Three Caos fighting for a bride? Zhen Ji, I, Cao Zhi, will take her!

Just like what Xin Ping thought.

Two days before Cao Pi's army lost its food supplies.

We can also use the food and grass in Yingling County to hold on.

But on the third day.

The soldiers began to starve.

Without any choice.

Cao Pi could only place his hopes on the nearby county town.

Everyone knows that there is food in the city.

But what Cao Pi didn't expect was.

The county governors and magistrates who had surrendered before.

At this time, after seeing Cao Pi's army.

The first choice was not to surrender, but to stay indoors.

Can Cao Pi tolerate this?

He immediately gave the order for the soldiers to begin attacking the city.

The results are very gratifying.

The city was taken.

But because the soldiers were hungry, the casualty rate rose sharply.

The grain obtained after taking the county town was just a drop in the bucket.

This made Cao Pi furious.

"Could it be that I am the first general to be trapped by food?"

Cao Pi murmured in a low voice.

"Second Young Master, I have a way to get through these few days!"

At this moment, Sima Lang spoke.

"Say!"

Cao Pi urged.

"There's not much food in the city, but there is food outside the city, and there's no danger outside the city..."

Sima Lang said proudly.

"You mean to let me attack the people?"

Cao Pi frowned.

Although he was mean to his brothers, he grew up reading books of sages.

He felt a little reluctant to let him attack his own brother.

"Second Young Master, you must understand that kindness is not the way to command an army. For the survival of your soldiers, any price can be negotiated..."

"When your father attacked Xuzhou, he also killed countless people; when General Cheng Yu defended Yanzhou, he also used human flesh as military rations..."

Sima Lang used Cao Cao and Cheng Yu as examples, hoping to lower Cao Pi's moral bottom line.

The result lived up to Sima Lang's expectations.

After hearing the glorious deeds of Cao Cao and Cheng Yu.

Cao Pi immediately decided to send his generals to the nearby villages to collect food.

Following Cao Pi's order.

Xu Huang and others immediately led their troops out of the city.

They said they were raising food, but in fact they were robbing food.

Now we are living in a chaotic world and the people are starving, so where can they get any extra food?

Therefore, Cao Pi's order seemed to be about raising grain.

In fact, it was about robbing food and killing people, or robbing food and killing people and then slaughtering the village.

But this order to Cao Pi.

Except for Cao Pi who felt guilty at the beginning, everyone else thought it was natural.

After all, he is the Han Dynasty today.

Except Liu Bei and Cao Zhi.

No one would think that it is wrong to point the butcher knife at the people!

Two hours later.

Xu Huang and others returned with a full load.

Looking at the mountains of food in front of me.

Cao Pi finally let go of his anxious heart.

So the army stayed in Yingling County for another three days.

three days later.

As the army ran out of food again.

Xu Huang and others went out again to collect food.

Everything is familiar.

Everyone knows it tacitly.

……

Ten days later.

A letter was delivered to Cao Pi.

Cao Pi opened the letter and read it carefully.

After a few breaths.

Cao Pi was furious and furious.

Amidst everyone's puzzled gazes.

Cao Pi handed the letter to Xun You, who then handed it to Cao Chun after reading it.

A quarter of an hour later.

After everyone has read the letter.

The atmosphere in the room was a little depressing at this time.

Cao Pi looked around.

Seeing that Xun You still had no intention of helping him.

Cao Pi turned his gaze towards Sima Lang and said, "Boda, you have also seen the contents of the letter!"

"Yuan Tan is deliberately asking me to massacre the civilians to spark public opinion and force my father to withdraw my troops. How do you think we should respond?"

Accompanied by Cao Pi's words.

Everyone in the room involuntarily turned their gaze to Sima Lang.

Seeing so many eyes suddenly looking at me.

Sima Lang fell into deep thought.

If the contents of the letter are true.

Then the best solution is.

The army headed towards Xuzhou, towards the direction where the grain transport convoy was located.

Only in this way can Yuan Tan's plan be defeated.

But Sima Lang was unwilling.

By now, Sima Lang had already regarded these 20,000 troops as the capital for the Sima family to become a powerful family.

If you give up easily at this time, all your previous efforts will be in vain.

And through the infiltration of these days.

Sima Lang is confident.

In the next half month.

Put Xu Huang and Li Dian in their places.

Replaced with the direct descendant of the Sima family.

At such a critical moment, Sima Lang cannot retreat!

"But if we don't retreat, won't we fall into Yuan Tan's trap? Xin Pi has some reputation among scholars, and many people will believe what he says..."

"Yes, rumors, just rumors!"

This sentence was shouted out by Sima Lang.

Amidst everyone's doubts.

Sima Lang said sternly, "If we don't retreat for now, we will inevitably seize food from the people. Yuan Tan's plan is to use public opinion to force the prime minister to order a withdrawal!"

"But what if we muddy the water?"

Sima Lang looked at everyone in the room and said sternly, "They can accuse us of slaughtering the people, and we can also accuse them of slaughtering the people!"

"If no one believes the truth, it's a lie. If many people believe a lie, it's the truth!"

"They can spread rumors, and so can we!"

Sima Lang said this.

Everyone in the room couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

After all, no one has to retreat in disgrace.

Cao Pi looked at Sima Lang excitedly.

In his view, Sima Lang was his own counselor.

The more powerful Sima Lang is, the more face he gains.

Xun You also looked at Sima Lang with admiration at this moment.

He had to admit that it was a good plan to come up with such a plan in such a short period of time.

Sima Lang is indeed quite capable!