Chapter 6481 The answer is never on the battlefield

"It's okay, Master Li has almost completed the planning, and if Zhongya really wants to say it recently, it is indeed quite safe." Zhuge Liang replied casually while immersed in processing official documents.

"I'm going to study, not to the Persian Gulf. Places in Central Asia close to the Ercui, Wei, Yang, and Wang families are quite safe." Li You also echoed from the side.

After Ardashir ran away from the Greater Caucasus, the places occupied by the aristocratic families in the Pan-Caspian coastal area and the places occupied by the three kings and the Guoliu family in central Asia have basically been in a stable state, even if there are still Some thieves and bandits basically stopped making trouble on the territory of major aristocratic families.

Coupled with the fact that middle-level generals went to Central Asia and other regions to learn how to build fiefdoms, a large number of Han army backbones are currently in Central Asia. Overall, there is no problem with security.

At least in the eyes of Li You, Zhuge Liang and others, there is no problem. No matter how much you mock Wan Peng, there is no problem for those Xiliang cavalry with two swords in Congling to cooperate with the local Qiang cavalry to deal with the bandits.

"Speaking of which, why don't you go to work in your Lantai place recently? You basically stay here in the Political Yuan every day. Normally, Kong Ming and I are the only ones you need in the Political Yuan during the day. Why have you all moved to the Political Yuan recently? The hospital will take care of it." Chen Xi looked at the group of people around him. Normally, they shouldn't be here in such large numbers.

"There are some things that need to be cross-processed at the beginning of the year, so we can be more efficient by staying together, and by the way, we can prevent some people from running away without moral integrity." Fazheng immersed himself in processing the information in his hand, and then handed it to the book beside him. Zuo, let him bring Man Chong to the other side.

"I always feel that your words mean something about me." Chen Xi said angrily.

"Don't worry, it's not the connotation. I'm talking about you." Fazheng said very calmly, "There is new information from Guishang. Anyway, I don't think it's good. You have to watch it."

"Don't look at it. You can fight as you like. I no longer pay attention to the front line. I have already done my work. I have also made strategic plans. How to win is your business." Chen Xi said calmly, "Kushan definitely has some tricks up his sleeve, but we also have them."

"Let me take a look." Li You took the information from Fazheng and frowned, "Guishang is actually engaged in tactical innovation and has organized hundreds of thousands of people to practice new tactics. They are not afraid of exposing the new tactics. , and then we counterattacked?"

"So it's very interesting." Fazheng said very calmly, "Dare to do this, either because he is very confident in his new tactics, or because of large-scale strategic deception. Anyway, it is quite interesting."

Li You nodded slightly when he heard this, "Zichuan, don't you take a look?"

"Let's crack the shield guard first." Chen Xi shook his head and said, "To be honest, the tactics we are currently using are not very good, but if Guishang cannot crack such ordinary tactics, then You can continue to use it.”

The tank sea tactic is indeed not an excellent tactic, but without nuclear weapons, the mechanical legion can be pushed horizontally on a large scale, and there is really no good way for ordinary legions.

In Chen Xi's current position, the shield guards are tanks. At most, they are divided into lightweight mechanical corps, light tank corps, heavy tank corps, etc. according to different armor layers. Anyway, they are divided more carefully, and they can occasionally pretend to be there. Conduct cooperative operations with multiple arms.

"If Guishang cracks the Shield Guard Group, what should we do?" Guo Jia wanted to ask, but he was more or less aware of his crow's mouth, so he gave Fazheng a look and let Fazheng take over.

"Actually, from my point of view, our Han Dynasty actually relies too much on shield guards. Of course, this does not mean that shield guards are not good, but considering that we actually do not have any plans in this regard." Zhuge Liang suddenly stopped writing and said, "This is actually very critical. If there is a problem with our Shield Guard Group, which is an important pillar, there will be huge problems."

The Ganges Group is indulgent in many things, and many middle and high-level generals are indulgent in certain behaviors. In fact, they are more or less holding on to their point of view. Even if something really happens, there is a large-scale 180 shield group to cover the whole situation. Even if they lose, How can we lose?

It is true that there are many elite Kushans who can defeat 180 shield guards, but how many elites are there in Kushan, and how many shield guards are there?

When the backbone troops can withstand the elite troops on the opposite side, it has entered garbage time.

The strength of the Shield Guard does not lie in the invincibility of physical defense. In fact, even a 180 Shield Guard who has received muscle-increasing injections is far from being invincible. But combined with the number that can be universally installed, the Shield Guard is really powerful. There are some unexplainable meanings in it.

"Ah, there is a plan for this." Chen Xi turned to look at Zhuge Liang and said calmly. Zhuge and others were silent after hearing this.

"There was a plan from the beginning." Chen Xi added, it is not the habit of later generations that when a certain weapon is developed, some kind of defense plan must be established to deal with it.

Although the Shield Guard is very strong, Chen Xi had a plan when it was established. Although the Shield Guard was able to develop to an incredible level with the secondary development of the muscle-increasing needles, Chen Xi's plan was not easy to implement by himself. After that, just find someone who can make a response plan and get on with it.

Han Xin did it for him. After all, Han Xin relied on the special piercing ability created by 666 or 999 Army Formation to be able to penetrate the shield plate armor.

So Chen Xi asked Han Xin to make a special version, and then made a special version of how to deal with such a bad situation. In short, there is indeed a plan.

"Did you really make a plan for the Shield Guard Group to be penetrated by Guishang?" Li You looked at Chen Xi and asked. Although he had an estimate of this, Chen Xi's direct words were indeed a bit embarrassing.

"It's just a habitual defense." Chen Xi said calmly, "However, the special simplified Xuan Xiang, combined with a weapon specially used to break armor, can indeed penetrate the armor of a shield guard at the same level."

In other words, when the shield guards equipped with 180 armor all use nickel steel triangular stabbing swords, one side uses the defense-enhanced Xuan Xiang customized by Han Xin, and the other uses the piercing-enhanced Xuan Xiang customized by Han Xin. The winner must be the latter.

Because without the piercing enhancement, even with a three-edged stabbing sword, it would be difficult to cause damage when facing a shield guard. On the contrary, Xuan Xiang, who has enhanced defense properties, is at a complete disadvantage when facing Xuan Xiang, who has enhanced piercing properties. , in Han Xin's words, puncture only adds one tip, while defense needs to strengthen all of them. It is self-evident which one adds the highest limit. "The final conclusion given by Marquis Huaiyin is that strengthening attack is more appropriate than strengthening defense. In the most extreme case, the lethality that can be displayed is definitely stronger than defense." Chen Xi explained with an indifferent expression. Attack is far greater than defense. , he had already witnessed it in the lower reaches of history.

Even in the later stages, humans have completely given up defense and focused on attack. As long as they can lead the opponent to death together, it is also a kind of balance.

"According to the judgments of Lord Wu An and Marquis Huaiyin, shield guards are essentially a special force created in a special period." Chen Xi directly informed everyone present of Bai Qi and Han Xin's comments, "There are times when defense is greater than offense, but in the end The offense will still overwhelm the defense.”

"To drill a hole in the shield of a shield guard, you only need a small piece of gun tip made of the same material as the shield guard's equipment. Many soldiers can do it." Fazheng casually took over Chen Xi's words, "From this point of view , it is true that the cost of attack is much lower than the cost of defense.”

Chen Xi glanced at Fazheng and said nothing. This is a fact. There were not many eras in history when defense was stronger than attack. The battleship's status as a decisive battle arm was replaced by aircraft carrier. Isn't it because the caliber is getting larger and larger, and defense can no longer survive. If you stay, you can only choose to attack.

The current strategic advantage of the Shield Guard, if you really want to say it, is actually closer to the material advantage. The Han Dynasty relies on materials to defeat the opponent, rather than armor weight and thickness.

Although the weight and thickness of the armor are also important, the strength of the material itself is the key to the complete advantage of the Han Dynasty shield guards.

In the case of material warming, when the basic strength of the two parties is not much different, and the scale of the internal energy containing their own beliefs and wills used is almost the same, the final strength gap of the material is actually positively related to the strength of the original material, that is, the greater the original strength. High, the final strength of the thing that is warmed up will be higher. The original strength is basically not very low, but the strength after being warmed is higher than others.

Unless there is a special way of nourishment, or nourishment technology, or more pure beliefs, will, inner energy, etc., it basically follows the logic that the strong will always be strong.

The invincible equipment of the Han Dynasty shield guards was not only the thickness and weight of the armor itself, but more importantly, the strength of the material itself, which really opened up a generation gap with other countries at the same time.

No matter how talented wootz steel is, there is still an era gap between it and the nickel steel produced by Chen Xi in a blast furnace. It is precisely because of this generation gap that the weapons made of wootz steel, even after higher-end tempering , and could barely compete with the Han army's equipment.

As for the weapons used by ordinary Kushan soldiers, how can they fight against shield guards when their tempering level is basically the same as that of the Han army and they have a slight internal energy advantage?

Chen Xi had always believed that his equipment was thick enough and sturdy enough, so he carried out special thickening treatment at important locations to ensure that the key areas could provide tank armor-level defense, which in turn made the Kushan soldiers unable to use shield guards.

Later, with Han Xin's prompting, Chen Xi realized that the special thickening above was indeed important, but it was not the key to Kuishang's inability to break through the shield defense.

There was actually no problem with the plan of Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and others, but they ignored a generation difference at the equipment level, which caused Guishang to directly abandon the path of strengthening the killing. In fact, if Guishang used the same materials as the Han Dynasty, The weapon, relying on the slightly higher level of general warmth brought by the slightly dominant internal energy, can actually break through the shield guard's breastplate.

What is invincible is not some thickened equipment, but the material technology that surpasses the entire era. India can produce wootz steel that spans the ages by relying on the free iron ore from the chosen land. But facing the Han Dynasty The leap at the technical level is basically meaningless.

But on the other hand, the invincibility of the Shield Guard is not the invincibility of the equipment. This can also explain why Huangfu Song has always been curious about why the Shield Guard is so strong in this version. It is said that the development route of the Shield Guard should be to go without armor first. Only by taking the damage reduction route and then wearing heavy armor can you gain a defensive advantage. There should not be a situation where you directly gain an advantage by wearing heavy armor.

It's just that Huangfusong couldn't understand the armor technology of the shield guard, so he could only think that he was really mentally ill back then. But in fact, if the shield guard could be so strong just by wearing armor equal to his own weight, no matter how poor Huangfusong was back then, It can also equip the front row shield guards with two hundred kilograms of armor.

But in fact, in that era, two hundred kilograms of armor was worn on the shield guard, which was not very powerful against the yellow scarf warriors.

The armor, which is equivalent to one's own body weight without any difference, has a strong defensive power, but it is not so powerful that ordinary Kushan soldiers cannot deal with it if a large shield of two to three hundred kilograms is placed on the body. The unsolvable problem lies in the generation difference.

By analogy, it is probably a 6-ton displacement battleship made of carbyne sulfide produced in World War II. Although it looks no different from other battleships, because carbyne sulfide has twice the tensile strength of graphene precursors, diamond It has three times the tensile stiffness and more than times the strength of carbon steel at room temperature, so it can withstand frontal bombardment from other battleships.

This is very unexplainable. Even if theoretically the various armor-piercing bullets produced at that time could easily tear apart various armors, it would be almost funny when encountering such a thing.

The current situation in Kushan is actually the same. Due to the generation difference of the materials they use, and taking into account the improvement brought by temperature and maintenance, it directly leads to the fact that even if the lethality caused by the attack is originally higher than the same level of defense, it will still be It cannot cause effective damage to shield guards of a higher version.

This is also the reason why Padujia Shi suffered a disastrous defeat. If they had used the same materials, even if the opponent lost, they would not lose to that extent.

Therefore, Chen Xi knew very well that if one day the shield guards were no longer so invincible, it would only be because their opponents had made breakthroughs in materials science, and the Han Dynasty no longer had the same generational advantage as before.

On the other hand, even if Kushan has some secret technique to enhance the damage, even if its strength reaches the level of Han Xin's 666 Army Formation, it will not be able to solve the shield guard.

Essentially, the key to victory or defeat now does not lie on the battlefield at all.

"Sooner or later, the shield guard will lose, but at least he is invincible now." Chen Xi glanced at Fazheng and said. The other party seemed to have guessed something, but it is not important. There are some things that cannot be solved even if they are known, especially for Gui. For Frost, the answer never lies on the battlefield.

It hurts, the vacation is over, I have to go to work, it’s painful