Three Kingdoms: From Hulaoguan to Global Hegemony

Chapter 294 Self-righteous
After the efforts of Ma Chao and others, the news of Wu Gan's defeat and capture was finally completely blocked.

In order to protect himself, Wu Qian had no choice but to write to Xu Rong the information that he arrived at Ruyang safely and began to escort the food and grass back according to Xun Yu's wishes.

The people who sent the information were Zuo Mazi and Yu Shouzi brought back by Ma Chao.

Immediately after the second day, Zhu Jun and his allies from Jingzhou also came to Ruyang to meet with Xun Yu to discuss how to deal with Xu Rong's army.

Xu Rong's army dispatched a total of 5000 elite soldiers to Liang County. Although Wu Qian took away [-] soldiers, there were still [-] soldiers left in the city. This made Xu Rong feel that it was enough to deal with Zhu Jun's mob. .

Zhu Jun is very good at leading the army, but Xu Rong is not bad either. Xu Rong is not like Niu Fu. In the entire Xiliang army, Xu Rong must be the best at fighting, but he is from Liaodong. Otherwise, his status in the Xiliang army could be even higher.

Moreover, the equipment and combat power of Xu Rong's army is much stronger than that of the bandits in Funiu Mountain, which also gave him a lot of confidence in victory.

It's just that they are good at fighting, and their equipment and weapons are excellent. If the soldiers can't eat enough, it's useless.

So Xu Rong can only tighten his belt these days and wait for the arrival of the food delivery team.

Today is the seventh day since Wu Gan left with his troops. According to the information sent before, the food transport team should be able to enter the border of Liang County in the morning.

But Xu Rong waited and waited until the evening, but there was no sign of the food transportation team.

Ruyang is only more than 200 miles away from Liang County, and the letter also said that the bandits on this road have been wiped out. Why didn't the food transport team come to the city on the agreed time?
News of food shortages in Liang County spread like wildfire. If the food transport team made another mistake, it would be difficult for the team under them to lead.

"Where is Xu Guang!"

Xu Rong gave an order, and the captain Xu Guang, who was guarding outside the big tent, hurried in.

"What's the matter, brother?"

Xu Guang is Xu Rong's cousin and Xu Rong's most trusted subordinate in the army.

"The grain transportation team agreed to come back today, but it's almost dark now, and there is no one in sight. I'm afraid there's... another problem on the road. You hurry up and order [-] troops to go and find out!"

"Xu Guang takes orders!"

Xu Guang took 50 soldiers and hurried to Ruyang to search. After traveling for more than [-] miles, he suddenly encountered Wu Gan's personal soldiers.

Seeing the distressed appearance of those two people, Xu Guang felt a bit cold at the time, "Tell me what happened to the grain transportation team!"

Zuo Mazi replied with a frightened expression: "Reporting to Colonel Xu, when we were escorting the grain transport team to Guangping County, we suddenly encountered a large number of bandits. Captain Wu sent a group of me to break out and ask for help. I was the only one left after fighting all the way." Two people!"

After Zuo Mazi finished talking about his companion Yu Shouzi, he took out Wu Gan's token and distress letter from his pocket.

These two people had come to Liang County to send information before, Xu Guang had some impressions of them, and saw that the tokens and letters were genuine, so he had no doubts at that time.

"Send someone back to send information to the former general, and the rest will follow me to save food and grass!"

……

The 3000 people moved quickly, but Zuo Mazi and Yu Shouzi did not go back to Liang County with the messengers on the pretext of taking a break.

"Hey, we've helped Ma Chao now, so he shouldn't be suspicious of us anymore!" Zuo Mazi looked smug.

Yu Shouzi snorted coldly, "Why do you really want to learn fairy arts from Ma Chao?"

"Learning fairy art?" Zuo Mazi also sneered, "I'm a pockmark but not a fool! Ma Chao's fairy art is actually just a clever trick to deceive the eyes. Don't worry, I won't dare to delay the master's plan."

"Besides, Wu Gan's cousin and Xu Fu's descendants are all in Liu Yu's house. We got involved with Ma Chao by mistake, so it didn't take much effort!"

……

At the same time, when Xu Guang led his troops through a forest, he suddenly found birds in the forest hovering in the air.

If the bird does not return to its nest, is there someone in the forest?
Sure enough, without waiting for Xu Guang's reminder, he heard the sound of killing coming from the forest.

"Everyone, don't panic, mere thieves are useless, just set up your formation to deal with it!"

Xu Guang has learned a lot of military tactics from Xu Rong all the year round, and under the influence of Xu Rong, he has never looked down on the bandits of Funiu Mountain.

But just when Xu Guang gave the order to meet the enemy, he heard the sound of killing from the grass behind him.

Being confronted by the enemy made Xu Guang feel a little nervous, and the number of bandit soldiers on both sides was as many as tens of thousands, which also made his soldiers timid.

After all, they only have 3000 people. Even if the opponent's combat power is not strong, the advantage in numbers is too obvious.

The battle was on the verge of breaking out. Although Xu Guang's men were small and the fighting spirit of the soldiers was not high, after fighting for a while, he found that the enemy soldiers on the other side were even more vulnerable.

So the battle lasted less than half an hour, and the bandits were defeated and dispersed.

One of Xu Guang's subordinates counted the losses after the war. There were about 500 bandit soldiers killed and injured, and more than [-] people died on Xu Guang's side.

"Master Captain, shall we still go to Guangping County to rescue the grain transportation team?"

"Naturally, we need to save them, but... we have to wait for more reinforcements to arrive from the city before we can move out!"

Although the ambush was defeated, Xu Guang also suffered heavy losses, so he could only send someone back to Liang County to ask for help.

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Xu Rong received two pieces of information in the city. The first one was about the trapping of the grain transport team sent by Wu Qian in Guangping County, and the second one was a letter from Xu Guang asking for more manpower.

"Why are there so many bandit soldiers suddenly in Guangcheng County? Could it be that Zhu Jun's soldiers quietly spared Liang County and went to rob my grain road?"

Xu Rong carefully checked the topographic map of Funiu Mountain, and found that there are many hills that are far away from Liang County, so if Zhu Jun's army on Laojun Peak wants to bypass Liang County, they only need to change hills and go down the mountain.

According to the intelligence, Zhu Jun actually only had more than [-] people under his command, and the number of people who ambushed Xu Guang today reached this number, but Xu Rong always felt that this ambush was more like a conspiracy.

"Siege the point to fight for aid, the ambush is fake, it's true to lie to me to leave the city and take the opportunity to seize Liang County!" Xu Rong stared at the topographic map of Guangping County and sneered.

First, Wu Qian and the grain transportation team were trapped, and then they ambushed Xu Guang who was going to rescue him. All of this should be Zhu Jun's scheme, the purpose is to lure him to take more people out of Liang County, so that Lao Junfeng's People can take back the city again.

Then Xu Rong moved his gaze to the southern end of the map. Laojun Mountain is directly south of Liang County, where there are more than ten thousand people gathered by Zhu Jun, but there are more than this number of bandits in the entire Funiu Mountain.

"This Zhu Jun is really not an ordinary person. If there is no accident, he should have integrated all the remnants of the Yellow Turban here."

Thinking of this, Xu Rong became even more convinced that the group of bandits who ambushed Xu Guang must not be Zhu Jun's main force, or else he would have taken the opportunity to eat Xu Guang's 3000 men.

If it wasn't Zhu Jun's main force, it must be the other bandit soldiers on Funiu Mountain. It seemed that Zhu Jun really wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to seize the city while encircling the points for reinforcements.

(End of this chapter)