Before the troops move, food and grass will come first.

When two armies fight, food and grass are always the first factor. If there is a problem, the only way to defeat the enemy is to fight the grain route. Therefore, attacking the other party's food route has become one of the important means of victory.

Throughout history, many Confucian generals, wise generals, brave generals, racked their brains to greet the enemy's grain transport team, using any means and doing everything they can.

Thanks to Cao Ang's wealth and mightyness, the black-robed army had never been worried about food and grass for many years. But today... Yuan Shao actually went the other way and directly sent them hundreds of thousands of refugees. This was simply shameless his father opened the door for shameless, and he got home.

Fortunately, Gao Shun and Xu Huang and others all came from the war era. They had experienced many days of lack of food and clothing. Although their lives have improved in recent years, they have not forgotten their roots. They would not panic when they suddenly encountered such a thing. They sent messengers to ask for help. They ordered Chen Xiaozi to take the mountain brigade into the mountains to hunt, and the army continued to advance. Before it was dark, Shen Shi had just passed by.

Outside Jinyang City, hundreds of thousands of refugees gathered under the city, looking at the city walls with dull expressions and sad faces. From a distance, they were covered in darkness, some standing, some sitting, and some lying down, and the formation was so scattered.

Seeing Gao Shun's army coming from the north, the refugees rushed up as if they had found their backbone.

Zhang Xugan and the other two changed their faces, and Gan Ning even shouted at the top of his voice: "Defend the defense."

Gao Shun's face was also a little unnatural, but he forced himself to calmly say, "Give me a loudspeaker, you guys shout with me."

After saying that, he took the loudspeaker and put it on his lips and shouted: "My fellow villagers, please say something well, don't rush around, otherwise the military law will not be merciless."

The people are not enemies, and they cannot use the direct attack of the enemy, but can only use this method, hoping that the people in front of them will not lose their minds if they are hungry.

Tens of thousands of troops repeated Gao Shun's words at the same time, and the voices gathered into a stream of sounds for several miles. One-third of the people rushing to the scene stopped, and some of the remaining two-thirds were pulled back by the stoppers. Some saw so many people stopping, and they stopped like the wind and stood half a mile away from the army.

The people were timid and were born with a fear of the army. They were ruthless just now and were scolded by tens of thousands of troops. They woke up on the spot, called their friends, and lair dragged their daughter to leave.

Seeing this, Gao Shun breathed a sigh of relief, and rushed forward and shouted to the crowd, "Do you have any people in charge here? Let's answer someone."

The people nearby looked at each other for a long time and finally released an old man in his sixties.

The old man was holding a cane and was helped to Gao Shun by two young men and said, "I have seen the general."

After saying that, he was about to kneel down. Gao Shun quickly dismounted and helped him up, and said softly: "I'm asking you to get up, how can you ask me, what are you doing?"

The old man raised his crutch and smashed it hard on the ground, sighing: "Yuan Jun will not let people live. The damn Yuan Shao snatched all our property and drove us out of Jinyang City. He also said that the army had shortage of food and grass and had no choice but to come up with this bad strategy. He told us that Cao Jun loves the people as much as his son. If they find Cao Jun, they will definitely take care of us."

"To be honest, the bandits are like combing soldiers, and the nonsense of Cao's army is like a child, and I don't believe it."

The two young men who supported him changed their expressions. They quickly pushed him and signaled not to talk nonsense. However, the old man was unhappy and glared at them and said, "The left and right are dead, what's wrong with me vomiting?"

Gao Shun: "..." This old man is prejudiced to officers and soldiers.

He smiled and said, "It's okay if you say it."

The old man continued: "Originally, we planned to go our separate ways. If we don't want to stay here, we will have a place to stay. Halfway through the way, we met the people from other counties and townships. When we learned that Yuan's army had plundered all the surrounding materials, we told them that only by finding Cao's army would be able to survive, so we turned back."

"Now all the people in Taiyuan are rushing to Jinyang, and more and more people here will gather."

"And I heard that Yuan Shao also sent a general named Zhang Nan to Yunzhong, Shuofang, Xihe, Shangjun, Shangdang and other places to rob, and wanted to move the entire Bingzhou to Guanzhong. Damn, our ancestors were in Bingzhou for generations, and the surname Yuan was to force people to death."

Gao Shun's pupils shrank, his eyebrows squeezed into the character "Chuan" on the spot, and asked in a deep voice: "Where are those aristocratic families in Bingzhou, no one has come forward to take care of it?"

The old man said with a sad face: "What should I do? The young and strong families from Bingzhou have gone to Jizhou with the high-ranking governors. I heard that you Cao's army had surrendered. Those who followed Yuan Shao were all from Jizhou's soldiers, so they didn't care about the lives and deaths of our Bingzhou people. Those Jizhou soldiers were extremely arrogant and killed if they were wrong. On weekdays, they bullied the common people and faced them with one of them. They were all cowardly."

"Oh..." Gao Shun let out a long sigh and said, "Don't worry, old man, our Cao army dare not say that they love the people as much as their children. At least they have a conscience. I will take care of your food. I will eat two meals a day, and I will not say that I will eat enough, at least I will not let you starve to death."

"real?"

The old man was overjoyed, subconsciously stretched out his hands and grabbed Gao Shun's wrist.

This old man is quite strong at such an age, and hasn't cut his nails for a long time. He cuts a few blood marks on Gao Shun's wrist on the spot.

Gao Shun smiled bitterly and said, "Of course, I am also from Bingzhou. How can I watch my fellow villagers starve to the wilderness? But there are too many people. I would like to ask the elderly to help me stabilize people's hearts and not let everyone do anything misleading."

"I understand."

The old man said happily: "I know a lot of people in the city. Those who come from other places can find a few relatives. If relatives look for relatives, they are all acquaintances."

"That's good."

He turned around and shouted, "Zhang Liao, you are responsible for the resettlement of the people, bury the pot and cook, and let everyone have a full meal first. Xu Huang, you are responsible for the alert and guard against Yuan Jun's sneak attack from the city. Gan Ning, you lead the team to nearby counties and townships to see if you can find some more supplies, or grab some from Yuan Jun."

This task was assigned quite reasonably. Zhang Liao followed Cao Ang for many years and had experience in dealing with the people. It would be better for him to resettle the people.

Xu Huang was a general valued by Cao Cao. He had no idea about charge on the battlefield, and he could plan and let him place the people, but he couldn't lean down.

As for Gan Ning, he was a robbery before joining the army, and he was familiar with his old career.

"Here."

Zhang Liao and Gan Ning were fine, so they immediately started preparing.

Xu Huang was a little worried, and ran over to pull Gao Shun aside, whispered: "Instructor Gao, our food and grass are enough for the more than 50,000 troops to support for five days. If they are distributed to the people, so many people will not be able to hold on for a day."

"Then what can I do?"

Gao Shun said bitterly: "There are hundreds of thousands of refugees in front of him, and other counties are still rushing back and forth. There are so many refugees, no matter what consequences you have ever thought about?"

"Once refugees are flooded, the entire Bingzhou will become a mud. If that's the case, it will be difficult to calm down."
Chapter completed!