The Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms: The Evil God Arrives

Chapter 392 Zhou Yu: Don’t worry, I don’t have any secret skills or talents like reading minds.

"Leave it to me to solve the problem that our soldiers are not good at night fighting and the newly formed Jiangdong infantry's ability to withstand pressure is unbalanced. It just so happens that my recent research has yielded some results that can be used in the current situation." Zhou Yu said to Li Yan calmly.

"Ah?" Li Yan was a little stunned after hearing Zhou Yu's words. Although he knew that Zhou Yu was very capable, but these days Zhou Yu was either integrating the forces of Yuan Shu's subordinates, or solving Sun Ce's problems, and also suppressing the separatist forces in Yangzhou. Where did he find the time to do research? Could it be that Zhou Yu could do two things at the same time?

Although for a top wise man like Zhou Yu, doing two things at once is not a difficult task, even for someone like Li Yan who has not awakened his spiritual talent, doing two things at once is not a difficult task. The difficult part is how Zhou Yu carried out his research amidst so many things and achieved corresponding research results.

Li Yan also noticed another thing Zhou Yu mentioned. The pressure-bearing capacity of the newly-formed Jiangdong infantry was not low, but unbalanced. Is there some inside story that he doesn't know?
Li Tong, Lai Min and Huo Jun also thought of the same question as Li Yan, and looked at Zhou Yu in confusion. Is the gap between them so big?
Including Li Yan, these four people were virtuous people found in Jingzhou by Zhou Yu and Sun Ce after they drove Liu Biao to Jingnan. They originally planned to place them under Yuan Shu to develop their talents. After all, Sun Ce was not as strong as Yuan Shu at that time, and Sun Ce did not have many opportunities for them to develop.

So Zhou Yu stuffed them into the troops under Yuan Shu, hoping that they could develop their own power under Yuan Shu. When a conflict occurred between Sun Ce and Yuan Shu, they could serve as a check and balance on Yuan Shu. After all, except Ji Ling, Yuan Shu had basically no other decent generals.

Except for Li Tong and Huo Jun who are relatively calm, Lai Min and Li Yan are both the kind of people who are more aggressive, especially Li Yan. This guy's aggressiveness can almost be said to be the strongest among the few. However, compared with Zhou Yu and Sun Ce, Li Yan's aggressiveness seems to be nothing.

However, for some unknown reason, Yuan Shu later handed over his foundation to Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, and went to fight against those aristocratic families.

Then Zhou Yu thought about promoting these hidden men he had planted in the Yuzhou army. After all, compared with the miscellaneous generals in the original Yuzhou army, the abilities of these people were quite outstanding. It was relatively easy to get them promoted quickly. After all, Sun Ce had nominally taken over Yuan Shu's foundation, so it was relatively easy to arrange a few people.

However, Gan Ning's previous record under the city of Shouchun, as well as the share of the aristocratic families in the political entity under their rule, made Zhou Yu realize that they must have a direct army of their own, otherwise the operation of usurping the throne would happen to them, and it might happen in their lifetime.

Therefore, Zhou Yu pulled out these spies who were originally stationed in the Yuzhou army, together with some of the elite backbones of the Yuzhou army, and formed a new Jiangdong Infantry Army with the newly trained Jiangdong infantry. This is a direct army under Sun Ce. Although it is still very weak, Zhou Yu will definitely make this army grow to a level that can rival the strongest armies in the world.

However, if reality allowed, Zhou Yu actually wanted to keep these people in the Yuzhou Army, and step by step turn the Yuzhou Army into a direct force under Sun Ce. After all, the combat effectiveness of the Yuzhou Army was still very good, except for those middle and high-level officers, because they were really the mediocre type of officers.

However, Zhou Yu was also very clear about one thing. If he kept these people in the Yuzhou Army, perhaps he could turn the Yuzhou Army into Sun Ce's direct force in the future. But this would take a long time. You couldn't dismiss certain people in the Yuzhou Army for no reason. In that case, the turmoil in the Yuzhou Army could not be solved by simply putting Li Yan and a few others in the Yuzhou Army.

Therefore, Zhou Yu selected a few of them and a part of the elite backbone of the Yuzhou Army and reorganized a group army, which is now the New Jiangdong Infantry.

At least in this newly formed army group, Zhou Yu can directly appoint these people to positions without having to spend a lot of time accumulating qualifications and merits. As long as they have certain merits in the future, the word "fake" can be removed from the front of their job titles.

This is why Zhou Yu placed Zhu Zhi, Lu Fan and other capable people into the Yuzhou Army and let them lead the Yuzhou Army to attack Yingchuan County. Because their status and qualifications are enough for them to sit in that position, even if they are airdropped, they have a certain reason, so that the soldiers of the Yuzhou Army will not completely resist the commander of Zhu Zhi, Lu Fan and others.

And this time it was not only Sun Ce and Zhou Yu who took action. The aristocratic families under their rule also participated in this action at the instigation of the Yuan family. With the assistance of these aristocratic families, it would be no problem for Zhu Zhi, Lu Fan and others to control the Yuzhou Army. After all, most of the middle and high-level officers and even some grassroots officers in the Yuzhou Army had inseparable and complicated ties with these aristocratic families.

People like Li Yan and Li Tong are not bad in ability, so they know why Zhou Yu transferred them to the newly formed Jiangdong Infantry Army. However, even though Sun Ce and Zhou Yu are their benefactors, they do not think that they are worse than Zhou Yu. After all, if they do not have a certain level of self-confidence, they would not be able to improve their abilities to the current level.

Although they had not seen many strong people, their horizons were limited to themselves and the outstanding people around them. However, before meeting Zhou Yu and Sun Ce, the best person they could meet was probably Liu Biao.

Regardless of how powerful Liu Biao was in the past, everyone knows what Liu Biao is like now, so it is not surprising that there are some errors in the cognitive boundaries of Li Yan and others.

The edge shown by Li Yan and others is not a bad thing. As long as they are under Zhou Yu's control, nothing serious will happen. This is Zhou Yu's confidence.

As for their weaknesses in character, they are not difficult to solve. After being crushed by others and recognizing the gap between both sides, they will probably be able to correct their character. After all, their wisdom is not bad. What is lacking is the true understanding of reality and themselves.

Just like now, they all saw how busy Zhou Yu was recently. But now Zhou Yu told them that while he was busy with all those messy and extremely energy-consuming things, he also carried out a wave of his own research, and more importantly, he had achieved results...

Zhou Yu looked at these people in a daze, his expression still calm, as if those god-like operations in the eyes of others were not worth showing off. In fact, they were indeed not worth showing off, because Zhou Yu knew that there were people who could do it better and faster than him.

Zhou Yu knew that there were people in the world who were better than him. Although Zhou Yu himself had not seen those people in person, he only knew of their existence through rumors. However, just a few rumors had already made Zhou Yu breathless, not to mention that the pressure from those two people had already been transmitted to him in reality. Regardless of other matters, if we only talk about military and political affairs, Zhou Yu's attainments in these two aspects have reached a considerable level. Although he could not reach the level of Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong in domestic affairs, he was not far behind, not to mention his military talent. Under Sun Ce's rule, Zhou Yu was the strongest commander, whether in the army or the navy.

Please note that he is the commander-in-chief who commands the army in the center, not the general who leads the legion to the front line to fight. Although Zhou Yu's martial arts are also quite good, Zhou Yu, who has chosen spiritual talent, still has a long way to go if he wants to catch up with those generals with internal energy out of their bodies in terms of martial arts.

Chen Xi's internal affairs attracted the attention of the world. Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong also tried to replicate the policies of Fenggao in the territory under Sun Ce's rule. However, with the internal affairs level of the two Zhangs, they still could not replicate them completely. They could only choose some suitable policies and make slight modifications before implementing them under Sun Ce's rule.

Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong had clearly told Zhou Yu that there were quite a lot of Chen Xi's policies that they could not understand. Some of them they understood, but they didn't know where to start, and some of them they simply couldn't understand why Chen Xi arranged them that way.

Of course Zhou Yu could hear what the two Zhangs said. After all, the gap between him and the two Zhangs in domestic affairs was not that big. What the two Zhangs could see, Zhou Yu could also see, or for some reason, Zhou Yu saw more.

Chen Xi was the first person who made Zhou Yu realize that there are always people better than you, and then it was Yang Ji who was in charge of military affairs under Liu Bei.

Although Yang Ji did not send out much information, every time a new wave of news came out, it meant that Yang Ji had achieved another glorious victory.

Zhou Yu didn't know what Feng Gao was thinking, as he actually let Yang Ji's battle reports spread out. But no matter what Liu Bei was thinking, at least those battle reports that were spread out allowed Zhou Yu to form a more vague impression of Yang Ji than Chen Xi.

He was a man who was extremely powerful in military command. Although Zhou Yu believed that he was no weaker than anyone else in the world, when he saw Yang Ji's battle report, he felt a rare sense of uncertainty in his heart. It was an intuition.

Zhou Yu's intuition told him that his military command qualifications were no less than anyone else in the world, but at this moment, he could not defeat Yang Ji.

There is no doubt that Zhou Yu is a genius, an absolute genius, who is not much different from Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi.

With Zhou Yu's qualifications, no one can tell what kind of potential he can unleash when facing the pressure from Chen Xi and Yang Ji.

Zhou Yu was able to integrate the forces under Yuan Shu in just over a month while Yuan Shao's men were causing trouble in Sun Ce's territory. It is hard to say whether the pressure from Chen Xi and Yang Ji forced Zhou Yu to perform exceptionally well.

"Are you surprised why I can do it?" Zhou Yu asked them calmly and indifferently. He knew what the people in front of him were thinking without even having to think about it. Their emotional fluctuations were too obvious. After all, except for Li Tong and Huo Jun who were relatively calm, the temperaments of the other two were not normal. It was not surprising that Zhou Yu could capture their emotional fluctuations.

Li Tong and Huo Jun looked at each other and seemed to think that it was not surprising that Zhou Yu could tell what they were thinking. After all, they were more calm and could clearly perceive how big the gap between themselves and Zhou Yu was.

But it was different for Li Yan and Lai Min. They felt a chill when they heard Zhou Yu's almost statement-like question. They asked themselves if they had managed their facial expressions well, but Zhou Yu still told them what was going on in their minds without any hesitation. This made them wonder if Zhou Yu had some secret talent for reading minds or something.

"Don't worry, I don't have any secret skills or talents to read minds. It's just that your emotions are not restrained enough. You should know what I'm talking about." Zhou Yu said lightly. It's just reading other people's emotions. These people can do it.
It's just that they can't do it to his level. However, it's just that they don't know how to control their emotions, otherwise Zhou Yu wouldn't be able to easily read what they are thinking.

Just like Li Tong and Huo Jun, these two people have pretty good personalities and are able to control themselves well. Because their thoughts are relatively obvious, Zhou Yu can read their superficial thoughts.

Li Yan opened his mouth after listening to Zhou Yu's explanation. Although he was very happy that Zhou Yu did not have any secret skills or talents like mind reading, Zhou Yu's comment that his emotions were not restrained enough was also a kind of hurt to him. After all, he had been trying very hard to restrain his emotions.

Also, isn’t facial management considered emotion management?
"Some people's facial expressions are just superficial, not their true thoughts. Sometimes, even the emotions that are released are just deliberately released to confuse others, so at this time it depends on your own judgment and intuition." Zhou Yu shook his head and said calmly. He was very good at restraining his emotions and pretending to be a maze. Otherwise, he would not always have a calm and indifferent expression. This was not entirely because he had a plan in mind.

"Okay, let's talk about the support I can give you in tonight's night attack." Zhou Yu said calmly to Li Yan. He didn't have much time to think of ways to help these people improve their character, and he had no other way.

Li Yan was silent for a long time, his expression changing constantly, and finally he bowed to Zhou Yu and said, "Please give me some advice, Governor."

(End of this chapter)