Chapter 4207 The most urgent task
If Zhang Fei was in Chen Xi's position, Zhang Fei would never worry that the 20,000 shield guards would face the Second Eagle Flag Legion. Not to mention that the Second Eagle Flag Legion did not carry the Eagle Flag. Even if he brought the Eagle Flag, Zhang Fei would continue to fight with the other party fearlessly.
What's so great about it? The Second Eagle Flag is very powerful. The Shield Guard Corps, which has 180 Shield Guards as the backbone, is not a vegetarian. Who is afraid of whom!
But now it is not Zhang Fei in that position, but Chen Xi in that position.
To be honest, the Han army knew that Chen Xi shouldn't actually come here. Chen Xi should stay in the local area obediently, and the Central Imperial Guards were on the side of the periphery, and the inner circle was guarded by the palace Imperial Guards, as well as immortals who could rush out of the underground palace at any time to protect them.
No one still doesn't understand why the backbone veterans who retired from the front line will be transferred to the local area and have qualified strength, they will basically take the Chang'an Imperial Guards for rotation in about two years. Huang Tao, Zhao Zhen, Fu Ji and others say they are doing odd jobs in the Imperial Guards, guarding the gate, etc., but in fact they are going to the Chang'an Imperial Guards for rotation in the Imperial Guards for rotation in the Imperial Guards.
In addition to deepening the impression of Liu Bei, everyone met and looked at each other, there is also a very important reason to protect Chang'an and Chen Xi. In addition to the old scholars who are responsible for the injury, the other rotations of the palace guards can be next to the Government Affairs Department, and they are essentially responsible for protecting Chen Xi.
Because compared to others, Chen Xi is purely crispy, and any person suddenly starts to break up, he may kill Chen Xi directly.
Therefore, Chen Xi’s protection is often too little, not too much.
Although Macrinus knew Chen Xi, he did not realize Chen Xi's value, but this did not prevent this from being a mistake, which made Zhang Fei quite afraid.
Seeing that Zhang Fei was no longer as violent as before, Macrinus also restrained a lot. The two sides tacitly weakened the intensity of the fight. Zhang Fei was afraid of the rat, while Macrinus was more realistic and needed to accumulate future background.
After all, mercenaries use money to do things, and they have to pay attention to their lives. What's more, there is a brighter future now, and Macrinus no longer treats his soldiers as pure consumables like before. There is a big gap between the elders and the duke who can command the army.
Feeling the weakening of the Roman barbarian offensive, Zhang Fei was a little confused, but he was willing to act with the other party. After all, the information released by Macrinus is very important. Compared with the temporary victory or defeat on the battlefield, protecting Chen Xi is the most important.
"Let Ju Fu lead a team to notify the second brother." Zhang Fei made a quick decision. This information is very important, but Guan Yu still needs to choose how to deal with it. What he has to do is to wait for Guan Yu to make a choice and continue to beat Macrinus crazy.
Zhang Fei is not a person who can be bought with information. He was just a little bit difficult to deal with because he was afraid of being a mouse. After Guan Yu took over, the matter would not be under Zhang Fei's control. Then Zhang Fei only needs to continue to implement the previous military orders.
Guan Yu in the rear was silently mobilizing Zhao Yun to try to cut the protective front arranged by Osven on the Central Army front. There was nothing special about this front. It was really a thick one. This was the tactic learned by the Kushan and the Han Dynasty.
Unfortunately, there is no shield guard. Although this thick and dense defensive front effectively hinders Zhao Yun's interweaving efficiency, it is almost impossible to completely block it.
The impact force and breakthrough ability of cavalry are not something that ordinary infantry dense fronts can block, but they cannot be stopped. It is still no problem to rely on the dense gun and shield front to drag time.
"Is all the equipment that Rome retired was sold to Kushan?" Liu Bei asked frowned.
At first, Liu Bei did not see it, but with the larger-scale mobilization of Kushan's troops, Liu Bei clearly saw the changes in equipment. It was obvious that because the social turmoil had not yet ended completely, the social division of labor of the Brahmins had not been effectively exerted, and the craftsmen were not efficient enough, resulting in some of the armors with obvious Roman style.
"This situation is the same as when we were forced to eliminate the scale armor after the military parade." Fa Zheng said casually, "The Roman military parade was replaced with new equipment, and some of the old equipment was delegated to citizens, but more were sold to Kushan. After the Kushan took over, it was reorganized. This time the military force was too large, and it was obvious that the modification was not completed."
Kushan still needs some shame. After all, it is an empire, and it is a bit embarrassing to arm the equipment eliminated by others. Therefore, after receiving it, it has been restructured to make it more in line with the style of Kushan.
Of course, these Roman armors were not used by the Kushan elite, so they did not need to be greatly modified. They only need to repair the edges and corners, which seemed to be their Kushan style.
After all, the armor that was eliminated from Rome was originally intended to collect it for the soldiers who had expanded their troops. After all, the Kushan army was only hundreds of thousands, and many of the so-called armored millions were made up of wooden armor and vine armor.
In the past, regular troops armed with wooden armor and vine armor were still stable in fighting ordinary kingdoms, but when fighting with the Han Dynasty, whether there is armor or not becomes extremely important.
There is basically nothing to say about the top soldiers. Everyone is the top equipment in various countries, and the gap is not too big. As for the so-called spiral spearmen who cannot penetrate the shield guards, how can they say it? It can actually be penetrated. However, the shield guards faced by the spiral spearmen are really outrageous, which leads to the spear head being rounded.
In fact, it is not a big problem to use a nickel steel shield on the gun tip made by Uz Steel. The problem is that if the gun tip is penetrated with a shield, it will be rounded. If the gun tip is rounded, the combat effectiveness of the armored soldiers will be greatly reduced. If it is worn with multiple small holes in the shield, the defense will not be much reduced.
So overall, although there are some differences in equipment between the Kushan elites using Uz steel as equipment and the Han Dynasty, which uses universal nickel steel equipment, there is not much difference.
But the real gap is actually the general backbone of the regular army. The equipment of the regular army of the Han army is basically nickel steel, because this thing is the best production of blast furnaces and the best comprehensive attributes, so most steel furnaces mainly produce this.
Perhaps the quality is somewhat different due to the size of the steel furnace, but it is definitely at the forefront of the overall strength in the world, and it is completely out of the wood armor and rattan armor used by Kushan.
Earlier, Kushan could not care, but as the scale of the war grew larger and larger, even if the population loss was not calculated and the growth rate of soldiers was only considered, the significance of steel armor was much greater than the wooden armor and rattan armor that we used before.
This is also the basis for the armor transaction between Kushan and Rome.
As Altay said, elites are used to fight, and they must be used when they should be used. Only when more recruits survive will more elites be available.
Protecting new recruits has become a top priority. After all, looking at the veterans of the Han Dynasty and Rome, you can know that it is already difficult for most veterans to continue to grow, and those who can really grow are basically new recruits.
It may only take a few months to a year to fight the strength from the fifty-tenth of a new recruit to the eighty-tenth of a veteran, but it takes several years to go from the eighty-tenth of a veteran to the ninety-tenth of a top veteran, and from the ninety-tenth of a top veteran to the 100-tenth of a fairy-old veteran, it not only takes time, hard work, but also talent.
For example, Jiang Guang will master the adaptively in less than a year, and then he will obtain more than 50% damage reduction for conventional blunt blows and cutting blows under the beating of the Yellow Turban Rex.
For example, after Li He received the injection, he easily exceeded 300 kilograms of self-weight, and his body size increased while his muscle density continued to increase.
There are also framework structures such as Li Zhe who practiced in reverse and reversed, and then analyzed the essence of talent from the root.
To be honest, these are not things that ordinary soldiers can accumulate through hard work and time. They are not things that cannot be worked hard, but to this outrageous level, they are no longer problems that can be solved by hard work. Perhaps most people cannot reach the level of talent, but for those who rely on knowledge and skills to reach the peak, hard work is common, and talent is unique.
Just think about it and you will know that the war Wu Xi has experienced is definitely much stronger than Zhang Yong's level of effort, but Wu Xi cannot achieve a single miracle in any case. Zhang Yong just experienced the so-called polar training around the Arctic.
The latter is very perverted to most people, but for Wu Xi, it is actually just a sprinkling of water. I haven't experienced it for so many years.
And this is a true portrayal of unique talent. It is not a question of whether to work hard or not, but a more realistic and similar effort that others will be rewarded, but you will not be rewarded.
Chen Xi knew this very well, so Chen Xi kept relegating some of the soldiers who were old.
Most of these soldiers were 80-year-old soldiers, which was the level that they could achieve through hard work. After they were discharged from the army, they were basically soldiers who showed their talents in the subsequent years after the foundation was laid.
In fact, this is also a kind of diversion, allowing the right people to do the right things.
Kushan is also doing this at the moment, but compared to Chen Xi's more refined method, Altay, who has little time, chooses a more rude method. It is worth it to die a veteran of 80 and can train several new recruits of 70.
It seems to be downgraded, but in fact it has become stronger. War is different from a one-on-one fight. It is a dream for a veteran of 80 to crush several new recruits in the seventy when forming a formation.
It is precisely because of this kind of thinking that saving more recruits who have seen blood has become the most important thing in Altay at present.
"If I had known, we should have bought the armor and weapons of the Absas Empire from Rome." Liu Bei reacted instantly. Since Rome had even taken action on the armor he had eliminated, the captures of the Absas Empire must have taken action.
"I bought some of those in Central Asia, but the rest should have been bought by Vesutva I." Fa Zheng said calmly, "In reality, we cannot buy those things. For Zichuan, although those things are not garbage, they are indeed not worth it."
"Yes, except for a few fine products, most of those things are not as good as those scale armors we eliminated." Liu Bei nodded and said.
Although the scale armor is often pulled out and is made into a stalk, even if the scale armor produced by the Han Empire cannot be used as equipment for top legions, it is the level before the Roman Empire changed the front-line legions again.
After all, the equipment depends on the steel output. The steel output of the Han Dynasty was 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 reached more than 10,000 tons, I have to say that the steel output of the Han Dynasty was much greater than the sum of the other two empires.
Even though Rome and Kushan have high-quality open-air iron ore, the Han Dynasty's technical strength really killed these two things.
Even though the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty were in their honeymoon period, they were lucky enough to send people to the Han Dynasty Smelting Department to see the steel furnace with their own eyes and tried to imitate it locally, but to this day, they still have no success. To be honest, being able to let the Romans enter the Smelting Department to see the steel furnace with their own eyes is considered a friend-in-law brother.
Now it is equivalent to the US empire launching a nuclear fusion, allowing the Chinese to go and see it in person, and also demonstrate it. To be honest, this is already very good.
The very contented Roman Empire expressed satisfaction with the grandeur of the Han Empire and gave some gifts. This outrageous thing was already a magical tool in this era. The Romans were still studying it and had no intention of telling their ally Kushan at all, and they hid it strictly.
"But the same sentence is still the same. It is easy to reach before 80, and it is only meaningful to compete after 80. Kushan's intention is to reach 80 first." Fa Zheng said with a plain expression, "A good idea."
"After all, 80 is not easy to deal with." Liu Bei replied. Having said that, Liu Bei's confidence on his face remained unchanged, because even though his second brother still had the strength to stay, he was always trying to find a better position to attack.
Guan Yu stood on the chariot with a plain expression and observed the changes in the flag. Xu Shu, who was standing beside him, was also carefully distinguishing the flaws of the virtual and real on the battlefield, and then informed Guan Yu who was standing beside him.
"Altay has never taken action, and it is all made preparations in advance. The other party should want to wait for General Guan, you to take action." After analyzing the situation on the entire front, Xu Shu looked at Guan Yu and said, "The other party is very patient and has a very strict arrangement."
"It's just that. If he doesn't take action, the second line of defense will be broken under the joint forces of Wen Hou and Wen Yuan." Guan Yu said with his eyes narrowed.
"The opponent has reserved a backbone who has broken the rear. If Osven can't stand the strangling and retreating in the center line, the three elite troops reserved in these three positions will directly lead up." Xu Shu pointed to the three gaps on the front line and said, "It's obvious that the opponent is ready to retreat."
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Chapter completed!