Ye Xin was silent for a moment, pacing back and forth, his face becoming more and more heavy, and he began to think about whether it was time to stop. After all, the strategic purpose of this time has been achieved, and there are many gains, and the withdrawal of troops at this time will completely consolidate these results.

"General Wei, the governor of Pontus intends to withdraw his troops, what do you think?"

"Governor, the last general is not in favor of withdrawing troops at this time."

"If you don't withdraw your troops at this time, if, as you said, there are treacherous people in the Black Turban Army, if our army is in the middle of the plan, it will not be a failure."

"That's true, but even if you want to withdraw, you can't make it too easy for the Black Turban Army."

"What do you mean?"

"Governor, our army still has 30,000 soldiers available, and there are still more than 50,000 vacant horses, pack horses, and donkeys, plus 30,000 horses under the crotch, and 30,000 people, that's 1120,000 mouths.

Our army is now located in the hinterland of the Black Turban Army, the surrounding fertile land is millions of acres, there is water in the field, it is useless to set fire, it is better to feed the horses with green seedlings, and trample the horses that cannot be eaten, so that the summer harvest of the Black Turban Army will come to naught. ”

The Black Turban Army poisoned tens of millions of acres of grain fields in Beihai County with copper carbonate, and even if they want to withdraw now, they can't be cheapened.

At this time, it is the estrus period of donkeys and horses, a large number of green seedlings are just feeding the horses, feeding the fat and breeding, and the breeding can give birth, and when they reach adulthood after four or five years, the Xianjun can also open their own donkeys and horse farms, so why not do such a good thing.

Ye Xin Sijiu asked for a moment:

"General Wei, you won't use the name of destroying the fields to send troops, right?"

"No, the last general will not dare. I was going to rob the grain road in a few days, but now I think about it, instead of robbing the grain road, it is more cost-effective to destroy the field, the risk is less, and the horse can be fed and breeded, where else can such a good thing be in the world. ”

"Well, after surveying the terrain tomorrow, it's not too late to make a decision."

The withdrawal of Shao Ping was intended to cut off the food route of the Black Turban Army and force him to kill himself. Now it seems that the king of heaven sitting in Shao Ping is not an idle person, he can think of it, he can think of it. If you set up an ambush on the way, you really don't know what kind of sinister plan awaits you.

When I returned to the station, it was already late at night, and I was hungry, so I ate two mouthfuls of light cakes with a water bladder, and slept until dawn in my clothes.

The next day, three poles, when I got up, my back hurt, I think it was yesterday that I forgot to die and fought to the extreme, the muscles and muscles were highly tense, and after a night of relaxation, the muscles and muscles were highly congested, and I was very uncomfortable at first glance.

After breakfast in a hurry, all the sentry horses came one after another to report, after yesterday's fight, the Black Turban Army did not chase west, but retreated in Shaoping, and the situation in the city was unknown. A little later, Ye Xin sent someone to order the heads of the various departments to go to the Chinese army to discuss matters.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Governor of this capital is determined to withdraw his troops as soon as possible, before withdrawing his troops, General Wei suggested that the green seedlings be fed to the horses to destroy the fields, what do you think?"

"Governor Dadu, when we withdrew from Shaoping, General Wei planned to rob the grain, and our army withdrew from Shaoping, why do you want to change your strategy now?" Gu Zhongdao.

"General Gu." Bai Liyan stepped forward and said: "At this time and that time, the enemy army is one of the three heavenly kings, and its wisdom and strategy are not under our army, and its intention is to annihilate our army. The last general did underestimate this person yesterday, and if he continued to rob grain at this time, this person would definitely be able to predict that even if the grain robbery succeeded, our army would pay a lot of casualties.

And now there are millions of acres of grain fields around Shaoping, so it is better to raise horses and destroy the fields, which is the same as robbing its grain road. Of course, this method cannot be effective immediately, and the effect can only be seen after three months, but the harm is far stronger than robbing its grain route and losing hundreds of thousands of people and horses. ”

"This ......" Gu Zhong was speechless.

At this time, Xiao Qu said:

"What if our army feeds the horses and the enemy cavalry attacks?"

"This possibility is extremely small, the enemy general must have expected our army to rob grain, so he set up an ambush to set up the cavalry, even though there are eighty or ninety thousand horses in Shaoping City, but they are all infantry troops, and the infantry army is riding horses, so they are not here to send them to death.

Besides, if our army releases its horses, it will not be 30,000 people who will release their horses, leaving more than 10,000 elite guards, even if the enemy cavalry comes to attack, what can I do. Taking a step back, our army let go of Shao Ping, how could the Black Turban Army know that our army was not a radical general, forcing its cavalry to return to help, and our army robbed and killed his grain again.

Therefore, even if our cavalry released their horses, the cavalry of the Black Turban Army could only continue to maintain the grain and grass in the direction of Anxing, Jinnong, and Mogao to reach Shaoping smoothly, and this came and went for five or six days.

In the past five or six days, our army's war horses have long been fat and healthy, and if he comes to fight, our army will continue to go west, go to the lower reaches of the Changchao River to cross the river to the south bank, and then go east from the south bank to the Yongxing River, and they will not dare to pursue and annihilate our army in depth. ”

Since the Black Turban Army wanted to make a fuss about the grain route and set up an ambush, it must have sent cavalry, and it was too late to send infantry, because the movement of horses to transport infantry was too large, and the combat strength was scattered, which was not conducive to defending cavalry, so it was only possible to send cavalry to escort heavy grain and grass.

As a result, the Black Turban Army had forty or fifty thousand military horses in Shaoping, and there were not enough professional cavalry to fight, and it would be self-defeating to fight. If the cavalry escorting the heavy grain and grass were mobilized to come back to help, and there was a possibility that the Xian army would be transferred away from the mountain, it was reasonable that the Black Turban Army would not dare to mobilize the cavalry to return to Shao Ping.

At this time, the opposition was gradually quelled, and Ye Xin said:

"Since all the generals have no objection, from now on, the three generals Wei Xian, Xu Jin, and Gu Zhong will be responsible for the vigilance of our army, and the other generals will feed the horses and the fields and feed the fertilizer as soon as possible. Do you have any objections? ”

"The Grand Duke!" Bailiyan stepped forward and said: "At present, it is the time for livestock breeding, and pack horses, inferior horses, and superior war horses should be separated and raised, especially mares, which should not be mixed in them, so as not to mix horses and breed horses as well as before." In addition......"

"Besides what?" Ye Xin asked.

"In addition, donkeys and horses can actually be matched."

As soon as the words came out, the generals laughed, and Ye Xin couldn't help but ask:

"This horse is very different from a donkey, it is not a family, how can it be worthy?"

"You don't know, this donkey and horse are matched to give birth to mules, but mules can only be produced by matching donkeys and horses, and cannot be matched with male and female mules to give birth to mules, but their strength is greater than that of a donkey, and they eat the same as that of a donkey, but they are as docile as horses, and they are extremely convenient for work and transportation."

Nowadays, there are no mules, and the reason for this is that the appearance of mules is largely accidental. Mules are the product of a cross between a horse and a donkey, with genetic birth defects, and only a very small probability of male and female mules being able to give birth, and in most cases can only be crossed between horses and donkeys.

After the meeting was adjourned, the generals returned to the station, and the Bailiyan Pioneer Battalion left more than 400 wounded to recuperate, and the remaining 3,500 people changed into war horses with enough endurance, and Xu Jin and Gu Zhonger would move in the direction of Shao Ping first. Bai He, Fang Qian, and Lu Zhao threw off the people of the headquarters and the accompanying female dependents to follow Ye Xin's army to release the horses.

At four o'clock, the Xian army arrived at the grain fields on the outskirts of Shaoping, began to feed the horses, tens of thousands of horses and donkeys surging by, with 20 catties of forage for war horses and 12 catties of forage for donkeys, they had to eat more than 1.6 million catties of forage in a day, which was equivalent to about 14,000 stone of hay.

This acre of green seedling land, at best, only 100 catties of green seedlings, horses gnaw over, only pick up the green spike buds on the green seedlings to eat, where to eat the rhizomes and leaves, so calculated, how many green spike buds can be in an acre of land, even thirty percent of no.

One acre of land is fed with one horse and two donkeys at most. 80,000 donkeys and horses will eat 670,000 mu of green seedlings in one day, and 670,000 mu in 10 days.

After the Xian army fled to the west yesterday, it marched to Shaoping this morning, and the news reached the ears of the supernatural king, and at first glance it was thought that the Xian army wanted to attack the east and the west. It wasn't until the afternoon that the news of the Xian army's large-scale horse feeding came back to Shaoping, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the Divine Power Heavenly King was greatly annoyed.

"Damn!"

Clenched the old fist, the Divine Power Heavenly King was furious and gritted his teeth, stunned and helpless, at this time Song He said on the side:

"Heavenly King, it's better to recall Shen Duchi's men and horses and kill them by surprise."

The supernatural power glared at Song He coldly, and said viciously:

"Then how about asking General Song to go to An Xing and replace General Shen Duchi to help?"

"Uh......"

Song He didn't know whether the supernatural powers were good or bad, and he didn't dare to speak. At this time, the supernatural power snorted coldly and said:

"Humph! If Shen Duchi returned to the army at this time, wouldn't he have fallen for the Xianjun army's plan to transfer the tiger away from the mountain! ”

Song He suddenly realized:

"What the king of heaven said is extremely true, and the last general is stupid. But in the long run, Shao Ping's summer grain this year will be over, and the Xianjun can't be so arrogant. ”

"Then what do you say?"

"This ......" Song He was stunned again, not knowing how to deal with it.

The supernatural power stood up at this time and looked at the west of the city, the face behind the mask was cloudy and sunny, and after a long time, he said:

"General Song He, you order 10,000 spear troops, 5,000 crossbows, 5,000 archers, 3,000 short swords, spears, hooks, and halberds, and go out of the city ten miles north of the city to form a square circle. If the Xian army goes east to feed the horses in the future, you and Chen Hanxin's two armies move north and south, blocking the path of the Xian army from the north and south to the grain fields east of Shaoping, do you understand? ”

"The last will understand. However, the Xian army has many horses, the cavalry is fierce, and the Fang Yuan array moves extremely slowly, even if it does not dare to force our army's battle formation, what if it goes far away. ”

"You and Chen Hanxin immediately requisitioned the wood and inventory ordnance of the whole city, built a carriage, a knife cart, and a horse overnight, and then drove it into the ground with copper nails on the line from north to south, so that even if the Xian army wanted to make a detour, they had to clear the barricades, so as long as it was delayed for three or five days, when An Xing's grain and grass arrived, Shen Duchi's military horse could be withdrawn."

"The Admiral understands."

Shentong calculated that the grain fields west of Shaoping could not be saved, so he could only build fortifications and formations in the north and south of Shaoping City to prevent the Xian army from destroying the fields in the east, so that at least about half of the acres of land could be saved. If they went out of the city to meet the battle, and there was no cavalry to pursue, the Xian army could have continued to flee west with their horses, and then detoured south of the Changchao River to return to the Yongxing River.

The grain fields west of Shaoping can be used for the Xian army horses to eat for three or four days, and within three or four days there is enough to build a large number of armor, which will be densely fixed on the necessary road, which will hinder the invasion of the Xian army, and at the same time, with the square circle array, it can be dragged on for at least three or five days.

And An Xing's grain and grass had already gone south three days ago, and it would take four or five days to arrive in Shaoping, as long as it lasted four or five days, half of Shaoping's grain field could be saved.

In the afternoon of the same day, the Black Turbans mobilized manpower to build armor and sent people out of the city to cut down wood to create more equipment and hinder the eastward movement of the Xian army's horses.