Overlord!

Chapter 15 Selecting a strong general, Zhou Tai starts in the army

The soldiers were enthusiastic and their morale was like a rainbow. Sun Ce laughed and said, "Good! Then let me talk about the standards for eating meat. Any of you who meet any of these items can come and eat meat."

"the first item!"

"Anyone who has read a book, can read or write, or knows how to count, regardless of whether they are disabled or not, regardless of whether they are male, female, old or weak, even if they are young, can come and share a piece of beef!"

Scholars are really scarce in this era.

The Jiangdong civilization is far inferior to that of the Central Plains, and it is extremely scarce.

The degree of scarcity is enough to make future generations dumbfounded!
Many county magistrates and magistrates in Jiangdong are illiterate.For example, Pan Zhang, a famous general of Soochow Wu, who was known as a rascal, rascal, bully, and jerk, also had to serve as the county magistrate of Xi'an.

Huang Gai can read and write, but he is a martial artist. When he was the magistrate of Shicheng County, he himself said: "The commander is not virtuous. He only uses martial arts as an official, not a civil servant."

But for this kind of warrior who fought in wars, he also successively served as county magistrates and county magistrates in nine counties.

Therefore, in this era, an important part of appreciating capable ministers is to set up schools and promote education under the rule.

If this is the case in governing the region, let alone in the army, the generals Zhang Yu of Soochow can be found everywhere.

Sima Jiang Qin, the most powerful Sima in the current army, is someone who can't read a single word.

People in the later generations dare not imagine that the general who commanded thousands of troops is actually an illiterate and reckless man!Ordinary people, dare to entrust the army to such a reckless man with single-digit intelligence?How is this different from Dian Wei, Xu Chu, and Fan Kui?

Sun Ce planned to teach the soldiers to read and write in the army. He didn't expect them to grow up to be great governors like Lu Meng.

After listening to what Sun Ce said, the soldiers looked at each other in blank dismay. In this era, only virtue and virtue can convince people, but he is not only talented.

Men, women, old and weak, and even children can eat beef because of literacy?
None of the soldiers and heroes in the army thought about this kind of thing.Other women also learn silk reeling and weaving, and those who have some qualifications learn to play the harp, and very few people learn to write.

But within ten steps, there must be fragrant grass.In a city of ten chambers, there must be wise men.

There are 5000 people in the army, with various backgrounds and origins. Soon someone came out of each queue and asked, "General, I have read "The Moon Order of the Four People" in Wubao, and I know some characters. Where can I write?"

"Monthly Order of the Four People" is a monograph of the Eastern Han Dynasty to guide the routine farming activities of the tyrants and manors for a year, and it is the family calendar of the landlord's management.A powerful organization of production obviously needs to read this book step by step.Among the sparse crowd, more than a dozen people said that they had read this book.

Sun Ce said with a smile: "Commander Fengxian has prepared bunkers and reeds. All of you who can read should go and write. As long as you can write the words that Governor Fengxian asked, you will be considered qualified."

It is indeed a bit difficult to promote enlightenment in the army in this era.

But as long as the thinking is not slippery, there are always more ways than difficulties!
A famous idiom, Huadi teaches children.It is about the great writer Ouyang Xiu's family was poor when he was a child, his mother taught him to read with reeds on the ground.

With this simple method, a female stream can teach the top writers, politicians, prime ministers, grand masters, and Dukes of Chu in the Song Dynasty!

Sun Ce felt that he might not be able to teach several princes and princes in the army.Who said that there must be paper, ink, brush and inkstone to promote culture and education?
When Huang Gai was a child, his family was poor, and his infant was very difficult. He prepared for hardships, but he still had great ambitions. He often paid his salary to improve himself. He studied hard, learned books, and taught military affairs.

That is, when he was a child, his family was poor and almost drowned him in the water.Not to mention paper, he may not have even seen bamboo slips, and he also learned to read and write in the soil next to the school.

People who have ambitions and forge ahead have more opportunities to change their destiny than others.

Hard work pays off.These 120 seven people who still insisted on studying and enriching themselves in the difficult and chaotic times were all given a piece of beef, and were organized into a team separately, and they were directly led by Sun Cedu from then on.

The treatment of these people tickles other people's hearts.

A cow was divided into 120 and seven yuan, which is a big loss!

The other brave men looked at the empty iron kettle and the dwindling amount of beef in the remaining iron kettle, and they couldn't sit still in a hurry.

Someone couldn't help asking: "General, apart from reading and writing, isn't a lieutenant soldier worthy of eating meat?"

Sun Ce said with a smile: "Of course, martial arts are important in the army. Then eating meat will depend on how good your martial arts are!"

And what is the main focus of martial arts?
Sun Ce didn't need to say much about this. In Dahan, everyone knew that in the martial arts examination, the most important thing was bow and arrow.

You said that you are excellent in martial arts, but you can't shoot arrows?What's the difference between a tailor saying he can't use scissors and a carpenter saying he can't use a plane?
So Sun Ce said directly: "Second item, those who know how to shoot arrows go to Sun Sima's place. Sun Sima sets a target for [-] steps, and if he hits three or more out of six arrows, he can come and eat meat!"

Thirty-step target is really a very low standard.

The heavy infantry of the Song army was very capable of fighting. The assessment criteria for the archers of the Dianqian Division and the Infantry Division of the Southern Song Dynasty were sixty-step targets, twelve arrows, and six arrows hitting the pile.
That is to shoot twelve arrows, at least six arrows must hit the target sixty steps away to be considered qualified.

This is the assessment standard for the troops of the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is not the standard for the forbidden army that swept across the four corners of the country when the Northern Song Dynasty was founded.

It can be said that all the assessment standards set by Sun Ce are only half of those of the troops of the Southern Song Dynasty.

If you don't even have this level, then don't join the bow and arrow team to make up for it. What kind of meat do you eat?

The soldiers with bows and arrows immediately rejoiced and shouted, "Long live the general!"

"It's someone's turn to eat meat, hahaha!"

"Let's see a certain arrow hit the bull's-eye and pick a big piece of fat!"

More than 300 soldiers went to Sun He with bows and arrows.

Sun Ce is not bragging, although there are more than 5000 soldiers in the battalion, there are only more than [-] soldiers with bows and arrows.After making a selection, it would be nice for a qualified archer to have two tuns.The others are all pawns with short soldiers and no armor.

Of course, in this era, the armies of most princes are at this level.

Each of them claims to have tens of thousands of people, but in fact most of them are young and strong. Those who can give them a sword and spear to go to the battlefield are considered well-armed and well-organized.Most of them didn't even issue weapons, and the soldiers figured out what to do with it.

Under such circumstances, Sun Ce is convinced that if he gathers the archers in the army and forms two or three villages of crossbowmen, where they are deployed, it will simply reduce the dimensionality of the enemy.

Looking at today's martial arts selection, you can tell that archers are the elite of an army.There is a world of difference in the difficulty of training between them and crossbowmen.

Under normal circumstances, whether an army is elite or not depends on the proportion of crossbowmen in his army.

Both the Qin army and the Western Han Dynasty implemented a conscription system. For such a large-scale conscripted army, all the citizens went to the battlefield to kill people, so there was not much time to train archers. In order to maintain long-range firepower, the proportion of crossbowmen was extremely high.

The Fifth School of the Northern Army of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Anxi Army of the Tang Army are professional soldiers, and their proportion of bows and arrows is relatively high, even exceeding [-]%.The proportion of crossbowmen is relatively reduced.

However, this is only a general situation and cannot be generalized.After all, in the 5000-year history of war, there are all kinds of situations.

But one thing is certain, the elite army with cavalry, bow and crossbow coordination must be very powerful in combat effectiveness.

Sun Ce has now mobilized warriors from the army to form elite cavalry and professional crossbow troops. As long as they are commanded properly, their combat power will be greatly improved.

It is easy to defeat the armies of other princes by attacking the crowd with less.

The more does not necessarily win the less, but the strong can definitely win the weak!
After the selection of archers began, the other soldiers scratched their heads anxiously.

Especially those soldiers with brute force, they feel that they are domineering and fierce, and other soldiers would not dare to mess with them on weekdays.

They felt they could have beef tonight no matter what.

But after two consecutive rounds of selection, hundreds of people got to share the delicious beef. Seeing that if this continues, they may not be able to drink the beef soup, and all of them are so anxious that their eyes are red.

How does the general choose some useless things?Those who play with ink, or those who hide in dark corners and shoot arrows, which one is a brave hero?Who can roar and charge, break through the formation and kill the enemy like myself?
All of them were breathing heavily from their noses, and their necks were flushed red.

But the fact is so cruel, what they thought to be brave is completely worthless in the eyes of the princes, and it is even just the bravery of ordinary people.

Any prince can easily capture tens of thousands of such apprentices, and give them a spear to drive them into battle.

Sun Ce, a down-and-out wandering prince who didn't even have a county and hadn't started a family, gathered more than 5000 apprentices casually under his command.

Fortunately, in order to appease the soldiers, Sun Ce still said the last thing: "There is a saying in the art of war, and there must be warriors in the army. There must be those who are capable. If this is the case, choose and leave, love and value, this is called military order.”

Afterwards, Sun Ce swung his long saber and put it on his shoulder. He glanced around and looked at the soldiers with contempt, and said, "The third item! Anyone who feels brave and brave in the army can take a step forward! I will test my skills and be able to be a master of three swords, you can choose whatever you want from the beef in the cauldron behind me!"

"roar~"

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

The soldiers of the three armies roared wildly and excitedly in an instant.

This vigorous and vigorous spirit immediately ignited the morale of the whole army. The morale of the three armies was high, and the morale of the army was like a rainbow.

The phalanx of 5000 people raised their arms and cheered, and roared with open chests. The large-scale military capacity is flourishing, and the hope is like a fire, and the hope is in full swing!

This is the golden and iron horse, the most magnificent charm on the military battlefield.

With such a fierce general, his army is destined to be brave and fearless, brave and good at fighting!
Immediately, a burly and fierce warrior came out with an iron ax in both hands. He was more than eight feet tall, and the iron ax in his hand was as tall as half a person. The blue rope, but the rope has now been stained with a large amount of black blood, which shows how many enemies this iron ax has killed.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers on the side cheered even more frantically. Obviously, many of them knew this warrior in the army.

The other party walked up to Sun Ce, stood with an ax upside down by his feet, clasped his fists with his hands, and saluted Sun Ce, "Jiujiang Zhoutai, the head of the general's tent, please give it a try, and ask the general to enlighten me!"

Sun Ce smiled heartily, Zhou Tai!

As long as anyone pays attention to the history of the Three Kingdoms, it is impossible not to know this famous Soochow general.

He still has a famous name in later generations, God Zhou Tai!
In terms of bravery, he may only be under Sun Ce in Soochow.

Like Tai Shici, Gan Ning, Lu Meng, Zhu Huan, Ling Tong, etc., they are in the top row.

Zhou Tai's fiercest battle was also like Sun Ce's, fighting thousands of people with long swords.When Xuancheng was controlled by the young Sun Quan, thousands of bandits flocked to them. Sun Quan's command was wrong, and the soldiers were in chaos. The bandits' weapons were hacked onto Sun Quan's saddle. At this time, Zhou Tai stepped forward and fought with swords Thousands of people, heavy casualties.

It was under Zhou Tai's encouragement that the morale of the other Soochow soldiers was greatly boosted, and they defeated the bandits just now.

There are only a handful of fierce generals who can fight thousands of people with long swords, and there are clear records in the history of the Central Plains.

Zhou Tai is one of them, so you can imagine the level of his bravery and magnanimity.

But there is such a heroic Zhou Tai, in fact, his status is really not high in Jiangdong.

He and Jiang Qin were from the same county, and they both joined Sun Ce's command, but there was a big gap in status.

Jiang Qin voted because he led the crowd, and was quickly promoted to Sima of another department.

And Zhou Tai is undoubtedly far behind. Historically, until the three counties of Jiangdong were completely pacified (before Wang Lang, the prefect of Kuaiji, was completely defeated), he did not take Jiang Qin's current position, Sima of Biebu.

Sun Quan liked him very much when he was the county magistrate, and asked him to go over and follow him as a young general.

However, this is also related to his ability. He is not suitable to be the chief general, and he does not have the ability to lead an army like Yu Jin.

After Yu Jin welcomed Cao Cao into Yanzhou, he was named Dubo by Cao Cao just like his fellow party members.Du Bo is an officer who commands hundreds of people, and is at the same level as Zhou Tai's current official position.

Husband and fierce generals must be sent to the army. Yu Jin, like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, has a low starting point and is a grassroots soldier, but he can quickly stand out by relying on himself.

Yu Jin was quickly promoted to Sima, and began to lead an army alone when he attacked Xuzhou. He must win every battle and overcome every attack.This is definitely an achievement of leading troops in battle after battle.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are even more so.When Liu Bei rebelled, the two of them joined Liu Bei's army. At this time, Guan Yu was a vagabond, and Zhang Fei, as a brother, should not have too high a status.

In short, there is no doubt that the two of them have not yet led the army. It may be like the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that one is a horse archer and the other is an infantry archer.After all, both of them are good at martial arts, and it is reasonable to know how to shoot arrows. They should be the elite of Liu Bei's army.

But when Liu Bei entered the plains, the two of them quickly stood out and were promoted to be Sima of another department, and they were divided into three parts for Liu Bei.Even sleeping with Liu Bei is in the same bed, and eating is in the same table.

Compared with generals such as Yu Jin, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei who led the army alone and rose rapidly, Zhou Tai's rise was undoubtedly much slower, because more of his achievements were in defeating the enemy with the army.Follow Sun Ce, follow Zhou Yu, follow Cheng Pu and so on.

However, each general has its own use of force. Sun Ce picked up the long sword and looked at Zhou Tai with a smile. He had already thought of Zhou Tai's best place to serve.

He can fully demonstrate what an enemy of ten thousand people is among the ranks!

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