The pottery merchant rushed into Qi Valley. What he saw along the way was crying soldiers, burned grain stacks, broken walls, and soldiers running around to save the fire. He couldn't help but feel a raging feeling in his heart.
anger.
The potter felt like he hadn't been so angry in years.
Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Liu Biao, Liu Zhang...and the princes of Guanzhong, just wait!
When he was young, the pottery merchant came to Zhao Yun under the guidance of his scouts.
As soon as he saw Zhao Yun, the pottery merchant froze on the spot.
At this time, Zhao Yun had already taken off his clothes and armor with the help of soldiers, and was bare-armed, revealing his body covered in blood.
There were gunshot wounds and knife wounds behind him, but he had not fallen down. He was sitting quietly on a stone pier, his back straight and his eyes looking straight ahead. Although his body was covered in blood, his momentum was still intact.
Several medical officers were surrounding Zhao Yun, applying medicine, bandaging, and stopping the bleeding.
Tao Shang walked quickly to his side, grabbed an older medical officer with the army, and said, "How is General Zhao's injury?"
There was a hint of bitterness on the old medical officer's face, he shook his head and sighed: "Prime Minister, General Zhao's injury, I'm afraid, I'm afraid it's not..."
The potter's head felt as if he had been struck by lightning.
He hurriedly walked to Zhao Yun and held his hand tightly, with tears in his eyes.
"Second brother!"
There was no trace of blood on Zhao Yun's pale face. Although the wound on his chest was bandaged with white cloth, the blood printed on the white cloth was particularly eye-catching, and it seemed that it could not stop the flow of blood in his body at all.
But his expression seemed unconcerned: "Third brother."
Tao Shang shook his head and said: "I'm not a good brother. I didn't see through the other party's stupid plan. It hurts you, second brother..."
A smile appeared on Zhao Yun's lips: "Some things cannot go against God's will after all. Third brother, you don't need to blame yourself too much."
Tao Shang's heart was like a knife and he couldn't help himself.
"Second brother, I can't help you... Don't worry, I will avenge you no matter what. I will definitely kill Liu Bei and Cao Cao!"
Zhao Yun was very emotional after hearing this, but then he thought about it and it seemed a bit strange.
He said to Tao Shang: "Third brother, I heard what you said, why do you still want to say that I am going to die? Your second brother, I just suffered some injuries. It looks scary, but it's not serious."
hinder."
Tao Shang was stunned when he heard this. He looked at Zhao Yun who looked like a bloody man and whispered: "Second brother, didn't the medical officer tell you the truth?"
Zhao Yun frowned and said, "That's true, but he didn't say that I would die? Did you lose sight of your errand?"
At this moment, the medical officer rushed to the pottery merchant and gasped out of breath: "Prime Minister, why did you leave before I finished what I just said? I just told you,
General Zhao's injury, I'm afraid, won't be easy to heal, so he needs to rest for a while."
The potter's face suddenly turned dark.
He stood up, smiled at the old medical officer, and said, "Why are you breathing heavily when you talk?"
The old medical officer sighed helplessly and said: "Old, I am Cong, Cong is like this...I always gasp for breath."
Tao Shang patted him on the shoulder and said: "This is a disease that needs to be cured. You are a medical officer, why can't you cure your mouth? Go back and fix this problem quickly, otherwise you will not only harm yourself, but also harm yourself."
people."
"No, no, no!"
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The pottery merchant asked people to take good care of Zhao Yun, and then went to find Li Tong. It had been a while since the time to put out the fire. Although there were still little fires burning everywhere, they no longer posed a particularly big hazard.
Ancient people were much more efficient at fighting fires than later generations. They relied on manpower to manually transport water and sand to control the fire. It would be okay if the water source was not far from the fire point, but once the fire point was too huge, it would be more troublesome.
People have a headache.
Fortunately, there is a water source in Qi Valley, right next to Tunliang Camp.
When the potter met Li Tong, Li Tong himself was still unkempt and his face was smoky.
Judging from this situation, Li Tong seemed to have suffered a lot tonight, at least he went into battle to put out the fire himself.
After all, he can be regarded as the commander-in-chief of an army. It is not easy to achieve this level.
The potter stepped forward, reached out and patted his shoulder: "Wenda, you really worked hard this time."
Li Tong hurriedly clasped his fists at the pottery merchant and said: "I don't dare. The general failed to protect the grain. He was attacked by Liu Bei and caused such losses. I am really ashamed. Even if I die a hundred times, I cannot forgive my sin."
The pottery merchant gently waved his hand and said: "It has nothing to do with you. It's because I was tricked by the other party this time... Forget it, we will just find the place again in the future. Our losses this time will probably be equal to
How many?"
Li Tong wiped the sweat from his head and whispered: "A lot...far more than what has been preserved."
"About how many?"
Li Tong lowered his head and said a number to the pottery merchant.
The smile on the potter's face became somewhat stiff.
"So much...that means that the remaining food and fodder is only enough for my army to use and dispatch for a month?"
Li Tong nodded helplessly.
Tao Shang sighed. He had 300,000 soldiers and horses under his command, which cost a lot of food and fodder every day. But fortunately, Jinling and Xuzhou were rich, so it was not a big problem.
Ever since he took charge of the army, except when he first fought against the White Wave Army, he never seemed to worry about food and grass.
But this time, the situation was a bit beyond his imagination.
He arranged for Han Hao, Zhang Zhao, Chen Qun and others to help him collect these grains from various counties. Now that he has lost so much, the remaining grains and fodder are only enough for one month...
Not to mention whether we can collect enough food and grass in this month, even if we can raise it, so much military supplies can only be coordinated and dispatched from the counties and townships in the south of the Yangtze River.
Transporting it to the frontline army, just these tasks may take more than a month...
If he wanted to replenish the general's supplies of food and grass, depending on the abilities of Zhang Zhao, Chen Qun and others, the pottery merchant estimated that it would take at least two months for them.
But in this way, there is a one-month time difference.
This matter is somewhat difficult to handle.
The pottery merchant rubbed his brows helplessly, beginning to feel a little worried.
In the Battle of Guandu that year, when faced with Yuan Shao's overwhelming army of soldiers and soldiers, who were like wolves and tigers, he didn't seem to find it as difficult as he did today.
"Prime Minister?" Li Tong's voice interrupted the pottery merchant's thoughts: "What should we do next?"
The pottery merchant thought for a while and said: "Check the remaining grain and transport it to the main camp. There is only one month's worth of grain, so there is no need to specially buy a place to store grain. It will all be shipped to the army... As for what to do next, I will do it myself.
There is a way."
Tao Shang's words are purely bragging. He just wants to stabilize the morale of the army first. As for the method, he really doesn't have any good ideas at the moment.
He is not a master of printing money. If he wants to make money, he can make money, let alone food.
But right now, for Tao Shang, the simplest and most direct way is to defeat the alliance of Cao Cao and San Liu within a month!
But the problem is that this difficulty does not seem to be any lower than raising food.