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

After saying this, Zhao Yun swung his silver spear.

The silver dragon charged towards the palace.

The entire palace collapsed instantly under the impact of the silver dragon.

They instantly pinned Zhou Yu and his men, who had come to their aid, to the ground.

Seeing this, Sun Jian looked at Zhao Yun with bloodshot eyes.

This palace can be said to be Sun Jian's life's work, and it is also a place he is very proud of.

Gu Rubing was right; this palace looked even more luxurious than the imperial palace in Xudu.

"You guys are really going too far."

"Is that so? Is it too much? I think it's alright. If you weren't a legendary general, I would have killed you today. Is a royal palace more important than your life?"

After Zhao Yun finished speaking, he gave a cold laugh and turned to leave.

Zhang Fei looked at Zhao Yun with a puzzled expression.

"Is this how it ends, Zilong? We went through so much trouble to get here, shouldn't we cause some more trouble?"

"No need. This matter was unexpected by our lord. No one had any information about Sun Jian's strength. We must report this to our lord in a timely manner."

Hearing this, Zhang Fei was still somewhat unwilling.

"Let's go. We've achieved our goal. Our lord originally wanted us to teach them a lesson. Killing Sun Jian would be ideal, but it seems we have no way to kill him unless we decide to leave one of them alive."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Fei looked helplessly at Huang Zhong and could only leave with the two of them.

However, before leaving, Zhang Fei still couldn't give up and smashed one of the walls of Constantinople with a single move.

Seeing the vast palace reduced to rubble and the towering city walls reduced to dust, Sun Jian's heart bled.

What worries Sun Jian most is that his biggest trump card has been exposed. This time it was Zhao Yun, and next time it could very well be Guan Yu.

At that time, which of the three of them can stop Guan Yu?

After thinking about this, Sun Jian hesitated for a moment before finally making a decision.

"Someone, give the order to stop all aid to Cao Cao. What has already been given is forgivable, but no more aid shall be given."

"Yes!"

Gu Rubing had already assembled a large army and was preparing to head to Zhuti County.

Zhao Yun and his two companions appeared before Gu Rubing.

"Brother, we destroyed Sun Jian's palace and city walls. Sun Jian is furious."

Hearing Zhang Fei's words, Gu Rubing looked at Zhao Yun with a puzzled expression.

"Zilong, has something happened?"

Gu Rubing's original order to Zhao Yun was to teach Sun Jian a lesson, and preferably kill him.

They clearly failed.

For a legendary general's mission to fail, the opponent must also be a legendary general, and their numbers must be roughly the same.

Where did the Anluo Empire get its third legendary general?

"My lord, Sun Jian is also a legendary general."

"what?"

Upon hearing this, Gu Rubing's eyes widened immediately.

They had absolutely no information about this.

Gu Rubing even had Guan Yu probe Sun Jian's strength, but the result was that he was not a legendary general.

This shows how well Sun Jian kept this secret.

However, Gu Rubing was even more curious about how Sun Jian became a legendary military general.

"Forget it, now is not the time to think about these things. Yide, you and the old general should go back. The Prime Minister also needs help."

"This……"

Zhang Fei was naturally not very satisfied, but given Gu Rubing's order, he had no choice but to nod in agreement.

After Zhang Fei and the others left.

Gu Rubing immediately led everyone to Zhuti County, and at the same time ordered a group of crossbowmen to go to the Anluo Empire to investigate Sun Jian's situation.

However, Gu Rubing was unaware that his order would lead to the complete annihilation of their army.

Gu Rubing led the group to Zhuti County.

After learning about the situation in Zhuti County, Gu Rubing's expression was not good.

Now Cao Ren is determined to hold out and not come out, so even if I have brilliant strategies, I can't do anything about it.

Gu Rubing looked at the map helplessly.

According to Gu Rubing's original idea.

All I need to do is surround Zhuti County and cut off their supplies, then Cao Ren and his men will have no choice but to retreat.

However, after looking at the map, Gu Rubing immediately sensed some trouble.

If they wanted to completely cut off the food supply to the entire Zhuti County, they would likely have to move to other prefectures, which would consume even more of their own food supplies.

Thinking about this, Gu Rubing suddenly had an idea.

He simply wanted to force the other party to come out.

No matter how you pay out, it counts as a payout.

Gu Rubing then ordered Zhang He and Wei Yan to each lead 50,000 troops to surround the entire Zhuti County.

This can be considered a way of indirectly cutting off their food supply.

At first, Cao Ren didn't care.

After all, the city still had a sufficient supply of food.

However, it didn't last long before Cao Ren couldn't take it anymore.

It has been half a month since Gu Rubing besieged the city.

During this period, no food supplies were delivered, and Cao Cao did not send any reinforcements. It seemed that they were about to run out of food.

The one who suffered the most was Xu Huang.

They had no food or water at Mianzhu Pass and endured this for more than twenty days, until their warhorses ran out of food.

Upon arriving in Zhuti County, they were forced to endure hunger and thirst, and it seemed they would soon have to eat their warhorses again.

Xu Huang eventually found Cao Ren.

"General, should we consider at least breaking out and bringing back the supplies?"

"No, our lord has ordered us not to leave the city. We absolutely cannot go out without his orders."

"But the food supplies in the city can only last for five days at most. Liu Bei's army is not worried about food supplies at all. Are we supposed to stay here and watch them eat and drink well? Even if we can stand it, our soldiers can't."

Upon hearing this, Cao Ren looked at Xu Huang in front of him and hesitated for a moment.

"If we wait a few more days and the supply route still isn't open, we'll leave the city and bring back the grain."

With Cao Ren's words, Xu Huang finally felt relieved.

Cao Cao's provisions were not absent; they had already been delivered, and not just once, but twice.

However, both shipments of grain were stored on a mountain ten miles away from Zhuti County.

The grain transport team had no way to enter the city, and they couldn't just transport the grain back like that, so they could only hide the grain and send the message to the people in the city.

Gu Rubing naturally knew where they stored their provisions, since it was Gu Rubing who placed the messengers there.

Gu Rubing had already laid an ambush at the places where the grain and fodder were stored, just waiting for Xu Huang and his men to rush out.

Three days passed.

Even Cao Ren couldn't help but feel a little impatient.

Without supplies, this army of 100,000 is just for show.

In the end, Cao Ren made a decision to personally lead 50,000 troops to open a road for Xu Huang, allowing Xu Huang to transport the grain in.

After the two made their plan.

The two immediately led their army out to fight.

When 100,000 people surround 100,000 people, the side that is surrounding them is already relatively weak in defense.

After Cao Ren's attack, the encirclement collapsed. Cao Ren then took the opportunity to build a defensive perimeter, effectively protecting Xu Huang's grain transport convoy in the center.

Xu Huang led 10,000 men and charged out towards the grain storage area.

After seeing that Xu Huang had completely left, Cao Ren led his troops slowly into the city.

Xu Huang entered the deep mountains.

Based on the intelligence, they found the cave where the grain and fodder were stored.

Just as they were about to go in, a volley of arrows suddenly shot out.

Xu Huang's army was caught off guard and suffered considerable casualties.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang He led his army out.

Zhang He's 30,000 troops completely surrounded Xu Huang's 10,000 men.

Upon seeing this, Xu Huang led everyone and quickly rushed into the cave containing the grain and fodder.

Gu Rubing had already thoroughly investigated the cave, and Zhang He immediately blocked all the exits of the cave.

Xu Huang led everyone to hide inside the cave. Looking at the mountain of grain and fodder in front of them, Xu Huang was immediately at a loss.

The cave has a unique terrain, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack.

However, they had a limited supply of arrows, and even with abundant provisions, they couldn't hold out here for long.

"General, we've tested all the exits from the cave, and they're all blocked by the enemy. What do we do now?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Huang was also somewhat perplexed.

Through the recent exchange, Xu Huang discovered that Zhang He only had 30,000 men. Breaking through would not be difficult, but it would mean that everyone would run out of food once they returned. In that case, what use would they be if they returned?

Moreover, the fact that the other party is waiting for them here means that they have investigated the entire situation here.

As soon as I leave, Zhang He will immediately take away these provisions.

With this in mind, Xu Huang finally decided to defend this place to the death.

Zhang He stood at the cave entrance, looked at Xu Huang inside, and immediately burst into laughter.

"Xu Huang, surrender! As long as you surrender, we'll provide you with plenty of wine and meat."

"You want us to surrender? No way."

I advise you to give up on that idea.

Seeing that Xu Huang showed no intention of surrendering, Zhang He smiled helplessly and then beckoned to his deputy general beside him.

Soon, a pile of dead wood was moved over.

Moreover, all the exits of the cave were covered with dead wood.

"Since you don't want to come out, then stay here for the rest of your lives."

After saying this, Zhang He immediately ordered the wood to be set on fire.

Zhang He decided to completely suffocate Xu Huang inside.

Before long, the entire cave was filled with smoke.

Many people have already experienced dry heaving.

Xu Huang knew that this situation couldn't last much longer.

"Everyone lie down on the ground and hold on for a while. Our reinforcements will come to our aid."

However, Xu Huang was just saying that; how could there possibly be reinforcements coming to help him at this time?

Cao Ren hid in the city and dared not come out at all.

Zhang He and the others waited leisurely outside.

But at this moment.

A soldier ran up to Zhang He.

"General, something bad has happened! A Wei army of about 50,000 men has appeared not far ahead and is rushing towards us at an extremely fast speed. Judging by their speed, they should arrive in as little as an incense stick's time."

"An army of 50,000? Who is leading it?"

"It's Jiang Wei and Guo Huai."

"It was the two of them."

After a moment's hesitation, Zhang He immediately announced a retreat.

Zhang He quickly led his 30,000 troops in a retreat.

Jiang Wei and Guo Huai's arrival was not actually to rescue Xu Huang.

They didn't even know that Xu Huang was trapped here.

The reason we came here is entirely because Jiang Wei and Guo Huai are in charge of the army's logistics.

Upon learning that the grain supplies from Zhuti County could not be delivered, the two led their army over, hoping to at least get the grain supplies into the city and allow Cao Ren to hold out for a little longer.

That's how we arrived at this temporary storage place for grain and fodder.

However, when the two arrived, they saw that the entrance to the cave was filled with thick smoke, and they could faintly hear screams coming from inside the cave.

Jiang Wei immediately guessed what was going on and promptly ordered the fire to be extinguished.

Before long, the flames were completely extinguished, and the thick smoke gradually dissipated.

Who is in the cave?

Jiang Wei shouted into the cave.

Hearing that familiar voice, Xu Huang hurriedly cried out, "Boyue, save me!"

Upon recognizing Xu Huang, Jiang Wei immediately led his men to rescue everyone.

After learning what had happened, Jiang Wei smiled helplessly.

Xu Huang actually fell for such an obvious trick, which is clearly a lingering effect of what happened before.

For a battle-hardened general, hunger was not unbearable, but if given the chance to escape hunger, he would fight for it.

This is human nature.

"Alright, we'll escort you and deliver the supplies. I'll travel with you."

After saying this, Jiang Wei immediately led all the grain and fodder towards Zhuti County.

Upon seeing Zhang He return, Gu Rubing immediately asked, "Junyi, why are you back? Did you kill Xu Huang?"

"My lord, we have failed. Just as we were preparing to deal with Xu Huang, Jiang Wei arrived, so we had to retreat."

"Jiang Wei has arrived?"

Gu Rubing had planned everything meticulously, but he never expected that Jiang Ran would actually appear here.

Just then, a soldier came over to report.

"My lord, Jiang Wei has appeared not far away. They are carrying provisions and it seems they are preparing to deliver them to Zhuti County."

"We can't let them send it in; we need to be prepared to intercept it."

"Yes."

However, what Gu Rubing thought of, how could Jiang Wei not have thought of as well?

When they were still some distance from Zhuti County, Jiang Wei fired a signal arrow.

Cao Ren, standing on the city wall, saw the signal arrow and realized that it was a unique type of arrow used by the Wei army to request reinforcements.

Cao Ren realized that the direction of the whistle arrow was precisely the direction of Xu Huang's supplies, and immediately understood.

Immediately afterwards, the gates of Zhuti County were opened.

Cao Ren led an army of 50,000 and charged out.

Meanwhile, Jiang Wei was also rushing into the city.

Gu Rubing's army was caught in the middle and could not hold out for long. The defensive line collapsed again, and Jiang Wei and Cao Ren reunited.

The two quickly paved a path for Xu Huang.

After Xu Huang led the grain transport team slowly into the city, Cao Ren and Jiang Wei then led everyone into the city.

Gu Rubing frowned slightly as he watched Jiang Wei enter the city.

In this battle against Jiang Wei, I have completely lost.

What troubled Gu Rubing even more was that the city not only had ample food supplies, but also a force of 150,000 men. (End of Chapter)