"They are wealthy and powerful, so it doesn't matter if you borrow a little." Ma Dai smiled: "I'll send someone to investigate!" ”

On the other side, Hu Zun and Xiahou Ba also arrived at Longshan with 10,000 soldiers and horses from Huating and Meixian.

Longshan soldiers and horses have reached 40,000 people, Cao Zhen has sufficient troops, and he increased his manpower for a while to search for Ma Chao's traces.

In the blink of an eye, another three days passed.

In Jingyang City, Cao Zhen asked Chen Tai, who was in charge of searching for Ma Chao, "Haven't you found any trace of Ma Chao?" ”

Chen Tai smiled bitterly: "The scouts have searched a radius of forty or fifty miles, and they have not found any trace of Ma Chao, isn't this Ma Chao flying with wings?" Or did you go back after you got it? ”

Cao Zhen shook his head and said, "Go back?" How could they go back if they had just succeeded? It must be hiding somewhere and waiting for an opportunity, so I will increase the number of people to search, and I will also send people to investigate in the mountains and forests. ”

Xiahou Rong looked at the map and stared at it for a long time, then said, "I think, Ma Chao should have gone to Linjing, right?" After all, our army's grain and grass are provided by Linjing, if it is to intercept grain, it is best to go directly to Linjing, in Longshan, our army's grain and grass are hoarded in several cities, distributed everywhere, and the effect of intercepting grain is not great! ”

"Damn, I should have thought of that!" After listening to Xiahou Rong's words, Cao Zhen stood up and asked Chen Tai: "When is the next time Linjing will transport grain?" ”

Chen Tai replied: "It will be shipped tomorrow, and it will arrive in ten days, and 100,000 stone of grain and grass will be delivered, which is a month's food needs of our army." ”

"Tomorrow?" Cao Zhen's face suddenly became much more ugly: "There are only two thousand soldiers in Linjing who are responsible for transporting grain, and the rest are all people, as long as Ma Chao has three thousand cavalry, it is enough to destroy this batch of grain and grass."

Quickly gather all the cavalry in the army for me, and immediately go to Linjing to respond! ”

Although there were 20,000 reinforcements from Longshan, most of them were foot soldiers, and it took at least four or five days for the foot soldiers to go to Linjing, and it was too late at all, so Cao Zhen could only gather all the cavalry in the army.

Xiahou Rong arched his hand and said: "General, I will personally lead the troops to meet Ma Chao!" ”

Cao Zhen advised: "Ma Chao is not inferior to Zhao Yun, you must be careful, just protect the grain and grass!" ”

Xiahou Rong gave up his hand and took the order: "No! ”

Half a day later, all the cavalry on the side of Longshan were assembled, a total of 3,000 people, and under the leadership of Xiahou Rong, they rushed to Linjing overnight.

In fact, these 3,000 people are not cavalry, but Cao Zhen used all the war horses and sent soldiers who could ride horses.

Not only that, Cao Zhen also sent Hu Zun to lead 10,000 infantry to support Xiahou Rong.

In the valley north of Linjing.

It's late at night.

Ma Chao and Lin Yuan gathered together.

Ma Dai said to Ma Chao: "Tomorrow is the fourth day, we only have two days of grain and grass, these three days I sent people to find a few Haoqiang, tomorrow I will send troops to borrow some grain and grass from them." ”

Ma Chao nodded and agreed: "Well, I'll do it tomorrow afternoon, and I'll wait and see in the morning." ”

On the morning of the fourth day, on the third pole of the sun, a scout entered the valley with an excited face: "General, general, Linjing has gone out to transport grain!" ”

"Great!" Ma Chao patted his thigh and said, "It's finally time to wait, how many people are there?" ”

The scout replied, "There are more than 20,000 people, and the convoy is not in sight, but I am afraid that there are 100,000 stones of grain and grass." ”

"100,000 stone grain and grass?" Ma Chao and the three of them glanced at each other, and they all saw the excitement in each other's eyes, so much grain and grass is enough for the front-line Wei army to eat for more than a month, if it is destroyed, even if the Wei army does not stop eating, it will greatly damage the morale of the army.

Ma Dai was embarrassed: "It's just that they have 20,000 people, so it's not easy to shoot." ”

"It's just a people's husband." Ma Chao waved his hand and said: "We have been waiting here for three days, but I am afraid that Longshan should react, without further ado, Longshan will send troops to support, let's act quickly." ”

"No!" The crowd surrendered their orders.

Twenty miles west of Linjing, a 20,000-strong grain transport team is heading westward.

There are 100,000 stones of grain and grass in this batch, and there is only less than half a month's grain and grass reserves left on the side of Longshan, so this batch of grain and grass must arrive within half a month, otherwise the soldiers in Longshan will be hungry.

"Let's make a fire and cook!" As the day went up, the weather was extremely hot, and the men were tired and sweating profusely.

Naturally, the people ate the grain and grass they transported, and they gathered stones, firewood, built a simple stove, and then made a fire to cook.

"Eat, eat, eat, a few of you eat so much, let me go back half of it, I can't kill you if I eat it!" The 2,000 soldiers who were in charge of transporting grain patrolled around the ranks, and when they came across people who needed a lot of food, they asked them to let some go back.

Transporting grain and grass, the loss on the way is huge, the 100,000 stone grain and grass, it takes 20,000 people to spend ten days to transport to Longshan, but also Linjing is close to Longshan, if the road is far, it may be eaten half on the road.

But despite this, the soldiers were still very strict with these people, and they could eat a little less.

"How can I eat so much, I'm too hungry to walk."

"Let's give a little more!"

"Eat, eat, eat, eat, and if you still have the strength to speak, let me continue to walk!"

The plain was filled with the grumbling of the people and the swearing of the soldiers.

Knock knock knock......

At this moment, the earth suddenly trembled.

"What's going on, it can't be the Earth Dragon turning over, right?"

"I'm not going to be so unlucky, am I?"

"There's sand and dust in the north, it's cavalry!"

"Where did the cavalry come from?"

Seeing a cavalry from the north riding horses, both the people and the soldiers panicked.

However, after a long time, Ma Chao led his cavalry to arrive.

Seeing that there were so many people in front of him, Ma Chao frowned slightly, the people were innocent, the reason why they killed all the people last time was a helpless move, and now there are 20,000 people here, so naturally they can't all be killed.

Ma Chao urged the horse forward and said coldly: "I am the general of the Han Hussar Ma Chao, and I have nothing to do with leaving as soon as possible, otherwise I am not welcome." ”

"It's Ma Chao!"

"Run!"

"Let's go, or you'll lose your life."

Ma Chao also has a prestige in Guanzhong, he was vertical and horizontal back then, just reported his name, and scared these people away, and even some soldiers ran away.

Infantry could not compete with cavalry.

"Shoot me!" Seeing that the rest of the foot soldiers were hesitant, Ma Chao waved his hand and ordered the light cavalry to release arrows.

These foot soldiers did not have the slightest resistance under the fire of the light cavalry, after all, Linjing was located in the rear, Cao Zhen did not expect that Ma Chao would lead his troops to cut off food, if it were not for the people's private hiding of grain, there would be no need for so many soldiers to follow.

"Don't shoot, I'll surrender!"

"Spare my life, I don't want to die!"

Under the dense arrows, the foot soldiers hid under the carriage, constantly begging the Han army to spare their lives.