It has been seven full days since Li Shushi led the main force to the front line.

The change in the state army is obvious.

First of all, the biggest change is that several corps, which were not closely coordinated with each other, can now better understand the tactical intentions of others with the help of faster messaging tools. Under the multi-point offensive attack, the Merge State Army, which has the advantage in strength, is not only not broken by the enemy, but can echo each other, so that the enemy has to shrink the defense line to deal with the attack of the Merge State Army in full bloom, and prevent the Merge State Army with speed advantage from really dividing it completely.

In addition, with the arrival of certain "strange professionals" on the front line, the entire state army has basically identified the enemy as a bunch of "clay puppets with human faces", although these clay puppets are far more autonomous than the undead on the grassland, but they are still clay puppets after all.

That is to say, some physical characteristics can be achieved on the clay puppet, and it can also be achieved on those enemies, but the effect will obviously be much worse, after all, each enemy this time has its own will, and if you want to make them obediently fooled, it can only be the first time or two kung fu, the same trick can not only defeat the Saint Seiya, but also ordinary people.

As for the enemy, the changes are becoming more and more obvious.

The details of the changes aside, there are two main changes.

One is that the enemy's activities began to increase during the day, perhaps because the attacks of the people of Bingzhou made the enemy adapt to the sun more quickly, and the enemy army, which originally acted only at night unless necessary, was now almost no different from the normal army of the princes...... No, there are still differences, at least the enemy's ability to fight at night is unparalleled in the world.

And this also suffered the defenders of Chang'an City, originally as long as the day and night were reversed, and as long as they endured a long night, it would be the end of a day's war. But now they find it extremely difficult to get a good night's sleep all day. The enemies outside the city are a group of people who have no worries about their bodies at all, let alone physical and mental ailments such as indigestion, constipation, anger and other physical and mental ailments caused by the reversal of day and night, and the only thing they need to do is follow the orders of their commander and appear where they should be.

However, it is clear that the living will not be treated so well, and they will not only have to endure the enemy's formidable long-range strike capabilities. He also had to face the enemy's indiscriminate attack day and night, and under such a sudden increase in the tremendous pressure, Huangfu Song's already gray hair became even more dry, as if in just a few days, the old general had aged ten years again.

Another piece of news that surprised everyone, but made sense when you think about it, was that the participation of the living began to appear in the enemy formation.

Although the number is only a small amount compared to the estimated size of the enemy's army of nearly 100,000, and the work carried out is not very important in the manufacture of siege equipment, it still indicates a sign that everyone is uneasy:

The enemies they had to face were really not those of the prairie who were completely hostile to the living. Only those who have been blinded by short-term interests and hatred will be willing to follow the evil undead, but a group of organized, planned, and possibly even idealistic princes, even if they are not the living, but they have the ability to unify the living.

For most people, do they really care who informs them?

Again, as long as you can eat your stomach, you can keep your genes. Most people don't have much of a sense of who informed them, if they could be given that life. Even if it's an animal, it doesn't hurt to notify them.

At least compared to today's war-torn times, there are very few places in the world where a quiet desk can be placed, and perhaps many people will envy those who lived a prosperous life in the era of balances...... Pets.

That's why it is said that it is better to be a peaceful dog than to be a troubled world.

Not to mention that they were notified by a bunch of people in human skins, oh no, at least a bunch that looked like people...... Clay puppets.

Although the two sides are desperately fighting enemies. However, the top brass of the Bingzhou Army, including Li Shushi, were amazed by the efficient bureaucracy and excellent military command system of their enemies, and although they were completely unfamiliar with the various laws and rules of this era, they did not have the slightest adverse effect on them, and they carried out the strict but well-organized orders by their own strength.

but there are those who do not obey the new law. Processed in accordance with the provisions of the Decree. If it is not necessary, it will not be dealt with at all as long as it does not touch the new law enacted. At the same time, in these days, the materials in the government treasury were counted clearly, and the topographic atlas of household registration in the county government was sorted out, and then according to the contents of the atlas, the powerful people under the rule were inventoried, and the hidden household registration was checked out and re-registered.

It can be said that such a vigorous and resolute method is difficult to achieve even for the combined state army, which has always been regarded as the powerful enemy of the family.

After all, after becoming a member of the ruling class, all the management generals at all levels of the state army will have some "private households" in their hands that are not registered in the county, and this is also allowed in the Han Dynasty decree, so unless some powerful people oppress the local people too much, or the amount of land annexed makes people feel uneasy, Li Shushi does not dare to carry out any more "movement" in this regard.

Although the enemy's actions seem simple and rude, and can even be said to be a little brutal, because the main ones affected are the powerful in those places, as long as the people do not die by themselves, it is much easier, so just like some of the land reform policies implemented by Li Shushi during the Yellow Turban Army, it is easy to buy the hearts of many people. And the team of the living, who are still very weak and can only participate in the battle as auxiliaries, should have come to this way.

After all, even if there is a real threat of high-pressure, if there is resistance, at least there will be a large number of deserters, or the production efficiency will be greatly reduced, forcing the puppets to make a choice - kill most of them or change to a more efficient method.

"That is to say, from now on, we need to treat each other as princes on an equal footing with us, and not just as a group of sudden 'thieves'. So Wenhe, this time you need to enrich your means. ”

Obviously, the means of exterminating bandits and the means of exterminating traitors cannot be exactly the same, because the former is absolutely inferior in public opinion, while the latter is completely opposite. Especially the kind of organized and planned traitors, at least they must have a considerable foundation of people's hearts to have the possibility of success, so when fighting against traitors, the battle of public opinion is also a key point that cannot be ignored.

However, at this point, Li Shushi felt that he didn't have to worry too much, with the wisdom of Jia Xu and Guo Jia and others. As long as they come up with a little bit of ideas from the people of the future, they can perfect it into a "magic weapon" suitable for this era.

Well, that's a little bit of a boast.

"There is not much terrain available in the plains, and the enemy seems to have a steady and steady policy, even if our army uses various methods to lure the enemy, the other side's reaction is the same, and it will inevitably advance slowly without missing the slightest flaw."

Huang Zhong looked at the information collected by the staff in his hand, and the expression on his face was still solemn. However, there is no trace of pessimism, just thinking that this time the opponent may be the most difficult group of enemies in the previous battles, it is like a big rock, so that the Bingzhou army is difficult to gnaw on, and they want to move but can't lift it.

"Then do they pursue it alone with an army, or do they act as a large army?"

"We don't have much chance in this regard, because even if the opponent chooses to pursue, it is only within a safe range. Beyond that, even if we use a variety of methods. The other party will not take another step in the thunder pool. Even if we turn around and fight again, that distance may not make it possible for the enemy to support them in the first place, but we are not sure that we will eat the opponent in a short time. ”

In fact, these things are also described in the materials, but Li Shushi still hopes to hear the personal feelings of the generals who have been fighting on the front line in the past few days, after all, there are some things that only those who have seen with their own eyes will have the most tangible experience, and many things will be lost if they are converted into words. Just judging from Zilong-chan's answer. It's not much different from what's in the text.

"Let's not mention this, for the enemy's crossbowmen, have you thought of any better solutions?"

It can be said that by far the enemy has posed the greatest threat to the Merge State Army, except for the tank troops, which have never had a chance to show up. It belongs to the enemy's bow and crossbow shots that can trigger the effect of covering the sky and the sun every time, and it can even be said that if there are no crossbowmen to suppress the formation, the rest of the enemy's somewhat old mergers cannot form an essential threat to the merger states.

If the pikemen did not have the protection of the crossbowmen, they could find enough space to use in the face of the cavalry who were good at moving, whether it was flying a kite or moving a wide range of left, right, front and back.

Those light cavalry don't know for what reason, so far they haven't solved the problem that they can't use melee weapons to fight on horses, and they don't know whether they are unwilling to change or can't change, but considering that the other party has a lot of unscientific things, Li Shushi is more willing to believe that the latter is more likely, and the enemy light cavalry who can't solve the melee problem No matter how high the will to fight is, in fact, the state army will not feel so troublesome.

It can be said that on this vast Guanzhong Plain, the Bingzhou army, which is good at cavalry combat, has many ways to deal with the enemy, even if there is also a disadvantage in the body, but the rhythm and initiative of the battle can be grasped by the Bingzhou army.

Unfortunately, the premise of this qiē realization was that the enemy crossbowmen did not exist.

It can cover shooting at a long distance, making it difficult to give full play to the speed advantage of the cavalry units of the Bingzhou Army, and there are various melee arms to properly protect it at close range. And hand-to-hand combat, which was originally the biggest disadvantage of crossbowmen, was also supplemented by the characteristics of clay puppets, and even enemy generals used them to the extreme, developing something that was completely unimaginable in ordinary warfare to allow crossbowmen to shoot at the enemy at zero distance without any protection.

In the face of such a nearly perfect class of troops, except that they could not pursue the enemy due to speed after victory, the state army has not been able to come up with any more effective methods from the very beginning to the present.

Letting the soldiers have a shield in their hands is a method that has been proposed, but the defenders in Chang'an City have proved that whether it is a plate or a skin shield, in addition to having a better defensive effect against the enemy's hand crossbow, as long as a slightly stronger crossbow will make these shields feel "Yali Mountain".

As for the copper and iron shields that have been proven to be more effective in actual combat, they are only suitable for defending the city because of their weight. Or when the infantry is advancing slowly, but if you use infantry to engage the enemy, it is definitely your own short-term attack on the other's strengths, and Li Shushi absolutely believes that those soldiers who have fought hand-to-hand with "Stone" (the nickname given to their new enemy in the state army) and are lucky enough to survive are likely to be replaced with PTSD, because it is definitely a nightmare process.

So even if Li Shushi threw this question out again, everyone was still embarrassed. Can't find a good solution.

And just when Li Shushi thought that this meeting seemed to be going to end in vain, an impossible voice suddenly sounded:

"Although it seems to be a bit arrogant, but since you don't seem to have any good way, I don't know if you can let the concubine interject a word~?"

So, everyone's eyes focused on Su Xiaololi, who was standing in the corner behind Li Shushi, dressed in a personal soldier costume.

This is a very rare situation.

Although it is said that since she was in Zhuo County, Su Xiaololi has always maintained great influence on Li Shushi and the people around Li Shushi, and she was in charge of the Li Mansion at the beginning, or the entire financial power of the grocery store. And because of this, the income of the grocery store has increased by I don't know how many times, far better than the management of Tong Laotou, who is not doing business, and Li Shushi, who is only doing business, and has since become the chief steward, and even established the position of the head of the inner room of the Li Mansion on a considerable period of time.

Since then, it has played a very huge role in both Xihe and Bingzhou, and has a position that can be called an authority in terms of economy and education - at least now he is still the honorary president of the Bingzhou Medical College, and he is also a visiting professor of the Bingzhou Government School.

Although these things are very large, Cheng Dù is entrusted to the other party by Li Shushi.

Su Xiaololi is really interested. Maybe he still incarnated as a cute little soldier and followed Li Shushi to fight in the south and the north. Running around, basically Li Shushi is inseparable from this Lori personal soldier who only occasionally has a little arrogance and does not say much most of the time, and protects Li Shushi in an all-round three-dimensional way from body to soul...... Probably.

It is worth mentioning that because of Su Xiaololi's explosive alcohol and equally inhuman combat effectiveness, her popularity among those generals is unusually high. For example, poor Cao Chun's children's shoes still can't get rid of the shadow of the year. But that's exactly the case, no one dares to resist Su Xiaololi's "justice" now, because behind it is a history full of blood and tears.

Ahem,In fact, there are only two fools who will basically be sanctioned by Lori's iron fist of justice.,One of them is naturally called the dead little prince.。 There are also little strong children's shoes that don't know how many crosses to continue their lives, and the other one is naturally able to make Lori arrogant and shy, and I don't know if it can also be classified as Li Shushi's children's shoes who died.

However, such Su Xiaololi rarely directly intervenes in government affairs and military affairs, perhaps because of her previous experience, she is always very cautious in this regard, although there are many rumors about her behavior in the outside world, but for these high-level people who are more familiar with the state army, they are still very aware of this.

It can even be said that Su Xiaololi does not interfere as much in military and political affairs as much as a certain eldest lady, who is always an indispensable spokesperson when holding a special meeting on agricultural issues before the Spring Festival every year because of the existence of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences.

It is precisely because of this premise that everyone is so surprised that the main mother of the state army suddenly spoke out at the military meeting, and she clearly wanted to put forward her own ideas, after all, this is really not like Su Xiaololi's style.

“…… If you have any ideas, just say it, could it be that there is some new equipment that can be used? ”

In fact, we are not completely without ideas about how to fight against the enemy's crossbowmen, but provide several directions to solve this problem, which can be summarized in three main ways: increase the defense of your own soldiers and weaken the killing effect of the enemy's crossbow arrows; Find weapons that can fight against enemy crossbows, so as to suppress enemy crossbowmen with attacks; Find the right tactics to eliminate the enemy crossbowmen at an acceptable cost.

The way to increase defense, as mentioned earlier, is not ideal. However, when the enemy's crossbowmen are already very strong, even if they use the same weapons as the opponent, it is also difficult to win because of the difference in soldiers. As for the more powerful weapons, although it cannot be said that there are none, they are scarce in number, and it is difficult to achieve the number needed to suppress the enemy.

It can be said that what really makes the Bingzhou army feel that it is more feasible is probably the third way, but the strategists think that the information in their hands is still insufficient, and they are still carrying out various tentative attacks for the time being, but because the enemy's oppression of Chang'an City is intensifying, this makes Li Shushi a little unbreathable to convene this tactical seminar.

But Su Xiaololi's words made Li Shushi see new possibilities.

What is possible?

But don't forget that in addition to being a "doctor" of the two colleges, Su Xiaololi is also the head of the private weapons research and development institute under Li Shushi's name, and many scientific and unscientific black technologies will be handed over there to carry out all kinds of real things that can cause a lot of bad rumors if Su Xiaololi's workshop in his basement can't be opened.

Other words...... Could it be that Su Xiaololi has any interesting new products ready to come out?

"Uh-huh~ Please wait and see~hee-hee~~?" (To be continued......)