In the troubled times, a strong army is the foundation of life, this has almost become a consensus, and Qin Xu, who has been a man in two lives, naturally will not fail to understand this truth.

After the situation in Qingzhou gradually improved with the help of the Mi family, Qin Xu had already begun to get involved in the "building" of the army. Although Qin Xu doesn't know how to train soldiers, Qin Xu knows how to throw money! Lu Bu's army is not suitable for drastic reforms in a short period of time, but the Qingzhou soldiers, who are mainly based on Qin Xu in spirit, do not have so many concerns. Moreover, his eldest brother Mi Zhu has always been a "bold" character, especially after Qin Xu's sea-making salt policy became the seventh largest merchant family in the Han Dynasty, he had already made up his mind to support Lu Bujun more vigorously. Since his sister-in-law is in the army, why don't you spend a lot of effort to support it? Anyway, you will never lose money.

A full 20,000 sets of cooked rhinoceros leather are weaved, covered with a high-quality Qingzhou specialty, a highly flexible silk weaving net, and the key parts are also inlaid with leather armor with dark iron protectors, no matter which force it is placed in, it will be extremely "luxurious" equipment. Not to mention anything else, the cost of this single set of equipment is more than 200,000 yuan.

What is the concept of 200,000 dollars? Even now that the Han Dynasty is in turmoil, prices are soaring in various places, and hundreds of dollars are spent on rice. The 200,000 yuan is enough for a family of five to live comfortably for a year or two.

What about the 40,000 dollars spent on 20,000 sets of leather armor?!

Even when Cao Cao and his father spent all their family resources to buy the position of Tai Lieutenant, the highest military governor of the Han Dynasty, from Emperor Ling, it only cost 10,000 yuan. And the most intuitive comparison is that Lu Bujun has such a big stall, and the military expenditure of nearly 100,000 troops is only 10 million yuan a year. If it is used to expand the army, it is enough for Lu Bu's army to have another 100,000 combatable soldiers!

It can be said that this alone has cost the Mi family generations of businessmen and the vast majority of the family wealth accumulated over decades. And Mi Zhu didn't say a word, and he paid very happily! It can be seen how much effort Mi Zhu has put into this time.

And the consequence of this is that when the Qingzhou soldiers led by Qin Xu's headquarters collectively changed their clothes, not to mention the generals of the other battalions of Lu Bu's army, they were red-eyed. Even Lu Bu stared at Qin Xu more than once with a gaze that looked at the local tyrants. The eyes that were shining with divine light, if it weren't for Qin, someone would be Lu Bu's son-in-law. I can't say that I have the mind to rob it. And the prestige of the Mi family, because of Mi Zhu's generous move, has risen to a big step in the Lu Bu army as expected. For a long time, the threshold of the Mi family was shiny.

However, money is not spent in vain! After the armor created at such a large cost was worn on the Qingzhou soldiers, the most direct consequence was that the Qingzhou soldiers, who were originally infantry soldiers and used spears and spears as weapons, gave up most of their defensive power in pursuit of the most extreme attack power. In terms of self-defense, it has shown extremely considerable development. After Qin Xu led the fifty soldiers of the Xiandeng Battalion to Xuzhou, in his spare time, he privately did "experiments", even if it was a big killing weapon such as the Xiandeng Jin crossbow. Unless it is within ten steps, in addition to shooting the head and other exposed vital points, what can be brought to the Qingzhou soldiers is only a moment of pain that does not hurt the combat power, and it is impossible to break through the leather armor of this layer of defense.

Therefore, Pan Zhang mentioned the iron plate this time! The shooting sound crossbow in the hands of the soldiers of the shooting sound battalion was originally made of imitation of the Xiandeng Jin crossbow. Both in range and power, it is weaker than a notch. Unless Pan Zhang ordered the projectile, it would be impossible for the flat fire to cause effective damage to the Qingzhou soldiers at all, a hundred steps away.

There is no regret medicine in the world! Although Pan Zhang, with his superhuman keen eye on the battlefield, quickly discovered the "weakness" of the turtle shell on the Qingzhou soldiers, it was too late!

"Kill! Kill! Kill! "I was born as a Yellow Turban soldier. The combat power of the Qingzhou soldiers who have found the "faith" again, as well as this kind of armor protection, compared to the soldiers of the shooting battalion who can be called elite, but after all, they have been in the army for a short time, whether in terms of morale or combat power. It's really a lot higher. Moreover, although the Qingzhou soldiers were foot soldiers, their marching speed had been strictly tested several times. The distance of more than 100 steps is just a few breaths for this group of Qingzhou soldiers. By the time Pan Zhang wanted to change his strategy to deal with the enemy, the vanguard of the Qingzhou soldiers had already rushed in front of him. Pan Zhang could see the chill in the eyes of the Qingzhou soldiers who rushed to a distance of only five steps away from him and were blocked by several pro-guard soldiers, which made Pan Zhang, who claimed to be brave, feel a little trembling in his heart.

"Protect the General!!" The shooting battalion was an infantry crossbowmen, and after losing the "advantage" of long distances, they quickly abandoned their crossbows and swords, and fought with the Qingzhou soldiers who rushed over and held spears and halberds.

In the martial arts world, there is an old saying that one inch is long and one inch is strong, and one inch is short and one inch is dangerous. The same applies to the current war. Sun Ce has accumulated countless efforts and found a method from the family classics to create this elite soldier who can only be called "born in a professional class", if it is on a battlefield with equal numbers and flat terrain, and the Qingzhou soldiers can only condense the tactics of war in the battle again and again, it should have a greater chance of winning. Just look at the fact that although the shooting battalion gave up the advantage of crossbow arrows, the nearly 1,000 soldiers who had only been in the army for a few months did not need Pan Zhang's order at all, so they consciously formed a group of three or five people, took off the sword and shield behind their backs, and formed a small formation with a high combat power bonus to deal with the Qingzhou soldiers who were as fierce as a tiger. It's just that the current situation is very different from the situation when he was in Fuguan that day. Under the circumstance that there is not much difference in combat strength, the comparison of forces has become the key to determining victory or defeat.

Five to one! The Qingzhou soldiers under the command of Tai Shi Ci have been replenished to 5,000 by Qin Xu, and under the command of Pan Zhang, in addition to the soldiers of the headquarters, the shooting battalion is less than 1,000 people, and the Qingzhou soldiers are still holding spears and halberds that are more than long.

"General! The enemy army is fierce! The superiority of our army has been lost! It's better to plan early! Seeing Pan Zhang, who was protected in the middle by the pro-corps and could barely withstand the strong offensive of the Qingzhou soldiers, couldn't help but stare at his eyes. At this moment, the soldiers on Pan Zhang's side once again whispered the hearts of almost all the soldiers in Pan Zhang's headquarters.

"You're telling me to make a plan!? Do you want to try to confuse the army's mind, a certain reaction?! Pan Zhang spit out almost word by word, staring viciously at the pro-soldier captain who spoke, with a bit of hideous color on his face! The hand was also placed on the handle of the big knife on the bird's wing ring, as if as long as this personal soldier who was very much loved by Pan Zhang in the past dared to say something similar, Pan Zhang would not hesitate to shake the hearts of the army.

"General! There are only 1,000 people in the Lord's shooting battalion! "I don't know if it's a blessing. It's still this pro-soldier captain who really thinks exquisitely. Although Pan Zhang's gaze made him dare not even think of moving, the pro-soldier captain still trembled and spoke.

The Lord's Shooting Battalion! Just these few words made Pan Zhang's heart tremble. The right hand, which had already drawn the long knife from the bird's wing ring, also slowly put it down, and looked at the usually clever pro-soldier captain with a little inexplicable meaning, and nodded thoughtfully.

The words of this pro-soldier lieutenant simply spoke to Pan Zhang's heart. Pan Zhang's ability to get to this point is inseparable from Zhou Yu's recommendation and the competition between the new and old generations of generals in Sun's army. But Pan Zhang himself also knows that this pro-soldier lieutenant is true, don't look at the fact that now Sun Ce has even assigned the most elite soldiers under his command to his command, but if he can't win this battle. Or if the damage to the Shooting Battalion is too great, even if Sun Ce may not be investigated now, as long as the war is over, after Sun Ce takes charge of the whole in the future, he will be the first to be liquidated. Maybe it's him, Pan Zhang, Pan Wensi. Therefore, just seeing that the soldiers of the shooting battalion rushed to the front line without saying a word, Pan Zhang also felt a little emotionally that Sun Ce and the old generals of the Sun family had the training skills of the soldiers, which could make the soldiers even though they were injured by nearly half, and they were still not afraid of death. The next moment, Pan Zhang almost shouted at the soldiers of the headquarters who were not very war-minded: "All the troops! On the opposite side is Tai Shici, the general of the Qin thieves who almost became a prisoner of my rank in Fuguan! They couldn't do it that day! It's still not possible! Gentlemen, for the great cause of the lord, kill someone! ”

I have to say that Pan Zhang is a general who is very good at battlefield mobilization. Otherwise, after Sun Quan took power in history, he would have been called the backbone of Eastern Wu at that time with Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai, who had indirectly voted for Qin Xu at this moment. Pan Zhang's words. It is indeed within a small range, which slightly improves the morale of the soldiers in Pan Zhang's headquarters.

It's just a pity that it seems to be a little too late!

Among the Qingzhou soldiers led by Tai Shici this time, although a large part of them were the elite of the elite who were filled by the soldiers of Qin Xu's headquarters, there were still a considerable number of soldiers after all. It was the same old department that guarded the damaged Fuguan with Tai Shici that day, and it had been cultivated. This time, almost everyone "knew" that day, in order to grab the "first" merit, and after Pan Zhang, who showed his face in Fuguan, the evil fire that had been aggrieved for a long time seemed to have finally found a channel to "vent (vent)". The combat power that burst out in that instant, coupled with the armor with super protection, all seemed to be like tigers entering the flock. Even if a few unlucky eggs were suppressed by the powerful method of several people in the shooting battalion, but what they were waiting for was the crazy onslaught and rescue of the Qingzhou soldiers, it can be said that although the soldiers of the shooting battalion had a slight advantage in the small-scale battle, if they wanted to have greater damage, the price paid would definitely not be bearable.

"This ...... How can this be explained! "The current war situation has completely deviated from Pan Zhang's expectation half an hour ago! Under the onslaught of 5,000 Qingzhou soldiers, despite the addition of Pan Zhang's own soldiers, the number of elite 1,000 shooters has plummeted by more than half, making Pan Zhang's heart almost die. It took a lot of effort to climb to the current position, if it is really as his own pro-military captain said, it is not easy to explain in the end, for Pan Zhang, it is far more disturbing than winning or losing a war. In desperation, Pan Zhang glanced at his own pro-military captain with a look of anticipation on his face, his lips moved, and the two difficult words "retreat" had already sprung up on his lips!

"Wen Si is panicking! Sun is here! ”……