At the same time, in the northern part of Jingzhou …
Cao Cao had set up camp here for a long time and had not gone out to battle.
At this moment, Zhang Liao walked over with heavy steps. When he saw Cao Cao, he cupped his hands and said,
"Reporting to Emperor Wei, the spies sent by the Sun Liu Army have been spying on our supplies and granaries.
"This general suspects that they want to destroy our granaries to slow us down."
Hearing this, Cao Cao immediately sneered.
"It's just a trick that this Emperor played at Guandu.
"Keep a close eye on them. If they do anything strange, immediately seize them."
In this period of time, Cao Cao had not only been resting and honing his strength, but he had also ordered people to build roads to Jingzhou.
Through Zhang Liao and Zhang He's secret investigations, he had also discovered several sneaky people.
There was no need to even think about it. These people were definitely spies sent by the Sun Liu Army.
However, in order to not alert the enemy, Cao Cao did not send people to capture them.
It was just as well that he could use them to inform the Sun Liu Army of the location of the supplies.
This amount of supplies was already a lot for Liu Bei and Sun Quan. It was enough for them to defend the city for a month.
But what Cao Cao lacked the most right now was food. He could casually take food from any of the surrounding prefectures and use it for his entire army of five hundred thousand.
"It's fine. Let them come. As long as they dare to come, they can forget about leaving!"
Cao Cao sneered.
He had already planned out how to deal with the Sun Liu Army.
These little tricks were of no use at all.
"How's the situation in the north?"
Only then did Cao Cao remember that it had been nearly two months since he came to Jingzhou for the southern expedition.
In this period of time, he had not asked about the situation in the north.
After all, Cao Cao had previously gone to understand the current strength of the Qiang people.
The Qiang people had nearly four hundred thousand soldiers and were a disaster. Their strength could not be underestimated.
However, Bai Feng only had the 10,000 soldiers that he asked for.
Even if Cao Ren and Xu Huang were to add in the close to a hundred thousand soldiers in the north and the fifty thousand soldiers in Xu Huang's hands, they still wouldn't be enough.
As for the troops in Xiliang, they were not easy to mobilize.
After all, Xiliang did not only have to face the Qiang people.
Whether it was the Di people, the Jie people, or the Xianbei people, they were all people that Xi Liang had to be wary of.
Although Western Liang had about two hundred thousand soldiers, they needed his permission to mobilize them.
However, Cao Cao did not hear any report from Bai Feng that he wanted to mobilize the Xiliang soldiers.
Cao Cao was rather concerned about the current situation of the Qiang people.
Zhang Liao smiled bitterly and said,
"Wei Emperor, I do not know about this matter."
"However, with your strength, it shouldn't be difficult for you to deal with the Qiang people."
Cao Cao shook his head heavily.
"No, it's very difficult."
"Although Bai Feng is talented and resourceful, it won't be easy to deal with the Qiang people."
"From the northern border to Xiliang, the Qiang people's territory is very far away."
"If you want to defend these places, it will be very difficult to unite the forces of both sides."
"If someone else asked me for soldiers to attack the Qiang people, I naturally would not agree."
"However, since it's Mr. Bai, I believe that he has the ability to do so."
"However, he only asked for 10,000 soldiers to take down the Qiang people. It won't be as easy as our southern expedition."
"If it's not possible, send someone over and ask Mr. Bai to come over."
"We have to speed up the southern expedition."
Cao Cao had heard some rumors in the past few days that Liu Bei and Sun Quan were preparing to fight to the death.
Although he did not know if this had anything to do with the spies in his camp, Cao Cao was not going to be careless.
Sun Quan and Liu Bei were not people to be underestimated.
It was precisely because of this that he had not been able to conquer the south for so many years.
Now, Cao Cao was in a dilemma.
It seemed possible to directly conquer the south, but as the battle line grew longer and longer, it would not be so easy to continue the pursuit.
Conquering Jingzhou and Jiangdong was easy, but once they reached Jiaozhou, it would be difficult to fight.
It would not be so easy to go any further south.
Moreover, Cao Cao had brought 500,000 soldiers with him, so he was under a lot of pressure.
The Eastern Han had been divided for a long time, and the foreign tribes around it were very ambitious.
If they took this opportunity to invade the Central Plains, it would be like picking up sesame seeds and throwing away watermelons.
"Wei Emperor! This subject has something to report! "
At this moment, a familiar voice came from outside the tent.
Jia Xu?
Cao Cao could not help but look up.
It was Jia Xu.
Jia Xu's face was brimming with smiles.
"Reporting to Wei Emperor, a messenger came from Western Liang just now!"
Cao Cao's heart skipped a beat.
A messenger from Western Liang?
"Is Western Liang in trouble?"
Once those words were spoken, Cao Cao immediately denied it.
If Western Liang was in trouble, why would Jia Xu have such an expression?
But what good could have happened to Western Liang?
Jia Xu shook his head.
"It's from Bai Feng!"
"The Qiang people have been wiped out!"
"What?!"
Cao Cao was still trying to figure out what was going on. When he heard this, his jaw almost fell off.
"Is this true?"
Jia Xu said excitedly.
"It's absolutely true!"
"The report says that the Qiang army of 400,000 has been completely wiped out!"
"As for the remaining Qiang people, they were invaded by the Xianbei people and completely wiped out."
"The Qiang people have been wiped out!"
What a guy!
Cao Cao couldn't help but take a step back.
This news had come too suddenly.
Ten thousand people had wiped out the Qiang people in two months?
Impossible, absolutely impossible!
Even if Bai Feng was a god, he couldn't wipe out an army of 400,000 with just ten thousand people!
"What else is written in the report? Read it all together. "
"Did he mobilize the garrison in the north?"
Cao Cao anxiously asked.
Although Cao Cao believed in Bai Feng's abilities, he didn't dare to believe it to this extent.
Even if he mobilized the garrison in the north and Xu Huang's side, he still wouldn't be able to do this!
Jia Xu looked at the report and continued.
"Bai Feng only used ten thousand soldiers and didn't mobilize any other soldiers.
"At the start, Bai Feng used ten thousand soldiers to launch a surprise attack at night to intercept and kill the Qiang soldiers who were planning to attack the north.
"After that, the Qiang soldiers simply couldn't stop them, and Grand Marshal Li Yuanhong was killed in half a month.
"After that, Bai Feng led his soldiers to defend Western Liang and repeatedly attacked, using the tactic of luring the tiger away from the mountain to create the illusion that Western Liang was an empty city.
"Finally, he burned down Grand Marshal Yue Ji's supplies and tents and killed them at the gates of Western Liang.
"When the Qiang leader learned of this, he was enraged and led two hundred thousand soldiers to attack Western Liang. Bai Feng used a fire trap to burn them all to death!"
Cao Cao felt incredulous.
How had Bai Feng done it?
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