Like Lao Jia, he saw the arrow book shot from the mysterious traitor. Deputy Director Tao, who had just climbed out of bed and was still sleepy, suddenly stared at the triangular eyes twice as big as usual. He was stunned for a long time before he said in a daze, "It's the enemy's trick, right? Otherwise, who could have leaked such important information to us? He didn't even sign a name? How could we believe it without any brains?"

"Xu had suspected that it was the enemy's plan before, but after thinking about it carefully, he found that it was not like." Jia Lao Poison replied: "Because behind this letter, there is not much room for using the plan. At most, it is to lure the enemy or delay the army, lure us to send troops to pursue Zhang Fei's team, or let our army temporarily suspend the attack on the city for five days."

Speaking of this, Lao Jia paused and said, "But there is no point in doing this. If it is a trick to lure the enemy, we don't have to send troops to chase Zhang Fei. We just need to keep a close eye on the southwest route and wait for Zhang Fei to escort the grain northward before sending troops to intercept or ambush. At that time, Zhang Fei's team needs to protect the grain and throw them into rats and avoid weapons, so it's easier for us to break the enemy."

"If it is a delaying plan, it makes no sense. Our army does not carry any siege weapons. If you want to attack Yecheng, you have to fill the moat and prepare siege equipment first, or transport siege weapons from the rear. You can't even prepare well without four or five days. Therefore, it is meaningless to keep us temporarily for five days. It is simply a waste of effort."

"What the hell is the enemy going to do?" Deputy Director Tao scratched his head and said, "Is it a slow enemy plan again, trying to let us take advantage of the flaws and give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it? This is even more impossible? If the enemy really treats us as fools, they will take us lightly and neglect their precautions again and again?"

"Is it a plan to lure the tiger out of the mountain?" He Yi proposed another possibility at the tactical level and analyzed: "Maybe the enemy is following the lord's plan to lure the tiger out of the mountain. Just like the lord dealing with the thief Cao, he lures us to the southwest of Ye County, and then the enemy then protrudes the surprise troops and defeats our army one by one?"

"It's possible, but it may not be great." Jia Lao Poison shook his head and explained: "Because our army's overall strength is far above the enemy, even if we divide the army into two, we can still have an overwhelming advantage over the enemy. Besides, we still have 40,000 rear troops in Xuchang. Within five days, we can easily transfer tens of thousands of troops to the south. After obtaining the intelligence support of the Jizhou Army, the enemy is also very clear about this. It is still meaningless to induce our army to divide the troops."

Eliminating the possibility of almost all enemies using tricks, Deputy Director Tao, who had always been smart, couldn't help but be completely confused and said in confusion: "It's not a delaying strategy. It's not a plan to lure the enemy, nor is it a plan to lure the tiger out of the mountain. What is the enemy going to do? Could it be that the information leaked in this arch book, these two key and important information, are all real? Did it be sent by those who intend to surrender to our army or those who are interested in our army?"

"Xu also suspected that the information leaked in this letter was true." Jia Lao Poison replied: "So, to be cautious, before coming to see the lord, Xu had arranged an experienced and capable scout to the southwest of Ye County to explore the situation. If the enemy had really divided his troops south last night, there would be some clues on the road. I believe that news would be sent soon."

"Mr. Wenhe is still cautious." Deputy Director Tao nodded and ordered: "regardless of whether the enemy has divided his troops to go south or not, the reconnaissance forces on the west and south sides of Yecheng must be strengthened. Double scouts are added to those two directions, and triple scouts are sent to closely monitor the four gates of Yecheng at night. Monitor the movements of the enemy at all costs. The Gentleman Army is not here, so that Tuo Mian will take up the important task of scout war. Send many light cavalry teams to camp to sweep away the enemy's scouts outside the city, and provide reconnaissance space for our scout team."

Jia Lao Poison and Shiyi agreed to the agreement and immediately went down to arrange the task, leaving Deputy Director Tao to wash and dress up in the tent. While asking Guo Huan to change the medicine for her wounds, he looked at the arrow book repeatedly and thought in his mind, "If this arrow book is real, then who shot it? Who in Yecheng can reveal such important information to us in such a kind heart?"

Thinking about it, Deputy Director Tao's dirty claws habitually reached into Guo Huan's little clothes, holding the little white rabbit who was gradually plump in a good nutritional environment, which made Guo Huan feel coquettish, "Lord, are you injured? I don't want to be a widow at such a young age..., Woo."

Hu Tian and Hu were a bit of a sudden. Deputy Director Tao, who was refreshed, went to the camp to inspect the construction of the camp and made the highest instructions for Xuzhou to strengthen the defense of the camp. Then it was almost noon. At this time, the elite scouts sent by Jia Lao Poison to the southwest of Yecheng to reconnaissance also returned to the Xuzhou camp, bringing shocking news to the decision-making level in Xuzhou - last night, a team did leave Yecheng and rushed to the hinterland of Nanyang, southwest of Yecheng. When they learned about this situation, Deputy Director Tao was shocked and quickly asked several scouts: "Can you be sure of it? Will you misjudgment?"

"Lord, please rest assured, the villain and others are absolutely sure." The head of the scout, Chief Soldier, replied respectfully: "The villain and others found a large number of southwest footprints on the official road southwest of Yecheng, as well as a little fresh horse manure. At the same time, a large number of footprints were found on the grass and fields on the roadside. Judging from the shoe prints, they all came from the middle-aged man. From this, it can be inferred that this should be an infantry team."

"We are still more than twenty miles southwest of Yecheng and found an open area that may be used by the enemy for temporary rest." Another older scout added: "At the edge of the open area, there are many shallow depressions accumulated by fresh human feces and some urine. Judging from the wetness of the feces, the team should have stopped to rest in that area at dawn today."

"More than twenty miles? The troops were sent out at the third hour. The speed of the marching at night was no longer as fast as during the day. When you arrived at that area at dawn, you could stop and rest. The time was worth it." Deputy Director Tao thought for a moment, then ordered: "Thank you for your hard work, go down and rest, tell the kitchen to add wine and food to you."

Several skilled and meticulous thanked him happily and quickly said goodbye to leave the central army tent. Then Deputy Director Tao no longer hesitated and immediately ordered Xu Huang to arrange a team of scouts, Qing cavalry, and immediately took the rotation horses to go south to reconnaissance, asking the scouts to catch up with the enemy team that went south overnight. Explore the more detailed situation of the enemy. Xu Huang first agreed, and then suggested: "Lord, let the general lead the cavalry in the headquarters to chase the enemy. Since they are all infantry and only have a small number of horses, the marching speed will definitely not be faster. The general's cavalry is sure to catch up with them."

"Don't take risks." Deputy Director Tao refused flatly and said: "I know the terrain of the Bowangpo area, the mountains are high and the road is narrow. The sides are full of trees and reeds. They are not suitable for cavalry fighting, and are also easily ambushed by the enemy. If this is the enemy's plan, our pursuers will lure into a narrow area with many plants and trees. If it is a sudden fire attack, will our army be defeated again?"

"I understand, I will arrange the light cavalry here." Xu Huang quickly changed his words and went down to execute the reconnaissance order arranged by Deputy Director Tao. At the same time, Xu Huang and the poisonous substance Jia next to him, Shi Yi and others were extremely suspicious. They thought to themselves that they had never heard of their lord who had been to Bowangpo, how could they be so familiar with the terrain situation in that area?

"Zhuge Villageman, if you imagine that in history, you can use the means to deal with Cao Aman to deal with me, then you just don't even think about it." Director Tao, who had no idea that the Battle of Bowangpo had nothing to do with Zhuge Liang, was still secretly proud in his heart, "Because this director has a fine work called Luo Guanzhong. So if you burn new wild fire to Bowangpo, you will never succeed again."

At the same time, the Xuzhou cavalry led by Tuo Myan had already launched a scout war against the Yecheng defenders. Xuzhou cavalry, with fifty men as a team, attacked everywhere. They frantically searched and killed all Yecheng defenders who could catch up with them, and chased them to the city of Ye County several times. The scouts who could kill the city patrols were sobbing and howling, and their flesh and blood were flying everywhere, greatly weakening their reconnaissance ability of the enemy situation. But unfortunately, the cavalry team under Tuo Myan was never the Gentleman Army. The complex terrain in Ye County also destined that the Xuzhou army could not kill all the enemy scouts who were patrolling the city. Therefore, the basic situation of the Xuzhou army was still brought back to Ye County by some scouts who relied on the cover of the mountains and forests to the decision-making level of the Jingji coalition forces.

"Always keep the troops still? Just strengthen the camp defense?" Someone's face remained silent and sneered in his heart, "It's true that he was cautious and suspicious. He would rather miss the fighter plane than send troops to pursue Zhang Fei's team. Unfortunately, this was expected!"

Someone sneered in his heart. General Liu Pan, who was supervising the army to strengthen the city defense in the city tower, was a little impatient and asked everyone in front of him: "My masters, the team of pottery thieves has not been moved, and they have vigorously searched and killed our scouts. Why is this?"

"It's very simple. Envoy Tao needs to prepare siege weapons." Zhuge Liang replied: "The road from Xuchang to Yecheng is not easy to walk. The Xuzhou team only took about three days to arrive at Yecheng. This is enough to prove that Envoy Tao's team did not carry too much baggage. Therefore, if Envoy Tao wants to attack the city, he must first build siege weapons and fill the moat. Without four or five days, the Xuzhou army should not launch an siege."

Liu Pan suddenly realized and nodded in recognition of Zhuge Liang's judgment. Pang Tong next to him thought about it: "Kong Ming, Yuan Zhi, during this period, if we can induce the pottery thieves to attack Yecheng with simple siege weapons, then the battle situation will be very beneficial to us. Do you have a clever plan to anger the pottery thief and let him act like this?"

"It's impossible, don't even think about it." Xu Shu replied: "When Shu was in the ranks of Cao thieves, he had many fights with Tao thieves. He knew that this thief was the most shameless and vicious person in the world. No aggressive trick could impress him. The thief also had a deep feeling about this. He often admitted that the thief's face was ten times thicker than that of him."

"Yuan was right in his words. It would be better for Shi Yuan not to provoke the aggressive generals. Envoy Tao, Jia Wen and other wise men would never fall into the trap." Zhuge Liang also spoke with Xu Shu, and then said: "The most important thing for our army is the issue of food and grass. If General Zhang Fei cannot transport food and grass to Yecheng, no matter how many tricks there are, we cannot perform them. So now we don't have to worry about how to defeat the enemy, but wait until the food and grass to Yecheng first."

Pang Tong, who was determined to prove himself with Deputy Director Tao, was helpless and sighed: "Yes, it's useless to say anything without food and grass. I can only wait until the food and grass is transported to Yecheng before talking. Fortunately, our important civil and military personnel have not yet suffered any losses, and the pottery thieves cannot grasp our food and grass situation."

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The next morning, Xu Huang sent the Xuzhou scout who was tracking the enemy, also returned to the camp, bringing new and accurate information to Deputy Director Tao - there was indeed a Jizhou infantry moving south quickly and advancing towards Bowang, with a number of about 3,000, but he did not see Zhang Fei's banner.

"Don't have Zhang Fei's banner?" Deputy Director Tao widened his eyes again and asked the scout who reported the news: "Can you confirm that there is no Zhang Fei's banner?"

"This..." The scout captain hesitated for a moment, and then replied: "Lord, forgive me. The villain and others can only confirm that they did not see Zhang Fei's banner. They cannot guarantee whether there is any in that team, because there are only eleven people in our team, but there are three thousand enemies. They hold important weapons such as the Thousand Mile Mile Mile in their hands, so we must not fall into the hands of the enemy, so we did not dare to get too close to the enemy team. We just reconnaissance on the flank high ground, so we cannot confirm more details."

"This has nothing to do with you, and it is not your fault that you cannot confirm it." Deputy Director Tao comforted him and asked again: "Do you see there are vehicles? They are not vehicles carrying cargo, but vehicles carrying people."

"No. This can be confirmed." The scout captain hurriedly replied: "The villain and others were looking down and clearly saw that there was no carriage in the team."

"It's good if not." Deputy Director Tao nodded with satisfaction and ordered: "Go down and rest. This time you took the risk of going deep into the enemy territory to reconnaise the enemy's situation, and you have made great contributions. Let the official of the warehouse give you a reward."

Several scouts agreed happily, thanked him and left quickly. Then Deputy Director Tao turned to Jia Lao Poison and Shiyi and said with a smile: "It is certain that the emperor and his father-in-law are still in Yecheng. The emperor and his wife may be able to ride south, but the father-in-law must have to ride a car. Since there are no vehicles in the enemy team, it can prove that the father-in-law has not left yet, and the emperor and his wife should not have left either."

"The emperor and the queen should not go south, and the old Jihou must not go south. Only a team of Jizhou went south." Jia Lao Poison said: "Why is the team of Jizhou going south to Bowang? According to common sense, the two armies of Jing and Jizhou met, and the Jizhou team that was dependent on others should have the life of hard work. It is also hard work to go north to escort grain. Could it be that this team of Jizhou really went to Bowang to transport grain?"

"Don't worry about this, just send someone to keep an eye on it." Deputy Director Tao said: "Now we have to make three preparations now, we can respond to changes in the same way. One is to prepare siege weapons, the other is to prevent the enemy from going south to evacuate the battlefield in batches, and the third is to keep an eye on the Jizhou team. Once they find that they transport grain to the north, they will intercept them immediately!"

Jia Lao Poison and Shi Yi nodded together and agreed with Deputy Director Tao's proposal. Then Jia Lao Poison suggested: "Lord, we should ask the scouts who went south to draw the terrain of the road and confirm that the location is an open area to fight with confidence. Our army is not familiar with the terrain and roads, and intercept the enemy's escort team in the open area. Although it will lose the benefits of ambush, it can avoid being ambushed by the enemy."

"Very good, just to my wish. Mr. Ziyu is a master of painting. I'll ask you." Deputy Director Tao smiled and ordered, and then thought to himself: "Why didn't you see Zhang Fei's banner? If the enemy really used arrow books to make plans, in order to win the trust of our army, we should deliberately let us see it by placing Zhang Fei's banner?"

With this question, he temporarily confronted the Jijing coalition forces for more than two days. When the Xuzhou army, which had set up a camp, was about to start filling the river and opening the road, he sent a lurking horse to the south to return to the Xuzhou camp, saying that the Jizhou team that had gone south had already moved north again, and brought thousands of heavy grain trucks and a large number of civilians! After learning this news, Deputy Director Tao was overjoyed and asked carefully about the distance of the road, and then immediately ordered the promotion of the tent and the troops were ready to send troops to rob the grain.

Considering that the traitor reported the news was too mysterious and there might not be no fraud. Deputy Director Tao and Lao Jia's poisonous substances were discussed carefully, so he sent Xu Huang and Tuo Mian to lead 5,000 cavalry to rob the grain, and ordered Xu Chu to lead 5,000 infantry to follow up to take the support. Then Deputy Director Tao ordered Wei Yan and Zhou Hui to take turns to prepare for battle in front of the front camp and ready to attack at any time. Deputy Director Tao stayed with the other generals to prevent the enemy from attacking the robbery. At the same time, he was forced to send additional scouts to closely monitor the movements of the defenders in Ye County. There was no way, when he faced Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong, Deputy Director Tao had to be careful no matter how he was.

Okay, let's take a look at the specific process of Xu Huang leading the Xuzhou cavalry to rob grain. In order to fight on the open section 35 miles southwest of Ye County, Xu Huang and Tuo Myanmar led their troops to circumvent the small road and bypass Yecheng. As soon as they boarded the flat official road, they immediately led the cavalry team to rush to the reserved battlefield. They arrived at the reserved battlefield smoothly around the afternoon. During the rest, they caught two Jizhou scouts who were exploring the way forward. After interrogating, they learned that the enemy's grain team was less than ten miles away, they confirmed that it was Zhang Fei who led the army to rob grain. Xu Huang and Tuo Myanmar were both happy and worried, and quickly got together to discuss how to rob grain.

"Zhang Fei is a famous general, and you and I may not be sure of winning the battle against him." Xu Huang said to Tuo Myan: "Since that's the case, it's better to act like this. You and I will lead half of the cavalry to the south. I will follow you first. After encountering the enemy, Zhang Fei's husband will come to the enemy. You take the opportunity to go to the flanks of the thieves' foes and burn the enemy's food and supplies. Zhang Fei will be frustrated when he sees the food and grass being burned. If he is panicked, he will be defeated. Things can be saved."

When Tuo Meng heard the applause, Xu Huang and Tuo Meng immediately followed the plan, dividing the five thousand cavalry into two, Xu Huang led the front army to go first, and Tuo Meng led the rear army to follow four or five miles away. When Xu Huang led the army to go south for seven or eight miles, he saw a huge convoy heading north. Xu Huang did not hesitate and immediately ordered the entire army to shout and charge, directly attacking the front of the grain team.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Quick array! Array!"

Hearing the shouts of Xuzhou army and the sound of horse hooves, and seeing Xuzhou cavalry coming all over the mountains, the Jizhou army escorting grain was of course in chaos. The soldiers and generals hurried forward to prepare to line up. Zhang Fei quickly took out the sack that Zhuge Liang gave to him when he left the city and opened it. He took out the letter paper and looked carefully. After a glance, Zhang Fei was stunned. His already big copper bell eyes suddenly stared rounder and larger than an egg...

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Okay, let’s take a look at the situation of the Tuo Myanmar team. When he heard Xu Huang’s team shouting in front of him, Tuo Myanmar immediately acted according to the plan and ordered the team to charge to the left wing. With the cover of several small mountains, they quickly surrounded the wings of the enemy’s food team. However, when Tuo Myanmar team arrived at the battlefield, their eyes widened.

There were not many corpses on the battlefield, and there were almost no resistance. The Jizhou team escorting grain northward was rushing to escape from the south. At least thousands of heavy grain trucks were left in place with precious grain, allowing the cheering Xuzhou cavalry to suck their horses to eat. After a long time of shock, Tuo Mian finally remembered to rush to Xu Huang, and asked Xu Huang, who was also stunned, "General Gongming, what's going on? How can we win so quickly?"

"Zhang Fei took off his horse and fought with me for only four rounds, but he was defeated and fled with the army. "Xu Huang replied in dismay: "I was afraid of ambushing, so I didn't dare to pursue him."
Chapter completed!