Chapter 942: Crowd
However, after understanding the different treatments for Kushan regular soldiers and Kushan lower castes, Guan Ping and Wei Yan breathed a sigh of relief. Although there were still many of them, at least they could fight a few and delay time.
Although three hundred thousand are a lot, they are much easier to fight than all the elite troops originally thought. At least they can run away if they cannot win.
If it were all elite troops, they might all die here today.
These low castes have average combat effectiveness and extremely poor organizational skills.
However, this time Brach made full use of Nangui's advantage in small-scale combat, mainly promoting and training low-caste Kshatriyas, and using the most standard Brahmin combat method.
That is, a Kshatriya and his servant army, a small group of gods and Buddhas, fight in an uncoordinated manner.
What is different from before is that this time people of low castes can also become Kshatriyas, and as long as you can fight, you can break free from the shackles of fate.
The Kushan upper class actually opened up the upward channel of the caste system and put all the blame on Brahma for the previous problems, while the new policy was advocated by Shiva.
Not only did it inherit all the original advantages, but it also thoroughly mobilized the enthusiasm of the lower castes.
This is actually an application method that maximizes the military situation.
No matter who your opponent is, no matter how you deploy your forces, no matter how you lure the enemy deep into your territory, no matter how many loopholes you have, it will be of no use.
The Kushans made up for the shortcomings of this battle in the simplest way: numbers.
The visualization system is terrible, and the military quality of the lower castes is also terrible, but when it comes to small group combat of a hundred people , it has excellent benefits.
In terms of the combat quality of a hundred men alone, both the Han Dynasty and Rome had to rank behind the Kushans. The coordination brought about by the unity of gods and Buddhas enhanced the organizational capabilities to an incredible degree.
But when it came to the level of thousands of people, the Kushans could not catch up even if they tried their best.
The larger the number of people, the worse the organizational ability. After all, everyone is visualizing gods and Buddhas and cannot be compatible with each other.
But it doesn’t matter. People of low caste are not considered human. I use human lives to exchange for your physical strength. How can you deal with this?
Unless you have a military soul or something to mow down the enemies, you will be exhausted to death sooner or later. It will be the same even if you have three talents. Without a super long stamina bar, you will be defeated by anyone who comes.
It sounds powerful, but if it were the Roman Han Dynasty, so many people would be enough to directly crush the military spirit with the cloud energy. The two armies are not on the same level at all.
This is a cultural problem that Rahul cannot change. If Rahul can use small-scale teams to form a large-scale battle group, then Rahul is no longer at the level of commanding a large army, and it is not excessive to give him the title of half-military god.
However, this has nothing to do with Brahe.
In order to become Kshatriyas, the lower castes went completely crazy and started a desperate charge under the leadership of the leading lower caste.
"Calm down! They are just random soldiers. Our army has nothing to fear!"
Wei Yan first replicated Zhao Yun's talent and blessed the soldiers at the front. Facing the huge crowds of people, the front lines received the greatest impact, in order to ensure the integrity of the battle line.
Even though he knew that the front line was full of elite troops, he couldn't help but bestow the gift of calmness on these people.
"Wen Chang, you are too cautious!" Guan Ping frowned.
Wei Yan's legion talent is one of their biggest trump cards in this war. If they start wasting it now, it will be difficult for them to hold on to the end.
To be honest, Wei Yan used to be a man who loved taking risks, but when his various tricks were defeated, Wei Yan also became a cautious and prudent person. Perhaps this can be regarded as a helpless change.
Guan Ping had no time to think, as the enemy's follow-up fleet began to approach the shore. They had to press forward, otherwise they would be in danger while waiting for the enemy's elite troops to land and organize their formation.
"Forward! Press forward!"
Guan Ping rushed to the front line with the shield guards without hesitation. The strong defense of the shield guards gave them absolute confidence.
The huge shields in their hands clearly tell them that they can withstand attacks from crossbows without getting hurt, and these miscellaneous soldiers in front of them are definitely not their opponents.
For a moment, the low castes who rushed up were like waves hitting rocks, and were smashed to pieces.
The shield guards basically ignored their attacks, taking slow but steady steps forward, pushing them steadily backwards.
"Shoot!" Wei Yan shouted, pointing at the Kushan soldiers who had just landed.
The low-caste soldiers intercepted by the shield guards are not worth wasting arrows on; the elite troops far away are Wei Yan's prey.
With the shield guards standing in front of him, Wei Yan organized the archer corps into a square and organized archer corps in order to maximize their combat effectiveness. Although there were only 3,000 people, 2,500 of them were from Changshui.
Changshui's killing power is not strong, and the purpose of bringing Changshui is to cut grass, but Wei Yan has other ways.
He added his own replica of Guan Yu's sharp talent to the physical explosive arrows of these archers, then waved his hand and began to attack those elite troops.
A large number of arrows burst out, and hundreds of the Kushan talented soldiers who had just logged in fell down instantly under the organized rain of arrows.
The extreme sharpness of the physical explosive arrows allowed the arrows to ignore the armor on the elite soldiers and pierce into their bodies before exploding.
This was the trick Wei Yan prepared for them. If it was just a sharp arrow, it could only penetrate a hole and was not fatal. If it was just an explosive arrow, it could not pierce the armor. However, when the two were combined, they exerted a strength greater than two.
The explosion that erupted from their bodies almost instantly destroyed the soldiers' internal organs. Even if the internal energy left the body, more air was exhaled than inhaled, let alone them.
After using up a pot of physical arrows, Wei Yan turned off his talent and ordered the archer corps to start a rain of arrows to clear out the miscellaneous soldiers.
The improved Changshui has two talents: Cloud Arrow and Explosion. He can kill mobs faster than mowing the grass.
Due to institutional problems, the Kushans were unable to equip these low castes with extra armor even if they had it, not to mention that they were not that wealthy.
Most of the lower castes wore cloth armor, and only those lower castes who rose to the level of Kshatriya could wear a set of armor with cloth lining.
What can I say about cloth armor? It has defensive power against arrows, but it has no effect on Changshui. I will directly use cloud arrows to explode you, just because you are a miscellaneous soldier and cannot withstand the impact of the explosion.
"Let the Kshatriya Squad charge forward, tear open the battle line, and let those guys rush in!"
"Catapults, crossbows, and cover, we must open up a gap in the battle line!"
Brach watched the low castes being bombed by the Changshui and falling down like grass. He roared and sent out his trump card, commanding the equipment on the ship to fire indiscriminately.
However, strictly speaking, the Kshatriya squad he has has nothing to do with the Kshatriya Noble Warrior Group or the Kshatriya Warrior Corps.
It is to rely on the visualization of gods and Buddhas to forcibly select the internal energy to form a Gang, and then divide it into different internal energy leaving the body according to the classification of the visualization of gods and Buddhas.
An evolved version of a small army of low-caste miscellaneous soldiers, but their strength is completely incomparable.
Although they are all counterfeit from top to bottom, the saying still applies: quantity is enough, and more than a dozen Kshatriya teams of 100 people can be used in large quantities.
The originally rock-solid front began to waver.
If they were not equipped with catapults and crossbows, the shield guards would not be afraid of such attacks at all, but the shield guards are still human after all, and they are still very vulnerable in front of war machines.
Even if the crossbows and slingshots could not kill them, they had deprived them of the strength to withstand the impact.
The Kushan Empire once again demonstrated its fangs in the imperial sequence on the battlefield.
Compared with the Han Dynasty, Rome, and Great Britain, his large legions were inferior in strength, and the top-level warriors were also relatively weak, but their biggest advantage was that they had too many middle-level warriors.
The internal Qi can form Gang and leave the body, they can completely mass produce it. Even if Brahma falls, Shiva and Vishnu don't have enough foundation, and their production speed decreases, they can still mass produce it.
Especially after the shackles of the ascending channel were opened and those talents that were easy to visualize were completely released to the lower castes, the counterfeit versions of internal Qi forming Gang and internal Qi leaving the body have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain.
Rahul once wanted to take the Imperial Scepter south and then use it to form a super army. All members would have internal energy and with the power of the Imperial Scepter, it would be entirely possible to achieve the effect of having all members have pseudo three talents.
Unfortunately, although Vasudeva I trusted Rahul, he could not agree to Rahul's request.
Beigui had finally annexed Nangui, so how could it possibly allow the Brahmins to start over again?
This involves the country's foundation, and Rahul's proposal is not invincible. Compared with directly giving the Guards the Imperial Scepter to achieve the pseudo third talent, it does not completely gain an overwhelming advantage.
"Trouble!" Guan Ping's face darkened. There was a loophole in the defense line. Although it could be held stable for now, it was only a matter of time before it was breached.
The shield guard is not invincible, this is a consensus reached long ago, but when the opponent used this head-on approach to tear open a gap, Guan Ping only felt tremendous pressure.
At this moment, he also understood Wei Yan's intention of using his talent for calmness, and he had to admit that Wei Yan was indeed one level higher than him.
Now , looking at the large number of troops constantly emerging from the Ganges and the battle line being torn apart, the pressure in his heart has doubled.
"It's up to you! Wen Chang!" After realizing the gap between himself and Wei Yan in command, Guan Ping simply gave up his brain and concentrated on maintaining the battle line, leaving the command task entirely to Wei Yan.
"Haha, you have confidence in me!"
Wei Yan looked at the army surging towards him like a sea wave, and the corners of his mouth twitched involuntarily.
But since Guan Ping believes in him, he will give it a try.
"Tanzhi, let them all in!" Wei Yan directly chose to open the battle line and let the enemy's more powerful vanguard penetrate deep into the battle line.
However, this way of playing can easily break up one's own formation. Wei Yan activated the talents of Yu Jin, Zhao Yun, Cheng Yu, and Yan Yan.
He overdrew Changshui's physical strength and launched a wave of indiscriminate and intensive bombardment before he was able to complete this operation.
Not only did they bring all these fronts together, but they also stitched the battle lines back together.
"Luckily it's a shield guard, otherwise I would be in real trouble today!" Wei Yan wiped the cold sweat from his head.
In other words, the shield guard can ignore Changshui's rain of arrows, otherwise he would not be able to maintain the front line no matter what talent he has.
The shield guards could not withstand these attacks because their offensive capabilities were really weak. Once they counterattacked, they might be caught in a loophole because the number of opponents was simply too large.
Without sparing any casualties, many shield guards were forcibly pulled out of the battle line and beaten to death by the enemy during the attack.
Therefore, the shield guard can only allow the opponent to attack, and being dispersed is only a matter of time.
But Wei Yan’s headquarters is different!
Their favorite thing to chew is hard bones!
As he looked at the Kshatriya squad gathered in front of him, pure bloodlust was revealed on his face.
"Kuang Gu! Open! Die!"
Wei Yan's eyes became extremely cold, his stolen exclusive talent was stimulated, and his fierce momentum burst out wantonly, connecting with the momentum of the soldiers under his command, causing the momentum of the soldiers to continue to rise along with his momentum.
Wei Yan, Guan Yu and Bai Qi didn't learn anything else, but they learned this momentum to perfection.
Wei Yan casually stuffed the candy he had prepared in advance into his mouth, and then he roared and rushed towards the enemies who had been let in.
"Huh~ The Han army is really difficult to deal with!"
Brach breathed a sigh of relief. The Han Dynasty was very resilient, but it was this strength that made him feel at ease, because this strength was much weaker than what he had simulated in his mind.
"Let's do it! Let the gods and Buddhas shine with their true brilliance!" Brach ordered coldly, "After the gods and Buddhas shine, the elite troops that have been organized will lead the army to attack the key points of the Han Dynasty's defense line!"
" Send elite troops from both sides to flank our retreat. Now that you're here, don't leave!"
Brach cannot command such a large number of people, and Rahul would not believe it either. Five hundred thousand is the threshold, and most people are turned away.
However, when the Brahmins use human wave tactics, they naturally have their own ways to exert their combat effectiveness.
This is what Brach meant by guidance. Relying on the elite legions as targets, whoever they hit would attract the miscellaneous legions to follow suit, and then mobilize the entire army.
Although there will definitely be a series of problems in the process such as blind obedience, confusion in attack targets, mutual obstruction of attacks, etc.
However, if the Kushan army was large enough, it would be able to solve most problems by simply leveraging its military advantage, and that is what Brahe did.
It's messy and slow, but very effective when the majority is bullying the minority.
As for the blossoming of gods and Buddhas, it directly activates the internal energy of the visualized gods and Buddhas to leave the body, squeezing out the blessings of the visualization of gods and Buddhas in a one-time manner, and strengthening the blessings for everyone.
Only a wealthy group like the Kushans, who can mass produce internal energy out of the body, can use this method.
The counterfeit internal energy leaving the body does not have the legion talent, but through this method, they can burst out an effect that is not inferior to the legion talent blessing.
At the army level, even a slight increase in the average level of blessing is terrifying. All-round blessing like visualizing gods and Buddhas is even more terrifying.
The weaker they are, the stronger the blessing becomes. The combat effectiveness of the miscellaneous soldiers increases from one to two, which is a doubling.
