It's not that Zhang Jiao and the others are arrogant. It's because they fully feel the power of firearms and artillery.
In terms of firearms, Zhang Jiao and the others naturally knew that the current firearms alone were indeed inferior to the cavalry charging into the battle.
But if the tactics are used properly, the cavalry can also be very lethal.
Of course, Zhang Jiao and the others also knew that if they were fully armored cavalry, firearms would not be as harmful to them.
Those heavy armored cavalry were wearing unusual iron armor.
Especially the heavy armored cavalry of many Northland families. Of course, there are only a small number of them. That kind of heavy armor is not even made of pure steel. Many of them are made of alloys, which at least need to be smelted by monks.
Generally speaking, not many people can actually afford this kind of heavy armor.
At most, there are only a few teams, almost a hundred or so people, and they are all composed of trained extraordinary beings.
Zhang Jiao naturally went to the North to practice, having seen such private soldiers. Facing such heavy armored cavalry, Zhang Jiao naturally knew that the fifteen thousand firearms would hardly have any effect on them.
Facing those one hundred heavy armored cavalry, I am afraid that his fifteen thousand firearms battalion will also be broken through.
Because firearms cannot break armor, and the soldiers of this firearms battalion are also composed of ordinary people. Although after two or three years of training, their physical fitness is good, and they are stronger than ordinary adult men. It may not be possible to fight one against three.
question.
But that's all, they haven't reached the limits of the human body yet.
Generally speaking, soldiers who want to reach the limit of their human body must undergo at least ten years of training, and they are still like those officers and soldiers in the North.
Then break through the limits of the physical body and enter the realm of extraordinary body-refining warriors. From the outside in, the muscles and bones are strengthened, reaching the realm of divine power and possessing the power of a thousand catties. This is the first realm of extraordinary martial arts.
It is also the most basic and extraordinary state of martial arts in the Liu Han Dynasty today. In ancient times, only a few people achieved it.
In the Extraordinary Era, it was just a foundation. If placed in the northern army, it could serve as a low-level official, such as a commander or a team leader.
One person is more powerful than dozens of people against those grown men.
On top of divine power, it is to strengthen the inside, train the muscles and bones on the outside, and train the five internal organs internally, so that the five internal organs are extraordinary and the inside and outside are the same. In this way, the inner breath of vitality can be transformed into Yuan Gang, and you can reach the state of a master.
The physical body is divided into the external training of divine power and the internal training of internal strength. Above it is the master Yuan Gang. The essence of the physical body is transformed into Yuan Gang. The Gang Qi is terrifying. With one sword and one sword, the sword Qi becomes Gang, which is indestructible.
The Grand Master's Yuangang Mimicry.
After that, there are martial arts golden elixirs, martial arts souls, etc.
In fact, the martial arts in the Liu Han world are not much different from those in the Qin Dynasty. The realms are called different, but in fact they are all about training the physical body.
It's just that the inheritance is much weaker than that of the Great Qin era. There were many kinds of martial arts in the Great Qin era, especially the ancient martial arts. The most brutal one involved directly swallowing the essence and blood of monsters and beasts to strengthen the body.
In the end, it swallows the spirit of the monster.
This method was almost lost in the Liu Han court, and even if it existed, it was rarely practiced.
After all, Kyushu is banned, there is a lack of inspiration, and it is difficult for humans to practice, let alone those monsters.
As for human martial arts, there are fewer and fewer inheritances in the military. Only those who come from aristocratic families can practice in the military. The common people at the bottom join the army, at most they can exercise and increase their physical fitness, hoping to enter the extraordinary realm.
That just depends on luck.
Only the truly elite, and maybe the soldiers at the bottom, have a chance.
The Taiping Dao army of 50,000 was established too short ago. Some of them did step into the realm of divine power, but among the 50,000, there were less than a hundred.
And most of them have a foundation before.
But 90% of the other soldiers are actually farmers who have just escaped from the fields and have no foundation.
As for farmers who are busy with farm work every day, they should be in good health. This is also a joke. How can they be in good health if they don't even eat well?
In fact, most of these farmers could not survive. They were absorbed by Taiping Road, and many of them almost starved to death.
I relied on Taiping Dao for half a month of recuperation before I could barely survive. Then I started with basic training in the army. After a month of moderate training, my body gradually recovered.
After doing this, it can be considered that you have truly received training from the army. After three years of training, the martial arts methods were also passed down in the army.
Exercise your body, but obviously there are not many people with outstanding talents. After three years, most of their physical fitness has caught up with some of the officers and soldiers in the North, but they are still just ordinary people.
But fortunately, the firearms camp training is not actually like that of archers, who can basically achieve combat effectiveness after three months of training.
In addition to the tactics of the firearms battalion, what actually affects the combat effectiveness of the firearms battalion is still the firearms.
Zhang Jiao asked his disciples to demonstrate the power of firearms training. Within a hundred steps, the damage to unarmored weapons was still very high.
However, once it is faced with armor, the weakest leather armor, the lethality will decrease. Only at fifty steps will it be lethal to leather and cloth armor.
As for iron armor, you can barely penetrate it in thirty steps, but once it's several layers of iron armor or steel armor, you can only penetrate it in ten steps.
However, at a distance of ten steps, for the army, they are almost fighting face to face.
"The power of firearms is still not enough"
Su Fan took a look and shook his head. It is true that this firearms battalion is a powerful weapon against bandits. After all, bandits rarely have armor. Even if they do, most of them have cloth and leather armor, and very few iron armor.
Very few, ten pairs among a thousand people would be good.
But once you face a regular army, it's much different.
This world's resources are not what they were in history. Although the productivity is still much lower, they are larger in size, so in terms of armor, for the officers and soldiers, the essence is not bad.
Almost everyone in Luoyang City's millions-strong army wears armor, and even the elite among them are wearing iron armor. Almost two or three out of ten are wearing iron armor.
The Northland is a little lacking, but whether it is the elites under Zhang Hu or Lu Bu and others, everyone wears armor, with a layer of leather armor on the outside and a layer of iron armor on the inside. And the officers, even the lowest corps commander, are
It is also an armor comparable to steel armor.
Of course, these are also elite.
But even if they are not elites, let's just say they are on the grassland. They have few iron armors and metal armors, but the leather armors they have are ordinary, and many of them are even multi-layered leather armors.
There is no shortage of cattle and sheep on the grassland, especially cowhide, which is also extremely tough.
One layer of cowhide leather armor is not enough, so multiple layers are used to make it together. The hardness is sometimes not inferior to that of iron armor, and more importantly, they are lighter than iron armor.
The current firearms in Taiping Road are not enough to match these. ()
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