Cao Ren got the reward, his brows were tightly locked, and his heart was melancholy.

At the same time, in order to complete the task of raising grain, he divided the 3,000 men into three thousand troops to disperse the action, and when the village is in the village, the food is raised in the village, the village is in the stockade, and the county is in the county government.

A day passed, and seeing that it was about to get dark, not only did the scout team sent out not come back to report it, but also the three thousand-man teams that had been ordered to raise grain and grass were also completely unheard.

Cao Ren's heart sank, he knew that this time he was in trouble, this time the enemy was too cunning, too murderous, but he didn't understand, even if these three thousand-person teams of people who raised food were killed by the enemy, where did the other party get such a big appetite? Eat three teams of 1,000 without even a single burp?

When the army set out, it only brought a day's grain and grass, and now half of the day has passed, and I knew that I should have led the army directly to a county town at that time, as long as I got to the city, were I afraid that I would not be able to find grain and grass?

Now what? After a meal in the evening, the 7,000 men and horses ran out of food.

"Give the order to go down, camp on the spot, dig a trench in front of the camp, build more arrow towers, strengthen the wall, and strengthen guards and patrols at night to prevent the enemy from sneaking attacks!" Cao Ren gave the order.

As the order was issued, the soldiers of the Cao army acted urgently.

What makes Cao Ren anxious is that he no longer has any intelligence sources, and he has sent out several sentry horses in a row but have not returned, and there is no news from Cao Cao's camp, and now this situation is quite similar to when Cao Cao came back from Guandu and led the army to chase and kill Liu Bei.

Cao Ren guessed that the enemy army might also come to raid at night, after all, when conducting a raid, it was best to use the cover of the night, but to his surprise, he was unharmed all night and did not see a single enemy soldier.

As the day began to lighten, a third of the men in the camp yawned for the rest of the night, and they did not rest for three hours.

"General, there is no food in the army, and the soldiers ······" A small school came to plead to Cao Ren.

Cao Ren was forced to have no choice but to order some livestock to be killed and boiled for the soldiers to wrap their stomachs.

As a result, after eating this meal, even the messenger's horse in Cao Ren's army was killed and eaten, and the scouts and sentry riders also lost their leg strength and could only walk on their own two legs.

"Tell the former soldiers and soldiers, get out!"

"General, where are you going?"

"Go to Hejiabao!"

Hejiabao is the dock fort built by the clansmen of the former general He Jin, and the dock fort built by his family is in Wanxian County, not far from here, before Zhu Ling led the army to borrow grain is to go to Hejiabao.

After marching for half a day, he did not encounter any enemy troops along the way, and he did not even see the enemy outposts.

"Maybe the enemy is gone?" When Cao Ren had these thoughts in his heart, he had already led his army to Hejiabao.

When the people of Hejiabao saw that the other party was Cao Ren, a general under Cao Cao, and brought so many soldiers and horses, they wanted to open the door to greet them, but when they asked on the fort wall, they learned that the other party was here to borrow grain, so they didn't dare to open the fort gate easily, and hurriedly sent someone to report to the patriarch.

"What? Borrowing food again? Didn't you lend them 3,000 stone of grain and grass the day before yesterday? Why do you want to borrow again? The patriarch of the He family was very unhappy when he heard it.

The messenger said: "Patriarch, they have a large number of soldiers and horses, about seven or eight thousand, if you don't open the gate of the fort, if you annoy them and launch an attack, there are only a few hundred guards in my fort, and they can't stop it at all!" ”

The patriarch of the He family thought about it, and it seemed that it would be impossible not to borrow, but if it was lent out, what if the other party was insatiable? He immediately said to the messenger: "You go and tell Cao Ren, just say that my He family does not have much food, at most I can only lend him another 1,000 stones, if he agrees to take the food, he will lead the troops away, I will lend him the food, if he does not agree, my He family has no choice, if he wants to attack, he can do it, I will fight to the last person and not give him food!" ”

"No!"

After the messenger agreed, he returned to the fort wall and loudly conveyed the patriarch's words to Cao Ren, and when Cao Ren heard it, the soldiers were hungry at this moment, and the next meal had not yet been settled, and now they were in a difficult situation, and it was not easy to deal with the He family, so he immediately agreed.

The He family was also worried that after opening the fort gate, Cao Jun rushed in and slaughtered them, and they didn't even open the fort gate, so they let the clansmen carry grain bags and throw them down from the fort wall, throwing a total of 1,000 bags, and one bag is a stone.

Now there is food, but Cao Ren has no livestock, no vehicles, how to transport it has become a trouble, in desperation can only order soldiers to cut trees nearby, take the bark to weave into ropes, two soldiers in a group, with sticks and ropes to carry a bag of grain.

Under this arrangement, a thousand stone of grain was transported, and the speed of the march was too slow.

More than ten miles away from Hejiabao, several knights appeared on a small earthen bag in the distance.

"Captain, it seems that they borrowed food from Hejiabao again!" A military candidate said to Chen Zhi.

Chen Zhi thought about it and said to the soldiers: "It's time to start working, I'll take a large group of men and horses to attack from the front later, and you take the 200 cavalry of the headquarters to go around the back and wait for the opportunity to dispatch, always remember one thing, the goal of our waiting is not how many Cao troops to kill, but food, even if you can't take it, you can't give it to Cao Jun!" ”

"Also, to protect the soldiers, don't attack blindly, fight if you can, leave if you can't, and never attack!"

"Humble duty understands!" The soldier agreed, beat the horse and turned around and left.

Chen Zhi beckoned and ordered the people behind him: "Command the whole army, prepare to attack!" ”

Although it had been two days since he saw the enemy army, and a night had passed, and he had not even seen the shadow of the enemy army, Cao Ren did not dare to be careless, he was worried all the way, not only to ensure the speed of the army's march, but also not to march blindly.

He sent out a few scouts who had no horses to scout the way, but due to the lack of reconnaissance distance and depth, when Chen Zhi led the cavalry to approach from the flank, it was not until the two armies were two or three miles apart that Cao's army discovered them.

"Enemy troops, there are enemy troops!" The first one screamed bitterly when he found Chen Zhi leading the cavalry to kill the figure.

When Cao Ren saw it, his face changed greatly, and he immediately shouted: "Cloth round array!" ”

Cao's army panicked, although Cao Ren and his officers were trying their best to control the men and horses and let them set up the formation, but the two armies were too close to each other, two or three miles away, and the cavalry galloped quickly and only needed a short time to kill in front of the formation.

In less than two minutes, more than 2,000 cavalry rushed over, and at this time, the circular formation of the Cao army had not even been completed.

"Whoosh ······" Before the centaurs could rush over, a wave of arrows came at them.

"Ahh

From time to time, Cao soldiers were shot down, and only a few arrows were fired at the Flame Army cavalry that rushed over

Cao Ren immediately ordered loudly: "The archers are ready to fight back!" ”