The endless convoy can not see the end at a glance, the bulging sacks on the car are filled with corn, potatoes and wheat and other kinds of grain produced in Yongzhou, piled up full of cars, so that the grain that has been cheap in the three states of Yongji and Liang has been cheap after passing the pot pass, immediately attracted thousands of poor people in Jizhou to watch along the way, although it is in the ice and snow, but no matter where the convoy goes, there are a large number of hungry people in thin clothes who gather against the cold wind, but they are just afraid that the heavily armed Xiliang Iron Cavalry is guarding the grain cart, and they are scattered everywhere far away, Groups of three or five looked at the grain team, not daring to approach. And behind the convoy, there are also many hungry people around, every time there are corn cobs used to feed the horses scattered on the ground, there will be more than a dozen or even dozens of hungry people rushing forward, you fight for me to gnaw the corn that has been stripped of the corn kernels, as for the potato skins cut when the Pound troops opened fire, it is a life-saving meal for the hungry people.

As in history, after Yuan Shao took over the two states of Jiyou, he did not vigorously develop agriculture as Cao Cao, first solved the problem of eating the people and soldiers, but focused on building palaces, vassal elegance and forced conscription of soldiers to be reckless, the land was almost concentrated in the hands of the Yuan clan and the scholars, the people were displaced, and the people were not able to make a living. But the people of Jiyou and Youzhou didn't even have food for the winter, and in the cold winter, Jiyou and Youzhou were starving all over the country.

"Master Jun, it's okay." A ragged woman suddenly rushed out from the crowd of onlookers and hugged Pound's war horse legs, so thin that a gust of wind could blow her down, she didn't know where to burst out of her divine power, Pound's war horse couldn't shake off her embrace, "Master Jun, my child is dying of hunger, you can do it, God will bless you to be promoted and rich." "Mother, mother." Two skinny children also ran over, one of the children had a piece of white Guanyin soil in his dirty little hand, and the woman quickly pulled them to kowtow to Pound, and the family cried.

Looking at these three hungry people with yellow faces and thin muscles, Pang De's heart was sour, although he had not seen such a tragic scene during the southern and northern wars with Kang Peng, but as long as the conscience was still a little still, seeing this starving hell, he couldn't help but cry sadly, Pang De turned around and shouted: "Give them a few cooked hot god rice crackers, and then give them a bunch of grain." Also, take care to protect the grain trucks. ”

As Pang De expected, when the Xiliang Iron Cavalry handed over the rations to the three mothers and sons, there was a sudden shout among the hungry people onlookers, and they all rushed towards Dong Zhuo's army food team, and the black crowd surrounded Dong Zhuo's army food team almost instantly, thanks to Pang De's early orders, Xiliang Iron Cavalry had already held a blade to protect the grain car, otherwise these hungry people were only afraid that they would be able to rob Dong Zhuojun's food team immediately, but although those hungry people did not rob it, they knelt down towards Dong Zhuo's soldiers one after another, and kept kowtowing and begging, for a while, the cry near the food team shook the sky.

Seeing this scene, Pang De's deputy general Cheng Lian couldn't help but complain about Pang De and said: "General, it's not the first time you have taken grain, don't you know, the grain officer can't be soft-hearted, once his heart is soft, no matter how much food he charges, it is not enough to distribute the hungry people, and this is not the king's people, no matter how much you save now, you only help Yuan Shao save it, and when you get to the king, not only can you not please him, but I am afraid that you will be scolded." ”

Pang De knew that Cheng Lian was reasonable, and smirked, "I also see that they are really pitiful, okay, okay, don't blow your beard, let's go now, and never give a grain again." Pang De turned the horse's head and shouted to the back: "Wei Xu, Ma Zhong, quickly escort the grain cart away, don't delay the schedule." This time Pang De sent grain to the front line of the White Horse Yuan Shaojun, Kang Peng unexpectedly sent Ma Zhong, the head of the Dark Moon Group, to Pang De's side, Pang De knew that Ma Zhong was a special person in Dong Zhuo's army, Kang Peng sent him, it must have a special role, when he set off, Pang De was testing Kang Peng's tone, but Kang Peng told him to just send the grain to Yuan Shao's hands, and the others had their own instructions to the locality, Pang De was more sure that Ma Zhong was responsible for other important tasks in his army, maybe his own trip to charge grain was just a means of cover-up.

Hearing Pang De's shout, Wei Xu and Ma Zhong immediately commanded the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to urge the carriage forward, not wanting the hungry people to see Dong Zhuojun leaving, they all kneeled close to the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, stopped in front of the horse and kowtowed and wept, crying nonstop, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry did not dare to kill the hungry people without Pang De's order, but the hungry people were congested in the road, and the grain team naturally could not move forward.

"Master Jun, you can do it." "Master Jun, have mercy on us." "Master Jun, the old people and children in my family are dying of hunger." A pair of hands stained with dirt and dust stretched out in front of Xiliang Tieqi, countless pairs of tired and godless eyes looked at Xiliang Tieqi longingly, Rao is Xiliang Tieqi is well-known for his arrogance and fierceness in Dong Zhuo's army, seeing such a scene, he couldn't help but feel compassion.

"Get out of here, get out of here!" There were shouts and screams in the distance, a team of about 3,000 Yuan Shaojun suddenly appeared behind Dong Zhuo's military food team, waving horse whips and weapons to drive away the hungry people surrounding the Xiliang Iron Cavalry Food Team, the attack was extremely vicious, the hungry people kneeling on the ground were beaten and rolled all over the ground by them, and there were directly slashed and killed the hungry people with knives, the splashed blood quickly dyed a blood flower on the snow, and the hungry people around the Xiliang Iron Cavalry Food Team scattered in a hurry, it is strange to say, these hungry people in Jizhou are not afraid of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry who are feared by the princes of the world, But he was only afraid of his Jizhou army. Pang De and the others had expected that Yuan Shaojun would appear, and with Yuan Shao's suspicious character, they would definitely not be at ease to let a Dong Zhuojun with 10,000 Xiliang iron cavalry pass through Jizhou at will without anyone watching, and they would naturally send troops to monitor Dong Zhuojun's movements.

"Brother Ling Ming." After killing the hungry people, Yuan Shaojun's general Zhou Ang's mouth was like honey, and he poured soup on Pang De and said: "Brother Ling Ming transported grain to aid our army, and I didn't want to meet the Diao people in Benzhou here who tried to rob the grain. Zhou Ang was polite on his lips, but he was sneering in his heart - he is still the famous Xiliang Iron Rider, and he can't do anything about a few mud legs, it's really better to be famous than to meet, and it's useless!

"There, there." Pang De also said politely: "Thank you Brother Zhou for helping the foolish brother out of the siege, otherwise the foolish brother really doesn't know what to do." Pound also scolded in his heart, fuck your mother, drive away your own people as for knives and guns? If you dare to do this in Yongzhou, you will have to be cut off by Sima Lang and the Inspector on the same day! Sima Lang is an honest and honest official, upright, and is Dong Zhuojun's disciplinary officer, specializing in supervising and dealing with Dong Zhuojun's officials who violate laws and disciplines, and ordinary officials and generals are afraid of him.

"Brother Ling Ming is not familiar with the place in Jizhou, and it just so happens that the younger brother was ordered to reinforce the front line, so Brother Ling Ming might as well go with the younger brother, and the younger brother can lead the way for Brother Ling Ming and take care of each other." Zhou Ang was also tired of sneakily following Dong Zhuojun's ass and wanted to pick up a bargain, Pang De knew his intentions, and saw that Ma Zhong had no objection, so he readily agreed.

Soon, Dong Zhuojun and Yuan Shaojun converged, and together with the grain cart forward, with Yuan Shaojun who was like a wolf and tiger on his own land, the hungry people in Jizhou no longer dared to get too close to Dong Zhuojun's grain team, but they refused to let go of this only chance to live, and they all scattered to a place farther away from the grain team to follow, and the speed of the grain team accelerated sharply.

The days in winter are short, and the sky will soon get dark, Dong Zhuojun and Yuan Shaojun set up a marching tent together, surrounded the grain cart in it, and lit a fire to open a meal respectively, Dong Zhuojun is rich and rich, and the food supply of the ace army Xiliang Iron Cavalry is naturally good, every soldier can get a pound of corn tortillas, a bowl of fried potatoes and a piece of beef and mutton jerky weighing about half a catty for every meal, and Yuan Shaojun, who is poor and rich in the army, is not far behind, each soldier also has a pound of white-faced pot helmet and half a pound of dried meat that I don't know what kind of meat it is, and Yuan Shaojun's soldiers want to exchange jerky with Xiliang Iron Cavalry, But the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is at war with the princes' armies all the year round, and knows what kind of dried meat is in the princes' armies, so the Xiliang Iron Cavalry resolutely refuses to change.

The fragrance emitted by the army's firing made the hungry people who followed even more hungry, and some of the bold hungry people came over again, and had the courage to beg for the army, Yuan Shaojun's soldiers naturally didn't give it, and some good-hearted Xiliang iron horsemen wanted to give the surplus rations to those hungry people, but they were stopped by Yuan Shaojun's generals, "Can't give it, give them one, and you can surround a group." Those Xiliang iron horsemen thought about it, so they brought back the rations that had been brought to the front of the village, and those hungry people saw that the food that was about to arrive flew again, and they couldn't help but kneel and cry.

Ma Zhong has been observing the situation outside the village, and after pondering for a long time, Ma Zhong found Pang De, who was preparing to feast on Zhou Ang, and took Pang De to no one's place, and said in a low voice: "General, no, we can't ignore the hungry people outside, we have to find a way to use the honor of the king to help the victims, and our next action will be convenient." ”

"I also want to give to the hungry." Pang De spread his hands, "But the military rations we are betting on, and tampering with the military rations is a capital crime." ”

"It's okay." Ma Zhongshen said mysteriously: "I dare to guarantee that the general will not blame the general for your use of these military rations to help the hungry people in Jizhou, but the king will not blame the general, but will be very happy." The trouble was that we had a lot of rations to escort, and we had to find a way to give relief to the hungry and get to the front of the battle to match the number. ”

Pang De pondered for a moment and said in a low voice: "I have the way, but how can you guarantee that the king will not blame me in the future?" ”

Ma Zhong patted his chest and said in a lower voice: "There is a secret decree of the king here, and the local general will know it, and the general can only do it with confidence, if the general still does not believe it, Ma Zhong is willing to make a military order, and all the consequences in the future will be borne by Ma Zhong alone." Pound stopped talking, but just stretched out a hand to Ma Zhong, and the two of them held hands together.

In a moment, Zhou Ang was invited to Pang De's tent to attend the banquet, Ma Zhong and Cheng Lian accompanied, Pang De took out the authentic konjac sauce wine produced in Yizhou to invite Zhou Ang, Yuan Shao's generals are mostly wine-colored people, Zhou Ang and Chun Yuqiong are the famous wine in Yuan Shao's army, seeing this wine that has been handed down as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, it is like seeing his own life, regardless of 3721 to let go of the belly jar, Pang De and others are intent to be close to him, after three rounds of wine, several people called them brothers.

When the time was near, Zhou Ang was already seven or eight points drunk, and he patted his chest at every turn when he spoke, Pang De took the opportunity to look at Ma Zhong, Ma Zhong understood, coughed and made a secret signal, Pang De picked up a glass of wine and said to Zhou Ang: "Brother Yihong, you and I hit it off at first sight, please make this cup again." Zhou Ang didn't say a word, picked up the wine glass and drank it all, and looked at Pound and laughed.

At this time, a herald of Dong Zhuojun rushed in from outside and told Pang De: "General, the hungry people outside the village are gathering more and more, and many hungry people are kneeling outside the village, begging our army to release grain. ”

Before Pang De could speak, Zhou Ang had already scolded: "Fuck this group of Diao people, it's really ghostly, Brother Ling Ming, you sit down first, brother, I will take someone to kill a few Diao people, blast them far away, let's come back and continue to drink." ”

"Brother, don't worry." Pang De hurriedly grabbed Zhou Ang, waved his hand to let the herald out, and pressed Zhou Ang back to his seat before saying: "Brother, I see that the hungry people on the ground of your army are really pitiful, and there is no way to kill, you kill a few now, and it won't be long before they will surround them again." ”

"What do you say?" Zhou Ang shook his head to see what was a double shadow and said, "Brother, you have an idea, foolish brother, I just do it." ”

"Brother, brother, I brought a lot of grain and grass." Pound said with a smile: "Brother, I want to give some to these hungry people, I don't know what my brother thinks?" ”

"What?" Zhou Ang was startled, his mind cleared up a little, and he stared at Pang De with puffed eyes and asked, "You distributed military rations to these Diao people, and you don't want to die?" ”

"That's right, distributing military rations is a capital offense." Pound smiled and said, "So brother, I want to ask my brother for a small favor, help my brother hide it in front of your lord." ”

"Hiding what?" Zhou Ang asked inexplicably.

"Brother, I want to distribute some of the military rations to the hungry." Pound said honestly: "Then mix the sand and soil with the rest of the grain, and send it in sufficient quantities, but I am afraid that your lord will blame, so I want to ask my brother to help cover it up." ”

Zhou Ang was amused when he heard it, pointed at Pang De's nose and scolded with a smile: "Good boy, he is really a profiteer's material." ”

"Can't you?" Pound asked worriedly.

"Why not?" Zhou Ang grabbed a jar of wine, poured a small half into his mouth, and laughed: "I can't hide it, my lord's grain officer Chun Yuqiong is like a brother and sister to me, and he doesn't hide anything from me, so I know that he has long played this trick in the grain and grass of our army, mixing it with sand to fill the amount of grain, and bring out more ...... of those grains" Speaking of this, Zhou Angbi drew a movement of carrying his pocket, which caused Pang De, Ma Zhong, and Cheng Lian to laugh.

"Don't worry about it, I'll help you bear it from Chun Yuqiong, he is the grain inspector and is responsible for checking the grain." Zhou Ang laughed and said: "I don't say it, he doesn't say it, brother, if you don't say it, no one will know." Zhou Ang thought about it and added, "Chun Yuqiong's kid is better than me, brother, you give him this konjac sauce wine a car, not to mention two pairs of catties, even one or two thousand stones less, Chun Yuqiong will also help you resist." ”

Pang De was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered Cheng Lian and Ma Zhong to do so, and stayed behind to continue to accompany Zhou Ang to drink. Cheng Lian and Ma Zhong immediately went to find Wei Xu on duty after leaving the account, Wei Xu had already arranged everything, so the three Dong Zhuojun generals were in a position, and thousands of Dong Zhuojun soldiers each resisted a sack out of the camp, and quietly touched the hungry people not far from the camp.

"Quick, you can take as much as you want." Dong Zhuojun's soldiers untied the sack and poured it to the ground, and said in a low voice: "This is the relief of His Royal Highness King Kang, you take these grains, and go to Bingzhou, where you can eat every day." Before Dong Zhuojun's words were finished, the hungry people had already rushed up, scrambling for the food on the ground, holding them with their hands, using their pockets, and directly grabbing raw potatoes and raw corn and chewing them, thousands of bags of grain, which were snatched up in an instant, and the cheers of "Long live King Kang" could be heard everywhere, one after another.

The screams of the hungry people attracted the attention of Yuan Shaojun in the camp, and many Yuan Shaojun soldiers climbed out of the barracks to look, and were discussing one after another, but a thunderous voice sounded behind them, "What do you see?" All give Lao Tzu back to the tent to sleep, if anyone dares to say anything, Lao Tzu sent him to Baima to cross the Yellow River! "Naturally, Zhou Ang, who has gained the benefits of Dong Zhuojun, is to rush to cross the Yellow River, that is, to storm the defense line of Cao Cao's army, which is a 'beauty difference' of nine deaths.

"The brothers have worked hard." Pang De said hypocritically: "Cheng Lian, let the quartermaster give half a catty of beef jerky to every brother of the Jizhou Army, and everyone go back to the tent to sleep." Yuan Shaojun's soldiers were tired of eating dried human flesh for a long time, and when they heard that there was beef jerky to eat, they immediately cheered, and each took half a catty of beef jerky back to the tent to sleep, and let Dong Zhuojun toss outside the camp.

That night, Dong Zhuojun distributed more than 2,000 stone of grain, equivalent to nearly 300,000 catties, and the elated hungry people helped Dong Zhuojun mix the grain bags with mud and sand, and then said goodbye with a thousand thanks. In the next few days, Pang Dejun concocted the same method, and distributed a large amount of food to the hungry people in a row, and the generals of Yuan Shaojun, who monitored them, turned a blind eye after receiving the benefits, and later, Dong Zhuojun simply publicly distributed food and mixed with sediment, and Yuan Shaojun soldiers in order to get more pieces of beef and mutton jerky from Dong Zhuojun's hands, directly ran to assist Dong Zhuojun's soldiers to distribute food, and many Yuan Shaojun soldiers quietly asked Dong Zhuojun's soldiers about Dong Zhuojun's military treatment, and envious, if it wasn't for their territory in Jizhou, I'm afraid that I will defect to Dong Zhuojun on the spot.

When Dong Zhuo's army grain team arrived in the south of Liyang, more than 20,000 stones of grain had been distributed, and each bag of grain was mixed with a small half of sediment, and the news that Dong Zhuojun could eat enough had spread all over Jizhou. At this time, Pang De, Zhou Ang and others also received an order from Yuan Shao, ordering Dong Zhuojun not to rush to the front line of Baima, but to directly escort the grain to Wuchao, and assist Chun Yuqiong to protect the Wuchao granary.

Seeing Yuan Shao's order, Pang De breathed a sigh of relief, Dong Zhuojun was too ruthless to mix sand into the grain, Pang De was also afraid that Yuan Shao would know about it and send someone to Kang Peng to make a fuss, while Ma Zhong was overjoyed and almost didn't laugh out loud, Pang De was surprised, and when he was about to ask what was going on, Zhou Ang's laughter came from behind him, "Brother Ling Mingxian, great, this time we can have a good drink with Brother Chun Yuqiong every day." Pang De had no choice but to temporarily give up his plan to ask Ma Zhong and turn back to be polite to the drunkard Zhou Ang.

It wasn't until he was about to cross the northern section of the Yellow River that Pang De knew why Ma Zhong was happy. At that time, Dong Zhuojun and Yuan Shaojun organized boats to cross the river together, Zhou Ang temporarily let go of pestering Pang De to drink to organize soldiers, and Ma Zhong took the opportunity to find Pang De, Cheng Lian and Wei Xu, and took out Kang Peng's secret decree in no one's place.

"His Royal Highness King Kang ordered that Pang De, Ma Zhong, Cheng Lian, and Wei Xu lead the army to try to approach the granary of Yuan Shaojun, burn down the granary of Yuan Shaojun, and take the opportunity to seize Yecheng or Wei County, and hold on to wait for the rear army to respond, Qin this!" Ma Zhong said.