Xi Zhicai clearly explained the current general situation of the world, especially some of the military deployments of the major princes.
Especially those threatening princes, such as Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Gongsun Zan, etc.
The dark owl has rough information on the strength of each of their families. Although it is not completely accurate, it is generally good.
Su Fan attaches great importance to intelligence.
When Su Fan established the organization An Xiao, it spent a lot of money and food, especially the expenses of An Xiao, which was even more terrifying.
After all, some people are trying to infiltrate the enemy's interior. Without money and food, it won't work.
An Xiao is compared to Jin Yiwei.
Of course, he has no intention of monitoring the officials. The secret lord is more of an external person, just like Uncle Sam's CIA on Earth in later generations.
"I didn't expect that Sun Jian would have so many soldiers and horses, half a million, without saying a word. How did Yuan Shu allow him to develop?"
When they heard Xi Zhicai mention Sun Jian's troops and horses, all the generals present were a little surprised.
Everyone is familiar with Sun Jian, especially in the past two years, Sun Jian has been quite active.
Since the war against Dong was over and he returned to Changsha County, Sun Jian had been intensifying his troops, and then joined forces with Yuan Shu to attack Liu Biao.
In the past two years, Liu Biao's life was not comfortable because he was attacked from both sides. In the end, most of Nanyang County was captured by Yuan Shu, and more than half of Jiangxia County was captured by Sun Jian.
In the end, it was a group of aristocratic families from Jingzhou who, after sincere cooperation, blocked the two men.
Coupled with the fact that other princes in Jingnan began to threaten Changsha, Sun Jian finally gave up the attack on Jiangxia and instead turned to attack Yuzhang County. In just half a year, he captured Yuzhang County and continued to advance on Lujiang County.
Sun Jian's rapid progress was something that many people had never thought of. After all, everyone had always thought that Sun Jian was Yuan Shu's younger brother. Many times, Sun Jian followed Yuan Shu's orders.
As a result, Sun Jian's strength is now almost catching up with Yuan Shu's. Now, everyone is surprised, especially the attack on Lujiang County, which makes everyone a little surprised.
Lujiang was Yuan Shu's base, and the prefect of Lujiang clearly supported Yuan Shu early on.
The younger brother rebelled, and the elder brother was of course angry.
So now, Yuan Shu and Sun Jian suddenly faced each other, and suddenly brought out an army of 500,000, which still shocked many people.
You said that brothers Yuan Shu or Liu Bei could pull out hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, which is not surprising. After all, the Yuan family has this background, and Liu Biao and others have become governors of a state early, so they have this confidence.
Sun Jian's family background is not strong, and he had to rely on Yuan Shu's support before to be able to fight against Jiang Xia.
As a result, the capture of Yuzhang County led to an army of 500,000, which was obviously not easy. Not all of these 500,000 troops were new recruits.
"However, now that Sun Jian and Yuan Shu are facing each other, the good show has begun."
The generals present also grinned after hearing the detailed situation.
Yuan Shu's strength is indeed very strong, even stronger than Yuan Shao. Who allows him to get the support of most of the elders of the Yuan clan.
Runan itself is the largest county in the world, and half of Yuzhou's territory fell into his hands early, and he also captured most of Nanyang.
Most of the essence of the Central Plains is in his hands. With money and food, there is no shortage of soldiers and horses.
In the past few years, there has been a crazy rampage of troops. At this time, the number of troops under his command has reached more than three million.
In terms of military strength, he definitely has the most.
Of course, the quantity is the largest, but the quality is hard to say.
The generals under his command are not famous, and the only general is only second-rate.
Of course, because of the Yuan family's heritage, there is no shortage of middle and low-level generals, and there are also many generals in the Lian Gang realm, but most of their strength is in the early stage of Lian Gang level.
Xi Zhicai pointed out all this information one by one.
As a result, everyone here became less optimistic about Yuan Shu.
Although Yuan Shu had a large number of troops, five or six times that of Sun Jian, everyone knew that the number of soldiers was overwhelming.
Some generals have personally seen Sun Jian's strength, and he is a real strong general at the sixth level of refining.
There are not many in the world that can compare with it.
At the same time, he also had Huang Gai and other four powerful generals under his command, and I heard that his son Sun Ce was even known as the little overlord.
If Yuan's men had not stopped a strong general like Sun Jian, they would have suffered a great loss in a real war.
Liu Biao was well aware of this, but things got much better later on after the arrival of the three Liu Bei brothers.
Now the three brothers are in charge of Jiangxia, which is also the reason why Sun Jian retired.
The role of the strong general is still quite great.
If we put aside the art of war, whoever has a stronger general will have a greater chance of victory.
"Let them dog eat dog, and this will give us a chance."
Except for a few pure warriors such as Xu Chu, Pan Feng, and Zhou Tai, many of the generals present had some foresight.
Moreover, Su Fan specially founded an academy similar to a military lecture hall in the East China Sea Territory, specifically to train military officers, whether they are low-level officers or middle- and high-level officers.
Su Fan knew that an army would be absolutely terrifying if its officers had a certain amount of knowledge and had the slightest hint of military strategy.
Although Su Fan admires the crushing attack style, it does not mean that he does not want the army to become more powerful.
The reason why the staff system in later generations has been able to flourish is because the army needs strategic officers.
The counselor is actually modeled after the counselor in ancient times.
To a certain extent, the staff can also replace the general who leads the army in battle. Once the general is in danger, the staff can immediately replace him.
Su Fan did not take out the staff system because the time was not ripe now, but he was still willing to train officers when it came time.
Su Fan is not lacking in the art of war, and people like Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia, and Xun You are all minors in military training.
Maybe if you ask them to lead troops in war, it may not work, but as staff officers, they are definitely top-notch, and then as teachers, there is no problem at all.
The teaching staff at Jiangwu Hall is absolutely very strong.
After several years of systematic teaching, all the generals under Su Fan have become famous generals, but their horizons have been greatly broadened.
Knowledge is monopolized by aristocratic families, and most generals are from low backgrounds and have no access to the inheritance of the art of war.
Historically, why Guan Yu liked to read Chunqiu Zuozhuan was not because Zuozhuan is a chronicle history book, and some of the contents recorded in it involve military battles.
Because "Zuo Zhuan" contains all the details, it is called a book on the art of war but not the art of war. Wu Qi also became a famous general because of inheriting "Zuo Zhuan".
Being born in Guan Yu, it was destined that it would be difficult for him to come into contact with the inheritance of superior military arts.
You must know that the Art of War is more rare than many Confucian classics. It is something that aristocratic families cherish more and is rarely exposed to the public.