Travel through troubled times and escape famine with the system

"Shaobing."

Lu You said innocently while chewing a sesame seed bun.

Cui Wang stared at the sesame cake in Lu You's hand and swallowed his saliva secretly.

"Where did this pancake come from?"

Last night, the Jin soldiers' camp was attacked, causing the granary to catch fire. Even after desperate efforts to put out the fire, they were able to only snatch less than 10% of the food.

Moreover, most of the food had been smoked and roasted, and was like charcoal, making it inedible.

So before daybreak, the Grand Commander sent a large number of soldiers to various grain fields to rob food. However, who would have thought that warriors from the Wu State would set fire to the fields everywhere.

The Jin soldiers did rob a lot of food, but compared to the huge number of camps with 200,000 people, it was really a drop in the bucket.

All the supplies were given priority to a few core teams. The teams like theirs that were left out couldn't even make a fire in the morning. They were all waiting for food supplies to be shipped from Qingning County.

These soldiers, who had been fighting for half the night but had no supplies, smelled Lu You's five-spice biscuits. How could they refuse?

"Didn't you eat in the morning?"

Lu You reached his hand under his armor and took out another steaming five-spice pancake.

But as soon as it was handed to the sentry, he took it away again.

"Forget it! My identity has not been verified yet, you should call your Mouke out for inspection."

Seeing that the sesame cakes were right in front of them, the hungry and tired Jin soldiers were unwilling to give up. They almost snatched the five-spice sesame cakes from their hands and stuffed the flag captain's badge into Lu You's hand.

"We are all family, why are we talking about different things?"

As he spoke, the Jin soldier tore the pancake into two halves and threw the smaller half to another Jin soldier who was standing guard with him.

"You guys go in. You're familiar with my face this time. As long as we are the brothers standing guard, I promise to make things easier for you next time."

Zuo Yunfeng and Chen He, who were standing behind Lu You, breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, and naturally dropped their hands from the hilts of their swords and knives.

But at this moment, in the camp, shouts of rebuke were heard one after another.

"Get on the horse, quick!"

Lu You and his companions looked inside and saw that the camp was crowded with people and full of dust.

"What's going on?" Lu You took out another five-spice pancake and stuffed it into the sentry's hand and asked.

"I don't know! It looks like a war is about to start." The sentry took the pancake and put it into his armor, then looked at Lu You and the other two suspiciously: "Aren't you going to gather together?"

"We are patrol soldiers and have not entered the barracks, so we are not included in the assembly."

As he spoke, Lu You took out two more pancakes and handed them to the sentry.

Seeing this, the sentry looked at Lu You with more affection: "That's right, we are all soldiers, and we are not needed in the war. You all stand behind me and stand guard with me."

After about half a quarter of an hour, a horse neighing was heard in the barracks.

Then, teams of cavalry rushed out of the camp like a black torrent and rushed towards the southwest.

Lu You and his companions were submerged in the flying dust without even attracting any attention.

“Pfft…Pooh…”

The smoke and dust cleared, and Lu You and the others all spat out the dust in their mouths vigorously.

"What's going on? There's no movement from other camps. Why are we the only ones to come out in full force?"

The gatekeeper also brushed the dust off his face and said, "I don't know, but judging from the direction Deputy Commander Jiang and his men left, they were not going to attack Qingzhou City. They were probably going to Qingning County to pick up food and grass."

As he spoke, the sentry pointed towards the camp.

"You can go back and rest now. Remember to bring me some more sesame cakes next time!"

Lu You and the other two walked into the camp with heavy hearts, but all they saw was a mess.

"There are at least 3,000 cavalrymen who just went out. I'm afraid Old Xu and his men are doomed."

Following behind Lu You, Zuo Yunfeng whispered.

"We can't care about that. We are not as fast as horses."

"We can't stop three thousand people by force. What we can do is to do the things at hand."

Lu You said in a low voice, then looked at the wounded soldier who was sorting out debris in front of him with a smile on his face.

"Brother, where are Deputy Commander Jiang and the others?"

"Who are you?" The wounded soldier put down the flag on the ground and looked at Lu You warily.

"One of our own."

Lu You took out a sesame cake and handed it to the man.

"Just now, my brothers and I went out on patrol and captured it from a farmer's house at the foot of the mountain over there. This is the only one left, and I left it especially for you."

The wounded soldier was angry because his thigh injury prevented him from following the cavalry out of the camp.

When he saw the sesame cake handed to him, his eyes suddenly lit up. He took it in his hands and started eating it.

"You can still find food while patrolling, but those of us who are injured are in a miserable situation. Now the food has been burned by the bandits, and the remaining food is given priority to the combat soldiers. I'm afraid we won't even get some rice soup."

"We finally got the order from the Grand Commander, who ordered Vice Commander Jiang to lead his men to escort the food and grass, so that we can take the opportunity to escape from the siege."

"But look at my thigh. I am injured and cannot ride a horse. Even if I cannot attack the city, I am afraid I will have to carry the wounded..."

After eating a sesame bun, the Jin soldier finally opened up.

But Lu You didn't want to listen to his complaints at this time.

She sneaked into the Jin soldiers' camp with the intention of poisoning them. Now that she had finally gotten in, the barracks she was in was empty, and her arrival was meaningless.

You have to go further inside.

The Jin army camp is divided into dozens of blocks stacked together, like a honeycomb structure. The closer to the core, the more important it is.

And where she was located was the outermost area.

Thinking of this, Lu You turned and walked towards Zuo Yunfeng and Chen He.

"Help me create some chaos. I want to go inside."

"Are you crazy?" Chen He scolded in a low voice: "I've told you, the checkpoints get stricter the further in you go, and they even require familiar faces before letting you through. You're simply courting death if you go in."

Lu You said nothing when he heard this, but just frowned and looked at Zuo Yunfeng.

"If I can lure out the next sentry, can you help me kill him?"

"The sentries are not warriors, so it shouldn't be difficult." Zuo Yunfeng held the hilt of his knife and said, "The only ones left in the camp here are wounded. If we don't fight, kill people, steal horses and run away, we shouldn't die."

Listening to the conversation between the two, Chen He subconsciously widened his eyes.

"No...are you two sick?"

"This is the Jin army camp. Even if the main force has been taken away, there are probably hundreds of wounded soldiers left."

"Not to mention that the camps rely on each other, and the open areas ahead are dotted with checkpoints."

"If you really start a fight, how can we escape?"

While Chen He was still talking, he saw Lu You smilingly calling the Jin soldier who had just been injured in the thigh to his side.

"I didn't even want to leave!"

As he spoke, Lu You smiled and the pancake in his hand disappeared out of thin air and turned into a sharp dagger, which stabbed directly into the heart of the Jin soldier.

Then he grabbed the Jin soldier's collar and pushed him hard into Chen He's arms.

Almost at the same time, Lu You and Zuo Yunfeng stepped back and drew their swords at Chen He.

"The bandits are attacking the camp! Someone come quickly!"