Xuande

Chapter 685 Tiger Guards

Before the year of Jian'an, Liu Bei's reputation was great, but not that great.

After the Jian'an Year, Liu Bei's reputation grew year by year, and soon spread throughout the Han people like thunder.

And with the spread of his fame, the news that he treats his subordinates very well, especially his cronies, also spread widely. Everyone said that if he could be summoned by the general Liu Bei, he would be a smoldering sword from the ancestral grave. matter.

Ordinary people have rules to follow when recruiting their subordinates, but this great general pays attention to recruiting his subordinates as he pleases, regardless of your background or age, as long as the general is interested, he will directly summon you.

Others don't know why Liu Bei summoned those people. Asking is just a dream, and it doesn't make sense at all.

However, these guys whom he had dreamed about were all capable, and they were not simple people. Even if they came from a humble and ordinary background, they were actually talents.

Governing government affairs, marching and fighting, everyone can come in handy, and they all have a little bit of meaning of being a worthy minister of Yingmeng.

Therefore, in Luoyang City, the urban legend of the Eastern Han Dynasty that Liu Bei was good at meeting people in dreams spread.

Some people even ridiculed, saying that Liu Bei was not very good at recognizing people when he was awake, so he was tricked by Gongsun Zan, but in the dream, he picked one and picked one.

So now, what many people who think they have some ability want nothing more than to be dreamed by a general, and then be summoned, and then they will be famous all over the world, their value will double, their fate will be reversed, and a new era will be ushered in.

Xu Chu and Dian Wei were originally little-known little people, but once they were dreamed by Liu Bei, they directly became the central figures of the local topic, made the headlines directly, and were heatedly discussed by people.

But this is meaningless to those two people, they just want to fly to Luoyang as soon as possible and fall into the warm embrace of General Liu.

In various senses, Xu Chu is much more heroic than Dian Wei.

Dian Wei came alone, and Xu Chu set off directly to Luoyang with two hundred strong men.

He expressed that he wanted to bring these strong young people to join the army and join the team of the general. Everyone admired the general's martial arts, so he wanted to serve the general.

Among these people, there are quite a few clan members, as well as people with other surnames. They are basically the Xu family's team of thugs to maintain their status and existence in the local area.

Liu Bei was amused by this.

He only wanted one, why did he bring two hundred by the way?

However, one of the two hundred young people is indeed considered as one. They are all strong men. Ask about their ages, they are all men in their teens and twenties. train.

Liu Bei curiously asked Xu Chu how these people trained. Xu Chu said that some elders in his family had served in the army and served in the army.

In order to survive well in the local area these days, sufficient martial virtue is a necessary condition. If martial virtue is not sufficient, nothing can be defended.

Liu Bei nodded, feeling that the elders in Xu Chu's family were not simple people.

Because this selection of personal guards is for the whole army, the most courageous and best at fighting warriors in the whole army should be selected to become Liu Bei's personal guards. Both Wei and Wei will participate in the selection of the whole army.

It can be said that this is a typical selection of the best. All the warriors and elites are selected. If officers above the captain are not allowed to participate in the selection, it is estimated that many outstanding officers above the captain will also participate in the selection.

In the subsequent selection of the whole army, the main selection items are hand-to-hand combat, quick formation battle and quick guardian breakthrough battle.

The most dangerous of these is of course the assessment of the rapid guard breakthrough battle. This assessment item requires the sword, shield, spearman and crossbowman to maintain the army formation in an extremely chaotic and dangerous environment to ensure Liu Bei's safety.

The purpose of this selection is very clear, which is to simulate the situation when Liu Bei was assassinated and in distress.

When the enemy is far more than the headquarters, when the enemy suddenly breaks out, the guards need to respond quickly, be good at fighting, dare to fight, and be able to quickly form an formation, protect Liu Bei in the middle, and use their lives to ensure Liu Bei's safety escape.

After rounds of screening, only more than 100 people made it to the final selection.

The final selection will have to face more than seven times the sneak attack of enemies who do not speak martial arts. The guards need to face more than seven times the encirclement and attacks of enemies in extremely dangerous situations. They need to protect Liu Bei with their lives in such a desperate situation. out of danger.

The selection that Cheng Yu took the time to preside over was very simulating the real situation.

The elite soldiers participating in the selection need to protect Liu Bei's protected object, and fight desperately under the siege of assassins or enemy troops in order to break out of the encirclement, and must ensure that Liu Bei is not injured. If Liu Bei is injured, then mission failed.

To be honest, this kind of selection criteria, this kind of assessment method, even Liu Bei felt outrageous after seeing it in person... If he really fell into this field, what would he look like?
So he couldn't help complaining to Cheng Yu.

"Zhongde, I know you want to protect me, and I know that you have good intentions, but isn't this a bit too much? In this case, you let me personally command me, and I'm not sure I can escape without injury."

"It's not about you, it's about them."

Cheng Yu whispered: "It doesn't matter what you think, it doesn't matter what you do, it doesn't matter what you did, their goal is to let you leave the dangerous place safely under any circumstances. No matter where the danger comes from."

Liu Bei immediately gave Cheng Yu a thumbs up.

Good guy, if you plan a security plan for Cao Cao when you are in Wancheng, even if he and Zhang Xiu's sister-in-law spend ten nights in spring, they will definitely be preserved.

With Cheng Yu's overall plan, Cao Cao might not even have to get off Zhang Xiu's sister-in-law's bed when Zhang Xiu leads a sneak attack.

People always ridicule that they have the ambition of Cao thief but do not have Dian Wei, Cao Ang and Cao Anmin to protect him, but Liu Bei now has Dian Wei, Xu Chu, and Cheng Yu personally handles the security plan for him and prepares everything for him. At the limit, does this prove that...

Can Liu Xuande inherit Prime Minister Cao's ambition?

Forget it, just talk, how could Liu Xuande do such a thing?

He read Spring and Autumn.

But Cheng Yu was really serious.

After careful selection, it took a lot of effort, and finally the strongest guards were selected from among the 1000 people.

Then there is a big contest within the pro-guard army, which is used to determine the strongest people in the end to be the person in charge of the pro-guard next to Liu Bei.

They caught each other and fought hand to hand, one thousand into five hundred, five hundred into two hundred and five, two hundred and five into 120, 120 into sixty, sixty into thirty, thirty into fifteen, after six rounds of fighting, the final 15 were selected The people are the officers of the SS.

These fifteen people finally had a personal military skill competition, competing in hand-to-hand combat, knife skills, spear skills, horseback archery, strength, durability, etc., and selected the best, most resistant and always vigilant people from multiple levels .

The winner in the end was Xu Chu, and the No.2 was Dian Wei.

The two are really strong in combat and have a certain level of command ability. The elites in the army have never won against them because they are under a lot of pressure.

Cheng Yu had to admire Liu Bei's ability to dream.

You can find a capable person like yourself in any dream, and you can find animal-level figures like Xu Chu and Dian Wei in any dream...

What he, Ying Meng's virtuous minister, said is becoming more and more mysterious now.

Almost everything he dreams about can make a career. Many people say in private that Liu Bei is a little bit like Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu, and he has some mysterious and mysterious abilities, which are very useful.

In this regard, Liu Bei did not make any comments.

Because it is the pro-guard army, although the number is small, the military ranks are higher than that of the general army. The general army has 3000 talents to set up a battalion, with a school lieutenant to lead it, and the pro-guard army has 1000 personnel, and there are two school lieutenants.

In the end, according to Liu Bei's reference opinions and comprehensive results, Cheng Yu announced that Xu Chu and Dian Wei would serve as the captains of the pro-guard army as generals, and divide the pro-guard army into two parts.

The two parts usually take turns serving as Liu Bei's personal guards, one is in charge of the morning shift and the other is in charge of the evening shift. The officers take turns to work and take charge alternately.

When Liu Bei needs to go out, then Xu Chu and Dian Wei will take the personal guards and Liu Bei to go out together.

Wherever Liu Bei is, the pro-guard army will be there. When Liu Bei charges, the pro-guard army will also charge. The highest duty of the pro-guard army is to bring Liu Bei back to Luoyang safely from any place.

For this reason, at any cost, even if the entire army is wiped out, Liu Bei's absolute safety must be guaranteed.

Therefore, at the end of June in the fourth year of Jian'an, the personal guards responsible for Liu Bei's safety were formally established, and Liu Bei personally named this force the Tiger Guards.

(End of this chapter)