Gao Xingzhou had already led his personal barracks to leave Caozhou and go to Chanzhou, wanting to meet Murong Yanchao. He took a heart fire to Chanzhou and was ready to talk to Murong Yanchao.

According to the previous agreement, Gao Xingzhou's Guide Army was in Caozhou, and the supplies in Chanzhou were provided by Murong Yanchao. However, there was not much food in Caozhou's granary now, so Gao Xingzhou could only withdraw it in advance from the military rations carried by the troops. These military rations were prepared for the siege of Yedu and should not be used too much. In order to prevent more gaps in military rations, Gao Xingzhou had sent people to purchase food from Kaifeng Prefecture urgently. However, the Wuzhang River ship speed was too slow, and the dilemma of grain supply was still not effectively alleviated. The food in the Caozhou market was out of stock, and the soldiers even began to go hungry!

However, Gao Xingzhou did not meet his deputy general Murong Yanchao in Chanzhou, and followed the report: Murong Yanchao had already led elite troops to Yedu City a few days ago to prepare for siege. Gao Xingzhou was furious, isn't this a nonsense!

Gao Xingzhou knew his team well. He rushed from Songzhou to Yedu and marched for more than 440 miles. The rivers were densely packed along the way. In addition, it was rainy season again, the troops carried a large amount of baggage, and the soldiers were extremely tired and fed. Moreover, the army was short of food recently, and the troops complained and their morale was low. Even when they arrived in Yedu, the troops could not recover their combat effectiveness without a period of rest. Although Murong Yanchao's troops had a short marching distance and their combat effectiveness had not been greatly affected, the number of troops in his troops was not too large, so they could not form an overwhelming advantage for Du Chongwei.

Although Du Chongwei, who was not good at character, was proud of his merits, and plundered the people, complained everywhere he went, but he had nearly 100,000 strong men in his hands, and the main force of the Jin army was also in his army, and the troops had certain combat effectiveness. Moreover, the Khitans also sent elite troops to support him (2,000 personal soldiers led by Zhang Lian and 1,500 Liao soldiers led by Yang Gun). Yelu Mada even led his army south to respond, putting great pressure on the northern border defense of the Han Dynasty. In the short term, the north could not mobilize troops to participate in the battle to siege Yedu.

Considering the situation between the enemy and us, Gao Xingzhou formulated a plan to closely encircle Yedu, cut off its ties with the outside world, seize nearby rice, disperse the surrounding people, and surround Du Chongwei in Yedu.

But the current situation is that Caozhou has no ability to supply food and grass, and officials from the Military Resources and Basin in Chanzhou said that without Murong Yanchao's written order, he would not dare to use military rations and would not dare to provide supplies to the Guide army.

Gao Xingzhou was in Chenzhou with both soft and hard skills, but the officials refused to let go, so Gao Xingzhou could only go to Yedu City to settle accounts with Murong Yanchao. If Murong Yanchao didn't know the general, Gao Xingzhou would definitely write a letter to impeach him regardless of Murong Yanchao's brother, regardless of the situation of Emperor Liu Zhiyuan and his mother. However, Gao Xingzhou did not expect that Murong Yanchao had already taken action in advance and sent his confidants to sneak into Caozhou!

A few days ago, Murong Yanchao secretly found his confidant Xia Jianren and whispered: "Jianren, I am the brother of His Majesty the Emperor's mother. How could I be the deputy commander and be trampled by Gao Xingzhou's martial artist?! I have already planned it, and this time I will definitely let Gao Xingzhou take care of it:

A few days ago, I had emptied the warehouse in Caozhou, so that the Guide army could not get any supplies in Caozhou. Isn’t Gao Xingzhou still not dare to impeach me? It is said that his soldiers were buying grain from Kaifeng Prefecture urgently while eating food for the future. However, I expected that they would not dare to buy too much food from Kaifeng, so as not to affect the prices in Kaifeng and cause my brother Long Yan to be furious.

Your mission is to lead people to sow discord in Caozhou. Taking advantage of Gao Xingzhou's absence, those hungry soldiers robbed the merchants, officials, and landlords, causing a mutiny! Caozhou is not too far from Kaifeng Prefecture. As long as a mutiny occurs, the emperor's brother will get news. Can Gao Xingzhou's position as the head coach still be saved? Then I will be the head coach to fight Du Chongwei, and all the military achievements I have made will be mine! Your reward will be indispensable at that time!"

Xia Jianren nodded repeatedly: "Master, don't worry, I will incite soldiers to cause mutiny as soon as possible, and never let anyone find any abnormalities!"

Xia Jianren led more than 20 confidants to Caozhou and scattered the soldiers. He chatted with the soldiers in the Guide Army every day and provoked them in and out of the conversation. However, the Guide Army had good military discipline, and Gao Xingzhou had a high prestige in the army. Even if the soldiers were not full of food, they were unwilling to make trouble.

Xia Jianren was in a dilemma. What should he do? After thinking for a long time, he finally had an idea, which was to take advantage of the situation and make a living!

I led more than 20 people to disguise themselves as soldiers from Guide Army, robbed the families of officials in Suizhou, or insulted their families, and then deliberately exposed their whereabouts to make these officials retaliate against Guide Army. At this time, Guide Army was extremely innocent and would definitely be resentful. As long as I did these actions three or four times, I would not believe that Guide Army would not be angry. At that time, just light a fire and the soldiers would rise up and cause chaos!

He did it as soon as he said, but Xia Jianren soon discovered that he had overlooked one thing, that is, in order to strictly keep the secret, he only brought more than 20 people to Caozhou, but now he is a good wife who is unable to cook without rice. He has too few people under his command, and any official family has dozens of guards, which is not something they can attack. Moreover, recently, due to the invasion of the army, the families of the official family rarely go out to avoid trouble.

Just when Xia Jianren was worried, he came down to report that a pretty little lady appeared on the street, with only two slaves and shopping in the store. Seeing the woman's outfit, she must have been from a wealthy family, and when she heard her speaking, she was the concubine of an official. Xia Jianren was overjoyed and quickly sent five subordinates to follow her quietly, waiting for them to arrive at a secluded place and ready to start at any time.

The woman was Li Tao's concubine. After Dong Zunhui came to Caozhou, Li Tao set up a small house, and lived in seclusion every day to quietly record the situation of the Returning Army.

Dong Zunhui was not idle either. He also went to the temporary camp of the Guide Army and posted to the guards to visit Mr. Gao, but he regretted that Gao Xingzhou had already rushed to Chanzhou a few days ago. He missed Gao Xingzhou again. Dong Zunhui was speechless about his bad luck and could only stay in the house honestly, waiting for Li Tao to complete the investigation and go to Chanzhou together.

Sometimes Li Tao takes action in person, but more often he sends people out to investigate. Anyway, the concubine is from Caozhou. Li Tao has sent her to the street to buy various items in the past two days to record the changes in prices. Today, the concubine just went out and was stared at by Cao Jianren's subordinates...
Chapter completed!