Liu Bei's method is simple, but it is very effective.

That is, let people go to Xiangyang to spread rumors, saying that Cao Cao's general Cao Ren stationed in Wancheng had the intention of going south to peep at Fancheng, and then Liu Biao urgently ordered Liu Bei to go to Xiangyang to discuss the matter of guarding Fancheng.

The reason why Liu Biao took in Liu Bei was because Liu Bei was indeed a hero in the world, and taking in Liu Bei was good for his reputation.

The other wanted to use Liu Bei to resist the pressure of Cao Cao in the north.

Liu Biao entered Jingxiang with a horse back then, and with the help of Cai Kuai's two families, he gained a firm foothold in Jingzhou, but the actual area he controlled was not large, only Xiangyang and Nanjun.

Jiangxia Huang Zu is the spokesperson of the Huang family of the Jingxiang family, and he is in a state of semi-cooperation and half-confrontation with Liu Biao, and he is also a country of his own in Jiangxia, and he is not very bird-watching Liu Biao.

The four counties of Jingnan, Changsha, Wuling, Lingling, and Guiyang, surrendered to Liu Biao on the surface, but in fact they were also faintly unstable, and had a non-cooperative and non-confrontational attitude towards the officials sent by Liu Biao.

Otherwise, Liu Biao would not have sent his nephew Liu Pan to Changsha Youxian County, the purpose was to open a hole in the four counties of Jingnan.

Therefore, for Liu Biao, Xiangyang and Nanjun are his basic plates, and they must not be lost.

But Liu Biao is unlucky, he is a literati.

At the beginning, Yuan Shu relied on the family background of his fourth generation and three dukes, entrenched in Nanyang, and Liu Biao and Yuan Shu were intrigued, but it also caused the northern part of Nanyang County to be out of his control at all.

Finally waited for Yuan Shu to go to Jianghuai to develop, Liu Biao finally temporarily controlled Nanyang County, but in order to fight against Cao Cao, Zhang Xiu introduced the Northwest Army, and as a result, Zhang Xiu directly took Wancheng to Cao Cao, causing Fancheng on the north bank of Xiangshui to face the pressure of Cao Cao's army.

Liu Biao really had no choice, so he used the old method to introduce Liu Bei again, and let Liu Bei be stationed in Tun Xinye, and fight against Cao Jun with Fan Chengcheng..... Now when he heard that Cao Ren was going south to Fancheng, could Liu Biao not be in a hurry.

You must know that to the south of Fancheng, as long as you cross Xiangshui, it is Xiangyang City, Liu Biao's lair.

As for why Cao Ren appeared in Wancheng instead of following Cao Cao north to pacify Wuhuan...... This Liu Biao didn't know, he only knew that Cao Ren was not easy to deal with, and he was stationed in Wancheng with bad intentions.

In the first half of last year, Cao Ren also followed Cao Cao to quell the Gaogan rebellion in Hebei, but he did not station in Hebei with Cao Cao and went north to pacify Wuhuan, but went directly south to Wancheng in the second half of the year...... Anyone with a little brain knows that Cao Ren is preparing to help Cao Cao pacify Jingzhou.

So Liu Bei spread a rumor that Cao Ren was going south to Fancheng, and Liu Biao believed it at the first time.

As for Liu Bei, he also took this opportunity to ask Liu Biao for a lot of grain and grass, and also got the command of the Battle of Fancheng.

If Cao Ren really went south to Fancheng, then Liu Bei would have the right to command the troops of Fancheng and Xinye to fight against Cao Cao.

This was originally within Liu Bei's plan, and it can only be said that Zhang Fei's matter of grain and grass was just a coincidence.

After Liu Bei returned from Xiangyang, he not only brought Zhang Fei the grain and grass he wanted, but also met a virtuous man on the way back from Xiangyang.

Well, a virtuous man named "Shan Fu".

It is said that Liu Bei met Shan Fu on the way back to Xinye, which attracted Liu Bei's attention, and the two of them talked for a while Liu Bei found that this person named Shan Fu was proficient in political strategy and strategy, and he was very extraordinary, so he turned him into Xicao Peng and brought him back to Xinye.

When Zhang Xi heard Zhang Fei relay this, he was dumbfounded for a moment, and sighed and smiled bitterly.

Who is this Shan Fu, of course Zhang Xi knows, the famous Xu Shu.

It's just that this Shan Fu still took the route of romance after all, not the route of historical facts.

In historical facts, Xu Shu's real name is Xu Fu, because he changed his name to Xu Shu and fled after avenging others, and later wanted to defect to Liu Biao, but found that Liu Biao's reward and punishment were unknown and not the owner, so he left a book and ran away, recommended himself Liu Bei, and became Liu Bei's adviser.

In other words, if according to historical facts, Xu Shu does not have the pseudonym "Shan Fu" now, because "Xu Shu" is his pseudonym, and there is no need to change another pseudonym.

But now, General Zuo Xi Cao Peng is indeed called "Shan Fu".

Again, Zhang Xi recalled his memory a little and found that this Xu Shu, or Shan Fu, seemed to know him.

Zhang Xi is a native of Yingchuan and a son of a poor family, while Xu Shu is also a native of Yingchuan and a son of a poor family.

In fact, Yingchuan is very big, and the fact that they are both Yingchuan people can only mean that the two are fellow countrymen, and they may not necessarily know each other.

However, in order to benefit Yingchuan students, some public lectures were held in Yingchuan Xunshi, and this kind of public lectures were open to all Yingchuan students, and it was also a very rare learning opportunity, and it was very grand.

At that time, the two had a relationship.

At that time, Zhang Xi was only fifteen years old, and Xu Shu was already in his twenties, and the two of them sat next door to each other, listening to Yingchuan Xungong talk about "Xunzi", so they knew each other and said a few words.

Is this a proper old acquaintance, or a fellow countryman...... But Zhang Xi didn't dare to meet Xu Shu.

The main reason is that Zhang Xi is afraid that he will show his stuffing, because he can't remember too many details of his relationship with Xu Shu.

And Xu Shu, if you follow the description in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", is also a smart person who is not much inferior to Zhuge Liang...... What if he finds something wrong?!

So Zhang Xi thinks that he is still honestly nesting in Zhang Fei's military camp, and it is okay to help Zhang Fei train his soldiers.

The food is in place, and Zhang Fei has also purchased the meat as a reward, so don't care about what you have and don't have, and start training.

In this exercise, Zhang Xi did not train every day at the beginning.

These soldiers in Zhang Fei's camp are not new recruits, they have become accustomed to every two days and every three days, and suddenly it has become a daily practice, and these soldiers will definitely complain, and it is not impossible to bomb the camp in the middle of the night.

So Zhang Xi discussed with Zhang Fei that it was better to train as it was first, and then slowly increase the amount of training later.

As for how to get this group of soldiers to voluntarily increase their training...... Hey, don't you want to drink broth?! If you want to drink, you can practice.

But at first, of course, it won't.

At the beginning, it was the drumming gathering general, pulling everyone down and standing in the center of the school field, and then Zhang Xi read out the new rules for military training.

To put it simply, it is the requirement to stand in a military posture, and the punishment for failing to meet the standards.

Standing in a military posture, Kou Feng and his subordinate one hundred and fifty recruits are no strangers, and the original soldiers under Zhang Fei, including Zhang Fei's troops, are unheard of.

But this group of people didn't care, they just thought they were standing, and they thought it was so difficult.

And the punishment for not meeting the standards read out by Zhang Xi made everyone scoff.

Those who do not meet the standards will be punished according to "slackness in practice".

As for this standard....... Zhang Xi originally discussed with Zhang Fei not to be too strict on the first day.

In terms of tithes, five people in each tithe fail to persevere even if they do not meet the standard, and less than five people are considered qualified.

But Zhang Fei disagreed, he felt that he had tried it himself, this thing was not very difficult, if his corporal could not hold on for even an hour, it would be a shame.

So he personally corrected it, and every two people failed to stick to it, even if it was not up to standard.

That's it, Zhang Fei also felt that he was lenient, because he also knew that not everyone in his battalion had good physical fitness, and there would always be some old and weak.

But on the first day of training, reality gave Zhang Fei a mouthful.

Except for the 150 recruits led by Kou Feng, none of the troops in the whole army met the standard.

even included Zhang Fei's cronies.

And Zhang Xi was not satisfied, because of the one hundred and fifty people brought by Kou Feng, there were actually people who didn't stick to it, and eight of them barely reached the standard, that is to say, two of these eight people didn't stick to the end.

In fact, the most difficult thing to stand in the military posture is the first day, mainly because the willpower persists, as long as you survive...... It is impossible for the old department of Kou Feng to not know this truth, but some of them still did not stick to it.

What does this mean?!

It shows that Kou Feng's later training is slack.

But this thing saw that the other schools were all blushing, and they felt quite accomplished...... This is worse than people!

Zhang Xi also got on fire.

I had the heart to teach Kou Feng a lesson, but I really didn't have a chance for a while, because Zhang Fei, a black guy, was so angry that he actually carried a whip and rushed over to the crowd in the school field.

Zhang Xi was startled, hurriedly chased out in three or two steps, grabbed Zhang Fei's arm, and half-dragged in front of Zhang Fei.

"What do you mean by the three generals?!" Zhang Xi looked at the whip in Zhang Fei's hand, and then at Zhang Fei's face like the bottom of a black pot, and asked.

"Get out of the way! Wait for my old Zhang to whip these lazy brutes ten times one by one, and correct the military law. Zhang Fei stopped talking politely to Zhang Xi, and directly called Zhang Xi's position, indicating that it was a business matter.

If you want to say something else, Zhang Xi may have to think about the consequences, but if you want to say this, Zhang Xi can't let it go at all.

Let's not talk about this thing and whip the soldiers to cause trouble for themselves, let's just say that this military law - there is no such thing as whipping in military law.

Zhang Xi continued to grab Zhang Fei's arm in a panic, and shouted anxiously, "Where is the army?!" ”

The army is the first person responsible for the reward and punishment system in the army, Zhang Xi called him, and he could only stand up.

"The military stipulates that training lazy people should be guilty of what crime?!"

Zhang Xi asked Junzheng in his mouth, staring at Zhang Fei with his eyes, and even more so grabbing Zhang Fei's sleeve in his hand, not daring to let this product really smoke people in the past.

Jun Zheng was embarrassed, looked at Zhang Xi, then looked at Zhang Fei, and finally stiffened his head and said, "The regulations in the army stipulate that those who practice lazy will have five rods." ”

Zhang Xi heard the answer he wanted, and hurriedly said to Zhang Fei, "The three generals are angry, if the three generals are strict military law, Xi naturally has nothing to say." However, the training of lazy people in the army is five rods, not five whips, and if the general moves the whip, it is not a proper military law, but it is really a vent of personal anger! ”

When he said this, Zhang Fei's face was black and blue for a while, and his eyes widened and he stared at Zhang Xi, and Zhang Xi's legs were a little weak.

But in the end, Zhang Fei stomped his foot and threw the whip on the ground.

Zhang Xi breathed a sigh of relief, but before this breath completely fell, it came up again.

"Spine cane, spine cane, today Grandpa Zhang has to give this group of embarrassing things a little color!"

After saying that, this black guy really went to the army to ask for a spine.