Chapter eight hundred and twentieth the person who can save me
After Tao Shang finished speaking in the school field, he immediately ordered his quartermaster to distribute grain and grass according to the number of people in each battalion, and asked generals above the centurion to report the number of people in each battalion and calculate the grain received by each battalion.
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Guo Jia had been watching from the side, and could not help but sweat dripping at this moment.
He hurriedly walked to the potter's side and whispered: "Before Zhang Zhao and Han Hao send new grain and grass, we only have this grain and grass, do you know?"
The potter put his hands behind his back and looked at the cheering generals of the three armies. He laughed and replied in a low voice: "Of course I know."
"Since you know this, why do you want to allocate all this food and grass? If you use it sparingly, you may be able to support it for more than a month. But now you let each battalion get it in advance, and you also promised each battalion that this would be half
Food for the moon! Are you trying to kill yourself?"
Tao Shang shook his head and said: "If I don't play like this, Cao Cao will play me to death first. Rumors have spread. If I don't act generously to reassure the army, the three armies will be confused and gone."
Morale, we're afraid we won't be able to survive even three days."
The voices of the centurions and captains who were receiving the food in the audience and being informed of the quantity also faintly reached their ears.
"This, so much food?"
"Isn't it a miscalculation?"
"This is not food for fifteen days. I feel that this is twice as much as usual!"
"The Prime Minister is worthy of being a Prime Minister, he is indeed generous!"
"You still say we don't have food? That's nonsense!"
"With the Prime Minister here, how can we cut off the food rations of our brothers?"
"Long live the Prime Minister, long live!"
"Long live!"
The sound of mountains roaring and tsunami rang in my ears, and the captains and centurions in the audience all shouted in unison. For a moment, all the generals were full of momentum, which was completely different from the hesitant and guessing behavior just now.
They are completely different.
The pottery merchant stood up and waved to the generals amidst the shouts of "Long Live the Mountain".
Guo Jia followed him and whispered: "The morale has improved, but what will happen in half a month?"
"Take it one step at a time, don't you see that I am now the one who is expected by everyone?"
"Now is the present, and in the future I'm afraid it will be..."
"Get through this moment first, and we'll talk about the rest later."
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News of Tao Shang's army soon spread back to Cao Ying.
The first person to get the news was Jia Xu, the head of Eagle Snake Mansion.
The facts were indeed as the pottery merchant expected. The person who spread and expanded the rumor and cholera affected the morale of the pottery merchant's army was Jia Xu.
Looking at the report given to him by the Eagle Snake Warrior, Jia Xu couldn't help but feel happy.
He gently handed the slip to the Eagle Snake priest and said, "Send it to Lord Sikong. He will naturally decide everything."
The Eagle Snake Master didn't say much, took the slip and left, leaving Jia Xu alone with his chin in thought.
"What a good pottery merchant, Tao Zidu, you are really interesting...Are you trying to draw out the fire under the cauldron? Although this trick is a good one to break my rumors, it also puts yourself in a dangerous place. Hehe, at least it's
From what I see now, no one can solve your predicament. No matter what wise ministers or generals you have under your command, they can't save you from this situation. I would like to see how you deal with the aftermath... If you can really break this situation
One game, then I have blinded myself."
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Pottery Camp, the pottery merchant's tent.
Guo Jia quietly valued the pottery merchant and said: "You are dead this time. In half a month, no matter how many wise ministers and generals you have, no one can help you! Do you know?"
The pottery merchant ignored him, but took out a roll of slips, unfolded them gently, then picked up a pen and stared blankly at the slips' background.
Guo Jiaqi asked: "What are you going to do?"
"Write a letter to someone who can help me."
Guo Jia was stunned when he heard this.
"Who can help you? Is there such a person in this world? Who is this powerful sage?"
The potter smiled slightly and said: "You people have a misunderstanding. Whenever you think of asking for help, you always count on those experts, wise men, and capable people. But you don't know that the people who can help us are often our closest relatives.
, sometimes even women.”
"Woman? Apart from helping you solve that problem, what else can a woman help you with?"
Tao Shang rolled his eyes at Guo Jia and was too lazy to talk to him.
It's impossible to communicate with a guy like this who doesn't know how to respect women.
After thinking hard for a long time, the pottery merchant couldn't think of anything good to say. In the end, he could only write four big words on the slip:
"Daughter-in-law, save me!"
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The pottery merchant's letter was rushed back to Diao Chan in Pengcheng Mansion by eight hundred miles.
After Diao Chan received the letter without saying a word, she called all the female relatives in the house to discuss it.
After hearing this, Lu Lingqi slammed the table angrily and said, "How dare the Cao and Liu armies to bully people like this? They teamed up to deal with our husband. If you don't agree, sister, I will immediately mount my horse and go to the front line tomorrow to help my husband fight the enemy."
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Diao Chan smiled and said: "Sister Lu is the most skilled in martial arts among us. I feel relieved that you will go to the front line to support the army on our behalf. However, I still need to solve the food and grass problem for my husband for a while."
After saying that, he dug his head towards Mi Zhen and Zhen Mi.
Mi Zhen stood up and said, "I'm going home now and asking my brother and the others for help."
Diao Chan nodded and said, "It's admirable that my sister understands justice so well, but with the financial resources of the Mi family, I'm afraid that she may not be able to help her husband overcome this difficulty. We still need..."
Yuan Wan said: "Prime Minister Tao asked me to sell off Yuan's properties some time ago. I have basically disposed of them, but I have also left some informants and channels in Qingzhou, so that I can turn these properties into money at any time.
To purchase military supplies and provide them to Prime Minister Tao, the distance from Qingzhou to Qufu is much closer than that from Jinling City."
Zhen Mi also said to Diao Chan: "My little sister is also willing to go back to Hebei and borrow grain from the nearest aocangs of the Zhen family and the cooperating nobles to support... Tao Xiang."
Diao Chan looked at them back and forth, her beautiful eyes flashing with gratitude and at the same time, she was deeply moved.
"Sisters, although I am not qualified...but I would like to thank you again on behalf of my husband for helping him get through this crisis."
Yuan Wan stood up and said: "Sister, what are you talking about? Even without him, just based on your relationship with us, we would naturally help to decide this matter."
Zhen Mi smiled and said: "Even though we are women, together we can equal an army of 100,000 people."
Lu Lingqi said anxiously: "It's not too late, we have to split up quickly."
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Two days later, the armies of Cao Cao and San Liu began to attack various fortresses where Tao Shang's army was located.
Leaving aside other places, Qufu City alone is the most important, the most important.
The pottery merchants went to the city in robes and personally presided over the war.
The city of Qufu is not high, so all the troops and horses cannot be stationed in the city, so they cannot exert their full power.
On the contrary, going out of the city to fight can give full play to the powerful advantages of one's own troops.
It was Cao Cao's main force who was responsible for the main attack on Qufu City.
Behind the death squads of Cao Jun's vanguard army, those responsible for suppressing the formation were Cao Jun's personal guards, the Liger Army, led by Dian Wei.