Veterans don't have to do miscellaneous work, but each brigade must send a team of guards and cavalry 100 men to watch the horses, and the veteran battalion and cavalry battalion are always close together.

The light infantry is responsible for guarding the four exits and fortifications of the camp, with 10 light infantry each exit.

At night, reliable soldiers were sent to guard each important place, warehouses and senior officers' residences. Each brigade also had to send people to four shifts to stand at night.

Maintaining discipline is not only harsh punishment, but also the Liguo army has a reward system. People who perform very bravely on the battlefield will be awarded rewards.

For example, if the first person to climb the enemy's city and the first person to rush into the enemy's military camp, anyone who saves the life of a comrade on the battlefield will also be rewarded.

When we set out for the camp, everything was in order. After the first horn sounded, the commander's tent was first put away, and the soldiers sorted out their tents and items. After the second horn sounded, the baggage was loaded into the cart and the carriage. When the third horn sounded, the whole army set out.

The order of march is that the right-wing Allied Legion, its baggage team, the first legion, its baggage team, the second legion, its own baggage team and the left-wing Allied Legion as the back guard.

The commander and his guards were usually in front of the First Legion, with cavalry scattered around reconnaissance, and the two Allied Legions and the two Liguo Legions exchanged marching positions every day to ensure that everyone had the opportunity to walk ahead and get drinking water and forage when camping.

The laws of the Liguo country stipulate that all the Liguo people have the obligation to serve in the military, but the conscription system is very unpopular.

During the conscription, there have been a large number of cases of evading military service, and some people cut off their son's thumbs in order to avoid service.

Before each major battle, if the recruited soldiers cannot fill the army, officials will consider implementing recruitment locally to make up for the difference.

There are three sources of soldiers: recruitment, recruitment and replacement of military service. Replacement of military service means that the conscripted person can pay money to replace military service.

Most of the time, the recruitment system can meet the needs of the army.

Almost all soldiers from the Liguo country came from the lower class of society, and the army could provide food, clothing, housing, medical care and stable income.

The income is not high, similar to the coolies in the city, but in the army, soldiers can get education, learn skills, have the opportunity to improve, and the law is tilted, and they can freely control their own property regardless of whether their father is alive or not.

And most importantly, Legionnaires can receive a considerable pension or a small piece of land when they retire.

The price for soldiers to receive these benefits is long-term military service. During this period, they must receive strict training and abide by harsh military disciplines. Violators will be punished physically and financially.

Because military discipline is too severe and punishment is too heavy, deserters are always a waste of time

Problems solved by law.

Legion and auxiliary troops usually recruit new recruits in their respective provinces.

Because the legion's garrison is relatively stable, the legion's source basically comes from the same province.

The auxiliary troops are much more mobile, and they are often mobilized everywhere as needed and are assigned to different legions, so their soldiers often come from all over the country.

The identity and physical condition of the candidate and height are an important factor, which requires strong body and good vision. If other conditions are good, it is okay to be shorter.

Slaves and those who have committed serious crimes cannot join, and those who have committed minor crimes can join the Legion.

The qualified recruits vowed to be loyal to King Li, and even if they officially joined the army, they would go to their respective garrisons in batches.

The recruits are all built in recruitment sites or legion garrisons, and it seems that there are both situations. Here, the recruits must first train physically and discipline: queues, marching, building camps, digging trenches, tithes, tithes equipment, swimming and horse riding, etc.

Weapon training uses thicker and heavier wooden swords and wicker shields than real weapons. Practice the stab and poke movements of a wooden pillar that is more than one person tall. At the same time, learn how to use a shield to hit the upper half of the enemy. When the enemy raises his master to resist, use a short sword to give a fatal blow from bottom to top.

Throwing javelins is also a compulsory course, which may also include the use of stone catapults, bows and crossbows. After completing personal training, you can use the real weapon wrapped in a pointed head to practice with two people, multiple people, and finally the drills of the entire 100-person team and brigade. These basic training usually lasts for several months. After completion, the recruits are considered a qualified legion soldier. After that, more rigorous training will run throughout the entire service period.

The front line of the Liguo border is often the auxiliary troops stationed, and the legions are stationed on the traffic routes on the second line.

The various legions have been stationed on the border for a long time and have built permanent barracks, even big cities like Zhennancheng.

Each team of 100 people lives in a house, each with two rooms, one with people and one as a storage room.

Usually, the smaller the camp, the fewer the garrisons, the more trenches there are. There are generally three trenches outside the camp of the auxiliary troops.

A civilian residential area appears next to most permanent military camps, where there are family members of the army, military supplies suppliers, and personnel who provide various services to the soldiers. The military pay in the hands of the legion soldiers is enough to support a prosperous commercial area.

Generally, there are civilian areas outside the fortress walls. For those fortresses with one or two legions, the scale of civilian areas is no less than that of municipalities and towns. There are all kinds of them.

Strictly speaking, there is a big difference between the current phalanx of Liguo and the traditional infantry phalanx.

Due to the combat tactics of Liguo, the northern tribes now emphasize firepower and mobility, so the traditional heavy square formations are useless in such a military system.

One of their

An important weapon is the bow and arrow they are proud of. It can be said that Liguo relies on his powerful bow and arrow troops to fight against Liguo.

Therefore, in the current square formation, bows and arrows are their core weapons.

The archers are arranged vertically on the battlefield. The squad leader located in front of the team is the only heavy infantry in the team. He uses spears and shields as weapons and is mainly responsible for commanding, observing and carrying out the task of protecting the position.

The next nine people were all archers. Except for the second person who could cross the captain's shoulder and use the arrow to shoot directly with the arrow, the other eight people would all fire the bows and arrows in a parabolic manner.

Several such squads formed a large square formation in parallel, and on both wings of the square formation, elite cavalry units and temporary recruitment of light infantry were covered.

During combat, all the archers in the formation fired a parabolic volley at the sky, forming a rain of arrows covering the sky and creating a powerful psychological deterrence to the other party.

After the volley of arrows, the huge cluster of infantry restricted the enemy's movement space with a wide front, and elite cavalrymen were from both wings to carry out a turbulent enemy army.

However, the defects of this phalanx are quite obvious. First of all, the maneuverability of such a formation is too poor. Each team has almost no independent combat capability and can only stand mechanically and shoot arrows, which greatly affects the maneuverability.

Secondly, the phalanx cannot cope with the more difficult battles. The only melee force of the entire phalanx is the heavy infantry in the first row. In addition, the one-scattering tactic that has only deterrent ability but cannot be suppressed continuously is acceptable. It is still acceptable to face miscellaneous infantry, but when encountering well-trained and highly morale troops, it lacks effective means to curb the opponent.

The tribal soldiers in the battle obviously lacked the ability to deal with hand-to-hand combat, and they paid the price for this in the confrontation with the people of Liguo.

Actual combat shows that under the fierce impact of heavy infantry, the only row of heavy infantry in front of the team was quickly exhausted, and the archers who were unprepared and without leaders could only be slaughtered in the melee.

At the same time, on complex terrain, the cavalry cannot play its due role. In addition, the low morale and low quality have led to the fact that the northern tribal phalanx have been defeated repeatedly in recent years when facing the semi-final formation of the various countries.

If the northern tribe phalanx attaches too much importance to long-range weapons and ignores melee capabilities, then their mortal enemy, Liguo, has gone to another extreme.

To truly exert the power of the infantry phalanx, one must choose a weapon suitable for exerting the power of cluster combat, and the advantages of the spear are obvious here.
Chapter completed!