On the second day, when Cao Jun put out the meal at noon, the porridge was already thin to the bottom, and there was only a thin layer of rice in each bowl, and even the kimchi was only one-third of the usual amount, not to mention the meat, which was already the ingredients of several days ago.

The soldiers were already very hungry, and finally waited for the meal to be eaten, and when they saw such a meal, they were instantly furious.

"That's it, how can you eat enough! How to fight if you don't have enough to eat! ”

"If there is no food, what kind of war will there be, retire the army and return to Xuchang as soon as possible, and there will be food!"

"We're going to eat meat!"

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The crowd became more and more agitated, and some people took the lead in resisting, and they smashed the cauldron of grain together.

The logistics steward heard the movement here and walked over, and the hustle and bustle of the crowd quieted down a little.

"Who took the lead?" The steward asked with a calm face.

If everyone bowed their heads and feared, no one dared to come forward.

In the middle of the night, a black soldier took a big step forward, and indignantly took the rice bowl and said, "I took the lead in smashing it!" The prime minister will give us these? I don't want to feed the pigs, but he still wants us to work for him! ”

The steward said sharply: "What is the arrangement of eating, where is your share of talking?!"

The black Zhuang soldier smashed the bowl, "Lao Tzu is gone!" What kind of war can you fight if you can't even eat enough! With that, he turned around and rushed away.

The steward hurriedly ran up and grabbed his clothes and stopped, "Where are you going?" ”

The black strong soldier said without looking back: "Wherever there is food, I will go."

The steward pulled out his sword and crossed his neck, and said sharply: "Do you know that there is an order in the army, and deserters should be punished?"

The black strong soldier stopped, turned his head slightly to look at him, and said meaningfully: "You know better than me how many brothers have escaped to the northern camp recently. We are all thinking of the prime minister's old kindness and have been sticking to Cao Ying. But now that he doesn't even have military rations, is he going to starve us to death? ”

Without waiting for the steward to reply, he walked forward again.

The steward sneered and drank, "Someone! Tie up this deserter who led the rebellion to me, and kill the sacrificial flag. ”

Immediately, two soldiers blocked his way, ready to detain him.

The black soldier relied on his huge size, and one person repelled the two of them, he drew his sword and pointed at the people who were like shrunken turtles: "I just said what you didn't dare to say in your hearts, and did what you didn't dare to do, you just ate such a thing called Hanako, and you have to work for him, I'm sorry!" ”

When everyone heard this, they began to look at me, and I looked at you, which was a little impatient.

Seeing this, the steward was afraid that the situation would get out of control, so when he was distracted by shouting, he raised his sword and cut his neck.

Blood gushed like an outpouring of blood, and while covering his wounds, he raised his knife to cut the logistics manager, and before he could take two steps, he collapsed in front of everyone, convulsions and gradually lost consciousness.

"This is what happens to deserters!" The steward said sharply, "In the future, anyone who dares to discuss the distribution of military rations will be killed." ”

With that, he walked away under the horrified gaze of the crowd.

After a while, the matter reached Cao Cao's ears.

Cao Cao was extremely angry, slashed the desk with a sword, and roared angrily: "Where did this steward send a spy!" Grab me and kill me! ”

Cao Ren was deeply worried: "Lord, there is not much military food left, and it will take at least five days for the military rations shipped out of Xuzhou to arrive when I just got the news, but now the army is complaining, and the army is in turmoil, which is ...... I'm afraid something big is going to happen! ”

Cao Cao sat down in front of the desk, panting weakly.

It's really a house leak that happened to rain overnight, there is no food and grass at the moment, there is a dilemma, there is no morale, he can't go to war, and there are a group of soldiers and generals who are about to rebel at any time, so he can't guard against it. Cao Cao's head began to blow, and he only felt as if someone had wrapped his head around and around with a belt, and strangled him so hard that he was about to burst his head. He clutched his head and fell to the ground, groaning in pain.

Cao Ren was half frightened to death, and shouted to the guards: "Pass the military doctor!" Hurry up and pass on to the military doctor! ”

The guards flew out like arrows.

He hurriedly went over to help Cao Cao up, anxious, "Prime Minister, you can't have anything to do at this time." ”

Cao Cao closed his eyes in pain, gritted his teeth and said, "It's old and sick, it's not in the way." ”

The military doctors soon came, and a group of people were busy checking the pulse, administering needles, and prescribing medicine, Cao Cao's symptoms improved slightly, he opened his eyes slightly, and asked Cao Ren weakly: "How many military rations do we have left?" ”

Cao Ren sighed, frowned slightly, and said, "There are still three days." ”

Cao Cao looked into the distance and said leisurely: "Pass my order, take out all the wine and meat in the army, and I will feast the three armies tonight." ”

Cao Ren was frightened, knelt down and begged: "Please think twice!" Now there are only three days' food in the army, and we don't even have tomorrow's food for tonight's banquet! ”

"You go to reorganize the army immediately, and tomorrow the whole army will raid Yuan Shao." Cao Cao said with his eyes closed.

Cao Ren understood that the lord was going to break the cauldron and fight to the death with Yuan Shao. In fact, this is the only way out now.

He looked at Cao Cao with his fists firmly clenched, and said categorically: "The subordinates understand, the subordinates will do it, and swear to live and die with Cheng!" ”

Cao Cao frowned slightly, and said slowly and reverently: "May God bless me Cao Cao." ”

When night fell, the bonfires in Cao Cao's army were bright, and there were wine banquets all over the place.

Cao Cao walked to the general's platform with his hands in his hand, and said loudly: "Recently, there have been a lot of rumors in the army, all of which say that my Cao Cao's grain and grass have been exhausted, and I still wonder what to do, how can I eat up my military rations of one million stones so quickly, and when I checked it today, it turned out to be this logistics steward who was making a hindrance from it," Speaking of which, someone brought a box, Cao Cao took it and opened it, and threw the human head inside to the ground, "Today, this person deliberately reduced the food used in the army, causing everyone's anger, and used lynching to deal with innocent soldiers, and the crime deserves death." ”

There was an uproar below, and they all clapped their hands and applauded.

Cao Cao said again: "The logistics manager privately withheld hundreds of thousands of stones of my army's military rations, and wanted to send them to Yuan Shao on the opposite side, but fortunately I found it in time and got back all the food, so I specially feasted the whole army today!" ”

"Good! Good! Good! The soldiers below were boiling, and their eyes were red with excitement.

Cao Cao raised his wine glass: "Today, we mainly eat meat, and as for wine, everyone should drink as little as possible." It's not that I don't want everyone to drink, it's that the yellow calendar says that tomorrow is an auspicious day, and I have worked out a wonderful plan, just waiting for the sun to come out tomorrow, to catch Yuan Shao off guard, and have a life-and-death battle with him! "Say, sprinkle wine and sacrifice to the sky.

"Good!" Everyone drank neatly.

For a time, the army sang and danced, everyone drank wine and ate meat, enjoyed dancing and listening to music, and was very happy.

At this moment of the feast of 10,000 people, Qiao Wan could only stay in his tent, listening to bursts of singing and laughter in the distance, so lively.

At this time, Huanshu came in and reported: "General Xu Chu received an order from the prime minister, saying that he had something important to ask to see the girl."

"Let him in." Qiao Guan's heart was slightly divided.

After Xu Chu came in, he clenched his fists and said, "The lord has an order, please Miss Qiao pack up and come with me."