Seeing that the battle was basically calmed down, Jia Xu took the dozens of Bingzhou wolf cavalry soldiers that Zhao Yun had left behind to protect him, and walked towards the high slope where Zhao Yun was.

"Mr. Wenhe? What are you doing here? You don't know martial arts, what if there is a remnant of the enemy who uses a hidden arrow to injure the sir? As soon as Zhao Yun saw Jia Xu coming, he hurriedly stepped forward and dragged Jia Xu's mount farther away from the barracks.

Jia Xu patted Zhao Yun's arm and motioned for Zhao Yun to stop: "Hehe, General Zilong, don't be like this, there are only some remnants of the defeated army left here, with these dozens of elite soldiers you left behind, what danger do I have?" I came here because I just noticed something was wrong. ”

"Something is wrong? What does Mr. Wenhe refer to? Zhao Yun knew very well how much the unattractive man in front of him was valued and trusted by his lord. As the accompanying division of the Eastern Route Army, he suddenly gave a warning, and Zhao Yun, who was physically and mentally cautious, hurriedly asked.

"Since General Zilong came out of the Tiger Prison Pass, from Fengqiu, Chenliu, Jiyang, Dongjun to Puyang today, the reason why the military camps that have been burned down and the military camps with a small number of people that have been broken down have not felt easier and easier?" Jia Xu touched his beard and asked with a smile.

Zhao Yun frowned lightly and thought carefully before saying: "Listening to what Mr. said, I just found out that when I was in Chenliu County, when I raided some military cantonment offices, those sergeants all fought bravely, even if they knew that they were dead, they would never run away. At that time, even after every battle, there would be some casualties among the elite of our army.

However, since crossing the Jiyang boundary, the sergeants in the barracks and the soldiers in the military cantonment offices encountered along the way have not only become smaller and smaller, but also more and more military rations and ordnance have been burned each time. ”

Jia Xu said again: "Then think about it again, didn't Cao Ying of Yanzhou say that he wanted to echo Yuan Shao's text and set off from Chen Liu to enter the Tiger Prison?" Why is there more ordnance, grain and grass in the barracks here than there are in Chenliu?

Moreover, these barracks and grain control centers should have received the news that tens of thousands of cavalry troops from our state had raided various parts of Yanzhou a few days ago, so why did the defense here not only not strengthen but became worse and worse? You must know that Cao Ying has collected more than 100,000 Qingzhou troops during this time, even if these Qingzhou troops have just been created and their combat power is not strong, but it is more than enough to guard some key places, right?

But why is it that in these critical places of military rations encountered by our army along the way, there are only thousands of sergeants in charge of guarding, and even only a few hundred in some places? Could it be that Cao Ying, who experienced the locust plague some time ago, has so abundant military rations? Or did Cao Ying not take our tens of thousands of cavalry troops in his eyes at all? ”

Zhao Yun was even more puzzled this time, and asked a little hesitantly: "What does the military advisor mean?"

"There is fraud!" Jia Xu said firmly.

"Fraud? What does the military advisor mean that these are all deliberately done by Cao Ying to show us? So why is Cao Ying willing to lose so much grain and grass? Isn't they very short of food in Yanzhou? Zhao Yun was suddenly confused, he killed all the way, not only burned many military cantonment offices, but also saw that there was a food shortage in many places in Yanzhou. Even if Cao Ying wanted to calculate his tens of thousands of troops, who would burn a lot of food as firewood when his people couldn't eat enough?

Jia Xu narrowed his eyes and asked Zhao Yun softly, "General Zilong, do you remember the night when you changed the route of the march?" ”

"Yes. A few days ago, our army had been attacking in the southeast direction, but our army's grain and grass were becoming scarce, and every time we attacked those military cantonment offices, the grain and grass were very scarce, and more and more Cao Ying sergeants began to set up ambushes in some key places, so they had no choice but to change their route and attack from the Jiyang territory to the northeast direction of Puyang. Since then, not only has he received more and more grain and grass every day, but he has also encountered no resistance along the way. Zhao Yun still wonders why the resistance in the direction of Jiyin County is so big, but the resistance in the direction of Puyang is so small.

"General Zilong also knows that I have been in charge of the intelligence department of the army for my lord, and I once got a news from Yanzhou: after Cao Ying incorporated a large number of Qingzhou troops in Jiyin County, he sent a large number of elites to Puyang for training, because Puyang County has more grain, grass and ordnance to supply them for training than Jiyin, but those who remain in Jiyin are some old and weak sergeants of the Qingzhou Army.

At that time, I only took a cursory look at this news and did not take it to heart. After all, although Yanzhou is the great enemy of this, whether the place where they train is in Jiyin or Puyang is indifferent to our army. But now it seems that the several encirclement and suppression of our army arranged by Cao Jun in the direction of Jiyin some time ago are only one purpose - they don't want us to go to the direction of Jiyin, but let us turn to the direction of Puyang!

I'm sure that as long as General Zilong continues to follow the current marching route and attack those important military places in the Puyang territory, I am afraid that the grain and grass that Cao Ying handed us to burn will become the dry food we eat on the Huangquan Road! Moreover, I wonder how many of the pockets in the warehouses in the camps are filled with food for people to eat! I suspect that in those granaries, in addition to the more than 100 bags on the outside are grain and grass, the inner pockets are stuffed with loess or weeds! Jia Xu's eyes revealed a hint of a smile, and pointed to the granary that was being set up by the sergeant of Bingzhou not far away, and was waiting for Zhao Yun to give a military order, and was about to be burned to ashes.

Zhao Yun didn't care about talking to Jia Xu, and directly instigated the divine horse under his crotch and ran towards the granary in the camp. Before coming to the granary, Zhao Yun turned over and dismounted, and entered the inner room of the granary with a silver spear in his hand. First, he used a spear to puncture a few bags of grain and grass placed on the periphery, inspected them carefully, and then threw the corn in his hand on the ground. Zhao Yun jumped to the top of the 'hill' full of grain bags, picked out more than ten bags of grain with the spear in his hand, and found that there was still edible corn inside.

Zhao Yungang wanted to breathe a sigh of relief, but he didn't expect that his feet suddenly fell and fell directly into the pocket next to him. Zhao Yun got up and looked at the place where he had just stood, but it was made up of many dead branches and leaves and some loess blocks, and he only used some pockets to cover up this place. If I hadn't picked out the bags of corn piled up on it, I was afraid that in the innermost part of the many real corns, what was piled up was not grain, but something that was indiscriminately filled.

It is conceivable that even if Cao Ying wanted to lead himself all the way to Puyang, except for some dry food that had already been prepared in the camp, only some corn was piled up in each warehouse as an item to hide people's eyes. And most of the food in each camp is just afraid that he Cao Ying has already moved away. After all, Yanzhou is experiencing a grain shortage, and if they want to burn the grain and grass in several granaries a day, Cao Ying will definitely not be able to bear it. And what makes every granary look bulging is the loess and a lot of dead branches and leaves!

This discovery not only allowed Zhao Yun to confirm what Jia Xu had just said, but also made Zhao Yun feel angry that he had been teased. Zhao Yun jumped down from the pile of 'grain', patted the dust on his body, turned over and returned to Jia Xu's side.

(To be continued)