Chapter 6782: Survival

Chapter 6782: Survival
There are some things that Xu Yuan cannot say as well as Tian Zhong saying them once, no matter how many times he says them. There is no other way. The stubborn old men are always skeptical about the words of the younger generation. In addition, Xu Yuan himself finds it difficult to explain some things clearly, so there are always some loopholes in his words.

If the old guys caught these loopholes and pursued them relentlessly, Xu Yuan would easily be speechless. After all, Xu Yuan was not the kind of guy who was eloquent. He was a reckless person himself, otherwise he would not have been so prepared for a fight before debating with Zhu Tao.

"The reason why there are few young people with the first and second level of smelting is not because Xu Yuan and others did not provide protection. No matter how big the problem is, the old and the new have always been there. After all, this is the foundation of the army. The current small number of these low-smelting guys is mainly affected by the times." Tian Zhong said somewhat helplessly, "In the early years, the talent overflow corrected the quality, I'm afraid you don't know..."

Before the first heaven change, in the era when talents could improve one's qualities, the leaders of the Jingling Guards could even rely on their talents to burst out on the battlefield and build up basic qualities of the fifth level of smelting for themselves. This was why Sun Guan's first generation of shield guards were so ferocious.

The elite soldiers of this era all pursued fighting on the battlefield, because it was the fastest way to develop. Some soldiers with extraordinary talents could even improve their talents in just a dozen battles in that era, which would take ten years to complete within a year.

That's why Li Jiong complained at that time, "After more than 20 years of smelting, I was finally caught up by a bunch of little things in a few years." Although Li Jiong was also old at that time, the oath smelting had not been successful, and the finishing move Lugo Returns to the Sun had not been completed.

But after becoming a member of the Central Imperial Guard more than 20 years ago and enduring another 20 years of training, he was caught up and even surpassed by a group of guys of his own sons' generation. At that time, Li Jiong was ready to retire.

In that era, except for a few people who still insisted on taking the smelting route, the vast majority of people finally chose to use their talents to correct their qualities. The blow from Tianbian broke up the qualities that corrected the talents' overflow. Of course, it didn't break them up completely, but it broke up the uncontrollable parts.

Since the day of the catastrophe, relying on the overflow of talent to correct quality and reach a high smelting level is basically nonsense, and the elite of mankind has returned to the smelting route again.

"Is there such a situation in the middle?" Zhu Tao and Peng Hong looked at each other, they had no idea there was such a thing. Although they had heard that there seemed to be some natural changes, they had no idea what had changed. The so-called violent energy of heaven and earth, the huge increase in the difficulty of talent overflow, etc., for these guys, there was no difference at all, because they had already retired at that time.

"Well, in the early years, most soldiers chose the path of using overflowing talents to correct their qualities. Although smelting has always been the right way, in that era, the smelting of talents required constant polishing, and the gains were too small. Therefore, many newcomers would not take the initiative to advance even if there were old people teaching them how to smelt." Tian Zhong said helplessly.

If you catch up with the good times, you can earn 30,000 to 50,000 yuan a month by learning a little about the backend, and just follow the job. Why do you have to dig deep to learn technology and see if you can get into the underlying architecture? The latter is difficult to learn and requires a lot of energy, and there will be no results in a short time. So why not just stay in your comfort zone?

People are lazy, even soldiers are like this. What's more, the officers and soldiers of the Han Dynasty have always been required to be combat-capable, without much concern for the source of the power. Whether it is talent converted into skills, talent smelted, or talent overflowed, as long as they can fight, why should I care about the source?
As a result, the times changed and the ordinary back-end brick-moving workers were directly replaced, which caused big problems.

This is the situation for many old soldiers who had lived comfortably in the previous era. Some younger generations who were able to beat Li Jiong at that time could only choose to be tempered from that time on.

"That is to say, most of the soldiers of this generation have only officially started to learn smelting since six years ago. Although they have laid a solid foundation in the previous era and have mastered a lot of talents, the speed and efficiency of smelting are much higher than ours, but it has only been six years." Tian Zhong said helplessly, "and some guys still need to learn smelting adaptation."

Talent smelting does not mean that combat effectiveness will be improved only when the talent effect is manifested at the last moment of smelting. Instead, combat effectiveness will be improved during the smelting process. It's just that at the moment when the complete talent is smelted out, the talent effect will be obtained, and the combat effectiveness will be raised to a level compared to before, but the previous accumulation is also reflected little by little in the smelting process.

After all, smelting itself is a process of accumulation. In addition, if you don't practice it for a long time before the smelting is completed and regard it as your own strength, it is easy to decline after a period of time. That is why smelting seems to be carried out one by one.

In fact, for most veterans, the process of refining is actually a process of strengthening their understanding of this talent structure. And because the talent itself is not a single structure but a tree shape, when you refine this talent, you will actually refine part of the foundation of other talents.

That's why there are strange situations where some people have melted a series of similar talents and then turned them into other talents, and there is also a situation where everyone is melting the same talent, but other people's talents seem to be different from their own. There is no way around it, this kind of thing is related to self-cognition.

But no matter what, refining talent requires perseverance and a lot of time to succeed. Because the retirement rotation system under Cao was out of control at the time, few soldiers returned to the local area. Basically, they took the route of talent overflow to correct their qualities. Only after the heavy hammer of the sky changed, did they begin to change their direction collectively.

"Six years is a long time, and the foundation laid before is there. Logically speaking, the largest number by now should be the second level smelting." Zhu Tao said with a raised eyebrow.

"Yes, this idea is correct. Two years ago, we still had quite a few double smelters here." Tian Zhong said with a sigh, "Then they ran away."

If I am not welcome here, I will find other places that will welcome me. I am running away!
There was no way. Compared with the veterans of Tian Zhong's generation and Xu Yuan's generation who were around fifty years old, the new generation of veterans in their thirties simply could not bear to see Lao Cao suffer losses in the over-issuance incident. After the country was willing to point out a way out for them, many veterans in their thirties returned directly to their country.

Some went to nearby Central Asian families, some went further to Eastern Europe, some went directly back to the Central Plains to farm, and some were lured by the benefits offered by Sun Ce and went directly to join Sun Ce.

After all, the Battle of Qunu City had just ended, and Sun Ce was in need of backbone personnel. The unrest in Kandahar also gave Sun Ce a heavy blow and absorbed hundreds of backbone personnel. This is why the army structure behind Jiangdong was mostly restored.

On the contrary, the old guys didn't feel anything about this matter. In fact, when they saw Xu Yuan and others over-issuing, or even when Lao Cao slaughtered the aristocratic families after the over-issuance, Xu Yuan and others didn't actually have any deep feelings. Although they also called Lao Cao a beast, they didn't really take action.

In fact, this is already clear evidence of the generation gap.

"The next generation's understanding of this kind of thing is more radical than Xu Yuan's generation. Most of them ran away directly, and the remaining small half were cursed by the world consciousness before. You all know this. The eight-fold smelting that Brother Peng had worked so hard to complete was ruined because of this." Tian Zhong said helplessly.

After hearing this, although Peng Hong showed an expression of displeasure, his cold and stern expression had mostly disappeared. He was very proud of the Eightfold Smelting, and it was a very important symbol he used to show off. However, a wave of world consciousness curses directly suppressed him. If Peng Hong had not had a good mentality and a group of old brothers who did not laugh at him and even boasted about him, he would have died of anger.

"For most high-level smeltings, unless they are newly promoted, they generally won't collapse, because we have already mastered this power very well. But for the first, second, third, and fourth levels..." Tian Zhong said with a sigh, "At least one level will collapse. If you're unlucky, collapse of two levels is not a problem. Some even take shortcuts and collapse in three smeltings quickly."

"Under this situation, how many double smeltings do you think we can still perform?" Tian Zhong was also speechless. He saw with his own eyes how the backbones under Cao Zhen's command fell to the ground of the Imperial Guards. It was so miserable, too miserable.

"Of course, we admit that Xu Yuan and I have problems in protecting the next generation, but that is a problem of not choosing to attack but to blockade. This is a problem at the tactical operation level, not a problem of our failure to provide shelter." Tian Zhong said very seriously.

The morals of the veterans of their generation are still very good. They actually try their best to protect the newbies. After all, the miserable situation of the Holy Death Knights next door is there. Without the addition of newcomers, they will be exhausted sooner or later. No matter how good Xu Yuan is at fighting, it is useless if he is alone.

"As for the counterattack, it will not be a problem next time. The newly appointed Cao Pingxi will bring all the young and strong men of the Cao family to join us on the battlefield. Moreover, the soldiers participating in the war will be counted as first-class nobles, and the first wave of elite troops participating in the war will be able to receive a thousand acres of irrigation area in the Sistan region." Tian Zhong explained to the group of people concisely.

"So everyone is willing to fight with Cao Pingxi. To be honest, it is very disadvantageous for us to always defend. Most of the talents of the current soldiers are very unconventional." Tian Zhong said with a complicated expression, "You have no idea what kind of talents the new generation of young people have cultivated. This place can't continue to develop like this."

"What type of talent?" Bashu asked with some curiosity.

"The talent for teleportation is very common here, and this generation of young and strong people have cultivated a talent for teleportation, most of which is used to move the body's blood vessels and internal organs, and there is even a way to avoid death." Tian Zhong rubbed his face and said with a bit of confusion. To be honest, even as the big brother leading these young people, Tian Zhong felt that he could not keep up with their thinking.

"What is the art of avoiding death?" Peng Hong raised his eyebrows and asked with some curiosity.

"We have an explosive talent called Essence Explosion or something. The essence of this talent is to build a special energy network inside the body, and then store the idle essence and explode it when needed. The complete version of this talent is very difficult." Tian Zhong thought for a while and explained, "I remember one of you has smelted this talent."

"Lao Lin died last winter." Zhu Tao said unhappily, "Go on, we all know about this talent, just tell me what's wrong with it."

"The youngsters here have studied this talent over and over again, and then they have come up with a refinement. The meaning of this refinement is that when one is about to die, the simple internal energy network will be activated to ensure the activity of important organs." Tian Zhong was silent for a while before saying, "It is called fake death."

"Isn't this good? Only by staying alive can we have output." Zhu Tao didn't think there was a problem.

"Well, there is no output." Tian Zhong said after a moment of silence.

What's the point of smelting if there's no output? You're just making things more difficult for your teammates, right?
The basis of fake death is that your teammates win the battle, allowing Feng Ke's group of emergency doctors to use their special talents to revive you. If you lose, the fake death will become real death.

Stunned, the old guys said that they really saw this colorful world. The new generation's cognition was completely different from theirs. If you don't have combat power, what's the point of smelting? Isn't this just making trouble? What are you doing? Can't kill the opponent, so you die here?

"Anyway, it's pretty bad, but we guys are okay. We can still hold on. We can stabilize the front every time, so we can still pick them up." Tian Zhong said somewhat speechlessly. His previous team of 100 people was known as the elite team of 100 people. Half of them had smelting, and then this half of the soldiers, who had smelting, basically had the talent of feigning death. Tian Zhong was convinced. If you can't win, just pretend to be dead, right!
"I shouldn't have told them how to develop the talent for teleportation. As a result, among my subordinates who have refined the talent for teleportation, none of them uses it for burst or high-explosive mobility. All of them use it to move their own internal organs." Tian Zhong was also confused by his subordinates. This is a battlefield, brothers. Have some combat effectiveness. If you all just save your lives and don't have output, you're just waiting to die!

"That's just weird." Zhu Tao said with a confused expression, "Okay, although there are still some loopholes in it, we can accept it in general. After all, death on the battlefield is inevitable, but as long as it's not intentional, we can accept it."

"How are we going to fight the Holy Death Knights next?" Peng Hong asked Zhu Tao.

"We had a head-on confrontation. Over the years, we have not had a head-on confrontation with the Holy Death Knights except for the first time. Therefore, the Holy Death Knights have formed some mental inertia. Therefore, a head-on confrontation is definitely not a bad thing for us. At least we are mentally prepared before we start. However, the Holy Death Knights have formed inertia over the years and may not be able to react instantly." Tian Zhong explained simply, "So we have to rely on the brothers next."

"This is not a problem. Brothers, when they are in their seventies and eighties, if they can recover to the age of thirty, they probably won't want to lie on the couch day after day." Peng Hong glanced at the veterans around him. He could feel that most of the veterans had this idea. If they had not recovered to the current level, they would not be like this. But after feeling the youth, if they were asked to lie on the couch day after day, without even being able to eat something solid, they might as well enjoy their thirty-year-old bodies and fight to the death.

"I'll lead the team then." Huang Xiu said to Zhu Tao, then looked at Tian Zhong, "Do you have any good war horses? It would be better for us to use them as cavalry."

"No problem, the war horses will be ready for you soon." Tian Zhong nodded and said, "But as you know about the terrain here, using war horses will inevitably require special talents or secret skills to support it. In addition, as for cavalry, the main force can't provide much other support."

"Don't worry, you don't need any support. For a cavalry counterattack, what support is needed? The simplest and most brutal way is to directly use the highest burst to confuse the opponent." Huang Xiu said indifferently, "At this time, it's a competition of who is more brutal and who can completely cover the opponent in terms of momentum. As for other main forces and auxiliary forces, they are of little significance in the face of the cavalry front."

"Assign me to the archer line. I can't play an effective role as a cavalryman." Shi Jia stood up and said to Tian Zhong, "My previous mission was to assist the cavalry in suppressing and killing the enemy's vanguard. As a cavalryman, I am not very good."

If Old Lu were here, he would find that an instructor from his generation was still alive. Although this instructor was not as good as Old Lu in terms of archery, as an archer instructor of the Central Guards, he naturally had superior abilities.

"No problem. Who else are not suitable for cavalry?" Tian Zhong nodded. Although he was not very familiar with Shi Gai, since no one else objected, it meant that the other party was indeed not suitable for cavalry.

Thirty or forty people separated from the opposite side. The leader, Baxiu, called out to Tian Zhong, "Let us go to the front and act as shields. We used to be from the Tiger Guard Camp or General Huangfu's personal guards. We have no problem defending the line, but we are not suitable for other things. We can ride horses, but we are a bit different from this group of people. These are all real cavalry."

"Brother Tao, are you also a cavalryman?" After gathering this group of people under his side, Tian Zhong looked at Zhu Tao and asked. Zhu Tao's main combat power comes from the conversion of talent into skills. Then the question is, can war horses use these skills?

"Don't worry about it, I'll just kill ten." Zhu Tao said unhappily. We agreed to kill ten!
Slip, slip, I still have to try my best this month