After Gan Ning returned, Sun Zhong immediately summoned Gan Ning to the study and asked about Shouchun's situation.

Sun Zhong said: "Xingba, you must also know the situation in Runan today, they are infighting, cannibalism, all are gone, now I don't want to be the big leader of the Runan Yellow Turban Army, I'm afraid it's not good, there are four or five hundred thousand people in Runan City, our Yellow Turban Army is old and young, not to mention three or four hundred thousand people, so many people, not to mention anything else, this food is a big problem." Whether it is He Man, Huang Shao, or even Gongdu Liu Pi, they have occupied this Runan for almost a year, but they have not done a single day of production, and they have relied on looting all day long. Even if I develop production now, this grain will not grow for a while, so the first thing I need to solve now is grain. You went to Shouchun, how was that place? Who were the generals who defended it? How many officers and troops were stationed there? Is there a lot of food? Is the friend you contacted willing to give us an internal response? No matter what, we have to think about how to get through this year, otherwise, it is better to say that there are no officers and soldiers to fight, and once the officers and troops come again, then we will be in danger. ”

Gan Ning said: "Big leader, the defense of Shouchun is Yangzhou Assassin Shi Liu Xuan, who has 30,000 horses under his command. As for whether there is a lot of grain and grass, I and my friend Chen Wu did not find out, but Shouchun has experienced fewer wars, and many wealthy people in the Central Plains of Hebei have moved their families to Shouchun to avoid chaos, so come to think of it, Shouchun's money and grain should not be less. ”

Sun Zhong asked, "Then is that friend of yours willing to help our Yellow Turban Army attack Shouchun?"

"He willed. Gan Ning said: "I was afraid that he would not have enough manpower, so I deliberately left all the fifty brothers he brought with him to wait for his dispatch." ”

"Where are you leaving so many people, aren't you afraid of being discovered by Liu Xuan?"

Gan Ning said: "Please rest assured, there are no less than three or five thousand people who flee to Shouchun City every day, and we only have fifty people who go in, and we still go in in the name of doing grain business, and there are Chen Wu brothers in it to take care of it, so it shouldn't be a big problem." ”

Now that Runan is in need of food too much, Sun Zhong took the tea bowl, sipped the tea lightly, paced back and forth, and asked, "How did you meet that friend of yours?"

Gan Ning knew the current difficulties of the Yellow Turban Army, and also guessed that Sun Zhong was bent on conquering Shouchun to solve his urgent needs, so he said: "I made an agreement with my friend that as long as our Yellow Turban Army attacks Shouchun, he will lead his brothers under his command to either storm the Yamen of the Assassin Shi, or open the city gate at night to receive us into the city, everything depends on the situation at that time. ”

"Okay, Xingba, you will start to step up the training of men and horses from tomorrow, and the main practice is the siege strategy. When I finish dealing with all the things in Runan, I will immediately send troops to Shouchun. ”

"Yes!"

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Zhou Cang left Runan alone, and traveled more than 30 miles to the east, and there was no one in sight, even if a rooster crowed or a dog barked, he couldn't hear it. Zhou Cang looked up at the sky and sighed: "Where should Zhou go? Go to Qingzhou? Go to Guan Hai? Alone, who wants to accept me?"

At this moment, I only heard a shout: "I opened this road, I planted this tree, if you want to live from here, leave it to buy road money!"

Zhou Cang listened, and said secretly in his heart: "Lao Tzu is feeling depressed in his heart, someone dares to come to find death!" At this moment, two big men jumped out of the road, holding swords, blocking the way.

"Yo!" one of the big men blocking the road saw that it was Zhou Cang and shouted, "This ...... Isn't this Brother Zhou!"

Zhou Cang was about to swing his horse and slash and kill, when he suddenly heard the robber strongman in front of him shouting his name, he fixed his eyes and saw that he knew the two big men in front of him, one was called Pei Yuanshao, and the other was called Du Yuan, both of whom were brothers under He Man.

Since they all know each other, the misunderstanding will be resolved, so the three of them got together, Du Yuan said: "Grandma is a bear, this surnamed Sun killed our leader, and now this Runan is the world of his surname Sun, I really can't swallow this breath!"

"However, we have no soldiers and no generals in our hands now, what can we do?" Pei Yuanshao glanced at Du Yuan and said: "My leader He Man is a person who can toss, and now he is not also being taken care of by the surnamed Sun?" ”

Zhou Cang said abruptly: "Brother Pei, you are wrong. The one surnamed Sun not only didn't kill the family of your leader He, but also the family of my Huang leader, he didn't kill either, not only did he not kill him, but he settled down well. ”

Pei Yuanshao and Du Yuan glanced at each other, both of them looking incredulous. Du Yuan asked, "How did Brother Yuanfu know?"

So Zhou Cang told everything about the day. Du Yuan immediately proposed: "Why don't we go back to Runan?"

Pei Yuanshao glanced at Zhou Cang and said to Du Yuan: "Brother Du Yuan, you are dizzy, go back now, aren't you afraid that the person surnamed Sun will cut off our heads?"

"Brother Pei, think about it," Du Yuan also glanced at Zhou Cang, and said to Pei Yuanshao: "His surname Sun didn't even kill He Man and He Yi's family, how could he kill us?

Pei Yuanshao listened to Du Yuan's words, nodded, and asked Zhou Cangdao, "Brother Yuanfu, what do you think?"

Zhou Cang didn't speak, bowed his head and was silent for a long time.

Du Yuan said eagerly: "My brother Yuanfu, what are you still thinking about? We are all thieves, and the court can't let us go, but if today's Yellow Turban Army is scattered and defeated, where can we live? Since this Sun Zhong is still open-minded, let's go back to him and seek a way to live for ourselves!"

Pei Yuanshao also agreed: "Brother Yuanfu, what Brother Du Yuan said is reasonable, let's go back." ”

In fact, Pei Yuanshao and Du Yuan were both sent by Sun Zhong to invite Zhou Cang back, but he definitely wouldn't go directly to invite them. So he sent Pei Yuanshao and Du Yuan, who were originally under He Man's command, to invite them as "both fallen people at the end of the world", no matter whether it succeeds or not, everyone will not lose their faces.

Zhou Cang thought about it again and again, gritted his teeth, and pounded his fist on the trunk of a big tree whose bark had already been stripped clean: "Cheng, let's go back together, we want to die or live, I Zhou Cang admitted!"

Pei Yuanshao and Du Yuan saw that Zhou Cang agreed to go back, so the two looked at each other and smiled, rejoicing that it was done.