I have to say that Chen Gong's vicious strategy hit Liu Bei's weakness fiercely. Taishan's Tai Shi Ci fought to Win County after capturing Laiwu. The defenders of Win County didn't last long and ran away, but left Tai Shici with a super mess. The city was burned by fire, and the homeless people, whose food was collected by the defenders and burned to the ground.

Tai Shici had to stop in Yingxian County and distribute his military rations to the hungry people. On the one hand, he is the "occupying army" of Ying County, and he has the obligation to provide relief to the people; On the other hand, if these people are not appeased, the people who lack food will be red-eyed and riot, which will also be a headache.

The same is true for Zhang Fei's side, even Dongjun, which has been lost, has been infiltrated into the city by some spies and secret spies, setting fire to it everywhere and wreaking havoc.

When Zhang Fei and Tai Shici sent the documents of food shortage to the Qingzhou shogunate, Xun Yu immediately noticed that it was strange. He compared the two documents, and immediately knew what was going on, so he hurriedly went to find Liu Bei.

When he arrived at the mansion, Xun Yu presented the document to Liu Bei and said, "My lord, the situation in Yanzhou is not good. Because the Cao army set fire to the grain when it retreated, resulting in a serious shortage of food for the people, Yide and Ziyi had to use military food to help them, and now both armies are stagnant due to lack of food. ”

When Liu Bei saw it, he immediately had a toothache, who came up with this idea of lack of morality? To make it clear is to tell him that you can come to Yanzhou, I don't want the territory and the people, and I will give it to you. But you can solve the food yourself! What a wicked mind. Moreover, if the city is set on fire and the officials and troops are evacuated, the fire in the city cannot be effectively controlled, and it is not known how many houses have been burned down and how many lives have been killed. This has to be handled by your own army. At that time, the money and food will not be able to run out like water?

Now Liu Bei lacks nothing, just food. In order to crack down on the price of grain in the market, he seized several large grain merchants who hoarded Juqi. But the grain is still going up. It's not that he can't afford the people of Yanzhou, he can still save food by tightening his belt and gritting his teeth. The point is that in this way, the army marches slowly, and it loses its original intention of threatening Cao Cao. If a large amount of grain must be prepared every time a city is built, then it is not good that Cao Cao has swept Yizhou away, and Yanzhou on his side is still in a stalemate.

When Liu Bei, Xun Yu and others discussed countermeasures, Chen Gong was also full of laughter. After discovering that Chen Gong's plan really hindered the speed of Liu Jun's march, Chen Gong had another plan and said to Zang Ba and Xiahoudun: "Liu Jun is short of food, so he must go to the state to transport grain, and the two generals can send more scouts to find out Liu Jun's grain road, and then lead the elite to attack it." ”

Xiahoudun and Zang Ba happily obeyed, so they sent scouts out to inquire about the news in Taishan, Jibei, Dongjun and other important roads. Zhang Fei originally planned to take advantage of the situation to attack Chen Liu after capturing Dongjun to deter Yan and Yu. As a result, Chen Gong was so engaged in this, and there was not enough food and grass in the army, so he had to stop in Dongjun, and then returned to Qingzhou with Huang Shu to supervise the grain, so as to appease the riots in Dongjun.

Chen Gong's family is from Dongjun and has a lot of influence in Dongjun. As the family of Chen Gong, when Dongwuyang fell, he was also guarded by Chen Zhi's troops. However, Chen Gong didn't think about saving his family at all, but kept secretly contacting his old department in Dongjun. The help of these people was indispensable for setting fires in the cities of the East County. This time, Chen Gong let his eyes and ears be in Dongjun to monitor Liu Jun's movements. As soon as Huang Shu led the army north, the news reached Chen Gong's ears.

So Chen Gong asked Zang Ba and Xiahoudun to arrange people to go to the border and prepare to rob grain. Zang Ba thought about it, and then called Sun Guan, both of them are Taishan people, and they know the terrain of several counties north of Yanzhou well, so he ordered Sun Guan to go to Yan, Qingbian County, ready to rob the grain and grass of the Han army.

After Sun Guan received the order to leave, Chen Gong said to Zang Ba again: "The Han army is deceitful, and it will expect our army to rob it." General Sun is here, he may not be able to get merit, I will lead the army by myself, and if the Han army is strategic, it can also be saved. So he led thousands of people to walk behind Sun Guan.

Huang Shu went to supervise the grain, and Zhang Fei also reminded him and asked him to be careful all the way, for fear that the Yanzhou soldiers would attack. Huang Shu said: "The end is about to reach the realm of Yan and Qing, so I will ask my uncle to come to pick it up, so worry-free." ”

When I arrived at the border of Dongjun, I went to see Chen Dao again, discussed it carefully, and then went to Qingzhou in the starry night. When he arrived at Delin, he escorted the grain and grass, and he didn't dare to stay long, so he came all the way to Dongjun. When the soldiers arrived at Zhu'a, Huang Shu thought, and further on, it was Jibei Kingdom. There are many mountain roads along the way, and there are few people. If an enemy comes, it will be here. So he didn't dare to move forward, so he asked someone to go to Dongjun and move Chen to help.

After Chen arrived, he discussed with Huang Shu: "If I show up, the enemy will not dare to show up when he sees that we are powerful." If the enemy comes, General Huang will hold on for a moment, and I will lead the army to the center, and the two flanking attacks will break the enemy. ”

Huang Shu listened to it and happily obeyed it. So he led the troops to escort the grain and grass in front of the swaggering road. Chen Zhi led the men and horses, followed from a distance fifty miles behind, and asked the spies to inquire all the way to the news, and to report at any time.

Sun Guan received Zang Ba's order to rob the army of food. It is lying on the bank of the water. He thought about it and felt that in the mountain road, the Han army must be on guard, and it was difficult to make contributions. If you get out of the mountain road and arrive at this plain, the Han army will naturally relax. When the time comes, he will raise his troops to attack again, and if he is taken by surprise, he will definitely be able to break it.

Huang Shu walked the mountain road and walked all the way with fear, but found that there was no half of the ambush soldiers. I couldn't help but feel relieved, I didn't come to rob the grain, it was the best. It seems that the Yanzhou army is scared by its own side. They are huddled in the city, where do they have the courage to pick Lao Tzu's tiger whiskers? The Han army was also elated when they saw that their generals were happy.

Fang walked out of the mountain road, and suddenly heard a drum in front of him, and an army flashed out of the grass. The Han army was caught off guard and couldn't help but be in chaos. Seeing this, Sun Guan gave an order, only to hear a bang, and the arrows rained down. Countless Han soldiers fell to the ground with arrows and died tragically on the spot. Fortunately, the Han army was well-trained and disciplined, and under the command of their respective team leaders and tun commanders, they re-formed a formation to resist the Yanzhou soldiers.

Sun Guan waved his hand, and on the one hand, he asked people to attack the Han army, and on the other hand, he asked people to prepare rockets, ready to burn the grain trucks that the Han army was defending. At the beginning of the battle here, Chen Zhijun, who was not far behind Huang Shu, immediately turned around, galloped to Chen, and told the enemy about the situation. Chen Zhi saw that there was really an enemy attacking, so he ordered the whole army to attack and go to the aid of Huang Shu. He led all cavalry, more than fifty miles at the speed of horses, and soon arrived.

Sun Guan had also sent a sentry to investigate the surroundings before, but he had never found Chen Dao. At this time, when he saw another Han army coming, he couldn't help but be shocked, knowing that he had fallen into the trick of the Han army, where could he still take care of burning grain, and hurriedly ordered Ming Jin to collect his troops and leave.