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

Seeing Cao Zhang shaking his head, Cao Cao became more certain that this was Gu Rubing's trajectory, but looking at the angry Liu Zhang, he knew in his heart that it was useless to say anything to Liu Zhang now unless the evidence was presented.

Cao Cao took a look at the map. The three cities where the trouble happened were all close to Gu Rubing's camp. Considering Gu Rubing's character of diverting trouble to others, he would definitely attack these three cities. In order to prevent Gu Rubing from discovering his plan, Cao Cao could not send heavy troops to ambush this group of people around the three cities, so he could only choose one of them.

The three counties of Bushan, Anguang and Alin were ambushed in the order of the group, so Cao Cao guessed that Gu Rubing's next target would be Bushan, where he made the first move.

Because there was only Bushan, and because there had been no ambush for quite some time, the defense must have been a little lax.

In order not to attract attention, Cao Cao only asked Cao Chun to take 4,000 Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to defend the vicinity of Bushan County. As long as that group of people appeared, they would be stopped at all costs.

But this time Cao Cao guessed wrong.

Zhang Liao actually appeared in Alin County again.

But this time they didn't rob food outside the city, but from the pipeline.

When Cao Cao learned the news, his face became extremely gloomy.

At this time, Xun Yu also came to Yulin County.

Because the last batch of food and fodder promised to Liu Zhang has arrived.

After learning all the circumstances, Xun Yu looked at the map.

"My lord, if it was Liu Bei, he might really do what you think, he would attack Bushan County, but don't forget that Zhuge Liang is also on the front line, how could he let Liu Bei make such a mistake? Now that group of people have appeared many times, we must be on guard, so they must attack by surprise, and Alin County, which was just robbed, is the best place to start. No one would have thought that the same place would be targeted again."

"Wen Ruo, where do you think the other party will attack?"

Upon hearing this, Xun Yu looked at the map and finally put his finger on Bushan County.

"My lord, Zhuge Liang must think that we will focus on Alin County, so they will definitely take action against Bushan County. We will focus on Bushan County this time."

Cao Cao nodded, and to be on the safe side, he contacted Liu Zhang and asked him to send elite troops to guard around Bushan County.

Outside Bushan County.

Zhang Liao took a group of people and hid in a forest.

From time to time, scouts would inform Zhang Liao of the news of the grain transport team.

After feeling that the position was similar, Zhang Liao immediately led the Iron Buddha men to charge forward, and according to the previous plan, all the ordinary soldiers surrounded the outside.

However, just as Zhang Liao and his men were slaughtering the grain transport team, Cao Chun suddenly rushed out from the surroundings with the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

Zhang Liao immediately realized that he had fallen into a trap and prepared to retreat with the Iron Pagoda. However, he did not expect that the retreat route was blocked by two thousand cavalrymen and one thousand elephant soldiers.

Soon, the Iron Pagoda was surrounded.

Not long after, Cao Chun slowly walked out from the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

"Who was it I thought? It turned out to be Zhang Liao, Zhang Wenyuan."

Yan Yan also walked over from a distance.

"General Zhang, I didn't expect that you were the one who kept appearing and disappearing. You almost caused a commotion among us. You really have a good plan."

Zhang Liao held the Yellow Dragon sickle-hook knife in his hand and looked at the two men in front of him, one a quasi-famous general and the other a famous general. With his current strength, it would not be a problem for him to get rid of these two men, but if he wanted to rush out with the Iron Float, it might be a bit troublesome.

For the five hundred Iron Pagodas, the current number ratio between the two sides is enough to launch a life-and-death battle, but now the other side has also sent out its elite troops. Even if a life-and-death battle is launched, Zhang Liao is not sure how many Iron Pagodas he can bring out alive.

"General, let's fight!"

A centurion looked at Zhang Liao with a firm gaze.

Zhang Liao looked around and saw that all the Iron Buddhas had determined looks in their eyes.

"Everyone, I'm not sure how many of you can get out alive this time. I can only say that I will try my best. As for those who can't get out alive, don't blame me. Wait for me down there. I will apologize to you one by one then. We will continue to expand the territory underground for our lord.

"Haha, I've heard from my seniors a long time ago that joining the Iron Pagoda may not necessarily lead to high positions and generous salaries, but will definitely allow us to become elite soldiers who can defeat ten or even a hundred enemies alone. Now, we have finally become heroes!"

The speaker was a soldier who had just joined Tiefutu not long ago. There was no fear of death in his eyes. Instead, there was a kind of fanaticism, a fanaticism that ignored life and death.

Not only him, but all the people in Iron Pagoda had fanaticism in their eyes, which made the surrounding Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and even the Iron Cavalry and Elephant Soldiers feel a little scared.

"So everyone, follow me and charge forward to kill them."

"kill!"

At this moment, the voices of five hundred people actually made as much noise as tens of thousands of people.

Initiating a desperate battle, Zhang Liao led 500 men and directly charged into the encirclement of the iron cavalry and elephant soldiers.

The reason they chose this side was that outside their encirclement, there were 10,000 ordinary soldiers waiting for them not far behind them.

When the ordinary soldiers saw that Zhang Liao was fighting hard, they immediately realized that something was wrong and started thinking of attacking with cavalry and elephant soldiers, hoping to help Zhang Liao open up a gap.

But they are all ordinary soldiers after all. Although they have some combat effectiveness, they are still far behind these special arms.

No matter how hard these ten thousand people tried, they were unable to break the encirclement.

At this moment, Zhang Liao arrived.

Led by Yan Yan, two thousand cavalrymen rushed towards Zhang Liao, while one thousand elephant soldiers blocked the attack of ten thousand men.

Although Zhang Liao was confident that he could defeat Yan Yan, it would take a lot of time, so he had no intention of fighting with Yan Yan.

However, what Zhang Liao did not expect was that after only fighting for an incense stick of time, Yan Yan was knocked off his horse by Zhang Liao's sword.

Zhang Liao immediately wanted to step forward and finish off the enemy.

However, at this time Cao Chun had already led the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry to charge over, and swung his sword to block Zhang Liao's Yellow Dragon Sickle Hook Sword.

Zhang Liao glanced at Cao Chun, and without hesitation, he took the remaining Iron Pagodas and charged out directly.

Yan Yan got back on his horse, the confidence he had before the fight completely gone.

Yan Yan originally thought that he was a famous general, and Zhang Liao was also a famous general. Even if he was not the opponent, he should not have much problem fighting Zhang Liao for hundreds of moves. But once they fought, he found that Zhang Liao was incredibly powerful and he was totally no match for him. He was defeated in just ten rounds, and there was no chance of recovery. Cao Chun did not expect that Yan Yan looked very powerful, but he was actually so weak. He was knocked off his horse by Zhang Liao with a quick move. If he had not supported him in time, Yan Yan would have been killed.

Finally, under the pincer attack from both sides, a gap appeared in the elephant soldiers' formation, and Zhang Liao led the Iron Pagoda to evacuate directly through the gap.

The elephant soldiers had great attack power and strong defense, but there was only one problem: their speed was extremely slow. They could only watch Zhang Liao and his men run away.

With the elephant soldiers blocking the way in front, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and the Iron Cavalry had no way to charge forward.

After running for a long time, Zhang Liao finally stopped.

After counting the number of people, there were only 300 people left in the Iron Pagoda, and only 5,000 of the 10,000 ordinary cavalry were left.

This time their losses were not small.

No matter which camp the cavalry is in, they are extremely valuable, especially the war horses.

A cavalryman can be trained sooner or later as long as the princes are willing to provide resources, but war horses are in great shortage.

Not any horse can become a war horse. It needs to be balanced in all aspects and undergo long-term training to become a qualified war horse.

Due to years of war, Gu Rubing was already stretched thin in terms of military strength and had to carry out a large-scale conscription, let alone war horses.

Now, Gu Rubing has less than 50,000 cavalry among the ordinary soldiers.

Now, a full five thousand have been lost, which is one tenth of the total number.

This loss was a huge loss for Gu Rubing.

However, Gu Rubing did not mean to blame Zhang Liao for these. After all, all of Zhang Liao's actions were commanded by himself and Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang had expected the ambush. But according to Zhuge Liang, they had robbed so much food from them, it would be unreasonable if they did not give them a heads up.

But Zhuge Liang did not expect that the cost of this greeting would be so high.

After hearing Yan Yan's report, Liu Zhang was so angry that he almost jumped up.

During these attacks, Gu Rubing stole nearly 200,000 tons of food and fodder, which was a considerable loss.

However, what made Liu Zhang curious was that 200,000 tons of food and grass was a huge amount of food and grass. It would be an extremely large amount no matter where it was placed. But there was no news about these food and grass in Gu Rubing's camp on the front line, otherwise he would not have guessed that it was Cao Cao's doing.

Now that it has been confirmed that it was Gu Rubing, where were the grain and fodder sent?
Yizhou, Guanghan County.

Looking at the endless supply of food and grass being delivered to the warehouse, Deng Ai couldn't help but become curious. Where did his lord get the food and grass from?
When Cao Cao learned that his opponent was Zhang Liao, he immediately realized that he had been fooled. Gu Rubing was not isolated on the top of the mountain at all. He must have secretly come to the front camp and commanded Zhang Liao's battles.

"Liu Bei, you really have a good way of playing tricks."

Cao Cao snorted coldly and smashed the teacup in his hand to pieces.

Gu Rubing didn't care about Cao Cao's anger at all. At this moment, he was sitting in the military camp, looking at the account book of grain and fodder in his hand, feeling complacent.

"Lord!"

Zhuge Liang walked up to Gu Rubing and immediately shouted.

Only then did Gu Rubing react.

"Prime Minister, you are here, what's the matter?"

"My lord, we have suffered a serious loss of war horses in our front-line camp. Now, all the horses added up are less than 30,000. According to statistics, our horse farm can take out 20,000 war horses at most, so the total is only 50,000. My lord, the number of cavalry is insufficient, what should we do?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Rubing immediately looked at Zhuge Liang. In his opinion, he had dealt with the Xianbei and the Xiongnu, and obtained countless war horses and horse farms. How could there be a shortage of war horses?
"Prime Minister, the Xianbei and Xiongnu have so many war horses, can't we just take them?"

"My Lord, you are really joking. The territories of Xianbei and Xiongnu that we can control are not much. The more we want to control, the more consumption we will suffer. We can only give up some territories. Now that the war horses in our own territory have been taken away, we can only take them from the remaining forces of Xianbei and Xiongnu."

"Remnant forces?"

Gu Rubing immediately asked a roving crossbow captain to deliver all the information about Liaodong.

For a remote area like Liaodong, the commander of the Younu Army did not have many deployments there, so the intelligence was naturally very little.

Seeing that there were only a few books of information, Gu Rubing didn't care.

After opening it and taking a look, Gu Rubing frowned instantly.

Zhuge Liang noticed that there was something wrong with Gu Rubing's expression and immediately stepped forward.

"Lord, what's wrong?"

Gu Rubing handed the information to Zhuge Liang.

After a quick look, Zhuge Liang discovered that the Xianbei and Huns had appeared around Liaodong. Although their numbers were small, they had already formed a certain scale. It was obvious that they were showing signs of revival.

But this is not the main point. The perceptive Zhuge Liang saw an important situation in the newspaper. That is, the Xianbei, Huns, and various tribes, who were originally extremely discordant, did not seem to be fighting each other. At least there was no news of their internal fighting in the newspaper.

Is there someone controlling them?
This idea immediately came to Zhuge Liang's mind.

But soon, Zhuge Liang dismissed this idea.

Who now has the ability to make these tribal forces obediently, unless the major princes take action, but that is Liaodong. If they want to take action, they must go through them. In this case, the Captain of the Wandering Crossbows must not be unaware of it.

"My lord, don't worry. Even if these people gather together again, they are nothing to worry about. Now they have no elite troops, and even the royal court has been destroyed by us. Even if they gather together, they will not pose any threat to us. Moreover, their presence is not necessarily a bad thing for us. Apart from other things, this group of people are good at raising horses, which we have to admit is really powerful, so we can buy war horses from them."

Gu Rubing nodded when he heard this, but when he looked at the information in front of him, he always had a bad feeling, as if something big might happen at any time.

"How about this, I'll ask Lu Su to take people to Liaodong to contact those tribes and see if we can buy some war horses from them."

"Ok."

After receiving Gu Rubing's letter, Lu Su did not dare to delay and rushed to Liaodong with Chen Dao and a part of the Bai Li soldiers.

After arriving in Liaodong, Lu Su realized something was wrong.

Although Liaodong is remote, the Xiongnu made life very hard in the past, and the people here were also quite resistant to outsiders. But after Gu Rubing took action and eliminated the Xiongnu, the locals in Liaodong have relaxed a lot. (End of this chapter)