The potter originally thought that Sun Ce would be greedy and ask for a price, but he never expected this to be the result.

Without waiting for the potter to figure out whether Sun Ce was telling the truth or a lie, Sun Ce told the news he had just received. Knowing that Liu He's power had swelled so quickly, the potter gasped and his jaw almost fell to the ground. He no longer doubted Sun Ce's sincerity. In other words, he would do the same when he saw such a comparison of forces. If it's for your own territory, maybe you'll grit your teeth and fight hard, but it's completely unnecessary for someone else's territory.

But the problem is that this territory belongs to their Tao family, and Sun Ce can hide in Qu County without moving, but he can't.

The potter pleaded bitterly and wept. This is not a difficult thing for him, he was just slapped by Lao Tzu before he came, and the swelling has not gone away. If you can't ask Sun Ce for help, you will definitely have to be slapped again. Thinking of this tragic life, the potter came from sorrow, and cried loudly, crying so much that a person who saw it cried, and a person who heard it was sad, and Sun Ce was embarrassed to cry.

The big man cried like this, Liu Bei's prototype has half of you, right?

Although he knew that the Han people were full of emotion and straightforward, and they were not as secretive as later generations, and they wanted to cry and endure, Sun Ce was still not used to seeing the potters crying like this. He pulled the potter up, comforted him with kind words, held his cheeks, and looked at the map for a long time.

"There is a way, whether we can repel Liu He, it's not easy to say now, let's defend instead of attacking, try our best to stop him, and buy time for Ling Zun. It is now the second half of the first month, and if it drags on for another two months, the weather will become warmer, and the Yellow River will be opened, and we will have a chance. But it's not something I can do alone, and we need both of us to work together. ”

The potter wiped his tears and agreed. "General, what do you want us to do?"

"Since Ling Zun is so generous and willing to give Peng Cheng to me, I am disrespectful. You immediately repair a letter and let Ling Di Zhongyun move to the town. The Chen family in Xiapi is Yuan Shao's die-hard loyalist, this time it is so active, it is like a rebellion, and if you don't knock and knock, the Xuzhou family will have nothing to fear, and no one will take Ling Zun in the eyes in the future. Ling Zun can't spare his hand, your brothers should work on it. ”

When it came to the Chen family in Xiapi, the potter gritted his teeth with hatred. Chen Deng accepted Yuan Shao's appointment to go to Lujiang, and he was already slapping their father and son in the face, but fortunately, at that time, he was just against Sun Ce, they could pretend to be deaf and dumb, and now it was even more excessive, and he actually cooperated with Liu He to rebel, and the sword was pointed directly at Tao Qian. As Sun Ce said, if the Chen family is tolerated again, who in the other families will still take them seriously?

It is necessary to set an example to stop this tide of rebellion in order to suppress Xuzhou.

With the promise of the potter's cooperation, Sun Ce immediately made a series of adjustments. After the adjustment of the defense of the Wubao of the Elk family was completed, Sun Ce left Elfang to guard the town, and sent a letter to Shen You, asking him to arrange for Gan Ning and Chen to reinforce Qu County by sea. The potters rushed to Tan County. Tan County is the county of the East China Sea, and it is the seat of Xuzhou, the city is strong, and there are the Danyang soldiers left by Tao Qian, and the pottery merchants should be able to hold it.

If he could hold the three cities of Xiapi, Tan County, and Qu County, and block Liu He's road to the north, Tao Qian's back would be safe.

After listening to Sun Ce's arrangement, the potter felt reasonable, but he was a little puzzled. "General, where are you going to garrison?"

Sun Ce explained: "The soldiers are in harmony with the right and the odd wins. There is no defense but no attack, trapping the lonely city, and it is like sitting and waiting to be killed. There is no attack and no defense, erratic, and like duckweed without roots, it cannot last long. Since the three cities are defended, I should use cavalry to cruise between the three counties, waiting for the opportunity to attack, cut off their food routes, and intercept their supplies, so that Liu He cannot attack the city with all his strength, so as to gain time. ”

The potter nodded again and again, and happily agreed.

Sun Ce then left Qu County with his personal guards and rode on foot, and rushed to Tan County with the potters.

Departing early in the morning, they traveled all the way, and in the afternoon, they arrived at Mushui. Sun Ce ordered to stop advancing and rest on the spot.

The potter was in a hurry, and rushed to Sun Ce, but before he could speak, his eyes were red. "General, saving soldiers is like fighting fire, this place is still more than thirty miles away from Tan County, hurry up, you can arrive after dark, and it's not too late to rest in the city, why stay here?"

Sun Ce shook his head and looked at the western horizon. "Are you sure that Tanxian can still get in?"

The potter's forehead was covered with sweat, and his face was red and white for a while. Along the way, they raised the flag to respond to Liu He, but not one or two. Tan County is Liu He's hometown, and no one will believe it if the Tan County family has not moved.

Sun Ce saw that the six gods of the potter were ownerless, and sighed secretly. Tao Qian has a son like this, no wonder he wants to give Xuzhou to others, and he can't keep it to the pottery merchants, so it's better to be generous. Liu Bei went to Youzhou, and Xuzhou will give it to me. "In case Liu He has already taken Tan County, or the family of Tan County has already controlled Tan County, we only have more than a thousand steps to ride, and it is impossible to storm Tan County."

The potter's voice changed in a hurry. "What then?"

"I'm waiting here, you send someone to Tan County to check the situation. If Tan County hadn't changed hands, we would have gone into the city overnight and arrested people. If Tanxian has been lost, then we don't have to bother, I will go to Pengcheng to meet Brother Ling, you go to Yangdu, and inform Ling Zun to prepare for contingencies. In short, you can't just rush to Tan County. Even if Tan County is not lost, and the Tan County family gets the news, we have no chance to arrest people. ”

The potter felt justified and immediately sent two cronies to Tan County to check.

The people of Tanxian County were panicked, the family secretly contacted, ready to respond to Liu He, and the guard general Zhang Min had no master, both wanted to suppress it, and the first strike was strong, but also afraid of self-defeating and adding fuel to the fire, and when he didn't know what to do, the cronies of the potters rushed to Tanxian. Knowing that the potters were back, accompanied by Sun Ce, Zhang Min finally breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately sent someone to inform the potters and Sun Ce, and prepared to arrest them.

After the queen, Sun Ce received Zhang Min's reply and was glad to learn that Tan County was fine. If Tan County is lost, it will be difficult to regain it. He didn't know why Liu He didn't seize such a critical place as Tanxian, but the result was like this, which showed that the situation was not bad enough to be out of control.

Taking advantage of the darkness, Sun Ce acted quickly and rushed to Tan County. He didn't care about resting, so he immediately arrested people and put all the heads of several big families in Tan County under house arrest. It may not be of much use, but it is always good to make those families have scruples. The potter is already in a mess, and he will do whatever Sun Ce says. With Sun Ce's cooperation, they attacked continuously with lightning speed, and were busy all night, arresting the heads of several big families in and around Tanxian County.

Early the next morning, after receiving the report that the task had been successfully completed, Sun Ce, who had not slept all night, put the heart that had mentioned his throat back into his stomach.

Speaking of which, there's a lot of luck in that. These families all received Liu He's invitation, some sent people to support Liu He, and some were ready to wait for Liu He to come and respond. Tao Qian himself fought in Langya and could not escape, and his control of Tan County was limited to the city. If it weren't for Tao Qian's heavy troops to guard, these people might have taken Tan County by themselves. Despite this, they still believed that they were safe and felt that Zhang Min did not dare to act rashly. They expected Zhang Min, but they didn't expect Sun Ce, they were caught off guard, and when they woke up, the situation in Tanxian County had changed.

Sun Ce left the pottery merchants in Tanxian County and Zhang Min to guard them, and he immediately set off to Pengcheng.