The night sky was dark, the stars receded, and it was another moonless night.

The cool breeze was blowing, and the air was cold, mixed with a little blood, and there was a faint smell of slaughter.

At the beginning of the day, the tent of the commander of the Chinese army was still brightly lit, but no one moved at the door of the tent, only the left and right rows of soldiers with long soldiers standing on both sides of the tent, like a rock.

"Tom, tom, tom!"

The sound of heavy footsteps entered the big tent, prompting Li Li, who was writing at the desk, to look up at the door, and then waved his hand to signal the soldiers to let him go. After doing this, he continued to finish the book he had just put on hold, then got up and walked to the bottom of the porch, beckoning his attendant to serve tea.

"It's late at night, why hasn't Fengxiao rested yet?"

While speaking, Li Li stretched out his hand to stop Guo Jia, who was about to salute, and signaled that he did not have to be polite and sat down to speak.

Guo Jia waved his hand to thank him, then picked up the hem of the heavy black armor and sat down slowly. But after sitting down, he felt very uncomfortable, so he simply straightened his legs and sat on the floor. Seeing this scene, Li Li couldn't help but laugh dumbly: "Hehehe! I told you a long time ago that those who follow the army all year round must get used to wearing armor, but you turn a deaf ear and insist on refusing to wear armor. How does it taste now, don't you get used to it, don't you feel very inconvenient and too much of a hindrance? ”

"Alas, since the lord knows that Wei Chen is not used to wearing battle armor, why should he deliberately embarrass his ministers?" It's rare to be alone with Li Li, Guo Jia is not polite at this time, complaining in person, saving him from feeling uncomfortable.

After saying what was in his heart, Guo Jiahan smiled: "No. Wearing such a heavy battle armor, Wei Chen couldn't sleep peacefully when he lay on the couch and tossed and turned, so he could only come to disturb the lord. It's just that Weichen didn't expect it. The lord didn't rest so late, he must have something on his mind. ”

"Those who know me are filial piety!" Li Li bowed his head happily and immediately poured Guo Jia a cup of tea to apologize. After all, Guo Jia's black armor weighing forty pounds is his masterpiece, and he has a death order, and he can't wear it. Thereupon. Poor Guo Jia is a scholar, he has no power to restrain the chicken, but he has to sleep with such a heavy armor. This is really a kind of torture, and it is tantamount to being punished for service!

In fact, this set of dragon scale armor also has a nearly eight-pound helmet and a pair of four-pound boots, if you put on a battle robe. It weighs at least fifty or sixty pounds. Furthermore. The generals who go into battle in armor have long weapons that are not light, and this set of equipment is fully armed, and there are not a hundred or eighty pounds.

The "catty" mentioned here is not ten taels and one catty, but sixteen taels and one catty. Regarding the origin of the hexadecimal system, it can be traced back to after Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms, and it was Prime Minister Li Si who was responsible for formulating the standards of weights and measures. Li Si smoothly set the standards for coins, lengths, etc., but he ran out of ideas when it came to weight. He really couldn't think of how many taels to set as one catty, so he asked Qin Shi Huang for instructions. Qin Shi Huang wrote a four-word instruction: "The world is fair". The standard for setting is given, but the exact number is not given. In order to avoid being held accountable for problems in the implementation in the future, Li Si decided to take the number of strokes of the four words "the world is fair" as the standard (the strokes of the small seal "the world is fair" are different from the current way of writing), so he set a pound equal to sixteen taels.

At that time, the sixteen taels of scales were called "sixteen gold star scales", which were composed of the seven stars of the Big Dipper, the six stars of the Southern Dipper and the three stars of Fu Lu Shou, which warned those who did business to be honest and trustworthy, not to deceive or conceal; Otherwise, there will be no blessing in the short one, two or two less Lu, and three or two will be missing. This method is still in use 2,000 years later. But now it is not necessary, one is not conducive to calculation, and the other is that businessmen make profits, and sixteen taels and one pound is too much loss. (This is where "half a catty and eight taels" comes from.) A little knowledge, Tiger Ben felt that it was meaningful, so it was excerpted for appreciation only, not necessarily true. ）

??????“ I don't know why the lord is worried, I don't know if Weichen can share the worries of the lord? Guo Jia asked.

After Li Li heard this, he wanted to tell what he was thinking and discussing, but he didn't want Guo Jia to worry about it. After all, I have a hunch that this thing is very mysterious, unclear, and unfounded, so it is better to bear it alone than to let Guo Jia worry with him. In other words, if this premonition is not fulfilled, isn't it unfounded and generous?

It is not difficult to see that in Li Li's mind, Li Zhi is undoubtedly closer than Guo Jia. In front of Li Zhi, Li Li did not hide it and directly said the hidden worries in his heart, but in front of Guo Jia, he had reservations. Because this is related to his face as a superior, in this society where the rule of man is greater than the rule of law, the face of the superior is prestige, which is equivalent to influence. It is that ordinary people can ignore their personal face, and even materialistic desires, laugh at poverty and prostitution, but those in high positions cannot ignore their own prestige; Without this influence, it is doomed to have an unstable foundation and will sooner or later be replaced by others.

Seeing that Li Li was silent, Guo Jia said softly: "Is it still because of Cao Cao?" Since the lord is not worried about him, why not call him back to his side? As long as he stays by the lord's side, even if there are any conspiracies, he can't carry out them, so he can only cast a mouse trap and obediently obey the lord's drive. This is a test of Li Li's tone, and it is also an extremely pertinent construction.

Li Li bowed slightly: "What Feng Xiao said is very true. Just now I have ordered someone to summon Cao Cao and order him to come to the camp after dawn. In addition, the siege was temporarily suspended, and the whole army rested for three days, after which I personally commanded the army to attack the city. ”

Guo Jia nodded in agreement, and asked softly, "It is very appropriate for the lord to arrange it like this. It's just that Weichen is a little confused, why do you have to rest for three days? Recently, our army has been resting and recuperating, and it is completely possible to attack the city immediately, and there is no need to rest and recuperate. ”

Speaking of this, Guo Jia suddenly had a hint of realization: "Could it be that the lord wants to wait for Cao Cao's follow-up soldiers and horses to arrive, and then attack the city together?" ”

Li Li said: "That's right. This time, Cao Cao had already lost 50,000 elite soldiers, and if he sent another 60,000 or 80,000 soldiers and horses to participate in the battle, then after this battle, at least half of his soldiers and horses would be lost, so there would be no need to worry. ”

Guo Jia continued: "We are naturally happy to see Cao Cao's troops and generals, but isn't he worried that we will exterminate him and Yuan Shao together?" We all know the truth, will he not know it? on this. Wei Chen was deeply suspicious, and always felt that Cao Cao's appearance this time was a little abnormal, and it seemed to be completely different from his previous life. It's not like his usual style of doing things. ”

As he spoke, Guo Jia's expression gradually became solemn, and he said in a deep voice: "What's more, we have a grudge against Cao Cao, and we once became a fire and water, as if we were incompatible, and we never died. Just imagine, his eldest son Cao Ang and nephew Cao Anmin. There are also Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan brothers of the Xiahou family, all of whom died at the hands of my Xiliang Army. With such a deep hatred, how can an alliance that only has the name of the alliance and no ally can resolve it?

Relocation of places. In other words, if he is a micro-minister, he would rather die on the battlefield than form an alliance with the enemy who killed his son, and presumably the same is true of the lord. Since we can't accept this kind of thing, then Cao Cao can accept it. His mind is so broad that Cheng Dù chills the hearts of the Cao clan. Is this possible? In fact, these words have been pressed in Guo Jia's heart for a long time.

The reason why he was able to endure it before was because he wanted to see what Cao Cao's intentions were, whether he had really let go of all his previous grievances, and what his intention was when he came to the alliance this time. It's a pity that after more than 20 days of getting along, Guo Jia got nothing, and he couldn't see anything abnormal about Cao Cao, so he couldn't figure out his thoughts. I couldn't even figure out what he wanted to do. It wasn't until today that Li Li took the initiative to mention Cao Cao that Guo Jiafang realized that he might have done something wrong. The lord should be warned as early as possible to beware of Cao Cao, or get rid of him directly.

Even, Guo Jia once had a bold idea. That is, temporarily gave up the strategic intention of conquering Yuan Shao in Jizhou, and instead pointed the spearhead at Cao Cao in Yanzhou, and directly killed him while he was following the side of the lord Li Li. Then he waved his army to Yanzhou, first destroying the remnants of Cao Cao's forces, and then turning his head and conquering Yuan Shao.

In this way, even if Yuan Shao gets some respite, he will not make a big difference. Because Jizhou is still in the front and rear of the crusade army led by Zhang Liao and Li Li in Youzhou, it is like a caged bird that can't fly out at all.

It's a pity that Guo Jia's strategy has only recently been brewed. In addition, he hesitated a little in the middle and delayed some time, so that to this day, he still does not sue Sù Li Li. At this moment, he wanted to say it, but he vaguely felt that it was too late, that he had missed the best time, and that it was too late to change his strategy.

In addition, the reason why Guo Jia hesitated was not only because Cao Cao's arrival disrupted his thinking and plans, but also because Yuan Shao openly provoked Li Li's position of power after becoming emperor and severely humiliated Li Li. It is precisely because of this that the soldiers and horses besieging Jizhou from all walks of life have asked for battle, and even led the army to fight without waiting for Li Li to issue a military order, which led Li Li to rush back from Huainan in a hurry, and rushed to Jizhou without stopping, which naturally triggered this war against Yuan Shao in Jizhou.

If Guo Jia mentions that he changes his tactics and tactics at this time, not to mention whether Li Li will adopt his advice, just the saliva of the generals who lead the troops can drown him Guo Jia.

The wrath of the people is hard to do!

Everyone lives in the world at a time when they have to do it. Even if he had an idea, he had to choose to compromise in the face of the general trend, and forcibly strangled his thoughts in the cradle and swallowed them back into his stomach. After all, people can't be without a group, mavericks also have to be divided into occasions, and people who are different everywhere can't last long after all, so that the road is getting narrower and narrower, and finally they enter a dead end with no way out.

So Guo Jia thought about it again and again, but still didn't say his tactical strategy. After chatting with Li Li in the tent of the Chinese army commander for half an hour, he drank a stomach full of tea, and then he got up and retreated, dragging his heavy armor and slowly walking back to his camp.

Standing at the door of the big tent, Li Li watched Guo Jia leave, he felt that Guo Jia had something on his mind, but Guo Jia didn't say it himself, and he didn't ask much, just like he was also preoccupied. Even though they are ministers and ministers, don't they have a little personal privacy between them?

So Li Li didn't take the initiative to ask, and Guo Jia didn't say much. Everything in the world is like this, every qiē is such a coincidence, and the seemingly accidental coincidences are actually the unfathomable inevitability of the human heart.

The night seemed extraordinarily long. Li Li, who was preoccupied, was destined to be unable to sleep, and Guo Jiahe, who had drunk a stomach full of tea, was also unable to sleep with heavy armor. But they probably wouldn't have thought that there were actually a lot of people who hadn't slept that night, and it wasn't dozens of people, but two armies??????

—————— (3,400 words in this chapter, 400 words compensate for the excerpt in the middle.) To be continued—————————— (To be continued......