At dusk, waves of fury shouts came from the prefect of Wancheng.

"What? Another batch of food and grass was robbed by the thieves! Who is so bold?" General Yang Wu of Cao Cao's army and Zhang Xiu, the prefect of Wancheng, looked as if blue and furious.

In the past few days, the baggage team transporting food and grass in Zhang Xiu's army was robbed by bandits. Two batches of food and grass were robbed for three consecutive days, and a total of about 6,000 stones of food were lost. This batch of food was all new grain that had just been collected and was ready to be sent to Xuchang. Since Qingzhou and Yuzhou under Cao Cao's rule suffered severe drought at the same time, many places had poor harvests and even lost food. It was very difficult to collect troops and grain, and Cao Cao's army had already begun to lack food. Yuan Shao from Hebei and his soldiers were also fierce.

Preparing to attack Cao Cao. Therefore, Cao Cao was extremely anxious and ordered the prefects in various places who had not suffered from drought to quickly collect new grain and escort them to Xuchang to solve the problem of food and grass scarcity. After receiving the order, the prefect of Wancheng Zhang Xiu quickly confiscated a large amount of new grain and sent a team of supplies to Xuchang. However, he never thought that in the Wancheng area under his control, he was robbed by "bandits" twice in a row, and almost half of the food and grass collected were lost, which made Zhang Xiu very angry.

There is actually another reason for Zhang Xiu's anger, which is that he is worried that Cao Cao would think that he would deliberately not carry out the orders. Although he had defected to Cao Cao, there was still a deep grudge between Zhang Xiu and Cao Cao. When Zhang Xiu was Cao Cao's mortal enemy, Cao Cao attacked Wancheng. Cao Cao beloved son Cao Anmin, nephew Cao Anmin and his confidant beloved general Dian Wei all died in Zhang Xiu's army. Although Cao Cao promised not to pursue Zhang Xiu for this, Zhang Xiu was often worried. (In history, it is recorded that Cao Pi was dissatisfied with Zhang Xiu because of Cao Ang's death in battle, and Zhang Xiu was unhappy, so he committed suicide)

Will this accident become an excuse for Cao Cao to kill himself? Zhang Xiu was both annoyed and worried. Looking at the two lieutenants who were kneeling on the ground who were responsible for escorting food and grass, he was furious and kicked them over to the ground.

"Two useless wastes, I gave you 1,000 soldiers to escort the baggage, but even a group of bandits couldn't resist it. If you lost the food and grass, what's the use for you?" After that, Zhang Xiu pulled out his sword beside him and tried to chop. The two lieutenants were so scared that they kowtowed and begged for mercy: "General, I'll spare my life for the sake of our stay with the general for many years!"

Everyone beside him spoke out for pleading for the two of them. Amid the pleading and mercy, Zhang Xiu's anger slowly calmed down, his sword returned to his sheath, sat back on his seat, and asked in a deep voice: "I think you have been waiting for me to follow me for many years and have made great contributions, so I will spare your life. I will tell you the story of this calamity in detail, and there must be no false words!"

"Yes, general!" A cold sweat was wiped from his forehead. One of the more clever lieutenant generals was robbed and said carefully. It turned out that early this morning, the two led the army to carry food and grass on the road and walked for about an hour. When they passed by a forest, a raid shot out a raid. A siege immediately led half of the soldiers into the forest to search, and only saw 2,30 bandits dressed in the band were running with bows and arrows. The siege led the army to chase. But after wandering around the forest for an hour, he still couldn't catch up. Finally, he left the forest, hoping to meet with another siege and continued on his way. But he was surprised to find where he had been staying.

There was only a piece of remnants of the battle. All five hundred soldiers outside the forest were killed in battle. Only another school captain was tied to the ground by ropes and did not die... Thousands of civilians who transported the food and grass fled, while hundreds of trucks of food and grass were transported by grain and carts. After untied the lieutenant, he asked, and only then did he know that shortly after they entered the forest, about 8,900 thieves cavalry and more than 1,000 thieves infantry suddenly came out. In the absence of guard, 500 soldiers were wiped out by the leader of the thieves with a scarred face, and then tied up by the thieves with ropes and threw them on the ground, and escaped their lives.

After hearing this, Zhang Xiu frowned and said in a deep voice: "There are 8,900 cavalrymen. Are they really bandits? How can you be sure?"

The captain who was knocked out and tied up by the thief's head said, "I see that the thieves are dressed in dishevelled, full of filthy words, and call the scared man the 'king'. Therefore, this is speculated that this is a very powerful thief army."

Zhang Xiu nodded and said, "Since it is a bandit, I am not afraid! But if it cannot be swept away, the food and grass in the city will not be sent to Xuchang safely. If the Prime Minister blames it, I will not be able to afford it. But this group of thieves' cavalry comes and goes like the wind. What are some wonderful strategies for sweeping away the thieves?"

At this time, a scholar who looked like a staff officer next to him took a step forward and said, "The lower official has a plan that will definitely help the general eliminate the thieves!"

Zhang Xiu was overjoyed and said, "What kind of tricks do you have? Tell me quickly!"

"General, you just need to...

"Okay, it's a clever plan. All the generals obey orders!"

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On the second day, in the morning light, a team of more than 400 large trucks set off from Wancheng and headed straight for Xuchang. There were only more than 1,000 civilians in the team, and there were no soldiers escorted them. After walking for about half an hour, they arrived near a forest.

Suddenly, a cavalry with different costumes rushed out of the woods, with about 800 cavalry blocking the baggage team. The leader was over 40 years old, with a deep scar on his right face, with a yellow turban on his head and a big knife in his hand. The man laughed and said, "The official army that killed the sky is here to deliver food again! Haha... Leave these hundreds of carts of food and grass, the king will spare your life! Otherwise, my brothers will start a killing." Hundreds of thieves and cavalry behind him laughed in unison.

At this moment, changes suddenly occurred. The civilians who transported the food trucks stopped the big chariot and pulled out weapons from under the chariots. These civilians were actually soldiers. More than 1,000 soldiers also emerged from hundreds of large chariots. More than 2,000 people spread out in half a fan to block the way the thief cavalry was moving forward. A soldier shot an arrow into the sky. Soon, a horse neighed in the distance, followed by a thunderous sound of hooves, rolling dust swept up, and a heavy cavalry roared, with more than 3,000 cavalry. The leader was a general with a tiger back and a bear waist, with a powerful figure, which was Zhang Xiu.

Zhang Xiu shouted angrily: "The bold thief dares to rob our military rations. If I don't kill all of you today, I will not lead the army again!"

When the leader of the thief army saw that the situation was not good, he shouted: "Brothers, the official army is powerful, we are not opponents, withdraw back to the clan!" After saying that, he took the lead and retreated. Suddenly, hundreds of thief cavalry flocked to flee. Seeing this, Zhang Xiu was very angry and ordered the infantry to follow closely, urging the heavy cavalry to catch up first, gritting his teeth and swearing to kill all the thief army.

The bandit army was all light cavalry, and Zhang Xiu led them all heavy cavalry. Originally, the light cavalry was far faster than the heavy cavalry, but the cavalry in front seemed to be poor in riding skills. Many thieves were shaking around on the horse, so the escape speed was not fast, and Zhang Xiu's heavy cavalry could barely catch up.

After chasing for nearly 20 miles, the thief cavalry became increasingly unbearable. It seemed that in order to reduce the weight of the horse, they accelerated their escape and threw away the swords and guns in their hands. Zhang Xiu laughed and urged the heavy cavalry to chase them tightly.

At this time, two cavalrymen, one in front and one behind, had already arrived in a valley, and Zhang Xiu didn't realize it. Until the path became narrower and narrower, he woke up. He held down his war horse, Zhang Xiu raised his right hand, and 3,000 heavy cavalry behind him slowly stopped. Zhang Xiu looked around and found that the valley was a dangerous terrain between the two mountains. The road stretched for more than ten miles, sometimes wide and sometimes narrow, and the mountains and rivers on both sides were covered with bushes.

The terrain here is too dangerous and is very unfavorable for heavy cavalry fighting! Zhang Xiu thought to himself. He looked up and looked forward. The thief cavalry had disappeared. Zhang Xiu was about to order the heavy cavalry to retreat from the valley, but suddenly the rear team was in chaos, and big rocks on the mountain kept falling. Dozens of cavalry were injured and killed because they could not dodge. Soon, the road behind had been blocked by big rocks.

Being trapped! Zhang Xiu suddenly realized!

"Du,Du,Du..." The sound of the ox horn war sounded. The infantrymen of the two battalions were carrying long spears and walking neatly at 800 steps ahead. A wider valley with gourd-like terrain was lined up in a wider valley. Two large flags in the formation were flying high, and two large characters were written on each of the flags.

"Tiger gun!
Chapter completed!