Chapter 6632 Shortcomings

Chapter 6632 Shortcomings
"I have verified this, there is no problem." Chen Xi turned his head to look at Liu Tong, nodded and said, "I have simulated and verified the logistics and material mobilization involved in the dispatch of three million troops in batches. Although there are some errors and omissions, there are still two years, and I can guarantee that there will be no mistakes in the rush."

Liu Tong was shocked. Sitting on the position of the Son of Heaven, many things would gradually become clear to him even if he didn't want to understand them. And as Chen Xi said, mobilizing three million troops to ensure the mobilization of logistical supplies and maintaining the overall domestic logistics scheduling without any problems, and the national economy and life would not be turbulent for at least a year, it was really beyond Liu Tong's imagination.

"What Xianhe is doing now is actually the verification phase?" Liu Bei quickly realized something and asked with some speculation.

"It is one of them. There are some other verifications also in progress, but they have not been carried out on such a large scale, so I can't be very sure. Fortunately, there is still time. In the eleventh year of Yuanfeng, I will carry out a large-scale material mobilization for the verification of logistics carrying capacity." Chen Xi nodded. Jian Yong's verification areas in Jizhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, and even Qingzhou and Yanzhou, which are currently underway, are indeed one of Chen Xi's verification areas, but this is not enough.

"I think Xianhe has the intention to kill someone." Liu Bei looked at Chen Xi's expression and could somewhat imagine what Jian Yong would say.

"I evaluated and discussed this matter at the Grand Court Meeting in the sixth year of Yuanfeng, and made a detailed target breakdown for each indicator to ensure that the target can be achieved. The construction of the logistics express channel is one of the most important tasks at present." Chen Xi said with a smile, "And I rented a supercomputer for him to ensure that the work can be completed efficiently."

Liu Bei's face twitched twice, but in the end he said nothing. He needed to think about whether Jian Yong realized the importance of his job.

In fact, Liu Bei was overthinking, and Jian Yong knew it.

Even if he didn't realize how important this job was at the beginning, with the rapid advancement of transportation and logistics, Jian Yong would gradually realize this problem. The fact that he could argue with Li You over steel quotas and take away part of other people's quotas was enough to show that Jian Yong had realized how important this thing was.

At most, I didn't expect that when Chen Xi asked Jian Yong to take over the work and push forward the work at the grand court in the sixth year of Yuanfeng, he was already planning the verification in the eleventh year of Yuanfeng, and the decisive battles in the twelfth and thirteenth years of Yuanfeng. It can only be said that Chen Xi really thinks longer-term than others.

"There are some problems in the current small-scale verification, but none of them are fatal. With the continuous optimization of errors and omissions, the small-scale verification has passed now. We just have to wait until next year. By then, Xianhe, Shengzhi and I will be in Chang'an to conduct testing." Chen Xi said with a smile. Guo Kai will definitely be very excited by then. This is a major event to overthrow the Kushan Empire, and he is really honored to participate in it at the age of less than 10. Hahaha!
Well, Chen Xi also knew that by that time Guo Kai would be alone and would be almost exhausted, and would not want to think about anything else. Even Guo Kai alone would not be enough. Li You borrowed Chen Xi's supercomputer Xu Yue, as well as the new computer manufactured by Xu Yue, all needed to be brought to the Executive Yuan for this test.

Even if Sun Qian had not firmly rejected this matter in the previous round, Sun Qian and Zhao Shuang would not have been able to escape it. After all, there are only a few supercomputers in the world and they have no choice.

"Although I don't understand what you are saying, I always feel it is very impressive." Han Xin began to applaud. Sometimes this guy really lacked the dignity of a general.

"It's about how to maintain such a large-scale logistics while ensuring that there is no fluctuation in the country." Bai Qi sighed and said, "To be honest, I have begun to think about why I participated in this kind of meeting. Am I qualified to speak at this kind of meeting? I don't!"

Bai Qi rarely made a witty remark, but it was enough to show how much of a shock this incident was to Bai Qi. This involved mobilizing 5% of the country's population for the expedition, and also requiring a large amount of manpower and material resources to maintain the food and logistics of this part of the population. When the overall mobilization scale exceeded 14%, they could still think about how to prevent the domestic people's livelihood from being turbulent. What kind of god was this?
"It's not that there should be no turmoil at all, but that it should be kept within a reasonable range. To the extent possible, the impact of the war on the people's livelihood should be as little as possible." Chen Xi looked at Bai Qi and Han Xin and said with great confidence.

"Can you do it?" Bai Qi asked.

"It's being verified. In the eleventh year of Yuanfeng, a simulation experiment for the entire region will be conducted. We will be able to give an accurate answer then. Now we can only say that there should be no problem." Chen Xi said seriously. He knew very well what he was doing and what he wanted. Twenty years had passed and after taking this step, the formation of the Han cultural circle was just around the corner. Chen Xi was naturally more cautious.

"I think it has come to this. Even if the Kushans can make a burst of force at the last moment, it will be meaningless. An army of three million, with the new version of the shield guards as the backbone, has such a high fault tolerance rate, and coupled with a suitable commander of the large army..." Bai Qi didn't want to say anything anymore.

With such a large-scale configuration, Bai Qi believed that the only chance for Kushan to survive was to behead Liu Bei, but this was something Han Xin could not even dream of doing.

"In fact, we haven't accumulated enough commanders for the army yet." Chen Xi sighed and said, "It can be said that the problems we are facing now are actually the links that were originally considered not to be problems. On the contrary, the links that required me to work hard to transform have been gradually realized in the past 20 years."

The middle-level high-smelting backbones, qualified legion commanders, large legion commanders, etc., these are things that Chen Xi cannot control, and now they have become problems.

On the contrary, Chen Xi has achieved all the things that people of that era did not dare to think about, such as large ranches, sufficient food and logistics, the development of medical technology, the accumulation of armor and equipment, etc. These things that people did not dare to think about 20 years ago, Chen Xi has achieved them all.

"With an army of three million, minus the 500,000 led by Guan Yu as the commander of the main battle zone, there are still 2.5 million left. In this case, we need at least twelve reliable large legions to command them." Bai Qi said, pressing his temple. Han Xin was indeed able to command so many troops, but a war between living people must be fought by living people. More importantly, the Han Dynasty could win without them, so why let them fight?
"Ah, can Yunchang command 500,000 troops?" Liu Bei looked surprised.

"I have explained to him the command method of the God's Will System. With his aptitude, he should have mastered it long ago. He has not used it on the battlefield until now. I am afraid he has been holding it back. Five hundred thousand should not be a problem." Bai Qi said casually. He had discovered that Guan Yu had this aptitude before, so he taught Guan Yu specially. However, when he said this, Bai Qi still glanced at Han Xin.

"No problem. Commanding an army of 500,000 is at most a little difficult for Guan Yu, who has mastered the system of God's will. He may be a little unfamiliar with it, but he is not unable to command. He just has no performance on the battlefield. It is better to say that there is no army of that size for him to practice than to say that he is holding back." Han Xin casually said his own judgment. He has his own way of judging how many troops others can command, and it is really very accurate.

"Okay, this way, the gap will be much smaller." Chen Xi pressed his temple and said, "At present, we have stockpiled several qualified large army commanders, as well as a few large army commanders who are still lacking but can be used on the battlefield."

Zhang Fei, Zhang Liao, Yu Jin, Zhao Yun and others can already be used as commanders of a large army. Then Hua Xiong and the Three Idiots can join forces as a legion and also be used as commanders of a large army. Together with Gan Ning, Taishi Ci, and Xu Sheng on the water, they can also cooperate as a large army.

After all, Guan Yu's 500,000 main forces held off the Kushan main force, and the commanders of the rest of the large legions only needed to rush in and kill indiscriminately. With such a huge gap, it would be better to use your brain less. Therefore, Chen Xi's requirement for most of the large legion commanders is to be able to command so many troops and not let the structure of these backbone legions collapse.

However, even so, the Han army seemed unable to gather enough officers to command these large armies. Of course, with Liu Bei as one main force, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu as another main force, and Zhu Jun as another, they could command a lot of troops, but even so, they still could not command the scale of the army that Chen Xi mentioned.

However, there are still two years left, and Chen Xi is thinking about whether he can discover or train one or two young and strong men who have the potential to become commanders of the large army, which will completely solve the problem of commanding the army.

Of course, Chen Xi also considered Han Xin and Bai Qi, but when it came to destroying the Kushan Empire, Chen Xi fought with the attitude of not using these two masters if he could.

"In fact, Zhang Ren can also serve as the commander of a large army, and because of some other reasons, he has really set foot in this field now. Even if he has abandoned You Xi Sword and my left hand, the inherited knowledge and experience, as well as his previous achievements, are enough for him to step into the command of a large army." Han Xin understood the other party's plan after listening to Chen Xi's explanation. Although it was a pity that he could not participate in person, he could understand Chen Xi's thoughts to some extent.

"Ah, General Zhang has also reached the level of commander of a large army?" Chen Xi scratched his head with an incredible look on his face. In Chen Xi's opinion, Zhang Ren is really a good fighter. Leading 50,000 elite troops and striving for the awareness of destiny explosion, he can blow up a large army commander of Zhu Jun's level. However, Zhang Ren's upper limit is to command 50,000 elite troops. Zhang Ren will not be able to command more than that.

This kind of officers can serve as a detachment, like Huang Zhong, Chen Dao, Zang Ba, Sun Guan and others, leading tens of thousands of people to attack independently as a detachment. There is no need to command more people. After all, the upper limit of these officers is 30,000 to 40,000 people. Commanding more people will not only fail to bring a bonus to combat effectiveness, but will also reduce the combat effectiveness they already possess.

However, no one expected that Zhang Ren would actually reach the level of commanding a large army. Moreover, as an officer completely subordinate to the Han Dynasty, without any trace of a prince, Zhang Ren could be mobilized by the country to any place to participate in the war at any time. In this way, the original gap in the command of a large army was filled.

"Counting these independent detachments, it seems that we are only short of two commanders of the large army?" After counting the number of people, Bai Qi felt that the gap was not that big.

"What are you thinking about? Not many of those large army commanders above dare to lead 200,000 soldiers. Most of them have around 100,000 soldiers. Only Wen Ze may lead more than 200,000 soldiers." Chen Xi said helplessly. The gap is still very large. You know, Chen Xi even thought about that when the time comes, Zhou Yu would first wipe out the Kushan navy, and then release Lu Xun and Lu Meng to train as commanders of the large army.

There is no problem with the qualifications of these two people, and if they have a record of wiping out the Kushan navy together with Zhou Yu, their qualifications and combat achievements will be barely sufficient. Even if it is not enough, with Chen Xi endorsing Lu Xun and Zhou Yu endorsing Lu Meng, these two people should still be able to serve as commanders in the decisive battle between the Han Dynasty and the Kushan. In this way, another main force of 200,000 to 300,000 will appear.

However, even so, there are still some gaps in the command of the large army, but relatively speaking, they are not big. At most, we can form some more independent divisions. However, if there is a choice, Chen Xi still hopes that there will be a few more large army commanders in the next two years.

After all, only a large army commander can truly bring into play the practical advantages of large-scale troops. What about ordinary independent divisions? Although a backbone of 30,000 to 50,000 people can be regarded as the main force, it seems a little inadequate in a decisive battle of this scale.

"Ah, you can't even command 100,000 people?" Han Xin looked exhausted. How could this guy, who is not even as good as Liu Bang, be considered a commander of a large army?
This is what Han Xin thought and said, "Even Liu San can command 100,000 men. The people you found are too bad. Let's find someone else. Or I can appoint Yang Hu. There are still three years left, and Yang Hu should be crowned in three years. Send him to a loyal but incompetent general, such as Xu Chu. Wouldn't it be fine if he is nominally a counselor but actually a commander?"

Before Chen Xi had time to express his gratitude after hearing this, Liu Bei couldn't hold back his temper. Although Xu Chu was indeed the one with the most limited development prospects among the early brothers, the others, whether it was Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Hua Xiong, Gan Ning, etc., all had some impressive battle records. Even with Liu Bei's private training, except for Zhang Fei, the headquarters of these people were basically top-notch, and they themselves had been trained to the level of commanding a large army, or an alternative large army.

But no matter how poor Xu Chu's legion command ability is, he can search for strong warriors everywhere under Liu Bei, fleece Chen Xi, get some rare strengthening injections from the Medical Academy, and ask his own officials to help Xu Chu find suitable elite talents. Finally, with the legion talent that Xu Chu forcibly condensed by relying on the strength of breaking the boundary, it should not be a problem to create an Imperial Guard without considering the cost.

Although the combined cost of these things is enough for Huangfu Song to set up two slum versions of the Three Rivers and Five Schools, you can tell me whether it is the Imperial Guard.

As a result, after Han Xin's scolding, Xu Chu was no better than a teenage boy.

"My ancestor was better at commanding generals, but even his ability in commanding soldiers was among the best in the late Qin Dynasty." Before Liu Bei could say anything, Liu Tong retorted, "It doesn't matter whether it's Xu Chu or not. When you are looking for evaluation criteria, can you please not use my ancestors as the lowest limit, making it seem like my ancestors are so incompetent?"

"General?" Han Xin was silent for a while, "Can I tell the truth?"

"I think it's better to forget it." Chen Xi sighed and said. As Liu Bang's brother, Fan Kuai knelt down and saluted when Han Xin passed by his house after he was demoted, saying that it was an honor for His Majesty to visit my humble home. Then Han Xin replied that it was a relief to be in the same company as you. Fan Kuai had no intention of refutation at all. What kind of level of respect is this? Do I need to describe it in detail?
You can say that Han Xin's political ability is poor, but Han Xin's military ability is absolutely explosive.

Han Xin said that Liu Bang could lead 100,000 soldiers, and the more he could lead the better. Then he said that Liu Bang was good at commanding generals. But honestly speaking, this is just a step. To put it more realistically, it means that I just need to be under your command. As for other generals, the commanders at the end of the Qin Dynasty were divided into two levels, Han Xin and Xiang Yu, and then the others. Liu Bang could be at the top level among the others, but he could not reach another level.

"Liu San's command ability might have ranked him among the top three in the late Qin Dynasty." Han Xin did not criticize Liu San in terms of his professional ability. "Of course, there should be a few who can compete with him for the third place. But now the question is, do you know why he can only be ranked in the top three?"

"Because the first two are not human." Chen Xi answered on behalf of Han Xin unhappily, and then Han Xin glared at him fiercely. What does the first two mean by not human?

"As an officer, Liu San is excellent, even at the top level, but this is the limit of mortals." Han Xin said with some nostalgia. He actually thought highly of Liu Bang, but please don't tell me, Han Xin, how excellent your military command ability is. To be honest, the fact that I can mention your name has proved that you have something worthy of recognition on this path, but that's all for me.

“Although it sounds outrageous, this guy is not talking nonsense. Emperor Gaozu’s military level was very high, but if we use the Marquis of Huaiyin as an indicator, then it would be a bit too much.” Chen Xi didn’t want to dwell on this matter, and said to Liu Tong half-consolingly.

"Hmph." Liu Tong crossed his arms and said no more. If Han Xin was used as a benchmark, there would be only a few generals throughout history who could meet the criteria.

"Can I ask a question?" Liu Bei asked Han Xin with a look of confusion after Liu Tong finished speaking.

"What's the problem?" Han Xin asked casually.

"Marquis Huaiyin, do you really think that Yang Hu could surpass Zhongkang in such military and national affairs at the age of fourteen?" Liu Bei asked with some doubt.

"Yes, it's just a lack of experience. But some people are born with a better intuition about the battle situation than ordinary people can make in their lifetime." Han Xin said seriously, "Of course, my previous suggestion was just a joke. It was just a joke when the command of the army was not good enough. You don't need to take it to heart."

"Although it sounds outrageous, if you think about it carefully, Yang Hu may not be incapable. But Yang Hu cannot be paired with Zhong Kang. If he cooperates with officers like Huang Hansheng, Zang Xuangao, Chen Shuzhi who have certain command abilities, he may be able to command a large army." Chen Xi said after thinking for a while.

Yang Hu's strategic and tactical abilities are definitely at the top level of his time, but Xu Chu may not be able to execute these tactics. But if it were someone like Huang Zhong, Zang Ba, or Chen Dao, there probably wouldn't be much of a problem.

"Don't even think about it. Only Zhongkang will accept the leadership of such a kid. Others all want to save face. Of course, it's not that Zhongkang doesn't want face, but Zhongkang has been deeply aware of his shortcomings in this area over the years. Therefore, as long as Zhongkang is told about Yang Hu's abilities, he will be willing to accept this guidance. But other people won't be like this." Bai Qi directly interrupted Chen Xi's thoughts.

"Why do I feel that you three have too much trust in Yang Hu's abilities? Is this child so powerful?" Liu Tong asked with some curiosity. As the children of Cai Zhenji, Liu Tong has seen them many times. Especially when Yang Hu was a child, he only let Si Niang hold him in the palace and would not let Liu Tong touch him, which left a deep impression on Liu Tong.

Although I have heard that Yang Hu and Yang Huiyu have amazing talents, and Cai Zhenji also possesses spiritual talent, it has only been a few years. Can this child deserve such high evaluation?
"Wenru, as the commander of a fake army, is no longer able to defeat Yang Hu when the battle is fair." Chen Xi curled his lips and said, "He often has a big advantage throughout the whole process, but is controlled to death in the end. This shows that Yang Hu is inherently stronger than Wenru in terms of military intuition and judgment."

But this was not surprising to Chen Xi. Except for the lack of claws, Yang Hu was definitely perfect in other aspects. Chen Xi thought it was normal for him to have such abilities at this age.

Just like playing Go, most of the Shen Lao players at the age of fifth or sixth grade showed the potential to compete with the world's top players, but it was impossible for Yang Hu to do so.

Even if they were just staff officers in name, it would be impossible to achieve. For a decisive battle of this scale, the staff officers of each main force would need to be screened on a large scale. Even the staff officers corresponding to the previous commanders had actually already been decided.

Just think about Lu Xun and Lu Meng. If they want to be the commander of a main army, they need the merit and qualifications of annihilating the Kushan navy before they can be appointed with the endorsement of Chen Xi and Zhou Yu. No matter how rebellious Yang Hu is, Chen Xi will never trample on the rules.

After all, the decisive battle to destroy the Kushan Empire was the final round of dividing the cake, and the merits that could be obtained by the commander of each large army would be extremely huge.

Take Zhang Ren as an example. If he participated in the decisive battle to destroy the Kushan Empire as the commander of a certain army corps, when the rewards were finally given, his rewards would be directly compared to those of Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and others. It might be slightly less, but it would still be roughly at the same level.

Even if the most important areas of Kushan were monopolized by the subordinates of Prince Jin, an area of ​​fertile land of more than 200,000 square kilometers would have to be allocated to Zhang Ren in other places to correspond to the identity of the commander of the dozen or so corps. In other words, if he participated in the war of annihilation of Kushan as a corps commander, after the war, he would directly surpass the accumulation of the thousand-year-old family for thousands of years, and there would be no such troubles in Central Asia.

However, Chen Xi has already thought it through. If there are not many commanders other than those under Liu Bei's command who are mobilized at that time, he will allocate hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land in the Indochina Peninsula to those people. As for Zhou Yu in Jiangdong, he will naturally not be rewarded. The princes are just coming to repay their debts, so what reward do they want?

This is also the reason why Chen Xi needed to consider a lot of things when endorsing Lu Xun, because those who participated in this war, even if they did not participate in the previous wars, would get extremely amazing things. After all, now Liu Bei's direct descendants no longer distinguish between the Indochina Peninsula, so they have to find a way to deal with this place.

In this case, if Lu Xun does not meet certain requirements, Chen Xi will consider it carefully before endorsing him. The benefits are too great, so even Chen Xi has to be careful about his manners.

After all, the identity with which you participate in this final battle will really determine your future upper limit and certain undeniable status.

Both Bai Qi and Han Xin had some political problems, so it was difficult to realize what kind of changes the final battle between the Han Dynasty and the Kushan Empire would bring to these people.

But Chen Xi is very clear about the seniority issues brought about by this node, just like the party members before and after the Long March, and the party members before 49 and after 49.

If Yang Hu could participate in this battle as a staff officer at the age of fourteen and play a decisive role in a certain army corps, then Yang Hu would at least have the basis for seniority, and even without mentioning rewards, he would probably have to be arranged to be a marquis.

Liu Bei had a complicated expression when he heard this. He wondered if he was thinking of Liu Yong, born to Wu Yuan. After all, knowing that Yang Hu was the descendant of the earliest female spiritual talent possessor, and had such exaggerated performance at such an age, it was impossible for Liu Bei not to think too much.

"In this case, you actually have a big gap in the command of the legion. You cannot integrate the army, and the combat effectiveness you can exert may even be worse than that of a controllable two million troops." Bai Qi suggested. Three million troops are too many, and there is no need to do so to fight the Kushans.

"It's okay. In fact, there are some alternative personnel." Chen Xi waved his hand and said, "If it works, we will arrange them all at that time. If not, we will increase the size and number of independent divisions. Anyway, ten elite armies attacking Kushan together has already met my minimum requirement." Chen Xi was very open-minded. Of course, the most important thing was that, in Chen Xi's view, having these ten armies was enough. Just like Bai Qi said, it was just a fight against Kushan, there was really no need to invest so much.

"Minimum requirements?" Liu Tong repeated these four words and fell silent.

"What virtue and ability do the Kushans have that requires you to take me with you when the time comes? I will not take action until the last moment." Han Xin said without any bottom line.

I am gradually able to grasp the rhythm of the big chapters, but I am still a little uncomfortable with it.