Although A Fei and Huang Xu are both young people, they obviously have two extreme personalities.
As a grown man in his twenties, Huang Xu cries whenever he has nothing to do. He has a sensitive heart and weak psychological endurance. To a certain extent, he can be called a fighter among old ladies.
Ah Fei is completely opposite to him, with a pure and innocent face.
It happened that these two young men with extreme personalities were Huang Zhong's biological son and Huang Zhong's godson.
Of course, Huang Xu was very reluctant to admit this fact in his heart.
"Prime Minister, I'm here specifically to ask for a fight." A Fei took a step forward and said to the pottery merchant: "Qian Zhao and Zhang He injured my foster father. As a human son..."
Huang Xu coughed lightly and interrupted: "It's the adopted son."
A Fei was careless and didn't care about Huang Xu's words, saying: "Whether it is a parent or an adopted son, my father is injured, how can I not take revenge? The general will ask for an order to send troops to fight Zhang He!"
Huang Xu was stunned when he heard this and began to look at A Fei again.
This brat, who talks straight and looks a little silly, is quite sincere in his feelings for his own father. If an adopted son is like this, how can he be left behind as his biological son?
Huang Xu also turned around and said: "Prime Minister... I, I also want to avenge my father."
The pottery merchant looked back and forth between the two of them, touched his chin and thought carefully for a while, then said: "If you two really want to avenge your father, I actually have an idea."
When A Fei and Huang Xu heard this, their spirits suddenly lifted.
The potter stood up, led the two boys to Pi Tu, and said: "Handan City can be regarded as a fortified city in Jizhou. It is an important part of our next attack on Wei County and the opening of the east line to Yecheng's grain road.
However, Jizhou is open to all directions, and although the grain transportation route from Handan is a good route, it does not mean that it is the only route. We can do some tricks on this."
A Fei and Huang Xu just stared at the pottery merchant.
Obviously, these two boys couldn't understand it.
The pottery merchant sighed deeply when he saw this, and did not explain much to them.
He pointed to the counties around Handan on the map and said: "I will give you two a road map later. You two will follow the road map and go to the nearby county while pretending to harass and explore the path, but you will
Don't attack the city, remember, just harass it...can you do that?"
The two of them clasped their fists at the same time and accepted the order.
After accepting the order, Huang Xu said worriedly: "Um, Prime Minister...I, I have never led an army before..."
The pottery merchant sighed, feeling helpless.
This kid got scared before he could be beaten.
"It doesn't matter if you haven't led an army before. I will send Liu Pi and Gong Du to go with you. If there is anything you don't understand during the march, just ask them."
Huang Xu bowed to Mr. Tao and said, "Young man, I understand."
The pottery merchant also ordered Tong Fei and Huang Xu to sew large flags for use in the expedition.
In addition, he also specifically asked Pei Qian not to hide Huang Xu's identity, but to spread the news so that everyone in the camp would know that Huang Zhong's son had come to avenge him.
By then, the news will naturally be known to Qian Zhao.
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A few days later, county magistrates from surrounding counties sent emergency documents to Handan City, saying that they had been harassed by the Jinling Army.
Qianzhao immediately approached Zhang He for discussion.
"Jun Yi, you wounded Huang Zhong last time. Now you heard from the scouts that they were Huang Zhong's two sons. They asked the pottery merchant to lead troops to raid the surrounding counties. In the past two days, all the small counties were attacked.
There are no less than seven requests for help coming to report."
Zhang He stood up, took the things from Qian Zhao's hand, and looked through them bit by bit.
When I was young, I saw Qianzhao saying: "Huang Xu... what else is there? It is said that these two are both Huang Zhong's sons. Now they are harassing everyone. According to the report of the detective, they are to avenge the pottery merchant, but I always feel that Things will not be that simple, so I came to Junyi to discuss things."
Zhang He listened and nodded: "The general is right. In my opinion, there is something fishy about this matter."
Qianzhao thought for a long time and said: "Jun Yi's words are very reasonable. I feel that this seems to be the pottery merchant's plan to lure us. Let us disperse our troops to various places to pursue the Jinling army that is harassing various counties to tire them out." Our army’s strategy.”
Lianzhao's words are consistent with common sense, but in Zhang He's view, there are still some flaws.
If it were anyone else, Zhang He might still agree with Qianzhao's inference, but as for the pottery merchant, Zhang He did not dare to take it lightly.
Compared to Qian Zhao, Zhang He still believed that he knew the pottery merchant better than him. After all, he had been in love with the pottery merchant back then. During that period, he and the pottery merchant also had a good relationship.
"General Qian, I believe that Tao Shang is full of tricks. He sent Huang Zhong's two sons to harass everywhere, and it is not just a simple plan to weaken the army."
Qianzhao raised his eyebrows: "What's Junyi's advice?"
Zhang He said while thinking: "The reason why the pottery merchants want to capture Handan is just to have a smooth grain road when they attack Yecheng next time. At present, on the surface, the road from Handan City to Wei County is the most difficult one." A good choice, but there are actually some other paths, which are not bad..."
After listening to Zhang He's words, Qianzhao suddenly realized.
He suddenly slapped his forehead and realized: "What Jun Yi means is that the pottery merchants want to cover up the situation, but in fact they want to take advantage of the opportunity of disturbing the counties to find other food routes."
Zhang He nodded and said: "This is exactly the reason."
Qianzhao stood up and paced back and forth in the hall, thinking carefully about Zhang He's words. The more he listened, the more reasonable he felt, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt it was right.
"Jun Yi, you have lived in Jizhou for a long time and are quite familiar with the terrain and routes here. In your opinion, other than taking our Handan route through the insurance grain road of Wei County, is there any other way? Walk?"
Zhang He thought carefully for a while and said: "It seems that there really is a place that can be used as a grain road to Yecheng."
Qianzhao stood up in a hurry and said, "Where?"
Zhang He walked to the map and pointed out: "There is a small road between Quzhou County and Qiu County in the east. You can go south along the Zhangshui River to Yecheng. To the west of this small road is Quzhou County. It happens to be between Handan Chang and this small road. As long as the pottery merchants send troops to conquer Quzhou County and Qiu County and send heavy troops to guard it, this small road will be protected. From our position in Handan, we cannot cut it off. Liang Dao."
Qianzhao touched his chin and said, "You mean, the pottery merchant wants to seize this trail and the two county towns?"
Zhang He shook his head and said: "This is just a guess. I don't dare to make false claims."
Qianzhao raised his hand and blocked Zhang He's modest words: "Let's not worry about whether the pottery merchant thinks this way, but we must be careful about this matter. Let's carefully observe the potter's movements first. If he really wants to If we act like this, it won’t be too late for us to find ways to deal with it.”