Choose Liu Bei at the start, I am the only one who knows the plot of the Three Kingdoms.

Chapter 623 The Real Intelligence

Cao Cao was still preparing to say something to the people around him when suddenly a soldier came up to him.

After Wang Yue was brought over, everyone saw that Wang Yue walked in with a corpse in his hand.

Everyone who saw this scene frowned slightly, even Liu Zhang had a look of confusion on his face.

When Cao Cao saw that Wang Yue was actually walking towards him with a corpse, his face suddenly changed.

"Wang Yue, I thought you had left. I have guests here. Why did you bring a dead person here?"

"Dead? Haha, Caozhou Mu, aren't you curious about who this person is?"

While the few of them were talking, the team leader who had spoken to Lao Sun before immediately recognized Lao Sun's identity.

"Isn't this Old Sun?"

Hearing this, Cao Cao, who was standing by, looked at the team leader who was speaking.

"you know?"

"My Lord, this is one of the team leaders of our baggage camp. We all call him Lao Sun."

When Cao Cao heard this, he immediately understood.

This person is Liu Bei's spy.

"Caozhou Mu, I guess you must have Liu Bei's spy here. He has been hiding in the dark and waiting. I caught him. This guy has an accomplice, but it's a pity that I didn't catch him."

"Even you failed?"

"The other party lured the tiger away from the mountain, and I was fooled. This was mainly because I was a little careless."

"Wang Yue, do you know what message the other party wants to convey?"

"I don't know about this..."

"You do not know?"

Cao Cao widened his eyes. He now doubted whether Wang Yue had deliberately let Liu Bei's people spread the news.

Wang Yue was also helpless about this.

"Forget it. Let's not think too much about it. So hurry up and move the food and grass away."

The reason why Cao Cao didn't care was that he guessed that the spy must have told Gu Rubing about the matter of transporting grain and grass to Liu Zhang.

If Gu Rubing really robbed Cao Cao.

Wouldn't that mean they fell right into Xun Yu's trap?

However, what Cao Cao could not have imagined was that the information that Sun Quan had risked his life to pass on was not that simple.

Gu Rubing looked at the information sent by the captain of the mobile crossbow army, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, then he called Zhang Liao who came to support him and explained some things to Zhang Liao.

Zhang Liao smiled and left the room.

After Liu Zhang loaded up the food and fodder, he left here overnight under the escort of Cao Cao's men and rushed to the Anluo Empire, and they all disguised themselves as a caravan.

The caravan was very safe along the way.

Just when everyone was about to leave Yizhou, they found themselves in a valley.

The person in charge of the escort was Le Jin. Looking at the surrounding terrain, he finally relaxed a little, but suddenly became nervous again.

"Everyone speed through."

Le Jin finished speaking and waved his hand.

Upon hearing this, a centurion immediately stepped forward.

"General, we have been walking for a day and are out of danger now. Should we take a rest here?"

"No, the valley here is the easiest place to be ambushed. Even if we want to rest, we must not rest here."

Hearing this, the centurion nodded helplessly.

Soon, the entire caravan sped up. However, when they were halfway through the valley, countless flames suddenly appeared around them, enveloping everyone.

"Not good, enemy attack, be on guard."

However, as soon as Le Jin finished speaking, countless arrows rained down around him, disrupting the entire caravan.

Then countless cavalrymen rushed out from both sides of the valley.

Le Jin knew that they could not resist at all under such circumstances, so he simply gave up the food and supplies, and he took some people and quickly rushed out of the encirclement.

As for Liu Zhang in the team, he didn't know where he had gone. Under such circumstances, he had no energy to care about him.

After Le Jin and others ran away, Liu Zhang and others who were hiding in the corner slowly came out.

Pang De had already brought his men to Liu Zhang at this time.

"Your Highness, King Yi, my lord has ordered us to take the food back and distribute it to you. Please forgive me, Your Highness."

"Okay, I have already arranged this with King Lie. You guys can go back. I will also go to look for Cao Cao again."

Pang De nodded, waved his hand, and rushed into the city with all the food and supplies.

Liu Zhang and others stayed where they were. In order to make the performance more realistic, Liu Zhang deliberately made some holes in his clothes and rubbed some mud on his face.

When Cao Cao saw Le Jin running back, he guessed what had happened.

"My Lord, we were attacked when we were leaving Yizhou. I am incompetent and have no way to protect the food and grass."

"It's okay, go down and rest."

"Yes."

Le Jin nodded, turned and left.

"Wen Ruo, your plan is half successful."

"Yes, it's a pity that our food and fodder are wasted. However, using these food and fodder to get the Anluo Empire to stand on our side is not bad."

Cao Cao waited for a whole day before he saw Liu Zhang and others appear outside the camp in a dirty state.

When Cao Cao saw Liu Zhang's expression, he almost laughed out loud, but it took him a lot of effort to hold it back.

"Yi Wang, what happened to you? Why did you become like this?"

Upon hearing this, Liu Zhang pretended to be angry and snorted coldly.

"Caozhou Mu, you are so ashamed to say that. I now seriously suspect that you did it on purpose. As soon as someone robbed the food, your people ran away, leaving us to fight to the death. But how could we be Liu Bei's opponent? We finally managed to escape from the pile of dead bodies. You have to give us an explanation for this matter, right?"

"This... King Yi, you also know that we have been fighting with Liu Bei, so our food and grass are a little insufficient. We can't provide you with so much. We still have enough food and grass for a hundred thousand troops for two months. You can take them all. We should be able to save some money here."

"Okay, but let's go by water this time. I hope Caozhou Mu can be faster, otherwise we won't be able to hold out for too long."

Liu Zhang pretended to be regretful and turned to walk outside.

Watching Liu Zhang's back walking away, Cao Cao finally couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"My Lord, I will contact Sun Jian now and ask him to transport it by water."

"Okay! Also notify the rear to quickly send our food and fodder over, otherwise we won't be able to hold on."

"Yes!"

After Xun Yu left, Cao Cao continued to laugh. Liu Zhang did not leave, but took a detour and entered Gu Rubing's city.

After seeing Gu Rubing, Liu Zhang immediately stepped forward.

"King Lie, have our share of food and fodder been distributed?"

"Of course, according to our original agreement, each of us will take half. Your half has been packed now, and I have notified all the cities along the way. They will provide you with as much help as possible."

"Okay, thank you, King Lie. If there is nothing else, we will go back first."

"Wait a moment."

Gu Rubing called Liu Zhang.

"King Lie, do you have anything else to say?"

"After our previous battle in Liangzhou, I discovered that the combat effectiveness of your Anluo Empire has improved a lot. How did you do it?"

"King Lie, this was all done by Surena. The soldiers were trained using our Han training method. Is there any problem with this?"

What's the problem? This is such a big problem, are you kidding me?
It has only been a short time, less than a year. Even if Surena is a god, he cannot increase the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Anluo Empire several times in less than a year.

It was only at this time that Gu Rubing remembered that Zhuge Liang had given Surena a high evaluation, but the fighting power and ability to deploy troops that Surena had shown at the time were very poor.

So at that time, Gu Rubing regarded Surena as a complete joke, and he even suspected whether Zhuge Liang's vision at that time was problematic.

Could it be that Surena activated some ability?
This was the thought that came to Gu Rubing's mind after he saw the situation on the battlefield in Liangzhou, so he wanted to test Liu Zhang.

But looking at Liu Zhang's appearance, Gu Rubing felt that Liu Zhang seemed to have no idea what had happened.

"It's okay, just go ahead."

Liu Zhang looked at Gu Rubing with a puzzled look, then nodded, turned and left.

However, what Gu Rubing did not know was that the moment Liu Zhang turned around, a sneer and a hint of disdain appeared on the corner of his mouth, which was a disdain for Gu Rubing's test.

"My lord, the information has been transmitted."

Not long after Liu Zhang left, Zhuge Liang came in with some information.

"Okay, follow the route given in the intelligence, notify Zhang Liao, and start the action."

"Yes!"

Mianzhu County, Guanghan Prefecture.

Cao Ren was heading to the front line with a large amount of food and fodder.

Along the way, Cao Ren was not very nervous.

He had walked this road many times before, but the fighting on the front line was intense and he had no extra energy to launch a surprise attack on them. Moreover, where they were was the real rear area.

"Everyone, set up camp here."

Cao Ren saw that it was already dark and it was still at least five hours’ journey to the nearest county town, so there was no need to travel in the dark.

Just when the baggage camp was busy setting up camp, fires suddenly appeared all around. Then Cao Ren saw Zhang Liao and a group of people suddenly rushed out from the surroundings.

The moment Cao Ren saw Zhang Liao appear, he was completely stunned.

He never expected that Zhang Liao would appear here. Did the front line lose? No way, he didn't get any news.

Just as Cao Ren was stunned, a deputy general came in front of him.

"General, General, hurry up, we are no match for them."

Cao Ren reacted instantly. He subconsciously wanted to pick up the knife at hand and fight Zhang Liao, but when he saw the chaos around him and the fleeing soldiers, Cao Ren realized that the soldiers he brought this time were all from the baggage camp.

Most of the people in the baggage camp are old friends, sick and disabled. How can they have any combat effectiveness?

"withdraw!"

In the end, Cao Ren looked at Zhang Liao in the distance unwillingly and ordered a retreat.

In fact, there was no need for Cao Ren to give the order. As soon as Zhang Liao appeared, the people in the baggage camp had already started running away.

Zhang Liao didn't expect that people would be scared away as soon as he appeared. This victory came so suddenly and so easily. This made Zhang Liao a little wary.

He found a grain cart, took out a short blade, and cut open a sack. When he saw the grain flowing out, Zhang Liao grabbed a handful and stuffed it into his mouth.

When he confirmed that it was food, Zhang Liao couldn't help but frown.

"It's food, why are they running?"

Zhang Liao then began to arrange people to take away all the food that could be taken away, and those that could not be taken away were directly burned.

After Cao Ren ran back to Mianzhu County, he began to gather troops to defend the city and prepare to pursue Zhang Liao.

When they were attacked just now, Cao Ren observed that Zhang Liao had only 4,000 men under his command. Although they were all cavalry, they were followed by food carts, so their speed would definitely not be very fast. There were more than 10,000 defenders in Mianzhu County. All he had to do was to hold Zhang Liao back and wait for reinforcements from the surrounding areas to arrive.

However, Cao Ren thought simply. Zhang Liao dared to lead 4,000 people into Cao Cao's rear, which meant that these 4,000 people were not ordinary people. Ten thousand ordinary soldiers were like decorations in front of two special arms.

Cao Ren’s plan was correct. Within an hour, Cao Ren caught up with Zhang Liao and surrounded Zhang Liao and others.

"Zhang Liao, put down the food in your hands. I can let you leave safely."

Cao Ren knew that it was impossible to keep Zhang Liao and his men, and it was not easy to keep the food and grass.

"Let us go? Cao Ren, did you hurt your brain during the battle? Do you think you won? Everyone, prepare to charge!"

As soon as Zhang Liao's voice fell, 4,000 cavalrymen rushed directly towards the army of 10,000 people.

Because of the ratio of 4,000 to 10,000, Zhang Liao could not launch a desperate fight, but the combat effectiveness of the two special arms was also not low.

The moment the two sides came into contact, Cao Ren realized how stupid it was for him to lead 10,000 people to block Zhang Liao.

In just a stick of incense's time, his army formation was torn apart by four thousand people, and these four thousand people broke out of the encirclement perfectly.

Moreover, after these people rushed out, they did not choose to leave. Instead, under the leadership of Zhang Liao, they rushed back again.

The already shattered military formation was completely destroyed.

Seeing his soldiers in chaos again, Cao Ren felt powerless.

"withdraw!"

Cao Ren took the remaining soldiers and quickly left here.

Zhang Liao did not choose to pursue because he had food and supplies.

When Cao Cao, who was at the front line, learned that his food supplies had been robbed, he almost fainted.

He didn't understand how Gu Rubing knew his grain transportation route. Moreover, this time's grain was very important to them. They didn't rob it in the previous times, but chose to rob it this time. If Cao Cao said it was a coincidence, he would never believe it.

At this moment, Cao Cao suddenly remembered the spy that Wang Yue had mentioned before, who was killed by him.

By now Cao Cao finally understood that the information Gu Rubing had obtained was not about Liu Zhang's grain transportation route, but his own grain transportation route.

Or it could be the grain transportation route between himself and Liu Zhang.

"Liu Bei, I xxxx..."

Cao Cao cursed in the direction of Gu Rubing for a full hour, and finally stopped when his mouth became dry and his tongue became parched.

"My Lord, what shall we do next?"

(End of this chapter)