Gumara preferred to combine his forces into one to face Oswin, rather than maintaining two defense zones with difficult food supplies to face Oswin and Ardashir at the same time.
However, Gumala also knows that some things are not simply right or best. Many times strategies and tactics serve politics.
Just like now, not to mention that Barak himself is not very willing to give up the city of Herat. After all, his wife, the princess, is still in the city. She used to brag to Cao Wan about how great he was when he was the commander-in-chief of Beigui.
Excellent, but now since Ardashir, he has just retreated. He must be embarrassed. After all, seeing it is worse than hearing it a hundred times!
So Barak didn't really want to abandon the defense of Herat. Besides, Cao Cao's order was to defend Herat as much as possible and wait for Xia Houyuan and others to rescue him. Barak thought that with his own fighting power, he couldn't defeat Ardashir.
, but there should be no problem defending the city.
"Sahel, how is the situation of the royal spear and shield soldiers? Will the combat effectiveness be seriously affected after the natural change?" After Barak made up his mind, he turned to look at Sahel.
By the way, these words have revealed how much Barak has been since he married the princess. In the past, this guy lived and ate in the military camp. There were some changes in the military camp, and he knew that, but this time it changed like this.
Big changes, he didn't even know how big the changes were in the Sahel headquarters. Hearing this, Gumara couldn't help but want to cover her face.
"The situation is not too serious. The collapse of talent strength has led to a series of changes. The mainstream has collapsed into dual talents. There are only a few hundred people left in the Imperial Guard. The new ones have become single talents. The situation is messy.
." Sahel said helplessly.
After all, the royal spear and shield soldiers of the Sahel are the backbone of the early wave. Although the impact of the collapse is not small, it is basically impossible to crush this army. However, the impact is already very serious, with 4,800 people.
The standard regiment of the Imperial Guards is less than 600, and their combat effectiveness has dropped to the same level as Guo Zhao next door. How miserable is this.
"Ah, it has fallen like this." Barak scratched his hair. When he left, his headquarters directly gave it to Cao Cao, and he brought this small army to Herat. As a result, the current situation is very unpleasant.
wonderful.
"But one thing that is better than before is that the equipment has obvious advantages, and the dual talents are enough to bring out the effect of the armor on the body." Sahel didn't feel disappointed.
In fact, after joining the Han Dynasty, Sahel was actually quite satisfied. Although this guy was a Southern noble, just like the Northern nobles were influenced by the Southern nobles, occasionally the Southern nobles were influenced by the Northern nobles. This guy was a big hit.
Balak took Yuezhi's poison, and this guy went downhill.
I was a little cautious earlier, but later I put all these thoughts aside. After all, the Han Dynasty treated them very well.
Not to mention that Barak married a princess and was made the governor of Herat City. The royal spear and shield soldiers under Sahel all changed their equipment. Sometimes, what people need is not special treatment, but equal treatment.
For the Sahel, this is very satisfactory.
So he didn't have any extra thoughts when he followed the Han Dynasty. Although Sahel actually wanted to take the shield guard route, even if he dismantled the royal spear and shield soldiers, after all, the armor was too safe. Unfortunately, he had already
It was the Praetorian Guard, but it was rejected for the sake of diversity of arms.
Therefore, after the changes in the sky, the idea of exterminating the Sahel came back. It would be fine to build super gun and shield soldiers or something. We are no longer the Guards. If we change the route, the loss will not be big!
"I think the Qiang spear and shield soldiers are quite good." Barak gave a rare suggestion. He also knew what Sahel was thinking. If other people's imperial guards collapsed, even if they didn't cry and fight for the earth, I'm afraid their mentality would also collapse.
It's a mess, but the Sahel is different. For him, this is an opportunity.
"I think that when the Shield Guards are at the same level, they are simply the luxurious upgraded top version of the Padu Armor Corps, while the royal spear and shield soldiers are actually the castrated and simplified version of the Padu Armor Corps, so I
Choose the Shield Guard." Sahel answered with his conscience in mind.
Balak had nothing to say. In fact, they all thought so. Nilanjan's defeat at the hands of the Shield Guards had actually given a warning to all the units in Kushan that took the defensive route. Among the defensive units at the same level, the Shield Guards
Wei is definitely the strongest defensive player.
Although there is no special defense ability such as willpower, the battlefield survivability brought by ultra-high physical defense ensures that one can concentrate on fighting against willpower attacks. From a certain perspective, it is also necessary to go all out to fight against willpower attacks.
A form of willful defense.
Therefore, the shield guard can pretend that he has the ability to defend with will. Anyway, as long as he resists will attack, he will be resistant and will not die suddenly next time. After all, there are not many legions that really focus on will damage.
Most of the time it is used as an auxiliary.
The same is true for the Sahel. The Royal Lancers and Shields are outnumbered compared to the Padujia. The Padujia are also outnumbered compared to the Shield Guards. In the past, because they were Imperial Guards, they were transferred to Shield Guards.
route, on the contrary, there will be a significant decline in strength. For the so-called diversity of arms, Cao Cao rejected the plan to reorganize the army.
Of course, in order to reassure Sahel, Cao Cao said that I really didn’t let you form a shield guard because you are a Kushan, but because you are quite strong now, and the shield guard’s talent route is not the same as yours.
Your Imperial Guard took the shield guard route and fell directly to a single talent. It was really a loss, so I changed it to a set of "top equipment" for Sahel!
That is to say, the three layers of armor currently worn by the royal spear and shield soldiers include leather armor, soft scale armor, and a large plate armor on the outside. If the royal spear and shield soldiers were not really capable, they would not be able to fight for long with this armor on.
, there is no physical strength left.
Therefore, Sahel truly understood Cao Cao's ideas. The opponent did not reject it because of his origin, but for the sake of combat effectiveness. From this standpoint, Sahel agreed with Cao Cao's ideas, but he had to say that he had to reject the shield guard.
Think about it, save it, Shield Guard is good, Shield Guard can have an advantage over most legions at the same level.
Even if they are also members of the Royal Guards, the armor of the Shield Guards is not vegetarian. Just look at Zang Ba. The Kshatriya warrior army in Sakala has a talent that is almost buggy when it is activated. Zang Ba
Chasing the opponent to kill, if his bodyguards hadn't asked why we could run on the water, Zang Ba would have chased Sakala until there was no way to go to the sky and no way to the ground.
It can be said that the more than 5,000 Imperial Guard-level shield guards in Zang Ba's hands are the strongest shield guards besides the group of cheating shield guards in Cao Cao's hands. Their defense power is off the charts and their lethality is not weak. More importantly,
The survivability is amazing.
Especially later, Zang Ba realized that he didn't need any will blessing at all, and he was not good at using it to hit people. As for the will attack, as long as his soldiers are on guard, you can withstand it with a hard attack, so he changed it to
After heavy armor defense, it felt like the sky was brighter.
This is not a joke, but to be honest, there are two different concepts between shield guards with heavy armor defense and shield guards without heavy armor defense. The former can almost walk around in most battlefields by just clicking on it to parry. It is basically difficult.
There is a situation where it is directly penetrated.
This is also the reason why most of the current ideal shield guard soldiers are developing in the direction of heavy armor defense. Although other routes are good, they are really not as reliable as this.
They also have dual talents, and the survivability of a shield guard with heavy armor defense can be greatly improved. For most soldiers, skills and instincts can be mastered sooner or later as long as they are alive, including the most basic parrying and offloading.
The best way to quickly turn these two skills into instinct is to practice them on the battlefield between life and death.
Of course, this method is fast, but it is easy to lose someone if you miss it.
But the shield guard is different. The fault tolerance rate of the shield guard is very high. Especially the experienced shield guard centurion will tell his young recruits that after their talents have been trained to the limit, they can get thickened shoulder armor from the logistics department.
On the battlefield, he failed to parry and his arm was swollen.
Unless you are unlucky enough to encounter that kind of innate divine power, and use heavy weapons such as a long knife on the back, a horse-cutting sword, etc., it is absolutely impossible for an ordinary blade weighing less than three pounds to chop off your arm when you fail to parry. There is a high probability that it will cut off your arm.
It's sparks flying.
What is a veteran? This is what a veteran is. The backbone centurion will teach his recruits some very strange skills. For ordinary legions, it is definitely not possible to practice like this, but for the veterans of the shield guard, pushing from the first talent to the limit
From the beginning, it can be done like this.
After all, Huangfu Song's shield guard followed the route of the previous era, so he still retained some instinctive links in spontaneous mastery and training skills.
Of course, Huangfu Song himself didn't think there was anything wrong with this method, but in fact, after the changes in the sky, this was already a way to influence the direction of the legion.
This kind of instinctive development direction of basic skills is due to the high enough fault tolerance rate from the first talent, plus the experienced guidance of veterans. Even though these skills are very rudimentary, mostly unloading, parrying, etc., but these things are advanced all the way to
When the dual talents are at their limit, the path of the Imperial Guard is actually much easier than that of other legions.
Coupled with the fact that the Shield Guards have a much more reliable survival rate than most legions, sooner or later these veterans will be able to find a way out on their own.
Especially these days, the plug-in of the essence of heaven and earth has been blocked, and the way to deny the overflow of talent strength has been blocked. Only by surviving can you have time to advance to the Imperial Guard. When quick success is no longer advisable, the survivability is already better than others.
Most abilities are more important.
From this point of view, the next era will probably be the era of shield guards and super-heavy steps. Although the former has not yet been repaired, the latter has been pushed back to its original shape by the changes in the sky.
