The Cao army camp on the edge of the black water canal is about thirty miles away from Anzhong County, and the Cao army can reach it within a day by traveling lightly. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Although the trip was slowed down by fighting Liu Biao's army and entangled with the pursuing Zhang Xiujun, Cao Pi still saw the city wall of Anzhong County in the evening.

At this time, the armies of Yu Ban and Cao Ren were commanding the people who had already arrived in Anzhong to set up camp. The tall Cao Chun straddled a horse and was waiting for Cao Cao on the gallop road. Beside him, there were dozens of men in lily robes, and one of them, the shortest man in lily clothes, stood at the front, seemingly the leader of this group. Cao Pi recognized this short man, and he was the one who reported the situation to Cao Cao when he was on the edge of the Black Dragon Canal.

Cao Pi counted carefully, there were a total of fifty people in this group of men in cloth, and they were a tun formation. It is naturally less than other troops, but given the special nature of their work, the number of people does not play a decisive role.

When he saw An Zhong, Cao Cao ordered Shi Jian and Le Jin to go forward to assist Cao Ren and Yu Ban to set up camp, and he took the Tiger Guards and a part of the Tiger Leopard Cavalry to walk in the direction of Cao Chun, while Cao Pi and Guo Jia followed behind.

Seeing Cao Cao coming, Cao Chun saluted on his horse and said, "Sikong, the last general has already guarded the entrance of the ancient tomb of An Zhonghou with a tiger and a leopard, and he can take out the baggage at any time." ”

The short man in the cloth said: "The baggage has been trapped in the culvert somewhere with water, but the entrance we opened that day is slightly far away from the place where the grain is stored, and the entrance is not big. ”

Cao Cao nodded and said, "In the past three days, my nearly 100,000 soldiers will have to live on the people of Anzhong." Zihe, this is related to the matter of borrowing grain from the people of Anzhong, Ru Che went to handle it, and told the big clans of Anzhong that if they are willing to open a warehouse to borrow grain, my Cao army will return the grain within three days, and if there is no need to return the grain, I will send Yanzhou Yigong land, ten stones for one acre. If the family moves to Yanzhou when our army returns to the army, I will send troops to escort them, and give them a household exemption for three years. ”

Cao Chun took the order and left immediately.

"Our army uses at least 3,000 stones of grain and grass for a day, and 9,000 stones for three days, and Sikong may give away 900 acres of land at this time." Guo Jia said with a smile.

Cao Cao said with a smile: "After the rebellion of Zhang Miao and Lu Bu in Yanzhou in the first year of Xingping, many Taishou and Shi clans were wiped out because of their refuge in these two people. Many manors have been abandoned, and the fertile fields in the garden have been abandoned, which is a pity. Now the Nanyang County clan and Zhang Xiu centrifugal, and because of its forced expropriation of grain and grass to make everyone in danger, just let the Nanyang clan move to Yanzhou, Feng Xiao must not underestimate these clans, even if it is an ordinary clan can make a lot of silk and linen and farm tools every year. It can also manage the livelihood of hundreds of tenant farmers. ”

"What Sikong said is very true, enriching the household and the colony. It is the foundation of the world. Guo Jia agreed.

Cao Cao smiled and nodded, and then said to the short man in the robe: "General Qiu Lang, you will go to Zixiao to find Zixiao, and tell him how many people you need, so that he can allocate it to you to dig the grave, this is a lonely military order." ”

The short man agreed, and left with the other men in the robes. Cao Pi only knew at this time that the shortest man was the commander of Cao Jun's Captain Touching Jin, the general of Faqiu, surnamed Qiu.

At this time, although the camp was not completely built, the construction of the Chinese army camp had been completed, and Yu Ban personally came to invite Cao Cao to enter the camp. After passing through a large wave of busy people and the site where the camp was being built, it was broken and returned to a separate big tent. He found that there were low couches in the tent again, and he didn't ask to know that it was sent by the Anzhong clan.

"To fight a war, you have to live on the edge of the city!" Cao Pi sighed to himself, lay down on the low couch, and began to march on the fourth watch, only stopping in the evening, although he was riding a horse, he was tired enough.

Fortunately, it is spring, and if it is hot in summer, the Hanfu you are wearing is impermeable, and you are riding a horse, and there must be a hot sweat under your crotch, which is enough to suffocate the balls. Cao Pi thought silently on the couch, and after a while, his eyelids closed and he fell asleep.

However, Cao Pi didn't sleep long before he was woken up, and the Tiger Guard, surnamed Ren, brought dinner. It turned out to be not the corn that the army usually eats, but a hu cake, accompanied by a bowl of meat soup. This must be the food sent by the Anzhong clan. Not to mention that the army has to live on the edge of the city when marching and fighting, the army and the people are a family, and the food is improved, how perfect.

Cao Pi devoured the bread and the meat soup, stepped out of the tent, and found that the sky was already dark, and there were a few twinkling stars in the dark sky, which were of little use for lighting, but there were countless fires lit between the tents in the camp, which illuminated the Cao army camp clearly.

The Tiger Guard, surnamed Ren, was standing at the door of Cao Pi's tent with his subordinates, and when he saw Cao Pi coming out, he immediately saluted: "Son." ”

Cao Pi looked at him a few times, and found that his two-gear armor actually had a few dents, which were obviously formed by being stabbed by something like a spear, in addition, there were blackened blood stains on the sleeves of his underwear, and his face was good, not like he was injured, it should be the blood stains of the enemy. There were still three subordinates by his side, so Cao Pi spoke: "There is still one more person in your army.... Have you died in battle? ”

Wu Chang, surnamed Ren, said in a deep voice: "Exactly... The servant has already remembered his name, and after returning to Xudu, he will give Captain Xu a letter and distribute money and food to comfort the soul. ”

Cao Pi sighed in his heart when he heard this, no matter how beautiful the victory is, it will pay the price, and this is a living example in front of him. Remembering that he had also seen this military commander in the city, he immediately asked, "Is the warrior ordered to protect me?" On that day, you also took me out of the city to see Mr. Fengxiao. ”

"The little servant was ordered by Sikong to protect the son when he was encamped."

"I see." Being able to be sent by Cao Cao to protect himself shows that he should be a more trusted figure in the Tiger Guard. At a young age, Cao Cao has to trust him, if he is not particularly brave, then there is a back door. The Wu Chang surnamed Ren in front of him should not belong to a particularly brave person, otherwise he would not only be mixed with the Wu Chang, if it is the back door..... Cao Jun has only one new general under his command.

"I don't know if the warrior knows the general Ren Boda?" Cao Pi asked.

Chief Ren Wu was stunned for a moment, and then smiled bitterly: "It's Jia Yan"

Cao Pi said in his heart that this was indeed the case, and then he smiled: "It turned out to be the son of my uncle, then I should call you a brother." "Although he must not be the son born from Cao Cao's sister who married Ren Jun, but after all, he is also Ren Jun's biological son, and it is not too much to call him brother.

Chief Ren Wu suddenly waved his hand and said, "No, no! ”

"No wonder you talk elegantly, like a literate person, it turned out to be the son of your uncle, the soldiers are in danger, and your uncle actually fought with the army, which is really strange."

"The soldiers are fierce and dangerous, and the prince also went out with the army in the year of the commander-in-chief, and it is not surprising that the little servant went out to fight."

"Yes! Born in troubled times, how can you blindly avoid military disasters. However, after returning to Xudu this time, I have more important errands that I want to ask my brother to help, if I can take on this errand, one day, my brother may be comparable to the shoulder guard and Huo. When Cao Pi said this, he remembered his two acres of hybrid rice in Juntun, and the preface This person is the son of Cao Jun's grain manager, and he doesn't need to use anyone.