Du Yu put forward a new opinion. It was actually similar to Lu Xun's opinion, except that Lu Xun had to wait until Sima Yi ran out of food and grass, but Du Yu wanted to burn Sima Yi's food and grass now.
Du Yu said: "Food is the lifeblood of the army. If your Majesty can burn Sima Yi's food and grass, the morale of the army of millions will be shaken. Without your Majesty's soldiers, they will disperse like birds and beasts. By then, your Majesty will be able to cross the river without any effort."
Take this million-strong army into your pocket."
Guo Jiadao: "The plan is a good one, but Sima Yi is shrewd, and Cao Cao even controls the world by robbing grain. How can they find the place where they hoard their grain and grass so easily?"
Du Yu smiled: "Sir, have you forgotten where I come from?"
Everyone laughed. Du Yu pointed at Muye and said: "This is where the Wei army gathered grain. Muye is not far from Yecheng and also close to the bank of the Yellow River. It is particularly convenient to transfer grain and grass from Yecheng to here, and this place is in
Behind the army, if you want to rob the grain, you must bypass millions of Wei troops. Cao Cao took a fancy to this, so he hoarded grain here. In addition to Muye, Neihuang, and Gaotang all have grain stores. These three places have a common characteristic. Yi
It is difficult to defend and attack. Standing on a high mountain, you can overlook the entire Yellow River. If there is any disturbance, the grain and grass can be transported away or burned."
Long Fei and others carefully looked at these three places. As Du Yu said, Sima Yi had deployed heavy troops in front of these three places. The number of soldiers and horses in each place was about 100,000. The cost of food and grass for 100,000 troops and horses was huge.
It's too far away and it's not convenient to transport it.
Xu Shu nodded: "Yuan Kai is right. Our spies also found out that these places are heavily defended. They can't get close to them. They should be where grain is stored."
"Okay, if that's the case, then prepare your troops and horses as Yuan Kai said!" Long Fei immediately ordered.
It has been more than ten days, and there is still no news about Du Yu. The spies sent to the Long Army could not confirm that Du Yu was surprised and went to the Long Army, but Sima Yi was still worried. Du Yu was a dangerous person, and he had plans for the entire Wei army.
He knew everything. If Du Yu went to Long Jun, the consequences would be disastrous. According to the current situation, Du Yu's biggest possibility is to defect to Long Fei.
Sima Yi thought about it, and he hoped to guess how Du Yu would attack him from Du Yu's point of view. He had an army of half a million, and the civilians were no less than one million. Long Fei had always been well-known among the people for loving the people.
Long Fei will never attack these hundreds of thousands of people here. But what will Long Fei do? He hasn't figured it out yet.
"Father, would you like to have something to eat? You haven't eaten for two days!" Sima Zhao carried the wooden plate and personally delivered the meal to Sima Yi.
Sima Yi didn't even raise his head, and looked at the map in front of him. Sima Zhao didn't dare to disturb him, put the wooden plate down gently, and shouted again: "Father, if you don't eat, there will be nothing! We are millions of people, and we don't have much food and grass.
I specially ordered someone to make this for you, so don't waste a single grain."
Sima Zhao mentioned the word "food and grass", and Sima Yi's heart suddenly tightened. It seemed that he had caught something, and he suddenly raised his head and looked at Sima Zhao: "Can you say it again?"
Sima Zhao was a little at a loss. Looking at Sima Yi's eyes, he didn't know what he said was wrong again. He said timidly: "If you don't eat it, it will be gone. We can't waste a grain of food!"
"That's right! That's right! It's him!" Sima Yi suddenly realized, threw down the things in his hands, and said loudly: "Quick, hurry up and worry about all the generals, beware of Long Fei robbing food!"
With the idea of robbing food, there was a problem with who to send. It wasn't that no one went, but that there were too many people who volunteered, making it difficult for Long Fei to make a decision. He looked at his subordinates, one by one, for this mission.
His face turned red and Long Fei couldn't make up his mind. Guo Jia coughed and said, "You are all generals of our empire. How can you behave like this? Everything is at your Majesty's command!"
Everyone then became quiet and looked at Long Fei eagerly. Long Fei chuckled, and he had not decided who to send. Dian Wei first said: "Boss, give me five hundred soldiers, and I will lose Makino's food!"
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Dian Manyi pulled Dian Wei: "Dad, you are so old, why don't you let your son do such a small thing? Xu Yi and I have agreed that we only need 300 people to burn down Makino!"
Xu Yi nodded repeatedly on the side: "Uncle Dian, just leave it to us! You don't need to do such small things, the children will do it for you!"
"Who is old?" When Dian Wei heard these two boys say that he was old, he immediately became furious: "If you say the word old again, I will chop you two little bastards alive."
Seeing that chaos was about to start again in the tent, Long Fei had to speak. He thought for a long time and said: "Let's do it! Since you all want to go, let's draw lots, and whoever wins will get it? But I said ugly words here
If we cannot complete the task ahead, we will engage in military law!"
Long Fei winked at Xu Shu. Xu Shu quickly found a piece of paper and wrote down Muye, Gaotang, and Neihuang. He also made some empty paper balls according to the number of people and threw them in. He grabbed the bamboo basket and tried his best.
It shook a few times.
Du Yu thought it was unbelievable that such a big event could be such a trivial matter. He wanted to see if Long Fei really thought of war as such a simple matter. Before Guo Jia started, he said: "Before we start, let me tell you
Let me make it clear to you that this matter is of great importance and I will never send someone to complete it alone, so I think it must be done by at least three people together. Now you can combine freely."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was chaos in the big tent, and everyone began to look for a reliable candidate. When Dian Wei saw that Dian Man was not looking for him, he stepped up and kicked him: "You want to rebel? You don't want to join me, what do you think?"
What are you doing? Come here!" Dianman had no choice but to hold his mouth and walk behind Dian Wei.
The final results came out. Dian Wei, Dian Man and his son were automatically eliminated because there were only two of them. Xu Chu, Xu Yi, Chen Dao, and Meng Shuo were the four. The unprecedented Du Yu was also involved, and Lu Xun, Huang Xu and him
travel together.
Guo Jia smiled slightly and said: "Very good, now that everyone has decided, let's invite the people who successfully formed the team to draw lots?"
Seeing others starting to draw lots, Dian Wei, Dian Man and his son began to complain to each other. Dian Man thought that his father was not popular. Dian Wei thought that Dian Man did not attract Xu Yi, which led to his elimination. Both father and son
The more he spoke, the louder he became, and it was almost time to take action in the big tent. When everyone had finished arresting them, the father and son were still arguing. Long Fei snorted coldly and glared at Dian Wei, who quickly closed his mouth.
Silenced.
The final result was beyond everyone's expectation. Lu Xun, Huang Xu, and Du Yu captured Muye, Deng Ai, Lu Meng, and Zhao Tong captured Gaotang, Ling Tong, Zhang Hu, and Meng Shuo captured Nei Huang. The three pairs were very happy.
, compared to others, they looked crestfallen. Long Fei laughed loudly: "Well, well, look, they are all young people. The eldest is Meng Shuo. He is only twenty-five years old now. Yes, there are successors to our empire.
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Everyone understood that Xu Shu must have done some tricks in this lottery, otherwise how could it be possible that all the people were so young. Those who wanted to understand the inside story smiled without saying a word, while those with brains like Dian Wei were unconvinced.
But due to Long Fei's pressure, Dian Wei could only mutter a few words and did not dare to say it out loud. Long Fei gave an order and asked the leaders of the three pairs to select soldiers.
When Du Yu turned around to go out of the tent, he was stopped by Long Fei. Long Fei said: "Yuan Kai has just arrived and hasn't met his mother yet. I'll give Yuan Kai a day off today. It won't be too late to come back tomorrow morning. What's wrong with Sima Yi if I delay for a day?"
There won’t be any action.”
Du Yu said: "Write your Majesty's kindness. Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety cannot be repeated twice. Du Yu has not brought any greeting gifts to Your Majesty. This battle will be Du Yu's first battle. It will not be too late to see my mother again after he has made great achievements!"
Long Fei's side was busy, and Sima Yi's side was not idle either. Sima Yi had already guessed that Long Fei would come to rob the grain, and now there were only two ways, either to guard the Yellow River, strengthen the defense, and not let any soldiers come over. Or
That is to transfer the food and grass. But judging from the time, it is not easy to transfer all the food and grass for the million-strong army. The final result can only be to strengthen the defense.
For this reason, Sima Yi urgently transferred Yu Jin to the front line. He had no selfish motives at all and was focused on the life and death of Wei. Sima Yi sent Yu Jin to garrison Muye, Li Dian to garrison Neihuang, and Yue Jin to garrison Gaotang. He hoped to use these three generals to stabilize the country.
Keep the morale of the army in mind and protect their own food and grass. At the same time, his son Sima Zhao led his soldiers and horses to patrol along the river bank day and night. If anything went wrong, they would be killed first and then reported. Signs of a war spread among the Wei army.
It is not easy to have too many people to rob food, but it is not easy to have too few. Long Fei ordered that three pairs of people can be selected from his personal guard camp. Each of these people is a person who is accustomed to fighting, and everyone has a unique skill.
It was Du Yu's first time to come into contact with the soldiers of the Dragon Army, not to mention the elite of the Dragon Army. According to Lu Xun's introduction, although the Guards Battalion was smaller in number than other troops, its combat power was not weak at all.
According to the differentiation of the Dragon Army, the soldiers and horses are divided into guard battalions, elite battalions and ordinary battalions. Regular competitions and rotations are held between the three battalions. If the army of the higher level is defeated, the army of the higher level will naturally be promoted, and the loser will be automatically demoted.
.The Guard Battalion is different. It has no fixed quota and does not need to be rotated. It is carefully selected from all the armies of the Dragon Army. It all depends on real skills. Even the soldiers who are not required by the Guard Battalion are
, in other battalions they are at the captain level.
The entire Dragon Army had 800,000 troops and horses, and the guard camp had only 40,000, which were respectively led by Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Chen Dao, and Meng Shuo. Although Dian Wei was angry that he had no share of his own, when he saw Lu Xun and others coming to select troops, he still vigorously
Recommending his subordinates surprised Du Yuyou. Huang Xu chuckled and said, "Uncle Dian is like this. If he loses, he can't help but his troops will also lose. Don't worry, the person he recommends will definitely be right."
It took a whole afternoon to compare and select the three pairs of people, and they all selected the manpower they thought was suitable for them. There were only a thousand people in the team. This operation was carried out in secret. There was no public swearing-in meeting. Long Fei was in a relatively hidden place.
, secretly mobilized everyone in front of the station. Seeing the sky getting dark, Long Fei nodded: "From now on, everything will be in your own hands for five days. I hope you three thousand people will go,
Three thousand people have returned. I, Long Fei, am here to prepare fine wine to celebrate your success! Without further ado, let’s set off!”