Getting this news, Hua'an was extremely excited, which meant that the rebels would soon make a move, and the place where the rebels had to transport grain had been mastered by Hua'an, and it was almost easy to intercept this batch of military rations.

The rebels were also worried about the looting of military rations, and for the sake of safety, the rebels sent 1,000 men and horses to escort 50 grain wagons from the passage west of Jiaozhi City to the north to test the reaction of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

When the rebels just began to move, Hua'an, who was sitting in Jiaozhi City, received the news that the rebels would use the night to transport grain from the west of Jiaozhi City.

After learning the news, all the generals of the Northern Expeditionary Army tried their best to ask for war, asking to lead their troops to set up an ambush and intercept the rebels' military rations, but Hua'an did not agree to take action, but sent scouts to investigate the rebels' every move in transporting grain, so as to know themselves and their opponents.

The reason why Hua'an did this was because he was very clear about the condition of the road to the west, and it was impossible to achieve large-scale grain transportation on the rugged road, and the rebels chose to transport grain from the west because they deliberately misled the Northern Expeditionary Army and attracted the attention of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the real purpose was to quietly transport grain from the passage east of Cochin City.

Soon, Hua'an's speculation was verified, and the scouts who went to reconnoiter reported that the rebel grain transport team was only 1,000 people, and the grain trucks were no more than 50, which was a small-scale grain transportation operation.

"The rebels have thousands of grain trucks, but only 50 have been dispatched, which is clearly a temptation."

"It's a good thing that our army didn't move, otherwise it would have been a surprise."

"Such a cunning rebel, if we are so lucky, we really don't know how to ambush it."

Wang San, Tie Niu, and Zhao Wu expressed their opinions respectively.

"Little by little luck, if it's such ant moving transportation, it's really not easy to catch it all!" Hua Anxin felt a little worried, he really didn't think of this strategy before.

However, soon Hua'an was not worried, because the rebels would never use this method, Jiaozhi City had been controlled by the Northern Expeditionary Army for ten days, and the rebel front-line army was in urgent need of food and grass, and the ant moving transportation was too time-consuming, and the main force of the rebels couldn't wait.

Thinking of this, Hua An immediately ordered: "Tie Niu, Zhao Wu, you two will each lead your soldiers to secretly go out of the city and enter the ambush site on the east road, and your actions must be light and not alarm the attention of the rebels." ”

As soon as they heard this order, Tie Niu and Zhao Wu were both stunned, and hurriedly said: "Big brother, the rebels are transporting grain in the west, and we are ambushing on the main road in the east, why is this?" ”

Hua An glared at the two of them and said, "Haven't you heard of 'Sound of the East Hitting the West?' A large number of rebel convoys of grain must be transported from the main road to the east, and it is possible to take action in the middle of the night, and by tomorrow night at the latest, the rebels will definitely pass through the ambush site in Guò. ”

"Yes, big brother, let's go now." Tie Niu and Zhao Wu took the order.

Half an hour later, the 20,000 infantry of the Northern Expeditionary Army quietly left the city from the north gate, made a big circle, entered the preset ambush site on the east avenue, and quietly hidden.

In the middle of the night, the rebels, who were transporting grain from the west road, marched to the city of Jiaozhi without any obstruction from the Northern Expeditionary Army, which greatly relaxed the vigilance of the rebel generals.

The rebel generals decided to seize the opportunity and use the second half of the night to transport all the military rations through Cochin, and they would also join up with the main force and concentrate their forces to attack Cochin.

For the sake of safety, the rebels sent a large army to escort them on the one hand, and on the other hand, they continued to use the strategy of attacking the east and the west to confuse the Northern Expeditionary Army.

For this reason, the rebels let the main force of nearly 30,000 horses and horses carry torches and swagger into the west gate of Jiaozhi City to harass them to attract the attention of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

At the same time, let the 10,000-strong army escort thousands of grain trucks, quietly marching north from the avenue east of Jiaozhi City.

The rebels' wishful thinking can be described as quite beautiful, but this qiē is under the control of Hua'an, and the rebels are transporting grain from the east, completely entering the ambush circle carefully designed by the Northern Expeditionary Army.

An hour later, the main force of nearly 30,000 rebels has entered the west gate of Jiaozhi City, because of the fear of the strong combat power of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the rebels did not dare to really attack the city, but only sent a small group of troops to harass in turn, from time to time to shoot a few arrows at the head of the city, and a large number of rebel soldiers stayed five miles away from the west gate of Jiaozhi City, next to the woods, once the main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army rushed out of the city, when the rebels could not resist, they could rely on their familiarity with the terrain, quickly hide in the woods, and fight in the jungle with trees. The Northern Expeditionary Army could not take advantage of any formation and was likely to be defeated by the rebels.

This night was destined to be a sleepless night, both the rebels and the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army were on extreme alert, and all the generals were also armored and ready to fight at any time.

"Big brother, the rebels are too arrogant, let our army go out of the city to teach them a lesson." The thunderstorm standing at the head of the city was annoyed by waves of rebel archers.

It is no wonder that the waves of harassment by the rebels are indeed annoying, and it is nighttime, which is the time when it should be rested, and if you don't get rest, people's instincts will be very poor, and it is not surprising that they are a little irritable.

"Thunderstorm, ignore these little Luo, the rebels are deliberately harassing our army in order to cover the military rations transported from Dongmian Avenue." Hua An said affirmatively.

"Why, the rebels have started to transport grain from the east?" Thunderstorm was a little confused.

Hua An nodded and said with a smile: "Haha! That's natural, otherwise the rebels will be so hard to make trouble here, but I am afraid that at this time, the rebels' grain trucks have already entered the ambush circle of our army, which is called 'striking the east and attacking the west' in the future. ”

"The rebels have really entered the ambush circle of our army?" Thunderstorm still can't believe it.

"Report, General, the scouts have just received news that the rebels' thousands of grain wagons have suddenly turned around and headed for the east road after traveling ten miles to the west. At the moment when the two were talking, the battalion owner of the pro-military camp reported the latest situation of the rebel food team.

When the thunderstorm heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and the report of the owner of the pro-military battalion was exactly the same as the result expected by Hua'an, and the rebels had indeed entered the encirclement preset by the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Seeing Thunderstorm's incredible expression, Hua An smiled slightly, looked at Thunderstorm, and said, "Look, if you hadn't sent Tie Niu and Zhao Wu to ambush in advance, the rebels would have sneaked away at this moment." ”

"Well, it's still the eldest brother who thinks thoughtfully." The thunderstorm praised Hua'an loudly, and once again threw himself to the five-body body that Hua'an admired.