Domination of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 7 Military Experience
After becoming a colonel, Gongsun Zan moved to the barracks, and Gongsun Xu also lived in the barracks.At present, there are only 4000 cavalry in the army and 100 infantry.If there is no war, the imperial court does not allow conscription.The imperial court did not want to allocate too much money for this.There must be signs when a country is about to perish.Even if the frontiers are so lax in military equipment, we can know how stupid those people in the court are.However, Gongsun Zan didn't care about the problem of too many soldiers or too few soldiers for the first time. He first selected [-] elite knights from among the cavalry as his personal guards.

With military power, of course, you must know the scope of your defense.Four months after becoming familiar with military affairs, Gongsun Zan took dozens of cavalry out to patrol the fortress. Familiarity with the geographical location of the frontier fortress was a military priority.In order to let his son get acquainted with military life faster, Gongsun Xu also went out to patrol the pass this time.Suddenly, a secret sentry came back and reported that hundreds of Xianbei cavalry were found.Gongsun Zan led the crowd back to the empty pavilion, and said to Gongsun Xu, "Xu'er stay, and the rest follow me." After finishing speaking and preparing to attack, Gongsun Xu candled his father's rein and said, "Everyone is fighting for their lives, why did you leave me behind?" , I would like to fight with my father." Gongsun Zan couldn't resist, so he had to take him with him.The enemy came from the east, but Gongsun Zan was about to lead his army to charge before he found his side.

At this time, Gongsun Xu suggested: "Father, the enemy has not discovered that there is a valley five miles behind us that is suitable for an ambush. Father led 40 people into two teams to ambush on both sides of the valley, leaving six people to follow me to lure the enemy. It is not too late. Father, prepare quickly." When Gongsun Zan was about to scold his son, he suddenly thought that this was the best way, even if he led the army to the battle, the chance of winning was not great, and if he failed, his son would still be caught.He had no choice but to nod in agreement, and then Gongsun Xu explained that Gongsun Zan left six people to take care of Gongsun Xu and went to ambush himself.After Gongsun Zan left, Gongsun Xu said to the six people: "When the Xianbei people come, you shout: Young Master, hurry up. Then we ran towards the valley together. Remember, you have to look like you care about me, and put on a desperate look." To protect my posture.

Everyone laughed and said: "Even if the young master doesn't say it, we will do it." The men in the army have such a simple idea, advocating warriors, and an eight or nine-year-old child would risk his own life. What are you afraid of.After half an hour, the Xianbei Rangers found the seven people who were playing. After reporting back to the leader, the leader thought it must be the children of rich and noble families who were traveling, and if they were tied up, it would definitely be a big price.So he led his troops to chase after him.The six people here did what Gongsun continued to say, and then fled to the valley.After entering the valley, the seven people stopped, and Gongsun Xu got off his horse and said, "Everyone come down to the pit, a little bigger than a horse's hoof, or almost as deep as a horse's hoof, and the key is more." Everyone didn't talk nonsense, they all got down to dig the soil.The 40 people in ambush looked at each other in blank dismay, but they still didn't understand why Gongsun Xu and the others dug the hole.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the Xianbei people chased after them, and everyone laughed when they saw the seven people who were still digging. Someone said: "There is no need to dig, this small pit can't bury you, just follow the uncle obediently, hahahaha." Xianbei The leader waved his hand, and 100 people went up to surround them.At this time, roars suddenly sounded from both sides of the valley: "Don't shoot a Xianbei dog." Then the dust flew up and rushed to the next general. Six people were stabbed off their horses, and then many cavalry rushed down from both sides of the valley, and there seemed to be more people rushing down in the dust.

The leader of Xianbei shouted: "No, there is an ambush, retreat." At this time, the hundred cavalry who rushed forward were about to rush to Gongsun Xu and others. Everyone rushed back.After a fierce battle, more than 200 Xianbei people were killed, and more than 300 horses were packed away. The leader of Xianbei fled. Gongsun Zan fought with 12 casualties because he was prepared, which can be regarded as a big victory.Gongsun Zan later found out that the pit dug by his son had overturned a dozen cavalrymen. The legs of these horses were all broken, but veterinarians in the army should be able to cure them.At this time, Gongsun Zan was very happy when he thought that his son would use tricks to defeat the enemy.He picked up his son and said: "My son must be." All the soldiers shouted loudly: "The hero of the major general."

Since then, the Gongsun father and son have become even more famous in Liaodong, especially the name of the major general has spread throughout Liaodong.The Xianbei people also took this as a warning, and never dared to enter the pass easily.Due to his victory in this battle, Gongsun Zan was promoted to the county magistrate of Zhuo County, and concurrently served as Lieutenant of Liaodong.In the following two years, although Gongsun Zan had many conflicts with the Hu people, there were very few major battles.Gongsun Zan used these two years to train the army, and under Gongsun Xu's suggestion, weeded out the old and weak, and recruited young and strong to join the army again, and stepped up training.And select thousands of people from the army to practice riding and shooting.In the past two years, many people in the army came here to join the army. Gongsun Zan also promoted a group of very capable soldiers from the army. Among them, Zou Dan and Guan Jing became Gongsun Zan's lieutenants. Still a little impressed.Outstanding ability, but also a historical celebrity.

After staying in the army for two years, Gongsun Xu made some small achievements in martial arts, superb riding skills, and his reputation as a little general became more and more famous.But so far Gongsun Xu has no special weapons of his own, and is temporarily practicing horse fighting with spears. I remember that they said when we parted ways with Yan Liangwenchou, don't stick to martial arts itself, you should find out the most suitable weapon on the basis of martial arts training. His own routines and weapons are the same. At that time, Gongsun Xu discovered that Yan Liang's sword was slightly different from ordinary broadswords. The blade was longer and very flexible, and Wen Chou's gun was the same.So Gongsun Xu has been working hard to find his own way of martial arts.Although the long weapon has not yet been finalized, but the melee combat is beyond the knife, Gongsun Xu asked someone to build a strange weapon, which is actually the army thorn he used in his previous life, but he made a little modification, and now he uses the army thorn to get close The kung fu of fighting has already used [-]% of the strength in the previous life.

In 178 A.D., during the reign of Guanghe, Bian Zhang and Han Sui rebelled. The imperial court conscripted [-] elite cavalry from Youzhou (now southwest of Beijing), and gave Gongsun Zan a talisman to command the [-] cavalry.When Gongsun Zan led his army to Jizhong, Zhang Chun, a native of Yuyang (now southeast of Miyun, Beijing), lured Qiu Liju, the leader of Wuhuan in western Liaoning, and others to rebel, and captured Youbeiping County (southeast of Fengrun, Hebei today) and the cities of Liaoxi County's vassal state.

Gongsun Zan pursued Zhang Chun and other rebels with 30 cavalry, and his son Gongsun Xu followed the army to fight. After [-] days of the battle, Gongsun Xu offered a divorce plan. Chun was defeated by Gongsun Zan. Among the rebellious army, Zhang Chun was stabbed by Gongsun Xu, and Zhang Chun was defeated and left.Three days later, the leader of Wuhuan, Corruption King, was terrified when he received the news of Zhang Chun's defeat, and led his people to surrender to Gongsun Zan.After this battle, the imperial court first promoted Gongsun Zan to the rank of cavalry governor, and the leader of Wuhuan, the subordinate state, was so greedy that the king led the people to surrender. After Gongsun Zan was promoted to Zhonglang General, he was named Dutinghou, and he was stationed in the subordinate state.

One day, when Gongsun Xu came back from practicing riding in the field, he heard someone calling him on the road, but when he turned around, it was Zhang Fei.I haven't seen Zhang Fei for three years, and Zhang Fei has become stronger and stronger. It turns out that Zhang Fei has made great progress in martial arts at home in the past three years. His father felt that there was nothing to teach him. He felt that he wanted to let him go to the army. It happened that Gongsun Zan was promoted to Zhonglang General again, and Zhang Yun retired. Zhang Fei took one letter with him and came to the Liaodong vassal state. Just when he came here, he happened to meet Gongsun Xu who was going back to the barracks.When the two met, they were naturally very happy.However, Gongsun Xu was calculating, plus Zhao Yun, Yan Liang, and Wen Chou who came to join the army years ago, plus Zhang Fei who came now, this strength is incredible.Although Zhang Fei is only a little over 16 years old now, he will grow up quickly after being honed in the army.

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