There are gentlemen in the Three Kingdoms

"They join forces?" The pottery merchant snorted, "With my current power, I'm not afraid."

"The key is where they are." Guo Jia said with a sad face, "Xichuan's terrain is too dangerous. If Cao Cao joins the alliance of Liu Bei and Liu Zhang, and they work together to defend Xichuan, you will gather millions of soldiers. If you want to enter I'm afraid it's not easy."

Chapter 891 Plan and Apply Poison

Guo Jia's words aroused the idea of ​​the potter. He thought about it carefully, and it seemed that things were really like what Guo Jia said. If Cao Cao really joined forces with Liu Zhang and others to stick to Xichuan, he would really be unable to fight for a while. go in.

If one is not done well, it may be that Xichuan cannot be taken down in a few years, or even decades.

But now that Wuguan has been conquered, it is imperative to concentrate our forces and go north to defeat Guanzhong.

However, according to the Tao merchant's understanding of Cao Cao, if nothing else happened, he should have summoned the princes of Guanzhong to gather in the pass by now, waiting for a big battle and a duel with him.

After Cao Ang, Cao Zhang, Cheng Yu and others arrived in Luoyang, they made peace with Zhong Yao who was guarding here.

Zhong Yao has been in Luoyang for many years, and Xi Xiang exerted a lot of pressure on Guanzhong for Cao Cao, and won many princes from Guanzhong to surrender for Cao Cao. Of course, the sincerity and purpose of these princes' surrender is still open to discussion.

But now that the pottery merchants are rushing to Guanzhong with their troops, the princes of Guanzhong can't sit still.

After all, Guanzhong is their separatist territory, if the pottery merchants were to attack in, I am afraid that their current life will never be there again, this will be the most terrifying future ordeal for them.

In Luoyang City, Zhong Yao met with the princes of Guanzhong who came to support him, and they discussed the next strategy against pottery merchants.

Ma Teng was relatively calm among the princes, and he said to them: "Now the army of pottery merchants is going north from Wuguan. In my eyes, I might as well stick to Luoyang. With the strength of Luoyang city, it should be no problem to fight against them."

Zhong Yao pondered: "Although Luoyang City is strong and we have a lot of soldiers and horses, facing the elite soldiers of pottery merchants, I'm afraid we can defend it once, but we can't defend it the second time. time, this third time"

A group of high-five and three-thick Guanzhong princes below were all pouted when they heard this.

What is this?

Why do you say such things before the battle is over?

This is not to suppress one's morale for nothing.

It was at this moment that a scout hurried into the hall and said to Zhong Yao: "Junshou, the enemy's army has arrived a hundred miles outside our city of Luoyang."

"Baili" Zhong Yao stroked his beard lightly, and murmured: "It's really fast, the one surnamed Tao really didn't waste any time."

Speaking of this, Ma Chao stood up behind Ma Teng and said, "Doctor Zhong, in this situation, should we stick to the city or go out to fight?"

Zhong Yao turned to look at the scout, and asked, "Is the potter's march fast?"

"Not too slow! According to my deduction, before the sun sets, his soldiers and horses will be able to reach Luoyang City thirty miles away."

"Thirty miles?" Zhong Yao pondered for a while, and said, "If that's the case, then why should we carry out a surprise attack tonight?"

"Sneak attack?" Everyone was stunned when they heard the words.

When I was young, I saw Ma Chao standing up and saying: "Mr. Zhong, although the last general is not good at planning, he also knows that the potters and Guo Jia are good at planning. They came to station from afar. As soon as they settled down, we went to attack , it’s a bit inferior, right? It will definitely be seen through by them.”

Zhong Yao didn't seem to be in a hurry, he stroked his beard, and said with a smile: "So what if you see through? So what if you don't see through? Originally, our goal is not to win these two night raids, but the key is to deter the opponent. .”

"Shock the other party?" Everyone was a little confused.

Ma Chao cupped his hands at Zhong Yao, and said, "Please tell Mr. Zhong frankly."

Zhong Yao smiled and said to Ma Chao: "If our soldiers and horses are all huddled in Luoyang City, using Luoyang City as a barrier, and sticking to it without fighting, it will be easy to enhance the arrogance of the Jinling Army over time. , is extremely disadvantageous.”

When everyone heard what Zhong Yao said, they all nodded suddenly.

"I see."

"This is not intended to show weakness to the enemy."

"It's Mr. Zhong who has insight!"

Everyone, you say something, I say something, and then Zhong Yao gave orders to everyone for a while, and finally let the princes of Guanzhong go out to prepare.

After everyone left, Zhong Yao stood up and walked to the hall at the back. In the quiet room there, an old man was sitting, holding a food tripod, chewing the venison in it.

The old man is none other than Jia Xu.

Zhong Yao couldn't help frowning as he watched Jia Xu eat the venison in big mouthfuls.

Zhong Yao said to him: "Eat slowly, don't choke!"

Jia Xu raised his head and said: "The old man is getting old, and now he eats slowly, so there will be no chance in the future."

Zhong Yao couldn't help laughing when he heard the words.

What is the reason for this?

How could this old guy have such a weird idea at such an old age?Also greedy enough.

"As you get older, eat less meat and more vegetarian food to nourish your mind."

After finishing speaking, Jia Xu said, "Stop talking about me all the time, what you were asked to say, did you say it?"

Zhong Yao snorted and said, "Of course I did, but I don't understand why you asked me to assign those Guanzhong princes to attack the potter's camp at night?"

Jia Xu ate the last bite of venison, and said, "I think you understand Sikong's thoughts to some extent, right?"

Zhong Yao raised his eyebrows and said, "It's easy to guess. Sikong just wanted to drive troops into Xichuan and use Xichuan's danger to isolate the potters from outside the pass. As for our place in the middle of the pass, whether it can be protected or not depends on It's not in Sikong's thinking."

Jia Xu nodded and said, "It's good that Doctor Zhong understands this, but how do you think these Guanzhong princes are loyal to Sikong?"

Zhong Yao chuckled: "It's just using each other. How can we talk about loyalty? Sikong used them to block the potters, so why didn't they just use Sikong to help them defend their territory in Guanzhong? They will immediately turn against each other, and if they don't keep it together, they will turn around and bite us hard!"

Jia Xu laughed and said: "That's why they were asked to attack Cao Ying. At this time, how long can Guanzhong be defended? Even if it is, before those little princes completely betray us, use what they can to attack Cao Ying." As many troops as potters are destroyed, as many troops as they are destroyed, this is the so-called right way."

Zhong Yao looked at Jia Xu seriously, and said, "Poison, you old fellow is really poisonous."

"It doesn't matter if it's a real poison or a fake poison, but the person who poisoned you is yourself!"

"Hmph! You old man!" Zhong Yao snorted heavily and cursed.

That night, the princes of Guanzhong and Cao Jun in Luoyang split up and came to attack the potter's camp.

The news spread to the potter's camp, but the potter was taken aback.

"Are they storming?"

"It's a strong attack!"

"What kind of routine is this? Substitution of people? Let the generals fight."

"promise!"