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

That was to send people to Xiangyang to spread rumors that Cao Cao's general Cao Ren, who was stationed in Wancheng, intended to go south to spy on Fancheng. Then Liu Biao urgently ordered Liu Bei to go to Xiangyang to discuss guarding Fancheng.

One of the reasons why Liu Biao took Liu Bei in was because Liu Bei was indeed a hero of the time, and taking Liu Bei in would be good for his reputation.

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

Liu Biao entered Jingxiang on horseback and established a foothold in Jingzhou with the help of Cai and Kuai's family. However, the area he actually controlled was not large, only Xiangyang and Nanjun.

Huang Zu of Jiangxia was the spokesperson of the Huang family of the Jingxiang family. He was half-cooperative and half-confrontational with Liu Biao. He was also a country of his own in Jiangxia and was not too indifferent to Liu Biao.

The four counties in Jingnan, Changsha, Wuling, Lingling, and Guiyang, were outwardly surrendered to Liu Biao, but in reality they were also vaguely unstable and held 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 You County, Changsha, just to open an opening in the four counties of Jingnan.

Therefore, for Liu Biao, Xiangyang and Nanjun are his basic base, and he must not lose anything.

Unfortunately for Liu Biao, he was a scholar.

At the beginning, Yuan Shu relied on his family lineage of fourth generation and third prince to occupy Nanyang. Liu Biao's intrigues with Yuan Shu also resulted in the northern part of Nanyang County being completely outside his control.

After finally waiting for Yuan Shu to go to Jianghuai for development, Liu Biao finally temporarily took control of Nanyang County. However, in order to fight against Cao Cao, he introduced Zhang Xiu of the Northwest Army. As a result, Zhang Xiu directly took Wancheng to defect to Cao Cao, causing Fancheng on the north bank of Xiangshui River to face Cao Cao.

The pressure of the army.

Liu Biao really had no choice but to use the old method to introduce Liu Bei again, allowing Liu Bei to station in Xinye and join forces with Fancheng to fight against Cao's army. Now that he heard that Cao Ren was going south to Fancheng, could Liu Biao not be anxious?

You know, going south from Fancheng, just across the Xiangshui River is Xiangyang City, Liu Biao's hometown.

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

In the first half of last year, Cao Ren also followed Cao Cao to put down the Gaogan rebellion in Hebei, but instead of stationing in Hebei with Cao Cao and going north to put down Wuhuan, he went south directly to Wancheng in the second half of the year. Anyone with a little bit of brains knows that,

Cao Ren was preparing to help Cao Cao conquer Jingzhou.

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

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

If Cao Ren really goes south to Fancheng, then Liu Bei has the right to command the Fancheng troops and the Xinye troops to fight against Cao Cao.

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

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

Well, a talented man named "Shan Fu".

It is said that Liu Bei met Shan Fu singing a song on the way back to Xinye, which attracted Liu Bei's attention, and the two chatted for a while. Liu Bei discovered that this man named Shan Fu was proficient in political strategy and was very extraordinary, so he appointed him as the Western Cao Cao.

, brought back to Xinye.

When Zhang Xi heard Zhang Fei recounting this incident, he was stunned for a moment, then sighed and smiled bitterly.

Of course Zhang Xi knows who this Shan Fu is, the famous Xu Shu.

However, this Shan Fu still followed the route of romance, rather than the route of historical facts.

Historically, Xu Shu's real name was Xu Fu. He changed his name to Xu Shu after revenge for others and fled. Later, he wanted to join Liu Biao, but found that Liu Biao's reward and punishment were unclear and he was not the owner, so he left a letter and ran away, recommended himself to Liu Bei, and became Liu Bei's adviser.

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

But now, General Zuo Xicao is indeed called "Shan Fu".

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

Zhang Xi was from Yingchuan and was from a poor family, while Xu Shu was also from Yingchuan and was from a poor family.

In fact, Yingchuan is a very big place. Being both from Yingchuan can only mean that they are fellow villagers, but they may not know each other.

However, in order to benefit Yingchuan students, the Xun family in Yingchuan originally held some public lectures. This kind of public lectures was open to all Yingchuan students. It was also a very rare learning opportunity and was held in a grand manner.

At that time, the two people had a chance encounter.

At that time, Zhang Xi was only fifteen years old, while Xu Shu was already over twenty. The two of them sat next to each other and listened to Xun Gong of Yingchuan telling "Xunzi" together, so they got to know each other and exchanged a few words with each other.

This was an old acquaintance, and they were fellow villagers, but Zhang Xi didn't dare to meet Xu Shu.

The main reason is that Zhang Xi is afraid that his secret will be exposed because he can no longer remember too many details of his relationship with Xu Shu.

As for Xu Shu, according to the description in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he is also a smart man not inferior to Zhuge Liang. What if he discovers something wrong?!

So Zhang Xi thinks that he should just stay in Zhang Fei's camp and help Zhang Fei train his soldiers.

Now that the food is in place and Zhang Fei has purchased the meat as a reward, he can start training regardless of the abundance.

During this training, Zhang Xi did not train every day from the beginning.

These soldiers in Zhang Fei's camp are not new recruits. They have been accustomed to training every two days and training every three days. If it suddenly changes to training every day, these soldiers will definitely complain, and it is not impossible to even blow up the camp in the middle of the night.

So Zhang Xi and Zhang Fei discussed it and decided to train as usual first and then gradually increase the amount of training later.

As for how to get these soldiers to voluntarily increase training. Hehe, do you want to drink broth?! If you want to drink it, train more.

But of course I wouldn't do that at first.

At the beginning, it was the drummer who gathered the generals, pulling everyone down to stand in the middle of the school ground, and then Zhang Xi read out the new rules for military training.

To put it simply, it is the requirement to maintain a military posture and the punishment for failure to meet the standards.

Kou Feng and the one hundred and fifty new soldiers under his command were familiar with the matter of standing in the military posture. Originally, Zhang Fei's soldiers, including Zhang Fei's troops, had never heard of it.

However, this group of people didn't care. They just thought they were standing and didn't think there was anything difficult about it.

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

Those who do not meet the standard in units of "Jian" will be punished as "lazy in practice".

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

In units of tens, if five people fail to persevere in each ten, it will be considered as failing. If there are less than five people, it will be considered as qualified.

But Zhang Fei disagreed. He felt that he had tried it himself and it was not difficult. If his soldiers could not persist for even an hour, it would be a shame.

So he personally revised it, and if two people failed to stick to it every time, it was considered not up to standard.

At this point, Zhang Fei felt that he was being lenient, because he also knew that not everyone in his battalion's sergeants was in good physical condition, and there would always be some who were old and weak.

But on the first day of training, reality gave Zhang Fei a hard slap in the face.

Except for the 150 new recruits led by Kou Feng, none of the entire army reached the standard.

It even includes Zhang Fei’s cronies.

And Zhang Xi was not satisfied, because among the one hundred and fifty people Kou Feng led, some of them failed to persist, and eight of them barely reached the standard. In other words, among these eight, two of them actually failed.

No one persisted until the end.

In fact, the most difficult thing about standing in the military posture is the first day. The main thing is the willpower to persevere. As long as you get through it, it will be fine. It is impossible that Kou Feng's old troops don't know this, but there are still some among them who have not persevered.

What does this mean?!

This shows that Kou Feng's later training was slack.

But this guy saw that all the other small schools were blushing with embarrassment and felt quite accomplished. He was comparing himself to others!

Zhang Xi is also a bit angry.

He wanted to teach Kou Feng a lesson, but for a while he really didn't have the chance, because Zhang Fei, a black guy, got so angry that he actually walked towards the crowd in the school grounds with a whip.

Zhang Xi was startled, and quickly chased out, grabbed Zhang Fei's arm, and half pulled him in front of Zhang Fei.

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

"Military Commander, get out of the way! Let me, Lao Zhang, give these lazy beasts ten lashes one by one to rectify military law." Zhang Fei stopped talking politely to Zhang Xi and directly addressed Zhang Xi's position, indicating that this was

official business.

If you want to say something else, Zhang Xi might have to consider the consequences, but if you want to say this, Zhang Xi can't let it go.

Let's not talk about this guy who wants to whip soldiers to get himself into trouble, let's talk about military law - there is no mention of whipping in military law.

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

Jun Zheng was the first person responsible for the reward and punishment system in the army. Zhang Xi called him, and he had no choice but to stand up.

"The military regulations stipulate that those who are lazy in training should be punished with what crime?!"

Zhang Xi asked Jun Zheng, her eyes fixed on Zhang Fei, and her hands tightly grabbed Zhang Fei's sleeves, not daring to let this guy go over and really slap him.

Jun Zheng was in a dilemma. He looked at Zhang Xi, then at Zhang Fei, and finally bit the bullet and said, "It is a rule in the army that those who are lazy in training will be punished with five sticks."

When Zhang Xi heard the answer he wanted, he quickly said to Zhang Fei, "Third generals, please calm down. If the three generals are strict about military law, Xi will naturally have nothing to say. However, in training those who are lazy in the army, five canons are used instead of whips."

Fifth, if a general uses his whip, it is not for the sake of military law, but to vent his personal anger!"

These words made Zhang Fei's face turn black and blue, and he stared at Zhang Xi with widened eyes, which made Zhang Xi's legs feel a little weak.

But in the end, Zhang Fei stamped his foot and threw the whip to the ground.

Zhang Xi breathed a sigh of relief, but before the breath could completely subside, it came up again.

"A spine stick is a spine stick. Grandpa Zhang must show some color to these embarrassing things today!"

After saying that, the black guy really went to Junzheng to ask for the cane.
Chapter completed!