Lei Bo and Chen Lan can only be regarded as second-tier generals on Yuan Shu's side, unlike Qiao Rui, Zhang Xun, and Ji Ling, who are valued by Yuan Shu.

Therefore, the two of them sat on the side of Hefei County, although there were more than 10,000 soldiers under their command, but they knew very well that they controlled the army, and the soldiers could not eat enough, so how could they let the soldiers defend the city and fight.

As for the requisition of local young and strong people, it is even more ridiculous, they don't have much military ration in the first place, and they have to find more mouths to eat, so they don't have to fight, they can eat themselves down.

As the generals under Yuan Shu, Lei Bo and Chen Lan are also figures who can understand the situation, and in the face of the so-called 200,000 troops that came strongly from Zhu Wei's side, they had no idea of daring to resist at all.

However, Yuan Shu gave them a death order again, asking them to guard Hefei for at least half a month, but did not send them any grain and grass supplies, obviously Yuan Shu felt that they might not be able to hold Hefei for a long time, and it was a waste to send food supplies.

This kind of behavior of wanting to let the cattle plough the land, but not giving the cattle enough to eat, naturally made Lei Bo and Chen Lanlai even more chilling, so the two of them simply surrendered to Zhu Wei's side to offer the city.

This move made Zhu Wei's side a little surprised, but it also made Zhu Wei very satisfied, he could get a city without a fight, and it could also allow Zhu Wei's army to get a frontier place for garrisons in Jiujiang County, which could be regarded as an advantage for Zhu Wei's conquest of Yuan Shu this time.

Therefore, Zhu Wei was very happy to take over Hefei County from Lei Bo and Chen Lan, and at the same time praised the two of them, and the character attributes of these two people were also seen by Zhu Wei.

"Lei Bo, military general, city Hefei, age 34, loyalty 71, official period 0 years, soldier 6231, wisdom 37, politics 26, force 65, charm 14, land index 59, water index 22, training 48, morale 32."

"Chen Lan, military general, city Hefei, age 29, loyalty 73, career period 0 years, soldier 4231, wisdom 32, politics 20, force 65, charm 32, land index 54, water index 20, training 48, morale 32."

Obviously, the attributes of these two people are average, so they can only be used as ordinary generals, and they can barely be regarded as third-rate generals, but the loyalty of the two is okay, and they should really want to be born on Zhu Wei's side.

So Zhu Wei temporarily arranged the two of them in the Chinese military camp, waiting to see the situation in the future and arrange other places to go.

And the reason for the surrender from the two of them also made Zhu Wei understand a little bit about the situation in Yuan Shu's army, and it was no wonder that Yuan Shu's army of more than 200,000 people would be so weak in combat effectiveness.

In fact, the army of Liu Xun and Liu Kai that Zhu Wei faced in Lujiang County before was already an army that still maintained a certain combat effectiveness in Yuan Shu's army.

Because Lujiang County was relatively an independent vassal under Yuan Shu, at least the common people were stable under Liu Xun's governance, and the food and other needs of the army soldiers could also be satisfied.

But in Jiujiang County, Huaibei, Yuzhou, and Xuzhou, which were directly under Yuan Shu, the situation had reached a very bad situation.

The common people can't live because of drought and famine, not to mention this tragic experience, and even the soldiers in Yuan Shu's army can't eat enough, so naturally there is no way to maintain combat effectiveness.

It can't be said that Yuan Shu's warehouse has no grain at all, but Yuan Shu is like a stingy landlord and old wealth, and would rather let the grain pile up in the warehouse and rot than take it out casually.

Of course, Yuan Shu may also have been in order to use these grains at critical times.

After all, Yuan Shu's territory encountered a great drought, and the grain tax revenue was almost gone, but Yuan Shu still had to raise more than 200,000 troops, if he really took out the grain, the more than 200,000 troops might be able to eat all the stored grain in one or two months.

In this way, good steel must naturally be used on the blade, and grain must be kept until the time of war.

Anyway, now as long as Yuan Shu ensures that his army soldiers will not starve to death, that's fine, as for the hungry and have no strength or anything, Yuan Shu won't care.

However, Yuan Shu forgot that once his army lost its morale, it was time for war, and it would be useless for him to take out food.

Therefore, now that Yuan Shu has captured the state of Chen and obtained the grain, grass and money of the state of Chen, the army of more than 100,000 under his command is completely unable to resist the attack of the combined forces of Cao Cao, Lü Bu, and Liu Bei, because the combat effectiveness of his army has been weakened to the bottom by himself.

In fact, Zhu Wei naturally knew about the outbreak of a major drought on the Jianghuai side at the end of last year, and in fact, this great drought also affected Jiangxia County and Guangling County on Zhu Wei's side.

However, Zhu Wei's side has accumulated a lot of money, and every time he fights, he basically uses the food that Zhu Wei gets from the Three Kingdoms game system, but it is not a local food reserve, so Zhu Wei's side quickly allocated food to the local disaster relief through official means, which resolved the disaster of the local people, and also accepted many people who fled from the Jianghuai land.

It's just that Zhu Wei didn't expect Yuan Shu to even take care of his own army.

After all, the information of Yuan Shu's city that Zhu Wei saw through the Three Kingdoms game system, the grain reserves on Yuan Shu's side still have a certain amount, and at the same time, in reality, even if Zhu Wei's detailed work on the school office reported on the situation of Yuan Shu's army, it was impossible to be as detailed as Lei Bo and Chen Lan, who were the generals of Yuan Shu's department.

In this way, Zhu Wei understood why Yuan Shu in the original history was defeated so quickly, it was really because his soldiers were already hungry and had no strength, so how could he have the strength to fight.

Of course, it is no wonder that Cao Cao also lacked food when he attacked Shouchun in history, because he really couldn't get food from Huainan, and it seemed that it was more difficult to transport food from his own base camp.

According to the information that Zhu Wei has obtained so far, in fact, at the end of last year, the Central Plains and Guanzhong under Cao Cao's control also suffered from a certain drought, and there was also not much grain tax revenue.

Therefore, in the original history, Cao Cao had to borrow grain from Sun Ce, because Cao Cao's own grain reserves were also insufficient.

Although Jingzhou and Jiangdong under Zhu Wei's control were not affected by the drought, but now the Central Plains is indeed full of disasters during this time, and there are signs of food shortage in many places.

Now it is estimated that the land south of the Yangtze River under the control of Zhu Wei and the land in the north under the control of Yuan Shao are relatively stable, and the place is stable, so that the people can farm with peace of mind, and the fields can have grain taxes, so that they can provide food to those in power.

But the Central Plains controlled by Cao Cao, Lu Bu and other warlords have hardly had time to recuperate since the Yellow Turban War, so even if there is no famine, few people can farm with peace of mind, and the local grain production is naturally insufficient......