Chapter 435 Xu Huang Cuts Off the Food

After Xu Huang received Liu Ye's order, he immediately led two thousand cavalry and set off from Puyang to Yingyang day and night.

The second day of October.

"Captain Xu!" A detective rode his horse back from a distance, rushed a dozen steps in front of Xu Huang, and shouted: "Captain Xu, hundreds of carts of Yuan Shu's army were found ahead, it seems to be Yuan Shu's army. The army's food delivery unit."

"Forage team?" Xu Huang's eyes lit up, he turned around and said, "The whole army listens to the order and gathers in the direction of Yuan Shu's army food team!"

"promise!"

After the two thousand cavalry heard Xu Huang's order, they immediately followed Xu Huang and marched forward.

Two thousand iron cavalry ran around for a while, and after a while, only hundreds of carts were seen in front of them, escorted by more than a thousand infantry, slowly moving forward.

"Kill!" Xu Huang roared without hesitation, like a tiger descending the mountain, he waved his mountain-breaking ax and rushed into Yuan Shu's army first.

The big ax in Xu Huang's hand was suddenly raised, and it fell on the head, immediately cutting a Yuan Shu soldier in front of him in half.

"Who is coming? Dare to intercept our army's food and grass?" The general in the food transportation team's face changed drastically, and he asked Xu Huang.

"Uncle Liu Huang, a general of chariots and cavalry, Xu Huang, the school captain of Xiaoqi school!"

After Xu Huang finished speaking, his legs clamped the horse's belly, and the horse galloped forward with all four hooves.

"Chen Lan, under the command of Duke Yuan, the rear general of a certain family, you! Oops!"

Before Chen Lan finished speaking, Xu Huang had already rushed forward alone, with the mountain-breaking ax in his hand raised high, and it fell with a sharp look on his head, and the violent wind seemed to shatter him.

"My old lady!"

Chen Lan turned pale with fright, turned around and ran away without saying a word, but Xu Huang didn't chase after her.

Xu Huang shouted: "Don't let these people go away, they have to escort the food and grass."

After hearing Xu Huang's order, the two thousand cavalry under his command immediately agreed, and then dispersed one after another, besieging Yuan Shujun's infantry and more than a thousand civilian husbands with less than a thousand people.

"I will surrender my wish, please don't kill me, general!"

The civilian husbands who escorted the food and grass naturally squatted down one after another, but unexpectedly, the hundreds of soldiers of Yuan Shu's army who were surrounded were not determined to fight, and knelt down one after another to beg for surrender.

Xu Huang frowned, pulled his horse forward, and asked a small officer of Yuan Jun who was wearing armor and knelt on the ground, "You are the army under Yuan Shu's command, why did you surrender without fighting our army?"

Although Xu Huang had bent and stretched among the Yellow Turban Bandits before, there was a compelling reason. In fact, Xu Huang's personality was a bit similar to Yu Jin's. With such an army, Yuan Shu dared to fight on three fronts?

The little officer Yuan Jun who was questioned almost burst into tears: What exactly do you want? No one cares about surrender these days?

The junior officer Yuan Jun said with a bitter face: "General, we were originally ordinary people in Yuzhou and Yangzhou, but the later general (Yuan Shu) forced us to fight. We were still farming in the fields a few days ago. After being issued a few armors and weapons, I came to escort food and grass, and I haven’t fought against others so far.”

Xu Huang was taken aback for a moment and then laughed.

"It's no wonder that Yuan Shu dared to declare war on all sides after occupying more than half of Yuzhou and less than half of Yangzhou. It turned out that they were all mobs."

Seeing Xu Huang's easy-going manner, the junior officer Yuan Jun said cautiously, "General, I have a merciless request."

Xu Huang nodded and said, "Tell me and listen."

"We are all people in Yuzhou, and we didn't want to fight for the general later, but we were forced to come here by his subordinates. Will you let us go back?"

Xu Huang flatly refused: "No." The little officer immediately looked bitter, but Xu Huang's next words cheered him up.

"You have to send these grains to Nanyang first, and then you can go back." Xu Huang asked curiously, "But once you go back, you will be arrested by Yuan Shu, right?"

The little officer smiled wryly: "Oh, who said otherwise? But most of us have families and businesses, raising children, and our family business, wives and children are all in Yuzhou, so what can we do if we don't go back?"

"I have a way out." Xu Huang smiled and said, "General Cheqi is in charge of the court and distributes land to the refugees. Why don't you move to Yanzhou?"

"Land? Will Liu Cheqi really give us land?"

"Yes, there are six people in my family, at least ten acres of land."

Xu Huang nodded: "The land is awarded according to the head. Now the imperial court has less people and more land. When you go there, you will have land. Is it better than being pulled by Yuan Shu to go to the battlefield?"

A group of civilian husbands and Yuan Jun recruits became energetic after hearing these words, and after some discussion, it was still the junior officer who said to Xu Huang: "General, we listen to you, it's better than dying on the battlefield."

"Good! Zhou Ping."

"Lieutenant Xu, what are your orders?" Hundreds of people led Zhou Ping out of the queue.

"You take the guards of the headquarters and these people to escort the food and grass back to Nanyang, and find a way to escort their families to move into Nanyang together, understand?"

Liu Ye went out to Yanzhou in person, Xun You stayed in Luoyang, and Nanyang County was outside Guxuan Pass, south of Wuguan, bordering Liu Biao of Jingzhou and Yuan Shu of Yuzhou at the same time.

Therefore, Liu Ye sent Zhang Jai to sit in Nanyang County as the base for Xu Huang's attack.

"promise!"

Zhou Ping led a team of hundreds of people to escort Yuan Shujun's more than a thousand people and hundreds of carts away, while a captain under Xu Huang's command asked Xu Huang in a puzzled way: "Captain Xu, I have a I don’t know if it’s appropriate to talk about the problem.”

Xu Huang smiled and said, "Whatever the problem, you can speak up."

"I have personally seen Captain Xu's martial arts. Although it cannot be compared with General Cheqi and Wen Hou, it is not inferior to Zhang Andong and General Pang Lang. Chen Lan's martial arts are only so good, why not kill him?" What about him?"

Xu Huang didn't answer his question, but asked instead: "I'm going to ask you, if you were Ji Ling, and a deserter under your command came back and reported the news that food and grass were robbed, what would you do?"

He pondered for a while, and replied: "The looting of food and grass will inevitably endanger the morale of the army. If Ji Ling's subordinate is Ji Ling, these people must be killed on the spot, or even imprisoned if they are not good enough. The news must not be leaked."

Xu Huang nodded: "Yes, Ji Ling will definitely kill them to prevent the news from leaking, but this Chen Lan is a general under Yuan Shu's command, and Ji Ling can't easily kill the generals, so the news of the robbing of food and grass will naturally spread. out."

"The captain is brilliant, and his subordinates admire him." He suddenly realized.

At this time, Ji Ling was in the army.

"What? You lost the food and grass?"

When Ji Ling saw Chen Lan's disheveled face and unresolved shock, his lungs ached from anger.