[Three Kingdoms] Carnival

Five or six days of heavy rain washes away the dust from everything in the world, but it cannot take away the depression in my heart when the heavy rain was pouring.

Gao Shun is now in a state of desperation.

The epidemic in Pengcheng broke out almost as soon as the rain stopped. Countless patients either rushed to the hospital or lingered at home.Humid environment, dirty streets, sweltering hot weather at the beginning of autumn, rotting poultry and increasing human corpses, let the plague spread at the fastest speed, and even walk casually on the street, you can see howling patients .

The source of the disease has been difficult to find.However, someone discovered that the Sishui and Jushui Rivers, which became more and more turbulent due to the heavy rain, sent dozens of soaked, rotten and maggot corpses upstream. These corpses piled up at the water intake in the city, completely polluting the water source .

It doesn't take much to clean up, but it's too late, too late.

The plague is not an incurable disease, and it is not that there are no doctors in Pengcheng who can cure the plague, but there are too many patients, too many, and the medicinal materials in the city are simply not enough to support such a huge number.There are speculators who are not afraid of death, seeing such a profit, immediately make the medicinal materials worth a thousand dollars, even so, they are quickly sold out.

People who have no medicine to cure their diseases have no other choice but to wait for death.

No, there is actually another way.

Ever since they learned that there were not enough medicinal materials in the city, more and more people asked to leave the city.Staying in Pengcheng can only lead to death, and if you go out of the city, you may not be able to find medicinal materials, or at least go back to your hometown and die, it is much better than dying in a foreign land.

The two armies are at war, and major events in the world have never had anything to do with them. They just want to find a way out for themselves.

Gao Shun frantically waved away the soldiers who came to report the situation in the city, and Gao Shun rubbed his brows wearily.The originally stable situation was disturbed by this sudden plague. I don't know whether it was Cao Jun's luck or God's will, but in any case, the reality is already like this. All he can do is try his best to let the soldiers maintain the city. stability, and suppress mobs who want to get out of town.

This is undoubtedly quenching thirst by drinking poison, but we can only take one step at a time.

How could he live up to Marquis Wen's entrustment!

Thinking of the heavy burden Lu Bu entrusted to him, Gao Shun pressed the acupuncture point hard and regained some energy.No matter how difficult the situation is, he will definitely be able to defend Pengcheng!

"General." At this time, his deputy came in, holding an arrow with a letter in his hand.The deputy general took down the letter and handed it to Gao Shun, and explained, "It was just sent by Cao Jun."

Gao Shun opened the letter and waved his hand, and the lieutenant moved to his side to read the content with him.

The content of the letter is very simple. First of all, it said that the cause of the plague may be the rivers of Sishui and Jushui. Many soldiers in Cao's army were also infected with the plague. Fortunately, Hua Tuo was there, and he found a lot of medicinal materials from surrounding towns, so Soon the plague was suppressed.The war between the two armies should not have harmed the people. Now they heard that the plague was rampant in Pengcheng City, and the people were sick and had no medicine, so they were willing to treat and distribute medicine for the people for free.

The premise is that Pengcheng surrendered immediately.

"Bastard!" When Gao Shun saw this sentence, he threw the letter down on the table angrily, "What kind of sympathy for the people is clearly taking advantage of others' danger!"

"Don't be angry, general." The deputy general persuaded Gao Shun, with a more worried expression on his face, "It's just that the current situation in Pengcheng is indeed..."

"Even if the whole city is dead, I can't open the city and surrender!"

This is disregarding the life and death of the people, and would rather the whole city be buried with them.

Hearing Gao Shun's words, the lieutenant general felt cold inside, but on the surface he didn't show anything, he just continued to say nicely: "Since the general intends to do so, this letter must not be let to the people in the city..."

Gao Shun paused, indeed, there are already so many people in the city who are making noise and going out of the city, and there are already sick people in the army, if those foolish people know that Cao Jun can save them, I am afraid that the external troubles will not be known, and the internal strife will come.

There is no more terrifying force than those made up of people who want to live.

But if you want to hide it, it is definitely not a matter of a letter. As long as Cao Jun asks someone to shout a few words under the tower, everyone in the city will know.

Therefore, he had to find a way to make the people completely disbelieve anything Cao Jun said.

Thinking of this, Gao Shun's eyes gradually darkened.He picked up a pen and wrote something on the paper, then folded it and reinserted it on the arrow.

"Inform the whole city of the contents of the letter on the arrow, saying that Cao Jun ordered that once the city is broken, all people in Pengcheng, men, women and children, will be slaughtered."

The lieutenant was startled, but immediately stabilized his mind and nodded.

He just needs to obey.

"Also, count the people who are not sick in the camp, and follow me out of the city in a few days."

"What do you mean by that, General?"

"Since a large amount of medicinal materials have been collected, it must be inconvenient to transfer..."

The pen slammed a dot of ink on the paper, and Gao Shun's voice was firm and powerful:

"Five days later, follow me to attack the camp and grab medicine!"

As soon as Liu Bei stepped into the tent, the strong fragrance of medicine came to his face.

Compared with the previous few days, Guo Jia's face was completely sickly pale at the moment, his thin and frail body was sunk in the thick mink fur, and he was sickly drinking the medicine Hua Tuo handed him.Seeing Liu Bei come in, Guo Jia forced a smile:

"Mr. Xuande is here, sit down."

Hua Tuo withdrew when he saw that he was going to talk about business, while Liu Bei knelt down after seeing the ceremony, looking at Guo Jia's sick face, feeling filled with emotion.

The outbreak of the epidemic in the army undoubtedly made the morale that was already drained because the January deadline was approaching worse.Guo Jia was even more anxious, and went to visit the sick soldiers in person regardless of obstacles, and asked Hua Tuo to focus on caring for the sick soldiers first, and not to worry about himself.In a moment of negligence, Guo Jia's condition not only became more and more serious, but he was also infected with the plague because of the exhaustion of contact with patients. Even so, he first asked Hua Tuo to give medicines to the soldiers, and his illness dragged on from all around. Hua Tuo began to treat the sick soldiers who had purchased medicinal materials and basically recovered.

"They were also ordinary people in the fields and villages, but the world was chaotic, so they came out to serve as soldiers, and it was just to survive. The people are innocent, and the soldiers are innocent. As the general, Jia is naturally responsible for their lives."

Thinking of Guo Jia's serious expression when he said these words to him, Liu Bei was shocked.Before, all the information he came into contact with was that Guo Jia was bohemian, despised etiquette, and despised morality. He only had his current status because he was Cao Cao's favorite minister, but after getting along these days, he felt more and more that these evaluations were not worth it. People say what they say.

Even though it is not in accordance with the etiquette, Guo Jia cares about the lives of soldiers even more than himself.

Thinking of this, he has already lowered his guard against Guo Jia a lot.Maybe he and Guo Jia have different standpoints and views, but as long as they both have a heart of love for the people of the world, they will not be enemies.

"Cough cough." Guo Jia coughed a few times, pulling Liu Bei back from his contemplation, "What's the matter with Mr. Xuande?"

Only then did Liu Bei realize that his mind had been distracted, so he quickly straightened his expression and said, "Guo Jijiu, the disease is rampant in Pengcheng at the moment, and there are many mourners. No matter how long it takes, the people in the city may be..."

"Well, Jia knows the current situation in Pengcheng."

"The epidemic is basically over in the army, but there are still many medicinal materials left, is it okay?"

"Mr. Xuande means to ask Jia to send medicinal materials to Pengcheng for free?" Guo Jia raised his eyes slightly, and a few traces of ridicule flashed in his eyes, "Pengcheng has not been broken, so sending medicine at this time is an enemy."

"Bei didn't mean that." Liu Bei quickly denied.Although he is kind-hearted and worried about the people, being kind does not mean being stupid, even if he is the main general, he would not do that.But the current situation in Pengcheng is indeed not very good. If the epidemic cannot be cured as soon as possible, it will only intensify. In the end, whether Pengcheng is broken or not, the people will suffer.

Seeing Liu Bei's silence, Guo Jia sighed lightly: "Why isn't Jia worried about the people in the city like Duke Xuande? In fact, yesterday Jia sent someone to send a letter to Gao Shun, saying that as long as he surrenders, Jia will immediately send medicine to the city to help the people .pity……"

It's a pity that in Gao Shun's eyes, human life is always more important than defending the city.Even if he was dying, he refused to surrender.

After another long silence, Liu Bei suddenly raised his head and said firmly:

"Be prepared to persuade you to surrender."

Guo Jia was taken aback, then shook his head with a wry smile: "Mr. Xuande, Gao Shun doesn't care about the life and death of the people in the city."

"Bei understands." Liu Bei's eyes were still firm, and his tone was calm and clear, "But whether Pengcheng is broken or not depends not on Gao Shun and his army, but on the hearts of the people in the city.

Bei was willing to persuade the people to surrender, just to let the people in the city realize Gao Shun's cruelty, as long as the people's hearts are on our side, and the inside and outside cooperate, Pengcheng can be broken quickly. "

Hearing Liu Bei's plan, Guo Jia also became serious.He frowned and thought for a while, and said: "It's just that the ordinary method of persuading surrender is probably inappropriate. Maybe Jia can give it a try and see if there are any righteous people in the city who are willing to talk to Duke Xuande for the people."

"Can the people in the city still leave the city?"

"Impossible, Gao Shun can't defend now, Pengcheng is impregnable. But you can try..." The more Guo Jia thought about it, the more he felt that this method was feasible.He wrote something on the bamboo slips. After finishing writing, he stood up with his body braced and bowed to Liu Bei, "If it is possible, then there will be Lord Laoxuande. Jiayi is on behalf of the people of Pengcheng, thank you Lord Xuande. "

Liu Bei hurriedly supported Guo Jia's trembling body, and helped him sit down again.Seeing Guo Jia coughing violently again, his heart ached, and he bowed solemnly:

"For the sake of the common people, this is the duty of Bei. Please rest assured that Guo Jijiu will not disgrace the mission."

After seeing Liu Bei off, Guo Jia stared at the empty cushion after he left, and couldn't help but smile again.

The strategy of mourning soldiers should be accomplished.

Although Liu Bei has a deep mind, he has an obvious weakness

He is a kind person.

And kind people, no matter how vigilant they are, can't help but look at others with more kindness, thinking that there is no evil in the world.

People, some are just a momentary misunderstanding.

Therefore, a little kindness by others can turn into a great kindness.

Jia was worried about the lives of the soldiers, because without them, Jia would have no one to rely on to attack the city.

In war, besides the number of casualties, what else can there be?

Don't believe in good things because they are small, Liu Xuande.

In the future, Jiake will really replace the people of Pengcheng, thank you very much.

As long as you are benevolent and wise, you can afford this thank you.

Holding the bowl to his lips for a long time, Guo Jia felt the oncoming bitterness, finally moved the bowl away, turned his wrist slightly, and the medicinal juice poured out from the pouring bowl.

It's not long anyway, so why should he torture himself with these medicines.

He just wants to win.