The military camp outside Pingyuan City could have lived for a thousand people, but there were only more than 300 and less than 400 soldiers inside, and this was due to the addition of dozens of wounded soldiers brought back by Chen Cheng. Chen Cheng was very puzzled by this, and asked, "Brother also has a county, why are there only so many soldiers?" ”

Liu Bei sighed and said: "Since the Yellow Turban was raging, Jizhou has been tired, and the people can't even eat, where can they still raise soldiers?" I could only dismiss most of the soldiers who had come to the plains with me. ”

Chen Cheng smiled: "No matter how tired you are, the field is still there, is there no one to cultivate it by hand, or is the output of the field reduced?" ”

Liu Bei said: "The fields have been barren after one or two years have not been planted, and the tax revenue in these two years is much less than in previous years. ”

Chen Cheng smiled and said, "I see." ”

Liu Bei felt that Chen Cheng seemed to have an extraneous meaning, but after thinking about it carefully, he didn't seem to have it, he sank his heart and said: "When I was eating wine yesterday, Wen Zheng took out a lot of crops, saying that the yield was higher than wheat and rice, but he didn't know ......."

Chen Cheng was stunned for a moment, then reflected and said, "Brother is going to plant in the plains?" ”

He thought about it and said, "Pepper, corn, potatoes, peas, garlic, coriander, these are all available, and they can be grown here." If my brother wants it, I'll keep some of it. ”

Liu Bei was overjoyed and said, "Then I will thank Wenzheng on behalf of the people of the plains." Even if the output is 10% more, it can reduce the starvation and cold of the people. ”

At this point, he hesitated a little. Chen Cheng saw that Liu Bei was sincere, and knew that although he was too famous, he really cherished the people, so he smiled and said: "I know what my brother means, so let's do it, I'll stay in the plain for an extra month, and then leave after teaching the locals how to plant, how about it?" ”

Liu Bei took a step back and bowed. Chen Cheng hurriedly helped him up and said with a wry smile: "I also know that the people's lives are hard, but these things ....... It doesn't necessarily make their lives better. ”

Liu Bei Zhengse said: "Wen Zheng's words are wrong! If Tanaka can produce more, the people will get more. When the green and yellow are not received, even if it is a point of output, I don't know how many people can live! ”

Chen Cheng shook his head and said: "Of course, it is good to make the output bigger, but the problem now is not the total output, but the distribution method." ”

Liu Bei's brows furrowed and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Chen Cheng regretted it a little as soon as he spoke, and was questioned by Liu Bei, and said with a dry smile: "Gaffe, gaffe." ”

Liu Bei stopped asking each other.

For most of the next half a month, Chen Cheng left the seeds of potatoes, pepper, corn and other crops to several veterans in the county government and taught them how to plant them. In fact, in terms of farming, people are much better than him. He just said a rough idea, and people knew what to do. After all, the ruling class in these years is known as farming and reading heirlooms, farming and reading are the most important things, except for a very small number of people, there is no one who does not know how to farm.

Of course, Chen Cheng also has admirable places, such as manure, intercropping, rotation and other methods, others just have a vague concept, but he can say a lot of truth. Wiping the beads of sweat on his forehead, Chen Cheng said sincerely: Fortunately, buddy is good at biology, and I still remember a lot of photosynthesis and the like.

In addition to farming, when he had free time, he watched Zhang Fei and Guan Yu train in the barracks. These two people are both known as the generals of the bear and tiger in later generations, and the method of training soldiers made Chen Cheng feel that he had gained a lot of knowledge. But he always felt that something was wrong, not that the training methods of the two customs chiefs were not good, but that he always remembered the political commissar and the Gestapo.

On the school ground, Zhang Fei roared like thunder and reprimanded the soldiers, but Chen Cheng was pondering. If he had led the troops, what should he have done?

Soon, he thought of a number of things to look out for. The first is to eat enough. Only when the soldiers are well fed can they train well and win the battle. It may seem like nonsense, but it's not. How to ensure that soldiers have enough food is a great science.

Article 2: A strong soldier. Li Shimin once said that he was able to win the battle by relying on the words "strong armor and soldiers". This also seems to be nonsense, the weapon should be good, and this is also something that everyone knows. But what everyone knows does not mean that it can be done, in the battle of Salhu at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the general Juniper was shot in the head with an arrow, and the helmet issued by the military department was like paper paste, where can people reason with this? There is a big guy who is angry but stabs him in the court, but the result is still gone.

When Chen Cheng was fooling around, a horse suddenly rushed over from outside the camp. The cavalryman said on horseback, "Where is Mr. Chen?" The county order is calling! ”

"Oh," Chen Cheng asked, in addition to the camp, "What is the matter with Liu Xianling's search for me?" ”

The cavalry was Liu Bei's personal soldier, and he was familiar with Chen Cheng. He smiled and said, "I heard that someone from Youzhou brought a letter to Mr., and asked me to call Mr. back with a county order." ”

Well, Chen Cheng was happy at that time. More than half a month ago, it was he who brought a letter to Liu Bei, and now someone has sent him a letter. Riding back to the city, as soon as he walked into the county office, Chen Cheng saw a familiar figure, he went up and patted the man's shoulder, and said, "Wei Ran, why are you here?" ”

The person who came was Wei Ran, and his eyebrows and eyes were the same as before, without the slightest change. Wei Ran said with a smile: "Captain Tian has a letter to Mr., and he knows that I am close to Mr., so he sent me over." ”

Chen Cheng said suspiciously: "Could it be that Captain Tian has something?" ”

Wei Ran said: "I don't know about this. ”

"Come in and talk," Chen Cheng pushed open the door and took over a bag of bamboo slips, the heavy weight was not light, and he couldn't help but be even more puzzled in his heart, "How much do you want to write a letter?" ”

opened a volume casually, but what was written on it was Tian Yu's perception of the use of soldiers. When he left before, he recorded his experience since joining the army on the bamboo slips and gave them to Tian Yu. He wrote a lot of questions on the bamboo slips, and most of the letters sent by Tian Yu were about the solutions to the problems he raised.

Chen Cheng smiled and said: "Captain Tian is also really, he writes so many ...... to write a letter."

As he spoke, his voice grew smaller, but his brow furrowed. After a quick glance at the bamboo slip, Chen Cheng put it down without saying a word, opened another volume and read it quickly, followed by another volume. After reading all the bamboo slips in the bag, Chen Cheng tapped the table with his fingers, as if he was thinking about something.

Seeing this, Wei Ran said, "Since the letter has been delivered, then I will retire first." ”

Chen Cheng glanced at him and said, "What's the hurry?" It's all here, just play here for a few more days. ”

Wei Ran smiled bitterly: "Next time, there is something urgent at home, so I have to go back early." ”

Chen Cheng sneered and said, "Anyway, what's going on with Captain Tian?" ”

Wei Ran was stunned for a moment and said, "It's really okay, I'm here to deliver the letter." ”

"Hmph," Chen Cheng threw the bamboo slip in his hand on the desk and said, "Don't you say that I don't know?" It won't take more than a few days to ride a horse to Youzhou. Or are you confident that you can ride better than me? ”

Wei Ran saw that he couldn't shirk it, so he bowed to the ground and said, "It's not that I deliberately deceived Mr., it's really the captain's strict order not to reveal it." ”

Chen Cheng said impatiently: "Get up and speak!" ”

Wei Ran stood up and said in a low voice: "General Gongsun Zhan sent troops to Liaoxi, and Zhongfu lost the battle, and now he is surrounded in Guanzi City. Captain Tian was preparing to send troops to the rescue, but he had few soldiers in his hands, and I was afraid that he would not survive, so I asked me to send the letter to Mr. Tian so that the letter would not be lost after his death. The captain will send troops soon, and if I don't go back soon, I won't be able to catch up. ”

Gongsun Chan was so brave, he actually suffered a defeat and was surrounded in the city? Why does it sound like the plot of Guan Yu's defeat of Maicheng? Chen Cheng was shocked in his heart, but his face was impassive, and he asked, "When did the news come back?" ”

Wei Ran replied, "Six days ago. ”

"Then it has been surrounded for at least half a month, how many troops is the enemy?"

Wei Ran replied: "It is said that there are seventy or eighty thousand. ”

"How many people did Gongsun Chan bring?"

"Less than thirty thousand."

"Hmph, isn't Gongsun Chan very capable of fighting? How did so many people beat? Forget it, if you don't say it, I can guess it, it's nothing more than luring the enemy deep and cutting off the enemy's food or something. Chen Cheng stood up and asked, "How many people does Tian Yu have in his hands now?" ”

"Six hundred."

Chen Cheng said angrily; "He has 600 people in his hands, so he wants to send troops to save Gongsun Zhan? What about the soldiers and horses in the state? Are they all dead? ”

Wei Ran snorted: "General Gongsun has taken away all the elite soldiers in the state. ”

Chen Cheng was speechless, and after a while, he looked up to the sky and sighed: "Gongsun Baima, this is really self-inflicted, and he can't live." Even if the elite soldiers in the state are empty, they can't take 600 people to touch the tens of thousands of people. ”

He shook his head and said, "That's not to save people, it's to send people to death." ”

Wei Ran said in a low voice: "Just because I was sent to death, the captain didn't let me disclose the situation to Mr. ”

"Hmph," Chen Cheng snorted coldly and said, "Seeing the cowardice of the small enemy and the courage of the big enemy, he has the demeanor of Emperor Guangwu." ”

Wei Ran was dumbfounded, not knowing what Chen Cheng was talking about. Chen Cheng asked again: "Tian Yu wants to die, what about you?" Do you want to go back and accompany him to die? ”

Wei Ran straightened his chest and said, "If the eldest husband dies, he will die, so why be afraid?" Captain Tian is willing to die for General Gongsun, can't I die for Captain Tian? ”

Chen Cheng looked at Wei Ran, who was holding his head high, generous and heroic, and was by no means a fake. He was silent for a while, then said, "I see." You wait for me a moment. ”

After that, he got up and went to the front yard, and said to Liu Bei, who was working: "I have some urgent matters today, and I want to borrow my brother's mount." ”

Liu Bei raised his head and said in surprise: "What is so urgent?" I'll ask Yun Chang to help you. ”

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei took turns to be on duty in the military camp outside the city, and today Zhang Fei was outside the city, and Guan Yu stood behind Liu Bei. Listening to Liu Bei's words, Guan Yu nodded at Chen Cheng. Chen Cheng's heart moved, and he thought: Guan Yunchang is extraordinary, if he helps, it will definitely be like a tiger's wings. But the trip is too dangerous, so forget it.

So he shook his head and said, "A little trivial, don't bother Second Brother Guan." ”

Liu Bei said: "That Wen is going early and returning early." ”

Chen Cheng said goodbye to Liu Bei, went to the stable to lead the war horse out, and said to Wei Ran, who was waiting outside the door: "The matter is urgent, let's hurry back." ”

Wei Ran said in surprise: "Sir, this is?" ”

Chen Cheng snorted and scolded in a low voice: "You are not afraid of death, am I the one who is afraid of death?" ”

After saying that, he gently exerted force on his legs, and the war horse under his crotch was in touch with him, and he immediately shook off his four hooves and rushed towards the east of the city. Seeing this, Wei Ran hurriedly beat his horse to follow. The two horsemen rushed out of the plain city at a gallop and ran into the boundless wilderness, leaving behind only a long trail of smoke and dust.

"A Han cavalryman has joined your ranks."

In the county office, hearing the sound of horses' hooves outside the door, Liu Bei raised his head and said, "Wenzheng is in a hurry." ”

Guan Yu suddenly opened his mouth and said, "His affairs are very troublesome, why don't I catch up with him on horseback?" ”

Liu Bei thought for a while, shook his head and said: "He has always refused to say his origin, and he definitely doesn't want people to know, so let's not inquire." ”

Chen Cheng and Wei Ran, with two spare horses, changed horses without changing people, ran to Nanpi in one go, rested for a while, and after eating and drinking, they continued on the road. Wei Ran was worried that the horses would not be able to stand it, and said, "Sir, if it continues like this, the horses will be tired to death!" ”

Chen Cheng said: "Don't worry, you can't die!" ”

But no, there is always a place where people often complain about "riding and slashing", that is, the horse's physical strength is unlimited. As long as it is the mount of the "Child of Prophecy" and the soldiers under his command, there will never be a problem of running out of energy. In addition to supplementing food, drinking water and convenience, the two stayed on horseback and never came down, and it only took a day to rush from Nanpi to Youzhou.

As a result, as soon as he inquired, Tian Yu had already led his troops to Guanzi City. Chen Cheng scolded and asked the local officials for two sets of iron-armored shackles, as well as ring-headed knives and spears, bows and arrows, especially arrows, and he asked for more than a dozen extra bags. When the local officials heard that they were also going to rescue Guancheng, they didn't say a word, and brought things from the arsenal.

Gongsun Zhan sent troops to Liaoxi, but the news of the defeat and trapping had already spread throughout Youzhou, and it was the time when people were panicking. As long as it is said that they are going to rescue Guanzi City, the officials are all open to convenience. Moreover, Chen Cheng has been in the army for a while, and it is not that no one knows him.

They got weapons and equipment, and they chased after each other, and finally caught up with Tian Yu's army in Feiru.

Feiru County is near Qinhuangdao, on the edge of the Liaoning West Corridor, where the famous Lulong Town is located. The terrain here is flat, and it is only a little more than a hundred miles away from Guanzi City. If it was a small number of cavalry led by Chen Cheng, they would be able to run a hundred miles on the plain in one day. However, there are continuous mountains between Feiru and Guanzi City, and the roads in the mountains are narrow, and even if it is a rapid march, it will take two or three days to arrive.

If you want to take a detour, you have to walk for more time.

Tian Yu heard that the rear army was coming to report that someone was chasing him, worried that it was the spies of the Hu people, so he personally led the cavalry to meet them, but when he saw that it was Chen Cheng and Wei Ran, he was stunned for a moment, and waved his hand to let the soldiers let them over.

He sighed and said to Chen Cheng, who was covered in smoke and dust beside him, "You shouldn't come?" ”

Chen Cheng said with a smile: "The captain is really heroic, and he is still learning the ancient dragon at this time." Yes, but I'm here anyway. ”

Tian Yu ignored Chen Cheng's nonsense and said, "I have collected soldiers and horses in the county, and there are only a thousand people. Although the Hu people's combat strength is weak, there are tens of thousands of people, and they are afraid of ....."

"General!" Chen Cheng interrupted him, raised the strong bow in his hand, and shouted: "With this bow in the hand of a certain family, a thousand will come and a thousand will die!" ”

He looked at Tian Yu, who was stunned, and said, "It's just tens of thousands of miscellaneous beards, but they're just some ants." Although there are many ants, do they bite dead tigers? Watch me stretch out my fingers and crush them to death! ”

Before Tian Yu could say something, Chen Cheng said in a low voice: "Morale can be boosted, the captain is cautious!" ”

Tian Yu then understood, so he deliberately said loudly: "Yes, tens of thousands of miscellaneous beards, just send them away." It seems that it is God's favor this time that gives us the opportunity to make meritorious contributions! ”

Although he said this, he asked in a low voice, "Can you really win?" ”

Chen Cheng rolled his eyes and said, "As long as you listen to me, you will definitely win!" ”