The task suddenly changed from cutting off the grain to burning the Yuan family's grain, which inevitably shocked Cao Hong and others.

Leading the light cavalry behind enemy lines, attacking the food-carrying army with rockets, and setting fire to the grain, this task is relatively easy.

However, it is not easy to attack the opponent's grain storage land with light cavalry.

You must know that the Yuan army will definitely send heavy troops to guard that kind of place, and it will not be too far from the fortifications built by the Yuan army, and it will be easy for the Yuan army to respond.

And, there's one more important thing......

"The eldest brother has received a detailed report, and he knows where Yuan Jun's grain is located?"

"That kind of place must be where Yuan Jun's secret is, how can ordinary people find out?" Cao Cao shook his head solemnly.

In fact, when Jia Xu proposed to cut off the grain road just now, he had already thought of sending someone to burn the surplus grain of Yuan Jun.

Otherwise, simply cutting off the grain route will not be able to solve the current crisis, and only burning the grain stored by Yuan Jun is the only chance for him to win.

But his difficulty was that he couldn't find out where Yuan Jun's grain and grass were at all.

As he said, the place where the Yuan army was storing grain must be a secret among the secrets, and I am afraid that even the internal personnel of the Yuan clan do not know much, and the defense must be extremely tight, how can ordinary people listen to it.

But he thought of letting Liu Ping go, just because Liu Ping had made many seemingly impossible tasks possible, and this time the difficulties in Liu Ping's hands might be able to be solved.

However, it is impossible for him to pin all his hopes on Liu Ping's magical performance.

"Ping'er, let's take ten days, if you don't find the place where Yuan Jun stored grain and burn it within ten days, you will immediately lead the army to make a detour and return to the army Xudu."

Cao Cao looked at the front with deep eyes and said: "At that time, I will personally lead all the armies to fight to the death with the Yuan army, and I can kill and injure as many people as ......"

He didn't continue to say the rest, because everyone understood that when the grain and grass were exhausted, it would be when he and Yuan Jun's jade were burned, and there would be no reason to survive.

"When the Yuan army is driven straight in, most of the prefectures and counties will inevitably surrender," Cao Cao continued to say in a deep voice: "After you return to Xudu, you must not stay, otherwise the Yuan army will besiege the city, and everything will be over."

You can take all the family members of our Cao family and withdraw to Yanzhou, and your uncle will go to answer him.

Yanzhou is mountainous, but there are many dangers to defend, whether you can keep this last foundation, it depends on your brothers. ”

This seems to be arranging the aftermath, and everyone is heartbroken when they hear it.

Of course, it is obvious that at that time, the main force of Cao's army was lost, Guandu could not hold it, and Xu Du naturally couldn't hold it.

Xu Du can't hold it, how can Yanzhou hold it?

At this time, Cao Hong smiled bitterly beside him, shook his head and said to himself: "In this way, our only hope for victory is to ask God to bless Ping'er, find the granary of Yuan Juntun's grain as we wish, and successfully burn it?"

This sounds unlikely, doesn't it...... Is the defeat really a foregone conclusion? ”

"This battle is that the enemy is strong and I am weak, and with today's situation, I should have thought of it a long time ago," Cao Cao sighed: "It is up to people to plan things, and it is up to heaven to make things happen."

If heaven wants to destroy Cao, how can man disobey it? ”

Cao Cao, who originally believed in Legalism, would not believe in these fatalisms, but now in this desperate situation, he also believes in the doctrine of the Mandate of Heaven.

"Father-in-law, don't worry, uncles, my son-in-law will live up to his mission," Liu Ping said indifferently, and in the eyes of everyone, this tone was an oath.

"Well, it's good to have this ambition, and wait for good news here for my father!" Cao Cao patted Liu Ping on the shoulder in approval.

The three Cao Hong brothers shook their heads and sighed beside them, they didn't even know where the place was, and they didn't know where Liu Ping's confidence came from.

After the discussion was settled, Liu Ping immediately set off with 3,500 soldiers.

There is no way, this battle is mainly cavalry, and the war horses that the Cao clan can provide can also equip these 3,500 cavalry.

Among these soldiers, 3,000 were tiger and leopard riders, and another 500 were the elite of his Danyang army.

Why do you want to bring Danyang Army?

For no other reason, Liu Ping is not surnamed Cao after all, and may temporarily command the tiger and leopard cavalry, but he cannot always be the chief general of the most elite unit of the Cao army.

However, at this time, the Danyang Army was his descendant troops.

Since Liu Ping was able to accurately find the place where Yuan Jun was stockpiling grain, and knew that it was in Wuchao, which was forty miles away from Guandu, it can be seen that this errand was not an impossible task as Cao Hong and the others thought.

Then, as long as the task is completed, he can raise many generals under his command.

Such a good thing, of course, he has to think about taking care of his own people first.

……

More than 3,000 horsemen galloped westward, and when it was almost dark, they set up camp in the wilderness.

In the evening, Tao Qing suddenly asked to see him outside the tent, and Liu Ping ordered him to come in.

"General, the last general shouldn't ask too much, but looking at the marching route, are we going to go around and fight behind Yuan's army?"

"That's right!"

Tao Qing suddenly knelt on one knee and fell to the ground: "The last general is just outside to discuss with his companions, and since the last general and others have been returning to the general, they have triumphed all the way and killed countless enemies, and I have no regrets about death."

It's just that the family members of the last general and others are all in Xuzhou, and it is naturally extremely dangerous to go behind Yuan Jun.

They elected me to plead with the general for something.

I beg the general to send the money we have saved back to Xuzhou after our death and hand it over to our family so that they can tide over the difficulties. ”

"If there is real danger, you can't escape, how can I escape?" Liu Ping stepped forward to help Tao Qing up.

"I'll discuss it," Tao Qing insisted on refusing to get up, knelt on one knee, and said earnestly: "Our lives have been saved by the general, even if it is returned to the general, it is really right, if there is any danger at that time, I will desperately protect the general and rush out." ”

"That's what you're talking about?"

"Exactly."

Tao Qing said, untied a burden from behind him, opened it, and saw that it was full of large and small purses, and there were more or less coins in the purse, which they probably saved as soldiers.

Liu Ping picked up a purse casually, only to see that it was written crookedly: "He Asan, Xuzhou Yangting Hejiazhuang." ”

The handwriting on each purse is almost the same, and there are not many literate among them, probably written by one person.

"You're so relieved of me? Aren't you afraid that I will keep this money for myself and not give it to your family? ”

"Since we have sold our lives to the general, I naturally believe that the general cannot be greedy for our money, and the general is not that kind of person."

Liu Ping's face was a little moved and said: "Take the money back, you have to pay it yourself, we are here to pick up the credit, not to send it to death." ”

"Go behind enemy lines to pick up credit?" Tao Qing's eyes widened.