There are gentlemen in the Three Kingdoms

The pottery merchant calmed Qu Lao and comforted him by saying that all of this was a definite number. Although there were few Yangzhai Confucians accompanying Qu Lao, there were not many talented people, and he would continue to uphold his ideas and develop a private school near Jinling City. , then I will have to ask Elder Qu for a lot of help.

After sending off Mr. Qu, the pottery merchant immediately issued an order to the three armies to withdraw the whole army to Peiguo.

According to the calculation of time, the pottery merchant decided Zhao Yun, Zhuge Liang and others' actions over there were almost over, and the work of helping them attract Cao Cao's attention here was basically completed.

Although the situation of poaching Yingchuan's private school talents was not satisfactory, at least they brought back a few, so it was worth it if they didn't leave empty-handed.

The potter's actions were very fast, and suddenly he pulled out his stronghold and set off to return to Peiguo. The speed was as fast as lightning, which was beyond the imagination of others.

When the news reached Cao Cao, Cao Cao was paying attention to Yingchuan's private school while arranging farms.

Hearing that the potters withdrew their troops, Cao Cao's mind went blank!

After a while, the first thought that popped into his mind was: Oops!Cao must have fallen for that brat's trick again!

But the problem is, Cao Cao never figured out what was the point of the potters staying near Yingchuan for such a period of time while they were going to pay homage to Kong Ni.

Just when Cao Cao couldn't figure it out, Jia Xu rushed back from Luoyang and reported to Cao Cao the harvest of his plan to the north.

But Cao Cao interrupted Jia Xu before he could report.

He gave Jia Xu a complete account of his battles with the pottery merchant during this period of time.

After finishing his statement, Cao Cao immediately said: "He, in your opinion, what is the pottery merchant planning in this situation? Cao has thought about it for a long time, but he has never figured out the key point! I hope you can explain it to Cao. confused."

Jia Xu half-closed her eyes, thought for a while, and understood it in her heart.

But in front of Cao Cao, the old poison was not easy to say something directly, while offending others, he said: "Ming Gong might as well go to the Guandu battlefield or the direction of Zhongmou County to inquire, maybe you will gain something."

Chapter 587 The Four Thousand and Five Horses

What a fine man Cao Cao is, he immediately understood what Jia Xu meant.

He knew that Jia Xu was a low-key person. Currently under his command, apart from doing things conscientiously, he rarely showed the limelight, and he was especially unwilling to offend his colleagues. Cao Cao had long been used to the inexplicable way he spoke.

With Cao Cao's wisdom, it is not difficult for him to guess what Jia Xu is referring to, but it is a bit brain-intensive.

But right now, Cao Cao immediately realized that according to Jia Xu, the potter's real purpose might be Li Jue and Guo Si.

Big drops of sweat instantly appeared on Cao Cao's forehead.

What a sinister brat!Sure enough, he was tricked again!

Cao Cao didn't dare to delay, and hastily ordered his subordinates to immediately send capable spies to Zhongmou County to investigate information for him.

In less than two days, the spies brought back the news for Cao Cao from Zhongmou County.

Li Jue and Guo Si ran amok outside Zhongmou County, slaughtered cattle and sheep, forced the city to demolish the village, and disturbed order, let alone these.

But they were tricked by unknown figures, the barracks were chaotic, the horses were frightened, and ten thousand war horses wandered around. Nearly seven thousand horses were lost, and only two thousand horses have been recovered by him so far.

When Cao Cao heard the news, his face turned green instantly.

Li Jue and Guo Si are two bastards!It's just a waste of waste!

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 not lacking does not mean not thinking about it. I have never heard of a rich person who thinks he is too rich.

The nearly [-] horses of the Xiliang Army really made Cao Cao salivate. He was busy thinking about how to deal with Yuan Shao a while ago, and it was inconvenient to seize the military power from Li and Guo. But now that Yuan Shao is defeated, the general situation is set. 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 their own hands.

In this way, after careful planning, his strength can definitely be improved several levels in a row.

After destroying Yuan Shao in the future and annexing the others, Cao Cao can replace Yuan Shao and become the most powerful force in the world.

But the dream is very full, the reality is very backbone.

I have an orderly plan, but these two bastards, Li Jue and Guo Si, got mixed up!

Cao Cao now wished he could call back Li and Guo and kill them with one knife, then sew their heads on and continue killing them for three days and three nights.

But reason told Cao Cao that he couldn't do this.

Six or seven thousand horses were lost, but Li Jue still had the Flying Bear Army under his command, which was a very powerful elite.

And more importantly, since Li Jue's war horses were not available, Cao Cao had to change his original strategy. His next step was to conquer Guanzhong as soon as possible, annex Xiliang, and introduce a large number of war horses from Xiliang to enrich his army. His tiger and leopard cavalry, and Li Jue and Guo Si, who are Xiliang generals, should play a role that cannot be ignored.

But Cao Cao couldn't swallow this breath!

The one surnamed Tao is really annoying.

The potter's biggest weakness was that he didn't have enough horses to form a huge cavalry group to compete with him.

In the past when he was fighting with himself, Dong Zhuo, or Yuan Shao's cavalry, the pottery merchant dared to fight head-on. He relied on the terrain, tactics, or the weather, or the Jinling Liannu to change his disadvantages, so that he could fight against him. The princes of the northern land fought back and forth.

But that kind of uncertainty comes from luck, and God will not favor him every time!As for the fact that the Jinling Liannu was able to take such a big advantage in the first place, it was only because our side didn't know much about it. Now that we understand its power and performance, we only need to take precautions in future battles, or use our strengths to avoid weaknesses. Cao Cao believes that one day, sooner or later, he will The tiger and leopard cavalry will deal a devastating blow to the potter.

But now, six or seven thousand war horses have been snatched back by potters!

The Eagle Snake Mansion under Cao Cao's command found out early on that the pottery merchant had captured two slaves from the Southern Huns in his early years.

These two slaves are quite knowledgeable. In recent years, they have attracted many horse breeds for the potter, opened a horse farm for him, carefully raised and trained all kinds of war horses and stallions, but they have not been successful.

Today, a large number of war horses from Xiliang have been brought back to Yangzhou. It can be said that they have accumulated a lot of money. At that time, these war horses will be bred with the stallions of the potter's horse farm. The gap between the war horses will be filled. At that time, the northern princes will no longer have any advantage in the number and combat power of their war horses in front of the potters.

"Oops!" Thinking of this, Cao Cao suddenly became dizzy, as if his head was about to explode, he was sweating profusely from the pain, and passed out all of a sudden.

Everyone on the left and right was shocked when they saw this, and hurriedly rescued Cao Cao and went to the doctor.

A generation of poor heroes, just defeated Yuan Shao, but got a headache from the Tao family's brat, it is really embarrassing.

After the pottery merchant returned to Peiguo, his army and horses led by Zhao Yun, Zhuge Liang and others happened to meet.

Li Jue and Guo Si lost more than 7000 war horses, but not all of these were brought back by Zhao Yun and others. Zhao Yun and others actually brought back more than 500 war horses to Peiguo.

As for the remaining ones, they are really lost, enriching the biological species pool of nature, which is very useless.

But the number of more than [-] war horses is an astronomical figure for potters.

It should be known that in the Jiangdong land under the leadership of the Sun family in history, when it comes to the number of war horses in the camp of the military lords, they all use hundreds of horses as the unit.

In history, when Zhou Yu and Lu Meng attacked Jiangling, they seized [-] war horses under Yiling City. For them, it was already a great victory. At that time, this incident spread all over the south of the Yangtze River, which made Jiangdong's prestige and morale great. vibration.

At that time, Cao Ren, who was hostile to Zhou Yu, was a little confused, but there were only [-] war horses, how could Zhou Yu and Lu Meng be embarrassed to such an extent?Why do you want to be so arrogant?

Those who didn't know thought they had seized [-] elephants.