Cao's army besieged the city for several months, and the disaster brought to Xiapi was undoubtedly huge.

Except for the seriously wounded, everyone else was cleaning up the ruins of the city.

Yellow-skinned men push wheelbarrows to transport the cleaned garbage outside the city.

The city gate was opened, and there was an endless stream of people pushing carts back and forth.

Accompanied by Zhang Liao, Lu Bu rode a red rabbit and walked on the streets of Xiapi.

The crowd of people coming and going was like eggplants beaten by frost, and the morale was so low that if Cao Jun did not retreat, at most Xiapi would be broken in another month.

People pushing wheelbarrows move left and right, carrying garbage out of town along the sides of the street.

As he was walking forward, Lu Bu saw an old man with gray hair who was pushing a cart and collapsed on the road.

Several people who followed behind hurriedly put down the cart and ran over, and one of them held up the back of the old man's neck and let him lean in his arms.

More people just glanced at them and continued to walk on weakly.

Lu Bu jumped off his horse and walked over quickly.

Squatting beside the old man, he saw that the old man's eyes were closed tightly and his teeth were clenched, and he had passed out.

Zhang Liao and a few guards also followed.

"What's going on?" Lu Bu asked a few men around him.

"Hungry." The man holding the old man replied: "I haven't had a grain in my stomach for a few days, and there are still so many things to clean up in the city......"

He didn't continue, but lowered his head with a sad face.

"Send him to rest and ask a doctor to see him." Lu Bu explained to a few men and stood up.

Re-mounted, he asked Zhang Liao, "How much grain is there in the city?" ”

"It's been a long time coming." Zhang Liao replied: "Just to supply the soldiers, it's just a month's ration. ”

"You can't watch the people starve to death." Lu Bu said: "What did we seize Xuzhou for? Isn't it for the sake of conquering the world and achieving great things? If we starve the people to death, what else do we want the world to do? ”

Zhang Liao didn't say anything.

He had long sensed that Lu Bu was different from the past.

In the past, Lu Bu, not to mention never caring about the life and death of the people, even the life and death of the soldiers in the army, he would not ask too much.

And the one next to him said that it was useless to ask for a world without people.

"Do you know where to get food?" Lu Bu suddenly asked.

"Winter is not over, and the grain will not be harvested until a few months later." Zhang Liao said: "I'm afraid there is no one in the whole of Xuzhou. ”

"The closest to Xuzhou is Yuan Shu." Lu Bu asked, "Do you think he will have it there?" ”

"Although Huainan Yuan Shu was defeated by Wen Hou and injured his vitality, he will definitely have food there." Zhang Liao asked, "Wen Hou is planning to ......?"

"Borrow from him." Lu Bu said: "I personally brought people over. ”

"It's the middle of winter, and there isn't much food in various places, how could Yuan Shu agree." Zhang Liao said: "I think it's better to let the people go to the wild to collect tree bark and wild vegetables......

"There are still many months before the harvest of grain, is it only for the soldiers and the people to eat bark and wild vegetables? At that time, all of them will have yellow faces and thin muscles, in case Cao Jun comes again, who will have the strength to go into battle to kill the enemy? Lu Bu said: "I asked Yuan Shu to borrow grain, but I didn't plan to ask for his consent. ”

"Could it be that Wen Hou wants to ......," Zhang Liao was stunned.

"Guard Xiapi well, and wait for me to come back with food!" Lu Bu didn't explain, and shook the reins vigorously: "Accompany me to the barracks, I have to select two hundred capable soldiers." ”

Lu Bu urged the horse to leave, and Zhang Liao followed closely behind him and was still trying his best to persuade him: "Wen Hou must not take risks, although Yuan Shu is not as good as before, but he still has a lot of soldiers and horses after all." In case ......"

"Don't worry!" Lu Bu said: "If I take his grain, I won't necessarily let him know who did it. ”

He didn't think of borrowing food from Yuan Shu at all.

Huainan is not far from Xuzhou, since there is grain there, take someone to grab it.

Since you chose to rob, of course, you are going to go back quietly, you really can't avoid the fight, and it's okay to pretend to be a thief.

The tactics applied to the battlefield, like technology, have evolved and improved with the changing times.

Familiar with the tactics of 2,000 years later, and with the world's best martial arts, Lu Bu didn't think it would be difficult to snatch food.

After the soul entered the body, he received a lot of information from his past memories.

In order to ask Yuan Shu to send troops to help, Lu Bu once wrapped his daughter in armor and went out of the city, but was intercepted by Cao's army halfway.

Back in the city, her daughter had been suffocated to death.

The wife who gave birth to his daughter also died a few years ago, and now he only has Diao Chan by his side!

Although the memory was swirling in his mind, it was not a personal experience after all, and he didn't have too many emotional fluctuations, he just regarded everything that happened to Lu Bu as a story.

Stories also have a use for stories, at least his daughter's death created an excuse for him to snatch grain and grass from Yuan Shu!

If you expose your identity when you are robbing food, you can at least use this excuse to turn the axiom to your advantage.

Hearing that he was planning to grab grain, Zhang Liao was very worried.

Lu Bu is the best in the world, and no one is his opponent when he fights alone.

But Yuan Shu has a lot of soldiers and horses, once he falls into the siege and still carries food, it is difficult to break through again!

Lu Bu came to the barracks, and the soldiers who were resting ran out of the barracks one after another.

After months of fighting, and now they have to clean up the ruins day and night, and the soldiers look very tired.

Gao Shun greeted him and saluted Lu Bu: "Wen Hou is here." ”

"How's the camp going?" After getting off the horse and handing over the red rabbit to a guard, Lu Bu asked Gao Shun.

"I picked a few rounds like a sieve, but I only made up five hundred." Gao Shun said: "There are too many old and weak in the army, if we don't expand the number of soldiers and horses, I am afraid that we will not be able to cope with it if there is another war in the future." ”

"We have no money, no food, and no population, how can we expand our troops and horses?" Lu Bu said: "Xuzhou has gone through several wars, and it has long been withered. If you want to recruit more soldiers, you must first make money. With money, we can buy more food, make more sophisticated weapons, and attract more people to settle down in Xuzhou. ”

"How many camps are there here?" He then asked again.

"Most of the soldiers are cleaning up the rubble." Gao Shun replied: "Those who stayed here were also busy all night before retreating, and there were only more than 200 people trapped in the camp. ”

"Take them to the school field, I have something to say." Lu Bu walked to the school grounds.

Gao Shun opened his voice and shouted: "Trap camp gathering, Wen Hou has something to say!" ”

The soldiers belonging to the trapped camp ran to the school field one after another, lined up in a neat formation.

The more than 200 soldiers raised their heads and stood tall, but the torn armor and ragged clothes made them more like a remnant of the army who wanted to retain a trace of dignity after a rout.