After reading the secret letter from Chen Xi to report, Cao Cao immediately summoned all his current main counselors. The battle report sent by Chen Xi really made Cao Cao feel desperate about Liu Bei's combat power opposite.

"Look at it all." Because they were all the main counselors, Cao Cao was not too formal. After inviting everyone to take a seat, he put the battle report sent by Chen Xi and let everyone browse it.

After Xun Yu's face was dark, Cheng Yu's face turned pale, Xun You's eyes were expressionless, not knowing whether it was wood or wandering around the sky, Chen Qun sighed and didn't know what to say, Mao Jie held his forehead and didn't know what to use, Liu Ba's mouth opened slightly, and he couldn't make a sound.

After Sima Lang put down the battle report, he sighed, full of helplessness towards his distant cousin, "Lord, can this battle be fought?"

Cheng Yu's face turned pale. He wanted to get up several times, but in the end he could only sigh. There was no way to fight this battle. With their wisdom, it can naturally be seen that there is no fake in this war game deduction at all. Not to mention fake, normal people would not create such bad moves if they wanted to!

Huangfu Song made a series of tricks, and Chen Xi often ignored his head and tail. However, Huangfu Song still lost. It can even be said that he lost completely unreasonable. You can make a move for a while. Facing Chen Xi, even if he lost ten times, he can still fight again. If you catch you, you can kill your opponent. A temporary victory is completely meaningless. Even if you destroy the industry under your control, you will not drag Chen Xi to death.

"And this." Cao Cao handed everyone a battle report. Chen Xi directly sent the relevant information about the 100,000 Shield Guards and showed it to Cao Cao openly.

Xun Yu, Xun You, Cheng Yu, Chen Qun, and other guys who knew what kind of military force the Shield Guard were, an image of the city wall pushing over him instantly appeared in his mind, a little desperate.

"How much does it cost to be armed?" Cao Cao sighed.

Cao Cao also knew that Huangfu's personal guards had no concealment in this regard, not to mention that during the Yellow Turban period, Huangfu Song personally led Cao Cao, and there was still a passion between the two sides.

Therefore, after Huangfu Song came out of the mountain and Cao Cao visited himself, Huangfu Song had answered all the questions left over from Cao Cao's military training based on his own experience. Naturally, Cao Cao had heard Huangfu Song say the advantages and disadvantages of the troops led by generals of all dynasties.

Speaking of this, I have to mention it again. Although Cao Cao was born after a eunuch, he did get valued by many people when he was young. Many big men in the previous generation were quite optimistic about Cao Cao, and Huangfu Song was also one of them.

From what Huangfu Song told me, generally all elite troops have strong combat power, either training difficulties or cost too much; and training is not high and combat power is extremely strong, that is definitely a cost-effective thing. After all, any elite troops need to balance these three aspects.

Of course, there are also very high-cost-performance troops, but those troops basically have very strict internal requirements.

For example, Duan Bing's Ruiz is a very cost-effective military. As long as you succeed in training and give it a steel sword, you can basically have the top combat power among the elite.

However, in fact, Duan Bing imitated the elite troops of the pre-Qin elite and created, in addition to its defensive weakness, actually has another fatal weakness, that is, the adaptability of soldiers.

After all, this army is also a product after the major reform of Duan Yang, which is basically different from the Iron Eagle Reeders of the pre-Qin period. It is even too much, and it has basically nothing to do with it. In addition, the elite Qin army and the tree-shaped diagrams of the elites of other six countries are not even involved.

Duan Yang used the tree-shaped diagram extended by the Wei army to refer to the things made by the Iron Eagle Reich. In essence, it is probably a nominal connection. He has long lost the core strength of the Qin army's elite. Of course, the combat power has been maintained, which has caused another disadvantage in exchange.

I really think it is so easy to burst out at an instant and exceed the limit. It is difficult for normal soldiers to adapt to this super-high speed movement, and even if they are dizzy and want to vomit after a burst of pricks.

This is why the fourteen combination was so sluggish at that time, and after using two short-range thrusts in a row, they directly exchanged their talents, because the soldiers themselves could not adapt to such a high burst speed.

If the team led by Duan Bing could have twenty explosive stabs in succession, most legions would be cut into vegetables. However, this cost is not high, training is not difficult, and the biggest problem of the legions with extremely strong combat power is the ability of humans to bear.

Normal people don’t need to sprint for such a short range, they just play like this for a few random times and vomit. The core of Duan Feng Ruishi is to sharpen the magic sword and slash at high speed. The higher the continuousness of the sprint, the greater the accumulated power, and the higher the killing efficiency.

If Cheng Yu's spiritual innate could not have been able to adapt to any unnatural environment and human beings' own state, Cao's army would not have been able to complete Duan Bing's Ruiz.

However, as mentioned above, elite troops have difficulties in one way or another, while Huangfu Song's personal guards are just elites with extremely high cost investment, low training difficulty, and extremely terrible combat power.

Cao Cao had become interested in this once, but looking at the cost of the large shield on the plate armor, he silently chose Ruishi. It was too expensive.

Even though Wei Zi had just donated 5 billion yuan to Cao Cao not long ago, Cao Cao did not dare to think of giving his three thousand tiger guards a piece of shield guard equipment.

Even though Cao Cao knew that his Tiger Guards were wearing this outfit, combined with Dian Wei's legion's talented muscles, it could almost be called a battlefield killing machine, Cao Cao still gave up this idea.

Because it would cost 4.5 billion yuan to just give three thousand armed men over 200 kilograms of equipment, it would be better to change more soldiers. At that moment, Cao Cao clearly felt the charm of money, and now Chen Xi wants to arm 100,000 people.

Even if a hundred thousand people were only a standard soldier of 140 kilograms, Cao Cao felt that he was heartbroken. How much steel does this really require!

"If you have money, can you really do whatever you want?" Cao Cao asked inexplicably, and the others were stunned, and then remained silent.

Liu Ba coughed twice, diverted everyone's attention and gave Cao Cao a step, "If you count the current standard steel, if you count the money, such a hundred thousand people, including the expenses of armed forces and raising soldiers, it would take about 150 billion yuan in the first year."

Everyone present took a breath after hearing this. Although it was estimated that the amount would be astonishing, when Liu Ba really said such an astronomical number, everyone could not suppress their inner shock. When the Han Dynasty was at its peak, it was a question whether there was so much money in the treasury, let alone this was the first year, and there were other expenses to raise soldiers!

"However, money is not calculated that way. If steel mills, mines, manpower, resources consumed by training are just the output of their own industries, and the added value is not calculated." Liu Ba pressed his temple, "The numbers will shock you."

"We all heard about 150 billion yuan, what else can shock us!" Cheng Yu waved his hand, but Xun Yu and Chen Qun showed a little thoughtful look.

"It will be suppressed below 10 billion yuan, or even less. If Chen Hou really completes a complete industry from top to bottom and can cover all the relevant material consumption parts, then for the other party, this is not money, but time and manpower. As long as there is time and manpower, it will be as much as possible." Liu Ba spread his hands, "and if he guessed correctly, the other party has completed it."

When all the civil officials heard this, they all looked shocked. If this were the case, there would be no more fighting. The war was the logistics, and the other party had almost infinite logistics.

"..." Cao Cao touched his thorny beard, "Is this why you want to hang our industry on their industry all year round?"

"I was found to be kicked once and then I had to persevere in pretending to be my own person." Liu Ba said helplessly, "We started too late, and the industries involved, the technical personnel we need, whether in terms of quality or quantity, or even coolies, I guess if I wanted to do that, it would take at least twenty years. If I was hiding him, I would reduce the time by half."

Cao Cao sighed, turned his head to look at Chen Qun, and Chen Qun looked at the side helplessly, he had no choice.

"It seems that we don't need to say anything more. Since we can't beat it, then calm down and pretend to behave. I think in the current situation, they will not make things difficult for us. I have no idea of ​​taking action anymore." Cao Cao said with a wry smile. If this is a life-and-death enemy, then I have nothing to say. Even if I can't beat it, I will fight, but that's not it.

Cao Cao's words made everyone feel sad, but everyone present was intelligent. How could they not know that letting go calmly under the current situation is also a choice. Although they were unwilling to give up, they did not have the meaning of fighting to the death before the flag of the Han Empire fell.

After all, they have not turned against each other to the extent that they did not recognize the Han Dynasty banner. Although there are conflicts between the three parties, they have not yet made it to the point where they have to splatter their blood. They are still within the scope of cooperation to seek common ground while reserving differences.

"Then our focus of our work is to move the military resources outward. The news about Zixiao and Gongming has been passed back, and Zidan and the others have also sent a map. I mean, how about practicing soldiers outside and inside?" Seeing that the most important counselors under his command showed a clear expression, Cao Cao took a deep breath and made his own choice.
Chapter completed!