Chapter 440: Crushing Thoughts
"Okay, let me introduce the others!" Guo Hao changed the subject lightly.
What can he say about the Imperial Guards? Moreover, they are the shield guards transformed from the Yellow Turban strongmen. How could he not know the advantages of these guys? They are extremely strong, resolute, and fearless of death. They have basically reached the threshold of three talents.
But that's all. With their way forward blocked, these Yellow Turban warriors will never be able to become military souls in this lifetime. In the future, it will depend on their performance on the battlefield to see if they can get the third level of talent.
"Do you have a ranged corps? Send one out for me to see. If it's all infantry and cavalry, won't it be a disadvantage when fighting a large-scale war?" Guo Hao took a look at the configuration of the eight schools in Xiyuan. It seemed that there was only one archer corps.
"In fact, we don't really need any ranged troops. Apart from defending the city, carrying weight is actually a big problem!"
Huangfu Song covered his face directly. It was a pity that he felt so guilty before. After all this time, it turned out that Guo Hao was not a military genius.
He could tell from Guo Hao's words that Guo Hao was not a layman, but was most likely just a newbie, because only a newbie could ask such an outrageous question.
"In fact, in a large-scale war, a few ranged legions are enough. Too many will actually affect performance. Without an organized scale, they are useless. However, organized archers are of no use against the real elite."
Huangfu Song really looked down upon the archers as a type of soldier. In the huge pit of Central Plains, archers were completely useless.
"How could that be? Long-range troops should be an important branch of the military!"
Guo Hao looked at Huangfu Song in confusion. Archers are basically indispensable in all war games. Why do archers have such low status in Huangfu Song's game?
"Do you think archers are meaningful for shield guards?" Huangfu Song was speechless. It turned out that Guo Hao only had a superficial understanding. He had always thought that Guo Hao was a genius like Huo Qubing.
At this moment Huangfu Song realized why Guo Hao liked to go to the Imperial Academy for classes so much before. He thought Guo Hao was going to accompany Dong Bai, but it turns out he really was going to school.
"...But for soldiers who are not shield guards, killing enemies should still be a great advantage, right?" Guo Hao scratched his face. He really didn't understand this counter-intuitive thing.
"That's just an illusion. In fact, archers are organized on the battlefield. After a battle, the archers suffer the greatest losses, and the ones who kill the least enemies are also archers." Huangfu Song said very solemnly, "Isn't it very counterintuitive?"
"Indeed there are some, but since you can say that, there must be more things that I don't know, right?" Guo Hao admitted it honestly without putting on airs.
"General, most archers are strong and powerful, and the arrows they shoot are more powerful and deadly. However, this is relative to regular soldiers. With the birth of elite talents, the importance of archers has declined rapidly."
"In the regular soldier stage, archers rely on their strong bodies. Archers are not at a disadvantage in close combat, and they are also a great deterrent to armored soldiers. However, as elite talents develop, the basic qualities of the soldiers will be supplemented by talents."
"The first talent completely abandons melee combat and focuses on shooting arrows, which is still useful, but with the second talent, archers are completely pulled off the main stage of war."
Huangfu Song sighed. In fact, the bigger reason was poverty. No matter who is rich like Chen Xi, everyone lives a tight life.
"For example, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry , their throwing effect is far better than that of archers, and they can also catch arrows with their faces and then kill the archer legion!" Huangfu Song gave an example.
"You should have heard about why the Han Dynasty preserved the Changshui and Shesheng."
"Shesheng is used to restrain various strange talents and achieve the ultimate one-for-one effect, while Changshui is used to deal with civilians!" Huangfu Song revealed the cruel reality.
Indeed, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is a very convincing example. Not to mention ordinary archers, even Changshui is just a tickle for the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.
But on the other hand, the long-range attacks of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry were fatal to Changshui.
For archers, how to play if they can't break the defense ?
"So the current position of archers is very awkward. They are useless against strong troops, and their lethality against weak troops is not as good as other troops. They are neither good nor bad. There are only two classic legions, Shesheng and Changshui."
Huangfu Song said with a heavy face, who doesn't want to use archers to enrich tactics? There is really no other way.
"Moreover, archers require far more supplies than other types of soldiers, perhaps even double or even multiple times as much. When a large army is fighting, it is easy for them to run out of ammunition. This is really too bad."
"In comparison, even if I bring shield guards, I can still launch a legion attack to replace the effect of archers. There is really no need for that."
Huangfu Song finally sentenced the archer to death, since it was useless in his plan anyway.
"You can train a few of them. It's acceptable to exchange a pot of arrows for a regular soldier or something like that. After all, the value of a young and strong man is much higher than a pot of arrows, right?"
Huangfu Song was completely speechless. He was really shocked by the confidence of such a person who did not take money seriously. This was simply unimaginable a few years ago.
In the past, human life was not as valuable as arrows, and people even had to use extreme soldiers like the elite soldiers. But now the situation is reversed. It really shows that they are rich and powerful.
"Wait." Guo Hao frowned, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
"You didn't count the explosive arrows, did you?" After a while, Guo Hao finally found the blind spot.
The disadvantages mentioned by Huangfu Song can be completely compensated by the krypton gold effect. Huangfu Song did not seem to include the arrows developed from engraving.
"Explosive Arrows are too expensive! And if they can't be mass-produced, they won't make much sense!"
Huangfu Song rolled his eyes. Exploding arrows were not something that humans could use. Ten years ago, a war would have emptied the national treasury. Only a fool would use such a thing.
"Luoyang has already entered mass production. You should start preparing to research a related legion." Guo Hao looked at Huangfu Song with a squint.
This is typical ancient war thinking. Why fight a war if you are unwilling to spend money? It is also too pathetic to fill the hole with human lives.
Caliber is justice, range is truth.
For a player like Guo Hao who is deeply influenced by modern warfare, long-range firepower is king.
How can we fight a war without enough firepower? Just bomb them, bomb them to death, it is so much easier to wash the ground with artillery fire!
Huangfu Song opened his mouth wide, not knowing what to say for a moment. Guo Hao's words made him feel a deep dimensional blow.
That is a kind of dimensionality reduction crushing of the poor by the so-called super rich.
"We have a prime minister, money is meaningless!" Guo Hao patted Huangfu Song on the shoulder. The pauper's mentality is not acceptable!
