On the second day of Pei Gai's arrival in the city, he lined up outside the city, and he and Zu Ti marched side by side to inspect the soldiers.

Zu Ti looked at it intently, and couldn't help but be secretly frightened, and said in his heart that Pei Wenyue was really a good soldier! First of all, it is not surprising that Pei Jiajun's equipment is very sophisticated, Pei should have been planting land in the south of Xuzhou for several years, and he also successfully won the copper and iron deposits in Pengcheng, which can not only cast weapons by himself, but also mint money to buy materials; Although Zu Ti and Pei Gai had a good relationship, he also knew that Pei Wenyue was neither his own subordinate nor a completely selfless person, so it was impossible for him to take out all the best things for himself, and he must have mainly used them to equip the recruits in Xuzhou.

Secondly, the mental state of the Xuzhou soldiers is very good, all of them are upright, high-spirited, and their faces are full of red light - they look good at eating. Last year, Yu is a common year, I heard that Xuzhou is smooth and rainy, rare ripeness, and Pei should still be in Jiangdong, talking to Zu Ti about soldiers, he said that he must let the soldiers eat well, so that they can train regularly, and the battle array can not be weaker than the enemy, it seems that he really has the strength to fill the Xuzhou soldiers and feed them. Zu Tixin can't say it, I have to talk to him again, and let him provide me with more food and materials.

Third, Pei Jiajun's queue is very neat, and the phalanxes are like knives and axes. Of course, in Pei Gai's opinion, this is far from enough, compared to the team of the military parade on Long Street in later generations, it is simply loose and outrageous...... Of course, the times, the environment, and even the food are completely incomparable, and he can't be too demanding. Pei Gai had read a lot of history in his previous life, and there were two main ways to talk about military training: one is military physical boxing, and the other is queue training. He had already thrown those few hands of military physical boxing to Java during military training, but the queue training could be moved and used, so when he was training, he was forcibly promoted by Liu Yetang, Zhen Sui and others despite the incomprehension and doubts.

In fact, queue training is not a new trick, it is said that the Qi family army in the Ming Dynasty was able to stand upright like a pine in the face of heavy rain, and the queue did not disperse. It's just that the requirements for the queue are not very high these years, especially the newly recruited soldiers, not cronies, and generally no one will spend too much energy and time to practice the queue and practice the standing posture - they are basically consumables, why bother with that effort?

Pei Ke didn't intend to treat all ordinary soldiers as consumables, he felt that he was still far from the requirement of "Ci Bu in charge of the army", and the last battle of Jiang Jigang lost 300 young people—most of them were veterans trained by Zu Ti—and it hurt him very much. Of course, it is completely impossible to fight with low or even zero casualties in battles like the US military ravaged small countries in later generations, but Pei Gai always felt that as a general, he should always reduce his own losses as much as possible, and even if he could not avoid it, he had to fight a war of attrition, and he could not waste the lives of his soldiers, let alone neglect his daily training because of possible attrition.

The second battalion of "Gale Wind" and "Robbery Fire" is the elite of the Xuzhou Army, not to mention the cavalry of Wen Lang's department. However, although Zu Shizhi was shocked in his heart, his face did not show the slightest expression, and he rode his horse slowly in front of the formation, only occasionally bowing his head slightly.

Pei Gai couldn't help but ask: "How do you look at my sergeants, can you afford to fight?" ”

Zu Ti turned his face sideways and asked him, "Have you ever experienced a bloody battle?" Pei Cai nodded first, and then shook his head: "Naturally, he has also fought on the battlefield, but he has not yet encountered a strong enemy." "The only strong enemy I have ever encountered is the Qianghu soldiers who have supported the sixth, but that was two years ago, so there is no need to say that more than seventy percent of the five thousand soldiers and horses were recruited after that battle.

Zu Ti said with a smile: "The view is quite majestic, but whether it can not waver in the face of a strong enemy is not yet known." In the past, the Luoyang Forbidden Army was also very considerable, but ......" was afraid that this would be too serious, and he swept Pei Gai's face, so he hurriedly turned around: "Then it is enough to threaten Jiangdong." ”

Pei Gai naturally understands that the soldiers who dare to fight cannot stand up by standing in line - of course, the importance of queue training cannot be ignored - but he also does not want to pull the newly trained troops to the front line of blood and fire to face a strong enemy; The development of things and the cultivation of abilities always require a gradual process. Therefore, he didn't care about Zu Ti's deliberate belittlement, and said with a smile: "I want to sweep this army away from Xubeiwu Fort and bandits first, and then go north to attack Cao Wei, if I can destroy Cao and return, I can meet with Zu Jun and enter Hu Lu...... "Let's not be in a hurry, come step by step."

The enemy faced is gradually tricky, and the intensity of the battle is gradually increasing, in Pei Gai's view, it is the best way for a strong army to grow, neither because it has never encountered a strong enemy, resulting in a lack of blood and bravery, combat skills standing still, or even giving birth to an illusory arrogant heart, nor will the backbone be repeatedly broken, and the veterans of a hundred battles will never be cultivated. Originally, in the troubled times, it was a luxury to raise troops like this, but fortunately, there was Zu Li in front of him, and he first helped Pei Cai to carry the strong enemy.

At the beginning of Jiankang's friendship, and when he just crossed to the north, Pei should have taken Zu Ti as his role model, but now it seems that Zu Shizhi is likely to be a ladder, as long as he can climb up, he can naturally strengthen the army and reach his ambitions!

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Pei Gai stayed near Qian County for six full days, and then left some of the grain, equipment, and horses, bid farewell to Zu Ti, and led the army to the southwest, passing through Ruyin and Runan to Jingzhou, to visit the fifth Yi and Xun Xiang. However, as soon as he entered the boundary of Jingzhou, he met a caravan from Xuzhou and brought news that Wancheng had been conquered, and Xun Xiang had surrendered to the fifth Yi.

Pei Gai couldn't help frowning when he heard the news, and said in his heart, I damn it, history has changed again......

The details are that last year, Wuyi was ordered to supervise the four prefectures, and immediately led more than 1,000 soldiers and horses recruited along the way to cross the Vietnamese Mountains and enter Weixing County, the northwesternmost part of Jingzhou. Although the three counties of Weixing, Shangyong, and Xincheng belonged to the Jingzhou Thorn History Department, they were actually more closely related to Liangzhou - during the Han Dynasty, these three counties were originally only part of Hanzhong County - the hand of the Jiankang regime could not reach that far for a while, so the Fifth Yi could run unscrupulous. But then it was impossible to go further east, and was blocked by the new Jingzhou Thorn Wang Xuan, who wanted to turn in the direction of Nanyang, but Xun Xiang had already occupied Wancheng and refused to accept the command of the fifth Yi.

Just when the Fifth Yi soldiers were weak and difficult to further expand their power, suddenly good news fell from the sky - Du Zeng led the remnants to the north and personally ran to the Sanhe Pavilion in Nanxiang to pay homage to the Fifth Yi and ask for attachment. And Du Zeng also negotiated a marriage with the Fifth Yi, and married the fifth Yi's concubine to Du Zeng's nephew Du Luo as his wife, and then the two armies merged, successfully calmed Nanxiang County, and entered Xiangyang. Jiankang's Jingzhou Assassin Wang Hui led the army to the palace, but was defeated by Du Zeng, and the fifth Yi was able to enter Xiangyang City.

The strategy of the fifth Yi was to turn around and subdue Xun Xiang first, and then advance to Yiyang and Jiangxia, and put the entire northern part of Jingzhou under the control of the imperial court. At this time, Zhou Wan, Gan Zhuo and other generals also led their troops to attack Du Tao in Xiangzhou, and Wang Dun sent them to the north to help, so Zhou Wan temporarily agreed to Du Tao's surrender, played Jiankang, and appointed Du Tao as the supervisor of Badong. However, they had just broken away from contact with Du Bu and set off for the north, when a letter from Wang Gong came, and Du Tao immediately surrendered and rebelled. Zhou Wan and others were forced to turn around, attack Du Tao again, and finally killed Du Yan's fierce general Zhang Yan in battle, forced to land Wang Zhen, Du Tao fled alone with arrows, and died of serious injuries on the way - the rebellion in Xiangzhou was completely quelled.

But in this way, the fifth Yi and Du Zeng were given enough time to breathe, and Du Zeng personally led the elite to surround Wancheng. Xun Xiang was invincible, and sent people to break through the siege to ask Wang Xuan for help, but he could not get an answer, and in desperation, after holding on for a whole month, he finally opened the city gate and bowed down in front of the horse of the fifth yi......

The original history was not like this, and the main reason was that Tao Kan was still in Jingzhou. Although Tao Kan and Zhou Wan may have their own merits and difficulties in discussing the ability of the battle array, Tao Kan's popularity in Jingzhou is very high, which is incomparable to Zhou Wan, so the speed of the march is more than a step faster. Coupled with Tao Kan's surrender to Wang Gong, when Du Zeng fled north, his remnants were much weaker than on this timeline.

Immediately, Tao Kan led his army south to Xiangzhou, pursued the rest of Du Tao, and arranged Zhou to visit his right flank to monitor the movements in the north of Jingzhou. Even without Wang Gong's guidance, Du Zeng finally took refuge in Xiangyang and was ordered to attack Xun Xiang in Wancheng. It's just that Xun Xiang, who was originally in history, has already connected with the Jiankang regime at this time.

Xun Song was sent by Heyin, and theoretically speaking, he should be regarded as the general of Chang'an, not the general of Jiankang - so the fifth Yi was angry, and he had to defeat this traitor first. But one was ordered by Heyin to serve as the military governor of Jingzhou and Jiangbei, and the imperial court did not say hello, but suddenly sent a military governor of the four states to force it on his head. And although the fifth family is surnamed Chang'an, the Eastern Han Dynasty has successively produced the fifth Lun, the fifth kind, the fifth visit, and the fifth superior minister, the problem is that since entering the Wei Dynasty, there have been no more than two thousand stones-the fifth Yi is the first one-how can it be compared with the Yingchuan Xun clan? Xun Song's dissatisfaction with the fifth Yi is also reasonable.

Secondly, Xun Song used to be in Luoyang, good at literature, and had a very good relationship with Wang Dun, Gu Rong, Lu Ji and others, so now Wang and Gu are both under the command of King Langya, so the old love is deep, and he will naturally be more inclined to the Jiankang regime.

In the original history, Xun Song contacted Wang Dun through Tao Kan and obtained a certain commitment from the Jiankang regime. It is said that when Wancheng was besieged, his daughter, thirteen-year-old Xun Guanniang, broke out of the siege and first went to Xun Song's former official and Xiangcheng Taishou Shilan for help. Shi Lan didn't dare to send troops, but instructed Xun Guanniang to go to Nanzhong Lang to visit Zhou, so Xun Guanniang forged his father's letter and turned around to ask for reinforcements from Zhou's visit......

But in this timeline, by mistake, Shi Lan was not in Xiangcheng - probably due to the influence of Zu Qi's early westward expedition - and Zhou Yu also replaced Tao Kan's responsibility and was fighting with Du Tao in Xiangzhou, so within 500 miles around Wancheng, only Wang Hui of Jiangxia could be saved. Wang Xuan had just been defeated by Du Zeng, where did he dare to rescue Wancheng, so he had to send the news back to Jiangzhou - and if Wang Dun had sent a letter to send troops, it was estimated that Xun Song's body would have already been cold.

In addition, the fifth Yi and Du Zeng were more powerful than in the original history, and Xun Song was not a capable general, so in the absence of foreign aid, he had no choice but to bow down and surrender the city.

According to the information brought by the caravan, Wancheng had just been taken, and the Fifth Yi and Du Zeng were still in the city. After Pei Gai lamented the change in history, he immediately sent someone to send a letter to inform the fifth Yi, saying that he was about to go to Wancheng and hoped to meet with him.

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When he received Pei Gai's letter, he summoned his subordinates—mainly Du Zeng, Wang Gong, and Xun Song—to ask for their opinions.

Before Du Zeng could read the letter, he frowned and asked, "Pei Wenyue was ordered to guard Xuzhou and supervise the Qingxu military, why did he come to my Jingzhou?" ”

The fifth Yi replied: "According to the information in his book, Chang'an is in danger, so he led his army westward, wanting to join forces with Zu Shizhi and go north to Henan. However, Zu Shizhi first fought with the thief in Jiaxian, which was unfavorable, and he did not send troops again, so Pei Wenyu led his division back east. said that he wanted to take the Yangtze River waterway in order to transport materials, so he went south, heard that I was in Wancheng, and asked to see him. ”

Wang Gong smiled: "This excuse is ear. When Pisi came, there were enough supplies, and there was no need for waterways to cooperate, and when he returned, he only had half of the grain, so how could he go along the river? I'm afraid that Zu Shizhi asked him to protect southern Henan, and I am afraid that we will interfere - the world knows that Zu and Pei Ben are one, and Zu Shizhi is in Yan and Henan, and he also has a lot of Pei Wen's funding. ”

Fifth Yi nodded and said, "The imperial court ordered me to supervise the military of Jingzhou, and I have no responsibility for Yan and Yu, and I have no intention of going north." In this way, he made an appointment with Pei Wen to explain it and asked him to return. ”

Wang Gong said slowly: "I don't know how many people Pei Wenyue has?" Why didn't Ming Gong take advantage of the situation to intercept it and ask him for grain and straw supplies? I heard that Xuzhou was ripe last year, and he was able to march thousands of miles when the farm was busy, so he must have plenty of supplies. And I am now short of soldiers and food, I am afraid that after Zhou Shida breaks Du Tao, he will turn back to the north and meet Wang Shijiang, and it will be difficult to resist at that time. If you can get funding from Xuzhou, you will have no worries. ”

Fifth Yiyi frowned, saying that this idea is good, but-"Is Pei Wenyue likely to agree?" ”

Wang Gong smiled siniestly: "That is, set up a banquet in Wancheng, entertain Pei Wenyue, and discuss with him." If Peter surrenders his troops and provisions, let him go away safely; Otherwise, Ming Gong will accuse him of not saving Chang'an, and when the banquet is taken, why should he ask for it and not get it? ”

When Xun Song heard this, he was taken aback, waved his hand again and again, and said, "No, no!" Pei Wen is innocent, Xu Fang is thousands of miles away, how can he ask him to save Chang'an? Arresting one side for no reason, wanting to take away its soldiers and food, I am afraid that the Quartet will be centrifuged, and it will be blamed on the court! Or talk to him politely, whether you want to do it or not, it's better to let him go back safely......"

Wang Gong pursed his lips: "Sent by the Ming Gong court, he has a festival in his hand, and his name is above Pei Wenyue, how can he not be convicted and arrested?" As for the centrifugal clouds in the Quartet, their hearts are in Jiankang, not in Chang'an, and they are not attached, so how can they say anything? Those who do big things are not informal, and Xun Shou is too pedantic. ”

The fifth Yi hesitated for a while, but turned his head and asked Du Zeng: "What do you think?" Du Zeng glanced at Wang Gong: "The last general thinks that what the prince said is true." ”

Fifth Yi said okay, then let's decide like this, and pointed to Wang Gong: "Qing can arrange it himself." Xun Song still wanted to dissuade him, but Wu Yi reached out to cover his ears, saying that the matter had been decided and there was no need to discuss it anymore.