"Alas, this defeat is really a mistake to underestimate the enemy!" Zhang Fei reviewed.

"We really underestimated Cao Hong and the others, and we should march safely." Ma Chao also felt that his face was dull and regretful.

A few days later, Zhang Fei and Ma Chao led the 70,000 troops after the purge and set up camp in Xiafen City for ten miles, and set up strict defenses, so as not to give Cao's army any opportunity to take advantage of.

Zhang Fei and Ma Chao took turns to shout and challenge under the city, but Cao Hong and others closed the city gate and hung the war-free card, so they refused to come out to meet the battle.

In desperation, the two had no choice but to organize troops to launch a strong attack. Cao's army defended the city very tenaciously, Zhang Fei and Ma Chao attacked more than a dozen times in a row, losing more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, but they still failed to capture the city.

The war was in a stalemate, and Zhang Fei couldn't help but sigh that if Zhuge was here, it would definitely not be the current situation. Zhang Fei did not dare to act recklessly, and while reporting the military situation to Liu Bei, he purged the army and waited for an opportunity to move.

Liu Bei sent troops to Hanzhong, and invisibly did Wang Baoyu a favor, so that Yiling was saved from Cao Wei's attack.

Wang Baoyu, who had nothing to do, occasionally stayed in Cai Wenji's mansion and often visited Sun Shangxiang, but he also began to consider the redevelopment of Yiling.

Yang Xiu's words are right, now Yiling's hard wounds are that there are not enough soldiers and horses, and there are too few generals. Although Wang Baoyu also understands the principle of raising troops for a thousand days and using them for a while, he still doesn't want to spend money on raising soldiers, but recruiting generals can still be done.

This idea was strongly supported by Mo Qianxun and others, and after discussion, Wang Baoyu posted a list at the gate of Yiling City, recruiting military generals with good salaries.

There is a saying that it is easy to get a general in a thousand armies, and there are many people who come to apply, but there are almost no really strong generals, and most of them can't even beat Fan Jinfeng.

"As the first city in the world, why can't you even recruit a general?" Wang Baoyu found Mo Qianxun and wanted him to come up with a good idea.

"There must be a brave man under the heavy reward, I am trying to discuss with Baoyu, you can have a ring competition, and the winner will be rewarded with 100 gold and be named a general!" Mo Qianxun said.

"Hehe, this method is good, but if the winner is still the wine bag and rice bag, won't we lose money?" Wang Baoyu asked with a smile.

"You can send people to spread it around, and the contest will last for one month, and there will be warriors coming." Mo Qianxun said.

Yiling is not bad for money now, Wang Baoyu has the attitude of giving it a try, and at the gate of Yiling City, he opened up a ring ten meters high, and at the same time posted the list of the ring competition, and he added another one on the basis of Mo Qianxun's reward.

Wang Baoyu believes that material rewards alone are not enough, but also mental stimulation, so the added one is that the winner of the competition can choose a beautiful woman in Yiling as his wife.

The beauties Wang Baoyu said were of course not the women around him, but other beauties in Yiling City, and the job was handed over to Fan Jinfeng.

As mentioned earlier, Yiling's household registration is valuable, and you can enjoy extremely high benefits such as education, medical care, and pension, so women outside are generally not able to marry unless they have a bit of beauty. But because of this, another not very good phenomenon has been derived, that is, older leftover women began to appear in Yiling, which was only in their early twenties at that time, if they could not find a suitable one in Yiling, once they got married, there would be no Yiling household registration, so they kept dragging it out.

Now as soon as the list is posted, some women are moved, and the people who come to participate in the ring competition are all strong warriors from all over the world, and they have won the reward of 100 gold, then this life is a well-off life, and they are rich wherever they live.

A few days later, Fan Jinfeng effortlessly found ten women who were quite attractive, and it is said that this was the result of the best of the best, and the women who came to sign up almost fought for the quota.

As a result, the martial arts competition ring has become the most lively place in Yiling City, the onlookers can't squeeze through at all, ten beautiful women wearing gorgeous costumes, shaking fans and sitting below, so that the men in the ring are often distracted, full of loopholes.

Wang Baoyu occasionally went to see the excitement, although the fighting of the people in the ring was very fierce, and the cheers below were continuous, but unfortunately, in his opinion, the martial arts of these people were really mediocre, and they were not even qualified as deputy generals.

Jia Zhigang also often came to watch the competition, he proposed a proposal to Wang Baoyu, although these people can not be generals, but can choose some as martial arts instructors, cultivate the habit of practicing martial arts for the whole people, he has always advocated cultivating talents with both civil and military skills.

Wang Baoyu thought about it, not only that, if there was a war in the future, he could recruit a large number of elite soldiers at any time, which would be a long-term solution. So Wang Baoyu asked Jia Zhigang to deal with this matter.

Fan Jinqiang, as the chief examiner, carefully wrote down the table of each martial arts contestant, and then fed back to Jia Zhigang, and finally determined ten martial arts coaches after several rounds of selection.

Seeing that a month is about to pass, there are more than a dozen martial arts competitions every day, and there are more and more onlookers, but there is still no military general who satisfies everyone. The current winner is a middle-aged man with dual swords, named Zhang Erran, who is considered the best among these people, but his kung fu may not be able to beat the flying cloud mouse.

What Wang Baoyu needs is a first-class general, maybe these people have already defected to Cao Sun and Liu's family, and the rest are crooked melons and cracked dates.

The beauties were also a little disappointed, because this Zhang Erran looked really average, and he was a little lustful, and he glanced at them from time to time, and his expression seemed to say, beauty, tonight is the night of candles in the cave room of you and me! There is even a beautiful woman who wants to abstain, feeling that marrying someone can't just look at money, but also has to find someone who has feelings, for a lifetime, and grows up!

Just when Wang Baoyu felt that a hundred taels of gold and a beautiful woman were about to be lost, at dusk that day, a warrior finally came to Yiling City.

This person is dressed in black, riding a tall black horse, very dark, two meters tall, looking like a black iron tower from a distance, the most striking thing is his beard, only a few short jaws, and the beard above the lips is thick, still horizontally long.

"Retreat from me, the winner is none other than me!" The big black horse came to the ring, jumped up from the horse, deftly turned a few heels in the air, and seemed to fall to the ring very easily, without any sound, but the weight made the ring tremble.

"I am used to using dual swords, take out your weapons." The current first place Zhang Erran said.

"Defeated rats and other rats, no weapons are needed, let the horses come!" The big black man said arrogantly, not taking Zhang Erran in his eyes at all.

With this figure and figure, Fan Jinqiang liked it very much, with a smile on his face, Wang Baoyu also nodded secretly, secretly praising this person's posture as if he was a real general.