Travel through troubled times and escape famine with the system

After hearing Xu Chu's words, everyone fell silent.

If the thirty warriors just wanted to ambush and burn the food, it would not be a difficult task at all.

The difficulty of this matter lies in how to get out of it safely!

In the minds of the people, there are different levels of military service.

Privates first class are personal guards of generals. They are well-known but do not have to charge into battle. This is a good job.

Privates of the second class are scouts and guards of various vanguard camps. They accompany the captain in charges and can accumulate great military exploits and are also known as brave warriors in the army.

Third-class soldiers are the soldiers on the battlefield. They face life and death head-on, cutting down flags and seizing cities. Although they can easily die, their passion is enough to deter villains.

The rest of the troops, such as the grain transporters and the kitchen soldiers, were considered the most useless in the eyes of the people.

These types of soldiers are mostly called "glutton soldiers" in the market, which means they can only eat but have no practical use.

But in fact, these two types of soldiers have extremely high status in the army.

Needless to say, no one dares to offend the person who prepares meals for them, and they even have to put on a smile.

Otherwise, if the hand holding the spoon shakes even a little, you'll go hungry.

As for the grain transport soldiers, they are the most contrasting ones.

If in Wu State, a person joined the army but was sent to escort food and grass, people would probably say that this person is finished.

But it was different in the Jin Dynasty.

The Jin Kingdom had a mountainous terrain, and the area of ​​arable land dropped sharply from Ningguan to the west. This was also the reason why the Wu Kingdom stopped advancing westward after reaching Ningguan.

Because in the eyes of the Wu State, the area west of Ningguan was collectively referred to as a wild land.

It is precisely because of these reasons that the Jin people attached great importance to food to an almost outrageous level.

There was a saying among the Jin soldiers: It is better to offend the general than to offend the soldiers who transport grain.

Almost all the soldiers who transported food were killed.

In the entire military camp, except for a few specific people, no one else could approach the grain transport team without a warrant.

Regardless of whether there are legitimate reasons or not, they will be executed first and reported later.

Among the Jin soldiers, there was even a general manager of the marching office who brought his personal guards to transport food and fodder, but forgot to bring the order, and was killed by a volley of bows and crossbows from the soldiers in the grain camp.

Afterwards, Meng'an of the grain camp was not only not punished at all, but was rewarded instead.

This is also the reason why Wen Chengjie only arranged a task of burning food halfway, but arranged thirty of the seventy-four warriors here.

If they only sent eight or ten warriors to rob and burn the food supplies, they wouldn't even have any chance of success.

Even if thirty of them were to do this now, there would be no way they could get away with it unscathed.

“There’s a whistle!!”

Outside Funing Posthouse, a warrior leaped over the fence and shouted. Upon hearing this, Xu Chu and others stood up and took up their weapons.

According to their previous deployment, they arranged two warriors with excellent eyesight on the hillsides on both sides of Funing Posthouse where the official roads on both sides could be seen.

If anyone saw the Jin army, they would whistle to alert them.

"Which direction?" Xu Chu asked hurriedly.

"Fucheng!"

As that person spoke, Xu Chu and the others felt a sinking feeling in their hearts.

The harrier was flying towards the Jin army camp. Now that the enemy knew something had happened at the post station, they would definitely send elite troops to investigate.

Even if Xu Chu and his men turned around and left, the other party would definitely go along the way to Qingning County to escort the upcoming grain and fodder escort team.

By then, they will not find any chance to seize the food and supplies.

If that were the case, the city would be in danger.

"Boss Xu, what should I do? I'll listen to you."

The sturdy man with iron chains stuffed the cake in his mouth and said loudly.

Following his words, all the warriors in Funing Posthouse looked at Xu Chu.

"Boss Xu, just give the orders, everyone will obey you!"

"Yes! As long as you say a word, we will fight those Jin soldiers right away!"

"You speak..."

Everyone shouted, murderous intent in their eyes.

Xu Chu reached out and pulled out the spear that was stuck in the ground, then looked coldly at the warriors in the post station.

"Everyone, when Guard Wen arranged for us to come here, he mentioned Xu's name."

"But that's just because Xu has some reputation in the southern border, and he didn't specify that I should lead the team."

"Xu has no official position and is not qualified to order you to act."

"The Jin soldiers have arrived. Although we warriors are brave, we are also in danger of death."

"Xu is stupid, I am willing to do my best for Qingzhou City, so I won't leave."

"You can leave or stay as you please. Xu will never stop you."

"I'm going!"

After Xu Chu said these words, he walked out of the post station with his spear in hand.

Behind him, the iron tower-like man untied the chains on his body and laughed.

"Boss Xu, wait for me, I haven't had enough fun yet!"

As the two men left, the rest of the warriors followed them out of the post station, weapons tightly grasped, and followed Xu Chu into the mountains and forests on both sides of the official road.

After half a cup of tea, a group of Jin soldiers wearing black armor and riding horses slowly came on the official road.

This is a battalion of one thousand men, led by Jin Bing Meng'an.

When they were still about fifty feet away from the post station, the Jin army suddenly stopped, and the Jin soldier Meng'an called over two of his Mouke officers.

"Just now, a whistle sounded on the top of the mountain. There may be problems at the post station ahead."

"Sulha, take your men and string their bows and arrows, draw their swords, and go investigate."

"Yin Ming, take your people and spread out into the woods on both sides. Use the official road as a marker and search a hundred feet on both sides to report back."

Following Meng'an's instructions, the two Moukes clasped their fists and accepted the order, but at this moment, a loud shout rang out from the woods on the right side of the official road.

"Jin Gou, your grandpa is here!!"

The sound came from behind the Jin soldiers, and all of them turned their heads to look.

But as everyone turned their heads to be on guard, two arrows were shot almost simultaneously from both sides of the official road where Meng'an was, with a sharp sound of breaking through the air, and went straight to Meng'an's heart and face.

"Thank you, sir, be careful!"

All the Jin soldiers above the rank of Mouke were warriors. One of them saw the hidden arrow, shouted loudly, and kicked the horse that Meng'an was sitting on.

The horse staggered, carrying the Jin man with it, and avoided the arrow shot at its face.

But he failed to completely dodge the bullet that was shot towards his chest and it pierced his shoulder hard.

Almost at the same time, several figures, led by Xu Chu, rushed to Meng'an in a brutal manner.

Before he could react, the heads of Meng'an and the two Moukes were chopped off as soon as they met.

"Kill the golden dog!"

Xu Chu's spear was stained with blood, and he used Meng An's headless body as a shield and rushed towards the Jin army with a roar.

Thirty warriors from the Wu State and one thousand soldiers from the Jin State rushed into each other without any preparation.

At this time, on the west wall of Qingzhou City, Wen Chengjie was looking towards the west with a serious expression.

"Just wait and see. Within an hour, if you see smoke filling the sky in the west,

"The possibility of defending Qingzhou City will increase by one point."