Zhang Fei now understood why Guan Yu had not been able to leave Liu Bei and join him in the New Han Dynasty.

This is mainly because he and Guan Yu are the same, they are not the kind of ruthless and unrighteous people. All kinds of things between them and Liu Bei cannot be said to be completely wiped out at once. Even if, in some hidden places, Liu Bei doesn't seem to be very authentic, and even makes them feel chilled, making them feel that Liu Bei is hypocritical and no longer in line with their thoughts.

However, at the beginning, they were married in Taoyuan together, and they were born and died together, none of which can be faked. has been with Liu Bei for so long, and it is really difficult for them to make a decision if they want to leave Liu Bei all at once. Especially under the current situation, when Liu Bei is in trouble, whether it is Guan Yu or Zhang Fei, in their hearts, they will always be a little unbearable.

Repaying grievances with virtue and repaying virtue with grievances depends on each person's character. It's obvious. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are both people with excellent character. Although they were already a little dissatisfied with Liu Bei in their hearts, they still didn't say anything when it was time to ask them for help.

However, Zhang Fei also has conditions.

Zhang Fei could help Liu Bei seize the area around Runan, but the ancient city of Liu Bei could not be moved. The so-called bandit soldiers here, except for those that Zhang Fei originally brought out from Xiaopeicheng, other bandit soldiers will not accept Liu Bei's orders.

That is to say, the ancient city is still an ancient city, Liu Bei can rest in the ancient city when he does not capture Runan, but after he captures Runan, he will leave immediately, and in the future, Liu Bei is not allowed to fight the idea of the ancient city.

Guan Yu understands this. Because, this ancient city is actually a secret stronghold of Liu Yi, and it is impossible to give it to Liu Bei. Zhang Fei's condition. I just don't want Liu Bei to directly clash with Liu Yi, so it is difficult for their brothers to be caught in the middle.

Guan Yu agreed to this condition, and then Guan Yu asked Zhang Fei for help, invited Liu Pi and Gong Du, and asked them to help send Liang Lan to the New Han Dynasty safely. Guan Yu wrote a letter. explained some of his situation to Liu Yi, and explained to Liu Yi the little thing between him and Liang Lan. Well, Guan Yu is like that. Since he had already decided to accept Liang Lan, he was not as twisted as ordinary men, and told Liu Yi about it, and he was not afraid that Liu Yi would laugh at him for what he said about his sister-in-law. Because. Liu Yi's romance is enough for them to make fun of Liu Yi for a lifetime. Guan Yu trusted Liu Yi, so he didn't even hide these things.

While Liu Bei was still busy catching Cao Jun and capturing him, and had not officially recognized Zhang Fei, Guan Yu sent Liang Lan away and said goodbye to Liang Lan.

It was also at this moment that Liang Lan also knew about the Dao. It turned out that Guan Yu had already taken refuge in the New Han Dynasty, but it was just because of the brotherhood between him and Liu Bei. I can't bear to give up for a while.

Regarding going to the New Han Dynasty first, Liang Lan has no opinion. Because in the New Han Dynasty, she also had acquaintances. Among Liu Yi's women, aren't Mi Zhen and Cao Jing the double beauties of Xuzhou? She is not much different in age from the two girls, and they usually get together together, but Liang Lan's temperament is not as outgoing as Mi Zhen, so she can't be friends and girlfriends who often play together, but at least, she can still talk to them.

What's more, Liang Lan learned that Guan Yu was also from the New Han Dynasty, and she also wanted to use the relationship between Mi Zhen and Cao Jing to ask Liu Yi to help send someone to Xuzhou to see how her maiden Liang family was doing.

Liu Bi wanted to stay in the ancient city, so Gong Du personally led someone to escort Liang Lan to Luoyang. In fact, it is only necessary to send Liang Lan to Wancheng, and it is not too far from Runan to Wancheng.

After dealing with everything, Guan Yu went down the mountain with Zhang Fei and went to meet Liu Bei.

Liu Bei caught more than 10,000 Cao soldiers together, and he was happy.

When he saw Zhang Fei and Guan Yu coming to see him together, he cried with joy, and naturally said goodbye.

After Liu Bei's "catharsis", Zhang Fei told Liu Bei that he fled to Runan after Xiaopei's defeat, and explained to Liu Bei that the ancient city was not captured by him Zhang Fei, but the righteous thieves here took him in.

Liu Bei naturally has no objection, his destination will not be a small mountain city here, but Runan, as long as he wins Runan, how can he look down on this ancient city?

In this way, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei stayed by Liu Bei's side for the time being.

Originally, now was the time for Liu Bei to seize Runan City, because Cai Yang had already brought out all the military horses in Runan City, and now he was defeated by Liu Bei, and the captives who escaped were probably only about 20,000 people who could escape back to Runan City. However, Liu Bei also saw that his military horses were only about 10,000 people, and Zhang Fei, he still had thousands of men and horses, but this added up to less than 15,000 military horses. What's more, Cao Cao will send reinforcements again?

Therefore, Liu Bei now, the most important thing is to persuade the more than 20,000 Cao army captives to surrender, as long as they are willing to join Liu Bei's army and train for a period of time, they can become a capable army.

No matter what, Liu Bei, who arrived in the ancient city, finally got a chance to breathe.

And the Guandu battlefield, compared to Cao Cao, is a bit bad at the moment.

Because, since Yuan Shao intended to defeat Cao Cao in one fell swoop, but suffered a head-on attack from Cao Cao, using trebuchets to force Yuan Shao's many days of siege efforts in vain, under the blow of the aerial stone projectiles of the trebuchet, the method of using the stake array to break through Cao Cao's defense line is no longer feasible.

Therefore, Yuan Shao actually started a battle with Cao Cao, and it seems that he is not in a hurry to find an opportunity for a decisive battle with Cao Cao.

This time, it hit Cao Cao's death hole crookedly.

Because, Cao Cao was short of food, watching the days pass day by day, his military food is decreasing day by day, and seeing that the army is about to run out of food, Cao Cao's heart is really anxious.

It is conceivable that after there is no food in the army, their military horses will definitely have no intention of fighting again, and when the time comes, the army will mutiny, and no one wants to be starved to death without food.

Now, Cao Cao has ordered the quartermaster to quietly reduce the daily food consumption of the sergeants, a little less every day. In this way, I hope it can be supported for a few more days.

The most important thing is that he sent countless spies and scouts to spy on Yuan Shao's military food intelligence. But there has been no news.

However, Xu Huang's subordinate general Shi Jian captured the fine work sent by Yuan Shao, and after interrogation, he realized that the cunning Yuan Shao actually asked the general Han Meng to send military rations to Yuan Shao's army in the morning and evening, and even escorted the grain and grass day and night.

It's no wonder why Cao Cao's spies failed to find out Yuan Shaojun's grain and grass escort route.

But. Such a piece of information alone is not enough, because that is fine. It is only known that Lu Dao is Yuan Shao's general Han Meng who escorted a batch of military rations to Yuan Shao's camp sooner or later, but how it was transported and where it was transported from, this is unknown.

But. Xun Yu offered a plan: "My lord." Now, although we don't know where Yuan Shaojun's military rations were transported to his camp, nor do we know how to transport their grain, but behind Yuan Shaojun's camp is the Yellow River, and across a Yellow River, they have to pass through the Yellow River to reach Yuan Shao's camp no matter what. Can you send an army first? Halfway robbed the military rations that were transported to Yuan Shao's camp? ”

"Oh?" Cao Cao's eyes lit up when he heard this, and said, "That's right, although it can't destroy Yuan Shao's military rations. However, if a batch of his grain could be destroyed first, so that the food of the hundreds of thousands of military horses in Yuan Shao's camp on the south bank of the Yellow River would be tight, then it would be impossible for Yuan Shao to escort the grain so calmly in the future. He must be replenished immediately. At that time, our scout scouts will be able to find out where Yuan Shao's grain and grass are hidden. ”

"But how can this be robbed?" Cao Cao felt a little embarrassed.

Before Guandu, Yuan Shao's military camp stretched for dozens of miles, and most places along the river were already within the scope of Yuan Shao's strength, and Yuan Shao could directly transport grain to Yuan Shao's camp from the north bank of the Yellow River.

"Lord, it seems that you can only rob food in the water." Xun Yu Dao.

"Looting food in the water?" Cao Cao couldn't think of how to rob grain in the water for a while.

"Lord, the upper reaches of the Yellow River are still in our hands, we can first send an army, requisition ships, and wait for the opportunity in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and when our scouts find that there are Yuan Shaojun's horses crossing the river on the north bank of the Yellow River, it is estimated that it will be Yuan Shaojun's grain team. Aren't they going to carry grain at night? It happened that the night could hide our army, and when they crossed the river, our fleet killed along the Yellow River and robbed Yuan Shao's grain ship in one fell swoop. ”

"That's right! Ha Lu Ha, the night to transport grain, so that they can hide, the same can make it easier for us to hide. Okay, it's really yours, Gongda, then that's it, let's start with a grass startle snake to see if Yuan Shao doesn't expose his granary. Cao Cao praised Xun Youdao.

Without further ado, Cao Cao immediately sent the general Xu Huang, led thousands of military horses, and rushed to the ferry upstream, as early as when he was fighting against Yuan Shaojun, Cao Cao did not forget to let the sergeants control the boats on the Yellow River, so Cao Cao was not short of boats at this moment.

Similarly, even if Cao Cao is short now, Cao Cao will not be too greedy. Therefore, although it is said to be a robbery of grain, it is actually equivalent to destroying grain. It is important to know that Yuan Shao wants to escort grain across the Yellow River and send it to his military camp, so naturally he will not let the grain pass through some remote routes, and it is estimated that he will directly transport grain and grass across the river from the section of the Yellow River behind Yuan Shao's camp. Therefore, Cao Cao wanted to destroy the grain, and it was on that section of the river. There, Yuan Shao's military horses were on both sides of the riverbank, and thousands of people and horses went to rob the grain, it was good to be able to retreat, but they still wanted to carry Yuan Shao's grain?

This is obviously impossible, so Cao Cao's order to Xu Huang is to destroy Yuan Shao's grain, even if it is a great achievement.

Before nightfall, Xu Huang boarded dozens of ships with thousands of men and horses, and then slowly descended the river under the banner of the Cao army scouts on both sides of the Yellow River, and then turned into a forked river twenty or thirty miles away from Yuan Shao's camp and hid.

The sky slowly darkened, and there were no stars and moons this night, and the earth was dark.

In the dark, just a little spark will be particularly eye-catching.

Sure enough, in the dark night, the scouts of Cao's army discovered a ferry on the north bank of the Yellow River, and suddenly lit countless torches, and a military horse rushed to the ferry, and on the river, I don't know when countless boats were moored in the river.

Cao Jun's scouts, although they couldn't see the actual situation of the ferry up close, but the movement in the middle of the night, if the estimate is correct, should be Yuan Shaojun preparing to transport grain across the river.

Whether it was Yuan Shao's army rations crossing the river or not, even if Yuan Shao's soldiers crossed the river, there was nothing wrong with attacking them.

Present. The person who discovered the situation immediately lit the fire and sent a signal to Xu Huang, who was hiding in the fork of the river.

This is indeed Yuan Shaojun's grain transportation team. Yuan Shao's general, Han Meng, was at the ferry, ordering the sergeant to carry the grain to the boat.

Well, whether it is Cao Cao's military horse or Yuan Shao's military horse, strictly speaking, it can be said to be the Northern Army. Their soldiers are not water-sensitive. For them, this water war. Completely unfamiliar name.

It can be said that Yuan Shaojun, from top to bottom, has never thought about water warfare.

Han Meng was very careful. All the way to the ferry, the grain was transported. It's a bit slow though. But it's about safety. A few days of food for hundreds of thousands of military horses is not a joke, once something goes wrong, Yuan Shao will definitely not spare him.

However, when he arrived at the ferry, Han Meng felt safe. Because as long as the grain is transported across the river, it is not far from the Yuan army camp, and no one dares to go to the Yuan army camp to rob the grain under the nose.

Actual. On the north bank of the Yellow River, it is also the rear area that belongs to Yuan Shao. I didn't have to be so careful. However, Yuan Shao knew that Cao Cao was a scheming, scheming and bold guy, and he couldn't help but guard against Cao Cao, and he was wary that Cao Cao would send a small army and horses to his rear to wreak havoc. After all, food is a dead thing, flammable and explosive, and if it is attacked by Cao Cao's small army and horses, he can destroy everything by setting it on fire.

Han Meng is a more cautious general, so Yuan Shao will give him the important task of escorting grain.

Yuan Shaojun did not lack manpower, and transported these grains to the ferry, dispatching more than 30,000 military horses.

So, now it's very fast to get the grain on the ship.

It didn't take long for Han Meng to watch the boats full of grain and grass swing away from the river and float towards the opposite bank.

Just when Han Meng was about to board the boat and cross the river to return to Yuan Shao, his eyes suddenly burst out, because he saw the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and suddenly floated down a black shadow.

The shadows were fast, down the river, and were about to hit the boats that were carrying grain across the river.

The night was very dark, but Han Meng could still see clearly that those were the silhouettes of some ships.

This black-lit, blind-lit ship that suddenly appeared must not be a good thing.

Han Meng was in a hurry, and he hurriedly shouted: "Warning!" Warning! There is a group of unidentified ships upstream, and the escort ship is tightly forward to intercept it! ”

However, Han Meng's shouting was too late.

I saw a coax, and in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, countless torches suddenly ignited, which were the torches lit by Cao Bing on the boat.

Then, a lot of firelight appeared here and there.

Whining......

These sporadic fires suddenly flew into the air, and with a whin, those sporadic fires fell on the grain ships that were crossing the Yellow River.

Those are rockets.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”

The entire surface of the river seemed to be in chaos all at once, and a frightened cry sounded, as if the world was not coming.

Not only on the river, but also on both sides of the Yellow River, Yuan Shaojun, they were also a little panicked, but they could only be in a hurry, but they couldn't help.

Countless rockets, whirring with firelight, fell on the grain ships on the river, and in an instant, the ships loaded with no food were on fire. And the soldiers of Yuan Shao on the ship, they were really extremely frightened and completely overwhelmed.

Well, on the surface of the rolling Yellow River, not to mention these soldiers of the Northern Army who don't know water, even if they know how to water, they will be afraid, and it is really difficult to say whether they can swim ashore if they fall into the Yellow River.

In later generations, I have heard of many that ordinary people can cross the Yangtze River, but how many times have you ever heard that you can swim across the Yellow River? Looking at the boiling water of the Yellow River, it will make people feel frightened, let alone swim past.

The ship was on fire, and those Yuan Shao's soldiers, they didn't know if they wanted to fight the fire or run for their lives. However, if they run for their lives, they seem to have nowhere to escape.

Bumper Bumper ......

Many of the Cao Jun boats that rushed down from the upstream directly collided with Yuan Jun's grain carriers, and many Yuan Jun soldiers were directly shocked and screamed and fell into the river, and then disappeared by the river.

At this moment, Xu Huang was standing on the bow of a warship with a big smile, and there were soldiers next to him who kept handing over rockets to him, and then he arrowed them out, and the arrows and arrows were all shot at the flammable and explosive places of Yuan Jun's grain ships.

The Han Dynasty already had warships, but there were not many, and Cao Cao made a lot of old warships.

Xu Huang felt very happy, such a battle was too comfortable, and in the current situation, Yuan Shao's fleet, which was not prepared, was completely just a fight. And they themselves only need to cast rockets to destroy everything in Yuan Shao.

Not long after, many grain ships were directly hit and sunk, and many more were ignited, and the fire illuminated the entire river. And Xu Huang personally led the army, jumped into a relatively large Yuan army warship, and captured the ship after capsizing and slashing.

Subsequently, the Cao army fleet that went down the river penetrated the Yuan army's grain fleet and fled downstream.

Of course, almost all the grain ships of the Yuan army were burned down, except for a few boats of grain that were robbed by Cao's army, only three or four small grain ships escaped, and the rest were all destroyed by fire and sunk to the bottom of the Yellow River. He was accompanied by dozens of soldiers per ship.

There is no way, it can't be water, and when the ship sank, Yuan Shaojun didn't have time to send a boat to search and rescue those soldiers who fell into the water. In fact, as long as you fall into the Yellow River, you basically don't need to search and rescue, and you will definitely die.

The grain ship was destroyed under Yuan Shao's nose, and after Yuan Shao got the news, he rushed to the Yellow River, but all he saw was a mess, and he was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot. (To be continued......)