Chapter 199: The situation suddenly changed

Mi Fang looked at the pile of food and grass in front of her, and felt unbearable in her eyes. She quickly turned to Xue Bing and said, "General, don't you really leave any of it?"

Xue Bing, however, curled her lips coldly, and finally squeezed out a word from her teeth: "Burn!"

As soon as the word burned out, countless torches were thrown onto the food and grass, and then the flames rose to the sky.

The soldiers near the enemy either collected arrows or threw away the bodies of Cao's army in the fire. This was avoiding the trouble of burying them.

Xue Bing looked at the burning food and grass, but she felt very sorry. But in this situation, she could not carry a lot of food at all.

Sitting on the horse, constantly thinking about the subsequent action plan.

This time it was the second time that he had destroyed the Cao army's transportation troops. Since attacking the Cao army's transportation troops last time and then looting some of the food and supplies, the Cao army has become more cautious in the transportation of food and grass.

This time, the Cao army had transported a very small amount of food and grass, but dispatched a total of two thousand Cao soldiers to escort. Fortunately, most of the two thousand soldiers were infantry, which made Xue Bing determined to rob him again.

However, although these two raids achieved the results that Xue Bing hoped for, the losses were inevitable. After two real battles, the original 700 cavalry now has 623 cavalry left.

Nearly a hundred knights died in these two battles, or completely lost their combat effectiveness.

In addition, logistics supplies - especially arrows, have been almost exhausted, and now each knight only has a pot of available arrows left. More than half of them were picked up after the battle.

But the crossbow arrows were not consumed much.

Because the enemies faced in these two battles were not particularly powerful, the role of the crossbow was only a suppressive blow during the first lunar calendar, completely disrupting the protective formation of Cao's army and losing most of its resistance.

And the rest can be handled with just an ordinary longbow.

In addition, the seven hundred cavalry were neither chased by the Cao army's cavalry nor the Cao army's heavy infantry corps. Therefore, there is not much room for the terrifying weapon of destruction such as the crossbow.

Mi Fang finished rectifying the team and walked to Xue Bing and said, "General Xue, our army has now attacked and seized Cao's food and grass, but has not taken a little bit. Why is this? Moreover, our army has not much food and grass, so what should we eat in the future?"

Xue Bing stopped what he thought in his mind, turned his head and said to Mi Fang: "Our army's food and grass issues have been considered. It is now that although our soldiers have not suffered much losses, the arrows have been exhausted.

Therefore, our army can no longer stay here, and move to other places quickly."

Mi Fang said: "Our army is fighting with arrows, if the arrows are gone, what should we do to fight?"

Xue Bing smiled and said, "I asked the carrier pigeon to send a letter to General Zhang Ren to agree with him to hand over the supplies at 300 miles southwest of Feng Sa in four days. Therefore, after this matter is over, our army should immediately rush to take over food, grass, arrows and other things!"

The two of them finished speaking. Then they drove the horses to reorganize the army and wanted to stay away from this place. Just at this moment, they saw a look into the horse and report urgently: "There is a Cao army ten miles to the west!"

Xue Bing laughed and said, "This must be the vanguard general of the Cao army. When he learned that our army was attacking his food and grass, he hurriedly led his army to rescue him!"

Mi Fangze said: "Since that's the case, why don't our army set up an ambush here and attack the enemy?"

Xue Bing shook his head and said to him: "No! The vanguards of Cao's army are all cavalry. Our army is now inadequate in military weapons and cannot fight with them. If you fight, you will easily fall into a dangerous place." After saying that.

Send orders to go left and right, drive the horse quickly, stay away from here...

However, the Cao army was the vanguard general Xiahouba. Xiahouba was waiting for the food and grass to arrive in the camp, but suddenly received a report that the troops transporting food and grass were attacked, so he led three thousand light cavalry all the way.

I don’t know how long it took, but I saw the fire in front of me soaring into the sky, which made the dark night sky red. Xiahou Ba saw this scene from afar.

My heart suddenly skipped a beat and I said to myself: "Not good!" But the war horse under my crotch was a little faster.

When Xiahou Ba led all his subordinates to the end, he could only watch as countless food and grass piled up together, acting as firewood, making the fire even more prosperous.

After waving the big sword in his hand angrily, Xiahou Ba hurriedly ordered to the left and right: "Investigate everywhere! You must find this damn Sichuan army!" However, he was attacked by the mysterious army twice in a row, and he felt that he was holding a stream of evil fire and had nowhere to vent...

Xiahou Ba was furious there, so he didn't mention it. He just said that Xue Bing's army was running fast all the way, and only set off for a rest during this period. Finally, he arrived at the place he agreed with Zhang Ren four days later.

However, Zhang Ren had already prepared all the food, grass, arrows and other things, and hid them behind a small hill.

These supplies were also followed Xue Bing's instructions and covered with flammable items such as hay. If they were discovered by Cao's army, they would ignite them immediately. They would rather turn into ashes than be stolen by Cao's army.

Take out all the arrows and other objects and distribute them to the knights. At the same time, some wounded people who were carried with the army who could no longer fight were handed over to this team that transported supplies to them.

After finishing all these things, Xue Bing met an unexpected man again.

I saw Liao Li, the man who had previously been responsible for opening the Chang'an City Gate, standing in front of him, but Xue Bing was surprised and happy, and then said, "Why are you here?"

Liao Li said: "When I heard that General Xue led his army deep into the enemy's backbone, he led his brothers to help!"

It turned out that after the Feiyu army invaded Xue Bing's command to open the Chang'an city gate, the hundred Feiyu soldiers were scattered all over Chang'an to collect information from nearby areas.

Then Zhang Ren entered Chang'an and Xue Bing led his army to fight. The Feiyu Army gathered at the same time, but did not receive any orders.

At this time, Xue Bing wanted to lead a lonely army into the hinterland of Cao's army and carry out harassment operations to Chang'an. Zhang Ren immediately prepared all the matter according to Xue Bing's instructions.

At the same time, he also saved himself from having such a unit.

Zhang Ren did not know the combat power of the Feiyu Army. What he only knew was that this was a unit formed after gathering the elite troops of the entire army. It also belonged directly to the King of Hanzhong and was not managed by anyone.

During this expedition, in order to ensure that Xue Bing could successfully seize Chang'an, the King of Hanzhong allocated command of a hundred flying feather soldiers to him. Logically speaking, if Xue Bing is not here, Zhang Ren cannot mobilize this army.

But Zhang Ren used the invitation and asked Liao Li to lead his soldiers to help Xue Bing.

In this way, Liao Lizi agreed with all the reasons, so he led more than a hundred elite soldiers at hand to meet Xue Bing with the grain transport troops sent by Zhang Ren.

After telling these things, Xue Bing smiled and said, "You are here. I'll add a lot of help!" But I have a new plan in my heart, and it is just that the Feiyu Army, who is good at special operations, needs to complete it.

Liao Li smiled, stood up straight and said, "What is the general's task? Just give it to us!"

When Xue Bing heard this, she couldn't help laughing and said to Liao Li: "Not mentioning this, you should tell me about the battle situations in other places!" Liao Li nodded, and then told Xue Bing about the recent battle situation.

But after Xue Bing left Chang'an, he rarely received war reports everywhere. One was because of the inconvenience of communication at this time. Two was because of the period of balance at that time, and one was because everyone was basically in a balanced period, and no one could defeat anyone in a moment.

According to Xue Bing's idea, this situation might last for more than a month until the three armies surrounded Xu Huang. The main forces under his command defeated all the Yongzhou forces, and this balanced situation would be completely broken.

Then the King of Hanzhong could use the momentum to defeat Xu Huang's army to wipe out all the remaining Cao troops, so that all the two states could be placed under the rule of the King of Hanzhong.

But Xue Bing calculated it over and over again. One thing was missing, that was the food and grass problem of Xu Huang's army of more than 100,000 Yongzhou. More than 100,000 Cao's army, plus tens of thousands of troops stationed in Liangzhou.

Although Xu Huang carried a lot of food and grass when he went to the war, the consumption capacity of tens of thousands of troops was also amazing. The land, food and grass he carried and the food and grass he collected on site had been gradually lost after several months.

If Xu Huang's original plan was to fight against the Sichuan Army in the territory he ruled, the issue of food and grassland should have been considered by the enemy. After all, behind him was his own territory.

It is entirely possible for the rear personnel to send the hoarded food and grass to the front line continuously.

But he didn't expect that Xue Bing's strategy would scatter Xu Huang's hometown from the very beginning.

At the beginning of the war, before Xu Huang could completely transfer the food stored in Chang'an to the front line near the front line battlefield, the base camp was taken away by the Sichuan army.

As a result, the Yongzhou army completely lost its logistics supply. After several months of support, the hidden food and grass problems finally broke out.

Countless Cao's army began to flee because they were not full. In this case, Pang Tong, as the military advisor of Hanzhong, naturally could not turn a blind eye.

He immediately suggested that King Liu Bei of Hanzhong lead the army to attack, and at the same time, he attacked and captured Wei Yan and his unit of Chen Cang to respond from the south. In addition, Zhao Yun's troops arrived at the same time. The Cao army in Yongzhou suddenly fell into the dilemma of being surrounded on three sides.

Xu Huang, who was worried about internal and external troubles, immediately sent a letter to Cao Hong to express his grief, hoping that Cao Hong would camp in Xiliang and that he would have tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Xiliang.

However, just when Cao Hong received the letter and was about to send troops to attack Liu Bei's army in order to resolve the dilemma of Cao's army in Yongzhou, a fire broke out behind him.

It turned out that Ma Chao led thousands of Qiang cavalry to carry out a long-distance raid. He walked straight from Longyou to the Western Regions, then circled a lot in the Western Regions and then returned to Xiliang, and finally went around the rear of Cao Hong's camp.

Taking advantage of the time when the Western Liang army was unprepared, it launched a powerful charge.

Just before Cao Hong could react, Zhang Fei, who was in front of his camp, also led the army out. Under the attack on both sides, he defeated the Xiliang army.

However, there were also two sides confronting each other for too long. The soldiers of Xiliang had long forgotten that the hungry wolf in front of him that could rush up to bite him at any time, rather than a wolf dog that was watching.

What followed was simple and clear. Ma Chao and Zhang Fei joined forces and rushed the Xiliang soldiers and horses retreated 300 miles. Most of the Cao soldiers fled in scattered places, not knowing where to go. Only Cheng Gongying and Cao Hong led a small number of soldiers and horses along the Great Wall, hoping to stabilize and escape...
Chapter completed!