"It's not surprising that the Qingzhou Yellow Turban can have a team of centaurs who can reach the elite level of military qi condensation!"

Facing Zhang Fei's doubts, Tian Kai replied indifferently: "The officers and soldiers of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army can not only eat enough, but also eat well, have a strong body, train intensively, and discipline is not bad, it only takes time to become an elite soldier!" ”

Zhang Fei nodded again and again when he heard this, and after thinking about it carefully, it was really like this.

He is also a general who leads troops, and he is naturally no stranger to military training.

If the sergeants under his command can be well fed or even well-fed, their bodies will be able to withstand a greater amount of training, and with strict military discipline, it is not difficult to train elite soldiers.

But the problem is, Liu Beijun can't make his sergeants eat enough or even eat well?

As far as the soldiers under his command are concerned, they can mix one meal and add one meal of thin food every day, which is quite good, and there is no officer in the middle to deduct from it, otherwise even this supply cannot be guaranteed.

If there is no oil and water in the stomach, the body will not reach a complete state of health, and you will not dare to train hard at all.

Even in a prosperous and wealthy place like Xuzhou, Liu Beijun could only let the sergeants eat two meals a day due to rapid expansion, but this was already the time when Liu Bei's soldiers were treated the best since he started the army.

As for military discipline, Liu Beijun's military discipline has always been good, at least stronger than the army under Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan, which is also the main reason for Liu Beijun's good combat effectiveness.

"Tian Yuanjun laughed, even Jizhou Yuan Shao is difficult to make his generals full, right?"

Zhang Fei shook his head, although the words behind him did not come out, the meaning was quite clear.

Even Yuan Shao, who was born in the family of the fourth and third princes, found it difficult to feed his soldiers, not to mention that his foundation was extremely thin, and more than a year ago, he was just a rogue Qingzhou Yellow Turban.

"Yes, Yuan Shao's subordinates are just an elite of halberd soldiers who can condense military energy!"

Tian Kai said disdainfully: "It is impossible to say that Yuan Shao can't afford to raise an army, but it's a pity that there are too many clans under him, and most of the benefits have to be close to these forces first, and then it will be the turn of the Jizhou army!" ”

Speaking of this, his face showed disdain, and he sneered: "Otherwise, with the ability of Yuan Shao's generals, it is not difficult to appear a few more elites who can condense military spirit!" ”

He is very familiar with the white horse Yicong is also an elite who can condense military spirit, founded by the former boss Youzhou Gongsun Zanyi, and the powerful frontier has made the Hu people frightened, but unfortunately it has been completely abolished now.

In order to create and maintain the White Horse Yisubordi, the former boss Sun Zan spent quite an astonishing amount of energy and money.

As far as he knew, Bai Ma Yi had not exceeded one million since its heyday, and it was the combination of the strength of the entire Youzhou and the advantage of being located at the border pass to form such a powerful cavalry elite.

This is still the reason why Youzhou attaches great importance to military strength, there are not many big families, and hinders the former boss Sun Zan, if you do it according to Yuan Shao, let alone millions of white horses, it is difficult to say whether you can overturn the Hu people who often harass the border passes.

"Tian Yuanjun, if that's the case, what's going on with the Qingzhou Yellow Turban?"

Zhang Fei naturally didn't know what Tian Kai was thinking, he was quite curious about the Qingzhou Yellow Turban now, and he was very interested in the 100,000 elite horsemen and 300,000 archers that Tai Shici showed him.

Although he couldn't see many clues at the moment, it was a fact that they were the elite who could condense the military spirit, but how he did it was very important for him to figure it out.

It is said that he has been fighting with his eldest brother Liu Bei for many years, and he can be regarded as well-informed in the conquest of the north and south, and there are not many elite troops who can condense military spirit, but each of them is a powerful existence.

Not to mention invincible on the battlefield, it is also an absolute strong man who is rampant, if he can train his soldiers into such an elite, it will be of great help to the future campaign, which general hopes that his subordinates are invincible absolute elites, and having such an elite force is also of great benefit to the career of the eldest brother Liu Bei.

"Didn't you say that they can eat well!"

Tian Kai asked rhetorically: "Didn't General Yide find out that the grain production here in the Yellow Turban is very high?" ”

"If it weren't for Tian Yuanjun's reminder, I really wouldn't have noticed it!"

Zhang Fei suddenly, thinking back to what he saw and heard when he entered the Yellow Turban Collar in Qingzhou, nodded and said: "The grain production here has not been damaged by the war, I'm afraid there are a lot of harvests!" ”

"It should be said that the harvest is huge!"

Tian Kai smiled bitterly, although his previous travels in the Yellow Turban Collar were just ordinary knowledge, he also knew a lot of things.

"The grain grown here in the Yellow Turban has three to five outputs a year, and the harvest is much larger than before, so it can be said that the grain and grass are abundant!"

Speaking of this, he shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Otherwise, it would be impossible for Baba to come to ask for help, just the grain and grass have always been, and the Yellow Turban can meet all the needs of the side!" ”

"Won't it?"

Zhang Fei was taken aback and said in disbelief: "There are quite a few people on the Yellow Turban's side, how can it be possible to supply so much grain and grass to Tian Yuanjun's side?" ”

"Didn't I tell you?"

Tian Kai said angrily: "The grain planting here in the Yellow Turban is three to five crops a year, and it is planted in so many places, and the annual harvest is an amazing number!" ”

Speaking of this, there was a look of admiration on his face, and he said helplessly: "I don't know how they did it!" ”

Three to five crops a year?

Zhang Fei was startled, and then he realized what an incredible thing Tian Kai said.

Even if he is from a local powerful background and is basically unfamiliar with grain planting, he also knows that the grain cultivation of the entire Han Dynasty is basically one crop a year, and the best fertile land is two crops a year.

Where it can be grown twice a year, it is an absolute place of ointment in the Han Dynasty, and the place where the rich and powerful families are eager to do it, the fields here have long been carved up, and they have basically nothing to do with ordinary people.

It is Zhang Fei's family, there are some fields in Youzhou, but they are all ripe once a year, and the harvest is not very good, so Zhang Fei is not impressed by the grain production in the fields at all.

Now Tian Kai told him that the grain here in Qingzhou Yellow Turban is grown three to five times a year, not to mention directly subverting his impression of food, and even more surprised him.

The same acre of land, one crop a year and three to five a year, the yield is naturally very different, and there is no comparison at all.

No wonder even an existence like Tian Kai had to ask for help from the Qingzhou Yellow Turban in order to survive.

Qingzhou has long been plagued by the scourge of war, and although there are a lot of large fields on the territory, the normal order of grain production has long been destroyed by the war.

Zhang Fei had been in the Plains Country for a long time before, and although he spent most of his time in the military camp ignoring foreign affairs, he also knew that even the life of the local families in Qingzhou was not very good.

The main reason is that the order of grain production has collapsed, and even the production of the fields of the local families is intermittent, and sometimes they have to be supported by the old book, and it is strange if the life is not hard.

But the situation here in Qingzhou Yellow Turban was completely unexpected by him.

Tian Kai himself is from the Youzhou clan, even if he has to bow to the Qingzhou Yellow Turban because of the living environment, he will not be soft in words, and he will definitely not take the initiative to say good things for the Yellow Turban.

In other words, even if Tian Kai's words are untrue, they are at least six or seven points credible.

It's six or seven points of credibility, which is already quite exaggerated, okay?

Don't look at the place that Qingzhou Yellow Turbans occupy less than three counties, but if their grain cultivation is three to five crops a year, I'm afraid that the grain output in Qingzhou's heyday is not comparable, right?

In the current troubled times, if you have food, you are the uncle!

As long as there is enough food and grass, an astonishing number of teams can be pulled up at any time, and no matter what the combat strength is, at least pulling it out can be very frightening.

Not to mention, when the eldest brother Liu Bei had the most people, he did not exceed two million.

Could it be that the three brothers couldn't command a larger number of troops, of course not!

It's that the three brothers have too little food and materials to support more people and horses.

When he was stationed in the Plains Country before, Liu Bei took great risks to support Beihai County, which was besieged by the Yellow Turbans, and in addition to the 200,000 troops that watched the family, the mobile force that could be dispatched was only a pitiful 300,000.

At that time, how many people and horses were besieging Beihai County in Qingzhou Yellow Turban?

Add more than 100 million to the elderly, weak, women and children, and the number of people alone is more than 300 times that of the army led by the eldest brother Liu Bei, how can another person have the courage to send troops to support Beihai?

In other words, after the eldest brother Liu Bei hooked up with the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, the number of troops in the Plains Country immediately tripled, reaching 1.5 million.

Zhang Fei suddenly realized that at that time, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban had only changed its leader, but after just a few months of development, in addition to its own grain and grass consumption, it could also provide millions of grain and grass consumption for the plain country's rioters, obviously at that time, the grain output in the Yellow Turban jurisdiction was already quite amazing, but it was ignored by the three brothers.

It wasn't until they went to Xuzhou that with the help of sufficient grain and grass in the treasury, the number of people under the command of the three brothers skyrocketed to 5 million, which made the three brothers very happy.

Now that I think about it, if I could have exchanged more grain, grass and ordnance from the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, the three brothers would definitely have more than two million men and horses when they rushed to Xuzhou, at least the right to speak after arriving in Xuzhou would have increased greatly.

Don't underestimate it, it just increased the army by 500,000, but under the training and command of the three brothers who fought in the old war, the combat power is definitely not comparable to the old soldiers in Xuzhou who have been trained for a long time.

The two million army led by the three brothers is enough to overthrow the tens of millions of old soldiers in the prosperous Xuzhou!

It's just a pity that when he was still in the Plains Country, he obviously didn't pay attention to the amazing grain production of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, otherwise he would have to exchange for some more food riots, and the province got Xuzhou and was controlled by the local clans, and it was uncomfortable everywhere.

It's just that how did the grain output of Qingzhou Yellow Turban grow by leaps and bounds in a short period of time?