Qingzhou and Xuzhou are geographically bordered, across the lower reaches of the Yellow River, is the territory of Xuzhou, the pottery merchants and other groups of marches quickly, soon after, arrived in Xuzhou.

After returning to Pengcheng, Tao Qian warmly greeted the northern reinforcements led by Tian Kai, Kong Rong, Zhao Yun and others, and expressed his warm welcome and sincere thanks to them.

At this time, Tao Qian had already moved most of Peiguo's households to the interior of Xuzhou.

And the elite generals with the Jinling Army as the pioneer were also all deployed in the forward position of Peiguo in the west of Xuzhou.

In this way, the defense line has been formed, according to the idea of the pottery merchant: Cao Cao is a treacherous and cunning person, although he is now stationed in Liang State, but if he attacks the east and west, and sends a new force to bypass Liang State and go to Shanyang County and attack the hinterland of Pengcheng in the east, then his side will definitely be passive.

Therefore, Tao Shang still felt that Tao Qian himself should lead his old team Danyang elite soldiers to guard Pengcheng, so that Pengcheng and Peiguo's main forces formed a corner to ensure that nothing went wrong.

The strategy of the pottery merchants was affirmed and approved by Tao Qian, so Tao Qian himself led the elite soldiers of Danyang under his command and the Beihai soldiers of Kong Rong and the Qingzhou army of Tian Kai to be stationed in Pengcheng, while Cao Bao led the men and horses of the Xuzhou headquarters and the Jinling City headquarters of the pottery merchants to garrison the front line of Peiguo.

The main command of the Peiguo front, Tao Qian, was handed over to the potters.

After hastily calculating some battles with Tao Qian, the pottery merchant rushed to Peiguo's place of governance together with Zhao Yun, Guo Jia, Tao Ying, Li Tong and others.

In addition, the potter also borrowed Tai Shici from Kong Rong.

At this moment, Cao Bao's Xuzhou main force and the Jinling army led by Xu Chu, Xu Huang and others have completed the deployment in Peiguo, just waiting for Cao Cao's army to attack.

In the whole Peiguo, there are Cao Bao, who led the army in Xuzhou, and Cao Hong, Lu Fan, Ji Lian and others who assisted him, as well as Xu Chu, Xu Huang, Tao Ji, Xu Rong, Gan Ning, Zhou Tai and other generals in Jinling City.

Coupled with Zhao Yun, Tai Shici, Li Tong and others who came with the potters this time, the potters thought that they might not lose to Cao Cao in terms of high-quality generals.

But after all, war is not something that can be figured out by counting the number of people, and the time, place, people, and planning are also indispensable.

Fighting a war is not as simple as one plus one equals two.

After the potter came to Peiguo, he immediately sent spies from the school office to Liang to closely monitor Cao Cao's every move of the soldiers and horses placed in Liang Guo.

According to the pottery merchant's guess, Cao Cao's soldiers and horses would soon be killed.

However, unexpectedly, Cao Cao's army, which was stationed in Liang State, seemed to have taken root and sprouted, that is, they were stationed motionless in place, and they did not want to send troops to attack Peiguo's military performance.

But the more Cao Caojun behaved like this, the more unsteady the hearts of the potters, Guo Jia and others became.

The person the potter was worried about was Cao Cao, and the person Guo Jia was worried about was his year-old friends or friends of Yingchuan Academy who served under Cao Cao.

Xun Yu, Xun You, Cheng Yu, Full Favor, Xi Zhicai......

Those bastards were actually huddled together at Cao Cao's, and Guo Jia had a headache when he thought about it.

But if you think about it carefully, after all, those people were summoned by Xun Yu, and Cao Cao got Xun Yu to join alone, which was equivalent to getting half of the Yingchuan think tank.

After all, Xun Yu's influence in Yingchuan Academy is by no means beyond the reach of others.

If he hadn't been kidnapped to Xuzhou by the potter, the Cao Group in Yanzhou might also have a place for Guo now, right?

Just when the whole army of Peiguo was speeding up the city defense, hoarding grain and grass, and steadily drilling, a famous figure came to the main mansion of Peiguo's governance office tremblingly on crutches and asked to meet with the pottery merchants.

This person is Chen Deng's old father, Chen Qi.

Chen Jue used to be the prime minister of Peiguo, but later because of his age, his health was not good, so he resigned from his official position and passed the position of head of the family to his son Chen Deng, and then lived in seclusion in the old mansion of the Chen family in Peiguo, and did not ask about the world.

The potter is a later generation, naturally knowing that Chen Jue, this old guy is not old-hearted, although he is nominally retired, but in fact he still has a vigorous and upward heart, eager to develop.

After all, he is Chen Deng's father, and if you think about Chen Deng's obscure performance on weekdays, you can guess that his old man is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

If he was really content to enjoy his old age, he would not come to see the potter again this time.

Chen Jue is highly respected, and he is very famous among the Xuzhou scholars, and can be described as a state treasure-level figure.

He came to visit in person, and the potter, even if he was busy with official business, had to find time to meet him.

After the two greeted in the council room, the potter looked at Chen Qi carefully.

It's okay not to look at it, but at a glance, the potter can't help but sweat.

Chen Deng is very young, but his father Chen Qi is too old, with old wrinkles on his face, white hair, not to mention, the aisle is still trembling, trembling as if the wind can blow him away at any time.

At this time, he could not rely only on crutches to support him, and even a servant had to help him walk one by one, one left and one right, and every few steps, he had to cough vigorously a few times, and he was out of breath.

It feels like an old man in his last years, and it's not surprising when he doesn't have it.

The potter grinned...... Chen Deng, that guy, didn't he let his father come to me to touch porcelain because he didn't want to see if his father was going to do it?

If this is a while, the old man "Gaba" passed away in his own mansion all of a sudden, and he can't tell clearly when he opens his mouth?

"Dr. Chen, the first time I met, a junior potter, I have admired the name of the doctor for a long time......"

Before the potter could finish his words, he saw Chen Qi coughing heavily, his face was flushed, and he almost didn't lose his breath.

"Ahem, cough, cough~~! Ahh ”

Spit Xingzi also sprayed the potter's face because of coughing.

The potter raised his hand and wiped his wet cheeks, very helpless.

"Eldest son, it's been a long time, it's been a long time." Chen Qi finished coughing, panting and greeting the potter: "My unscrupulous son is an official under the eldest son, and he has to be taken care of by the son, old man, old man, thank you!" Cough cough cough! ”

The potter looked at Chen Jue's miserable appearance, and hurriedly ordered his servants to help the old man sit down, personally poured a cup of hot water for Chen Jue, and sighed: "Doctor Chen, you are so old, and you are coughing so badly, Peiguo's side is about to fight, it is a frontier position, and it is very dangerous...... Most of the people were moved to the mainland of Xuzhou by my father, if you don't go back to Xuzhou, what are you doing here? ”

Chen Qi drank a few sips of hot water, gasped evenly, and said weakly: "The old and decrepit people are used to living here, and they don't want to move, if they want to die, they have to die in Peiguo, and live and die with the old mansion." ”

When the potter heard this, he couldn't help but smile in his heart.

This old man and his son, in history, Lu Bu fooled like a third grandson, putting the entire Xuzhou foundation in the palm of his hand, if he can live and die with Peiguo, I am afraid that even sows can give birth to giant pandas.

The potter smiled and asked Chen Jue: "Doctor Chen is here today, don't you have any advice for the juniors?" ”

Chen Qi gasped for breath, and then said: "The old man has nothing else to come this time, he wants to point out the way to win in the next three years." ”