At the same time, Liu Bei ordered the county supervisors not to arbitrarily levy any form of conscription in their own jurisdictions, and if Xuzhou had not experienced war, Liu Bei would not have casually conscripted ordinary people for military service.

Therefore, in the second and third battles of Xuzhou, Liu Bei always took a defensive position, first, Liu Bei himself was not as good as Cao Cao, and the generals under his command were not only small in number, but also not necessarily stronger than Cao Cao or Sun Ce.

So far, Liu Bei's real achievements are outstanding, and it is actually a personal guard who was voluntarily given up by Jin Jue - Jin Hou. And the performance of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who are regarded by Liu Bei as siblings, is really unsatisfactory. In ancient China, individual martial arts did not play a decisive role in warfare. Unless, you are the kind of person like Xiang Yu who is brave and unbeatable in the world.

Second, the number of elite soldiers in Liu Bei's army is relatively small, once a war occurs, Liu Bei will temporarily recruit some trained Tuntian soldiers in the agricultural slack, these people will indeed be at a disadvantage if they fight with the enemy in the wilderness, but if these Tuntian soldiers are placed behind the fortifications or city walls, the situation is different.

In itself, the army on the defensive side, especially the army blocked by the wall, has a greater advantage in the war.

Liu Bei's measures gave the ordinary people of Xuzhou time to recuperate, but unfortunately, Xuzhou, where Liu Bei is located, has been violated by surrounding forces every year after Jin Jue crossed over to this time and space, that is, from the first year of Jian'an.

In the first year of Jian'an, although Liu Bei's situation in Xuzhou was the most dangerous, because Lu Bu suddenly followed Jin Jue's advice and joined forces with Liu Bei to defeat Yuan Shu, ending the war for more than a year early. Therefore, in that year, the people of Xuzhou could be regarded as having a truly peaceful year. In the next two years, except for the Xiapi Kingdom, all the other counties of Xuzhou were attacked by the princes of Cao Cao, Yuan Shu and Sun Ce.

Sometimes, that's it, if Liu Bei is as reckless as Cao Cao, he often recruits people to serve in the countryside and military service, although the people of Xuzhou dare not resist, but they will begin to resent Liu Bei in their hearts. On the other hand, Liu Bei thought about the people so much that it was not until the Cao army invaded Pengchengguo that he still recruited Tuntian soldiers to join the temporary garrison, and the people naturally understood Liu Bei's distress in doing so.

Therefore, every time Liu Bei temporarily recruited Tuntian soldiers into the army, most of the men in Xuzhou actively signed up to participate.

In terms of what kind of people to recruit to join the temporary garrison, Liu Bei also followed Jin Jue's advice, he did not recruit only young and middle-aged people between the ages of eighteen and thirty like other princes, but only recruited men between the ages of thirty-five and fifty to enlist in the army, and when men over forty-five years old were recruited, they had to go through a certain assessment.

Why did Jin Jue make such a suggestion?

In order to maintain the population growth rate of Xuzhou.

When the garrison joined the war, casualties were inevitable.

In addition to the city, Liu Bei gave Lu Su the task of building fortifications on the border of Donghai County and the western county of Xiapi Kingdom, and Lu Su lived up to expectations, and he only took one year, that is, before the winter of the second year of Jian'an, to completely complete the fortifications of these two borders.

However, there was no cement in this era, and Lusu did not have the ability to build fortifications with bricks and stones, and this kind of fortifications that stretched for dozens of miles, except for a small masonry fortress for one mile, were all built with a mixture of civil and engineering between the forts. Therefore, once Cao's army invaded, the casualty rate of the garrisons in these two places was much greater than that of Pengcheng, the county of Pengcheng.

Jin Jue said a very difficult truth at that time, in this era when the average life expectancy of men and women is definitely less than thirty years old, men between the ages of thirty-five and fifty have already lived enough. Either they already have children to inherit the incense, or their whole family was killed by Cao Jun, and they have a blood feud with Cao Cao. Such men, even if they die in battle, they will die as they deserve.

In turn, the older men died in battle, leaving the hope of life to the young people in Xuzhou, including his nephews, relatives, and the descendants of friends, and so on.

Young people staying in Xuzhou can marry wives and have children, adding more newborn babies and more new forces to Xuzhou.

You must know that when Jin Jue said this, Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei were also in their thirties, and in the first year of Jian'an, whether Guan Yu and Zhang Fei had a son or not, there is no record in history, but Liu Bei must have no son. However, Liu Bei and others actually understood that Jin Jue's words were referring to the situation of men among ordinary people, and did not include men in the family.

With this special way of recruitment, Liu Beijun's combat effectiveness was not only not weakened, but brought three benefits to Liu Beijun and the entire Xuzhou.

First, when the garrison encountered the Cao army, the Xuzhou soldiers naturally had anger bars to improve their combat effectiveness. When the Xuzhou soldiers faced the Yangzhou soldiers, they did not have this abnormal state.

When he was in close contact with Cao Jun, even if he was favored by the sword, even if he was dying, he had to pull a Cao soldier on his back before he died. This state of desperate fighting made the generals led by Cao Jun tremble.

Otherwise, with the fortifications established by Lu Su alone, coupled with Mi Fang's clumsy ability to lead troops, in fact, the temporary garrison of Donghai County was not enough to block Yu Ban for so long on such a long defensive line.

The people are not afraid of death, so why should they be afraid of death?

Once they have the courage, in the face of Cao Jun's butcher's knife, the Xuzhou soldiers are all fighting bravely, not afraid of death, and killing the veterans of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army under Yu Ban are all frightened, if it is not for Yu Ban personally bringing his personal guards to press the formation behind the formation, his subordinates are likely to appear deserters for the first time in the previous battle.

Fa Zheng was not very surprised by Yuan Lian's fierce opposition, it should be said that it was expected.

Through Yuan Lian's performance, Fa Zheng in turn confirmed Jin Jue's evaluation of this upright old master.

Yuan Jian is upright, outspoken, and has a strong ability to deal with local government affairs, but it is precisely because of his character that he lacks change when doing things. Therefore, Yuan Lian, it will not be too much of a problem to use him as the county guard or state assassin who has little military pressure, on the other hand, if Yuan Jian is placed on the front line to resist the enemy's county guard, he is still not qualified, much worse than Lu Su and Wang Xiu.

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