Lu Dynasty

Chapter 649 Cohesion

It is impossible for me to forcefully attack Dai Commandery. Zhao Yun and Yuan Shao have negotiated to exchange 1000 stones of food and grass for Hou Cheng. I have done my utmost to Hou Cheng!You know, Hou Cheng's annual salary is only more than 100 shi, and [-] shi of grain and grass are enough for him to use for [-] years!I stopped Lu Bu and others from clamoring, and smiled at Zhao Yun: "Zilong did a good job! One hundred thousand stones of grain and grass will be handed over to Yuan Shao. Yuan Shao must not put all of them in Daijun. Let the intelligence department pay close attention to the flow of this batch of grain and grass , if we find Yuan Shao’s grain stockpile, these grains and grasses will be our firecrackers!” Speaking of which, I miss those modern things a little bit!You said, if I had a global positioning system or something like a tracker, and stuffed it into the [-] shi of grain, wouldn't everything be settled!Unfortunately, we forgot to bring it when we crossed!
As I was talking, I thought of modern things, and my eyes started to straighten.Lu Bu and the others have not seen me like this for a long time, and they all feel a little nostalgic.After a while, Zhao Yun saw that I hadn't ordered the mobilization of food and grass, so he was a little worried about Hou Cheng. He poked me and said, "Brother, what are you thinking of? General Hou's days are like years in Yuan Shao's army!" Poke, I'll come back to my senses.You know, Zhao Yun is also a general after all, so it hurts to poke him with his finger.

"Nothing!" I asked with a smile, "Feng Xiao, how much rations do we have left? Can you take out one hundred thousand shi and redeem Hou Cheng first?" One hundred thousand shi seems like a lot, but it is not a lot. In fact, it is only enough for my 20 army to feed for half a month!The big men in ancient times could eat much more than those young men who weighed [-] to [-] catties in modern times!As the saying goes: A half-grown boy eats a poor old man.It's not about eating delicacies from mountains and seas, it's just about eating food!I secretly counted the rations I was carrying. Our army was fighting locally. When we went to war, we brought more than a month’s worth of rations. Later, we sent a lot from Jinyang one after another. I think it should be enough to redeem Hou Cheng. Hold on until the food arrives!

Guo Jia called the quartermaster and carefully checked the consumption of our army's food and grass. He smiled and said to me: "My lord, our army should still have 15 shi of food and grass. The food and grass are only enough for five days! If Jinyang cannot deliver the food within five days, we will run out of food on the sixth day!"

"General Hou works for me. I can't let him stay in the land of tigers and wolves for a long time! If we wait for Jinyang to deliver food, it will take three days at the earliest. In these three days, General Hou has no idea how much he will suffer!" I thought After thinking about it, he said seriously: "Guan Yu listened to the order: You take Zhang Fei to Jinyang to urge grain, and try to send the grain and grass here within three days!"

"Brother, don't worry, I will be back within three days!" Guan Yu clasped his fists and pulled Zhang Fei out of the big tent, and hurried to Jinyang.

"Feng Xiao! You use the special order method of the Ministry of Intelligence to order Jinyang to prepare food and grass immediately. As soon as Guan Yu and Zhang Fei arrive, they will start shipping immediately without delay. Anyone who violates the order will be executed!" They are all engaged in military law, and they rarely say beheading directly, but now I say behead directly, which shows that I am in a hurry!

"Don't worry, my lord. General Zhao came back and said that he would use food and grass to replace people. I immediately sent a message to Jinyang. Now Jinyang should be preparing food and grass. The food should be ready to ship when Generals Guan and Zhang arrive!" It seems that I am calm about everything, but Guo Jia understands that I always like to hide things in my heart, so Guo Jia often thinks more, hoping to think ahead of me.Ever since I met Guo Jia in a restaurant, Guo Jia always makes me feel at ease when doing things.In fact, with Guo Jia's personality, he shouldn't have barged into my private room so recklessly back then.I also asked him about it, but he just laughed and didn't answer!However, no matter whether he is intentional or not, my fate is connected with his.

Now that Guo Jia has arranged everything for me in Jinyang, the only thing left to do is to exchange food for Hou Cheng.Substitution is a very troublesome thing. I know that Yuan Shao has several archery masters under his command.I thought for a while and smiled: "Zilong, take Feng Xian to replace tomorrow, and Dian Wei and Xu Chu will send food and grass! If there is something wrong with Hou Cheng, you can show Yuan Shao a little bit! If the enemy shoots sniper arrows Shoot Hou Cheng, you and Feng Xian will shoot him directly!"

Lu Bu smiled and said, "Don't worry, big brother! Killing people is nothing to me!"

"Don't be silly, General Hou's life is important!" I looked at Lu Bu and said solemnly, "If General Hou dies because of your rash actions, I will never let you off just because you are my younger brother!"

"Yes! Brother!" Seeing my serious expression, Lu Bu knew that I wasn't joking, and he also understood my situation, so he stopped embarrassing me.How can I say that Lu Bu is my own younger brother, although he can't help me too much in terms of strategy and strategy, but he doesn't want to hold me back!

After the discussion, Guo Jia went down to count the grain and grass, and prepared to let Zhao Yun take it to exchange for Hou Cheng.Lu Bu and Zhao Yun are full of military horses, civilian husbands and carts. One hundred thousand shi for food and grass is not a small amount, and hundreds of carts are needed for light carts!And we also need to tell the soldiers about this, otherwise the sudden lack of food will make the soldiers dissatisfied!Although our soldiers have been ideologically educated and will not bomb the camp because of food shortages, telling them temporarily is a bit like making up excuses. It is better to tell them the facts and what happened to Hou Cheng earlier, so that they will definitely understand our helplessness. Without food, their resentment will all be concentrated on Yuan Shao!The fact is that when our soldiers knew what happened to Hou Cheng, they were all filled with righteous indignation, and they were even more moved when they knew that I would exchange [-] shi for food and grass to return Hou Cheng.Many soldiers agreed with my approach, and said that even if they had to tighten their belts to fight, they would have to change their robes back!Our army showed unprecedented cohesion because of Hou Cheng's experience!

Cohesion is also a strange thing. Originally, it took Guo Jia a lot of time to count the grain and grass, but this time he quickly counted [-] stones of grain and grass.Many soldiers volunteered to help load the vehicles, and the [-] shi of grain and grass were loaded and unloaded in the afternoon, and Zhao Yun and Lu Bu also mobilized [-] elite soldiers in a very short time!Now that everything was ready, Zhao Yun sent another envoy to exchange Hou Cheng.When Yuan Shao saw our army's envoy, he felt that our army was rich in food and grass, and at the same time expressed that he would never break his promise to Zhao Yun, and said that the exchange would take place the next morning.Zhao Yun was worried that Ye Chang would have many dreams, so he told the envoy frequently before he set off that the exchange must be done on the same day.Yuan Shao originally wanted to torture Hou Cheng for one night, so that our army could gain a reputation of benevolence and righteousness, but Zhao Yun's persistence broke his wishful thinking!For [-] shi of grain and grass, Yuan Shao immediately mobilized men and horses, and exchanged grain with Hou Cheng and our army!

(End of this chapter)