In doing so, it means that Zhang Chao allows the generals below to take their own way to grab grain when they lead the troops, in other words, it is equivalent to agreeing with the soldiers to go to grab the grain of the Rus' people and the official.

In doing so, it will naturally create some chaos, but for the sake of the overall victory, it has to be so.

The process of winning is not always smooth and often comes at a very high cost. Zhang Chao has long been aware of this point, and even prepared.

Although he did not want to plunder the things of the Rus' people in his heart, sometimes he could not be a woman who had achieved great things. Especially since the beginning of winter, on the territory of Rus' occupied by the Celestial Empire, there have been incidents of local people ambushing the soldiers of the Celestial Empire from time to time, so in the past six months, nearly 2,000 soldiers have died and gone missing.

This incident greatly stimulated Zhang Chao himself, in his eyes, the lives of the people of Rus were naturally not as valuable as the lives of the soldiers of the Celestial Empire, and what these people did had touched his bottom line. It also made him realize that blindly appeasement is not necessarily a good thing, and sometimes he needs to show his sharp fangs.

As a result, we have the decision now. Although it is said that this will hurt some innocent people, the reality is that there is no time for people to justify everything, and for the sake of the overall victory, some things are done knowing that they cannot be done.

The cavalry had a seven-day ration because they were faster and had more resources to grab. Comparatively, the infantry was slower, so they were given fifteen days' rations. Such a decision is not a momentary thought, but the result of thinking about it with Guo Jia for a long time. In addition to the first legion, the other four legions totaled 2.2 million people led by Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, Huang Zhong, Wen Chou, Buqi, Liang Xing, Le Jin, Hou Cheng, Sun Li, Zhou Cang, Cai Yang, Guan Yu, Wei Yan, and Zhang Ren. A total of 15 Route Army was formed, including eight cavalry teams, led by Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Dian Wei, Wen Chou, Bu Qi, Guan Yu, Wei Yan, and Zhang Ren, each with 100,000 people, and the infantry was divided into seven branches, led by seven other generals, each leading 200,000 troops, a total of 2.2 million people, and entered the Rus territory to develop and expand itself in the way of the 15th Route Army, and at the same time raised its own military rations.

It can be said that in this way, even Zhang Chao himself will find it difficult to know where the generals below are, let alone the intelligence department of the Rus State, in this way, although there is chaos, it can indeed be used to make the enemy unguardable.

"Obey." Listening to Zhang Chao's words, Lu Bu, Zhao Yun and other generals all knelt on the ground, expressing his determination and fighting spirit.

In the middle of April 211 A.D., the ninth year of the Celestial Empire. The 15th Route Army, led by Lu Bu and Zhao Yun, set off from Liankers City and Adan City respectively and headed north. Their mission was to destroy the living forces of the Rus' state. According to the requirements, they can not take the city, or they can take the city without defense, and only need to destroy the Rus' army.

Thus, for the first time in history, a large-scale war without backup, logistical supplies, or even without a strategic goal in advance began. After the fifteenth Route Army, a total of 2.2 million people, left the two cities, it was like a dragon entering the sea, that is, it disappeared into the vast land, from this moment on, even if Zhang Chao wanted to order them, it was a very difficult thing.

What the Celestial Empire did completely disrupted the plans of the Grand Prince Anatoly and the Second Prince Ivan.

Originally, the two princes had already mobilized heavy troops, and a total of 5.5 million decided to fight to the death against the Celestial Empire. They believed that with such a strong numerical superiority, the defeat of the Celestial Empire was only a matter of time. And they also got information from Zhuge Liang of Later Shu and Sun Jian of Eastern Wu, saying that the harvest of the Celestial Empire last year was not very good, and there was a shortage of food, which made them full of hope for victory in the war.

It's just that no one thought that just when they were preparing for a heavy battle, the Celestial Empire would actually play such a move, which made them unable to catch off guard at all, and also made their desire to find the decisive battle of the main army of the Celestial Empire come to naught.

The two princes could continue to carry out their plan and capture the cities of Nexus and Adan with strong troops, but according to intelligence, those two cities only had an army of 200,000 men each. This was not difficult for the two brothers, who had heavy troops, to attack. It's just that they can capture the city, but then I'm afraid that the rear will be unstable, because no one knows what the fifteenth route army will do when they attack the city, and maybe someone will hit the capital city of Great Rus.

After all, this is their territory, and they also own their wealth and people, and the two princes will never allow anyone to mess with their territory.

The plan was completely disrupted, and the two princes, who had no idea for a while, had to fight for each of them, and began to strengthen the defense of their own territory, in case the fifteenth route army of the Celestial Empire suddenly arrived, looted and slaughtered.

The idea is good, but the truth is not what people want. is still the same sentence, even Zhang Chao can't control the fifteenth route army, let alone their enemies, the two princes. Although they had orders for defense, news soon came that more than a dozen cities, including important towns, had been attacked, many official vaults had been opened, food had been taken, and officials had been killed. What's more, some important towns were attacked several times in three days.

The result faced by such an important town is often that the first batch of the enemy to rob the official grain, and when the second and third batches are gone, they will not be able to see the official grain, so they have no choice but to enter the people's homes to start with the surplus grain of the people's homes, so that the two princes have to play the role of firefighters to save everywhere, and even for the sake of the people's lives, they are not allowed to open their official treasury to release grain for relief.

But even so, most of the official rations sent out were still taken by the 15th Route Army of the Celestial Empire, but even so, they knew that they were going to commit crimes, who let those damned soldiers of the Celestial Empire only grab food and not kill the people, they couldn't watch these people starve to death.

For two consecutive months, until mid-June, the two princes finally figured out some of each other's rules and began to effectively fight back after being harassed and suffering great losses.

Bluestone Town.

One of the most famous towns in the Phakhan area.

Because it is the only place for Pahan to go to the capital of the Rus' country, Great Rus', and the high mountains here are standing here, and all the bluestones for the construction of the city are abundant, so that this place has always been prosperous and prosperous.

It's just that since more than a month ago, it has become not peaceful here, and in a short period of time, Qingshi Town has been patronized by several waves of Heavenly Dynasty troops, so that the official food here has long been looted, even the surplus grain of the people's families at that time has been robbed of all, if it weren't for the second prince Ivan sent a grain delivery truck to help several times, I am afraid that there will be an incident of starvation here.

And on this day, another team of grain trucks came from the direction of the city of Great Rus.

From a distance, I am afraid that the number of convoys will not be less than five hundred, even if one cart is only two hundred stones, there are at least one thousand stones of grain here.

With this food, the people of Qingshi Town can barely make ends meet for a while.

At the front of the team, there was a big Rus' royal flag, and if you are knowledgeable, you can see at a glance that the flag is the flag that represents the identity of the second prince Ivan, which indirectly indicates that the grain was sent by the army sent by the second prince.

A thousand stone of grain is not a lot, and it is said that it is not enough to supply the army, that is, it can still play a role in helping some people. The appearance of these grains will not attract the soldiers of the Celestial Empire. But the fact is indeed the opposite, during this period of time, there seems to be nothing in the fifteenth route army of the Celestial Empire that they don't rob, or that they will take everything they can with them except people, let alone a thousand stone of grain that everyone can eat.

Just like now, this thousand stone of grain is being targeted by a battalion commander named Hood.

Battalion Commander Hood was originally subordinate to the Sixth Army Corps, but this time he was assigned to the deputy commander of the Second Army Corps, Liang Xing. Today coincided with him taking 500 of his men out of the camp to explore the way. He saw the team transporting grain.

Five hundred carts, each with only four soldiers guarding them, that is, a total of 2,000 people carrying food.

With only two thousand men, it was not in Hood's eyes, and although he had only five hundred men with him, he was confident that he would defeat an enemy four times his size under the surprise attack.

"Inform everyone to get ready, occupy the favorable terrain separately, and start after a pillar of incense." There was a bloodthirsty look in Hood's eyes, and he was determined to eat the grain in front of him.

"Battalion commander, don't you need to inform Deputy Commander Cai? This time, after all, there were two thousand enemies of the Rus' state. A deputy battalion commander suggested out of caution.

"No, it's just two thousand Rus' soldiers, don't you see that they are all listless? This is not destined to be the elite division of the Rus country, even so, how can it be our opponent, listen to my words, and pass on the order. Hood waved his hand and said confidently after rejecting the deputy battalion commander's proposal.

It is not that Hood underestimated the enemy, it is not that he has not done such a thing before, he once robbed the grain truck of the Rus' country, and that time he only brought a hundred people, and when he was only a company commander, he had killed three hundred enemies, and in his opinion, it should not be difficult to kill two thousand enemies with five hundred people now.

One thing that has to be said here is that because of the rapid development of the Celestial Empire, the military quality of many low-level military commanders is not very high, there is no military theory in their chests, and even their military vision is very limited.

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