Hearing Sun Jian ask himself what kind of tricks he had to break through Taigu Pass, Liu Bei understood that Sun Jian was not asking himself. It's that Sun Jian is unwilling to bear the losses of the siege alone, but the relationship between the two is relatively harmonious, so he makes a request in a roundabout way. So, Liu Bei smiled and said: "Brother Wentai, on the way here, I killed Hu Zhen, the general under Dong Zhuo, and the existing head of Hu Zhen is here, why not take Hu Zhen's head to recruit the defenders of Taigu Pass." ”

Hearing this, Liu Bei killed Hu Zhen, Sun Jian was overjoyed, and said: "Hu Zhen is a lord of Liangzhou, with a prominent family background, and his family is a powerful family in Liangzhou, and his people have a very high prestige in Dong Zhuojun. After obtaining the head of this person, the defenders of Taigu Pass will inevitably be shaken, that is, if they do not surrender to the pass, I am afraid that the army will not have the will to fight and will not be able to hold on. ”

In the afternoon, Sun Jian and Liu Bei joined forces, ordered someone to raise Hu Zhen's head, and then picked up the heads of Liu Bei and Sun Jian beheaded in the past few days under Taigu Pass, and shouted to the pass, only saying that Hu Zhen had been killed in battle and Lu Bu had fled. If the defenders of Taigu Pass surrender now, they can still avoid death, otherwise they will break the pass and behead them like Hu Zhen to show the public.

Hu Zhen really has a good prestige in the Xiliang army, and when he saw Hu Zhen's head, the defenders of Taigu Pass were in turmoil, and they saw the commotion at the head of the city. Sun Jian and Liu Bei hurriedly sent troops to attack, and the guards of Taigu Pass could not support Yang Ding, and in the end, they had to set a fire and burn Taigu Pass and retreat.

Sun and Liu, when they saw Yang Dingyao Pass retreating, did not chase after them, but just extinguished the flames, occupied Taigu Pass, set up camp, and prepared to repair a little, and then set off to attack Dong Zhuo.

Tomorrow will send troops to fight with Dong Zhuo, the Xiliang army is brave and good at fighting, Liu Bei is worried that the army is unstable, so he brought 50 personal soldiers, under the escort of Dian Wei, in the camp, back and forth.

Not only that, Liu Bei didn't even wear heavy armor, only wore a soft armor inside, and a big coat outside, and didn't hold a weapon, but just held an iron ruyi in his hand.

The so-called iron Ruyi, in fact, is made of iron Ruyi, the front is a fist-sized Ganoderma lucidum-shaped ornament, the back is connected to two feet long, the so-called iron rod with the thickness of the arm. In fact, this iron Ruyi, in addition to the appearance of Ruyi, can be used as a hammer, whether it is blocking or smashing people, it is no problem, it can be used for self-defense. Liu Bei took an iron ruyi, which was used to pretend to be forced, to show his ease-will, and to calm the hearts of the people in the army.

Who knows, when I heard that I had to face such a strong enemy as the Xiliang Army, the officers and men in the army not only did not have the slightest nervousness, but even had some morale. Not only that, Liu Bei obviously felt that along the way, the Qingzhou army was full of morale, and the soldiers' thirst for war was overflowing, and there was a little bit of joy when they heard the war.

Along the way, Liu Bei stopped here and there, and found soldiers at all levels to come over and ask questions. Only then did I understand that the last time I sent troops to fight against Dong Zhuo, I trained frequently for several months, but in the end, there was no war, and everyone didn't get any merits, so naturally they didn't get a reward. If he hadn't returned to Qingzhou and fought the Yellow Turban Army once, he was afraid that the upper and lower ranks of the army would have been dissatisfied.

This time the crusade against Dong Zhuo not only started the war immediately after he came, but also because Liu Bei once again took advantage of the previous knowledge to kill and capture thousands of enemy soldiers, and there were not many casualties, everyone who made meritorious contributions there happily discussed, how much merit was made this time, how much reward he could receive after he went back, and he could have hundreds of acres of land in his own house. Those who have not made meritorious contributions are all gritting their teeth and wanting to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, so that they can be rewarded for their meritorious service, but they only hate that Dong Zhuo is not in front of them, and they can't arrest Dong Zhuo, if they catch Dong Fatzi, then they don't have to worry about it for the rest of their lives.

Only then did Liu Bei understand that the military spirit and morale were available, and he suddenly had a kind of realization in his heart.

In modern China, there was a great military scientist named Jiang Fangzhen, and Baili Gong once said in his military writings: When a country's army is integrated with their daily production methods, the country's army is the most powerful. To the effect that it is, I don't bother to translate the original words.

Liu Bei had read Baili Gong's works before he crossed, and he didn't know if it was right or not.

However, Baili Gong's proposal for a protracted war is correct, "a thousand words into one sentence, we Chinese have a way," this method is actually dragging, "win or lose, just can't talk about peace," sure enough, in the end, although the cost is high, but still drag the little devil down. As the saying goes, "Ten thousand words are one word, and there must be a way to believe in China; It is okay to lose the war, but we must not make peace with Japan. ”。

From the perspective of Chinese history, in war, those who can solve the land problem well can dominate the world, and there are many positive examples.

For example, Qin annihilated the Six Kingdoms, using the Shang Jun's method of cultivation and warfare, the remnants of the Sixth Fen, Zhen Chang and Yu Yu, swallowing two weeks and dying the princes, performing the supreme and controlling the six together, holding the knock and whipping the world, and vibrating the four seas.

As for the Han Dynasty, Emperor Gao won the king with a feud and won the world by granting land. Relying on granting land to the people of the world again and again, the royal family of the Liu family has collected the hearts of the people in the world, and Han Xin, Peng Yue, Yingbu, and Lu Juan have all been bombarded into slag, and none of them can jump up.

There are also counter-examples, one is Wang Mang, some people say that Wang Mang is a traverser, in fact, Wang Mang's goods are purely reading and reading his brain, so he has to govern the country completely in accordance with the method of a thousand years ago, according to the records of Zhou Li, to restore the well field, and to suppress the merger.

Then don't blame Emperor Guangwu, who came into being, revived the Han Dynasty, and recreated the hot sky. "Liu Xiufa has no way to arrest soldiers, Siyi gathers in Longdouye, fire is the main thing on the occasion of April 7, and Mao Jin Xiude is the Son of Heaven."

As for the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it is also a counterexample, the Eastern Jin Dynasty is not a partial court, but a period of confrontation between the north and the south. The north and south are bounded by the Yangtze River, which is partial peace, and the north and south are bounded by the Qinling Mountains and the Huai River, which is the parallel existence of the two dynasties in the north and south. The Eastern Jin Dynasty used a unified south to fight against the previously divided north, and finally failed to invade the Central Plains and restore the Han land, which was nothing more than a problem with the distribution of land.

In the Wei and Jin dynasties, land was not distributed by military merit, but by family reputation, and the root of it was that Cao Cao established a new sixth-class knighthood system and officially abolished the twentie-level military merit system, which made the reward of military merit titles a patent for upper-level generals, not only making military households the lowest level of society, but even middle- and lower-level officers could not benefit from it. It also made many people who didn't know much about the history of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms talk nonsense on TV, saying that the Han Dynasty also had titles of duke, uncle, son, and male.

What needs to be done now is to establish a relatively fair plan for the distribution of land according to military merits, which Shang Jun has already made arrangements. The rest is to come up with a way to ensure that future generations can be like King Qin Hui, although they killed Shang Ying, but they did not abolish Shang Ying's reform.

Thinking of this, Liu Bei couldn't help but laugh excitedly, because Liu Bei finally got rid of the shadow in his heart all along, and got rid of the fear of the future.

Liu Bei laughed for a while, and when he saw that no one was talking on the left and right, he was suddenly a little speechless, and said that at this time, someone should come and ask, "Why is the general laughing?" "That's the right time.

Seeing that no one was praising him, Liu Bei had no choice but to say stand-up comedy, stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of Luoyang, and said with a smile: "The military heart is available, the military heart is available, the thief must be, the world is decided!" ”