Everyone agrees that Chen Zichuan's path is correct, but what is the correct path for Chen Xi may not be the same for others.
Liu Ba is not deliberately opportunistic, but due to the actual situation, he can only select talents among those industries, and then splice together a more suitable industrial chain.
This is Liu Ba's limit. It's not that he doesn't want to do better, but because he can only do it to this extent. The coal-steel complex looks simple, but many things are easier said than done. Chen Xi does it
Liu Ba can understand things, but if he really gets started, everyone will be gone.
"Expensive things have no shortcomings except that they are expensive, but for us, this one is enough to stop us." Chen Qun said quietly, "Although the shield guard is good, the steel and pig iron we produce are even worse.
It should be used in other ways."
The output of steel was never enough for ancient times. In fact, even in modern times, most of the time, the demand for special steel is far greater than the supply. The only thing that can really be supplied is ordinary steel, and that's still in the Second World War.
It was only completed in the eleventh century.
For people like Chen Qun who manage internal affairs, the significance of investing steel in military armor is far less than investing in people's livelihood. The latter represents long-term stability and higher output. The former is currently in a stalemate.
The investment doesn't make much sense.
"Speaking of which, those shield guards back then should have reached the limit of their single talent." Cao Cao recalled and asked. The reason why the talent has not collapsed is actually very simple. It is because the intensity of the talent has been raised to the limit, and the control ability has improved.
It is impossible to let the talents of these people collapse.
Even for most of Cao's army's shield guards, after the essence of heaven and earth is activated, they can save some time to think and continue to practice self-adaptation. They have some martial arts to practice in the past. After all, it is just such a talent and experience.
After the piles were full, there was no correct route and I didn’t know what to do, so I could only mess around.
Now that the weather has changed, the talent experience bar has been freed up again, so there is no loss in continuing to practice.
"Many have reached the limit of a single talent. After the natural change, although there is a certain impact, the overall impact is not big. Their control over self-adaptation is actually very profound." Cheng Yu nodded and said, he was fine again.
He picked up the troop command route, and his talent has the ability to adapt, so he can fool around with the shield guard when he has nothing to do.
"Is it becoming difficult to advance to dual talents now?" Cao Cao actually also understood the impact of the activation of the heaven and earth essence. He asked this to tell others that the shield guards could now be recruited as the main force, so he could find a way
Give me another elite talent.
"The difficulty has indeed increased. This is inevitable." Cheng Yu nodded, "But the foundation of the shield guard is there, and there are several more orthodox directions. It's just that I haven't thought about it yet. What is it?
In what direction will it develop?"
Compared with the heavy armor defense that the Shield Guards thought, Cheng Yu actually suggested to continue to deepen the adaptation and develop the overweight adaptability step by step. Because this is the same strain, it is simpler. What is more important is that if the overweight adaptability can be loaded,
At three hundred pounds, it is actually not inferior to the so-called heavy armor defense.
As for the ability to pass through all terrains, Cheng Yu actually doesn't value it very much. Beigui is a mountainous terrain, so there is no problem that it cannot bear its own weight, and the key points will not have any impact. The significance of stability is actually not great, and survivability is more important.
important.
After Cheng Yu spoke, the group of civil servants and generals present also knew that there were only so many ways to defend the shield, including heavy armor defense, overweight adaptation, and stability. The third general who knew him a little knew that on Beigui's side was
It's meaningless. As for the first one, it's a bit difficult, but the second one is even more expensive.
These two paths have some minor problems for Cao Cao. For Cao Cao, no one under him is sure to master the heavy armor defense path. This is a rare talent. In the previous era, no one had it.
It is used, so it is not within the scope of these people at all.
Although Huangfu Song had never seen a formed heavy armor defense before, he couldn't resist it. As long as he was still on the branch talent tree, he could find a way to get it. If it were Cao Cao, if Cao Cao had this fighting ability, he wouldn't be in such a mess.
As for Zang Ba's heavy armor defense, it was not done by Zang Ba himself. It was a talent that a certain Jingling Guard had obtained when he and his group of Jingling Guards squatted together to select suitable talents.
Then a group of people copied me, and I copied you, and with great luck, they finally copied the heavy armor talent.
"Let's find some legions with heavy armor talents from other places. I remember that General Zang's shield guards seem to have heavy armor talents." Cao Hong thought for a while and suggested.
Cao Hong is still optimistic about the talent of heavy armor. The overweight adaptation is indeed good. When the defense and survivability are guaranteed in plate armor, it is indeed very reliable. Just look at the Tiger Guards for this. But the problem is after overweight adaptation.
, then changing armor is a very fatal thing.
Think about 50,000 people, each weighing 300 kilograms. This is 15 million kilograms of armor. This is not ordinary. Well, they are not Chen Xi. After all, they still need to consider logistics and cost-effectiveness issues, so
Relatively speaking, the heavy armor talent is better.
The survivability advantage of the Shield Guard is now fully utilized. Because he has participated in enough battles and survived many times, he actually has a very good control over his own power. If there is a correct template to copy, he will soon be able to
You can achieve dual talents.
No matter which talent you rely on to become a dual talent, the survivability of the shield guard has been greatly increased. Moreover, after the change in the sky, the activation of the essence of heaven and earth has greatly increased, making it difficult to use most of the willpower attack abilities. The dual talent shield guard
Against the same level, its survivability is still terrible.
When it is impossible to use willpower to attack, except for a few special attacks, most physical attacks are actually very difficult to penetrate the heavy armor of the shield guard.
What's more, even if it is penetrated, the shield guard can still bear the remaining damage. What's more important is that after the shield guard's talent is deepened, its own adaptability to damage has also been slightly improved.
In fact, there are only a few types of shield guards that are suitable for overweight in full armor mode, or shield guards with heavy armor defense.
Compared with all kinds of messy and complicated injuries, it is so simple that only a few types are left. The shield guard can just rely on hard work. Maybe in a few years, he will really get used to these messy injuries.
So after the Heaven Change, people like Cao Cao and others realized that Chen Xi's era of beeping had inexplicably come to pass, because all kinds of fancy gadgets had been cheated by the Heaven Change. On the contrary, this kind of guy who had a solid foundation
, basically not affected at all.
"Heavy armor defense talent. I'll go back and find someone to do some calculations. Maybe I can find it in Central Asia, mainly from the Ganges River. It's really too far." Cao Cao sighed, Zang Ba confirmed.
It's true that there is heavy armor for defense, but Zang Ba can't borrow a group of people to come here. It's better to be realistic. Who knows what the Central Asian family is hiding.
"This is also a way." Cheng Yu nodded. Although he was inclined to adapt to overweight, after all, the Tiger Guards have proven that adapting to overweight is indeed the right path. But since Cao Cao chose another way, let's take another one.
"Report, Sikong, an urgent secret message from the Wei family." Just when Cao Cao was about to ask Chen Qun and others about the progress of the water conservancy project near the Helmand River, the attendant came to report urgently with a secret letter. Cao Cao slightly raised the question.
eyebrow.
"Send it up." Cao Cao said calmly.
After taking the secret letter in hand, Cao Cao sent the attendants away, then opened the secret letter, his expression changed slightly, then he took a deep breath and handed the secret letter directly to Xun Yu, "Wen Ruo, you estimate this is somewhat possible.
"
Cao Cao is not an idiot. The secret letter sent by Wei just explained what happened in the Caucasus. However, combined with the timing of the change in the sky, Cao Cao does not think that Aldashir can hold it back. After all, at this point, it is really Aldashir.
Opportunity.
"Quickly notify General Barak to kill the city of Herat." Xun Yu raised his head and looked extremely solemn.
"Do you think Aldashir has already taken action?" Cao Cao's expression also changed suddenly. If this were true, it would be terrible. This is not a question of whether Cao Cao can beat Aldashir and Oswin, but
Once the more practical city of Herat is lost, Cao Cao will be trapped in the isolated city of Kandahar. How to solve the problem of food and grass?
From Herat to Kandahar, from Kandahar to Kabul, and from Kabul to the Khyber Pass, this is one of the most correct routes to conquer Kushan. However, if the retreat from Herat is cut off, the situation will turn over in an instant.
Kandahar alone is not enough to support Cao Cao's power!
After the water conservancy project on the Helmand River is completed, Cao Cao can rely on Kandahar to play with Oswin and Ardashir until death. After all, Kandahar is also famous for being easy to defend and difficult to attack. When Cao Cao attacked Kandahar,
To send troops from Herat, they had to cross the desert and attack Kandahar. The attack almost made Cao Cao vomit.
If Balak hadn't directly surrendered to Cao Cao, Cao Cao would have exhausted his first wave of food and had no choice but to retreat and accumulate supplies again. The most difficult thing to deal with in this place is actually the terrain.
Therefore, Cao Cao is not worried about being blasted by Oswin or Ardashir. Just as Guishan defended it back then, he can defend it as well. In this deceptive terrain, it would be difficult for Liu Bei to fight with Cao Cao in charge.
The terrain advantages here are exaggerated. Let's put it this way, the difficulty of Sichuan and Shu is almost tripled. After all, Sichuan and Shu are just mountains. The deserts and Gobis here, the mountains, the plateau oasis, and the grain and grass logistics are directly the Achilles' heel.