Chapter 2533
Strong Foundation
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Xu Shu listened to Xi Zhong's suddenly changed tone, turned his head to look at the people around him, and nodded thoughtfully.
When a country is poor and weak, the more people who stand up, the greater the price they will have to pay.
With just a little guidance, this kind of cost can strengthen the backbone of a country, engrave its heart and soul, and become the nourishment of civilization, but the cost itself will not disappear.
The road to becoming a strong country is so difficult. Whether it is them in the past or the Parthian Empire today, they have to take the same path.
However, their path was barely successful, and as a prelude, the once extremely powerful Xiongnu Empire was completely dead.
In Xu Shu's opinion, Parthia still has a long way to go.
This is a road that is destined to be full of sacrifices, but it is also a road that people continue to move forward on. Although it is full of thorns, it is also full of rewards.
It can be said that at this time, Xi Zhong and Xu Shu, although thinking about the same problem, had different directions.
However, the two men's thoughts did not affect the slow advance of the army.
With Vologases V personally leading the army, there was no one blind enough to see anything along the way.
Even the horse bandits and robbers who were more noisy in the past would retreat and stay away from this slowly advancing and powerful army.
During the entire march, generals at all levels from the Han Empire and the Parthian Empire learned a lot of useful things from the marching formations, and understood what changes would occur in the army after its number of people exceeded 100,000.
"Although there are a large number of people, such a marching formation is enough to show that there are quite a few new recruits among them. It seems that Emperor Vologases V's idea is similar to ours, using war to train troops." Cao Zhen looked at the marching team that was far inferior to his own legion, as well as the elite soldiers who occasionally flashed in the formation, and understood where this phenomenon of dislocation and confusion came from.
“I just don’t know to what extent the other party has been trained?” Cao Chun looked back at the cavalry behind him. While asking others, he was also asking himself, to what extent exactly they have to achieve?
"Of course he is invincible in the world!" It can be said that when Cao Chun asked this question, Li Jue, who came to join in the fun, blurted out the answer in his heart.
"Invincible in the world?!" Cao Chun was stunned when he heard this, then turned to look at Li Jue, opened his mouth, and finally remained silent.
Based on the reality, Cao Chun naturally knows that being invincible in the world is basically nonsense.
Whether it was the humility he had learned or the various powerful armies in reality, they all made Cao Chun understand that the so-called invincibility basically does not exist.
It can be said that this is the purpose of training the army from the beginning. Is this really training the army? Rather than fooling around?
"Of course, just like us, invincible in the world!" Li Jue patted his chest unceremoniously, speaking righteously as if he was telling a world truth.
The tone revealed in Li Jue's words made people unconsciously believe that Li Jue was definitely not joking.
Even Cao Chun, after thinking about the past battle records of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry, looked at Li Jue, saw the other party's sincere eyes, and nodded forcedly.
If he really tells lies and denies what the other person says, the other person might just take advantage of him and challenge him directly.
Even if you know that what the other person says doesn't make sense, but if the other person has a bigger fist and is obviously more powerful, then what he says may still make sense.
"That's right. Since we are going to train, then we should aim to be invincible. If we can't even become invincible, then what's the point of training?" Li Jue used slightly arrogant words to try to make Cao Chun understand what the ultimate truth of military strategy is.
The reason why Li Jue was willing to explain and guide Cao Chun, and point him on a path that he believed to be correct, was because Zhang Xiu, as the son of an old friend, could not be helped much by Li Jue and others, but showing a sense of presence from time to time would also make Zhang Xiu's situation and status much safer.
On the other hand, it was to ease the conflict they had with Cao Cao and make the situation for both sides calmer.
Of course, under normal circumstances, Li Jue would have no such thoughts or ideas, but Jia Kui did.
After learning about the routes of Cao Cao's forces, Jia Kui combined the intelligence collected from the country and made a new assessment of the current situation in the Western Regions and Central Asia.
Although this judgment may not be entirely correct, it is unlikely to change much in the next few years.
That is, for a long period of time afterwards, Li Jue and others were likely to be neighbors with Cao Cao's forces.
Although he respected the martial arts of Li Jue and others, Jia Kui really didn't have much hope for their intelligence.
He could only help with the layout on the one hand, and ease the relationship between the two sides on the other hand, and then use the power of the Han Empire to maintain a relatively stable outcome as much as possible.
As for the subsequent changes in the court, that was no longer a situation that Jia Kui could control.
"Invincible, the general is right!" Cao Chun frowned slightly and tried his best to agree with the other party's opinion and ease the prejudice.
Hua Xiong, who was not far away, could only sigh softly when he saw Cao Chun like this.
In fact, there is nothing wrong with what Li Jue said.
It is precisely because the Xiliang Iron Cavalry firmly believes that they are invincible and is willing to prove themselves invincible and keep fighting for this that they have been on this path and will continue to do so.
Firm belief and invincible faith are the basis for the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which emerged from the impoverished and desolate areas, to be proud of themselves in the world.
Whether it is the smelted talent, the hard training, or the firm and thick armor, these are ultimately the external manifestations of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry's strength.
As for the core of it, it has not changed from the beginning to the end. I just don’t know how many armies can understand this.
When they tell the truth, they also need others to believe it.
"Let's go!" Hua Xiong turned his head to look at Duan Yun. Seeing that the other party looked a little dazed, he patted Duan Yun's shoulder and signaled him to keep some distance and continue moving forward.
If they didn't try to speed up, they would be caught up by the infantry behind them.
Although this was a normal march and there was no high requirement for movement speed, they were almost caught up by the infantry. It can only be said that they were a bit slack.
Duan Yun reacted and gave Hua Xiong a blank look, then changed direction and signaled the army to speed up.
If it wasn't for the need to maintain a rough moving speed, would he lead the Flying Bear Army to follow behind the Xiliang Iron Cavalry and be affected by the opponent's speed?
Now I blame him...
(End of this chapter)