After listening to Tao Hua's words, the potter more or less understood the metaphor in her words, and also knew what she was worried about.

He turned his head to look at the two children who were playing and having fun over there, Xiao Liu Xi and Xiao Tao Lone.

Looking at the innocent two children, the potter turned his head and asked her, "What does the sister think?" ”

Tao Hua was silent for a while and said, "I am the Tao family, so naturally I will not fight with the Tao family." ”

"From my point of view, I won't fight with my own sister." The potter said lightly: "Some things, just listen to the destiny of heaven and do your best, think too much, but it is complicated, but as far as our generation and the next generation are concerned, I do have an idea." ”

"Brother, please speak."

The potter leaned his head over and whispered in Taohua's ear.

……

A few days later, news came from the Central Plains that Cao Cao and the Sanliu Group had indeed made a move.

And it's not a big move.

Liu Biao gathered 100,000 elite soldiers in Xiangyang City, Xichuan Liu Zhang went straight down the river from Sichuan, sent 50,000 soldiers and horses out of Xichuankou to arrive in Jingxiang, and Cao Cao integrated 100,000 soldiers and horses in the Central Plains, and tens of thousands of soldiers of the princes of Guanzhong, starting from Luoyang, also drove to the Central Plains.

Judging from the marching route, it is obvious that they have only one goal, that is, Xuzhou!

Of course, the loss is that the potter has been prepared, he has already gathered the elite soldiers and fierce generals under his command, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses are stationed in Xuzhou, just waiting for the other party to strike first, then the preemptive, anti-guest.

The enemy's military intelligence and general configuration, as well as military intelligence, were all reported to the potters by Xu Rong, the current general of Pengcheng Guozhen.

"Prime Minister! The enemy army is quite strong, and it has been assembled in Zhongzhou, and Liu is the leader of the coalition army, responsible for the command and dispatch of all the troops and horses. ”

"Zhongzhou Assembly ......" The potter gently knocked on the table, and said while pondering: "Compared with Liu Biao, I care more about Cao Cao, it turns out that he is still cunning and cunning, and he pushed the position of the leader of the alliance to Liu Biao, to a certain extent, it is to push the responsibility for the contradictions that will arise in the princes of Guanzhong, including Liu Zhangjun in Xichuan, etc., to him...... Just like Yuan Shao when the princes crusaded against Dong Zhuo, hehe, Cao Cao at that time used Yuan Shao a lot. ”

Xu Rong agreed: "If they divide their troops to attack, our army will deal with them, but I am afraid that it will take a lot of effort, and now that the other party has concentrated its forces in Zhongzhou, it is relatively easy to deal with Xuzhou." ”

The potter sighed and said, "Even so, you can't be careless...... What is the staffing of the opposing generals? ”

Xu Rong immediately explained to the pottery merchants: "The elite soldiers under the command of the Cao family and the Liu family are exhausted, and the generals of Guanzhong, Hou Xuan, Cheng Yin, Li Kan, Zhang Heng, Liang Xing, Cheng Yi, Ma Teng, Han Sui and others all sent troops to help, of course, these small princes do not have many soldiers and horses, some bring 10,000 people, and some bring 35,000 people. ”

The potter nodded, indicating that he knew, and said: "Among the princes of Guanzhong, is there a man named Ma Chao under Ma Teng?" ”

Xu Rong blinked in surprise: "The prime minister actually knows Ma Chao too?" ”

"Ah, I've heard a little bit."

Xu Rongchang sighed: "In recent years, the sons under Ma Teng's command have begun to grow up, don't look at Ma Teng's old boy himself, but his sons are really amazing, it is said that these years in Liangzhou to pacify the rebel Qiang tribe, Ma Teng Han Sui relied on his nephews, especially the one called Ma Chao, it is rumored that he has the courage of ten thousand people, no less than Lu Bu back then." ”

Lu Bu back then?

The potter's mind flashed the current figure of Lu Bu, and he nodded approvingly.

"What is the morale of our soldiers and generals now?"

Xu Rong arched his hand and said: "Taking advantage of this time, the officers and men of the three armies have been prepared, but at the moment it is not good for our army, although we have many soldiers and horses, but because we have just pacified Hebei, the fatigue of the war has not yet recovered, and the sergeants who have been supplemented from Hebei have not yet been trained and skilled, and cannot be fully integrated into our army. ”

The potter sighed: "This kind of thing can't be solved by personal ability, so it can only be slowly run-in." ”

Just as the two were talking, they saw Pei Qian walking in and said, "Prime Minister, all the conspirators have arrived." ”

The potter motioned for Pei Qian to lead them in.

When he was young, he saw Guo Jia, Lu Su, Zhuge Liang, Sima Yi and Chen Deng, who hurried from Nanchang City, walked in.

Even though the Dow Group now has more and more talents, from the beginning to the end, only these five people are the real right-hand men of the potters.

The potter sat down the five men and told them what had happened.

In the end, the pottery merchant looked at a few people: "Regarding the matter of the Cao Liu coalition army and the Central Plains conspiring with me in Xuzhou, I don't know what the gentlemen have to say?" ”

Before he could finish asking, he saw Chen Deng raise his hand vigorously, and said excitedly like a primary school student rushing to answer: "I! I! I have something to say! ”

The potter was happy when he saw Chen Deng's appearance: "Yuanlong, I haven't seen you for two years, how did you become like this?" What is there to fight about? ”

Chen Deng sighed and said: "Prime Minister, I have been sitting in Nanchang for so long, I haven't seen you for a long time, and I haven't offered you a plan or a plan in the past two years. ”

Seeing Chen Deng's anxious appearance, the potter was also very unbearable.

It's only been two years, and I'm suffocating the child.

Let him unleash it.

The potter beckoned to Chen Deng and said, "In that case, it's up to you to speak freely today." ”

Chen Deng fluttered his sleeves very excitedly, stood up, walked in front of Pitu, and then nodded three times in a row on Pitu: "This, this, this!" ”

The potter looked at the three places that Chen Deng pointed to, namely Lu State, Pei Guo and Nanchang City.

The potter touched his chin and said thoughtfully: "You mean, these three places will become the main attack points of the Cao-Liu coalition army?" ”

Chen Deng said: "Yes, but it will not be their attack point at the same time, but their attack point in turn." ”

The potter smiled: "What is the sequential attack point?" ”

Chen Deng smiled and explained to the pottery merchants: "Now that Cao Cao and Sanliu have just united, they can be regarded as strong soldiers, their first step of strategy must be to garrison Shanyang County, attack the Lu State, complete their work in one battle, open the door of Xuzhou, the land of Xuzhou is easy to attack and difficult to defend, as long as the door of the Lu State is opened, you can be a horse Pingchuan, straight into the territory of Xuzhou." ”

The potter raised an eyebrow and said, "According to what you mean, our army is going to concentrate its forces in the Lu State and thwart Cao Liu's edge?" ”

Chen Deng nodded and said: "That's right, as long as we resist their troops in the Lu State, after a long time, the momentum of Cao Liu's coalition army will inevitably weaken, and they will inevitably think about it again." ”

"What's the sideline?"

"Cousin Liu aside, with Cao Cao's vicious gaze, he will inevitably secretly unite with Sun Ce to attack my Peiguo, and his attempt is to divide my forces in Xuzhou from the side, this is the second thing we have to do, Gong Peiguo, to prevent Sun Ce."