Zhu Cixuan still led the Guanning cavalry that had been in the Gu'an Battle this time. Of course, their names have been changed now, from Guanning cavalry to "Three Thousand Battalions".

You should know that the original San Thousand Battalions were responsible for the emperor's flags, chariot uniforms, soldiers, golden drums, and imperial treasures, but now they are used on this cavalry, which shows Chongzhen's expectations for this cavalry.

After the losses of previous battles, the number of cavalry in the 3,000 battalions was less than 3,000. So a few days ago, the integration of Ma Shiying and Zuo Menggeng's armies added about 800 new cavalry and a new commander of the commander.

It is worth mentioning that this new commander is also an acquaintance of Zhu Cilang, who was General Shi Jian, who was rescued by Zhu Cilang overnight during the mutiny of the Zuo Family Army.

Zhu Cixuan took these three thousand cavalrymen, each of whom brought dry food for five days, and went straight to the south quickly.

As Zhu Cilang expected in advance, except for Feicheng where Li Yan's tribe is located, other large and small cities and villages in Shandong are nominally in the hands of Li Zicheng.

Zhu Cilang swayed and whistled past the official roads under the walls of each city with three thousand cavalry. He encountered no obstacles along the way. Because there were no flags openly along the way, many cities even mistakenly thought that this was Li Zicheng's troops crossing.

Of course, this abnormal movement also reached Li Yan's ears in Feicheng.

"What, a cavalry from the court went south?"

After hearing this information, a bad premonition surged in Li Yan's heart, and his generals were also talking.

"General, they won't go to trample our way of retreat, right?"

"What nonsense? Our retreat is Kaifeng in the west. They go south to figure out what's going on."

"That's right, then why are they going to the south? Could it be that they are going to Nanjing?"

"It's still fighting at this time, so why do you need to send a cavalry to Nanjing? It's unreasonable."

Li Yan frowned, thought for a long time and called the quarantine officer: "Where is our grain collection team?"

The quartermaster hurriedly said, "General, don't worry, the grain collection team has already obtained a batch of food from Yanzhou Prefecture. If everything goes well, it will be possible to arrive in Feicheng in about four or five days."

Li Yan's face changed drastically: "It's over, the imperial court's troops are probably going to head towards our grain collection team!"

After hearing this, the other generals were furious.

"No, if the food and grass are gone, how can I fight this battle?"

"General, I have to think of a solution."

But no one has raised doubts.

"How could the people in the court know the plan of our grain collection team? Even we ourselves don't know the current position of the grain collection team."

"That's right, Yanzhou Prefecture is still our territory now, and the imperial court has no reason to know the trend of the grain collection team."

After hearing this, Li Yan calmed down a lot and hope rose in his heart.

Perhaps as these generals said, the cavalry of the court had other plans.

But Li Yan was still worried and ordered: "Immediately allocate 5,000 troops to go south, and then ask someone to tell the grain collection team to step up north!"

This batch of grain is very important. As long as the grain can arrive, Feicheng will be able to support one more month.

Even if it is a low-probability event, there is absolutely no need to lose it!

Li Yan is only worried about one thing now, that is, whether this cavalry will accidentally hit the grain transport team. Feicheng has just dispatched troops south now, and it is far too fast to catch up with the cavalry, and even the messenger who sent the message cannot catch up.

...

"Your Highness, my subordinates have already inquired in person. Daicunba is right in front!" Shi Jian came to Zhu Cixuan, who was squatting on a tree stump and gnawing on dry food, and reported the situation.

Zhu Cilang swallowed the dry food with some difficulty, picked up the water bag and drank several sips, and then he burped with satisfaction: "That's good, find a place to camp and wait for the afternoon."

Shi Jian hesitated for a moment, but still couldn't help but say, "Your Highness, can the enemy's grain transport team really pass by here?"

Zhu Cilang smiled and said, "Don't worry, it will come."

Shi Jian was half-believing and half-doubted and walked aside.

The other two commanders came over: "Old Shi, what do you say about Your Highness?"

Shi Jian said: "Your Highness still said that the enemy's grain transport team will definitely pass here."

The two commanders were also half-believing and half-doubting.

"Have your Highness opened his eyes?"

"I guess there is some information."

"I hope we can really intercept the grain transport team, otherwise our own food will be gone."

The worried and brief discussion soon ended, and time passed by minute by minute.

Half an hour before sunset, Zhu Cixuan led three thousand cavalrymen to quietly hide in a forest a few miles away from Daicunba.

I don’t know how long it took, but as the sun was about to set, a long grain transport team finally appeared in everyone’s eyes.

Zhu Cixuan narrowed his eyes and looked at the grain transport team, which had at least hundreds or thousands of carriages and carts, as well as about 1,000 or 2,000 Dashun Army escorts.

However, these Dashun Army are obviously of the type with the lowest combat power. Many soldiers don’t even have decent weapons in their hands, and they just hold iron sticks and wooden bows that they got from somewhere.

Zhu Cilang then breathed a sigh of relief and issued an order.

"Let's attack!"

Three thousand cavalry instantly emerged from the forest and rushed towards the grain transport team not far away.

This army escorted the food and grass obviously never expected that it would be ambushed in the rear and would be in a mess.

Zhu Cixuan did not choose to attack, but picked up his sniper rifle.

After a while, Zhu Cilang's eyes finally locked in a guy dressed in a general. He was shouting at the top of his lungs. He should have wanted to organize a defense line and carry out a wave of resistance.

Zhu Cixuan put his finger on the trigger: "I found you."

With a bang, the sniper rifle made a loud noise, and the general Dashun Army in the distance was instantly pierced in his chest and fell off his horse and died.

At this moment, the battle situation was completely destined.

When many soldiers and grooms from the Dashun Army saw that the general in the lead was dead, they shouted and fled in all directions.

Zhu Cixuan did not ask his soldiers to continue pursuing, because pursuing this defeated general who fought against Wushao was meaningless.

From the beginning to the end of the battle, it only took about fifteen minutes.

At this time, the last afterglow of the sun can even be seen on the western horizon.

Zhu Cixuan issued an order: "Bring enough food for us to return, and burn everything else on the spot!"

When Shi Jian heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little painful: "Your Highness, this is a lot of food."

Of course, it is very, very much to allow 40,000 troops to eat food for a month.

Zhu Cilang shook his head: "We only have 3,000 people. It is impossible for us to bring all the food back behind such enemy forces and burn it!"

With Zhu Cilang's order, the blazing fire soon started to burn.

Zhu Cilang only took away five hundred horses, each of which carried two bags of food equivalent to an adult's weight, and burned them all.

After doing this, Zhu Cilang completed the system tasks.

"This time, it was really unexpectedly smooth." Zhu Cilang sighed.

In addition to the system's ability to provide information like a bug, the most important thing is the people here.

"The people of Shandong are still towards the Ming Dynasty."

If this is not the case, Zhu Cixuan actually had many opportunities to be exposed all the way, and the grain transport team was not unaware of the early warning.

But the people here not only enthusiastically guided the water source, but also offered to let their children join the Ming army.

This proves how important the people’s hearts are.

Zhu Cilang smiled and said, "Fortunately, the time for us to liberate this place is coming soon! Let's go and go back to the camp!"

Zhu Cilang got on the horse and instantly disappeared into the night with the three thousand elite cavalry under his command.

...

When Li Yan learned about this, it was already two and a half days later.

"What, the grain transport team was attacked and all the food and grass were burned?"

After hearing the news, Li Yan was stunned and collapsed on the chair.

When the army fights, the most important thing is logistics, and the most important thing in logistics is undoubtedly food and grass.

Without food and grass, how can this battle continue?

Around Li Yan, many generals looked at each other.

"General, what should we do now?" "Otherwise, let's retreat, right?" "Retreat? Now the imperial troops are outside the city. Can they still watch us retreat?"

Two days ago, Li Guozhen had already led the Ming army to Feicheng and camped in the north of Feicheng.

Li Yan slapped the table and shouted: "Enough, shut up for this general!"

Everyone suddenly became quiet.

Li Yan kept tapping his fingers on the table, obviously thinking quickly.

After a while, Li Yan finally made a decision.

"Everyone is going back first, and everyone is ready to retreat at any time."
To be continued...