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

Hua Tuo hesitated for a moment. In order to confirm his guess, he opened the clothes of a dead person and observed him carefully. Only then did he confirm his idea.

"These dead people did have the plague, but they were killed and poisoned, and they were left here on purpose."

Gu Rubing was shocked when he heard this. First, he got the plague, then he poisoned the person, and finally threw him into the stream. If he didn't have Hua Tuo in his hands, other people would only pay attention to the poisoning and would not pay attention to the plague.

This was obviously done on purpose.

"No matter what, we must immediately solve the plague issue at hand."

"Don't worry, King Lie. This plague is still under my control. I just don't know how many people have contracted it. I still need you to come forward and isolate all the sick people."

"Okay, that's all right."

Soon everyone started to get busy and began to search for sick people throughout Yongji County.

In just two days, Gu Rubing discovered that there were thousands of people falling ill. If the situation continued at this rate, there would not be a single healthy person in the entire Yongji County within seven days.

Fortunately, Hua Tuo had already prepared all the medicinal materials and started large-scale treatment.

"My lord, there is a group of bandits gathering around that place, but these guys are very sensible. They would not go down the mountain to rob unless they really have no food, so we have never taken care of it. They should know something about this incident."

Upon hearing this, Gu Rubing nodded, and immediately took Zhao Yun and a number of guards to rush towards the bandit's lair.

However, when they arrived at the top of the mountain where the bandits were stationed, they saw the bodies of bandits everywhere in the bandit den. They were obviously killed, and the person who killed them had been gone for less than an hour, because the blood on the ground had not dried yet.

Gu Rubing and his men searched the entire bandit's lair but found nothing.

Just as Gu Rubing was about to leave with some regret, there was a little noise coming from the well nearby.

When everyone came to the vicinity of the well, they suddenly saw a child who looked young pulling the rope of a bucket hanging in the middle of the well.

It didn't take long before the child was pulled up by the soldiers.

After the child came up, without saying a word, he pulled out the knife from a soldier next to him and pointed it at everyone.

"You've killed so many of them, isn't that enough?"

"We? Killing people? What are you talking about?"

Gu Rubing looked at the child in front of him with a puzzled look.

Zhao Yun walked up to the soldier who had been robbed and glared at him.

As a soldier who has been on the battlefield and killed people, now a child has snatched his knife away. No matter how you look at it, it's a bit embarrassing.

"Child, this is Lord Liewang. We come here with no ill intentions. Do you know what happened here?"

"King Lie? Are you King Lie?"

When the young man heard that it was King Lie, instead of dropping the knife, he raised it and chopped at Gu Rubing.

Zhao Yun easily snatched the knife from his hand.

"King Lie, you are a villain. You clearly agreed to help us as long as we do something for him, but now that the task is done, you actually let someone kill us, you villain."

This was the first time that Gu Rubing was pointed at and scolded, but at this moment Gu Rubing was not angry at all, instead he looked confused.

He had no idea what was going on, but judging from what the kid in front of him said, it seemed that the extermination of the entire village had something to do with him? But he had just arrived?
"I have never seen you before, and I just returned to Yongji County. What does your business have to do with me?"

The child looked at Gu Rubing and found that Gu Rubing did not seem to be telling a lie again, so he told him everything.

It turned out that the robbers here all came from the same village. Years of war made it impossible for them to survive, so they had to become bandits. However, they had never killed anyone. They robbed only for money, and they would not take action as long as the other party did not take the initiative to attack.

But one day, an envoy from King Lie came to them and handed them a group of refugees. He told them to take the refugees to the stream to soak, saying that the refugees were sick. He even brought some porridge and gave them some herbs.

But what they didn't know was that the messenger pretending to be King Lie gave them poison.

After their first meal, the refugees were all poisoned to death.

Afterwards, the bandits told the messenger about this incident, and the messenger brought a group of people and killed all the bandits.

The child was able to escape the disaster because he was smart and hid in the well.

After understanding this, it was obvious that these bandits were deceived. Even if the other party did not take action, those refugees would definitely have been infected with the plague before being handed over to the bandits. These bandits would definitely not live long after coming into contact with those people.

Just as the child finished explaining everything, his face suddenly turned red, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, and then he fainted on the ground.

"Hurry up and call Hua Tuo over."

Gu Rubing immediately realized that this was an outbreak of plague.

However, when Hua Tuo rushed over, he found that the man had turned into a corpse.

After examining the cause of death, Hua Tuo was very sure that the child was infected with plague.

After hearing this, Gu Rubing had some other ideas in his mind. Then he told Hua Tuo all his plans and asked Hua Tuo to cooperate with him.

Soon, Yongji County received the news that Gu Rubing was isolated on the top of the mountain.

During this period, many generals rushed to the foot of the mountain, wanting to ask Hua Tuo to release the people, at least to release Gu Rubing.

However, Hua Tuo directly rejected this request on the grounds of his patients, and these generals did not even get to see Gu Rubing.

A few days later, Cao Cao and Liu Zhang received the news that Gu Rubing was quarantined. This made them completely relieved. They began to speed up the delivery of grain and fodder, and even increased the transportation weight of the grain team.

After several attempts, no danger was found, which made Cao Cao more relieved. Later, even Le Jin and Li Dian were withdrawn to strengthen the defense line.

In Bushan County within Yulin County.

On the official road, Cao Cao's men had completed the handover with Liu Zhang's men.

It was time for both sides to return to their respective places.

A group of people quietly appeared around.

"General, shall we start now?"

"Don't worry, Cao Cao's men are around. Let's wait until Cao Cao's men leave before we take action."

"Yes!"

After a long time, Cao Cao's troops had already left, while Liu Zhang's grain transport team stayed here and set up camp, obviously not planning to travel at night.

"Do it, kill!"

As the voice fell, the person hiding in the corner rushed out.

"General Zhang Liao is here. If you surrender immediately, I will spare your life."

Before the people in the grain transport team could react, Zhang Liao rushed in front of them with five hundred Iron Pagodas. Then a long black sword slashed through their bodies, and finally their bodies were broken into two.

This scene happened to all the grain transport teams around.

For a moment, the entire grain transport team was filled with shouts and cries of killing. After Zhang Liao dealt with the two thousand people from Liu Zhang's baggage camp, he waved his hand to the rear.

Nearly ten thousand soldiers came out and took away the food and grass immediately.

When Liu Zhang learned that his food supplies had been stolen, he slammed the table in anger.

He knew without thinking that the person who did it must be Gu Rubing, so he immediately wrote a letter to Gu Rubing and scolded him.

However, Liu Zhang received news not long after that Gu Rubing had been on a mountaintop in Yongji County, receiving treatment from Hua Tuo, and had not returned to the front-line camp. Moreover, according to reports from his spies, there had been no troop movements in Gu Rubing's camp recently, so it was obvious that it was not Gu Rubing who did it.

"If it's not Liu Bei? Who else could it be?"

Liu Zhang looked at Surena beside him. When encountering such a situation, he could only ask Surena for help.

At this time, Surena was also a little confused. There were only three forces around him, one was them, then Liu Bei, and finally Cao Cao.

Now that Liu Bei has been ruled out as a suspect, could it be Cao Cao?
But these things were provided by Cao Cao.

"My lord, no matter what, let's send more people to protect the safety of the baggage train."

This time Liu Zhang was indeed smart and secretly sent the famous general Yan Yan to lead a team to protect the baggage train.

However, this time no one attacked them.

After receiving the grain and fodder, Liu Zhang distributed them to all the counties according to his usual practice.

On a pipeline outside of Alin County.

A grain transport team was slowly heading towards Alin County.

"Boss, I feel like there's someone around us."

"Impossible, this is our territory. Who can do this in our territory? Unless he doesn't want to live anymore."

However, as soon as the centurion finished speaking, he saw a group of people rushing out from the surroundings.

These people killed anyone they saw. The baggage camp was filled with a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people. They had no fighting power and were soon dispersed by these people.

"Boss, what should we do?"

A centurion saw this and his eyes widened.

"What else can we do? This is Alin County. Go to Alin County and get reinforcements."

"Yes."

The centurion said this and was about to set off, but immediately stopped.

"What are you doing? Go quickly! Our people can't hold on any longer."

However, no matter how the captain shouted, the centurion remained motionless.

Following the centurion's line of sight, he saw that their entire team was now surrounded by a group of people. However, those people had no intention of taking action. Instead, they watched from a distance. Anyone who approached them was killed by them.

Soon, all the people in the baggage camp were killed, except for the thousand-man captain and the centurion who were protected in the center.

Zhang Liao slowly walked up to the two of them.

"Thank you for the food."

Zhang Liao smiled at the two of them with great enthusiasm.

But at this time, Zhang Liao's body and face were covered with the blood of the enemies, like a devil from hell. Although Zhang Liao was smiling, in their eyes, he was just a devil.

"Who...are you...?"

The centurion swallowed his saliva and reluctantly asked the question in his mind.

"My name is Zhang Liao, Zhang Wenyuan, serving under King Lie!"

After hearing the news, the doubts in their hearts were resolved in an instant. As the long knife in Zhang Liao's hand fell, two heads flew up.

"Take all the food and fodder away!"

"Yes!"

As the voice fell, those who were watching the excitement nearby immediately came over and slowly carried the food and grass away.

The food and supplies in Alin County were robbed, and no one was left alive. The battlefield had obviously been cleaned up, and it was impossible to tell who did it.

In order to find out whether it was Gu Rubing, Liu Zhang had been keeping an eye on Gu Rubing's camp on the front line, wanting to see if they had any food or supplies entering.

But it was obvious that the result was that Gu Rubing's camp was very quiet and no food or fodder entered at all.

This made Liu Zhang suspect that it was Cao Cao who did it.

In the end, Liu Zhang became more and more angry, so he went straight to Cao Cao and started to settle the score.

Cao Cao was also confused at this time. Although he had no definite evidence that the food and grass had been robbed in a mysterious way, he always felt that this scene seemed somewhat familiar. He felt that this matter must be related to Gu Rubing.

In the end, Cao Cao told Liu Zhang his conclusion, but Liu Zhang didn't believe it at all. He felt that Cao Cao was trying to exonerate himself.

"Believe it or not."

Looking at such stubborn Liu Zhang, Cao Cao was too lazy to explain anything. Anyway, his food and grass had already been sent out, and it happened in Liu Zhang's territory, so it had nothing to do with him.

Just three days after the two men had their quarrel, Zhang Liao took action again outside Anguang County.

This time, when Zhang Liao took action, he deliberately chose to take action outside Anguang County, and the guards in the city witnessed it all.

This time, Zhang Liao and the Iron Pagoda were dressed in the costumes of Cao Cao's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, they began to rob the grain transport team.

The guards in the city reacted immediately and organized a large army to rush out of the city in an attempt to rescue the grain transport team.

But the people who rushed out were completely blocked by another group of people.

Before long, Zhang Liao completed his mission, but this time he only took away some food and grass.

After Zhang Liao and his men left, someone immediately informed Liu Zhang of the incident, and also brought to Liu Zhang the body of a Tiger and Leopard Cavalry soldier left on the battlefield.

Liu Zhang came to Cao Cao wearing armor.

"Cao Mengde, explain to me, didn't you say they were not your men? Didn't you say they were Liu Bei's men? Then why did your Tiger and Leopard Cavalry appear outside Anguang County and attack my grain transport team?"

Cao Cao looked at Cao Zhang with confusion.

The Tiger and Leopard Cavalry had always been commanded by Cao Zhang, and would only be handed over to Cao Chun when Cao Zhang was away.

Cao Zhang was very sure that there was no war during this period, and he did not mobilize the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry. (End of this chapter)