Saying one word is "tired", saying three words is "very tired", and saying four words is "tired to death", this is how Li Sheng and others feel under the training of Pengling and Xu Ding these days. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The info training was proposed by Li Sheng, and he originally only asked Peng Ling to call himself the marksmanship he used on the battlefield. But he didn't want Peng Ling to tell Xu Ding about this, so he dragged Xu Ding in and asked him to train his own group of people together.

The training is hard, especially when these two people can't think of such a "perverted" training under their hands, and it is even more difficult to the point that life is worse than death.

"Our swordsmanship and marksmanship are not among the best in the world, so in order not to limit your future development, we will only give you some basic things according to your respective conditions. Don't underestimate these basics, because everything in this world is made up of basics, even those powerful and gorgeous moves are average. On the morning of the first day of training, Xu Ding and Peng Ling told Li Sheng and others the so-called basics: "There are actually only three basic moves: stabbing, splitting, and picking. Needless to say, the thorn is a direct hit, simple and penetrating, the most powerful in marksmanship is this move, the master of the gun can often rely on the speed of the spear in his hand and the sharpness of the eyes between this blow to the enemy; Split can be divided into vertical chopping, horizontal chopping and oblique chopping three, chopping is not very suitable for marksmanship, its greatest power should be in the knife, axe, halberd and other heavy weapons to play, often pay attention to the power of the attack, good at splitting people generally have a strong force, even if you can prevent the split, but also tend to consume most of your strength in the defense; As for picking, it can be regarded as a rather weird change, divided into two types: offense and defense. Its offense is the change of trajectory, and its defense is the last line of defense between life and death. Attacking, from the bottom to the top is called picking, and from the top down it becomes a piercing. Defense, both hands are flat into a frame, and both hands are stacked vertically called block. Most battles on the battlefield are fought on horseback, and the biggest difference between it and a two-person duel on foot is generally the simplification of the moves. There is no need for flashy moves on the battlefield, only practical means of killing, and each other's life and death can often be separated in the blink of an eye. Therefore, generals often rely on their own instincts to fight, and often rely on their direct body reactions to parry, and moves are often superfluous for them. As long as you have strong explosiveness, long-term physical fitness, and sensitive sensibility, you can become a good general. Therefore, while you are constantly practicing the three most basic moves, you must also train your three basic abilities. ”

"How do you train these abilities?" Li Shengjiao asked them with a wink.

"It's very simple, you just give me iron armor and spears to stab fish every day." Peng Ling said with a smile. He said it very lightly, but this lightness looked a little terrible in the eyes of Li Sheng and others.

"What?" Everyone felt a little strange about the method Peng Ling said, "Can this work?" ”

"Try it for yourselves. It's hard. Xu Ding on the side smiled and explained to everyone in detail: "The iron armor is very heavy and worn on the body for a long time will allow you to slowly increase your strength and physical fitness in habits, and the thorn fish is to exercise your explosive power and eyesight and stabbing skills." The fish swims in the water, and how to predict his next move depends on the sharpness of your eyes and the coordination of your skills. ”

"If you can achieve 100% of the fish in three months, then you are considered a teacher. Although he can't be regarded as a brave general, he has paved the way to that step. Martial arts are something that comes slowly step by step, and only the foundation is laid. It will become easier to learn more advanced techniques in the future. Peng Ling said this matter with a very serious face, and he hoped that everyone could understand the importance of doing this: "So I hope everyone will not relax because this is the foundation." ”

"Understood." Li Sheng replied loudly with everyone.

Training began. Although he was wearing an iron-clad stinging fish, it didn't get so strict all of a sudden. Everyone started with leather armor. From leather armor to bronze scale armor to iron armor, everyone was trained painfully and happily in a long month. It was a never-ending training session, starting at the end of the day and ending at the end of the day. Even at noon, they were not allowed to take off their armor.

It was already June, and the heat of early summer was already starting to hit. It's generally cooler at the water's edge, but you don't have to move much. Like Li Sheng, he has to be busy every day, even if he is completely immersed in water, I am afraid that he will not be able to cool him down. He was sweating profusely every day. I have to comfort the bell after a hasty grooming. This little girl is now more and more dependent on Li Sheng, her courage seems to have become very small and small all of a sudden, and the whole person seems to have become very weak, and she always wants to stick to Li Sheng. If it weren't for Li Sheng telling Xiao Kite and Lei'er to take good care of her and not let her follow him at will, I was afraid that Li Sheng would eventually carry her to the training ground.

Every day, when you arrive at the lake, you will wear armor and climb the cliff by the lake, and you must climb three times before you can have breakfast. Then they began to stab fish, from the initial enclosure requiring ten fish to be pierced in the enclosure of ten zhang square to the fifty enclosure within a radius of ten zhang and a hundred fish in the entire circle of the lake, the range of action of Li Sheng and others was getting bigger and bigger, and the number of fish they needed to stab was getting higher and higher, and the time it took to stab these fish was getting shorter and shorter each time.

This changeable requirement often makes them unable to achieve the goal of training, and the end result of failure is often starvation. However, even if this is the case, they have no other meaning, because they all understand that this is to prepare for their future survival on the battlefield. Although they feel like they are living in hell every day, the hell in front of them is man-made, not real.

Human potential can only be realized under strong pressure. Even Peng Ling and Xu Ding didn't expect that Li Sheng, Song De, Da Niu and Xiao Rui would be able to meet their requirements in just two months.

The basic training was over, and the four imps were called to the two of them again to ask about their progress:

"Song De, do you think the thorn is easy to use when you stab the fish?" Peng Ling asked him.

After two months of training, Song De looked much stronger, and his tanned skin was tightly tensed, which made people understand at a glance that he was a person with strength. Regarding Peng Ling's question, he thought silently for a while before answering: "I like to split and pick." ”

"Oh? It seems that you are not comfortable with guns. Peng Ling shook his head lightly when he heard this, and told him with a serious expression: "You are more suitable for using a knife, use the Glaive Knife." ”

"Oh? It's like a big knife like General Guan Yu? Hearing this, Song De's eyes suddenly lit up, and the celebrities who used the Glaive Knife seemed to have only one such thing as Guan Yu in his mind - that was the fierce general who slashed Huaxiong.

"You also know Guan Yu?" Peng Ling didn't feel stunned, "His fame is not so big now." I had also seen him when I had traveled to the plains before. He's really much, much better than me. It's a pity to follow a guy who is not very famous. ”

"Being nameless now may not be nameless in the future, Xuande Gong's ability can compete with Cao Cao. As long as there is a decent strategist to assist him, it will be like a dragon that is poised to rise up, and it will shock the whole world. Li Sheng did not agree with Peng Ling's opinion and retorted.

"Is that big-eared man really as powerful as you say?" Peng Ling has also seen Liu Bei, and he doesn't think he is strong, the only thing he thinks is that he has a charm, a charm that makes people feel close. If it weren't for the fact that his heart was very hard, and he had already decided not to be a leader, I was afraid that I would involuntarily surrender to him. "Well, he has a good bearing, but his power is too weak, and he doesn't have a good background. In this world, if you don't have a good background, you won't have a chance of success. Peng Ling thought about it and said regretfully.

"Isn't he the descendant of the self-proclaimed emperor? How can it not be considered a good background? Li Sheng felt very strange: "Isn't the emperor's background after that not good?" ”

"If his three generations of ancestors are either public or waiting, then his background is not bad. But he has not been a high-ranking official in his family for several generations, and his father is just a small official in the county town, which is not a good job. Those so-called famous families will definitely not have anyone to do this. It has been more than 400 years since Gaozu Liu Bang, and the bloodline of the royal family has long been very thin, and the surname Liu in the world is afraid that eight or nine times out of ten they claim to have some connection with the emperor, as for the truth or falsehood, most people only believe in it and do not believe in its truth. Liu Bei showed this name, it is okay to deceive those ordinary people, but it is impossible for him to deceive those scholars who were born into famous families. Not many people believe that. Peng Ling explained with a smile: "The so-called famous family not only depends on the distant ancestors, but also on the recent world, and the most critical point is to look at the assets in your family." ”

"I see." Li Sheng nodded instructively.

"Okay, don't say that much." Xu Ding interrupted the long discussion between the two, "Don't talk so far. Sheng'er, what moves do you have more experience in? ”

"It's hard to say." Li Sheng scratched his head in distress: "I like all three basics, I like the shaking of the thorns, the swift and tragic splitting, and the agility and changeability of the picking." It's embarrassing to have a priority for me. He spread his hands and showed a helpless expression.

"Well! It's hard to do. It seems that only a halberd can reach the level of all three of the abilities you mentioned, but the halberd is not easy to use, and the head is too heavy. Except for Lu Bu, there seems to be no master of using halberds in the whole world. Peng Ling said distressedly.

"Huh! I know that, too. So I drew a weapon for myself myself. When Li Sheng said this, he touched his nose with some embarrassment.

"What weapon?" Xu Ding and Peng Ling were both interested in this, and hurriedly asked.

"This ......," Li Sheng said, took out a piece of paper from his arms, spread it out, and laid it flat in front of everyone. I saw that there was a gun but not a gun, a knife but not a knife, and a side branch like a weapon. Next to it, there is a text marked by the rope head Xiaoli: the rod is one zhang long, and the blade is two feet long. Single-edged, straight-edged, top-arc, like a straight knife. There are small branches sticking out horizontally next to it for hooking and pecking. The head blade weighs two catties, the side branches weigh one catty, the shaft weighs thirty catties, and the whole blade weighs a total of thirty-three catties.

"Good fellows. That's fine. Even the weight is marked? Xu Ding looked at Li Sheng with a smile: "You won't start planning very early, will you?" ”

"Just think about it!" Li Sheng smiled strangely and waved his hand gently, "The above calculations were all completed by Uncle Zhou for me." ”

"What about you? What's in mind? Peng Ling asked with a smile. He felt that Da Niu was not as simple as he looked, and he was also a very witty person. I can often give you some good advice on the key points.

"I still prefer to use an axe, and the kind of big axe with a spear head must be very cool to round up." Da Niu smiled and replied excitedly: "I heard the boss say that it's called Yue!" ”

"That's right. That's called Yue. Xu Ding nodded heavily, "The person who holds the Yue needs a lot of strength, which is just right for you." You're in good shape. ”

"And what about you, Rui?" Peng Ling headed towards the child who had become the most. I think when Peng Ling first saw him, he was just shrunk behind his brother Da Niu. At that time, he was quite shy, and he never imagined that after a few months of training, he would become a restrained sharpness. Now he puffed up his chest and straightened up like a gun, and even Peng Ling himself had to secretly praise when he saw it: "What a seedling who makes a gun." ”

"I like guns, I like the feeling of sprinting with a gun." Xiao Rui said.

"I think so." Peng Ling and Xu Ding both laughed when they heard this: "You will learn to shoot in the future." So they said. Then he looked at everyone with a serious face: "Everything that can teach you the basics has been taught to you." You also know how to train yourself, and the following things are up to you to master. The extent to which you can master it is determined by your own efforts and circumstances. As long as you remember one thing, practicing kung fu is like sailing against the current, and if you don't advance, you will retreat. ”

"Understood!" The four imps nodded resolutely.

The end of training is in August, which is the hottest time of the year. For being able to end the training in time at this time and get a more relaxed time for recuperation, the little ghosts are still relatively satisfied. It's not that they're afraid of hardship or tiredness, after all, they've been training in a hellish and harsh environment, so how can they be afraid of this. The reason why they were really reluctant to continue training in August was that they had to spend some time getting used to the weapons in their hands.

"For the September battle." This is what Li Sheng told them, "Around September, Cao Cao's soldiers and horses will retreat because of the problem of food and grass and someone's sneak attack." When retreating, they will definitely find a way to transport the looted materials from Xuzhou. There is no hope of dealing with their large forces with our current strength. But in some remote corners there are places that Cao Cao can't fully take care of, and there are still some stragglers there, and those are undoubtedly the places we use to test our hands. In order to experience the feeling of blood as soon as possible, we must be as familiar with the equipment in our hands as possible during this August period. Everyone's and mine, I have already been done by Uncle Zhou and Mr. Peng. I think they should be able to find what we need in Guangling. ”

"Hmm!" For the boss's words, a few little ghosts naturally believe it. They didn't bother to ask the boss why they knew that Cao Cao would definitely withdraw his troops in September. Because they have already heard from the people in their family: "Do you still need to regard the person who can create the divine relics left by the ancestor as a normal person?" He's a half-immortal. ”

Most of the imps believe their parents' words, and they are not old enough to doubt everything. After getting used to seeing Li Sheng's peculiarities in Pingsuli, they did think so: "Boss, what a powerful character like a fairy." The idea that he must not be disobeyed gradually took root in their minds.

Ten days later, Peng Ling and Uncle Zhou returned. They came back with a large bundle of weapons. There are Li Sheng's "Wanyue Spear", Song De's "Glaive Knife", Zhou Daniu's "Defending Tianyue", and Zhou Xiaorui's "Rolling Ground Spear", but more of them are spears and cross-knives used by ordinary armies. Although the sailors on the ship were all Danyang soldiers who were unwilling to follow Zharong south, and they also had a few weapons in their hands, most of them were strong bows and crossbows used in water warfare, and there were not many suitable for land warfare, so they could not cope with future battles. That's why Peng Ling purchased so much.

He knew that everyone was going to Jingzhou, and Xuzhou did not have a direct waterway to Jingzhou, so everyone still had to take the land route after all. From the mountains of Runan, there were bandits everywhere all the way, and if everyone was not armed, there would be only one stop left to reach Jingzhou. This was absolutely unacceptable to him, so at Li Sheng's suggestion, he finally bought so much. He didn't know what Li Sheng was planning in his heart.

After getting the weapon he used, several little ghosts seemed very happy, even Li Sheng was no exception. This is the first time he has a weapon that is completely his own, and he can kill. Stroking the cold body of the spear, Li Sheng suddenly felt a strange feeling in his heart, he felt that there seemed to be an inexplicable hot air running into the blade, and there was also a penetrating cold air in the blade drilling into his body. He thought it was strange, but when he looked at it quietly, he found nothing.

"Is it just an illusion of my excitement about the transition?" He was a little suspicious, and he didn't take it to heart.

During this period, news about Cao Cao came from time to time. Aunt Mei was in charge of collecting and sorting out the news, she ventured to live in Xu County, collected all the things she heard from the people about Cao Jun, and screened out what she thought was logical, and used specially trained carrier pigeons to transmit the news to Li Sheng, who was rippling above Hongze, so that he could understand the situation in Xuzhou in a more timely manner:

Tao Qian fled to Tancheng and was supported by Kong Rong and Tian Kai, who united to confront Cao Cao, with Liu Bei, the plain guard, as the vanguard, Tao Qian supported Liu Bei with 4,000 soldiers and horses, so that Liu Bei's men and horses reached 10,000 and directly fought with Cao Cao outside Tancheng.

"Cao Cao is pouring out of the nest this time, although he is divided into three routes, how can his main force have more than 100,000 people. Liu Bei only has 10,000 horses, how can he confront Cao Cao on the plain? "This is what Li Sheng has always been puzzled about, he originally thought that Liu Bei should stick to the city, but how could he think that he was a tough man fighting Cao Cao in the wild." Isn't that self-inflicted? Li Sheng couldn't understand.

However, the following battle report slightly alleviated Li Sheng's doubts: among the 6,000 soldiers and horses brought by Liu Bei, 5,000 were cavalry, of which 3,000 were Gongsun Zhan's white-horse cavalry, and 2,000 were Saiwai Zahu who voluntarily followed Liu Bei. The white-horse cavalry is good at running and breaking through, while the cavalry of the miscellaneous beard is good at flying horses and shooting. Liu Bei set up a camp not far from Tancheng with his 1,000 Zahu cavalry, 1,000 foot soldiers and 4,000 Danyang soldiers, so that he could get the support of Taoqian's defenders in Tancheng to the greatest extent, and then let the four generals under his command, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, and Tai Shici, lead the cavalry to attack Cao Cao's soldiers and horses. At that time, Cao Cao's rations to Tancheng were already a little urgent, and he had to go around to plunder all parts of Xuzhou. There were only more than 60,000 soldiers and horses used to besiege the city, and most of them were infantry, so they could not resist the fierce charge of the four elite cavalry. After several successive blows to the plundering forces outside the city, Cao Cao had to temporarily abandon the tactics of dividing his troops and instead surrounded all his horses in Tancheng to fight Liu Bei. He seems to want to fight Liu Bei face-to-face.

"Will Liu Bei fight him? This is clearly the big bullying the small. Li Sheng scoffed at this, he thought that Liu Bei would not agree.

However, the latest news is so unexpected: Liu Bei didn't know if he was hot-headed or what, he actually united Tao Qian, Kong Rong and Tian Kai to send troops, and the two sides fought a big battle on the edge of Tancheng. The result was in everyone's conjecture, Liu Bei was defeated, the army was cut into several parts, and almost no one could follow Tao Qian back to Tancheng except for Liu Bei's own 1,000 guards.

At this moment, Cao Cao may also think that this will be able to launch a fierce attack on Tancheng, after all, Liu Bei's main force has been defeated, and even if the remaining stragglers don't care about him, they will disperse. This seems to be a common sense, but this common sense does not fit Liu Bei's army. Outside the city, the edge of Cao Cao's camp was attacked several times, all by the disorganized Liu Beijun. Liu Bei, who used to work as a horse merchant bodyguard, was good at guerrilla warfare in small units, and after he was defeated, he was always able to stubbornly wait for an opportunity on the edge of the battle line. They were each formed into combat units to engage Cao Cao. Although the strength of each force was not strong, it also upset Cao Cao, making Cao Cao unable to carry out a general attack on Tancheng.

At this point, the battle was once again in a stalemate. At this moment, the hottest August of the year has passed, and the cooler September brings the gloom of autumn to this world. Because there was no spring and summer farming, in Xuzhou in September, Cao Cao not only could not receive even a little grain, but also had to guard against the plague that was very likely to break out from the embankment from time to time. After all, there were too many people he had killed.

"Zhang Miao rebelled?" At this time, Li Sheng heard such news.

It was a message from Xu Ding's believers in Yanzhou, and it was quite reliable—there were not many followers of the Futu Sect, but they all had strong ties with each other. As a result, some important things that could not be hidden from people at all spread quickly among them.

"Zhang Miao accepted Lu Bu's fate, and is now doing his best to attack Cao Cao's remaining troops." Xu Ding seemed to breathe a sigh of relief: "It seems that we can leave soon." ”

"yes." Li Sheng nodded affirmatively, "No one can resist the attack of the flying general Lu Bu head-on, so the Yanzhou side will officially ask Cao Cao for help, and at that time, Cao Cao will not be able to withdraw even if he refuses to retreat." He can't ignore his hometown. ”

"That's it!" Xu Ding also agreed with Li Sheng's point of view, "Then we have to prepare now?" ”

"Yes, it's time for us to get ready to strike." Li Sheng's words suddenly became cold.

Xu Ding saw a cruel excitement in his indifferent face. This made him involuntarily stunned: "Aren't we planning to go to Jingzhou?" Why strike at this time? Do you want to ......? ”

"That's right! I want to collect a little interest from Cao Cao at this time. Li Sheng smiled coldly, "If you don't let Cao Cao leave some blood now, I'm afraid that I won't be at ease in a few years." After going to Jingzhou, I am afraid that there will be no more opportunities to fight Cao Cao in ten years. ”

"What is ten years? You're only fourteen years old now, and you still have four or five decades to wait. Xu Ding tried to convince Li Sheng.

"It's someone else who can wait for nothing, not me, Li Sheng." Li Sheng strongly rejected Xu Ding's persuasion, and he had his own other plans for taking the opportunity to attack Cao Cao: "Xuzhou has experienced such a sudden experience, and there must be many people who fled to Jingzhou. However, the danger in the mountains of Runan made it difficult to escape. We want to help them so that their trip to Jingzhou will be smoother and more people can reach Jingzhou safely. ”

"Oh? What is your purpose in doing this? Xu Ding glanced at him and asked.

"To defeat Cao Cao." Li Sheng squinted his eyes and said: "Most of the people who fled from Xuzhou to Jingzhou have seen Cao Cao's tyranny, and they have hatred for Cao Cao in their hearts. If we organize them and train them into an army, they will definitely spare no effort against Cao Cao. Because they're avenging themselves, too. ”

"Organize a branch of troops full of hatred for Cao Cao? Aren't you afraid that they will all be blinded by hatred and cause more hatred? Xu Ding asked him.

"As long as we guide it well, there should be no problem." Li Sheng said with great certainty that he remembered the problem of the army's ideological construction: "As long as their minds can be stabilized, then they can become the best army to deal with Cao Cao." Thinking of this, Li Sheng laughed confidently.

"Then I'll listen to you." Xu Ding hesitated for a moment and finally agreed.

However, Li Sheng shook his head slightly: "It's better to listen to you." The soldiers here obey you more, and I'd better be my child. ”

"Why do you want to get out again?" Xu Ding squinted at him.

"It's not!" Li Sheng smiled bitterly: "At my current age, I can't convince the public." And when I get to Liu Biao in the future, I can't have a private army. ”

"That's too." Xu Ding thought for a while and nodded lightly: "Then the matter is decided!" I'm going to find someone else. ”

"Hmm!" Li Sheng answered, and said softly in Xu Ding's ear: "Everything is left to you!" Master! This was the first time that Li Sheng had called Xu Ding his master.