Double penetration: This Three Kingdoms has dragon energy

Chapter 89 Zhang Ning's Second Blood
The Yellow Turban warriors' secret technique of strengthening their army is quite interesting.

It is slightly different from ordinary secret techniques for strengthening the army. The required cultivation resource is corn, which is millet in the modern world.

This was also the main food consumed by the people during the late Han Dynasty.

The Yellow Turban Warriors don't require a lot of training resources, at least not as much as the Halberd Warriors, only one-third of the Halberd Warriors.

In other words, a ninth-grade beginner needs to eat ten kilograms of corn every day to continuously improve his cultivation.

You need to eat at least five kilograms of corn every day to ensure that your cultivation level does not decline.

Each subsequent small level will increase by 10 kg or 5 kg

The main attribute enhanced by the Yellow Turban Warrior is physique.

Physique and strength look similar, but they are actually quite different.

The effect of strengthening the physique is mainly to improve defense, increase the body's endurance and stamina, and be able to withstand more damage on the battlefield and persist in combat for a longer time.

Increasing strength affects attack, which can better control the contraction or burst of muscle strength and give the enemy powerful physical attacks!
Because the specific increase in physical fitness is difficult to express with a clear numerical value, Ji Qiu can only say that the increase in the physical fitness attribute of each level of the Yellow Turban Warrior is basically the same as the numerical value of the strength increase of the Halberd Warrior.

At the same time, the Yellow Turban warriors also have two secret military formation techniques.

One is fanaticism.

This secret military formation technique can comprehensively enhance the four-dimensional attributes of the Yellow Turban Warriors, resulting in corresponding improvements in their strength, physique, agility, and spirit, and also affecting their attack, defense, speed, toughness and other attributes.

The second is firmness.

This secret military formation technique can add an unwavering mental effect to the Yellow Turban warriors.

This mental effect can not only greatly enhance the Yellow Turban Warrior's resistance to mind control techniques, but also make the Yellow Turban Warrior complete the orders without fail after receiving them.

Never retreat until the mission is completed!

On the battlefield just now, the Yellow Turban warriors' main general was killed, but it did not affect the Yellow Turban warriors at all. They fought to the death and did not stop until all of them were killed.

It's because of this reason!

The Yellow Turban Warrior only consumes one-third of the training resources of the Halberd Warrior, but obtains the same level of improvement effect as the Halberd Warrior.

This seems a bit unreasonable.

But don't rush.

The Yellow Turban Warrior also has a unique training requirement.

That means all Yellow Turban warriors must first be believers!
The concept of believers mainly comes from the fanatical secret techniques recorded in the Taiping Yaoshu Tianjuan.

In the esoteric art of fanaticism, believers are divided into five levels according to their degree of faith.

They are shallow faith, complete faith, true faith, fanatical faith, and saint.

The higher the level of the believer, the more dragon energy they provide.

These five levels of believers correspond to the nine grades of Yellow Turban warriors.

One must be at least a shallow believer to practice the secret arts of the Yellow Turban Warrior, but one can only practice to the peak of the eighth level at most.

All believers can cultivate to the peak of the sixth level at most.

True believers can cultivate to the peak of the fourth level at most.

A fanatic can cultivate to the peak of the second level at most.

Saints can cultivate to the peak of the first level!
Because believers exist by relying on the core of faith of fanatical occult practitioners.

Therefore, the Yellow Turban Warrior's secret technique of strengthening the army takes into account the characteristics of both innate and acquired secret techniques of strengthening the army.

That is, all soldiers in the army are required to practice according to the training methods, while at the same time relying on trainers who can consolidate the core of faith.

Once the fanatical occult practitioner who embodies the core of faith dies, or the core of faith collapses, all believers who depend on this core of faith will instantly lose their status as believers.

The secret art of the Yellow Turban Warrior relies on the identity of believers.

Therefore, without the status of a believer, the secret technique of the Yellow Turban Warrior naturally became ineffective.

This is why a large number of Yellow Turban strongmen in the Yellow Turban Army suddenly disappeared overnight after Zhang Jue's death.

As for the Yellow Turban warriors in Xu He's hands, they were not the Yellow Turban warriors that existed based on Zhang Jue's core of faith.

Instead, he is a Yellow Turban strongman who exists dependent on the core of Xu He's body.

Ji Qiu also learned from Xu He that after practicing the fanatic secret art to the third level or above, the core of faith in the body will have the ability to differentiate.

In this way, the differentiated sub-cores can be granted to others.

Of course, this is a requirement.

Anyone who can obtain a sub-core must at least be a true believer of the main core.

True believers with sub-cores also have the ability to develop believers and train Yellow Turban warriors.

However, only when the main faith core exists can the sub-cores continue to develop believers and train Yellow Turban warriors.

Once the holder of the main core of faith dies or the main core of faith collapses, the sub-core will still exist, but it will not be able to continue to develop believers and train Yellow Turban warriors.

Therefore, Xu He only had these three thousand Yellow Turban strongmen under his command.

However, when Zhang Jue was still alive, he used the Yellow Turban strongmen passed down from the core training.

After Zhang Jue's death, he could no longer continue training the Yellow Turban warriors.

At the same time, Ji Qiu no longer felt sorry for killing these three thousand Yellow Turban warriors.

Because these three thousand Yellow Turban strongmen were all trained according to the ideological system at the core of Zhang Jiao's beliefs.

For Ji Qiu, such Yellow Turban strongmen could not be persuaded to surrender, nor could they be used by him.

Because it was impossible for him to use Zhang Jiao's original ideological system to consolidate the core of his faith.

As long as he does not use Zhang Jue's ideological system to consolidate the core of his faith, no matter which ideological system he uses to consolidate the core of his faith, he will be met with hostility from these Yellow Turban warriors.

Wars at the level of ideas and beliefs are far more brutal than conventional wars.

Heretics are more hateful than pagans!

Therefore, even if these three thousand Yellow Turban warriors are not killed now, they will definitely be killed in the future.

Because Ji Qiu couldn't possibly leave a hidden danger that was absolutely impossible to subdue.

Rather than executing these 3,000 Yellow Turban warriors as heretics later, it would be better to let them die on the battlefield now. This would be easier to explain to both internally and externally!
"Interesting! It seems that in the entire Taiping Essential Technique's esoteric cultivation system, the Fanaticism Esoteric Technique is the core!"

"Then I should prepare early on how to practice the secret art of fanaticism." Ji Qiu thought to himself.

After learning about Xu He's secret techniques, Ji Qiu began to understand the situation of the Yellow Turbans in Mount Tai.

From Xu He, we learned that there are currently 200,000 Yellow Turban civilians and 100,000 Yellow Turban soldiers in Rencheng.

The Yellow Turban civilians were all family members of the Yellow Turban Army.

According to the early habits of the Yellow Turbans, they always used civilians as soldiers.

That is, wherever the Yellow Turban Army went, all the people, regardless of gender, age or status, would be incorporated into the Yellow Turban Army.

Men serve as male soldiers and women as female soldiers, and all have to go to the battlefield.

However, the combat effectiveness of this Yellow Turban Army was quite poor.

Not only did they collapse on the battlefield, but they also had no production or mobilization capabilities.

They can only be regarded as a powerful bandit group.

The first Yellow Turban Rebellion ultimately ended in failure, which was actually related to the development model of the Yellow Turban Army.

After Guan Hai and Xu He launched the second Yellow Turban Rebellion in Qingzhou, they reflected on the lessons learned from the failure of the first Yellow Turban Rebellion.

So they separated the combatants and production personnel, and the distinction between the Yellow Turban civilians and the Yellow Turban Army was established.

Of course, we still have to coerce the people.

It was not that the Yellow Turbans wanted to do this, but they had to do so.

After all, this world is the world of aristocratic families, and there are aristocratic families in every place who control local power.

It was impossible for the Yellow Turbans to leave the people in the local area to be persecuted by the aristocratic families.

The only option is to take all the people away.

However, once they actually occupied a place, they would gradually release the people back to the place and restore local production.

For example, at this time, Ren County had been completely occupied by the Yellow Turbans of Mount Tai, and the local aristocratic families had been completely wiped out.

Moreover, the Yellow Turbans of Mount Tai reached a peace agreement with the aristocratic families of Mount Tai, making Ren County a safe zone.

So Xu He gradually arranged the Yellow Turban people to live in the villages outside the city.

This was the reason why Ji Qiu had come here earlier and discovered that the situation in the rural areas outside Ren County was better than that in Zhending County.

This is also because there are only 200,000 Yellow Turban civilians in Ren County now.

"Well, don't arrange for the Yellow Turban civilians to return to the villages outside the city. For those who have already been arranged to return, try to recall them if possible."

"Don't worry about food, I will take care of all the supplies!" Ji Qiu ordered.

He did not intend to let the Yellow Turban people return to the countryside, because the production and economic model he was going to develop next was completely different from the existing mainstream production and economic model of the Longqi Three Kingdoms!
The existing mainstream production economic model of the Longqi Three Kingdoms is a small peasant economy model with manor economy as the main body.

The main means of production for the lower-class people is land, and because the land is controlled by the aristocratic families, their personal dependence is mainly in the hands of the aristocratic families.

The imperial court relied on exploiting the aristocratic families to gain profits.

This is an organizational structure where one layer eats the other.

When the imperial court was strong, it could naturally suppress the aristocratic families and force them to make painful sacrifices.

This is the rise of the dynasty.

But when the imperial court was weak, it would be attacked back by the aristocratic families and would be sidelined by them.

This is the period of the dynasty's decline.

But Ji Qiu did not want to adopt this economic model. He wanted to fundamentally change this economic model and adopt a modern large-scale industrial production economic model.

The benefits of a large-scale industrial production economic model are obvious.

First, it can strengthen the control over the lower-class people. The personal dependence of the lower-class people will be transferred from the aristocratic families to Ji Qiu.

Without middlemen making a profit from the price difference, the amount of dragon energy contributed, whether in the spiritual or physical realm, will increase significantly.

Secondly, it can weaken the power of the aristocratic families, making them completely unable to fight against Ji Qiu under his rule.

Well, it is basically impossible to completely eliminate the aristocratic families.

Even modern Tokyo University cannot completely eliminate the existence of aristocratic families.

It is enough to control them to a certain scale and prevent them from causing too much harm. Of course, under normal circumstances, the Dragon Qi Three Kingdoms cannot afford this kind of production economic model.

Because productivity determines production relations, and the backward productivity of the Three Kingdoms period was simply not enough to support such advanced production relations.

But the Longqi Three Kingdoms is different from the historical Three Kingdoms after all, and Ji Qiu is not a native of the Three Kingdoms!

First of all, the Three Kingdoms of Dragon Qi have the secret art of Dragon Qi. The productivity generated by the secret art of Dragon Qi is actually not much worse than that of modern society. It’s just that no one has been able to stimulate this kind of productivity in the past.

Secondly, Ji Qiu has a time-space gate and a portable space that can connect the two worlds.

By connecting the two worlds, he can not only obtain a large amount of resources needed to practice the Dragon Qi Secret Art from the modern world, but also sell the things produced by the Dragon Qi Secret Art in the modern world.

what is this?
These are the two most critical things in developing capital: raw materials and markets!
With raw materials and markets, there is no need to worry about the development of state capitalism!
After understanding the situation in Ren County, Ji Qiu asked Xu He to go down and do the work.

Xu He will be very busy next.

First, he had to gather the 100,000 defeated Yellow Turban Army and then reorganize them according to Ji Qiu's requirements.

Secondly, he was responsible for recalling the Yellow Turban civilians who had been released earlier.

Third, he would reorganize the Yellow Turban civilians who were about to be recalled with the 200,000 Yellow Turban civilians currently in Rencheng, and then hand them over to Zao Zhi, the upcoming head of the rear camp.

In short, there are so many things to do and it’s very annoying.

But Xu He was also enjoying it.

As a loyal Yellow Turban follower, nothing could make him more excited than seeing the declining Yellow Turban sect give birth to a new leader and regain its vitality.

Although he knew in his heart that this Yellow Turban was probably different from that Yellow Turban.

But what does it matter?

Some things seem to have not changed, but in fact they have changed.

Some things seem to have changed, but in fact they have not changed.

For the Yellow Turbans, some people may be more concerned about changes in doctrine and ideology.

But more people actually care more about whether they can survive and live well.

As long as you do the latter, the former doesn’t really matter!
While Xu He was busy, Ji Qiu was not idle either.

He wants to go to the modern world and get a batch of weapons and equipment.

If nothing unexpected happens, the Taishan families will attack us.

But the Taishan family does not want Taishan gold to be so easy to deal with.

Although the four major forces in the Taishan family each have 10,000 troops.

But these 10,000 men are a strong army!
It can be said that either of them has the ability to compete head-on with Ji Qiu.

Not to mention that Ji Qiu doesn't have all his strength in his hands now.

Gao Shun led the Xianzhen Camp to garrison Jumu, and Wei Yan led the Weiwu Camp to garrison Bo County, which reduced the power in Ji Qiu's hands by at least half.

In addition, the Royal Guard Battalion had just suffered a heavy blow, and the power he now had was only one-third of its peak strength.

How can we quickly improve our combat effectiveness in a short period of time?

Of course, it is the large-scale deployment of modern weapons and equipment.

Especially in Ji Qiu's hands, there is no shortage of anti-basic troops.

By the time Xu He gathers the 100,000 defeated Yellow Turban soldiers and reorganizes and trains them, there will be at least 50,000 to 60,000 of them.

Fifty to sixty thousand troops equipped with modern firearms should be enough to deal with the coalition forces of the aristocratic families if they are used properly.

Purchasing modern firearms on a large scale is not a difficult thing for Ji Qiu now.

After all, he now has a modern country in his hands.

Although Annan is neither a big country nor a strong country in the modern world.

But it is still a country after all.

There are still basic military industries and armaments.

On the Army side,

They are mainly equipped with two types of light weapons.

Type 56 automatic rifle and STV-380 assault rifle.

The former is an AK-47 imitated by Dong Da. Vietnam has a large inventory of 7.62x39mm bullets and has mastered the production technology. The army and marines are equipped with a large number of them.

The latter is an improvement on the Israeli Galil ACE rifle frame and can fire Soviet-made 7.62x39mm bullets. It has regular and short-barreled versions and is equipped with the Marine Corps.

The main artillery pieces include the ZIS-3 76mm cannon, the American M114 155mm howitzer, and the M101 105mm howitzer.

They were all custom-made during World War II and have now been eliminated from the international mainstream arms market.

The main armored fighting vehicles are:
BMP-1 armored fighting vehicle: Developed by the Soviet Union in the 60s, the Annan Army is equipped with 600 vehicles. It is the main equipment of the mechanized forces, of which 150 are North Korean imitations.

BMP-2 armored fighting vehicle: Developed by the Russian Bear based on the BMP-1, Annan is equipped with about 600 vehicles, equipped with armored divisions and mechanized infantry divisions.

BTR-60 armored vehicle: Developed by the Soviet Union in the 50s, the Annan Army is equipped with 450 vehicles, and some are distributed to the Marine Corps for landing operations.

BRDM-2 amphibious armored vehicle: Developed by the Soviet Union in the 50s, Annan is equipped with 480 vehicles for patrolling mountainous and swampy areas.

The main tanks are:
5T-54/55 medium tank: In the 60s, it received a large amount of aid from the Soviet Union and was equipped with over 800 vehicles. Some of them were upgraded to the T54M standard, with the addition of reactive armor and grid armor.

T-90S/SK main battle tanks: 64 were ordered from Russia in 2019, including 62 T-90S and 2 T-90SK command vehicles. They are the most elite armored equipment of the Annan Army.

Type 62 light tank: Aided by the East China Sea, 180 units in service, used for mountain warfare in the south.

PT-76 amphibious tank: Aided by the Russian Federation, there are 340 in service, used for landing operations and water network zone operations.

Naval aspect.

The surface ships include the Gepard-class light frigates: with a displacement of 2000 tons, they have strong anti-ship capabilities, but lack long-range radar, regional air defense capabilities, and anti-submarine capabilities.

The submarines include Kilo-class submarines: 6 were purchased from abroad, which have strong combat capability and deterrence, but Annan lacks experience in using submarines and it will be difficult to form combat capability in the short term.

Air Force.

The fighter jets include Su-27SK and Su-30MKV.

The former is an early model that has undergone certain improvements and mainly performs air-to-air missions.

The latter began to purchase equipment in 2003. It is equipped with two AL-31F3 engines, a maximum flight speed of 2120 km/h, a maximum ceiling of 17.3 km, a maximum range of 3000 km, and is equipped with N001VE Doppler pulse radar. It can carry R-77 active radar-guided air-to-air missiles, Kh31A and Kh-35 anti-ship missiles, and laser-guided bombs.

Overall, some of the weapons and equipment of the Annan army are relatively advanced, but due to its weak industrial capacity, most of the equipment is old, and its self-research capabilities are limited. The number of advanced equipment is insufficient, and it is vulnerable in modern warfare.

But for Ji Qiu, it was enough.

At present, he has no use for the artillery, armored vehicles, and tanks equipped by the navy, air force, and army.

The only thing you need is light weapons!

This is exactly the type of weapons that Annan has the largest inventory of and the only one that has the ammunition production technology!

Ji Qiu took six hours to transport 60,000 Type 56 automatic rifles, 10 million rounds of ammunition, and 200,000 cantaloupe grenades from the modern world.

We felt that it was almost done, so we stopped the transportation.

It was already dark by this time.

Ji Qiu returned to his tent to rest.

Although Ren County has been captured and the Yellow Turbans in Mount Tai have surrendered as a whole, they are newly annexed after all, so for safety reasons, it is better not to go to sleep in the city.

Ji Qiu's safety is tied to the whole world, so he must be careful about his own safety.

In fact, returning to the modern world to sleep is a better choice.

Not only is it safer, but the environment is also better.

In the past, Ji Qiu often went back to the modern world to sleep at night.

But in modern times, they were cut off from communication with the Three Kingdoms of Longqi.

What if any emergency occurs in the Longqi Three Kingdoms and cannot be handled in time?

So at this time, it is not suitable to sleep in the modern world, and we can only make do in this military camp.

"My Lord, you've worked hard all day. Let me help you soak your feet."

Not long after Ji Qiu entered the tent, he heard a voice coming from outside the tent.

Then Zhang Ning came in carrying a copper basin filled with hot water soaked with various herbs.

She had obviously been dressed up carefully, with a lilac gauze jacket over her moon-white skirt. The twin lotus flowers embroidered on her neckline trembled with the warm fragrance, and the Pisces jade pendant hanging from her pearl belt swayed with her breathing, casting tiny silver scales on her knees.

She walked to the bed, lowered her eyes and placed the copper basin on the ground. Her black hair slid down from her right shoulder, forming a soft arc on her chest.

She first dipped her fingertips in water to test the temperature, then bent her wrist into a crescent shape. The candlelight slid across the side of her neck, casting a small, ambiguous shadow on her light blue collar.

Ji Qiu smelled the faint fragrance of agarwood, and was surprised to find that the other party had changed to a new perfume powder. He applied it on his cheekbones like fine snow. When he smiled, there were two warm halos, and even the cinnabar mole on the end of his eyebrow swayed, like a drop of rouge splashed on the snow.

Then he took off the cotton socks on Ji Qiu's feet. When his fingertips touched the thin calluses on the soles of his feet, the jade bracelet on his wrist suddenly hit the edge of the basin, making a clear sound.

"Sir, this place..."

She rolled the dead skin on his heels with her fingertips, and the balsam red dyed with nail polish rubbed across his skin, like a peach blossom floating in a spring stream.

A copper spoon scooped up the mugwort in the basin and gently brushed it over his feet. The warm water, wrapped in the fragrance of medicine, flowed over his ankles.

When she lowered her eyes, her eyelashes cast a butterfly-wing-like shadow under her eyes. The cinnabar mole at the right corner of her lip became faintly visible as she pursed her lips, and even the coral beads in her hair turned into warm spots of light in the candlelight.

Suddenly, a draft blew through the corridor, and the candlelight suddenly slanted. The pearl hairpins on her temples trembled, revealing a hint of red behind her ears.

"Would you like to try the new mint ointment?"

She suddenly raised her eyes, and her warm breath brushed Ji Qiu's knees. The green paste on her fingertips shone brightly in the candlelight, like jade covered with dew.

Ji Qiu saw the red musk necklace on her wrist slide down to her elbow, revealing the pale blue toad blood on her forearm, which turned into a hazy cloud in the water vapor. But the red nail polish was extremely bright, gently touching the Yongquan point on his thumb, which reminded him of the cinnabar petal that his fingertips touched when he was picking plum blossoms on a snowy night.

Ji Qiu suddenly grabbed her arm and pulled her into his arms.

A beautiful woman has come to your house, and her behavior has been so obvious. It would be inappropriate to pretend not to understand.

I would rather be a beast than be worse than a beast!

The beautiful white snow-red skirt is full of infinite charm.

After waking up from a nap, she felt timid and weak, leaning against the curtains.

The water bones are tender, the jade mountains are majestic, and the mandarin duck quilt is filled with spring breeze.

(End of this chapter)