called Ma Chao, who was good at cavalry tactics, to Yangon to lead these drills. And now the cavalry tactics used by Ma Chao are relatively advanced, as long as these elite Roman infantry are hurt and afraid, Lu Ren can give some guidance to the Roman officials, so that they can carry out some reforms to Rome's current rigid tactics after they go back, and then continue to help Lu Ren delay the rest, not to give rest and not to give Wan'er that much-needed development time.

Lu Ren's intention ended here, only saying that on the current battlefield, although the turtle shells of the Roman soldiers were still strong, the upper hand was gradually biased in favor of Ma Chao.

Ma Chao at this moment is not in a hurry, not in a hurry at all. As a person with the "God Rider" stunt, Ma Chao has long analyzed the pros and cons of the battle, and he has long understood the tactics of the turtle shell, so he knows some of the weaknesses of the turtle shell. Although it was not possible to break through the defense of the turtle shell at this time, Ma Chao knew that the physical exertion of these hoplites was very huge, so he chose to use the fast horse to open the distance between the two sides first, and circle around the opponent while ensuring that his side was outside the effective range of the opponent.