The enemy has been traced, one hundred and thirty miles to the east. The cavalry can arrive in more than a day, while the infantry, with its numerous baggage convoys, can travel fifty miles a day if the road conditions are good, and thirty miles if the road conditions are bad.

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If according to Li Mengxi's thinking, the Yellow Turbans are in front, they should speed up their march to defeat the Yellow Turbans.

However, when he heard Guan Yu say that he should reorganize his troops, tighten the formation and slow down the march, Li Mengxi knew that he had thought wrong again.

After discovering the enemy's situation, the most correct way to respond is to reduce the marching speed.

Because, if it is the same army, then naturally, the slower the marching speed, the neater and more orderly the queue will be.

In this way, if you encounter enemy forces, you can respond quickly and orderly.

Sometimes, arranging the formation in just ten seconds may be the key to victory or defeat.

Guan Yu thought that Li Mengxi might really not understand the art of war, but Guan Yu believed that Li Mengxi had a delicate mind. Even if he really didn't understand the art of war, he would still be able to gain some insights.

Therefore, after setting up camp that day, Guan Yu sent twice as many men to guard the camp.

Then, Guan Yu came to discuss with Li Mengxi.

"Xi'er, I want to choose a vanguard in the army, what do you think?"

"What is choosing a vanguard? Choosing a vanguard?" Li Mengxi, who was roasting wheat flowers for his brother with a broken tile beside the campfire, was turning over the wheat flowers, was stunned for a moment, and blurted out.

Li Mengxi didn't know why he chose the forward.

Guan Yu glanced at Li Mengxi and muttered, "The word "choose a front" comes from the book "Sun Tzu", "If a general cannot predict the enemy, he must unite with a small number and attack a strong one with the weak. If the army has no choice of front, it is said to be defeated."

He also said, "When fighting the enemy, it is necessary to select brave generals and sharp soldiers as vanguards, one to strengthen their ambitions and the other to weaken the enemy's power."

Selecting the front refers to the method of selecting elite soldiers."

"The term "selecting the vanguard" is briefly described in "Sima Law" as, "Selecting good soldiers will benefit the people."

In the book "Wu Zi", it is described as "Simply recruit good talents to prepare for emergencies".

Guan Yu quoted works on the art of war to explain what selecting a front is, where the word "selecting a front" first came from, and how military strategists of all ages explained the term "selecting a front."

Li Mengxi was greatly impressed by Guan Yu's quotations from scriptures.

Li Mengxi understood. It turns out that this method of selecting a vanguard does not literally mean selecting a vanguard, but rather selecting soldiers.

Speaking of which, Li Mengxi knew a little bit about the criteria for selecting strikers in ancient times.

So what is a good soldier? It is said that Grandpa Yue Wu and Mu Yue said that a good soldier is a person who has saliva in his throat, can hold a gun, and does not panic when he is on the battlefield.

Li Mengxi didn't know what Guan Yu's standards were for selecting elite soldiers, so he followed Guan Yu's words and said, "Since the general uses the method of selecting fronts, what are the details?"

Guan Yu quoted from the Book of War in reply. He stroked his long beard and said seriously, "The methods of selecting soldiers have always been different. In "Wu Zi: Managing the Army", [the shorter ones hold spears and halberds, and the older ones hold bows and crossbows.

The strong man holds the banner, the brave man holds the golden drum, the weak man supports him, and the wise man is the mastermind.]

This is an example.

Also, the assessment method for the elite soldiers of Wei Wu during the Warring States Period was as follows: [The soldiers wore armor of three attributes, wielded a twelve-stone crossbow, carried fifty arrows, placed a spear on top of it, carried a crown and a sword, and won three days' worth of food.

And go hundreds of miles away.】"

Guan Yu said with fascination in his eyes, "Wearing three layers of armor and having weapons and arrows ready, we can reach a hundred miles away in the middle of the day. But now our army has no armor and is exhausted. It cannot march forty miles in a day. We are far away from our best troops."

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Guan Yu sighed when he thought of the misfortunes of the local heroes.

Li Mengxi consoled him, "It takes the whole country to build a fine army of Wei soldiers. Our army now only has more than a thousand people. How can we compare? General, please don't be ashamed."

Wei Wuzu, there are countless elite soldiers throughout the ages. Wei Wuzu is indeed powerful and coveted, but with the current conditions of the rebel army, it is impossible to train an army capable of running an attack, let alone an elite soldier comparable to Wei Wuzu.

Later, Guan Yu and Li Mengxi discussed together how to select elite soldiers for the attack.

That is, the testing method.

To put it simply, let the village heroes run for ten miles, and each time, record who ran to the front first.

After doing this several times, you should be able to select the small group of people with the best physical fitness.

Then, based on the fact that this part of the body's physical endurance is outstanding, start training the running ability.

On this day, in the evening, Li Mengxi followed his habit and recorded what he had learned in the day.

"August 9th.

Zhang Fei led the sentry back and reported the enemy's whereabouts.

The enemy has been traced for a hundred and thirty miles, the army and baggage are numerous, and the march is slow.

If we delay, we may risk the enemy's situation changing and miss the opportunity to fight.

Therefore, the baggage and the combat troops are divided into two parts, and the light troops go straight out.

However, there are no soldiers to attack.

The key to a general attack is disease and control, both of which are indispensable.

Those who move quickly, have an orderly queue, and run for dozens of miles without any disorder in the queue are those who are on the run.

Furthermore, you don’t have to wait for your free time to train your troops. You can also train along with you when you are marching.”

After finishing writing, Li Mengxi put the torch on the ground, rolled it around a few times, stepped on it a few more times, and extinguished the torch.

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Four days later, Liu Bei's army arrived near Wen'an County without any danger. Along the way, they encountered only yellow turban sentry cavalry approaching to pry. Then Guan Zhang led the cavalry to charge forward and kill a few people. Behind them, there were even fewer sentry cavalry.

The Yellow Turbans did not make a sneak attack on the retreat, and most of them did not show up. They just let Liu Bei's army arrive safely.

The Yellow Turbans are still huddled in the county town, neither leaving nor contacting the Yellow Turbans in other places. It seems that occupying the county town is the highest strategic goal that the Yellow Turban generals can think of.

Peasants' uprisings often lack foresight. The Yellow Turban generals do nothing, trapped in isolated cities, and die of suicide. This is unexpected but also reasonable.

Guan and Zhang took the lead, and each led 200 warriors to surround the east and west gates of the county, allowing the rear army to easily set up camp near the city and gain a firm foothold.

Fortunately, an extremely lucky thing is that I bought a lot of woodworking tools not long ago in case my car broke down and I didn't have the tools to repair it.

Moreover, we have initially found a lot of carpenters from the army.

Now we may have to gnaw at the city. There is no need to spend energy to find carpentry tools and carpenters. There is surprisingly enough.

Speaking of sieges, Li Mengxi has seen it in various film and television works.

The carpenters carried axes and saws and went to the woods to cut down trees. Li Mengxi saw them. He also wanted to see how the siege equipment was made. Since he had nothing to do, he wanted to follow them.

"I want to go too!" Brick was afraid that his brother would leave him alone, and he had no one to play with, so he insisted on going with his brother.

"Let's go." Li Mengxi caught his younger brother who jumped off the cart and took him with him.

Li Mengxi quickly followed the man carrying an ax and asked, "Are you going to chop down trees?"

The man turned back with a smile: "It's about cutting down trees."

The carpenters were in a hurry to cut wood and walked very fast. Li Mengxi and his brother had short legs and could not keep up with their normal steps. They could only keep up by running at a trot.

"Ouch, they're walking so fast." Brick and his brother chased the carpenters together, finding it amusing and giggling.

"Are they walking that fast?"

Others are not walking fast because you are walking slowly.

Li Mengxi grabbed his brother's little hand, roared and dragged him towards the carpenters' team.

The younger brother was dragged so hard that he started to laugh even more happily.

Running to the front of the carpenter's camp, Li Mengxi saw an acquaintance in front of the dozens of carpenters' team, that Lu... what the hell was Lu.

"Lu Ban!" Li Mengxi blurted out and shouted to the man.

When Li Mengxi shouted, everyone stopped and looked at him.

Since the slip of the tongue, Li Mengxi touched his nose and said, "Oh, Lu Li!"

so awkward.

Li Mengxi has a very clever way of remembering names. For example, the name of the military doctor was Tian Bu. Li Mengxi's method of remembering names was, sweet or not!

I remembered it right away.

Similarly, the carpenter we found at that time was named Lu Li. It just so happened that the surname was Lu. The ancestor of the carpenters, Lu Ban, was also surnamed Lu.

So, this is how I thought about it.
Chapter completed!