Liu Bei's camp seemed to be very tolerant of the result of "the best strategy did not work".

Liu Bei didn't mention any complaints like "Why is this best strategy unreliable?"

Li Su also did not complain that Zhao Yun, who performed this task of luring enemies for the first time, "had not good enough", but after Zhao Yun came back, he patted him on the shoulder and took care of him casually:

"Zilong, I was neglected and forgot to explain more details to you. Next time I have the opportunity to perform this task of "not going to steal the back and steal the house, but pretending to be going to steal the house," I will work with you, learn what acting is and summarize it yourself. Of course, I may not be able to seduce the enemy, but I will make up for a little more."

Zhao Yun is cautious and has enough sensitivity, but he does not have the D-level acting skills of Li Su who graduated from diplomacy.

However, he was humble and studious, and had a good attitude: "Thank you for your guidance from the military advisor, and you will definitely pay attention next time."

The internal unity atmosphere of the entire Liu Bei camp can be seen.

The best plan failed, Liu Bei had to really continue to act, acting like the drama "A big truck was blocked, so we would really use small electric donkeys to deliver express delivery across the market."

The army divided into a small and a half infantry troops, Zhang Fei was the general, Li Su personally supervised, and Zhao Yun led the way, marched for 200 miles, and camped outside Xiangping City.

Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Lu Su and others continued to stay in the front of the Liaotun Fortress and confronted the enemy's main force.

Zhou Tai was responsible for protecting the subsequent land transportation team from Liao Tunnel to Xiangping.

Because of Li Su's follower, Zhang Fei's acting skills this time were much better than Zhao Yun.

What are the bluffing skills of setting up more flags, reducing soldiers and increasing stoves, and you can almost do it with just a few bluffs.

So much so that Zhang Fei actually took away three thousand infantrymen, but in the eyes of the Liao Tun enemy, he thought that at least more than 10,000 people, the main force of Liu Bei's army really moved eastward.

At the same time, Liu Bei's army in the Liao Tun camp went the other way and increased their troops and reduced their stoves. More than 10,000 people ate, but the amount of smoke coming out of the camp every day was much less than usual.

Before Li Su left, he took care of Liu Bei to distribute some soldiers and went to the mountains and forests south far away from the enemy's post, logged a large amount of wood and collected firewood, burned charcoal, and then transported the charcoal back to the camp to cook. In this way, the proportion of directly burning firewood was greatly reduced, and the smoke generated was naturally less.

However, there are fewer types of foods that can be cooked by charcoal, and Li Su had to invent some simple cakes for fermented dough in advance to improve Liu Beijun's staple diet structure. In this way, he could solve the problem of cooking with charcoal without realizing it.

In this era, there were no fermented dead noodles such as burnt, but there was only a lack of fermented noodles. Li Su was in Liaodong for several months before. In order to improve his life when he was idle, he also used grain fermentation and sour kimchi to mix various foods with sour water and dough for experiments.

Although initial scientific experiments often fail, and dozens of stones of flour were lost, at least I tried several stable fresh yeast doughs that would not cause bad food.

During the experiment period, Li Su will cook the dough that expands after acidification, and then find some hungry people to try it, but he will not eat it himself. If it causes diarrhea, it means that the experiment failed and the colony was abandoned until it was tested that it could make the dough big and not bad.

This natural fresh yeast community is actually not pure yeast, it also contains a mixture of acetic acid bacteria and lactic acid bacteria.

So in fact, the fermented products include not only enzymes, but also acetic acid and lactic acid. The pasta made will definitely have a sour taste, and the taste is almost as sour as the English cakes in Ethiopian cuisine.

After having native yeast, you don’t have to cultivate yeast every time. Just use the dough you made in the past and leave a piece of it and add it to the new noodles when making the cake. The new noodles can also ferment - just like the one played in "The Master of Chinese Primary School", this kind of thing is called "old noodles".

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For several consecutive days, all signs showed that the Han army maneuvered towards Xiangping was much more large than those who stayed at the Liao Tunnel.

There are mainly two rebel generals here in Liao Tun.

The commander Zhang Hao was originally a subordinate of Zhang Chun when he was the prime minister of Zhongshan, and a Sima, a member of the Zhongshan Commander, rebelled with Zhang Chun.

Deputy General Xian Yunu was originally a powerful general under Suli. At the end of last year, Suli himself was attacked and killed by Wuhuan Qiu Liju, and his head was presented to Liu Yu. After the remnants of the Xianbei Suli tribe followed Xian Yunu and fled to Liaodong with Zhang Chun. Now he is assigned to guard the Liao Tunnel with Zhang Hao.

Zhang Hao usually mainly guarded the Liaosun County, while Xian Yunu stationed outside the city along the long fortifications along the Liao River, and was also responsible for field battles such as robbing grain and cutting off enemy food channels.

As the Han army's tricks of stealing the house in the back became more and more complete, and more realistic, Zhang Hao and Xian Yunu were also confused.

On May 18th, Zhang Hao summoned Xian Yunu back to the city and discussed together: "General Xian Yu, I don't know whether Xiangping was being attacked or attacked fiercely. You dispatch hundreds of scouts to divide into several teams to contact Xiangping, and be sure to find out the reality of the Han army."

"Well, let's send Xianbei warriors to inquire." Xian Yunu refused to disobey and executed it honestly.

To put it bluntly, although Zhang Hao and Xian Yunu are both named under the rank of an unknown general in history books, Zhang Chun has now named them generals, and their ranks are not low, so they call each other this in daily conversations.

Who made the Second Zhang regime reach the end and its official position is worthless? People like Zhang Hao are actually generals of fake chariots and cavalry, and Xian Yunu is generals of fake cavalry.

The work of inquiry lasted for three days, and on May 20th, I finally got a reply.

The scouts composed of four waves of Xianbei elite cavalry, each wave of fifty cavalry, totaling 200, and only 37 people came back alive.

Among these thirty-seven people, only eleven people escaped after they could see the distance between Xiangping's walls.

The rest were intercepted and killed by Zhao Yun's patrol cavalry, and Zhao Yun himself killed more than 40 cavalrymen.

The news they brought back was: the northeast and southeast directions of Xiangping City were full of killing sounds, and the Han army camps were continuous.

Moreover, in each camp, they roughly estimated the number of tents and the number of smoke and stoves at mealtime, and sketched on the sheepskin.

Zhang Hao and Xian Yunu checked and felt that the Han army under Xiangping City was definitely the main force, with an estimated number of more than 10,000 people.

Xianyunu, a Xianbei person, was unable to hold back at first: "And according to our daily returns to the lookout and scouts, counting the number of camps in the Liao Tunnel of Liubei and the number of stove smoke, this tent is enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people, but the cooking smoke is definitely not enough to raise even five thousand soldiers.

I told me that the number of tents must be bluffing, just to scare us. In fact, Liu Bei's troops on our side are empty. Why not tomorrow night, I will secretly wade through the tributary of the western Liaohe River in the middle of the night and kill Liu Bei without being caught! If the camp here is broken, wouldn't the Han army around Xiangping be cut off from their way back and food routes, and would they catch turtles in the jar?"

Zhang Hao was a Han Chinese, so he was a little cautious: "No, what if it was Liu Bei's plan to lure the enemy? I heard that when King Nanqiao and Yan Rou were in Changli, they were repeatedly beaten by Liu Bei's military advisor Li Su. Let's defend to the death and fight against Liu Bei.

The number of camp tents and stoves can be faked, unless the speed of the Han army transporting grain to the Xiangping front line cannot be faked. Let's observe a few more days to see how many grain trucks the Han army transports grain to the Xiangping besieged front line every few days. Each time, we can estimate the speed of grain consumption in Xiangping around the Later Han army.

This is unlikely to be faked. After all, the land transportation of grain consumes a lot of money. If you can't use anything, you can't get a few empty trips. The consumption of food for the people on this journey is not a decimal."

When Xian Yunu thought about it, he had to admire: "You Han people are tricky and can think so carefully. But what if there are still not so many people on the Xiangping front line, Liu Bei transported the food to stock up first? He could keep it even if he couldn't finish it."

Zhang Hao smiled proudly: "Of course it is OK, but if the Han army in Xiangping is actually insufficient, and if there is too much grain, you will not be afraid of being led by the general in the city to rob the camp and burn the grain? The army guarding the city wanted to go out of the city to rob the city and siege the city camp, and that was reached with just one stretch of his legs. There are only a thousand days of thieves in the world, but no one has to guard against thieves for a thousand days."

Xian Yunu thought it made sense, so the two discussed and decided: observe two or three more waves according to this plan.

Anyway, even if Liu Bei is in charge of Xiangping, with the strong city of Xiangping, he will definitely not be able to surround him in one or two months.

Zhou Tai went to Xiangping Front to transport grain by land, basically one round will take seven or eight days, and only three rounds will be observed for more than twenty days.

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The two armies observed the situation for another twenty days. Xian Yunu always sent cavalry scouts to detectives, and Zhou Tai had sufficient grain protection forces. It seemed that every time the civilians led soldiers, there were at least two thousand people transported them. Each ox cart should be able to transport twenty stones of grain, which was six thousand stones at a time.

After all, Liu Bei's army in Xiangping ate 6,000 stones of grain every six or seven days, one thousand stone a day. According to a dou of rice per soldier every two days, it is almost a consumption rate of 20,000 people. It may be more, and it is used as a strategic reserve to be on the front line.

However, Xian Yunu's harassment of the cavalry did not know. Every time they followed him for dozens of miles, they had to be driven away because of the appearance of Zhao Yun's cavalry, and they did not dare to leave the Liao Tunnel Fortress too far.

Because as long as Zhao Yun leaves the Liao Tunnel Fortress for more than fifty miles and is discovered by Zhao Yun, Zhao Yun's light cavalry can definitely catch up with those small groups of Xianbei people and kill most of them.

This kind of daily reconnaissance work is impossible for the Xianbei people to fill in a bunch of lives every few days, so it is natural to follow dozens of miles to ensure that they can escape immediately after receiving the enemy.

However, not all ox carts of Zhou Tai's grain transport team will travel 200 miles to reach Xiangping.

In fact, less than one hundred of these three hundred ox carts will actually arrive in Xiangping.

After walking fifty miles away from the Liao Tunnel, the soldiers hiding under the forage canopy in the car would come out, and then lead the light empty ox cart and go a little south to the mountain road. Find a place in the Anshan Mountain area where you can barely set up a camp to rest for a few nights, and wait for the return of the real grain transport team.

That's what Li Su asked Zhou Tai and Taishi Ci: Don't worry about whether there are enemies coming to approach the sentry every time you transport food. In short, you must make the same as the enemy or not, and your acting skills are good every time.

This flawless acting finally made Zhang Hao and Xian Yunu decide to start a fight. The purpose of setting up the Liao Tunnel Fortress is to steal the family if Liu Bei encounters Liu Bei and steal the family, and to cut off the food route of the enemy's troops behind.

Even if you don’t go back to rescue Xiangping, you must try to cut off the food route. It will be a matter of not completing the tasks assigned by Zhang Chun, and it will definitely not be explained.

Zhang Hao ordered: "General Xianyu, tomorrow is the day when the Han army transports grain. You should take all the cavalry in our headquarters first, and I will help thousands of infantry to rob the military rations escorted by Zhou Tai. Judging from Zhou Tai's banner, he is just a Sima of another department, and his troops are only two thousand. We can rob the grain with three or four times the strength of the troops, and we can definitely destroy the grain and annihilate the enemy and be able to do it together!
Chapter completed!