The strongest Zhang Fei of the Super Three Kingdoms

Chapter 94 The Meaning of Soldiers

During the Han Dynasty and Emperor Ling's period, the population was 3000 million. This is not counting the refugees, and with the refugees, there are still 500 million people.

But when Liu Bei entered Shu, Cao Cao occupied the Central Plains, and Sun Quan dominated Jiangdong. During this period when the three forces gradually checked and balanced, the population dropped sharply to less than 1000 million.

This also includes the population in remote areas such as Liaodong and Jiaozhou.

How come the more than 2000 million people in the middle are missing? It’s not just natural disasters, but also man-made disasters.

Drought in the south, followed by heavy snow in the north, and land annexation.And the most intuitive way to reduce staff is the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion and continuous wars.

This war after war caused the thirteen states in the world to suffer losses every week.

Not to mention civilians, but many aristocratic families have disappeared in the new round of power reshuffle.

Of course, there were also people who rose up and were able to persist until the later stage when all the powers in the world were annexed. Unlike Sun Quan who inherited the inheritance from his father and brother, Liu Bei and Cao Cao were the ones who persisted until the end.

Not to mention Cao Cao, who is still considered the most powerful in the world, but Liu Bei alone explains why Liu Bei can be defeated repeatedly.

The main reason is that he has a group of veterans. At the beginning, after the three brothers Liu Guan and Zhang put down the Yellow Turban, they were recruited in Pingyuan, and later they recruited a group of elites from Danyang. This is Liu Bei's original team. This team finally helped Liu Bei support all the troops under his command in Jingzhou and Yizhou.

These people may not have the ability of Zhang Fei and Guan Yu to make a final decision on a war, but they have the fighting spirit to decide whether their soldiers will fight or retreat.

They are the real mainstay of an army. Although there may not be many generals who are world-famous, they can make an army have something different from other armies. This is the foundation.

Liu Bei was defeated many times, but he was still able to recover. It was definitely not just relying on his two sworn brothers, but also countless soldiers under his command.

This is why, after occupying Jingzhou and Xichuan, Liu Bei, who has a population of more than 300 million, has less than 20 regular troops except for the county soldiers with average combat power.

These soldiers are soldiers who have been killed from ten times or even dozens of times the number of people. These soldiers are definitely not peasants who put down their hoes, pick up weapons and put on armor.

Instead, after countless wars and bloody battles between you and me.

Ten households raise one child, which is quite a high ratio.

There may seem to be a lot of soldiers and horses under Liu Bei's command, but the place of Jingzhou's Four Battles is facing various tests. Here, the top military generals of the Five Tiger Generals have been guarding here, and their subordinates are related to Ping Zhoucang and these young generals.There are also wise men like Xu Shu and [-] elite soldiers.

Some of these troops were originally Liu Biao's soldiers and horses. These soldiers and horses first surrendered to Cao Cao when Cao Cao went south, and finally were surrendered by Liu Bei after the Battle of Chibi.

Morale has always been low. Fortunately, Zhang Fei and Guan Yu are both men with strong records. They spent a lot of effort to retrain these troops and horses, and gradually restored the momentum of these troops and horses.

This time when Liu Bei entered Shu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun also stayed in Jingzhou to accompany Guan Yu to frighten Sun Quan and Cao Cao at the beginning. He only brought the soldiers and horses of the headquarters, leaving Guan Yu alone to guard Jingzhou.

Although there is no problem in the eyes of many generals, in the eyes of Zhang Fei and Zhuge Liang, this problem is not small.

There is nothing to say about Guan Yu's ability, not only the combat power, but also the ability to command the army on the battlefield is the most suitable choice for Liu Bei's army to deal with Liu Bei, but he is also proud of his success and proud of his defeat.

Zhang Fei, who has "previous life" memories, is now far away in Sichuan, but he is also very worried about Guan Yu.

Not long after Liu Bei won the victory in the Battle of Hanzhong, when his power reached its peak, when everyone thought that Liu Bei was about to follow the path of the great ancestor Liu Bang on the road to unify the world, Jingzhou was lost and Guan Yu was defeated in Maicheng.

This incident was the origin of Liu Bei's power from prosperity to decline, and Zhang Fei always wanted to avoid it.

It is undeniable that not only Jingzhou, but also the army under Guan Yu's command was the most elite army under Liu Bei, and it was such an army that was wiped out.

This dealt a huge blow to the entire Liu Bei Group. Not only did Zhuge Liang's strategy of confronting the superior fail to be carried out smoothly, but it even made Liu Bei realize that he, like Cao Cao, would not be able to win the world in his lifetime.

The importance of the soldiers can be seen in general. In the end, when Liu Bei did not bring the other five tiger generals, but only the veteran Huang Zhong, the last viable force, the elite of the Shu army, was also thrown in Yiling, and the Shu Han army completely entered a stage of decline.

Even if there is Zhuge Liang who repairs political affairs internally, he contacts Sun Quan externally.

It made the Shu Han regain a little vitality, but everyone knew that Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition was just a belief, and Zhuge Liang didn't have much confidence in whether he could succeed.
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Zhang Fei flashed past the fate of many good men in the Shu Han, looking at the high-spirited veterans around him, and the scattered Cao soldiers in the Cao camp, he felt a sense of pride in his heart!

There is nothing that cannot be changed. Now Cao Cao is in front of him, and Cao Ying's generals are also in front of him. These people who are famous all over the world are still fighting with him, instead of slashing at him who can't fight.

This is the best era, to be able to fight again with the weapons in your hands.It is also the worst era, everything is not absolutely fair, you can still fight when you meet someone who is weaker than you, and you have to fight if you can't fight someone who is stronger than you.

Fairness has never existed. Zhang Fei is very glad that he has a system and certain memories. When some things have not yet started, he can still make a lot of efforts. Even if some things cannot be changed, there are some things, Zhang Fei said. That's what I want to accomplish.

This is not a lie, but the most true heartfelt words.

Under Cao Cao's deliberate concession, Zhang Fei seized the camps on both sides of Cao's army, and Huang Zhong also seized the camps where the grain and grass were stored.

Although Cao Cao gave up the three camps, it seemed that he had lost a lot, but except for some food and grass with the army and some soldiers and horses in the front battalion who were defeated and fled, the main force was not damaged, and the combat power was basically preserved.

Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong seemed to be victorious, which made Cao Cao very embarrassed, but in fact they did not cause huge losses to Cao Cao.

The generals and soldiers of Cao Cao's army who have been on the battlefield for a long time have explained what it means to survive in adversity. Before Chibi and before Guandu, what Cao Cao was best at was not using the superiority of troops and the advantage of having many generals to conquer the world, but using united soldiers and heroic generals. He has always explained what it means to defeat the strong with the weak. Although he suffered a small defeat this time, his overall strength is still stronger than the enemy. Why can't he win!

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