The Reincarnation of Lu Bu at the End of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 842
By the Qinghe River.

To the south of the river is an endless flat field.

At this moment, a fierce battle was going on here. Thousands of people fought together, and the sticks in their hands just greeted each other, and the scuffle became a mess.

Around the battlefield, tens of thousands of soldiers watched the battle, and no one intervened.

Lu Bu and the others came from the direction of the barracks, and before they got close, they could already hear the overwhelming momentum here.

On the wooden platform that was built, Qu Yi put one hand on his waist, with a rough aura of a bandit, he yelled at both sides: "Give me hard, hard! That's it, hit me hard!"

At this time, a soldier rushed to report: "General, the lord is here."

Hearing these words, Qu Yi looked in the direction the soldiers were pointing, and sure enough, he saw dozens of figures of different heights walking towards this direction.

It stands to reason that when the superior comes to visit, the general in the army should go to greet him as soon as he finds out.But Qu Yi didn't seem to be in a hurry, he didn't go down the steps until Lu Bu was about to reach this place, and went forward to meet him.

"The last general, Qu Yi, pay homage to the lord!"

Qu Yi bowed slightly as a courtesy.

Lu Bu waved his hand casually, and said calmly: "General Qu, you don't need to be too polite. I came here this time just to see how the recruits are doing?"

"Reporting to my lord, our army is conducting a drill, please look ahead."

As Qu Yi said, he led Lu Bu and the others to the side of the battlefield.

In the middle of the battlefield at this time, the two sides were fighting fiercely. Although the soldiers were holding sticks that were as high as ordinary weapons, when they fought, they were not ambiguous at all, as if they were each other's father-killing enemies generally.

Lu Bu witnessed with his own eyes that one soldier raised his wooden stick and hit the other soldier's chest heavily, without any fuss, the wooden stick in his hand cracked as he exerted all his strength.

The soldier who was hit by such a blow fell to the ground on the spot, but he didn't cry out for pain. He lay on his stomach, gritted his teeth, kicked his legs and crawled, still trying to get up and continue fighting.

The soldiers in the field were full of fighting spirit and did not give in to each other.

Xu Si, Tian Kai, and others who had just come to Lv Bu watched from the sidelines, terrified, and hurriedly said to Lv Bu, "My lord, this is no training, it's nothing but a group fight! If we continue to fight like this, we haven't met the enemy yet. I killed the big piece first. General Qu is just playing with the lives of the soldiers, please remove him from the post of chief general!"

"Qu Yi, what do you say?" Lu Bu asked the general beside him with a slight sideways glance.

Hearing this, Qu Yi gave Xu Si and the others a fierce look, and then said to Lu Bu, "My lord, let me explain in detail."

Then Qu Yi spoke slowly.

It turns out that after two months of training, the recruits have mastered the basic spear skills and momentum, but they lack the blood spirit to dare to go all out.

In order to test the results of the training of the soldiers, Qu Yi once pretended to be a thief and carried out a surprise attack during the day. As a result, the camp was easily breached. The recruits only cared about escaping without any resistance at all.

Or rather, there is no such awareness.

Qu Yi knew very well that even if such bloodless soldiers went to the battlefield in the future, there would be nothing but death waiting for them, and if they went against the trend, they would quickly disintegrate.

That's why Qu Yi came up with this method of sparring, with thousands of people as the unit, and whoever loses must accept severe punishment.

In this way, the soldiers on both sides will definitely work hard, and the bloodiness of the soldiers will be honed slowly.

"Didn't the soldiers hate you in private?" Lu Bu asked with a smile.

Qu Yi didn't seem to care about this, and said quite freely: "If you hate it, you can hate it. The general would rather they bleed more on weekdays, even if they get some ribs on credit, it is better than losing their lives on the battlefield in the future."

These words can't help but make people awe-inspiring.It also made many young generals see the demeanor that a general should have from him.

"Qu Yi, I just found out today that you are not as hateful as I imagined." Cao Jun grinned, and laughed with this General Yuan Jun who didn't like it at first.

"This method may be worth promoting."

Lu Bu said thoughtfully.

During the recruit training in previous years, most of the soldiers followed the orders of the commander in the camp, performing simple stabbing, hooking and blocking, as well as formation drills like puppets.

Before going to the battlefield, because many new soldiers have not experienced the test of blood and fire.As a result, many people went to the battlefield for the first time, holding weapons in their hands, but kept timid, with extremely strong fear in their hearts.

Take the moth thieves in those days as an example. Although the number of them is said to be in the millions, most of them are civilians who sneaked in halfway, just like recruits.

Only less than [-]% of the soldiers have real combat experience.

This is also one of the important reasons for the Yellow Turban's defeat.

Quantity can certainly boost morale, but the key to ultimately determining the outcome of the battlefield is the combat effectiveness between each other.Sun Tzu's Art of War mentioned that "soldiers are better than many", which is the truth.

After watching the fight of the soldiers, Lu Bu also deeply felt the blood emanating from the soldiers.

The soldiers who were injured and fell to the ground were all carried down to recuperate.

Qu Yi accompanied Lu Bu, leading the way and answering questions.

When Lu Bu asked about the Hebei Jinbow, Qu Yi ordered someone to fetch a crossbow, and gave a brief overview of its structure and usage.

The structure of a crossbow can be divided into three parts: arm, bow, machine. The "arm" is generally made of wood; the "bow" is across the front of the arm; the "machine" is installed behind the arm.

The most important part of the crossbow is the "machine". The crossbow machine is generally made of copper and installed in the crossbow; the front is the "teeth" for hanging strings, and the "teeth" is connected with "Wangshan", which is engraved with scales for easy Adjust the firing angle of the crossbow according to the target distance to improve the hit rate of shooting.There is a "hanging knife" (trigger) under the copper Guo, which is used to shoot arrows.

When using a crossbow to attack, you must first open the string, hold it on the "teeth" of the crossbow machine, install the arrow in the arrow groove on the "arm", aim through the "mountain lookout", and then pull the "hung" The "knife" makes the "teeth" shrink down, the string is unhooked, and the kinetic energy formed by the rapid rebound of the opened bowstring is used to shoot the arrow at high speed.

As he spoke, Qu Yi ordered people to set up an arrow target a hundred paces away.

Then he took the crossbow bolts from his personal soldiers and installed them in the crossbow machine.

He looked through the 'Wangshan' with his naked eyes and adjusted the firing angle. The moment he lightly pulled the trigger, the sharp arrow in the crossbow shot out violently.

thump~
Hit the bullseye!

This kind of hit effect brought about by high-speed lasing is extremely visually impactful.

"Daddy, this is fun, I want to try it too!"

Little Bell's eyes were shining brightly, and she tugged at the hem of her father's clothes, and spoke excitedly.

(End of this chapter)