Chapter 421: Proverbs
In addition, there is a falcon comparable to a helicopter, the size is comparable to an airplane, its beak is open enough to be stuffed into a liberation melon, and it can launch an air attack on the defending soldiers by grabbing the sling on the heavy stone, or dive to attack the human head, which can instantly crush the human head, and even grab the person and fall to death.
But it is reasonable to say that Jin Xuedi can win in the field by relying on these animal resources, but it is a bit child's play to attack the city. The walls of the main city, which are more than twenty or thirty meters thick, are by no means able to be collapsed by one or two mammoths. Besides, the mammoth is also an elephant, as long as it assists with fire, the unlucky one may be the Nanban.
Cao Chizheng had already seen what Bailiyan was thinking at this time, so he said:
"General Wei won't think that the battle fang is afraid of fire."
As soon as this remark came out, Bai Liyan was quite surprised, and he hurriedly said:
"What the marshal means is that the battle fang is not afraid of fire attacks!"
"Nanban Jin Xuedi is good at taming beasts, and the battle fang is not only not afraid of fire attacks, but also has rough skin and thick flesh, and is covered with iron armor, so it is difficult for ordinary fire attacks to be effective. Moreover, General Wei has never seen five hundred battle fangs! ”
Bailiyan was stunned when she heard the news:
"Five, five hundred!"
"And it's at least five hundred. The Nanban often relies on the war fang to bombard our city gates, so even if they defend the city, it is difficult to win. General Wei walked all the way, and he could see the huge iron fence on the city gate? ”
"Maybe that's the gate."
"Exactly, in order to resist the attack of the fangs, the forty pieces of the gate gate were made of coarse iron with the mouth of the bowl. Even so, it couldn't stop the battle fang from breaking through the door for a long time. ”
"Then how did our army win in the past?"
At this time, an old man in green clothes and white hair like snow on the left side of the sand table sat in a slightly hoarse voice and said:
"Capture the thief and capture the king first, the Southern Barbarian Jin Xuedi is different from my Central Plains, whenever he goes on an expedition, the leader will follow the army to conquer in person, so his leader will be defeated, and even captured and killed, and he will inevitably retreat."
"Dare to ask the old gentleman's name." Baili Yan asked with a deep salute.
"Old man Muyu."
"The primordial pastors, the younger generations are disrespectful."
Mu Yu is more than sixty years old, can be called a generation of legendary thinkers, is one of the few two southern expeditions in the royal guests, in the royal guests are highly respected, stationed in the city of Chi all the year round responsible for security, Jin Xuedi has a lot of research.
Among the many classics of the Central Plains, there are very few cases about the south of Mt. Qianyue, and there are few countries that collect them, and all the classics that record the history of the war in detail are in the headquarters of Yuke.
According to Mu Yu, the leaders of all the northern expeditions of Jin Xuedi, or the barbarian kings, without exception, drove the expeditions in person, and this special phenomenon that defies common sense has a great relationship with his religious beliefs.
The Jinxuedi people worship the moon, and their battle flag is painted with a full moon, which is very awkward. The battle flag is white, and the left half of the full moon is silver or gray, and the right half is gold or yellow.
Silver symbolizes the moon at night, yellow symbolizes that the moon still occupies half of the sun's brilliance during the day, and in the Jinxuedi religion, the moon is still behind the sun even during the day. But in Bailiyan's opinion, silver and gold are nothing more than their greed, and it is clear that this is the pure color of silver and gold.
From the captives captured over the centuries, there has always been a legend that the moon god gave their king the most fertile land in the north, and the king is the heir of the moon god, and only when their king leads the tribe to occupy the fertile land in the north, their king can be favored by the moon god and obtain eternal life. Those who follow the king and make great achievements can gain 10,000 years of immortality and reincarnation.
All in all, the unique religious beliefs within the Jinxuedi tribe drove them to go on expeditions to the north every twenty or thirty years, and it was difficult to grasp accurate information about their hinterland and the situation in the country from their captives.
However, it can be roughly inferred that the Jinxuedi mainland is far from the outer defense line of the Qianyue Mountain coalition army, and it takes three to five months for the infantry brigade to march, and even half a year in winter.
Regardless of where they said the mainland came from, this span was almost the distance from Pingtang, the capital of the Jin Kingdom, where the cavalry often marched to the eastern border of the Wei Kingdom, and the population that its strategic depth could support was probably tens of millions, considering that the south was a high-latitude, mid-temperate and cold zone, and its population size was at least more than 50 million.
Therefore, whenever Jin Xuedi invades the north, the king of his clan will inevitably take the army himself, and as long as he kills or defeats the main army of his leader, the apotheosis core on which his religious beliefs are maintained will naturally collapse.
In the previous hundreds of years, Jin Xuedi invaded the north, and the coalition forces were all concentrated with two or even three times the superior forces, breaking through the main army where his king was located first, and each time he could kill and inflict heavy losses.
However, in the past three hundred years, especially in the middle and late stages of the collapse of the Liang Dynasty, the princes of the Central Plains have risen together, the southern border has been unstable, and Jin Xuedi has repeatedly plundered a large number of people and craftsmen in the north, as well as books and materials, which eventually led to Jin Xuedi's rapid rise in the civilization index after absorbing the Central Plains civilization.
In the last three large-scale northern invasion battles, Jin Xuedi's level of resourcefulness has become more and more sophisticated, and it has become more and more difficult to find the legion where his king is located. The last battle in the south was a plan by Mu Yu to set up a big dog to close the gate, and surrounded the legion of King Jin Xuedi's army on all sides, and the coalition army finally defeated it at the cost of 300,000 casualties.
Hearing this, Bai Liyan probably understood that the Central Plains Coalition Army was greatly injured every time, but it failed to severely damage Jin Xuedi every time, but instead had to kill and injure several times the opponent's men and horses in exchange for defeating its religious beliefs and gaining victory.
That is to say, for hundreds of years, the Central Plains coalition has never defeated Jin Xuedi head-on in the real sense, all by playing tricks to make stumbling blocks, engaging in small actions to launch decapitation operations, even if the record is tied, one hand can be counted.
So Jin Xuedi made a mistake in the north, and the vitality of the Central Plains was greatly injured once, and their population loss was much smaller, so for hundreds of years, the Central Plains countries were able to raise their populations again, and Jin Xuedi's population growth rate was not slow, and finally in the last hundred years, it was a big trouble.
In addition, the Central Plains Coalition Army had never really penetrated a thousand miles south of the Qianyue Mountain Coalition Army's outer defense line, and most of Jin Xuedi's situation south of Qianyue Mountain came from his captives, and he knew nothing about the local situation, and he had never even captured a map of his homeland.
On the contrary, every time Jin Xuedi invaded the north, he used the imitation map of the Central Plains captured from the coalition forces, which only intensified their wolf ambitions.
The military opportunity dispersed, and the marshal Cao Chi was alone ordering Baili Yan to stay and speak:
"General Wei Xian, Ben Shuai heard that the steel smelting technique created by General Wei is extremely exquisite. The previous time the commander sent people to attack Jin Xuedi, and defeated him in a battle, and the steel blade used was very tough, and General Wei contributed a lot. ”
"The marshal has won the award, and Wei was also forced by the black scarf thief to be helpless, so he had to find another way to strengthen the military strength of our Xianguo. I didn't want to be known by the Ligong faction, and finally reached the ears of the marshal, and Wei was very ashamed. ”
"Eh, General Wei's words are wrong, in the past three years, my Yuke is now equipped with more than 70,000 steel blades, and the combat power is very different from that year, which is also the reason why this commander is calm this time. If all countries can be equipped with tens of thousands or even 100,000 steel blades before the end of the year, there will be no doubt that they will be able to win the Nanban. ”
"What the marshal said is extremely true, but the heavy weapon of the soldier country cannot be shown to be sharp. If all the vassal states can produce, how can our Xianguo be based in the Central Plains, and I hope that the imperial marshal will be clear. ”
"General Wei's meaning Ben Shuai understands, and Ben Shuai is not an unkind person."
Cao Chi's meaning in and out of his words is nothing more than to let Bailiyan focus on the overall situation, take out the technology patents, share them with everyone, and then quickly equip and produce, so that he can quickly defeat the enemy.
The idea is good, but the reality is cruel. If all the vassal states can produce steel, where will the Xian country still have any advantages to speak of, and it will not return to its original shape.
Seeing that Bailiyan was indifferent, Cao Chi turned his words around, leaned forward and looked at Bailiyan's body:
"General Wei Xian's armor is so strange, why do you still have these bags, what are they for?"
"Back to the marshal, the armor worn by Wei is covered with multiple layers of armor, and the inner layer is chain mail, which can be replaced according to the needs of the battlefield, which is extremely convenient. These cloth bags are all newly made equipment of the Xianjun Army, which are used to store personal belongings, and they are extremely easy to wear, and they can be unbuckled and taken off at any time. ”
In the four years since the chain mail was put on the battlefield, with the continuous improvement of the tactics of the Black Turban Army, the problems exposed by the traditional steel chain mail have become more and more. To this end, in April last year, the improvement work began, using the characteristics of the chain mail mesh structure, specially customized breastplate, back armor, and abdominal armor, which passed through the chain mail mesh and fixed and hung on the outside of the chain mail, so that local external armor appeared one after another.
The external armor is subdivided into leather armor, iron armor, leather iron plate composite armor and other materials, and even simple and practical large bamboo, split into an inch-long semicircle, and the bamboo plate armor connected in series also has an excellent defense and effect on blunt weapons.
The appearance of external armor is a good balance between the defense of the overall armor and the advantages of chain mail, and it can be equipped with different external armor according to different combat missions. The greatest convenience lies in the fact that the obsolete and damaged armor can be directly cut and spliced without re-customizing the production, which can quickly increase protection and improve combat effectiveness.
In addition, the Xian army was successively equipped with standard armed bags to store arrow magazines, emergency rations, bandages, and medicines for even archers' crossbows, and individual battalions were also equipped with backpacks for loading other supplies, which greatly improved the army's ability to switch to combat.
Cao Chi continued to look at the novelty of Bailiyan's body, twisted his slightly pale short beard and said:
"It is rumored that the Xian army has been different recently, and now it seems that General Wei is full of mysteries."
"The marshal praised it."
"Hehaha...... General Wei has had a hard time all the way here, so let's go and rest today. Tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, Ben Shuai will go to Tiannan Pass in person, and the generals of all countries will accompany him, and General Wei will go to see and understand together, and he will have a bottom in his heart. ”
"In this way, the imperial marshal is going to fight a battle outside Tiannan Pass."
"Well, our army abandoned seven cities in a row, this is a rare defeat in history, presumably the Southern Barbarian Jin Xuedi is extremely arrogant at this time, if you can give it a head start, it will be of great benefit to the future battle."
"Then Wei will step back first."
With a slight salute, Bailiyan withdrew from the main hall. When he was young, the military master Mu Yu walked forward with his back hunched over, and said meaningfully in his hoarse voice:
"This son will be amazing in the future......"
"How can the military advisor see it?"
"The old man sees him as having an extraordinary weather, a statue of eternal longevity, and I am afraid that he will have great achievements in the future."
"The image of eternal longevity? That's not the myth and legend of the Southern Barbarians' immortality, how can there be immortals in the world. ”
Mu Yu sighed and said:
"Alas...... This is the way of mystic art easy to learn, with the old man's hexagram power can only know one of them, but it is difficult to see the mystery, today's words are all here, it is no different to say more, wait and see. ”
"Strategist!" Cao Chi was busy shouting to Mu Yu.
"What's the matter?"
"The military advisor just meant, do you want to say that this person can dominate the world in the future?"
"Huh...... The secret of heaven must not be revealed...... Dashuai should concentrate on resisting the enemy, there will be descendants to help him in the future, and the old man will not see it in this life......"
The words fell, and Mu Yu turned to leave. Cao Chi was puzzled by his gray beard, frowning and trying to think about the deep meaning of what the military advisor Mu Yu had just said.