The disaster that Cao's army brought to Xia Pi was undoubtedly huge after siege for several months.

Except for the seriously injured, everyone else was cleaning up the ruins in the city.

The pale-faced and thin man pushed the wheelbarrow and transported the cleaned garbage outside the city.

The city gate was open, and people were pushing carts to each other.

Accompanied by Zhang Liao, Lu Bu rode the red rabbit on the streets of Xia Pi.

The crowds of people coming and going were like eggplants beaten by frost. The morale was so low that if Cao's army did not retreat, Xia Pi would be defeated in at most one month.

People pushing wheelbarrows in and out, transporting garbage out of the city along both sides of the street.

As he was walking forward, Lu Bu saw an old man with gray hair and beards tilted and collapsed on the road.

The few people following behind quickly put down the cart and ran over. One of them held up the old man's neck and let him lean in his arms.

More people just looked at them and continued to move forward weakly.

Lu Bu jumped off his horse and walked over quickly.

Squatting beside the old man, he saw that the old man had his eyes closed and his teeth were biting tightly, and he had already fallen into a coma.

Zhang Liao and several guards also followed.

"What's going on?" Lu Bu asked the men who were surrounded by him.

"Hungry." The man holding the old man replied: "I haven't had a single piece of food in my stomach for many days. There are so many things to be cleaned up in the city..."

He didn't continue talking, but just lowered his head with a sad face.

"Send him to rest and ask the doctor to treat him." Lu Bu said to several men and stood up.

After getting back on the horse, he asked Zhang Liao: "How much food is left in the city?"

"There are not much." Zhang Liao replied: "Just supplying the soldiers is only one month's food."

"We can't watch the people starve to death." Lu Bu said: "Why did we seize Xuzhou for the first time? Isn't it to conquer the world and achieve great things? If the people starve to death, what else should we do in the world?"

Zhang Liao didn't say anything.

He had long felt that Lu Bu was different from the past.

When Lu Bu was once, he would not care too much about the lives and deaths of the people, not to mention that he would never care about the lives and deaths of the soldiers in the army.

But the one beside him said that the world without the people would be useless.

"Do you know where to get food?" Lu Bu suddenly asked.

"The winter has not passed, and it will take several months to harvest the food." Zhang Liao said: "There is probably not the entire Xuzhou."

"The closest to Xuzhou is Yuan Shu." Lu Bu asked, "Do you think there is a place where he is?"

"Although Yuan Shu in Huainan was defeated by Wen Hou and injured his vitality, he would definitely have food stored there." Zhang Liao asked: "Wen Hou is planning..."

"Borrow from him." Lu Bu said: "I will take people there myself."

"It's the middle of winter and there is not much food in various places. How could Yuan Shu agree?" Zhang Liao said: "I think it's better to let the people go to the wild to collect bark and wild vegetables..."

"There are still several months before harvesting grain. Can you only eat wild bark for the soldiers and the people? Then you will be pale and thin. If Cao's army comes again, who will have the strength to go into battle to kill the enemy?" Lu Bu said: "I asked Yuan Shu to borrow grain, but I didn't plan to get his consent."

"Is Wen Hou going to..." Zhang Liao was stunned.

"Hold Xia Pi well and wait for me to bring the food back!" Lu Bu did not explain and shook the reins hard: "Accompany me to the military camp, I have to select two hundred capable soldiers."

Lu Bu urged the horse to leave, and Zhang Liao followed him closely and was still trying hard to persuade him: "Wen Hou must not take risks. Although Yuan Shu is not as good as before, he still has a lot of troops. What if..."

"Don't worry!" Lu Bu said: "If I take his food, I may not let him know who did it."

He never thought of borrowing grain from Yuan Shu.

Huainan is not far from Xuzhou. Since there is food there, I will take people to grab it.

Since I chose to rob, of course I went back quietly. I really couldn't escape the fight, so it was better to dress up as a bandit.

The tactics applied to the battlefield, like technology, have gradually evolved and improved with the changes of the times.

Familiar with the tactics two thousand years later and having the most powerful martial arts, Lu Bu did not think it would be difficult to seize food.

After the soul entered this body, he received a lot of information from his past memories.

In order to invite Yuan Shu to send troops to help, Lu Bu once wrapped his daughter in armor and left the city, but was intercepted by Cao's army halfway.

When he returned to the city, his daughter was already suffocated to death.

The wife who gave birth to a daughter for him also died a few years ago, and now only Diao Chan is left beside him!

Although memories circling in his mind, they were not personal experiences after all. He did not have much emotional fluctuations, but he just treated everything that had happened to Lu Bu as a story.

The story also has its use, at least the death of his daughter created an excuse for him to snatch food and grass from Yuan Shu!

If you reveal your identity while robbing food and take out this excuse, at least you can lead the axiom to a side that is beneficial to you.

Zhang Liao was very worried when he heard that he was planning to grab the grain.

Lu Bu is bravest in the world, and no one is his opponent when fighting alone.

But Yuan Shu has many soldiers and horses. Once he is trapped in a heavy siege, he still has food. It will be as difficult as the sky to break through!

When Lu Bu came to the military camp, the soldiers who were resting ran out of the barracks one after another.

After months of fighting, the soldiers looked very tired now that they had to clean up the ruins day and night.

Gao Shun greeted Lu Bu and greeted him: "Wen Hou is here."

"How is the camp?" Lu Bu asked Gao Shun after getting off the horse and handing the Red Rabbit to a guard.

"I picked a lot of rounds like a sieve, but I only collected five hundred people." Gao Shun said: "There are too many old and weak in the army. If there is no expansion of troops, I will be unable to deal with any war in the future."

"We have no money, no food, no population, no soldiers, how can we expand our troops?" Lu Bu said: "Xuzhou has been in decline after several wars. If we want to recruit more soldiers, we must first make money. With money, we can buy more food, make more fine weapons, and attract more people to settle down in Xuzhou."

"How many camps are there?" he asked again.

"Most of the soldiers are cleaning up the ruins." Gao Shun replied: "Those who stayed here were busy all night before retreating, and there were only more than 200 people in the camp."

"Take them to the colonel's yard, I have something to say." Lu Bu walked towards the camp.

Gao Shun shouted at the top of his voice: "Central camps gather, Wen Hou has something to say!"

The soldiers who belonged to the camp ran to the schoolyard and arranged in neat formations.

More than 200 soldiers raised their heads and raised their chests and were quite imposing. However, their broken armor and ragged clothes made them more like a remnant soldier who wanted to retain a trace of dignity after being defeated.
Chapter completed!