43. Drag time
Frankly speaking, Guo Jia's arrival at this time still surprised Fang Xia.
Although it is not far from Xuchang to Qian County, she also walked for several days, Guo Jia wants to arrive at this time, basically Fang Xia did not long after receiving the news that the Xuzhou Yellow Turban came to Qian County, and set off directly, maybe even a little earlier than her. After all, Guo Jia's body is far worse than Fang Xia, Fang Xia can toss, but he can't afford toss.
This incident not only shows that he is decisive and neat, but also proves that he and Fang Xia are not using an intelligence network.
Otherwise, it will be too late.
Originally, Fang Xia shouldn't have found out about this matter so late, but she relied on her familiarity with the "game process" and "historical development", and she was a little careless about this aspect, because during this period of time, Yuzhou was calm, and this wave of yellow scarves should have been punched and melted, so she didn't guard against this hand at all.
Guo Jia, as a person with a heart, may know earlier than Fang Xia.
Moreover, Guo Jia was originally restrained from drinking medicine every day, he was absolutely very unhappy in his heart, and Fang Xia was not there, all the people who could persuade him to listen to one or two must be left with only one Xun Yu, and no one else Guo Jia would buy it. And Xun Yu has always taken the overall situation into account when doing things, and because he has a good temperament, Guo Jia has not bullied honest people once or twice.
If Guo Jia was worried about the danger of the county and the fact that he was a courtier, Xun Yu might really let go. After all, above history, how Guo Jia died, I believe that basically those who know him know that there is a precedent. Using this reason as an excuse to take a trip that is just about to go, this is indeed something that Guo Jia can do.
When Fang Xia was turning these thoughts in his heart, Guo Jia had already gone to the city.
As Fang Xia's military minister, his status seems to be above Zhong Xuan, the Taishou, so naturally no one will stop him.
The herald was just running a little faster.
Guo Jia stood beside Fang Xia, and after not seeing him for a few days, he seemed to be even thinner, obviously not taking medicine well. But compared to his body, his momentum is very high, as a peerless strategist, his way home should have been a battlefield, not a pharmacy.
Fang Xia glanced at him deeply, and only said, "Since Fengxiao has arrived, that qiΔ will be handed over to you." β
She thought about it, but she still didn't ask about Xuchang's current situation, and the occasion was wrong at this time.
Anyway, if there is really a problem, it should have been reported to her a long time ago, and it will not be worse than that of Qian County.
To go through such a situation so early, Fang Xia is actually under a lot of pressure, Guo Jia can give her a lot of help, to say that she doesn't expect him at all, it is nonsense. But Guo Jia's body is also a problem. But since people are here, then everything else must be put aside, and official affairs prevail.
Now the morale of these soldiers in Qianjun is not too high, although they were taken by Kong Ling to crusade against Dong Zhuo, and they have also been counted on the battlefield, but they are obviously playing soy sauce, many people have not even seen blood, they are all some green heads, but Qianjun is their hometown, many times to protect the family and defend the country, the family is in front of the country, many people do not understand the big truth, but they also know that when they retreat, it is the parents and villagers who will suffer behind.
What Fang Xia has to do is to let Guo Jia establish enough prestige, give these people confidence, and let them know that although Xu Chu, the guardian saint of Qian County, is now being dragged back to Wubao by his own clansmen, and he can't control them for the time being, as long as he listens to Guo Jia's orders and listens to her orders, the city can definitely be defended.
Guo Jia didn't show surprise, he seemed to always be so light-hearted, as if he was smiling but not smiling, and he felt unbeaten, but when it really came to a critical time, it was like this, but it made people feel extremely reliable. With a smile on the corner of his lips, Fang Xia nodded and said, "It should be like this." β
On the way here, Guo Jia had already made sufficient preparations for this, so he seemed very calm and calm at this time.
Fang Xia looked at him like this, and he even felt that infinite strength was born in his heart.
She smiled and said, "In the opinion of filial piety, how should this yellow scarf be?"
This is naturally asked for the soldiers on the city wall, as long as they know, the entire county will also know.
There are a total of 10,000 people in the two departments of Guanhai and Zhoucang, but there are not so many in the city at this time, and the large army is encamped in the back, although they are almost unable to open the pot now, but as long as they can grit their teeth and survive this catastrophe, and get food from the county, whether it is blackmail or siege, as long as they can get food, then they can open the sky.
Now the people in the city seem to be only two or three thousand, but in order to show momentum, these people are the elite of the entire yellow scarf, all of them are men in the prime of life, they don't know any martial arts, they can just take weapons and slash indiscriminately, and they can also hack to death a few thin and weak soldiers, which looks like a kind of fierce spirit.
When Guo Jia heard this, he showed a cautious look and looked at them one by one. I have to say that this pretense is really capable of bluffing.
Although he and Fang Xia have not said a single superfluous word since they separated, there is still a tacit understanding between them. Moreover, Fang Xia is very Cheng dΓΉ, Xun Yu is taught in politics, and Guo Jia is taught in strategy, and the apprentice has not yet been taught, and Guo Jia, the master, must not die of hunger.
When the people in the city saw this, they all held their breath, for fear that Guo Jia would give a bad answer.
But everyone present, even Fang Xia didn't know, when they were thinking about how to make the Yellow Turbans retreat, Guo Jia had already thought about how to integrate this team of Yellow Turbans. Since Fang Xia is the pastor of Yuzhou, he should always have his own army, Guo Jia had exchanged views with Fang Xia before, and he had the idea of fighting the Sun family, but now he has changed his mind.
The war between the Sun family and Liu Biao will not be over for a while and a half, and if the Sun family takes refuge, then the power of the Sun family will even be above Fang Xia, the lord is weak and the minister is strong, this is not a good thing, by analogy, it is like Liu Xie and Dong Zhuo, the sons of the Han Dynasty today, although Guo Jia is very confident that as long as Sun Jian dies, he can control Sun Bofu, but he doesn't mind adding a layer of insurance.
Now this team of yellow scarves is his insurance.
At this moment, the yellow turbans outside the city came to call for battle.
Guan Hai and Zhou Cang are the leading Qu Shuai, so naturally they will not come by surrendering their identities, so what comes at this time is just a leader, he is Guan Hai's confidant, loyal to him, willing to perform such a dangerous mission, and Guan Hai is also very trustworthy to him.
Since it was only one person who came, after he entered the range of the bow and arrow, Fang Xia waved his hand and asked people to let him go. When the two armies are fighting, they don't cut them off, this is the rule. Although the art of war is cloudy, and the soldiers are treacherous, but the family is only a person, and the grass and trees are all soldiers, and it seems too petty, so what if she lets him go? She still has this kind of bearing.
Anyway, her goal is only to occupy a favorable position and defend the city, and she doesn't plan to give up her advantage to go out of the city to fight them.
In this way, everyone's attention naturally focused on the messenger under the city, completely forgetting that Guo Jia had not yet answered Fang Xia's question.
The messenger rushed all the way over, and said in a loud voice: "Qu Shuai knows that the county is rich and has sufficient grain, so he has come to borrow 5,000 stone of grain, and hopes that the person in charge of the city will be fulfilled." If we get relief, I will wait for more than 30,000 mouths, and I will definitely turn around and leave, and I will not offend a single cent of your city. Since most of the yellow scarves are poor people, and very few of them are literate, so they scratched their ears and scratched their cheeks to come up with this passage.
The sky-high asking price, sitting on the ground to pay back, this person first exaggerated the scale of his yellow scarf by a generation, from the number of 10,000 to 30,000, so that it is naturally enough to deter the small city of Qiaojun. Moreover, Qiaojun is not a big grain producer, Xuzhou and Beihai are the generation, plus now when there is no success, so he only needs the number of 5,000.
Fang Xia felt that the reason why Guan Hai called him was probably because this person was talented and had a great voice.
Even from a distance, his voice could be heard clearly by the people on the city walls.
However, at this time, Fang Xia had the leisure to think about this, and when the others heard this, they were naturally very angry.
Fang Xia asked casually, "How much grain is stored in the city now?"
The people below were shocked, and they didn't know if she really had the intention of sharing food with these yellow turban thieves when she asked this.
However, the chief bookkeeper who manages the related affairs quickly stepped forward and said: "With the old old rice, it is less than 10,000." β
Fang Xia said in his heart that this county is quite rich, but in the warehouse of Xuchang, there is nothing in the really poor clanging sound. However, this is also related to the fact that there are only rich families in Xuchang County, and Xuchang is coordinated by the family. The families naturally have a lot of food in stock, but Fang Xia naturally can't see it.
Guo Jia casually pointed to a soldier and said, "You go and talk to him, and say that this is too much." β
Fang Xia understood what Guo Jia meant, smiled slightly, and explained: "Just drag it with him, it's not us who suffers." β
Originally, smart people could understand what Guo Jia meant, and with Fang Xia being so broken, the people below naturally understood what was going on.
The soldier was stunned for a moment before replying, "That's too much." β
His voice was not as loud as the yellow scarf, but the other party also heard it clearly, and he was also stunned.
Guan Hai sent him here, just because after they arrived, the county had been blocked, they came to attack the city, in fact, they didn't get any information, now they don't know anything about the situation in the city, and the information they know is only provided by Zhou Cang, the outdated information from the previous siege, so they plan to test it. There is no free lunch in the world, and Guan Hai is ready to sacrifice some people and keep most of them.
But now, although the Qianjun side is ready to defend the city, but the city is full of vegetarians, and the attitude towards him is so soft, does it mean that after Kong Ling's death, the dragons have no leader, and the Qianjun is a soft persimmon that is strong on the outside and dry in the middle, and it is easy to handle it casually? Now it seems that it is a good opportunity.
He turned in his heart and said sternly: "We have more than 30,000 people, only 5,000 stones, can this be too much?"
The two sides naturally bargained for a while, and the county did not bargain, but kept saying that there were too many things that were not nutritious.
The Yellow Turban felt that the attitude of Qian Jun seemed to be too soft, so he also insisted that he would not let go.
In this way, naturally there was no negotiation, and after a tentative battle between the two sides, Mingjin withdrew his troops, went home separately, and talked again in the future.