As a person from later generations, Hua Fei has read too many history books. Every history of war, if you study it deeply, is a history of hegemony written with the blood, tears, bones, and flesh and blood of innocent people.

Regardless of other dynasties, the war in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty alone brought indelible disasters to this nation full of suffering.

From the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184 to the return of the Three Kingdoms to the Jin Dynasty in 280, the population of this ethnic group increased from more than 56 million to less than 8 million. More than 48 million people were killed and wounded!

However, is that all there is to it? Hua Fei looked further, he thought that this was not just that, the sorrow of more than 40 million people! He has not forgotten that this war lasted for nearly a hundred years.

In this hundred years, according to the rate of marriage and childbirth in this era, how many people must be born and then die? So many people have died, and who is the one who is dead?

Obviously, most of them are innocent people. The kind of sorrow, helplessness, and grievances of the people when they encounter disasters...... Later generations may be difficult to see in the history books, because they are not immersive.

And Hua Fei felt it, because he was in this environment. He knew that it was the children, the women, the old people who were ultimately harmed by the war.

When I first arrived in Runan County, I saw the desolate scene within a radius of people, which is still vivid.

At this moment, Hua Fei clenched his fists tightly, and the pain spread all over his body. He still remembers the words of the year: "If Lao Tzu was born in that era, he would never let this happen!" ”

However, when Cao Cao led an army of 100,000 troops, the situation of attacking Runan County on three sides was still formed.

The momentum of the three-sided attack is complete, and he is bound to have no concession for the sake of the peace of himself and the people. After all, a big war is inevitable.

Hua Fei quickly picked himself up again, even though the total strength of the enemy army was still as high as 220,000 under his killing. Even, they can increase their troops.

And his total strength is only 45,000 elite soldiers and 40,000 tuntian soldiers. Relatively speaking, there is indeed a huge disparity in power! However, anyone who wants to disturb the peace of Runan will have to pay a heavy price.

That night, Hua Fei stayed awake all night. On the 15th, several horses galloped out and went straight to various important military towns. After Hua Fei received the news that Liu Bei and Yuan Shu did not fight.

Immediately, the semen riders, who no longer stayed longer, went to Gushi County, which was in the west of Yingshui.

In winter, on November 16, large-scale military movements were carried out in various parts of Runan.

Chen Zhi was ordered to be the commander-in-chief of Runan County and the southern line, and dispatched his elite cavalry to the north to Gushi County. Instead, he led Liu Pi, Gong Du, and other three elite soldiers, a total of 12,000 people, to guard the county seat of Ruyang under the Yingshui line.

Hua Feiba handed over 4,000 Chinese troops to Chen Deng's command, and ordered Chen Deng to be the commander-in-chief of Runan County and the northern front. Commanding Xu Chu, He Yi, Wood, and three elite soldiers, a total of 12,000 people, guarded the county seat of Ruyang on the northern line of Yingshui.

Xu Sheng's water army became an independent army, obeyed the orders of Huafei's headquarters, and camped in the west of Yingshui.

Hua Feitong has the remaining 1,000 elite soldiers in the Chinese army; and a reserve battalion of four hundred officers; and 4,000 fine horsemen under Tai Shi Ci; Zhang Demei and Wu Xu had two elite soldiers, with a total strength of more than 13,400 people, and they sat in Gushi County.

Lu Su was instructed to continue to persuade the people and move to the counties of Runan to the west of Rushui for resettlement. In case of being implicated by the military disaster.

Lu Zhu was good at riding and archery, reorganized more than 2,000 cavalry, joined Hua Fei's Chinese army, and seized the time to train in Gushi County.

As a result, the strength of Gushi County increased to more than 15,400 people.

It has greatly strengthened the power of Huafei headquarters. At the same time, Hua Fei sent people to Jingzhou to order Bingyuan to inform Liu Biao that he could take advantage of the situation to attack Lujiang County of Yuan Shujun.

In the following days, Hua Fei led the generals to defend the water. Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Yuan Shu took the opportunity to divide a large area of land east of Yingshui.

Cao Cao is still stationed in the area of Xiyang County. However, Liu Bei led Guan Zhang, concentrated 40,000 troops, and settled in the area of Xinyang County opposite Gushi. Threatens the county seat of Gushi, the headquarters of Huafei.

Yuan Shu led more than 70,000 elite soldiers into Shen County in the lower reaches of Yingshui, and confronted Chen Zhizheng across the river.

In winter, November 23, Huafei completed the relocation. Hua Fei got military intelligence, and Cao Cao had nearly 10,000 elite cavalry; Yuan Shu also has more than 5,000 fine riders; Only Liu Bei's army lacked cavalry, but it was all infantry.

That night, Tai Shi Ci received Hua Fei's secret order, and was immediately ordered to lead two thousand elite horsemen, carrying dry food and sharp arrows, under the cover of night, to quietly cross the water and go east.

At noon on the 25th, there was no snow and the cold wind was biting. In the slaughtered Xinyang County, Liu Bei was discussing the military situation with Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Suddenly, a few soldiers with arrow wounds rushed to the east city gate, and shouted: "The grain transport team of our army from Fu Li was attacked by the Cao army in the east of the vortex river and the west of Song County, please send reinforcements to Lord Cao quickly!" ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he stretched out his hand and said in surprise: "At present, Cao Cao is an ally of our army, but why would he send people to attack the grain transportation team of his allies, have you ever seen it carefully?" ”

Before the pawn could speak, Zhang Fei had already "Teng!" Standing up the tiger's body, Zhang Hu's beard, and shouted with a fist with vertical ringed eyes: "Cao Apu, how dare you betray the alliance like this?" Brother! Then I will take someone forward, and ask him. ”

Guan Yu was still calm, but he persuaded with a whisker: "At the moment, the matter is unclear, and the third brother should be a little restless." Thinking that Hua Fei is resourceful, if according to Guan's opinion, this matter should be different. ”

Liu Bei said: "Second brother, what you say is reasonable. ”

Zhang Fei clenched his fists angrily, and said angrily to the west: "If it weren't for the second brother's clear sight, Fei Ji would have fallen into the evil role of the Hua thief again." ”

Guan Yu got up and hugged his fist at Liu Bei and said: "The grain road is the lifeline of our army, and the elder brother can quickly send the third brother to lead the army to protect the grain." ”

As soon as Liu Bei heard the reason, he urgently ordered Zhang Fei to lead the elite soldiers of his headquarters and quickly leave the city to rescue. Zhang Fei gave the order and urged the troops to rush to the accident site at the speed of a rapid march.

It's a pity that no matter how fast his subordinates run, they are just two short legs after all. When Zhang Fei's leader arrived, he saw several piles of bright fires burning rapidly, and a few black smoke rising from various places.

As for the enemy soldiers who robbed the grain, they had already run away, and they didn't even see a single figure.

Zhang Fei hurriedly ordered the army to step forward and worked together to extinguish the fire. But helplessly, the military rations that were supposed to be supplied to the army had already been burned into nothingness by a fire......

Seeing that the meal was in a hurry, he only grabbed a few military rations. Zhang Fei was only angry, waving his eight spears, and when he opened his mouth, he was about to roar angrily. But he suddenly remembered that the matter in front of him didn't know whether it was Cao Cao or someone sent by Hua Fei to do it.

I don't know for a while, which one should I scold? A foul word that had been sprayed into his mouth was swallowed back raw.

On the contrary, he choked his eyes wide, and his face, which was blackened by black smoke and ashes, was faintly revealing a little red.

After holding back for a long time, Zhang Fei had nowhere to eliminate his breath. There happened to be a pawn, pouting a sturdy **** with long eyes, and was bending down in front of him to sweep the ashes.

When Zhang Fei saw this fat belly, he shook it in front of him, and he couldn't help but feel even more angry in his heart, so he kicked it with his leg.

The pawn was turning his waist and pouting, and he was coldly beaten with such a big foot. He only felt a strong blow coming from his gut, and only "Ah! He staggered and fell to the ground.

The pawn was furious, hurriedly turned over, opened his mouth and shouted angrily: "Mother! Which bastard thing dares to kick Lao Tzu in the stomach? ”

Zhang Fei glared and said angrily: "I'm kicking, what do you want?" ”

The pawn saw that this was this, the fierce and vicious Zhang Sanye. I had to think that I was unlucky, but I got up from the ground with one hand and the ground with the other, and I bowed my head and didn't dare to speak.

Zhang Fei scolded viciously again: "Mother! Why don't you go back and report to my brother, what are you doing here? He scolded and glared at the pawn, and shouted, "Why don't you get out of here?" ”

The pawn was taken aback, but he hurriedly turned around, spread a pair of little short legs, and went straight to Xinyang County.

At dusk, Liu Bei, who got the news in return, said, "Hiss! He took a breath, wrinkled his eyebrows and said in a deep voice: "If you say that this Cao army has always been short of food, but if they came to rob our army of food, why did they burn it all after they succeeded?" ”

Guan Yu squinted a pair of Danfeng eyes, reached out and stroked his long beard a few times, and spoke.

"Brother! This robbed the grain, but burned it again, it must be because the grain is too much to transport. Cao Cao has a lot of people and a lot of people, so why is it difficult to be lucky? From this point of view, there is no doubt that this matter must have been done by the people of Nahua Fei. ”

Liu Bei nodded and said, "Second brother!" It makes sense. It must have been Na Huafei who sent a small force of cavalry to attack our army's grain road, so the third brother would not be able to catch up. ”

He paused for a moment, and then continued: "It's just that although the number of this small group of cavalry is small, it comes and goes like the wind. And the grain route of our army is more than 300 miles away from Fuli County. If the enemy continues to attack and harass, how can our army protect itself? ”

Hearing this, Guan Yu stopped stroking his hand and was silent. Thinking to myself, these thieves can't catch up with them, and they can't beat them. Again, it's a real nuisance.

Guan Yu and Liu Bei were silent, thinking for a long time, and they both felt that their heads were extremely big. The grain road is too long, and it will be impossible to protect it everywhere; also

You can't send too many people to escort you, otherwise the wear and tear alone will be unbearable.

However, it can't afford to transport this military ration, and if it doesn't, then the more than 40,000 troops don't have to fight, and they will just starve to death here.

After a long time, Guan Yu suddenly stopped stroking his beard. He squinted sideways at the north, and after a while, he said slowly, "Brother! The younger brother has a plan to make this army of thieves come and go. (To be continued.) )