This is where Cao Cao is embarrassed. It’s not that he doesn’t have generals. There are many qualified generals on Cao Cao’s side, but since entering Yongzhou, Liu Bei has completely established an absolute advantage, relying on Chen Xi’s methods to suppress all wars in the country.
This completely ended Cao Cao's opportunity to start a large-scale war. In the only large-scale war - the Battle of Northern Xinjiang, Cao Cao's army was not the main force.
Without the training of war, no matter how well-trained the soldiers under his command are, there is still a clear gap between them and those strong soldiers. Just like the sharp soldiers led by Cao Zhen now, the gap between them and before is already very huge.
After all, these people participated in many low-intensity and medium-intensity wars along the way, and finally fought a high-intensity imperial war. They were no longer newcomers who could not even stabilize their second talent when they followed Cao Zhen and wasted ten years.
All the veterans were wasted.
Even those veterans who originally thought that they would never be able to wield an ordinary standard sword enough to kill the Qi-trained warriors in this life, after fighting this series of wars, these people clearly discovered that their swords
It's still sharp enough to cut through the sword and shield in front of it.
Even if they are the top elites, even if they are generals who have refined their Qi into strength, their standard swords can still kill them with one sword.
It was also at that time that these veterans, who were already thirty-eight or nineteen years old, or even over forty years old, recalled that they had bloodbathed the Eastern Qiang and Xiqiang with the swords in their hands, and some of them even accompanied Duan Qiang.
Jiao passed his last days.
The swords that had been loosened long ago were tortured to the limit again and again in the Parthian-Roman battlefields, and their qualities that had turned into physical instincts were gradually recovered.
What's wrong with being forty years old? It's always a bit older, but these veterans who have been baptized by the Empire's war, these veterans who hold swords, are still the top soldiers.
Even if they can never surpass their previous level in this life, as long as they are still qualified to touch the previous level, the only ones who can compare with them are the top elites. They were once the imperial guards of this empire called Han.
military.
Cao Cao knew this information very well. It was precisely because he knew this information that Cao Cao felt that as long as he bought enough time and fought enough battles correctly, his soldiers could still be saved.
The problem is that Cao Cao doesn't have so much time or suitable wars to hone his elite troops. Even though he is located in Yongliang, the strongest source of troops in the Central Plains, and has recruited a group of thirty-seven or eighteen-year-olds.
Those thirty-three or four-year-old former Imperial Guardsmen.
It's a pity that during the ten-year window period, most of these former Imperial Guards have been destroyed. As the Imperial Guards before the collapse of the Han Empire, their combat effectiveness is no worse than Rahul's Peacock.
But the ten-year window period caused them to decline faster than the peacock.
At least Rahul's Peacock Army, although it was dismantled and reorganized, has still stayed in the military camp for the past ten years. Even if there is no war, they at least still have the minimum intensity of training.
But the Imperial Guards of the Han family, the Imperial Guards of the Han family that were disbanded ten years ago, except for a few like Huben who followed Yuan Shu, the rest of the Imperial Guards were disbanded on the spot.
They were making a living in the past ten years. After Cao Cao took control of Yongliang, he gathered together the former imperial guards scattered around the capital. There were about 20,000 people left, but they were all abolished.
The earlier ones are basically untraceable. The more than 20,000 people are basically veterans from the Yellow Turban period. Most of those who can ride horses are in their 30s, 37s, and 34s, and most of the infantry and archers are in their 30s. To put it bluntly,
If you are old, you are actually not too old. If your physical fitness recovers, Liu Bei and the Roman soldiers in their prime will all be around this age group.
However, the problem is that after gathering these people, Cao Cao immediately divided them into groups and conducted assault training. The results were far from what Cao Cao thought.
The gap period of more than ten years cannot be made up by making up for it. The experience of these people is still there. Their own physical instincts and assault training can also be partially restored, but it takes a rusty sword to recover.
If you only rely on training to reach the level you should be, don't dream about it.
Even Cao Mengde knew that these 20,000 people were brought to the battlefield for training. From a low-intensity war, it gradually rose to a high-intensity war, rising to the level of the Yuan-Liu War and the Battle of Northern Xinjiang. After repeated training, these people
Sooner or later, the true colors of the Imperial Guard will be restored.
Maybe because of the passage of time, they cannot return to their former peak, but even if they are at 90% level, they are enough to hang up and beat most of the elites in this world.
The problem is that in this world, war cannot be predicted accurately. It is a miracle that Cao Zhen, Lu Meng, Pan Zhang, Wei Yan, Zhang Liao and Li Jue can develop steadily, advance and recover.
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In a normal war, who would be lucky enough to fight all the way through, with the intensity constantly rising, and when the war retreats, the intensity continues to rise.
In addition, Severus wanted to hone his young people in Rome, so he deliberately pulled the offensive to a balance, constantly pushing the potential of Zhuge Liang's people, and at the same time forcing his own younger generation to constantly break their own limits, which itself was not good enough.
I am willing to go to war with the Han Dynasty.
If that were not the case, why would Severus just let those old guys command the legion? Pesinius Nigel and Claudius Albinus were watching right next to Severus.
, they are not dead yet in this life!
What's more, in addition to these generals, there are also legions such as the First Auxiliary Legion that stay behind and do not take action. If they really want to fight with their hands and feet, the capital of the Han Dynasty in Congling is simply not enough.
The final result was that the Han Dynasty people were forcefully forced to a point where they would be unable to cross a normal legion in a lifetime.
But will such a good thing still happen? How is it possible? After passing the Zagros Mountains, Severus has completely let go of his hands and feet, leaving the younger generation behind if they can't keep up.
They were able to control the rhythm before, but after passing there, the real strategy of the empire-destroying battle begins. Even if Severus despises Parthia, there is no guarantee that the other side will not give them a dying counterattack from Rome. After all, they fought Parthia.
It has been more than a hundred years, from the peak period of Parthia to the present, Rome still knows a little about Parthia, and this country is not a parallel import.
Especially after Severus collected detailed information about Vorogis V, Severus expressed considerable recognition to the new generation of Parthian emperors. This was a determined emperor. If the other party was given some more time, Severus would
, Severus is afraid that he may not be absolutely confident in winning the opponent.
However, as long as the opponent is not given enough time to integrate the country, Severus is confident that he will end this war that has lasted for more than a hundred years within the next year.
There is also this damn silk pricing power. Even now, the Roman aristocrats still rely on purchasing silk to transfuse blood to Parthia. Not even Severus himself can stop this.
So Severus now changed himself into a pair of cool silk fabrics. Since he could not prevent the blood transfusion of Anxi, he would chop him to death. The money to buy the silk would be taken out from the treasury of Anxi sooner or later, so Severus once again
A batch of silk was purchased.
This unscrupulous purchase of silk, which did not stop even during the war, made Vologis V clearly feel the determination of the Romans on the opposite side.
In the past, when Rome fought against Parthia, the Roman emperor would yell and stop buying silk. For every pound of raw silk purchased, a whole set of weapons and equipment would be created for Parthia.
Although this kind of roar has no effect at all. The Roman Senate is now filled with a large number of imperial traitors. In addition, Roman citizens and Roman nobles don't care about the situation of the Parthian War. Anyway, silk is a luxury product that can be bought to death, even if it is
You have to buy it for smuggling.
However, the Roman emperors in the past would still shout, but in this situation, Severus did not shout at all. On the contrary, the treasurer Pompianus shouted more excitedly than anyone else.
By the way, compared to the meaningless shouts of the previous Roman emperors, Pompianus's slogan at least made the nobles of the Roman Senate somewhat united - overthrow Parthia, get back the pricing power of silk, and sell exclusively to the state
, the price is halved!
This slogan not only unified the Roman citizens, but also the Roman nobles entered the state. Especially Pompianus promised that as long as he died in peace, there would be no damn middlemen in the silk trade between Rome and the Han Dynasty, and the silk could be sold by Rome.
The imperial officials contacted the Han Empire officials and the price could be reduced to half of the original level.
This news shocked the Roman nobles. They had never thought about such a method of operation before. They spent all day thinking about how to smuggle, how to bypass the inspections in the Mediterranean, or how to prevent the Roman officials from thinking that they were
The silk was smuggled.
As a result, after Pompianus shouted this slogan, the Roman nobles instantly felt like they had seen the light of day. They felt that they were too stupid before, and smuggling was really not worthy of Pompianus's current plan compared with it.
Roman noble status.
Isn't it because Silk is so expensive because there was an intermediary like Anxi who negotiated a price that was so high that even the nobles would find it hard to accept? This kind of gorgeous and comfortable thing was said to not be too cherished in the Han Empire, so it was made into
Isn't this because of the bastard of Anxi?
Therefore, under the slogan of Pompianus, the Roman aristocrats who had never changed their minds suddenly completed a turn in their thinking. Since the gradual demise of the three hundred clans in the Republican era, the Roman Senate once again united to fully support their country's destruction.
a country.
So much so that Rome should have reacted to things hundreds of years later, but Pipponianus had the good fortune to come into contact with the Han Dynasty, which kicked off the process in advance.
