"You're looking for me?"

On the wall of Luoshui City, Shen Kun, who seemed bored and was about to fall asleep 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 seen Lin Yi's means of plucking a layer of hair from an iron rooster, and he couldn't help but laugh when he heard Lin Yi's words.

"Of course, the Tie Ce Army is not strong enough. ”

Lin Yi looked at Shen Kun seriously and said: "Take the elite army of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Jin Yan, as an example, every sergeant of the Northern Wei Dynasty Jin Yan Army is equipped with a pair of machine bracket crossbows, this kind of machine bracket arm crossbow can be activated even if you use a knife and sword, and the lead rope of the machine bracket is put on the little finger with a copper ring. In addition, the proportion of heavy armor is one layer, and there is one heavy armored sergeant out of every ten Jin Yan army sergeants, and the rest are all Jin Yan light armor. There are also three strong archers among every ten Jin Yan Army sergeants, and each Jin Yan Army sergeant uses a heavenly quenching knife, and the ordinary Xuantie sword can't withstand this kind of knife cut.... And the Jin Yan Army can only be regarded as the elite army of the Northern Wei Border Army, as for the top ten or so, almost every sergeant carries various weapons and ordnance that allow them to have the ability to fight the monks of the Huangya Realm alone. ”

Shen Kun listened carefully, in addition to his own cultivation these days, all Lin Yi thought and did was to improve the combat power of the Tie Ce Army, and of course these words did not surprise him at this time.

"It's all about what you think. ”

Shen Kun restrained his smile, and also looked at Lin Yi seriously and asked, "The key is, what kind of army do you want the Tiece Army to become?"

If you are smart people, it is easy to get straight to the point.

"Three thousand people is too little, and according to the experience of the border army, there is no need to fight a battle of more than one to five. Lin Yi muttered: "The main force of the border army of the Northern Wei Dynasty is generally fifty or sixty thousand people... Even if hundreds of thousands of troops are overwhelmed, local battles are all tens of thousands to more than 100,000 battles, so I think the size of the Tiece army should be at least about 15,000 people. If it can reach about 15,000 people, it will be possible to resist most of the border army of the Northern Wei Dynasty. ”

Shen Kun had never been with the army before, but he had dealt with many armies after all, especially those border troops who could truly represent the combat power of the dynasty.

So he can understand what Lin Yi said very well.

When the disparity in the number of troops is too great, even the most powerful elite army is useless, because the number of ordnance and ordnance that an army of thousands of people can possess cannot be compared with an army of tens of thousands.

That kind of suppression in the number of ordnance, even the simplest spear throwing and archery, is very incomprehensible.

Not to mention that the border army with tens of thousands of people is naturally equipped with Zhenyuan heavy armor, heavy cavalry, and large ordnance, which is extremely reasonable.

"Fifteen thousand people, even if they reach the level of the Jinyan Army of the Northern Wei Dynasty you said, I am afraid that you will not be able to raise them until the end of the war between the Northern Wei Dynasty and our dynasty. Shen Kun looked at Lin Yi and shook his head, "Just the consumption of armor and arrows, even a Ningzhou can't afford to raise it." ”

"How are horse gangs and horse thieves raised?" Lin Yi asked.

Shen Kun was stunned.

In many cases, there is really not much difference between caravans and horse thieves, and the caravans that travel through many borders are, in a sense, horse thieves who are more restrained. In recent years, the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties were very strong, and the army was binding on all states and counties, and many large groups of horse thieves were killed, and those who were not killed were either incorporated into private armies by local gate lords, or they no longer dared to attract the attention of the army, did not dare to plunder, but switched to transporting profiteering goods, and turned into a horse gang.

In the last years of the previous dynasty, some horse gangs and horse thieves even numbered in the tens of thousands, and those horse thieves who knew how to restrain themselves were like kings on the border.

"Of course, the horse thief relies on robbery, to fight to raise the war, this method cannot be used in the Tiece army, your Tiece army is not strong first, and then if it is not bad as expected, go to support the border army, and the encounter is also the border army of the Northern Wei Dynasty, I am afraid that one or two major battles will be over, 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 the opponent's ordnance will all be in the bag, and the more you fight, the stronger it becomes, but it is still possible for the big horse thief to eat the small horse thief, and it is unlikely that the border army will be in the middle." ”

"And the horse thieves come and go completely freely, but your Tie Ce Army is not your own decision, you must also listen to the orders of the military above, and you can't let the Tie Ce Army go wherever you want, just pick soft eggs. Shen Kun smiled faintly, "As for the horse gang to raise people, of course, it depends on trade, for example, the tea stalks that you people in Jiankang City don't even want to drink, mixed with some shoddy coarse tea, are transported to the party, but they are extremely popular." The price is higher than the refined tea in Jiankang City, which is almost a million profits. You should know all of these, but you may not know that some of them are the most profitable, and the most profitable ones are often forbidden things, such as some elixirs produced in our Southern Dynasties, and some refined Xuantie Steel, which do not belong to the list of trade, according to the laws of our Southern Dynasties, no one can transport them, let alone sell them to the Northern Wei Dynasty. These things that violate the law can be done by the caravans, because the caravan mostly walks outside the border of our dynasty, but the gate lords and the army of our southern dynasty cannot do it. ”

Lin Yi understood the meaning of Shen Kun's words.

Paper can't hold the fire, this kind of thing even some door valves don't dare to do, because there is always the possibility of leaking news to make people find out, once discovered, a holy decree down, is not able to eat and walk.

It's just that Lin Yi didn't think of these things in the first place.

Moreover, the caravan's money is on the road, even if it transports those forbidden things, every trip can obtain amazing benefits, but it comes too slowly, and most of it is consumed on the road and these caravans.

"The horse gang and the horse thieves are actually fighting to support the war, and the most important thing is that you don't need to listen to the dispatch of the peak like the Tie Ce Army, you can go wherever you want to go very freely, under the premise that the Tie Ce Army can't walk freely, can't choose your opponent freely, and fight whichever you want, my idea is impossible to complete, and it is difficult to improve the strength of the 3,000 Tie Ce Army, not to mention that the 15,000 or so Tie Ce Army can be compared to the most elite border army. Lin Yi thought for a while and said, "So the most important thing is that I must first help my iron army win such power." ”

Shen Kun was stunned for a moment, and said sincerely: "You really dare to think about it." ”

"It's only possible to come up with a way. Lin Yi looked at Shen Kun and said, "Secondly, I thought of the party's firearms, I have seen the party's red Luo pill on the battlefield. ”

Shen Kun's expression was slightly condensed, this time he was not stunned, he vaguely guessed what Lin Yi meant.

"If you go according to the equipment of a normal army, then I think you are right, even if I am a state assassin, it is impossible to raise the kind of iron army I want, and even if they are all heavy cavalry and heavy armor, a powerful arrow army and a sufficient number of cultivators... Against the same elite army, it is also unpredictable, and the most elite troops of my Southern Dynasty and Northern Wei Dynasty are all raised by the emperor, and there are still after the battle, but we don't. ”

Lin Yi looked at Shen Kun, and then said softly: "So just like some cultivators are surprising, I thought about not using normal means to make the Tie Ce Army look like a normal army. You were very familiar with Dangxiang and Tuyuhun before, and even further away, so I wondered if it was possible for you to get me some unique weapons that neither the Southern Dynasties nor the Northern Wei Dynasty were familiar with. ”

(Tomorrow's third watch, my dad is hospitalized, and my daughter needs to get up early to pick up and drop off from school, so it will be more troublesome, I almost didn't sleep all night last night, so I'm too tired, go to bed early today.) ）