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Chapter 16 Legion and Flag-Giving (1)

After Cappus was promoted, Davers proposed to use twenty squadron captains of the five companies under the First Battalion as candidates to allow the soldiers to elect. After the result came out, Davers was a little surprised. Martonis was elected. The reason was: first, he protected his shortcomings, so the soldiers loved him; second, he was brave in combat and respected by the soldiers.

The soldiers of the second battalion were composed of mercenaries brought by Dracos, Sesta, Adrianques and others. Since Dracos brought the most mercenaries and his bravery and tenacious combat, he was often the main one of the three people during the battle, so the captain of the brigade was Dracos. Sesta and Adrianques were the first and second company captains of the second battalion respectively.

The soldiers of the Third Battalion were composed of the six and seventh infantry companies of the former Davers mercenaries (mainly the expeditionary soldiers who joined in Byzantine), the original citizens of Amendorala, the city-state free people converted from slaves to baggage camps, and a small number of Dracos and their mercenaries. The captain was Heronimus, who had served as the leader of the mercenary in Persia, and this time it was also considered a "official restoration position". The captain of the first company of the Third Battalion was Aggarcia.

Next was the Seventh Battalion, the Light Infantry Battalion. The captain was Epitians and also served as the captain of the first company, the captain of the second company was Zpitt, and the captain of the third company, Alpunes, a total of more than 600 people.

In addition, there is a cavalry team, captain Rides.

Davers also made strict regulations on the helmets of officers of all levels: the helmets of the team leader must be decorated with white hat tassels, the helmets of the company leader are red, while the helmets of the team leader must be purple, and the helmets of the team leader are red, and the helmets of the team leader are red, white and purple. At the same time, it also stipulates that the team leader's crowns must be arranged from front to back, which is convenient for unity and combat. Of course, Davers only made regulations that the treasury does not have the money to help the team officials uniformly modify them, and they can only rely on themselves.

However, as soon as the regulations were issued, the team officials immediately paid money and found ways to modify the weapons shops of Heraclia or Turiyi (Amendorala is in a mess at this moment, and there is no shop). Because this is the honor of soldiers. In his previous life, Davers watched movies and TV, he always thought that the helmets of the generals in the ancient West were decorated with high hat tassels just for the sake of gorgeousness and beauty, showing their different identities, but it was actually flashy. After more than half a year of fighting, Davers deeply realized that this outfit was necessary: ​​in the fierce battle between the two sides, the formation was easy to get mixed up after a long time.

In chaos, once the soldiers leave the team and lose their organization, they can not only look for military flags in the crowded dense forest, but also find the team officials through towering and gorgeous hat tassels, and automatically move to the officers, reorganize their formation and restore their combat effectiveness. In addition, the command officer can also easily find the place of the team officer and general, and promptly convey the new orders of superiors. This is just like the military rank system in the later years of previous lives, but in the era of cold weapons, if the general's level mark was placed on his shoulders, flying in dust and killing sounds, even the soldiers with strong eyes could not see it.

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In the early morning, the citizens of Amendorala and the free people came to the square with full arms.

The free people had just left their slaves and had no money to buy weapons and equipment.

However, after the last battle between Turiyi, in order to allow Davers to continue to defend the Sobari plains and restrain the Lucanians, Turiyi gave mercenaries thousands of complete sets of weapons and equipment. After annihilation of the Lucanian coalition, the mercenaries took down nearly 10,000 sets of shields, guns and armor from thousands of corpses (including the camp where Lucania was burned to ruins). Of course, these weapons and equipment belong to all mercenaries and should not be included in the Amendora weapon warehouse.

The team officials had a heated discussion on how to distribute these spoils, and the more unified opinion was: to distribute the money from selling the spoils to each soldier. Davers made his own suggestion: the injured and disabled soldiers set up a weapon shop in the market of Amendora, which specifically repairs and sells weapons and equipment seized in battle, and the profits obtained were used to subsidize the lives of soldiers who were injured or even disabled in battle now and in the future.

This suggestion was immediately unanimously agreed by the team officials. Later, the soldiers found out and were all grateful to Davers. After all, no one could guarantee that they would not be injured in the battle in the future. With these "disability subsidies", they had less concerns about the battle.

Therefore, a large weapon shop quickly opened in the market and launched its own signature "Legion". The store is large and there are many weapons and equipment. Considering that the full set of equipment of heavy infantry is worth 400 to 600 drachts, which is expensive, it is also allowed to rent. Even if the rent is not a small amount, the free people are still willing to rent because they know that only by participating in the army and participating in the battle can they quickly become citizens and obtain land! At the same time, being a soldier is the glory of citizens and the best way for the free people to quickly improve their city-state status!

But where does the money to pay rent come from? The free people did not worry for too long. They soon found that a bank called "Christoya" was opened in the market, with extremely low interest rates (compared with the loan interest of Greek city-states at that time). And as we all know, Cristoya was the wife of the consul Davers. These free people who had accompanied the mercenaries to fight thousands of miles knew Davers's personality and resolutely borrowed money from this bank. This also became the first loan of Cristoya Bank.

Now, after the soldiers arrived at the square, they found their own team, began to join the team under the leadership of each team leader, and then merged into the company to form small square arrays, and finally entered the area specified by the brigade in sequence. Although the whole process was a bit slow, it was not chaotic, and finally formed three large square arrays in an orderly manner.

Only the third team is still in the whole team...

Phelisius saw Davers frowning slightly on the stage and said hurriedly: "Sir, the source of soldiers in the Third Battalion is the most complicated, especially those free people have never received military training before, and the original citizens of Amendorala have not received rigorous training, so-"

Davers interrupted him: "I understand, so Hieronius has a heavy responsibility. I heard that he asked many veterans from the First Team, and even Capps, who had always been kind, was anxious with him."

"Yes, sir. Hironimus is also anxious. He is a very responsible person!" Phelis explained tactfully.

Davers smiled: "As a soldier, you must have the spirit of being serious and unyielding. I believe Hieronimus will quickly get the third team to catch up!"

Then he asked, "Are those Lukaris coming?"

"Here you." Phelisus pointed to a small slope in the southeast corner outside the square and said worriedly: "Sir, they have eight or nine hundred people. What if they do something--"

"That's right!" Davers said disapprovingly: "The soldiers in the square can annihilate them nearby. I think Vesba and his son would not be so stupid. Moreover, even the women in their clan have become our citizens' wives. Today, most of them came out of the venue to cheer for their husbands..."

Davers looked at the hillside in the distance and ordered, "Play the drum."

The drummer waved the drumsticks and began to beat the big drum in front of him rhythmically.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..." Hearing the drum sound, the soldiers in the square began to step on the spot and continued to adjust their formation. When the four square formations were neatly arranged, the footsteps were also neatly arranged, "Boom! Boom! Boom!..." The magnificent step sounded shocking the birds flying around and the beasts fled, like thunder in the sky, shaking the mountains and trembling...

Cornerus and other old citizens were shocked and looked dazed, muttering to themselves: "This is... this is the army that shocked Persia and annihilated the Lucanians! It is indeed... it is indeed different!"

When Lucanians saw this, most of them looked pale and silent.

The women and children outside the venue cheered excitedly.

Davers felt the tremor of the mountain and waved his hand quickly, indicating that he would stop.

The drummer slammed the drum twice and then let go. The square soon became silent, as if the loud noise had never happened before. A free man had itchy throat. As soon as he coughed, he was glared back by the veteran team leader next to him.

Davers took two steps forward on the stage: "Brothers!"

The audience shouted in unison: "Davs!!!"

"Have you lived a happy life these days?!"

"good!!!"

"I'm afraid that life will be too good. Your feet will become weak and you can't move your shields!"

The soldiers burst into laughter ambiguously.

"Many of you have followed me to fight Persia to gain great reputation! Then they came to Great Greece, defeated the Lukari coalition, and made dazzling achievements! Now you are all citizens of Amendorala, this is a new beginning! From now on, you will protect Amendorala, develop Amendorala, expand Amendorala, and create immortal glory for future generations!" Davers said passionately.

The soldiers waved their guns up and down and shouted in unison with excitement.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!!"

"Wansheng!!!"

...

"You are not a soldier, why are you happy?" Stromboli couldn't help saying, seeing Antiquelis beside him holding his only left hand and some excited people following the soldiers and cheering.

"This is the real army! This is the army we Amendorara longed for for a long time!" Antiquelis said excitedly, his eyes swept over his broken right arm, and his expression dimmed again: "It's a pity that I can't follow them to fight again..."

After all, Stromboli and Antiquelis were old neighbors, and they had a good relationship. They did not continue to sarcastic words. Instead, they said with concern: "Didn't you hate these outsiders for robbing your patrol captain before?!"

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