"What, can the General of the Central Army still take the time to see you?"

Yan Xing, who was hanging on his body, waited at the central army gate for a long time with two personal guards. When he saw Niu Fu's personal soldiers who had run to report back, he had no orders to let him go. He couldn't help but ask.

The Niu Fu personal soldier who was asked by Yan Xing became a little embarrassed and hesitated and couldn't tell the reason. When Yan Xing saw the other party's refusal, he knew that Niu Fu was probably not in the big tent again.

This is not the first time I refuse to see myself!

After successfully defeating the aggressive army of Baibo's army led by Guo Tai, Yan Xing took the opportunity to reverse the situation of Baibo's army's large-scale attack and conquering cities and territory. The two sides are now confronting each other from Baibo Valley to Pingyang and Xiangling, guarding against each other to launch a large-scale general attack.

For the Baibo army, the 50,000 or 60,000 troops that had originally advanced south to attack Linfen, had exceeded 30,000 soldiers who had lost their money and fled. In the end, there were only 20,000 soldiers who followed Guo Tai and other commanders back to Pingyang City. The morale was depressed, and the Baibo army's vitality was greatly damaged. Although they were still surrounded by a large number of refugees, they were no longer able to attack Linfen and other places in a short period of time.

Although Yan Xing's side defeated the surging offensive of Bai Bo's army in three battles and three victories, they were in the end with few major generals. After a series of battles, the soldiers in the army also suffered serious casualties, and their troops seemed to be barely maintained at 8 or 9,000, but the real soldiers were less than 5,000. Yan Xing's soldiers were completely stimulating the enemy with the power of victory, and they had no choice but to defend themselves. They wanted to advance to attack the city guarded by Bai Bo's army, but they were powerless.

The two sides have their own difficulties. In addition to restrictions on morale and military strength, there are also considerable problems within the two sides, which restrict both sides from continuing to use their troops.

The Baibo army was originally a loose alliance, and the Qu generals from all sides jointly recommended Guo Tai as their leader, so when fighting the battle, the Baibo army was incredible and had a hundred times more powerful. But now they have lost consecutive battles, and even the main force of Baibo, led by Guo Tai, was defeated by Yan Xing's Xiliang army. The Qu generals from all sides of the Baibo army naturally had various thoughts. In order to preserve their strength, they were discouraged from the difficult bones of the Xiliang army under Yan Xing's command. In addition, they began to disobey the orders of Guo Tai, whose reputation was damaged.

Yan Xing was trapped in the army's food problem. Relying on Jiangyi and Linfen counties, the support for less than 5,000 soldiers in the headquarters was already hard to support, and also relying on the military supplies and logistics supply in Anyi and other places in the southern border. Now, after winning consecutive battles, Bai Bo has captured more than 20,000 prisoners. In addition, those fugitive refugees who have successively surrendered to Jiangyi and Linfen have suddenly increased by more than 50,000 grain-eating mouths under Yan Xing's command.

In this way, relying solely on the supply of the two counties, the military supplies, food and fodder transported from Anyi and the capture on the battlefield are not enough to make up for the shortage of food under Yan Xing. Moreover, the shortage of food will increase with the increase of prisoners and refugees over time.

If we include the food expenditure of the canal construction and farming and water conservancy that Master Yan mentioned before, then the astronomical grain shortage will be enough to drag down the small army under Yan Xing.

The situation is so difficult, but this battle still has to be continued. The subsequent civil affairs must be carried out one after another, and the seeds of rushing to grow grain must be prepared and distributed. Otherwise, there will be another great famine in the northeast of Hebei next year.

It is precisely because of this imminent situation that although Yan Xing knew that the military situation of confronting the Baibo army ahead was still unclear and a small setback on the battlefield would still shake the hard-won situation, he had to rush back to Anyi in person to meet the General Niu Fu of the Central Army, ask for help from him, and ask for additional amounts of food and supplies.

Although Hedong County has been ravaged by the Baibo bandits since the Baibo Rebellion, the occupied cities and towns in the war areas are located in the northeast of Hedong, while the cities and towns in the southeast of Hedong have not been affected by war. In addition, the benefits of salt and iron in Hedong are also concentrated in the southern border, so there is still a certain amount of wealth, food and fodder in the treasury of the cities in the southern border to provide for the needs of time.

Yan Xing was interested in the wealth, food and fodder in the southern cities. He knew that the soldiers and horses were the meat of Niu Fu's heart. Therefore, although his troops and horses were severely reduced, he did not propose to ask Niu Fu to reinforce the soldiers and horses. He just asked Niu Fu to allocate the resources of the southern government to supply the food and fodder of the large army.

However, Niu Fu's cold reaction really made Yan Xing feel disappointed. This time, Niu Fu was not only stingy with his troops, but also hesitated for a long time when Yan Xing asked for additional food and fodder to transfer the southern cities to support the troops fighting in the northern border, but in the end he was still blurred and did not agree to Yan Xing in person.

In the following days, just like today, Niu Fu avoided Yan Xing, or in other words, he himself was no longer in the tent of the central army.

After consuming soft nails many times, he was refused to see him by Niu Fu. Yan Xing's face was naturally not good-looking. The Niu Fu's personal soldier also knew that the young general in front of him was the storm captain who had been famous in Hedong recently. He was frightened by Yan Xing's powerful battles in killing the tiger. He was not easy to say anything directly, so he was hesitant.

"Ahem cough cough"

A few coughs broke the embarrassing scene. When the Niu Fu's personal soldier turned around, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that Niu Fu's personal soldier leader Hu Chier was here.

Hu Chier slowly walked towards him, smiled slightly without a smile, and then turned his eyes to Yan Xing after looking at the awkward Niu Fu personal soldier.

"So it's Captain Yan again. Why? I'm going to come to the general if I have something to do!"

"Military affairs are urgent, so I have to meet General Niu Zhonglang!"

When Hu Chier heard this, she smiled, poked her head out, and whispered beside Yan Xing:

"Person Yan, ask me to tell me that since military affairs are urgent, it is better to hurry back to the army ahead. If the general said you should consider your affairs, he would not agree to you easily, and he would still be despicable. If this delays military information, you cannot bear the blame!"

After saying that, Hu Chier retracted her head and looked at Yan Xing proudly again. Although he could not see the angry look on his face, it was difficult for Yan Xing to make it feel relieved. He deliberately paced beside the gate again, accompanied by a sneer or two, as if it was a ruthless mockery.

"Thank you for your advice!"

Yan Xing looked at Hu Chier's smug appearance and did not intend to fight with him. After saying that, he left with his personal guards.

Hu Chier couldn't help but feel a gloom on her face when she saw that she could not anger Yan Xing. He looked at the backs of Yan Xing and others leaving directly, and his neglected anger also arose in his heart, and he spat on the ground with hatred.

"Bah! A humble surrendered general, lucky enough to make some military achievements, dare to show off in front of Nai Gong. Look, sooner or later, you will know Nai Gong's power!"

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In the night in the tent

"Uncle Sheng, I haven't seen you for a year, and I've gotten fat!"

Yan Xing smiled when he saw Gan Ling stepping into the tent, and Gan Ling's body was indeed getting fatter than before. He heard this and looked at his body, smiled bitterly, and said:

"Since I got here, I heard no sound of war formations and wars. I just trained some soldiers every day, and then went to a military banquet. I had a lot of wine. How could I not see fat? My hair has been resurrected!"

As he spoke, Gan Ling came to Yan Xing, held the long sword at his waist, slightly raised his skirt and armor, bent his legs and sat down on the opposite side of the mat.

Looking at Gan Ling's familiar face, Yan Xing sighed:

"You have suffered these days, Uncle Sheng!"

Gan Ling waved his hand and said solemnly:

"Brother, you and my brother have already agreed to life and death. Since it is for a big plan, there is no way to delay the situation!"

Speaking of this, Gan Ling raised his eyebrows and continued to say:

"Brother is here, is it for the army's food, fodder and supplies?"

"Well, although Bai Bo's army was repelled by me, the centipede insect died without being stagnant. At present, the army still confronted all parties of Bai Bo, and the outcome was not clear. The army's food and fodder could only barely support it. However, if the Bai Bo soldiers who were captured were both captured, the refugees who came were unable to support it, relying solely on Jiangyi and Linfen, it was because of this that my brother had to travel back to Anyi and rush back to Anyi, wanting to see General Niu Zhonglang!"

Yan Xing nodded and briefly explained the war and current situation that occurred in the northern border to Gan Ling.

After listening to this, Gan Ling shook his head and said:

"Brother is here to ask for food. If he puts his hope on Niu Fu, he will be very effective. Niu Fu is a man with a slight talent and no sense of responsibility. He favors Wu Bu and despise Jian. Now that Luoyang has fallen into the hands of Sun Jian, Niu Fu is worried day and night, afraid that Sun Jian will lead his army to cross the river to seize his Anyi City. At this time, he will not only not send out a reinforcement, but also the food and fodder in the treasury is used by him as an out-of-time need. How can he take it out to deal with the war in the northern border?"

Yan Xing was silent for a moment after hearing Gan Ling's words. Judging from Niu Fu's performance over the past few days, this is indeed the case. Niu Fu has been frightened by the soldiers of Sun Jian who defeated Hu Zhen, Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu. He is now devoted to dealing with the Sun Jian soldiers entrenched in the Luoyi area in the southeast. He chose to shrink his troops while gathering food and grass, preparing to defend Anyi City to the death.

He simply threw all the wars in the northeast of Hebei to Yan Xing to deal with. As long as he did not threaten Anyi in the southern border, he would never be willing to care about the affairs of the Baibo army. The important people and things that defended Anyi were still too busy to take care of themselves at a critical moment, so he could not even allocate them to Yan Xing's troops.

Yan Xing has already seen these things clearly in the past few days. He sighed before saying to Gan Ling about his other plan:

"When I came, I also discussed with other people in the army. If things were not done, in addition to the food in the treasury, there were also more surplus food in the family of Anyi."

"Brother wants to borrow grain from the families in Anyi?"

"Um!"

When Gan Ling heard Yan Xing's affirmative reply, he immediately remained silent, but a heavy expression appeared on his face. Obviously, he was not optimistic about Yan Xing's plan.

The tent fell into silence for a while. After a while, Gan Ling, who had his head slightly lowered, raised his head and suddenly said:

"In fact, in addition to these two strategies, there is another strategy!"

Seeing the determination in Gan Ling's speech, Yan Xing immediately cast his eyes on Gan Ling's somewhat sinister face, and Gan Ling also looked at Yan Xing with bright eyes.

The two looked at each other for a while, and finally Gan Ling took the lead in looking away. Yan Xing then also restrained the sharpness in his eyes, turned to look at the dark face in front of him, and whispered:
Chapter completed!