"Yes, and I'm afraid it will be sunny again in the next few days."
"The weather is getting colder too."
"Well, the relevant supplies have been fully prepared, so our little guys won't get cold."
Unknowingly, the crispness of autumn began to drive away the heat of summer, and the scenery of Guanzhong gradually became desolate.
Especially the people in Chang'an City feel that this autumn makes them unable to be happy.
"Everyone's morale doesn't seem to be high."
After casually walking around the city, Li Shushi, who returned to the temporary residence of the county government office, frowned and seemed unhappy.
"The enemy is unimaginably difficult to deal with. Although we have tried many methods, the results are very limited. Especially since we originally thought that the opponent's fighting methods are very ancient and there should be many opportunities to take advantage of, but we did not expect that the opponent seems to be interested in us.
The method of war in this era is not unfamiliar, but it makes us
We suffered a lot of losses, and this result naturally made everyone's morale a little low. But even so, it can still be guaranteed to an acceptable level, and there is no need to worry about any problems. And now that the lord has led the main force,
It must also have a big boost to morale.”
Huang Zhong, who accompanied Li Shushi, also had a serious face, but compared to Li Shushi, he looked a little more confident.
Ming Hansheng, you haven't won any decent battles during this period, but you can still have more confidence than Li Shushi, the person who just arrived. This is really strange...
Obviously Li Shushi also knew very well where the other party's confidence came from.
Well, it's far away but right in front of you.
Ahem, does this statement have a narcissistic tendency? Maybe it’s better to ignore it.
Although the Tongguan-Taolinsai area where Li Shushi is currently located is still a long way from the front line, we can feel just from the current atmosphere in the city how the Bingzhou Army has performed in the face of this new enemy.
Although they also do not look like living beings, the new enemies that appear appear to be quite different from the undead on the grassland that Li Shushi had previously destroyed, or that could be said to have destroyed themselves.
It can be said that in addition to being equally difficult to deal with, both sides have almost completely opposite performances in terms of the way of war, the purpose of war, and their attitudes towards the living.
For example, the undead from the grassland come and go like the wind. In every battle, they either rely on their superior athletic ability to attack the target unexpectedly, or they use the terrifying method of infinite recycling to grind the enemy to death.
But after all, they are troops on the grassland, and they have inherited the characteristics of the grassland troops, which is that they are extremely good at field battles and have super cavalry talents. However, siege warfare is very difficult. Unless a lot of advance preparations are made, otherwise
Even if you use the means of unlimited utilization, you will be trapped in a dilemma due to the lack of "resources" in the end.
It is precisely because of this characteristic that these grassland undead are extremely hostile to the living. In other words, if they do not continue to devour the flesh and blood from the living, it may be difficult to continue to maintain their own regiment.
The strong are made into weapons for combat. Well, please forgive the use of such words as metaphors, because although they can maintain a relatively clear mind at the beginning and basically copy their thoughts and wisdom in life, as long as they accidentally die,
After falling once, his IQ plummeted as if he had been affected by Long Aotian. He almost became a thoughtless puppet.
It's okay to say that military commander-type puppets are still very useful even if they have fighting instincts. Even at certain times, these guys who only have instincts will be more terrifying. After all, these guys don't have to deal with attacks that may cause injuries.
Hesitating or evading thoughts, every attack has to kill the opponent as the first priority, it really looks like a perfect killing machine.
However, if it is an intelligent existence, such as a civil servant or a shaman, it can be said to be useless after becoming a puppet without intelligence. After all, whether it is strategies or spells, there is not enough brain power to perform various calculations and release.
Not to mention whether the thing that comes out can be formed, it is definitely not a joke to hurt others by failing to do it but hurting yourself.
Therefore, although Yuwen Tuo's assassination plan seemed to be a failure because the more enemies he killed, the more enemies he killed, but in fact it was because he took advantage of the enemy's surprise and killed many of the dead who had leadership qualities.
Only by its existence can the progress of the dead sweeping across the grassland be greatly reduced.
After all, even the dead have limited energy. The ability related to the brain is the only organ that will not be strengthened as the living becomes the dead. Naturally, it is impossible to control all puppets without limit, even for large-scale wars.
Generally speaking, the orders that generals can issue are only some simple and easy-to-understand commands, and the rest is completely left to the soldiers.
On the other hand, what about these sudden and powerful enemies in Guanzhong?
If the undead on the grassland are like strong winds, then they are like thick soil.
According to the intelligence collected by Li Shushi, it can be clearly seen that the enemy's troops are mainly composed of infantry, with a small number of light cavalry. However, because there are no bilateral stirrups, high bridge saddles and other equipment that facilitate cavalry to fight on horseback, the enemy's
The cavalry can only use long-range weapons such as bows and crossbows to fight. In addition, the enemy also has a very ancient chariot force. Although the number is not large, it has a very important position. It seems to be a very important weapon in the hands of the enemy.
strength.
In addition, the enemy also had some soldiers with sharp knives in their hands but no armor on their bodies. Although these soldiers had no defensive measures on their bodies, they performed the most bravely in the battle. Even if their bodies were soaked in water, they could no longer perform as well as they originally did.
Although it functions like armor, it still attacks bravely, just like a pawn crossing the river who goes forward and never looks back.
Every time they kill an enemy, they will cut off the enemy's head and tie it around their waist. During the battle, they often shout to each other, or sing old slang songs loudly, or simply just shout loudly.
Strange sounds.
Although it looks a lot like Gao Shun's most elite 800 trapped soldiers, Gao Shun's trapped camp is not as strange as the enemy.
Judging from the performance on the battlefield, no matter what kind of arms the enemy is, they all have one common characteristic, that is, they have an extremely strong will to fight. Even if they use various means to gain an advantage, the enemy has never collapsed. It can be said that no
Until the last moment of the battle, you can never relax your mind, otherwise you will be very likely to be overturned by the enemy in one fell swoop.
Even the experienced veteran general Zhu Jun suffered a big loss in this regard.
There is nothing too surprising about the enemy's fighting methods - at least judging from the battle reports compiled so far, it is not clear whether it is because the enemy commander is really so rigid. Or is it because their strength makes them disdainful of taking such measures?
Other means.
Although Li Shushi prefers the former, unfortunately no matter from any angle, the probability of the latter is higher.
After all, you can't think that Xun You, Liang Tian, Cao Ling and other resourceful people have been passive and sabotaging their work. In fact, the Bingzhou Army has not been able to take advantage of the enemy through strategy, and there are even many negative cases of being taken advantage of.
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This made Li Shushi helplessly discover that the Bingzhou Army, which he was proud of, had difficulty taking advantage of these enemies in almost all places. According to Zhang Liao, Wei Yue, Qian Zhao and others, the enemy
The army just advances slowly from the front. With pikemen holding super long spears as the front line, they can block the enemy's attacks from long and short-range troops, and can also isolate the enemy at a certain distance, allowing the crossbowmen behind them to attack.
Calmly carry out long-range strikes against the enemy.
The enemy's crossbows can be said to be the most terrifying aspect of the enemy's army.
Judging from the seizures on the battlefield, the crossbow mechanism, the core component of the crossbow used by the enemy, is extremely sophisticated. Based on the information Li Shushi obtained from Dongguan and the information obtained after talking to the old craftsmen, the Han's
Craftsmen can actually achieve the same or even greater level of sophistication. So this is not the most surprising thing.
What really makes everyone stunned is the versatility of those crossbows. That is, all captured crossbows can be replaced at will as long as they are of the same standard, so that common parts can truly fulfill the functions of common parts.
I don’t know if the Han Dynasty could achieve this in its heyday, but as far as the current princes are concerned, it is because of the existence of Li Shushi that the Bingzhou Army has relatively implemented standardized production and assembly line operations, even if it is very primitive. But at least in terms of equipment
It can save a lot of extra expenses every year in terms of wear and tear, and it once amazed Cheng Yu and others for a long time.
Not only that, even the smallest parts on the crossbow machine will be engraved with various characters. According to the research of those "scholars", they are all official positions in the pre-Qin period and the names of the manufacturers and officials.
The same is true for other parts such as arrowheads. Not only are they the most perfect triangular streamlines, but they are also basically the same shape. Even the craftsmen who follow the army don't think there is anything that can be improved on these murderous tools.
Because of this guarantee, every time the enemy's crossbowmen launch, it is like blocking out the sun and causing rain to fall all over the sky. Not only the soldiers standing at the top of the city or in the wild, but also the common people hiding at home, as long as the arrows are fired
The coverage area of the rain is difficult to avoid the all-pervasive attack. Even the cavalry troops quickly turn into assaults. Under the excellent command of the enemy generals, as long as they cannot break through the enemy's spear infantry, they will inevitably be attacked by a round.
Covered by rain of arrows.
This does not include the restriction on the speed of the cavalry. The enemy light soldiers who were trapped in a camp immediately rushed forward like wasps shouting strange syllables as if they had seen a cute little lolita.
Beheading and cutting off ears is simply cruel.
Moreover, with the powerful range of the enemy's crossbows, even if the cavalry of the Bingzhou Army planned to fly kites in circles outside them, it would not be easy - this shows the inhuman side of the enemy. Their ammunition seems to never run out and their physical strength is abundant.
He had already learned the lesson, and his repeated covering shots without the need to save ammunition allowed Li Shu to truly experience the fighting style of Emperor Mi in ancient times.
The most critical problem is that because they are non-human, even if they are soaked in water and their bodies have been damaged, the crossbows do not seem to be affected at all. In other words, if you think their bodies have been damaged, you will want to take advantage of them.
, then maybe you can kill the opponent, but you yourself will definitely be skewered into skewers and hedgehogs by the opponent's close-range shooting.
The opponent may not be killed yet. After all, even if it is destroyed by soaking, the thick skin will definitely have higher defense than the crispy one.
Even if the enemy's light cavalry seems to be the weakest, those combat regiments that can only use long-range attack weapons such as bows and crossbows and cannot engage in melee combat on horseback will still break your teeth if you underestimate the enemy.
And Zhang Liao must have the deepest experience of this.
As for the enemy's tank troops, they don't seem to stand out in front of these tenacious warriors. In other words, with the outstanding performance of these warriors, as the ace unit, they seem to have no need to consider the issue of appearing.
But don’t forget that this is the Guanzhong Plain. Although there are certain ups and downs, there are still many flat places in general. Let the chariot troops charge on the plain. Obviously no general will believe that there are any troops that can block the charge head-on.
chariot troops - in addition to the chariot troops who are also charging.
But even if Li Shushi formed it in a hurry, he could still form a tank force. However, facing those inhuman troops, Li Shushi still did not think that his troops could withstand the powerful troops that were speeding like light tanks in front of them.
In fact, the combat effectiveness of chariots has long been determined. The reason why they were replaced by cavalry is not because the frontal impact of chariots is insufficient. It is just that the versatility of this unit is obviously not comparable to that of cavalry, and a qualified
The resources consumed by a chariot are extremely huge. Even the cost of the so-called Iron Buddha or the plate-armored knights in Europe plus the armor and horses is not as much as the cost of a chariot.
But even with so many disadvantages, when the chariot really starts galloping on the plains, the visual impact alone is enough to make one's scalp numb, not to mention the impact of the chariot and the tearing of the car after the impact.
The enemy's light soldiers whose cracks are widening.
Of course, these are all things found in various historical and military books from the pre-Qin era, specifically how the enemy would use chariots on the battlefield. Most people in the Bingzhou Army turned a blind eye.
Of course, he is not completely inexperienced. After all, Fan Chou was a former general of the Xiliang Army, and the Xiliang cavalry in the Xiliang Army also used chariots to fight at certain times, so his opinions were also included in the reference.
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Yes, judging from the composition of the opponent's arms, those opinions can probably only be used as reference information.
Having said so many upsetting things, the good news is actually not entirely lacking.
For example, the enemies this time don't seem to be as immortal as the undead on the grassland.
This news cannot be truly confirmed so far, but in several confrontations, it was basically difficult for the Bingzhou Army to take advantage. But this does not mean that the Bingzhou Army failed to inflict a certain amount of damage on the opponent. Because of this,
The enemy will dismantle certain camps after the war, and there is no sign of plans to restore them afterwards, which seems to mean that the enemy cannot replenish soldiers.
Of course, this cannot be conclusive evidence. After all, for non-humans who have almost no logistical pressure, only God knows how many people are stationed in their camp. At least it is difficult for the Bingzhou Army's scouts to use ordinary methods, such as the enemy's daily cooking.
The approximate number of enemy troops can be judged by the number of cooking points left.
However, another piece of news made Li Shushi think that the possibility of the above conjecture being correct may be quite high - the enemy obviously does not hate the living as much as the undead on the grassland. No, it can even be said that they are simply too hostile to the living.
kindness.
Nearly a month has passed since they appeared, and these guys who came out of nowhere have successfully established a foothold. Except for Chang'an City, which they failed to break, the surrounding cities, large and small, were unable to withstand their attacks.
Invasion.
However, judging from the news from the spies, not only did these inhumans not carry out any massacres, they also did not use the living as slaves and force them to do heavy work.
In fact, the life of the living is not very different from before. The only difference may be one thing:
Those non-humans promulgated new laws in the areas under their control, which are quite similar to the content of Han laws, but are more serious in terms of detail and punishment system, especially for some minor mistakes that are often punished severely.
Punishment - perhaps only in this aspect, these inhumans have a bit of a villain character.
But what makes the Bingzhou Army feel ashamed is that in terms of administrative efficiency, those non-humans are even better than the living. The civilian officials in the enemy army who look like military generals are vigorous and resolute in everything they do, and treat the living
Their management is also completely devoid of human sophistication, and all standards are the laws they promulgate.
If you break the law, you will be punished. If you do not break the law, no one will interfere with your behavior.
It sounds like a world managed by logical robots. This legal concept is simply not implemented to the extent that humans can achieve it.
Well, they are all non-human, although they all have human faces.
But your human body is as hard as metal and looks like metal and stone!
Fortunately, these inhumans do not seem to be planning to use the living as supplements to their regiments. Otherwise, Li Shushi would very much doubt whether the law-based country that unified China hundreds of years ago would come back to the world.
But judging from the various actions of the other party, if we let it go, such a conjecture may not be impossible to realize.
In other words, their enemies are using a completely different method from those of the undead on the grasslands, a method that is closer to the way human princes compete for hegemony in the world to treat the living.
Perhaps in terms of the speed of gaining power, this method cannot compare with the snowball-like killing speed of the prairie undead, but this method is like the evil martial arts. It is quick and powerful in the early stage, but it also has great hidden dangers and lacks stamina.
It is easy to create various bottlenecks and barriers.
On the contrary, these guys now, like their way of using troops, are upright. You may not feel the increase in strength in the early stage, but as you go later, their strength becomes stronger, and the speed of change is exponential.
"It feels like there is another prince in the land of Guanzhong..." (To be continued...)