Zhao Yun and Xu Huang did not return to Shouchun.

They met a team carrying grain halfway through.

Leading the team happened to be Li Lan.

Seeing Zhao Yun, Li Lan stepped forward to salute: "Why is General Zhao here?" ”

"It's not just me, it's General Xu!" Zhao Yun introduced Xu Huang to Li Lan, and then said to him: "Gongzi ordered me and General Xu to take over the grain supervision, and General Li can return to Shouchun." ”

"I ...... Go back first? Li Lan asked.

"There are still many things in Huainan that need to be employed." Zhao Yun said: "Since we are here, General Li should go back to Huainan first, and beware of Jiangdong and Jingzhou secretly making some moves." ”

"I see." Li Lan arched her hand and said, "Since that's the case, I'll retire first." ”

He shouted to the soldiers who were escorting the grain and grass: "Soldiers, from now on, they will all listen to General Zhao's deployment. ”

The soldiers who escorted the grain and grass responded.

Li Lan said goodbye to Zhao Yun and Xu Huang again, turned around his horse, and left with more than a dozen soldiers.

Looking at his departing back, Xu Huang said: "General Zhao spoke very tactfully. ”

"How?" Zhao Yun asked Xu Huang, "What does General Xu think is wrong?" ”

"This General Li's martial arts should be very loose." Xu Huang said: "General Zhao was worried that he would make a mistake here, so he broke him up." ”

"General Xu really thinks too much." Zhao Yun smiled indifferently: "Huainan really needs manpower, and General Li is also familiar with the terrain of the place. There is no need for him to accompany him to transport grain and grass to Guandu. ”

"What General Zhao said, that's what it is." Xu Huang said: "It's still early, please General Zhao give the order to hurry." ”

"Someone!" Zhao Yun shouted to the team carrying grain.

An officer ran up to him.

"Divide the soldiers who escort the grain and grass into three groups." Zhao Yun said: "Each plate is five hundred steps apart, and all the grain trucks are marching with the team in the middle. ”

"General Zhao is going to ......" Zhao Yun's arrangement made Xu Huang feel surprised.

"Is General Xu opening the way in the front, or in the back of the palace?" Zhao Yun didn't answer, but asked Xu Huang.

"I don't understand why the soldiers who escort the grain and grass are divided into three groups." Xu Huang said: "When the soldiers gather together, even if there is an emergency, they can deal with it. ”

"What General Xu said is also right." Zhao Yun said: "But Gongzi said, divide the soldiers into three groups, you and I will each lead the road and the back of the palace, even if someone raids, but only one of them can be attacked." The other two teams will have plenty of time to react. ”

"That's how Childe arranged it?" Xu Huang asked in disbelief.

Zhao Yun nodded and said, "That's how Gongzi arranged it." ”

"Since it is arranged by the son, then I will lead people to the front, and I will also invite General Zhao to the back." Xu Huang arched his hand and greeted the soldiers who were escorting the military rations: "Front, follow me!" ”

Each of them led a detachment of men, one of which quickened and the other slowed down, gradually distancing themselves from the middle troop.

Transporting grain and grass is not the same as simply marching.

A simple march, although the army often carries some baggage, but the proportion of baggage is not very large, and it does not have much impact on the speed of marching.

Sending grain and grass to the front is very different.

The team is dominated by vehicles transporting grain and grass.

In order to be able to use fewer vehicles and deliver more food and grass, generally speaking, each vehicle will be stacked full.

It's fine to walk on flat roads, but once you encounter potholes, the speed of travel will be extremely slow.

Since taking over the grain transportation team in the hands of Li Lan, Zhao Yun and Xu Huang escorted them all the way for more than ten days, and they are still not close to Guandu.

It is only more than 100 miles away from Guandu, on a small hill.

Zhang He sat on the dirt slope and looked into the distance.

"General!" A soldier of the Yuan army flew over and said breathlessly, "The team of the Cao army carrying grain is here." ”

"How?" Zhang He asked: "How many people and horses, and who is escorting the military rations?" ”

"Cao Jun divided the team into three groups." The soldier replied: "The front group is led by Xu Huang, the middle group is escorted by military rations, and the back group is led by Zhao Yun. If you don't count the people who transported grain and grass, the three groups of people add up to a total of about 1,000 people. Minfu, there are always four or five thousand people. ”

"What do you do! Even forty or fifty thousand people are nothing more than a rabble. Zhang He frowned slightly, and muttered: "Divided into three groups, each group is no more than three or four hundred people." With this arrangement, if I lead the men and horses in one go, they have no chance of winning? ”

"Let's find out where they are." Zhang He gave orders to the soldiers.

After the soldiers left, Zhang He sat on the dirt slope and didn't understand why Cao Jun was dispersing his troops when he was escorting military rations.

More than a thousand people gathered together, and it was really not easy to break through at once.

It can be divided into three groups, as long as they are properly deployed, it is not difficult to break them down at all.

"Someone." Zhang He shouted to the side.

A guard came to his side.

He instructed the guards: "Take two hundred men from the army, divide them into two groups, and once I give the order to attack the enemy, these two groups of men and horses will stop the two groups of the enemy that I have not attacked." Don't let them come together in one place. ”

The guards received the order and distributed their troops and horses.

Looking into the distance, the expression on Zhang He's face did not relax at all.

He always felt that it was not so easy to intercept Cao's army grain delivery team this time.

But what was wrong, he couldn't say.

Escorting the grain transport team, and walking forward for two more days, Xu Huang was walking and suddenly stopped.

He looked left and right, and his face became very solemn.

"General, what's wrong?" An officer beside him whispered.

"Do you think it's weird here?" Xu Huang asked the officer.

"It's so quiet, there's not even a sound of birds." The officer said, "There is indeed something abnormal. ”

"Give the order to the soldiers, let the guards raise their shields, and be on guard on both sides of the road at any time." Xu Huang gave the order.

The officer turned his horse and shouted to the back: "General Xu has an order, raise the shield, and watch out for both sides of the road." ”

Xu Huang's order quickly spread from the front to the middle team, and finally reached Zhao Yun's ears.

Zhao Yun said to the captain on the side: "You take the soldiers to follow behind, and I will go to the middle to escort the grain and grass." ”

The lieutenant answered, and Zhao Yun rode his horse to the Cao army in the middle who was escorting grain and grass.

When he arrived at a carriage carrying grain, Zhao Yun whispered to the coachman: "Tell the soldiers, dress me tightly, so that no one can see your armor." ”

The coachman nodded, waved his whip, and shouted in a long tone.

With his shouting, many drivers who were driving the car subconsciously pulled their necklines together.

(End of chapter)