Three Kingdoms: I choose Xiao Qiao and Da Qiao, why are you crying, Diao Chan?

Chapter 258: My dear, do you have a plan to deal with this? (Thanks to Qi Ranhui, Lin Yang, and Han Junen for their monthly ticket support~)

Li Jue and Guo Si rested in Fengxiang City for half a day.

After leaving 3,000 men to guard the city early the next morning, they continued to advance into Hanzhong.

Soon we arrived at Xi County along the Baihe River.

I thought the situation in the city would be much better after entering the county town.

But after entering the city, Li Jue found that only the elderly, the weak and the sick were left in the city, and there was not much food left in the granary!
They came from afar and did not bring much food and supplies, so they planned to rely on the city of Hanzhong for supplies.

He never imagined that these cities in Hanzhong would be so poor!

Being poor is fine, but the key is that all the young and middle-aged people in the city have fled!
Then what is the point of them taking over these cities?
The angry Li Jue wanted to kill the county magistrate immediately, but was stopped by Guo Si.

Li Jue had no choice but to send someone to report the situation here to the emperor.

He left behind 5,000 garrison troops and rushed to the next county town without stopping!
Hopefully there will be enough food in the next city for resupply.

Otherwise, the more than 30,000 soldiers under his command would have no choice but to rob the common people for food!

When the remaining 32,000 troops arrived at Xunguan, they found that there was not a single defender inside Xunguan.

Li Jue couldn't help but complain:
"Zhang Lu is really a piece of shit! He has decided to give up Hanzhong, so why not leave us something?"

Guo Si sighed:
"Forget it, anyway, our mission is to recapture Hanzhong. Getting the territory of Hanzhong is more important than anything else.

"As for the population and supplies, we can transfer them from other places later."

After resting for a night at Xunguan, on the next morning, Li Jue left two thousand soldiers to guard the pass, while he and Guo Si continued to march westward towards Xicheng County.

At the same time, the soldiers sent back to the court by Li Jue to report finally arrived at the palace.

After learning that there were no civilians and no food in the city occupied by Li and Guo, Liu Xie was immediately displeased!

However, considering that Hanzhong was too important to them, and they had originally intended to break off relations with Lu Bu.

At this moment, facing the difficulties of the enemy, he was not unable to accept it...

However, he still habitually called Jia Xu and told him about this matter.

After Jia Xu learned about this, his expression changed instantly:
“Something’s wrong…something’s very wrong!
"The enemy has taken over Chenliu and Yingchuan. They have gained such a great advantage, they shouldn't have this attitude.

"But now they are deliberately moving people and food away, gradually luring our troops deeper...

"This is, this is planning to attack our army!"

"what?!"

Liu Xie stood up directly from the dragon bed, his face extremely pale:
“You mean to say that the enemy has seen through our intentions?!
"You're even planning to take advantage of the situation and strike first?!
"How dare Lu Bu do that!"

Jia Xu looked at the little emperor with approval. The other party was smarter than he had imagined.

But Jia Xu soon calmed down.

Even if the enemy saw through his plan, it would not have a direct impact on his personal safety.

But considering that serving the emperor is like serving a tiger, Jia Xu still responded:

"The most urgent task is to have Li Jue and Guo Si lead the army to quickly withdraw from Hanzhong!
"Otherwise, our army will lose two generals and 40,000 troops in vain!"

After hearing the other party's suggestion, Liu Xie's face became even uglier, and his hands were clenched tightly together:
"But in this case, wouldn't our army have lost two counties in vain?
"My dear, do you have any countermeasures?"

Jia Xu pondered for a moment, sighed and shook his head:
“I never thought that there would be an expert in the enemy army who could see through my plan.

"Right now, Lu Bu is planning to break up with us first, so he must have made sufficient preparations.

“It’s too late for our army to mobilize troops now.

"The only way is to minimize the loss of troops and then announce to the world that Lü Bu broke his promise and deceived the emperor!

"Then we can gather the forces surrounding Lu Bu's army and attack them.

"By then, Liu Bei's army, Liu Mao's army, Shi Xie's army and our army will join forces." Even if Lu Bu has great abilities, he will be gradually defeated by us!

"If we can eliminate this major threat, other forces will be much easier to deal with."

Seeing that Jia Xu had no way to deal with it, Liu Xie could only sigh:
"That's fine. Chenliu and Yingchuan are lost, so let's quickly order Li Jue and Guo Si to withdraw from Hanzhong!"

The messenger received the order and quickly returned to Hanzhong.

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the other side.

Li Jue and Guo Si led a large army to the county seat of Xicheng County and found that Zhang Lu's soldiers had not yet completely evacuated.

The most important thing is that these soldiers were actually moving the food from the granary onto the carriages, intending to take all the food from West City away!

Li Jue, who had been holding back his anger for a long time, immediately shouted angrily:

"Stop it, everyone! Unload all the food for me!"

The person in charge of transporting the grain was Li Yan, the grain transport officer under Lu Bu.

He once served as a county magistrate under Liu Biao, and after surrendering to Lu Bu, he has been working in the field of grain transportation.

At this moment, facing Li Jue's shouting, Li Yan looked at him and said coldly:
"This is our army's rations. We are transporting them away under the order of our Lord. Why are you stopping us?"

"presumptuous!"

Li Jue frowned and shouted:

"Hanzhong is already the territory of His Majesty!

"The food in this city is naturally your Majesty's property. You can leave, but you must leave the food to me!

"Otherwise you will be going against the Emperor!"

Hearing the other party bringing up the emperor, Li Yan, who had already made plans in mind, was not afraid at all:

"My master only agreed to give up the land of Hanzhong, but he never said that Hanzhong's food and grass must be given up!

"Today we are here to take away the food and fodder. What can you do to me?"

As he spoke, Li Yan deliberately moved his head forward, full of provocation!
Li Jue narrowed his eyes, and the veins on the back of his hand holding the scabbard were already bulging!

If it weren't for the fact that killing the other party would have such a huge impact.

The subsequent recovery of other places is likely to be hindered, and he really wants to kill the opponent with one knife!
But at the moment, it was impossible for him to make any concessions on food and fodder.

After all, the remaining food for his soldiers is only enough for tomorrow.

Without these food supplies, the soldiers will starve to death!
Thinking of this, Li Jue directly ordered the army to surround Li Yan and his 1,000 soldiers.

Li Jue put his scabbard against Li Yan's neck and threatened coldly:
"Either leave the food and the people behind and go, or leave both the people and the food to me!
"You, choose for yourself!"

Li Yan saw that the enemy had a large number of troops and was only a thousand men, so he could not be their opponent. He could only shrink his neck and replied unhappily:
"Okay, okay, today you have seized our army's food. I will go back and report to my master and see if you can take over the remaining cities!"

After saying that, Li Yan led a thousand soldiers and left the West City directly.

Guo Si looked at the enemy's rapidly retreating backs and suddenly said to Li Jue:

“If we really let them withdraw and tell Lu Bu or Zhang Lu, I’m afraid the enemy will directly occupy the cities behind us!

"Why not take this opportunity to give these people to..."

Guo Si didn't finish his words, he just raised his hand and made a gesture of wiping his neck.

Li Jue was silent for a moment, then nodded immediately:
"You have a point. In that case, you should lead 5,000 cavalrymen to catch up with them immediately and make sure to wipe them out!"

(End of this chapter)