Chen Lan has experience in destroying fields and is familiar with the road.

At the same time, Long Xiang sent Lei Xu to accompany him, and the two former Yuan Shu's subordinates would cooperate again.

In late May, Chen Lan led more than 2,000 soldiers to approach Shaobi by bypassing Cao Jun's eyeline under the advantage of the claireye's vision.

Chen Lan and Lei Xu were extremely lucky, and there were almost no guards in the Tuntian District of Shaobei.

After a simple engagement, Chen Lan took control of Tuntian District.

Zhang Liao sat in Shouchun for nearly a year, and he has always lived in harmony with Long Xiang and Tai Shici, so he gradually changed from the initial military confrontation to the confrontation with both hands in Tuntian.

Cao Cao promised Zhang Liao the right to recruit troops, but Xu could not supply grain and grass continuously, and the recruited soldiers did not have the corresponding supply of military rations.

At the suggestion of Liu Fu, the assassin of Yangzhou, Zhang Liao sent people to the upper reaches of Huaishui to check the population and bring the displaced people who had fled to the mountains back to the bottom of the mountain.

The upper reaches of Huaishui, that is, the counties in the north of the Lujiang River.

Originally, it was controlled by Chen Lan, Lei Xu and others, and the two successively led the troops to Hefei, and there were few people left in that area.

As the saying goes, ants are also meat, and Zhang Liao and Liu Fu can't pick fat and thin at this time.

A few households, more than a dozen households can get together slowly, and when more than 50 households are migrated, Zhang Liao will ask Li Dian's troops to help them migrate.

In the summer and autumn of last year, there was a lot of rain in Huainan and flash floods in the western mountainous areas.

Natural disasters were raging, and the homeless people living in seclusion on the mountain wanted to go down the mountain, Zhang Liao and Liu Fu had the will to move the people, so the two sides hit it off.

Liu Fu not only divided the land for the relocated people, but also sent people to build water conservancy and irrigation facilities in the Tuntian area, and he knew that drought and flood weather complemented each other, and even in areas with many rivers and rivers in the plains, it was necessary to build more reservoirs to ensure agricultural irrigation.

Chen Lan and Lei Xu attacked Tuntian District, and the seedlings in the field were squeaky by the fire.

Those rice crops were already approaching maturity, and ordinary destruction methods would take too much time, so Chen Lan and Lei Xu finally burned them with fire, and it was expected that they could destroy the rice fields in a few hours.

At first, the fire in the rice fields was inconspicuous, but after an hour of burning, all the farmland was blazing.

The fire field formed a wall of fire and a volcano in succession with a large amount of smoke rising into the air.

The movement became louder and louder, and the sentinels in Shouchun City could see that there was a fire in the direction of Shaobi.

When Zhang Liao heard the news, he rushed to the city to watch, but because the distance was too far to know the size of the fire, he did not expect an enemy invasion at the first time, and mistakenly thought that the weather was dry in summer, and perhaps the fire was caused by the spontaneous combustion of wild grasses.

The reason why he didn't think badly was because Zhang Liao deployed an observation post and an army in Jiangjunling, and the troops from the direction of Hefei or Liyang could not bypass the surveillance of Jiangjunling's sentinels.

Although Zhang Liao comforted his subordinates, he was still worried that the wildfire would hurt the Tuntian area, so he sent a guard scout to investigate, and ordered the Tuntian farmers to help extinguish the wildfire.

By the time the guards arrived at the Tuntian district, one-third of the paddy fields had been burned.

Chen Lan's neat army was intimidating, and the peasants next to the tun area fled north one after another, and those guards could only swallow saliva and rush back to Shouchun.

Seeing the disparity in strength, they were reluctant to send them to death.

Zhang Liao was stunned after hearing the situation, he was shocked where this army came from, and secondly, he was shocked that there were 3,000 people in this army, obviously premeditated to come here to destroy the fields, and there were only 3,000 Cao troops left in the city.

Even if Cao's army has the advantage of combat power, it may not be able to win a complete victory in the face of the enemy's preparedness, so it can't save much food, and weakly take all the 3,000 defenders out, and Zhang Liao is afraid that the enemy will transfer the tiger from the mountain to steal Shouchun.

Zhang Liao has been in the army for so many years, and he has seen too many tricks to transfer the tiger from the mountain, and when he thinks of the secret appearance of this army, he has to pay more attention.

After a battle between heaven and man, Zhang Liao left 1,000 people to defend Shouchun, and he personally led 2,000 cavalry to Shaobei, and at the same time sent people to the west to inform Liu Fu and Li Dian.

Zhang Liao was unwilling to be burned all the food he had planted so hard, and he was thinking about how much he could save.

When Zhang Liao rushed to Shaobi with anxiety, Chen Lan's people and Cao Jun seemed to be separated from a sea of fire.

Chen Lan led his troops to stop and watch, and did not panic because of the arrival of reinforcements.

If Zhang Liao ran directly to fetch water to put out the fire, Chen Lan and Lei Xu would attack and harass them.

Zhang Liao saw through Chen Lan's plan, he did not put out the fire after the fierce entanglement, but divided the two thousand people he brought in two and launched an attack on Chen Lan's army from the left and right flanks.

If you don't defeat or drive away the enemy, you will be able to fight the fire directly.

When he saw Cao's army raiding left and right at the same time, Chen Lan immediately commanded Qu to retreat backwards, and his people rested for a long time to wait for work, and Zhang Liao's troops couldn't catch up at all.

Chen Lan strictly restrained his troops, kept a distance of one mile from Cao Jun at all times, and tried not to fight with Zhang Liao as much as possible.

Before leaving, Lu Su had taught the second general face-to-face, and he also expected the situation at this time.

Lu Su gave a way to deal with it, that is, Cao Jun's soldiers retreated directly, and burned as many rice fields as they could;

If Cao's army only has a small number of reinforcements, the strategy of 'the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy stops and I stop, and the enemy retreats and I advance', so that the reinforcements will fall into the dilemma of fighting fires and attacking, and let the rice fields continue to burn by wasting time.

Zhang Liao had nothing to do in the face of Lu Su's conspiracy, so he could only watch the rice fields turn to ashes.

In front of the enemy, it is impossible to save the fire.

But no matter whether Zhang Liao advances or retreats, Chen Lan can't get rid of it like a dog's skin plaster.

Eventually, the flames in the paddy fields became smaller, and the flames burned away the rations of Shouchun for several months.

Chen Lan and Lei Xu calmly retreated, but Zhang Liao didn't dare to pursue, and he didn't know who his opponent was until the end.

Zhang Liao sent scouts to follow him, and at the same time asked people to find the farmers in Tuntian for questioning, and to find out the news by saving the country by curve.

Half a day later, Li Dian and Liu Fu led their troops to aid Shaobei.

Seeing the ashes, Zhang Liao's troops had no traces of battle, and Li pawn began to tease in front of Liu Fu.

"People say that General Zhang is brave and good at fighting, but why is it in such a situation today? The soldiers watched the rice fields burn? Is it exercising their will? ”

"Man Cheng, you don't have to say a word."

Liu Fu saw that Zhang Liao's face was blue, and he hurriedly became a peacemaker, he looked at Zhang Liao and whispered comfort: "The rice field is burned, as long as people are there, they can continue to grow grain, this time I and Mancheng moved 8,000 people, and so on in the autumn we will plant millet in the field, and the burned seedlings can be used as agricultural fertilizer, and there will be a bumper harvest in winter." ”

"Well, that's all there is to it." Zhang Liao bowed slightly: "But this army is strange today."

Liu Fu was stunned: "What do you say?" ”

"They don't know their names, they don't raise their banners, I just asked a lot of tuntian farmers, and they all said that the clothing characteristics of this group of people are very similar to the original active Huainan Meicheng Dan."

"Mei Cheng? What a joke, why don't you talk about Chen Lan? ”

Zhang Liao ignored Li Dian's ridicule halfway, and continued: "If you can completely avoid the eyes of our army and appear in Shaobi quietly, it should also be Mei Cheng from the geographical point of view, but this team is forbidden by orders, and the generals are also very good at using soldiers, not like a mere bandit can do." ”

After hearing this, Li Dian snorted coldly: "Mei Cheng is just a thief in the Turtle Shrinkage Mountain, what motive does he have to destroy the fields?" It is also said that his orders are forbidden, and he is very good at using soldiers, why don't you praise him for Lu Bu's rebirth? General Zhang can't put out the fire himself, so he doesn't have to put gold on the enemy."

"Li Mancheng." Zhang Liao shouted angrily: "I have endured it many times, and you still have to keep ridiculing?" Really when I Zhang Liao has no temper? ”

(End of chapter)