Chapter 1409: It's Really Corn
Zhang Fei was full of suspicions, and he did not shy away from saying his suspicions about Guan Yu, and Li Dian suddenly felt that something was wrong in his heart.
Sima Yi gave him an order to send some grain and grass to Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's Jingzhou army, so that these two Jingzhou armies could support them for a longer time.
The decision to send grain and grass to the Jingzhou army was not only a little confused by Yu Ban before, but even Xiahoudun and others didn't quite understand why he did this.
Among them, of course, is Li Dian.
I don't understand the reason in my heart, but Sima Yi is the head of the three armies after all, and in the orders issued by Liu Wei, he even has the authority to control Xiahoudun.
Guan Yu led the army to guard the top of Bowang Mountain, and the Han army didn't know at first, if it wasn't for Sima Yi to stop it, Xiahoudun would have already led the army into the valley.
If the Han army had entered the valley that day, under the attack of Guan Yu's Jingzhou army, it would have suffered extremely heavy casualties.
When the Han army intercepted the back road of the Jingzhou army, Guan Yu led the army to try to leave Bowang, but was forced back to the top of the mountain by the Han army, Xiahoudun and a group of generals with troops reacted, and the deployment made by the Jingzhou army had already been seen through by Sima Yi.
was a little more convinced of Sima Yi, although Li Dian did not understand why he wanted to send grain and grass to the Jingzhou army, he would not disobey the yang and yin, and secretly refused to carry out the orders he gave him.
With the order to send grain and grass to the Jingzhou army, Li Dian came to the Bowang Valley.
Unexpectedly, compared with Guan Yu, Zhang Fei is more stubborn.
Most of the soldiers and horses under his command have been lost, as long as the Han army rushes into the valley, Zhang Fei and the Jingzhou cavalry led by him may not be able to escape even half of the living people.
In this situation, when he saw Li Dian, Zhang Fei's first thought was not what kind of dangerous situation they were facing, but whether Guan Yu was colluding with the Han army.
Zhang Fei's reaction made Li Dian feel very helpless.
Holding his fist and arching at Zhang Fei, Li Dian said: "I am just on the order of General Xiahou to send some grain and grass to the general, and if the general wants to know about other matters, you can send a messenger to ask General Xiahou!" ”
Li Dian's face showed an unhappy look, and Zhang Fei smiled coldly and said: "You and I are hostile, but now you have a letter from your second brother, and you want to send me grain and grass, there must be a reason for this." A certain person is not interested in grain and grass, but just wants to know, why did you send grain and grass, and why did the second brother write a handwritten letter to you? ”
Zhang Fei asked several questions in a row, which made Li Dian feel a little helpless.
The purpose of his trip was not as complicated as Zhang Fei imagined, to put it bluntly, it was to send grain and grass to the Jingzhou army.
But Zhang Fei was suspicious of such a simple matter, which made Li Dian have an impulse to leave immediately with grain and grass, leaving not a single corn for the Jingzhou army in the valley.
With this impulse in his heart, Li Dian, who carried Sima Yi's order, did not dare to leave lightly.
Sending grain and grass, Sima Yi must have his intentions, once Sima Yi's plan is delayed because these grains and grass are not delivered, Li Dian will be responsible even if he kills himself in public!
Staring at Zhang Fei, Li Dian put down the fists he had picked up, his tone became a little cold, and he said very indifferently: "The matter between the general's brothers has no intention of getting involved. When a certain person came here, he only told the general that the grain and grass had been delivered, and if the general was sympathetic to the soldiers, he would accept them all. If you only want to fulfill the name, you will burn it with fire! Farewell"
Throwing down these words, Li Dian clenched his fists and arched towards Zhang Fei, turned around and walked outside the barracks.
Looking at Li Dian's departing back, Zhang Fei licked his lips, his expression was a little suspicious, and he instructed a personal soldier behind him: "Go and see if Li Dian has sent grain and grass, and if so, how much has been sent!" ”
"No!" A pro-soldier responded with a fist and ran quickly towards the outside of the barracks.
When he arrived outside the barracks, the soldier looked ahead, and what appeared in his field of vision was dozens of grain trucks driven by soldiers of the Han Army.
Pulling these wagons were some small southern horses.
Due to its short physique, the Han army occasionally used this kind of war horse as a mount in addition to marching in the southern mountains and forests, and in the Central Plains battlefield, it has always been the tall northern war horse as the main horse breed of the Han army's mount.
This kind of war horse was not of much use to the Han army, and it was appropriate to use them to pull grain trucks to send military rations to the Jingzhou army.
For the Han army, these horses pulling carts were not suitable for war horses at all.
But for the cavalry of the Jingzhou Army, which consumed strict horses, these short horses were nothing more than the best mounts that the Han army sent them.
Running quickly to the carriages set up by the Han army's royal hands, the soldiers shouted to one of the royal hands at the front of the line: "I have come to inspect the grain and grass on the order of General Zhang!" ”
Hearing that he was ordered by Zhang Fei to inspect the grain and grass, the Han army Yushou, who had already received the order, did not stop him.
The Han army officer who led the convoy nodded at the soldiers sent by Zhang Fei and shouted: "The inspection of grain and grass is still necessary, if it is delayed for a long time, we will pull the grain cart back!" ”
Knowing from the Han army officer that the grain and grass would be pulled back, Zhang Fei's personal soldiers hurriedly ran to the front of the grain cart, drew a short sword from his waist, and stabbed one of the sacks fiercely.
The dagger plunged into the sack, and many small, spherical particles rolled out of the sack.
These small particles, all full and round, are held in the palm of the hand, like golden beads, smelling, and a faint fragrance.
The sacks were filled with fine corn.
Holding the corn, Zhang Fei's personal soldiers, who were already facing a shortage of food, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, grabbed the hand holding the corn, and shouted to the Han army who transported the grain and grass to the outside of the barracks: "You wait and wait here, and I will report to the general!" ”
Ignoring him, the Han army officer who led the royal hands to deliver grain and grass to the Jingzhou military camp didn't even say half a superfluous sentence at the corner of his mouth.
Turning around and running to the camp, Zhang Fei's own soldiers who went out of the camp to check were afraid that they would run slowly, and the Han army would really transport these grains and grass back, and they only hated themselves for missing two legs along the way.
Running all the way, it didn't take long, he ran to Zhang Fei's approach.
Standing in the camp, Zhang Fei was also a little anxious waiting for the return of his own soldiers.
Continuously fighting against the Han army, the soldiers under his command never won a battle, and the grain and grass they brought were also exhausted.
If he couldn't break out of the siege, he and his soldiers, even if they were not killed by the Han army, would definitely starve to death in the valley.
was nervously waiting for the return of the pro-soldier, Zhang Fei saw the pro-soldier running towards him from a distance.
Seeing the soldiers running towards him, Zhang Fei's chest straightened a little, his neck stretched forward, and a touch of anticipation couldn't help but appear on his face.
Running all the way, before Zhang Fei approached, the soldiers who went to check the grain and grass said breathlessly: "General Qiyu, the Han army really sent grain and grass, all of which are good corn in trucks!" ”
Knowing that the Han army had indeed brought a lot of corn, Zhang Fei clenched his fists tightly and instructed the pro-soldier: "Lead people to go immediately and bring the corn back!" ”
"No!" After receiving the order, the soldiers hurriedly responded, hugged their fists and retreated two steps back, and then turned around and rushed towards a group of Jingzhou troops.
It didn't take long for many soldiers to run out of the Jingzhou army's barracks.
These soldiers, under the leadership of the personal soldiers, quickly ran towards the Han army transporting grain and grass.
The officers of the Han army, who were carrying grain and grass with a team of royal hands, saw a group of Jingzhou troops running towards them from a distance, raised their hands, and waved behind them.
The royal hands of the Han army on the carriage jumped out of the carriage one after another and followed the officer out of the valley.
Shortly after the Han army left, a group of Jingzhou troops ran to the carriage.
Jumping into a carriage, a Jingzhou soldier drew a short sword from his waist and stabbed it into the sack.
The sharp dagger plunged into the sack, and out of the crack rolled out a lot of golden corn.
Grabbing a handful of corn, the Jingzhou army stuffed the corn into his mouth, chewed it a few times, swallowed it into his stomach, and shouted to the other Jingzhou soldiers: "It's corn, or new corn!" ”
"Bring it back to camp!" Standing under the carriage, looking at the carriage full of sacks, the personal soldiers who had been ordered by Zhang Fei made a move and greeted a group of Jingzhou soldiers who had jumped into the carriage.
Hearing his shout, a group of Jingzhou soldiers jumped into the carriage one after another, drove the carriage full of grain and grass, and went to the camp under the command of their own soldiers.
The soldiers led a group of Jingzhou troops to transport grain and grass and rushed towards the barracks, Zhang Fei, who was waiting in the barracks, although he said earlier that Guan Yu and the Han army were in one place, looked at the outside of the barracks, and his face was full of expectation.
The Han army's move of sending grain and grass made Zhang Fei very puzzled.
In the face of the grain and grass sent by Li Dian, he could completely choose his integrity and refuse to accept it.
But he knew very well that the army was already facing a shortage of food, and the ration of military rations for the soldiers the night before was much less than before, and many soldiers ate war meals, and even felt hungry.
Although the military quartermaster's method of controlling the amount of military rations was not fed, Zhang Fei knew that with the little military rations they had left, the soldiers would not be able to support it for long.
A hungry army, facing an enemy army that is much stronger than them, will not be able to raise the spirit of war at all.
Accepting the military rations sent by the Han army, but not giving the Han army any promise to stop the battle, in Zhang Fei's opinion, he did not do anything that could not be done to Liu Bei.
Zhang Fei didn't know that Sima Yi didn't want him to surrender to the Han army.
He surrendered to the Han army at this time, and he must still be dissatisfied in his heart, and he also has an indelible friendship with Liu Bei.
What Sima Yi wanted was to wipe out Zhang Fei and Guan Yu's temperament, so that they completely lost their illusions with Liu Bei.
It is much better to recruit two more men than to force them to surrender.
Seeing a group of Jingzhou soldiers carrying grain and grass into the camp from a distance, Zhang Fei made a gesture and ordered several soldiers behind him: "Order the military quartermasters, ask him to count the grain and grass immediately!" ”