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Cao Hong, Yu Ban, and Man Chong discussed various strategies, but as a result, they were all overturned by themselves.

At this time, two pieces of news came from the fine work on the Runan side, which made them firm, so they used the original grain and grass to lure the enemy.

The first news, Wei Yan gathered too many displaced people, resulting in a shortage of food, the supply of military food, the Wei army on the side of Runan began to diet from Wei Yan, originally the Wei army was very luxurious to eat three times a day, but now it has been changed to two meals a day.

The second news is that Wei Yan's soldiers who were adapted from the Yellow Turban soldiers had corrupted their military discipline and plundered civilians everywhere.

Man Zhong said with a smile: "General Zilian, General Wen Ze, the enemy army is short of food, and military discipline is corrupt, they are bound to be difficult to refuse the grain and grass sent to the door, as long as we disguise the escort more people, it doesn't look like a lure to them, don't worry about them not being fooled, maybe when the time comes, Wei Yan will personally go into battle to rob the grain, we only need to capture Wei Yan or other generals under him, and we can rescue General Miaocai." ”

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Man's strategy is not complicated, that is, to put the grain and grass team in front of the Cao army's formation, lure the Wei army to rob, and then Cao Hong and Yu Ban's men and horses will ambush the Wei army who are robbing the grain and grass. Wei Yan had already seen through Man's favored strategy, and originally wanted to make a plan, but that would cost a lot of cannon fodder troops to attract Cao Jun, and Wei Yan had not matured enough to treat the lives of soldiers like a mustard, and he couldn't make up such a big determination for the time being.

The arrival of Xu Shu perfectly solved this problem, under the protection of Wenyang and others, he went to the cottage of Qu Gong, Jiang Gong, and Shen Cheng, and made the three of them believe in Wei Yan's sincerity, change Wei Yan's banner, and go to Langling City to help Wei Yan.

Originally, Qu Gong, Jiang Gong, and Shen Cheng were still a little worried, whether Wei Yan could win the Cao army, but when they heard that Wei Yan used 2,000 cavalry to annihilate Xiahou Yuan's 5,000 cavalry, they were no longer worried and came to Langling City happily.

At the same time, in order to convince Man Chong that his strategy would work, at Xu Shu's suggestion, Wei Yan also made a play and ordered it to go down, and due to the lack of food and grass, three meals were changed to two meals.

In fact, secretly, the third meal of the main man was solved in the field.

In addition, Wei Yan temporarily did not restrict the military discipline of Qu Gong, Jiang Gong, and Shen Cheng, because the trio also temporarily played the banner of the Wei army to loot the place, so that Cao Jun mistakenly thought that it was the Wei army's lack of food and grass to loot the place.

The two facts made by Wei Yan reached Man Chong, and Man Chong, Yu Ban and Cao Hong firmly decided to lure the enemy with grain and grass.

At this time, in Langling City, Wei Yan met with the thieves Kou Qu Gong, Jiang Gong, and Shen Cheng, and in the name of Runan Taishou, he named them captains, rewarded them with gold and silver, and once again declared that they would never annex their troops, and if they could defeat Cao Hong and Manzhong's men and horses, all the spoils they had obtained would be disposed of by themselves and would not have to be handed over.

The conditions given by Wei Yan are too favorable, if they are replaced by others, most of them will be suspicious, but Qu Gong, Jiang Gong, and Shen Cheng are not such great figures, in history, they were easily defeated by Li Tongtong's same strategy, Li Tong pacified them, and pacified the Huai River and Rushui area, and presented their heads to Cao Cao, Cao Cao renamed Li Tong as the Marquis of Duting, and appointed Li Tong as the Taishou of Runan County.

These thieves only see the immediate interests, but it is difficult to figure out whether the immediate interests are bait.

At this moment, a scout came to report: "Lord, I found that there was a grain and grass team of the Cao army twenty miles ahead, with more than 200 carts and only more than 2,000 soldiers to escort them. ”

Wei Yan's face showed a look of great joy: "It seems that the Cao army is really short of troops, and it is really a matter of heaven to let a group of old and weak auxiliary soldiers escort grain and grass, but to blame!" ”

"Tianyu does not take it, but suffers its blame", this sentence was originally said by Fan Li when he persuaded King Goujian of Yue to get rid of Wu Wangfucha, and later Liu Bei couldn't bear to seize Liu Zhang's Xishu, Pang Tong once used that sentence to advise him, which means that if you miss the opportunity given to you by God, you will suffer.

Wei Yan immediately ordered: "Uncle Chen listened to the order and ordered you to lead 5,000 men and horses to rob the grain!" ”

At this time, Qu Gong, Jiang Gong, and Shen Cheng glanced at each other, and they all saw greed in each other's eyes, didn't Wei Yan say just now that as long as the three of them follow him to deal with Cao Jun, the spoils they get from Cao Jun will be disposed of by themselves and do not need to be handed over, then this time the other party has more than 200 carts, only more than 1,000 old and weak auxiliaries to escort them, which is not exactly "God does not take it, but suffers from it" for them who are short of food!

So, they stood up and arched their hands: "General Wei, the three of us have not made an inch of success since we surrendered, so it is better to let us go and rob the grain this time!" ”

They also regarded themselves as allies who listened to the tune and did not listen to the announcement, and only called Wei Yan a general instead of a lord, and there was not much respect in their words, and some of Wei Yan's guilt towards them also disappeared.

Wei Yan shook his head: "The three of them came hundreds of miles away, and they haven't rested well, how can they be tired?" ”

The three of them said in unison: "Don't bother, don't bother, you don't bother to work for the general!" ”

Wei Yan said in embarrassment: "How can it be that our army is also short of grain and grass, if the three of them intercept grain and grass, can they give our army some help?" ”

The three of them glanced at each other, they all understood each other's meaning, and when the time came, they just gave Wei Yan a little bit, and then the three of them said in unison: "That's natural!" ”

"In that case," Wei Yan said, "I'm bothering the three people from the headquarters over there to go and rob the grain, and I will send Chen to lead the troops to answer later." ”

Qu Gong, Jiang Gong, and Shen Cheng happily took the order and left.

Looking at the distant backs of the three of them, Wei Yan, Xu Shu, and Chen Zhi looked at each other and smiled.

Those three fools thought that they could monopolize the grain and grass, but they didn't know that they were about to become the cannon fodder that Wei Yan would plan for!

Moreover, Wei Yan could also borrow the hand of Cao Jun to help him get rid of this gang of thieves who were causing trouble in the eastern part of Runan, and he didn't have to bear any moral problems.

At this time, Yiyang County Lieutenant Wenpin, who stayed in the old city of Yiyang, led 1,000 men and horses to help, Fu Tong, who stayed in Fuyang County, led 1,000 men and horses to help, and 6,000 people and horses from Guan Hai and Liaohua also gathered in Langling.

Subsequently, Wei Yan gave different tactical instructions to Wen Yang, Chen Dao, Guan Hai, Liao Hua, Wen Ping, and Fu Tong, and a large-scale ambush battle was about to start.