Chapter 470: Recruiting Veterans
Guo Hao ran to where Huangfu Song was overnight. The gap between single talent and double talent was beyond his imagination.
Luoyang had always been in the starting line-up of the Imperial Guards, and his bodyguards were either Sun Riders or Yulin Army. He had been accustomed to seeing high-level troops for a long time, which resulted in Guo Hao rarely encountering troops with single talents.
But the collision between Youyuying and the Fuma Ninja was so shocking that Guo Hao had to panic.
"Master Huangfu! Something happened!"
Huangfu Song, who was writing a military book as a teaching material for Chen Qianzhi, was almost scared to death by Guo Hao. The general of the time said that something had happened, so how could this be a trivial matter?
When the previous general came to him to tell him that something had happened, the Yellow Turban Rebellion had just broken out.
On the other side, Chen Qingzhi, who had just arrived in Qingzhou, was also very nervous. Was the first thing he encountered after graduation so exciting?
"What happened!" Huangfu Song stood up quickly, fearing that something terrible would jump out of Guo Hao's mouth.
"Mr. Huangfu, look at this battle report!" Guo Hao handed the battle report of Youyuying to Huangfu Song.
"This... isn't this a victory?" Huangfu Song took a closer look and found that this was a battle report of victory, but the casualties and gains were beyond his expectations.
"A one to five ratio of casualties?" Huangfu Song ignored the gains and focused his question directly on the casualties.
Guo Hao didn't beat around the bush and directly told all the information he had learned.
"Isn't this... great? A single-talent team fighting against two-talent teams can still cause such damage. This is probably all thanks to your talent, General!"
Huangfu Song clearly showed an expression of surprise. To be honest, if he led a legion to fight against Guo Hao, the possibility of winning was too small. This kind of comprehensive amplification ability was just a scam.
" Mr. , didn't you understand? Three thousand against two thousand, and there were more than a thousand casualties in a short time!" Guo Hao was a little speechless. Wasn't what I said straightforward enough?
"Okay, General, calm down and listen to me!" Huangfu Song understood everything completely. He smiled and shook his head, signaling Guo Hao not to be so excited.
"General, you should know that when two legions of equal numbers of soldiers with two talents fight against each other, the casualties can be as high as one to five. And this casualty ratio does not even take into account the collapse of morale."
Huangfu Song signaled Chen Qingzhi to pour tea for Guo Hao. Seeing Guo Hao's slightly anxious look, Huangfu Song spoke slowly.
"The Youyu Camp is just a newly trained single-talent legion. The reason why it can fight against the double-talent legion is entirely because of your strong talent, General. In fact, the gap between the two sides is obvious!"
"General, you always travel with the Yulin Army and the Sun Cavalry. Your understanding of the basic combat power is too superficial!"
Huangfu Song shook his head. The question went straight to the core of the contradiction, which was Guo Hao's unfamiliarity with combat power.
"Grandpa Huangfu, is there any way to add a batch of dual-talented soldiers?" Guo Hao asked with a frown.
"Unless you use human lives to pile up, there is no way to replenish them quickly. General, you are too impatient!"
Huangfu Song's words were like a wake-up call, giving Guo Hao a clear understanding of reality.
He was indeed very anxious. How could he not be anxious when he subconsciously defined everyone around him as an enemy?
The Han Empire has 300,000 pairs of talents, more than 20,000 guards, and four military souls. This configuration is very powerful, but it is far from enough if he wants to fight on all fronts. He must make some choices.
"I understand! But I was too hasty!" Guo Hao regained his composure and gradually calmed down.
Before this, his mentality was too impetuous. He could even come up with plans like destroying Japan in three years and clearing out Southeast Asia in ten years.
"The general and the prime minister are only in their twenties, so they can take it slow!" Huangfu Song said with a smile. Only at this time could he experience the feeling of being a senior.
Guo Hao silently bowed to show that he accepted the advice, but unexpectedly Huangfu Song changed the subject and denied what he had said before.
"However, I do have a way to help the general quickly recruit a group of elite troops!"
"I'd like to hear the details!" Guo Hao was confused and asked directly without any hesitation.
"Old soldiers are being rehabilitated! Why doesn't the general call back all the veterans from years past?"
Huangfu Song said this with a smile. He had long felt that Chen Xi's veteran transfer system was nonsense. It was nonsense to consider someone a veteran just because they had grey hair.
Now that the vitality of heaven and earth is so developed, any soldier with double talents will definitely delay their peak period by another ten or eight years. Isn't it nonsense for Chen Xi to withdraw most of the veterans?
Of course, this is only one aspect. In fact, Huangfu Song was targeting soldiers from even earlier times.
The Han Empire did decline under Liu Hong's rule, but there was no war, which means that the foundation of the Han Empire was still there.
Duan Ying, Zhang Huan, Huangfu Gui, Zhu Jun, Lu Zhi, and the previous generation's Central Guards, those legions were all disbanded. But if you really want to say how long ago that era was, it's actually less than 20 years.
Without talking about the distant past, let’s just talk about the group of veteran soldiers that Huangfu Song led to fight against the Qiang people in Liangzhou. After the battle and the rewards were received, they were disbanded on the spot and went home.
Those were veterans who had experienced blood and fire head-on. They had been washed back and forth in his hands countless times. The five Beigong schools that were left were the cream of the crop.
Those veterans may not be as good as the Royal Guards due to their age, but they can still easily defeat dual talents, especially those abnormal soldiers who have spent their entire lives to refine one talent, they can all be used directly as officers.
A group of pure single-talent recruits may not be a match for those with double talents, but when a group of single-talent recruits is mixed with a group of veterans, the legion will be different.
To be honest, for big guys like Huangfu Song, double talents and single talents are all nonsense.
In other words, he had caught up with a good era. After his talent was formed, he could draw the essence of heaven and earth into himself, making his soldiers unexpectedly powerful.
In the past, it would be good if the same training could produce regular soldiers. After all, when fighting, they would fight in large armies, and elite soldiers would be born as the fighting went on.
Those elites are the real elites, with willpower and quality matching each other. Even if they were in today's world, they would at least be the Royal Guards.
However, since the new era has arrived, Huangfu Song and his companions will not resist it. After all, the tide of the times is rolling forward, and if they cannot adapt to the times, they will eventually be eliminated by the times.
Especially Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun and Lu Zhi are one level lower than him, so he can manipulate their talents to produce the effects he wants, while the remaining two can only guide the general direction.
By the way, the growth of the essence of heaven and earth led to a decrease in the difficulty of Huangfu Song's military training, so he wanted to replicate all the brilliant military forces in history.
The Fish Camp was his first step, and it now seems to be very effective.
