According to Lu Bu's idea, now that the strategy of ambushing the Liangzhou rebels in Meiyang has been decided, the next step is for the two "smart people" Li Ru and Jia Xu to perform, using some additional troops and fewer enemies to lure the enemy.
Deep down, ambush from all sides, close the door and beat the dog, etc. Although it is hard to understand but it is very powerful strategy, the rebels are gathered together. Finally, he makes the final appearance, activates "Wu Shuang", and directly kills those who are thousands of people.
Still, tens of thousands of people were all beaten away, and the whole process was simply perfect.
But who will tell him, as a general, why should he personally go to villages outside the county to recruit troops?
"Village Chief!" Lu Bu stabbed the painted halberd - this one was newly cast after Kai Wushuang melted it - on the ground with a clang. The tremor caused even the nearby trees, stone tables and chairs to tremble:
"Are there any warriors in your village who are willing to fight with me?"
This is an unknown village under the jurisdiction of Fuping County, Beidi County, Liangzhou. Judging from the old and new houses and the clothes of the villagers, it is not rich, but it cannot be called poor. It may have a name, but Lu Bu is too lazy to remember it.
Think about it, a state has at least ten counties, each county has more than ten or twenty counties, and each county has dozens of villages, so... write down the names of the villages one by one? Not Jia Xu
For a guy with a good brain like Li Ru, it's better not to ask for trouble.
"Oh..." The village chief was an old man with gray hair and wrinkles on his face. He turned a blind eye to the dangerous painted halberd and just looked at Lu Bu up and down. Finally, he nodded as if to confirm: "If it were you, general, there should be two
Sixteen young people will jump out and follow you out of admiration."
Admire?
When Lu Bu was trying to understand the meaning of this sentence, there were chaotic footsteps and the collision of armor and weapons outside the courtyard of the village chief's house. It sounded like there were about ten or twenty people.
When I walked out of the gate, I saw exactly twenty-six young and middle-aged men standing outside, loosely lined up in two lines. Most of them were wearing thick cloth and carrying hoes, logging axes, hunting bows, etc.
The equipment was more like farm tools than weapons. Only the one who looked like the leader was wearing light hard leather armor and holding a single pig iron sword.
"Well, that kid is hiding his secrets." Lu Bu was frowning when he heard the village chief say to him: "Twenty-five peasants, one militiaman, and a total of three hundred coins, the general can take them all away."
"Too little!" Lu Bu said in surprise, ten dollars per person?
After saying these words, Lu Bu felt that the "peasants" looked at him with much more eager eyes, and the village chief also looked quite surprised - could he have said the wrong thing?
"Well, if the general has never gone to the village to recruit troops in person and has always taken the lead when charging into battle, he may indeed not know about this." The village chief smacked his lips and gave up on taking the opportunity to raise the price: "These three hundred dollars are actually for me.
Yes, those young men can't get it at all, and the money they have to spend far exceeds this amount."
"...I would like to hear the details." Lu Bu chose Li Ruhui who would speak in response to this situation.
"If I guessed correctly, the general must have come to form a new army. Otherwise, just post a recruitment notice in the county. There is no reason to deliberately recruit 'new soldiers.'" said the village chief.
"Are they recruiting 'veterans' in the counties?" Lu Bu asked.
"That's right," the village chief said: "Meteorites fall from the sky, spiritual energy is revived, and those who have awakened 'Wushuang' may work for the court, or become lone rangers. However, will the little soldiers who have not awakened Wushuang remain unchanged? Not necessarily -
—Their ability to escape has been greatly strengthened. After escaping from the battlefield, those who do not want to return to their hometowns will gather in the county and county offices to wait for recruitment, and are naturally regarded as 'veterans'."
"It's better to call him a 'deserter' than a 'veteran'." Lu Bu laughed.
"The general really charges forward and never looks back," the village chief shook his head: "If a person who is seriously injured and on the verge of death and has to crawl away from the battlefield is also called a deserter, then the threshold for a 'warrior' is much higher.
Already."
"Wait a minute? Those officers and generals don't rescue the wounded?" Lu Bu asked again in surprise, and once again felt the eager eyes of more than 20 "peasants".
"The wounded? They have been judged as 'killed'," the village chief paused: "Could it be that the new army that the general wants to establish has doctors and is willing to use the 'talisman water' that costs a hundred dollars a piece?
?”
"Yes..." Lu Bu thought about the logistical reserves: "Is it that kind of yellow paper with strange patterns written on it?"
After once again feeling the almost admiring looks of the "peasants", Lu Bu finally settled the score: "In the minds of those generals, instead of spending a hundred dollars to treat seriously injured soldiers, it would be better to spend twenty to fifty dollars to recruit new ones.
of?"
"More than that, as I just said, in addition to the equipment that is equipped for them, the money that the soldiers themselves have to spend also includes 'military pay'," the village chief said: "The longer the war, the stronger the soldiers are, and they can be equipped with more sophisticated weapons and equipment.
The more military pay a soldier has to pay, if he is 'killed' in battle, not only can the equipment be given to other soldiers, but the military pay can also be saved. But the heavy infantry or archer who abandoned his helmet and armor, was seriously injured and fled,
After recovering from the injury, the strength will be about the same as that of the militiamen. If things go on like this, although the counties can quickly recruit troops, they will only recruit veterans and have almost no room for improvement. Therefore, the general is really trying to start from scratch.
You came here to form a new army and never give up on anyone, right?"
Lu Bu keenly felt that in addition to these twenty-odd "peasants", there were dozens of strong men snooping around and listening. Although their steps were weak and weak, they had the habit of concealment that they had developed through years of fighting, and they were quietly
Listen and wait for Lu Bu's response to the village chief's question.
Lu Bu suddenly realized that these were... soldiers who had been "killed" in the Han frontier army's battles with the Hu people over the years. After they returned home to recuperate, they worked in agriculture and business, and became the "military service population" in official statistics. Those officials only
We knew that soldiers would die in battle, and that the military service population would grow over time, but we never noticed the relationship between the two.
If you build an army with a specific size and never change its personnel, its combat effectiveness will soar to the sky. Although its individual combat effectiveness is not as good as that of "unparalleled generals", it will still be useless against the weaker "unparalleled warriors" with more than ten moves.
The problem is, the tradition that one can defeat a hundred by understanding "unparalleled" will be completely inapplicable in front of this army.
Similarly, its maintenance cost will be sky-high. Although Dong Zhuo is very rich as the ranger commander of Liangzhou and Bingzhou, it is still very difficult to get him to agree. If it is Li Ru, or the one who is only famous
If Jia Xu, whom we have never met, comes forward...
etc?
This time, in order to counter the rebellion of Bian Zhang and Han Sui, Dong Zhuo could no longer rely on the stragglers of the rangers to fight, so he deliberately sent out Lu Bu, Gao Shun, Guan Hai, Niu Fu, Hua Xiong and other generals to recruit troops, while Li Ruhe did not do it.
The civil servants on the stage are preparing logistics.
What did Li Wenyou say at that time? - Just do it without having to save money for the master.
How can we "save no money" for soldiers who pay ten or twenty cents each? Recruit on a large scale? Of course not.
The right approach is to form a super elite team with a fixed number of people, well-equipped, invincible and invincible troops!
Lu Bu used his brain at an unprecedented speed, and thought of his words before the enthusiasm in the eyes of those "peasants" faded. Then he stabbed the painting halberd hard on the bluestone ground, and the crisp cracking sound attracted everyone's attention.
"As everyone knows, Liangzhou is invaded by barbarians several times every year. With the stubborn resistance of all the soldiers and civilians, very few of our villages and counties were plundered. In the end, the Qiang people surrendered and accepted the rule of the Han. The remaining
He is a wild Qiang, and rebelling against the Qiang is not a big deal." Lu Bu's words greatly praised the soldiers who were listening in secret, and made them slightly excited.
"Not long ago, King Tan Shihuai of the Xiongnu led a three-pronged army to invade, but was repelled by three generals led by three lieutenants. Although the losses were relatively large, the soldiers were all heroes——" Lu Bu said this, and vaguely heard someone whispering quietly.
Discussion: Those Zhonglang generals are complete losers. Without Mr. Dong to repel the vanguard, they would have been defeated long ago, so they knew they were safe this time.
"Now, Han Sui, Bianzhang of Xiliang, took advantage of the plague in Luoyang and the government decree was blocked, and brazenly colluded with almost all the rebel Qiang invaders, intending to occupy the entire territory of Liangzhou!" Lu Bu waved his hand: "My name is Lu Bu, Feng Yue...
…My lord Dong Zhuo has ordered me to recruit warriors willing to resist them, including an elite group that belongs directly to me!”
At this time, Lu Bu thought of what Li Ru said about his fighting style: If Kong has the ambition to enter the battlefield, but lacks unparalleled means, such a reckless fighting method will inevitably lead to death but not life.
"The ambition to trap! There is no life or death! Its name is——" In order to increase his momentum, Lu Bu directly activated "Unparalleled", and the electric light flashed all over his body. In order to avoid affecting the surrounding "peasants", he used the lightning that would have spread.
It turned into a dazzling thunder of red and pitch black and shot straight into the sky: "[Trapped in the camp]!"
"Is there anyone willing to follow me!?" Lu Bu turned around, thunder covering his body, like a god or demon.
Many young men who had been listening around came out one after another. In addition to the "peasants" who had "jumped out", there were fifty or sixty people. They vaguely formed a formation headed by the "militia" at the beginning.
"I am the Swordsman Zhang Ke," the militiaman said with cupped hands: "All my colleagues here are willing to follow Lord Fengxian, but there are nearly a thousand people in the surrounding villages and towns. Please stay here for a while, and we will send people as soon as possible.
Go contact them.”
Oh...the "deaths" of the whole system must have been caused by serious mistakes in decision-making by those "Zhonglang Generals". No wonder they had to go to counties to accept recruitment.
Lu Bu turned to look at the village chief, and saw the old man rubbing his hands and making a "five" sign... taking the opportunity to raise the price?
