After recuperating for nearly half a month, Liu Bei's back injury was improved, and after more than ten days beyond the doctor's expectations, he was able to ride a horse slowly, which made Liu Bei anxious, but beautified the soldiers.

Most of the soldiers are who feeds and listens to whom, as for who is going to be the emperor, it has nothing to do with them, for half a month, except for one drill every three days, basically nothing has to be done, of course, except for patrolling the camp in shifts.

Liu Bei is now a little annoyed, originally wanted to learn about Cao Cao's raid on Jingzhou, but who would have thought that before the army was dispatched, Jiangdong had already gotten the news, he was different from Cao Cao, Cao Cao made the right decision at the right time, although the result was a failure, but at least the beginning of the people was successful, Liu Bei decided to send troops after Jiangdong raised his vigilance, it can be said that he made a wrong decision at the wrong time.

The summer in Jingzhou came earlier than other places, walking on the road, on the branches on both sides of the road, there were even cicadas there knowing and calling, as Liu Beijun approached Jiangling more and more, the logistics supply line was getting longer and longer, no matter how Ma Liang went all out, there were times when he was overstretched.

When people eat horses and chew, often the grain and grass raised in the rear have not been transported to the front camp, and half of them have been consumed on the way, and when the remaining grain and grass are transported to the army, they have to turn around non-stop, and then urge grain to the middle of the river, exhausted, which is the word that Ma Liang most often hangs on his lips now.

In order to alleviate the pressure on Sichuan, Liu Bei had to order the sergeants to collect grain nearby, saying that it was to collect grain, but in fact, it was just a word, robbing, but except for some remote horns, the soldiers of the Sichuan army gradually found that most of the villages around them had been run out of food, except for those unripe grains in the paddy fields, they couldn't even find half a grain of millet.

"Lord, I'm afraid this is Jiangdong Shi's plan to clear the wilderness, the purpose is to make our army unable to raise grain, grass and strong men." Fa Zheng opened his clothes and walked to Liu Bei's side and said to him.

"Sun Quan's trick is so vicious, I'm afraid he has already calculated that we won't be able to supply food when we come here." Liu Bei complained about Sun Quan's evil there, and he didn't want to think about it, you are going to beat people, will people still smile and hand you a bowl of rice, and when you are full, you will be beaten even harder.

"From today onwards, the whole army will resume two meals a day, and when Jiangling is taken, a certain will have a generous reward." Liu Bei bit a dog's tail grass in his mouth, and ordered Fa Zheng beside him.

"Lord, I'm afraid that two meals a day is just an expedient measure, and when it really comes to use my life, I am afraid that these soldiers are unwilling to move forward." Fa Zheng knows the Yizhou army very well, if you feed them, they can be a tiger and wolf army, but if you want to let them go hungry and give you their lives, it is tantamount to a fool's dream.

"Xiaozhi, what should I do in your opinion." Liu Bei spit out the dog's tail grass in his mouth, and asked helplessly with his hands outstretched.

"Lord, it's difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and your question can turn me down." Hearing this, Fa Zheng shook his head and smiled bitterly.

"Hey, it's better for us to expand the scope of our search, maybe there are villages that Jiangdong missed." Liu Bei was helpless, and remembered this method that was not a solution.

"Even if there is, can a village afford to support the 200,000 troops under the command of the lord!! For the sake of today's plan, the lord can order a rapid march, ignore the harassment of the Jiangdong army along the way, smash Huanglong, and take Jiangling in one go, and at that time, the danger of food shortage will be solved. Fa Zheng gritted his teeth and offered advice to Liu Bei.

To be honest, even if it is Fazheng, he does not dare to guarantee that Liu Bei will be able to fight Jiangling in one battle, but the longer it drags on, the greater the gap in food, and if it drags on for more than a month, let alone two meals a day, I am afraid that one meal a day will be unsustainable, and by that time, the Yizhou army will collapse without a fight.

"Take a risk." Liu Bei also knew in his heart that Jiangling City was strong, and it was impossible to go down in a battle, but now that he was retreating from the army, he couldn't hold his face on his face, and second, would the Jiangdong Army see him leave.

"Hey, I knew it earlier, so I listened to Kong Ming's advice." It was only when the was pulled that he remembered that he didn't have paper, and when the matter was approaching, Liu Bei remembered Zhuge Liang's advice.

"Give it your all, and maybe it will work wonders." Fa Zheng was egging Liu Bei on the side, he couldn't accept failure, especially Zhuge Liang's eyes that always looked at him with a smile.

"Three meals a day remain the same, just filial piety, or you can mix more water with rice!!" Liu Bei got up and came up with a crooked idea, which was to turn rice into rice porridge.

"Well, let's try it for two days." Fa Zheng smiled bitterly in his heart, nodded and agreed to Liu Bei's proposal.

"That's good, let's try it for two days first, and then think of other ways if you can't think of other ways, the living can't be suffocated to death." Liu Bei saw that his idea was adopted by the military advisor, and said happily, but he didn't want to think about it, he couldn't hold back his urine and wet a pair of pants at most, but he was hungry, and he was anxious to find something to eat.

"Hey, I said, isn't there no food in the army!!" That night, a careful soldier found out about the rice turning into rice porridge, scooped up a spoonful of rice porridge and brought it to his mouth, tapped his comrade next to him, and asked in a soft voice.

"How is it possible, didn't you send a batch of grain and grass to the camp the day before yesterday!!" Some soldiers feel that eating too much rice and occasionally changing the taste to eat rice porridge is actually not bad.

"Then today, how did you turn rice into porridge?" The questioning soldier felt that something was wrong.

"If you have to eat, you can eat, these things are also your big soldier to worry about." The soldiers beside him giggled and despised their comrade.

"You melon babies, when you really run out of food, you can still laugh." When the soldier heard this, he hurriedly lowered his head and ate porridge, but he said so secretly in his heart.

"Filial piety, the soldiers can complain." When night fell, Liu Bei hurriedly summoned Fa Zheng to ask.

"Just a meal of rice porridge can't arouse their complaints, but if it continues, it will be difficult to say the lord." Fa Zheng has never liked to eat porridge, so at this time, he endured the feeling of pantothenic acid in his stomach and said to Liu Bei.

"In this way, two dry and one thin a day, and when they get used to it, they can do it again." Liu Bei looked at the rice in the bowl and asked Fa Zheng.

"Well, perhaps." Fa Zheng folded his hands and replied.

"Oh, I know you don't like porridge, so I left you a bowl of dry rice today, eat it quickly." Liu Bei brought the bowl of rice to Fa Zheng and said to him.

"This, my lord, I can't do it." Fa Zheng knew that this was saved by Liu Bei from the rations, so he hurriedly shook his hand and excused himself.

"What's the matter, when you're full, you have the spirit to give me advice, and when we recapture Jingzhou, I'll invite you to eat meat." Liu Bei stuffed the rice into Fa Zheng's hand, turned around and poured a few slices of dried meat and pickles into the bowl and smiled at him.

"My lord." Fa Zheng was holding the rice bowl, and his nose was sour.

"Eat." Liu Bei smiled at Fa Zheng, stuffed the chopsticks into his hand and said softly.