Jia Xu and Xu You set up a plan with each other, fighting wits and courage.

But in the end, it was Jia Xu who was above Xu Yu.

Xu You's wisdom is naturally not as good as Jia Xu's, and the city government is not as deep as Jia Xu, and the Hebei School Office led by Jia Xu is much stronger than Jingzhou in terms of investigation ability and personnel quality, including even material support.

Whether it is comprehensive strength or hardware ability, Xu Yu does not have an advantage.

So the current situation is - Xu You knows what he is doing, but he doesn't know what Jia Xu is doing, and he doesn't even know who his opponent is.

But Jia Xu knew what he was doing, and he also knew what Xu Yu was doing.

Zhang Yan, Qingniujiao, Bai Huan, Zhenggu and others recruited local thieves and rebel leaders from all walks of life in Sizhou as envoys from Hebei to surrender to Hebei.

This matter is going relatively smoothly.

Although it is impossible for a thief giant like Li Xiang to surrender to Hebei, many second-level thief leaders are more keen to surrender to the Hebei army.

After all, Hebei is too rich, and Hebei Liu Deran's reputation is too good, so they can't help it.

Liu Jian's policy towards the common people included that he recruited foreign people to the south of the Han border as conscription to share the pressure of harming the Han people, and at the same time, he also implemented the policy of apportioning the land into the mu, abolishing the oral calculation, and implementing the land degree, all of which are enough to show that Liu Jian's heart is towards the ordinary people.

For ordinary Li Shu, Hebei Liu Deran is their god!

Liu Jian's reputation is really good, as soon as his people come to surrender, many thieves will be tempted...... In particular, the envoys are still those representatives of the Montenegrin Army who have surrendered to Hebei and are now doing well!

Just looking at these representatives of the Montenegrin Army, these thieves in Sizhou, I couldn't hold back the restlessness in my heart.

Who doesn't want to live a stable life? Who wants to fight every day?

Jia Xu got the loyalty of many local thieves in Sizhou, but Jia Xu did not let these people return to obedience soon, but asked Zhang Yan and other representatives of the thieves to discuss with those thieves who had already surrendered, saying that they wanted to provide them with some intelligence information, and after the other party had done some things for them, they would justifiably submit to the Hebei army.

Zhang Yan was a little confused, so shouldn't these thieves and rebels be as obedient as possible? The sooner they return to obedience, the more stable the situation in Sizhou will be in their own interests.

What else is this old guy going to do now?

Besides, what can't their Hebei army do, they have to let these local thieves in Sizhou do it for them?

But when Jia Xu informed Zhang Yan of what he was going to arrange, Zhang Yan had a deep admiration for this person in his heart.

This old man belongs to the most inconspicuous one of Liu Jian's subordinates on weekdays, and he is silent and speaks little on weekdays......

But the level of wisdom is far from being comparable to ordinary people.

Even Tian Feng and Fu Zhi may not be above him.

What Jia Xu asked these thieves to do was to let them sneak attack a place where grain and grass were stored according to the time set by them.

And where this grain and grass is located, it is the place where Sun Jian, Cai Mao, Huang Zu and other Jingzhou vanguard troops are stockpiled with grain.

When she learned the news, Zhang Yan's eyes were full of admiration when she looked at Jia Xu.

"It turns out that Mr. Wenhe has already sent someone to find out where the grain and grass lifeline of the Jingzhou Army's forward army is?"

Jia Xu didn't have any smug look on his face, he just stroked his beard and replied slowly:

"Who said that we can only let that Xu You come to explore the lifeblood of our grain and grass, but not let the old man find out where their grain and grass are in advance?"

"Isn't it fair that the old man is now using their means against themselves?"

Zhang Yan asked a little nervously:

"But grain and grass, after all, is a major matter related to the three armies, Sun Jian, Cai Mao, Huang Zu and others are all good at using soldiers, and the place where the vanguard army stores grain is their lifeblood, won't they say that heavy troops are ambushed?"

Jia Xu said slowly: "They will definitely set up an ambush." ”

"But their defenses are now weakening, after all, all their attention is now zoomed in on exploring our grain reserves, and because of this, they have neglected to govern their own food reserves."

"Therefore, according to the old man, now let those who are obedient to us suddenly attack the place where the southern army is stockpiling grain, although it may not be able to achieve complete success, but there will definitely be a gain, and this gain will be huge."

Zhang Yan seemed a little stunned when she heard this.

"Mr. Wenhe is really insightful."

"It's just that although these thieves agreed to our request, but in my face, let them send troops to attack Yuan's grain hoarding land, they are afraid that they will be in danger, but I am afraid that they may not be able to respond immediately, even if they do, what if they don't do their best?"

Jia Xu said: "This matter is easy, Yuan Jun and the local heroes of Sizhou have always tried their best to suppress the rebels, and the slaughter has been too much, especially Sun Jian, I heard that no matter men, women and children, as long as they join the rebels, they will be killed by Sun Jianjun, and people hate it deeply." ”

"The thieves who want to come to Sizhou must have a deep grudge against Sun Jianjun, and now they have a mortal enmity with each other."

"As long as you tell the leader of the other party that these grains and grasses are used by Sun Jian to conquer Sizhou, it will inevitably arouse the hatred and covetousness of those thieves."

"As long as the grain and grass used by Sun Jian's army are exposed, no one in the whole territory of Sizhou will care about our grain and grass...... I can not only hijack grain and grass, obtain military supplies, but also take revenge, why not do I? ”

This is a very reasonable remark and to the point.

No wonder he has always been unpopular.

It turned out that he had been preparing to give the heaviest blow to the other party at the most critical moment.

……

……

Near Luoyang, in Sun Jian's camp.

Xu You was listening to the recent results of the scouts under his command.

The grain storage locations provided to the rebels in Sizhou about the Hebei Army are now about fifteen, and they have been given by local traitors.

Of the fifteen places where grain was stored, only five were stockpiled with grain and grass, but the number was not too much, although it satisfied the appetite of some thieves, but it was obvious that the damage to the Hebei army was not too great.

Therefore, Xu You hurriedly sent spies from Jingzhou and asked them to do their best to continue to find the Hebei army's grain store.

For the sake of his position as the chief mastermind of the southern realm, Xu You is now close to madness.

He really didn't expect that the Hebei Army would be so difficult to deal with.

But now he can't afford to retreat.

Just after Xu You arranged all the scout leaders under his command to go out, he was about to take a breath, when he saw Sun Jian walk in with a gloomy face.

He said to Xu You anxiously and angrily: "Something is wrong!"

Although Xu You didn't know what the big deal was, just looking at Sun Jian's gloomy face, he knew that something terrible must have happened a while ago.

"What's wrong?" Xu Yu asked calmly.

"The grain and grass camp has been robbed, the grain hoarding has been destroyed, and the grain in the camp may not last long, and the three armies will run out of food in five days at most!"

Today's words made Xu You's heart suddenly fall into the ice cellar, it was cold and cold, and he was a little out of breath for a while.

The robbery of the grain and grass camp is a fatal matter for the officers and men of the three armies, and if one is not good, it is easy to hurt the fundamentals.

"Who robbed it?" Xu Yu asked in a panic.

Sun Jian gritted his teeth: "Who else could it be?" It was the moth thieves who were in the hearts of those gentlemen, who originally expected them to hijack the grain and grass of the Hebei army, but now it is good that these moth thieves did not hijack much grain in Hebei, but burned our grain camp, and in order to be able to detect the grain hoarding places in Hebei, too many scouts were sent before! Instead, we ignore where our food is located. ”

"Now that the food is lost, we can only count on bringing more food when the rear army arrives."

"Now the situation in the front is not good, we still need to evacuate temporarily, go to the south of Sizhou, and wait for the arrival of the brigade."

"No!" Hearing Sun Jian's words, Xu Yu shouted anxiously.

The situation in the previous battle took a sharp turn for the worse, if he went back like this, he would inevitably be blamed by Yuan Shao, and he would also have to be ridiculed by Kuai Yue and others, and at that time, I was afraid that his status as the number one mastermind in Jingzhou would not be guaranteed.

Sun Jian frowned and looked at Xu You, and asked: "The officers and soldiers of the three armies have no food, while others don't know, there is still a chance for us to withdraw our troops quickly, if we continue to move here, once the news leaks out, someone will lead troops to attack and stumble our army, how should we send the main bus at that time."

Xu Yu naturally knew what Sun Jian said, but he was really unwilling to leave like this.

Looking at Sun Jian's gloomy face, a bold idea popped up in Xu You's heart.

Something he would never think about before it happened.

"Wentai!"

"What?"

"How about we pretend to retreat and secretly attack Xu Rong?"

(End of chapter)