Luoyang, Jiade Palace.

Dong Zhuo was playing with his concubine, and suddenly saw Li Ru rushing in.

"Your Majesty, Chen Cang is in a hurry!"

Li Ru rushed to the front and handed a secret letter to Dong Zhuo.

"Chen Cang?"

Dong Zhuo's heart jumped, and he hurriedly took the secret letter and opened it, sweeping it with ten lines at a glance before he breathed a long sigh of relief.

Li Ru asked, "Lord, but has Chen Cang changed?" ”

Dong Zhuo said casually: "There is nothing wrong with Chen Cang, it is a local express sent by Luo Zheng, and it is said that Ma Teng extorted 20,000 stone of military rations from him, otherwise he will not let the army pass through Hanyang, so he wants to take advantage of the road to settle down and go north, from Wuwei to Lingju, but because the military food is not enough to support the army to rush to Lingju, please exterminate the Qiang and Hu rebels who are making trouble along the way to replenish the military rations." ”

Li Ru was stunned at first, and then his eyes froze.

He had expected Ma Teng to block the way, but Luo Zheng would go north to settle down and take the road, but he didn't expect it.

Dong Zhuo asked, "What does Wen You think?" ”

Li Ru groaned and said: "It should be true, although Ma Teng and Han Sui are attached to the imperial court, they are edicted and do not listen to the tune, and now that Ma Teng's army is short of food, the idea of fighting Luo Zheng to collect grain and grassland is also reasonable, and he will not let Luo Zheng borrow the way." ”

Dong Zhuo frowned and said, "This is not the place where this is asked. ”

Li Ru said: "Is the lord worried that Luo Zheng will take the opportunity to occupy the two counties of Anding and Beidi? ”

Dong Zhuo nodded, and said meaningfully: "This matter has been miscalculated, I can't help but worry!" ”

Li Ru's heart jumped, he acquiesced in recommending Luo Zheng at the beginning, if Luo Zheng really came to support the army and divide the territory, he would not be able to escape the responsibility, and said at the moment: "Rest assured, the lord is general, General Luo Zheng is heartfelt, and he will not be so rebellious." ”

Dong Zhuo glanced at him deeply, and then said, "That's good, that's good!" ”

Li Ru secretly wiped a cold sweat, thought left and right for a while, and felt that it should be unlikely that Luo Zheng would support the army and divide the territory.

At this time, for Luo Zheng, there are only disadvantages and no benefits.

Li Ru thought that with Luo Zheng's scheming and strategy, he should not do such a stupid thing.

Half a month later, news came from Anding that Luo Zheng led an army of 8,000 from Anding to Wuwei, Dong Zhuo's doubts were gone, and Li Ru, Niu Fu and others were also secretly relieved. Fortunately, there was no mess.

Wushi, the camp of the Chinese army.

As soon as Luo Zheng set up camp, his own soldiers came to report.

"General, the Emperor Fu sent a hundred stone military rations."

The soldier looked angry, and it seemed that he had the urge to pull out a knife and stab someone.

"Hundred stone military rations?"

Luo Zheng couldn't help frowning when he heard this, this is too bullying.

Either don't give it at all, or give more if you want to.

Sending a hundred stone of military rations is a bit of a bully.

Xun Yu said: "This is expected, the general doesn't have to worry about it." ”

Luo Zheng said 'um' and said: "Forget it, Huangfu Jianshou is a two-hundred, far worse than his old man, he shouldn't deliberately provoke General Ben, and I don't know who gave him this bad idea, so I won't worry about him." ”

Xun Yu said happily: "The general is wise." ”

Luo Zheng said again: "10,000 stone army rations, 8,000 troops plus 5,000 people, can only eat for three months at most, and should barely be able to hold out until the army arrives in Lingju." However, it is impossible for Lingju to have food and grass for General Ben, so he has to prepare in advance. ”

Xun Yu said: "Xiliang has many Qiang Hu people, and they are repeated, the general can enter the army to suppress them, and collect their grain and grass to fill the army food." ”

"That's what General Ben wants."

Luo Zheng nodded, and immediately shouted outside the tent: "Someone." ”

"What does the general command?"

The soldiers outside the tent entered in response to the call and stood by.

Luo Zheng said: "Go and call Li Meng over." ”

The soldiers agreed, and immediately went to call Li Meng.

After a while, Li Meng hurriedly came and said, "I don't know what the general has ordered to summon the last general?" ”

Luo Zheng said: "Go and inquire, on the way from Wushi to Wuwei, what are the Qianghu people's cottages, all of them have been inquired carefully by General Ben, and those poor people who can't eat will be counted." ”

"Yes."

Li Meng took the order and rushed out.

Three days later, the news came back.

Ten miles west of Wushi, in Fanting Mountain, there is a Qiang cottage.

Li Meng arrested a few Qiang people and inquired, there were no less than 2,000 Qiang people in this cottage, all of them were Qiang people who followed Beigong Boyu to rebel in the early years, and later Beigong Boyu was killed, and this group of Qiang talents flowed to Fanting Mountain and fell into the grass.

After Anding Taishou Emperor Fu Jianshou arrived, although he recruited more than 1,000 soldiers, he was powerless to ask for thieves.

Not to mention the thousands of thieves, even if it is dozens or hundreds of robbers, the soldiers of the county in the stable place can't help it.

Luo Zheng didn't say a word, and ordered Zhao Yun to lead 3,000 cavalry to take care of the grain and grass, and personally led the 5,000 northern army to Fanting Mountain, and leveled the Qiang cottage of more than 2,000 people, but the capture was unsatisfactory.

There were only 1,000 stones of grain, thousands of cattle and sheep, and 200 horses.

The Qiang people were originally nomadic people, after moving to Liangzhou, although they learned to farm, they did not lose the habit of grazing, and attached great importance to the breeding of cattle, sheep and horses.

However, the name of the Qiang people is really not false.

More than half of the more than 2,000 Qiang people were killed in the battle, hundreds escaped, and only more than 600 were taken prisoner.

Luo Zheng organized all these captives into the Minfu camp, and ordered Zhao Yun to lead 500 cavalry to strictly guard them. And in order to prevent these Qiang people from making trouble, they were only given one meal a day, and they were not allowed to eat enough.

After resting for the night, the army continued to set off to the north, passing through Chaona and Gaoping, breaking more than ten bandit cottages along the way, seizing the grain and grass needed by the army, driving thousands of cattle and sheep, and crossing the river to the west after half a month, arriving at Wuwei.

When you get here, there are two official roads to take.

The first is to go south to Yuanwei and enter Jincheng County from Yuzhong.

The second is to continue to move westward, from Cangsong to the south, until the residence of the Commander of Huqiang Commander's Office.

Although this road is a little farther, it has to detour for hundreds of miles, but it can avoid Han Sui's army.

Luo Zheng did not need to discuss, so he categorically ordered the army to continue westward and go to Cangsong.

At this time, it has entered the grand season, the northwest is very cold, and the north wind blows on the face, cutting the ground like a knife.

Fortunately, although there were a few snowfalls, they were all sparse and drifting a few snowflakes, and the snow was not as good as the feet, and the impact on the march of the army was not great, otherwise if there was a heavy snowfall, the consequences would be catastrophic.

On this day, the weather was gloomy again.

The north wind howled, rolling up the sand and dust in the sky, but there was no snow for a long time.

Luo Zheng scolded his mother while riding his horse on the uneven official road.

Zhao Yun led 1,000 cavalry, supervised the transportation of grain and grass by 5,000 people and more than 2,000 Qiang people in the captive land, and pulled carts and mules, donkeys and ploughing oxen to pull the carts, jolting forward on the official road, constantly spitting white mist.

Later, Wu Xi, the captain of the Northern Military Academy, led 5,000 infantry soldiers of the Northern Army to escort the formation.

At the rear, Li Meng and Wang Shuang each led 500 cavalry, driving thousands of cattle, sheep and horses, and followed the convoy to slow down.

The carriage in which Gan Qian, Ren Yan and other female dependents were riding was bumpy and difficult, and the intestines of several women were about to come out.

Luo Zheng looked up at the sky, this damn weather caused great trouble to the march of the army, almost an hour after walking to stop and rest for a while, at the end of the day, it was already very good to be able to walk fifty miles.

The captain of the scout suddenly stepped forward and said loudly, "General, the scout sent to the north has not returned yet. ”

Luo Zheng's eyes immediately froze, and he reined in the war horse and asked in a deep voice, "How long has it been overdue?" ”

The captain of the scout replied, "It's past the time of the three pillars of incense. ”

Luo Zheng just wanted to speak, but at this moment, a faint thunder suddenly sounded in the north.

"There are cavalry."

Luo Zheng has been fighting on horseback in recent years, and he reacted immediately.

Xu Chu was more professional, and said in a muffled voice: "At least no less than a thousand rides." ”

Luo Zheng immediately shouted: "The army camped on the spot, drove the cattle, sheep and livestock to the rear, and ordered Wu Xi to lead 5,000 foot soldiers to take care of the grain and heavy vehicles, Li Meng and Wang Fang to take care of the livestock, and the rest of the cavalry quickly assembled and followed the general to meet the enemy." ”

"Yes."

Several cavalrymen had already answered the order loudly, scattered in all directions, and quickly passed down the military order.