[Three Kingdoms] Carnival

After weighing again and again, Cao Cao decided to lead a surprise attack on Wuchao with five thousand soldiers.An important event in the army was handed over to General Li Feng Cao Hong as commander, and Yueqi General Cao Ren as the deputy commander.

"Sir!" After everyone discussed the defensive strategy, Guo Jia just walked out of the big tent when Cao Pi suddenly stopped him, "Pi has something to ask Mr. privately, is it convenient?"

Cao Pi is only a little over 13 years old. Although he has been brought by Cao Cao to practice in the past few years and matured much earlier than his peers, he is still a child who has not faded from his childishness.For Guo Jia, the staff around Cao Cao, there is a lot of respect, but not enough closeness.It was the first time for Guo Jia to take the initiative to stop Guo Jia in full view.

Guo Jia was a little surprised, but still nodded and said: "It's convenient, please, Second Young Master."

Cao Pi and Guo Jia followed the road in the camp, turning left and right for a long time before reaching Cao Pi's camp.Compared with the warm and comfortable main tent, Cao Pi's tent is no different from that of ordinary soldiers in the army. He didn't even live alone, but because the soldiers were sent to garrison outside the camp at this time, it was vacant.Walking into the camp, Cao Pi asked Guo Jia to sit down first.Guo Jia saw that the mats in the tent were just worn-out straw mats, and seeing that Cao Pi was obviously not at all uncomfortable in this tent, he couldn't help but admire a little more in his eyes.

Cao Pi naturally couldn't see Guo Jia's eyes with his back turned.He took out a wooden box from under the pillow on one side of the couch, and handed it to Guo Jia with both hands.This wooden box is no more than one finger thick, less than a foot long and wide. It is brown and black throughout, and has no pattern except the wood itself. method.

But no one knows this wooden box better than Guo Jia. ?The octopuses use this kind of wooden box to convey extremely important information.He rubbed the smooth and flat surface of the wooden box for a moment, and the lid on the wooden box slid open, revealing the contents inside:

It is a silk book.

"It appeared under Pi's pillow yesterday morning." Cao Pi explained to Guo Jia.

"Judging from your expression, you should have already opened this wooden box." While talking, Guo Jia took the silk book out of the wooden box.

"Someone once taught Pi, so..."

After Cao Pi nodded, Guo Jia unfolded the silk script.However, the palm-sized silk script was densely filled with words, the more he read it, the deeper the smile in Guo Jia's eyes: "My lord, do you know what is written in this silk script?"

"I see that some surnames, some place names and numbers are written on the silk script, but I don't understand the meaning of them. Please enlighten me, sir."

"From Han Fu to Yuan Shao, there has been no war in Jizhou for many years, and the world is full of rich merchants and great merchants. The writing on the silk is the main surnames of merchants in Jizhou, and the main direction and quantity of their trade. Knowing this, it is nothing less than Knowing the source of the Yuan family's wealth, in other words, you can hold the lifeblood of the Yuan family's wealth in your hands." After speaking, Guo Jia couldn't help sighing, "Even Yuan Shao himself may not know all these details in such detail. Jiarang? The octopus has been investigating for more than three years, but what he knows is only a drop in the bucket. I don’t know who is offering such cheap hands directly.”

Cao Pi was also very surprised.Although he vaguely felt that the silk scroll was very important before, he never expected it to be of such value.Standing in front of Guo Jia, I didn't know what to say for a moment.

After a while, Guo Jia chuckled again: "However, it's not difficult to guess this person. This wooden box was sent to the young master. But even Jia didn't know that the young master knew how to open the wooden box. The only one who knew , the only one who will teach you how to open this wooden box."

"Sima Yi."

Hearing this name from Cao Pi's mouth, Guo Jia couldn't help being taken aback for a moment, and then came back to his senses, sighing to himself that after so long, he still wasn't used to the "new name" of the child he raised with his own hands.He handed back the wooden box and the silk book to Cao Pi, and said, "My lord must have not given this to your father for review."

"Father is busy with military affairs, and Pi has never found an opportunity to mention it to his father. Besides, Pi really doesn't know whether he should give this award to his father."

"Then why did you let Jia see this?" Guo Jia asked back.He believed that Cao Pi knew clearly that if he told him what was going on, it was tantamount to telling Cao Cao.

A hint of embarrassment flashed across Cao Pi's rare face: "To tell you the truth, sir, in fact, Pi knew that this thing came from Sima Yi. Pi thought, he sent people all the way to send this thing, even if it wasn't for help, there should be no harm in it. But the army is heavily guarded, Ruopi directly told his father that this thing appeared on the couch so quietly, he was worried about his father..."

I am worried that Cao Cao will realize that the power of the Sima family is too great to control, not only will he not be more close to the Sima family because of this silk script, but he will be more wary and feel disgusted.

Cao Pi didn't go on with the latter words, but Guo Jia already understood.He took back the wooden box and silk book from Cao Pi's hand and put them in his sleeve: "In this case, Jia will give this to the Lord as the information collected by the octopus."

"Thank you, sir." Cao Pi breathed a sigh of relief, bowed and bowed.The solution proposed by Guo Jia was also the safest way he thought of before inviting Guo Jia to come.

"Leave this matter to Jia, young master, rest assured. If there is nothing else, Jia will leave first."

"Wait a minute, sir!" Seeing that Guo Jia was about to turn around and leave, Cao Pi hurriedly said.But when Guo Jia turned his head in doubt, he hesitated for a while before opening his mouth hesitantly, "I don't know what sir thinks about... Sima Yi?"

"My lord asked Jia like this..." Guo Jia carefully observed the change of Cao Pi's expression, "Do you have the heart of being a friend with Sima Yi, or do you have the heart of being a monarch and minister with Sima Yi?"

"Ruopi, do you have both?"

"Yu private, my son is good at poetry, prose and ballads, and I want to be a literati, so I don't recommend you to be friends with Sima Yi; Yu Gong..." Guo Jia's eyes moved down slowly, and fell on the sword on Cao Pi's waist above.The sword is made of black iron, and the cold air is threatening after cutting the blade. It is a rare sword.He still remembered that this was when Cao Pi hunted an elk alone in Xudu last year. Cao Cao presented the sword to Cao Pi as a reward, "Yu Gong, you are a good swordsman, so naturally you know a sharp sword. The scariest thing is not being held in the hands of the enemy, but the sharp sword has its own thoughts and bites back at the person holding the sword."

"Sir...Pi understands." Guo Jia's warning meant very clearly, and this obviously made Cao Pi quite unhappy.

Seeing Cao Pi like this, Guo Jia sighed and comforted him: "My lord, you don't have to be weak. Jia only said that it is not easy to hold a sharp sword, but he didn't say that a sharp sword is not easy to use. Like your father, even if he is a traitor, he You can also use it, value it, and trust it. In this world, it is hard to find a sword, even if it is dangerous, it is still usable."

Cao Pi was slightly taken aback.He understood the meaning of Guo Jia's words, but from what he saw, his aides must be people who can be trusted and trusted, otherwise it would be too difficult to be on guard even within the tent.But when he looked suspiciously at Guo Jia again, Guo Jia just rubbed his head and said lightly: "My lord, it's too early to talk about this now."

Cao Pi is only 13 years old, and Sima Yi just won the championship last year.It will take a long time to sharpen this sword and make it smoother.

"Speaking of which, you are all focused on talking about Sima Yi with Jia, but you are not worried about your father's trip to Wuchao?" Before leaving, Guo Jia asked in a half-joking tone.

"If there is danger, Pi is far away in the camp, and it will not help; if there is no danger, then what is the use of Pi's worries?" Cao Pi replied slowly, and the firmness gradually faded away from many people of this age. Childish, "Pi won't do useless things anymore, and moreover, he can't do them."

Hearing Cao Pi's answer, Guo Jia's smile finally came true.

After walking out of Cao Pi's tent, Guo Jia walked towards the military tent in Yingkou.There was only Xun You in the tent, and in front of him was a sand table with a small flag.

"Where's Wen Heren?" Guo Jia asked.

"General Yang Wu is in charge of the ambush on the western front, and Wen He is with the army," Xun You said.

"It's really inseparable." Guo Jia couldn't help but sigh with emotion. Jia Wen said that his weakness is too obvious, but the weakness of his old fox is not so obvious, just laughing at fifty steps.

"I don't know how long we can hide the news that the lord is not in the camp." Xun You sighed softly after pulling out one flag on the sand table and switching it to another.

"How long we can hide it. Anyway, we can't hide it from the Lord's fire." Guo Jia looked at the sand table and added a flag by the river, "What we have to do is to hold on to this battle until tomorrow. Returning to the camp is enough."

"What if Yuan Shao refuses to attack the camp, but instead sends troops to rescue Wuchao?" Xun You planted a new flag at Wuchao.

"No matter what happens, we will lose everything." Guo Jia said lightly.He pulled the flag that Xun You had just planted from the sand table and put it aside, "But don't worry, Gongda, Yuan Shao's temperament is well known not only by Ming Gong, but also by Jia Jia."

Xun You was silent for a moment, and then slowly said: "Feng Xiao, I'm afraid there is something to hide from us."

"Yes, but it's not a big deal." Guo Jia shrugged, "It's just that Jia traveled around with Gongda back then. In the few years after Gongda left, Jia not only had a glimpse of the scenery of the southern country, but was also very fortunate to experience the four generations. The demeanor of a son of a famous family of the Sangong family."

"If it's that simple, why do you need to hide it from us?"

"At that time, Jia was only thinking about returning to the mountains and forests and living in birds and beasts, so why would I tell you this. Going to Yuan Shao's place was just a whim, just to see the excitement." But unexpectedly, I met quite interesting people, such as Xun Chen and Simpi also didn't expect that their dear clan brother would still be so easy to figure out after so many years.

Of course, what he least expected was that these unintentional actions back then could become the help today, pushing the Yuan family of Hebei to the end.

? Those people with different intentions that the octopus deliberately left behind should also come in handy.

Ever since Xu You left the camp alone, Yuan Shao's brows had not been relaxed.Lian sent several teams out, but Xu You was nowhere to be found.

"My lord, I'm afraid that Xu You will betray Cao because of his family's affairs." Ju Shou's brows were worried, "It doesn't matter anything else, but Xu You must know that a large amount of military rations are still in Wuchao. This news, I am afraid I have let Cao Cao know."

As soon as the words fell, news came from the soldiers, saying that Cao Cao himself led more than [-] people and came out of the camp at night to the north.

"My lord, what Mr. Ju said has come true." Tunqi Captain Zhang Yue stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "The last general asks for orders, lead troops to rescue Wuchao immediately, and intercept Cao Cao!"

"Wait, wait." Before Yuan Shao could speak, Guo Tu spoke first.He stroked the beard that didn't grow at all on his chin, thought for a moment, then patted Yuan Shaoxi and said, "My lord, this is a good opportunity to wipe out Cao Jun in one fell swoop!"

"Oh?" Upon hearing this, Yuan Shao immediately became interested, "Grandmaster, please tell me quickly."

"Cao Cao personally leads the troops to attack Wuchao north, and the camp will inevitably be unstable. My lord, why not take advantage of this time to attack Cao Cao's camp with all his strength, and cut off Cao Cao's return. If this is the case, Cao Cao will undoubtedly be defeated."

"My lord, the general thinks this plan is inappropriate." Zhang Wei retorted to Guo Tudao, "Although Cao Cao is not in the camp, Cao's army has held on for many days after all, and the camp must be extremely difficult to attack. It is better to send troops to support Wuchao immediately. Clash with General Chunyu from front to back, and Cao Cao will be the turtle in the urn!"

"The general's words are wrong." Guo Tu waved his hand, and his tone became more determined, "Cao Cao only led five thousand cavalry, and Wuchao had more than ten thousand defenders, even if he didn't go to rescue. And Cao Ying... my lord, Tu I am absolutely certain that the people in Cao Ying are panicking now, and all the generals are looking forward to the general, hoping to abandon the dark and turn to the bright. This is the best time for the lord to attack Cao, the lord must not miss it!"

"My lord, even if we want to attack Cao Ying, it is better to send an army to flank Cao Cao according to what Captain Tunqi said, so as to prepare for both." A method of reconciliation and compromise.

Yuan Shao pondered for a moment, then looked at Xun Chen who had been silent on the right hand: "You Ruo, what do you think?"

Being suddenly pointed out, Xun Chen showed a fleeting surprise on his face just right.He stretched out his sleeves, stepped forward, and said in a gentle voice: "My lord, according to what Chen saw, our army is better than Cao's army, and it is only a matter of time before we win. My lord, this battle is not only about defeating Cao Cao, but more importantly, fighting happily. Beautiful, let everyone in the world know the prestige of the lord. This is the right time for the lord to achieve the name of a hero, if you have to divide the troops, I'm afraid you will lose the lord's tolerance."

"Haha, friends are friends!" Yuan Shao couldn't help laughing after hearing Xun Chen's words.Ju Shou Zhang Yu wanted to say more, but Yuan Shao stopped them with a wave of his hand, "Needless to say, I have made up my mind to attack Cao Ying in the south! Zhang Yu, I know that you want to make contributions. This time, you and Gao will attack the camp." As a vanguard, Lan will take the lead in attacking the camp, are you willing?!"

Zhang? Gao Lan had no choice but to lower his head and cup his fists: "The last general takes orders!"