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On July 20th, ten miles south of the Mei River, the Puppet Chang Daying...

In the main tent, Duan Hong roared sternly: "Damn it, Liu Ce actually sent troops to occupy Meihe Town, it's so outrageous! Does he plan to block the 80,000 troops with his 10,000 troops?"

After several days of travel, Duan Hong's army finally arrived ten miles outside Meihe Town. As a result, the Investigator who sent to contact the bureaucrats of Meihe Town reported that the flag on the top of the city had changed hands and that the entire Meihe Town was now under Liu Ce's control. How could Duan Hong not be furious?

Guo Dongcai, the general who went to the army to fight, hurried forward and persuaded: "Your Majesty, please take care of the dragon body. Liu Ce is just a clown who jumps into the beam. I have an army of 80,000. I must be so scared that he dare not fight now. He is hiding behind the city wall and trembling..."

"Nonsense!" Guo Dongcai's words attracted Duan Hong to scold him, "Shishou? If he really shivered, he would not lead his troops to occupy Meihe Town!"

Guo Dong immediately shut up and stopped talking, knowing that Duan Hong was angry now and could not listen to any relief...

After a long time, Duan Hong, who was paced back and forth in the tent, looked like a torch, clenched his fists, and said to himself: "Hmph, Liu Ce, I want to see how you can resist my military power. I, Duan Hong, have been fighting in Heyuan for decades and finally reached this point today. No one can take all this away from me, including you!"

Thinking of this, Duan Hong immediately said to Guo Dongcai: "Transfer my order and the entire army will immediately go to Meihe Town. I will capture Liu Ce alive to strengthen the army's might!"

"The last general is the order!" Guo Dongcai immediately bowed his hand to take the order, and then said to Duan Hong with a sincere look on his face, "Emperor, the last general will ask to be the vanguard and personally capture Liu Ce'er in front of the emperor..."

"I'm sure!" Duan Hong agreed without thinking and handed a military order to Guo Dongcai and said, "I will allocate you ten thousand troops, and be sure to take down Meihe Town in one battle!"

Guo Dongcai was overjoyed and even said, "I would like to thank the emperor for his fulfillment. From now on, I will definitely serve the emperor with all my heart!"

After saying that, Guo Dong took the military order and proudly walked out of the camp to transfer troops.

Duan Hong looked at Guo Dongcai's excited departure figure, sighed and said in a deep voice, "Let's just let that fool try it first, see what Liu Ce has to do, and also make good responses."

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At the same time, in the Anyang border army camp...

Zhang Zhaotong came to Xu Wenjing's tent with a bitter look on his face, bowed and said anxiously: "Military advisor, the last general has searched all the town manors within a radius of dozens of miles, but he still has not found a place to store grain!"

Xu Wenjing frowned and asked, "Think carefully, but what else is missing..."

Zhang Zhaotong replied: "Reported to the military advisor, I have searched all the places I should find. Finally, I sent six waves of troops to search for clues forty miles nearby. But now the five people have returned, and they have never found a suspicious place to hide food and grass..."

Xu Wenjing thought for a while and asked again: "Where is Xiahou Qiong? Have you ever sent him to find him? After all, he is more familiar with thieves than us."

Zhang Zhaotong nodded: "The last general has sent him, and he has not returned from the last wave of troops sent. However, military advisor, do you really think that the horse army will leave surplus food? This is not in line with common sense. Will the horse army be deceive Xiahou Qiong, causing us to run away..."

Xu Wenjing said: "No, although I don't know anything about Ma Jinjun, I know that Duan Hong, as a overlord, would never force himself into a desperate situation easily. Think about it carefully, do you think that Ma Jinjun's thief defender would have the courage to burn all the food and grass without being instructed?

Moreover, the situation of the thief is not as unavoidable. If you and I were Duan Hong, would you really do this kind of act of hurting the enemy for more than a thousand times and hurting oneself? It is really unreasonable, so I believe that some of the food and grass must be hidden within a radius of thirty or forty miles..."

Zhang Zhaotong nodded and praised after hearing this: "What the military advisor said is very good, so I will send someone to continue to investigate..."

Xu Wenjing said, "But it's fast. The military governor has already ordered someone to send a letter to urge him. It is necessary that our army quickly converges in Meihe Town and give them a fatal blow from behind the thieves!"

Zhang Zhaotong hurriedly said, "Don't worry, military advisor, I will give you two days. Within two days, I will definitely find out the urgently needed food and grass!"

"Well~~"

Suddenly, a horse roared outside Xu Wenjing's tent. When he and Zhang Zhaotong calmed down, they saw Xiahou Qiong stepping into the tent with a solemn look on his face.

As soon as he saw Xu Wenjing and Zhang Zhaotong, Xiahou Qiong bowed to them and said to Xu Wenjing: "Military advisor, there may be some insights in food, but I will not dare to assert."

"Oh? Xiahou Qiong will come quickly!"

Xu Wenjing and Zhang Zhaotong were slightly stunned when they heard Xiahou Qiong's words. Then Xu Wenjing quickly pulled Xiahou Qiong down and asked with a eager look on his face.

Xiahou Qiong said: "Military advisor, the general of the last time carefully examined it and felt that the territory of Su Cang was very suspicious!"

"Si Cang?"

When Xu Wenjing heard this, she pondered softly, then quickly looked at the map on the table, and finally found the location of Su Cang in a hay area.

Xiahou Qiong continued to say on the side of Xu Wenjing: "Military advisor, when he passed by Su Cang, he found that many people from Su Cang were pretending to be thieves, so he paid special attention.

It is logical that wilderness areas like Sucang are easy to attack and difficult to defend. How could there be thieves guarding me even though I know where my army is coming? It is too unreasonable, so I will report to you."

After listening, Xu Wenjing closed her eyes and thought about it carefully, and then opened her eyes and immediately said, "The grain is undoubtedly in Sugar Cang, how many defenders in Sugar Cang?"

Xiahou Qiong said: "Not less than five hundred!"

"Ha..." Xu Wenjing smiled when she heard this, "It seems that the thief's move is intended to cover up. It is indeed not worthy of our attention. General Zhang, please send someone to touch it immediately and find an opportunity to conquer the Miscellaneous Cang in one fell swoop!"

"The general of the last command!" Zhang Zhaotong was very excited when he heard this. He rubbed his palms back and forth from time to time, and said to Xu Wenjing, "Don't worry, the general of the general of the last will definitely clean up the Su Cang!"

"Yeah!" Xu Wenjing nodded and said, "Remember not to happen in Anyang again. Fight quickly. When this happens, you will immediately go to join the military governor..."

Zhang Zhaotong bowed and bowed, then walked out of the tent to guide the troops.

Xu Wenjing turned her head and said to Xiahou Qiong who was standing on the side: "General Xiahou, you go down first, Ruo Su Cang is just as you said, another heavy grain storage place for the bandits. This military advisor will ask for merit for you in front of the military governor..."

Xiahou Qiong was extremely excited when he heard this and hurriedly bowed to Xu Wenjing: "I would like to thank the military advisor for his cultivation, and I will never forget it!"

Seeing this, Xu Wenjing was thinking for a moment, and suddenly a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. She stepped forward to support Xiahou Qiong and said with a gentle look: "General Xiahou, as long as you can be loyal to the military governor, you will obey my arrangements in everything. This military advisor guarantees that you will rise to the top in the army in the future, even if you become the confidant of the military governor's office, it is not impossible!"

"Everything depends on the guidance of the military advisor!" Xiahou Qiong knelt on one knee excitedly, his face full of fanaticism.

"Um……"

Xu Wenjing looked at Xiahou Qiong's appearance and nodded slightly. She seemed to be thinking about something in her gloomy pupils.

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"Mr. Jun, please spare me~"

"Please don't kill me, I'm forced to do it too..."

Five miles outside Meihe Town, Guo Dongcai's 10,000 people quickly collapsed as soon as they contacted the three thousand auxiliary soldiers led by Huangfu Zhai. There were thieves kneeling on the ground and kowtowed and begging for mercy everywhere in the suburbs. The entire battle was only less than an hour.

Guo Dongcai, the main general of this bandit, was being trampled on the ground with one foot, looking angry...

"Damn it, it's so despicable..."

When Guo Dong thought about the defeat, he was so angry that he was so frustrated that he was too cowardly...

At that time, Guo Dongcai received his order and swept towards Meihe Town with great momentum. Because he was eager to make contributions, he had never carefully investigated the situation outside Meihe Town. He directly betted all 10,000 people, trying to conquer the city in one go...

As a result, several long trenches, caltrops buried by dust and sand, and the ambush suddenly broke out from behind, instantly made the tens of thousands of thieves lose the courage to fight to the end. After nearly a thousand casualties, they quickly collapsed and surrendered...

It is said that in the era of cold weapons, the two armies confronted each other. Except for a few elites with firm will and their own beliefs, the limit for most troops to withstand casualties was about 10%. After passing this critical point, they basically began to collapse...

In fact, this is up to be discussed. When the so-called casualty ratio of any army will begin to retreat and collapse depends on the situation of the opponent. Let me ask you that if you have 10,000 casualties, 1,000 casualties, and the opponent will also have 1,000 casualties or even more. Will you retreat at this time? Unless the generals of the army take the initiative to order a retreat.

The so-called "the percentage of casualties in the cold weapon era" will be disintegrated. In fact, the gap between the two armies in battle is too big, making one side feel that it is impossible to defeat the other side, so this situation will happen. If both sides are evenly matched, they will probably be red-eyed...

Just like Guo Dongcai's troops are facing such a situation, before they formally fought with the enemy, there were major casualties on their side. The moment the three thousand auxiliary soldiers shouted and attacked, their morale collapsed, and Guo Dongcai became a prisoner...

"Let him go..."

Just when Guo Dong's thick face was stepped on half of his thick face with his feet against the hot ground that was sunburned by the sun, and it was difficult to defend himself, Huangfu Zhai Shuya's voice slowly rang out.

After the soldier heard Ling's feet, Huangfu Zhai carried his back with one hand and looked at Guo Dong who was constantly breathing sympathetically. When he was young, he spoke: "Take your people back and tell Duan Hong that he is at a loss now. The food and salary in various parts of Anyang have all fallen into the hands of our army. You have already started to lose food. Don't resist fearlessly and surrender as soon as possible!"

Guo Dongcai was shocked when he heard this, and looked at Huangfu Zhai with disbelief, trying to detect the truth from the expression on his face.

However, Guo Dong was disappointed because Huangfu Zhai's expression on his face was very calm, calm without any emotional fluctuations...

After a long time, Guo Dong bowed and asked, "Why do you want to let me go? What do you want to do?"

Huangfu Zhai said: "Do you have to make a reason? Then I can tell you because I'm down..."

After a pause, he slowly turned his back to Guo Dongcai and said something amazing:

"Peace-loving!"
Chapter completed!