Chapter 4207: top priority

If Zhang Fei was in Chen Xi's position, Zhang Fei would definitely not worry about the 20,000 shield guards facing the Second Eagle Banner Corps, not to mention that the Second Eagle Banner Corps didn't have Eagle Banners, even if they did, Zhang Fei would Continue to fight with the opponent without fear.

What's so great, the second eagle flag is very fierce, and the shield guard army with 180 shield guards as the backbone is not vegetarian, who is afraid of anyone!

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 have come here. Chen Xi should just stay in the local area obediently, protected by the Central Imperial Guards in the outer circle, guarded by the Imperial Guards in the inner circle, and in the underground palace. The immortal who can rush out at any time will protect it.

Is it possible that some people still don’t understand why the core veterans who have retired from the front line are sent to the localities, and if their strength is qualified, they will go to the Chang’an Imperial Guard for a rotation in about two years. What Huang Tao, Zhao Zhen, and Fu Ji Wait, you say you are doing odd jobs in the Imperial Guard, guarding the gate or something, but in fact, it is time to go to the Chang'an Imperial Guard for a rotation.

In addition to impressing Liu Bei, each face-to-face brushes his face, there is also a very important reason to protect Chang'an and Chen Xi. Except for those old warriors who mainly kill and wound, the other rotations of the palace guards can be next to the government affairs hall. , in essence also shouldering the responsibility of protecting Chen Xi.

Because compared to other people, Chen Xi is purely crispy, and if someone suddenly explodes, it is possible to kill Chen Xi directly.

Therefore, for Chen Xi's protection, most of the time, there is only too little, not too much.

Although Macrinus knew about Chen Xi, he didn't realize the value of Chen Xi, but this did not prevent his words from being correct, which made Zhang Fei quite afraid.

Seeing that Zhang Fei is no longer as violent as before, Macrinus has also restrained a lot, and the two sides have weakened the intensity of the fight very tacitly. Zhang Fei is a mouse-throwing weapon, while Macrinus is more realistic and needs to accumulate the foundation for the future .

After all, mercenaries use money to do things, and they have to pay attention to a certain degree of hard work, not to mention that now that they have a brighter future, Makrinus no longer treats his soldiers as pure consumables as before. There is a very big gap between the dukes who command the army.

Sensing the weakening of the Roman barbarian army's offensive, although Zhang Fei was a little puzzled, he was willing to act with the opponent. After all, the information released by Macrinus was very important. Compared with the momentary victory or defeat on the battlefield, protecting Chen Xi was the most important.

"Let Jufu lead a small team to inform the second brother." Zhang Fei quickly made a decision. This information is very important, but Guan Yu has to choose how to deal with it, and what he has to do is wait for Guan Yu to make a choice , Continue to beat Macrinus frantically.

Zhang Fei is not such a person who can be bought by intelligence. Before, it was just because it was a little bit difficult to start. After Guan Yu took over, this matter will not be under Zhang Fei's control. Then he, Zhang Fei, only needs to continue to implement the previous military order. .

At the rear, Guan Yu is silently mobilizing Zhao Yun to try to cut Oswin's defensive line on the central army's front. There is nothing special about this front line. It is really thick. This is a tactic learned by Guishuang and the Han Dynasty.

It's a pity that there are no shield guards. Although this thick and dense defensive front effectively hinders Zhao Yun's penetration efficiency, it is almost impossible to completely block it.

The cavalry's impact and breakthrough ability are not something that can be blocked by the dense front of ordinary infantry, but it can't be stopped, and there is no problem in delaying time by relying on the dense gun shield front.

"All the equipment returned from Rome was sold to Guishuang?" Liu Bei asked with a frown.

Liu Bei didn't see it at first, but with the larger-scale mobilization of Guishuang's troops, Liu Bei clearly noticed the change in equipment. Obviously, because the social turmoil has not yet completely ended, the Brahmin social division of labor has not yet been effectively played. However, the efficiency of the craftsmen was not enough, which led to the obvious Roman style on some of the armored stomachs.

"This situation is the same as the situation where scale armor was forced to be eliminated after our military parade." Fazheng said casually, "New equipment was replaced for the Roman military parade, and some of the old equipment was distributed to citizens, but more It was sold to Guishuang, and after Guishuang took over, it will be restructured, but this time the force is too large, and it is obvious that the refit has not been completed."

Guishuang still has to show some face. After all, it is an empire. It is a bit shameful to arm it with equipment eliminated by others. Therefore, after receiving it, it has also carried out certain restructuring to make it more in line with Guishuang's style.

Of course, these Roman armor stomachs are not for the elites of Guishuang, so there is no need for major changes, only the corners and corners need to be repaired, and it looks like their style of Guishuang.

After all, these armored stomachs that were eliminated from Rome's transformation, Wei Sutipo I originally intended to collect them to arm the soldiers after the expansion of the army. After all, Guishuang's standing troops are only hundreds of thousands, and many of the so-called millions of armored soldiers are wooden Armor, made of rattan armor.

In the past, the regular army armed with wooden armor and rattan armor was still stable against ordinary kingdoms, but when fighting the Han Dynasty, it became extremely important whether they had a stomach or not.

In terms of top soldiers, there is basically nothing to say. Everyone is equipped with the top equipment in each country. Wearing it, it's just that the shield guards faced by the Spiral Gunners are a bit outrageous, causing the tip of the gun to be rounded.

In fact, it is not a big problem to use a nickel-steel shield with a gun head made of wootz steel. The only problem is that the gun head will be rounded when it wears a shield, and the rounded gun head has great combat effectiveness against armored soldiers. With many small holes in the shield, the defense power will not drop much.

So generally speaking, compared with the Han Dynasty, which uses Uzi steel as equipment, and the Han Dynasty, which uses universal nickel steel equipment, there are some gaps in equipment, but there is not much difference.

But the real difference is actually the general backbone of the soldiers. The equipment of the regular army of the Han army is basically nickel steel, because this stuff is the best production in blast furnaces, and the steel with the best comprehensive properties is added, so most steel furnaces are mainly made of nickel steel. produce this.

Maybe there is some difference in quality due to the size of the steel furnace, but it is definitely in the forefront of comprehensive strength in the world, and the wooden armor and rattan armor used by Guishuang are all over.

In the early days, Guishuang didn't care about it, but as the scale of the war became larger and larger, even if the population loss was not counted, and only the growth rate of soldiers was considered, the significance of the steel armor stomach was far greater than that of the wood armor and rattan armor that were used before. plant something.

This is also the basis for the Jiawei transaction between Guishuang and Rome.

Just like what Altay said, the elites are sent out, and they must be used when they should be used. The more recruits survive, the more elites will be available.

Keeping recruits has become a top priority. After all, looking at the veterans of the Han Dynasty and Rome, we know that it is very difficult for most veterans to continue to grow. Basically, recruits can really grow.

It may only take a few months to a year to go from 50% of a recruit to 80% of a veteran, but it takes a few years to go from 80% of a veteran to 90% of a top veteran, and from 90% of a top veteran From ten to one hundred percent of the immortal veterans, it takes not only time and hard work, but also talent.

For example, Jiang Guang mastered the self-adaptation in less than a year, and then obtained more than 50% damage reduction for conventional blunt blows and cutting blows under the beating of the yellow turban wrestlers.

Another example is that after Li He got the injection, he easily broke through his own weight of 300 jins, and his muscle density continued to increase while his body size grew.

There are also examples such as Li Zhe who practiced reverse deduction to deduce the framework structure of the talent, and then analyzed the essence of the 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 hard work can solve. Maybe most people can't achieve it. The degree of fighting for talent, but for those who rely on knowledge and skills to reach the peak, hard work is common, and talent is unique.

If you think about Wu Xi, you will know that Wu Xi has worked harder than Zhang Yong in the wars he has experienced, but Wu Xi cannot achieve the miracle of a single body anyway, while Zhang Yong has only experienced the so-called circumpolar pole. The polar training did it.

The latter is very perverted for most people, but for Wu Xi, it's actually just sprinkling water, and he hasn't experienced it for so many years.

And this is the true portrayal of unique talent, not a question of whether you work hard or not, but a more realistic one. The same effort is rewarded by others, but you are not rewarded.

Chen Xi knew this very well, so Chen Xi continued to retire some soldiers who had reached their age.

Most of these soldiers are those who are 80% soldiers, that is, the level that can be achieved by hard work, and the soldiers who returned to the construction for various reasons after retiring from the army basically showed themselves in the following years after the foundation was laid. Talented soldiers.

In fact, this is also a kind of diversion, allowing suitable people to do suitable things.

Guishuang is also doing this at present, but compared to Chen Xi's more refined method, Altay, who has little time, chooses a rougher method. The death of an 80-year-old veteran can cultivate several 70-year-old veterans. Recruits, that's what it's worth.

It looks like it has been downgraded, but in fact it has become stronger. War is different from one-on-one. It is a dream for 80-year-old veterans to crush several 70-year-old recruits when forming an formation.

It is precisely because of this kind of thinking that preserving more recruits who have seen blood has become the most important thing for Altay at present.

"If I had known earlier, we should have bought the armored stomachs and weapons of the Parthian Empire from Rome." Liu Bei reacted instantly. Also made a move.

"I bought some of those in Central Asia, but the rest should have been bought by Wei Sudeva I." Fazheng said calmly, "In reality, it is impossible for us to buy those things. For Zi Chuan, those things Although things are not considered rubbish, they are indeed not worth it.”

"That's right, except for a few high-quality goods, most of those things are not as good as the scale armor we eliminated." Liu Bei nodded and said.

Although the matter of the scale armor is often pulled out and turned into a stalk, the scale armor produced by the Han Empire is placed in other empires, even if it cannot be used as equipment for the top-level legions, it is currently the Roman Empire. The level before the installation.

After all, the equipment of this kind of thing still depends on the steel output, and the steel output 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 gap has been pulled to more than 10,000 tons. But it has to be said that the steel output of the Han Dynasty is much greater than the sum of the other two empires.

Even though Rome and Guishuang have open-pit high-grade iron ore, the technical strength of the Han Dynasty really killed these two things.

Even though the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty were in the honeymoon period, they were fortunate enough to send people to the Han Dynasty Smelting Department to see the steel furnace with their own eyes, and tried their best to imitate it in the local area, but to this day, they still have no success. Seeing the operation of the steel furnace, it is already considered a friend of the brothers.

Put it now, it is equivalent to the U.S. emperor's nuclear fusion, let the Chinese go and see it for themselves, and even demonstrated it. To be honest, this is already in place.

The very contented Roman Empire expressed satisfaction with the atmosphere of the Han Empire, and gave some gifts. This outrageous thing in this era is already an artifact. The Romans are still studying it, and they will inform their allies Guishuang about it. There is no meaning at all, it is hidden tightly.

"But it's still the same sentence. It's easy to reach 80 points before, and it has other meanings to fight after 80 points. Guishuang's current intention is to reach 80 points first." Fazheng said calmly, " Great idea."

"After all, eighty points are not easy to deal with." Liu Bei replied. Even so, the self-confidence on Liu Bei's face has not changed at all, because even now his second brother still has spare strength, and has been probing and looking for more. Good hitting position.

Guan Yu stood on the chariot with a calm expression and observed the change of the flag, while Xu Shu at the side was also carefully distinguishing the false and real flaws on the battlefield, and then informed Guan Yu of his analysis.

"Altay hasn't made a move all this time, and it's all prepared in advance. The opponent probably wants to wait for you, General Guan, to make a move." After analyzing the situation on the entire front, Xu Shu looked at Guan Yu and said, "The opponent is very patient. It’s also very strict.”

"It's just that, if he doesn't make a move, 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 a broken backbone. If Oswin can't withstand the strangulation on the center line and retreats, the three elite teams reserved by the opponent in these three positions will directly step up." Xu Shu pointed to the three gaps in the front line and said, "Very Obviously, the opponent is ready to retreat."