Three Kingdoms: Summon the Heroic Soul Yue Fei at the beginning

Chapter 126 Ye Xiao's Worries

Chapter 126 Ye Xiao's Worries

Following Ye Xiao's order, the troops began to enter Fengqiu, and before all the troops had entered Fengqiu, a scout hurried over.

"Report! My lord, an enemy appears on the east side!"

Ye Xiao hurriedly asked after hearing the report: "How many people?"

"My lord, only 30 of them are cavalry!"

"My lord, I will send someone to take them down!"

Fan Kui heard the report from the scouts and was about to go out to pursue him. Seeing Fan Kui's appearance, Ye Xiao stepped forward and grabbed his hand and said.

"What are you chasing! These people are obviously scouts!"

If these people can be sent by Wen Chou to investigate Fengqiu, it proves that Wen Chou knows the news of Fengqiu's fall, and if these people dare to come, it proves that they have already figured out a retreat route.

After Ye Xiao finished speaking, he came to the city wall of Fengqiu City, looking at the forests in the distance.

It was late autumn at this time, the leaves on the trees had fallen clean, and the biting cold wind was blowing in through the gaps in the trees.

"Yue Ying, you will take the scouts to patrol later, let the scouts wear thicker clothes, so as not to freeze."

Fan Kuai rubbed his hands vigorously, and said with a breath of steam, "My lord, it's very cold in late autumn. We don't have many cotton coats when we go out this time. It's a problem to keep warm."

Hearing this, Ye Xiao stretched out his hand in his pocket. The autumn wind blew, and the temperature of his palm dropped rapidly. Ye Xiao looked at the forest in the distance and said.

"Fan Kuai, take some people to cut down some trees for warmth, and then order the craftsmen to make some catapults."

"Catapult?"

Ye Xiao nodded and said, "Yes, you don't need to make too many catapults, about ten are enough."

The catapult was invented in the Spring and Autumn Period, but it was usually made in advance, and rarely made on site.

"My lord, are we going to attack the city?"

Ye Xiao shook his head and said, "Of course I'm useful."

Hearing that Ye Xiao didn't want to talk about Fan Kui and others, he didn't ask any more questions. At this moment, Ye Xiao turned his head and confessed to Yue Ying behind him.

"Yue Ying, you will call the scout brothers over later. I will ask the back kitchen to make some broth and hot wine. Drink it before going out."

Yue Ying laughed immediately when she heard this, patted her chest and said, "My lord, don't worry, I promise to complete the task!"

At this time, the scouts came to the back kitchen led by Yue Ying, seeing the smell of meat and wine coming out of the back kitchen, many scouts began to swallow their saliva.

"Brothers, if it's cold today, the lord sees that it's not easy for us to scout, so let us eat and drink enough, and then go out to patrol. Brothers must patrol well, and don't disappoint the lord's expectations!"

Yue Ying stood at the door of the kitchen and said, looking at the neatly lined up scouts.

"Captain, don't worry, there is meat to eat and wine to drink, if we don't work hard, are we still human?"

"That's right, Captain, hurry up and start eating, we're so hungry!"

Listening to the words of these scouts, Yue Ying took a step back and signaled everyone to enter the kitchen. After everyone entered the kitchen, the chef began to distribute food to these people, each with a bowl of broth, a cake, and a pot of hot wine.

"Don't drink this wine all at once, you'll put it in your cotton-padded jacket later, and take another sip when you're cold."

After all, the weather in late autumn is very difficult to say, and although they have cotton coats as scouts, they are only thin cotton coats. It's not that Ye Xiao is stingy and unwilling to distribute thick cotton coats to them, but because too thick cotton coats will make the scouts unable to spread their hands and feet. Impaired mobility.

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The night was fleeting, and Ye Xiao got up to wash up.

"hiss…….."

The cold face wash made Ye Xiao take his hand back, and after countless trials, Ye Xiao finally finished washing.

"It seems that winter is coming, and we must solve it quickly."

Ye Xiao didn't bring much winter clothes this time, if he couldn't make a quick decision, he might freeze to death here.

At this time, Ye Xiao received a report from the guards and learned that Yue Ying was waiting at the door, so Ye Xiao hurried out, looking at Yue Ying with bloodshot eyes, Ye Xiao said with concern.

"Thank you for your hard work, how was the situation last night?"

Yue Ying blinked vigorously and said: "Master, last night we searched for twenty miles around Fengqiu City, but we didn't find any other soldiers and horses."

Seeing this, Ye Xiao waved his hand and motioned for the guard to bring over a map. After receiving Ye Xiao's order, the guard took the map and put it on the table to open it.

Yue Ying naturally knew what Ye Xiao meant, so she stepped forward and briefly explained the place she was searching for.

Ye Xiao looked at the place Yue Ying was searching for, nodded, raised his head and said to Yue Ying.

"Okay, you go to rest."

After Yue Ying left, Ye Xiao lay down on the map and began to observe the places Yue Ying just mentioned.

Most of these places are plains, and only a few places have trees. Although these places with woods can hide soldiers, they probably can't hide much. In addition, the temperature in the woods at night is lower than that in the city. Wen Chou will not be stupid to hide people here.

Ye Xiao asked people to put away the map, and then walked outside, Ye Xiao was shivered by the cold wind as soon as he walked out the door.

"It's so cold, it won't snow."

Ye Xiao looked at the gray sky above his head and said, if it snows now, it means winter is coming.

At that time, keeping warm and food and grass will be the problem. You must know that the loss during the transportation of food and grass in winter is far greater than that in other seasons, which is why ancient times rarely fought in winter.

Ye Xiao came to the workshop and saw that many people were working intensively in the workshop. Countless logs were thrown into the fire to be burned into charcoal, and the charcoal was distributed by the person in charge of transportation.

"Fan Kuai, give some of the charcoal to the local people!"

After Fan Kuai received the order, he asked those who were in charge of transportation to give part of the charcoal to the people.

Then Ye Xiao took his guards and prepared to go hunting. After all, the meat in this place had already been looted by Wen Chou.

A whole morning passed, and Ye Xiao came back sullenly.

"These few rabbits and wild deer are enough for anyone to eat."

Ye Xiao's guard said helplessly looking at the fruits of the morning's labor.

"Forget it, let the kitchen handle it. By the way, distribute the venison to the scouts who patrolled last night and the soldiers who made the catapult."

They didn't have any objection when they heard Ye Xiao's arrangement. After all, they were able to sleep well last night because of the scouts.

Soon the kitchen prepared the meat that Ye Xiao sent. Ye Xiao smelled the delicious meat and couldn't help but eat a few more pieces.

Just when Ye Xiao was about to finish the broth on hand, a knock on the door interrupted his movements.

Ye Xiao put down the big bowl in his hand and got up and asked, "Who!"

"My lord, an enemy army has been found outside the city!"

(End of this chapter)