『PS: I will get up early tomorrow and go to IKEA to buy a new table with my wife. I have to go to bed early, so I won’t make up for it tonight.”

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Looking back to the early morning of this day, it was Zhao Ben and Lian Po who fled back to the military camp of Yangwenjun Zhao Bao after their defeat, while Meng Zhong returned to the military camp with nearly 4,000 surrendered troops from the royal army. At this time, Le Yi and Wu Ying were lurking in the north of Feiyi with 300 Xinwei troops.

In the north of Feiyi, where the Xinwei Army had previously garrisoned, Meng Zhong, Le Yi, Meng Sui and others had trained soldiers on this land and were more familiar with the nearby terrain and would not easily reveal their whereabouts.

Of course, the main thing is that no one is paying attention to. Who would have thought that the Xinwei Army, which had "turned over" the rebels, would sneak back to its former camp?

And from the Xinwei Army's headquarters to the north, the only way between Handan and Quliang.

Yes, Handan, Feiyi, and Quliang, from a bird's eye view, the three places look like triangular, which makes Le Yi lead his army lurking here, and can easily monitor the transportation team from Handan to Quliang.

However, since Handan does not send people to transport grain to Quliang every day, Le Yi did not gain much in the first two days after he led his army to this place. It was not until the early morning of August 26 that Le Yi received the news that a grain transport team was coming from Handan to Quliangyi.

"How many grain trucks does this grain transport team have? How many civilians?" Le Yi asked the soldiers of the Xinwei Army who came to report.

The soldier of Xinwei Army replied: "It is estimated that there are five or six hundred grain trucks and thousands of escorts. However, according to the observation, most of them should be recruited soldiers, with only a few hundred soldiers."

Some people may think that the grain transport team of such a large scale actually has only a hundred soldiers, and Handan is too negligent.

But in fact, there is a reason, because in contemporary times, the strategy of "sneak attack on the grain road" is extremely rare. After all, most of the military tactics at this time were aimed at "how to reduce the opponent's live force", and few involve specializing in sniping the enemy's food road.

What's more, Handan and Quliangyi are too close to each other, so Handan sent more than a hundred soldiers to follow him.

By the way, even if they were the hundreds of soldiers carrying food and grass, their mission was not to guard against the enemy's sneak attacks, but to manage thousands of soldiers and urge them to transport the food and grass to their destination on schedule. Otherwise, both the civilians and more than a hundred soldiers would be punished.

"That's how..."

Le Yi frowned and thought when he heard this.

Seeing his appearance, Wu Ying said, "Those thousands of people are just soldiers who are vulnerable. Even if there are more than a hundred soldiers, they cannot stop me and three hundred Xinwei... If you attack, you will definitely win!"

"Mo underestimate those soldiers, after all, there are thousands of people..." Le Yi shook his head slightly.

The soldiers they mentioned are civilians who have served in the military. They have received relatively preliminary training and can use weapons and armor, but they are only this level. There is still a big gap compared to real soldiers. In non-war situations, these soldiers are generally responsible for escorting food and grass. However, when the national war is tight and the military power is severe, these soldiers will be recruited again, undergo strengthening training again in a short period of time, and then quickly put them on the battlefield, which is roughly the meaning of preparing soldiers.

Considering that these soldiers have received basic training and that they only had 300 Xinwei troops in the end, Le Yi did not want to confront them head-on. After all, with more than 300 people attacking more than 1,000 people, even if the Xinwei troops are brave, there will be some casualties, which Le Yi does not want to see.

"I have an idea."

He waved his hand and asked Wu Ying to come forward, and Le Yi said a few words to the former.

After a few simple words, Wu Ying's face, which was still slightly tense, immediately smiled and nodded and praised: "Good plan, then do it like this!"

After the agreement, Le Yi immediately summoned the Xinwei Army under his command. He handed over the remaining soldiers to Wu Ying, and he took a hundred Xinwei Army and appeared on the road in a dignified manner and headed towards the transportation team ahead.

At this time, about six or seven miles away from Leyi Team, the grain transport team coming from Handan was slowly walking on the road.

The general responsible for escorting food and grass was named Zhao Dan, who was also a child of the Zhao clan. However, he was not from the two branches of Anping Jun Zhao Cheng and Yangwen Jun Zhao Bao, but the cousin of Zhao Zao, the inner minister, who served as a field official in the court. He used to be responsible for collecting land and taxes from various townships. Although he was wearing glamorous armor, he was not actually a military general who had experienced the war.

"At most, at noon tomorrow, this batch of food and grass should be transported to Quliang... I don't know what the war is going on there."

On the only chariot in this grain transport team, Zhao general Zhao Dan looked in the direction of Quliangyi and muttered in a low voice.

Handan and Quliangyi are not far away. After all, Quliang is located in the northeast of Handan City, with a straight line of about a hundred miles, but in terms of the hills that circumn between the two places, the actual distance is about 120 miles.

Considering that the Wei Wuzhang trained by Wu Qi was carrying dozens of kilograms of weight and could hike a hundred miles in about half a day, this distance was not far.

Of course, it was just a marching force, and the target was Wei Wuzhang, the most elite infantry in the entire Central Plains. Zhao Dan's schedule of escorting food and grass was far inferior to Wei Wuzhang.

After receiving the order from Zhao Zao, the inner historian, he set off in Handan on the morning of August 26, leading more than a thousand civilians and more than a hundred grain transport soldiers. He traveled a full day and only walked more than fifty miles.

It is no wonder that in this era when horses are still in short supply, horses are generally divided into three levels, namely, military horses (war horses), field horses (hunting horses), and slow horses (horse with poor qualifications). Even slow horses are currently quite precious, and are mostly used to transport grain and grass from Handan to Yanmen County thousands of miles away, etc., and in places closer, such as Zhao Dan, who is now ordered to escort grain and grass to Quliang County, usually recruit civilians to serve and use manpower to transport carts.

With manpower rather than horsepower to transport food and grass, of course, this speed will not be much faster.

Just when Zhao Dan was thinking about the war in Quliangyi, the soldiers who were driving his chariot suddenly reminded him: "The official of Tianma, there is a team in front of him."

“Hmm?”

Zhao Dan was stunned for a moment, looked up at the front, and indeed saw a team of about a hundred people coming towards him and his group.

"These people...

Zhao Dan frowned and immediately ordered the team carrying food to stop on the spot. Immediately, he ordered the soldiers driving to approach and shouted far away to the opposite team: "On over there, where are you waiting for?"

At this time, the team of 100 people appeared in front of Zhao Dan was the one hundred Xinwei troops led by Le Yi.

After hearing Zhao Dan's call, Le Yi replied loudly: "I am the commander of the soldiers under Yang Jun, and I am ordered to go to Handan to urge grain."

When Zhao Dan heard this, he didn't doubt it. After Le Yi approached, he asked strangely: "Is Quliang very short of food?"

Le Yi shook his head and said, "There was no shortage of food before, but recently, the military camp under Yang Wenjun's command has been attacked several times by rebels, and some food and grass were burned down during this period..."

"Oh." Zhao Dan nodded relievedly. After all, he was in Handan and he was not surprised that Yang Wenjun's military camp was attacked by rebels.

With relief, he reminded Le Yi to show the order talisman.

Of course, Le Yi would not have the talisman in the army of Fengyang Jun Li Dui, but he was not panicked. He just looked at Zhao Dan with a funny look and said, "How can you use the talisman for this little thing?" As he said, he changed the question and asked, "Are these foods transported to Quliang?"

Maybe the Xin Wei army was also wearing Zhao State armor, which made Zhao Dan unable to distinguish, or maybe Zhao Dan did not expect that a rebel would bypass Quliang and appear here, so that he had no doubt about Le Yi, who claimed to be "a subordinate of Fengyang Jun", nodded and said, "Yes, I am ordered by the inner minister to escort this batch of food and grass to Quliang... What do you call me the little brother?"

"Li Yi." Le Yi pretended to be.

When Zhao Dan, who heard that the other party claimed to be his surname Li and had no concerns about him, immediately became much more polite.

After all, in Zhao State, the Li family came from the long-deceased General Li Tong of Zhao State, and the Fengyang Jun Li Dui was the legitimate grandson. It is no exaggeration to say that at least 70% of the Li family of Zhao State are from Li Tong, and like the Zhao State, they are all major surnames of Zhao State.

Thinking of this, Zhao Dan immediately got off the chariot and greeted Le Yi politely: "I saw the little brother having some gazes, but I never thought that he was a child of the Li clan. The foolish brother Zhao Dan is currently serving as a member of the Tian Ministry..."

As he said that, in order to show his closeness, he patted Le Yi's armor.

As a result, after a shot, he felt something was wrong, because he felt that Le Yi’s armor was very thick, and he seemed to be wearing more than a layer of armor.

However, the army of Zhao generally only has one layer of armor, except...

"Finding Guards!"

In an instant, Zhao Dan's expression changed drastically. He was about to retreat, but suddenly he saw a sword light flashing in front of him. Immediately, a cold sword was placed on his neck.

"I really didn't expect this..."

After glanced at the place where Zhao Dan photographed himself, Le Yi suddenly turned aright and shouted: "Take it!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the soldiers of the Xinwei Army who had already approached the food truck intentionally or unintentionally immediately aimed the weapons in their hands at the soldiers and killed them.

At this time, Le Yi held Zhao Dan hostage and shouted loudly: "I believe in the guards to assist Sima Leyi. I will plunder this batch of food and grass. If you don't want to die, just run away!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a shout of killing came from afar. It turned out that Wu Ying led the remaining two hundred Xinwei troops to fight from afar.

The poor soldiers didn't know what was going on. Seeing that several of their companions who were transporting grain were killed by the soldiers, they were immediately panicked. Then they heard Le Yi's words again, and immediately threw down the grain truck and turned around and ran away.

Even the more than a hundred soldiers turned around and fled.

Yes, how can a group of soldiers who may not even set foot on the battlefield have the courage to face the Xinwei Army, known as Zhao Wuzhang?

Without any effort, Le Yi's soldiers intercepted the grain of hundreds of grain trucks of the royal army without any blood.

After Wu Ying brought the troops to join, Le Yi ordered the soldiers to take away fifty grain trucks full of food. As for hundreds of other vehicles, he ordered to set fire to burn them.

Seeing that the truck of grain was burned, I thought anyone would feel distressed, but there was no way. After all, the guards could not take away all the grain here, so they could only burn it.

"What should he do?"

After setting fire to the food, Wu Ying turned to look at Zhao Dan, who was held hostage by two soldiers from the Xinwei Army.

Seeing this, Zhao Dan was frightened and begged for mercy and said, "I am only responsible for escorting food and grass, I..."

"Let it go... As he said, he is just the official who is responsible for escorting food and grass, and killing it is useless." Le Yi thought for a while and said.

"Let it go?" Wu Ying frowned and said, "If he let this person go, he will definitely report this to Li Dui..."

"So what?" Le Yi chuckled.

To be honest, he wished Li Dui could send people to encircle him. If Li Dui only sent hundreds of people to encircle him, he would not do anything to him and his Xinwei Army; if Li Dui army dared to send thousands of troops, Prince Zhang and Meng Zhong would definitely take the opportunity to attack Quliang.

Thinking of this, Le Yi said to Zhao Dan: "You go to Quliang to tell Li Du that I believe in the guards to assist Sima Le Yi, and this time I have attacked your food and grass, and I will continue to attack your army's food and grass..."

"Yes, yes..." Zhao Dan nodded repeatedly.

In this way, Zhao Dan escaped by chance. After Le Yi and Wu Ying left with the soldiers, he was robbed of the chariot and rushed to Quliang with the only few remaining soldiers around him and reported the incident to Fengyang Jun Li Dui.

"The guards assisted Sima Leyi..."

After listening to Zhao Dan's story, especially after listening to the original words of Le Yi as Zhao Dan, Fengyang Jun Li Dui smashed his fist on the table in front of him, and a wrinkled face full of anger and cursed: "Arrogance, really arrogant! A boy from Zhongshan dares..."

He thought to himself, it would be fine if I can't do anything to Meng Zhong. After all, Meng Zhong has thousands of rebels under his command and occupied the favorable terrain of the Qunqiu area, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack. If you, Le Yi, lead only 300 guards, dare to cut off my food route behind our army? You really don't know how to live or die!

Thinking of this, he immediately turned to look at Lian Po, preparing to ask Lian Po to lead his troops to deal with Le Yi.

But as soon as Li Dui opened his mouth, he changed his mind.

He suddenly thought of a question: If Lian Po was sent to deal with Le Yi, then Meng Zhong would do this? It was obvious that Meng Zhong's threat was even greater!

At present, only Lian Po can compete with Meng Zhong in his army. If Lian Po is sent to deal with Le Yi, the next time Meng Zhong leads his army to attack, his military camp may not be able to be saved.

Thinking of this, he called his son Li Ji. After explaining the situation, he instructed his son: "Ji'er, immediately lead three thousand soldiers to the area west of Quliang and north of Feiyi to search for the traces of the rebel general Le Yi. Be sure to surround him and kill him to shock the rebels!"

"Here!" Li Ji left with his fists.

After taking a look at Li Ji's back, Yang Wenjun Zhao Bao asked Li Dui: "Looking at how you are, are you unwilling to give up Qu Liang?"

Hearing this, Li Dui shook his head slowly.
To be continued...