Xia Houyuan originally wanted to rob the grain and grass personally, but Jia Xu had another plan.

Jia Xu said: "Let the two young generals Xia Houheng and Xia Houba practice this matter of grain robbery. The general can falsely spread the news so that everyone in Li Qi's army knows that the grain and grass have been stolen by us. General

Just imagine, Li Qi is now under attack from both sides, and if there is a shortage of food and grass, wouldn't the morale of the army be in chaos? When the time comes, the general will personally lead a division to defeat the enemy, and it will be a matter of course."

Xia Houyuan was overjoyed and ordered Heng and Ba to rob the grain and spread rumors to Xi County.

Xia Houheng's first envoy found out about the itinerary of Yizhou's army and food team. Hearing that Huo Jun was escorting dozens of hundreds of food teams was approaching in the near future, he wanted to lead the army to rob the food team.

Xia Hou said overbearingly: "We can make him go to a slightly open place and then rob the food, so as to avoid an ambush in the jungle."

Xia Houheng said: "From Hanzhong to Xi County, there are many mountains and ridges, and it is difficult to find vast plains. Do we just watch them go like this? Besides, the grain transport team must value speed more, and there will be more delays on the way.

One day is one more day of danger, so how can you set up an ambush and delay your journey while walking?"

After Xiahou Ba tried hard to persuade him, Xiahou Heng reluctantly found a relatively spacious place to set up an ambush.

Before setting up an ambush, it is natural to clear the surrounding area to see if there are any ambushes or spies from Yizhou soldiers.

Seeing that everything was normal, Xia Houheng laughed at Xia Houheng and said, "Second brother, you are worrying too much!"

Xiahou Ba was speechless.

After a while, Yizhou soldiers escorted the grain team here. Xiahou Heng ordered people to beat drums and blow trumpets to scare them. At the same time, he and Xiahou Ba each led an army to fight out.

When the Yizhou soldiers heard the sound of drums and horns shouting, they immediately panicked and surrounded the grain carts with weapons in hand.

Xia Houheng took the lead, holding a big sword, and shouted sternly: "Leave the grain cart behind and capture it without mercy!"

Huo Jun was furious and slapped his horse to fight.

After more than ten battles, Huo Jun feigned defeat and fled, and the rest of the Yizhou soldiers were almost dispersed.

Suddenly, Xiahou Ba opened the grain truck and exclaimed in surprise: "We've fallen into the trap!"

Xia Houheng hurriedly looked at it and saw that under the grain and grass were all oiled firewood.

At this time, rockets were fired from the direction where Huo Jun was escaping. In an instant, the rockets hit like meteors. Some of them happened to fall into the grain truck, which immediately ignited a raging fire. Xia Houheng's soldiers were in chaos.

Although these rockets did not cause much harm to Cao's army, the fact that the grain truck was fake meant that he had fallen into the trap. After the rockets ignited the grain truck, the fire was fierce. No one knew from which direction the Yizhou soldiers would kill next.

came out, so there was chaos before fighting.

In the panic, many people knocked over the grain truck, causing the flames to spread along the weeds on the ground, and the fire became more and more intense.

Fortunately, this is a relatively flat terrain, and it is not difficult for Cao's army to escape. If it were a dense forest or a canyon, the losses would be even greater.

Xiahouheng and Xiahouba saw that the Yizhou soldiers did not take advantage of the situation to pursue them, so they hurriedly directed Cao's army to flee to the rear.

After finally gathering up the disgraced remnants, and just as they were about to return to Ji County to report the situation, a group of men suddenly appeared in front of them, led by General Wei Yanye.

It turned out that when the grain and grass were burned, Wei Yan and Huo Jun did not catch up in time and took a detour to cut off their retreat.

Wei Yan raised his sword and stood up, pointed at the two Xiahous and said: "Where is Xiahouyuan? Let him come and die quickly."

Xia Houheng was furious and swung his sword to attack Wei Yan. The battle failed, but Wei Yan killed him off his horse with a single sword.

Xiahou Ba saw that Wei Yan was so frightened that he did not dare to fight with him, so he led a group of troops to flee.

However, Xia Houyuan did not know that the grain-stealing troops had been ambushed, so he spread rumors to Xi County that the Yizhou soldiers' grain trucks had been robbed.

Originally, this was not a rumor, because he really sent people to rob the grain truck.

But now that the food robbery failed, it has really become a rumor.

After Li Qi heard the news, he was a little surprised at first, but he quickly calmed down and felt that something was not right.

When he led his army to attack Liangzhou, he brought a lot of food. Hanzhong sent food to solve the problem of food supply after the protracted war.

But now I haven't been to Liangzhou for a long time, and I haven't asked Hanzhong for food. Why did I just transport food so stupidly?

At this time, Zhuge Liang's messenger arrived in Xi County.

After Li Qi read the letter, he realized that Zhuge Liang and his side had gone together. The only difference was that there was an additional link of using a "grain truck" to divert Xia Houyuan's attention.

Pang Tong said: "My lord, why don't you take advantage of the situation and pretend to retreat on the grounds that the food and grass have been robbed, and lure Xia Houyuan to pursue you?"

Li Qi followed this and made arrangements with the generals.

When Xia Houyuan heard that Li Qi withdrew from Xi County and headed towards Di Road, he discussed with Jia Xu: "This must be because after the grain and grass were robbed, he planned to use the Qiang Road as grain again. Li Qi moved his troops to Di Road, which can reduce the number of troops."

It’s time to transport food. I will personally take a division to catch up now.”

Jia Xu said: "We can ask Li Shen to intercept Li Qi at Di Road first."

Xiahou Yuan nodded in agreement, and when he was about to order his troops to go out, he suddenly saw Xiahou Ba running back crying.

Xia Houyuan was shocked: "Why is my son like this? Where is your brother?"

Xiahou said domineeringly: "We fell into the trap of Yizhou soldiers. Those things are not food and grass at all. My brother was killed by the enemy general when he broke through."

"Ah?!" Xia Houyuan dropped the knife in his hand and cried bitterly: "I swear to kill Li Qi and avenge my son."

Jia Xu quickly stopped him and said: "Since what was burned was not food and grass, there is no need for Li Qi to evacuate Xi County in a hurry. I guess there must be fraud in this matter."

Xia Houyuan said: "I want to avenge my son. Even if there is fraud, what should I be afraid of?"

Jia Xu tried hard to persuade, and Xia Houba also advised him: "What Mr. Wen He said is true. The whole thing is Li Qi's treacherous plan. We have already fallen into the trap once, and we cannot fall into the trap a second time.

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Sun Li and other generals also advised: "The general needs to calm down if he wants to avenge the eldest son."

Xia Houyuan slowly calmed down this time, but the idea of ​​revenge in his heart became stronger.

Li Qi laid an ambush near Xi County and said to Pang Tong: "It seems that Xia Houyuan has seen through our trick to lure the enemy and will not pursue us again."

Pang Tong said: "That's good."

Li Qi: "???"

Pang Tong said: "Since Xia Houyuan will not come to chase, we can leave a team of troops in Linzhao to meet the Qiang Road's grain team, and then the army will take the opportunity to go north and attack Longxi County."

Li Qi asked: "If Xia Houyuan comes over after we go north, will it make us go too far alone?"

Pang Tong said: "So we leave some more troops in Linzhao, firstly to meet the grain team, and secondly to prevent Xiahouyuan from chasing us. However, in Tong's opinion, Xiahouyuan will probably not chase him. If he chases him, he will be too far away from Chang'an."

Far away, Zhuge Kongming would wake up laughing even if he fell asleep."

Li Qi: "..."

Yes, if Zhuge Liang was given the opportunity to conquer Chang'an, it would be a great contribution. If you like traveling through the Three Kingdoms, please collect it from the beginning of "The Fall of the Grass"
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