Gong Du and Liu Pi had not been in operation for a long time, but thanks to the military strength left over from the second rise of the Yellow Turban Army, they had nearly 20,000 troops in their hands. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Although the number of troops in the Yellow Turban Army is relatively large, generally speaking, the people who can really fight tough battles only account for about 30% of their total number, that is to say, among the 20,000 people, the real elite army is only about 7,000 people.

And Yuan Shu was originally the Lingdi period of the Lang general, there is an army foundation in his hands, after coming to Runan, he recruited troops and horses, reorganized the army, and expanded his power very quickly, a month ago, Yuan Shu sent his general Ji Ling to lead an army of 5,000 to exterminate the Yellow Turban Army, the Yellow Turban Army thought that the other party had few people at first, so he took the initiative to engage the Nanyang Army, but Ji Ling was very powerful, the Yellow Turban Army was invincible, and they did not have a good way to deal with the opponent's cavalry, so they lost a series of battles, suffered heavy losses, and had to flee back to the cottage, I don't dare to go out to fight anymore.

Ji Ling did not take the opportunity to attack, and seized the time to clear the Yellow Turban Army scattered all over the place, which made the activity atmosphere of the Yellow Turban Army shrink day by day, and gradually fell into a more unfavorable situation.

After listening to Gong Du's introduction, Liu Zhi and the others also fell into contemplation, Ji Ling's cavalry he had seen, although the number was not very large, but it was indeed powerful and extraordinary, if the ordinary army might be able to resist it, but the equipment of the Yellow Turban Army was too poor, not only did they not have strong bows and crossbows, but they couldn't even take out the iron thistles to deal with the cavalry, they didn't have iron at all.

"Gong Du, you go, the soldiers between the ages of eighteen and thirty among the generals are all picked out, remember, to pick those who are stronger, there are not many soldiers, the most expensive is fine, the Jin army in the battle of Weishui can defeat Fu Jian's 800,000 with 80,000, I don't believe I can't beat Yuan Shu's 5,000 people!"

Guo Jia was a little confused when he heard this, and said in a low voice: "Lord, what is the battle of the water, when did it happen?" ”

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wanted to say that this was a big battle between the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Former Qin, but he suddenly thought that at this time it was still the end of the Han Dynasty, and the imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty had not yet appeared.

"It's nothing, I mean that we have to be like the Battle of the Green Forest, we want to win more with less, and annihilate all of Ji Ling's army!"

Guo Jia nodded, knowing that he was talking about the war that took place during the period when Wang Mang usurped power, the situation of the two was very similar, and the place where it happened was also very close, and there was nothing inappropriate to use it as a metaphor.

Gong Du was ordered to leave the big tent, Liu Zhi stared at the map in front of him, his brows were tightened, although he asked Gong Du to choose soldiers, but with soldiers, they were still facing the threat of the cavalry of the Nanyang Army, what method should he use to crack the enemy's cavalry?

After Gong Du's selection, a total of 6,000 elite soldiers were selected, these people are young and strong soldiers, not much worse than the Nanyang army, but a thousand troops are easy to get, and a general is hard to find, although the soldiers under his command are there, but who will train them?

Liu Zhi was worried, although Xu Chu and Dian Wei were both fierce generals, but they did not have the energy to join the army before, Xu Chu was a little better, at least he had trained in his own village, but Dian Wei was born in the wild road, he had no military experience at all, not to mention leading troops to fight, I am afraid that it will not be good for him to be a military commander or even a chief.

"Gong Du, how do you usually train soldiers?"

Liu Zhi didn't know what the combat strength of the Yellow Turban Army was, so he wanted to take a look at their drills to speculate on their combat strength, and he was ready to disperse the dozen Jiangdong Army soldiers around him and arrange them to the Yellow Turban Army, let them serve as the generals of the army, and then train the Yellow Turban Army.

However, before that, it is also necessary to conduct a thorough examination of the Yellow Turban Army.

The drill of the Yellow Turban Army looks very ordinary, the discipline of the soldiers is very poor, the formation is not good, and the weapons in the hands are also uneven, not long after the drill, the bottom is a mess of porridge, Liu Zhi shook his head directly, expecting such an army to deal with Ji Ling's 5,000 army is indeed unrealistic, no wonder the Yellow Turban Army has been defeated repeatedly before.

"Xu Chu, I'll give you five hundred people, you train them for me in the shortest possible time, I don't care how to train them, but what I want is a group of soldiers who can fight tough battles, you just have to mention any conditions, I will try my best to meet your requirements!"

Liu Zhi was about to select the most elite five hundred people from among the five thousand people and hand them over to Xu Chu for training, Guo Jia glanced at him and seemed to understand his intentions.

"Lord, I want five hundred war horses to form a cavalry, can you give us five hundred horses?"

Xu Chu's brain is not stupid at all, as soon as he opens his mouth, he will ask Liu Zhi for 500 horses, he has always thought that the cavalry force has the strongest combat effectiveness, and when they fought against the Yellow Turban Army in the past, they were most afraid that there would be cavalry in the opponent's army, so he wanted to get a cavalry out, even if it was only 500 people, it would be able to satisfy his mind.

Liu Zhi looked at Gong Du, who understood, and immediately said: "My lord, although there is no special cavalry in our army, but when we fought before, we also captured a lot of war horses. ”

Liu Zhi was overjoyed and said: "Okay, you will send these five hundred war horses to Xu Chu, Xu Chu, the war horses are for you, how to train is your business, good steel should be used on the blade, our army does not have a strong crossbow, there is no way to use a strong crossbow to deal with the cavalry, so when the time comes, we will have to rely on you to deal with Ji Ling's cavalry!" ”

Xu Chu took the order and left, and Liu Zhi then classified the Yellow Turban soldiers according to their uneven weapons.

The Yellow Turban soldiers generally did not have armor, which would be very passive in the face of the enemy's loss of attack, so Liu Zhi ordered a part of the people to go into the mountains to cut down trees, one can make a batch of spears and arrows, and the other can also make a batch of simple shields, these shields may not be able to withstand the attack of strong crossbows, but the projectile of bows and arrows against the enemy is still more effective.

In addition, he also asked the soldiers to prepare more than 1,000 sacks, they were in Wufang in the south of Shangcai at this time, at the junction of irrigation and Laishui, in history Zhuge Liang had used sacks to store water in the Baihe area, and the Cao army that killed was defeated and lost, repelling the Cao army's attack on Xinye, and Liu Zhi was also ready to use this strategy to deal with Ji Ling, all said that Ji Ling had no brains, I don't know if it was true!