Chapter 538 Establishing a Force
Seeing the rebels, Richard immediately ordered the reorganized young and strong men to follow and quickly rush to the battlefield.
Richard was about to conquer this rebel army.
After Richard's order was issued, three teams of slaves followed him immediately. The weapons in the hands of these slaves were just wooden sticks and wooden forks, and better still had wooden bows, but they had low lethality.
However, after this period of training and food supply, these people are still strong and can be in a simple queue.
By the time Richard brought his men, there were already hundreds of corpses on the battlefield, basically all of which were from the rebels, without armor or weapons. They were not rivals of the Roman soldiers who formed the chariot formation.
After several attacks, these rebels could only surround the convoy in the center, but unfortunately their approach was useless.
There is sufficient supply in the convoy. As long as some people are killed or injured, the convoy will take the initiative to attack and completely defeat these rebel troops after the number of people on both sides is no longer so large.
At this time, the soldiers in the convoy had begun to take turns to replenish food and recover their physical strength, while the rebels could only surround the convoy and could not break the formation at all.
There were even some soldiers in the convoy who picked up bows and arrows and shot people who were too close to each other.
At this level, the rebels basically had little morale. As long as the soldiers are full and drink, a charge can defeat these rebels.
Seeing this scene, Richard did not wait any longer and rushed up directly.
Hearing a sound of horse hooves, the two sides who were confronting turned to look, and the rebels showed despair. They knew very well that they had no reinforcements, let alone cavalry.
The Roman army on the other side was full of expectations. The most likely one was the Roman army. At that time, as long as the two cooperated, they could directly defeat these rebels.
But when they saw clearly that there was only one cavalry, everyone was disappointed.
After seeing the convoy, Richard jumped up and stood on the horse's back, then shot towards the formation in front of him.
The arrows crossed the chariot formation and directly hit the soldier who looked like an officer in the chariot formation. The officer fell down with his neck covering his back, and the Roman soldiers who were originally relaxed immediately panicked.
This is a reinforcements coming from the opposite side! And shot his commander with one arrow.
This is a major blow to an army. The remaining Roman soldiers picked up their shields and blocked them in front. The rebels surrounding the chariot formation were slightly stunned for a moment, and then immediately cheered.
Although they don’t know why the other party helped them, they now know that they are going to win this time!
Richard shot quickly, and the arrows were like meteors, one arrow after another.
In just a moment, five or six soldiers in the chariot formation were shot and killed. When the Roman soldiers in the chariot formation saw this, they picked up bows and arrows and wanted to fight back, but before they could aim, an arrow was taken. The arrow penetrated his eyes directly and nailed him to the ground.
Seeing the Roman soldiers in the chariot formation being shot and killed one after another, the rebels cheered loudly, and some rebels even began to take the opportunity to launch an attack.
Under Richard's powerful mental power, he clearly felt the movements of everyone on the battlefield. His arrows were like eyes, and all enemies who dared to show their heads were shot and killed.
He directly suppressed the Roman soldiers in the chariot formation alone. After seeing that the Roman soldiers in the chariot formation did not dare to show their heads and counterattack, the rebels immediately rushed up.
The Roman soldiers did not dare to fight back, and the rebels quickly rushed forward and forcibly attacked the military formation. At this time, these Roman soldiers had to fight back if they did not fight back. But Richard was staring at them outside, and as soon as he showed his head, he would immediately shoot him with an arrow.
After seeing this situation, these Roman soldiers immediately collapsed.
Many people shouted to surrender, and in the end, the remaining Roman soldiers, under the deterrence of Richard, threw down their weapons and surrendered.
After seeing the surrender of the chariot, the rebels began to rush up to find the spoils. At this time, the three teams of slaves behind Richard also rushed over.
Richard directly ordered these three teams of slaves to take over the spoils, and the rebels who dared to steal the spoils were shot and killed by Richard.
"I will distribute all the spoils!" Richard stepped forward and said to these rebels.
"Who agrees and who object?"
Seeing Richard's majestic appearance just now, these rebels did not dare to object at all, and agreed that Richard would distribute the spoils.
Then Richard selected a few clever people from the uprising army and asked them to count the convoy, and then Richard came to the surrendered Roman soldiers.
"Would you like to follow me?" Richard said.
These Roman soldiers were basically mercenaries, and most of them were naturalized barbarians. In fact, they were mercenaries under a nobleman and had no loyalty.
However, these people have basically undergone some formal military training. Although the training effect is average, it is more than enough to train the rebel army as instructors.
Richard needed these mercenaries to help him train his army.
With Richard's magical archery skills just now, these barbarian mercenaries finally decided to follow Richard. After all, the person who chose not to follow had been killed by him with one sword.
After successfully subduing these mercenaries, Richard immediately asked the rebels to take more than a dozen trucks of supplies to their nests.
Deep in the forest. A dilapidated camp, the entire camp did not even have a decent wall, only some wooden fences, and even large beasts could not stop it.
The houses are also very simple, many of them are shacks built on rock walls, and there are also some tents.
In order to survive, these rebels who were suppressed by Etius had to hide in these deep mountains and forests. Anyway, they are just a group of people with nothing. As long as they can survive, it doesn’t matter where they go.
In the history of Blue Star, these people eventually began to surrender to the Flange, Germanic and even the Huns in order to survive.
In the end, these people became the labor force of the barbarians, causing the barbarians to grow rapidly.
Richard brought people to the camp, and many women and children came to help transport supplies. These so-called rebels were actually composed of bankrupt peasants, slaves who could not survive, and fleeing soldiers.
There are not many elderly people in the camp with almost no children, and there are about one hundred women.
This ratio is very abnormal, but it is normal here. After all, natural disasters and man-made disasters will surely be the first group of people who die, followed by children, then women, and finally young and strong.
Even in order to survive, those young and strong people will deliberately abandon those people or directly eat people.
After transporting all the food supplies in, Richard announced in the center of the camp that he would distribute the food. Adult men have three pounds a day, two pounds a day for women, and one and a half pounds for children.
Then Richard made people make a fuss to cook, and everyone lined up to start picking up the food.
No one objected, and everyone agreed with Richard's distribution method.
There were originally six or seven hundred people in the entire camp, but after the previous battle, there were more than five hundred people left, including nearly three hundred young and less than two hundred women, and only thirty children.
In addition, Richard brought more than 100 people, and now there are more than 600 people in the camp. At the same time, they possess more than twenty horses and sixteen barbarian mercenary soldiers.
Richard then announced some simple regulations and systems for the camp. Starting tomorrow, people will be organized to hunt, fish and repair the village.
He had just scanned this camp with his mental power, and the location was pretty good. This is a valley where some farmland can be opened in the camp, and a wall will be built with stones at the exit of the camp.
Land can be reclaimed in some places on the surrounding mountains. Although it is very barren, you can also grow some crops using farm fertilizer.
After scanning, he had prepared a development plan.
In the next time, Richard prepared to take all other rebels or fugitives in this mountain forest.
Then organize these people to reclaim, fish and hunt in the mountains and forests, accumulate strength, and at the same time, some of the young and strong men were dispatched to form an army. Accumulate strength.
Next, it will become more chaotic. After the Roman Empire's Duke's death, the Roman Empire's rule over this place will basically be zero. He would lead these rebels to start occupying the surrounding land.
Now let the Roman legion and barbarians continue to fight to death.
There are very limited people who can support them in the mountains and forests. Even if Richard has a lot of knowledge, it is difficult to support these people when he cannot use advanced spells.
After all, the mountains and forests are barren and the grain is produced very little.
So Richard prepared to mine ore, then smel and sell it for food.
At the same time, it is also ready to train an elite force to rob. If the imperial legion can plunder and the barbarians can plunder, can't the rebel army plunder?
In fact, Richard still has a lot of food in his private space. Every time he travels on a plane, he will replenish it. This food has been enough for a army of ten thousand people to eat for three years.
He does not intend to take out these foods at once. After all, the food in this world mainly depends on itself to produce them, and the food in his hands is just to overcome the crisis.
Under Richard's management, the entire camp quickly became organized. After the food was available, Richard's plans also began to be implemented.
At the same time, Richard and Miya began to count the belief issues among these people. Since he has decided to intervene in the divine war, he cannot let the issue of faith be ignored, but Richard has not decided what faith to use.
Richard then tested the people in the camp, and then selected those with good physical fitness from these people and prepared to form an army.
In the camp of more than 600 people, one hundred people were finally selected. Richard asked the barbarian mercenaries to assist in the training, and at the same time selected some of them to teach them iron smelting and mining techniques.