Mythical Three Kingdoms-Chapter 1384 - 1336: No Useless Abilities

While Li Yuan was struggling with Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Liang was squatting with Zhang Fei in the north, silently observing Fuyu and the Three Hann States.

Honestly, up to now, although there is no intelligence indicating that this vice army led by Zhang Fei has been exposed, Zhuge Liang had already noticed differences from many details and feared that Yuan Tan knew Liu Bei had a force sneaked into Liaodong.

However, this is no longer important. What matters is that Yuan Tan is now occupied, and Liu Bei has attracted all his forces to the border between Youzhou and Jizhou, a battle line spanning a thousand miles. Although battles occurred at only several points, the consequences were enough to leave Yuan Tan powerless to look north.

Although such actions left the northern populace defenseless under the Xianbei cavalry, seeming extremely cruel, right now Zhuge Liang could only watch helplessly; sometimes, the march for unification is just this cruel.

"Fuyu and the Three Hann States have made a move," Zhang Fei said with a somewhat gloomy expression. The Xianbei have intentions to move south, yet now trapped in Liaodong, they can hardly be stopped.

If Zhang Fei had some fantasies before, now they had all been annihilated. The north of Youzhou had been vacated, leaving only old and weakened soldiers, who could hardly resist the Xianbei advancing south.

At the border between Bingzhou and Youzhou, behind Zhang He and Gao Lan stood a whole mighty cavalry, just as Military Advisor Sheni informed them at the time that ample supplies would not be lacking, but they must train a mighty army.

After a long winter of continuous training, the excellent cavalry seeds born in Bingzhou had now become even more outstanding, marking the first time Zhang He wholeheartedly committed to doing something without any vested interest.

He sought revenge; Zhang He believed he should bear a great responsibility for Yuan Shao’s death, not to mention Yuan Shao’s appreciation of him.

"Northern Xianbei invaded Youzhou, didn’t they?" Zhang He looked at the dejected Gao Lan beside him. Although the latter still had Inner Qi Manifestation, he lacked Essence, Qi, and Spirit, likely the weakest Inner Qi Manifestation in history; perhaps he could no longer even lift a spear if this continued.

Contrary to Gao Lan, Zhang He had rediscovered his direction after forgetting his resolved will upon breakthrough, and he was willing to sacrifice everything for this belief.

"Yuanbo, continue training; as the Military Advisor Sheni hasn’t issued orders, it means I’m not needed yet," Zhang He took a deep breath, turned his head to look at the escort fully armored standing there with a long spear, the success of his long-term training.

Currently, the strongest Tugi Cavalry under the Han Dynasty was the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, an undeniable fact Zhang He found hard to accept. Upon acquiring stirrups, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry capable of long spear charges almost equated to invincibility on plains.

Yet after prolonged contemplation, Zhang He finally integrated Heavy Cavalry through the method of adding water when there’s more flour and adding flour when there’s more water.

If defense is insufficient, increase armor thickness; if the armor becomes too thick, the person’s endurance is lacking, replace with strong men of 1.8 meters possessing Inner Qi, switch to robust men with Heavy Armor, if horses bear too much weight, acceleration is hard, impact is insufficient, easily encircled and wiped out.

Then switch horses, Bingzhou lacks anything but horses. After all, in an era of Heaven and Earth Essence resurgence, physically robust horses are not absent.

Change to good horses, put on Heavy Armor obtained from Sheni Pei, take the great spear, equip saddle and stirrup, can only go straight, can’t turn; once a turn is made, even Inner Qi horses can’t withstand such twisting force, their legs or neck would directly break...

As for switching to better horses, Bingzhou has many horses, but few Qi Refining to Gang horses. A force strong enough to overturn a battle like the Yuan Liu’s would require at least five thousand men.

And five thousand men need at least five thousand horses. If there were five thousand Qi Refining to Gang horses, never mind riding five thousand Qi Refining to Gang warhorses as heavy cavalry, even possessing five thousand soldiers capable of taming Qi Refining to Gang warhorses, Zhang He wouldn’t need all these.

A legion composed of five thousand Qi Refining to Gang masters, whoever came would kneel, isn’t that fearsome because aside from the generic Military Spirit power, it directly adds a tier to strength, elevating all members to match Qi Refining to Gang proficiency?

This is also why, in this era where warhorses can sustain heavy cavalry, Chen Xi never assembled heavy cavalry.

Although heavy cavalry possessed insane defensive power, even by the nurturing degree of Armored Warhorses, they could scorn most attacks, while due to the insanely robust endurance of warhorses, after carrying all armor and weapons, they could still run for dozens of miles, yet due to its agility problems, Chen Xi forsook heavy cavalry.

Heavy cavalry capable only of straight-line charges, not turning, was strong yet applicable in too limited a scope, spending so much money and resources on crafting such an insignificant troop would waste energy, wouldn’t it?

Regarding horse replacement, Chen Xi merely thought about it; there wasn’t even Jizhou then. Liu Bei’s side had few warhorses with some Inner Qi, and forging such a heavy cavalry corps required Qi Refining to Gang warhorses; wasn’t this absurd?

Thus, this bizarre idea was naturally snuffed out by both parties. Zhang He started exploring his power, as Guo Jia said initially, his Legion Talent was merely to make his soldiers more agile.

However, there’s a saying – no ability is useless, only useless people; moreover, as Legion Talent involves the shift of will and Cloud Qi, it’s impossible to spawn a trashy Legion Talent.

Thus, through Zhang He’s effort and development, he finally realized his Legion Talent boiled down to these two words – Agility, a Legion Talent barely useful in battles.

But in a flash of inspiration, Zhang He tried applying Agility to heavy cavalry, and a miracle occurred.

For heavy cavalry, their biggest problem was not defensive power, not attack power, nor impact power; their biggest issue was agility. They, initially capable only of charging head-on, could now turn and make small circles upon adding Zhang He’s Legion Talent.

Although not to the exaggerated level of light cavalry performing on-the-spot rotations, they could at least manage a wide circle like a regular mediocre commander, without their horse’s legs and neck breaking.

But the key is this is heavy cavalry, heavy cavalry capable of turning. What does this mean? It means after piercing through a legion, it could swing back for several more strikes.

Though pulling off such a heaven-defying turn would immensely burden Zhang He’s Legion Talent, it mattered little. Zhang He gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot, persevering through arduous training, determined to prevail.