Xu Kang ordered the nine team captains to be summoned quickly. When he saw that they were all here, he expressed his intention to organize a snowball fight. Everyone was surprised and didn't understand what a group of grown men could do for a snowball fight.

However, Xu Kang insisted, saying that it was to relax everyone's spirit and balance work and rest. After thinking about it, everyone seemed to think that this was not a big deal and it was difficult to object, so they agreed.

At this time, Xu Kang revealed his biggest purpose this time and said: "I plan to divide everyone into three groups for this snowball fight. Now it is up to you to combine freely and choose the group leader."

So Sun Guan and Wu Dun naturally led Zang Ba, Ma Jie led Guan Yu, and the other four were all from Chengjia Village. Gou Zi was the leader, but there were too many people, so Xu Kang took it upon himself to divide one of the centurions.

Go to Guan Yu's team.

"Now that the team has been divided, I will send 30 people from my soldiers into 3 groups and join your team respectively. Their mission is not to fight, but to record the entire game, including every decision you made at that time.

, and the courage shown by the soldiers, and judge the outcome of the battle.”

Sun Guan said doubtfully: "It doesn't sound like a snowball fight to me, but more like a war."

Even if others didn't understand it at first, they couldn't help but think about it after being reminded by Sun Guan's words.

Xu Kang smiled and said, "You'd better just think so."

Everyone was suddenly in awe.

Sun Guan curled his lips and said, "You are the only one with many tricks. Okay, let's put the snowball fight aside for now. What are you going to tell us today?" The others immediately looked at Xu Kang with eager eyes.

Xu Kang waved what he had just written in his hand and said: "Okay. Today we will talk about the sixth of the thirty-six strategies, the Empty City Strategy: Speaking of the Spring and Autumn Period, the Chu State's Ling Yin Gongzi Yuan, does Ling Yin know? It is equivalent to

The current prime minister——"

Regarding storytelling, this was a decision Xu Kang made after he became the battalion commander, because he found that except for Zang Ba, basically none of his captains had read the book of war, even Guan Yu, who was famous for his combat prowess in later generations.

So Xu Kang decided to teach them the art of war, but most of them were illiterate. When Xu Kang announced his decision to teach them, what he got instead of cheers was opposition.

. They actually thought that fighting relied on strength and courage, and had no interest in learning the art of war. In the end, Xu Kang had to use force to make them listen to the lecture. Although they had all been captured, it was up to him to capture people's hearts.

He had the ability to give lectures. So he used the method of storytelling to tell them one by one the 36 strategies he remembered in later generations. One strategy per day, that is, a story every day. These stories are adapted from historical facts handed down from the Spring and Autumn Period.

After being verified with the Thirty-Six Stratagems, Xu Kang narrated it with great enthusiasm, which made all the old men so excited that they would spontaneously gather in Xu Kang's room to listen to the story every once in a while.

It was through this method that Kang established his leadership position as both a teacher and an elder among this group of people. After all, they may not have learned the four words "respecting teachers and respecting the Tao", but their meaning has already been subtly influenced by the social environment.

It's engraved into their souls.

The next day, Xu Kang led a team of more than 900 people to the outside of the village and designated a small forest with a radius of one mile as the scope of the snowball fight to prevent everyone from turning the snowball fight into an endless chase. Then

He supervised the three groups that had been arranged and entered the forest one after another. After half a minute of incense injection, the battle officially began.

Xu Kang did not enter the forest, and did not even want to wait outside, because he still had many things to deal with. So he ordered Zhao Bahu to wait outside the forest and notify him immediately of the results, while he himself turned around and went back

Chengjia Village.

In Chengjia Village, Xu Kang found Cheng Yuanzhi and said, "Father, I want to equip my battalion with horses and turn them all into cavalry."

Cheng Yuanzhi said in surprise: "Become a cavalry?"

"Yes." Xu Kang said with eyes shining: "My adoptive father should also know how terrifying the prairie cavalry is. In the future, we will mainly fight on the plains, and the plain battlefield is similar to the grassland, with high mobility and high penetration capability.

If we don’t have cavalry, then when we face the official cavalry on the battlefield, we can only be beaten passively.”

"But raising a dedicated cavalry is too expensive. With our current strength, we simply can't afford it." Cheng Yuanzhi said helplessly: "We don't even have the horses needed to form a cavalry team."

"Although the cavalry consumes a lot of money, its role on the battlefield is equally huge. Sometimes a fast and mobile cavalry team can even determine the outcome of a war." Xu Kang explained patiently. "It's better to do this, my foster father.

Allocate me 100 war horses, and let my soldiers know how to be cavalry first, so that when they have horses in the future, they can quickly go into battle?"

"Most of us Youzhou people can ride horses, do we still need this kind of training?" Cheng Yuanzhi asked puzzledly. Youzhou is located on the frontier, and there are many opportunities to come into contact with horses. Therefore, although many people do not have the strength to buy horses, it does not prevent them from being able to ride horses.

.But being able to ride a horse does not necessarily mean you can become a cavalryman.

"Being able to ride a horse and becoming a qualified cavalry are two different things." Xu Kang patiently explained: "Being a cavalry requires not only being able to ride a horse and being familiar with the horse's temperament, but also knowing the tactics of the cavalry, the cooperation between the cavalry and how the cavalry fights.

Otherwise, even if they have horses, they will just be a group of infantry who can ride horses."

Cheng Yuanzhi listened to what Xu Kang said was reasonable, and he had always been very fond of Xu Kang, so he allocated 50 horses to Xu Kang. This was not because Cheng Yuanzhi was stingy, but that these were almost all the horses he could mobilize.

.

Xu Kang did not expect to receive a satisfactory answer so quickly, so he turned back to the woods outside the village and found that the snowball fight was not over yet, but there were many soldiers who were judged to be "dead" around Zhao Bahu outside the forest. Xu Kang

After a quick look, there were more than 300 people, and Sun Guan was also among them.

Xu Kang was surprised when he saw Sun Guan and said, "You lost so quickly?"

Ever since Sun Guan made the bet with Xu Kang in Julu, although Xu Kang apologized to him afterwards, he still felt a little frightened every time he saw Xu Kang alone. He said embarrassedly: "It's them who are cheating. More than 300 people are cheating."

If someone hits me, I will lose." But at the end of his words, his voice was so low that even he couldn't hear him.

Xu Kang asked his own soldiers and found out roughly that after Sun Guan was repeatedly harassed by the harassment troops sent by Gouzi, he became furious and led his troops in. He fell into the trap set by Gouzi and was surrounded by 300 of Gouzi's men.

They rose up and the entire army was wiped out.

Before Xu Kang could say anything, others filed out. It seemed that the battle was over. After questioning, it was found that Guan Yu had won the game. Later, it was found that Zang Ba was furious when he learned that Sun Guan's entire army had been wiped out, so he raised his troops.

Attacking Gouzi with all his strength, just when the two groups were inextricably fighting, Guan Yu saw the opportunity and appeared at the right time, and ended up wrapping up the exhausted two groups.

After analysis, everyone was unconvinced. Xu Kang didn't bother to argue with them. He only wanted them to analyze and think by themselves. He said: "This is just a game, so you still have the opportunity to think and argue here. If it comes to the battlefield,

Most of you have already lost their lives just now, so why are you arguing or earning anything? Think carefully, your brothers trust you and entrust their lives to you, then how should you respond to their trust?

How can we save as many of their lives as possible while achieving victory?"

After speaking, regardless of their reactions, Xu Kang pointed to the 50 horses he had just received from Cheng Yuanzhi. Xu Kang stated his intention to train them into cavalry, and asked who had the best riding skills and who knew how to ride a horse.

The tactical use of cavalry.

Xu Kang knew that the most important thing to deal with these rough guys was to be clean and agile, and never to be sloppy. At that moment, he asked them to perform their own performances. The result was beyond everyone's expectation. It was Zhao Bahu who was lame in one leg and had the best riding skills.

Well, although one of Zhao Bahu's legs is lame, which makes it inconvenient for him to walk, it does not seem to affect his riding. Xu Kang discovered that this is mainly because the stirrups nowadays are all one-sided, which means everyone has only one leg to control them.

Horse, in this way, Zhao Bahu's lameness will be covered up.

But now that the results have come out, Xu Kang asked Zhao Bahu to take charge of the 50 horses, and told him to try to make everyone in the camp familiar with the nature of horses. Although they are not required to be able to fight on horseback, each of them must be able to fight on horseback.

They can ride horses skillfully and gallop without being thrown off by the horses.

Zhao Bahu was overjoyed to receive such an acknowledgment of his fate, and he accepted the order and thanked him.

In the Li family hall in Gu'an City, Li Su once again convened the main members of the Li family for a meeting here.

Seeing that the members had all arrived, Li Sukai said: "I heard that Chengjia Village has summoned countless refugees and is stepping up training. Can you tell me what their plan is?"

"It's just that they bought so much food and gave it all to those mud-legged people. I wonder if they are stupid?"

"Haha, yes, I think they are crazy about believing in God."

"Now that we are training troops again, does Taiping Dao still dare to rebel?"

Everyone was just talking about it as a joke, but as soon as these words came out, everyone became strangely silent. Everyone felt a cold air rising from their backs.

Li Su sighed secretly, now that the signs of rebellion on Taiping Road were becoming more and more obvious, and he didn't know where the Li family would go in the future, he asked: "What happened to the people who went to Zhuoxian County to report the news?"

A steward immediately said: "We are back. The prefect just ordered us to monitor closely. If there is any trouble, report it immediately." Li Su snorted coldly and said: "Now it is no longer a matter of trouble, it has been a storm long ago.

Do they have to wait until Chengjiacun invades Gu'an County before they take action?"

The steward said: "I think the prefect is also afraid of Taipingdao, and there is nothing he can do against them."

"If they are afraid, they can hide in the prefect's mansion, but my Li family's foundation is here, where else can they hide."

Li Shi suddenly interjected: "That's nothing. Our Lijiabao has a high city and a wide range of food. With those mud-legged people, even if they are allowed to attack for a year and a half, they can't do anything to us. Besides, there are also people in Gu'an City.

Thousands of city guards responded to us from a distance, and no matter how brave they were, they would not dare to do this."

Li Su thought for a while and said: "Although Taiping Dao may not really dare to rebel, it is still possible to pretend to be bandits and rob our Lijia Fort, so we have to guard against it. I decided to personally take charge of Lijia Fort. Really,

I’ll leave it to you to take care of things in this city for the time being.”
Chapter completed!