The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 433
The soldiers under Zhang Lu's command were escorting the grain and grass. They dressed up as caravans and walked on some trails in order to deceive others, so they were not fast.

Moreover, Zhang Lu himself was responsible for the escort, and he had to pay attention to what Xiahoudun told him. Xiahoudun, Cao Ren, and Cao Zhen are all ministers that Cao Pi relies on now. As a surrendered general, Zhang Lu certainly knows what to do. Do.

However, the climate in central Sichuan is relatively humid and the rainfall is relatively abundant, so the trail is not very easy to walk. Zhang Lu's grain transportation team has been delayed for several days.

This made Zhang Lu a little worried. If he delays time, he may not only be punished, but may even affect the victory or defeat of the entire battlefield. We must know that the more soldiers there are, the easier it is for them to mutiny due to lack of food.

Zhang Lu has now put all his eggs in one basket and turned to Cao Pi, so naturally he doesn't want Xiahou Dun and the others to be defeated.

"You all work hard, we are almost there." Zhang Lu said loudly, the thick nostrils of the horse under his crotch were breathing heavily, it was because he was tired, and the hooves of the horse were full of mud, if Zhang Lu hadn't asked someone to use straw If the road is paved, it may sink directly into the ground.

In this way, the speed of grain transportation will be greatly slowed down. If this continues, Zhang Lu will definitely exceed Xiahou Dun's expected delivery time.

Thinking of Xiahou Dun's stern and selfless face, Zhang Lu shuddered in his heart.

It's just that the environment limited the marching speed, so Zhang Lu had to look up to the sky and sigh.

Just at this time, an old man with gray beard and hair drove a strange ox cart past Zhang Lu.

Zhang Lu glanced at it inadvertently, and his whole body was immediately perked up.

The ox cart driven by the old man is quite different from ordinary ox carts. Ordinary ox carts use wheels that are prone to sinking into the mud, but the old man's ox cart has no wheels. The entire ox cart is like a flat boat. As soon as the ox pulls, the specially made ox cart will immediately go out on the muddy ground for a long distance.

"Stop him!" Zhang Lu said to the soldiers beside him.

The soldiers around him thought that the old man was a spy of the enemy army, so they immediately drew out their ring-shoulders and wanted to charge forward.

"Please invite him over carefully, I have something to ask him." Zhang Lu scolded.

When the old man was invited over by Zhang Lu's soldiers, he was so frightened that he peed his pants, and he smelled like urine all over his body.

Zhang Lu frowned, but in order to show his closeness to the people, he still got off his horse, helped the old man who was already unsteady, and comforted him with a smile: "Don't panic, old man, I just want to ask you how to make this bullock cart."

The old man looked up at Zhang Lu, tears flashed in his cloudy eyes, and he threw his head on the ground tremblingly and said, "Forgive me, General, the little old man just wants to take a shortcut and go to Shu County to get some things, and I hope the general will hold his hand high." what."

As soon as Zhang Lu heard that there was a shortcut to Shu County, his eyes lit up, and he immediately helped the old man up without caring about other things, and with his eyes, he hinted that the left and right soldiers moved the marching stool for the old man to sit down.

After chatting for a while, Zhang Lu, relying on his three-inch tongue, got out from the old man the production method of the special ox cart and the short-cut route. Zhang Lu, who was very excited at the moment, directly rewarded the old man with a big hand. Jin sent the old man away.

This special ox cart is not complicated to say the least, it is just pieced together with wooden planks. Of course, Zhang Lu only needs to cross the dirt road, so he directly asked the people below to unload some large wooden planks and place them under the ox cart. Just drag it over.

Zhang Lu calculated it. According to the reformed ox cart and the shortcut, not only could he increase his speed, but he could even arrive at Shu County a few days earlier to complete the food delivery task.

Thinking of this, Zhang Lu became excited, and blushed, commanding his soldiers and commoners to remake ox carts, and at the same time changed the road to copy the shortcut that the old man said.

Everything seems to be developing in the direction Zhang Lu expected, but is this really the case?
After walking in the direction pointed by the old man for three days, Zhang Lu began to feel that something was wrong.

After asking the local people, Zhang Lu learned that although his route was also heading towards Shu County, it was gradually drifting away and deviated from Shu County in a curved way.

Fortunately, Zhang Lu didn't deviate too far. As long as he walked back, he might still be able to catch up with Xiahou Dun's agreed time.

With this in mind, Zhang Lu immediately ordered to turn around and head towards Shu County.

On the way to Shu County, Zhang Lu and the others happened to pass by a gourd valley. This terrain is supposed to be the best place for soldiers to ambush. As the name suggests, the gourd valley has a small entrance but a large space inside the valley.

Zhang Lu didn't care about going on his way, he didn't even send scouts, he didn't think he would encounter an ambush in such a barren mountain.

It's just that there are accidents in everything. After Zhang Lu's food transportation team all entered the Gourd Valley, there was a sudden explosion on the ground, rolling stones and logs flying on both sides, and arrows galloped like locusts.

Caught off guard, under a round of attacks, less than half of Zhang Lu's soldiers were killed or injured.

However, because the food transportation team had food and grass to deliver, after a while of panic, the soldiers who escaped with the food and grass began to take advantage of the opportunity to prepare for a counterattack.

It's just that Zhang Lu and the others waited for a long time but didn't see a single enemy rushing down. Zhang Lu asked a few people to pay a lot of money to let them rush up the mountain to have a look. As a result, Zhang Lu almost vomited blood. There was no one on the mountain. It's a crossbow, it shoots automatically, and the person who controls the crossbow uses a rope. It's obvious that there are only a few people who stay here to control it. They just ran away as soon as the engine was turned off.

Could it be bandits?Zhang Lu glanced at the mountain with some hesitation. For the sake of safety, Zhang Lu was about to go back, but who knew that the entrance had been blocked by a pile of big rocks.

There is no other way, Zhang Lu can only bite the bullet and rush to the end of Gourd Valley, but before that, he has to ask his soldiers to reorganize the food and grass. Fan.

Just as Zhang Lu was rectifying the food transport team, a gust of wind suddenly blew.

It was originally a very refreshing thing to have a cool breeze blowing on the face, but Zhang Lu smelled a choking smell.

Immediately, the wind became stronger and stronger, engulfing Zhang Lu and the others with puffs of white smoke.

hot!choke!faint!
Zhang Lu's last consciousness when he fell was the above three words.

All the members of Zhang Lu's grain transportation team finally lay unconscious on the ground, and the wind continued to blow. After blowing away the white smoke, a group of strange-looking people were revealed.

At first glance, these people all have a pig's nose, but upon closer inspection, they are all wearing a mask that looks like a pig's nose, and the leader is Dongfang Sheng, who has been missing for a long time.

(End of this chapter)