Chapter 1042: Chapter 257: Prince of Huangzhou, Chen 94
This is the configuration of Chen Jie’s Azure Dragon Guard, also the strongest infantry under Chen Jie.
Next is the Black Cavalry. As the overseer of cavalry under Chen Jie, the two thousand-household officers are Chen Wang and Chen Heng.
Originally, they led fifteen hundred guild members into the Black Cavalry, following Wang Baobao through battles across the south and north, and even fought several rounds against Elder Quan’s Quan Divine Soldiers, truly experiencing bloodshed as cavalry.
Moreover, the two of them even accomplished a feat for Chen Jie right away.
They learned the method from Wang Baobao of leading cavalry to leverage the power of cavalry and enhance combat effectiveness.
It’s said that this insight into military tactics from Wang Baobao taught Chen Jie to apply it. When he led two thousand cavalry to charge, he could only convert about four percent of the cavalry’s combat power, yet he managed to raise the combat power to the Rainbow Realm.
Chen Jie was very surprised by this.
And Chen Wang said that this was only the simplest application of military tactics.
Rumor has it that advanced military tactics have many uses, not only to amplify combat power but also other ingenious uses.
For example, infantry can arrange formations, and the wonder of formations is that they can form a Sealing Evil, like the legendary Zhuge Liang’s Divine Demon Eight Formation Map, where once entered, even the most formidable experts find it challenging to leave, known as the Trapping Array.
There is also the famous Tianmen Formation from the Song Dynasty, reputed to borrow the power of ghost soldiers, to seal the martial arts power of those inside, preventing them from utilizing their full potential.
Back then, the Yue Army led by Yue Fei, Marshal Yue, once arranged a great formation that sealed the strength of a mighty figure comparable to an Earthly Immortal, eventually killing him using the military array.
In other words, if an expert of the Molten Furnace Realm could arrange a Great Array, even someone as formidable as Zhang Sanfeng entering the formation might be weakened to the extreme, and then be slain by an ordinary Molten Furnace Realm general.
Of course, the premise is that you can trick Zhang Sanfeng into the formation, but arranging such a Great Array requires at least tens of thousands of people, and how to deceive a Spirit Extreme martial artist is another issue.
Regardless, the power of the military is still formidable.
Chen Jie also understood the information Chen Wang overheard and brought back.
That is, the methods of the military family are very powerful, primarily reflected in military formations, and a strong military formation has many functions.
For instance, Wang Baobao knows the Vanguard Formation, which is to lead cavalry to enhance the combat power of the commander.
Secondly, there’s something like the Divine Demon Eight Formation Map, a Trapping Array that can trap people to death.
There’s also something like the Sealing Evil Array used by Marshal Yue back in the day, which can seal an expert’s martial power, preventing them from flying or evading, not even being able to use Gang Qi, turning a mighty figure into an ordinary person, then gathering the power of the military array to slay him!
Hearing this, Chen Jie sighed, realizing the power of the military family is definitely not inferior to the formidable power of martial arts.
Unfortunately, the methods of the military family are mostly passed down, and military books are even more seldom leaked. Chen Jie wants to learn but has no place to learn from. How great it would be if he could get his hands on Wu Mu’s Legacy left by Marshal Yue back then.
You should know that back in the day Guo Juxia relied on this Wu Mu’s Legacy to guard Xiangyang for eighteen years and eventually crushed the Great Khan of the Mulan Clan, Brother Meng, to death.
Be aware that at that time he was using the power of a single city to resist the full might of the Mulan Clan!
And the main reason behind this is that he grasped Wu Mu’s Legacy.
No wonder it was later rumored: those who obtain Wu Mu’s Legacy can obtain the world.
Back then, Marshal Yue simply didn’t want to rebel, but if he did, the Southern Song might have perished.
Thinking about this, Chen Jie became increasingly eager for this Divine Book. Of course, Chen Jie also knows that in this world, besides himself, surely there are more people who wish to obtain this Divine Book.
After all, according to the current situation, Daqian will undoubtedly lose the deer, and all the heroes under the sky will vie for it!
After learning about this military knowledge, Chen Jie also began to intentionally train the soldiers.
First is the cavalry; Chen Jie appointed Chen Wang and Chen Heng as thousand-households, and as they followed Wang Baobao through battles south and north, only over a hundred out of their 1,500 men survived. Chen Jie generously allowed Chen Heng and Chen Wang to select the best candidates from the whole Huangzhou Prefecture to replenish the Black Armor Cavalry.
Chen Jie asked them to select another two thousand men, preparing to form a three-thousand-strong cavalry unit, but unfortunately, now the entire Huangzhou Prefecture only has over 1,800 sets of Black Armor.
Chen Jie gritted his teeth, preparing to spend a significant sum to order skilled craftsmen to make armor.
Besides the cavalry, Chen Jie also has an eight-thousand-strong city defense army.
Originally, the city defense army had more than ten thousand people, but after the battle of defending Huangzhou Prefecture, their numbers were halved, leaving only five thousand.
These five thousand are the elite of the elite.
Wang Baobao used this time to recruit more, but after Chen Jie took over, he was not satisfied with these guys.
He conducted a physical fitness test, ultimately cutting two thousand people.
Then Chen Jie selected four thousand elites from the Fishing Guild reserve and assigned them to the city defense army, followed by Chen Jie announcing an improvement in the treatment of the city defense army.
Previously, the salary of the city defense army wasn’t enough to support their families, so they would extort from the common people. Chen Jie demanded that all city defense troops should not reach out to the common folk.
If they need money, Chen Jiusi will provide it!
Thus, the city defense army was thoroughly reformed, and Chen Jie even specially renamed it the Xuanwu Guard.
Echoing the Azure Dragon Guard.