Chapter 2164 Grain was robbed
The grain road was cut off and the grain was robbed. This was definitely a big deal for Shi Bao. The supply of grain was already very tight now. Once the grain was unable to maintain its support, the morale of the army would be in chaos. Not to mention taking over Weirong Village, it is likely to suffer a crushing defeat.
Now that the battle has reached its final stage, at the critical moment, such a chain loss occurred. How can Shi Bao not be angry? He immediately sent the officials who escorted the food and grass to the officials and questioned the details.
After inquiring, Shi Bao realized that the Shu army that had attacked the food road was either other troops or the two thousand people from Chuxiong who had disappeared before.
It turned out that after Chuxiong learned that the Wei army had seized his retreat, it was no longer possible to escape from the Shizhai. In order not to be eaten by the Wei army and to obtain food and supplies, Chuxiong led his troops to leave Huya Mountain and rushed to Linju City, which was originally the border of Wei and Wu.
No wonder Shi Bao turned around and sent troops to deal with Chuxiong and found that he was missing. Shi Bao didn't care at that time, and just two thousand men fled. He didn't have to mobilize all his troops to search, and delayed the important matter of attacking and seizing four mountain villages including Dangshizhai.
Shi Bao thought so and did the same at that time. So the Wei army led his troops to advance deep into Huya Mountain. Chu Xiong, who was regarded as a tinea scabies by Shi Bao, was directly ignored by the Wei army.
After Chuxiong arrived in Linju, there was no Wei army guarding this area. He took advantage of the situation to rob and obtained a lot of food and supplies, temporarily ensuring that his troops would not be hungry and freezing.
After solving the urgent problem, Chu Xiong was thinking about how to return to the main force. After all, he is now behind enemy lines, and Shi Bao's army has no time to pay attention to him. If Shi Bao draws troops to deal with him, Chu Xiong's troops will definitely be finished.
But it was quite difficult for him to return to the large army. Now Bu Xie has successively given up Dangshi Village, Fengpo Village and Qingniu Village, retreating to Weirong Village on all sides. The only way has also fallen into the hands of the Wei army. At this moment, Chu Xiong wants to escape back to Weirong Village and meet with Bu Xie's army, and it is like climbing to the sky.
What should I do? Chu Xiong is worried now and is always floating behind enemy lines. It is not a solution. The food and grass they plundered are limited after all, so it is not a big problem to solve the urgent problem, but it is almost impossible to stay here for a long time.
The main reason why Chuxiong's troops can still be safe is that the main target of the Wei army is Weirong Village, and Chuxiong is better hiding, so he can be safe and sound now.
But such days are like dancing on the tip of a knife. Who knows that one day the bad luck will come? After all, the two thousand people in Chuxiong cannot stay in the deep mountains. The previous robbery of Lin Ju actually exposed their whereabouts. As long as the Wei army can free up their hands, it will be easy to destroy them.
If you want to truly escape, Chu Xiong has to find a way to return to the large army. Unfortunately, the difficulty is here. The road to return has been occupied by the Wei army. Unless Chu Xiong has the ability to defeat the Wei army, there is no possibility of joining the army with the Infantry Association at all.
But was Chu Neng able to defeat the Wei army?
Suddenly, Chu Xiong had a flash of inspiration and it was impossible to defeat the Wei army head-on, but it was impossible for him to cut off the Wei army's food route and rob the Wei army's food and grass.
Food and grass are the lifeblood of an army. If the army has no food, it will be in chaos. Now the Wei army is a hundred miles deep into Huya Mountain. The journey is long and the food route is long. It is a good opportunity for Chuxiong to start.
Chuxiong himself is from Xiling and is very familiar with the terrain of Huya Mountain. When the Wei army's 30,000 troops attacked Weirongzhai, they must have a lot of food and grass every day, and all of them must be transported from Jiangling. Even if they send troops to escort, the road is long and there are still a lot of secrets. Chuxiong, who is familiar with the geography of this area, would be easy to find an ideal ambush place.
From another perspective, the Wei army and the Shu army are fighting at Weirong Village, and the battle is difficult to solve. If Chuxiong takes action at this time, he can cut off the Wei army's food route in one fell swoop, which is naturally a great achievement. After joining the large army in the future, Chuxiong will definitely be rewarded by the Bach Association.
Chu Xiong did what he said and immediately sent someone to find out the time and route of the Wei army's escort food and grass. Then he lie on the necessary road in the middle, fought a beautiful ambush, and robbed the Wei army's food and grass.
The amount of this batch of grain and grass was quite large. Chu Xiong could not take it away, so he burned it to pieces. Anyway, Chu Xiong's purpose of robbing grain was not for his own use. He could destroy the grain and grass, so his goal was to achieve it.
In order to avoid the revenge of the Wei army, Chu Xiong immediately led his army to flee into the mountains and hid it.
Anyway, Huya Mountain is a hundred miles away and it is easy to hide two thousand of their men. Chu Xiong succeeded in one blow and hid it, then waited for the opportunity to prepare for another move next time.
The robbery of food and grass had a great impact on the Wei army. After Shi Bao received the news, he immediately withdrew from the forward base and returned to the base camp. It was obvious that the seriousness of this situation made Shi Bao give up his plan to attack Weirong Village and instead consider the issue of the grain road.
At any time, this issue of food and grass is the top priority of the army. Shi Bao dared not take it lightly. After all, Weirong Village can be fought later, but the issue of food and grass is urgent.
After the Wei army entered Huya Mountain, the logistics supply line naturally continued to extend with the advancement of the Wei army's large forces. Due to the rugged and tortuous roads, this indeed faced relatively great difficulties for the Wei army's logistics supply, so the army on the front line has always been in a state of shortage of food and grass.
Shi Bao was of course very dissatisfied with this situation. Food and grass are the basic guarantee of an army. If the soldiers can't even have enough food, how could they fight for life?
Shi Bao has repeatedly urged the logistics forces to increase the transportation of food and grass, and give priority to ensuring the supply of food and grass by frontline troops.
Now, in the shortage of food and grass in the Wei army, the grain road was attacked and robbed. How could Shi Bao not be so angry?
The food and grass that were already stretched was actually robbed. Isn’t this a little bit worse? Who dares to make trouble on Tai Sui’s head?
After inquiry, Shi Bao finally learned that the robbery of food was the two thousand Shu troops led by Chu Xiong a few days ago. At that time, Shi Bao was eager to advance and ignored him. Unexpectedly, it brought endless troubles to the Wei army now.
Chapter completed!