The Tiger Guard Battalion, also known as the Iron Man Brigade, is organized in the left and right armed guard battalions, numbering thousands of people, wearing heavy armor all over the body, wearing iron helmets, iron armor, iron arms, and iron skirts, even the face is also attached to the iron mask, only the eyes, mouth and nose are exposed, carrying bows and arrows, holding Teng shields and sabers, belonging to hoplites.The Tiger Guard Battalion was formed by Cao Cao and led by Xu Chu, who was initially responsible for keeping Cao Cao and his family safe, and rarely participated in the war.Until Cao Cao's death, he continued to protect Cao Pi, but due to the tight war, the establishment of the Tiger Guard Battalion was also reduced.Later, Cao Pi died unexpectedly, succeeded by Cao Rui, and when fighting with the Zhao army, the strength of the Tiger Guard Battalion plummeted again, and it is estimated that there are less than 1,000 people at this moment, but it is worth mentioning that the Tiger Guard Battalion is in charge of Sima Yi, the prime minister of Wei.You must know that when Sima Yi debuted and entered the Cao family as a courtier, he was monitored by Cao Cao.With Cao Cao's intelligence and discerning vision, he naturally saw through Sima Yi's ambition at a glance, and before Cao Cao's death, he told his son Cao Pi to be careful of Sima Yi.In this way, although Sima Yi is an important minister of the Wei State, he has never been qualified to be in charge of the military, but Sima Yi belongs to the kind of guy who is extremely able to forbear, and his rebellious heart is extremely strong, the more you hit, the more restless he wants to go against the grain.From the beginning, Sima Yi trained the general Niu Jin, but he didn't want Niu Jin to be captured by the Zhao army, so Sima Yi had to do it again and began to train his own people.In order to be able to take advantage of the opportunity to control the military power, Sima Yi endured it for many years, and even single-handedly planned Cao Pi's death and blamed Xu Huang.At this moment, when the Wei State was in chaos, Sima Yi did not hesitate to lead his cronies and sons to support Cao Rui to ascend the throne in order to inherit the great cause.In this way, Sima Yi has the merit of supporting the establishment, and the two major positions of official prime minister and general civil and military can be said to be the top position.Due to Cao Pi's accidental death, Sima Yi also checked and balanced his crime on Xu Chu and punished him for dereliction of duty.However, Sima Yi has a ghost in his heart after all, and even at this moment, Wei is extremely short of talents, and according to Xu Chu's dereliction of duty, he can be beheaded to show the public.But Sima Yi stood up, and on the surface, Xu Chu had made meritorious contributions to protecting the Cao family all his life, so he could be exempted from the death penalty.And gave the official rank of General Wuwei, so that he was responsible for leading the soldiers and horses to fight against the Zhao army together like Xiahoudun, Cao Ren, Zhang Liao and other generals, so as to obtain new merits to make up for his mistakes.As for the safety of the Cao royal family, from now on, Sima Yi's cronies, that is, Sima Yi's son Sima Shi, will be in charge.In this way, Sima Shi successfully replaced his father, intervened in the imperial forbidden army, and took the opportunity to get close to Cao Rui, the son of Wei, and monitored Cao Rui's actions all the time.However, Sima Yi turned a blind eye to this, and devoted himself to his position as prime minister and general, concentrating on consolidating and developing the power of Wei, which can be regarded as giving everyone an attitude on the surface, that is, deliberately saying that he does not care about power, but just wants to support the great cause of Wei.In the battle against the Zhao army, everyone has already decided on the deployment of infantry, and as for the archers, it goes without saying that there are no special archers in the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu.In addition, the two countries of Wei and Shu suffered successive defeats, their soldiers and horses suffered heavy losses, and there were very few remaining archers, and the two countries together may not be able to gather 3,000 archers.Therefore, most of the archers are provided by the Wu State, after all, before the Sun Quan of the Wu State, before he was called the King of Wu, he had allied with Zhao Yu.At the beginning, in order to solve the problem of food and grass for the army, Zhao Yu gave the bow and arrow flying arrows that were about to be transitioned and eliminated, in exchange for a large amount of grain, grass, fish and shrimp.There were two exchanges of weapons and grain and grass before and after, and most of the bows and arrows had been used to compete with Wei for the land of Jingzhou, and only a few bows and arrows remained.However, those bows and arrows were all still there, and this time, at Zhou Yu's request, Sun Quan took out as much as half of all the bows and arrows and arrows for use in the battle with the Zhao army.With the infantry and archers out of the way, the next step is the cavalry, although the infantry plays the role of fending and slashing.However, cavalry is a powerful auxiliary role, and the most critical strategy proposed by Wu this time is to rely on cavalry as a charge and strangulation momentum.And the cavalry is naturally the strength of Shu and Wei, although Shu and Wei were strongly attacked by Zhao, but their respective cavalry still preserves.The tiger and leopard cavalry of the Wei State, the flying feather cavalry of the Shu State, and the cavalry that the Wu State can take out do not have special or powerful combat power.The only strong cavalry is also the archers in the Liberation Army, which is mostly divided into infantry and cavalry, but the combat power of the infantry is significantly higher than that of the cavalry.Moreover, there are many cavalry of Wu generals and departments, after all, the land of Wu is not rich in horses at all, even if Sun Quan has the intention to form cavalry, but the conditions are limited.Even if Sun Quan wanted to buy it with money, the price of not buying a war horse was far more than several times that of the other princes.If the cultivation of one cavalry in Shu and Wei is equivalent to the price of training ten hoplites, then the training of one cavalry in Wu is equivalent to the price of training twenty hoplites.In the face of such a difference, even if a powerful cavalry is formed, the price is definitely not something that Wu Guo's strength can bear, and instead of spending a lot of money to build cavalry, it is better to devote all its efforts to building a naval army and infantry.In the end, under the consultation of Zhou Yu, Sima Yi, Zhuge Liang and others, it was decided that the generals of their respective armies would lead the cavalry under their command to become a killing army that rushed to kill the camp of the Zhao army.In the eyes of everyone, regardless of how strong the formation of the Zhao army's army is, as long as it can withstand the charging momentum of its forward army.Then give all the cavalry to attack at the same time, attack different places in the Zhao army's formation, and be sure to find the weak point, and then wait for the opportunity to tear a hole.Once the opportunity is seized and a strong attack is made, it will inevitably be able to make the army of the Zhao army collapse without a fight.When the time comes, the more soldiers and horses it has, the more difficult it will be to assemble, and the more likely it will be to become chaotic.The generals of the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu selected were the generals of the Wei army, Xiahoudun, Cao Ren, Zhang Liao, and Xu Chu; the generals of the Shu army, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Jiang Wei, and Wei Yan; Wu Jun's generals Xu Sheng, Lü Meng, Ling Tong, and Han Dang.The three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu, each country selected four generals, a total of twelve generals.These twelve generals are all elite and brave men of their country, and any one of them is a general who can take charge of himself, whether it is his fighting spirit, prestige or command ability, he can complete this command charge.And just when Zhou Yu quietly led his troops and horses from Jiangxia County to Wuling County, he secretly discussed the attack strategy with the generals of Wei Shu.Zhao's army also began to move, especially when Zhou Yu left for Wuling County, the two major military divisions responsible for guarding Nanyang County, Xu Shu and Chen Gong.After actively arranging the defense, Xu Shu felt that he got up and went to Nanjun and personally pleaded guilty to His Majesty Zhao Yu.In the face of Xu Shu's decision, Chen Gong, Xu Huang, Le Jin, Zhang Xiu and others all said that they would accompany Xu Shu to bear it, but all of them were vetoed by Xu Shu.Xu Shu's implication was that Zhou Yu led the army to defend with Lu Su in Jiangxia County, and his soldiers and horses were strong, and they joined forces, taking advantage of the familiar terrain of Jiangxia County, and fiercely counterattacking the Zhao army.Zhao Jun suffered two defeats in a row, and he had to think of a solution before losing for the third time in a row.Otherwise, once there is a third consecutive defeat, the morale of all the officers and men in the army will inevitably drop greatly.In order to strengthen the defense line of Nanyang County, Xu Shu rejected everyone's proposal, and also decided to temporarily hand over the troops and horses led by him to Chen Gong to resist the counterattack of the Wu army of Jiangxia County.And Xu Shu only led a hundred and ten soldiers and horses, and then set off towards Nanjun, because the number of people was very small, so the speed of running was extremely fast, and it only took a very short time to rush to the Zhao army camp in Nanjun.When Zhao Yu and others were deliberating, when they heard that Xu Shu led a hundred and ten people all the way back, and had something to see him, Zhao Yu was stunned for a moment, and looked at everyone in the big tent.At the moment, without waiting for everyone to speak, Zhao Yu suddenly seemed to react, and hurriedly waved at the sergeant who sent the message: "Go and pass Xu Shu to see him immediately." ”"Yes, Your Majesty."
After speaking, the sergeant bowed his hand at Zhao Yu and withdrew from the tent.And in between, Zhao Yu had no intention of discussing military affairs with the soldiers, and his mind was full of calculations about the reason why Xu Shu suddenly returned at this time.Fortunately, after a while, Zhao Yu heard a rush of footsteps outside the tent, which must have been Xu Shu himself.Sure enough, just when Zhao Yu was guessing, he saw that the curtain of the big tent was opened, and a person walked in from the outside, walked all the way to Zhao Yu, and knelt on the ground in public with a plop, and bowed to Zhao Yu is hand: "The guilty minister Xu Shu pleads guilty to His Majesty." ”As soon as Xu Shu said this, everyone present was stunned for a while, and even Zhao Yu couldn't help but be stunned, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Xu Shu up, and said softly: "Since Xu Aiqing joined our army, he has been solving problems for me, and he has worked hard to fight in the south and the north. ”But no matter how Zhao Yu helped Xu Shu, Xu Shu didn't have the will to get up, but instead fell to the ground even more, just clasping his head on the ground and motionless, as if he was determined to do so.As a last resort, Zhao Yu had to temporarily give up and help him up, and asked: "What happened to Xu Aiqing this time, why do you insist on doing this, even if there is something, you can get up and speak." ”I don't want Xu Shu to still bow his head and say: "Xu Shu thank Your Majesty for your kindness, but the mistakes made by Xu Shu this time are absolutely unforgivable."
Therefore, this time Xu Shu is a criminal minister, if he stands up and talks to His Majesty, it is equivalent to disrespecting His Majesty.Originally, Xu Shu wanted to atone for his sins by dying, but Xu Shu was deeply favored by His Majesty, so he specially came to ask His Majesty for his sin, and then kowtowed to thank him, and then decided to apologize with death. ”: