Xu Shu took 10,000 Xiong Jujun troops and left Zhongyang, the base camp for three days. During these three days, Xu Shu was not like a headless fly, wandering around along the Yellow River. On the contrary, after carefully analyzing the terrain between Xihe and Shangjun, he decisively led his team to walk south along the bank of the Yellow River, preparing to first arrive at the intersection of Sheyan River and the Yellow River, and station the team at the junction of Xihe County, Hedong County and Shangjun.

The place where Xu Shu chose to garrison was Xiliuzhuang, which was adjacent to the Yellow River to the west, Tongtian Mountain to the east, and 60 miles from Zhongyang County to the north.

The reason why I like Xiliuzhuang is not only because of the complex landform here, which makes it convenient for the army to hide its traces, but also because it guards Zhongyang's portal, can prevent surprise attacks from Hedong and Shangjun, and provide effective warning and buffering for the base camp.

Xu Shu seemed to understand Lu Zhi's thoughts. He bet that Lu Zhi would not lead his army to attack Fushi north, but would go back to the road, crossing the Yellow River in the Beiqu section, and killing from Hedong County to Zhongyang or Pingzhou City. Xu Shu knew that there were 4,000 Crouching Tiger Army led by Wang Lu in Pingzhou City, so he placed the focus of the realm on Xiliuzhuang to the west.

Before Xiong Ju's army arrived in Xiliuzhuang, Bian Xi, who had gone out to investigate, returned to the report and found a team of more than 10,000 people in the lower reaches of the Sheyan River on the west bank of the Yellow River. They were logging wood to make a floating bridge, which looked like Cao Cao in the coalition army.

When he heard that Cao Cao's subordinates were logging and building bridges across the river, Xu Shu couldn't help but frown and thought for a long time, and then decisively ordered Xiong Ju Army to enter Xiliuzhuang. Even though he knew that the Cao army on the opposite side was a suspicious soldier deployed by Lu Zhi, Xu Shu would still unswervingly garrison in Xiliuzhuang according to the original analysis.

The art of war often says: There is no constant trend between virtual and real, and things that look like virtual may eventually evolve into reality. Xu Shu was not led by some superficial phenomena, but instead formed a judgment based on his own judgment of the battlefield situation. This is exactly the important qualities that top strategists should possess. A military term says: You hit yours, I hit mine. Resolutely, your deployment and military power mobilization will interfere with and affect my judgment.

After setting up the camp in Xiliu Village, Xu Shu immediately gathered the commanders above Xiongju Legion to hold a breathing meeting. According to his own understanding and analysis, he told his generals without any concealment about the heavy responsibilities he shouldered and the situation he might face. Xu Shu did this and felt a bit like fighting for the back and burning his boats.

In Xu Shu's words, there was no empty encouragement and comfort, only cold and cruel reality, but the effect of doing so was surprisingly good! All the officers who attended the meeting could not see any cringe and fear in their eyes. On the contrary, these people were excited and excited, and felt that the time was for fame. The strong sense of honor and mission inspired everyone, leaving no words such as retreat and fear in their creed, and the most common words were words such as fighting to the death and moving forward bravely.

The Xiong Ju Army evolved from the new Crouching Tiger Army that year. After experiencing the test and soul-shaping of the Qingniwa War, it has formed a unique army characteristics and combat tradition. In summary, it is an optimistic spirit of never worrying about failure. This spirit naturally comes from the influence and forging of the first commander Zhang Liao.

In the more difficult and difficult environment, the fighting spirit and fighting spirit of the Xiong Jujun will become more vigorous and fierce, which is what people often say that the stronger they encounter. In the face of pressure and challenges, many second-rate troops will eventually collapse, while first-rate troops will become more tenacious and warlike. The Xiong Jujun brought by Zhang Liao naturally belongs to the latter.

Zhao Xing deliberately asked Xu Shu to take Xiong Ju Army to fight, so naturally it was not just the Xiong Ju Army that was a first-class army. Including the Xiongwu Army and Dingyuan Army that later joined, and the eight armies belonging to Zhenbei Legion, none of them were bad, they were all first-class troops.

The biggest feature of Xiong Ju Army is that it is a unit with the most comprehensive and optimized cooperation among multiple armies. Since its inception, this unit has included two major categories: infantry and cavalry, heavy armor position defense force, long-range attack force, and light armor mobile force. Later, after optimization, it has joined multiple armies such as fire support force, special operations force, medical rescue force, etc.

Although the number of Xiong Ju Army has been reduced from 20,000 to 10,000 now, the ability to fight has improved a lot compared to the past. This is also a specific attempt by Zhao Xing to spare no effort to take the elite route. If Xiong Ju Army performs well on the battlefield, the configuration of each army will tend to be comprehensive in the future, and will not take the extreme single-soldier route.

After the meeting, Xu Shu immediately ordered a thousand soldiers of the Light Cavalry under his command to flow up the Yellow River and reconnaissance until they could turn around and return. The general led the team was the veteran Hou Cheng; he also ordered the 300 special operations brigades under his command to cross the Yellow River west and go deep behind the enemy to reconnaise the specific movements of the soldiers in Cao's camp. The general led the team was Bian Xi. He also ordered Xue Lan to lead the remaining 200 people from the Special Operations brigade to sneak into the Tongtian Mountain area and conduct reconnaissance on the valleys and secret passages of the Tongtian Mountain area.

Xu Shu himself brought the remaining soldiers to build fortifications near Xiliuzhuang, including placing deer firewood to resist horses, digging trenches, traps, hiding military holes, burying sky thunder in advance, etc. It seems that Xu Shu planned to turn the Xiliuzhuang area into a forward nail, deeply wedging into the intersection of the two roads that Lu Zhi is most likely to raid Xihe County.

The systematic military learning of the Wohu Martial Arts Hall is very helpful to Xu Shu's cultivation and improvement. Unlike Jia Xu, Guo Jia and others, Xu Shu grew from a new student who knew nothing to the commander in the Wohu Martial Arts Hall. This experience has the greatest benefit: it is like a piece of uncensored jade of excellent quality, which has not been polished and carved by any second- and third-rate craftsmen and was directly delivered to the jade-making master. In the future, this piece of jade can definitely show its most perfect form in front of the world.

In the process of accepting Zhao Xing's new and strange ideas and proposals, Xu Shu was one of the few students who could fully accept it. Because he was not influenced by the military strategy and strategy passed down from ancient times, when he studied the military strategy, battle formation, marching, logistics and other contents that Zhao Xing had secretly improved, he was obviously faster in terms of acceptance and speed than other students. This was fully confirmed from the fact that Xu Shu began to carefully arrange a battlefield environment that was conducive to the combat power of his soldiers when he arrived in Xiliuzhuang.

Xu Shu deeply agrees with Zhao Xing's many remarks about war, such as: "Sweat more in peacetime and bleed less in wartime", "Fight only if you win, and run away if you can't win", "One soldier will be a bear," "The first element that affects the outcome of a war is the accurate grasp of intelligence", etc. Xu Shu feels that although Zhao Xing's words are easy to understand, they have been repeatedly refined and practiced, and it is easy to understand the commanding officers of lower-level knowledge, and the middle and lower-level officers have a dominant position in the development situation of a specific battle.

In fact, what Zhao Xing said was nothing more than a plain language that was influenced by the army in his previous life and could grow calluses in his ears every day.
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