Chapter 1200

It is not that Zhang Jiao and the others are arrogant. It is because they have fully felt the power of firearms and cannons.

Regarding firearms, Zhang Jiao and the others naturally know that the current firearms alone are indeed still inferior when facing cavalry charging in formation.

But if the tactics are appropriate, they can also inflict great damage on the cavalry.

Of course, Zhang Jiao and the others also know that if it is fully armored cavalry, then the damage from firearms to them will be less.

The iron armor worn by those heavy cavalrymen is not ordinary.

Especially the heavy cavalry of many Northern clans; of course, this number is not large. That kind of heavy armor is not even entirely made of pure steel; many use alloys, which at least require cultivation by cultivators to smelt.

Generally speaking, not many people can afford this kind of heavy armor.

At most, there are a few small squads, about a hundred people, and they are all composed of transcendents who have undergone cultivation.

Zhang Jiao naturally went to the North for tempering and saw such private soldiers. Facing this kind of heavy cavalry, Zhang Jiao naturally knows that those fifteen thousand firearms will be difficult to have any effect on them.

Facing those one hundred heavy cavalrymen, I am afraid his fifteen thousand-strong firearm battalion would also be broken through.

As for facing iron armor, it can barely penetrate at thirty paces, but once it is several layers of iron armor or steel armor, it is only within ten paces.

The physical body is divided into external training of divine strength, internal training of internal strengthening, and above that is the Grandmaster Yuan Gang; the physical body's essence and energy transform into Yuan Gang, and the Gang Qi is terrifying. With one slash of a blade or one strike of a sword, the sword qi becomes Gang, invincible and indestructible.

And the human martial arts, the inheritance in the army, is becoming less and less. Only those from clans and powerful families can cultivate in the army. The grassroots commoners who join the army at most exercise a little to increase their physique, wanting to enter the transcendent realm.

Most of these farmers actually could not survive and were absorbed by the Taiping Dao; many were almost starved to death.

However, a distance of ten paces, for a large army, is almost face-to-face slaughter.

The resources of this world are not those of history. Although productivity is still much worse, the scale is larger, so in terms of armor, for the government troops, it is essentially not bad.

But that is all. They have not yet reached the limit of the human body.

As for farmers being busy with farm work every day, they should have good physical fitness; this is also a joke. If they don't even eat well, how can their bodies be good?

After all, the Nine Provinces are sealed, spiritual energy is lacking, and human cultivation is difficult, let alone those demon beasts.

The fifty-thousand-strong army of the Taiping Dao was established too quickly. There are indeed people who have stepped into the realm of divine strength, but among these fifty thousand people, there are fewer than a hundred.

Exercising the physique, but obviously there are not many talented people here. After three years, most of their physical fitness has caught up with some of the government troops in the North, but they are still just mortals.

They all relied on the Taiping Dao's recuperation for half a month before they barely survived, and then in the army, they also started with basic training. The training volume was not large, and after a month, their bodies gradually recovered.

One person dealing with those adult men can be worth dozens.

Only after this can it be considered that they have truly received military training. Training like this for three years, although the army also passed down martial arts methods.

The millions-strong army in Luoyang City is almost all armored, and even the elite among them are in iron armor; about two or three out of ten are in iron armor.

This kind of method has almost been lost in the Liu Han Imperial Court, and even if it exists, very few people cultivate it.

The Yuan Gang simulation of a Grandmaster.

It is just that the inheritance is much weaker than in the Great Qin era. The martial arts of the Great Qin era had many types, especially the ancient martial arts, the most tragic of which was directly devouring the essence and blood of demon beasts to temper the physical body.

It is also the most basic transcendent realm of the martial arts of the Liu Han Dynasty today, with the strength of a thousand catties; in the ancient history of pulling mountains and covering the world, only a few people reached it.

Because firearms cannot penetrate armor, and the soldiers of this firearm battalion themselves are also composed of ordinary people, although they have undergone two or three years of training and their physical fitness is good, stronger than ordinary adult men, one against three might not be a problem.

Finally, it is devouring the essence of demon beasts.

That can only depend on luck.

Only the true elite, perhaps the grassroots soldiers, have a chance.

Of course, this is also the elite.

However, once they face those with armor, for the weakest leather armor, the lethality will diminish; only at fifty paces will it have lethality against leather armor and cloth armor.

And most of them had a foundation before.

The combat power of the firearm battalion, besides tactics, actually what influences the combat power of the firearm battalion is still the firearms.

After that is the martial arts Golden Core and martial arts Primordial Spirit, etc.

But the other ninety percent of the soldiers are actually just farmers who have just left the fields, without any foundation.

Then break through the limit of the physical body and enter the transcendent body-refining warriors. This kind of external-to-internal strengthening of tendons and bones achieves the realm of divine strength, possessing the strength of a thousand catties; this is the first realm of martial arts transcendence.

Above divine strength is internal strengthening, external training of tendons and bones, internal training of the five viscera, making the five viscera transcendent, internal and external as one, thus obtaining internal breath and vital energy, transforming into Yuan Gang, which is the realm of a Grandmaster.

And in the transcendent era, it is just the foundation. If placed in the Northern government troops, one can serve as a grassroots minor official, such as a squad leader or a platoon leader.

Su Fan took a look and shook his head, saying, indeed, this firearm battalion is indeed a great weapon for dealing with those mountain bandits and outlaws. After all, mountain bandits and outlaws rarely have armor, and even if they do, most are cloth armor or leather armor; iron armor is very, very rare. If there are ten sets in a thousand people, it is not bad.

"The power of firearms is still not enough."

But once they face a regular army, it is much worse.

The North is a bit lacking, but whether it is the elite under Zhang Hu or the elite under Lv Bu and the others, everyone is armored, with a layer of leather armor on the outside and a layer of iron armor inside, and for officers, even the lowest squad leader, that is armor comparable to steel armor.

Actually, the martial arts of the Liu Han world are not much different from the Great Qin era. The names of the realms are different, but in reality, they are all tempering the physical body.

Generally speaking, soldiers who want to reach the limit of the human body must undergo at least ten years of training, and that is like the government troops in the North.

However, fortunately, firearm battalion training does not actually require three months of basic training like archers to have combat power.

Zhang Jiao let his disciples demonstrate the power of firearm training; within a hundred paces, the lethality against the unarmored is still very great.

But even if it is not the elite, just say on the grasslands, they have few iron, steel, or metal armors, but leather armor for everyone is common, and many are even multi-layered leather armor.

The grasslands do not lack cattle and sheep, especially cowhide, which is also extremely tough.

Cowhide leather armor, one layer is not enough, so use multiple layers; the hardness is sometimes not inferior to iron armor, and more importantly, they are lighter than iron armor.

The current firearms of the Taiping Dao are not enough to face these.