There are gentlemen in the Three Kingdoms

"any solution?"

"No food!"

"Out of food?" Liu Bei looked at Cao Cao suspiciously.

Cao Cao stood up and pointed at the Pitu behind him: "There are hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers under the potter's command, and their daily consumption is huge, and they are dispatched from the rear to Qufu. Presumably, they may not be able to meet the daily military expenses of these generals. , he must have arranged a huge granary near here that can store grain in large quantities. As long as we can find this place and burn it, the Tao merchant army will not fight, and when the time comes, we will conquer the Tao camp best chance ever.”

Liu Bei stroked his beautiful beard and nodded as he listened: "Cao Sikong's words are very kind, but where is the pottery store's grain storage, but we can't find it now, so what can we do?"

Cao Cao stood up and said, "Cao has been thinking about it for a long time, but only Mr. Xuande can complete this matter for our coalition forces."

Liu Bei looked at Cao Cao suspiciously, but he heard him say, "If you want to find out where the pottery stores store grain, you can only find out the clues by night raids."

"Night raid?" Liu Bei frowned, and said, "How can a night raid be able to find out where the pottery merchants are storing grain?"

Cao Cao smiled and said: "As long as we send people to raid the camps of the pottery merchants, the pottery merchants will be caught off guard, and the first thought must be to focus on protecting the safety of the grain storage. Go to the food storage place to help prevent attacks, but if he really does so, it will actually expose the location of his grain storage place. Everyone knows that the personnel of the school office under the Tao merchant are good at investigating, but they don't know The investigative skills of the eagle and snake warriors under Cao’s command are not inferior to him, as long as the potter makes a little move, the Eagle and Snake Mansion will definitely be able to find out the truth."

Liu Bei pondered for a moment, then said: "Listen to what Cao Sikong said, do you want to leave this matter to Bei?"

Cao Cao laughed loudly: "The opponent is a pottery merchant. The person who handles this matter must be a general with both wisdom and courage. From Cao's point of view, among all the people, only Xuande Gong is capable of this matter. I am afraid that others will not let him." The potter has revealed his flaws."

If Cao Cao's words were applied to others, he might be fooled by him, but the person he is fooling now is Liu Bei, who is the best at fooling others. How could he be easily fooled by others?

He pondered carefully for a while, and then said: "This matter is of great importance, let Bei go back and discuss it with Brother Jing Sheng."

Cao Cao nodded with a smile: "This matter is important, Mr. Xuande is right to be more cautious."

Liu Bei immediately got up to say goodbye to Cao Cao. Not long after his figure disappeared outside the commander's tent, Xun You asked Cao Cao, "Will this man really go?"

Cao Cao gently rubbed his forehead and said with a smile, "He will definitely go."

"Liu Bei seems to be quite shrewd. Duke Ming wants to use his ideas, but he may not be unable to see it."

Cao Cao chuckled and said, "So what if you see it? If you see it, he will definitely do it."

Xun You arched his hands: "Please ask Ming Gong to explain one or two things."

Cao Cao said with a smile: "Liu Bei is a sincere gentleman on the surface, but in fact he is an ambitious person. Do you think he is willing to live under Liu Biao? The year before last when he attacked Zhang Xian in Jingnan, the Eagle and Snake Warrior brought back news that this person Soliciting people's hearts in the Jingnan and Jingzhou armies, erecting kindness everywhere, and gathering people's hearts is really the behavior of wolves. For such people, the more opportunities they have to lead the army alone, the more prestige they can establish, the more they can He will not let go of this opportunity to achieve great things in the future, even if Cao is using him."

Xun You heard the words and said with emotion: "When it comes to the ability to know people, we are really far behind Sikong."

Cao Cao sat down slowly, and said, "Now, let's wait for Liu Bei and Liu Biao's letter."

After Liu Bei went back and thought about it carefully, he immediately made up his mind and went to meet Liu Biao, expressing his intention to steal the camp.

Liu Biao was very surprised and said: "The camp of the pottery merchant is not waiting for nothing, my brother's move is quite risky."

Liu Bei said to Liu Biao: "Although my move is risky, if I can use this method to find out where Ming pottery stores store grain, Bei will die, but he will die well."

When Liu Bei said this, his expression was extremely sad, and he burst into tears, which made people feel moved.

Seeing Liu Bei like this, Liu Biao heaved a long sigh and said, "Since that's the case, you can choose some generals you want to do this, it doesn't matter whether you win or lose, it doesn't matter whether the sneak attack is successful or not, but you have to come back safely. "

Liu Bei hastily saluted Liu Biaochang, and said: "Being mindful of my brother's words, then I will choose Wei Yan, the school lieutenant, and Wenpin, the general of Zhenbei, as assistants. I also ask my brother to agree."

Liu Biao didn't think too much, and nodded in agreement.

Liu Bei immediately walked out of the commander's tent and went to order troops. He hadn't gone far when he heard someone behind him calling him, "General Zuo, wait a moment."

Liu Bei turned his head to look, but it was Pang Tong who chased him out from the commander's tent.

Chapter 8: Night Raid

Although Pang Tong was young, he was related to Mr. Pang De after all. Moreover, he was very talented. Liu Bei still had a deep impression of him.

Liu Bei bowed his hands to Pang Tong and said, "So it's Mr. Shi Yuan. I don't know what's the matter with Mr. Bei?"

Pang Tong saluted Liu Bei with a smile, and said: "Mr. Xuande is a hero in the world, why is he being used by others? Could it be that you really can't see the intention of the person who advised you to attack the pottery merchant at night?"

Liu Bei's right eyelid twitched slightly, he pretended not to understand, and said, "What does Mr. Shi Yuan mean, but Bei doesn't understand."

Pang Tong didn't say anything to him, but just said to himself: "Cao Sikong is the one who gave Duke Xuande this strategy of attacking at night, right?"

Seeing that Pang Tong spoke so directly, Liu Bei knew that he couldn't be fooled, so he simply told him the truth.

"Bei went to Cao Cao's tent today to discuss with him the matter of fighting against pottery merchants. Cao Cao reminded him that he had just realized the method of attacking food at night. It's just that Cao has some selfish intentions. Although he has a plan, he doesn't want to let the generals under his command take risks. , So I urged me to attack the pottery merchants at night and think carefully, and felt that since there is a way to unite the three armies, we must not delay the big event for my own self-interest, so I recommended myself to attack the pottery merchants at night."

Liu Bei's words showed both sincerity and righteousness, but they moved Pang Tong so much.

This Nima is a real hero.

At that moment, Pang Tong bowed his hands to Liu Bei and said: "Mr. Xuande is so righteous and disregards his own safety for the sake of the overall situation. Pang Tong is willing to go to Cao Ying and Liu Jingzhou with his three-inch tongue to persuade them to send a The generals under his command are harassing the outside, creating momentum for Duke Xuande to facilitate this matter."

Liu Bei bowed to Pang Tong long and said, "Thank you, Mr. Shiyuan, for your help."

Pang Tong hastily stepped forward to help Liu Bei up, touched his hand, bared his teeth and exclaimed, "What a hero, what a hero!"

When he said this, Pang Tong stared hard at Liu Bei with both eyes, without concealing the color of admiration inside, while holding Liu Bei's hand, he touched it again and again.

For some reason, Liu Bei was a little embarrassed to be looked at by him, he straightened up with goosebumps, pulled his hand out of Pang Tong's palm without leaving a trace, and said, "There is Lao Shiyuan."

Pang Tong was moved by Liu Bei's high righteousness, and he returned to the commander's account first. He understood it with emotion and moved it with reason. He spit and splashed and confused Liu Biao's words, and promised to support Liu Bei with all his strength.

Immediately afterwards, he went to Cao Cao's commander's account again, and showed great righteousness to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao admired Pang Tong in the first place, and after being persuaded by him, he was thinking that since Liu Bei went out according to his own plan, if he didn't work hard, he would be somewhat dishonest, so he immediately agreed to send all the ministries under his command to help, and at the same time wrote to Yan at the front line Okay, let him cooperate with Liu Bei too.

Tonight, the wind is high and the air is crisp, and the night is blurred. The potters have nothing to do, and they accompany Zhuge Liang to watch the sky at night.

Zhuge Liang is an all-rounder and is interested in all subjects, especially stargazing at night, which is one of his deepest pursuits.

After all, according to the ancients, astrology can correspond to the human world in a sense, and the movement of celestial bodies can sometimes see through the future and calculate everything.

If you study this thoroughly, it will be such a heaven-defying skill.

Much better than fortune-telling.

"The bucket handle points to the east, and the world is spring; the bucket handle points to the south, and the world is summer." Zhuge Liang took this pen to record on the bamboo slips while watching, and silently muttered some things that the pottery merchant could not understand.

"Well, according to tonight's celestial trajectory, there may be earthquakes in the southeast of thousands of miles in the coming year, and there may be a bountiful harvest in the north during the next year's autumn harvest."

The potter leaned his head over and said in amazement: "Is it so miraculous? Can you even calculate the harvest and earthquake? Is it true or not? Are you making nonsense because you see me standing here and are afraid of losing face? "

Zhuge Liang showed an aggrieved look: "Teacher, how can you say that? The trajectories of celestial bodies naturally have their own laws of operation, and the same is true for everything in the world. All things in this world, in the dark, naturally correspond to the laws of the celestial bodies." The trajectory of movement, this is the law of nature and all things left by the ancients, how can it be called nonsense?"

The pottery merchant smiled slightly: "Is it true or not? Is it so magical? You can figure out things in the world by looking at the stars?"

"Of course, the ancients never deceived me." Zhuge Liang said confidently.