Cen Peng thought for a while and said: "Send someone to inform General Feng and ask General Feng to transport 80,000 shi of grain to Wuyang as soon as possible!"
At present, Feng Jun is still besieging Jiangzhou. The main force of the Han army and the food and grass are mostly in the Jiangzhou camp. If Wu Han needs food, it can only be deployed from Jiangzhou to Wuyang.
Yang Xi stepped in and saluted and said: "General, if you are transporting grain from Jiangzhou and need to pass by Zizhong, I will worry that Wang Yuan will take the opportunity to attack Gongsun Hui who is stationed in Zizhong!"
This is a question. Cen Peng thought about it for a moment and said to Zang Gong: "General Zang!"
"The general is here!" Zang Gong stepped in and saluted.
"Tomorrow, you will lead 10,000 troops and retreat to the Zizhong area. There is no need to attack the city. You only need to station near Zizhong to protect our army's food and grass."
"General, I will obey your order!" Zang Gong bowed and accepted the order.
Cen Peng said: "Three days later, our army will set off for Guangdu. We will rest and recuperate temporarily in Guangdu and attack Chengdu soon!"
When everyone present heard this, they all looked happy, and they all stepped in and said, "Here!"
When people followed Cen Peng and invaded Shu, no one expected that the war would go so smoothly.
Our side marched straight in, and all the rebel troops we encountered were vulnerable to attack. Wherever we passed, the people surrendered and submitted. Our side did not expend much effort in attacking Chengdu.
If everything goes well and our side successfully breaks through Chengdu and captures Gongsun Shu, then by following the general, he will truly have made an unparalleled contribution!
People happily exited the Chinese military tent one by one, and Cen Peng also returned to his sleeping tent to rest.
To make a long story short, after midnight, around ten o'clock in the evening, Cen Peng was resting in his sleeping tent when he heard bursts of noise coming from outside.
Cen Peng didn't know what happened. He sat up from the bed, turned to the outside of the tent and said, "Here comes someone!"
The curtain was lifted, and a guard came in from the outside, stepped in and saluted, and said: "General!"
"What's going on outside? Why is it so chaotic?" Cen Peng asked with a frown.
The guard bowed and said: "General, the people who took refuge in our army camp started fighting!"
Cen Peng was puzzled and asked: "Why did the dispute start?"
“I heard it’s because of uneven distribution of food!”
Cen Peng thought for a moment, stood up, put on his clothes, and said, "I'll go over and take a look!"
The guard whispered: "General, the troublemakers are greedy and unreasonable people. General, you should rest in the camp!"
Cen Peng shook his head and said: "All the people who fled for refuge trust the Han court and our Han soldiers. Now that they have a dispute in our camp, how can I just sit back and ignore it?"
"
Seeing that he couldn't persuade Cen Peng, the guard had no choice but to pick up a cloak from the clothes rack nearby, put it on Cen Peng's shoulders, and said: "General, it's cold outside, please wear more clothes."
Cen Peng nodded to the guard with a smile and responded: "Yes!"
He walked out of the camp, took a dozen personal guards with him, and walked towards the direction where the noise came from.
In order to receive the people who took refuge, the Han army's camp specially divided an area as a residence for the people. Some of the tents inside were provided by the Han army, and some were brought by the people themselves. They were of various types, one next to another.
Entering it, Cen Peng looked up and saw that there were two groups of people pointing and yelling at each other. Both sides said that the other side received more food than their own, and that the Han army's food distribution was unfair and they wanted to take it from the other side.
Grab food.
The people on both sides refused to give in to each other, rolling up their arms and sleeves one by one, who might fight. Between the two groups of people, there were many Han soldiers blocking the way, trying to persuade the people on both sides to calm down and not use force.
The scene was chaotic and there was a lot of shouting.
One of the guards shouted loudly: "Shut up, everyone!"
The general has arrived—"
When they heard that General Cen Peng was coming, the shouting people shrank in fear. No one dared to shout anymore, and the scene suddenly became much quieter. Cen Peng stepped forward and walked to the center of the two groups of people.
, look to the left and right.
The people on both sides seemed to have been in contact. Many people had bruises on their noses and faces, and their clothes were still stained with blood. Seeing this, Cen Peng frowned and asked in a deep voice: "Who can tell me what is going on here?"
An elderly man walked out of the crowd on his left. The old man raised his hands to Cen Peng and said, "General, I am the village chief of Zhang Village, Zhang Pei!"
Cen Peng returned the salute and said, "It turns out to be Zhang Cunzheng!"
Zhang Pei said: "Zhang Village is in the north of Guangdu. I heard that there was going to be a war in Chengdu. After everyone discussed it, they decided to move the whole village to Wuyang. Thanks to the general's relief, we didn't starve when we arrived in Wuyang.
But in the past two days, the food we received was much less than before. After asking my brothers in the army, I found out that it was their people from Li Village who had intercepted our food!"
"You are talking nonsense!" Among the villagers on the other side, an old man also walked out. He raised his hand to Cen Peng and said: "General, don't listen to Zhang Pei! He is obviously from Zhang Village, so shameless.
You are so despicable that you stole the food from our village!"
Hearing this, Zhang Pei became furious, raised his finger and pointed at the old man, and was about to curse. Cen Peng waved his hand to him, signaling him to calm down. Then he looked at the old man and asked, "Who is this old gentleman?"
"Reporting to the general, young old Li Hong is the village mayor of Li Village!"
"Oh! It turns out to be Li Cunzheng!" Cen Peng raised his hand to Li Hong again.
Now that he understood the general idea, Cen Peng said slowly: "Zhang Cunzheng!"
"Xiao Lao is here!"
"Do you think that the food distributed to the villagers of Zhang Village has been low recently because the villagers of Li Village intercepted it halfway?"
"Exactly!"
"Li Cunzheng!" "The old man is here!" "Do you think the food distributed to the villagers in Li Village has been short recently because it was intercepted by the villagers in Zhang Village!"
"Exactly! Please ask the general to investigate this matter strictly!" Li Hong said with his hands raised. Zhang Pei snorted coldly, and also said: "Yes! Please ask the general to find out this matter, punish the villains severely, and return the people of Zhang Village to me.
Justice!"
Cen Peng asked curiously: "Excuse me, Zhang Cunzheng and Li Cunzheng, who said that the grain distributed to you was intercepted halfway?"
Zhang Pei and Li Hong were both startled, looked at each other, and said almost in unison: "He's a little brother in the army!"
Cen Peng narrowed his eyes and asked with a smile: "I wonder what that little brother looks like?"
Zhang Pei and Li Hong both looked thoughtful. They really couldn't remember exactly what the Han soldier who came to report looked like. Zhang Pei said: "He just looks ordinary, not too surprising.
It also...has no characteristics!"
Li Hong followed up and said: "That little brother has an average appearance and average figure. Speaking of which, I can't even remember what he looks like!"
Cen Peng nodded and said: "I think it may be that Gongsun Shu's secret agent has sneaked into our army camp, and its purpose is to provoke a conflict between you."
Seeing Zhang Pei, Li Hong and other common people looking surprised, Cen Peng said seriously: "Recently, the number of people our army has rescued has been increasing. The food in the army is already stretched thin. The food distributed to you will be
They were not intercepted by anyone on the way, but the number has indeed been reduced. This is really a helpless move. Maybe the two Muramasa understand the difficulties of our army?"
Zhang Pei, Li Hong and others were all dumbfounded. It turned out that the recent decrease in food distribution was due to the food shortage in the army, and no one was doing anything secretly. Zhang Pei and Li Hong looked at each other subconsciously, and both of them were shocked.
His face was red and his ears were red, and he was very embarrassed.
Cen Peng said solemnly: "Today, I have sent people to Jiangzhou to adjust the food supply. Soon, the follow-up food for our army will be transported to Wuyang. By then, everyone will be full!"
Without saying a word, Zhang Pei and Li Hong both bowed deeply to Cen Peng. Their eyes were red, and they said with emotion: "The general is kind and has shown great kindness to us and the people of Shu. Please accept our respects, general!"
As they spoke, Zhang Pei and Li Hong both knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Cen Peng.
The large number of people on both sides knelt down and shouted in unison: "General, please allow me to wait and pay my respects!"
Cen Peng was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly helped Zhang Pei and Li Hong up, and said: "What are you doing? Please get up quickly! Peng was ordered by the emperor to lead the king's division to defeat the thieves and conquer Yizhou. The people of Yizhou,
We are also the people of the Han Dynasty, so I feel ashamed to receive such great gifts from you!"
"The general is so kind and righteous!" Zhang Pei and Li Hong both choked up and said.
Cen Peng walked into the crowd of common people, pulled up the people who were kneeling around him one by one, and said: "Get up quickly! Everyone, get up quickly!"
Just when Cen Peng was about to pick up a middle-aged villager, the latter suddenly pulled out a dagger from his cuff, without any warning, pointed it at Cen Peng's lower abdomen, and stabbed it fiercely.
This change came too suddenly and unexpectedly. Not to mention the people present, the Han army officers and soldiers were unprepared. Even Cen Peng did not make any reaction.
Poof! This knife was firmly inserted into Cen Peng's lower abdomen.
In an instant, the people around him were dumbfounded, and the Han soldiers were also dumbfounded. Cen Peng was shaken, and then he stretched his arm forward, grabbed the middle-aged man's neck, and shouted angrily: "You...
…”
The middle-aged man pulled out the dagger, and then stabbed Cen Peng twice in the lower abdomen. The blood flowing from the incision in Cen Peng's lower abdomen was no longer bright red, but dark brown.
"General——" The Han soldiers present reacted, screamed and swarmed forward.
The middle-aged man's body suddenly became weak, turned into a cloud of smoke, and disappeared on the spot. Before anyone could recover, his body had already appeared outside the crowd of people.
The nearby Han troops carried spears and attacked, and the middle-aged man turned into smoke again and appeared ten meters away.
He threw off his legs and ran towards the wall of the camp nearest to him.
He ran about ten meters away when a Han general held a hammer in both hands and blocked his way. The middle-aged man did not stop for a moment and his body turned into smoke. The Han general swept across with the hammer.
Phew! The middle-aged man's body appeared in front of the hammer and rolled out. This Han general was Zang Gong. Zang Gong's eyes were bloodshot, he glared at the middle-aged man, and shouted loudly: "It's an illusion! Silver-containing elixir grass
!”
Silver grass is also mint leaves. After hearing Zang Gong's reminder, the Han soldiers suddenly realized that people took out the silver grass they carried with them and put them in their mouths. A cool breeze spread from the mouth, and the cool breeze washed their brains.
At this time, the middle-aged man no longer appeared and disappeared in their eyes. The Han army officers and soldiers shouted loudly and swarmed forward, surrounding the middle-aged man. This middle-aged man, as a commoner,
It is mysterious to blend into the Han army.
He looked around at the Han troops around him, gritted his teeth, and rushed toward the place with the least crowd. The Han soldiers retreated to the left and right, and Zang Gong jumped out from behind the crowd, blocking Xuan Miao's path, and fought with them.
The two fought for more than ten rounds, but Zang Gong made a feint and retreated. Xuan Miao looked around and saw that the Han soldiers had surrounded him three levels inside and three levels outside, and they were completely blocked.
The Han troops in the front row were all holding shields, and people shouted in unison: "Ho!" The Han troops holding shields pushed forward, and the Han troops behind them thrust out their halberds and spears from their shields, and all pressed towards Xuan Miao.