"According to the combat principles of the Republican Army, the main body of the war is people, not weapons, and if Jian Shuo behaves like this, he will inevitably lose the most critical thing, and in this case, it will inevitably lead to a very passive situation in the end." Xi Zhicai analyzed it like this.

"Well, it makes a lot of sense, in this case, most of our situation will be in a very favorable situation, and this situation will have a great effect on our development." Cao Cao said.

Perhaps, in this case, you can only comfort yourself, after all, the flintlock style is a grade higher than the arquebus, and it has a great impact on the rate of fire, as well as the tactical aspect. Cao Cao's troops did not have an advantage in numbers, so naturally they could not change such a situation, which was definitely not a good thing for Cao Cao.

"If we are still worried, I think we should strengthen our training, as long as our combat effectiveness has an advantage in this area, it will be very fruitful." Xi Zhicai hopes that Cao Cao can build up confidence in this regard. After all, if even the commander lacks such confidence, the soldier's combat capability will be greatly reduced.

"The advantage of the Republican Army is that their officers and soldiers can take the initiative to attack, even if the most advanced weapons can't hit people and can't play the results they should have, it's scrap metal." Xi Zhicai said.

"The gap between us and the IRA is not just as much as it seems, but the most important thing is some core things, and if we can't learn these core things, the result will be very troublesome." Xi Zhicai said.

Cao Cao nodded in agreement with this point of view, after all, the current imperial court is following such an old path.

In fact, this is equivalent to the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty. The current imperial court only regards the fighting strength of the Republican Army as a purely powerful firearm, and they also study and improve, but their improvement and learning are only in vain, for example, they only introduce some advanced weapons, as for the advanced system, they have not changed. Moreover, they are not actively studying, they simply think that they are advanced, and under such a line of thinking, they regard the victory of weapons as the victory of combat effectiveness, but they do not attach importance to the implementation of substantive things.

This is also the difference between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, Jian Shuo and others. Jian Shuo was just studying, and Yuan Shao still had some resistance, but he still followed the times and adopted a mixed compilation method.

And Cao Cao could not get more financial support, after all, Cao Cao was an independent faction, and he could only reform the military system without the help of more funds. For example, the introduction of the military rank system and the reform of soldiers' salaries. and the preliminary economic system. In addition, the active introduction of military advisers related to the IRA for training has greatly contributed to the most powerful development of the IRA. Such development can help Cao Cao's army to have a greater state of development to the greatest extent. Because they are learning from the roots, and Jian Shuo, Yuan Shao and the like, they just learn one that shows that they become extremely unfavorable to the substantive content, and in this case, they become extremely ungood.

However, Cao Cao couldn't see such an advantage yet, after all, this kind of internal thing could not be revealed all at once. This is what Cao Cao is most worried about, if there can be a result, it is the best, but the problem is that there is no result now, Cao Cao does not dare to guarantee that without upgrading weapons, he can greatly improve his combat effectiveness.

"The next step, I think we should still get a loan from the IRA, and the IRA just asks for something we can pledge, this thing." Cao Cao felt very bad and shook his head, no, even the army has no value in investment, Cao Cao thought so. Xi Zhicai is also very clear that the biggest problem of the current Cao Cao is that they do not have their own territory. In fact, he believes that the existence of the emperor greatly restricts such a situation, but it is not enough for local generals, such as Dong Zhuo, Ding Yuan, etc., to have development capital in their places, at least they have their own territory, what he knows is that Dong Zhuo has been operating his own region, for example, Guanzhong region. There, Dong Zhuo can secretly expand, but it is still difficult for Cao Cao to develop in such a situation, and Cao Cao is also extremely helpless in the face of such a situation. After all, His Majesty the Emperor has not died yet, and the binding force still exists.

But Jian Shuo's behavior is actually a declaration of war. The practice of redressing one's own descendant troops, and adopting the practice of exclusion for other non-descendant troops, has caused great dissatisfaction among the generals, and if such a situation can be completely reversed, it is the most advantageous, but how to do this, the great general He Jin has not yet done a good way to do this.

"Loans are secondary, and I think we should build a professional other branch of the army in order to improve our other skills." Xi Zhi suggested it at this time.

"Oh." Cao Cao was puzzled to see Xi Zhicai.

"Engineer troops." Xi Zhicai said this at this time. This is what he found in the Republican Army's combat manual. Because the engineering units appear repeatedly and appear frequently, such a high frequency is definitely not a simple appearance can easily solve the problem, in fact, there are more other problems that need their attention, this question is, why do they appear so frequently, why.

"Engineer troops." Cao Cao looked at the standard things in the combat manual and said this. Cao Cao was the first to come into contact with the engineer units of the Republican Army, and his impression was not too deep, the reason is very simple, that is, because there are some things that do not appear repeatedly.

But now Cao Cao noticed the engineer troops, because he seemed to remember that the engineer troops of the Republican Army were very good at building bridges and opening roads. He just didn't think much of it.

"Yes, the engineer unit, if we also build an engineer unit, although it seems that this is a logistics unit, but I think that in other aspects, he still has a relatively large advantage, for example, blasting, blasting is very advantageous for attacking fixed cities." Xi Zhicai said.

"Hmm. Very well, we are also going to build up engineering units. Cao Cao nodded and said.

Cao Cao didn't know what came to mind, maybe he already had some ideas about using blasting on tomb robbing at this time. After all, he is too short of money, if he can change such a status quo, he is willing to do anything, otherwise, he will not be able to do such things.

This may be the most direct reason for Cao Cao's establishment of an engineer army. Because the benefits of sappers are here. They are troops of ** origin. Xi Zhicai considered the destructiveness of the sappers. After all, it is not enough to effectively attack a fortress with artillery, and they may face palace warfare in the future, and if they want to fight into it, they must use blasting technology. This is the angle from which Xi Zhicai thinks.

Xi Zhicai thinks very long-term, and Cao Cao thinks very practically, after all, Cao Cao's biggest problem at present is the problem of money. Unfortunately, there are some things that can't be done too much.

Hedong, independent division headquarters.

"You're good enough, too." Zhou Cang scolded. For a bastard like Pei Yuanshao, Zhou Cang really didn't have a good mood, and he even charged like an infantryman, if he died, his independent division would really be famous.

"You're not too young. How can you do things so impulsively. You're also a deputy division commander. You're no role model, and if all my officers have a personality like yours, you're an old bastard. Zhou Cang couldn't help but scold.

"Hehe, I'm a bastard, but I don't have to go to military school as a bastard." Pei Yuanshao said so bastardly.

"The beauty of thought." Zhou Cang shouted loudly.

"Tell you, Lao Tzu is tying you up, and you must go too. That's an order. Zhou Cang scolded.

"Huh. No, Lao Tzu is now a wounded, a wounded, you know? Lao Tzu can stay in the sick number and drink some milk powder. "Pei Yuanshao just doesn't want to go, he doesn't want to go, why, the reason is very simple. An officer like him, to study, to learn from the cadets, a group of lieutenants, he can't afford to lose people. Therefore, Pei Yuanshao is reluctant to go, but he is unwilling, and there must be a reason.

"No matter how bastard you guy is, tell you, it's an order." Zhou Cang scolded angrily, this is for Pei Yuanshao's good. If it weren't for the front line, if there were still results, the top would have dismissed him, and if they wanted to stay, what they had to do was to study, keep learning, and make themselves full.

"Report." Just then, a staff officer shouted to report in. Zhou Cang began to get busy, Zhou Cang suddenly became nervous after reading the telegram, with his understanding of his old buddy, he knew that there must be a big movement, otherwise, he would not be so nervous.

However, Pei Yuanshao did not say anything, he wanted to know what was wrong.

It turned out that the cavalry of the state had launched a retaliatory strike, attacking and besieging a forward observation position of the Republican Army, on which a squad was stationed, and the telegram had been more than three hours before the incident, and anything could happen in three hours.

Pei Yuanshao was very anxious. At present, the telegram can only reach the regimental level at the front, and what the situation at the front is, Zhou Cang is still not clear. Unfortunately, the independent division had no cavalry units and reacted extremely slowly.