Compared with the raiding legions, which were full of weapons to break the army and break the city, the only second-class lightly armed troops in the regular army were the phalanx legions that could only be recruited in the Western Continent, that is, the crescent spearmen that only Atlanta had.

Although the Phalanx Legion is becoming more and more outdated in the case of the Empire constantly keeping up with new weapons, this does not mean that the Empire no longer needs the Phalanx troops, on the contrary, with the emergence of the Imperial Artillery, and even future mortars and other field artillery, the Empire's demand for the Phalanx Troops will increase, especially in the early period when the muskets began to be put into use, Sun Lin concluded that there will be at least 20 or more legions in the Imperial Army by then.

Therefore, Sun Lin believes that it is still necessary to establish some phalanx legions at this time, and compared with the heavy phalanx corps, the cost performance of the light phalanx corps will be higher, although the heavy phalanx corps has strong defense, but the shortcomings in maneuver will make these troops who must stay in the front row or the front end of the flank be fully attacked by the opponent's long-range firepower, and the phalanx troops basically give up their shields and rely on the spear formation composed of super-long weapons to resist the enemy, in fact, the long-range defense is not strong even if it is strong. Especially in the face of those archer cavalry troops who come and go like the wind without a shadow, it is simply a target for others to fight.

However, it is unlikely that the Renaissance pikemen were directly used, because the pikemen at that time had little defense, and the most important thing was that the extra-long spears they used were wooden-handled spears, and the penetration of the spear heads was not very strong.

Therefore, Sun Lin thought that the original lightly armed troops of Atlantis, the Atlantean Crescent Spearmen, were a good choice: the fighting style of the Crescent Spear was almost equivalent to that of the Halberd and the Nordic Broadsword Spear, but it was different from the first two. The crescent spear is more focused on thrusts and is stronger than the first two in dealing with cavalry phalanx charges. And this is exactly the effect that Sun Lin needs, because Sun Lin needs a lightly armed defense force with good mobility, can run in both the front line and the rear war equipment position, and can form a defensive line in a short period of time to instantly block and deal with frontal attacks or flank sneak attacks.

The crescent spearman wears a new type of armor. It has enough defense against ordinary arrows, but as for strong crossbows and javelins, what is the ability of these long-range killing devices that can't even resist plate armor to make new half-body armor tangled? Could it be that changing into heavy armor would be enough to protect against those javelin crossbows?

The new half-body armor makes the mobility of the crescent spearmen no worse than the raiding infantry of the raiding legion, and as long as the crescent spear in their hands forms a scale, in addition to the super-heavy infantry regiment that charges up, even the heavy cavalry will not dare to directly face it, because the special structure of the crescent spear can easily pick off the knights who are galloping on the horses in actual combat, and this time those riders are basically either dead or disabled; Moreover, the crescent spearmen who formed the Phalanx Legion were basically veterans of the Maginot battle, and they had strong execution. The same is true for the recruits they bring, and even if the cavalry surrounds the rear, these phalanx spearmen will be able to quickly draw troops in a short period of time to protect the flanks and even the rear from enemy troops.

Obviously, the crescent spearmen are indeed the second most cost-effective troops in the current sunset light troops, which makes the sun never set in the regular army, in addition to the 6 raid legions, there are also 10 phalanx legions composed of crescent spearmen, and after these 10 phalanx corps began to be formed, the cost performance it showed did make the military department very satisfied, because the training of the crescent spearmen themselves is not difficult. As long as the soldiers' melee ability is trained a little, and the discipline of the troops is vigorously trained, and in terms of equipment, the troops can just replace the original inlaid armor with a new type of half-body armor, and even the excess inlaid armor that has been retired can be recycled. It is a good choice for the raid legion or to sell it directly, and the 10 Phalanx Legions of the Sunset, which have a total of 110,000 people, have become the third cheapest class of troops in the empire in terms of formation costs. The first two are still militia troops-level swordsmen and pikemen.

In terms of ranged troops, the Sunset Empire has also excluded Northern Continent archers equipped with heavy armor composite bows from the regular legion classes. Only the two legendary ranged classes that Sunset is proud of: Sunset Longbowmen and Sunset Crossbowmen. The ranged units of the regular army were the least changed units in this military reform, as the longbowmen and crossbowmen were notified of the new bust armor. Even the name of the unit has not changed, it is still called the Longbow Legion and the Sunset Crossbow Legion, but the number of legions of the two ranged arms has been expanded, the Longbow Legion will be expanded to 10 regiments in the next two years, and the Sunset Crossbow Regiment will be directly increased to 15 legions.

As the regular regiment of hoplites, which is the biggest reform in this drastic reform, there were originally at least nearly 10 types of hoplite troops, but now only 4 are retained after being cut down with a single sword.

The first lucky one was not lucky, as it was the Michal Heavy Infantry Corps, which had been stripped of the Michal Raiders: after the reduction, the Michal Heavy Infantry would be reduced from 12 to 6 and renamed the Sunset Assault Corps.

The combat effectiveness of the Assault Legion is definitely stronger than the original Mishal Heavy Infantry Regiment, but the improvement of the Assault Legion is not very large, because the Assault Legion is just a comprehensive renovation of equipment, but don't think that the combat power of the Assault Legion has not improved a lot, so the Assault Legion is a soft persimmon of the regular Legion, and the reason why the Assault Legion has not improved much is because its own combat effectiveness is already very strong, A modest ascension means that the sun never sets, and before that, the potential of the original Mishaal Heavy Corps has been raised to the extreme.

And the same as the Assault Legion, which is equipped with Gothic armor and is good at breaking the formation with two-handed weapons, there is also the Orc Heavy Infantry Regiment of the Sunset Empire, but the Orc Heavy Infantry Regiment is currently only 4, and it is the only legion in all the regular legions that does not have staff officers and engineering troops, because these things are also a waste to the Orc Legion, for these orcs. Thicker plate armor and sharp, huge weapons are what they want.

As a result, although the 4 orc legions did not need to invest in equipment and high-ranking officers, their consumption of weapons far exceeded that of all heavy infantry units. It even met the expense requirements of the heavy cavalry troops, as each orc heavy infantry needed a layer of fish scale inner armor in addition to gothic armor and a sharp, large two-handed weapon. If possible, they will even wear an extra layer of light chain mail with fine workmanship, and in addition, almost every orc will be equipped with more than two grenades on their hands, and even a bundle of explosives produced by goblins! It's worth complaining that although most of the things made by the goblin craftsmen are unreliable, they are only more reliable than anyone else in terms of explosives, which may have something to do with the fact that the goblins always like to make some explosives when they have nothing to do, and even install explosives on the things they produce.

The third new heavy arm of the Sun Never Sets Empire is the Heavy Halberd Soldiers made by the Swiss Guard, a total of 5 legions, not only surpassing the original Swiss Guard, but also because the selection of soldiers is to select those strong men from the north of the empire or the high mountain regions of the Western Regions of the Central Continent. These sunset battles with an average height of more than 1.8 meters are equipped with zither-shaped shields, and the halberds that originally had extremely long gun handles were replaced with the length of ordinary steel spears, so that these tall soldiers can not only carry a shield in one hand, but also be able to wield the halberd in their hands to make stabs, picks, chops and other actions, although they cannot cast a super long spear array, but the shield wall formed after being equipped with a shield can make the phalanx turn into a meat grinder in an instant, plus these halberd soldiers are all selected warriors with strong endurance, The Halberd Legion, composed of heavily armed halberd soldiers, can be described as a master of protracted warfare, according to the military department. Unless the number of the halberd legion is knocked out by more than half a layer, there is no heavy infantry legion on the king continent that can break through the shield wall of the halberd soldiers, and even if half of the number of the halberd legion is defeated, the chance of breaking through head-on is not very high.

And as the last class. In fact, you don't have to guess to know that it should be the renovated heavy swordsman, after all, the heavy swordsman is a panacea in the heavy infantry. Sun Never Sets and Sun Lin may remove the Orc Legion, but they will definitely not remove the Heavy Swordsman. Because the heavy swordsman is indeed an absolutely indispensable part of the heavy army on which the sun never sets.

But in fact, today's heavy swordsmen can no longer be called heavy swordsmen, although now the sun never sets, heavy swordsmen will be equipped with a knight's sword. With the Knight's Shield, but the Knight's Shield is still used by the heavily armed swordsmen, but not with the Knight's Sword, because after the Battle of Maginot, more and more soldiers who never set the sun prefer to use the Meteor Hammer or the Morning Star Hand Hammer, which is beautifully crafted and has a strong armor-piercing ability in the mace. So this time, Sun Lin complied with the wishes of the soldiers in the army, and changed the original Sunset Heavy Swordsman to the current Sunset Gothic Heavy Infantry, and the main weapon was also changed from the original knight sword to a one-handed war hammer.

In terms of cavalry in the regular corps level, although it seems to have changed a lot, in fact there are not many, but because the Cuman archers have been reduced to local troops and arms, the light cavalry and light archers of the empire are now supported by the auxiliary cavalry of the sun never setting replaced by the new half-body armor, and the heavy cavalry, the sun never sets empire is still divided into two heavy cavalry arms, the Templars and the Hospitallers, but the original full-body armor wrapped in white and black robes is now replaced by new Gothic armor, The same is the Black Iron Archer Cavalry, which has been expanded to 4 legions, but in terms of the Heavy Cavalry Regiment, the strength of the two heavy cavalry units of the Temple and the Hospital has been expanded by one legion each, which means that the strength of the two arms has reached 5 legions each.

As for the Royal Griffin Knights, who were previously separated from the cavalry troops, now the word royal has been removed from the name because of the requirement that the establishment of the same number of corps must reach 5 legions, and there is almost no change in other aspects.

As for the Praetorian Guard, the highest level of the army in this military reform, even in the high-level of the military department, there is only a hint of information, because the Praetorian Guard is said to be composed of soldiers secretly drawn from the battle of Maginow, and the identity of the Supreme Commander is extremely secret, the only thing that can be determined is that the Praetorian Guard has a total of 5 legions, namely three infantry regiments and two cavalry regiments, and all the rest of the information is unknown. (To be continued......)