Chapter 1222 Kushan Research
After forcing back Cao Cao's attack, Beigui held a celebration banquet. They could be considered to have won again. Although the means were a bit strange, a win is a win.
"Has the spy been caught?" asked Macrinus curiously.
The news about Temujin was deliberately released by Beigui. They were fully prepared and then exposed the news that Temujin was leaving, and they really caught a big fish.
Although he didn't gain any advantage from Cao Cao, he did get rid of the anger of being constantly blocked at the door.
"We only caught some small shrimps. The undercover agent was hiding very deeply." Atler sighed. He was half buried in the ground, but he was still fleeced.
He was also the guarantee for Temujin's departure. Although Barak was still stationed at this mountain pass, he was still invited out by Vasudeva I.
Now that the resurrection technology is mature, even if you die, you can be resurrected. This is also a good opportunity for Atair.
I thought this was how my life would be, but I didn’t expect that I would be able to come out and have some fun in the end.
"Old General, is it really okay if the undercover agent can't be caught?" Barak was a little uneasy. He always felt that someone was watching him, and this feeling made him very uncomfortable.
"How to catch him? That crappy information might have been sent out by Temujin himself. God knows what tricks those people have in mind!" Atel said with a sneer.
The issue now is not whether to catch the undercover agent or not. It is unclear whether there are undercover agents or not. When the Kushan Empire collapses, who knows how many people will rise up in rebellion.
This is the same as when countless people under Cao Cao wrote letters to Yuan Shao during the Battle of Guandu. People's hearts are unpredictable under the general trend.
Just like after Yuan Shao was defeated, Xun Chen, Yuan Shao's biggest strategist who enabled him to seize Jizhou, was able to work steadily in Cao Wei and hold a high position with generous salary. It is hard to say what exactly happened back then.
To Atel, all the Nangui officers, including Temujin, were not trustworthy.
That was why he insisted that Arvind guard Beigui.
Trust is something that is easy to say and difficult to say. Vasudeva I was willing to trust Temujin, and that was Vasudeva I's business.
Atel's position from the beginning to the end was that of the Great Yuezhi, so he naturally had to think about the issue from the perspective of the Great Yuezhi.
"Should we launch a surprise attack on the Han Dynasty? They have just been defeated and their morale should be low. A surprise attack by us should be very effective!" Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Macrinus naturally changed the subject.
Barak glanced at Macrinus. This barbarian commander from Rome integrated into the Kushan people more smoothly than expected, and was even more like a Kushan than those guys in the southern Kushans.
But it's also true that the other party has no sense of belonging to Rome itself. For these barbarians, whoever gives money is the father. The Kushans are willing to treat them as human beings, so they certainly won't go to Rome to be dogs.
"Okay, you take 30,000 people to test the waters, and if it doesn't work, withdraw!" Atel said indifferently.
Macrinus was indeed a good man, and the Great Yuezhi also planned to marry their legitimate daughter to Macrinus. After all, they were a nomadic people, and they looked at bloodline and ability first. For them, a barbarian like Macrinus was equivalent to a new tribe that they had just annexed.
Artel quite likes Macrinus and is consciously cultivating him. After all, Macrinus is a good fighter and still young, so he is a good target to win over no matter where he is.
"Okay! I'll leave now!" Macrinus ran out in a hurry.
He also liked the Kushans, because they gave him respect and a platform to climb up, so he lived very comfortably during his time in the Kushans.
This was also the reason why he took the initiative to seek war. Only by making contributions could he enjoy better treatment. Macrinus understood this deeply.
Atel looked at Macrinus walking away, then turned and said to Barak.
"Send a few young men to pick him up. The Han army should be prepared, and he probably won't get any benefit!"
"You knew, and still sent him?" Barak frowned, somewhat puzzled.
"Although he uses both kindness and force, he is not an invincible commander. A little bit of appropriate setbacks can make him more brilliant!" Atler was calm.
In his opinion, this mountain pass is as solid as a mountain. Unless Nangui is completely defeated, there will be no major problems at the mountain pass. They can even send people to support Nangui.
In his estimation, this war might last for decades, just like the war between Parthia and Rome, it would be a protracted war, so the current combat effectiveness is not important, what is important is the future.
The Kushans were able to revive, so time is on their side. If they continue like this, sooner or later they will wait until the Han Dynasty weakens, and then they will be able to fight back.
Therefore, Atel's focus was not on dealing with Cao Cao, but on training a successor.
"How is your research on that secret guard going?" After teaching Barak some of his experience as a commander, Atel asked about the secret room.
The shield guards under Cao Cao have already shown their potential, so in Atel's opinion, the Han Dynasty may deploy this type of troops on a large scale.
This pure heavy infantry, like the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, will be the biggest enemy of their position defense line.
Although Atair had not yet witnessed the iron torrent formed by the tank clusters of later generations, after fighting with the Han army's shield guards, Atair had already vaguely understood that the development direction and positioning of the shield guards was to advance and crush like an iron torrent.
Although such positioning will cause the Shield Guards to get into trouble in mountainous terrain, large-scale cluster combat is basically carried out on plains, and the core areas of each country cannot be placed in mountainous areas. Once the plains fall completely, logistics support and other aspects will basically have problems.
If they don't exercise restraint, they will suffer heavy losses sooner or later. They in Beigui must not make such a mistake. They have no strategic depth and once the mountain pass is breached, they will be in trouble.
There was only one large military camp and a small military camp behind the mountain pass, and then directly to Peshawar, leaving no room for error, so they had to block the enemy outside the mountain pass.
The Mystic Guard is the result of their research.
The Kushan Empire was at least a relatively normal empire in its prime. Although it was beaten badly by the Han Dynasty several times, it always seized the opportunities during the changing times.
Instead of being like the idiots like Parthia who knew that their tactics were problematic but refused to change them for a hundred years. Although they did have no spare energy and a bunch of internal problems, they deserved to die as their tactics had not changed for a hundred years.
After the war between the Kushans and the Han Dynasty broke out, various technologies were constantly being innovated and secret techniques were being introduced at a frenzy.
The thinking from East Asia combined with the unique social division of labor in Southern Guizhou has actually unleashed considerable potential. Many things that Northern Guizhou only had ideas for but could not solve have actually found the right direction by relying on Southern Guizhou's clear social division of labor.
The Secret Guard is a product born out of this thinking.
In essence, it still relies on gods and Buddhas, but the Dayuezhi in the north do not believe in gods and Buddhas very much, so they choose to deconstruct gods and Buddhas and make them into things like relics.
This way, you can achieve the effect anytime and anywhere.
The abilities of the Mystic Guards are also simple. They work in groups of three, and have the abilities to reduce defense, break armor, and burn. As long as they succeed, even officers with internal energy at the level of becoming a Gang will be severely injured.
Originally, the Kushans wanted to learn advanced skills from the barbarians in order to defeat them, and directly used the shield guards' approach to fight against the shield guards, but after trying to replicate it, the Kushans gave up.
The Kushans are not able to play with krypton gold now. The biggest advantage of the Kushans is that people are worthless, not that money is worthless.
So the Kushans decisively gave up the shield guard plan and set up this secret guard.
The good thing about this thing is that it can be quickly mastered and is cheap. Even if you exchange nine for one shield guard, it is a good deal, not to mention the targeted ability, which allows them to kill the shield guard without any loss when facing him.
Of course, the shield guards' adaptability is a slow process after all. Even if they can escape once or twice and adapt to this ability, there will naturally be gods and Buddhas with internal energy leaving their bodies who will take action against them.
The purpose of the secret guard's existence is to fight against the shield guard in a general sense, not to restrain the shield guard.
Anyway, the shield guard is expensive and cannot be made quickly, so as long as they use a painful exchange ratio, they can always achieve their goal.
But Atel was still one step behind, or it could be said that the Kushans were still one step behind. Guo Hao and his team simply washed out the adaptive ability and replaced it with a more defensive ability.
As a result, the targeted effect of these quickly trained secret guards was immediately greatly reduced, but the Kushans did not know this yet.
This is also a reflection of the Han Dynasty's heritage. They induced the Kushans to take a wrong path, wasted their time, and then immediately changed the system, making the Kushan's targeting a dead letter.
"What's next?" asked Atler.
"We have found His Highness Rangarajan. We can rely on his spiritual talent to infect our secret guards and amplify their faith. This will further improve the combat capabilities of the secret guards!"
Barak said in a deep voice that during the period when the Kushan Empire was resurrecting, many of its former veterans were called out to continue contributing.
Rangarajan is one of them. His ability is terrifying. It can directly make people's beliefs explode, but it is based on damaging the body. Basically, it can be simply summarized as kryptonian's life.
This is also the helplessness of the Kushans. The Han Dynasty played with krypton gold, and they could not compete with it, so they could only spend their lives.
The rich rely on technology, the poor rely on mutation, this is always the case.
The Kushans had no choice but to try these unorthodox methods in an attempt to overtake others. As for whether they could overtake others, that depended on their luck.
"Is there any new progress? The Han Dynasty is not so easy to get rid of!" Atler rubbed his gray hair.
He systematically studied all the wars that the Han Dynasty participated in. One of the first issues was the Yulin Army, which had not yet appeared in Beigui.
So Atel subconsciously felt that the Han Dynasty had not tried its best so far, so when Barak and others were satisfied with the status quo, Atel was frantically asking them to do more.
Although the officers and generals on the Kushan side did not quite understand, Atel's request was reasonable, and he was old and had a high status, so they could only do as Atel said.
Under this step-by-step pressure, a lot of new things have indeed emerged, and they are all very promising.
One is the God and Buddha Cannon, which can directly use the God and Buddha as cannonballs to shoot out and self-destruct. It can replicate the effect of the unweakened legion attack to a certain extent, and is very suitable for making breaches.
Moreover, this thing can cooperate with the Orcs' Windrunner Legion to achieve the effect of bombing, but the price is a bit heavy. It's okay for them to use it for experiments, but if it really wants to carry out large-scale bombing, where can they find so many gods and Buddhas?
So this thing is currently in an early experimental stage.
If it weren't for Atel's strong request, the project might have been directly withdrawn.
Atel thinks this thing is a good way to deal with the steel torrent, but the problem is that the technology is not mature yet.
It only did not weaken the power of the legion's attack, but to be honest, the cost-effectiveness was too low, so Atel had people continue to research it in the hope of producing a more powerful one.
For example, there is a bomb that can directly destroy gods and Buddhas within a radius of one kilometer with one shot.
However, the experimental results have been extremely poor so far. Under the suppression of the cloud, it is difficult to achieve the effect that Atler wants.
However, without the cloud, Atel was confused about whether the attack would be effective or not, which made Atel very depressed for a while.
"Recently, there is a new technology that uses evil gods to infect and artificially create a group of monsters that are not afraid of pain and resist death."
"Huh? Wasn't this technology stopped?" Atler's eyes immediately became sharp.
Of the nearly 10,000 people who were involved in the experiment , almost all died, with only one person alive. The survival rate of one in 10,000 is too low.
Although Atel was aware of using his troops like mud, that was on the battlefield. As a general, it was unacceptable for him to use them in such an experiment.
"It was restarted by Lord Shiva, but the soldiers were replaced with animals and demons. It seems to be working well, and it has accumulated nearly a legion of troops!" Barak quickly added.
A legion composed purely of animals, if used properly, can play a role similar to that of chariots.
The way to deal with the steel torrent is naturally to use the steel torrent. The human body size is indeed difficult to compare with that of animals.
This is also the reason why strategies like the Fire Bull Formation are so powerful.
So Atel's originally serious expression relaxed again.
It would be a good thing for the Kushans if animals could be used as suicide squads.
"Are there any new ones?" Atler asked in a deep voice. Although he was well prepared, he still felt that it was not safe enough.
"No, General, excuse me for being frank, but you seem to be a little too afraid of the Han Dynasty! The power we have now is enough to make this place impregnable!" Barak said after a moment of hesitation.
If he considers the overall situation, he actually does not want Atel to occupy too many resources. Nangui is the area that really needs to be strengthened.
"Put the safety of Kushan on the shoulders of the Han Dynasty? No wonder Vasudeva asked me to come out!" Atel snorted coldly.
Barak lowered his head and reluctantly accepted Atel's rebuke.
