The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Not to mention soldiers and horses, even food and grass may not be able to be transported.

In such a northern region, without food and grass, Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses could not last long at all.

Not to mention a year or a half, even two or three months, it is difficult to sustain.

After all, it is impossible for Liu Zheng to prepare food and grass for more than half a year in a small city like Handan.

As soon as Xu Shu said this, both Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei immediately agreed.

"Military division, this remark is wonderful, how about leaving it to me to cut off the enemy's food and grass?"

Zhao Yun personally asked for orders to go to battle, intending to lead the cavalry to cut off Liu Zheng's food.

This was mainly because Zhao Yun saw what Xu Shu meant, and it seemed that he did not intend to fight Liu Zheng on the frontal battlefield. In this case, Zhao Yun would have no chance to meet Liu Zheng on the battlefield.

In this way, Zhao Yun, who was eager to kill the enemy, could only destroy the enemy's food and grass roads first.

Only in this way can we go to the battlefield faster.

Xu Shu was not able to mobilize Zhao Yun. After all, the command here was still in the hands of Zhang Fei. Only when Zhang Fei spoke could they make a decision.

So Xu Shu didn't say much, but just set his eyes on Zhang Fei, trying to ask Zhang Fei's meaning.

Naturally, Zhang Fei had no objection. He didn't have any cavalry under his command, only some infantry. It would be better for cavalry to attack grain roads.

As for the cavalry here, only Zhao Yun has some in his hands. Although Ma Dai also has some under his command, it is just that Ma Dai's cavalry is not many. After the previous battle in Liyang, Ma Dai's cavalry suffered heavy casualties and was not enough to serve Such a heavy task as attacking the grain road.

"Well, since Zilong intends to attack Liang Dao, let Zilong approach you. After all, among us, only your soldiers are suitable for such a battle."

"Okay, everyone, wait for my good news."

After the negotiation was settled, everyone dispersed quickly.

They were all busy with what they were supposed to do.

Although it was not planned to have a face-to-face confrontation with Liu Zheng's soldiers at this time, Zhang Fei's soldiers would naturally not stay here in Yecheng all the time, and they would still go near Handan City.

The purpose of doing this is to monitor Liu Zheng's soldiers and horses in Handan City, and secondly, to station soldiers and horses in Handan to put pressure on Liu Zheng.

Anyway, they are going to deal with Liu Zheng, so they can get to know Liu Zheng's team as soon as possible.

It is better to grasp the dynamics of these armies under Liu Zheng, which is beneficial for people like Zhang Fei to set up camps outside Handan City in advance.

Within a few days, Zhang Fei and Xu Chu dispatched the entire army to a place twenty miles outside Handan City.

As soon as the army moved, naturally this news could not escape Liu Zheng's eyes and ears, and Liu Zheng also learned the news.

However, as Xu Shu said, at present, Liu Zheng has had several battles in succession, and most of his soldiers and horses have injuries. Although they are not fatal injuries, small injuries have accumulated a lot, and it is easy to delay them into major injuries. .

So Liu Zheng started to deal with Zhang Fei and Xu Chu before he came to Handan.

Instead, let the army briefly recuperate in Handan for a few days to give those injured brothers a time to recover.

When Zhang Fei dispatched all the soldiers and horses to Handan.

Only then did Liu Zheng become a little anxious, and began to gather his men and horses to come to discuss matters and ask them what they planned to face Zhang Fei's soldiers and horses.

Before Liu Zheng could call these people over, Guo Jia had already brought Lu Su and Wen Pin, and hurried over from the outside, begging to see Liu Zheng.

Liu Zheng saw that these counselors had come from ancient times, and knew that something big had happened.

Let them in hastily and ask directly.

"Feng Xiao, Zi Jing, why are you here? I really plan to send someone to find you?"

Guo Jia, Lu Su and others had gloomy faces, and their expressions were not very good for a while.

After Liu Zheng finished asking, Guo Jia immediately answered Liu Zheng.

"Your Majesty, something bad has happened."

"Ok?"

"Just now, General Zhang He told us that our grain road was cut off by the enemy."

Guo Jia's words immediately made Liu Zheng's expression slightly ugly.

It is self-evident how important the food road is to people like Liu Zheng.

When Yuan Shang was still there, some of the food and grass for Liu Zheng's [-] troops came from Yuan Shang, so Liu Zheng was not very short of food and grass.

Even if Yuan Shang does not come out, Liu Zheng has enough food and grass for himself, and he can transport food and grass from Qingzhou and Xuzhou.

Of course, the transportation route is Bohai, Qinghe generation.

There was Yuan Shang taking care of it before, so there was no threat here.

But when Yuan Shang lost Yecheng, the situation was different.

Why is Liu Zheng so nervous? After Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei's troops occupied Yecheng, they immediately came back, because they were worried that the grain road would be occupied by the other party.

So after Liu Zheng came to Handan, he immediately asked Xu Huang to take Zhang He and others to open the grain road to ensure that his grain and grass could be transported from Qingzhou.

Now it seems that it is still a step slow.

The road for grain and grass transportation was still being followed by Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei's men.

"This is not so good. We have limited troops now. Although Qinghe and Bohai County are still in our hands, it is impossible to defend against the enemy's attack on our grain roads. Even if we can send someone to protect them."

"But if the other party didn't want to rob food, but just harassed us, and burned our food and grass, we couldn't bear such consumption at all."

"Yes, we have a crisis."

Liu Zheng looked at Guo Jia silently. Guo Jia, who has always put nothing in his eyes, also looked gloomy this time.

It seems that Guo Jia also started to worry about this matter.

The first thousand and 140 chapter four

Liu Zheng and Guo Jia were silent together.

The remaining few people naturally have no right to speak.

Everyone also understands that the current Zhang Feijun is here.

There is a possibility of a war breaking out at any time, and the soldiers and horses here in Handan City cannot leave at all.

Even now Liu Zheng wants to send soldiers and horses to protect his food road.

He also simply doesn't have enough soldiers and horses to support him.

This situation is the most difficult situation that Liu Zheng, Guo Jia and others are facing now.

"Our top priority is to find a way to replenish enough food and grass. Once all the food roads are discovered and cut off by the enemy, we will fall into a crisis of food shortage."

"If we have enough food and grass, then even if the food road is broken, as long as we have enough for a year or so, it won't be a problem."

"There is no need to worry about the crisis of food roads being cut off."

Guo Jia, who was silent for a long time, spoke to Liu Zheng and the generals present.

He didn't think of a way to find a new grain road, because the enemy's soldiers and horses can eradicate the current grain road. Even if they can expand the new grain road, they will be quickly noticed and cut off. Doing that is just doing useless work That's all.

Therefore, Guo Jia suggested that it is best to supplement enough food and grass.

And that possibility is really small.

After all, Jizhou lacked food and grass, and Yuan Shang, who had most of the food and grass, was beheaded by Liu Bei's soldiers and horses.

Liu Zheng had no way to obtain food and grass from Yecheng in a short time.

Can only think of other ways.

As for this other method, Guo Jia has not thought of it yet. If he had thought of it, he would not be so sad now.

Even Guo Jia couldn't think of a solution, and the other people present also had no idea, and everyone glanced at each other and sighed.

It was Liu Zheng who thought of something at the moment and hurried to speak.

"Let Xu Huang go down immediately to send an order to Wu Anguo in Qingzhou, ordering Wu Anguo to quickly start the waterway to transport grain and grass from Yangzhou to Bohai."

Since there is no way to solve the problem of grain and grass in a short time, the only option is to continue to transport grain and grass here from other states and counties.

And the only place where Liu Zheng's subordinates have rich food and grass is the area around Jingzhou and Yangzhou.

Therefore, even if it is to transport grain and grass, it can only be transported from Jingzhou and Yangzhou.

Jingzhou is too far away from here, and there is a Yanzhou in the middle.It is very inconvenient to transport grain and grass.

After all the calculations, only Yangzhou is the most suitable place.

After all, Liu Zheng has been operating shipping routes for a long time.

Although there was a delay in the middle, but the experience of sea transportation is still there, there is nothing wrong with continuing to use the sea line to transport grain and grass.

Coupled with the sea freight route, the transportation speed is faster and the transportation volume is larger.

The only bad thing is that it is currently in June and July. If the grain and grass transportation takes the sea route, there is a typhoon on the seaside and it is not easy to encounter a typhoon.

But now, when there is no other way, the sea route is indeed the only way, and it is also the most able to transport grain and grass from Yangzhou to Jizhou in a short time.

With Liu Zheng's proposal, the generals present immediately went down to get busy.

Although there are shipping routes, they still have to make some countermeasures for it.

It is impossible to completely let Zhao Yun's soldiers and horses surprise the food road.

Xu Huang, Zhang He and others have already led the cavalry to attack one after another. Once they detect the enemy's cavalry, they will attack and kill them.

If the enemy's cavalry can be beheaded, their food roads will also be safe.

In this way, Liu Zheng's food and grass problem can be solved for the time being.

It's just that the distant water can't solve the near thirst.

If those methods are useless, Liu Zheng will only have half a month's food and grass in Handan City.

Within half a month, if Liu Zheng hadn't resolved the matter of the grain road, then half a month later, Liu Zheng would have encountered the biggest difficulty since the Northern Expedition.

Fortunately, when Liu Zheng was still worrying about this matter, in Handan City, Zhen Yan, the head of the Zhen family, came to see him.

When Lu Qiling came to talk to Liu Zheng about Zhen Yan's coming to see him, Liu Zheng was still a little surprised, not for anything else, because this Zhen Yan was actually not familiar to Liu Zheng.

What's more, although Liu Zheng met Zhen Yan before, most of the people the Zhen family and Liu Zheng came into contact with were Zhen Yao, and Zhen Yao was arranged by Liu Zheng in Xindu, and he hadn't had time to evacuate to Handan.

"Zhen Yan came to look for me, why?"

Although Liu Zheng didn't know the purpose of Zhen Yan looking for him, but Zhen Yan was always the head of the Zhen family, and the Zhen family had a lot of influence in this Jizhou area, so Liu Zheng still wanted to give Zhen Yan some face.

"Please hurry up and let the head of the Zhen family come to see me."

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, he felt that Zhen Yan was being slighted, so he changed his words immediately.

"Forget it, I'll go see him, Qi Ling will lead the way."

Lu Qiling had already changed into women's clothing at this time, without the armor she wore during the battle, she looked a bit feminine.

"Well, husband, come with me."

With that said, Lu Qiling was already leading the way, and Liu Zheng followed behind.

Zhen Yan was already waiting in the living room. When Liu Zheng came over in person, as soon as he saw Zhen Yan, he greeted Zhen Yan politely.

Zhen Yan was a little flattered.

After all, what is Liu Zheng's identity? He is the emperor of the Han Kingdom.

With such an identity, he actually came to meet him in person, with such a sincere attitude.

This is not true. When Liu Zheng was in Wuji County, Liu Zheng's identity had not been exposed at that time, so it was a different matter, but now people like Zhen Yan already knew Liu Zheng's identity.

If it's the same as before, it won't be good.

Seeing Liu Zheng, Zhen Yan immediately greeted Liu Zheng politely.

"Xiaomin Zhenyan, I have met His Majesty."

"Patriarch Zhen, don't come here without any problems, you came here to find me today, what's the matter?"

Liu Zheng wanted to talk about the old days with Zhen Yan, but Liu Zheng and Zhen Yan were not very familiar with each other, and there was no way to talk about the old days, so he could only cut to the chase and ask Zhen Yan why he came.

Zhen Yan didn't think much about it, and when she saw Liu Zheng asking, she immediately answered.

"Your Majesty, I heard from General Dianwei that Your Majesty has encountered some difficulties recently?"

Zhen Yan and Dian Wei naturally knew each other. When Liu Zheng went on tour in micro-clothes, he took Liu Zheng with him.