A week after the battle, inside Zhang Fei's military camp.
Zhang Fei looked at the lieutenant generals in his camp happily, and he found them pleasing to the eye.
Zhang Xi behind him felt something was wrong.
If this is paired with armored uniforms, it will be a complete scene of the Ming Dynasty Qi Jiajun's large-scale time-travel.
The military equipment was also modified by Zhang Fei. For every ten people, there were two guys carrying two bamboo poles all day long.
Those who knew it were equipped with wolf swords, but those who didn't know thought that Liu Beijun was so poor that he could only let his soldiers carry bamboos as weapons.
Imagine the battlefield in the future. Among the originally serious and orderly Liu Bei army, such a team with a variety of weapons suddenly appeared... Well, I hope Liu Bei's mental quality is strong enough.
Probably...after all, he is Emperor Zhaolie.
Zhang Fei completely used the simulated version of the Yuanyang Formation that Zhang Xi had figured out for the entire army.
After all, unlike Zhang Xi, who is half-empty in the army, Zhang Fei is a veteran in the army and has extremely rich experience. There are some problems that Zhang Xi needs to think about in many ways to discover, but Zhang Fei knows what to do at a glance.
For example, Zhang Xi easily solved the problem of long-range firepower of archers that Zhang Xi was not satisfied with.
Zhang Xi's idea was to have the archers gather before the battle, shoot a few rounds of arrows, and then return to the team to serve as swordsmen... This involves a timing issue of formation coordination after joining the team.
It is basically impossible for soldiers in these days to coordinate perfectly. There will always be people who cause the formation to loosen to a certain extent due to various problems.
During Zhang Fei's last military exercise against Zhang Xi, Zhang Fei seized this moment of loose formation and sent troops to attack Zhang Xi, splitting Zhang Xi's team into two or even more.
Zhang Fei's way of solving this problem was very simple and crude. He specially selected 150 people, full-time archers. After shooting the arrows, these archers did not need to return to the formation and directly acted as the commander's Chinese army guards. , but in the actual Yuanyang formation, the configuration of archers was directly cancelled. The waist sword soldiers were only responsible for killing the enemy at close range, and no longer needed to shoot arrows.
In this way, although the coach also needs to move the formation forward when attacking, it can maximize the characteristics of the Yuanyang Formation when defending, operating with the coach as the center, and no longer need to worry about being divided and unable to effectively command.
The coach is in the middle. If it can still be divided, it means that the coach himself has been put in a dangerous situation... Then the enemy does not need to divide you, just attack the coach directly.
Of course, this is also because the coach is Zhang Fei, and he really dares to do this, because he believes that even if he faces a small assault force, he has the confidence to lead the guards around him to fight back.
If it had been Zhang Xi, there would have been only one result - being captured without mercy.
All in all, Zhang Fei improved the simulated version of the Yuanyang Formation, which indeed made this unit look more combat effective.
What the actual situation is like, no one knows unless they actually go to the battlefield to fight.
But judging from the drills, not only attacking the city, but at least fighting people on flat ground, this unit may really have a good chance of winning.
At least that's what Zhang Fei thinks, and then this guy... just sucks.
This black guy is basically only doing one thing - bragging to his elder brother.
Liu Bei let Zhang Fei brag at first, but keep on bragging, this black guy's bragging is a bit too much.
"Even if eldest brother's personal soldiers come to fight, I, Lao Zhang, dare to tell them that they will never come back!"
Just by saying this, it means that Liu Bei really regards Zhang Fei as his brother. If you were Boss Cao, I am afraid that the black man would be worried about when he will be used as a loan.
The subordinate feels that his soldiers can easily kill the lord's soldiers... What do you mean? !
At first, Liu Bei just thought Zhang Fei was bragging, and he didn't mind if his third brother said such things to him, but... Liu Bei was also an old soldier, and he also had the pride of a soldier.
If nothing else, Liu Bei has a million trust in his personal soldiers.
Not only trust their loyalty, but also their fighting ability.
Liu Bei's personal soldiers were the famous Baili soldiers later.
The current commander-in-chief of this army is Wei Yan, and the previous commander-in-chief was Chen Dao.
It's not that Chen Dao was beaten to the end by Liu Bei, it was mainly because Liu Bei felt that Wei Yan had the ability to command a large army, but now his troops were limited and could not give an army commander like Wei Yan a chance to exercise, so he let Wei Yan temporarily take charge of the Baijie Army. .
As for Chen Dao... he is Liu Bei's real confidant. He is temporarily aggrieved and is responsible for the intelligence work around Liu Bei.
And regardless of whether it was Chen Dao or Wei Yan, Liu Bei did not feel that the abilities of his confidant soldiers and leaders were poor.
Although he is still not as good as Guan and Zhang in their ability to unite the army and attack cities and fortresses, and not as good as Zhao Yun in training and commanding cavalry, when it comes to commanding his own soldiers and maximizing their combat effectiveness, Liu Bei is still Believe them.
Do you really think that he has been able to run around all these years just because he was lucky and fast? !
Without the protection of the soldiers around him, Liu Bei would have been arrested countless times.
As soon as Liu Bei's arrogance rose, he argued with Zhang Fei for a few words, and then Zhang Fei squeezed him out and agreed to compete with Zhang Fei's army in the drill.
Liu Bei's personal troops numbered 500 people, so it was decided that each side would send 500 people to fight head-on on the school field.
Zhang Fei returned to the camp happily and told Zhang Xi and the small schools of each battalion about the incident. The next day, he began to select among the army and selected 500 people to fight.
You know, if these five hundred people win, they will not only get the wine reward from Zhang Fei, but also the reward from the lord Liu Bei... Who wouldn't want a double reward? !
Of course, Zhang Fei's ultimate goal is not a reward, he has no shortage of these things.
Zhang Fei's purpose, in addition to showing off, was to let Liu Bei see Zhang Xi's abilities, and to hope that this training method could be extended to the entire army.
The final selection result was that 300 people were selected from Zhang Fei's army, plus 150 people were selected from Kou Feng's army, forming a total of 450 people to participate in the battle.
It's not that we don't want to add more people, the key is that the training of the Yuanyang Formation is not completely mature. There are only so many people who can truly fully master the operation of the formation and obey the coach's orders.
Kou Feng's troops were the first to train the Yuanyang Formation, and they had the most experience.
Zhang Fei's unit has the strongest physical fitness and combat effectiveness, and Zhang Fei is easy to command.
Other troops do not have this prerequisite. After all, if you are not proficient in the new method of military training, more is not the better.
Zhang Fei happily continued to host the training in the camp, but Zhang Xi was called away by Xu Shu again.
It has been almost a month since I last visited Zhuge Liang.
During this month, Liu Bei was busy establishing good relations with the Huang family, Pang family and other aristocratic families in Jingzhou, and also contacted the young master Liu Qi. He drank and chatted with the young master Liu Qi. When Liu Qi was moved, he called him "uncle" On.
The preliminary preparations were proceeding in an orderly manner. Xu Shu felt that it was time to plan what to do next.
By the way, Xu Shu also persuaded Liu Bei again, saying that Zhuge Liang had "the talent to navigate the world and the wisdom to stabilize the country", and persuaded Liu Bei to visit again and ask Zhuge Liang to come out.
Liu Bei readily agreed.
He gave himself a strategic plan when they met for the first time, and now Liu Bei was also looking forward to what Zhuge Liang would prepare for him when they met for the second time.
Zhuge Liang naturally did not disappoint Liu Bei. During his second visit, Zhuge Liang gave Liu Bei a "closed door".
"My husband goes out to meet friends. It can take as short as a few days or as long as half a month. The return date is uncertain."
Xu Shu was so embarrassed that he almost wanted to break down the door.
Could Xu Shu not know whether Zhuge Liang was at home or going out to meet friends? !
Before bringing Liu Bei to visit, Xu Shu wrote a letter specifically to tell Zhuge Liang, because he was afraid that this guy would go out to play again and be away from home... What is going on now, are you kidding me? !
But Xu Shu couldn't find it easy to expose.
If Liu Bei knew this, Zhuge Liang was clearly at home but avoided seeing him... there would be no next time, Zhuge Liang would just die in the forest.
And Xu Shu also knew why Zhuge Liang did this.
Zhuge Liang, I think, has read a lot of books, so he believes in what the books say.
He believes that people can be considered from seven aspects.
When someone is right and wrong, observe his ambition; when he is poor, he uses words to argue and observe his changes; when he advises him on strategies, he observes his knowledge; when he tells him about disasters, he observes his courage; when he is drunk, he observes his nature; when he confronts him, he observes his nature. Look at the integrity when it comes to profit; look at the trustworthiness when looking forward to things.
In the first six items, in addition to getting drunk with wine, Zhuge Liang had already tested Liu Bei when they first met, and Zhuge Liang was very satisfied with the result.
Only for the last item, Zhuge Liang was unable to come to a conclusion for the time being.
How could he, a man from the mountains, expect Liu Bei, a general from the left, to do anything? !
Although he can't expect things to happen, Zhuge Liang still has to wait and see what Liu Bei's attitude is towards him, whether he can stick to it till the end, and whether he can use it when it is needed and when it is not. Why don't you just leave it alone? !
That's why he deliberately said he was out when he was clearly at home, just to see Liu Bei's reaction.
And Liu Bei's reaction was just like what was written in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Although Liu Bei was a little disappointed at not being able to see Zhuge Liang, he also expressed his understanding and personally left a letter, asking the boy to deliver it to Zhuge Liang. Then he bowed to the thatched cottage and left with Zhang Xi and Xu Shu.
To a certain extent, Liu Bei's personality charm is really strong.
After being rejected, Liu Bei was not angry at all. On the way back, he kept praising Zhuge Liang and lamented that it was an unlucky time for him to come and not be able to talk freely with the talented person.
This is really not acting. Facing Xu Shu and Zhang Xi, Liu Bei doesn't need to act at all.
If he is really dissatisfied, he can just keep silent. Anyway, his character of Liu Bei is not the Uncle Liu who cries every time in the romance line. The Liu Bei of this world is closer to historical facts. He is really intangible with emotions and anger. people.
It can be seen that Liu Bei really regretted not being able to see Zhuge Liang this time.
The more Liu Bei behaved like this, the more Xu Shu felt embarrassed... Not only did he feel embarrassed that he had failed to complete his mission, he also felt that Kong Ming was embarrassed by using such a little trick.
Even if he refuses to surrender to such a clear master, he still wants to test him... Zhuge Liang's way of judging people is nothing more than that.
In the end, Xu Shu did not expose Zhuge Liang's intention, but took Zhang Xi, who knew nothing, to accompany Liu Bei back to Xinye.
A few days after returning to Xinye, it was the day when Liu Bei's army was promoted to Cao Dian.
