Chapter 1154

"Hmm!"

"As expected, among the imperial armies, only the Northern Border Army is the most elite."

Su Fan had also been to see the Imperial Guard in Luoyang City; their equipment was indeed the best, and their training was actually not too bad.

After all, the Imperial Guard guarding the capital could not be like the end of the Ming Dynasty, drinking soldiers' blood; that sort of thing did not happen in this era.

However, training alone cannot make a large army elite; an elite force only comes from experiencing many battles. Veteran soldiers who have fought a hundred battles are the true elite soldiers.

The Great Qin elite soldiers gained their reputation only after experiencing countless great battles.

The Imperial Guard in Luoyang hadn't even experienced a battle to suppress bandits; soldiers who haven't seen blood, no matter how well trained, are absolutely no match for veteran soldiers on the battlefield.

Veteran soldiers who have been tempered by life and death, even if their physical fitness and equipment are not as elite as these new recruits, on the battlefield, only one thing is tested: killing the opponent.

The border army has fought against the Xiongnu in the northern desert and other grassland tribes for a long time, so their temperament has long been tempered.

Moreover, every level of the border army can be said to be very formidable; the grassroots officers are all selected layer by layer within the army, and each one is very capable.

It's not like other places where officers are parachuted in.

In the border army, it's not that there are no parachuted officers, but the premise is that you must be able to subdue these soldiers. The soldiers' requirements are very simple: you must be strong.

As long as your strength is strong enough, they don't care; although the army also values seniority, the army believes more in the strong.

Because the strong can lead them to victory and lead them to win battles.

As for the high-ranking officers in the army, they are not held by ordinary straw-bag noble clans; in reality, ordinary noble clan disciples rarely choose to come here.

After all, although there are merits to be gained as a border army officer, they are not highly valued. Not a single general who walked out of the border pass ever reached the position of one of the Nine Ministers.

As a result, noble clan disciples naturally have no interest.

Moreover, the border army is very dangerous. The various tribes of the northern grasslands have recovered their strength extremely quickly in recent years, and each one is very terrifying.

In recent years, quite a few high-ranking officers have died or been injured in the border army.

High danger and few benefits naturally mean they are not valued by those noble clan disciples.

Therefore, the border army is mostly controlled by those powerful clans in the north. Because these powerful clans in the north are located in the north and are threatened by the grasslands all year round, they are naturally mostly from military families, and family disciples are mostly martial generals.

These high-ranking officers and generals of the border army are not straw bags. Think about it; after all, the border army often fights against the various tribes of the northern grasslands. If they were really straw bags, they would have been wiped out by those grassland tribes long ago.

Even if there were some at the beginning, they probably either died themselves or were killed by their own people.

The border army is very fierce.

Over time, these officers naturally became truly pragmatic powerhouses.

Su Fan had already been in the north for several months.

The various tribes of the northern grasslands, especially the Xiongnu and Xianbei, are now gradually recovering.

Because they have the bloodline of the barbarians, these grassland tribes indeed have very fierce physical fitness, and the warhorses on the grasslands have an advantage over those in the Central Plains.

The only advantage the Central Plains has is its weapons and armor.

In this regard, although weapons and armor can also be forged on the grasslands, they are still a bit worse than those in the Central Plains. In terms of technology, because of the barbarian priests, perhaps they are not much worse.

However, the only gap is in the scale of forging weapons and armor; the grasslands cannot compare with the Central Plains.

In addition, the iron ore on the grasslands is far from being comparable to that of the Central Plains.

For weapons and armor, the primary things are iron and steel. Lacking these two, no matter how good the technology is, it won't work, especially for weapons and armor for a large number of soldiers.

The imperial army of the Central Plains is much stronger than the various grassland tribes.

Although in terms of quality, perhaps the grasslands are a bit better, in terms of weapons and armor, the role played in war is often greater.

Especially in large-scale battles, unless individual strength exceeds a certain limit, otherwise, large battles pay more attention to weapons, armor, and military formations.

In this regard, the Central Plains will always be more formidable than the grasslands.

This is also the reason why the northern grassland barbarians have always wanted to move south for these hundreds of thousands of years, but have never been able to do so.

Of course, the barbarians have a long history, and the human race has never wiped them out.

If the human race's Fire Cloud Cave wanted to take action, it wouldn't be impossible, but under normal circumstances, Fire Cloud Cave would not easily take action.

After all, the barbarians are also one of the ten thousand races, and all along, the human race has shown a peaceful and tranquil appearance to the outside world.

If they wiped out a race at every turn, it would only make other races wary and fearful. If the ten thousand races really united with the immortals and gods to oppose the human race, then the human race would be in danger.

The human race naturally does not want such a thing to happen.

Previously, the human race was all in the Jiuzhou. As for the human race in the rest of the Three Realms, most were controlled by other forces, and the human race did not manage them.

The barbarians are actually just a chess piece planted in the Jiuzhou by some forces to constantly hold the human race back.

The high-level human race knows this, but they have ignored it. Having this chess piece not only holds them back, but isn't it also constantly tempering the dynasties of the Jiuzhou?

It can stimulate a portion of the human race's elites.

In Great Qin and before Great Qin, there were many elites in the Jiuzhou who constantly rose up when resisting the northern barbarians, and quite a few human elites emerged.

Especially in terms of the military school, quite a few brilliant figures entered the Fire Cloud Cave.

Without the northern barbarians, could these people have been stimulated? I'm afraid that's not necessarily true.

But now, I'm afraid this chess piece of the barbarians has almost lost its use.

First, because of the sealing of the Jiuzhou, the potential has dropped, and both the Heavenly Court and the human race have begun to stop paying attention to it.

As a result, the chess piece has lost its use.

Secondly, there is the appearance of another world, and the forces of the Three Realms have all set their sights on that world.

The various parties of the Three Realms in the future will pay more attention to uniting with allies, and the human race is one of the top forces in the Three Realms.

No party will easily ignore them.

Thus, which force would dare to easily offend them?

The Jiuzhou don't know this, but Su Fan has guessed a few points. As for the barbarians, Su Fan doesn't care at all. If it weren't for the support of forces behind them, they would have been wiped out by Great Qin long ago.

In fact, it was almost the case before. Meng Tian back then almost wiped out the northern tribes, and the Northern Border Legion led by Meng Tian was also the most elite legion of Great Qin.

And Meng Tian himself was an extremely powerful powerhouse. The barbarians had powerhouses, but they were still a bit worse than Meng Tian.

After all, as the Great General of Great Qin, Meng Tian had abundant luck and finally, like Wang Jian, became a Great Luo Golden Immortal.

Although the barbarians had a priest ancestor, they were no match for Meng Tian, who practiced martial arts.