Following. As the morning sun rose, everything in heaven and earth began to awaken, and puffs of smoke rose from the two hostile camps.

Breakfast time is a rare leisure time for the soldiers of the two armies, and everyone can enjoy a short period of tranquility at this moment, as for who will die on the battlefield after the tranquility, and who will be seriously injured and disabled, only God knows.

Because the distance between them was only a few miles, the smell of meat wafting from the Han army camp unstoppably penetrated into the noses of the soldiers of the Wei army camp, making the Wei soldiers who had not eaten meat for a while very greedy. The breakfast of the Han army is actually very simple, everyone's breakfast is rationed, two pieces of bread, a bowl of meat porridge, and a small piece of dried fish. There is not much meat, but the nutrition is very balanced, and the chefs in the army are excellent talents cultivated by the Yanjing Academy, these chefs who have been deeply branded with the mark of the Northern Han Dynasty regard the stove as their own battlefield, and they try to make those soldiers who fought the front line through their own hands to eat well, which is their greatest victory. Therefore, every time it was time to open the meal, the aroma wafting from the Han army camp always made the Wei soldiers in the opposite camp salivate.

An adjutant general of the Wei army stretched out his nose and sniffed vigorously in the direction of the Han army's camp, and his face couldn't help but show a look of intoxication, but when he lowered his head and saw the dry nest head he was holding in his hand, the look on his face instantly collapsed, and the look that was difficult to swallow was overflowing. They are all soldiers, and they are all soldiers who receive food, why is there such a big gap between their side and the other side? People can even eat breakfast so sweetly, why can they only gnaw on dry nests? The more the lieutenant thought about it, the more he felt uncomfortable, and the more he thought about it, the more annoyed he became, and finally couldn't help but throw the nest head in his hand to the ground, and stretched out his foot to stomp on the nest head, and said angrily: "People are more angry than people, this meal can't be eaten!" ”

There are not a few people who have the same thoughts as this lieutenant. After seeing the lieutenant's angry behavior, many people also stood up and scolded noisily, complaining that the food on their soldiers' side was too poor for people to swallow. With those who take the lead, there will definitely be people who follow the trend, and more and more people have joined the ranks of scolding:

"Tell me, is this a meal for people? It's just something for pigs! ”

"Look at the other side of the house, we even have meat for breakfast, how long has it been since we've eaten meat? One month? Or two months? ”

"The most infuriating thing is. Every time I eat, I have to endure the smell of meat from the other side, pinch my nose to eat, and I'm going crazy! ”

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Just when the Wei soldiers were arguing more and more, and they were about to mutiny due to dissatisfaction, Cao Cao's slightly cold voice rang out: "What's the noise?!" Will arguing solve the problem? Don't forget, behind us are our homes and our loved ones. Once we are defeated by Ao Lie, then every one of you will become prisoners of war, each of your relatives will become slaves, and all of your good land and property will be completely swallowed up! You can't win the war. What else is there to eat? What other face do you have to go back to see your hometown fathers? ”

At some point, Cao Cao had come to the edge of the military academy, and Cao Ren was standing beside Cao Cao, his only remaining left hand pressed to the hilt of his sword. With an angry look on his face, he was scanning every soldier in the military academy back and forth, and made a footnote to Cao Cao's words just now with his actions. Behind Cao Cao. The two hundred Tiger Guards stood tall, and like Cao Ren, their hands were on the handles of their weapons, and as long as Cao Cao gave an order, they would correct some of the people who had just complained about the poor food on the spot.

Under Cao Cao's reprimand, most of the Wei soldiers lowered their heads, stared at a small piece of land in front of their toes, and couldn't raise their heads in shame. However, there are also a small number of soldiers who did not stop complaining because of this, and the deputy general who threw away the nest in his hand before whispered: "A certain person is from Hanzhong, in the original battle of Hanzhong, a certain person is already a broken family, and there is no concern in his heart, a certain loyal to the king is just for food and clothing, and now he can't even eat, where is he still willing to go into battle to kill the enemy!" ”

At the beginning of the battle of Hanzhong, Cao Cao used Hanzhong City to lure Ao Lie and Liu Bei to attack the city at the same time, and finally Cao Cao gave Hanzhong to Liu Bei, and took away all the grain and grass in Hanzhong City and a part of the population when he retreated, and this deputy general was with Cao Cao at that time. For this lieutenant general, the Central Plains is not his hometown, so he naturally does not have much sense of belonging to the Central Plains, and it is not surprising that when facing a crisis, he complains.

There are not a few people who are roughly in a similar situation to this lieutenant, and many people have stood by the lieutenant's side and silently supported the lieutenant's remarks with actions. For these people who have left their hometowns and have no worries in their hearts, it is the most important thing to survive with food, and if these two things are strongly threatened, their hearts will inevitably waver, which is human nature.

Cao Cao glanced at the lieutenant general indifferently, then turned his head and handed Cao Ren a fierce look. Cao Ren understood, strode forward, came to the lieutenant general, and then quickly drew the sword at his waist, stabbed him into the heart, and killed him on the spot. Stepping on a pool of blood, Cao Cao came to the fallen lieutenant general, and then slowly said to the other soldiers in front of him: "Will the skin be attached without hair?" No matter where you and you come from, now, you are all members of my Great Wei, if the Great Wei is eliminated, you don't even have the right to continue to survive, and when that time comes, you will regret killing the enemy because of the bad food, and then regret it, don't you think it will be too late? Rather than that, it is better to send you on your way now, so that you will not be humiliated in the future! ”

Cao Cao's words, these soldiers were speechless. It is true that although the food in the army is not good now, it can at least satisfy their stomachs and provide them with the energy to survive, if because of the food, they lose the heart of killing the enemy on the battlefield, resulting in the Great Wei being wiped out by the Northern Han, then what will be the fate of these people? Will he be beheaded, or will he be reduced to slavery? Or is it something more tragic?

The crisis was easily defused by Cao Cao, a scheming politician, who used Ao Lie's usual carrot and stick technique to stabilize the floating hearts of the people in the army again, and eliminate a mutiny that could be triggered at any time.

After dispelling the crisis, Cao Cao's expression softened, and he bent down. began to carefully pick up the nest head that had been trampled on the ground, and after picking up most of the nest head in the palm of his hand, Cao Cao stood up again, brushed off the soil on the head of the nest in front of all the soldiers, and then ate it into his stomach one bite at a time.

After swallowing the last mouthful of the nest, Cao Cao clapped his hands, looked around at the soldiers around him and said loudly: "Soldiers! The current food of our army is indeed very poor, but we are now on the battlefield! We must overcome ourselves to eat these things so that we can have enough stamina to fight the enemy! Go and defeat powerful enemies! Lone assures you. Within three days, supplies will arrive, and you will no longer have to eat this unpalatable nest. ”

Hearing that a new batch of supplies was about to arrive, the Wei soldiers thundered with joy, raised their weapons one after another, and shouted loudly:

"Great Wei will win!"

"Great Wei will win!!"

"Great Wei will win-!!"

The morale that had been suppressed to a low point by the soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty for a long time finally changed dramatically at this moment, and Cao Cao used excellent military management methods. It successfully aroused the fighting spirit of the soldiers under his command and made their morale high again. Prior to this, Cao Cao had also used the same methods, such as Wangmei to quench thirst and other cases. is the best proof of this. It's just that this time is different from before, Cao Cao is not painting cakes this time, but he is sure that supplies will be delivered within three days, otherwise. With Cao Cao's shrewdness, he had already given the order to withdraw his troops, and he would never let the crisis of mutiny in the army.

It's just that Cao Cao doesn't know what. The supplies on which he had pinned all his hopes were now undergoing the baptism of war. In order not to arouse Cao Cao's suspicion, Ao Lie did not dispatch a single soldier in the camp, but conveyed the news to Pang Tong, the commander of the Southern Army, in the form of a flying pigeon, and asked Pang Tong to find a way to cut off Cao Cao's supply line.

Pang Tong, who has the name of the phoenix, immediately had a keen insight into what a major blow this attack on the Wei army soldiers on the main battlefield would be after receiving Ao Lie's flying pigeon message. So after Pang Tong discussed with Zhou Yu, the two of them dispatched troops overnight, and let Lü Meng and Zhou Tai outflank them on both sides, and set up an ambush in front of the Wei army's supply troops, striving to completely cut off the Wei army's supply line. In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Pang Tong also notified Sun Ce, who was guarding the East China Sea, and asked Sun Ce to also lead a group of elite cavalry to spare the defense of Cao Cao's general Zang Ba, and interspersed diagonally with the supply route of the Wei army, forming an encirclement and suppression trend against the supply troops of the Wei army.

The person in charge of transporting grain and grass in the Wei army was Cao Cao's nephew, Cao Bin. Cao Bin is Cao Zhen's younger brother and one of Cao Cao's nephews. It is a general who emerged when Cao Cao promoted his younger generations a year ago, and his force is not under Xiahou Ba, only slightly inferior to Cao Zhang, so he is also very valued by Cao Cao. Before the war, Cao Cao let Cao Bin stay in the rear, just to use his martial prowess to ensure the safety of supplies.

Among the three-way ambush troops sent by Pang Tong, the first to arrive at the predetermined position were not Lü Meng and Zhou Tai, who set off by land, but Sun Ce's subordinates, who made a detour from the sea diagonally and then abandoned the ship to land. With Sun Ce's vanguard temper, of course he would not sit back and wait for Lu Meng and Zhou Tai to form a siege with him, but took the lead in launching a strong attack on Cao Bin's department, but now Sun Ce is no longer as reckless as before, he will only blindly act brutally, he first set up roadblocks, blocking Cao Bin's forward route, and then took advantage of the short darkness before dawn to launch a surprise attack on Cao Bin's department with rockets, and after most of the grain and grass supplies escorted by Cao Bin were ignited, he took advantage of the chaos when Cao Bin's department was fighting the fire, and then launched an attack. In one fell swoop, he disrupted the formation of Cao Bin's department and routed this supply force. And Cao Bin himself was beheaded by Sun Ce in the chaotic battle.

By the time Lü Meng and Zhou Tai arrived, the battle was nearing the end, and after the two led their troops to join Sun Ce, they pursued and attacked Cao Bin's remnants again, not letting a single fish escape from the encirclement laid by the three of them, and swept away the supply troops under Cao Bin's subordinates.

After that, the three commanded the soldiers to quickly clean up the battlefield, clean up all traces of the battle, and then quietly evacuated the battlefield with the grain and grass that had not been burned by the fire, and perfectly concealed the true situation of the battle.

It wasn't until three days later that Cao Cao didn't wait for Cao Bin's supply troops to come to the camp, that he felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly sent a scout horse to investigate, and finally from the clues reported by the scout, Cao Cao finally deduced that Cao Bin's troops had been ambushed and had been wiped out. (To be continued......)