The Three Kingdoms: If you don't have money to buy an official position, you can only be the em

Chapter 35 The offense and defense have switched places, Lao Deng!

"Um, that..." Jiang Cheng came to his senses and found that he had indeed gone a bit too far. This was the second time he had been so engrossed in reading that he left his wife alone all night.

If this happened in the previous life, wouldn't it be a divorce?

We have to find a way to coax her.

But unfortunately, Jiang Cheng had never learned how to coax a woman in his past life or this life, and he was really not good at it. So after thinking for a long time, he finally stretched out his finger and touched Zhang Yue's hand with his fingertips.

In an instant, Zhang Yue felt her entire hand go numb and feel extremely comfortable.

"We're already an old married couple, why do you still feel like you're getting an electric shock?"

"Is there a possibility that you really got an electric shock?" Jiang Cheng chuckled and said, "From today on, you will have an electric husband who will do all kinds of things for you every day!"

Zhang Yue: “???”

……

After pacifying Zhang Yue, Jiang Cheng found Zhang Lu again and took over a full ten carts of pickled fish from him - that was what Zhang Lu caught overnight with his "new energy fishing rod" and the Yellow Turbans worked overtime to make.

The large number shocked Jiang Chengdu.

But the fish resources at this time were so abundant, because there was no other "electrician" besides Zhang Lu. In addition, due to the severe drought this year, the originally wide rivers were almost dry, making it easier to fish.

Therefore, in the end, Jiang Cheng only collected five carts of grain, but ten carts of fish.

Plus fifteen cartloads of fodder.

A total of thirty carts of food and fodder were transported out of the mountain in a mighty procession - there was no doubt that Huangfu Song could not be concealed from this movement, as the opposite side discovered him almost as soon as he came out of the mountains.

"Such blatant grain transportation is simply too much. Does Jiang Cheng think we are easy to bully?"

With anger, Huangfu Song immediately ordered Lu Bu to take 5,000 cavalry to seize Jiang Cheng's food and grass. The elite soldiers on Jiang Cheng's side who were escorting the food and grass were only 5,000, which was almost all the troops in Taihang Mountains.

Of course, this refers to the elite.

The cavalrymen who are capable of riding and shooting and are equipped with war horses and armor are the elite soldiers of Jiang Cheng Shennong's army.

If the miscellaneous soldiers were included, the total strength of the Yellow Turbans was at least over 500,000, and it was possible that it was over a million. But those miscellaneous soldiers were useless. Soldiers were more valuable in quality than in quantity. Otherwise, they would not be able to coordinate well with each other and would become a burden.

"Jiang Shicheng, with Lu Bu here, you can't transport the food to Handan today!"

When Lu Bu saw Jiang Cheng from afar, he spoke loudly.

In response to this, Jiang Cheng raised his hand and fired a shot, aiming at Lu Bu's chest from a distance of a hundred steps. The next moment, there was a "clang" sound, and the bullet hit the heart guard, creating a spark.

It's nothing at all.

Lu Bu, who has a strength of a thousand pounds, is almost ten times stronger than modern people. He can withstand the impact of the bullet without being injured.

His heart-protecting mirror is made of the same material as his Fang Tian Hua Ji, a piece of armor made of rare metal.

One inch thick, or more than 30 millimeters, is comparable to an armored vehicle.

Pistol bullets simply don't work.

It is hard to say whether the hero Zhang Liang's spray can deal with Lu Bu - he is covered in golden armor, with a large Fang Tian Hua Ji blocking his face. The ultimate defense in the era of cold weapons, only heavy weapons can break through the defense!

But Jiang Cheng was not trying to defeat Lu Bu.

After firing a shot, he immediately said, "You're so cruel. Goodbye!"

After saying that, he actually abandoned the car and withdrew with his troops without fighting at all.

This made Lu Bu look confused.

"What happened to him?"

In the end, without even fighting, Lu Bu successfully seized thirty carts of grain and fodder and drove them towards Huangfu Song's camp.

At this time, outside the city, although the army did not attack the city, they still guarded the four gates to prevent Jiang Cheng from escaping: Yuan Shao led a group of local warriors to guard the north gate, Dong Zhuo led his troops to guard the east gate, Zhang Liao led his troops to guard the west gate, and Huangfu Song guarded the south gate.

The eastern and western armies each had 100,000 soldiers, but now only 90,000 soldiers are left in one army and 80,000 soldiers are left in the other. Thousands were killed and more than 10,000 deserters fled.

There were still thousands of people at the North Gate.

As for the South Gate, Huangfu Song originally led 80,000 men to attack the city. Thousands were killed in the battle, and the morale was low, with a large number of deserters. In the end, only about 50,000 men were left.

This is the power of Jiang Cheng’s twenty “gas tanks”.

The damage is not small, and the deterrent effect is even greater.

Lu Bu was ordered by Huangfu Song to seize food and grass, and after success, he naturally went to Huangfu Song to report. Therefore, he did not return to the west gate to meet Zhang Liao, but pushed ten carts of food and grass to the south gate where Huangfu Song was.

Huangfu Song was very happy when he heard the news.

He heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Although the Yan bandits (Shennong Army) don't have much food and grass, after we take it away, it will be enough for us to survive for a few days. The imperial court's food and grass are on the way, and even if we don't tighten our belts and go on a diet, it will be enough to eat!"

These days, just as Liu Bei said, there is no longer a full meal.

Originally, there was meat in the dishes, plenty of pancakes, and the war horses ate beans for every meal.

But after the food and fodder were burned, the meat was gone, the bread turned into porridge, and the war horses could no longer eat beans and grains. They could only eat grass every day, and their spirits were obviously weakened.

Life is so hard.

"But, Jiang Cheng fired one shot, and then retreated without fighting. That's not normal!" Cao Cao frowned and said, "Based on my understanding of him, even if he is afraid of death, he will find a place to hide and let Dian Wei lead the troops to fight Lu Bu!"

When he mentioned Dian Wei, he always felt heartbroken for some reason.

It was as if I had lost something precious.

Quite strange.

"Could it be that the food was poisoned?" Cao Cao suspected.

Huangfu Song was also puzzled by this.

But nothing happened until Lu Bu returned with the food and supplies, handed them over, and led his troops away.

After inspection, it was found that the food and fodder were not poisonous.

I couldn't help but be greatly surprised.

"Never mind, put it in the warehouse and distribute it to the soldiers starting from the next meal!" said Huangfu Song.

But at this moment, the earth suddenly shook.

Behind the south gate, deafening shouts of killing rang out, and Dian Wei, with five thousand cavalrymen, rushed into the camp first.

At the same time, the south gate of Handan City was also opened, and Zhang Jue, with his two younger brothers and five thousand cavalry, also headed straight for Huangfu Song's camp.

Not only that, but he was followed by a group of fully armed infantrymen, a total of fifteen thousand!
"Oh no, we've fallen into a trap!" Cao Cao glared.

"How to say?"

“Although it’s only a hundred miles from Nuwa Mountain to Handan City, there are dozens of checkpoints we set up along the way. Even if the garrison is small, it’s not something that the 5,000 soldiers escorting the grain can break through quickly. Once they are blocked, they will face a large army encirclement and it will be difficult to deliver the grain to the city in a short time!” Cao Cao said, “But if the grain is robbed, let Lu Bu escort it, and he can deliver it to ten miles outside the South Gate in the fastest way!”

These words made Huangfu Song stunned.

But I still don’t understand: “But the food and fodder have fallen into my hands, how can I let them take it away?”

Fifty thousand elite soldiers are not vegetarians.

Without 10,000 or 20,000 men, even if we attack from both sides with all our might, we will never be able to break through.

"But what if they don't have thousands of elite soldiers?" Cao Cao said.

At the same time, on the southern mountaintop, Jiang Cheng was controlling the "reconnaissance drone" with a smile on his face: "I thought it was the time when I only had 5,000 elite soldiers? The offense and defense have switched, Lao Deng!"

(End of this chapter)