Facing the Enemy!

Although Wang Xuan looked extremely arrogant, Guo Jia had to admit that when it came to reacting quickly, the other warlords truly could not compare with Liu Bei's side.

After all, every soldier under Liu Bei had undergone strict "emergency response training," including, but not limited to, emergency nighttime assembly, ambushes, and encounters with the enemy.

For every imaginable situation, they had complete countermeasures. To ensure those measures were properly implemented, they had trained dozens or even hundreds of times, making certain that even a single soldier would know how to respond when faced with such situations.

In this regard, the other warlords simply could not compare. When all was said and done, Liu Bei was just too rich!

Being rich meant he could do whatever he wanted. While the other warlords were still eating two meals a day and barely getting half full, Liu Bei's men were already eating three meals a day, with meat every week. And that meat was rabbit and the like. Normally, every soldier even got half a salted fish with lunch and dinner!

They had so much salt that they could not use it all, and their ships were so large that they caught plenty of fish. Even including the Auxiliary soldiers, there were only a hundred thousand men in total. They consumed no more than fifty tons of fish a day, less than twenty thousand tons a year. What did that amount to?

(The aquatic product output of Shandong in 2005 alone was 7.36 million tons.)

The other warlords drilled once every three days, while Liu Bei drilled twice a day... Don't misunderstand—the meaning was literal.

The ample food supply allowed Liu Bei's soldiers to train more than five times as much as the other warlords' soldiers. That was what gave them more