Who is not Cao Cao?

Chapter 93
Since he wanted to go deep into the enemy's rear to cut off the food road, Cao Cao was generous for a while, and all the troops led by Zhang Liao were cavalry.

There are more than [-] people in total, almost all the war horses that Cao Ying can use have been brought out, which shows that Cao Cao attaches great importance to this food shortage.

A group of people went south along the gap, found a boat to cross the gap, and then went north through the Jishui and Pushui in succession, and only then did they arrive at the expected destination.

This is located on the west side of Baima. Yuan Shao must pass through this place no matter whether he transports grain from Yanjin or from Baima. It can be described as an excellent location to cut off the grain road.

Along the way, they actually bumped into many Yuan Shao's troops, but with Zhao Yun and Shi Huan leading the way ahead, it was difficult for these Yuan Shao's troops to pose a threat to Cao Jun led by Guan Yu.

Even when scattered scouts informed Yuan Shao of the location of this Cao army, Yuan Shao was used to it.

Cutting off food from each other is almost the basic operation of war.

Especially when they heard that Guan Yu and others had only more than 1000 cavalry, they were even more disdainful.

"Ma Yan's team to supervise the transportation of grain and grass this time has hundreds of grain carts, [-] cavalry infantry, and tens of thousands of farmers. How can a thousand cavalry be able to shake an army of this size?"

It's not that Yuan Shao underestimated the enemy.

It is really that Cao Jun's record of cutting off food is ridiculously poor.

I don't know how many times I have transported grain in the past few months. Cao Jun failed to succeed once. How could he suddenly succeed this time?
Besides,

In order to ensure the success of Ma Yan's grain transportation, Guo Tu, with Yuan Shao's acquiescence, actually secretly added a lot of troops to Ma Yan's grain transportation team, which was double the number of Han Xun's grain transportation team.

With such strength, even if Ma Yan is really an idiot, he cannot be easily defeated.

Therefore, this military information was only regarded by Yuan Shao as a general task of robbing food, and he did not react too much.

Regardless of Yuan Shao's side, Coke ruined many Cao generals.

In the past few days, Zhang Liao didn't dare to be careless, because his men were all cavalry, and scouts left the team every half an hour to investigate. Such frequent arrangements were enough for Cao Jun to observe the troubles in a radius of twenty miles.

Seeing that Yuan Shao didn't send any extra soldiers to support him, Zhang Liao's narrowed eyes became even sharper.

"So, we just need to defeat Mayan and burn his food and grass!"

"It's just that these days, I have to hide in the surrounding mountains and forests to endure the damp and cold. It's really hard for you soldiers."

Zhang Liao settled down, but all the soldiers under his command said excitedly: "It's not bitter! There's so much meat!"

???

It turned out that when He Yan knew that he was likely to be sent to the battlefield by Cao Ren, he asked Liu Ye to take out all the remaining fried noodles for military rations.

Although this thing is not meat, it has a lot of fat!

Everyone is drinking warm noodle tea, isn't that better than the miserable ones in the camp drinking corn soup?
Not to mention the soldiers, even Xia Houyuan, Le Jin, Shi Huan and others enjoyed drinking every day, and even wished that Ma Yan would come a few days later and eat more fried noodles.

Among them, Le Jin and Shi Huan were most interested in fried noodles.

The two of them, one is a pioneer warrior and the other is a young knight-errant. Before they made their fortunes, they were all at the bottom. Naturally, they know what the military rations that soldiers eat on weekdays are like.

Corn, bean and bean soup, some dried mulberry and wild vegetable leaves for the better ones...

In front of fried noodles, those things are completely scum!

He also looked at He Yan with burning eyes, but he was embarrassed to talk to He Yan because he was not familiar with him.

On the contrary, Xia Houyuan relied on being He Yan's uncle, sat down next to He Yan with a bowl in his hand, and sighed: "If the military rations are changed to this thing, then those little guys under my command must be screaming every day! Marquis Shen, what do you think of this thing?" Can it be made into military rations?"

When Xia Houyuan asked, both Le Jin and Shi Huan pricked up their ears and listened carefully to He Yan's answer.

"It's possible."

"But flax must be planted on a large scale, otherwise the oil will definitely not be enough."

He Yan didn't hide anything.

Fried noodles have no technical content, and wheat is now being grown on a large scale. The only problematic crop is flax.

"If the government can dedicate a few hundred hectares of land to grow flax, then it is estimated that all the general rations can be replaced by fried noodles!"

The output of flax is very low.

Even if its oil yield is a full [-]%, one mu of land can't harvest much flax oil. It is undoubtedly a bit whimsical to want to feed the army for a long time.

Hearing this, Le Jin couldn't help feeling a little disappointed.

Xia Houyuan was contented and happy: "I'll just say that, if fried noodles can really be used as military food, then it's better than ordinary people's food? If that's the case, who will farm the land? Don't they all come to join the army?"

"That's right, this flax is not edible after all."

"..."

What few people didn't notice was that Shi Huan silently recorded what He Yan said in his heart, and quickly thought of a colleague of his who was presiding over the farming...

Cao Jun stationed in the mountains for three days, and finally waited for Mayan who had returned from transporting grain from Hebei.

Cao Jun's soldiers who had eaten fried noodles for three days were all radiant, and the Huan Shou Dao, who had long been unable to hold back, was about to move, and they were about to rush to kill just waiting for Guan Yu's order.

Zhang Liao also grasped the timing of the battle very well. When Ma Yan's grain transport team reached the middle, he slapped the horse leading the cavalry and rushed out——

"Yanmen Zhang Wenyuan is here!"

Zhao Yun and the others followed closely behind.

"Xiahouyuan from Qiao County is here!"

"Changshan Zhao Zilong is here too!"

"Liu, the historian of the Pei Kingdom!"

"Yangping Le Wenqian!"

Many cavalry rushed out with five people, and soon there were only a few hundred or so in the rear.

……

He Yan, who was left behind, stared at Cao Ren beside him with contempt: "Uncle Zi Xiao, are you not going?"

"I……"

Cao Ren's face turned red at the moment.

Last fart!

When marching and fighting, someone must stay behind!
Originally, if Cao Ren hadn't come, everyone might have struggled with who to keep behind.

Zhang Liao is the chief general, Xia Houyuan is the elder brother, Zhao Yun is the general of Zhonglang, Le Jin is good at breaking the formation and is a warrior who is the first to ascend, and Shi Huan is the lieutenant of the Chinese army who supervises the generals. His status is frighteningly high, and it is not appropriate to leave anyone behind.

I didn't expect that Cao Ren would volunteer to be this grievance, so if everyone voted with their feet, Cao Ren would definitely be chosen!

Cao Ren raised his fist depressedly and wanted to hit He Yan, but when he saw Xu Hu and Xu Bao following behind He Yan, he stopped in resentment.

These two tiger fighters are very strong, Cao Ren can't beat them at all, otherwise Cao Ren would not use "community death" to torture He Yan in the military camp before...

Just as He Yan was taunting Cao Ren frantically in the rear, Cao Jun and Yuan Jun also fought together in front.

Ma Yan was indeed a bit courageous. After seeing Zhang Liao leading the troops out, he was not frightened. Instead, he called the soldiers to form an array, trying to resist Zhang Liao.

The problem is that General Cao dispatched this time is too luxurious.

Zhang Liao, who stopped crying children.

Zhao Yun is full of courage.

Xia Houyuan on the right of Hubu Pass.

Le Jin, who is well-known for his achievements.

Shi Huan, a young hero.

There is also He Yan, who is witty, courageous, strategizing, outstanding, and arrogant, and Cao Ren, who is not very important...

These fierce men were all accompanied by elite cavalry with high morale, even if Yuan Shao came personally, he would only be washed to death, let alone Ma Yan?
To no one's surprise—

Ma Yan was hanged and beaten.

(End of this chapter)