In just one month, Zhuge Liang learned the experience of motivation and army management that Guan Yu spent seven or eight years figuring out.

This may seem strange and progressive, but it makes sense.

Guan Yu relied on talent and actual combat to step on the pit back then, and there was no famous teacher to guide him, at most after defeating the battle, he came back to read the book of soldiers to sum up his experience, and every bit of progress was not easy to come by.

Zhuge Liang had already read a lot of military books before he actually led the troops.

In addition, the composition of the troops this time is really very suitable for training to grasp the morale of the army, and there are not only Danyang soldiers and Jinfan soldiers under his command, but also foreign county soldiers and local county soldiers.

It can be said that at this moment, even if you look at the entire Han world, you can't find a second place with such a complex training environment.

The famous teachers of the peerless Yiqun, the students with excellent intelligence, happen to be the most suitable topics for the teaching content, and all three of them have shaped Zhuge Liang's rapid progress.

In addition, there is actually a hidden condition - that is, in this month, Zhuge Jin silently helped the second brother to take care of all the internal affairs that were originally assigned to him.

Zhuge Jin also knows that he does not have the talent to directly command the army and govern the army, even if he studies hard, he may not be able to squeeze into the world's first-class.

In this case, there are still many things that need to be done for him anyway, and he can't finish it in a lifetime, so why not specialize in the art industry.

In just one month, Zhuge Jin preliminarily sorted out the people's livelihood and financial details in Chaisang, Pengze and other places.

Those farming matters that are technically small are also arranged quite in an orderly manner.

The pits that were originally dug were also filled one by one as planned.

In the end, he even persuaded four remote surrounding counties to surrender one after another, mainly the mountainous county town in the east of Yuzhang County and near Danyang County.

Including Poyang County, Guangchang County, Le'an County, Shangrao County.

However, these efforts to persuade surrender do not have much substantive gain, because in the above four counties, except for Poyang County, the other three counties are more or less entrenched by Shanyue forces.

Originally, before the Han Dynasty fell into war, the local people basically could not collect money, grain, taxes, and soldiers.

Since Dirong was entrenched in Yuzhang, those county towns in the mountainous areas on the border of Zhejiang and Jiangxi have nominally submitted to Dirong.

This time, Zhuge Jin can persuade the above-mentioned areas to surrender, which may not be entirely a good thing-

This means that the forces of Zhenrong in the eastern counties of the county have begun to shrink and concentrate their forces. It was the withdrawal of the backbone of Zhenrong's lineage that Zhuge Jin was able to persuade him to surrender successfully.

As for what he wanted to do after Zhenrong shrank his forces, Zhuge Jin also vaguely guessed it.

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The time has quietly come to the end of January, and in a few days the dragon will raise its head, and soon the spring ploughing of the second year of Jian'an will begin.

At night that day, Zhuge Liang, who had already ignored the affairs outside the window and was only interested in learning military arts, dragged his tired body back to the mansion.

As soon as I entered the main hall, I saw that the eldest brother was still fighting at night, acting for official business.

Zhuge Liang greeted him casually, but this time Zhuge Jin didn't let him go back.

"Ah Liang, let's take a look at this military information, as well as these two letters." Zhuge Jin said as he pushed Wen Mu in front of his younger brother.

Zhuge Liang was slightly stunned, but still picked it up. This month, the eldest brother didn't put pressure on himself, it seems that something big must have happened this time.

"Zhenrong actually even completely withdrew the garrison of Poyang County? Secretly gather all the troops to Haiyang County? Our army took advantage of this opportunity and relied on the will of the imperial court to successfully persuade the Poyang County Order? ”

As mentioned earlier, Zhuge Jin and his uncle Zhuge Xuan, in a month's time, quietly controlled four more counties, and Poyang was the last and most important of them.

Compared with the other three counties that abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, the land in Poyang County is relatively fertile, and it is still the transportation point where Poshui flows into Peng Lize, controlling the passage of the other three counties in and out of Peng Lize.

Zhenrong even gave up this kind of place, and he couldn't help but surprise Zhuge Liang.

Fortunately, after he was only briefly surprised, he quickly reacted: "Big brother, Zhenrong knows that his navy is not good, and he is afraid that our army will benefit from the navy, cut off Peng Lize's shipping route, divide its territory on the west bank, and break it individually?" ”

"There is indeed such consideration," Zhuge Jin nodded, "Think about it again, what else?" ”

Zhuge Liang was reminded of this, and said: "Could it be that Zhenrong dares to act more boldly?" Could it be that after he concentrated his forces, he still dared to take the initiative to counterattack us? ”

Zhuge Jin said with a stern expression: "The scouts of the navy sent by Xingba have gone deep into the south of Peng Lize to investigate, and they have also found signs that the enemy ships are approaching the sea from Nanchang, but it is not yet possible to confirm whether this is a suspicious soldier.

If the enemy only withdrew the Poyang garrison to Haidu, it could be said that it was afraid that the navy would separate the east and west banks and break them individually. But if the enemy army in Nanchang also went north, it would definitely gather forces and want to attack.

I estimate that after this period of standing still, Zhenrong finally woke up and saw that time was on our side. If it drags on any longer, you and Yun Chang can gradually transform those seven or eight thousand newly surrendered troops into the backbone of our army, but Zhenrong's strength will not become stronger.

Therefore, he must have changed his mind, and wanted to take the initiative to seek battle and decisive battle, and made a desperate bet while we had not yet completed the training and transformation. ”

The enemy has already realized that if he waits any longer, he will sit back and wait. As the Han army digested the fruits of victory, the odds of victory for the Zheng army would only get lower and lower.

"Only sit and wait for death, who will cut it down?"

Zhuge Liang was stunned for a moment, and then he was quite surprised: "This is a good thing!" Originally, we also planned to spend two or three months to completely reorganize and train the surrendered army into a division with strict military discipline, and then go south to attack Haiyang and Nanchang one by one.

Although it has not yet been trained, the growth of our army in the past month has been very rapid, and the fighting spirit and military discipline of the soldiers have been greatly improved. Zhenrong dared to go north, that is, from us attacking the city and defending the city, to him attacking the city and defending the city-

How dare he? Doesn't he know how difficult it is to attack and defend the city? Why don't we take this opportunity to annihilate them and then counterattack Haiduan and Nanchang. By then, the main force of Zhenrong has been extinguished, and perhaps the counties can be determined. ”

Zhuge Jin couldn't help but be speechless for a while, he stared at his brother's eyes seriously, confirming that he was not joking:

"You've only been practicing with Yun Chang for a month, if you face a big battle right away. Relying on less than 5,000 backbone elite veterans, more than 7,000 new troops were surrendered in January. Can you beat the enemy's 13,000 county soldiers and monks, plus 30,000 rabble? ”

Zhuge Liang is full of confidence:

"Big brother, you should really listen carefully, General Guan's experience in governing the army. When the time comes, you will understand how far he can raise the military discipline and orders of the soldiers in just one month. ”

As he spoke, he explained a bunch of experiences he had seen and heard.

Although Zhuge Jin didn't have time to study systematically, his younger brother was willing to summarize the essence like this, and he was still willing to talk about it.

Zhuge Liang said in the end, and couldn't help but add: "Although I am young, I have studied hard with General Guan in the past month, and it is estimated that my ability to govern the army has far surpassed Zhang Yide, and I can be with General Zhengnan——

General Guan occasionally talked about Xuande Gong's ability to govern the army. It's just that Xuande Gongsheng is good at employing people, and can accept people's hearts with kindness and righteousness, but he is not good at rewarding, punishing, tempting, and motivating soldiers. It can be seen that he is good at Li Guang's method, but he doesn't know Huo Qu's method. ”

When Zhuge Jin heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Don't underestimate the heroes of the world, I don't think Xuande Gong may not understand, he just doesn't want to do it." A gentleman does not speak of righteousness, and a benevolent person will inevitably have many worries about doing things. I have been friends with Xuande Gong for several months, and I also know that he reads in an eclectic manner, but I actually know a lot. ”

Zhuge Liang had never been in contact with Liu Bei, so he couldn't help but be curious: "Is this really the case?" The eldest brother thought that he knew Duan Cheng's method of 'burning the soldiers to accumulate wealth, so that the soldiers would no longer spare their lives, and they would be willing to fight to the death'? ”

Zhuge Jin said abruptly: "Why don't you know? I once spoke to Xuande, and I also heard him sigh about the 'humiliation of the people, then the nobleman.' If you are weak, you will respect the officer. If you are poor, you will be rewarded'.

Isn't Duan Cheng's method 'to make the people poor, then reward them heavily', if you have money, who is willing to play with your life for a little money? Xuande Gong understands the truth, he just doesn't want to learn. If we follow the principle of 'the way of a strong country, we must focus on the weak people', even if it can be achieved, what is worth pursuing? It's just a matter of abandoning the basics. ”

Zhuge Liang was silent, he listened to the eldest brother's casual quote, saying that Liu Bei had read it, and he finally believed that Liu Bei had not learned Guan Yu's positive and negative military methods, he just didn't want to use one of them.

"In today's world, there are still such people who are so constrained, and I want to see them when I have the opportunity." Zhuge Liang sighed from the bottom of his heart, purely out of curiosity.

Zhuge Jin stretched out his hand and knocked on the two letters in front of him: "It's not easy for you to see it, take a good look, they have just been delivered in the past two days." At the beginning of the month, after I handed over Yuzhang's training task to Yun Chang, Yun Chang sent a letter to Guangling, saying that he might stay for more time and ask Xuande Gong.

Twenty days later, he received a reply from Xuande Gong. The messenger also brought a letter from his stepmother, and the Song family now lives in Guangling. ”

Only then did Zhuge Liang notice that the letters pushed over by the eldest brother just now were quickly opened and read one by one.

The first letter mentioned that Liu Bei allowed Guan Yu "If after Yuzhang is pacified, if there are a large number of Zhenrong troops that need to be reorganized, and the Zhuge family is not talented enough to train the army, then Yun Chang can continue to stay in Yuzhang and help the Zhuge family govern the army."

But after this condition, Liu Bei changed his words and mentioned that "at the end of the war, I hope to send a competent person to Guangling immediately to report the results of the battle".

Then he mentioned a few more things, including Chen Qun's Guangling winter water control task, saying that now the easy preparations have been completed, and there are still some last difficult details, which need to be consulted Ziyu. It's best if Ziyu can come, and if he can't, at least he has to send a capable person who understands his planning to do it for him.

Zhuge Liang pondered for a moment: "Does this Xuande Gong want to lend us a few more months at the cost of 'General Guan for a few more months' in exchange for me to visit Guangling once?" He said that if you can't go in person, big brother, at least send another person who knows how to water conservancy...... Who else could there be but me? ”

Zhuge Jin didn't answer, and motioned to Zhuge Liang to read another one.

Zhuge Liang opened it again, this time it was a family letter from his stepmother Song. The book vaguely said that she hoped that she could still see other stepchildren again as the returned wife of the Song family, and understand how everyone has been doing in the past few years.

Zhuge Liang rolled his eyes: "It seems that after the battle of Zhenrong, I can only take my sister and brother back to Guangling and finally meet the Song family." ”

Zhuge Jin: "In the month you have been training with Yun Chang, I have arranged a little for civil affairs officials under my command to deal with some water conservancy affairs in the Peng Lize polder in the east of Chaisang County, and I have also slightly tested several water conservancy ideas in my heart.

After you don't have to worry about military training affairs, you can spend a few days to get familiar with it, and then give me a good look on the way back, and help Chen Changwen solve the problem when he returns to Guangling. Mi Zizhong may also have something to ask you if you don't understand, so you should be prepared in advance.

After all, Xuande Gong is not Yangzhou Mu, and our Zhuge family and Xuande Gong are still allies, not subordinates. So you're just going to be a guest, and you can come back after dealing with things. ”

Zhuge Liang respectfully accepted the order, saying that he would deal with Guan Yu with Guan Yu in the upcoming battle in the past few days, and after the battle, he would help him run to Guangling for anything else.