Chen Sanshi looked at the System Panel's explanation of "Mainstay" and quickly understood the entry's effect.
Remaining unruffled in the face of danger.
Four simple words, plain and unremarkable at first glance.
Yet in truth—
For any army in the world to become a Tiger-Wolf Army, the first quality it needed was precisely those four words!
Chen Sanshi had understood this point while reading military texts.
What use was an army's magnificent equipment if its soldiers trembled the moment they saw the enemy?
And then there were military formations.
No matter how exquisitely perfected a formation was in daily training, if the troops could not remain unruffled in danger, it could never wield the power it was meant to have.
Most ancient armies collapsed once their casualties exceeded twenty percent.
Chen Sanshi had heard Xu Wencai say that the reason the Eight Great Camps could sweep through all before them was because they could endure fifty percent casualties without collapsing, keeping their formations intact even in desperate straits.
To suffer fifty percent casualties without routing—what terrifying numbers were those?
In Year 57 of Longqing, during that battle of Xuanwu Camp in the south, they had reportedly had a chance to retreat, yet they had insisted on advancing against adversity, fighting to the death until the last soldier fell.
Of course, some people had survived.
But for the records to describe it that way, at least ninety percent of them must truly have died in battle.
They must have held their own faith within their hearts.
If Chen Sanshi could become the mainstay of the soldiers, it meant that sooner or later, he would forge an elite army.
That Prefect Ji had caused him trouble—
Wasn't it simply because Chen Sanshi was easy to bully?
Personal strength was one factor, but