The next day, the sun rose, everything in the world began to wake up, and smoke rose from the two hostile camps.

Breakfast time is a rare leisure time for both soldiers of the army. Everyone can enjoy a short tranquility at this moment. As for who will die in the battlefield after the tranquility, and who will be seriously injured and disabled, only God knows.

Because the distance between them is only a few miles, the smell of meat floating out of the Han army camp unstoppable into the noses of the soldiers of the Wei army camp, which made the soldiers of the Wei army who had not eaten meat for a while very envious. The breakfast of the Han army was actually very simple. Everyone's breakfast was fixed, two pieces of bread, a bowl of meat porridge, and a small piece of dried fish. There was not much meat, but the nutrition was very balanced. The chefs in the army were excellent talents trained by the Yanjing Academy. These chefs who were deeply branded with the mark of the Northern Han regard the stove as their own battlefield. Through their own hands, they tried their best to make the soldiers who fought bloodily on the front line eat and eat well. This is their greatest victory. Therefore, every time the meal starts, the fragrance that wafts out of the Han army camp always makes the Wei army soldiers in the opposite camp covet.

A Wei army deputy general stretched his nose and sniffed hard towards the Han army camp. A look of intoxication appeared on his face. However, when he lowered his head and saw the dry steamed bun in his hand, the expression on his face instantly collapsed, and his expression was beyond words. They were all soldiers and soldiers who were both food and pay, why was there such a big gap between him and the opposite side? People could even eat breakfast so sweetly, but why could he only eat dry steamed buns? The more he thought about it, the more annoyed the more he thought about it, the more annoyed the steamed buns he felt. Finally, he couldn't help but throw the steamed buns in his hand to the ground, and stretched out his feet and stepped on them hard, and said angrily: "People are so angry that they can't eat this food!"

There are many people who have the same mind as this deputy general. After seeing the resentful behavior of the deputy general, many people also stood up and started to curse, complaining that the food on their own soldiers was too poor and it was impossible to swallow. With the people who took the lead, there will definitely be people who follow the trend, and more and more people join the ranks of scolding:

"Tell me, is this food for people? It's just something for pigs!"

"Look at the other side of the person, even his mother has meat for breakfast. How long has it been since we had meat? One month? Or two months?"

"The most annoying thing is that every time I eat, I have to endure the smell of meat coming from the other side. I am almost crazy when I eat with my nose pinched my nose!"

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Just as the Wei soldiers became more and more quarrels, and a mutiny was about to break out due to dissatisfaction, Cao Cao's slightly cold voice sounded: "What's the noise?! Can a quarrel solve the problem? Don't forget that behind us is our home and our relatives. Once we are defeated by Ao Lie, then every one of you will become prisoners of war, each of your relatives will become slaves, and all of your fertile land and property will be completely annexed! If you can't win a war, what else can you eat? What else can you go back to see the elders of your hometown?"

At some point, Cao Cao had arrived at the edge of the military academy. Cao Ren stood beside Cao Cao, and his only left hand had been pressed on the hilt of the sword. With an angry look on his face, he was scanning every soldier in the military academy and making footnotes for Cao Cao's words just now. Behind Cao Cao, two hundred tiger guards stood upright. Like Cao Ren, their hands were also held on the handle of the weapon. As long as Cao Cao gave the order, they would put some of the people complaining about the bad food on the spot.

Under Cao Cao's reprimand, most of the Wei soldiers lowered their heads and stared at a small piece of land in front of their toes, and could not raise their heads in shame. However, a small number of soldiers did not stop complaining. The deputy general who had thrown away the steamed buns in his hands whispered: "I was originally from Hanzhong. When the battle in Hanzhong was in the first place, my family was destroyed and my family was destroyed. I had no worries in my heart. I was loyal to the king just to have food and clothing. Now I can't even eat. How can I still have the intention to go to battle and kill the enemy!"

In the Battle of Hanzhong, Cao Cao used Hanzhong City to lure Ao Lie and Liu Bei to attack the city at the same time. Finally, Cao Cao gave Hanzhong to Liu Bei, and took away all the food and grass and part of the population in Hanzhong City when he retreated. This deputy general was with Cao Cao at that time. For this deputy general, the Central Plains was not his hometown, so he naturally did not have much sense of belonging to the Central Plains. It is not surprising that he complained when facing a crisis.

There are many people who are roughly similar to the situation of this deputy general. Many people stood by the deputy general and silently supported the deputy general's remarks with their actions. For those who have left their hometown and have no worries, living with saturation is the most important thing. If these two things are strongly threatened, they will definitely sway in their hearts. This is human nature.

Cao Cao glanced at the deputy general indifferently, then turned to hand Cao Ren a cruel look. Cao Ren understood and stepped forward, came to the deputy general, then quickly pulled out his sword, stabbed into his heart with a sword, and killed him on the spot. Stepping on the pool of blood, Cao Cao came to the fallen deputy general, and then slowly said to the other soldiers in front of him: "Skin is not covered with hair? No matter where you and you are from, now, you are all members of my Great Wei. If the Great Wei is destroyed, you will not even have the power to continue to survive. By that time, you will regret it because of poor food. Don't you think it will be too late to regret it? Instead of doing that, it's better to send you on your way now, so as not to suffer humiliation in the future!"

Cao Cao's words were speechless. Indeed, although the food in the army is not good now, it can at least fill its stomach and provide them with the energy to survive. If the intention to kill the enemy on the battlefield due to food and the Great Wei was destroyed by the Northern Han, what would the fate of these people? Should they be executed or become slaves? Or would they be other more tragic endings?

The crisis was easily resolved by Cao Cao, a scheming politician. He used Ao Lie's usual method of carrots and sticks to stabilize the floating hearts of the army again, and eliminated a mutiny that could be triggered at any time.

After dispelling the crisis, Cao Cao's expression calmed down. He bent down and began to carefully pick up the steamed buns that had been trampled on the ground. After picking up most of the steamed buns into the palm of his palm, Cao Cao stood up again, brushed off the soil stained on the steamed buns in front of all the soldiers, and then ate them into his stomach bit by bit.

After swallowing the last bite of steamed bun, Cao Cao clapped his hands and looked around the soldiers around him and said loudly: "Soldiers! Our army's current food is indeed poor, but we are on the battlefield now! We must overcome these things ourselves so that we can have enough energy to fight against the enemy! To defeat the powerful enemy! I promise you that within three days, supplies will be delivered. Then, you will no longer have to eat this hard-to-eat steamed bun."

Hearing that a new batch of supplies were about to be delivered, the Wei soldiers cheered and raised their weapons and shouted loudly:

"The Great Wei will win!"

"The Great Wei will win!!"

"The Great Wei will win!!!!"

The morale, which was suppressed by the soldiers of the Northern Han for a long time, finally changed drastically at this moment. Cao Cao used excellent military management methods to successfully aroused the fighting spirit of the soldiers under his command, making their morale high again. Before this, Cao Cao had also used the same methods, such as quenching thirst, and other examples. This is the best evidence. However, this time is different from before. Cao Cao was not painting cakes this time, but he was sure that there would be supplies delivered within three days. Otherwise, with Cao Cao's shrewdness, he would have issued an order to withdraw his troops and would never cause a mutiny crisis in the army.

But what Cao Cao didn't know was that the group of supplies that he had all hoped were currently under the baptism of war. Shadow members lurking in the Wei army had already reported this batch of supplies to Ao Lie. In order not to arouse Cao Cao's suspicion, Ao Lie did not dispatch a soldier in the camp, but conveyed the news to Pang Tong, the commander of the Southern Army, in the form of a letter from Fei Ge, and asked Pang Tong to find a way to cut off Cao Cao's supply line.

After receiving the letter from Ao Lie's Fei Ge, Pang Tong immediately realized how serious the attack on the Wei army soldiers on the main battlefield. So after discussing with Zhou Yu, Pang Tong dispatched troops overnight, asking Lu Meng and Zhou Tai to circumvent on both sides, and set up an ambush in front of the Wei supply troops, striving to completely cut off the supply line of the Wei army. In order to ensure that there is no mistake, Pang Tong also notified Sun Ce, who was guarding the East China Sea, and asked Sun Ce to lead a elite cavalry to spare the defense of Cao Cao's general Zang Ba, and penetrated diagonally into the supply route of the Wei army, forming a force of encirclement and suppression of the Wei army's supply troops.

The person in charge of escorting food and grass in the Wei army was Cao Cao's nephew Cao Bin. Cao Bin was Cao Zhen's younger brother and one of Cao Cao's nephews. He was a general who emerged when Cao Cao promoted his descendants a year ago. His force was not inferior to Xiahou Ba, but was only slightly inferior to Cao Zhang, so he was highly valued by Cao Cao. Before the war, Cao Cao asked Cao Bin to stay in the rear because he wanted to use his bravery to ensure the safety of supplies.

Among the three vassal troops sent by Pang Tong, the first one to arrive at the predetermined position was not Lu Meng and Zhou Tai who set out by land, but Sun Ce's troops who deviated from the sea and then abandoned the ship to land. With Sun Ce's vanguard temper, he certainly would not wait for Lu Meng and Zhou Tai to form an encirclement with him, but instead launched a strong attack on Cao Bin's troops. However, Sun Ce is no longer as reckless as before, and will only do it blindly. He first set up roadblocks to block Cao Bin's route, and then took advantage of the brief darkness before dawn to launch a raid on Cao Bin's troops. After igniting most of the food and supplies escorted by Cao Bin, he took advantage of the chaos when Cao Bin's troops were extinguished, and then launched an attack, disrupting the formation of Cao Bin's troops in one fell swoop and defeating the supply force. Cao Bin himself was also cut off his head in the chaos.

By the time Lu Meng and Zhou Tai arrived, the battle was coming to an end. After the two led their troops to join forces with Sun Ce, they chased and fought again against Cao Bin's remnant troops, and did not allow a fish that escaped from the encirclement set up by the three of them. They captured all the supply troops under Cao Bin's troops.

Afterwards, the three of them directed the soldiers to quickly clean the battlefield, cleaned up all traces of the battle, and then quietly evacuated the battlefield with the food and grass that had not been burned by the fire, perfectly concealing the real situation of the battle.

It was not until three days later that Cao Cao did not wait for Cao Bin's supply troops to come to the camp, but then he felt something was wrong. He quickly sent a horse to investigate. Finally, from the clues of the horse's return, Cao Cao finally inferred that Cao Bin's troops were ambushed and had been wiped out. (To be continued...)
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