After Guo Jia had the military doctor finish treatment, he released three people back to the camp to report the news that Cao Bao of the Xuzhou army had been captured.

In this battle, Cao's army beheaded 1,500 and suffered less than 300 casualties, thanks to Dian Wei's beheading tactics and Le Jin's four gouging penetrations, as well as Guo Jia's ambush strategy.

Not only that, Guo Jia also got more than 2,300 war horses that were still ready to fight. This is simply to deliver a courier to Cao Jun, who lacks war horses.

Then he sent Yu Ban to kill all the more than 1,000 surrendered soldiers, clean up the boulders blocking the entrance, and then make the corpses of the surrendered soldiers into a Jingguan at the entrance.

What is Kyokan? In ancient times, in order to show off their martial arts or to deter the enemy, they gathered the corpses of the enemy and sealed the high mound.

Yu Ban hesitated, but he did not object to Guo Jia's cruel actions.

Yu Ban also knows the truth that Ci is not in charge of the army, not to mention Guo Jia's helplessness, he also understands.

These people have fallen, Guo Jia dares to use them?

There are only 5,000 people under his command, how can Guo Jia be suppressed if these more than 1,000 people suddenly rebel for a while? You don't have to put it there, and it's also a great drain on grain and grass.

So Guo Jia could only make this decision and kill the prisoners.

When Guo Jia heard the soldiers of the Cao army swing their knives and kill the captives one by one, his heart was bleeding.

He's not a cruel and murderous man, but he can't help it. If these people don't die, they may die as Cao Jun's soldiers, and even Yu Ban, Le Jin, Dian Wei and Guo Jia themselves.

Guo Jia is well versed in history, and he has read a document published by later scholars.

The country's population after the Battle of Chibi in 208 AD was 1.4 million, and in 221 AD the population dropped to 900,000.

According to the census of Yonghe five years (140), there are 9,336,665 households and 47,892,413 populations in the country.

"The head hangs in front of the horse, and the woman is carried in the back"

"The white bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles"

"One of the people is left behind, and the thought breaks people's intestines"

This is a real hundred and one people!

Although many of them have become homeless, or have been hidden by the scholars and become unregistered black hukou, the gap is too great.

It was also because of the withering population that there was a later Wuhu Chaohua, and the Han people at that time were almost wiped out.

In 299 AD, the total number of Han people was about 19.39 million, but after more than a century of war, only more than 4 million Han people remained in the Central Plains, and three-quarters of the nearly 20 million Han people were slaughtered by foreign forces, and the long and splendid Chinese civilization was almost destroyed.

At that time, the alien race called the Han people "two-legged sheep".

What is a two-legged sheep?

The two-legged sheep does not refer to a sheep, but to a person who is eaten as food. Especially in the war-torn ancient times, the people were struggling to make a living, and it was difficult to make a plan, so people had to cook and eat people.

At the same time, the Hu regime issued a new law: Hu people can go to the Han people's homes to rob and kill anything they lack, and if the Han people do not comply, they will break the law.

At that time, Ran Min stood up and issued an order to kill Hu. Although there was a political purpose in it, he killed at least two million Hu people in his lifetime, and indeed saved countless Han people and kept them from being destroyed.

So Guo Jia has been trying his best to avoid such a thing as killing prisoners, but this time he can only say that he killed one person and saved ten people.

He didn't care what the people of the world and later generations of history would say about him, his purpose was to spend the least time and at the lightest price to help Cao Cao unify the world, and then concentrate on dealing with those alien races.

Maybe the people of their generation will not be able to wait for that day, but they will try their best not to leave a devastated land for the next generation.

After slaughtering these captives, Guo Jia sent 1,500 horses to Cao Cao, leaving the remaining 800 for himself. Then there were some disabled war horses, which were sent back to Puyang City by Guo Jia as stallions. And those dead war horses were ordered by Guo Jia to be used as meat for tonight's celebration banquet.

At the same time, Guo Jia also taught the production method of hot pot to those Huotoujun, so that the taste of horse meat is no longer so bad (the muscle fiber of horse meat is thicker than beef), and at the same time sprinkled with green onions, ginger, garlic, and ginger shreds to remove the smell of horse meat. (Onions and ginger are native to China, only garlic is native to West and Central Asia, since the Han Dynasty Zhang Qian sent an envoy to the Western Regions, bringing garlic back to China to settle down)

However, Guo Jia did not let everyone drink, after all, drinking in wartime is always risky. So many generals in ancient times were drunk and had accidents, so even if he was greedy, Guo Jia would not drink during the battle, and the same was true for the soldiers under his command.

After Cao Cao learned that Guo Jia was bait to capture Cao Bao, his first reaction was to care about Guo Jia's safety. After learning that Guo Jia was only hit by an arrow and that it was not a big problem, Cao Cao was overjoyed by Guo Jia's victory, and was even more surprised by the 1,500 war horses sent by Guo Jia.

And Tao Qian, who was in Tancheng, was shocked when he learned about it, the generals under his command were not to mention the life of the general, and the only cavalry army was also the enemy, which was distressing.

Guo Jia's great victory brought great encouragement to Cao's army, while the combined forces of Yuan Shu and Tao Qian were demoralized.

After Guo Jia obtained Cao Cao's full entrustment, he negotiated with Tao Qian to exchange 50,000 stone grain and grass for Cao Bao, and asked Tao Qian to withdraw from the army.

Tao Qian can't help it, there are no other generals in Xuzhou who can fight, and Cao Bao is a general among the dwarfs.

In addition, Xuzhou is rich in products, and the 50,000 stone grain and grass will be exchanged for Cao Bao and a temporary truce, and Tao Qian is also willing. As for the 3,000 soldiers who were killed? If someone has soldiers, they can recruit again. Tao Qian didn't care at all, and was glad that only 3,000 people died.

What is the concept of 50,000 stones?

In wartime, a soldier almost eats nearly three stone of grain a month, and 50,000 stone is equivalent to a month's worth of grain and grass for an army of more than 15,000 yuan, not counting the grain and grass consumed by horses and people.

Yes, after a battle, I made a lot of money. After Guo Jia's grain and grass was handed over, he said to the Xuzhou general who escorted the grain and grass, "Tell Xuzhou Mu for me, saying that Guo Fengxiao appreciates his integrity very much, and he will continue to do business in the future." ”

The general said in his heart, "The devil is going to make a deal with you!" You still want to have a next time! And where are you buying and selling! It's just a ticket kidnapping! What's the difference between us and paying a ransom!

Later, Guo Jia stayed in Taishan County, and then he and Wei Lejin took 500 guards and sent people to escort the 50,000 stone grain and grass to Chenliu County.

When Cao Cao saw him, he was so happy that he almost didn't kiss the two directly.

There was a shortage of horses, so Guo Jia sent them.

Now that there is a shortage of food, Guo Jia sent it again.

When he heard the content of Guo Jia's words relayed to Tao Qian, Cao Cao laughed, you Guo Fengxiao should be a bandit, Tao Qian couldn't be angry when he heard it.

But after laughing and laughing, Cao Cao and Guo Jia also talked about business.