There are unexpected situations in the world. Even a genius like Guo Jia didn't expect the rain to come so suddenly, and it took three days at once.

At this time, Sun Jian’s lead role was reflected. The military book has principled requirements in the military book, but there is no specific method. However, Sun Jian has rich experience and said it in detail when teaching Sun Ce. First of all, we must look at the nearby water source. It is not convenient to get water too far away from the water source, and it is not convenient to get water. It is not suitable to be too close. Once the water level rises, it is easy to be flooded. He also took his own personal experience as an example and taught Sun Ce how to choose the right location step by step.

It rained for three days and it was still very heavy, but there was no water accumulation in Sun Ce's camp. For this reason, the food, grass, firewood in the baggage camp was also kept dry and not wet. In addition to the inconvenience of travel, it was generally normal.

From this we can see that the key reason why Yu Jin was flooded by Guan Yu's water was that his military method was all based on his accumulation of experience, and he had no systematic inheritance, and he was not familiar with the climate of the Han River. He set up camp according to his experience in the Central Plains. He did not expect the power of the sudden flood of the Han River, and his reputation was destroyed in one lifetime.

If you can't fight on heavy rain, you can't even train. Training in heavy rain sounds awesome, but there will be a series of problems. The bowstrings will be soaked in rain and lose strength. The iron sheets on the armor will easily rust, the battle robe will be wet, and soldiers will easily catch a cold. Once it becomes contagious, it will affect the overall combat effectiveness and will not be worth the loss.

So Sun Ce wisely gave up this pretentious behavior, but he did not let the soldiers idle. After the results of the battle were counted, he first summoned the officers and officers of the lieutenant level to conduct post-war discussions, starting with how to analyze the opponent, and then asked Guo Jun and Chen Da, who were in command in the front line to speak out in detail, and asked the military marquis, the garrisons, the garrisons and even the soldiers who made contributions to the war to tell the details of the battle. Everyone spoke freely, analyzed the pros and cons of both sides, and put forward suggestions for improvement.

The atmosphere was very warm and there were a lot of gains, which was equivalent to a short-term training camp in the martial arts hall, with sufficient information. Not only did generals like Tao Ying gain a lot, but intermediate officers like the garrison leader and the military marquis also gained more knowledge.

Sun Ce now has 20,000 troops, but the strongest combat power is undoubtedly the 4,000 guard battalions. Not only are the soldiers carefully selected and trained strictly, but almost all officers above the governor of the garrison were trained in the martial arts hall and were well-versed in literature and literature. It is precisely because of this that the guard battalions were able to kill and injure more than a thousand Hu cavalry, and almost killed Guan Yu and Zhang Fei in the formation, while his casualties were only 300, and only one governor of the garrison was extremely impressive.

Even so, Sun Ce still felt sorry for Liu Wu. This young governor was an outstanding graduate of the martial arts lecture hall. Tian Hongcheng, who was at the same time as him, had been promoted to the commander-in-chief and was currently stationed in Xi County. Liu Wu was so lucky that he met Guan Yu and Zhang Fei and died on the spot. Otherwise, it would be natural to be promoted to the Marquis of Military Affairs after this battle, and his future achievements would not be worse than those of Tian Hongcheng.

This is luck, no one can do it.

The generals learned to command, ordinary soldiers learned to fight, and soldiers who made meritorious service in the Guards were assigned to various battalions to give speeches, chat with ordinary soldiers, teach combat experience, and teach those illiterate soldiers to write their own names and recognize simple numbers. The soldiers in the Guards had a high literacy rate, which were all the results of daily training. Although in the eyes of the great scholars, they were still illiterate, for those soldiers who didn't even know their own names, they could already be considered cultural people.

Sun Ce told Tao Ying that after the rain stopped, there would be a few days before the water was drained when the area was empty. Behind me was a swamp, which was inconvenient to transport. Can you transport some grain from Xuzhou? The water level rose, and it would be very convenient if it was transported by ship. These were counted as I bought and I would repay them with spoils.

Tao Ying patted his chest without saying a word and agreed. There was no need to ask my father for this matter. I will make the decision and I will not cut off your grain. He immediately wrote a letter to Pengcheng to get a clean meal and ask him to arrange for the people to transport grain and grass. Liu Bei went south, Pengcheng was the gateway to Xuzhou, and Tao Qian hoarded a lot of money and grain here. The 200,000 stone of grain he gave to Sun Ce was also transported from Pengcheng.

A few days later, Ji Lian sent a message that he was urgently collecting civilian ships. Within ten days, 50,000 stones of grain and grass will be delivered to Xiao County.

Sun Ce was overjoyed and was not worried about having food in the warehouse. The 20,000 army alone required nearly 40,000 stones of food per month. In addition, the straw and grass for war horses and livestock for transportation was a very amazing number. Without sufficient logistics supply, the war could not continue. With the support of food and grass from Xuzhou, Sun Ce could be ashamed of the city with peace of mind.

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The sudden heavy rain gave Liu Bei a chance to breathe, but he could only help but not help him. Liu Bei did not feel much easier because of this.

Xiaoxian was just a county, and its own grain storage was limited. When Zhuzhi used Xiaoxian as its resident, although there were only three or four thousand people, it still needed to be regularly mobilized and supplemented from the surrounding counties. When he left, Xiaoxian had not much grain storage. Now Liu Bei had nearly 10,000 people, and the consumption increased sharply. The surrounding counties were recovered by Sun Ce, and there was no source of supply. The grain from Yanzhou could not be transported, and the grain in the warehouse was at most one month left.

In one month, Liu Bei will face the crisis of food outage. If he wants to leave time to retreat, he will only have half a month left.

Liu Bei discussed with Yuan Xu and asked Yuan Xu to write a letter to Liu Dai, asking him to send someone to help him no matter what. Even if he could not defeat Sun Ce, he would still be able to help them withdraw from Yuzhou. Xiao County is the boundary of Yuzhou and a strategic location. Sun Ce would never give up until he retakes Xiao County.

Yuan Xu agreed. He wrote a letter to Yuan Yi, asking Yuan Yi to come forward to advise Liu Dai. Yuan Yi was the prefect of Shanyang. Even if Liu Dai did not agree, Yuan Yi could save him because they were all for the sake of the descendants of the Yuan family and took Liu Bei out.

Ten days later, Yuan Xu received a reply from Yuan Yi, but it was not good news, but bad news. Yanzhou Governor Liu Dai failed to fight against the Yellow Turbans and died in the battle. The Yellow Turbans had already entered Jibei, heading towards Dongjun and Dongping, and could enter Shanyang at any time. He could not take care of himself and could not rescue Yuan Xu, so he asked him to find a way to escape.

Yuan Xu was in chaos and didn't know how to deal with it. He passed the news to Liu Bei. Liu Bei was stunned for a while and was secretly ecstatic. God felt mercy. Liu Dai died, and my chance came. If he could not become the governor of Yuzhou, he could also become the governor of Yanzhou. If he could not defeat Sun Ce, I could fight against the Yellow Turban. Liu Dai died in battle. Yuan Shao wanted to deal with Gongsun Zan and could not send anyone to take over Yanzhou. I volunteered and he would not refuse.

Liu Bei asked Yuan Xu to come forward and wrote a letter to Yuan Shao, asking Yuan Shao to let him move to Yanzhou. Yuan Xu also thought this was a good idea. Although Liu Bei fought a cowardly in this battle, his previous record of fighting against the Yellow Turbans was still very good, so he agreed. While preparing to break through, Liu Bei sent Jian Yong out of the city and negotiated with Sun Ce, intending to stabilize Sun Ce and fight for time to retreat.
Chapter completed!