On the afternoon of the 19th, hundreds of soldiers from Guan Yu's tribe were advanced to a point 400 paces outside Nanluan City, almost right behind Dong Zhuo's military camp, and the entire army was halted.

As the saying goes, there is no room for others to sleep soundly on the side of the couch.

When Liu Bei's rebel army arrived, Dong Zhuo immediately became restless.

Dong Zhuo came once and watched Guan Yu assemble his team from a distance, but did not come to talk to him.

At the end, Dong Zhuo snorted coldly, patted his horse and left. As he was leaving, Dong Zhuo ordered the siege team surrounding the west gate to suspend their offensive, shrink their troops, and strictly guard the camp to guard against a sneak attack by the Yellow Turbans.

It was said that it was to prevent the Yellow Turbans. Under Dong Zhuo's order, the thousands of officers and soldiers who attacked the west gate changed the defense direction of the camp. The walls of the camp were pulled out and rebuilt to face east, facing Guan Yu's troops. The troops were also arranged to face Guan Yu.

In other words, Dong Zhuo abandoned the attack on Xicheng and reduced his troops to confront Guan Yu and Liu Bei's rebel army who was coming later.

It can be said that if Dong Zhuo didn't want Liu Bei to take away his military glory, he would guard against Liu Bei as he guarded against thieves. This approach was not wrong.

However, the west wall, which was originally a fierce offensive, was abandoned and all previous efforts were wasted. The Yellow Turbans were originally under pressure from the four walls, but Dong Zhuo abandoned the west wall and lost the pressure from one wall. The Yellow Turbans were able to mobilize more troops to defend other walls.

The Yellow Turbans defended the city more firmly, and it was more difficult for the army to attack the city.

Furthermore, Dong Zhuo's defense against Liu Bei was more important than against the Yellow Turbans, which meant that he had left his back to Zhang Jue. If Zhang Jue suddenly sent troops to kill the general, the thousands of officers and soldiers at Ximen would be in danger.

After Guan Yu's camp was set up, the twelve zodiac flags arrived one after another in an endless stream.

The rat flag, ten battalions, and one hundred teams were all assembled, forming a huge square formation next to Guan Yu's troops.

Then, the bull flag, another huge square formation.

Tiger flag, rabbit flag...

Twelve huge phalanxes arrived first, followed by the rest of the rebel army.

The rebel troops seemed to be boundless, arriving from far away and rushing to the foot of Nanluan City.

When the yellow turbans at the top of the city saw an overwhelming army of government troops approaching, the leader of the yellow turbans in the west city panicked instantly and hurriedly ran down the tower to report the military situation.

Dong Zhuo's heart sank when he saw the endless flow of people from Liu Bei's rebel army.

When the Xiliang cavalry came to report, Liu Bei's army was not equipped with weapons.

Dong Zhuo was stunned and immediately went to watch.

When you get closer, you can see that it is a terrifying army from a distance. When you get closer, you can see that not only are there no weapons, they don't even have armor.

There are hundreds of people in a large area in front of us. Looking at their ragged appearance, don't think that just by holding a flag, they become soldiers and they can fight.

The gloom in Dong Zhuo's heart was relieved, and he was very disdainful of Liu Beijun's bluff.

Of course, the twelve zodiac flags are really nothing more than a few flags, tens of thousands of people, not even a sword, not even a suit of armor, so they can't be called soldiers, and they can't fight.

But what if each of these tens of thousands of people is given a gun? Without a gun, what if each person is given a sharpened bamboo pole?

Who dares to look down on these tens of thousands of people who are organized, can march with the flag, have a queue, and each of them has a sharp bamboo pole.

Furthermore, the third batch of recruits have just practiced for one night. What about five days of training? What about six days? What about ten days of training? One month?

At that time, there will be tens of thousands of new recruits who can run hundreds of meters without causing chaos. How terrifying would it be to have tens of thousands of soldiers who can line up in a single line?

Dong Zhuo laughed at the fact that the rebels were outnumbered and were bluffing. As for who was superior and who was inferior, it would be clear sooner or later.

Besides, the rebel army not only has more than 30,000 unarmed recruits, but also has at least 3,000 soldiers and more than 500 cavalry.

Three thousand elite soldiers and five hundred cavalry were not what Dong Zhuo could handle at will.

After Guan Yu's troops arrived, in another hour and a half, all the rebels, more than 110,000 strong, arrived at Nanluan City.

It took a lot of time to set up camp and divide the camps into different camps.

Beware of Dong Zhuo and the Yellow Turbans.

Therefore, the women's and children's camp and the Zi heavy team were at the core of the camp.

They set up a half-circle around the camp with car formations to guard against Dong Zhuo.

The cavalry was on the outskirts of the camp, a hundred steps away from the encampment, always vigilant to guard against Dong Zhuo, and at the same time, it served as a deterrent force to intimidate Dong Zhuo.

The soldiers were divided into three groups: one thousand to defend the south, one thousand to defend the north, and one thousand to defend the caboose formation.

Guan Yu's troops, numbering several hundred, were in the west, facing the army's camp outside the west city.

Arrangements for the new recruits to camp are even more of a top priority.

Dong Zhuo surrounded Nanluan City completely, and the rebels could not intervene. They could only watch Dong Zhuo attack the city and see if they could seize the opportunity to seize the military glory.

Before there was an opportunity to seize military glory, the rebels could only wait outside the city and watch.

If the opportunity to seize the city does not appear for a day, the rebels will have to wait for a day.

If there is no chance in two days, you have to wait two days.

When Li Mengxi was analyzing the situation between the enemy and ourselves on the road, he unexpectedly thought that for the rebel army, waiting for several days would actually be a precious time gap.

Why is it said that waiting for these few days is a precious gap? This is because a few days is equivalent to several days of free time from morning to night. For the rebel army that has just started training tens of thousands of troops, there is enough daylight to

Taking advantage of it is simply a God-given opportunity.

The timing couldn't have come at a better time.

Assuming that you really want to fight Dong Zhuo, then the safest way is to at least train tens of thousands of people in the Twelve Zodiac Flags for a few days. Not to mention how you can improve your fighting ability.

If you train your steering well, tens of thousands of new soldiers will barely go into battle to fight.

Then, with the elite soldiers of the rebel army as the front and tens of thousands of new recruits as the wings, the force will be twice or even three times that of Dong Zhuo, greatly increasing the chance of victory.

It happened that Dong Zhuo had surrounded the city, and the rebels had no room to intervene. It happened that they had to wait. It happened that the third batch of training had just begun. It happened that time was urgently needed, especially during the day, to train. It happened that if we wanted to fight Dong Zhuo,

To lose face, the safest decision is to first train the recruits to be able to use them, and then to lose face.

The timing was very clever for the rebels.

The time, place, and people are favorable, and when they come together, heaven and earth work together.

The weather is right, the second batch of training is over, and the third batch is starting; the location is right, Nanluan City has held back Dong Zhuo's troops, so the rebels can train calmly, regardless of what Dong Zhuo is doing, and can train while waiting for the opportunity; people

In peace, more than 39,000 people returned to the rebel army and could be used as manpower by the rebel army.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! It is related to the military training in the next few days. For this purpose, Li Mengxi and Liu Bei carefully divided and arranged the camping sites for the twelve zodiac flags.

The twelve zodiac flags are set up in a very open area, with each team of thirty people being able to move as far as possible during daytime training.

There are 1,200 new recruit teams under the Twelve Zodiac Flags. The space for each team to set up camp is three times as large as that of other troops. It is empty and bright.

The area occupied by the entire twelve zodiac flag camp accounts for more than half of the total camp area of ​​the rebel army. From west to east, each flag is a large square. In the first row, there are rat flags, bull flags, and tiger flags.

, a total of three flags.

Then there are four rows east and west, twelve huge squares.

After spending a lot of time arranging the recruit camp, it turned out to be dark again.

At night, after dinner, Liu Bei immediately started training his troops without wasting time.

At night, when everything was quiet, the rebel recruit camp started to become noisy.

There is not enough wood, so to save money, each team still has two pieces of wood.

The recruit instructors held torches and walked around their respective queues.

"You! Straighten your neck!" A recruit instructor walked up to an old man and scolded, "What do you mean by straight? Straight up and down. With your neck stretched out, you look like an old man... or something."

When the recruit instructor corrected the old man's mistakes in his movements, someone next to him laughed.

The recruit instructor immediately glared at him, "Damn it! Stand at attention, stand at attention for what? Standing at attention makes you laugh! Military judge! Drag him out and beat him!"

The recruit instructors were patient in correcting the old men, but they were merciless in punishing the young men.

The military judge, the soldier who came to help, dragged the man who was laughing so hard out and slapped the man's spine with a scabbard, not lightly nor hard.

Zhan Bing was a good man. After finishing the stroke, he whispered to the young man, "Please pay attention. I understand. You have to stand there like a stone. You can't move at all. It's okay if you stand still and don't move or look around."

Already."

However, after giving some random advice, the young recruit was filled with gratitude.

In another team, the training instructor was an old man.

This is normal.

When the first batch of 40 men was expanded to 1,600 men, the selection of soldiers was not so fine. As long as they had sound limbs and were not stupid or stupid, they were all picked. The second batch of soldiers naturally included the elderly.

The old man was tall and powerful, with a straight back and looked stronger than the young man.

This old man is still a talker.

Unlike other recruit instructors who like to scold people, this old man walked around the queue, holding a torch and walking slowly step by step with his hands behind his back.

Walking and chatting.

"Say it again, stop now," the old man said, "Stop, right, from top to bottom, right?"

"

The old man's voice was calm, and he spoke slowly while turning around, "It's not right to keep your head straight. Do you have to look forward? Otherwise, look forward and squint, as if you are trying to steal someone's attention."

, can that look good?”
To be continued...