Chapter 21
The escort truck left Zhongli, and Lu Bu asked the soldiers who were guarding the horses and asked them to drive the horses to catch up with the food team as soon as possible.
Horses walk much faster than people.
The grain transport team set out early in the morning. At noon that day, ten soldiers drove the horses and chased them.
More than two hundred war horses arrived, and the villagers who transported food and grass were surprised.
Some active-minded civilians were wondering, if the escorts were all cavalry, why did they not ride horses in the city, but only sent their horses after they left the city?
Of course, their doubts cannot be answered.
No one is so stupid that he will ask questions.
The officer led the horse to Lu Bu: "General, please get on the horse..."
"We haven't left Huainan yet." Lu Bu interrupted him: "You are still leading the team, let's talk about it after entering Xuzhou."
The soldiers boarded the horses one after another, divided into two teams to protect the grain trucks and continue to move forward.
At the same time, Zhongli City.
The military camp where slogans were practiced was usually very quiet every morning.
Most people who walk outside the military camp will subconsciously look inward.
The soldiers guarding the gate were not there, and the entire camp was strange.
It was not until sunset that someone reported the abnormal phenomena in the military camp to the county magistrate.
The county magistrate hurried to the military camp with a group of people.
He did not dare to break in immediately, but ordered the county magistrate: "Take two people in and take a look."
Huang Jiao led his army to station here without being controlled by the local authorities.
In terms of official rank, the county magistrate is several levels lower than him.
The county magistrate opened his mouth, but the county magistrate dared not to go, so he invited two local county soldiers to go to the military camp with a tough bullet.
Since Cao Cao's last attack on Yuan Shu, Huang Qi has been stationed in Zhongli.
Local officials all know that he has a bad temper.
If he rashly breaks into the military camp, he will still cause many troubles...
The county magistrate did not dare to enter the military camp easily but asked him to take people to check it out. The county magistrate was full of displeasure and did not dare to say it.
After entering the barracks and walking around, they didn't even see a ghost.
The barracks were empty, as if everyone had disappeared out of thin air.
Two county soldiers were about to go to the barracks to check and were stopped by the county magistrate: "You don't want to die if you break into the barracks?"
"But the county magistrate wants us..." Looking back at him, a county soldier said in confusion.
"He just asked us to go to the barracks to check, but he didn't let us go into the barracks." The county magistrate said: "Don't be too troublesome, go out with me to report!"
The soldiers of the two counties were confused and did not understand what he meant.
But he gave the order, but he didn't dare not not follow.
After walking out of the military camp, the county magistrate reported to the county magistrate: "There is no one in the military camp, and it seems that they have all left."
"I only heard that a team was transporting grain out of the city in the morning, but I didn't hear that the army was setting off." When I heard that there was no one in the military camp, the county magistrate breathed a sigh of relief and became bolder: "Get in and have a look."
He led a group of people into the military camp, and the county magistrate found that it was indeed an empty camp.
"If General Huang leads his troops to the battle, he will at least say hello to us." The county magistrate muttered in confusion: "Did you just leave like this?"
"The military rations have been transported out, so it shouldn't be fake." The county magistrate came up and said, "If we go back, we can't get involved in the military affairs."
"You are responsible for local military affairs and have not received any information in advance?" The county magistrate was still confused.
"I am just a small county lieutenant. How could General Huang tell me about his work?" the county lieutenant replied.
After looking at the county magistrate, the county magistrate who always felt unwilling to let go of the matter told everyone: "Look around to see if you can find anything."
The crowd scattered and walked away.
A few bold ones walked straight to the barracks where the door was closed.
The county magistrate and county magistrate stood in the open space and waited to report.
Suddenly, a strange scream of "Oh my God" came from a barracks.
The two people stumbled out of the barracks in a daze.
"What's going on?" Suddenly, there was an ominous premonition, and the county magistrate hurriedly asked the two people.
"Everything is dead! They are all dead!" They rolled and crawled to the county magistrate, and the two of them sat on the ground and shouted in fear.
"Go and take a look!" The county magistrate greeted and rushed into the barracks with the county magistrate and a few people who ran back.
Twenty or thirty corpses with neck smeared in the barracks were lying side by side.
Except for the shocking wound on their necks, they seemed to be asleep, and everyone's expression was very peaceful.
"Look at other barracks." Knowing that something was wrong, the county magistrate roared.
Not long after, the people checking in the military camp returned to the county magistrate.
The county magistrate who personally checked the chief barracks also came back.
"General Huang..." His face turned pale and the county magistrate's voice was trembling: "Die..."
"Hurry... report to Your Majesty..." The county magistrate sat on the ground with his butt.
The military camp was uprooted and the general died of a murder. He didn't know anything about it.
Yuan Shu must have been furious when he received the news. As the county magistrate, he was unlucky...
The sun sets in the west and the sky is covered with red clouds.
The escort team's camp stepped into Xuzhou's territory with colorful clouds.
The officer led the team turned around and came to Lu Bu: "General, he has entered Xuzhou."
"Sent orders, everyone took off their armor and changed into civilian clothes." Lu Bu ordered: "From now on, I will lead the team myself."
"The general has an order. Everyone should take off their armor and put on civilians' clothes!" The officer ran around the team, urging his voice to convey the order.
The team stopped, and the soldiers took off their armor and threw them on the ground, changing into civilian costumes they wore when they sneaked into Huainan.
The ox cart was driving the ox cart and looked at them blankly.
Some people have noticed something.
The soldiers who were divided into two sides with the grain trucks in the middle held weapons and rode horses. Even if they felt something was wrong, the civilians would not have any chance to escape.
From the end of the team, Lu Bu looked back at the bus driver and said, "Take a lot of grains and send the food, I guarantee you are fine."
He completely understood what was going on, and two or three hundred civilians looked at both sides in panic.
The soldiers of the camp on the horse's back stared at them fiercely.
Many people shrank their necks in fear.
Lu Bu shook the reins and gently clamped his legs into the horse's belly: "Go!"
The team continues to go on the road.
"Send someone back to Xia Pi first and tell everyone the news of us getting the food back." As he walked forward, Lu Bu ordered the officer.
The officer turned around and asked a soldier, "You heard what the general said?"
"I heard it." The soldier replied.
"Why don't you go quickly?" the officer gave a look to the side.
The soldiers left the team and rushed to Xia Pi to rush their horses to run wildly.
Yuan Shu from Shouchun received news from Zhongli, and Lu Bu had already led his team to Xuzhou.
Zhongli's food reserves were cheated away, nearly a thousand soldiers were killed, and even Huang Qi died...
Chapter completed!