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Chapter 2086 Cultivating the extraordinary
  After Cheng Ying learned about the map outside, he did not choose to attack immediately, because even if he had a certain understanding of the outside world, it was still relatively dangerous to take the initiative with the power he could accumulate in his current territory.

On the one hand, the nobles of this era can easily mobilize tens of thousands of cavalry. The advantage of cavalry on the battlefield in this era is still very large. Even though muskets have gradually appeared on the battlefield, cavalry wearing heavy armor still have a lot of trouble facing muskets. One or two bullets that have great deterrent effect on their bodies may not be fatal in many cases, and the speed of their charge gives the musketeers only one or two chances to shoot.

Even if the weapon is evolved to a powerful level, a bayonet can be directly attached to the firearm, and after the design is completed, it can be directly transformed into a spearman. The effect on the battlefield is still not particularly good.

Especially when facing a cavalry charge, facing that kind of pressure, even if they know that using a spear can hurt the enemy, not many soldiers may have the courage.

Cheng Ying planned to further upgrade the weapons of his soldiers before fighting out. The enemy's strength lay not only in the large number of heavy armored cavalry, but also in the extraordinary people among them.

When they attacked this city before, this small noble had many second-order Beyonders. Some of the great nobles' Extraordinaries even had third-order or even legendary level beings. However, in this era of cold weapons, they would not let go. In this era when thermal weapons were just born, one can be equal to a hundred, or even ten thousand, on the battlefield.

Especially for those legendary level beings, one person is more terrifying than an army. What's more important is that they are not like an army. It is quite troublesome to move. They can even disguise themselves as ordinary people and sneak into the city to carry out assassinations. Or use powerful attacks to destroy the city.

Faced with such an existence, the weapons of ordinary soldiers can hardly pose any threat. Without reciprocal deterrence, it will be difficult to fight unless they stick to the city wall and do not leave.

Even if you are defending the city wall, you must have enough artillery and the cooperation of extraordinary people to be able to defend it.

Because of this, you must farm before fighting out. Some of the nobles outside are more powerful and can even recruit many legendary level experts. But he only has this city at hand now. If it does not develop to the limit, it will If he takes the initiative and the advanced weapons and technologies he creates are leaked and spread, it will be difficult to complete the unification with the power at hand.

In the process of improving his strength in farming, he also started from two angles.

One angle is to upgrade the weapons used by soldiers, upgrade the original matchlock guns and a small number of breaking guns, upgrade the original front-loading guns to breech-loading guns, and upgrade the original lead bullets to fixed-loading bullets.

In this way, the process of loading the weapon will be much easier, and the frequency involved can be much higher.

The most important thing is to reload after using the breech-loader. There is no need to stand and reload. When loading a muzzleloader, you need to stand while pouring fire into the barrel.

In this way, the formation is very important. You cannot use a prostrate posture to reduce your area in the eyes of the enemy. In this way, you can avoid the probability of being hit.

And the breech-loading gun that uses fixed bullets can shoot in most postures. In this way, even if you are lying down and hiding in a relatively concealed terrain, you can still complete the shooting, and you can shoot in quite a few ways. The terrain serves as a bunker, which is a great tactical advantage.

With the introduction of custom-loaded bullets, the rate of fire of weapons will also be greatly improved in this era. The development of the future era will also prove the excellent effect of this type of weapons on the battlefield.

And this part is just the upgrade of soldiers' weapons. The emergence of steam engines will make it possible for super-standard armored trains to appear on future battlefields. This means that as long as there are railways, it will be difficult for the enemy to break through the defenses. Railways Getting on the Mercedes-Benz armored train plays the role of a moving castle in a way.

In addition to the improvement of weapons and equipment, Chengying also focused a considerable part of his energy on cultivating extraordinary people.

The birth of extraordinary people is also affected by the external environment. Under normal circumstances, extraordinary people are divided into two categories, one category is the extraordinary person of the physics system, and the other category is the extraordinary person of the legal system. The latter is more cherished than the former and can play a more strategic role on the battlefield. There is a prerequisite for the birth of both. That is, newborns have enough nutrition as they grow.

In the case of insufficient nutrition, first of all, it would be impossible for extraordinary people of the wartime category to be born, they need it. A very strong physical talent. If the body is not fully developed, then the talent in this area will definitely not be realized.

It is relatively difficult for humans in this world to become extraordinary. Even when nutrition is adequate, systematic exercise must be carried out. Exercise your body to the limit and always have enough nutritious food to supplement it. Only in this way can the essence of food be cultivated into extraordinary power. This gives an extra energy in the body that can be used in battle.

Some people call it internal strength, while others call it fighting spirit. These things can be attached to the human body or to weapons. As the fighting energy in the body increases, these powers can gradually be released to use long-range attacks. The power will be much greater than the original. Being able to do this step can basically be regarded as a first-order extraordinary person.

It will still be difficult to continue to improve. At this level, the importance of talent is reflected. The probability of increasing promotion by supplementing nutrition is greatly reduced. The nutrients contained in ordinary food are not enough at this stage. Yes, you need some plants or extraordinary animals that have absorbed the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and have grown for many years. They can also provide the nutrients needed for promotion at this stage.

As for extraordinary people of the legal system, they also need sufficient nutrition during childhood, because nutrition is not only related to the growth of muscles, but also related to the development of the brain. In the case of malnutrition, the development of intelligence will also be affected to a certain extent. . But it may not be as affected as muscle development. In addition to this, another factor that affects the birth of extraordinary people of the legal system is the level of education. The more you use your brain, the better it becomes. In other words, people who have received sufficient education in their youth are smarter than those who have not received education, and intelligence often affects the birth of legal extraordinary people. Therefore, if you want to cultivate French extraordinary people, in addition to enough In addition to nutrition, adequate universal education is also needed.

This is also an important reason why the number of extraordinary people of the legal system in most races and civilizations is smaller and more precious. Even for races with relatively developed civilizations, the popularity of education is relatively limited. Even for a race like the elves, which started as a civilization, compulsory education was only completely universalized after they became stronger, which allowed them to become a prosperous magical civilization.

Chengying is now in his own territory, trying his best to ensure the nutritional supply of children and the popularization of education. It would take at least ten years for the dividends that this institute could bring to him to be reflected, but he could be sure that the probability of cultivating extraordinary people through this method was several times higher than that of nobles in other territories.

In the future, the achievements of these extraordinary people will be higher than those of other extraordinary people under the rule of aristocrats. Not in this regard. The impact of adequate nutrition. It's about the education and training they received after becoming extraordinary beings.

Extraordinary people also need to practice corresponding skills or learn magic knowledge. If Cheng Ying could not provide a person with the talent to become an extraordinary person at this time, then what about the knowledge needed for cultivation after becoming an extraordinary person. But he lacked nothing.

Even if necessary, he can customize the training method for an extraordinary person based on his talent. Let his talents be used to their maximum potential.

In this way, basically anyone who can become an extraordinary person will be able to advance to at least the second level in the future. And based on the population base of his current territory, in ten years, the number of extraordinary people will exceed a thousand, and after five years, the number of extraordinary people will exceed one thousand. After about three years of training, at least half of them can reach the second level, and one-fifth can reach the third level.

As for breaking through to the legendary level, it is relatively difficult. Warrior-type Beyonders need to fight to the death on the battlefield to be promoted. Extraordinaries in the mage category will take longer. Only by accumulating a lot of knowledge can you complete your promotion.

The existence of this level is something that can be encountered but cannot be sought. However, at this stage, it is already possible to launch external conquests. Because even among the nobles, basically no nobles can gather thousands of extraordinary people to form a legion. Facing such a legion, even the legendary powerhouses can only retreat. In the process of training on the battlefield, legend-level experts will inevitably be born one after another in the legion. At that time, they will be crushed by the strength of ordinary armies and suppressed by the number of extraordinary people. External expansion has become a matter of course.

Moreover, every time a new empire was born and successfully conquered the world, it did not always rely on the power of these nobles. In other words, it was impossible to conquer the world with their initial strength.

In the chaotic situation of the space passage, a noble can only bring 50,000 troops at most, and there may be more Extraordinaries among them. For example, the previous family bet on this person, so they put all the Extraordinaries in the family together. All parts were centralized and handed over to him for management.

But in that case, at most, hundreds of extraordinary people would gather together and cooperate with an army of 50,000 or 60,000 people, which may seem quite bluffing, but in fact the effect is far from as good as it looks.

Because this planet is really too big. Fifty thousand people may be enough to rule a few cities, but if the number of cities exceeds ten, then only 5,000 troops can be stationed in each city. If the number of cities continues to expand, the power will be diluted. Less, what's more, not only cities need troops to be stationed, but towns without portals also need troops. Putting 50,000 people on the entire planet is really not enough to do anything.

As for why not let a noble's men gather more troops? The reason is also very simple. Without the support of a spatial aggregation area at the level of the Empire Hub, 50,000 people is basically the limit that an army can maintain. They can plunder food from nearby villages. Loot food from nearby cities to maintain your own logistics.

If the number were greater, after the void creature invasion ends and the space gates are redistributed, it is very likely that there will be no space gates around at all. So much so that a million-strong army could not be supplied due to logistics. It ended up being a situation where the refugees were falling apart.

There was an empire that had done something similar before. In order to survive for eternity, in order to survive for eternity in the void, and in order to still hold the throne after the invasion of void creatures, the empire’s army was gathered together, and a million-strong army greeted them. After the redistribution of space gates, the millions of troops found only a pair of adjacent teleportation gates nearby. A teleportation gate of this size can only maintain the strength of one prince at most. Even if the commander-in-chief of the army ordered the army to search for food everywhere, Songhua's supplies to maintain the army only lasted for less than half a year. The army did not have enough food to sustain it, and finally had to disband the army. The originally majestic army became A group of refugees and bandits wandering around.

After learning this lesson, even if later nobles wanted to leave the family's army to their descendants, they would basically selectively distribute it to different descendants, and at most it would not exceed 5.

In the real imperial war, what can truly complete the unification of the empire is the conquest of other nobles during the war. Accept them as your little brothers. Then in the process of conquering the empire, these younger brothers were required to perform military obligations to them and actively send troops to cooperate when they attacked the enemy.

In this way, they can gather together with different vassals to form an army of hundreds of thousands, sweep across the continent, and attack separately. Only in this way can the logistics be able to withstand this level of pressure.

Cheng Ying didn't expect to take down all the cities on the planet at once with the small amount of troops he had hoarded from farming. That was unrealistic. Even if he kept building railways, he would be able to maintain it. Logistically, it takes too long. I am afraid it will take hundreds of years to complete the unification of the continent by relying on this method. At this time, technology has spread long ago, and the advantages he accumulated in the beginning will no longer exist. Naturally, he needs to choose to use war to support war, continue to expand his power, and annex bit by bit. All the cities on the planet.

[To be continued]

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