After Yu Ban received Cao Cao's order, he marched all the way to Xuzhou and stopped when he arrived in Xiapi State. Yu Ban sent people to inquire about the battle situation in Guangling, and at the same time, he discussed Zhang Yi's matter with Zhang Zhao, the minister of Xiapi.

Yu Ban didn't know Zhang Yi very well, although Li Tong caught Zhang Yi and sent him to his army, but he had only met Zhang Yi at that time. Later, he didn't see Zhang Yi, but he heard that he performed well when he attacked Hanoi, so he was sent to Huainan by Cao Cao, and he has today's status.

Zhang Zhaomian also knew everything about the forbidden inquiry. However, he doesn't know much, but in the past few months, he has inquired about Zhang Yi's news.

"Zhang Yi is ambitious, and his strategy for Jiangdong is just to stabilize the rear. He helped Liu Bei just to use him as a barrier, and attacking Guangling was his real purpose, he wanted to use Xuzhou as the foundation to map the Central Plains. While entertaining Zhang Yi, Zhang Zhao said to the ban: "And Zhang Yi is magnanimous and resolute, sexual and intelligent, so many people are optimistic about him and are willing to work for him." ”

"He doesn't have any shortcomings, does he?" Yu Ban couldn't help asking.

Zhang Zhao said with a smile: "According to Zhang Yi's own words, people have two sides. The magnanimous woman is also benevolent, the resolute lack flexibility, the sexual and the majestic are not majestic, and the wise are distracted. Zhang Yi never killed prisoners in the rebellion, which shows the kindness of his woman! The prescribed regulations are one-size-fits-all, everything is regulated, and there is a lack of flexibility! His people personally went to the fields to cultivate and harvest, although they were close to the people, they were less majestic! His intelligence is the best in the world, but it is used in medicine, mathematics, and craftsmanship, and he does not know the road after all. ”

Yu Ban couldn't help asking: "Zhang Yi is very good at medicine, mathematics, and craftsmanship?" ”

Zhang Zhao stood up, took down three bamboo slips from the shelf on the side, and took them to the side of a few cases. took out the bamboo slips and handed them to Yu Ban. Yu Ban opened it and saw that it was written about some medical things. Of course, more of it is preventive.

Yu Banzhi frowned, "A lot of this is redundant, right?" It's too complicated, and if I do that, I'll only be able to march about twenty miles a day. ”

Zhang Zhao chuckled: "These seem to be cumbersome, but in fact, they are just habits. Now Shouchun and even Huainan County (Jiujiang County) have promoted these, but Zhang Yi's march has not decreased on the one hand, and it is still very fast. Although it is not as good as General Miaocai's divine deeds, it is far beyond the current soldiers. ”

Yu Ban was stunned for a moment, "Zhang Yi is so strong in governing the army? ”

You must know that the speed of marching can largely reflect a person's ability to govern the army. Xiahou Yuan was good at marching quickly, and could walk a hundred or even two hundred miles a day. But this is not with too much baggage, with the whole army with baggage, it is good to be able to walk fifty miles a day. Baggage, baggage, is a car that pulls things, heavy is things, such as food, clothing, equipment, on average, one or two things need a car.

The current army is the average of the current army, which is thirty miles a day. Far more than the next day, it is almost forty or even fifty miles, which is completely the performance of elite soldiers. Of course, this does not mean that Zhang Yi's army is strong in combat, it can only be said that his army is better in terms of physical strength and discipline.

But this is the sign of a strong army, who can guarantee that Zhang Yi's soldiers are not strong in combat?

Zhang Zhao said: "How can you defeat the Sun clan if the army is not strong? Although I don't know how to manage the army, most of Zhang Yi's soldiers were trained in Shouchun, and the training time was half a year. Half a year later, it will either flood the county defense, or go directly into service, and it may be rotated. As far as I know, very few soldiers will stay under one general for a long time, and Zhang Yi always has an excuse to change his soldiers from one general to another. ”

"How can such a general be so good at fighting if he doesn't know the soldiers, and the soldiers don't know the generals?" Yu Ban was surprised.

Zhang Zhao said: "This is also what I can't figure out. ”

This is an unsolvable problem, and it is unsolvable until we get Zhang Yi's method of military training.

Yu Ban put down the bamboo slip in his hand and picked up another one, on which was a number technique, and Yu Ban was a little dizzy when he saw it, "This is really written by Zhang Yi?" ”

"Indeed!" Zhang Zhao said: "I specially asked people to buy these books in Shouchun, and there are a lot of these books in Shouchun. I heard that Zhang Yi specially organized hundreds of people to copy all kinds of books every day. Now there are many bookstores in Shouchun, and Zhang Yi also wants to promote them in Yangzhou, and sell them to those poor people. For this reason, Zhang Yi did not hesitate to let the soldiers stand guard in the bookstore to deal with those who made trouble. ”

Books have always been monopolized by the family, and Zhang Yi's move is completely to break the foundation of the family, how can the family do it? Yu Ban didn't know how Zhang Yi did it, but he was sure that there must be a lot of things in it that made Zhang Yi calm down, otherwise he would not have the ability to send troops to attack various places.

Zhang Zhao also said: "It is said that Zhang Yi has ordered someone to develop a new papermaking process, and as long as it succeeds, I think there will be more books." If Zhang Yi is not defeated, I think it will be basically impossible for us to defeat him in another ten years. ”

Yu Ban is also from Haoqiang, so he naturally knows what the biggest advantage of Haoqiang and the family is. If the children of those poor families can read, then what advantages does the family have? In addition to being well-educated, I'm afraid there is only a lot of money.

Zhang Zhao looked at Yu Ban, "Therefore, the general had better speak more in front of Cao Gong, if Cao Gong doesn't pay attention to it, it will be too late to regret it!" ”

Yu Ban nodded, "I will definitely make a statement to the lord." But Zhang Gong, does Zhang Yi have anything special? ”

Zhang Zhao said: "The general and Zhang Yi are fighting, you must be careful. Zhang Yi's soldiers were very good at using shields, and many generals in Jiangdong suffered great losses in this regard. ”

"Shield?" Yu Ban couldn't help but think of Gao Shun's trapping camp, who was also good at using shields. However, he quickly shook his head, since Gao Shun's death, the training method of trapping the camp was taken away by the lord, and then used to train his own personal guard, named Tiger Guard.

The Tiger Guard was established after Cao Cao established the Son of Heaven, on the one hand, as his own personal guard, and on the other hand, he also had to be sent to protect the Son of Heaven. This army was mainly led by Dian Wei and Xu Chu. However, this Tiger Guard pays more attention to attack, and the selection is all swordsmen, combined with the offensive method of trapping the camp, which makes the Tiger Guard stronger.

Zhang Zhao said: "Secondly, the general should pay attention to Zhang Yi's trebuchet, which should have obtained the methods of the ancients, and used trebuchets to break through many cities of the Sun family. ”

Yu Ban couldn't help but say: "Zhang Yijun has a lot of secret weapons!" ”

"The general should also be careful of the archers in Zhang Yi's army, Tai Shici and Zhou Yu both died under the arrows of their archers." Zhang Zhao admonished: "And Zhang Yi's generals have many good marksmen, and they themselves are also good marksmen." ”