Chapter 267: Cao Cao's Shock

Cao Cao is a smart man, but also a very careful person.

A few days ago, Cao Cao didn't observe too many things, thinking that it would be of no use to let the soldiers turn left and right.

But carefully, after a few days, he observed that many aspects of the soldiers had changed.

Especially in terms of mental outlook, there is a refreshing feeling.

Not to mention anything else, let's just say that many people came to serve as soldiers just for a bite of food. Although they came, they looked lifeless.

But today's soldiers slowly began to glow with vitality.

"This Zhang Yu is a rich man. If you make this way of eating, the military salary given by the imperial court will not be enough."

Cao Cao knew the situation of Zhang Yu's army quite well. They ate three meals a day, and they were full, and there was meat in two meals.

Nowadays, it is very difficult for many soldiers to eat enough. They still want to eat meat. It is estimated that they cannot eat twice a month.

But Cao Cao deliberately asked people to go back to investigate and calculate. The food for these 6,000 people cost tens of thousands of dollars a day.

But Cao Cao discovered Zhang Yu's intentions after a few days.

"This food can not only quickly improve the morale of the soldiers and give them hope for life, but also quickly improve their physical fitness."

Obviously, many people didn't have enough to eat before, but now they are not only full, but also have meat every day. These people naturally recover quickly.

They were carefully selected in the first place, they are of good quality, and with good food, they naturally recover quickly.

After they slowly recovered, Cao Cao also found that their training intensity was gradually increasing.

"As expected, Zhang Yu has a way of leading troops. Not to mention how much combat power they have, these people have been trained in a very orderly manner in just a few days, and the order in the army is good." Cao Cao summed up another point.

Nowadays, soldiers work, rest, walk, eat and sleep according to the rules. They are very organized, and the entire military operation is very orderly.

That's why Cao Cao admired him very much.

Regardless of Cao Cao, he still believes that although these benefits are great, they have little effect on improving combat effectiveness.

Zhang Yu has been training for so long, just training these things, he has never trained soldiers to fight and form troops.

"What the hell is this Zhang Yu doing? He didn't even train for battle formation. You know, it's impossible for soldiers to train for battle formation within half a year, but he, Zhang Yu, hasn't started yet."

Cao Cao observed Zhang Yu's barracks for half a month.

One day, Cao Cao no longer came alone, but brought several people.

"Meng De, you hurriedly summoned our brothers from Chenliu just to show us Zhang Yu's military training?" Cao Hong said.

"Not exactly." Cao Cao looked at Xiahou and Cao's clansmen beside him and said, "Before Zhang Yu fought against Liu Bei's generals, let me know that relying on my strength alone is too weak, so I summoned you to come over and take You come to see Zhang Yu's military training, because I discovered a lot of shocking and incomprehensible things, so I bring you to watch."

It turned out that after the battle between Guan Yu and Dian Wei that day, Cao Cao sent someone back to call people from the Cao family and the Xiahou family.

"Take a look separately first. I have already greeted Zhang Yu. As for the others, we will talk in detail when we go back tonight."

After Cao Cao finished speaking, he asked them to watch the soldiers training separately.

At the end of the day, Cao Cao observed carefully, not letting go of any details.

Cao Cao almost went off to practice with the soldiers himself.

If it was in his own barracks, Cao Cao would not hesitate to do so, but this is someone else's territory, so he has to take his own identity into account.

Another day passed, and Cao Cao returned to the city.

"You all talk about it." Cao Cao said to the people who went to see the military training together today.

Cao Ren spoke first, "Meng De, among other things, the order of Zhang Yu's barracks is really good. He is indeed a good general."

Cao Cao nodded and let the others continue.

Xiahoudun said: "Meng De, I just can't figure it out. Their barracks are indeed very orderly and disciplined, but they turn left and right all day long.

Walking around, what kind of combat power can you have? It is estimated that on the battlefield, you will step over as soon as you are rushed by the enemy. "

Cao Hong, Xia Houyuan and others also expressed their opinions one after another.

Everyone is not optimistic about Zhang Yu's training methods.

"One thing you may not know is that it has only been 18 days since the recruitment of this army was completed. In just 18 days, Zhang Yu was able to do this. Regardless of the combat effectiveness, it is absolutely amazing." etc. After they finished speaking, they spoke seriously to several people.

Everyone listened to Cao Cao's unbelievable look.

On the training ground, they saw that a few soldiers led dozens of soldiers to train. During the training, those veterans taught carefully and corrected them one by one.

Of course, the training is also very strict. If there is an order, if someone makes a wrong move, or if they don't pay attention during training, those so-called instructors will punish them.

The punishment is just a hundred or so "push-ups."

In the eyes of Cao Cao and the others, this push-up is easy to complete, but what they don't know is that this is also training, and at the same time, people have a sense of shame. It is very embarrassing to be punished in front of all comrades.

From their point of view, this might not be of much use to combat power, but no one doubted the effectiveness of these trainings.

At least it can quickly make a newly formed soldier run in quickly and become a well-disciplined army.

As for combat effectiveness, Cao Cao has always had reservations.

Cao Cao carefully studied Zhang Yu's past battles. Zhang Yu never had an advantage in military strength, but he won every time, so Cao Cao did not doubt the combat effectiveness of Zhang Yu's army.

It's just that Cao Cao thought that Zhang Yu deliberately didn't do other training because he was watching it all the time, but just showed him the training.

"This Zhang Yu is guarding me, how can I know how he trains behind him, I don't believe that Zhang Yu has no other good training methods, you must know that he has suffered a lot of casualties on the battlefield, and then he will continue to replenish new troops. Without good training methods, recruiting recruits, and commanding will reduce the combat effectiveness of the army." Cao Cao said.

"Meng De, this Zhang Yu is defending us, but if he can defend for a while, he can't stop training. When the eight school lieutenants are formed and camp together for training, then Zhang Yu can't do without training." Cao Ren said.

Cao Cao nodded, it was just a pity that he has the most time now, and he will also train when the Eighth Colonel is formed, where is the time.

If Zhang Yu hears their speculations, Zhang Yu will definitely feel wronged. He is not trying to hide it from them, but it is really not the time to train others.

From Zhang Yu's point of view, recruits' queue training takes at least one month, which is less than twenty days.

But one month later, although training others, the queue training still has to train every day.