"Big brother, I beg you, take me there, take me there, I miss my mother, I miss my brother, I miss my uncle, please take me there."

Pulling Deputy Director Tao's sleeve, Sun Shangxiang, who was almost thirteen years old, was coquettish and pleading, saying that she would go south with Deputy Director Tao to Jiangdong again to meet and reunite with her relatives, but this is also normal, since the first month of the third year of Jian'an and Sun Quan met, more than two years have passed in a blink of an eye, Sun Shangxianglen has not received a letter from his relatives, and he is naturally full of worries and thoughts about his relatives in Jiangnan.

Deputy Director Tao's character is indeed very commendable, although according to the calculation of the virtual age, Sun Shangxiang's little girl is almost the legal age of marriage, and she has already taken the initiative to throw herself into her arms and hug her arms and be coquettish, our Deputy Director Tao still does not squint, while looking at the official document on the case with his other hand, he quietly threatened: "While staying, what is there to wait for me to finish reading the official document, and then dare to disturb my acting official business, you don't expect to follow me to the south." ”

Angry and puffed out his lovely cheeks, Sun Shangxiang finally sat down obediently on the cushion next to him, anxiously waiting for Deputy Director Tao to reply, Deputy Director Tao no longer paid attention to this little girl, just continued to look through the internal situation of Xuzhou collected by Cao Hong, carefully analyzed and calculated, and grasped and understood his own internal situation - don't look at the harmony and unity of the Xuzhou army on the surface and the Cao army, there are actually a lot of dirty things such as internal intrigues, gangs and mutual demolition, It's just that the internal contradictions have not become so open as in the Jizhou army that they affect strategic and tactical decision-making.

"It's time to transfer Zhang Zhao away from Huainan, I didn't expect this guy to be the same as history, he couldn't get along with Lu Su so much, and if he let it go, something would go wrong sooner or later."

Muttering secretly in his heart, Deputy Director Tao finally closed the official document made by Cai Hou, and handed the official document to his confidants and soldiers to take to the secret room for safekeeping, and the little girl Sun Shangxiang over there couldn't wait to ask: "Big brother, have you finished reading it?" What about my business? Can I go to Huainan with you? ”

"Nope." Deputy Director Tao replied expressionlessly.

"Why?" Sun Shangxiang jumped up.

"Because you're already a girl." Deputy Director Tao replied: "If I'm not mistaken, next year you should be a big girl, how can I still bring you to the army to accompany you?" You used to be able to do it when you were younger, but not anymore. ”

"But I haven't done it yet." Sun Shangxiang cried out bitterly, and hurriedly ran to Deputy Director Tao with a gust of fragrant wind, and directly hugged Deputy Director Tao's arm and coquettishly, "Big brother, you just promised me, I will only be fifteen next year, and I am still young, what does it matter if I go out with you?" You take me, take me, please, I only beg you this time. ”

Glancing at the little girl's delicate little face, and then looking at the little girl's little breasts gradually bulging under the nourishment of the meat soup soufflé, Deputy Director Tao still had a righteous and gentlemanly expression, and said: "If you say no, you can't do it, there are tens of thousands of men in the army, and bringing you as a big girl will affect the morale of the army, and it will not be good for your reputation." ”

"I don't care about ......." Sun Shangxiang hurriedly defended, but Deputy Director Tao raised his voice and shouted, "I care!" ”

Sun Shangxiang, who was scolded by Deputy Director Tao for the first time, closed her mouth, and tears began to roll in her big crystal eyes, probably because she felt that her attitude was a little excessive, and Deputy Director Tao was also a little soft-hearted, so she went to the little girl to wipe away the tears on her face, and then slowed down and said: "Don't cry, the big brother knows that you miss your mother, but the big brother is also for your good, you are the big girl in the end, and you are all a man's ......." ”

Speaking of this, Deputy Director Tao suddenly changed his mind and said: "If you must go, there is also a way, go and ask for your Sister Fang'er's consent, please let Sister Fang'er let the Ah Huan next to her lend you, let her accompany you to the south, and give you companionship, and then I can use the excuse of letting you take care of my diet and daily life, and bring me to the army and go south with me." ”

"Really?" Sun Shangxiang, who was still young, was pleasantly surprised, and when she saw Deputy Director Tao nodding, the little girl suddenly burst into tears and laughed, and quickly jumped up again, shouting Yuan Fang and rushed to the back room, leaving Deputy Director Tao to laugh in the room.

Deputy Director Tao's excuse of course can only deceive the little girl Sun Shangxiang, who is not yet thirteen years old, when the little girl asked Yuan Fang, the main room of Deputy Director Tao, Yuan Fang, who was born in the family of the fourth and third princes of the authentic Dynasty, also immediately understood her husband's sinister intentions, so Yuan Fang not only did not agree to Sun Shangxiang's plea, but also sent someone to send Deputy Director Tao back to the bedroom, grabbed Deputy Director Tao's ears and scolded, asking Deputy Director Tao not to beat the poor Guo Huan's idea and let go of the poor little girl!

Since Deputy Director Tao dared to use Sun Shangxiang to do this, he naturally had a way to deal with Yuan Fang's scolding, and after quietly driving away the people in the room, Deputy Director Tao immediately attached himself to Yuan Fang's ear, and whispered about the incident where Sun Quan used Sun Shangxiang to almost harm the Huainan Navy Division last time, and then said in a low voice: "It's true that I asked Xiang'er to borrow Ah Huan from you, but the southern front battlefield of our army is blocked by the Yangtze River, and the naval army is relatively weak. Although Sun Quan Xiao'er is a chess piece I arranged in Yuan Shu's army, it is also the most powerful internal response of our army, but this Sun Quan is too insidious and too unreliable, I must prevent him from using Xiang'er's old tricks to repeat it, do you say that you don't arrange an eyeliner next to Xiang'er? ”

"Is that really it?" Yuan Fanghu was suspicious and asked, "Then why don't you let Xiang'er borrow someone else, you have to borrow Ah Huan?" ”

"There are two reasons, one is that Ah Huan and Xiang'er are relatively close and close, and it is easy to get words from Xiang'er's mouth, and the other is that Ah Huan is smart and clever, and I can rest assured that she will monitor the contact between Xiang'er and Sun Quan." Deputy Director Tao replied with sufficient reasons, and then spread his hands and said: "If you still suspect that I am not at ease, then forget it, Ah Huan doesn't have to go to Huainan, and Xiang'er can't go to Huainan, I can't use the chess pieces I laid before." ”

Yuan Fang is a virtuous wife in the end, although she is still skeptical about her husband's explanation, but considering that after all, it is a military matter, and she can't hold her husband back in this regard, so after hesitating for a while, Yuan Fang finally changed her mind and said very reluctantly: "Okay, I'll lend Ah Huan to you for a while, but you have to promise me that you must never touch her!" ”

"I said, madam, why are you here again? Is that the kind of person a husband is? Deputy Director Tao shouted again, and smiled in his heart as a matter of course.

……………… After introducing this episode, let's introduce the situation of Deputy Director Tao's southern expedition target Xiao Yuan Sangong, thanks to his half-brother Yuan Shao and Cao Laoda's blessing, the strategic focus of the Xuzhou army has been fully northward for more than two years, and it has to maintain a restraint strategy on the southern front, and has not interfered too much in the Jiangdong war, and the little Yuan Sangong, who is much stronger than the Jiangdong princes, can be distracted, and attack the enemy Liu Xuan without thinking too much about the threat of Xuzhou, after a series of battles, Basically, it took the most elite land in Jiangdong from Wuhu to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and expanded the territory to the east to the Taihu Lake area, and bordered Jiaozhou to the south.

In addition, Xiao Yuan Sangong also relied on the active performance of Sun Wu's team, defeated the Jiangdong princes' coalition army twice in Yangxian and Qu'a, severely damaged Yan Baihu and Wang Lang's team who directly supported Liu Xiang with the army, completely annihilated the Jingxian Zulang who secretly colluded with the Xuzhou army, and also beat the old opponent Liu Xiang to a great injury, and fled to Wu County with the remnants of the defeated army to join Yan Baihu. Becoming the first tyrant in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River - it is also the luck of Xiao Yuan Sangong, when Liu Miao abandoned Qu'a and fled, the person who commanded Liu Xiang's water division to station Dantu happened to be Xue Li, who had an enmity with the Xuzhou army, otherwise Liu Xiang's water division would probably defect to Zhang Xu, a veteran general in Jiangbei.

In any case, although there is some luck component, and because of the loss in Huainan too badly, the time to unify Jiangdong is far longer than planned, but the position of Jiangdong overlord has been basically established, and the overall strength has exceeded the sum of the remaining Jiangdong princes several times, Xiao Yuan Sangong still inevitably made the old mistake of the past, in addition to re-calling the lonely and widowed, and ignoring the death persuasion of Yan Xiang and Sun Quan, during the Cao army's entry into the Kou, he did not go all out to attack the princes' coalition army that had retreated to Wuxi to survive, but stationed troops in Niu Zhu to peep at Huainan, Not only did he miss the precious opportunity to beat the water dogs, but he also completely angered Deputy Director Tao, who had never relaxed his vigilance on the southern front, causing Deputy Director Tao to immediately send troops to settle accounts with Xiao Yuan Sangong after he freed his hands a little.

In mid-March, after careful preparation and arrangement, Deputy Director Tao asked President Chen Deng's soldiers and horses in the Pengcheng Theater as usual, leaving Cao Bao, Chen Dao, Xu Huang, Tao Ji and Hou Cheng to guard the central part of the territory, and personally led an army of 30,000 to the south, still crossing the Huai River to Hefei via Peiguo County. Through the hard work of Lu Su, Zhang Zhao and other internal affairs experts, the second county of Huainan has survived the drought crisis and restarted to supply food to the army, and the winter wheat will be ripe, so Deputy Director Tao did not have to carry too much military rations on this southern expedition, and he arrived outside Hefei in only half a month, and met again with Lu Su, who had been absent for a long time.

Although it has been more than two years since they met, Deputy Director Tao, who has never liked cumbersome etiquette, and Lu Su still didn't have much nonsense after meeting, Deputy Director Tao just introduced Xun Chen, Zhao Yun and Lu Yi and other newcomers in Xuzhou to Lu Su, and then immediately asked straight to the point: "Jiangdong, what is the movement?" ”

"Yuzhang appointed by Yuan Shu is guarding Yuan Yin, and he is being fortified on the front line of Ganshui, with a strength of about 25,000." Lu Su replied succinctly: "The main force of Yuan Shushui is about 23,000 people, all of which are in the Spring Valley, led by Chen Fen, a veteran of Yuan Shushui; Yuan Shu himself moved to the west of Wuhu, and led nearly 20,000 foot riders; In addition, there were nearly 10,000 Yuan troops stationed in Niuzhu and Dantu. ”

"Yuzhang 25,000, Chungu 20,000, Wuhu 20,000, Niu Zhu and Dantu 10,000 each, adding up to 88,000." Deputy Director Tao said with a smile: "Coupled with the soldiers and horses guarding the two important towns of Qu'a and Wanling, as well as the local defenders of other cities, there are at least 1230,000 soldiers and horses - Zhugong, it seems that we all have to learn the way to collect money from Yuan Road, less than 30 counties support more than 100,000 troops, of which 20,000 are still water troops, this ability to collect money is really worth learning from us." ”

The Xuzhou civil and military forces present laughed, Xun Chen smiled and said: "I have heard for a long time that Yuan Highway is reckless and relentless in the people, and now I can see it, and it really deserves its reputation, but among these hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, how many soldiers and horses can be sent to the battlefield, I don't know if Zijing has supervised it?" ”

"I've only found a rough idea." Lu Su replied: "At present, there are two certain points, one is that Yuan Shu's infantry and cavalry elite soldiers Wuhu, and the other is that Yuan Shu's sailors are still quite powerful, and the more than 20,000 sailors are either Yuan Shu's old Huainan division, or Liu Shu's sailor elite soldiers, and the size of the warships has reached 1,000, and the surface power must not be ignored." ”

Deputy Director Tao secretly calculated that at present, the Xuzhou army has more than 10,000 sailors and more than 200 large warships in Chaohu Lake, more than 15,000 sailors in Poyang Lake, and more than 400 large and small warships. Therefore, Deputy Director Tao quickly smiled and said: "It should be admitted that Yuan Shupifu has grown a little bit, and concentrating on the superior water division to garrison Chungu can not only guard against the soldiers of our Hefei Water Division, but also prevent our army's Poyang Lake Water Division from going down the river, and even win various opportunities to break through, which is comparable to Cao Thief's tactics of defending Guandu." ”

"Lord, since the enemy is defending the Spring Valley, why doesn't our army go west to Chaisang and cross the river, take Yuzhang first, and then take Danyang?" Zhao Yun, who was present, asked politely.

"It's too much time." Deputy Director Tao shook his head resolutely and said, "According to this tactic, our army will take at least three more months, and it will be useless. ”

Zhao Yun nodded and closed his mouth honestly, but Wei Yan said on the other side: "Lord, let's fight a decisive battle with Yuan Shu Pifu on the water, the last general's team is all Danyang soldiers, most of them are proficient in water surnames, and they can fight water battles, and the last general is invited to cross the river as a pioneer." ”

"Bungeon's proposal is worth considering." Deputy Director Tao replied: "But if you can not take risks, it is better not to take risks, so this trick can only be considered last." ”

After that, Deputy Director Tao asked everyone present: "Princess, I don't know what you have to do?" Help our army break through the main force of Yuan Shushui Division and pave the way for our army to cross the river? ”

Xuzhou Wenwu, who was almost a landlubber, closed his mouth, and even Jia Lao's poison didn't say a word - no way, who called Jia Lao's poison from Xiliang, who even had a pitiful small river and stream? Only Lu Su smiled bitterly and said: "Lord, I'm afraid there is no opportunistic opportunity this time, whether the two water divisions of our army are going south or east, they must pass through the Spring Valley River, Yuan Shushui is all over the Spring Valley, our army should not be said to be a surprise victory, that is, the division must be cautious, in case Yuan Shu will break us all, and I have been meditating for several years, and I can't find any way to win by surprise." ”

"Really?" Deputy Director Tao, who has always liked speculation, refused to give up, but after thinking about it, Deputy Director Tao couldn't find any good way for a while, so he had to smile and say: "Say it slowly, anyway, we have time, how to fight and discuss, but Zijing, it's time to serve, right?" You, the governor of Huainan, consume millions of grains a year, and you won't be so stingy that you haven't prepared a banquet to wash the dust, right? ”

Everyone in Xuzhou laughed, Lu Su also laughed and hurriedly ordered someone to serve food and wine, it was the night guest and the host were happy, almost three watches before the banquet was dispersed to rest, and the deputy director Tao, who was drunk with a red face and a thick neck, also burped back to the room where he stayed, and sat on his bed, just when he ordered the soldiers to bring tea to relieve the hangover, Guo Huan, a maid borrowed from the eldest wife, came to the door with a tea tray and asked to enter the room to wait.

Of course, Deputy Director Tao would not refuse the request of a beautiful maid like Guo Huan, waved his hand to let the guards go, and ordered the guards to close the door from outside, although Guo Huan knew Deputy Director Tao's intentions. But he still entered the room with a red face and a tea tray, first filled a cup of freshly brewed tea for Deputy Director Tao, and then took a sip in front of Deputy Director Tao to show that it was not toxic, and then handed the teacup to Deputy Director Tao, and said gently: "The lord please use the tea, the slave maid has just been cooked, which is the best way to relieve hangover, please use it slowly." ”

"It's so late, haven't you slept yet?" Deputy Director Tao asked casually while sipping fragrant tea with a light aroma of rouge.

Guo Huan nodded lightly and replied: "The slave maid heard that the lord was drinking with all the adults and generals in the lobby, and knew that the lord and the generals of Huainan were reunited after a long absence, so they must not get drunk, so they prepared tea and a stove to wait. ”

"Really clever." Deputy Director Tao praised it, and while pretending to ask, he took the opportunity to touch Guo Huan's white and tender little hands, "Xiang'er, did she sleep?" ”

"Just went to sleep." Guo Huan skillfully avoided Deputy Director Tao's harassment, and said softly: "Sister Xiang'er has been looking forward to her relatives' letters, and she has been waiting for a long time, and she didn't sleep with her clothes until not long ago, and the slave maid didn't wake her up when she saw that she was tired. ”

"Really?" Deputy Director Tao's heart was budding, and he smiled with a salivating face: "But it's okay, speaking of Ah Huan, it seems that you and I are alone for the first time, come, you sit next to me, and we will have a good talk." ”

Saying that, Deputy Director Tao insisted on pulling Guo Huan, Guo Huan, who usually threw flattering eyes at Deputy Director Tao at every turn when he was in Xuzhou, but Guo Huan flinched and dodged with a red face, until his little hand was caught by Deputy Director Tao, and then he whispered shyly: "Master, Madame has an explanation, slaves and maids are not allowed to be alone with you, and slaves and maids are not allowed to get close to the master, please don't be embarrassed for the slaves." ”

"Afraid of what? It's not that you don't know, Fang'er is a knife-mouthed tofu heart, when did she bully her subordinates? ”

Deputy Director Tao said with a salivating face, while getting more and more inches, relying on the privilege of his slave owner, he suddenly pressed on Guo Huan's small breasts that were stunted due to malnutrition when he was a child, and he only felt soft in his hands, feeling like touching a diluted poached egg, and there was a small bulge on the top of the egg. Guo Huan was so ashamed that her face was flushed, and she quickly broke free from Deputy Director Tao's clutches, jumped up and retreated far away, and her heart was pounding.

"Are you wearing a belly pocket? Or did you wear silk? Deputy Director Tao recalled the wonderful feeling and said with a dark smile: "Like a peanut, but there seems to be no peanut ...... in this era." ”

"Huh? Peanuts?! As soon as his mind moved, Deputy Director Tao suddenly thought of something, and his heart suddenly disappeared, and a major event related to peanuts in his memory quickly came to mind............ "Lord, what's wrong?" Guo Huan did not have much contact with Deputy Director Tao, and when he saw that Deputy Director Tao's expression changed greatly, he also said that his desire to capture had angered Deputy Director Tao, and he hurriedly asked cautiously: "Master, did the slave's nails scratch your hand?" ”

Deputy Director Tao shook his head decisively, waved his hand to signal Guo Huan not to interrupt his train of thought, and turned his triangular eyes just to calculate quickly, after a long time, Deputy Director Tao showed a smile on his face, and said to Guo Huan in a daze: "Huan'er, do you know that something on your body just now did me a great favor, and made me suddenly think of a clever plan to annihilate Yuan Shushui, do you know what reminded me that I didn't?" ”

"What is on me? What's on me? Guo Huan asked shyly and doubtfully.

"Here, let me show you what reminded me."

(To be continued)