The junction of Youzhou.

Zhang He also did not expect that one day he would become a grain transport officer again.

The grain and grass were finally collected in a batch a few days ago, and then they need to be transferred to Yuyang. Zhang He escorted the grain transport team to Yi Jing, which left two days ago, and it is expected to arrive in two or three days.

Yuyang.

Before leaving Yijing, Zhang He went to the castle tower in the inner city where Gongsun Zan set himself on fire. He sat among the broken eaves and broken walls and remained silent for a long time. When he heard that Gongsun Zan had set himself on fire, Zhang He still remembered that he was very excited and drank continuously.

I’ve had several drinks, and now...

Zhang He couldn't explain what kind of mood he was feeling right now. It was very complicated, and multiple emotions were intertwined with each other, making Zhang He feel uncomfortable in his chest and abdomen.

Baima Yicong, General Gongsun.

When Gongsun Zan was traveling across Youzhou, did he ever think that one day he would be alone on the castle tower, shouting or wailing, and then set fire to himself? Why did he choose to use fire? Because

Doesn't he want his broken body to be humiliated by the enemy again? After all, in the desert, there are many people who use the enemy's skulls to make wine bowls and drowning vessels. Or maybe he feels that he should be like a burning fire

Generally speaking, life is raging and death is fierce?

have no idea.

Maybe one day, when I get down from the underworld and see Gongsun Zan, I can ask clearly.

Zhang He was followed by nearly five hundred cavalry.

Some of these cavalry horses were squeezed out by Cao Cao in Jizhou, and the other part were raised by Tadun's remnants. After all, war horses are not something that can be planted in the land this year and grow next year. Even if

There are some horses, and it's useless if you don't know how to raise them. Now under Cao Cao's rule, there are many people who know how to feed horses, but very few people who know how to raise horses.

Yuan Shao didn't know how to raise horses before, so most of his cavalry and horses were originally traded with the barbarians. But now, after Tadun died, those barbarians are basically not willing to talk to Cao Cao.

The reason, of course, is very simple. Cao Cao lost credibility in the matter of Tadun.

Zhang He even felt that if Cao Cao didn't need a horse breeder, and those Tadun tribesmen couldn't find any chance to resist for a while, both sides would definitely... Haha, if there was a slight change, I'm afraid something else would happen!

All this made Zhang He feel a little...

disappointment.

Even more disappointed than before.

It's like it was originally a P8, and I was about to change my job to a T9 or something, but when I looked over, I saw that it was actually a fake T9, a T3x3. After a series of calculations, it turned out to be a 9...

Zhang He turned around and looked at the cavalrymen following the grain carts. Their faces were tense and expressionless. It was true that he was a cavalryman, but did he have private soldiers and was he a cavalryman with only 500 men? Others

None of the cavalry captains can be said to be better than me, right?

And this time, after arriving in Yuyang, he will become Cao Chun's deputy.

Will Cao Chun be stronger than me?

Yes, because Cao Chun has a good surname. His father is Cao Chi, Cao Ren's father and Cao Cao's father-in-law.

A good father has countless victories in the world.

Zhang He looked at the sky above his head. He didn't know whether he was looking at the weather or something in the sky. Anyway, after a while, Zhang He gave the order to set up camp at a mountain col ahead.

The soldiers and civilians were busy.

Zhang He got off his horse and went up to the hill beside the col. He stood on the top of the mountain and looked around.

There was silence all around.

But for some reason, Zhang He felt a little uneasy.

Although it is spring and the days should be getting longer, it is still getting dark very quickly now. Not long after Zhang He ordered the camp to be set up, the sky gradually became dark, and then everything around him gradually became blurred, and finally merged into gray and black.

Zhang He went down the mountain and saw three or four guards sitting on the bonfire next to his tent, roasting a badger.

"Where did it come from?" Zhang He raised his chin.

The guard who was spreading salt grains on the badger looked sideways at the other older guard.

"Honest Qian! Tell me, where did you come from?" Zhang He followed his gaze and asked. Although Zhang He did not have private soldiers, he still had dozens or twenty guards. These people followed Zhang He through life and death, so naturally compared with those ordinary soldiers

Be more intimate and casual.

Qian Laoshi laughed twice, and then said: "I went to explore the road this morning, and I happened to meet him... We were afraid that the general would say that we didn't bother to explore, so we stuffed it in the haystack first..."

The badger usually hibernates when the weather is cold. Now it has finally made it to the beginning of spring. The weather has warmed up and left the cave, but was bumped into by Qian Laoshi and others...

"Cut half of it and send it over there." Zhang He said.

"General, that's all..." Qian Laoshi was stunned for a moment and said subconsciously. The badger was not a large animal to begin with. It had just endured a winter and lost all its fat. How much meat could it still have?

"I'll cut it if I tell you, there's so much nonsense!" Zhang Daozi, who was the leader of the guard, stood up, took out the knife inserted in his boot and threw it away.

Qian Laoshi grabbed the dagger, nodded and muttered something vaguely, but no one could hear clearly what he said.

The half-cut badger will bake faster, and it will be almost cooked in a short time.

Zhang He didn't take off the stick of the badger and bite it. He just cut a strip with a knife and put it in his mouth to chew. Suddenly, a strong fishy smell overflowed.

The taste of badgers is not very good. In fact, most wild animals, if they are cooked directly and barbecued without any artificial flavors, will not taste very good. After all, artificially raised pigs, cattle and sheep have been screened and bred.

It is specially produced for food, and many animals in nature have some countermeasures to defend themselves against natural enemies. Even if they do not have sharp claws and fangs, they may still have a belly full of stinky farts...

After eating another piece, Zhang He gave the knife to the guard beside him, indicating that he had used it and would not eat anymore.

The flames of the bonfire were rising, the wood was burning cracklingly, and then a fragment of sparks seemed to break out and jumped onto Qian Laoshi, who was drying his shirt in front of the bonfire. He was so scared that he jumped up and shook his robe with some distress.

…

Zhang He leaned against the saddle, took a piece of hard dough bread from the ration bag on the saddle, broke it into his mouth, and was chewing it when he suddenly paused and stood up suddenly.

Zhang He suddenly stood up, which immediately alerted the guards who were eating and drinking around him. The guards immediately stopped their original movements, holding their swords and looking around into the night.

"General...what's wrong?" Qian Laoshi asked.

Zhang He looked around intently.

There was nothing unusual about the dozen or so fires set up by the grain transport team. The soldiers, soldiers and civilians were all sitting around the campfire, either warming themselves up, eating or drinking, or chatting in low voices, while the sentry posted on the hill on one side

It was also quiet, and did not send out any abnormal signals or alarms...

The dark night sky pressed down on the earth like an upturned iron pot. There was only a dark outline of the meadows and mountains in the distance. A few stars were dotted on the sky, flickering brightly and dimly with a cool light.

The cool breeze at night whistled past the grass tips, causing the sparks on the bonfires to drift eastward and scatter a few westward...

Everything seems normal.

Zhang He waved his hands, sat down again, and continued to eat the pancakes.

The leader of the guard approached Zhang He, his eyes still roving around vigilantly, "The general just... but what did he see?"

Zhang He was chewing the cake, his chiseled face changing in the flickering firelight, his eyes deep, "I didn't see anything... I just felt like someone was watching... You can post more sentries later, be careful at night."

Some……"

What Zhang He didn't know was that on a rock in the distance, two people with grass tied on their heads and some shrubs and branches on their bodies carefully and slowly shrank behind the rock, looked at each other, and then tiptoed.

left...

Zhang He and others, who were relaxed on the outside and tense on the inside, were on guard all night, but nothing happened. Until the morning of the next day, everything was normal. This made Zhang He a little confused, wondering if he was too sensitive. Maybe

It's just that some animal at night came smelling the smell of barbecue cooking.

But in the evening of the next day, when we were only one day away from Yuyang, the accident finally happened...

The sentry on guard issued a warning: "General! Fire has been spotted from the north!"

Fire?!

Everyone was shocked!

Looking to the north, it seems that in the dim curtain on the horizon, this piece of light, not much larger than half the thumbnail of a little finger, is wrapped in it. It is flickering and disappearing in an incomprehensible way, as if someone is holding a fire.

, and then sends a specific signal...

"Here comes..." As soon as Zhang He said these two words, the fire in the distance disappeared, as if it had never appeared before.

"Honest Qian! Take two brothers over and have a look!" Zhang He ordered, "The rest of the people, go up the slope immediately, everyone is on alert! Form a formation of vehicles and defend according to the formation! Do not remove your armor and do not move rashly! Violators will be subject to military law.

Argument!"

At this time, it was also the time for Zhang He and others to prepare for lunch the next day. A bonfire had just been lit in the temporary camp, and there was smoke everywhere, rising up and filling the vast meadow around the vast meadow, drifting gradually with the wind.

Shen.

Six stoves were set up in the open space in the middle, and a large iron pot was set up to cook soup. In the iron pot, white steam swirled with water, and brown dried vegetables and green wild vegetables were mixed into the pot to cook. Soldiers and civilians were lining up in units of tens.

, received soup, vegetables and dry food, and sat around eating and drinking with clear distinctions at both ends. Suddenly hearing the news, most of the people looked at others with confused faces.

The veterans who passed the battlefield suddenly jumped up in shock, threw away their bowls, and grabbed the swords and guns standing next to them.

The place where Zhang He chose to camp was naturally not too bad. The grain transport queue suddenly became busy and gave up the preparations at the shelter of the mountain col. The soldiers shouted loudly and directed the civilians to link up the grain transport vehicles on the hillside.

Formed into a simple fortification...

The soldiers were doing better, but the civilians were in a panic. Even if someone gave orders, they would still see some people walking and running on the same hand and feet, and then either knocking down others or bumping into them.

Grain truck.
To be continued...