Fellow Daoists, Book Friends! Do you still have commuter passes? Let's take a few pictures and stimulate the poor road.

Seeing that the number of ancient Roman armies appearing was increasing, even Wei Xiaobei did not dare to pursue rashly.

To say that on such a street, it is basically impossible for these ancient Roman troops to surround and kill Wei Xiaobei, but it is difficult to say that killing too much will attract more powerful ancient Roman warriors.

In any case, this killing also brought Wei Xiaobei 4100 evolution points, which can be regarded as a very lucrative benefit.

Wei Xiaobei was very satisfied, the danger of the gray realm here seemed to be very low.

As long as you pay attention, you can quickly farm a large number of evolution points.

Of course, this premise must be not greedy.

Wei Xiaobei was more curious about the fact that these ancient Roman armies were gathering towards the horn, and climbed the buildings next to the street, relying on his ability to root under his feet, far behind these ancient Roman troops.

Gradually, Wei Xiaobei saw that the direction of these ancient Roman troops should be outside the city.

With the advance of these ancient Roman armies, the buildings on both sides of the street gradually changed to the ancient Carthaginian style, and buildings supported by tall stone pillars abounded, tall stone gates, etc., so that Wei Xiaobei retreated from the previous sense of disobedience, and looked at these majestic buildings with great interest.

In the process of following these ancient Roman armies, Wei Xiaobei was not smooth sailing, and the distance between many buildings was relatively long, and Wei Xiaobei could only go down to the ground.

But often at this time, some ancient Roman troops will emerge from behind Wei Xiaobei, and after killing two squads of ancient Roman warriors, Wei Xiaobei had to disguise himself as an ancient Roman warrior.

After all, the farther you go outside the city, the more ancient Roman troops will appear, and Wei Xiaobei doesn't want to expose himself for the time being.

Put on a suit of chain mail, put on a helmet, pull down the armor, and grab a few javelins. After Wei Xiaobei watched for a while, he took advantage of the scuffle between a group of ancient Roman warriors and a group of Carthaginian soldiers in front of him, and mixed in.

The Carthaginian soldiers were unlucky, surrounded by twice as many Roman soldiers in a dilapidated street garden.

A dense defensive formation compared to the Carthaginian soldiers. The Roman soldiers were sparsely formed, with a distance of about 1.5 meters between each soldier, and each time the soldiers in the first row swung their weapons to make a round of attacks, the soldiers in the second row would pounce on the enemy from the gap.

This pattern of rotational attacks. This allowed each soldier's physical strength to be better preserved, and the Carthaginian soldiers were exhausted and eventually killed.

After some fighting, the ancient Roman soldiers completely annihilated the Carthaginian soldiers at a relatively small cost.

From beginning to end, Wei Xiaobei did not show more strength than an ancient Roman reserve.

After the battle, these ancient Roman soldiers did not say much, but silently took the more valuable things from the Carthaginian soldiers as trophies, and then gathered in a line and continued to advance.

Wei Xiaobei stood at the end of the queue, and on the left was an adult soldier. On the right is a young soldier.

In fact, this division of the Roman soldiers had a strong practical effect.

In ancient Roman times, citizens who owned property were classified according to the amount of property, which became the standard for military service.

They began their military service at the age of 17, and from the beginning of their service to the end of their fourth year, they were called young soldiers, and then they were called adult soldiers, and veterans who had served for more than eight years accumulated corresponding assets, both in terms of equipment and combat skills, which were much better than those of young soldiers and adult soldiers. Hence the name "reserves".

Just from this designation, you can see how strong and weak they are.

The original poor did not have to serve in the military because they had no property, but as the Roman Empire continued to expand, more and more troops were needed. These paupers were thus also drafted into service, and because of their inferior equipment, they were only light infantry.

Of course, they did not act as such light infantry for the rest of their lives, as long as they collected enough loot and accumulated wealth. Those who survive among them are often able to become reserves.

As the whole team moved forward, no one spoke, and even the pace of progress was relatively neat, which showed that the team was well-trained.

After all, in the BC era, the army did not have much unified training, and combat skills and so on needed to be honed by themselves, so that when marching, it could be relatively unified and neat, which could be regarded as well-trained.

This march was a little boring, and after advancing five kilometers, Wei Xiaobei couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief through the huge hollow city gate.

Outside the city is a huge plain, and a few kilometers from the city gates, the ancient Roman phalanx is lined up neatly.

Behind Wei Xiaobei, groups of ancient Roman soldiers were emerging from more than ten city gates more than ten meters high and more than twenty meters wide, converging towards the plain.

Wei Xiaobei's team of ancient Roman soldiers was inconspicuous at all, like a drop of water, which blended into the sea in a blink of an eye.

Before their group of soldiers could get closer, an ancient Roman light cavalry holding an eagle banner rushed over and shouted, "Come with me." ”

"Yes! Sir! ”

Without any hesitation, the captain of the hundred, with his own group of soldiers, followed behind the Eagle Banner cavalry and ran towards a phalanx that had not yet been fully formed.

Wei Xiaobei was mixed in this group of soldiers, so it was naturally impossible to mess around, but his eyes hidden behind the mask quickly looked around.

Precision Computing Started!

In the blink of an eye, Wei Xiaobei came to a conclusion.

Here, each phalanx, there are about four hundred people.

And the phalanx that Wei Xiaobei saw at this time had already exceeded thirty-two.

That is, the number of ancient Roman soldiers here has exceeded 12,000.

As far as Wei Xiaobei knew, the basic unit of combat in ancient Rome was the hundred-man squadron, and every two hundred-man squadrons were a squadron, and in actual battles, every three squadrons formed a brigade.

Each legion had 1,200 light infantry, 1,200 spearmen (young soldiers), 1,200 main soldiers (adult soldiers), 600 reservists and 300 cavalrymen, for a total of 4,500 men.

In addition, during actual combat, each legion must also be equipped with some auxiliary troops.

Wei Xiaobei's gaze fell on a phalanx not far away.

This phalanx was completely different from other phalanxes of soldiers, consisting of a number of chariots, which were dragged by four horses with half-meter-long spikes on the sides of the wheels, on which stood three soldiers, one of whom was responsible for driving, and the other two were armed with spears and javelins.

There were also eight cavalry phalanxes, each with about two hundred cavalry, but also increasing.

Thus, on the plain, at least two regular Roman legions had been gathered at this time.

But looking at the ancient Roman soldiers pouring out of the city gate in the distance behind him, there were more than two regular legions of ancient Roman soldiers who wanted to gather.

At the front of all the phalanxes was a white chariot, on which stood a giant man over three meters tall, wearing a white robe in Greek style, covered with a bronze half-length armor, holding a golden shield in his left hand and a huge mace in his right hand.

Behind him stood a herald with a large golden horn.

There is no doubt that this giant man should be the commander of the ancient Roman army.

Is it Scipio the Great? Or Quintus. Fabian?

Wei Xiaobei immediately had some information in his mind, looking at this scene, it should be during the Second Punic War between Ancient Rome and Carthage, and during the Second Punic War, the most famous commanders on the ancient Roman side were these two.

Quintus. Fabian was the consul of ancient Rome at that time, and at the same time, when the Carthaginian commander Hannibal attacked ancient Rome, he adopted the famous delaying tactics, and finally saved ancient Rome, and received the honorary title of procrastinator.

Scipio the Great, known as the Great who conquered Africa, defeated Hannibal at the Battle of Zama, which was also the last battle of the Carthaginian commander Hannibal.

Thinking of this, Wei Xiaobei's gaze looked to the opposite side.

More than five kilometers in front of the ancient Roman phalanx, an army was also stationed.

Due to the distance, even Wei Xiaobei's super line of sight could only see some relatively vague human figures.

The only thing that could be seen clearly was a phalanx of war elephants consisting of more than thirty elephants.

To tell the truth, it was the first time Wei Xiaobei saw an elephant with a height of more than ten meters!

They were covered with a thick layer of chain mail, with a hem that fell to the knees of the elephant's legs, and the elephant's head wore a semi-hollowed helmet, and there was a small attic on the back, in which sat five Roman soldiers, one of whom was a driver, and the other four were adult soldiers armed with spears and javelins, and even a sharp spear head on the tip of the elephant's nose.

One can imagine what kind of horror it would be when such a war elephant began to charge.

Fortunately, there are not many such war elephant phalanxes, counting from beginning to end, there are only four.

With the exception of these war elephant phalanxes, the rest of the Carthaginian phalanx was no less numerous than the ancient Roman side.

Compared with the ancient Roman side, the Carthaginian side seems to have fewer cavalry phalanxes, and in addition, there seem to be several phalanxes of slingers.

Well, Wei Xiaobei also has a little understanding of this kind of slinger.

Carthage, due to its strong commerce, also hired many mercenaries in the war, and these slingers were supposed to be produced in Parma.

The slingers are not as useless as they are in the novel, and it is said that at a distance of thirty meters, these Parma slingers are capable of hitting every shot, and a fist-sized stone is accelerated by the sling, and then smashes on a person, even if they are wearing armor, and the bones can be broken. (To be continued.) )