Winter snowflakes fluttered in the sky of Pengcheng, and in the blink of an eye it was December, and the envoy returned from the north, and Yan Gaogan refused to come to Xuzhou on the grounds that the people of Bingzhou were unstable. Tao Ying knew that his heart was never in Xuzhou, so he wrote to Gao Gan and asked him to lead his troops to attack Huguan and take back Shangdang County! Gao Gan also said that he was short of soldiers and horses, and asked Tao Ying to borrow his 30,000 soldiers and horses to attack Huguan.

Jia Xu offered a plan, it is better to plan the plan, Gao Gan wants to learn from Sun Quan to borrow troops to develop himself, so he can kill him in the soldiers and horses! So Tao Ying asked Jia Xu who to send to kill Gao Gan, Tao Ying wanted to let the famous Hebei general Wen Chou go, after all, Wen Chou is a famous town in Hebei, and after killing Gao Gan, he can also gain a firm foothold in Bingzhou.

Jia Xu said that he couldn't send Wen Chou to go, because Wen Chou was originally a general under Yuan Shao, and Gao Gan was Yuan Shao's nephew, if Wen Chou led 30,000 soldiers and horses to take refuge in Gao Gan, it would be a charcoal to others!

Tao Ying asked who could take on this position, and Jia Xu said that it was better to send the eldest prince Zhuge Liang to go. Jia Xu knew Zhuge Liang's ability, and he also knew that Tao Ying wanted to support Zhuge Liang, so he took this opportunity to sell Zhuge Liang a favor. Moreover, Jia Xu heard that the Confucian general Li Dian had been in a bit of a mood recently, and he was afraid that Li Dian would hate Tao Ying and defect to Sun Quan in Yangzhou again, so he took the opportunity to let Li Dian go to annex the state and annex the soldiers and horses of Gao Gan.

Li Dian was one of the first generals to follow Tao Ying, and he was deeply valued by Tao Ying. Every time Tao Ying goes on an expedition, he will let Li Dian guard Pengcheng, and in the past few years, Li Dian has always been the commander of the Pengcheng Guard, the Golden Winged Army, but now for some reason, he was suddenly assigned to the eldest prince Zhuge Liang to be the general, and he also went to a small county to be a general! This made Li Dian deeply ashamed.

Tao Ying didn't know what Li Dian was thinking, and although Li Dian was unhappy in his heart, he never showed it. One day Jia Xu went to Huainan, Li Dian hosted a banquet for Jia Xu in the mansion, and asked Jia Xu to explain to him where he was not good enough, and how he was so lost that he went to a small county to become a general. Jia Xu comforted Li Dian that Tao Ying wanted to reuse Zhuge Liang, and had the intention of letting Zhuge Liang replace him as the governor of the Xuzhou Military Department in the future. Tao Ying transferred Li Dian to Huainan County, which was intended to cultivate Li Dian so that he would go to a higher level in his future military career!

After Jia Xu finished speaking, Li Dian thought about it carefully, and it seemed that Tao Ying really had this intention. Because Tao Ying said more than once that Zhuge Liang had the talent of the governor, but let himself guard Huainan, Li Dian was quite reluctant. Because there has been no war in Huainan County for a long time, the generals who took refuge in Tao Ying have soared one by one, and even Tai Shici, who later took refuge, became a taishou, but he guarded the peaceful land all day long, and he had no military achievements at all, so that Li Dian didn't dare to speak beside them.

Therefore, Jia Xu suggested that Zhuge Liang should go north to Dinghe and annex the state, and then after accumulating military merits, he could be appointed to a greater official position. Tao Ying adopted Jia Xu's strategy - sent his son Zhuge Liang to lead the pioneer Zhang Liao, the general Li Dian Zhang He and the Xiao general Tao Zhong to Bingzhou to assist Gao Gan to capture Huguan! After the order was issued, Zhuge Liang cleaned up in Huainan County, and then prepared grain, grass and ordnance to prepare to go north.

In order to teach Cao Cao a good lesson, and at the same time prevent him from interfering in the affairs of the annexation of the state, Jia Xu suggested choosing the right time to fight Cao Cao in the Central Plains. And the battle with Cao Cao can only be won and not lost, if it loses, so much territory ruled by Xuzhou may be lost.

So in order to fight this war, Tao Ying prepared three steps. The first step was to evacuate the people of the three cities of Bianjing and transfer them to Xuzhou or the state capital. Then he hoarded enough grain and grass for an army of 20,000 to eat for a year in the three cities.

The second part is to unite Liu Biao of Jingzhou and Sun Quan of Yangzhou to jointly send troops to fight against Cao Cao under the pretext of offering the emperor's blood, so that they can gain a political advantage.

After these two moves, the third move is that Xuzhou divides the five-way army to crusade against Yanzhou, and if it succeeds, it can defeat Cao Cao, the largest prince in the north, in one fell swoop, even if it fails, it will seriously injure Cao Cao, making it difficult for him to recover in a short time. Since ancient times, in the Central Plains, it has been difficult for two males to coexist, and it is even more difficult for heroes like Tao Ying and Cao Cao to coexist!

In July 206, the harvest season began in the north. In the past ten years, Tao Ying has continuously introduced a variety of chemical fertilizers suitable for all kinds of soil, and vigorously built irrigation facilities, so this year's grain production in Xuzhou has refreshed a new record high in Xuzhou, and the grain of Yuzhou Prefecture alone can supply 70,000 troops for a year's military rations.

Grain and grass are piled up, especially in the Juntun area, and the barns are full. This year, Cao Cao wanted to buy grain and grass from Xuzhou, Tao Ying returned to the messenger and said, Xuzhou had just recovered the northern Liaoning Prefecture, Youzhou Mansion and the state capital, and there were many people in the land of the three prefectures, and the grain and grass were transported to these three places to help the victims, and they could no longer sell grain to Yanzhou.

Cao Cao's envoy also proposed to buy Xuzhou's chemical fertilizers, pesticides and grains, but Tao Ying also refused. These are all slowly explored in Xuzhou after nearly ten years, how can Tao Ying sell them to them?

Not only these, Cao Cao got the land of Jizhou, and recruited nearly 30,000 soldiers in Jizhou, so Cao Cao lacked weapons and purchased them from Tao Ying, who rejected Cao Cao again on the grounds that the steel produced in Xuzhou was used in the construction of the railway, and the weapons were rarely made.

In 206, Tao Ying only built a railway from Pengcheng to Shouchun, and the required steel could be supplied by Pengcheng alone. In this year, Tao Ying slowed down the development of Xuzhou and turned his forces to the military.

Tao Ying planned to recruit 500,000 troops in Xuzhou within three years, 100,000 troops in Liaoning Prefecture in the north and Youzhou Prefecture in the north, 200,000 troops in Qingzhou Prefecture and Xuzhou Prefecture and Yuzhou Prefecture in Yuzhou Prefecture, and 100,000 troops in Jiujiang Prefecture and Jiangnan Prefecture in the south. Three years of internal training trained them into a Xuzhou Lions with both offense and defense!

In order to realize the plan of this military power, Tao Ying set up nearly a thousand horse farms in Youzhou Prefecture, and at the same time set up a market in the northern grasslands to exchange horses with Wuhuan Goguryeo and other ethnic groups. At the same time, all war horse sales channels to Yanzhou were cut off, and all transactions with Yanzhou were cut off, so that Yanzhou was on the verge of economic collapse.

In September, Zhuge Liang arrived in Bingzhou, and the senior cadres bullied Zhuge Liang at a young age, so he wanted to unite with the famous Hebei general Zhang He to kill Zhuge Liang, and then control Zhuge Liang's 30,000 soldiers and horses. Zhang He has lived in Xuzhou for a long time, and knows the changes and strength of Xuzhou, so how can he be an enemy of Tao Ying? What's more, Tao Ying used him so much, and asked him to assist Tao Ying's son Zhuge Liang, he was even more unwilling to live up to Tao Ying's kindness, so he told Zhuge Liang about Gao Gan's plan.

The twenty-four-year-old Zhuge Liang is already a man of outstanding wisdom, and he is more wise than Zhuge Liang above history. After all, he grew up in Xuzhou Mansion, he came into contact with famous generals, and followed Tao Ying through so many wars, where is the Kong Ming who farmed in Wollongong in history!

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