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

Chapter 474: Clearing the Field Before the Battle
"..." Zhao Yun looked at the rather nervous Fa Zheng with a somewhat strange expression, then took back his hand from Fa Zheng's wrist and said, "Xiao Zhi, do you feel any changes in your height and weight recently?"

"..." When Fa Zhengchu heard what Zhao Yun said, he was stunned for a moment and didn't understand what Zhao Yun meant.

"Ah?" Fa Zheng asked in a very puzzled voice, wanting Zhao Yun to explain in detail what he meant by what he said, but his current language system was stuck and he was temporarily unable to make his own sound, so he could only use interjections to express his doubts.

Before Zhao Yun could speak, Chen Xi said thoughtfully, "Well, although Zilong's conclusion is a bit strange and different from my previous guess, if you think about it carefully, the internal energy produced by the human body as a kind of energy is used in turn for human development, which is also a very reasonable explanation."

"Zichuan, stop asking riddles. What's going on with Xiaozhi?" Guo Jia asked impatiently. Although judging from the reactions of Chen Xi and Zhao Yun, Fa Zheng's situation was relatively normal, could he explain it to them who didn't know what was going on?

"In general, Xiaozhi is still in the stage of physical development. A considerable portion of the internal energy that has been infected in his body has been used to promote physical development. This has resulted in his spiritual will being unable to complete the infection of his body and internal energy." Chen Xi explained Fa Zheng's situation to others in relatively simple terms.

"Zichuan is right." Zhao Yun agreed with Chen Xi's opinion, and then said to Fa Zheng: "Xiaozhi, you should stop being picky about food in the future, otherwise you won't be able to complete the rendering of your spiritual will on your body and internal energy before your body absorbs enough energy for development."

"..." Fa Zheng felt a flame burning on his face. He felt that the temperature on his face should be enough to roast a piece of mutton. No, let's not talk about mutton. Let's change to other meats. Beef can also be roasted on the face.

"No way, Xiaozhi, you are actually picky about food? Don't you like vegetables?" Chen Xi looked at the wonderful expression on Fa Zheng's face and couldn't help but ask him. He really didn't expect that this was the reason why Fa Zheng couldn't break through to the Qi training stage.

The eyes of the others looking at Fa Zheng were also full of weirdness. Although they knew that Fa Zheng liked mutton cooked in bronze cauldron very much, he shouldn't like it to this extent, right?
It shouldn't be like this. After all, Fa Zheng is so old and he has a father looking after him at home. He can't be really picky about food, right?
Also, what did Zhao Yun say just now about Fa Zheng's internal energy being used by his body to promote his growth? Is this a new research result from the Academy of Medical Sciences?
"No! How can I be picky about food? I have always eaten normally. It's just that I ate a little too much cooked mutton. This shouldn't be considered picky about food, right?" Fa Zheng said extremely irritably. He didn't expect that eating too much mutton would lead to this situation.

"As for my height and weight, although I haven't checked them, I feel that there should have been big changes." Fa Zheng said with a frown. If Zhao Yun hadn't mentioned it, he wouldn't have felt anything about it.

If he didn't weigh himself, it would be difficult for him to notice that his height was different. No wonder he felt that his perspective on people had changed recently. It turned out that his height had changed. In the past two years, he had been busy studying and handling various government affairs, and he had not paid attention to this change.

No wonder Jiang Ying would look at him strangely when he came home after working outside for a month or two, and then make him a new set of clothes. It turned out that she found that his clothes no longer fit him.

Speaking of height, Fa Zheng's eyes unconsciously glanced at Guo Jia. If he looked straight ahead, it seemed that Guo Jia was even shorter than he is now. He didn't know if his growth spurt had ended. If not...

Guo Jia felt Fa Zheng's malicious gaze and glared at him, "Hey, Fa Xiaozhi, what are you looking at?"

Fa Zheng didn't even look at Guo Jia, but turned to Zhao Yun and asked, "Zilong, when will my physical development end?"

For some reason, everyone present could hear the anticipation in Fa Zheng's words. He seemed to be looking forward to the fact that he still had a long period of development.

"You shouldn't ask me this question, you should ask Zichuan. He knows more about this than I do." Zhao Yun looked at Chen Xi, who was good at medical knowledge about the operation of internal energy and meridians.

"You." Chen Xi took a look at Fa Zheng's current height, and then recalled Fa Yan's height. Fa Zheng is now a few centimeters taller than Fa Yan.

"Generally speaking, a boy's bones stop growing between the ages of eighteen and twenty. As for when this period ends, it depends on the individual." Chen Xi looked at Fa Zheng, who had grown to a height of over 1.7 meters. Maybe after Fa Zheng's growth period officially ends, he will grow to over 1.8 meters.

However, the average height of the Han people at that time was about 1.7 meters, and Fa Zheng's height did not seem to reflect the advantage of his birth in a family of great Confucian scholars.

"So it means I still have the possibility to grow taller?" Fa Zheng didn't care that he was already eighteen years old and his height development was almost at its limit. He only knew that he still had two years to grow.

"That's the theory." Chen Xi nodded. Strictly speaking, Fa Zheng still has about two years of bone development. If he can get enough nutrition, it is still possible for his height to grow further.

"I guess the reason you haven't been able to break through to the Qi training stage is probably because your body is accumulating the energy needed for the next development." Zhao Yun gave his diagnosis.

Fa Zheng was quite satisfied with Zhao Yun's diagnosis. He said that he would eat well after returning home and try to increase his height and weight. It would be best if he could be a head taller than Guo Jia.

"That's not right. Since the physical development in youth requires internal energy to replenish the energy needed for development, why didn't Yuanzhi have something similar to Xiaozhi?" Guo Jia raised a question again. He still doubted Zhao Yun's diagnosis.

"Do you think I can compare with Yuan Zhi in this regard?" Fa Zheng glanced at Guo Jia. This guy just wanted to deny the possibility of him continuing to grow taller.

Guo Jia stopped talking. After all, in terms of physical fitness and internal energy cultivation, Fa Zheng really couldn't compare with Xu Shu. It had been several years since Xu Shu had broken through to the level of Qi training and internal energy cultivation.

I heard that he is about to break through and leave his body. He is completely different from Cheng Yu, the unlucky guy who still needs to go to the battlefield to find an opportunity for a breakthrough. I can only say that this is the advantage of youth.

Hearing Fa Zheng mentioning himself, Xu Shu just smiled and said nothing. After all, he was the one with the highest martial arts value among this group of civil officials. Even a ruthless man like Cheng Yu was slightly inferior to him in this respect. After all, who told him to be young? Youth is an asset.

Oh, by the way, don’t count Zhao Yun in this. He is a military general. He is with the civil officials just in a different skin. Don’t really treat him as a civil official.

And... Chen Xi. Xu Shu looked at Chen Xi with a flickering look in his eyes. This guy Chen Xi was just relying on the numerical advantage of his internal energy leaving the body to suppress him.

If he succeeded in breaking through... he would let Chen Xi see what it meant to be a person with inner energy that was born from the body and spirit, and what kind of fighting power he possessed. "Hmm? Why do I feel like there is a malicious intent surrounding me?" Chen Xi frowned, as if someone was talking about him and drawing a circle to curse him.

"Oh, then it's probably Yuan Benchu's people who are talking about you. They are probably trying to get rid of you, the chief civil official, first." Fan Qin said with a sneer. He was sure that some noble family on Yuan Shao's side must have obtained specific information about Chen Xi. After all, Mount Tai did not prohibit merchants and travelers from all over the world from entering.

"Is that so? Never mind, let's just blame it on them." Although he still had some doubts, Chen Xi had no other ideas at this time, so he could only accept Fan Qin's guess for now.

"Okay, finish drinking this meat porridge and soup quickly. We are officially going to start a war with the enemy today." Chen Xi had already heard the drums outside and could not help but urge these people.

Li You, Jia Xu and others also heard the drum sounds and quickened the pace of drinking porridge and soup. Now was not the time to taste the porridge and soup made from the meat of the world-breaking beast.

Before the second drum sounded, everyone finally finished the porridge and broth in the food box that Zhao Yun brought. While drinking, they complained to Zhao Yun why he brought so much food, which made them almost unable to finish it.

Zhao Yun did not refute their opinion, but just looked at these civil officials who were about to go to the battlefield with a smile on his face. He believed that when they arrived at the battlefield and began to digest the food in their stomachs, they would know why he brought so many with him.

"Okay, let's gather quickly. It's already the second drum beat. If we don't hurry up, we will miss the third drum beat." Zhao Yun reminded them. Although with their average Qi training strength, they would not miss the gathering place in five minutes, but it was good to arrive early. After all, as high-ranking military officials, they had to set an example for the soldiers below.

In less than five minutes, before the second drum beat ended, the people who had been drinking porridge in the tent just now had now appeared in the central army tent, and Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Hua Xiong and others had also sat in their seats.

"Okay, the relevant personnel have all arrived. Yunchang, the rest of the matters will be left to you to command." Liu Bei glanced around and found that everyone who should have come had arrived, so he turned to Guan Yu and said.

"Yes." Guan Yu opened his eyes and stood up, then looked around at the generals, officers, military advisors and soldiers in the tent, and added: "I will live up to the trust of the lord."

With the help of these people, Guan Yu didn't believe that he couldn't defeat Yuan Shao.

After arranging several other matters, Liu Bei handed over the control of the scene to Guan Yu. The role of him and Chen Xi was to support Guan Yu so that Guan Yu could fully exert his military command ability.

Soon, under Guan Yu's command, the army slowly and steadily arrived at the previously designated battlefield. All the people nearby had been relocated in order to make room for the more than 400,000 troops on both sides to fight.

This decisive battle between Liu and Yuan did not take place along the entire bank of the Yellow River as in other world lines. Instead, the two sides agreed to fight a major battle in Yanzhou Dongjun and Jiyin County.

The mode of large-scale battle was proposed by Liu Bei. After all, the fighting in the northern border was still going on, and it was impossible for Liu Bei and his men to spend several months fighting with Yuan Shao repeatedly along the Yellow River.

God knows how the Huns on the northern grasslands will react when they are struggling with Yuan Shao. Especially when Hu Yanchu's spiritual talent is to see the future, this matter cannot be delayed any longer.

It would be bad if the other side really took advantage of the pressure brought by the Han Dynasty to integrate all the ethnic minorities in the northern border. After all, the Northern Huns really had the strength to integrate the ethnic minorities on the northern grasslands.

Although the Northern Huns were in decline, they at least inherited some of the heritage of the Hun Empire. Wouldn't it be a simple matter to defeat a kingdom-level force on the grassland?
Although the grassland ethnic minorities were difficult to control after they gathered together, it was relatively easy for the Northern Huns to suppress the various grassland tribes with their inherited heritage.

Moreover, it is not necessary to control the conflicts between tribes. After all, the Khan of the Northern Xiongnu is a wise Xiongnu. Wouldn't it be better to let conflicts break out among the grassland tribes that dislike each other, and then have the Northern Xiongnu act as an arbitrator?

For this reason, Chen Xi and his men decided to fight a major battle, a battle that would determine the outcome. While fully utilizing their own large army's military command capabilities, they would also let the other side recognize the gap between their forces.

The people on Yuan Shao's side were actually very clear about the gap in strength between themselves and Liu Bei's side, because Liu Bei never thought of hiding it.

A 150,000-strong dual-talented infantry corps with internal energy, plus a 60,000-strong cavalry corps, a total of 210,000 dual-talented corps, plus the unarmed Flying Bear Army and the reorganized Yulin Army.

For someone like Ju Yi who is good at training soldiers, do you think he would not be able to see the level of Liu Bei's military deployment?

Although in the eyes of military strategists like Ju Yi who adhere to classicism, the double-talented legion is at most just regular soldiers with qualified quality and above adequate organizational ability.

But these classicists had to admit one thing, that the combat effectiveness of the double-talented legion was already at a super elite level, although it was only the lower limit, but if they fought madly and their will was stimulated to the limit, they could even defeat the decisive battle arms like the three-talented military soul.

Moreover, the most important reason why Ju Yi kept silent about the route of developing a dual-talent legion was that the difficulty of forming a dual-talent legion was really more than one level lower than that of a super elite legion. Otherwise, he would not be able to come up with 60,000 dual-talent legions now.

Although he had 210,000 double talents compared to 60,000 double talents, the advantage was not on his side, and there was also a large army commanding him on the opposite side.

However, Ju Yi felt that he could give it a try, because someone from the Yuan family sent Yuan Shao a secret technique produced by Taishan Academy, a secret technique that could bestow the abilities of some people on another person.

(End of this chapter)