The harvest season in the south comes earlier than in the north. The winter wheat in Yanzhou has just begun to be harvested. The wheat in Pengcheng, Guangling and Xiapi counties in Xuzhou have basically been harvested into the warehouse. What made Tao Ying and Xuzhou officials, gentry, military and civilians very happy was that

Although the wheat season in Xuzhou this year is not considered to be ripe, the harvest is still quite good. The average yield per mu of the three counties reached four stones and eight dou per mu, which is only slightly lower than the average yield per mu of Xuzhou in the second year of Chuping.

.At the same time, the two counties in the north, Langya and Donghai are also getting good news. No county is shameless and needs subsidies for a bad harvest. It is estimated that even if the yield per mu is not as good as the three counties in the south, it will definitely be less than there.

What made the Xuzhou gentry even more ecstatic was the experimental fields of bean and wheat rotation in Xuzhou. After planting soybeans and wheat, each acre of fields could be harvested more than four buckets than in previous years, and those who had used earthworm cob soil.

The fertilized bean and wheat farming process was incredibly increasing yield by nearly nine buckets per mu. Ordinary fields that have not been fertilized by earthworm manure soil have also increased yield by more than four buckets! The smiling pottery should use these tips for increasing yield

After making it public without reservation, the wealthy families and ordinary people in Xuzhou followed suit without hesitation, racing against time to plant soybeans in the wheat fields, and each tried his best to dig earthworms to raise earthworms, doing his best to do his best to do his own thing.

A good harvest for the coming year lays a good foundation.

After harvesting this year's winter wheat, coupled with the military rations that were saved last year, the grain inventory of the five counties in Xuzhou suddenly set a small high. With the food in hand, Deputy Director Tao, who has been on the defensive for two years, was lurking in his heart.

Ambition. Naturally, it is like the soybean seedlings in the wheat field, growing wildly. Now, after the rush to harvest and plant wheat soybeans, Tao Ying ignored Cao Ling's possibility of giving birth at any time. Two major groups were summoned immediately.

Accomplices Chen Deng and Lu Su discussed with them the next Xuzhou strategy - Xuzhou expansion strategy!

After spending more than half a month with Tao Ying, she basically stayed in the open air. Chen Deng and Lu Su, who were both young and innocent, were obviously tanned a lot, but they were very excited.

They saluted Tao Ying together. Lu Su smiled and said, "Congratulations to the lord, congratulations to the lord. I heard that in just one or two days, Mrs. Cao will be able to give birth to a son of Lin to the lord. Su congratulates the lord in advance."

"Thank you, thank you." Tao Ying bowed and thanked him, and said with a smile: "But I don't know if it's a man or a woman, maybe it's a daughter."

"It must be a son, it must be." Lu Su, who was poisoned by the feudal idea of ​​favoring boys over girls, cheered Tao Ying up and said, "I heard that Mrs. Cao has found many masters to make a decision, and they all say they are young masters, and even even

After the famous Xu Shao and Xu Zijiang's true disciple saw the prime minister for his wife, they said that Mrs. Cao was the prime minister of Yizi and must be his son."

"Hahahaha. Zijing, why do you even believe that liar? The liar claims to be Xu Zijiang's true disciple and cannot provide evidence. Only Ling'er, who wants to have a son, is willing to be crazy.

Believe it." Tao Ying laughed, but Tao Ying didn't want to get too entangled with Lu Su on this issue. After joking for a few words, he called Lu Su and Chen Deng to sit down, and then said in a roundabout way: "Zi Jing, Yuan Long,

I invite you here today. There is something big to discuss with you. I wonder if you think that our Xuzhou army has been idle for too long? Should we move?"

Chen Deng and Lu Su are not stupid people. After hearing Tao Ying's words, they naturally understood Tao Ying's implicit meaning immediately. After looking at each other, Chen Deng smiled and said, "What the lord said is very true, from Zhuyi.

After the war, although our Xuzhou army has been strengthening its training, the elite soldiers and generals cannot be trained by training alone. The army that has not been tested in actual combat will never become a division of battles. Moreover, the five counties in Xuzhou are also

It is not a place to maintain success. If the lord wants to make the foundation left by the old lord prosperous, it is absolutely impossible to rely solely on maintaining success. Only by constantly making progress and attacking instead of defending can we protect the safety of Xuzhou forever and make the five counties of Xuzhou flourish and strong."

"My lord is very true." Lu Su nodded and said, "My lord is about to marry Yuan Shao's daughter. Cao Cao is afraid that Yuan Shao will be forced to fight with our army to make peace. Because Li Guo's internal strife is likely to advance westward, our army will be north.

The line crisis has basically been resolved, and it is indeed time to change Xuzhou's strategy and change defense to offense."

Speaking of this, Lu Su, the most steady among the three, paused and reminded him with concern: "However, in Su's opinion, where should our army use troops, which opponent should be chosen, and how to formulate it.

We must think carefully and never... Please forgive me for my bluntly speaking. I must not be like the old lord. I have a mess of expansion strategy. I have fought several times when Xuzhou was attacked, and I have lost many soldiers in vain.

He won nothing about horse money and grain, but also brought countless huge disasters to Xuzhou."

Lu Su's reminder is certainly not a nonsense without reason. Before, when Xuzhou was still in charge of Tao Qian, he also launched several expansion wars. For example, when Chuping attacked Yuan Shao in the third year, and in the fourth year, Chuping used force and political means.

After struggling with Wu County, Kuaiji and Pei State, in the same year, he also sent troops to snatch several cities of Taishan Prefect Ying Shao. Even during the period when Cao Lao Da attacked Xuzhou, Tao Qian sent troops to attack Wu County Prefect Xu Gong. Unfortunately, the process turned out to be

But they all

Lu Su described it as if he was simply a mess. Not only did he not steal the enemy's land and city, he also established countless enemies for Xuzhou, attracting opponents like Da Yuan Sangong and Boss Cao, and leading Xuzhou.

The two teammates like Xiao Yuan Sangong and Gongsun Zan came, which was not worth the loss and wasted countless soldiers, horses, money and food. In addition, several internal affairs chiefs including Zhao Yu, Zhang Hong, Zhang Zhao and Wang Lang were compensated for the benefits of others.

The expansion strategy of cheap dad is indeed stupid, so Tao Ying naturally would not blame Lu Su for being disrespectful to his cheap dad. Not only did he not blame him, Tao Ying also nodded and sighed: "Although Zijing said that he was disrespectful to his father, he was

As a Son, you should not blame your father for being a son, but the facts are the facts. His father’s expansion strategy is indeed a mess, without any rules.”

Speaking of this, Tao Ying gave an example with hatred: "For example, in the fourth year of Chuping, my father used the political means of marrying Li Jue and Guo Si, and used the imperial decree to defeat Peiguo, Wujun, Guangling and

The prefects of the four counties in Kuaiji were replaced by four of their own people. They should have focused their strength in Jiangnan to consolidate the rule of the newly occupied counties - but I still don't understand why my father had to provoke the war in Taishan County at that time.

.Winning war with Ying Shao, the prefect of Taishan who was supported by Yuan Shao and Cao Cao at the same time? The battle on both sides was good. Not to mention that all the counties captured by the sudden attack were lost. The two major counties of Wu County and Kuaiji were also in vain. Yuan Shuhe

Liu Yao, the Xuzhou army has no more foothold in Jiangnan! I don’t understand what my father was thinking at that time?”

"Deng was the party involved in the third year of Chuping." Chen Deng smiled bitterly and said, "At that time, I advised the old lord to focus on consolidating the new land and establish a bridgehead for the Xuzhou army in Jiangnan. Unfortunately, the servants said slightest words.

The old lord refused to obey and chose to listen to the suggestions of Mi Zhu, Cao Bao and Zhao Yu, and sent troops to attack Taishan County, where birds were not laid, and cooperated with Gongsun Zan to attack Yuan Shao from north to south. In private, he thought that the old lord was stunned by political victory at that time.

His mind, overestimated the military strength of Xuzhou and seriously underestimated the military strength of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao."

Deputy Director Tao sighed again, still hating the incompetence of his father - if Tao Qian could leave Wujun and Kuaiji as inheritance to Deputy Director Tao, how great would it be? After sighing, Tao Ying shook again

Shaking his head, he said, "Forget it, regretting things in the past is useless, it is enough for us to learn some lessons. Zijing, Yuanlong. In your opinion, who should I choose now and be the most confident? At the same time, I can also maximize the

Avoid repeating the mistakes that can be defeated but cannot be secure?”

Finally it was Lu Su's turn to speak. Lu Su was about to speak, but Chen Deng, who had never been able to get the chance to show his strength during the Tao Qian period, spoke first and bowed to Tao Ying and said, "Lord, it was actually the old lord period.

Deng has already begun to consider this issue. In what direction should our Xuzhou advance in order to expand our land and gain a firm foothold? Based on the current situation, Deng has a few humble opinions, which may be used for reference by the lord."

"Please speak frankly in Yuanlong." Tao Ying replied happily.

"No." Chen Deng bowed his hand and agreed, cleared his throat and said loudly: "Lord, the five counties in Xuzhou are the places of four battles. The borders are almost always safe to defend. The surrounding areas are surrounded by strong enemies, so it is very difficult to defend.

But such terrain also has a huge advantage, that is, after our army fights, our enemies will also be safe, and there is also an advantage that we can choose the direction of attack and fight at will.

For the enemy, you can pick the soft persimmons, avoid the strong and attack the weak. After thinking hard for many days, we believe that our army currently has three choices, namely lower, middle and upper."

Tao Ying nodded and asked Chen Deng to analyze in detail. Chen Deng replied: "The three choices that Deng believes are the next choice to annex Yuzhou, the first choice is to cross the river to attack Liu Yao, and the first choice is to go north to attack Qingzhou. First of all, the first choice is to go north to attack Qingzhou.

In Yuzhou, although Yuzhou is empty and there are no strong enemies, Cao Cao, Yuan Shu and Liu Biao in the surrounding areas do not pay enough attention to Yuzhou, and the control is far from enough. It is easy for our army to capture Yuzhou. However, the situation in Yuzhou is complicated, and Yuan Shu and Cao Cao are

Everyone has their own interests in Yuzhou. Risky attack on Yuzhou may lead to a full-scale war with them. At the same time, Yuzhou is the most poisoned by the Yellow Turban, with a sharp decline in population and basically abandoned land. Even if taken down, it will not help the lord's great cause, so although Yuzhou is the easiest, it is the easiest thing to do.

The fight is the most certain, but the least valuable to seize."

Tao Ying nodded again. Although the Xuzhou army basically controlled half of the northern county of Peiguo in Yuzhou, this half of the Peiguo county was also a place to pay for money and grain. If it weren't for half of the county, there were Xiaopei, Zhuyi and Xiaoguan.

The throat is almost there, and Tao Ying, who is very careful in his calculations, may have held Peiguo, a money-losing product in his hands. So after nodding, Tao Ying said again, "Yes, Yuzhou is the useless ribs of our army. It is tasteless to eat and abandon it.

Unfortunately, instead of spending money and grain to conquer Yuzhou, we might as well leave it for a while. When our strength is so strong that we have surplus, it will not be too late to take Yuzhou down.”

"The election was Liu Yao, Xu Gong, Yan Baihu and other princes in Jiangnan." Chen Deng said again: "Maybe the lord finds it strange that these princes in Jiangnan are far weaker than Gongsun Zan in Qingzhou and Tian Kai. Why are they not our army's first choice?

This is what I think, the princes in Jiangnan are indeed weak, but they have natural dangers to defend the Yangtze River. Our Xuzhou navy is relatively weak, so we rashly launched an offensive across the river, and we are really not sure."

"In addition, our army is irreconcilable with Yuan Shu. Yuan Shu is arrogant and frustrated, and he has always regarded Jiangdong's land as his belongings. He will never sit idly by and watch our army annex Jiangdong. Not only will he take action.

Joining the war, maybe they will form an alliance with Liu Yao, Yan Baihu, Xu Gong and others to resist our army! The more dangerous situation is that even if our army successfully crosses the river, Yuan Shu's advantageous naval army only needs to go through the Jiujiang River.

Next. We can immediately cut our Jiangnan Expeditionary Force into two sections, making our heads and tails unable to take care of each other!"

In fact, Tao Ying, who had long regarded the rookies in Jiangnan as lambs to be slaughtered, was a little shocked. Then he remembered that his Jiangnan strategy had such a huge hidden danger. Even if his desperate battle was successful, the Jiangnan Expeditionary Force would be lucky to climb to the south bank of the Yangtze River.

The land, the upstream Xiao Yuan Sangong could also go down the river at any time. Eliminate the weak navy in Xuzhou and cut off the Xuzhou army in half!

"Lord, the question is back. Since Gongsun Zan is far stronger than the princes of Jiangnan, why is his Qingzhou the best choice for our army's expansion?" Chen Dengzhai knew that his words had touched Tao Ying, so he continued: "Gongsun Zan"

He is indeed strong, but his main force is now being suppressed by the stronger Yuan Shao. Our army attacks Qingzhou, so we don’t have to worry about Gongsun Zan’s main force going south to rescue, and only faces the power of Tian Kai’s army.

At the same time, lord, as Yuan Shao's son-in-law, you sent troops to attack Yuan Shao's mortal enemy Gongsun Zan, and you will definitely get the full support of Yuan Shao, and even send troops directly to the side to provide assistance. This will greatly share the positive pressure of our army."

"What after conquering Qingzhou?" Chen Deng analyzed for Tao Ying again: "First of all, our army can stand firm in capturing Qingzhou. In order to allow our army to continue to share the military pressure, Yuan Shao will definitely allow our army to gain a foothold in Qingzhou. At the same time, Qingzhou is also a must.

The people are strong and have strong soldiers, and they can barely support themselves in their grain production. They can not only provide our army with endless supply of troops, but also do not increase the burden on our army's money and food. In addition..."

Speaking of this, Chen Deng lowered his voice. "Our main force sent troops to Qingzhou, we must pass Langya. The lord can take this opportunity to consolidate his control over Langya County and push Yin Lichangxi and other unreliable teams to Qingzhou County.

Inside, avoid them from becoming a big shot in Langya like General Zang Ba back then, and the old lord could not control it."

Thinking of the escort documents from the prime minister of Langya, Xiao Jian, every few days, Tao Ying was inevitably moved, but at this moment, Lu Su, a master of strategy in the Three Kingdoms era, spoke up and asked Chen Deng: "Yuanlong, there is a question, what is our military advisor famous?

? When Cao's army was at the city, Tian Kai and Kong Rong came to rescue him with all his might. After rescued Xuzhou, Tian Kai and Kong Rong did not ask for any compensation. He quickly withdrew from Xuzhou land. The lord's first battle to expand, and he attacked them.

What excuse should I send troops?”

"Tian Kai and Kong Rong did have kindness to Xuzhou." Chen Deng replied frankly: "But Tian Kai is a general of Gongsun Zan. Gongsun Zan was instigated and condoned Liu Bei to invade our Xuzhou first. He also listened to Liu Bei's instigation and blackmailed us to take advantage of the situation and rudely seeking out our Xuzhou.

After being rejected by his lord, he brazenly tore up the alliance and cut off the source of the war horses in Xuzhou, using this to limit the development of our military power in Xuzhou. He was treacherous in his faith and was the first to betrayal. Our army used this excuse to start a war against Gongsun Zan, with sufficient reasons and a famous division."

"Indeed, this is a good excuse to start a war." Lu Su nodded and said, "But Yuanlong, don't forget that when Gongsun Zan decided to destroy the alliance with our army, Tian Kai had repeatedly dissuaded him and sent a letter to the lord several times.

The central reconciliation was not successful, but our Xuzhou always owe Tian Kailiang a lot. Although it was reasonable to start a war against him, it was unrighteous, which was even more harmful to the lord's name of benevolence and righteousness."

Tao Ying looked at Lu Su, the military advisor, and was extremely hesitant. Although he felt that Tian Kai in Qingzhou was indeed the softest persimmon, he also felt that Lu Su was indeed reasonable. Tian Kai did not owe Xuzhou anything, but Xuzhou owe Tian Kailiang.

Many, I started with Tian Kai in the first battle of my expansion, as if I was a little ungrateful.

"Lord, don't worry." Lu Su saw Tao Ying's hesitation, first comforted Tao Ying, then turned to Chen Deng and said sincerely: "Yuanlong, I'm not targeting you, your three lower, middle and upper choices are organized

It is clear that the analysis makes sense and there is no mistake—but you missed a top choice!”

"The best choice?" Chen Deng was stunned, then raised his eyebrows and asked tentatively: "Is the best choice that Zijing said is Yuan Shu?"

"It's Yuan Shu!" Lu Su nodded and said in a deep voice: "No need to mention the excuse of the lord's war against Yuan Shu. He invaded the border of Xuzhou several times, betrayed his faith and swallowed the jade seal of the country, claiming that Xuzhou Bo is despised our army and contempt Xuzhou.

The acting lord, any excuse can make our soldiers indignate towards Yuan Shu! Moreover, Yuan Shao and the brothers of Yuan Shu cursed and hated each other. As Yuan Shao's son-in-law, the lord can find an excuse to vent his anger on his father-in-law and get Yuan Shao's army to be

By attacking Yuan Shu's support, we can use Yuan Shao to restrain Cao Cao, so that our army can have no worries about the northern line!"

"I have considered and suggested that the lord attack Yuan Shu more than once, but Yuan Shu is too strong." Chen Deng said worriedly: "Our army and Yuan Shu Zhuyi Huaiyin battles were two battles. Although both won victory, they were both miserable.

Our army also paid a considerable price. At the same time, Yuan Shu's Huainan soldiers had a lot of food, and Zhang Xun's elite soldiers from Liyang were unscathed, which was enough to deal with our army for a period of time. Our army not only had to pay a huge price to attack Yuan Shu, but also

It may be prolonged and urgent and difficult to get out of the way.”
To be continued...