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Chapter 608: Human Lives for Food

Seeing more than a dozen teams and hundreds of people being wiped out, Yu Jin fell silent.

Just when Yu Jin didn't know what to do, a voice came from behind.

"It seems that the general is in trouble?"

Upon hearing this, Yu Jin hurriedly looked behind him.

A man dressed in gorgeous white clothes and holding a folding fan in his hand slowly walked towards Yu Jin.

"Military Advisor Liu, why are you here?"

"General, I received intelligence that you were trapped here, so I came to help."

"Help? Military Advisor Liu, I only have the baggage camp with a total of no more than 2,000 people. The Iron Pagoda led by Zhang Liao, although fewer in number, is much more powerful than us. It seems that you don't bring any soldiers with you, right? How do you want me to win? Unless you send those legendary generals over, no one can stop Zhang Liao and the Iron Pagoda."

"Legendary generals cannot be moved. Currently, Sun Jian is still sorting out the affairs of Jiaozhou. Only when the legendary generals of both sides join forces can we fight against Liu Bei. But now Sun Jian probably doesn't have much energy to take care of us. Liu Bei lacks intelligence. As long as we don't move the legendary generals, he will definitely not dare to use them first."

Of course Yu Jin understood this logic, and then he sighed and sat down on the ground.

"Then military advisor, please tell me. The lord said that your talent is no less than Zhuge Liang's. Now is the time for you to show your talents."

"Haha, General Yu, what we need to do is to transport the food and grass out, not to annihilate Zhang Liao and the Iron Pagoda in his hands. We have 2,000 people surrounding 500 people, can't we kill our way out?"

Upon hearing this, Yu Jin stood up and looked at Liu Ye.

He understood that Liu Ye wanted him to exchange human lives for food and supplies.

Yu Jin wanted to refuse, but now was not the time to think about those things. After all, when Liu Ye was saying these things, everyone was looking at Yu Jin, and even a few centurions came directly to Yu Jin and kept nodding at him, obviously agreeing with what Liu Ye said.

"Okay, I'll give it a try then."

Zhang Liao was still thinking about how to attack the city when he saw the city gate suddenly open.

More than a thousand people rushed out of the city, targeting themselves.

Zhang Liao was delighted when he saw this, and then he rushed forward with the Iron Pagoda.

Then another city gate opened quietly.

A thousand men from the baggage camp quietly walked out while counting the food and fodder.

The people from Tiefutu who were hiding and observing in secret rushed to the front battlefield as soon as possible, found Zhang Liao who was fighting in the crowd, and told him the news.

Zhang Liao had not expected that the Cao army would be so willing to sacrifice the lives of more than a thousand people to buy time for the baggage camp.

Just when Zhang Liao wanted to send someone to intercept, Yu Jin's voice rang out.

"Zhang Liao, do you dare to fight me?"

Seeing Yu Jin rushing towards him aggressively, Zhang Liao did not dare to be careless. He swung the yellow dragon hook sickle in his hand and chopped at Yu Jin who was rushing towards him.

The weapons in the two men's hands collided, and Yu Jin's arm bent instantly.

The yellow dragon hook sickle was now pressing on Yu Jin's armor.

Using all his strength, Yu Jin finally pushed Zhang Liao's knife away, and hurriedly retreated. After taking a few deep breaths, he finally recovered.

However, when Yu Jin raised his head, Zhang Liao had already rushed in front of him.

Yu Jin tried his best to block the knife in Zhang Liao's hand.

Zhang Liao took advantage of the situation and leaped up, breaking away from the gray shadow's back, and kicked Yu Jin off his horse in mid-air.

As Yu Jin fell off his horse, the morale of the soldiers in the surrounding baggage camp instantly dropped, and some of them even ran into the woods not far behind them.

Zhang Liao turned over and climbed onto the gray shadow's back again, swinging the yellow dragon hook sickle in his hand and slashing at Yu Jin's neck.

However, at this moment, a silver light shot out from the woods.

Zhang Liao subconsciously put the knife in his hand in front of himself.

"Ding." A crisp sound.

Zhang Liao was nearly knocked off his horse by the tremendous force coming from the silver light.

The gray shadow felt that Zhang Liao's body was unstable. After letting out a cry, he hurriedly took two steps back and helped Zhang Liao to dissipate some of the force, which allowed Zhang Liao to barely stabilize himself.

"who?"

Zhang Liao looked deep into the woods and found no one there.

The silver light that was hitting him was stuck in the ground.

Only then did Zhang Liao see that it was actually a scabbard.

At this time, the scabbard was stuck in the ground and was still shaking in the soil, which shows how powerful the blow just now was.

Seeing that no one came out, Zhang Liao reacted immediately and looked at where Yu Jin was. He found that Yu Jin had disappeared long ago. It was obvious that someone had rescued him because his mount was still there.

"Chase him. I'll reward one hundred taels for anyone who finds Yu Jin, and one thousand taels for anyone who kills him."

Upon hearing this, the people of Tiefutu rushed into the woods as if they were injected with chicken blood.

But because there were too few people and the forest was too large, all the Iron Pagodas that entered the forest returned dejected after an hour.

"General, we didn't find it."

A centurion came up to Zhang Liao.

"Forget it, if I didn't find it, then I didn't find it."

After these Iron Pagodas entered the woods, Zhang Liao took the rest of the people and entered the city.

However, the city had been emptied long ago, without even a grain of food left. It was obviously impossible to chase after the soldiers in the baggage camp. But this trip was not in vain. Zhang Liao found a map in the brazier that had not been completely burned, with several places marked on it.

One of them is Linjiang City.

"This city is empty, and there is no need for us to stay here. Cao's army has 100,000 soldiers on the front line, and this amount of food and grass is only enough for them to use for seven days at most. They must have other places to store food, so let's keep looking."

"Yes."

Soon, Zhang Liao took everyone to other places.

In a dense forest.

Cao Ren was on his way quickly with a batch of food and fodder.

In order to save distance, people always choose the shortest route, but the price is a considerable risk.

Li Dian looked at the surrounding jungle, which was the best place for an ambush, and couldn't help feeling a little worried.

"Zixiao, is this road of ours too dangerous?"

"Don't worry. Jiangzhou City is easy to defend but difficult to attack. There are a large number of people guarding it. There is also Linjiang City outside to cover us. Even if there is danger, it will not be our turn."

Although Cao Ren said this, Li Dian still looked around with some concern.

"Okay, forget about that, everyone speed up."

As Cao Ren's voice fell, the grain transport team sped up again.

However, at this moment, the sound of a war horse neighing was heard, and then Zhang Liao rushed out from the surroundings with the Iron Pagoda.

Seeing this scene, Cao Ren widened his eyes in shock. He couldn't imagine how Zhang Liao found them.

Those who escorted the food and fodder were all from the baggage camp, and their combat effectiveness was not high.

Seeing the Iron Pagoda appear, the entire baggage camp was in chaos. "Don't panic, they don't have many people, stop the battle immediately and stop them."

However, in such a chaotic situation, how many people could obey his orders?

In desperation, Cao Ren swung his sword and killed two fleeing baggage camp soldiers, which stabilized the chaotic situation somewhat.

"Everyone, follow me to fight!"

As soon as Cao Ren finished speaking, he saw Zhang Liao rushing towards him.

Cao Ren hurriedly swung his sword to block it.

In terms of combat effectiveness, although both of them are famous generals, Cao Ren is obviously inferior to Zhang Liao.

After withstanding Zhang Liao's attack, Cao Ren shook his numb arm to feel relieved, and then he rushed towards Zhang Liao again.

Li Dian hid in the grain transport team until Cao Ren was no match for Zhang Liao.

"Cao Zhen, follow me to support Zixiao. Cao Chun will lead the grain transport team to resist Tiefutu."

Li Dian and Cao Zhen directly joined the battle and helped Cao Ren share a lot of pressure.

The addition of the two quasi-famous generals slowed down Zhang Liao's attack and made it more of a passive defense.

After a stick of incense.

Zhang Liao changed from active offense to passive defense.

Zhang Liao kept waving the Yellow Dragon Sickle Knife in his hand to fend off the scattered attacks from the three people around him.

However, although Zhang Liao had trouble here, the Iron Buddha did not.

This time, the food and fodder that Cao Ren was ordered to escort was enough for 100,000 people to use for one month. The quantity was extremely large, and there were more than 10,000 soldiers escorting it.

Under such conditions, Zhang Liao was directly triggered to fight to the death.

With various bonuses, the combat effectiveness of Iron Pagoda's soldiers has reached the level of first-class generals.

Tiefutu entered into Cao Chun's army formation and charged forward, instantly shattering the force that Cao Chun had gathered with great difficulty.

Seeing the ferocity of the Iron Pagoda, Cao Chun could only shrink the battle formation and start gathering the soldiers he could control.

not long time.

Cao Chun managed to gather more than 4,000 people and protected most of the food and fodder among them.

Facing another charge from the Iron Buddha, Cao Chun knew that he was no match for them.

"Hurry up and think of a way. I can't hold on any longer. This is the Iron Pagoda."

The three people who were still besieging Zhang Liao immediately stopped what they were doing and looked at Cao Chun's position behind them.

When they saw that more than 4,000 people were being surrounded and slaughtered by 500 people, the three of them were seriously confused.

Even if he was the Iron Pagoda, didn't Cao Chun lose too quickly?
More than 10,000 people versus 500 people. Even if there were more than 10,000 pigs, it would take 500 people three days and three nights to catch them. How could they lose so quickly?
Just when Cao Ren was stunned.

Zhang Liao sneered, swung the yellow dragon hook sickle in his hand, and slashed at Cao Ren.

Li Dian, who was standing by, saw this and immediately shouted.

"Zixiao, be careful."

Cao Ren finally reacted, but by the time he reacted, it was too late. The big knife was already in front of Cao Ren.

As a famous general, although Cao Ren is not strong, he definitely has the reaction ability of a famous general.

Knowing that he had no way of avoiding it completely, Cao Ren immediately slid off his horse.

Zhang Liao's knife slashed along Cao Ren's leg.

Just when Zhang Liao was secretly feeling regretful and preparing to take action again, Li Dian and others had already rushed over and surrounded Cao Ren.

Zhang Liao knew that it was impossible to eliminate them in a short period of time.

But at this moment.

Countless dust appeared behind the grain transport team.

"Don't panic, Zixiao. We are here to help you."

Le Jin and Xiahou Shang, with thousands of cavalry, rushed over from a distance.

Zhang Liao knew that he could not continue to fight and immediately issued an order to retreat.

Just before leaving.

Zhang Liao simply burned the food and grass.

When the two arrived, they only saw the burning food supplies, only two thousand grain pairs, and Cao Ren and his men who were injured. There was no trace of Tiefutu and Zhang Liao.

"Zixiao, where are the people?"

Le Jin came to Cao Ren's side and looked around.

"They ran away. The enemy is Zhang Liao and Tiefutu. How can we stop them? Besides, these food and grass are probably wasted. Even if the fire is put out, no one can eat them if they are covered with kerosene."

"I know. Yu Jin told us everything."

"Yu Jin? Isn't he in Linjiang City? Why did he come to Jiangzhou? Has Linjiang City been lost?"

"You should ask him about this after you go back. But it is true that it was lost. It was Zhang Liao and the Iron Buddha who attacked Yu Jin. If someone hadn't suddenly appeared and saved him, I'm afraid even he would have died under Zhang Liao's sword."

Cao Ren nodded and took everyone with him and headed straight to Jiangzhou.

Zhang Liao and his men hid in the dark, and only after making sure that Cao Ren and his men had left did they lead their men slowly move towards Jiangzhou City.

It is now very clear that the food and supplies are inside Jiangzhou City. As long as Jiangzhou City is attacked by surprise, Gu Rubing's plan will be able to proceed smoothly.

But when Zhang Liao arrived outside Jiangzhou City, he saw the tall city walls and the strict patrols of soldiers, which made Zhang Liao feel a little embarrassed.

After two great wars, he had less than 400 Iron Pagoda soldiers under his command. Under such circumstances, it was obviously impossible for him to launch a surprise attack on Jiangzhou, which was easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Zhang Liao could only camp in the woods outside Jiangzhou City for the time being, and at the same time sent people to notify Gu Rubing at the front line and ask Gu Rubing about his next move.

When Gu Rubing received the news, the army had been attacking the city for three consecutive days.

During these three days, nearly half of the Taishan tiger bandits were lost in the siege, which made Zang Ba very sad. Even Pang De and Zhang He were injured in the siege.

The Xiahou brothers also suffered heavy losses.

With the help of the fact that Fuling City was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and the advantage of having a famous general over Gu Rubing, they still lost more than 30,000 people before they could barely hold off Gu Rubing's fierce attack for three consecutive days.

"My Lord, let me lead the charge again."

Pang De held the Eight-Gate Golden Lock Sword in his hand and looked at Gu Rubing who was in the commander's position unwillingly.

The siege was so intense that Pound felt it was all because he had not commanded the battle well at the front line.

"Lingming, don't worry, we just need to hold on."

Just as he was saying this, a man from Tiefutu came in and placed Zhang Liao's military report in front of Gu Rubing.

"My lord, we have already found out that Cao's army's food and supplies are in Jiangzhou City. We have fought with them twice, but Jiangzhou City is easy to defend but difficult to attack. There are many Cao's troops guarding it, including the famous general Cao Ren. We have no way to attack the city. Please tell us what to do next?"

(End of this chapter)