In May of the fourth year of Yuanfeng, Cao Cao, who was reclaiming land in the Sistan Basin, received a formal greeting from the Yuan family. Unlike the perfunctory treatment of Cui Yang and the casual treatment of Han Bai and Chen, Yuan Tan gave a very formal visiting from the face of Cao Cao.

However, it was not a letter from one force to visit another force, but a letter from the later generations to visit their parents and relatives. In this life, Yuan Cao did not turn against each other. From beginning to end, even after Yuan Shao's death, Cao Cao did not make any move.

Although it may not be enough time and Cao Cao had no chance to offend anyone, Yuan Shao had a lot of trouble with Cao Cao when he was young. In addition, Yuan Tan was the eldest son and knew the relationship between his father and Cao Cao, so he came south. The most formal thing was actually visiting Cao Cao, and the others were at most related.

Cao Cao took Herat at the beginning of the year and immediately crossed the water line of the Hindu Kush Mountains, and then entered the basin between the Hindu Kush Mountains, the Sahad Plateau, the Balochistan Plateau, and the Giltal Mountains. Further south is the Lezistan Desert Desert with hundreds of thousands of square kilometers.

Originally, this place was a dead land, but after Cao Cao took it down, Zaozhi conducted on-site exploration and finally found that this place was actually completely undeveloped by the Kushans. Not to mention, the Sistan Basin can be farmed. Although it is very desolate now, in Zaozhi's research, it can be transformed by the Helmand River and then become a good irrigation canal.

Cao Cao's perception of this is that since Zao Ji said so, then do it. He made it and then confirmed the results. No one could be sure of what he said. As for what he failed, if he failed, they would go out and farm in the Sestan area.

If the Sistan Basin could farm, the logistics distance for Cao Cao would be much shorter, because the desolate basin of Sistan was actually almost across the desert from Kandahar, so if the farming area could be farmed in this place, it would be a good thing for Cao Cao.

After Zaozhi was authorized, he started to work, but it was unexpectedly good. By April, he had successfully planted a large area of ​​grain. Although most of them were beans, they could grow soybeans, which meant that wheat, millet, rice and so on could be put on the agenda.

Cao Cao was deeply satisfied with this. As long as he solved the food problem, he would slowly consume it. A little bit of military farming could push the group of mixed fishes of Beigui to death.

In fact, Cao Cao didn't know how strange the Sistan Basin was. For most ethnic groups in the world, this place is an undeveloped zone, and when placed in the hands of the Han Dynasty, it can basically reach the level of grain production.

Although this place was desolate at this time, it was not until the fifth century that a god from Sassanthemum Persia developed this place based on the Helmand River, and successfully made the Sistan Basin a famous irrigation area in world history. When this grand occasion lasted for only a thousand years.

About a thousand years later, this place was worshipped because of the war, and the irrigation area built back then was destroyed. After that, no powerful force developed it, so that this place has been abandoned in later generations.

Cao Cao didn't know this, but after picking up a front-line base for nothing, Cao Cao was in a good mood. He had already done his idea of ​​farming in the Sestan area and then transferring the goods. Now, it's not necessary. If Sistan can farm, the logistics distance to Kandahar will be shortened to about two hundred miles, even if there is a desert in the middle, Cao Cao can accept it.

Therefore, Cao Cao was in a good mood recently and had even started to send people to the desert to harass Beigui. Kapil, Barak and others on Beigui were also unwilling to be outdone and sent troops to fight Cao Cao. The two sides were having a lot of fun fighting in the desert.

The camel riders on both sides were even more difficult to distinguish. The Kushan camel riders had relatively good experience, but they could not stand Zhu's camel riders were elite selected by the Han Dynasty, so it was difficult for both sides to tell who had the advantage when they cut in the desert.

However, no winner is equivalent to good news for the Han Dynasty, and it is very uncomfortable for generals like Zasalli who rely on camel riding for a meal.

In addition, Cao Cao's large-scale regular army entered the desert to harass, which made Beigui finally feel what it means to be rich and powerful.

Compared to Beigui's reliance on assault production, the soldiers who were incorporated into the regular army were arranged with weapons and ordinary leather armor. The armor on the Han Dynasty showed great differences in the survival and combat power of both sides when encountering the front.

The combat power of using ordinary spears and leather armor is not necessarily inferior to that of using armored swords and shields, but that refers to when the qualities, will and experiences of both sides are very different.

The regular soldiers of the Han Dynasty were very different from those of the Northern Gui in terms of quality, will and experience? What about jokes? Maybe ordinary regular soldiers would have some advantages in these three aspects.

So when the Beigui Zhengshen encountered the regular Han army, he was quite embarrassed. He had no choice but to be afraid of not knowing the goods, but to compare goods. He was wearing leather armor with only his upper body and a spear. He was wearing strong, armor, swords and shields, and a short spear, and was different from the Han army with a short crossbow. What was the mood?

As for the same sentence, the weapon and equipment gap between the top legions between the empires can be regarded as none, because as long as the empire has not been completely corrupted, the best weapons and equipment will be provided to the most elite soldiers.

These people fight the hardest enemies, participate in the most tragic wars, get the best weapons and the highest salary, but only these top legions can enjoy this kind of treatment.

Most conventional troops are the gap between the empire. Just like now, they are also a one-day regular army. The regular army under Cao Cao can fight against three even if it is not very adaptable to the desert because it is because it is a little uncomfortable.

However, the talent of the Shield Guard is called adaptation. It won’t take long to adapt to this environment. What’s more, Cheng Yu’s spiritual talent and legion talent, I always feel that Kushan is about to finish it!

This is the meaning of equipment. Chen Xi's existence truly popularized armor and reached a level of per capita. To put it too much, most of the soldiers on Beigui's side had ordinary soldiers unable to penetrate the armor of the Han army with one shot in the desert.

The power of a straight shot is often unable to exert force to the maximum due to the desert, and it cannot be pierced directly in the face of armor, so that the Han Dynasty actually gained a certain advantage in the originally difficult desert war. Even if it is difficult to march in the desert in many cases, as long as there is no quicksand, wearing armor is far better than armor.

Such a terrifying armor-tightening rate made Kapil’s scalp numb. The entire Kushan never thought that the Han Dynasty was not just the armor of the top legion. They used to think that the Han Dynasty was the same as their Kushan, but now they found that your father is still your father.

However, the war had begun, so I could only continue with my teeth and send a message to Peshawar to request armor support. How many, how many come, it is best to change them all to iron armor. But after this demand was sent out, Kapil felt cold.

It's not realistic at all. The Kushans are not Han Dynasty, and they have huge armor reserves. To be precise, the armor of the Kushans has more than 100,000 top elite armed forces has been accumulated bit by bit over the past hundred years. Now if you want to arm the armor of millions of troops, take a shower and go to bed. There are everything in your dreams, but reality is so cruel.

In fact, there is no such thing as the top elite armor in the Han Dynasty. In fact, they are all genuine equipment, at most they are painted differently, and the degree of warming of different legions is different. If you really want to say it, they are actually made in the same version.

Compared to random production, Chen Xi tends to batch, scale, and assembly line engineering, so that it is efficient and efficient, and scale. As long as the steel mill continues to produce output, he will have countless armor available.

Therefore, from the Western Liang Iron Cavalry to the new recruits in the Han Dynasty, the armor was actually the same, the materials and shapes were basically the same. At most, there were Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry and the formation. A big man helped them with high-level warmth and painted a layer of paint.

The others are basically no different. The materials of plate armor are produced one furnace at a time, and they do not have any special requirements like weapons. They also require defense and are easy to produce. Especially now, Xiangli has created a stamping machine, and the front of the plate armor comes out with a bang and a bang, and the efficiency is simply too high.

In this case, Kushan really felt what Dad’s care is? Do you think the Han Dynasty is the only one who is like you and only the top legion has such good armor? Sorry, I was joking with you before, we were ordinary soldiers and couldn’t come, so we looked like we were like you.

In fact, not only the elites are all armed, but all our regular soldiers are armed, and all of them are armored like your top legion!

When Cao Cao was cared for by Chen Xi in this way before, he hated the act of crushing himself with weapons and equipment. However, after going abroad and starting to crush the enemy with weapons and equipment, Cao Cao felt like he was eating iced watermelons in the dog days of summer, which was a pleasure.

The desert battle that was originally thought was very difficult, and the Han Dynasty had to fill in many elite desert battlefields, but the Han Dynasty did not fall into a slight disadvantage. If it weren't for the first time, Cao Cao was thinking that he could kill Kushan in such an open desert!
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