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Chapter 581 Food Issues

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Just when Yan Yan was puzzled, a Yan Yan's personal soldier who was familiar with the accent of Yuzhang reminded: "General, these people not only beg us not to kill them, but also heard that our army would open warehouses to save grain wherever our army crossed. They had been out of food for several days, begging our army to reward them with some food to survive."

"Oh, it turns out that it's food." Yan Yan suddenly realized. It was true that the people who fainted just now fainted from hunger, no wonder the elderly, weak, women and children all had vegetables on their faces. Yan Yan cleared his throat and said loudly to everyone: "Don't worry, food is not a problem. Please go to the city first. I will solve the urgent problem for everyone."

After hearing this, the three thousand hungry people stood up with great gratitude, helped the elderly and the young to make a way out. Then they followed the cavalry team into the city. The first thing Yan Yan did to the government office to find grain. The result is conceivable. Not to mention that there was not a single grain of rice in the granary, even the yamen guarding the granary did not find one.

Yan Yan followed the household registration stored in the government office to find the rich households, but there were no rich households in the city. As early as when the Wei army occupied Yu Han, these rich households were moved by Lian Jiacai and their families to Jiangdong controlled by Wei State.

This made Yan Yan very anxious. The streets and alleys outside the government office were filled with old, young, women and children. Yan Yan thought about it and ordered: "All the soldiers and generals of the army will divide half of the food and grass they carry with them to give them to these civilians, first let them solve their urgent needs. Then send troops to quickly return the commander Zhao Yun to report the shortage of food here!"

A personal lieutenant beside Yan Yan reminded: "General, the food rations that the men under him carry are only enough for two or three days. We don't have enough food for half of this meal! What's more, we have to go and defeat Poyang County."

Yan Yan frowned and waved his hand and said, "What else can we do? We can't watch these three thousand people starve to death. You must know that the goal of this battle is to occupy the entire county of Yuzhang and not win the hearts of the people. How can Yuzhang be firmly incorporated into our Daliang? As for the attack on Poyang, I dare not go to Poyang now, because I am not worried about the enemy soldiers there. I am afraid that if I go, I may have more than tens of thousands of mouths. Where can I go to get food?"

The two thousand Liang army cavalry quickly evened out a large amount of food, not only did they eat dry food, but also half of the horse feed. If you save some food, it would be at least enough for the three thousand hungry people to four or five days.

Soon a long queue of food was lined up on the street. The soldiers of Liang's army repeatedly reminded these hungry people to keep flowing and save food. The subsequent food might not arrive many days later. Even so, some hungry people still swallowed their food, filled all the food for a few days, and were thrust into their stomachs.

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Yan Yan was worried about food, and Zhao Yun under Nanchang City was even more worried about this. In addition to Yan Yanhui's urgent report, the other newly occupied counties and cities also came to the same urgent report for food. Zhao Yun summarized these reports one by one, and estimated that more than 40,000 hungry people were waiting for food relief.

At this time, nearly 30,000 Zhao Yun's army from the dry road had all arrived at the city of Nanchang. The supplies and grains brought by the army were enough for the entire army to supply three or four days. However, if we had to supply more 40,000 hungry people, and with the transportation losses, these grains and grass could not support them for two days.

Moreover, in order to prevent the Linjiang Navy from harassing his navy, Zhao Yun specially sent someone to instruct Gan Ning to enter Pengze Lake, a large number of warships were vacant and not to undertake transportation tasks, and organized into a guard fleet. Therefore, the amount of supplies that the navy could transport at each time was limited. If the number of times the navy traveled in Pengze Lake was increased, it would undoubtedly increase the risk of being sneak attacked.

If there weren't so many hungry people, or if Liu Bei's navy had been completely annihilated, or the Liang army could quickly capture Nanchang City now. As long as one of the three conditions was met, Zhao Yun would not be so worried. Unfortunately, three problems appeared in front of Zhao Yun at the same time.

At this time, another Lingbing came to report: "Report to the commander, the Xingan upstream of the Gan River has been taken down by our army, but our army guarding Xingan has returned to report urgently!" Lingbing said and submitted a military report with a stamped stamp.

Zhao Yun took it casually, and had already predicted that this was another urgent request for food. Unexpectedly, he glanced twice and showed a surprised expression. He quickly said to Lingbing: "Go and send our troops along the Gan River coast to come from the upstream. The fleet with the Sun banner is a friendly army of our army, and each unit is not allowed to attack or block."

At sunset, a fleet appeared on the Gan River waters east of Nanchang City. The warships in the fleet were not big, almost all small trumpets, but the number was quite large. The ship was filled with Sun and Wu flags, and the soldiers also wore ochre zithers of Wu.

Some Liang soldiers on the shore wondered: "Didn't the Wu Kingdom be destroyed by the Cao-Liu coalition some time ago, and more than a hundred people from the Sun clan were killed. Why is there another army with the flag of Wu? It is difficult to understand the evil son and the lonely minister? But even if the evil son and the lonely minister at most, they only use the flag of Wu Kingdom, why do they still use the Sun flag?"

Zhao Yun, who had already received the news in advance, would naturally not be surprised. Liu Bei at the top of the city was not surprised, but was frightened. Because Liu Bei had guessed who came. It must be Sun Shangxiang, the princess of Wu in the South China Sea, because Wu Guotai mentioned this woman before his death. Although Sun Shangxiang was a woman, she was able to fight on the battlefield, and was extremely talented and brave, not inferior to the man of beard. Although she moved to Nanhai as a princess, she integrated all forces inside and outside Nanhai County in a short time and controlled Nanhai County in her hands. This woman led her troops to the city of Nanchang at this time, it was only for one thing to avenge the whole family of her mother and brother!

But now Liu Bei could only hide in Nanchang City, watching Sun Shangxiang and Zhao Yun merge with each other, and could not take any countermeasures. Because after Zhao Yun's army gathered at Nanchang City, Nanchang City was surrounded and water was blocked. Even the passage to Ganshuibian Pier in the city was cut off.

At this time at Ganshui Wharf, Zhao Yun led his personal soldiers to greet Sun Shangxiang in person. He thought that since Sun Shangxiang was leading his troops here, he would definitely be dressed in a battle robe and complete armor.

Unexpectedly, what came towards her was a beautiful girl with a beautiful red makeup. Her bright moon-like face was filled with a cool aura that was completely different from the falling fish and falling geese, which made Zhao Yun slightly distracted. However, her handsome face was mixed with a bit of sadness, which was obviously caused by family and country affairs.

When Sun Shangxiang saw Zhao Yun in silver helmet and silver armor, he immediately said with great blessing: "I guess this general is General Zhao Yun, a famous Daliang general. The little girl Sun Shangxiang is polite here."

Zhao Yun, who was careful, noticed that Sun Shangxiang called Liang Daliang instead of Liang State. He hurriedly replied, "The princess is so polite. Please go ashore for food. Let's talk about the matter of joining troops to kill Liu."
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