This joyous feast lasted three days.

In the past three days, Liu Bei and the county guards and ministers of the eight counties were extremely happy and had a lot of fun.

Three days later, the ministers and princes of the eight counties set off to return to their respective counties with full rewards and full emotions, and their officers and soldiers also embarked on the return journey with great joy and full of harvest.

Liu Bei was generous enough and his words were reasonable, he would give as much as he wanted, but whoever came would not go empty, and he also allocated a batch of food for the retreat and return of the troops of the Eight Counties, so that they could avoid the trouble of logistics.

In this regard, the county guards and ministers of the eight counties once again expressed their heartfelt thanks to Liu Bei.

Before they left, Liu Bei sent each other one by one, and when Lujiang Taishou Lu Kang left, Liu Bei also specially instructed Lu Kang one thing.

"The family of Sun Jian, one of the leaders of the thieves, is said to be in Lujiang County now, and I hope that Lu Fujun can find them, arrest them all, and send them to Luoyang for trial, so as not to let the rebellious thieves survive, so as not to have endless troubles in the future."

When Lu Kang heard this, he was shocked, and immediately told Liu Bei that he would definitely arrest the Sun family and bring them all to Luoyang for trial.

Then he hurried back.

Lu Kang was very surprised at first, but he soon reacted that Sun Jian's family was in Lujiang County, which might also be an opportunity for him to completely get in touch with Liu Bei.

In the eyes of the Central Plains Valle family, the Jiangdong Shi clan is a southern barbarian and a soil bun, and they can't look down on it at all.

In Jiangdong, they are a character, enclosure and self-sprouting, which looks quite stylish, but in the Central Plains, the Central Plains scholars look down on them at all, and they are at the end of the chain of scholars' contempt, and the second- and third-rate poet families in the Central Plains can despise the Jiangdong scholars in a bright and bright manner.

Therefore, if Jiangdong people want to mix in a high position in the Han officialdom, they often need to have special adventures, and even if they get mixed, it is difficult to have any serious development, and it is difficult to hug their thighs and mix their heads.

And this time, for himself and the Lu family, it may be a godsend.

Lu Kang has some thoughts about this.

After the departure of the eight county state guards and the state minister, Liu Bei held an internal summary meeting in Pingyu County, so that all the subordinates who participated in the operation gathered together to review the course of the operation, and then summarize the lessons and lessons and record them.

This is the rule that Liu Bei has set since he became an army, after each battle, the parties must record the completion of the battle process, leave a file, and hold a review meeting of relevant people after the war, and everyone will discuss the gains and losses of the battle.

Sum up the lessons and lessons, strive to carry out the right things to the end, and firmly remember the mistakes that have been made, and strive not to do it again.

Because there are many records and summary meetings of combat cases, Liu Beijun's military teaching materials are very rich, and many middle- and low-level officers with good qualifications have benefited a lot from such meetings and have grown rapidly.

And the generals who are themselves extremely talented have benefited a lot, and there is a tendency to grow up and become famous generals.

At this review meeting, it is worth discussing the battle on Cheng Pu's side, Cheng Pu visited Liu Bei when he led the troops to arrive before, explained all the previous combat process clearly, and praised Chen Gong.

For this reason, Liu Bei ordered Chen Gong to be rewarded, rewarded him with money and silk cloth, and personally ordered Chen Gong to be called as the general, Chen Gong was very happy, accepted the call, and joined Liu Bei's command.

As a result, Chen Gong also participated in this internal military summary meeting as a witness, and felt the strong military academic atmosphere in Liu Beijun's army.

He was quite shocked when he saw what he thought was a martial artist quoting scriptures to discuss military issues.

As the main spokesperson, Cheng Pu made a detailed review of his pre-war preparations, the arrangement and arrangement during the battle, and Sun Jian's actions, and explained them on the sand table for everyone to discuss.

He felt that he had done everything he could, under the premise that the elite was short and his teammates were a bit of a pig teammate.

"If I can have two battalions of elite soldiers, I can shake Sun Jianzhong's army head-on, and I can also keep a team to assist Chen Liujun and Liang Guobing, so as not to let the left and right flanks be impacted and there will be a rout, but I don't, and I also overestimate the combat effectiveness of Liang Guobing and Chen Liujun's soldiers."

Cheng Pu believes that the main reason is that Chen Liujun and Liang Guobing took the lead in escaping.

This was confirmed by Chen Gong.

The generals discussed it and came to the conclusion that under that circumstance, Chen Liujunbing and Liang Guobing were indeed uncontrollable factors, and that the rout and flight were expected, not unpredictable.

But Zhang Fei put forward the idea that Cheng Pu had made a mistake that was not decisive enough.

If he had enough trust in the Sanhe veterans of that battalion, he should personally lead the Sanhe veterans to press on and strive to defeat Sun Jian's Chinese army.

After personally fighting Sun Jian, Zhang Fei believed that Sun Jian's Jiangdong Huaisi soldiers were indeed elite, but they were far inferior to the most elite Sanhe veterans in terms of military skills and military literacy.

If Cheng Pu was brave and decisive enough, he should abandon the soldiers of Chen Liujun and Liang Guobing, resolutely defeat Sun Jian, and force the rest of Sun Jian's troops to come back.

What these ordinary county soldiers need is not to take care of both, but to win the stimulus, they can fight a tailwind battle, and they can't fight a headwind battle that needs to be persistent, the only chance to win this battle is that Cheng Pu resolutely defeats Sun Jianzhong's army, and if you do this, you will win.

But Cheng Pu didn't, so Zhang Fei felt that Cheng Pu was deficient and needed to be reviewed.

Many generals disagreed with Zhang Fei's view and criticized Zhang Fei for not putting himself in Cheng Pu's position.

There are also people who support Zhang Fei's opinion, thinking that he is right, the average county soldier just needs victory stimulation, and nothing else.

The two sides quarreled and argued, but there was no suitable result, and in the end, Liu Bei made the final decision.

"There are no ifs on the battlefield, if everything can be done again, don't mess up the world? No one knew what was the most appropriate thing to do at that time, so instead of looking at the process, only looking at the result, Demou recovered Yangxia City and repelled Sun Jian, which was meritorious. ”

After speaking, Liu Bei patted Zhang Fei's shoulder again.

"Yide has also grown a little bit recently, read more books, understand more things, for the county soldiers, the stimulation of victory is indeed great, they can only fight against the wind, not against the wind, this requires a certain degree of insight, Yide, you are very good."

Liu Bei did not criticize Cheng Pu or Zhang Fei, but asked everyone to write down the results of this discussion.

In the future, if there are still people who need to cooperate with ordinary county soldiers to fight against the wind, they must refer to Cheng Pu's experience this time.

Of course, at the end of the military meeting, the generals who participated in this battle all put forward the same opinion - except for the elite of Liu Bei's department, the other ordinary county soldiers are really rotten and they can't stand it.

Accustomed to seeing a well-trained strong army, accustomed to leading a strong army, and accustomed to commanding a strong army in battle, it was really uncomfortable to suddenly change the object of command and command those county soldiers who had not undergone strict training.

What the trained elite soldiers can easily do, it is even more difficult for these county soldiers, even fantastical.

There is a very relaxed feeling of commanding elite soldiers, and you can see the results after giving orders, while commanding those county miscellaneous soldiers, one order goes down, and I don't know how long it will take for them to complete the order.

Cheng Pu described commanding the county's miscellaneous soldiers to fight as a nightmare.

The kind of nightmare that crocodiles have to have when they hear it.

It seems that the generals are also aware of it, and they are also aware of the significance of Liu Bei's ruthless spending money to train the army.

They are now like rich sons who are used to living a good life, and suddenly experience ordinary life, and suddenly feel that they can't accept it.

Liu Bei could only shake his head and smile bitterly.

"After all, the elite is a minority, and training also takes time, although we have a training plan after that, but it will take at least two years to train the average elite, similar to the elite of the Three Rivers veterans, and it is baptized by countless wars.

A real famous general cannot rely on an overly elite army, but also be able to command an ordinary army, otherwise it should be the general himself or an elite soldier who is famous? can command elite soldiers and ordinary armies, this is a famous general.

And after Yuan Shu was solved by us, there was also a Yuan Shaoheng in Hebei, Yuan Shao was slightly more difficult to deal with than Yuan Shu, we would inevitably have to fight side by side with the ordinary county soldiers, and when the time came, you would still face such a problem.

I hope that Demou's experience this time can bring you some changes, don't rely too much on elite soldiers, it is necessary for soldiers to become elite soldiers, and it is also necessary for generals to become famous generals, and those who can only command elite soldiers and cannot command county soldiers are not famous generals. ”

Liu Bei put forward his requirements and expectations and handed them over to his subordinates to think carefully.

After the meeting, Liu Bei left Chen Gong, who had newly joined the camp, to have a conversation with him, and talked about some views on Liu Bei's camp and work style.

In this regard, Chen Gong put forward his own feelings.

"Zhang Zhonglang is the kind of general, I thought he was a general of the bear and tiger, but I never thought that he could actually quote scriptures to discuss classic battle examples, and it seems that this is a very common situation, and my subordinates are deeply surprised."

"It's a rule I set."

Liu Bei said with a smile: "Every general has grown up from a soldier, and a fierce general must start from the ranks, which is something that the ancients all know, but in my opinion, it is not enough to be brave, you also need to be knowledgeable."

It's just brave, but it's a martial artist, at most a hundred generals, and with knowledge, you can become an enemy of 10,000 people, so in our army, every time you are promoted, in addition to military merits, you also need to pass the promotion exam.

If you don't pass the exam, even if you have accumulated enough military merits, you can't be promoted, and you can only exchange some money and rewards, or give fields and the like with military merits, in short, the position is at the top. ”

(End of chapter)