At the beginning of August, the autumn rains in the Qingxu area became more frequent and uncontrollab.

The situation is very bad, because it means that the autumn harvest reduction in Qingxu is a foregone conclusion, and it is likely to be a large-scale reduction, and it is needless to say that the serious significance of the reduction in agricultural society is needless to say. It is almost conceivable that after this terrible autumn harvest, there will be any chaos in the Qingxu region, which is already in a state of military standoff.

However, from a more off-the-shelf perspective, this also seems to be a good thing, as the efficiency of military operations seems to be greatly reduced in such cases...... The rain, the mountains, the two large rivers that run parallel to Langya County and Donghai County swelled, and the lack of supplies seemed to make the Langya area lose the possibility of large-scale battles.

It was in this rainy state that Guo Jia took a 'condolence team' of about 100 people, escorted by the two songs, a total of more than 500 people, holding the banners of Guan Yu and the trial, and swaggered into Langya County in the rain.

There was nothing to say about the first two days, because the situation in Langya County was a little too practical...... The territory here was actually divided and controlled by a group of local warlords of Qingxu according to the characteristics of the terrain, rather than according to the previous administrative division. For example, Zhangguo County, an important town on the west bank of Wushui in the south of Langya County (the area east of Zaozhuang in later generations), is currently under the control of a man named Hao Pu with 2,000 soldiers, who is Liu Bei's general, and is now under the unified deployment of Xiahoudun. In the same way, the northernmost part of Langya, that is, Gumu County north of Keiwu Mountain, has long been pulled away by General Dongguan of Guanzhen.

The dangerous Keiwu Mountain is actually the dividing line between Zangba, the so-called Qingxu Taishan tyrants and Hebei Benzhi.

However, what is interesting is that Guo Jia led a group of clear agents, secret agents, and 400 armor soldiers to march on his own territory, and he could actually be followed...... So, after making sure that it was correct, Guo Fengxiao crossed the pass of Keiwu Mountain, simply let the large army go first, and he only took dozens of people to hide in the checkpoint of the pass, and successfully captured this person.

However, when he saw this person, he felt a little funny, because he knew this person, and the two sides still had some fate and friendship from a certain point of view.

"Yuan Zhi is unharmed."

After Guo Jia recognized this person, he was a little stunned, but while continuing to sit cross-legged on the couch and drink to warm up, he motioned to the local pass guards to untie the other party, but he didn't say anything else, but it was quite rude.

On the other side, after Xu Shu, who was soaked through, was untied, he was not surprised at all, let alone angry, but shook his head and laughed at himself: "I should have thought that such a critical place in the Keiwu Pass, although the guard of this place nominally belongs to Wu Dun, he should have been co-opted by you, the deputy envoy of Jing'antai." ”

Guo Jia, who went to the crown and only wore a ponytail-like hairstyle, shook his head more than once, as if he was mocking the other party for detecting it too late, but motioned to the other party to come to the bed to drink: "Yuan Zhi, come and warm up...... Tell me where you have been, why you are here now, and why you are following me? ”

Xu Yuanzhi is also a thief, how can he care about the other party's arbitrariness, but he stepped forward directly, drank with Guo Jia to keep warm, and roughly explained the reason for his trip.

It turned out that after Xu Yuanzhi arrived in Yecheng with Lu Su, Chen Deng, and Guo Jia that day, he had the intention of traveling to the Quartet to see the long insight, and his people had been wandering around Jizhou and Yingzhou in the hinterland of Hebei, and when Lu Su, Chen Deng, and Guo Jia traveled north to Zhuo County together, he took the opportunity to take a group to the north...... However, when Lu Su and Chen Deng returned to the south, Xu Shu did not turn back with him, but because he had seen countless things on this trip, he became more and more interested in the customs and customs of various places, so he went from the north, went out of Lulongsai in western Liaoxi to the north, and then turned to Liaodong to travel.

In Liaodong, he went to the old capital of Goguryeo, to Pyongyang County, Lelang County, in the easternmost part, and even met Guan Ning, a former Qingxu celebrity, at a remote settlement on the banks of the Daliang River, and listened to lectures in front of Guan Ning for several months...... It wasn't until Tai Shici suddenly arrived in Liaodong to recruit troops that he knew from the official bulletin board that there was a great war in the Central Plains, so he immediately turned south, and relied on saving the life of Pingguo Ling Yang Xiu under the mouth of a tiger in the wild, and was able to get on the official ship transporting weapons, and then crossed the sea to Donglai.

"I'm just worried about my mother." Xu Shu said with a smile. "Although my mother is in good health and has easy to move, and when I left, her old man also said that I don't have to worry about her, and it is not too late to go home after thirty, but the army is like this, how can I rest assured? That's why I hurried all the way ......"

"Don't you say you're following me, just along the way?" Guo Jia stepped on the couch on one knee and shook the wine bottle in his hand, but sneered for a while.

"That's not all." Xu Yuanzhi became more and more serious. "Along the way, of course, is a way, but this trip has the meaning of following you and watching your behavior...... You must know that I have heard your reputation in Yecheng, the so-called three evils of Yexia, Zhang Liao is a harm in the juju field, Ma Chao is a harm in the martial arts field, you are a harm in the restaurant and tea shop, you never give money for eating and drinking, but you lead the military and important things, and no one dares to ask you for money...... I'm afraid that you will go out of the jurisdiction of Hebei, and unlike before, there was Lu Zijing on your side, which will sprout in a solid state and harm the people of Langya! You must see that now the autumn rain is continuous, the autumn harvest is unfavorable, and the people of Langya have always been extremely bitter. ”

Guo Jia was stunned for a long time, and then sneered: "Is Ye Xia the same thing as this place?" Those who can open a restaurant and tea shop in Yexia are either rich or expensive, and I will drink them for a lifetime, and it can be regarded as robbing the rich and helping the poor for a lifetime! My Royal Highness has suffered the most losses in his own family, and he doesn't care, even Tian Yuanhao doesn't bother to impeach me, that is, Kong Wenju and those people like to scold me for making a name...... You say, I will be careful when I leave Ye, not to mention the rich people here in Langya and the livelihood of the people is difficult? But you, if I am really a solid germination, and a curse to the people...... You're just alone, and how are you going to do it? ”

"Look at the shape." Xu Shu raised his glass and drank it all, only then did he take it proudly. "If you only pay off slightly, I still have a lot of Amway money tickets given by Brother Long when the yen is long, and I will make up for you for the sake of acquaintance, if you lead 500 people to wantonly abuse the people, although I only have one person and one sword, I may not be able to take your life!"

Guo Jia sneered more and more: "But I don't know where Xu Daxia's sword is now?" ”

Xu Shu shook his head: "As soon as I was surrounded in the pass below, I knew that Fengxiao was here, otherwise why would you take the initiative to abandon the sword and bind it, and also said that your Liaodong travel record is a confidential military document, so that your subordinates can keep it for me...... If you really wanted to do it, just with the few people below, they would have died a long time ago! You also survived! ”

Guo Jia was silent for a while, but suddenly clapped his hands.

Immediately, someone returned a few items on Xu Shu's body - looking at it carefully, it was just a set of clothes, a long sword, a book, plus some Amway money tickets and scattered money and belongings.

Everyone else in the house retreated, Xu Shuwu drank and ate by himself, but Guo Jia only took the sword from the couch, and then directly pulled the sword out of the sheath!

The sword light is like autumn water, and the shadow of the bottle is like frost...... The two of them stopped their movements almost at the same time, and in the narrow mountain checkpoint hut, there was silence for a while, only the rain outside the window was dripping.

In fact, not to mention that Guo Fengxiao, as the deputy of Xi Zhicai, has some additional information channels, just that the two are from the same township, and as Gongsun Xun's reputation grows bigger and bigger, how can they not know each other's names early? It's just that in the matter of Xuzhou that day, the two sides made a judgment, Xu Yuanzhi was ashamed, and Guo Jia was lazy in private, so he was too lazy to break it, but now that the two swords meet, it is inevitable to avoid it.

However, after a while, the two resumed their movements almost at the same time, one continued to drink and eat, and the other squinted at the sword light and spoke, as if erasing the embarrassing mutual self-introduction:

"Yuan Zhi should also know that Guandu can't hold each other, and Lingtang is actually safe in Yingchuan for a short time, but I have a thing here in Langya, and I want to borrow Yuan Zhi's sword courage and full of lake and sea heroism!"

"I know what Fengxiao means, and when I passed through Qingzhou, I also heard rumors about Langya's side. But the situation has reached this point, but I have no intention of going out for the time being, and I just want to return to Yingchuan and protect my mother through this Central Plains war. "Xu Shu is right." After all, in the current situation, it is not too late to go to the scientific examination after the world is born...... You don't know, I have been sluggish since I was a child, and I am a single child, and my mother's words to me are heaven. And since she is widowed, she has always taught me to stand up with loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness, and the Han family is still very important to her......"

"I understand, I understand!" Guo Jia put his sword into the sheath and made a sound again and again. "It's not your fault, and you can't blame your mother...... She doesn't teach you loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness, so does she want to teach you to be disloyal to the Han family? And when General Wei gave you and me a long sword, who would have thought that one day the Han family would be like this? However, Yuan Zhi is afraid that he has also misunderstood, I ask you for help, not to see the grace of this sword in Hebei, but to see the expectation that General Wei gave you and me this sword, and do justice for the people of Langya and Qingxu! ”

Xu Shu was silent for a while.

"Listening to what Yuan Zhi just said about the world being born in peace and then coming out, what else is there in the Han family and not the Han family, I know that you have traveled in Hebei for a year, how much knowledge has been broadened, and you have some insights in your heart...... At the very least, Yuan Zhi should have some calculations in his heart at this time, is this world unified or divided? Guo Jia stroked the scabbard and continued to speak slowly. In today's situation, I don't want to say which is better or worse between Cao Liu and Xiao Tianzi and our General Wei, who is more qualified to rule the world, but in any case, a group of Taishan thieves who divide Langya, regard the local people as private property, and have no law and rule of law, are not good things, right? It's good to die for a while! ”

"That's a true story." Xu Shu said softly.

"Moreover, now that the autumn rain continues, the Qingxu disaster is a foregone conclusion." Guo Jianu, who was wearing a ponytail, gestured out the window. "At this time, as a person from the lake and the sea, you can let Liu Xuande enter Qingzhou, or let us annex Xuzhou in Hebei, because both of our families can probably still maintain production and mobilize forces for disaster relief, but how can you let a group of thieves divide the county here and be capricious?"

Xu Shu still didn't say anything.

"Yuanzhi, you know what? The two of us are actually very similar on the inside. Guo Jia put the other party's sword at his side, and then looked at the other party with his arms. They have been neglected since childhood, but they are fortunate to study and practice martial arts, so after completing their studies, they are extremely chivalrous in the market...... However, I am a hero, you are a hero, and you are far inferior to me. ”

"Don't be ...... excited"

"I have heard someone say that the little man of chivalry is a grudge for gratitude; The great man of chivalry, for the country and the people! Guo Jiali ignored the other party, and just continued to speak.

Hearing this, Xu Shu looked up in amazement as if he had been struck by lightning.

"Yuan Zhi, today's matter is already very clear." Seeing this, Guo Jia continued to chuckle. "You know this in your heart, but you're just stuck in prejudices...... One is that I am a little awkward and jealous, one is because of the free mother's teaching that I am a little reluctant to the Han family after all, and the other is that there are your old friends in the south, so you shirk it because of selfishness! It's just that I want to ask Yuan Zhi, I want to borrow your sword today to deal with Langya thieves, right is right, wrong is wrong, don't you know? Killing a thief who wants to make trouble, even if Zang Ba annexes the territory of this thief leader, is it better than letting him rise up and make trouble, right? And if it is clear, but indifferent, then what is the use of such a lake and sea arrogance for the country and the people? ! If it is useless, what qualifications do you have to hold this sword again? ”

In other words, Guo Fengxiao's words were quite gentle at the beginning, but in the end, he was already full of disdain!

"Here comes the sword!" Xu Shu stared at the other party and was silent for a long time, but suddenly stretched out his hand.

Guo Jia laughed for a moment, and handed the sword at his side to the other party.

After Xu Shu received the sword, he directly drew the sword out of the sheath, and then sighed in the face of the sword light: "I will be a fierce general for you today...... But I said in advance, just for you to deal with the Taishan thief here in Langya, and I will go straight to my hometown after Langya! ”

"Good!" Guo Fengxiao smiled slightly, but he couldn't help but open the other party's book on the spot and read the other party's travelogue. "Actually, I also had a whim, remembering Yuan Zhi's prestige in killing Xu Tan that day, and I just made a little preparation, maybe I didn't need Yuan Zhi to kill people with a sword...... Did Yang Dezu really almost be bitten to death by a tiger? ”

Xu Shu put his sword on his waist and didn't say a word.

With Xu Yuanzhi, who met unexpectedly, Guo Jia set off again.

And sure enough, after passing the Keiwu Mountain, entering the territory of the so-called Zangba, you can obviously perceive the withering of the people's livelihood here...... This is almost inevitable, whether it is Qingxu Haoba, Taishan Thief Kou, the warlord leader of this group of warlords is generally a half-rich and half-thief leader from a low background, and basically far away from his hometown, so he acts unscrupulously. At the same time, the army they control is generally from thieves or secondary yellow turbans, and the discipline is extremely poor.

However, it is the fact that they are in the middle of the two major forces in the north and the south, and they have a favorable geographical position, and their military strength is really strong, so they have formed the current strange situation.

In this way, the ill-intentioned Guo Jia and Xu Shu led 500 people along the Yishui road quickly, passing through the territory of Wu Dun, Yin Li, Chang Xuan, and Xiao Jian in turn, and even specifically to observe Sun Guan and Sun Kang brothers, they had obviously arrived on the west bank of Yishui halfway, and also went around to the east bank of Yishui, almost next to Ju County, which was bathing in water further east.

It must be known that the mountainous area of Langya is good, but there are two rivers of Yi and Mu that run almost north-south, parallel to the south, and then have been sandwiched by Zhou Yu's Tancheng through Donghai County, and only converge in Surabaya when they reach the territory of Xiapi State. And Guo Jia's group repeatedly jumped sideways between the two rivers, and it was not good to go down the river at all, which also made people know at a glance that they had bad intentions.

But no matter what, before the Mid-Autumn Festival in August, the group hurriedly entered Langya County, that is, Kaiyang at the intersection of Yishui and Wushui, and met the messenger sent by Zang Ba to greet him from afar.

At this point, when the horse entered the city, Xu Shu, who gradually had his own conjecture in his heart, couldn't help but take the initiative to talk to Guo Jia about the trip:

"Along the way, the rumors have eyebrows in Fengxiao's heart?"

"If there is really a person with evil intentions and trying to rebel, who do you think it is?" Guo Jia asked seriously.

"I think it's Chang Xuan." Xu Shu frowned.

"Why?" Guo Jia's face was as usual.

"Chang Feng is the most desolate under the rule, which shows that he has never been virtuous and has no deeds, and along the way, he has treated you the most arrogant and rude."

"That's a good point." Guo Jia replied frankly immediately. "Actually, I'm also worried that once the chaos starts, even if Chang Yu doesn't have an affair with Zhou Yu, he will take the opportunity to make trouble. Therefore, regardless of whether he fornicated with Zhou Yu or not, in this battle, he should find an opportunity to kill Chang Yu to thank the people of Dongguan (a county under Langya, where Chang Yu is stationed)! But his person should be killed, but it can't be concluded that he fornicated with Zhou Yu! ”

"And who else do you think it might be?"

"In addition to Chang Xuan, I have two other doubts in my heart." Guo Jia chuckled. "But you have to see Zang Xuangao before you judge!"

"Under the rule of Zang Ba, it is far better than Chang Xuan, Wu Dun, Yin Li and others, that is, Sun Guan and Sun Kang brothers between Yishui and Mushui, can be slightly compared...... He can be the head of Qingxu Haoba, how capable he is! Xu Shu sighed for a while.

"But this beautiful woman, why be a thief?!" Guo Jia suddenly looked solemn.

It is said that Guo Jia was full of expectations to enter the city with Zang Ba's envoy, but he didn't see Zang Ba himself that day...... It turned out that it was rainy for several days, the Yishui water was soaring, the waterlogging was serious, but it was the autumn harvest, and Zang Xuangao was worried for a while, and he actually grabbed the harvest in the south of the city for several days, in order to minimize the loss, so there was a delay.

In this regard, Guo Fengxiao didn't care, but continued to be unscrupulous, going back and forth to the wine shops and tea shops in Kaiyang City...... Of course, it must be given money...... Then I waited for three days, and on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, I saw Zang Ba, who had been tired for several days and returned to the city.

Zang Xuangao is about in his early forties this year, and he has a heavy jaw, and he really has a bit of grandeur. However, although he is one of the few heroes in the world who can maintain a semi-independent state, he has special respect for Guo Jia, a young envoy, and he has no shelf, so he directly invited the other party to sit with him.

Guo Fengxiao got down to business, but he returned to the serious posture he had when he handled official business on weekdays, that is, his clothes and hair accessories were also serious again.

Just like his people sat on the top seat at the banquet, they didn't have time to drink, so they got straight to the point and asked each other: "Zang Fujun, I made an oath to my Yangong in front of Guan Zhendong that day, does it still count today?" ”

"How can you break your oath in the world?" Zang Ba was also immediately serious.

"That's good." Guo Jia became more and more crisp and serious. "That being the case, I have been ordered to come, and I ask Zang Mansion Jun to send troops south immediately after the autumn harvest to face Zhou Yu in the East China Sea!"

Zang Ba was silent for a moment, and then said slowly: "My loyalty to Yan Gong and respect for Guan Zhendong have not changed at all, but I really can't send troops...... If there is any doubt in Hebei, I am willing to let my two sons, family members, and clansmen all go to Yecheng to show their loyalty, what does Deputy Envoy Guo think? ”

"I don't think it's right." Guo Jia pressed and did not retreat. "Because when he surrendered to our Hebei that day, he promised that unless Tao Xuzhou and his son were in person, once there was a war, it would be the forerunner, and it was precisely because of this that we allowed Zang Fujun's soldiers and horses not to be reorganized...... In other words, we Xu Zang Fujun and those few people are at ease in Langya, and what we want is that you will not be the first to fight at both ends of today's war! ”

"We really don't have ......"

"It's not up to you! Now the two armies are facing each other for thousands of miles, Guandu died thirty or forty thousand people in one day in a battle, and the fierce war has never been here in the past. As for the family members and two sons, what kind of thing is it in front of the overall situation of the world, but it is worth a penny?! Guo Jia's words were fierce, and Zang Ai, the eldest son of Zang Ba, was red-faced.

Seeing that his young master was humiliated, several scribes below instinctively wanted to get up and refute it, but they were stopped by their own lord directly waving his hand, and then the head of the Qingxu tyrant explained earnestly again: "Deputy Envoy Guo, it's not that I don't want to send troops, but I can't ......."

"Is it a lack of military resources?" Unexpectedly, Guo Jia's attitude softened. "It's no wonder that this year's autumn harvest is like this."

"That's why." Zang Ba replied stubbornly.

"Then please ask Zang Fujun to convene the generals of Langya to Kaiyang first...... Qingzhou naturally has military supplies and grain and grass to send. Guo Jia immediately interfaced.

Zang Ba, who was forced into a corner, was silent for a while again, but suddenly got up: "Can you ask Deputy Envoy Guo to follow me to the back porch?" ”

Guo Jia didn't care, and got up directly to follow.

The two left the hall through the side door and came to the back porch, Zang Xuangao immediately sighed: "Did Deputy Envoy Guo hear some rumors on this trip?" ”

"There was a rumor in Qingzhou suddenly, saying that it was a rebellion." Guo Jia is honest.

"Then Deputy Envoy Guo thinks I'll be opposed?" Zang Ba shook his head.

"I thought that I would not rebel at the end of the step, and I could be called loyal, otherwise I would not have brought only five hundred people here!" Guo Jia is getting more and more crisp. "But the big picture is like this, and I have to make a statement...... Since the foot is the head of Langya, it is possible to ensure that Langya is like the foot? If not, Guan Zhendong and I will be counterattacked, I'm afraid that we will miss the overall situation of Yan Gong! ”

Zang Ba wanted to speak and stopped.

"So what I mean is to ask Zang Fujun to gather the generals of Langya together, and set up defenses on this front line and supervise them in a unified manner." Guo Jia continued to explain. "Don't want to march, but don't want harmless...... Otherwise, if there is really a mess, not only will we not be able to deal with Yan Gong, but Zang Fujun, how can you deal with Yan Gong and Guan Zhendong? ”

Zang Ba was slightly stunned, and then shook his head.

Since the two of them were open and honest in private, and they made sense, they couldn't help but be happy, and then returned to the church together to get drunk.

However, when the rain gradually subsided that day, Guo Fengxiao returned to his place of stay, but hurriedly wrote a number of secret letters, handed them over to the close soldiers, went out of the city overnight, went everywhere, and called Xu Shu again to explain in person:

"I already know who is colluding with Zhou Yu here in Langya, intending to make trouble!"

"Who?" Xu Shu was curious for a while. "Is it Chang Xuan?"

"It's all said, whether Chang Feng colludes or not, the south is a scourge, and we all have to get rid of it." Guo Jia shook his head. "You don't have to count him."

"Is that Zang Ba himself?"

"Zang Xuangao has no ambitions, and he is a Cigna hero, now he is rich, expensive and safe, just to leave a good reputation behind him, where can he be capricious?"

"Who's that?"

"I won't tell you...... Anyway, I just ask you to kill Chang Feng for me and eliminate harm for the people. Guo Jia smiled.

Xu Shu also smiled: "I know, this rumor was fabricated by Zhou Gongjin out of thin air, isn't it messing with Langya's army?" ”

Guo Jia smiled and said nothing.

Xu Shu's smile gradually disappeared: "Okay, I'm also a person who makes promises, and this sword is borrowed from you!" ”

Guo Jia became more and more smug.

————I'm the dividing line that laughs but doesn't speak————

"At the end of the Han Dynasty, Pingguo had many tigers, as for pounced on the road, he tasted a county order. In the seventh year of Jian'an, the Han Emperor abandoned the temple and went to Nanyang, and Taizu used Yan Gong to act as the representative of democracy, and appointed Yang Dezu as the Pingguo Order. When he went to work, he met a tiger in the road, but he was the only one who chased the white horse behind him, and he did not return day and night, and everyone thought it was doomed. The next day, although he injured his arm, he returned to the county with the tiger corpse and cut the tiger flesh left and right. Shi Nai said: 'The tiger eats the Han Ling, and the Yan Ling devours the tiger!' —"Shilin Miscellaneous". Yan. Recorded by Anonymous

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