If Zhang Fei were in Chen Xi's position, Zhang Fei would definitely not worry about the 20,000 shield guards facing the Second Eagle Flag Legion. Not to mention that the Second Eagle Flag Legion didn't even carry the Eagle Flag. Even if it did, Zhang Fei would still
Continue to fight with the opponent without fear.
What's so great about it? The second eagle flag is very powerful, and the shield guard army with 180 shield guards as its backbone is not a vegetarian. Who is afraid of whom?
But now Zhang Fei is not in that position, but Chen Xi is in that position.
To be honest, everyone in the Han army knew that Chen Xi should not come here. Chen Xi should stay at home and be protected by the central guards on the outside. The inner circle is guarded by the palace guards, as well as in the underground palace.
The immortals who can rush out at any time provide protection.
Is there anyone who still doesn’t understand why after the key veterans who retired from the front line are transferred to the local areas, if their strength is qualified, they will basically go to the Chang’an Imperial Guard for rotation in about two years. What about Huang Tao, Zhao Zhen, Fu Ji?
Waiting for a while, I said I was doing odd jobs in the Imperial Guard, guarding the gates, etc., but actually I went to the Chang'an Imperial Guard for my rotation when the time came.
In addition to deepening Liu Bei's impression and brushing off each other's faces, there is also a very important reason for protecting Chang'an and protecting Chen Xi. Except for the old warriors who are mainly responsible for killing and wounding, the palace guards can all take turns next to the Government Affairs Office.
, essentially also shoulders the responsibility of protecting Chen Xi.
Because compared to others, Chen Xi is simply fragile. If anyone suddenly gets violent, Chen Xi may be killed directly.
Therefore, Chen Xi's protection is often too little, not too much.
Although Macrinus knew Chen Xi, he did not realize Chen Xi's value, but this did not prevent his words from being wrong, which made Zhang Fei quite afraid.
Seeing that Zhang Fei was no longer as violent as before, Macrinus also restrained himself a lot. The two sides worked in a tacit understanding to reduce the intensity of the fight. Zhang Fei was trying to avoid the enemy, while Macrinus had a more realistic need to accumulate knowledge for the future.
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After all, mercenaries work for money, and they have to pay a certain amount of attention to their lives. What's more, now that they have a brighter future, Macrinus no longer treats his soldiers as pure expendables as he did before. Elders and capable
There is a very big gap between the Dukes who command the army.
Feeling the weakening of the Roman barbarian army's offensive, Zhang Fei was a little confused, but he was willing to accompany the opponent in acting. After all, the intelligence released by Macrinus was very important. Compared with the immediate victory or defeat on the battlefield, protecting Chen Xi was the most important.
"Let Jufu lead a team to inform the second brother." Zhang Fei quickly made a decision. This information is very important, but Guan Yu still needs to choose how to deal with it, and what he has to do is to wait for Guan Yu to make his choice.
, and continued to beat Macrinus crazily.
Zhang Fei is not a person who can be bribed with information. Before, it was just because the rat-defying weapon was somewhat difficult to use. After Guan Yu took over, this matter was no longer under Zhang Fei's control. Then Zhang Fei only had to continue to carry out the previous military orders.
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In the rear, Guan Yu was silently mobilizing Zhao Yun to try to cut through the protective front that Oswin had deployed on the Chinese army's front. There was nothing special about this front, it was just a thick one. This was a tactic learned by Kushan and the Han Dynasty.
It's a pity that there are no shield guards. Although this thick and dense defense front effectively hinders Zhao Yun's penetration efficiency, it is almost impossible to completely block it.
The impact and breakthrough capabilities of the cavalry cannot be blocked by an ordinary infantry massed front. However, if it cannot be blocked, it will be no problem to rely on the dense gun and shield front to delay the attack for a while.
"Did all the equipment that Rome retreated from be sold to Kushan?" Liu Bei asked with a frown.
Liu Bei didn't notice it at first, but as Kushan mobilized troops on a larger scale, Liu Bei clearly saw the changes in equipment. It was obvious that because the social unrest had not completely ended, the social division of labor among Brahmins had not yet been effectively exerted.
However, the craftsmen were not efficient enough, resulting in some armors still having an obvious Roman style.
"This situation is the same as when we had to phase out the scale armor after our military parade." Fazheng said casually, "The Rome military parade received new equipment. Some of the old equipment was distributed to citizens, but more
It was sold to Guishan. After Guishan took over, it was restructured, but this time the scale of the force was too large, so it was obvious that the remodeling was not completed."
Kushan still has some shame. After all, it is an empire. It is a bit shameful to use equipment that has been eliminated by others to arm it. Therefore, after receiving it, it also made certain changes to make it more in line with Kushan's style.
Of course, these Roman armors are not for use by Kushan elites, so they do not need major modifications. They only need to trim the corners and so on, so that they look like their Kushan style.
After all, these armors that were eliminated from Rome's replacement were originally intended by Vesutiva I to be used to arm the soldiers after the expansion of the army. After all, Kushan's standing troops were only a few hundred thousand, and many of the so-called million-armored ones were wooden armors.
, Teng Jia came up with it.
In the past, regular armies armed with wooden armor and rattan armor could safely defeat a dozen ordinary kingdoms, but when fighting against the Han Dynasty, whether they had armor became extremely important.
As for the top soldiers, there is basically nothing to say. They all have the top equipment in each country. The gap is actually not too big. As for the so-called Spiral Lancer's inability to penetrate the shield guard's shield, how can I put it? In fact, it can.
It was worn, but the shield guard the Spiral Lancer faced was a bit outrageous, causing the gun tip to be rounded.
In fact, it is not a big problem to use a nickel steel shield with a gun tip made of wootz steel. The problem is that the gun tip will be rounded when it penetrates a shield, and a rounded gun tip will have greater combat effectiveness against armored soldiers.
Minus, there are many small holes in the shield, and the defense power will not be reduced much.
So generally speaking, compared with the Kushan elites who use wootz steel as equipment and the Han Dynasty who use universal nickel steel equipment, although there are some differences in equipment, they are not too different.
But the real gap is actually the general backbone of regular soldiers. The equipment of the regular army of the Han army is basically nickel steel, because this thing is best produced by blast furnaces, plus steel with the best comprehensive properties, so most steel furnaces mainly use nickel steel.
Produce this.
There may be some differences in quality due to the size of the steel furnace, but in terms of overall strength, it is definitely at the forefront of the world, surpassing the wood armor and rattan armor used by Kushan.
In the early days, Kushan could not care less, but as the scale of the war became larger and larger, even if the population loss was not calculated and only the growth rate of soldiers was considered, the significance of steel armor was far greater than the makeshift wooden armor and rattan armor that had been used before.
thing.
This was also the basis for the armor trade between Kushan and Rome.
As Altay said, elites are created and used when they should be used. The more recruits survive, the more elites will be available.
Retaining new recruits has become a top priority. After all, looking at the veterans of the Han Dynasty and Rome, we know that it is already very difficult for most veterans to continue to grow. The ones who can really grow are basically recruits.
It may only take a few months to a year for the combat effectiveness to go from 50% of a recruit to 80% of a veteran, but it will take several years to go from 80% of a veteran to 90% of a top veteran, and from 90% of a top veteran.
From 10 to 100 points like a fairy veteran, it requires not only time and effort, but also talent.
For example, Jiang Guang mastered the adaptive skills in less than a year, and then received more than 50% damage reduction from conventional blunt blows and cutting blows under the beating of the Yellow Turban Warriors.
For another example, after Li He received an injection, he easily exceeded his weight of 300 kilograms. As his body grew, his muscle density continued to increase.
There are also examples such as Li Zhe practicing reverse derivation to derive the framework structure of talent, and then analyzing the essence of talent from the root.
To be honest, these are not things that ordinary soldiers can accumulate through hard work and time. It's not that they don't work hard, but that it has reached such an outrageous level that it is no longer a problem that can be solved by hard work. Maybe most people can't achieve it.
It depends on the degree of talent, but for those who rely on knowledge and skills to reach the top, hard work is common and talent is unique.
If you think about Wu Xi, you will know that the war Wu Xi has experienced is definitely much stronger than Zhang Yong, but Wu Xi cannot achieve a single miracle in any case, while Zhang Yong only experienced the so-called Circumpolar Circumpolar
Polar training did it.
The latter is very abnormal for most people, but for Wu Xi, it is just a matter of fact, and he has not experienced anything in so many years.
And this is a true portrayal of unique talent. It is not a question of whether you work hard or not, but a more realistic situation where others will be rewarded for the same efforts, but you will not be rewarded.
Chen Xi knew this very well, so Chen Xi continued to retire some of his old soldiers.
Most of these soldiers are those who are 80 or 80, which is the level they can achieve through hard work. The soldiers who returned to the army for various reasons after being discharged basically showed themselves in the following years after the foundation was laid.
Talented soldiers.
In fact, this is also a kind of diversion, allowing the right people to do the right things.
Kushan is currently doing the same thing, but compared to Chen Xi's more refined method, Altay, who has little time, chooses a more rough method. If a veteran who dies at 80 points can cultivate several 70-point veterans.
Recruit, it's worth it.
It looks like it has downgraded, but in fact it has become stronger. War is different from single combat. It would be a dream for an 80% veteran to crush several 70% recruits when forming a formation.
It is precisely because of this kind of thinking that preserving more recruits who have seen blood has become the most important thing in Altay at the moment.
"If I had known earlier, we should have bought the Parthian Empire's armor and weapons from Rome." Liu Bei reacted instantly. Since Rome even sold the armor that it eliminated, then it must also buy the weapons and weapons captured by the Parthian Empire.
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"Those in Central Asia bought some, but the rest should have been bought by Vesutiva I." Fa Zheng said calmly, "Realistically speaking, it is impossible for us to buy those things. For Zichuan, those things
Although the things are not considered garbage, they are certainly not worth it.”
"That's right. Except for a few high-quality products, most of those things are not as good as the scale armor we eliminated." Liu Bei nodded and said.
Although the matter of scale armor is often brought up and made into a joke, the scale armor produced by the Han Empire was placed in other empires. Even if it cannot be used as equipment for top-level legions, it is currently the Roman Empire's replacement for first-line legions.
The level before installation.
After all, equipment like this still depends on steel production, and the steel production of the Han Dynasty is still very outrageous in this era. Although I don’t know what Lu Su and Zhuge Liang did in the rear, the annual steel shortage has increased to more than 10,000 tons.
But it must be said that the steel output of the Han Dynasty was much greater than that of the other two empires combined.
Even though Rome and Kushan both had open-pit high-grade iron mines, the technical strength of the Han Dynasty really outshone these two.
Even though the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty were in the honeymoon period, they were lucky enough to send people to the Smelting Department of the Han Dynasty to see the steel furnaces with their own eyes, and tried to imitate them locally, but to this day, they still have not succeeded. To be honest, the Romans could be allowed to enter the Smelting Department to see the steel furnaces with their own eyes.
Seeing the steel furnace in operation is already considered a friendly brother.
Now, it is equivalent to the US imperialism coming up with nuclear fusion and letting the Chinese see it for themselves and demonstrate it. To be honest, this is already very good.
The Roman Empire, which was very contented, expressed satisfaction with the atmosphere of the Han Empire and even gave some gifts. This outrageous thing in this era was already considered an artifact. The Romans were still studying it and informed their allies about Kushan.
It doesn't mean anything, it's hidden tightly.
"But it's still the same sentence. It's easy to reach eighty points before eighty points. Only after eighty points does it make sense to fight for other things. And Guishang's current intention is to reach eighty points first." Fazheng said with a calm expression, "It's very difficult.
Good idea.”
"After all, eighty points is not easy to deal with." Liu Bei replied. Even so, the confidence on Liu Bei's face has not changed at all, because even now, his second brother still retains his strength and is always testing and looking for more.
Good striking position.
Guan Yu stood on the chariot with a calm expression and observed the changes in the flags, while Xu Shu on the side was also carefully distinguishing the real and false flaws on the battlefield, and then informed Guan Yu of his analysis.
"Altay has not taken action. They have all prepared in advance. The opponent should be waiting for you, General Guan, to take action." After Xu Shu analyzed the situation on the entire front, he looked at Guan Yu and said, "The opponent is very patient and arranged.
It’s also very strict.”
"It's just that, if he doesn't take action, the second line of defense will be broken by the joint efforts of Wen Hou and Wen Yuan." Guan Yu said with narrowed eyes.
"The opponent has reserved the backbone of the broken back. If Oswin cannot withstand the stranglehold in the middle line and retreats, the three elite teams reserved by the opponent in these three positions will directly attack." Xu Shu pointed to the three gaps on the battle line and said, "It's very
The opponent is obviously ready to retreat."
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