God Three Group Chat: Three Kingdoms

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However, given the current situation, Guo Jia thought it over carefully and decided to abandon that possibility and focus instead on the matter of Huang Xu himself.

Huang Zhong's concern stemmed from a simple reason: the troops under Huang Xu's command had changed drastically compared to the former Xuzhou.

In Xuzhou, Huang Xu also commanded a unit of sword and shield soldiers. Even though their equipment wasn't particularly good, their defense and survivability were quite good. Combined with Huang Xu's own legion talent, their survivability was extremely strong.

However, the legion that Huang Xu commands now is no longer a swordsman and shieldman legion, nor is it a shield guard legion that suits his talents. Instead, it is one of the few ranged legions in the entire army, trained after Lu Zhi arrived at Mount Tai and participating in many battlefields as the Shooting Battalion.

Their elite status goes without saying. They can easily draw a hard bow, so their physical fitness is definitely reliable. Coupled with their rich combat experience, once they switch to melee weapons, they are truly elite troops.

However, due to the biases of the military, this Archery Battalion is more biased than the former Central Imperial Guard of the Han Empire.

The Archery Battalion of the Han Empire's Central Imperial Guard was a super-elite long-range force that could face any army with a bow and arrow, and when it put down its bow and arrow and picked up a ring-handled sword and shield, it was also an extremely excellent frontal combat force.

However, the situation is completely different for the Archery Battalion under Huang Xu's command now.

As for the different reasons, Guo Jia was also aware of them and could better understand the complexity involved.

Huang Xu, whose Legion talent is Accumulated Rebound, is theoretically particularly suitable for heavy infantry, especially super heavy infantry like the Shield Guard. He is top-notch for holding the line.

However, Huang Xu's ability to command the Archery Battalion today can be described as an accident and a coincidence.

In today's world, almost every front-line general in the Han Empire has a legion talent, but among them, there are very few talents suitable for ranged legions.

Even if they exist, they are mostly more suitable for melee legions, giving these legions stronger combat or survivability.

This results in very few purely ranged legions enjoying the bonus effects brought by legion talents.

This situation became so prevalent that officers with a talent for leading legions tended to command melee infantry or cavalry.

The advantages that cavalry demonstrates in most situations allow the effects of Legion talents to be further enhanced.

The combat capabilities of melee infantry, enhanced by talent effects, provide greater survivability and stronger frontal assault capabilities.

This is especially common abroad. Whether for better survivability or combat capability, archer units are not a first choice. Their fragile defenses and low survivability make them vulnerable to heavy losses.

As a result, under the current war model of the Han Empire, the only ranged legion that truly enjoys the benefits of the Legion Talent is the one under Huang Xu's command.

It's understandable that Huang Zhong would have such concerns, given that this was the only such force, and one that hadn't yet been tested in foreign wars.

However, considering everything Huang Xu was capable of, Guo Jia didn't care much about this aspect.

For the Shooting Sound Battalion, to become a qualified soldier, one needs not only great strength but also unwavering willpower.

The former is the basic requirement for drawing a powerful bow, while the latter is the foundation for mastering willpower guidance and willpower lock. Only by mastering both can one become a qualified soldier in the Shooting Sound Battalion.

The effect of Huang Xu's Legion's talent is to accumulate and rebound. When affected by external forces, it can accumulate this part of the power and then unleash it when necessary.

It may seem like it has nothing to do with bows and arrows, but in reality, when a person draws a bow, they are actually fighting against the bow. The drawn bow will continuously exert force on the soldier, just like an external force.

Influenced by this force, Huang Xu's legion talents are able to effectively accumulate power and store it away for use in the next attack.

It can be said that after years of honing his skills and under the guidance of Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, and others, Huang Xu completed the deepening and guidance of his talent in this area.

It can be said that after soldiers complete the corresponding legion talent enhancement, when they draw their bows, they not only consume strength, but can also use the power of the bow itself to enhance their attacks.

In other words, the Shooting Sound Battalion led by Huang Xu not only consumes less physical strength, but also has stronger attack power and a more terrifying ability to sustain combat, further enhancing the lethality of ultra-long-range attacks.

However, Huangfu Song remained silent about the cost of training this unit, never publicizing it to the outside world, and even informing Huang Xu.

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"Even if you make a name for yourself outside in the future, don't say that this unit was trained by me. Just pretend that you trained this unit, and never mention my name..." With mixed feelings, Huangfu Song looked at the successfully trained Shooting Sound Battalion and sincerely warned Huang Xu.

Normal training of ranged legions requires a large number of arrows. Even if Huangfu Song felt regretful about consuming such a number of arrows, under Chen Xi's many years of training, there has been an improvement.

After the improvements were made, Huangfu Song couldn't help but want to curse when faced with Huang Xu's exhaustion.

Normal ranged legions consume arrows, but Huang Xu's Archery Battalion not only consumes arrows but also consumes a large amount of bows themselves.

It can be said that with the talent boost of Huang Xu's army, a normal bow would hardly be able to fire more than twenty shots.

Even though each shot was incredibly powerful, Huangfu Song still couldn't quite accept it. In the end, he sent Huang Xu away completely to prevent this army from wasting a lot of bows in front of him.

Out of sight out of mind.

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Thinking of all that had happened, Guo Jia couldn't help but turn his head to look at the Archer Battalion in Huang Xu's army formation, and sighed as well.

An ordinary archer legion might only carry one bow, plus a few spare bows.

However, Huang Xu's army was completely different in this respect. Not only did they carry two bows, but their military supplies also included a large number of spare bows.

Even if these iron-framed bows, which are made with a large number of metal components, can be recycled and reused after being damaged, their cost will not be low.

It's all thanks to Chen Xi. If it were in the past, Guo Jia felt that whoever developed and researched this method of large-scale destruction of military supplies would probably have been executed; the losses were simply too painful. (End of Chapter)