Mythic version of the Three Kingdoms
Chapter 5868 Coping
Chapter 5868 Coping
As for the main cavalry that Lai Breli faced Zhang Liao, it was even worse. It was basically equivalent to Lai Breli dragging Zhang Liao hard by relying on casualties.
No way, Zhang Liao, who has mastered the correct usage of wolf riding, is a dimensionality reduction blow to most generals who are below a certain level.
It can be said that the entire center line has basically lost the basis for counterattack. Falgon and Barras cannot provide barrage-level cover, Oswin is suppressed, Urdu and Lebrili are unable to counterattack, and only Jieding and Nahe are left The two spent a limited amount of time on the Han army's front on the periphery.
This can be a fart, if the time is delayed longer, without foreign aid, it will definitely be the rhythm of death.
But the foreign aid that can be used now is actually only Kailash, Vanana, and Rahman. It is not that there is no reserve army, but that the reserve army does not have the ability to intervene in this kind of battlefield.
Two consecutive attacks had a great impact on Guishuang's morale. Oswin, who was supposed to be an important support, was even targeted as the core target, causing the entire army to fall into trouble.
Faced with the current situation, if you want to intervene in the battlefield instead of investing troops to consume it, then at least you need the ability to face the Han army with the buff of morale decline. Generals of this level have already been invested in the battlefield before. middle.
The rest of the reserves are actually young people, ready to be used for training, but I didn't expect that after the Han army opened up the situation, it would be difficult for the reserve army to even intervene.
The legions led by these young people are full of elites integrated by the Guishuang royal family, but still the same sentence, the young people's spirits come and go quickly, and their morale is up. Dare to fight anything, fearless, but now the morale Decline, fighting for faith and will, this is not the strong point of young people.
Therefore, if these people really want to lead the reserve army to the rescue, relying on the superiority of the troops, it is true that Oswin and others can be rescued, but there will be no need to fight subsequent wars.
Guishuang's current military strength is only a little more than double that of the Han army. Relying on its advantages in strength, terrain, and defense, it is fighting the Han army. Once these three advantages are cracked, Guishuang will die. Although Altay is fighting the current war, it also needs to plan for the future.
You can’t say that if you finish the fight today, you’ll love it tomorrow. It’s not a last resort. Altay must plan to finish the fight today without hurting the foundation. Relying on the superiority of troops, when switching battlefields, more soldiers will feel it. Take a look at the cruelty of the battlefield, soldier experience +10, many veterans with 90 points or more were lost, but more veterans with 70-80 points were born.
This is a virtuous circle, and this is the basis for Guishuang to support the Han Dynasty. If there is a tragic battle and the Han Dynasty is blocked, but the soldiers are finished, as long as the Han army can attack again, Guishuang will surely Those who lose can't watch, anyone can fight that kind of war.
So now, instead, we must be patient, and we must not send these immature seeds. There is still a long distance between promising young generals, mature generals, and generals who can bear the heavy burden.
"General, if you don't make a move, our central army will collapse." Segedi said extremely nervously, the flanks could hold up, but the center line really couldn't stand it anymore. Xu Chu brought those super soldiers and talents to the full After the top shield guard reached the center line, Jie Ding and Nahe really had no choice.
Originally, it could be harassed by mobility, but the shield guard led by Xu Chu is a tank, and it is the kind of tank that fights light infantry. Guishuang can't stop it at all. .
Even if there is no talent, it is not something that ordinary elites can parry. In addition to the problem of the strength of Guishuang's weapons, even the Patuo armored army, mainly Natara, can parry it with shields. This kind of attack may also cause the deformation of the shield, the impact is too heavy, the soldiers cannot bear the force, and the bones will be broken directly.
And this is not the worst, what is really bad is the other infantry who are not Patuo soldiers. Those soldiers are not qualified to parry in the face of this kind of attack, they can only dodge, because they can't solve any problems by parrying with weapons. Cut the weapon in half directly.
But the current situation is a large battlefield strangulation battle, both sides are arrayed against the enemy, there is no room for dodge in the dense strangulation battlefield, once the dodge front is directly penetrated, what is the defense!
Compared with the elegant piercing ability displayed by wolf riders, the shield guards led by Xu Chu displayed brutal crushing ability, bloody violence, but full of terror of power.
So that Xu Chu personally led the army into the center line, and after the soldiers on the center line of Guishuang realized that this thing was invincible, the front line began to collapse naturally.
What is an opponent? Only the same level is called an opponent. This kind of army that can neither break the defense nor deal with it, and its own lethality is beyond the table, is considered a fart opponent.
Originally, if Falgon and Balas hadn't suffered heavy losses, they could still suppress Xu Chu's army, but before Guan Yu ordered Huang Zhong to take away Guishuang's archer army at any cost, and after strangling with Duizi, Guishuang Although there are still archers left, the top archers like Falgon and Balas who can carry out suppressing orders have been destroyed as a system.
So much so that although Guishuang is still providing arrow rain suppression, this kind of arrow rain is better than nothing, at least the effect on shield guards is zero.
It can be said that on the entire Guishuang front, except for the Scythian archers led by Maximing who are still playing a role, the other archers are all added.
Especially Falgon and Balas, basically have no fighting power. After more than 4000 casualties, Huang Zhong and his subordinates took away more than 70% of Falgon and Balas.
Although in terms of the exchange ratio, it is far lower than the exchange ratio of the Han army's top legion to Guishuang, but it is of great significance to other legions. Much smoother.
Although those two things are still organizing archers to counterattack, the meaning of ordinary archers to the shield guards of the Han army is basically equivalent to meaningless.
Similarly, legions such as wolf cavalry, red blood cavalry, and Yuyang sudden cavalry, which are easily suppressed by the rain of arrows, were able to fully let go of their hands and feet, and desperately stabbed at the Guishuang front, causing the Guishuang front to barely support from the original. Directly towards the precarious direction.
"Is your reaction so slow?" After Macrinus forced Zhang Fei back, he looked at Zhang Fei with a strange expression and said, "It has been so long since you received the information, but you still haven't responded? I saw that your information transmission speed is not very fast. soon?"
Zhang Fei didn't speak, and continued to attack. He was also surprised. It is said that Guan Yu should have received information from Zhang Fei before the whole army launched a counterattack. As a result, the battle line has not changed yet. Zhang Fei doesn't believe that his second brother doesn't know. severity.
Compared with the victory in the main battlefield, the greatest victory is when Chen Xi is fine. There is no need to compare which is more important. The momentary victory or loss here is not important at all. With the resources that Chen Xi has continuously transported, victory or defeat is only a matter of time. But without Chen Xi, they won't be able to keep winning!
"It seems that your camp is not very important. It was an oversight of mine." Makrinus relied on his personal guards to parry Zhang Fei's headquarters, and then retreated slowly. Altay's order came. Just gotta do something right.
"Attack." Maximinus directly ordered the official slave emperor Maximinus to lead the Balearic slingers and European-specific spearmen to assist the center line, and told Maximin not to waste his bow and arrows on the Huangzhong front. , but barrage cover for the center line.
This adjustment took effect quickly, and the offensives of the wolf cavalry, red blood cavalry, and school swordsman on the center line suddenly slowed down. It is almost inevitable that the bow and arrow will be suppressed and the offensive will slow down.
However, he gave up the suppression of Huang Zhong's front, and Huang Zhong, who was relieved, quickly organized his men to suppress the Scythian front led by Maximing, but Maximing was far more ruthless than other generals. The archers suppressed the Han army, creating a center line for Maximinus to attack the Han army, forcing him to return to help.
"Throw the spear!" Maximinus ordered loudly when he rushed to a distance of more than ten steps from the Han army. To be honest, facing the shield guards, even Maximinus felt his heart thump. There is no way, this thing The defense ability is too outrageous.
Relying on the strength of the instant explosion, the Balearic slinger picked up the one-jin short spear he was equipped with, and threw it fiercely towards the front shield guard. The shields of the shield guards flew away, and some were nailed to the shields, but there were very few short spears that actually killed the shield guards, and this was already a very high-end medium-range attack mode.
Instant burst of strength, integration of strength, the combination of these two talents allowed the Balearic slingers to explode beyond their own limits in an instant, and the speed of throwing spears almost reached the arrow speed of top archers. Compared to the weight of the arrow, throwing a spear is ten times the weight of the arrow, and its natural power is also ten times that of the opponent.
Even if it can only guarantee such terrifying power at close range because it has no other talents to maintain, it is definitely one of the top short- and medium-range lethal abilities.
However, even so, the Balearic slingers basically couldn't exert much effect in the face of the shield guard's defensive ability comparable to the Wall of Sighs.
Of course, it is not a lack of power, but a problem with the quality of equipment. If the short spears of the Balearic slingers are replaced by Chen Xi's nickel-steel three-edged rapier with an all-steel tip, there is a considerable possibility at this distance. Pierce the shield and armor of normal shield guards.
It's a pity that although Guishuang has provided reliable weapons and equipment for this group of people, the short spears for projection are mainly made of iron-clad wood. This thing is no different from a real steel spearhead for ordinary opponents. , but for shield guards who can catch it, the gap is huge.
As long as many throwing spears are a little skewed, they will be directly ejected when they hit the smooth shield surface. Those that can really stick to the shield basically require that they be almost flat with the shield surface when they are hit, and such a requirement Difficult to achieve on a chaotic battlefield.
If you want to effectively attack the shield guards, realistically speaking, an all-steel spearhead is the most reliable and effective solution. However, it is impossible for Guishuang to provide a short spear with an all-woozi steel spearhead, which can give a whole package Ironwood is already based on the combat effectiveness of the Balearic slingers.
"Pikemen attack!" Maximinus looked at this scene with a calm face, his expression hardly changed. For him, such a result was expected.
The Balearic slingers rely on their power to burst instantly and integrate their strength to throw spears. They are definitely a first-class powerful attack in other places, but facing the shield guards, Maximinus has positioned them as the battle line from the very beginning. Overpower and pin down attacks.
Although he had some other ideas before he did it, when he actually did it, the facts were in front of him. He thought too much about piercing the shield guard, and it was not easy to penetrate the shield.
So if you want to fight shield guards, you have to rely on other means. I'm afraid it won't work to rely on Balearic slingshots. This thing is reliable for fighting other arms. It's better to save yourself the trouble of playing shield guards. .
As a unit with low lethality and attack ability among mainstream legions, shield guards can definitely be included in the ranks of the top legions in terms of defense ability.
To be precise, most of the top legions may not have the defensive ability of conventional shield guards. For example, the school swordsmen, wolf cavalry, holy death cavalry and other legions have a weaker defense than shield guards.
But fortunately, Makrinus had discussed with his two brothers how to face the shield guards at the beginning, and selected suitable elites from the barbarian army under his command, and spread them to a certain extent, and now it is time to test up.
Under the command of Maximinus, the Roman barbarians using super long spears more than two feet long smashed down when the shield guards rushed to six or seven meters away from themselves. These were soaked in oil and strengthened. At this moment, the long spear with toughness played an amazing effect.
Accompanied by the smashing of the Roman barbarian army, the [-]-[-] meter long spear was thrown into an arc and smashed down with a whistling sound. Xu Ding, who was leading the soldiers to block the attack, felt uncomfortable just hearing the whistling sound. Fortunately, the centurions on the front line immediately ordered the soldiers to raise their shields to defend.
"Boom!" There was a muffled sound, and the shield that was held high was hit by the tip of the gun. The soldier holding the shield felt tight in his chest and almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Get the bow and arrow!" The centurion gave the command immediately after seeing this scene.
Half of the fairy veterans that Liu Bei transferred were put into these main battle legions as the backbone centurions. These people have experienced hundreds of battles and have small-scale command and coordination capabilities, which greatly strengthened the battlefield response capabilities of the backbone legions and the frontline breakthrough ability.
"The combination of heavy weapon strike type talent and long-range penetration type talent, non-penetration shock, use bow and arrow!" The front-line centurion quickly integrated information and passed it on.
There is another chapter in the back. Yesterday, I suddenly realized that Chinese is profound and profound. The word "de" was added, and the semantics changed directly. I fell into deep thought. Vote quickly, everyone!
(End of this chapter)
As for the main cavalry that Lai Breli faced Zhang Liao, it was even worse. It was basically equivalent to Lai Breli dragging Zhang Liao hard by relying on casualties.
No way, Zhang Liao, who has mastered the correct usage of wolf riding, is a dimensionality reduction blow to most generals who are below a certain level.
It can be said that the entire center line has basically lost the basis for counterattack. Falgon and Barras cannot provide barrage-level cover, Oswin is suppressed, Urdu and Lebrili are unable to counterattack, and only Jieding and Nahe are left The two spent a limited amount of time on the Han army's front on the periphery.
This can be a fart, if the time is delayed longer, without foreign aid, it will definitely be the rhythm of death.
But the foreign aid that can be used now is actually only Kailash, Vanana, and Rahman. It is not that there is no reserve army, but that the reserve army does not have the ability to intervene in this kind of battlefield.
Two consecutive attacks had a great impact on Guishuang's morale. Oswin, who was supposed to be an important support, was even targeted as the core target, causing the entire army to fall into trouble.
Faced with the current situation, if you want to intervene in the battlefield instead of investing troops to consume it, then at least you need the ability to face the Han army with the buff of morale decline. Generals of this level have already been invested in the battlefield before. middle.
The rest of the reserves are actually young people, ready to be used for training, but I didn't expect that after the Han army opened up the situation, it would be difficult for the reserve army to even intervene.
The legions led by these young people are full of elites integrated by the Guishuang royal family, but still the same sentence, the young people's spirits come and go quickly, and their morale is up. Dare to fight anything, fearless, but now the morale Decline, fighting for faith and will, this is not the strong point of young people.
Therefore, if these people really want to lead the reserve army to the rescue, relying on the superiority of the troops, it is true that Oswin and others can be rescued, but there will be no need to fight subsequent wars.
Guishuang's current military strength is only a little more than double that of the Han army. Relying on its advantages in strength, terrain, and defense, it is fighting the Han army. Once these three advantages are cracked, Guishuang will die. Although Altay is fighting the current war, it also needs to plan for the future.
You can’t say that if you finish the fight today, you’ll love it tomorrow. It’s not a last resort. Altay must plan to finish the fight today without hurting the foundation. Relying on the superiority of troops, when switching battlefields, more soldiers will feel it. Take a look at the cruelty of the battlefield, soldier experience +10, many veterans with 90 points or more were lost, but more veterans with 70-80 points were born.
This is a virtuous circle, and this is the basis for Guishuang to support the Han Dynasty. If there is a tragic battle and the Han Dynasty is blocked, but the soldiers are finished, as long as the Han army can attack again, Guishuang will surely Those who lose can't watch, anyone can fight that kind of war.
So now, instead, we must be patient, and we must not send these immature seeds. There is still a long distance between promising young generals, mature generals, and generals who can bear the heavy burden.
"General, if you don't make a move, our central army will collapse." Segedi said extremely nervously, the flanks could hold up, but the center line really couldn't stand it anymore. Xu Chu brought those super soldiers and talents to the full After the top shield guard reached the center line, Jie Ding and Nahe really had no choice.
Originally, it could be harassed by mobility, but the shield guard led by Xu Chu is a tank, and it is the kind of tank that fights light infantry. Guishuang can't stop it at all. .
Even if there is no talent, it is not something that ordinary elites can parry. In addition to the problem of the strength of Guishuang's weapons, even the Patuo armored army, mainly Natara, can parry it with shields. This kind of attack may also cause the deformation of the shield, the impact is too heavy, the soldiers cannot bear the force, and the bones will be broken directly.
And this is not the worst, what is really bad is the other infantry who are not Patuo soldiers. Those soldiers are not qualified to parry in the face of this kind of attack, they can only dodge, because they can't solve any problems by parrying with weapons. Cut the weapon in half directly.
But the current situation is a large battlefield strangulation battle, both sides are arrayed against the enemy, there is no room for dodge in the dense strangulation battlefield, once the dodge front is directly penetrated, what is the defense!
Compared with the elegant piercing ability displayed by wolf riders, the shield guards led by Xu Chu displayed brutal crushing ability, bloody violence, but full of terror of power.
So that Xu Chu personally led the army into the center line, and after the soldiers on the center line of Guishuang realized that this thing was invincible, the front line began to collapse naturally.
What is an opponent? Only the same level is called an opponent. This kind of army that can neither break the defense nor deal with it, and its own lethality is beyond the table, is considered a fart opponent.
Originally, if Falgon and Balas hadn't suffered heavy losses, they could still suppress Xu Chu's army, but before Guan Yu ordered Huang Zhong to take away Guishuang's archer army at any cost, and after strangling with Duizi, Guishuang Although there are still archers left, the top archers like Falgon and Balas who can carry out suppressing orders have been destroyed as a system.
So much so that although Guishuang is still providing arrow rain suppression, this kind of arrow rain is better than nothing, at least the effect on shield guards is zero.
It can be said that on the entire Guishuang front, except for the Scythian archers led by Maximing who are still playing a role, the other archers are all added.
Especially Falgon and Balas, basically have no fighting power. After more than 4000 casualties, Huang Zhong and his subordinates took away more than 70% of Falgon and Balas.
Although in terms of the exchange ratio, it is far lower than the exchange ratio of the Han army's top legion to Guishuang, but it is of great significance to other legions. Much smoother.
Although those two things are still organizing archers to counterattack, the meaning of ordinary archers to the shield guards of the Han army is basically equivalent to meaningless.
Similarly, legions such as wolf cavalry, red blood cavalry, and Yuyang sudden cavalry, which are easily suppressed by the rain of arrows, were able to fully let go of their hands and feet, and desperately stabbed at the Guishuang front, causing the Guishuang front to barely support from the original. Directly towards the precarious direction.
"Is your reaction so slow?" After Macrinus forced Zhang Fei back, he looked at Zhang Fei with a strange expression and said, "It has been so long since you received the information, but you still haven't responded? I saw that your information transmission speed is not very fast. soon?"
Zhang Fei didn't speak, and continued to attack. He was also surprised. It is said that Guan Yu should have received information from Zhang Fei before the whole army launched a counterattack. As a result, the battle line has not changed yet. Zhang Fei doesn't believe that his second brother doesn't know. severity.
Compared with the victory in the main battlefield, the greatest victory is when Chen Xi is fine. There is no need to compare which is more important. The momentary victory or loss here is not important at all. With the resources that Chen Xi has continuously transported, victory or defeat is only a matter of time. But without Chen Xi, they won't be able to keep winning!
"It seems that your camp is not very important. It was an oversight of mine." Makrinus relied on his personal guards to parry Zhang Fei's headquarters, and then retreated slowly. Altay's order came. Just gotta do something right.
"Attack." Maximinus directly ordered the official slave emperor Maximinus to lead the Balearic slingers and European-specific spearmen to assist the center line, and told Maximin not to waste his bow and arrows on the Huangzhong front. , but barrage cover for the center line.
This adjustment took effect quickly, and the offensives of the wolf cavalry, red blood cavalry, and school swordsman on the center line suddenly slowed down. It is almost inevitable that the bow and arrow will be suppressed and the offensive will slow down.
However, he gave up the suppression of Huang Zhong's front, and Huang Zhong, who was relieved, quickly organized his men to suppress the Scythian front led by Maximing, but Maximing was far more ruthless than other generals. The archers suppressed the Han army, creating a center line for Maximinus to attack the Han army, forcing him to return to help.
"Throw the spear!" Maximinus ordered loudly when he rushed to a distance of more than ten steps from the Han army. To be honest, facing the shield guards, even Maximinus felt his heart thump. There is no way, this thing The defense ability is too outrageous.
Relying on the strength of the instant explosion, the Balearic slinger picked up the one-jin short spear he was equipped with, and threw it fiercely towards the front shield guard. The shields of the shield guards flew away, and some were nailed to the shields, but there were very few short spears that actually killed the shield guards, and this was already a very high-end medium-range attack mode.
Instant burst of strength, integration of strength, the combination of these two talents allowed the Balearic slingers to explode beyond their own limits in an instant, and the speed of throwing spears almost reached the arrow speed of top archers. Compared to the weight of the arrow, throwing a spear is ten times the weight of the arrow, and its natural power is also ten times that of the opponent.
Even if it can only guarantee such terrifying power at close range because it has no other talents to maintain, it is definitely one of the top short- and medium-range lethal abilities.
However, even so, the Balearic slingers basically couldn't exert much effect in the face of the shield guard's defensive ability comparable to the Wall of Sighs.
Of course, it is not a lack of power, but a problem with the quality of equipment. If the short spears of the Balearic slingers are replaced by Chen Xi's nickel-steel three-edged rapier with an all-steel tip, there is a considerable possibility at this distance. Pierce the shield and armor of normal shield guards.
It's a pity that although Guishuang has provided reliable weapons and equipment for this group of people, the short spears for projection are mainly made of iron-clad wood. This thing is no different from a real steel spearhead for ordinary opponents. , but for shield guards who can catch it, the gap is huge.
As long as many throwing spears are a little skewed, they will be directly ejected when they hit the smooth shield surface. Those that can really stick to the shield basically require that they be almost flat with the shield surface when they are hit, and such a requirement Difficult to achieve on a chaotic battlefield.
If you want to effectively attack the shield guards, realistically speaking, an all-steel spearhead is the most reliable and effective solution. However, it is impossible for Guishuang to provide a short spear with an all-woozi steel spearhead, which can give a whole package Ironwood is already based on the combat effectiveness of the Balearic slingers.
"Pikemen attack!" Maximinus looked at this scene with a calm face, his expression hardly changed. For him, such a result was expected.
The Balearic slingers rely on their power to burst instantly and integrate their strength to throw spears. They are definitely a first-class powerful attack in other places, but facing the shield guards, Maximinus has positioned them as the battle line from the very beginning. Overpower and pin down attacks.
Although he had some other ideas before he did it, when he actually did it, the facts were in front of him. He thought too much about piercing the shield guard, and it was not easy to penetrate the shield.
So if you want to fight shield guards, you have to rely on other means. I'm afraid it won't work to rely on Balearic slingshots. This thing is reliable for fighting other arms. It's better to save yourself the trouble of playing shield guards. .
As a unit with low lethality and attack ability among mainstream legions, shield guards can definitely be included in the ranks of the top legions in terms of defense ability.
To be precise, most of the top legions may not have the defensive ability of conventional shield guards. For example, the school swordsmen, wolf cavalry, holy death cavalry and other legions have a weaker defense than shield guards.
But fortunately, Makrinus had discussed with his two brothers how to face the shield guards at the beginning, and selected suitable elites from the barbarian army under his command, and spread them to a certain extent, and now it is time to test up.
Under the command of Maximinus, the Roman barbarians using super long spears more than two feet long smashed down when the shield guards rushed to six or seven meters away from themselves. These were soaked in oil and strengthened. At this moment, the long spear with toughness played an amazing effect.
Accompanied by the smashing of the Roman barbarian army, the [-]-[-] meter long spear was thrown into an arc and smashed down with a whistling sound. Xu Ding, who was leading the soldiers to block the attack, felt uncomfortable just hearing the whistling sound. Fortunately, the centurions on the front line immediately ordered the soldiers to raise their shields to defend.
"Boom!" There was a muffled sound, and the shield that was held high was hit by the tip of the gun. The soldier holding the shield felt tight in his chest and almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
"Get the bow and arrow!" The centurion gave the command immediately after seeing this scene.
Half of the fairy veterans that Liu Bei transferred were put into these main battle legions as the backbone centurions. These people have experienced hundreds of battles and have small-scale command and coordination capabilities, which greatly strengthened the battlefield response capabilities of the backbone legions and the frontline breakthrough ability.
"The combination of heavy weapon strike type talent and long-range penetration type talent, non-penetration shock, use bow and arrow!" The front-line centurion quickly integrated information and passed it on.
There is another chapter in the back. Yesterday, I suddenly realized that Chinese is profound and profound. The word "de" was added, and the semantics changed directly. I fell into deep thought. Vote quickly, everyone!
(End of this chapter)
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