In the mountains and forests, the soldiers lay in the shade of the trees and slept profusely, slept when they ate, ate when they slept, and chatted when they couldn't sleep, but they were not allowed to make loud noises, and this is basically how they have come these days.

Qin Feng was lying on a long stone, with grass roots in his mouth, and the two pro-soldiers each held a small round shield to fan him.

Some sergeants carried bundles of freshly cut grass to feed the horses, and hid here for several days in a row, and thousands of war horses gnawed up all the weeds in the mountains and forests here, and the soldiers had to cut the grass from other places to feed the horses.

There are still some concentrates eaten by war horses, but the concentrates can only be eaten by war horses when they charge or run long distances, and they are reluctant to eat war horses in peacetime.

This time, in order to help Liu Bei gain a firm foothold in Runan, Qin Feng can really be said to have made a bloody investment, but there is one thing to say, he did it for himself, to get Liu Bei to Runan, he and Liu Bei can clamp down on the development of Cao Cao's forces, and the two parties can be horns for each other, once either side is attacked by Cao Cao's forces, the other party can quickly send reinforcements, or surprise attack Cao Cao's lair and force Cao Cao to return to help.

This strategic plan was formulated by Qin Feng and Yang Hong and others in Runan, in order to try to gain time to develop strength, and the idea at that time was to ally with Zhang Xiu, because Zhang Xiu was entrenched in Nanyang at that time, who knew that Zhang Xiu was not strong-willed, and he failed to withstand the pressure of Cao Cao's forces and chose to surrender.

Qin Feng's current idea is to try to delay Cao Cao's retreat as much as possible, so that Yuan Shao can breathe longer, because his westward expansion plan still needs time to complete, and Yuan Shao cannot be destroyed by Cao Cao during this period, and he must also support Liu Bei to make trouble for Cao Cao as much as possible.

Now that this game of chess has begun to be played, it depends on whether his teammates give him strength, Qin Feng is not afraid of god-like opponents, he is afraid of pig-like teammates, Liu Bei does not have Zhuge Liang, and he doesn't know how long he can support it when he stays in Runan, Qin Feng hopes that Liu Bei can support until the completion of his westward expansion plan, and at that time there is a stable rear, so there is no need to be afraid.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance, and a knight was whipping his horse desperately.

Hearing the sound of horses' hooves, most of the sergeants sat up and craned their necks to look at the foot of the mountain.

"It should be a scout to report the news, go to a few people to answer!" Qin Feng ordered.

It didn't take long for several sergeants to come over with a panting scout.

"Lord Qi, Cao Ren······ Cao Ren's army is gone! The scout looked terrified.

Qin Feng suddenly got up: "Gone?" ”

"Yes, it's gone! Yesterday, Cao Ren's army did not attack Runan City, Liu Beijun rested in the city for a day, Cao Ren's camp seemed to be as usual, there were sergeants patrolling and sentry on the wall, arrow tower from time to time, and the camp was very noisy! This morning, I waited to explore the vicinity again, and found that there was no sound in the camp, but there were many sentry posts on the arrow tower and the wall, which made us very puzzled! ”

"The subordinates and others ventured close to the camp to investigate, and found that the sentry had not moved, and it felt wrong, and we approached again to find that those were not sentry posts at all, but straw men, all of them were straw men!"

"Next, the subordinates and others touched into the camp and found that the huge camp was empty, and there were only a dozen earthen stoves that were still in use yesterday, and the other earthen stoves were not used yesterday!"

Qin Feng listened to the scout's report and realized that something was wrong, which showed that Cao Ren immediately implemented a blindfold after receiving the messenger's secret report, the secret envoy arrived at Cao Ren's camp the day before yesterday, and only two or three hundred people remained in the camp yesterday, so the other Cao troops had secretly evacuated overnight as early as the night before, and the number of earthen stoves used showed this.

And these two or three hundred Cao Cao also sneaked away last night, and the number of people is small, so it is much easier to slip away.

Realizing that Xu Shu's army might be attacked by Cao Ren's army, Qin Feng was like sitting on pins and needles, he immediately called a messenger and handed him the written secret letter, "You ride a fast horse to Xu Shu's camp and give him this letter, there must be no mistake!" ”

Qin Feng didn't dare to pin all his hopes on the messenger, in case something went wrong with the messenger on the way, once Cao Jun's army quietly touched the vicinity of Xu Shu's camp to carry out a thunderous blow, then the 16,000 men and horses that had been carefully trained for more than a year would be dangerous.

Qin Feng didn't dare to bet, he had another way.

"Little Ash!" Qin Feng carried the arm wrapped in the stainless steel arm guard, and fed the little gray ash standing on the arm with fresh rabbit meat.

"Chirp" Xiao Ash responded to Qin Feng's words while pecking at the bloody rabbit meat.

After the little gray ash finished eating the rabbit meat, Qin Feng took out another piece of metal ore, the little gray gray's eyes were shining, and as soon as his head stretched out, the metal ore was pecked by the bird's beak, and it was swallowed into his stomach in a few clicks.

"The soldiers and horses that attacked Runan City disappeared a few days ago, I guess Cao Ren must have taken them back to help Xudu, but I don't know which way they went, you go and investigate, see where they are now, find out their whereabouts, and immediately fly back to tell me!" Qin Feng said while touching the feathers on the neck of the little gray ash.

"Chirp," Ash screamed twice.

"Okay, let's go!" Qin Feng's arm was raised upward, and the little gray gray spread his wings and soared into the air, circling in the sky for a while before heading northeast.

Chen Zhi, who was standing next to him, saw the little gray ash flying away, and asked with a fist, "Lord, can you find the location of Cao Ren's army?" According to the scout's report, Cao Ren's army should have quietly withdrawn the night before yesterday, and we and Liu Beijun came to make a move to get rid of the golden cicada, and it has been two days until now, even if we can know their location, is it still too late for us to rush over? ”

Qin Feng said with a smile: "Don't worry, my little gray ash is very fast, it is not an ordinary bird of prey, when it flies the fastest, the flight distance of half an hour can be worth the three-day journey of a large army!" ”

"Cao Ren has 10,000 horses under his command, in addition to the consumption of a few days of siege, it is estimated that there are still seven or eight thousand people, with this number of troops plus a large amount of baggage, it is already up to the sky to be able to walk 70 miles a day! As long as Ash can find their location and fly back in time to report, we can catch up with them in just one day! ”

It turned out that Qin Feng's analysis was right, three hours after the little gray ash flew out, Qin Feng heard the sound of birds chirping in the sky, and he knew that it was the sound of the little gray ash as soon as he heard it.

Immediately afterwards, the little gray ash glided down from the sky, through the clouds and the canopy, and flew down from the gap in the canopy, landing steadily on Qin Feng's arm.

"Did you find it?"

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