At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

So he ate a piece of fish cake deliciously, and opened his mouth slowly.

"The general should understand that the state of Xu and the state of Wei are on the same level? General Xu Guozuo and General Wei Guopingnan, which one is more promising? Don't the general know? Wei State seems to only have Jizhou and Xuzhou It's even, but is Wei really only one state?"

Chen Deng's eyes were very sharp: "Wei Guo, Xu Guo, how to choose, the general should have made a decision in his heart. In my opinion, the general's choice does not need to spend a lot of time."

Zang Ba was silent for a while, the barbecue was almost burnt, and he put the barbecue into the bowl.

"Wei Gong... how do you plan to attack Xuzhou?"

"Leaded by the Chen family, they united with more than ten families including the Mi family, the Zhang family, and the Zhao family, and jointly raised troops to attack Tao Gongzu from Xiapi. Can you still resist?

At this moment, if the general joins in and does some small things for me at the critical moment, then, can I predict the future of the general?General, the opportunity cannot be lost, and the loss will never come again. How should the general make a decision? "

Zang Ba silently ate a few pieces of barbecue, chewed them in big mouthfuls, then drank another glass of wine and took a deep breath.

"As a subject, can you betray your own king?"

"When we raised our troops, we were making a clean break with Tao Gongzu's Xu State. We will never be subjects of Xu State, a state of one state, and raise him as a monarch? Doesn't the general know that the south of the river is already fighting for this monarch? Is it? Who wants to enshrine a monarch with a state?"

Chen Deng spoke very seriously.

"Have you already decided? When will you do it?"

Zang Ba looked at Chen Deng.

"Soon, as long as the general agrees, we can do it soon."

After hearing Chen Deng's answer, Zang Ba fell silent.

Time passed little by little, and the charcoal fire that Zang Ba used to burn the iron pan was all extinguished.

The iron plate gradually cooled down, but Chen Deng was not worried, and slowly savored his favorite raw fish.

"I promise you."

Zang Ba still made the decision Chen Deng expected.

"The general is wise."

Chen Deng raised his glass: "Tao Gongzu is not the master of the Ming Dynasty. Tao Gongzu can no longer keep Xuzhou. The future of Xuzhou is definitely not in the hands of Tao Gongzu, let alone in the hands of his son. The future of Xuzhou lies in Duke Wei and the State of Wei."

Zang Ba took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and regained his inner peace.

"Hopefully it's the right decision I made."

"The general will not make a wrong decision, and the general will not regret this decision."

Zang Ba raised his wine glass, clinked glasses with Chen Deng, and drank the wine together.

Cao Bao had never been in their consideration. As Tao Qian's diehard loyalists, they knew very well that Cao Bao would never surrender or betray Tao Qian.

Cao Bao's army was the last difficulty for the Xuzhou people to get rid of Tao Qian.

Because there are quite a lot of Danyang people there, all of them are Tao Qian's fellow villagers, so it goes without saying how loyal they are, and Danyang has always been famous for producing elite soldiers, and Danyang's elite soldiers are not a small threat to Chen Deng.

It is not easy to let their private soldiers fight with Danyang soldiers, but if the target also includes Guo Peng's army, then it will be no problem.

For many years, Guo Peng's army has swept across the Central Plains, Hebei, and there are still invincible grasslands. They have never been defeated, and the worst is a tie. It's a sure thing.

Tao Gongzu is not a bad person, and he has also contributed to the governance of Xuzhou. He is good at protecting the environment and the people.

Even want to be a king!

Are you worthy?

Those who don't recognize themselves will have to pay the price for their arrogance and arrogance.

The sudden feudal state and the establishment of a country really shocked the people of the world, made them puzzled, resented, and even rose up to resist.

Not everyone can feud a state and build a country, and not everyone can become a monarch by relying on a decree. There are so many links that make one's scalp tingle.

Forging iron, you have to be hard.

Is Guo's hardness comparable to that of the other seven princes?

Obviously not, so there is no doubt that they were driven by their own desires to do stupid things, and successfully aroused the resentment of their subordinates and local powerful factions. The result is self-evident up.

A group of people resisted, and they all disagreed. Even if some people forcibly ascended the throne, many people opposed it, and even raised their troops to rebel. They absolutely did not agree with the ambitions of these local emperors.

Those who are weak can't even ascend to the throne.

However, Sun Ce played the first sound of the merger of the Warring States without thinking, which made the newly opened troubled times of the Warring States enter the merger stage in an instant.

And Guo Peng has already sharpened his sword against Xuzhou, and is preparing to attack Xuzhou to wipe out the second vassal state.

Isn't the demise of the second vassal state doomed?

However, at this moment, Tao Qian has not realized that the crisis has come.

To be precise, it wasn't that Tao Qian was incompetent, but that Tao Qian fell ill when Zang Ba was eccentric and the Chen family united with other major families to prepare for rebellion.

After all, Tao Qian was already very old. He had been worrying about his own rights and safety issues for a long time, did not get enough rest, and had a poor appetite. All these factors combined greatly shortened his life span.

Even so, in this era, Tao Qian is also a rare long-lived person, so his illness is not beyond anyone's expectation, and it is even taken for granted.

After Chen Deng learned about it, he was secretly happy, because Tao Qian's illness meant that his actions would go more smoothly.

The only support around Tao Qian is the Danyang Cao family, Cao Bao and Cao Hong. These two people have certain talents, but this talent is far from enough to help Tao Qian tide over the difficulties.

After Tao Qian fell ill, all the daily government affairs in Xuzhou were maintained by his successor, Tao Shang, the crown prince of Xu State.

Tao Qian's two sons, Tao Shang and Tao Ying, were not talented people, they were mediocre sons of the gentry, and they were far behind Tao Qian when he was young.

The lack of heirs is also an important reason why Xuzhou people abandoned Dow.

The pottery merchant is cowardly, indecisive, and incapable, and everything is handled with the help of Cao Hong.

Cao Hong couldn't do so many things by himself. He was too busy to wipe his ass for the pottery merchant, let alone spare time to fight wits and courage with Chen Deng.

So Zang Ba, who was a little hesitant before, no longer had any doubts after knowing that Tao Qian had fallen ill.

This reverse, he created.

If Tao Qian was still in charge, he would still be somewhat afraid, but now, he is not afraid anymore.

It's not that Cao Hong didn't notice the slightly unusual actions of Chen Deng and the others. He just couldn't find out what was going on. Originally, there were not many people around him who could help him. He dealt with this and that by himself. Focus on other things.

It was such a period of time that gave Chen Deng the time and space to connect the major family forces in Xuzhou and Zang Ba to prepare for the rebellion.

At the beginning of August in the fourth year of Xingping, the integration of the various anti-Tao Qian forces in Xuzhou headed by the Chen family has been successfully completed, and there are no more problems. Chen Deng has already grasped the situation in Xuzhou. into turmoil.

In fact he did as well.

chapter 508 five hundred eight

On the sixth day of August in the fourth year of Xingping, there was banditry in Xiapi County, which was changed into a county. Chen Deng used this as an excuse to go to Xiapi County to deal with the "banditry".

Ten days later, on August [-], Chen Deng officially announced his break with Tao Qian in his hometown, Huaipu County, Xiapi County.

Chen Deng's crusade against Tao Qian stated his position against Tao Qian's establishment as a monarch. He believed that Tao Qian was an arrogance. Trying to usurp the Han Dynasty.

So he decided to unite people from all over Xuzhou, and invited Guo Peng, the general of chariots and riders, to attack Tao Qian together, return Xuzhou to the Han Dynasty, and reject the establishment of Xu Dukedom.

It is worth mentioning that Ruo Rong, who was the prefect of Xiapi County at the time and was also from Danyang, chose to betray Tao Qian after hearing the news of Tao Qian's illness, and turned to support Chen Deng and joined the rebel army. He rushed forward with the rebels.

Chen Deng pulled up a force of 2 soldiers and formally attacked Tan County, the capital of Xuzhou.

After Chen Deng first proposed, there were also voices responding to Chen Deng in the three counties of Langya County, Pengcheng County, and Guangling County that changed the country into counties. The attack on Tan County shows signs of bringing order out of chaos.

The four counties except Donghai County rebelled together, and then Donghai County also rebelled.

The leader was the Mi family, and the leader was Mi Fang. Mi Fang mobilized the servants and retainers of the Mi family, got [-] soldiers and horses, and spent the family money to recruit soldiers and horses, and moved [-] troops from Quren County to Tan County.

All-out riots broke out in Xuzhou.

The five counties of Xuzhou rioted, and tens of thousands of troops marched towards Tan County in a mighty manner. The potters were frightened when they heard about it, and Cao Hong was also stunned for a long time, then gritted his teeth and hated Chen Deng.

He had discovered Chen Deng's anomaly, but he never expected that Chen Deng would actually dare to rebel, to lead troops against Tao Qian's rule, and start a civil war in Xuzhou.

And Chen Deng's rebellion was definitely not an accidental event, it was definitely planned, prepared, and relied on.

Damn it!Chen Yuanlong!Damn it!

Cao Hong was very annoyed, but the matter had come to this point, he had no other way, looking at the bewildered pottery merchant, he thought of Tao Qian who was still lying on the hospital bed.

I had no choice but to tell Tao Qian about this matter and ask Tao Qian for his opinion.

"Chen Yuanlong...rebelled?"

Tao Qian half-lyed on the hospital bed and stared at Cao Hong with wide eyes.

"Yes, Mr. Xu, Chen Yuanlong has joined forces with powerful people from all over Xuzhou to rebel in such a powerful way that there are even rebels in Donghai County. Chen Yuanlong's rebellion must not be limited to himself, there must be foreign enemies, and it must be Guo Zifeng's secret instigation! We We are already facing enemies all around and are in dire straits, what should we do now?"

Cao Hong looked at Tao Qian anxiously.

Tao Qian was stunned for a while, then opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of blood.

"Chen...yuan...long..."

Tao Qian covered his chest and gritted his teeth and yelled three words, then his eyes widened, his whole body trembled, and he fell straight on the bed and stopped moving.

Cao Hong's mind went blank for an instant.

Tao Qian died, his old and weak body couldn't stand the stimulation, so he was pissed off to death.

After a short period of collapse, Cao Hong quickly rectified his mood.

He knew that if the news of Tao Qian's death was announced at this time, then everything would really be over.

Tao Qian's prestige is not comparable to that of Tao merchants. Tao merchants can't stabilize the situation. Danyang soldiers trust Tao Qian, but they don't trust Tao merchants enough. Even Cao Bao's support is useless, and potters have no prestige.

The news of Tao Qian's death must be blocked and must not be known to outsiders.

Fortunately, Tao Qian has been living in seclusion since he fell ill, seeing no outsiders, leaving everything to the Tao merchant and Cao Hong, and now there is still room for change.

After figuring this out, Cao Hong immediately found Cao Bao and Tao Shang, and took them to see Tao Qian's body.

Cao Bao was shocked, and the potter's face was pale, and he collapsed on the ground and cried bitterly.

"Your Highness! Get up! Don't cry! You can't cry!"

Cao Hong supported the potter, then looked at Cao Bao.

"Now the only ones who can save the situation are us. Mr. Xu is dead, but the news cannot be leaked, otherwise we will all die without a place to die. The only thing we have to do now is to break through, protect His Highness, and return to our hometown in Yangzhou !"

After Cao Hong determined what they could do now, Cao Bao and Liushen Wuzhu were in a state of confusion, so they decided to follow what Cao Hong said, at least this is a way to survive.

Back home, relying on the Jiangdong Sun family, maybe there is still a way to survive, stay in Xuzhou, everything is over!

As for the scared potters, it really cannot be a reason for them to continue to struggle in Xuzhou.

Xuzhou couldn't stay any longer, so he had to leave.

After thinking for a while, Cao Hong decided to order Cao Bao and Zang Ba's troops to gather in the name of pottery merchants, and prepared to take the initiative to attack instead of staying in Tan County.

Right now, Cao Bao has about [-] troops under his command, with Danyang soldiers as the backbone, which is the most trustworthy and only trustworthy basic army under Tao Qian. In contrast, there are only more than [-] troops Zang Ba's Taishan soldiers are less trustworthy.

Tao Qian himself was more afraid of Zang Ba, because his native place was Yanzhou, not Yangzhou, nor Xuzhou.

Such an identity seemed a bit embarrassing, so Tao Qian used him, but also guarded against him.

At this time, Zang Ba's Taishan soldiers are a rare force. If they are well utilized, they can smoothly attack south and kill a bloody road, but Cao Hong can't use Zang Ba to carry out this plan with confidence.

He knew that if Zang Ba knew that Tao Qian was dead, he would definitely not continue to obey the orders of the pottery merchant, and he might turn his back immediately.

After much deliberation, Cao Hong thought of a way.

He declared that he would take the initiative to attack the rebels, and sent Zang Ba to fight southward to attack the rebels.

When this order was delivered to Zang Ba's barracks, Zang Ba hesitated for a while before making a decision.

The things that have been negotiated should be done to the end, without any hesitation, it is just the way to do things, and you can choose.

He quickly assembled the army, and then left the barracks to set off, but his purpose was not to fight against the rebels to the south, but to go all the way north without stopping.

Zang Ba's general Sun Guan was a little surprised by Zang Ba's actions.

"At this time, we can completely lead an army to raid the county seat. When Cao Bao has not reacted, we can capture the city, capture Tao Gongzu and his son, and kill Cao Hong. In this way, Cao Bao can't do anything alone, and we can set up more Great credit, why didn't the general do this?"

Zang Ba pursed his lips and sighed.

"After all, Tao Gongzu took me in when I was down and down, and was kind to me. Now that he is in trouble, even if I don't help him, I can't hurt him. Otherwise, wouldn't I be an unfaithful villain? In the world, can you do such an ungrateful thing?"