Chapter five hundred and eighty seventh war horse four thousand five
What a great person Cao Cao was. When he heard what Jia Xu meant, he immediately realized what he meant.
He knew that Jia Xu was a low-key person. Currently, under his command, in addition to working conscientiously and rarely showing off, he was particularly unwilling to offend his colleagues. Cao Cao had long been accustomed to his obscure and incomprehensible way of speaking.
With Cao Cao's wisdom, it was not difficult for him to guess what Jia Xu meant by his words, but it just took a lot of brain cells.
But now, Cao Cao suddenly realized that according to Jia Xu, the real purpose of the pottery merchant might be Li Jue and Guo Si.
Big drops of sweat instantly appeared on Cao Cao's forehead.
What an insidious little brat! Sure enough, he has plotted against you again!
Cao Cao did not dare to delay, and hurriedly ordered his men to immediately send out capable spies to Zhongmu County to find out information for him.
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In less than two days, the spies brought back the news for Cao Cao from Zhongmu County.
Let’s not talk about Li Jue and Guo Si’s mischief outside Zhongmu County, slaughtering cattle and sheep, forcing the city to seize the village, and disrupting order.
However, they were plotted by an unknown person, causing chaos in the military camp, frightened war horses, and thousands of horses scattered in all directions. Nearly 7,000 horses were lost. So far, only more than 2,000 have been recovered by him.
When Cao Cao heard the news, his face instantly turned green.
Li Jue and Guo Si, these two bastards! They are simply trash among trash!
Why don't you two bastards die!
Cao Cao also raised a lot of horses in the Central Plains, and there was no shortage of war horses in his camp.
But having no shortage does not mean that you don’t care about it. I have never heard of a rich person in the world who thinks he is too rich.
The nearly 10,000 horses of the Xiliang Army really made Cao Cao salivate. He was busy thinking about how to deal with Yuan Shao some time ago, and it was inconvenient to seize military power from Li Guo. But now that Yuan Shao has been defeated, the situation has been determined, and Cao Cao
The next step is to consider how to seize the military power and horses of Li and Guo, and take these ten thousand horses into his own hands...
In this way, with careful planning, his strength can definitely reach several levels in a row.
After destroying Yuan Shao and annexing them in the future, Cao Cao can replace Yuan Shao and become the most powerful force in the world.
But the dream is very full, and the reality is very basic.
I had a well-organized plan, but it was all messed up by these two bastards, Li Jue and Guo Si!
Cao Cao wished he could immediately summon Li Guo and kill them with one knife, then sew their heads back up and continue killing them for three days and three nights.
But reason told Cao Cao that he could not do this.
He lost six to seven thousand horses, but Li Jue still had the Flying Bear Army under his command, which was a very powerful elite force.
And more importantly, since Li Jue's war horses cannot be obtained, then Cao Cao has to change his original strategy. His next step must be to conquer Guanzhong as soon as possible, annex the land of Xiliang, and introduce a large number of war horses from Xiliang itself to enrich it.
His own Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, as well as Li Jue and Guo Si, generals of Xiliang, should play an important role in this process that cannot be ignored.
But Cao Cao really couldn't swallow this tone!
The person named Tao is really irritating.
The biggest shortcoming of the potter was that he did not have enough horses to form a large cavalry group to compete with him.
In the original battle with himself, Dong Zhuo, or Yuan Shao's cavalry, Tao Shang dared to engage in head-on confrontation. He relied on the terrain, strategy, weather, or the Jinling Crossbow to change his disadvantage.
The princes in the north were fighting frequently.
But that kind of uncertainty comes from luck, and God will not favor him every time! As for the Jinling Repeating Crossbow, it was only because we didn't know much about it, but now we understand its power.
After improving the performance, as long as he takes precautions in future battles or uses his strengths to avoid weaknesses, Cao Cao believes that sooner or later, his tiger and leopard cavalry will deal a devastating blow to the pottery merchant.
But now, six to seven thousand war horses have been snatched back by the pottery merchants!
The Eagle Snake Man of Cao Cao's Ying Snake Mansion had already discovered that the pottery merchant had subdued two slaves from the Southern Huns in his early years.
These two slaves are quite capable. In recent years, they have attracted many horse breeds for the potter, opened a horse farm for him, and carefully raised and trained various war horses and stallions, but they have never been able to achieve success.
Nowadays, a large number of Xiliang war horses have been brought back to Yangzhou. It can be said that they have accumulated a lot of accumulation. By then, these war horses will be bred with stallions from Taoshang's horse farm. In just one or two years, Tao Shang, Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and even the feudal lords in Xiliang will cause chaos.
The gap between the war horses will be filled. At that time, the northern princes will no longer have any advantage over the potters in terms of the number and combat power of their war horses.
"Oops!" When he thought of this, Cao Cao suddenly felt dizzy, and his head seemed to explode. He was sweating profusely from the pain, and he passed out suddenly.
Everyone on the left and right were shocked when they saw this, and hurriedly rescued Cao Cao and went to find a doctor.
What a pitiful generation of heroes. They had just defeated Yuan Shao, but they were so angry that they got a headache from the boy from the Tao family. It was really sad.
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After the potter returned to Pei, his troops met those led by Zhao Yun, Zhuge Liang and others.
Li Jue and Guo Si lost more than 7,000 horses, but not all of them were brought back by Zhao Yun and others. Zhao Yun and others actually brought back more than 4,500 horses to Pei.
As for the remaining ones... they are really lost, enriching nature's biological species library, and it is quite a waste.
But the number of more than 4,000 war horses was an astronomical number for a pottery merchant.
It should be noted that in the Jiangdong area ruled by the Sun family in history, when talking about the number of war horses in the military camp, the unit was hundreds.
In history, when Zhou Yu and Lu Meng attacked Jiangling, they captured 300 war horses at Yiling City. For them, it was already a great victory. At that time, this incident spread throughout the south of the Yangtze River, which greatly increased the prestige and morale of Jiangdong.
Vibrate.
Cao Ren, who was hostile to Zhou Yu at the time, was a little confused. It was just 300 war horses. How could Zhou Yu and Lu Meng be so arrogant? How could you be so arrogant?
Those who didn't know better thought they had captured 300 elephants.
But the so-called "Southern boat and North horse" is indeed not a simple proverb, but indeed the situation of regional supplies at that time.
Seeing the large group of northwest war horses that Zhao Yun brought back with them, the potter's eyes became slightly moist.
Seeing that the potter's eyes were a little red, Zhao Yun couldn't help but wonder: "Third brother, what's wrong with you? Why are you crying?"
The pottery merchant wiped the corners of his eyes and said, "It's okay, second brother, it's a joke... I just cried with pure joy... According to common people, it means I'm overjoyed."
Zhao Yun heard this and said curiously: "Third brother has never behaved in the slightest before the battle. Now he has just seen these thousands of horses. How can he be so stingy?"
Tao Shang sighed, not knowing how to explain to Zhao Yun.
If you don’t become a householder, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are.
After all, Zhao Yun is just an ordinary general who focuses on battles and drills. He is not like a pottery merchant who must focus on not only fighting, but also internal affairs and economy, and most importantly, team building.
Although the original Jinling Army was powerful, well-equipped, and rich, they just didn't have war horses!
It's like a modern army. Even if your soldiers' personal armaments are comprehensive, the enemies all drive tanks, and the battle will be awkward no matter how hard it is fought.
If God were to have his way and drop 4,500 heavily armored tanks from the sky all at once, whoever it was would be crying with joy.
This is human nature, Zhao Yun doesn't understand it, and neither do others.
Only Tao Shang, who had to think about the millions of people in the ten southeastern counties and the two hundred thousand troops eating, drinking, sleeping, sleeping, could understand the true feelings as soon as he opened his eyes.
Nowadays, there is only one word that can express the feeling of a potter, and that is happiness.