On the wall of Luoshui City, Shen Kun, who seemed to be about to fall asleep while basking in the sun, opened his eyes, looked at Lin Yi who appeared in front of him, and then smiled.
Lin Yi simply sat down opposite Shen Kun, "We need to talk."
In just a few days, Shen Kun had fully experienced Lin Yi's ability to pluck even a layer of hair from an iron rooster. Hearing Lin Yi's words, he couldn't help laughing.
"Of course Tie Cejun is not strong enough."
Lin Yi looked at Shen Kun seriously and said: "Take the elite army Jin Yan of the Northern Wei Dynasty as an example. Every sergeant of the Jin Yan Army of the Northern Wei Dynasty is equipped with a pair of machine-arm crossbows. This kind of machine-arm crossbow can be used even if you use a knife or a sword." It can also be activated at any time, and the lead rope of the machine is covered with a copper ring on the little finger. In addition, the proportion of heavy armor is one layer. There is one heavy armor sergeant for every ten Jinyan Army sergeants, and the rest are all They are all Jin Yan light armor. There are also three strong archers out of every ten Jin Yan Army sergeants. Every Jin Yan Army sergeant uses a heavenly tempered sword. Ordinary black iron swords cannot withstand this kind of slashing, and the Jin Yan Army cannot. It can only be regarded as an average among the elite troops of the Northern Wei Dynasty. As for the top ten or so, almost every sergeant carries various weapons and ordnance, which allows them to have the ability to fight the monks of Huangya Realm alone. ."
Shen Kun listened carefully. During these days, apart from his own cultivation, everything Lin Yi thought and did was to improve Tie Cejun's combat power. Of course, these words did not surprise him at this time.
"The key is, what do you think?"
Shen Kun stopped smiling and looked at Lin Yi seriously and asked: "The key is, what kind of army do you want Tie Ce Army to become?"
They are all smart people, so it is easy to get straight to the point.
"Three thousand people are too few. According to the experience of the border army, there is no need to fight in a battle of more than 1 to 5." Lin Yi mused: "The main force of the frontier army in the Northern Wei Dynasty is generally 50,000 to 60,000 people walking even if it is a few. A hundred thousand troops hold down the formation, and local battles are fought between tens of thousands to more than a hundred thousand, so I think the size of the Tiece Army must be at least about 15,000. If it can reach about 15,000, then It is possible to fight head-on with most of the Northern Wei frontier army."
Shen Kun had never been with the army before, but after all, he had dealt with many armies, especially those border troops who could truly represent the dynasty's combat power.
So he can understand what Lin Yi said very well.
When the difference in the number of troops is too great, no matter how powerful the elite army is, it is useless, because the number of ordnance and criminal weapons that an army of thousands of people can possess cannot be compared with that of an army of tens of thousands.
That kind of numerical suppression of ordnance, even the simplest spear throwing and archery, is very difficult to solve.
Not to mention that the tens of thousands of border troops were naturally equipped with heavy armor, heavy cavalry, and large ordnance.
"Fifteen thousand people, even if they reach the level of the Jin Yan Army of the Northern Wei Dynasty that you mentioned, I'm afraid you won't be able to raise them until the war between the Northern Wei Dynasty and our dynasty is over." Shen Kun looked at Lin Yi and shook his head, "Just the armor. Even Ningzhou cannot afford the consumption of arrows and so on."
"How do the caravans and horse thieves raise themselves?" Lin Yi asked.
Shen Kun was stunned.
In many cases, there is really not much difference between caravans and horse thieves. The caravans that shuttle across many borders are, in a sense, more restrained horse thieves. In these years, the Northern Wei and the Southern Dynasties were very powerful, and the army restrained all states and counties. Many large groups of horse thieves were killed, and those who were not killed were either incorporated into private armies by local nobles, or they no longer dared to attract the attention of the army or plunder, and instead diverted their transportation The highly profitable goods were transformed into caravans.
In the last years of the previous dynasty, some caravans and horse thieves even numbered in the tens of thousands, and those horse thieves leaders who knew how to restrain themselves were like kings on the border.
"Of course horse thieves rely on robbing and fighting to support war. This method cannot be used on the Tiece Army. First of all, your Tiece Army is not strong. If you go to support the border army as expected, you will also encounter the Northern Wei Dynasty. The border troops will probably be defeated in one or two battles, and it is impossible to fight more and more." Shen Kun shook his head and said these words first.
Lin Yi nodded, "Unless every battle is a big victory, it is best to annihilate the opponent. Then all the opponent's weapons will be in the bag, and the more they fight, the stronger they will become. However, it is still possible for the big horse thieves to eat the small horse thieves. Between the border troops, Not too possible."
"Moreover, the horse thieves can come and go freely, but you are not the only one who has the final say on your Tie Ce Army. You must also listen to the military orders from above. You can't just go wherever you want the Tie Ce Army to go, just picking soft eggs. "Shen Kun smiled faintly, "As for the support of the caravan, of course it relies on trade. For example, the tea stems that you people in Jiankang City don't even drink, mixed with some crude tea, are transported to Dangxiang. But it is extremely popular. The price is higher than the fine tea in Jiankang City, which is almost a huge profit. You should know all these, but you may not know some of the biggest profits. In fact, the biggest profits are often They are all prohibited items, such as some elixirs produced in our Southern Dynasty and some refined black iron and fine steel produced. These are not included in trade. According to the laws of our Southern Dynasty, no one can export them, let alone sell them. For the Northern Wei Dynasty. The caravans can do these things that violate the law, because most of the time the caravans walk outside the borders of our country, but the nobles and troops of our southern dynasty cannot do it."
Lin Yi understood the meaning of Shen Kun's words.
Paper can't contain the fire. Even some sects don't dare to do this kind of thing because there is always the possibility of leaking the information and letting people discover it. Once it is discovered and an imperial edict comes down, they can't live without it.
It's just that this was not what Lin originally intended.
Moreover, the caravan's money is all on the road. Even if it transports prohibited items, it can make amazing profits every time, but it comes too slowly, and most of it is spent on the road and the people in the caravan.
"Caravans and horse thieves actually rely on war to support war, and the most important thing is that they don't need to listen to the command from the top like the Tiece Army. They can go wherever they want with great freedom. In the Tiece Army, they can't walk freely or be free. On the premise of choosing your own opponents and fighting whomever you want, my idea is impossible to complete. It is difficult to improve the strength of these three thousand iron soldiers, let alone about fifteen thousand iron soldiers. The army can be compared with the most elite frontier army." Lin Yi thought for a while and said: "So the most important thing is that I must first help my iron strategy army win such power."
Shen Kun was stunned for a moment and said sincerely: "How dare you think about it."
"Only if you can think of a way can it be realized." Lin Yi looked at Shen Kun and said, "Secondly, I thought of Dangxiang's firearms. I have seen Dangxiang's Chiluo Pill on the battlefield."
Shen Kun's expression was slightly condensed. This time he was not in a daze. He vaguely guessed what Lin Yi meant.
"If we go by the equipment of a normal army, then I think you are right. Even if I were the governor of a state, I would not be able to raise the kind of iron strategy army I want, and even if they are all heavy cavalry and heavy armor , when a powerful archery army and a sufficient number of practitioners face off against an equally elite army, the outcome is unpredictable. Moreover, the most elite armies of our Southern Dynasties and Northern Wei Dynasties are all maintained by the emperor. After the battle, there are still, But we didn't."
Lin Yi looked at Shen Kun, and then said softly: "So just like some practitioners who are strange, I thought not to use normal means to make Tiece Army act like a normal army. You have treated Dangxiang and Tuyuhun before, and even more The places are very familiar from far away, so I wondered if it was possible for you to get me some unique ordnance that was unfamiliar to both the Southern Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty."
(Tomorrow’s third update, my father is hospitalized, and my daughter needs to get up early to pick up and drop off her daughter from school, so it will be more troublesome. I almost didn’t sleep all night last night, so I’m too tired, so I’ll go to bed early today.)