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

Chapter 396: Change of Thinking
However, it is not an easy task for Zhou Yu to crack the underlying architecture of the opponent's Solidified Xuanxiang, otherwise Yuan Shao would have launched the project of Solidified Xuanxiang long ago.

Although Yuan Shao was still implementing the backward system of knowledge monopoly, under the pressure from Liu Bei, Yuan Shao had to order the lifting of the ban on some of the Yuan family's books related to the Xuanxiang Army, so that his civil and military officials could study and improve their level.

However, Yuan Shao only opened up part of his collection of books, and they were copied from his own home. He did not force his civil and military officials to share their knowledge for others to study and exchange.

As staunch supporters of knowledge monopoly, aristocratic families would never spread the knowledge they relied on to maintain their status if they had a choice. Even the Yingchuan Academy, which was established by the Yingchuan aristocratic families, taught mostly the essence of some widely circulated classics, and at most added some original works of various philosophers that could be circulated, but forget about interpreting the essence of the original works, which were the real family heirlooms of the aristocratic families.

However, the collection of books in Yingchuan Academy is enough for most people to study. After all, the attitude of scholars of this era towards reading and studying is not perfunctory like most people in later generations. They can really read one book for a lifetime.

As for those geniuses who need to read more classics to enrich themselves, they do not need the care of others. After all, their knowledge and wisdom will always allow them to find what they want, or someone will be willing to invest in him. This is also one of the main reasons why aristocratic families are more likely to form factions.

In addition to providing a place for book reading and study, Yingchuan Academy also has another important function, which is to invite some great scholars and celebrities who are extremely difficult for others to meet to serve as teachers, such as Xun Shuang. Do you think unqualified people can easily meet him and ask him for advice?

However, this can be done in Yingchuan Academy. As long as Xun Shuang is still teaching in the academy, the students in the academy are qualified to ask Xun Shuang for advice. No matter they are the most ordinary common people, the poor families with fallen families, or the children of famous and powerful families, they can all ask Xun Shuang for advice in Yingchuan Academy.

Famous teachers are also resources controlled by aristocratic families. No matter how exquisite the knowledge and wisdom recorded in the classics are, even if there are annotations by ancient sages, some things cannot be learned just by reading books. This is when the role of a teacher can be reflected.

Teachers not only teach students knowledge and learning, but also the wisdom of dealing with people. A good teacher can also guide students to integrate various scattered knowledge and wisdom into a systematic system of cognition.

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"In this battle, we must be prepared for defeat and preserve as much manpower as possible for the follow-up." Zhou Yu's expression remained calm, and he spoke to Li Yan indifferently, which formed a sharp contrast with Li Yan's miserable expression.

Li Yan was silent for a while and nodded silently. He did not ask Zhou Yu why he did not withdraw now and why he had to fight Liu Bei's army here, because it would make him seem stupid.

They have just lost a night attack and are planning to withdraw their troops. It would be better for them to surrender now. Anyway, they will retreat when they see Liu Bei's army in the future.

However, as Zhou Yu said, there is a great possibility that they will lose this battle, so they must be prepared to retreat. This is fundamentally different from the previous behavior of planning to withdraw without even fighting. This is called considering defeat before considering victory. This is a military principle recognized by military saints, and they, the younger generations, are just following the rules.

"Okay, go and take care of your wounds first. You will be needed to lead the troops into battle later." Zhou Yu waved to Li Yan and sent him to take care of his injuries. Li Yan had only been standing there for a short while when a pool of dark red blood flowed down his body. It was worrying to see. Moreover, Li Yan did not have the strong recovery ability of internal energy leaving the body.

"No-hiss!" Li Yan originally wanted to salute Zhou Yu, but he didn't expect that the wound would be affected. Suddenly, a piercing pain found Li Yan's sensory nerves, causing Li Yan's face to twitch constantly, and his right hand unconsciously touched the torn place of the wound.

Zhou Yu's attention was attracted by Li Yan's gasp. After turning his head, he saw Li Yan touching his chest with a grim look on his face. It seemed that Li Yan was in real pain.

"Guards, take him to the military doctor." Looking at Li Yan who was in so much pain that he couldn't speak, Zhou Yu waved his hand to call the nearby guards.

Following Zhou Yu's call, two of the hundreds of guards standing guard nearby quickly walked to Li Yan's side. After saluting Zhou Yu and apologizing to Li Yan, they directly carried Li Yan and ran towards the tent where the military doctor was, without caring about the injuries on Li Yan's body.

"Hiss!" Li Yan took another breath of cold air. This time, the pain was not just in the wound, but his whole body.

However, Li Yan did not stop the two guards' actions. After all, in his current condition, he really needed a military doctor to treat his wounds. He could not recover from his injuries in a short period of time relying solely on his own internal energy, so it was better to let the military doctor participate. Although the military doctor could only apply some medicine on the wound, it was better than nothing.

After quietly watching Li Yan who was taken away by the guards, Zhou Yu turned back and continued to look at the north bank and the Solidified Xuan Xiang in the air on the north bank. Although Zhou Yu could only see a Solidified Xuan Xiang used for rain, and it was locked by Yang Ji, Zhou Yu still watched it with relish. After all, the lock was also part of the Solidified Xuan Xiang. If the underlying structure of the lock was cracked, part of the underlying structure of the Solidified Xuan Xiang could also be glimpsed from it.

"Commander-in-chief, our navy has blocked the river. The patrol boats at the estuary reported that they had not found any trace of the Qingzhou navy." Jiang Qin jumped out of the darkness and said to Zhou Yu.

"When blocking the river, remember to pay attention to the flowing arrows from the opposite side. They are arrow attacks that can penetrate our ships." Zhou Yu instructed Jiang Qin.

What Gan Ning brought to him last time was so profound that Zhou Yu really didn't expect that there could be such a way to fight a naval battle. It was not a boarding battle or an arrow shooting at each other on the boat, but shooting arrows with super-powerful power with the main purpose of sinking the enemy's naval ships.

The education Zhou Yu had received before was mainly aimed at attacking the soldiers on the enemy's navy and warships. Only occasionally would there be plans to sink the enemy's warships. After all, expensive toys like warships cannot be built by just finding a piece of wood. General naval tactics are mainly based on effectively killing enemy naval soldiers, then capturing enemy naval warships and incorporating them into one's own fleet to expand one's own combat power.

However, Gan Ning's previous method of using powerful arrows to attack warships was very different from traditional naval tactics. His main goal was to sink the enemy's naval warships. Although the warships would cause considerable casualties after sinking, if the warships were sunk, there would be no way to capture the enemy's warships. If there were no warships to capture, how could the fleet be expanded quickly in a short period of time?

This reminded Zhou Yu of the Lu family that was taken away by Chen Xi and his men last time. The Jiangdong Lu family was one of the few families in the Han Dynasty that mastered the full set of warship construction technology. Moreover, when the Lu family left Lujiang, they also took away most of the shipbuilding workers and equipment they could. It is said that the Lu family has now moved the shipyard to Donglai County in Qingzhou, and Fenggao has even built a port in Donglai.

Perhaps it was because of the Lu family shipyard standing behind him that Gan Ning dared to use the naval tactics of directly attacking the enemy warships, although using this tactic might also be countered by the enemy or even cause the enemy to sink his own warships.

However, with the Lu family shipyard providing warships behind him, Gan Ning was not afraid of the enemy sinking his warships. After all, his group defense was not a vegetarian. Arrows with insufficient power could not penetrate them. How many arrows could actually penetrate them?
Indeed, Jiangdong is a place rich in archers, but Jiangdong archers are good at arrow rain attacks, and have not developed much of a bow talent system for high-powered arrow attacks.

"By the way, how is the repulsion defense of the warships prepared?" Thinking of Gan Ning's powerful arrows and the impressive group defense, Zhou Yu thought of the repulsion defense structure he had built.

Even though Zhou Yu quickly mastered the group defense and self-circulating secret techniques in the original time and space, Zhou Yu had already been working in the navy system for a long time at that time, and had a certain understanding of the various secret techniques used by the navy. In addition, with Gan Ning's explanation of the Kushan navy secret techniques, Zhou Yu was able to directly turn them into his own when Cycelian used various naval secret techniques. Even if he could not turn them into his own on the spot, he could still reverse them afterwards.

But now, Zhou Yu, who has just taken over the Jiangxia navy for a few years, needs a lot of time to understand Gan Ning's group defense and cloud storage secrets.

However, Zhou Yu's current requirement is only to defend against Gan Ning's extremely powerful arrows, so Zhou Yu built a repulsive defense structure that can deflect arrows.

"The repulsion field can indeed effectively defend against powerful arrows, but we have very few soldiers with the repulsion talent. It is even a question whether we can gather enough people to form a legion." Jiang Qin shook his head. He had also seen Gan Ning's powerful arrows, and knew the purpose of Zhou Yu's repulsion structure.

However, the problem now is no longer whether the repulsion field can defend against the deflected light arrow attacks of Gan Ning, but whether they can gather enough soldiers with repulsion talent. After all, if there are not enough people, the repulsion field cannot be opened.

"Okay, I understand." Zhou Yu's expression was still calm and indifferent, as if Jiang Qin's problem could be easily solved. Jiang Qin was full of admiration for him. No matter whether Zhou Yu had a solution at this time or not, his calmness alone was worthy of Jiang Qin's recognition and learning.

"Then how should we solve this problem?" Although he admired Zhou Yu's character very much, the problem still had to be solved. After all, no matter how strong one's character was, it would be useless if he couldn't solve the problem.

"Since the direction of elite talents doesn't work, let's go in the direction of developing secret techniques." Zhou Yu lightly vibrated the strings with his fingertips and gave his own solution.

"Secret techniques?" Jiang Qin was stunned for a moment, not quite understanding what Zhou Yu was thinking. After all, people like them had basically no demand for them, or in other words, people at their level could do those operations even without secret techniques.

The only difference is that the secret technique is to use a point to lead the whole, and then leverage the essence of heaven and earth to construct a corresponding essence model and produce corresponding phenomena.

These people with out-of-body internal energy and spiritual wisdom use their powerful internal energy and mental strength to forcibly distort reality, causing the essence of heaven and earth to exhibit certain phenomena.

Therefore, for those who are truly strong, the secret arts are just some tricks and are not worth pursuing. If you pursue the power of the secret arts too much, it will lead to instability in your own strength.

"Yes, you heard me right. I was talking about the secret technique." Zhou Yu nodded calmly. He didn't think there was anything wrong with using the secret technique as a top wise man who had awakened his spiritual talent. After all, being able to activate the repulsive field was the key, and the rest was not important at all.

"Yes, why can't it be a secret technique? Or rather, it should be a secret technique!" Jiang Qin suddenly realized that the secret technique is not like elite talents that require a number of people to maintain. He only needs an out-of-body energy or spiritual wise man who can use the secret technique.

"So, Commander, have you developed the secret technique?" Jiang Qin asked Zhou Yu with shining eyes. He couldn't wait to see what the secret technique of repulsion that Zhou Yu mentioned looked like.

"No, I haven't developed this secret technique." Zhou Yu shook his head. Although he had the idea of ​​developing a secret technique, he had a lot of things to do during this period. How could he have the time to develop a secret technique? It was already good enough that he could complete his sonic detection secret technique. Moreover, the priority of the repulsion secret technique was not high, not to mention that there was a legion with the talent for repulsion. Why was he in such a hurry?

After hearing Zhou Yu's words, Jiang Qin was silent for a moment and said, "I understand." He also saw how hard Zhou Yu had been working during this period. It was indeed unrealistic for him to take time out to develop secret techniques.

"Then, what about the patrol boats at the seaport not discovering the Qingzhou fleet?" Jiang Qin asked Zhou Yu. The secret art of repulsion was gone, so was it. There were legions with the talent for repulsion anyway. At most, Zhou Yu would have to work hard when mobilizing the repulsion field.

"Keep monitoring and report any situation immediately. You are no match for Gan Ning on the water." Zhou Yu said to Jiang Qin, bluntly stating that Jiang Qin was no match for Gan Ning in naval battles.

"I know, Governor, you don't have to tell me this specifically." Jiang Qin said with a wry smile.

(End of this chapter)