By the time Gan Ning took the army by boat to the other side of the river and the Yellow Shot round, it was already late at night after counting the dead soldiers and the captured weapons and supplies.

"Captain Gan, you have made great achievements in this battle, and when we go back, we will definitely reward you to your father." Huang Zhu patted Gan Ning's shoulder and said cordially.

"Thank you, general, I don't know what to do with the enemy general Lu Fan?"

"I took him into custody first, but it's a pity that Han Dang's guy wasn't caught by me, so I let that guy escape." Huang Jian said with a slight sigh.

"I heard that Han Dang is very brave, and he can be beaten by the general in this battle and flee, which shows that the general ......," Gan Ning said with a smile.

"Hey." Huang Jian waved to stop Gan Ning's words, and continued: "If Captain Gan was by my side at that time, I would definitely not let Han Dang's family escape. Hey, where did the military advisor go? ”

"I said I wanted to count the seized grain and grass." Gan Ning Road.

Huang Jie smiled and said: "As my father said, Ma Hong is very intelligent, and he won this battle thanks to his strategy." ”

Gan Ning listened silently, and after Huang Jian finished speaking, he said: "If our army and Han Dang's 3,000 soldiers and horses fight head-on in this battle, I don't know how many brothers' lives will be damaged!" ”

"Yes, this battle alone cost the lives of more than 900 brothers." Huang Jie sighed.

Suddenly, the tent was lifted, and Ma Hong stood in front of the two, and the centurion Zhang Erjin and another centurion Huang Yao stood behind Ma Hong.

"General, Hong has something to tell you?" Ma Hong gave a military salute to Huang Shot.

"What's the matter? The military advisor said it was okay. After this battle, Huang Jie respected Ma Hong even more.

"It is possible that our army has been cut off by the enemy." Ma Hong paused and said.

When Ma Hong and Zhang Erjin came back from the upper reaches of the river, they met Huang Yao, who had seized the enemy's materials, and Huang Yao carefully reported to Ma Hong the amount of captured enemy materials. Han Dang's army numbered more than 3,000 people, but the captured grain and grass was only enough for 3,000 people to eat for ten days.

Ma Hong thought about it carefully and listed the reasons why Han Dang only brought so much grain and grass:

1. Han Dang was very confident, believing that he could meet the Jingzhou army in the remaining ten days, annihilate the Jingzhou army, and seize the supplies of the Jingzhou army. But this is not very likely, if ten days have passed, the army will go hungry to fight, and the army will definitely be discouraged.

Second, the troops escorting the grain and grass were behind, closely following Han Dang's army, but the more than 50 spies sent by Huang Jie did not find it. This is possible, but it is unlikely, fifty spies did not find that Han Dang's army was still escorting grain and grass, and Ma Hong also thought that Han Dang's army was carrying grain and grass by himself.

Third, Han Dang plans to lead the army to rob the people's grain as grain and grass while marching, which is also a certain possibility, but Xiaobawang's army is not bandits, and the food of the people in the war is not rich and may not be enough for three thousand soldiers to eat. In addition, Han Dang's army was in a hurry, and there was not enough time to grab grain and grass.

Fourth, if the first three are not true, then the grain and grass are not behind, but in front. Han Dang's army took the land route, if Sun Ce sent more than one team of Han Dang, then the other army, or maybe two armies, must take the water route. Relying on ships to escort grain and grass is much less labor-saving than on land, and if there is still an army along the Yangtze River all the way up to cut off the retreat of the Jingzhou army, then it is reasonable for Han Dang's army to carry grain and grass for ten days.

"So, then, does the military advisor mean that we are likely to have fallen into Sun Ce's encirclement?" After listening to Ma Hong's analysis, Huang Jie's forehead was already covered with beads of sweat, and he wiped the sweat on his forehead from time to time, but the sweat still kept coming out.

"In my opinion, Sun Ce is now pursuing Liu Xun, and it is unlikely that he will divide his troops to lay a trap for us. Moreover, Liu Xun's letter also said that he would hold Sun Ce back and wait for our reinforcements. Gan Ning rubbed his head and analyzed seriously.

"I think you may have overlooked one important thing, and that is the letter for help that Liu Xun sent us. First of all, whether this letter was sent by Liu Xun or Sun Ce is not sure? Ma Hong replied.

"What does the military advisor mean, did Sun Ce pretend to be Liu Xun and write to us?" Huang Zhu said with a surprised face.

"Does Liu Xun have too much interaction with Ling Zun?" Ma Hong asked.

"According to my father, they had a relationship before, but they didn't have a deep relationship." Huang replied.

"The communication is not deep, which means that Liu Xun understands that Sun Ce is Ling Zun and his common enemy, so he will ask Ling Zun for help, and Ling Zun may not know Liu Xun's handwriting. After Liu Xun's messenger was intercepted by Sun Ce, Sun Ce changed the date on the letter and sent the letter to another messenger. At the same time, we laid a trap in advance and waited for us to drill. Ma Hong analyzed.

"If I were Liu Xun, I would definitely not send only one messenger to deliver the letter, even if one messenger was intercepted, there would be other messengers to deliver the letter, if Sun Ce changed the date, wouldn't it expose his conspiracy?" Gan Ning Road.

"I'm just talking about one of the possibilities, and what Captain Gan said is what I'm going to ask next, I don't know how many distress letters Ling Zun received?" Ma Hong looked at Gan Ning, and then at Huang Jie.

"Three letters, military advisor, what do you mean?" Huang Jie suddenly felt a chill in his back.

Gan Ning also understood instantly, he rubbed his head vigorously and scolded: "Liu Xun is a fool, if he only sends one messenger, he may not be intercepted by Sun Ce, if he sends more messengers, then the chance of being intercepted by Sun Ce will increase, and Liu Xun must send a lot of messengers in order to survive, and Sun Ce only needs to intercept one messenger to obtain information and lay a net for us to drill." Besides, Liu Xun hasn't sent anyone to pick us up yet, so I think there may be something wrong inside. ”

"Could it be that after Liu Xun's letter was intercepted by Sun Ce, Sun Ce sped up and killed Liu Xun and set up a bureau for us?" The beads of sweat on Huang Jie's forehead disappeared, and he felt a chill in his back.

"And now we only need to bring Lu Fan over, and I will ask him a few questions to see if we have fallen into a trap." Ma Hong Road.

Gan Ning immediately got up and walked out of the military tent, and after half a cup of tea, Lu Fan was taken to the military tent.

Lu Fan was pushed in by two soldiers with his hair scattered, and he squinted and stood motionless in the military tent. The soldier next to him kicked him in the leg and pressed him to the ground by the shoulder.

"Don't be rude." Ma Hong scolded, stepped forward to loosen the tie for Lu Fan, and asked Lu Fan to sit down.

Lu Fan still squinted his eyes and ignored Ma Hong, and he didn't take a seat.

Ma Hong smiled and picked up a cup of tea for Lu Fan, and said with a smile: "It's hot, it's good to drink some tea, right?" ”

Lu Fan snorted coldly, straightened his chest and pointed at Ma Hong's nose and said, "If you want to kill, you don't need to play tricks, just because you, a yellow-haired boy, can't detect my mouth." ”

Ma Hong smiled and said, "But with me, the yellow-haired boy, I still wiped out your army." ”

Lu Fan's squinted eyes opened, and he looked at Ma Hong and said, "Is it Your Excellency's plan?" ”

Ma Hong nodded and said, "Sir, let's drink some hot water first!" The hot water is not too hard to drink. ”

Lu Fan snorted and took Ma Hong's water bowl, when he took the tea bowl, he deliberately shook his hand and poured the tea on the back of Ma Hong's hand, but Ma Hong still looked at him with the same smile. Lu Fan frowned, drank the rest of the tea, and after drinking, handed the empty tea bowl to Ma Hong and said, "Your Excellency, please bring another glass of water." ”

Huang Jie was a little unhappy at this time, he snorted coldly but did not speak. Ma Hong smiled and handed another bowl of water to Lu Fan, who took the tea bowl and poured all the water on Ma Hong's face, and then laughed. Gan Ning was furious, stepped forward and grabbed Lu Fan and was about to hit Lu Fan. Ma Hong stopped Gan Ning and wiped the tea on his face, then laughed with his hands: "This time the water is not hot water but lukewarm water, which disappointed Mr." ”

"Originally, I wanted to entertain Mr. with good wine and food, but I didn't expect to get more of your grain and grass, so I could only grieve Mr.'s stomach." Ma Hong took a piece of pancake and handed it to Lu Fan and continued: "Dare to ask sir, why do you have so little grain and grass? ”

Lu Fan was taken aback, and his smile froze on his face, all of which was seen by Ma Hong.

"Could it be that the other grain and grass is in the belly of the gentleman?" Ma Hong then asked.

Lu Fan didn't answer, just stuffed the pancake in his hand into his mouth and chewed it hard.

"I think Mr. is also a strange person, and he can hide grain and grass in his belly, so there is also a plan to take out grain and grass from Mr. 's belly. It's just that the method of taking grain is more special, that you need to peel off the belly of the gentleman with a sharp blade, and then fill the red-hot stone into the belly of the gentleman, and then sew the belly of the gentleman with a thread, and then open the thread after a stick of incense, and 300 stones of rice will flow out of the belly of the gentleman. Next, I used this method to keep removing the stitches and stitches to put the stones, and it only took one night to take out all the grain and grass that Mr. had hidden in his abdomen. Sir, do you think this is a wonderful method? ”