Li Feng led 15,000 troops and carried a large number of carriages covered with tarpaulins, which were actually empty, and slowly came to Shouchun along the Chengde line. Li Feng was not in a hurry. His purpose was not to rush to Shouchun, but to attract Lu Bu's attention. He had already made up his mind that as soon as Lu Bu's army appeared, he would not resist and immediately led his army to run south back to Hefei.

At about the same time, in the Lu Bu military camp under Shouchun City, people and horses surged. Under the leadership of Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao, 15,000 horsemen quickly left the camp and ran straight towards Chengde. The Lu Bu army seemed to have noticed Yuan Yao's actions, so they sent cavalry to intercept the army of food and grass that was preparing to rescue Shouchun. However, they seemed to have only discovered the bait that Yuan Yao released and bit it up. At the same time, a large amount of food and grass that Yuan Yao personally escorted had already reached the east bank of the Shuishi River in the west, and was heading north along the Shuishi River, intending to go to the bank of the Huai River and then rushed east to Shouchun along the Huai River.

It took Li Feng almost two days to reach Chengde. The road was calm and nothing happened. A general couldn't help but laugh: "I think the prince was too careful! Lu Bu didn't expect to rob our army's food and grass! Lu Bu was so famous that he was just that! I'm afraid that when the prince transported the food and grass into Shouchun, he would still be kept in the dark!" Everyone couldn't help laughing. Li Feng smiled deeply, but he still reminded everyone under his command not to be careless. Even though he reminded, everyone looked relaxed and didn't think that Lu Bu's army would appear.

The group actually stopped in Chengde, rested for a night, and continued to march the next morning.

Not far away, a knight in front of him was speeding up, and the sound of horse hooves was heard immediately. Li Feng looked closely and recognized that he was his scout.

Not long after, the scout rushed to Li Feng, suddenly grabbed the reins of the horse, and said anxiously: "It's not good, General, the prince's men were suddenly ambushed on the east bank of the water. The entire army was defeated, and all the food and grass fell into Lu Bu's hands!"

When Li Feng and others suddenly heard the news, they felt like a thunderbolt on the sunny day, and were so shocked that they couldn't speak. The guy who had previously ridiculed Lu Bu was just like this and couldn't help but shout: "How could this happen? Lu Bu, how could Lu Bu know that there would be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the direction of the water discharge?"

The scout shook his head, indicating that he didn't know.

Li Feng and others looked at each other, not knowing what to do for a moment.

In fact, Yuan Yao and Li Feng were just making things smart in this matter. It turned out that Jia Xu had long expected that the lack of food and grass in Shouchun City would inevitably provide support to Hefei, which was still stocking up a lot of money and grain. Therefore, he had long sent people to pay attention to the movements in the south. Indeed, Jia Xu did not expect that the other party would play the trick of fighting the world, and only sent people to pay attention to the movements in Chengde's direction. Soon he discovered the team led by Li Feng.

Just when Ailang was about to send cavalry to intercept, Jia Xu discovered a flaw. He learned from the scout that Li Feng's army was moving slowly, and although the food and grass vehicles in the team were covered with tarpaulins, the ruts were very shallow. Jia Xu immediately judged that Li Feng's team was just a suspicious soldier, and then he inferred that the real food and grass team should detour westward to the direction of water discharge. Therefore, Ailang took the plan and deliberately sent cavalry to run south, which made the enemy think that he had the plan but was not prepared. In fact, the cavalry was running.

After more than fifty miles, they immediately divided their troops. One was led by Zhao Yun, and the five thousand cavalry continued to go south at full speed. The other ten thousand cavalry led by Zhang Liao quickly turned west and rushed all the way. When Yuan Yao left the shore of the water and was about to turn east to Shouchun, he met them. Ten thousand war cavalry immediately launched an attack. Yuan Shu's army was caught off guard and was washed away in an instant. Yuan Yao finally escaped, but all the money, grain and supplies fell into Zhang Liao's hands. Zhang Liao returned with great victory.

Li Feng felt that something was wrong, so he dared not continue to go to Shouchun, so he immediately led his 15,000 troops to retreat on the same route.

Shouchun was also extremely shocked when he received the news of the attack on food and supplies. Yuan Shu panicked and scolded Yuan Yao for being incompetent.

General Yang frowned and said, "The food and grass are robbed, and it is probably even more difficult to transport it again!" Then he clasped his fists at Yuan Shu and said, "Your Majesty, for the sake of this plan, you can only give up Shouchun and retreat to Hefei before making plans!"

Yuan Shu was shocked and roared angrily: "Shouchun is my capital, how can I give up easily!"

General Yang seemed to have expected Yuan Shu's reaction, and was not in a hurry, saying, "If Your Majesty refuses to give up Shouchun, then there is only one way!" Yuan Shu asked quickly.

General Yang said: "The way he is to treat him. I received a detailed report not long ago and learned that Lu Bu's logistics and food supplies were transported from the floating bridge more than 50 miles away from the northwest. There were only 5,000 defenders led by Cao Xing, and they were obviously wary and relaxed. Not long ago, the food and supplies led by Gao Shun had left Xuzhou and should have arrived near the Huaihe River tonight. They could not cross the river at night, so they would have to stay by the river for one night. This is our opportunity. We can send elite troops to raid in the night. If we succeed, it will definitely shake their morale. Maybe we can turn defeat into victory."

Yuan Shu's eyes lit up, and immediately ordered Ji LingShi to leave the city to raid the food route of Lu Bu's army tonight.

General Yang clasped his fists and said, "As the saying goes, lions fight rabbits, use all their strength! This is the key to our army's defeat into victory, and we must do our best! I suggest that Your Majesty send 50,000 elite troops to defeat Cao Xing and Gao Shun with a thunderous force and completely destroy their food and grass! Only in this way can we have the chance to win!"

Yuan Shu hesitated for a moment, nodded, and conveyed the order to Ji Ling again, causing him to lead 50,000 elite troops to attack tonight. Ji Ling held his fists and agreed.

At this moment, the envoy sent to Sun Jian to send the order back and reported to Yuan Shu with joy: "Your Majesty, Sun Jian has received His Majesty's imperial edict and has led a hundred thousand troops under his command to rescue!" Yuan Shu was overjoyed and asked hurriedly: "Where are they now?" "Wei Chen left Jiangxia with Sun Jian. We came along with the Wei Chen. The army was moving slowly, but now it should have entered the Lujiang territory!" The so-called Lujiang refers to Lujiang County, which is also Yuan Shu's territory, south of Jiujiang County, and Jiujiang County includes Hefei Shouchun and other places. Sun Jian's army has entered the Lujiang area, which is really fast. No wonder, grabbing territory has such great benefits. Anyone will travel thousands of miles a day to avoid taking away the benefits of others.
Chapter completed!