Fang Xia's expression was very strict, she never thought that the war would come in this way, so soon.

In her calculations, this trip to Qianjun should be very smooth, even if there are some twists and turns, it can be solved quickly.

Then when Sun Jian died, the war between Sun Jiajun and Liu Biao came to an end, and he tried to find a way to take over part of the Sun family's forces.

Originally, Fang Xia didn't dare to make such extravagant hopes, but her group of strategists, especially Guo Jia, gave her too much confidence, making her believe that these geniuses would unite and burst out with the power that moved the whole world. If he could dig the corner of the Sun family and get some troops and even talents to replenish it, Fang Xia would basically be able to stand firm in the entire Yuzhou.

Being able to pinch Yuzhou in his hands, Fang Xia has the capital to compete in the world.

Receiving the power of the Sun family will inevitably offend Liu Biao, but although Liu Biao is not easy to provoke, the policy he pursues is decided, if Fang Xia does not fight him, he will not be able to send troops from Jingzhou to fight Fang Xia. Liu Biao would never do this kind of unprofitable thing, and the Jingzhou family would not allow him to do it.

As for Liu Biao's possible deduction of favor, it doesn't matter, Fang Xia can't control so much. In life, there are always some trade-offs.

But now that these things are in view, these are all too much to think about, let's get through the difficulties first.

The other party is three days away from here, and the army must be slower than a solo horse, but if you think it will be a week later, the time is very urgent, and it is not even enough for Fang Xia to go to Xuchang and transfer someone who can command the battle. Guo Jiaxunyu is all good, even if Xi Zhicai is sick, she doesn't dislike it.

It's a pity that in fact, the only people she can discuss with now are Xu Jing, Liang Xi, Xu Chu and Zhong Xuan.

Zhong Xuan is good at internal affairs, and he didn't give Fang Xia any good advice on military matters at the first time.

He only did one thing to persuade Fang Xia to leave.

The Yellow Turban besieged the city, the purpose is just to ask for food, now the princes in various places are autonomous, although Fang Xia was crowned Yuzhou Mu by Dong Zhuo, but in fact, Yuzhou is still ownerless, Qian County is actually a lonely city, the idea of the Yellow Turban is to attack the city at any cost, and if they don't attack the city, what awaits them is starvation, and they have no more time to go elsewhere.

Qian County is adjacent to Xuchang, and the Yellow Turban is not so fast, as long as Fang Xia returns to Xuchang, she will be safe. Zhong Xuan felt that as a Taishou, he should have the responsibility of defending the land, and it was a big deal to live and die with Qian County, but he couldn't drag Fang Xia down here. Xuchang is Fang Xia's base camp, even if Qian County is lost, it is impossible for the Yellow Turban to occupy here, and there is a chance to get it back in the future.

Zhong Xuan sought stability, feeling that no matter what, it was still not safe for Fang Xia to stay here, as long as he was too guarded, it would not be difficult to stabilize the hearts of the people. Fang Xia is here, naturally she is like a tiger with wings, but Fang Xia can neither arrange troops nor go into battle to kill the enemy, she is not there is just a shape.

Fang Xia is not afraid, once you are on the battlefield, things like stray arrows will not look at you well-looking, and they will let you go crookedly when your identity is high. But now that the county has just been handed over, the people's hearts are unstable, and there is a war, if she leaves, the people's hearts will be lost, and no matter how much they have, they will not be able to make up for it. His open reputation will inevitably be clouded.

This kind of thing Zhong Miao is not unexpected, but he has a stable personality, he does not seek victory in everything and seeks defeat first, and he is willing to do it only when things are foolproof. Xun Yu has always acted thoughtfully, but he has not been without risky strategies, but Zhong Yu, as a politician, is really very stable. Zhong Xuan felt that if something happened to Fang Xia, he would not be able to afford to lose, and he could afford to pay the other costs.

Zhong Xuan is also a hard worker.

Fang Xia couldn't even reprimand him, he was entrusted with a heavy task just after he came to join her, and now he was even more willing to spare his life to defend Qian County for her. If she really said something serious, it would chill her subordinates. Although the lord should be gracious and mighty, Fang Xia felt that at this time, whether it was grace or power, there was no meaning.

She sighed and said to Zhong Xuan, "Yuan Chang, do you think I can go in this situation?"

Fang Xia only said this sentence.

Zhong Xuan looked at her resolute expression, and only said: "Although you are powerless, you are willing to protect the lord." ”

The literati of this year are proficient in the six arts of a gentleman, and they are all familiar with the number of imperial books of etiquette and music, except for Guo Jia, who is a sick man, Zhong Xuan can also dance a few swords.

Fang Xia didn't hit Zhong Xuan, and said with a smile: "Then please Yuan Chang." ”

Zhong Xuan nodded vigorously, not mentioning the matter of leaving.

After the two reached a consensus, they began to prepare for other things.

Guan Hai and Zhou Cang are both famous Yellow Turban generals in history, since they can leave a name in history, they naturally can't be taken lightly, although their force value is far inferior to Xu Chu, but in the siege battle, the personal force value actually doesn't play a big role, and Zhou Cang has suffered losses in Xu Chu's hands before, as long as he is not stupid, he should not fight with Xu Chu.

So what is competing is actually the real strength.

Now in the entire Qian County, there is only one Xu Chu who can lead the troops, Fang Xia does not know Liang Xi's great achievements in the history books, so although he plans to gather everyone's strength to discuss together, he does not take him as a key observation object, as a layman, he does not dare to command blindly, so he still decided to take Xu Chu as the leader.

Militarily, he only had to trust Xu Chu, so Fang Xia could only do some tricks elsewhere.

Time flies, and when it's really time to use it, Fang hates that it is too little.

Guan Hai and Zhou Cang's two troops approached the city.

It was also a troublesome matter for the ancient army to be pulled, although it was only a matter of two or three days to whip up the horses, but by the time the Yellow Turban soldiers came to the city, it was already almost five days. It's still efficient, if you ink a little more and walk slowly, maybe a week is possible. After all, only the leader of the Yellow Turbans owned horses, and most of them had to rely on foot.

Fang Xia made a lot of preparations for this.

In the past few days, her main work has been to temporarily inspect the city walls, whether there are any omissions, arrange people to patrol the defense, and evacuate the people around the city so that they can move to the city. Now is a very important time, in wartime, Fang Xia can't care about using any gentle means, he knows that he doesn't listen to reason, and directly solves the problem with violence.

There were originally 5,000 soldiers in the county, basically they took weapons to the battlefield when they needed it, and they did some peasant work when they didn't need it, and other small villages nearby were also inhabited by a lot of people.

In this way, in addition to the 5,000 soldiers, the county also has nearly 2,000 preparations to make up for the prime of life.

It's much more powerful than Fang Xia's Xuchang, who only has more than a thousand soldiers.

The most troublesome thing is in Xu Chu's place.

Xu Chu is a good native of Qian County, but the Xu family and many other big families do not live in the city, but take Qian County as the center and establish a dock fort settlement. For these people, protecting their own clan is the most important thing, but Xu Chu actually wants to focus on guarding the county, although most of his own tenant troops have not moved, but Xu Chu is not here, and they also feel unsafe.

The major wealthy families led by the Xu family felt that since Lord Diao Chan had worked tirelessly to come over and appointed Zhong Xuan as the Taishou of Qian County, then these yellow scarves would be handed over to Lord Diao Chan, who was famous all over the world, and it would be good if they could guard their own one-third of an acre of land, and they wanted to call Xu Chu back.

Xu Chu hesitated, as the patriarch of the Xu family, he also had a strong clan concept, and felt that what those clansmen said was very reasonable, but Xu Chu felt that there was no one in the entire city who could fight, and if he wanted him to let it go like this, then Qian County might really be attacked by the Yellow Turban, which was not what he wanted to see.

But Xu Chu has already violated the will of the clan once, and he can't come back a second time, otherwise the contradictions between the clans will really be irreconcilable. In the end, Xu Chu was still moved, and after the other party Xia apologized, he returned to the dock fort of the Xu family. He saved face for Fang Xia and said that if there was any accident, Fang Xia was welcome to come and spend the night at any time.

Fang Xia didn't keep it, the matter had come to this, since Xu Chu opened her mouth, there was no need for her to speak.

But as soon as Xu Chu left, she was really in trouble.

Liang Xi did not live up to the exceptional promotion, after Xu Chu left, he recommended himself, and said to Fang Xia that he had some immature views on military affairs, and if Fang Xia was really unavailable, then he could give it a try.

Fang Xia didn't know Liang Xi's record in the history books, otherwise she would have been much more relieved, but the matter had come to this, and she could only trust him. Therefore, she generously handed over all the rights she received from Xu Chu to Liang Xi, and Liang Xi has also done a good job in the past few days, which made Fang Xia breathe a sigh of relief.

If you don't relax, you can't do it, and worrying about it is also such a result, it makes no difference, but it makes me embarrassed.

Anyway, in the eyes of a layman, Liang Xi is still nothing to fault with, and with her as a big Buddha, her prestige can also suppress those who are not satisfied with Liang Xi's position. Moreover, the fault tolerance rate of defending the city is higher than that of attacking the city, the loss is smaller, and the pressure on the Yellow Turban side is also very large, as long as it blocks some time, the opponent will not attack itself.

However, the soldiers came to block the water and cover the earth, and after seeing the black and oppressive human heads outside the city, and the yellow scarves on their arms, Fang Xia thought so.

At this time, there was a sudden news of Kuaima Fei, and a herald said: "Lord Diao Chan, Lord Guo Fengxiao of Xuchang has arrived." ”