Sun Yu felt that he was being led by the nose of Shi Bao, running around for a while, irritating and disgusting.

As soon as he heard that Shi Bao did not go to Wulin, Sun Yu immediately returned to the army and went to rescue Yingxian.

Unexpectedly, Shi Bao shook a shot again, and after Sun Yu rushed back to Yingxian, he withdrew early again, making Sun Yu pounce again.

Sun Yu was angry, and he really didn't want to play a game of hide and seek with this stone bud.

He left 2,000 people to his deputy general Xie Jing, and asked him to garrison Yingxian, and then sent people to inform Jiangxia to strengthen the defense of the Wulin grain road.

But before Sun Yu could catch up with the large army, he suddenly received news from the rear again.

After Shi Bao withdrew his troops from Yingxian, he did not go far, but continued to advance eastward, ambushing the Jiangdong grain transport team that was transported from Wulin to Yingxian, and burning a large amount of grain and grass.

Now that it's okay, Sun Yu completely understands what Shi Bao is going to do.

This stone bud was aimed at the grain route of the Jiangdong Army.

If there is a chance, he will attack Yingxian or Wulin, the stronghold of grain and grass hoarding, and if there is no opportunity, then he will set up an ambush in the field to ambush the grain transportation team of the Jiangdong Army.

Grain and grass hoarding strongholds, Sun Yu can strengthen the garrison, but the garrison of the grain transport team. This Sun Yu really has no choice.

The main force of the grain transportation team is mainly the requisitioned people, and some auxiliary soldiers are responsible for protection, but the combat effectiveness is definitely not as good as that of the regular soldiers.

To protect the grain routes, if conditions permit, light cavalry can be sent to patrol back and forth for protection, and if there are no conditions, they can only recruit more civilian men and auxiliary soldiers, or transfer regular soldiers to escort the grain transportation team.

But Sun Yu didn't have enough soldiers on hand now, plus Jiangdong sent troops from Jiangxia and took the land route, and the grain and grass supply line was too long, so it was impossible to completely protect it.

This is land, and the Jiangdong Army does not have an absolute advantage in land warfare, unlike Lü Meng's water supply, which is not a threat.

After weighing back and forth, Sun Yu decided to give Sun Huan an order to let Sun Huan lead the main army to attack Jiangling, while he took the remaining 3,000 people to cruise the grain road and try his best to defend the grain road.

After all, according to Sun Yu's analysis, there will not be too many soldiers led by Shi Bao, and it is estimated that there will be only a few hundred, and a thousand people will die.

In this way, there is an advantage, that is, it moves quickly, and it is not easy to be blocked, but it also has disadvantages, and the combat effectiveness is not enough, so it can only ambush the grain transport team, attack the city or be tough with its own 3,000 people, and Shi Bao is definitely not his opponent.

In addition, Shi Bao abandoned the city and left, the supply of grain and grass he carried was definitely limited, and he couldn't last too long, maybe it was just ten days and half a month, Shi Bao had to retreat to Jiangling, and he only needed to cruise for ten days and half a month to protect the food supply during this time.

Therefore, after Sun Yu made a judgment, he turned around again and killed back to Yingxian, and then led three thousand soldiers to patrol back and forth from Yingxian to Wulin, looking for the traces of Shibao.

This trick seems to be very effective, since Sun Yu led his troops to guard the grain road, Shi Bao has been missing, and it has lasted for four or five days.

Sun Yu slowly put his mind at ease.

In four or five days, based on a one-day march of forty to fifty miles, Sun Huan should have led his troops to Jiangling City, set up camp, and joined Lu Meng.

As long as he cooperates with Governor Lu Meng to capture Jiangling, then Shibao, a small reptile, will not be a threat.

At this time, Shibud is indeed a bit of a dilemma.

Three non-stop advances, coupled with sieges and ambushes, only about 800 soldiers of the 1,000 counties led by him remained, and the soldiers were tired and their morale was not high.

This is already the result of his good leadership and prestige in the army.

After all, just like Sun Yu said, he abandoned the city to fight, although he prepared some food, grass and ordnance supplies outside the city in advance, but after a long time, it was impossible for him to maintain the morale and combat effectiveness of the soldiers.

Therefore, when Sun Yu led his troops to guard the grain road, Shi Bao never found a suitable opportunity to sneak attack the grain road.

And calculating the time, Sun Huan's army should have almost arrived at Jiangling City.

One thing to say, with less than a thousand troops, Shi Bao first had a suspicious military plan to delay time, and then slowed down the Jiangdong Army's advance by harassing the grain road, adding up to at least ten days for Jiangling City to react.

It is not easy for him to do so much.

But Shibud was not satisfied.

Indeed, there are few stone buds, and if they can drag on for ten days, they can already be regarded as qualified to complete the task. But one thing to say, it is not too difficult to change someone to guard Yingxian County for ten days.

If it had been held in Yingxian County, although the Jiangdong Army had an absolute advantage in strength, it would have to take about ten days to conquer Yingxian.

He is equivalent to doing what the city defender should do.

If you return to Gangneung City like this, then you will be useless at most.

This is not what Shibud wants.

Therefore, Shi Bao decided to make a big move by himself.

Shi Bao has always been active in the east of Yingxian County, including Sun Yu, and the focus of his inspection is also on the east of Yingxian, on the road to Wulin.

Therefore, Shi Bao took the remaining 800 soldiers and marched to the west of Yingxian, in the direction of the army led by Sun Huan.

Bring the last food supplies, replace all the ordnance, and get one last.

It's done, everyone retreats to Gangneung City together and enjoys the treatment of heroes.

No, then he Shibud will die with everyone.

Shi Bao didn't know much about the pre-battle speech to boost morale, but he knew that with the rest of the soldiers, he had to take the lead in order to have the strength to fight.

Therefore, when going to pursue Sun Huan's army, Shi Bao always leads the soldiers to walk at the front of the team, and when he stops to rest, Shi Bao is always the last to sleep after inspecting all the soldiers.

Just like this, Shi Bao led 800 soldiers and finally caught up with the 15,000 army led by Sun Huan.

Sun Huan is not Sun Quan, he will not turn his team into a long snake formation, and he will not be unguarded against the Chinese army, so Shi Bao has no way to learn Zhang Babai and reproduce a battle of Xiaoyaojin.

But Sun Huan's military formation is not without weaknesses.

That is, the lack of protection of the rear wing.

Probably because Sun Huan felt that there were soldiers led by Sun Yu behind him patrolling back and forth to protect, and he hadn't heard of Shi Bao robbing grain recently, so he was more at ease with the rear army.

Shi Bao keenly discovered that Sun Huan did not protect the rear wing, especially the strength of the rear wing grain and grass baggage team.

Shibud found the focus of his attack, but did not attack immediately.

Because at this time, although the rear wing did not have many troops, the logistics battalion responsible for building barracks and other facilities still acted with the rear army.

These people may be relatively weak in combat, but they are not completely ineffective.

If you can't kill these logistics troops in the first place and delay them a little, then you will be surrounded by more than 10,000 troops on the other side.

Even if you can break through, you will suffer heavy casualties.

He was waiting, waiting for the sky to get dark.

Fifteen thousand people are different from the eight hundred people he leads, so many people must be encamped to rest, and once they are encamped, the logistics team in the rear wing will have to build a camp, and the number of people to protect the grain and grass in the rear wing will become even smaller.

And once the army begins to set up camp, it means that it will have to stay overnight, and the defense at this time is the most lax.

At this point, it's the perfect opportunity for a raid.

Shi Bud waited calmly, and finally made him wait for the moment he wanted.

Led the soldiers to approach quietly, taking advantage of the fact that the sky was slowly getting dark, but it was not yet time to light the torches, relying on the cover of night, they launched a surprise attack as soon as possible.

At this time, Sun Huan's rear army was about 1,000 soldiers to guard, but these soldiers had basically been marching for a day, just waiting for the camp to be built and bury the pot to cook, eat and sleep.

Basically, they are all sitting on the ground in twos and threes, and their precautions are quite lax.

Shi Bao took advantage of this point in time, rushed out first, made a quick assault, and entered this scattered military formation as soon as possible, tore a hole, and went straight to the place where grain and grass were hoarded.

The sudden attack of the stone buds naturally caused a period of confusion in the rear army, and it was difficult to organize an effective defense for a while.

Shi Bao took advantage of this time to command the soldiers to light Sun Huan's army's grain and grass, as much as he could, as long as the enemy did not react and sent troops to help, then quickly burn it.

Once the enemy army reacted, he immediately commanded the soldiers to retreat, and once again retreated in the direction of Gangneung City under the cover of night.

By the time Sun Huan heard the commotion in the rear camp and hurriedly led the Chinese army to help, Shi Bao had already led the army to retreat, and Sun Huan didn't even see Shi Bao's back.

And now that the grain and grass of the rear army are on fire, Sun Huan has no time to let people chase Shibao, but hurriedly extinguishes the fire and rescues the grain, if the grain is burned, the 15,000 people he brought with him, I am afraid that he can only temporarily withdraw one after another, and wait until the next batch of grain and grass arrives before he can consider the matter of marching into Jiangling.

Seriously, Sun Huan really didn't expect that Shi Bao would be so bold and dare to sneak attack his army with only so many people, and he was successfully attacked.

Sun Huan was even more annoyed that this time Shi Bao's sneak attack was successful, and nearly half of the grain and grass were lost.

This is also because Shibao's army did not carry sulfur and fish paste, and only by burning grain and grass by itself can they save half of the results.

Now Sun Huan was entangled.

Should we continue to march the army, or should we camp first and wait for food and grass to be replenished.

It is already very close to Gangneung City, and it will take less than a day to come to Gangneung City, in fact, there is still half of the grain and grass left, which is enough to support seven or eight days, but it is not that there is no food available.

But the problem is that once there is a stalemate under Jiangling City, seven or eight days of grain and grass reserves are not safe, and if Sun Yu cannot escort the grain and grass to arrive in time, Sun Huan's army may fall into a dilemma of lack of food.

Of course, it's not that there is no other way, if you are short of food, you can borrow it from Governor Lümeng. But what if the grain and grass on Lümengdu's side are not rich?!

After all, it is not the shortage of food and grass for thousands of people, but the shortage of food and grass for tens of thousands of people.

Sun Huan really didn't dare to be careless, and after thinking twice, he decided to camp in place and wait for five days.

Five days later, Sun Yu should be able to transport the next batch of grain and grass to arrive, although it cannot completely solve the shortage of grain and grass, but it can be alleviated to some extent, and at the same time, let the soldiers see hope, so that the army's morale will not fluctuate due to the lack of food.

When that time comes, there will be no problem.

(End of chapter)