After some discussion, Jiang Qi finally proposed the best solution: "Brother Deng, the food and grass in the army will be transported from the rear every five days. If the Marquis of Zhangshuiting sent troops to rob grain, Yuan Shao would definitely send someone to rescue him. At that time, brother, I will take the initiative to take the troops from the camp."

Deng Sheng felt that the plan proposed by Jiang Qi was good, so he nodded quickly and replied: "This plan is very wonderful. When I go back to the city immediately, I will report it to the lord."

"Brother Deng, please stay." Seeing Deng Sheng getting up and leaving, Jiang Qi called him again: "The two brothers Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang in the camp were also subordinates of Han Fujun. I saw that they were dissatisfied with the Yuan family, so why not ask them to come here to see each other and make an appointment to surrender to the Marquis of Zhangshuiting together, how about it?"

Deng Sheng was surprised and happy after hearing this, and hurriedly asked, "Is your words true?"

Seeing that Deng Sheng did not trust him, Jiang Qi looked stern and said, "Brother Deng has taken this risk, how dare I bully each other?"

Deng Sheng couldn't help but be overjoyed and hurriedly urged Jiang Qi: "Then please invite the two of you here to discuss the big things together?"

Jiang Qi shouted outside the tent: "Come here!"

Following his shouts, someone walked into the tent. Deng Sheng looked up and saw that it was the person he had just seen outside the tent. Jiang Qi was telling the other party: "Jiang Er, go to Lu's camp and invite them here, saying that I have something to discuss with you!"

Jiang Er agreed and turned around and walked out of the tent.

After Jiang Er left, Deng Sheng asked with some concern: "Brother, are these two reliable?"

"Brother Deng, please rest assured," Jiang Qi said carelessly: "I have a strong relationship with the two of them, so I can convince them to surrender to the Marquis of Ting. Then, please ask Brother Deng to say a few good words in front of the Marquis of Ting and arrange some good positions for the brothers."

"This is nature, this is nature." Deng Sheng was only ordered to persuade Jiang Qi to surrender, but he didn't expect that he could still beat the rabbit and persuade the brothers Lu Xiang and Lu Kuang to surrender. This was a great achievement, so he took it all and said: "Please rest assured, brother, this matter will be covered by me."

Not long after, Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang brothers, led by Jiang Er, walked into Jiang Qi's tent. When they saw Deng Sheng sitting in the tent, they were shocked. The two looked at each other and saw a surprised expression in each other's eyes. Lu Kuang frowned and asked, "Isn't Deng Sima in Guantao City? Why did he appear here late at night?"

Deng Sheng stood up and bowed to the two of them, and smiled and said, "The two lieutenants who are participating in the school are indeed from Guantao City."

"What are you doing here?" Lu Kuang stared at him and asked vigilantly.

"Yuan's narrow-mindedness is difficult to tolerate. I believe that the two captains were repeatedly excluded in the army, right?" Deng Sheng said in a humble and arrogant manner: "Deng is here to persuade everyone to abandon the darkness and turn to the light."

"Give up the dark and turn to the light?" Hearing Deng Sheng say this, Lu Xiang sneered and said disdainfully: "Are we going to join the Han children?"

Deng Sheng replied truthfully: "Yes, Deng just wants to persuade you to go to my Tinghou."

"Now tens of thousands of troops are stationed outside Guantao City, and sooner or later we can break into the city." Lu Xiang continued: "Let us betray Yuan Cheqi and run to the Han family to the head of the Han family. Isn't that going to seek death?"

Faced with Lu Xiang's attitude, Deng Sheng just smiled faintly and continued, "The two lieutenants should know that when there were only 5,000 troops in the city, even Yuan Cheqi's 100,000 troops could not break through the city. Now there are more than 10,000 defenders in the city, and Yuan Cheqi's 20% of troops have lost. Do you really think that he will definitely be able to break Guantao?"

"This, this..." Deng Sheng's words made the Lu Kuang brothers hesitate. After a while, Lu Xiang asked tentatively: "Can the Marquis of Zhangshuiting really defeat Yuan Cheqi?"

Deng Sheng sneered and said, "When Yuan Cheqi appointed my Marquis Ting as the magistrate of the Sheguo County, he could not send him to the barren and poor land, and let the Yellow Turbans and the bandits get rid of him. Who would have thought that my Marquis Ting not only wiped out the Yellow Turbans and the bandits in Sheguo County, but not only stood firm, but also could raise an army to attack the Yuan family and drive him away from Jizhou. Tell me, can he defeat Yuan Cheqi?"

After hearing this, the brothers Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang muttered in a low voice, discussing whether they should follow Deng Sheng's persuasion and surrender to Han Zhan. At this moment, Jiang Qi said, "Brothers Lu, you have surrendered to the Marquis of Ting. I wonder if you are willing to surrender together?"

Deng Sheng also struck while the iron was hot and said, "That's right, Brother Jiang has decided to join my Marquis Ting. If the two of them are willing to surrender, Deng should recommend you."

Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang discussed for a while again, and Lu Kuang said, "We brothers are originally subordinates of Han Fujun, so it is reasonable to surrender to the Marquis of Zhangshuiting. However, how can we pull the troops away from the camp?"

"Two, I've figured out a solution." Seeing that the two of them were still concerned, Jiang Qi told the other party about the results of his just negotiation with Deng Sheng.

After hearing this, Lu Kuang thought for a while and said, "Person Jiang, if the grain transport convoy is attacked, Yuan Cheqi will definitely send troops to rescue him. If you go and we ask to go together, will it arouse suspicion?"

"Yes, my elder brother is right." As soon as Lu Kuang finished his words, Lu Xiang added: "If Yuan Cheqi sees the flaws, your neck will not be able to be protected."

Deng Sheng knew that Huang Zhong led 3,000 cavalry to harass Yuan Shao's grain road, so he hurriedly comforted Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang: "Don't worry, two lieutenants, my marquis sent a cavalry to harass the grain road. If he attacked the convoy transporting food and grass tomorrow, the grain escort officer would definitely ask Yuan for help. You can take the initiative to fight at that time."

"But if the cavalry does not disturb the food road tomorrow, then our plan will be failed?" Lu Xiang asked worriedly: "I wonder what good plans can Sima Deng?"

Although Han Zhan sent Deng Sheng here to persuade Jiang Qi to surrender, he had no right to mobilize Huang Zhong's cavalry. Therefore, after thinking for a while, he said to everyone: "I will go back to the city immediately to ask the Marquis of Ting of our army and ask him to send someone to inform the cavalry, and attack Yuan Jun'er's food route tomorrow and create conditions for you to pull the troops away."

Hearing Deng Sheng say this, Jiang Qi quickly stated: "Brother Deng, in order to avoid the trouble of running back and forth, I will ask Jiang Er to go back to Guantao with you. If there is any news, let him rush back to report to him immediately, and I will act as a camera."

Half an hour later, Han Zhan met Deng Sheng who was returning in the prefect's mansion. He heard that he not only persuaded Jiang Qi, but also persuaded Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang successfully. When he watched "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he knew that Jiang Qi, Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang were Yuan Shao's generals, but he didn't expect that they all followed Han Fu at the beginning.

After listening to Deng Sheng’s story, Han Zhan turned his head and asked Guo Jia: “Fengxiao, what should we do?”

"Lord, we will send someone to send letters to Huang Xiaowei overnight, and order him to attack Yuan's grain transport convoy tomorrow and force him to send troops to rescue him. After Jiang Qi and others took the troops out, they would then take them back to Guantao." Guo Jia quickly expressed his thoughts: "At the same time, let Jiang Qi's subordinates return to Yuan Camp overnight, tell them our arrangements so that they can know what they want."

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"Brothers, fight with me and kill me~!"

Huang Zhong held the sword in his hand and rushed forward, rode his horse toward the grain convoy on the official road in the distance. Behind him were three thousand elite cavalry. The cavalry troops swept towards Yuan's food and grass team like a whirlwind.

The person who escorted the food and grass was Han Meng, a general under Yuan Shao. Since he was defeated by Han Zhan last time, Yuan Shao has not liked him and no longer sent him to charge in the battle. Instead, he is responsible for escorting food and grass, which is tiring and not very good. At this moment, he saw a cavalry rushing towards his grain convoy, and he couldn't help but complain secretly.

While Han Meng ordered the convoy to stop, the soldiers hid behind the food truck with weapons to avoid the cavalry rushing in; at the same time, he also sent two cavalrymen to Yuanying for help. Huang Zhong had already received Han Zhan's order, so he deliberately let Han Meng's two messengers leave, and then attacked Yuan's in the convoy.

Yuan Shao was studying the attack on Guantao with a group of civil and military officials in the camp. Feng Ji took the initiative to ask him: "Lord, I think we should build more catapults. Yesterday, the children of the Han family were beaten to pieces by our catapults, and finally had to lead their troops out of the city and destroy our catapults. If we deploy heavy troops in front of the catapults, the soldiers and generals who defended the city would be scared by our catapults."

"What Yuantu said is very much." As soon as Feng Ji finished speaking, Xin Ping continued: "Even if our catapult did not cause much casualties to the defenders, the feeling of being beaten by passively will arouse fear among the soldiers. If the Han family did not lead troops out of the city in time yesterday and burned our catapult cart, then if we cast another time, the defenders would collapse."

"Lord, I think we should build more catapults." Shen Pei also said, "In addition, we have to send people nearby to collect stones to attack the city..."

Before Shen Pei finished speaking, a shout suddenly came from outside the tent: "Report~!" Then, a dusty soldier entered the tent. He knelt down on one knee in front of Yuan Shao and reported: "Report to lord, I am the subordinate of General Han Meng. Our grain transport convoy walked less than twenty miles away from here and was attacked by the Han family cavalry. General Han was worried that he could not resist, so he ordered me to come back and ask for help from the lord!"

Feng Ji walked to the soldier, stared at him for a while, and asked, "Han Meng sent you alone?"

"We are two." The soldier quickly replied: "There is another companion who was unfortunately killed by the cavalry of the Han family army on his way to escape here."

"Lord, our military camp only has two days of food. The food and grass escorted by General Han Meng must not be lost." Feng Ji suggested to Yuan Shao: "We need to dispatch troops immediately to support General Han Meng."

After hearing this, Yuan Shao nodded, glanced at the civil and military officials on both sides of the left and right, and asked, "I wonder who would lead the troops?"

In order not to arouse Yuan Shao's suspicion, Jiang Qi stood in the queue without moving, which made Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang, who were standing beside him, feel very surprised. He thought he had changed his mind temporarily and did not plan to defect to Han Zhan. When Yuan Shao asked who was willing to lead his troops for the second time, Jiang Qi stood out from the queue and bowed to Yuan Shao: "Lord, I am willing to lead the troops for the last time!"

Yuan Shao stared at Jiang Qi and asked, "Would you like to lead the troops?"

"Yes!" Jiang Qi bent his body lower and replied respectfully: "The general is willing to solve his problems for the lord and lead his troops to rescue General Han Meng!"

Seeing that Jiang Qi was so respectful and without any doubt, Yuan Shao waved his hand at him and ordered: "Since that's the case, then you can take the troops from our headquarters and rescue Han Meng!"

When Jiang Qi heard Yuan Shao say this, he couldn't help but feel ecstatic. He quickly bowed again: "The last general will take the order!"

Just as he was about to leave, Feng Ji called him and then asked the soldiers who came to report the message: "I wonder how many cavalry are there?"

"There are about three thousand riders!"

"Three thousand cavalry?" Feng Ji repeated this number and frowned and said, "Person Jiang, you only have more than 3,000 people left. Use three thousand infantry to attack the same number of cavalry. Wouldn't you use eggs to hit the stone?"

Jiang Qi didn't expect that Feng Jihui would have a problem and couldn't help but be stunned. Fortunately, Lu Kuang came out to rescue the siege in time, and he said to Yuan Shao: "Lord, I am willing to lead troops to join Captain Jiang to rescue General Han Meng."

Yuan Shao thought that Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang had five thousand infantry under him, plus Jiang Qi's 3,000 men, and eight thousand infantrymen against the 3,000 cavalry of the Han family army, even if they could not win, they would not be defeated. He nodded and said, "Okay, then you can send troops with Captain Jiang."

After Jiang Qi, Lu Kuang, Lu Xiang and others led their troops away, Yuan Shao continued to discuss with the civil and military about building siege equipment. However, during the discussion, he saw Feng Ji absentminded and asked curiously: "Yuantu, what's wrong with you? I think you look absent-minded?"

Feng Ji said to Yuan Shao: "Lord, my subordinates think Jiang Qi is a bit abnormal today."

"What's wrong?" Yuan Shao asked casually.

"Yesterday, the lord blamed Jiang Qi heavily in front of the battle," Feng Ji said thoughtfully: "Even if he does not have any resentment towards the lord, he will not volunteer to send troops? I think there must be something strange about it."

"What's wrong?" Yuan Shao said disapprovingly: "Do you think they will lead troops to join the Han children?..." As soon as he said that, Yuan Shao was stunned. After a while, he stared at Feng Jiwen, "Yuantu, besides Jiang Qi, Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang seem to be old subordinates of Jizhou, right?"

"That's right, right." Feng Ji slapped his legs hard and said excitedly: "I finally figured out something wrong. Jiang Qi, Lu Kuang, and Lu Xiang led their troops out of the camp at the same time. It was probably not to rescue Han Meng, but to join the Han family army who robbed food. It was such a trick to hide the truth and almost deceive us."

When Yuan Shao heard this, he suddenly stood up: "Where is Yan Liangwen's ugly thing?"
Chapter completed!