So the Qin army left the city from the north gate to fight.
What came out of the city were three thousand divine warriors and two thousand heavy cavalry, plus one thousand light cavalry as support.
Three thousand Shenwu troops were the main force in the middle. They lined up in groups of a hundred people, each holding a matchlock gun at their waist, a bronze sword at their waist, and a rattan shield on their back.
There are two village commanders on the left and one on the right. They maintain the left and right boundaries of the queue and keep the queue orderly. The hundred generals and their personal guards command at the rear of the queue.
One thousand heavy cavalry were provided to cover each wing, and one thousand light cavalry were divided into two groups to serve as mobile units on the flanks.
The entire army of 6,000 men faced off against 10,000 Roman legions.
The reason why Shen Bing chose the Roman Legion as his target was due to two considerations:
First, the Roman legions usually adopted passive defense tactics when dealing with enemy long-range weapons, such as forming a turtle shell formation.
This approach will give the musketeers more time to prepare... The musketeers are not afraid of how thick the opponent's shield is, but they are afraid of the opponent's desperate rush. In this way, the slower-shooting matchlock gun will be rushed to the enemy and forced to Abandon the matchlock gun and choose melee combat.
Secondly, it is because the shields of the Roman legions were larger, thicker, and stronger.
This is determined by the fact that the combat weapons of the Roman legion were mainly short swords. Only light-weight short swords can be equipped with large shields. However, because Macedonian soldiers have to hold super long guns weighing 18 kilograms, they must only be equipped with smaller and lighter ones. Buckler.
There is no doubt that this round shield can only be used to protect a small area of bows and arrows, and the matchlock can easily penetrate it and kill the Macedonian soldiers behind it.
But with a Roman shield that is 1.25 meters high, 0.78 meters wide, and weighs 10 kilograms... Shen Bing is not sure.
To be precise, Shen Bing was not sure at what distance a matchlock gun could effectively kill Roman soldiers holding such shields.
If the killing distance is too close, such as fifty meters, or even thirty meters... then the matchlock gun will have no advantage at all against Roman infantry.
Because at this distance, the matchlock gun can only fire two or three bullets, and then it will be a close fight.
The divine warriors wearing rattan armor and holding bronze swords had no advantage at all in close combat with the Roman legions.
This is actually not difficult to imagine.
Because the daggers used by the Romans, which were only about 60 centimeters long, were mostly used for piercing on the battlefield, that is, they were pierced through the gaps in the connected shields.
In addition, the Romans would also use shields weighing 10 kilograms to push, smash, and squeeze.
The most taboo thing about rattan armor is puncture and hitting with heavy objects.
On the contrary, it was difficult for the bronze swords in the hands of the divine warriors to break through the wall-like shield formation of the Romans, so close combat was a dead end.
Shen Bing wanted to see if the matchlock gun could break the Roman phalanx first.
If not, you need to adjust your tactics.
In fact, there are other tactics to deal with the Roman and Seleucid armies, which is to fight and move away like the Mongolian army, so that the Roman phalanx and the Macedonian phalanx cannot catch up after being exhausted.
As for supplies, it can only be a strategy of "fighting to support war".
That is, taking advantage of the fast speed of the cavalry, they can go deep into Seleucid, Macedonia and even the hinterland of Rome. If they have enough supplies, they can go a few more days. If they are short of supplies, they can find a nearby village to rob.
This will create a situation where the Song Dynasty was destroyed by Mongolia:
In order to deal with the Mongolian cavalry, the Song Dynasty also used heavy infantry armed to the teeth, and even equipped with various firearms.
However, the Mongolian cavalry usually did not directly fight the Song army directly. Instead, they used the advantage of the cavalry to cross the border and penetrate deep into the Song territory, looting and scurrying around the world.
Mongolia has fast cavalry, while most of the Song army is infantry. The main infantry will definitely not be able to catch up with the cavalry.
The Song army's cavalry was much weaker than the Mongolian cavalry, and they would be killed in just a few seconds if they caught up. So there was nothing they could do against the Mongolian cavalry, and there were even a few Mongolian cavalry with no more than a hundred people wandering around the territory for several months. A situation where a large circle comes back from the other side.
Over time, these cities in the Song Dynasty became dilapidated and collapsed.
Therefore, people often hypothesize on modern networks: What would happen if the Han Dynasty and Rome, the two strongest armies in the East and the West, collided.
According to Shen Bing, there is no need to assume this at all.
You must know that the Han Dynasty cavalry was an elite force that defeated the Huns, while the Roman cavalry was only an auxiliary unit. It is not an exaggeration to call it garbage.
Therefore, as long as the Han army's tactics were correct, Rome would definitely be defeated.
Shen Bing should have used this tactic originally.
But first of all, the combat method of "fighting to support war" is not as easy as it sounds.
This is mainly moral. If the Central Plains soldiers influenced by Confucian culture "support war by fighting" will affect their morale, while the Mongolian cavalry "support war by fighting" will increase their morale.
Secondly, Shen Bing had no intention of becoming enemies with these countries, but because the Qin army had artillery, Macedonia, Rome and other countries were frightened into forming an alliance because of the "big tree attracting wind".
Another one is that Shen Bing has a better and easier solution: the matchlock gun.
Then why should we sacrifice the near and seek the far away?
Shen Bing had made up his mind. If the matchlock guns were not optimistic about the Roman legions, he would then turn to the Macedonian infantry.
It was much easier to deal with the Macedonian infantry. Those guys holding 18-pound super long guns could hardly run.
Marcus was riding back and forth on his horse to give orders to the Roman soldiers.
After the Roman phalanx was ready, he had time to turn his attention to the Silk Army forming a formation at the foot of the city a few hundred meters away.
He had never seen such a strange formation. It was somewhat similar to a phalanx, but each unit was longer than the phalanx.
He had never seen such a strange weapon. Just like the signal soldier said, it looked like an iron pipe.
Can it kill people?
If there is neither blade nor spike, what can be used to kill people?
How powerful is it?
Marcus' mind went blank. He didn't like this feeling of knowing nothing.
At this time, the "rumble" of war drums came from the opposite side, and the Silk Army marched step by step to the rhythm of the drums.
Marcus gave the order, and the centurions blew their whistles.
The Roman soldier made a "ho" sound, raised his shield forward to form a shield wall, and then pushed forward step by step.
Not long after, the drumming on the opposite side suddenly stopped.
Marcus saw the Silk Army standing the iron pipe on the ground and filling it with something.
Then the Silk Army raised their iron pipes row after row and aimed them at the Roman square...
At that moment Marcus suddenly understood something.
"Firearms!" Marcus exclaimed with his eyes widened: "That's a firearm! My God, they have so many firearms!"
If big firearms can shoot big iron balls, then small firearms can shoot small iron balls. If these small iron balls can kill people... that would be terrible.
Marcus wanted to withdraw his troops immediately.
But it was too late. There was only a "bang bang" sound like firecrackers, and the Roman soldiers walking in the front were knocked down one by one in a pool of blood.