Chapter 437

Yang Hong listened, stroked his beard, pondered for a moment, and said: "My lord! We can leak the route and news of the food transport to the bandits along the way;"

"Or, we can simply secretly dispatch some troops from Runan or Nanyang in advance, disguise them as bandits, and carry out the looting halfway;"

"Loot the food that should have been given to Su Xuan, wouldn't that work?"

"Of course, the details here still need attention;"

"Otherwise, the time for transporting the food should be delayed as much as possible until Su Xuan's food is about to run out;"

"At that time, even if Su Xuan knows the news that the food was looted, it will be too late to ask us to send it again!"

"Moreover, he won't be able to make an issue of it and blame us. What does my lord think?"

Yang Hong felt that he was truly divinely assisted today; his brain was exceptionally sharp!

In the past, he couldn't have thought of such a good idea himself.

"It seems I've become smarter!"

Yang Hong thought with some self-satisfaction.

"Clap!"

Hearing this, Yuan Shu excitedly clapped his hands: "Good idea! Yang Hong, you're capable! Just do as you say!"

"I will leave this matter to you to handle! Including the matter of dispatching troops, I will give you a written order later;"

"Work hard, and after it's done, there will be no shortage of rewards for you;"

"As for getting the warlords to delay time, leave that to me!"

In Yuan Shu's view, this was the simplest thing.

Since the warlords don't want to lose too many troops at Hulao Pass, then drag them along to slack off until the situation changes.

Hmm! We can directly say let's wait until Su Xuan achieves results first.

After all, attacking Yique Pass is much simpler than attacking Hulao Pass, isn't it?

Yuan Shu's only worry now is that Su Xuan will break through Yique Pass within three months, and then all his plotting will have been in vain.

Thinking of this, Yuan Shu couldn't think of a good way, so he immediately told Yang Hong his concerns.

"Do you have any good ideas?"

Yang Hong frowned slightly and said: "This is really hard to control!"

"The combat power of Su Xuan's troops is already very strong, plus there are fierce generals like Zhao Yun, Yique Pass really might not be able to hold for three months."

Hmm! Let alone three months, if Su Xuan gets serious, Yang Hong feels half a month would be tough.

"So, we can only find a way to secretly leak Su Xuan's intention to break Yique Pass, as well as information about his troops, to Dong Zhuo;"

"Attract Dong Zhuo's attention, and then let Dong Zhuo send reinforcements to Yique Pass;"

"In this way, it should be able to delay for a longer time."

"I think, as long as he knows this news, Dong Zhuo shouldn't remain indifferent;"

"Because he knows the combat power of Su Xuan's troops very well, and at the same time, he knows that once Yique Pass is lost, Hulao Pass will become a mere decoration and fall without being attacked!"

"As long as Dong Zhuo is not stupid, he will know how to choose."

Driving the tiger to swallow the wolf, nothing more than this.

"Wonderful! Wonderful!"

Yuan Shu's eyes lit up, and he praised while clapping: "With this plan, why worry about not being able to make Su Xuan lose troops and generals? Then let's do it this way!"

"Haha! Su Xuan, your good days are coming to an end!"

"Haha! My lord is wise!"

Seeing this, Yang Hong also hurriedly flattered him.

He seemed to have already seen the scene where this plan succeeded, Su Xuan suffered heavy losses, and then after the campaign against Dong Zhuo ended, he was defeated and annexed by his own lord.

Presumably, he would definitely gain great benefits at that time, and even leap to become the number one strategist under his lord, humph!

Neither of them noticed that on the tent, a bird had heard their entire conversation and seen everything.

After they finished discussing and Yang Hong left, the bird flew away.

More than an hour later,

Outside Yique Pass, in Su Xuan's camp,

"My lord! This is urgent intelligence from Hulao Pass regarding Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Xu You, and Yang Hong discussing how to plot against you. Please take a look."

Jia San handed over a piece of intelligence, looking serious.

"Oh?"

Su Xuan was slightly surprised and took the intelligence: "Interesting! Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu actually thought of dealing with me together? I must take a good look!"

Saying this, Su Xuan opened the intelligence and read it quickly.

Guo Jia on the side was also somewhat surprised.

After reading it, Su Xuan raised his eyebrows, handed the intelligence to Guo Jia with a mocking smile, and chuckled: "Fengxiao, you take a look too! It's quite interesting!"

"Oh?"

Guo Jia was somewhat surprised by Su Xuan's attitude. If the lord says it's interesting, then it must indeed be interesting.

He immediately took it and read it quickly.

Then he looked at Su Xuan with a strange expression and chuckled: "Hehe! My lord! The ideas of Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu are quite good!"

"That Xu You also looks quite far ahead! It's a pity! His brain isn't enough! Such a small scheme has no chance of success under the lord's eyes!"

"Actually wanting to delay the war for three months?"

"By the time three months pass, Dong Zhuo's relocation of the capital will have long been completely finished. By then, the opportunity will have passed, so how can we still gain benefits?"

"Even the coalition forces will have gained nothing by then, and I fear they won't be able to answer to the world;"

"They will lose all face!"

By then, the warlords will not only have no merit, but they will also be unable to gain prestige, and they will even lose their own prestige.

It's simply not worth the loss.

"Obviously, Yuan Shao didn't expect Yuan Shu to have given me three months' worth of food in advance! Hehe!"

Su Xuan chuckled and joked.

Fortunately, he had made preparations from the beginning and deliberately asked for more food.

Otherwise, although he wouldn't have fallen for the scheme, he would have had to transport a batch of food from Xinye in advance.

One can only say that Yuan Shao and the others had good ideas, but it's a pity they encountered a pig teammate.

Of course, no matter what, with Su Xuan having the Anwei (Secret Guards) investigating intelligence from all sides in real-time, there was never any possibility of them truly plotting against him from beginning to end.

Yuan Shao and the others never truly understood him, Su Xuan.

"Hehe! The lord still has foresight!"

Guo Jia also laughed: "This Yuan Shu, having pitted Sun Jian once with this method, actually wants to repeat the same trick. I guess his brain isn't working well! He can't think of any other way!"

"However, Yuan Shu plans to leak our army's intelligence to Dong Zhuo, letting Dong Zhuo strengthen the defense of Yique Pass. This point might succeed, so we still need to make tactical adjustments regarding this. What does my lord think?"

They don't plan to take Yique Pass directly for the time being, so they can't stop Dong Zhuo from sending reinforcements.

"It's fine!"

Su Xuan waved his hand indifferently: "Yique Pass is only so big. At most, it will only add 10,000 or 20,000 reinforcements!"

"For the tactics we have formulated, the difference is not big;"

"In fact, having more people is often not necessarily a good thing!"

"We might be able to make an issue of it, and when we attack Yique Pass, it might not be impossible to take it more easily!"

Factional infighting exists under every warlord.

Even under Su Xuan, such things are unavoidable.

But Su Xuan used his own methods and means to change this infighting into healthy mutual competition and involution.

Turning disadvantages into advantages, making his subordinates develop faster while becoming more vibrant.

But other warlords do not have his means.

Even someone as wise as Cao Cao could not achieve this.

In fact, Cao Boss's internal power struggles in the future will be more intense than those of many other warlords.

It's just that his methods are more brilliant than other warlords, so he barely balanced most of the infighting problems.

Not letting his own power regress instead of advancing.

And the typical representative of failing to control infighting is Yuan Shao.

This guy has plenty of talent under his command, with scholar-official forces from all over the place.

The factions are complex and intertwined.