Three Kingdoms: At the beginning, Sun Jian was advised to fake his death and plot to seize Jingzhou.

Nanyang County, Bowang County on the official road to Wancheng.

Under the autumn wind, waves of wheat are rising in the wheat fields, among which a large number of soldiers are constantly harvesting wheat with sickles.

Around the wheat fields, a large number of people were weeping, crying as they watched the grain in their wheat fields being cut away.

But no matter how they cried, a group of soldiers stood in the way of them like an iron wall.

And at the sunset thirty miles west of this wheat field, Cao Cao's army was stationed here.

"Report, lord, our army has finished harvesting the rice fields outside Zhixian County!"

"Lord, our army is rushing to cut the rice fields outside the sun. "

"Lord, General Xiahou Yuan has already led the army outside Xi'e County and is grabbing grain!"

"Lord, good news, our army has collected a total of 620,000 stones!"

Cao Cao sat in the military tent and listened to the soldiers' constant orders.

With the good news coming one by one, Cao Cao closed his eyes happily, as if listening to some beautiful music, until the soldier finished reporting the order, he looked at Xun Yu excitedly:

"620,000 stones, 620,000 stones!"

"Two, now we have only collected grain from one and a half counties, and it has reached more than 600,000 stones. "

"The rich land of Nanyang, I don't deceive me!"

Looking at the joyful Cao Cao, Xun You and Xi Xian were naturally overjoyed.

600,000 stone of grain, if it depends on taxes, at least one county's income.

It can be collected directly, but only one county is needed.

It is conceivable how much grain there will be in the whole Nanyang!

And after collecting so much food, the problem of food shortage will no longer exist.

You must know that since entering Yanzhou, Cao Cao has actually been trapped by food.

Because although Yanzhou has a population of more than three million, it is also a rich land in the world, but after Lao Cao defeated the Yellow Turban Army, he settled another million people.

With the land of one state, it can be seen that it is difficult to settle millions of people.

This is also the reason why Cao Cao is short of food at every turn.

Without him, just because the millions of people under his command have not yet been digested.

Therefore, Cao Cao did not lack soldiers and horses, only food.

Now as long as the grain in Nanyang is transported back, Cao Cao will take off immediately, with millions of stone grain as support, and Xuzhou will not fall into the predicament of no food in the future.

But at the same time, Xi Xian sighed slightly:

"Although it is good to collect food, but after this time, our army's reputation in Nanyang will be stinky!"

"If you want to take Nanyang in the future, it will be difficult!"

Listening to Xi Xian's words, Cao Cao's smile froze, and Xun You shook his head and said:

"Although the drama is reasonable, our army is also helpless!"

"If our army is not like this, after such a battle as Lu Bu, the vitality of Yanzhou will be scattered, and it will no longer be able to compete with Sun Jian. "

"If you don't attack now, you will have to be passive in the future. "

"As for the grievances of the people, after our army captures Nanyang, as long as the grain is given up and the people can be supported until next year, then these people will not only not resent our army, but will thank our army. "

"As long as you don't collect the food of the Nanyang Shi clan, it won't cause too much turmoil. "

As a representative of the scholar class, in Xun You's view, the situation in the world is unstable, mainly above the scholar clan.

As long as they don't move the food of the warriors, it doesn't matter if the people hate it.

After all, without the leadership of the scholars, the people would be a mass of scattered sand.

At this point, he naturally won Cao Cao's approval, and after listening to his words, Lao Cao nodded and said:

"As Gongda said, the land of the Shi clan must not be moved~!"

"The key now is whether or not we can capture Wancheng!"

"I guess before our army marched, Wancheng had already received the news!"

"Could it be that our army is like this now, and Zhong Xuan still hasn't moved?"

Listening to this, Xi Xian shook his head and sighed:

"There was no movement in the direction of Wancheng, Zhong Xuan did not divide his troops, and he did not go out of the city!"

"Seeing that our army has come here, Zhong Miao still hasn't moved. "

"This is also a matter of worry, why is it that Zhong Xuan still does not move until now!"

"Does he really want to sit back and watch our army collect the grain of the entire Nanyang County?"

Hearing this, Cao Cao looked at Xun Yu and said:

"Gongda, why is that?"

"How could Zhong Xuan not move?"

According to Xun You's previous judgment, without Sun Jian's army reinforcements, Zhong Xuan would not sit idly by!

But now that they are all about to kill Wancheng, Zhong Xuan still has no reaction, which obviously does not meet their expectations.

When Xun You heard this, he frowned and looked at Xi Xiandao:

"Drama Gong, has Zhong Xuan not reacted so far?"

"I've given a lot of instructions, but the rest haven't moved!"

Xi Xian shook his head and denied:

"And our army spies didn't find any soldiers and horses coming to reinforce them, and Huo Jun's more than 10,000 soldiers and horses didn't move!"

"It shouldn't be like this!"

Hearing this, Xun You immediately shook his head and said:

"Zhong Yuanchang is not a mediocre person!"

"Even if there are no reinforcements, we will not let our army do this!"

"If he doesn't move, he will have a backhand!"

When Cao Cao heard this, he frowned and said:

"Could it be that Sun Jian has returned to the army?"

"If Sun Jian returns to the army, then Zhong Jian will naturally not move!"

"It shouldn't be like that!"

Xun You listened, shook his head and said:

"If Sun Jian returns to the army, our army Xiangyang Xizuo will not fail to receive the news. "

"There is no news from Xiangyang, at least for five days, the enemy army will not have a large reinforcement coming!"

As he spoke, he walked with his hands behind his back and pondered:

"But if Sun Jian doesn't return to the army, and Zhong Yuanchang still doesn't move, then there is only one possibility, that is, Zhong Yuanchang is sure that our army is like this, and it will not damage the foundation of Nanyang!"

"What's the point?"

Cao Cao was puzzled for a while:

"Our army is harvesting grain, how can it not damage the enemy's foundation?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a shout from outside the camp: (Read the violent novel, go to the Feilu Novel Network!)

"Report to the lord, our army spies reported that the enemy army is rushing to collect food outside the city, and the enemy soldiers and horses are guarding the side, and our army does not dare to step forward. "

"Report, lord, our army's General Li Dian came to report, our army went to Jianyang to collect rice and wheat, and found that a large number of people were grabbing grain!"

"Now most of the grain outside Thornyang City has been collected!"

Hearing this, Cao Cao's body was shocked, and he looked at the little soldiers who reported the order in horror and said:

"The enemy is stealing food?"

After speaking, he looked at Xun Yu and said:

"It's no wonder that Zhong Miao didn't move, it turned out that he was grabbing food with our army!"

When Xun You heard this, he frowned and said:

"How can this be, how can the enemy react so quickly!"

You must know that they grabbed the grain almost at the same time this time, and before grabbing the grain, the soldiers and horses marched all the way in the direction of Wancheng.

It was not until the wheat was fully ripe two days before that the harvest began.

And even if Zhong Xuan reacts quickly, after receiving the news, it will take at least three or five days to arrange for the counties to rush to harvest grain.

According to his calculations, during this time, they can at least grab half of the grain in Nanyang County!

After snatching this grain, calmly march into the army to snatch the other half!

But now as soon as this news came, it almost meant that at the same time as they were harvesting, even before, Zhong Miao was ready to grab the grain!

Thinking like this, Xun You was shocked in his heart and said:

"Could it be that Zhong Xuan saw through our army's plan in advance?"

To achieve the current effect, only Zhong Xuan can prepare in advance!

Hearing this, Cao Cao frowned and said:

"Although our army has made moves before, how can the enemy know that our army's purpose is to grab grain before it moves?"

And Xi Xian saw that the two were puzzled, so he had to say in a deep voice:

"My lord, now is not the time to think about how the enemy army can see through our army's strategy!"

"Since the enemy army has collected the grain early, what should our army do now?"

"Even if you immediately send soldiers and horses to the counties to collect grain now, most of them will be too late!"

"Do you want to retire with the food you collect now, or do you want to continue the march?"

Seeing Xi Xian mention this, Xun You thought for a while and admonished:

"'My lord, now our army has collected enough food and grass, but the enemy army has collected half of it at most. "

"Our army might as well send troops to attack, surround Wancheng, send soldiers and horses to attack the counties, and retrieve the grain and grass that has been collected!"

"Even if Nanyang can't take it, I have to return to Yanzhou with this grain and grass!"

Cao Cao heard this and sighed:

"So far, that's all it takes!"

Their biggest goal is, of course, to seize Nanyang.

But now that Nanyang can't take it, they can only retreat and seize Nanyang's grain and grass!

At that moment, Cao Cao ordered the march and marched in the direction of Wancheng.

As soon as Zhong Xuan heard the news, he ordered the soldiers to bring food into the city and no longer collect it, without giving Cao Cao any chance to attack the city.

At this time, none of them noticed that after a long journey, a cavalry had reached the south of Wancheng, on the west side of the river.

"Report, military division, our army has found out, and the enemy army is really collecting food!"

After Wei Yan investigated, he came to Xiao Zhe's side and said indignantly:

"These days the killing Cao Jun knows how to harm the people!"

"They only harvest the grain and grass of the people, and when they see the family's farm, they avoid it. "

"There are also those Qingzhou soldiers, in addition to collecting grain, they also have to loot everywhere, they really don't want to be the son of man!"

He was originally from Nanyang, and because of his humble background, he didn't have a good impression of the scholars at all.

Seeing Cao Jun harming the township like this, he became more and more indignant.

When Brother Xu Ding and Xu Chu heard this, their faces were also gloomy, and they gritted their teeth and said:

"Cao Jun is so cruel (good Zhao), just collect grain, and lead troops to loot!"

After staying in Sun Jianjun for a long time, the two brothers were quite disgusted by this kind of robbery of the people.

Listening to the words of the generals, Xiao Zhe shook his head and said:

"Cao Cao's military discipline is like this, don't worry too much!"

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the military discipline of the Qingzhou soldiers under Cao Cao was notoriously bad.

Originally, it was a group of thieves and soldiers, and in order to ensure combat effectiveness, they were all extremely vicious.

There are even incidents in history of taking advantage of the chaos to rob fraternal troops.

Compared to this, it is relatively light to bring disaster to the people!

After slightly calming the generals, he looked at Wei Yan and said:

"Can you find out where the enemy army has stored food?"

When Wei Yan heard this, he hurriedly arched his hand and said:

"It has been found out that Cao Cao came this time and transported all the stored grain to the sunset west of Bowang. "

"There are more than 10,000 soldiers and horses guarding this place!"

"As for Cao Cao's main force, it is coming in the direction of Wanxian at noon today!"

"Xu is to surround Wanxian County and seize the grain storage of other cities in turn!"

"It's a good spear when you find the place where the grain is stored!"

Xiao Zhe smiled, looked at everyone and smiled:

"Send someone to order Zhong Xuan to move his troops tonight, let's do a good job tonight, and teach Cao Jun to know that our army's food is not easy to want!"

Hearing that Xiao Zhe was preparing to move the army tonight, the generals' eyes lit up, and they hurriedly arched their hands and said:

"I'll take my orders!"

Then he retreated, and hurriedly sent Xiao Zhe's arrangements to Wan County.