"Why?" Wu Ming was surprised, he originally wanted to use thousands of people to teach the Jin army a good lesson.

"General, the Jin army harassed our grain route in the form of a small group of guerrilla troops, and if our army sent a large number of people, they could not attack at all." Wei Qing explained the reason in just one sentence.

Wu Ming frowned: "The question is, can you defeat them with only three hundred people?" ”

"They must be defeated." Wei Qing replied, "Otherwise, in the future, we will only have to use three thousand people to protect food each time." ”

Wu Ming nodded.

This is precisely the reason why he wants to fight back against the harassment of the Jin Army.

If too many troops are invested in the grain road, the next battle will inevitably be contained, Da Sima has just taken over the post of generalissimo of the anti-Jin Dynasty recently, and is planning to use the Left Route Army to win a big victory to concentrate superior forces in a big battle, and the first step in the planned operation is for the Left Route Army to attack forward and threaten the flank of the main force of the Jin Army. If the Left Army had too many troops pinned down on the grain route, how could it still attack? What's more, as the front moves forward, the grain route will become longer and longer, and more and more troops will be pinned. His eagerness to counterattack the Jin army was precisely to solve this problem.

"Okay, give you five hundred." Wu Ming is still not very confident about the number of 300 people that Wei Qing said, "If we can win, we will fight, if the enemy's strength is too strong, don't resist hard, now our strength is very strong, there is no need to make unnecessary sacrifices." Wu Ming paused, and added: "It's a big deal, let's find a chance in the future." ”

"Order!" Wei Qing agreed loudly.

Bai Buxin smiled and remained silent.

Whether it was Wu Ming, Liu Anbang or Wei Qing, they didn't realize that in fact, Bai Buxin was a general, and Wei Qing was a centurion, and it stands to reason that the current order should be given to Bai Buxin. But Bai Buxin didn't say anything, just quietly waited for Wei Qing and Wu Ming to end the discussion.

The next day, three poles on the sun, outside the city of Fangxian County.

Wei Qing and Bai Buxin were standing in front of a large car. Both of them looked at the large convoy in amazement.

The cart was loaded with grain and grass. According to the delivery documents, this cart has 20 carts of grain and 10 carts of grass. But the two of them only knew at a cursory glance that if the bill was correct, then the person who loaded the cart was wrong, and the grain was twenty carts, and the problem was that the sand in the grain only accounted for five carts. As for the grass, well, you might as well seriously say that it is really grass, but there is less fresh grass, more dry grass, and there is a lot of sand, stone and firewood in the middle, I don't know if it is used to build a camp.

"That's how our combat power has fallen." Wei Qing gritted his teeth and said.

"Ship it back first, it's useless to get angry here." Bai Buxin's face was also very ugly, but he knew that this matter was definitely not something that their level could interfere with.

"Wait a minute." Wei Qing turned around and ordered the soldiers beside him: "Pick out all the big firewood branches, gather them together and put them in the car, and don't throw them away." ”

Bai Buxin didn't say anything.

He didn't agree with Wei Qing's approach in his heart. Wei Qing meant to gather these things together and show General Wu how much grain and grass had been withheld by the grain officials, but doing so would waste the labor of the soldiers. How could General Wu not know this? It's just that he can't shake the grain official. But since he became friends with Wei Qing, he has developed a habit of easily not refuting Wei Qing's decision, unless it is a very obvious mistake. So far, Wei Qing has not had any very obvious mistakes for Bai Buxin to refute. Even the current order, at most, is just to make the soldiers pay more labor and delay some time, but there is no great harm.

The soldiers were busy for a long time before they were able to separate the firewood and pile up two large carts. With a burst of shouting and neighing, the large convoy finally moved.

"All centurions, please, come here." As soon as the large convoy started, Wei Qing gave an order.

Four centurions came to Wei Qing's side. On the road, smoke and dust billowed out, and one carriage after another passed by Wei Qing, the shouting of the coachman, the neighing of the horses, and the clattering of the cart sounded together.

Wei Qing opened the map on the side of the road in the flying smoke and dust, and began to assign tasks to the four people: "The first team immediately moved forward, and went to the woodland at the intersection forty miles ahead of them to scatter and ambush in groups of twenty people. The second team went to the other side of the small branch river in front and waited, when the Jin army reached the bank, do not cross the river to attack, prepare more rockets, let the Jin army know that as long as they are close to the river bank, they will burn food with rockets, if the Jin army abandons the river and goes up, you will also immediately go up ten miles, there is a shoal, wait for the Jin army to attack head-on when they cross halfway; The third and fourth teams went to the ten-mile shoal upstream of the Xiaozhi River to ambush and watch the Jin army arrive, and launched an attack when it was halfway crossed. ”

The four captains took the order.

The fifth hundred-man team was originally commanded by Wei Qing, and he directly ordered several chiefs: "Prepare torches and wait for orders!" ”

Bai Buxin watched from the side, but his heart became more and more nervous.

He couldn't understand Wei Qing's order, and there was more than one question.

The first question is why Wei Qing uses a meter. Dispersing troops to defeat the enemy is the choice when the enemy is strong and I am weak, but in the past few days, the Jin army has come to harass the troops, as few as 100 people, and as many as 3500, and now there are 500 people in the Han army to protect the grain, which is at least not less than the Jin army in terms of numbers. Doesn't this turn one's advantage into a disadvantage?

The second question is the ploy itself.

The camp of the Han army is located in the upper reaches of the south bank of the Xiaozhi River, and the camp of the Jin army is far away from the lower and lower reaches of the north bank of the Xiaozhi River, the Xiaozhi River is not a big river, the narrowest place is only two or three zhang, and the widest point is only seven or eight zhang, the upstream river channel is narrow and deep, the water flow is turbulent, there is only one shoal that can be crossed, the downstream river channel is wide and shallow, the water flow is gentle, there are many places where the water depth is not more than a foot, even women and children can wade. It was in the lower reaches of the Jin army that the Jin army repeatedly crossed the river to harass the Han army's grain routes.

This grain road is a big road, turn right and go up is the Han army camp, turn left and go down to cross the river to the Jin army camp, because the grain cart is inconvenient to move, can only go along the road, turn right in front of forty miles and go up to the camp, but the Jin army is lightly armed and fast, there is no need to follow the road, cross the small branch river from the field everywhere can cut into the road, which is why the Han army has been repeatedly harassed but can not block the Jin army's incoming passage. Looking at Wei Qing's arrangement, it was clearly determined that the Jin army would go upstream according to the route of the Han army's grain transportation, wading across the river at the only shoal. But there are countless places where the Jin army can go down to cross the river, where is the reason to cross the river along the main road?

However, although there were many questions, he did not intend to ask.

Since he and Wei Qing went to attack the Jin Army's stronghold on the bank of the Nanhe River, Wei Qing made decisions that he didn't understand too much, but it turned out that Wei Qing's decisions were always correct, and the reason why he didn't understand was not that Wei Qing did it wrong, but that his level of disbelief was insufficient. I don't know when he has had a principle in his head: if Wei Qing made a decision that even he could see was unreasonable, then Wei Qing would definitely know how unreasonable the decision was. If Wei Qing must command the battle in this unreasonable way, then it is not that Wei Qing does not know that this way is unreasonable, but that others do not understand Wei Qing's deeper intentions.

So he just thought about it, but didn't even say a word. What's more, it was Wei Qing who commanded the battle this time, and the reason why he was asked to come with him was mainly because Wei Qing was a centurion, but he led five hundred people, four of which were also led by centurions. Nominally, the commander of this operation was Bai Buxin, in order to conform to the regulations of the superior leadership in the army, but in fact, Wei Qing was fully responsible.

So he just silently assisted Wei Qing on the side.

The wheels were rolling, and the large convoy was escorted by hundreds of Han soldiers, and the dust on the road was rolled high, and everyone was covered in dust.

In the distance, in the grass, a pair of greedy eyes were trying to stare through the dust at the cart. A skinny Han man lay on his stomach in the grass, silently counting the number of cars in his heart. He had to keep track of how many grain wagons there were, and how many grass carts there were, because the Jin army was short of food, and even more so of grass, and it was impossible to recognize whether there was a shortage of food for men or horses, and if they continued like this, they would all starve to death without fighting.

His name was Zhang Sande, and because he had helped the Jin army when the Jin army occupied his hometown, the Jin army gave him a few acres of land and let him join the "Goodwill Army", a unit composed of traitors ---- assist the Jin army in battle.

Now, it was as if yellow gold was in front of his eyes.

Twenty carts of grain, ten carts of grass, and the Han soldiers guarding it look like a hundred and ten people, if the marshal of the Jin Army knew the news, he would go crazy with joy, and he would also get a large reward!

He pulled out a strip of charcoal and a piece of paper. A bowl and a horse were drawn in advance on the paper. He drew twenty circles under the bowl with charcoal strips and ten circles under the horse.

That is to say, twenty cartloads of grain and ten carts of grass.

When he was finished, he rolled the paper into a small roll of paper, stuffed it in a small iron pipe, and then carefully pulled out a small iron cage from the backpack behind him, which contained a harrier eagle.

He hung the small iron pipe on the small iron chain around the harrier's neck and opened the cage door. The harrier eagle's wings flicked, and it flew out like an arrow.

This is the reason why the Jin army can always accurately and quickly intercept the grain and grass of the Han army. They did not send countless squads to wait for the Han army's grain transport team around the clock, but sent many traitors to scatter around the grain road, once they found a situation worthy of attack, the traitors used harrier eagles to report to the Jin army ambushed in the lower reaches of the Xiaozhi River, and the Jin army sent troops to grab grain according to the situation. The harrier eagle can fly much faster than a man or a horse, and without being detected, this unique communication method characteristic of the northern nomads has become a secret weapon for them.