When I went back, there were only three more people than when I came, and two of them were children, but there were a lot more things - Hua Tuo insisted on bringing all his medicine jars and pounding sticks and medical books and other things, anyway, it was not a big deal, Lu Bu would naturally do as he wanted, and it was not a trouble or burden to say, after all, there were a lot of people in their group, just let each of them help share a little.

As for Xiao Wu Pu and Xiao Fan A, they didn't have horses to ride - even if they had, they couldn't ride, so at this time they all sat on Chi Bu's horse with Lu Bu, with Chi Su's endurance and carrying capacity, the weight brought by the two seven or eight-year-old children was almost negligible, and the two children sat in front of Lu Bu one after the other, no matter from which angle they were almost shrunk in Lu Bu's wide arms, and it didn't matter to Lu Bu except for a little awkwardness, unless it was time to chase or fight.

And on this way, Lu Bu finally mentioned to Hua Tuo that he would go to Bingzhou Academy to teach medicine, Lu Bu's worries were unnecessary, Hua Tuo was Hua Tuo after all, he was never a person who cherished himself and drank cold water with a stingy ghost, and he didn't have any views on the door, so he readily agreed without the slightest hesitation when he heard Lu Bu say this, in fact, thinking about it, he agreed to this kind of thing "with a military doctor" before anyway, and it was not much more difficult than that.

Of course, this will have to wait for a while to decide, after all, the foundation of the current Bingzhou Academy has not yet begun, Luo Cheng is still early, and now he is just seeking an intention.

What Lu Bu didn't expect was that after this, Hua Tuo's eyes when he looked at him again seemed to be a little different from before. Thinking about it, for a person like him who has never had any ambition but has the benevolence of a doctor, Lu Bu's approach that can benefit ordinary people can be said to be something he has never heard of, but it is really emotional.

It is also because of this that Hua Tuo is more determined to help Lu Bu in his heart, if it was just for gratitude before, but now it is from the heart, at least he himself is more willing to do it......

After returning to Jiuyuan, after letting people settle the three of Hua Tuo, Lu Bu was not able to be idle immediately.

Because there are actually many things in the military, not only medical problems, but also many things that need to be changed and improved. I haven't been able to think of it all before. But now after looking for Hua Tuo to solve the medical treatment in the army, he immediately thought of many things.

If you look at it according to later generations, there are undoubtedly many irregularities in the army under his command now, so first. He needed to put the matter of the army up again.

Before that. Lü Bu already had 50,000 cavalry. More than 20,000 infantry of the Black Mountain Battalion, as well as Zhang Yang and Yuan Shao, totaled about 40,000 people, so there were almost 120,000 people. It seems to be a lot, but if it is evenly distributed among the four counties he currently owns, it is actually nothing, not to mention that the two counties of Shangdang and Taiyuan must deploy no less than 50,000 troops because of their geographical location close to Yuan Shao's forces and Dong Zhuo's forces, and there are troops of varying numbers in the north and west of Wuyuan County and the west of Xihe County, and I am afraid that there are less than 50,000 troops who can really carry out regular and random transfers.

And these 120,000 people have both infantry and horses, and they can all be said to be elite or quasi-elite, which can be said to be the place where Lu Bu is really proud.

However, he also has a shortcoming that he does not have his own water army, but this is also something that cannot be forced, after all, it is in an inland place like Bingzhou, although there is a river running through, but the northerners are not good at water because of their living characteristics and customs, so far in the north except for the Gongsun Kang in Liaodong, there is no such army in other places.

In fact, the reason why Lu Bu wanted to start thinking about forming a naval army now was more to take precautions and make long-term plans for the possible future war in the south.

No matter when they will be able to complete the hegemony of unifying the north, the south will be a key problem that they urgently need to face in the future, and a very important difficulty lies in their naval army.

According to the news he now has at hand from the south, it can be seen that the areas of Xuzhou, Yangzhou, and even Yanzhou are now the time for Cao Mengde, Sun Bofu, and Yuan Highway to compete for power.

In particular, Cao Cao just came to the throne in Xuzhou, he showed enough ambition and superb means, while continuing to support his so-called allies and in-laws - in the end, Cao Cao married his daughter to Sun Quan, Cao Cao and Sun Ce became in-laws, which made their alliance a lot more stable, and Cao Cao helped Sun Ce deal with Yuan Shu, the overlord of Yangzhou, on the other hand, he was also actively expanding outward, ambitious and had achieved some initial results, That is, part of the eastern section of Yanzhou has not yet had time to be taken over by Dong Zhuo's forces, and the area in the past is actually occupied by him.

It is now Yanzhou Mu, Xu Rong, who has Dong Zhuo as a backer behind him, is also cautious and does not dare to lightly plunder its edge, he can only first hold on to the part of the area and forces that he can effectively control, and at the same time be careful of the changes in Jingzhou, because it is obvious that even Yanzhou can not satisfy Cao Cao's appetite, he will inevitably gradually extend his tentacles to Jingzhou, Liu Biao is no longer the majesty of the "Eight Horses" in the world when he entered Jingzhou, and his two heirs, the eldest son Liu Qi, has a gentle and weak personality, can't be on his own, the youngest son Liu Cong is still a child, and Cai Mao, the head of the powerful Cai family in Jingzhou, is a typical two-faced and three-faced, if there is a strong person, he will inevitably choose to be attached to his "old brother-in-law", and Dong Zhuo's influence on them is very small, which is also the homework that Li Ru told Xu Rong to do.

As for Lu Bu, he could already imagine that the future southern overlord would inevitably arise between Cao Cao and Sun Ce, or that their alliance would last longer than imagined, and such a combination of strength would undoubtedly be a huge challenge.

If he doesn't do anything now, it will undoubtedly be too late by then.

There are only a few types of troops in today's era, the big ones are divided into land soldiers and sailors, and among the land soldiers, they are divided into infantry and cavalry, and there are archers, sword and axe hands, shield bearers and other small categories.

Indeed, generally speaking, the northerners are not good at water, even if there is a river running through this state, if the soldiers of the state army can be called first-class, the water nature is really not in the stream, but it is not necessarily not completely without touching the water, but under the combined action of various factors such as living habits and ideological concepts, they have a very poor water nature, but Lu Bu believes that this cannot be all, nor will it be inevitable.

However, this may seem to be just Lu Bu's idea for the time being, because after he convened everyone to discuss and said his thoughts, he was strongly opposed, in addition to the fact that there are too many things now, and there are not enough people, it is really difficult to have extra energy to put here.

Lu Budao: "You all think so? ”

His brows furrowed sharply, and he seemed to be in a bad mood, but the people below also knew what kind of character he was, and as long as the advice was reasonable, he would still be able to listen to it even if he insisted.

Chen Gong frowned and persuaded first: "Lord, in our army, there are no people who are good at water, let alone people who can fight in water, and we don't have shipwrights, but there are some ships, but they can carry people and goods, so how can they form a water army?" ”

Lu Bu had considered these problems mentioned by Chen Gong, but this could not be a reason not to build a water army, so he still insisted on his own ideas, but he also tried to persuade them, so he smiled and said: "The world says that northerners are good at riding and southerners are good at water, but it is not necessarily that northerners are not good at water, and there are always some good water-based among so many people." ”

Jia Xu also smiled bitterly: "I said my Wenhou, you think well, but this northerner's lack of water is not an empirical talk, but a well-known and true thing, if it takes time and effort to end up in nothing, it will be a big loss." ”

Lu Bu still had a smile on his face, but his tone was different from the beginning, and said, "Both of you are so sure, have you asked, or have you investigated?" ”

"This ......" asked this, Chen Gong and Jia Xu were suddenly speechless.

Of course, they all heard about it, after all, who will investigate this kind of thing, to be honest, this is really an empirical talk, it is just an experience talk that happened in the surrounding area, they know that there are few people in Lu Bu's army who know how to water, not to mention that if they want to form a water army, it must be very watery.

Lu Bu smiled at this time: "If there is no investigation, there is no right to speak, and a certain person has not said that it is certain, unknown things must be tried first to know whether they are credible." ”

Chen Gong still persuaded with some reluctance: "But even if this is the case, we have no experience in water warfare, and we have no experience in water warfare, and we don't know where to start when we practice." ”

Lu Bu said very resolutely: "If this is the case, then start from scratch, water nature can be practiced, water warfare can also be practiced, even the generals of the navy can also be cultivated through continuous practice and practice." This takes time and is very clear, after all, it has never been thought that it is unrealistic to form a unique naval army all of a sudden; But take your time, and there must be a good chance that you can do it. ”

Hearing the meaning of making long-term plans in Lu Bu's words, Chen Gong and the others were slightly relieved when they knew that they could not advise, after all, there were too many things now, and there were too many things that required energy, time, and even money and property, compared to the establishment of a water army that was difficult to see hope, or other things were more important to them. (To be continued......)