The upper reaches of Xiangshui are twenty miles northwest of Xiangcheng.

At the beginning of his arrival in Linxiang, Guan Yu set up a grain camp here, and most of the grain and grass transported from Jiangxia County were also gathered here, either by land or by water, and then transported to the camp in the south.

However, the installation of this grain camp is not just for the purpose of storing grain, among which the two villages of water and drought are set up according to the combat camp, and the purpose is to set up a camp for Liu Beijun, who will come later. According to Guan Yu's assumption, if he can't take Linxiang in a few days, then he can only wait for Liu Beijun to arrive and form a flanking attack on Linxiang City from the northwest two aspects.

The sky had just dawned, and more than 1,000 grain trucks, under the cover of the morning fog, were slowly moving in the direction of Linxiang City in the southeast.

Just yesterday, Guan Yu moved the camp that was originally built near the water to the city of Linxiang, forming a kind of coercion of the army forcing the city, and this grain team is to deliver grain and grass to Guan Yu's new camp.

"General Shi, in fact, I can do it here, you can go and assist General Guan." Ma Tan said lightly.

The person who walked side by side with Ma Yan was called Shiren, a lieutenant under Guan Yu, except for Liao Hua and Zhou Cang, Guan Yu's most trusted general was this person.

Shiren glanced at Ma Yan, just smiled, and still looked ahead vigilantly.

The sun rises in the east, and the light of the morning glow pierces the hazy mist, and the field of vision gradually widens.

"General Shi doesn't have to be so nervous, in fact, our journey is a bait, Liu Feng will lead the army sooner or later, we just need to wait patiently for the fish to take the bait."

Ma Tan was strolling leisurely, not knowing whether it was out of boredom or self-confidence, and he was a little dismissive of Shiren, who had been highly nervous.

Shiren snorted coldly: "How can you be so sure? ”

"I have followed Liu Feng for so long, I naturally know how much he has the details. A fire of General Liao burned his grain and grass for several months, and the grain and grass in Linxiang City were only for three months. ”

Ma Yan's tone was extremely confident, as if everything was under his control.

Shiren felt a little contemptuous of this general, and when he saw him so proud, he felt displeased, and sneered: "It seems that Liu Feng, a rebel, has a lot of trust in General Ma, and now General Ma is just a betrayal of him, and you tricked him into robbing grain, General Ma's methods are really ruthless." ”

The contempt in Shiren's words was quite obvious, but Ma Jian didn't think so, but replied with a mysterious expression: "This is called a person who knows the times as a junjie, and if you follow the right person, the future is unlimited, and if you follow the wrong person, you may end up in a dead end, General Shiren, you will understand sooner or later." ”

Before the words fell, the southeast direction suddenly changed, raising everyone's hearts to their throats for a moment.

"Sure enough, General Shi, I'm right, hurry up and send a signal to General Guan and ask him to do it." Ma Tan was different from other nervous soldiers, but at this time he was relaxed and proud.

"General Guan has an order, only to identify whether Liu Feng came with Linxiang's troops, can he act according to the plan. The whole army heard this, and set up a formation to meet the enemy. ”

At the sound of the order, the five hundred soldiers who charged the grain quickly faced the enemy in the southeast direction, and skillfully formed a defensive formation.

Shi Renqing stood in the middle of the formation, looking into the distance, trying to discern how many soldiers and horses the enemy had come.

Ma Tan followed him to his side, still with a confident face, and said with a smile: "I told Liu Feng in the letter that there are 1,000 soldiers and horses escorting the grain cart, and if Liu Feng wants to succeed in robbing the grain, he can only do the soldiers of Linxiang, General Shi, you have to believe me." ”

Shiren didn't look at him either, but said coldly: "General Guan has orders, don't believe anyone, just trust your own eyes." General Ma, don't worry, if it is as you say, I will naturally send a signal immediately. ”

Shiren's unintentional words accidentally expressed Guan Yu's distrust of Ma Tan, but Ma Jian was not surprised, and a trace of strangeness flashed quietly in his eyebrows.

The enemy is getting closer and closer, and the dust flying in the sky is showing a strong might, as if thousands of troops are rushing to kill them. These five hundred soldiers, even if they were elite soldiers trained by Guan Yu, in the face of such a huge enemy, the faces of each of them could not help but show timidity.

"General Shi, look at this dusty trend, there are at least 3,000 enemies, don't you report to General Zhiguan quickly, you are responsible for missing the fighter plane or me!"

Looking at the surging enemy, Ma Jian looked a little anxious, and couldn't help but yell at Shiren.

Seeing that everything was expected by Ma Yan, Shiren didn't dare to hesitate any longer, and hurriedly said: "Hurry, hurry, send a signal immediately, immediately." ”

As soon as the order was given, the soldiers hurriedly gathered several grain trucks that had been prepared a long time ago, lit a fire, and a thick wolf smoke quickly rose into the sky, reaching the sky, and it was clearly visible within a radius of dozens of miles.

The signal had been given, and Ma Jian secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and turned the horse away.

"Ma Yan, where are you going?" Shiren grabbed the reins of Ma Yan's horse.

"The enemy has been tricked, our mission has been completed, if we don't withdraw quickly, we can't stay here and wait for death." Ma Tan said as he glanced at the approaching dust storm, looking quite anxious.

Shiren frowned and shouted: "But General Guan has an order, so we must delay Liu Feng as long as possible, how can you go first against the order." ”

"The enemy is outnumbered, and Liu Feng came in person, that person is a person who can be killed even by the major general of Dingguo, if you think it is his opponent, just stay, I don't want to accompany you here to die."

Ma Tan struggled to grab the reins, and without saying a word, he hurriedly fled from the grain team.

Ma Yan's first flight immediately disturbed the morale of the army, and Shiren was also shocked by his words, and when he looked back at the huge enemy that was coming, his courage to fight to the death was immediately shattered.

"Withdraw, the whole army withdraws quickly."

Shiren no longer had the heart to fight, so he shouted and turned his horse to go first, and the army formation collapsed, and the five hundred soldiers, as well as those people who were driving the car, all fled with Shiren's hope.

More than a thousand grain carts were abandoned on the wilderness road.

A moment later, Ling Shiren did not hesitate to disobey Guan Yu's order, and the enemy who fled from the wind was finally killed.

The horses' hooves are collected, the people stop, the dust in the sky has settled, and where there is any enemy army that has poured out of the city, it is just more than a hundred cavalry led by Huang Zhong.

It's just that these hundred cavalry, on the tail of each war horse, dragged a few large branches, sweeping the ground as they ran, and it was because of this that they could raise the dust in the sky, creating a false impression that the soldiers were approaching.

Huang Zhong rode his horse and shuttled between the grain trucks, and the big knife slashed at one of the bags of grain, and the white grains of rice flowed out in a loud voice, Huang Zhong couldn't help laughing: "The lord's ability to recognize people is really extraordinary, this Ma Tan, today it really makes me see what it means to be terrible in the future." ”