Now is not the time to gossip, the two of them went down the city wall, and Guo Jia began to ask Fang Xia about the situation of Qian County on the way.

Fang Xia originally planned to ask about Xuchang's situation, after all, Xuchang was also in ruins, plus Xun You, Cai Yan and Mr. Zhang Zhongjing were about to arrive again, if she wasn't there, I was afraid that she wouldn't be able to control the situation. But she also has a clear sense of priorities, and when she sees that Guo Jia wants to talk about the affairs of Qianjun first, she has no opinion.

Zhong Xuan explained to him one by one, and Fang Xia added one or two by the side. Because Zhong Xuan is a bit roundabout, he doesn't have the pedantic Cheng Dù, but he doesn't know how to be flexible, and he naturally doesn't know Guo Jia's temperament as well as Fang Xia, if he relays it, things may be slightly deviated, Fang Xia is not worried about it, but just avoids some communication mistakes.

Guo Jia listened very carefully and asked a few small questions from time to time

Zhong Xuan also knew that he could be better than Guo Jia in internal affairs, but he was deficient in strategy, so he was not dissatisfied with being robbed of the limelight. I have to say that although there are some differences in the personalities of the talents educated by the current family, they can basically be called honest gentlemen. In Guo Jia's words, it is easy to bully.

Halfway back to Taishou Mansion, Guo Jia suddenly stopped.

Fang Xia asked, "Fengxiao, what's wrong?"

"It's okay," Guo Jia said, "Jia has three plans, I don't know what the lord wants to choose?"

When he said this, he showed that standard breezy and careless look.

With Guo Jia's temperament, these things would not be said directly on the street? Fang Xia heard his words, and there were some doubts in his heart.

"Bong-hyo, please speak. Fang Xia said.

Guo Jia said three strategies.

First of all, it is definitely impossible to surrender, that is, they are disadvantaged, and it is not difficult to turn defeat into victory with Guo Jia's ability, not to mention that they are actually not inferior at this time, but they are just missing a general who coordinates the military. But the general is mainly needed in the field, if it is just to defend the city, Guo Jia feels that it is enough for the general who was temporarily driven to the shelves in the city.

First, the Yellow Turban Army's appearance is very obvious, that is, asking for food. If Fang Xia wants to be safe, he can choose to negotiate with the Yellow Turbans, and at the same time negotiate, give them a small amount of rations appropriately, so that they will not have enough food and no strength to attack the city, and they will not be able to reach Cheng Dù, who is in a hurry to jump over the wall.

Or you can drag out the negotiation and don't give food, but this may make Guan Hai desperate and send troops to attack, although the defense of the city occupies a favorable location, although the yellow turbans have a large number of people, but they do not have any advantage, and they do not have any siege equipment, and forcing the siege will inevitably cause huge losses. But the defenders of the city are no better, and they are both defeated.

For Fang Xia, people are much more important than food. This part of Yuzhou belongs to the Central Plains, although it is not as rich as Tao Qian's Xuzhou, because Tao Qian entered Xuzhou earlier, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Xuzhou subsided quickly, so the grain production is abundant, but Yuzhou is also a treasure land, at least the grain output is in the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, and it is also in the forefront.

Fang Xia came to Qian County, in fact, she paid more attention to the population than the city, after all, there was a qiē with the population. If there is no food, it can be re-hit, and it will be harvested in a year at most, but the people are gone, waiting for it to be regenerated and able to go to the battlefield, it must be that the daylily is cold, and it will definitely be too late.

Guo Jia also knew seven or eight points about his lord's mind, so he simply ignored the latter thought.

During the previous tentative negotiations, the attitude of the county was very ambiguous, so Guan Hai probably felt that there was hope and would try to continue the negotiations. In these years, soldiers are more important than anything else, and Guan Hai doesn't want to fight, if he fights all the people, he will be a bare-bones commander. If he had come up with a compromise, he would definitely try to negotiate.

When Guan Hai realized that the siege was inviolable, he naturally retreated.

However, in this way, although there will be no loss of personnel at first glance, it will take a long time, which may drag on for two or three months. In this way, the indirect losses caused will be huge, for example, the fertile land around the county is basically deserted this year, many people are crowded in the city, a lot of food needs to be spent, and riots are prone to occur.

Therefore, this plan, in Guo Jia's heart, is a strategy.

However, Zhong Xuan agrees with this very much, he thinks that Guo Jia is the words of Lao Cheng to seek the country, and this plan is not like Guo Fengxiao, who loves to take risks. Because in this way, Fang Xia doesn't need to sit here, he can return to Xuchang Commander-in-Chief for major affairs, as long as he guards it, Qiaojun can afford to drag it, but the yellow scarf can't afford it.

The second plan is the middle way.

The middle strategy is a plan to lead the water to the east.

Of course, there is food in the county, but although the city wall of the county is not high, it is also strong, and the defenders are very strong, and they will not be able to attack it for a while and a half. Guan Hai is now a bit desperate, and it is difficult to ride a tiger, so if he knows that Qian Jun is a hard bone, then of course he will pick soft persimmons to pinch.

This soft persimmon naturally refers to those wealthy families who live close to the Ju clan in Qian County.

The wealthy family is not a scholar family, only a famous family that has been an official for generations can be called a scholar family. And no one in the Xu family can be an official, Xu Chu, the patriarch, can ascend to the throne, from a citizen to an official, and he also entrusts the blessing that if there is chaos today, no one cares. To put it bluntly, it is also on one acre and three points of land in Qian County, the Xu family has a bit of power, if you go out of Qian County and look at the world, who knows what the hell your Xu family is.

At the time of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Zhou Cang's troops were far more than 5,000, more than 10,000, but later more than half dispersed for various reasons, leaving only these young and strong elites. At that time, he didn't take down Wubao, so he had a deep hatred for Qian County, and this time Guan Hai chose to attack Qian County, which was basically Zhou Cang's punishment.

Compared with Qian County, Zhou Cang's hatred for the Xu family is obviously deeper, so this can be provoked, and Guan Hai's purpose is food, as for fighting Beihai, fighting Qian County or fighting Xu Jiawu Fort, there is actually not much difference for him, he just wants not to let his troops starve to death, by the way, it can reduce casualties.

The elders of the Xu family thought that it would be good to keep their own family, and it was none of their business to Qian County, anyway, Lord Diao Chan was worried about it, so they forcibly dragged Xu Chu back. didn't expect that when they were still thinking about self-preservation, Guo Jia had already calculated them, and no one wanted to run away.

Although it is impossible to eradicate these wealthy clans in Qian County immediately, at present, Fang Xia's foundation is not stable, and forcibly tearing them apart, then it will not be good for her to lose both sides or win miserably. At least now these wealthy families not only do not bring her any danger, but on the contrary, they have some benefits.

As for the future, that's for later.

But now, if you weaken them with the help of the Yellow Turban's hand, you can also pinch them better in the palm of your hand in the future.

lest the tail be thrown off.

After listening to Guo Jia's words, Fang Xia nodded and asked, "Is this just the middle strategy?"

She felt that Guo Jia's plan was already excellent. Anyway, as a superior, a monarch, this kind of thing will be lost sooner or later, Fang Xia was tested by Hu Zhen once before, so she felt that it was normal for the troubled water to lead to the east, and it was normal for the dead Daoist friends not to die and the poor Dao, and she was not a defender.

However, the difficulty of this plan lies in how to provoke the yellow scarf to divert attention. This matter can only be done behind the scenes, and cannot be brought to the table. At least nominally, Fang Xia is the master of Qian County, and Xu Jiawu Fort is also under her jurisdiction, which belongs to demolishing the east wall to make up the west wall, and not getting a good reputation, and the Xu family must have been separated from her since then.

However, since Guo Jia had already raised it, he had also thought of a countermeasure to this point, so Fang Xia did not continue to ask. Although there is no impermeable wall in the world, as long as the secrecy is done well, there are only the three of them present now, and everyone else knows each other and walks away, so it will not be leaked out for the time being.

The only thing she was curious about was what the best strategy was, if it was just the middle policy.

Fang Xia asked Guo Jia.

The smile on Guo Jia's face deepened, and he said, "The lord might as well guess?"

Although Guo Jia did not have the name of Zhong Xuan, he also made a posture of hard thought and meditation.

Fang Xia glared at him, if she could guess, what else did she want Guo Jia to do.

Guo Jia said: "The "Art of War" has a cloud of 'going up to the army to attack and plot, then to attack the enemy, and then to attack the city'. ”

Sun Tzu's Art of War is such a divine book, frankly speaking, Fang Xia really hasn't read it, as an Internet addict girl, who has nothing to do with reading this. It is estimated that most modern people only have a very small understanding of Sun Tzu's Art of War, and a few of the sentences are familiar, and it is estimated that very few people have really read them.

But Fang Xia still knew this sentence, she suddenly realized the meaning of Guo Jia's words, and said: "What does Fengxiao mean, a soldier who surrenders without a fight?"

At present, there are only 5,000 soldiers and 2,000 reserve population, these people have nothing to do in the city, in order to avoid them being idle and panicked, except for the rotation of defending the city, so as not to make them idle and bored, Fang Xia asked Liang Xi to take them to practice in the school field, the amount of exercise is not too big, that is, Cheng Dù, who is warming up, is ready to go to war at any time.

And Guan Hai's side is known as 30,000, Fang Xia's scouts before judged that there should be more than 10,000 people according to the traces left by their burying pots and cooking, which must be less than 30,000, but just these 5,000 people, and many of them are known as veterans, and they also played soy sauce with Kong Ling when he went to the princes of the Eighteenth Road to ask for Dong, and he didn't do anything, and he defended the city, and it was a bit unrealistic to expect the Yellow Turban to surrender.

Guo Jia said with a smile: "The lord is really smart, and he can understand it at all." ”

But looking at his perfunctory words, you know that he is hungry and serious at all.

"I don't know what the lord plans to choose?" Guo Jia looked at her and asked.

Zhong Xuan frowned, he originally thought that the first plan was already good, but what Guo Jia said later was too impressive, in comparison, the first plan was too conservative. Today's situation is actually not very bad, and there is nothing wrong with gambling. If you win, everyone is happy, but you lose, and it's just that the Yellow Turban continues to attack the city, which is not a loss.

Although Zhong Xuan felt that Guo Jia's second plan was a little lacking in morality, but what was the specific matter of the third plan, he suddenly stopped talking, and the people who made it felt like a cat's paw were scratching, it was just itchy and uncomfortable. But no matter how uncomfortable it is, with Zhong Xuan's temperament, he will never bet on an unknown strategy. So he's torn between one and two.

Fang Xia knew Guo Jia very well, she knew that Guo Jia's first proposal was to make up the number, and he didn't let her choose it at all.

So the third or the second? Guo Jia generally likes to use tricks, and the third is definitely risky, and it is not low.

Guo Jia looked at Fang Xia for a while, didn't wait for her to answer, and said with a smile: "Lord, let's go." ”

Fang Xia glanced at him.

"Whether it's the second or the third, we have to visit one person first. ”

Thinking that it was impossible for Guo Jia and the Yellow Turban to communicate through the air, there must be a middleman, Fang Xia suddenly realized, she said, "Is it him?"

Guo Jia didn't answer, his smile deepened, and he walked side by side with Fang Xia.

Zhong Xuan sighed, took a step behind, and followed with the courtesy of a courtier.