The night sky is dark and the stars are retreating, and it is another moonless night.

The cool breeze blew, the air was filled with a hint of coldness, mixed with a little blood, and a faint sense of solemnity.

At the beginning of the hour of Hai, the tent of the central army was still brightly lit, but no one was walking around at the entrance of the tent. Only two rows of soldiers on the left and right were standing on both sides of the tent holding long soldiers, as if they were still moving like rocks.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

The heavy footsteps came into the tent, prompting Li Li, who was writing at the desk, to look up at the door, and then waved his hand to signal the personal soldiers to let go. After doing this, he continued to write the book that had just been shelved, then got up and walked to the corridor, waved to the attendant to serve tea.

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

While speaking, Li Li reached out to stop Guo Jia, who was about to bow, and signaled that he would not have to be polite and sit down and talk.

Guo Jia bowed his hand to thank him, then grabbed the hem of the thick black armor and sat down slowly. But after sitting down, he felt very uncomfortable, so he simply stretched out his legs and sat on the ground. Seeing this scene, Li Li couldn't help but laugh: "Hahaha! I told you that people who follow the army to fight for many years must get used to wearing armor, but you turn a blind eye and insist on not wearing armor. How does it feel now? You are not used to it. Do you feel very inconvenient and too hinder?"

"Oh, since the lord knows that the empress is not used to wearing armor, why do you still deliberately make things difficult for the subordinates?" It is rare to get along with Li Li alone, Guo Jia was not polite at this time and complained in person, so as not to feel uncomfortable in his heart.

After saying his thoughts, Guo Jia smiled and said, "Now, wearing such a heavy armor, Weichen was unable to sleep even if he was lying on the couch and tossing and turning, so he could only come and disturb his lord. But Weichen didn't expect that the lord would not rest so late, and I think he must have something to worry about."

"Those who know me are filial!" Li Li nodded happily and immediately poured Guo Jia a cup of tea to apologize. After all, the black armor weighing 40 kilograms on Guo Jia is his masterpiece. He gave a dead order. It is impossible to wear it. So, poor Guo Jia, a scholar, had no power to tie a chicken in his hands. But he had to sleep with such a heavy armor. This is really a torture, and it is like being punished to serve!

In fact, this set of dragon scale armor also has a horn (helmet) weighing nearly eight kilograms and a pair of four kilograms long boots. If you put on another battle robe, it will weigh at least fifty or sixty kilograms. In addition, the generals wearing armor have long weapons of great weight. This set of equipment is fully armed, and no one hundred or eighty kilograms.

The "jin" mentioned here is not ten taels per kilogram, but sixteen taels per kilogram. The origin of the hexadecimal system can be traced back to the time after Qin Shihuang unified the six kingdoms. The person responsible for formulating the weight and measure standards was Prime Minister Li Si. Li Si successfully formulated standards for coins, length, etc., but he had no idea about weight. He really couldn't figure out how many taels should be set as one kilogram to be more appropriate, so he asked Qin Shihuang for instructions. Qin Shihuang wrote a four-character instruction: "The world is fair", which gave the standard for setting the standard. However, he did not give the exact number. In order to avoid being blamed for the future and being punished in implementation, Li Si decided to use the number of strokes of the four characters "the world is fair" as the standard (the strokes of the small seal script "the world is fair" are different from the current writing style), so he decided that one kilogram is equal to sixteen taels.

At that time, the sixteen-two scale was called the "sixteen-two-star scale", which consisted of the Big Dipper, the Six-two-star, the South Dipper, and the Three-star, the Six-two-star, and the Three-star, which reminded people who do business to be honest and trustworthy, and not deceive or hide; otherwise, one twelve shorter without blessings, two twelve shorter, and three twelve shorter, and three twelve shorter. This method was still used until two thousand years later. But now it is not used. One is not conducive to calculations, and the other is that merchants make profits, and one twelve is too much of a loss. ("half-twelve twelve" comes from this. A little bit of knowledge is meaningful, so Hu Ben finds it to be extracted and only for appreciation, so there is no need to be serious about it.)

"I don't know why the lord is worried, and I don't know if I can share my worries with you?" Guo Jia asked.

After hearing the voice, Li Li wanted to tell what he was thinking, but he didn't want Guo Jia to worry about it. After all, the premonition was very mysterious, unexplained, and without evidence. Instead of letting Guo Jia worry with him, it would be better to bear it alone. In other words, if this premonition was not fulfilled, wouldn't it be a joke and a laughing stock?

It is not difficult to see from this that in Li Li's mind, Li Zhi is undoubtedly closer than Guo Jia. In front of Li Zhi, Li Li did not hide anything and directly expressed his hidden worries in his heart, but in front of Guo Jia, he retained it. Because this is related to his face as a superior. In this society where man rule is greater than the rule of law, the face of the superior is prestige, which is equivalent to influence. Therefore, ordinary people can ignore personal face, and even materialistic desires, laugh at the poor but not the prostitute, but the superiors cannot ignore their own prestige. Without this influence, their foundation is destined to be unstable and will be replaced by others sooner or later.

Seeing Li Li remained silent, Guo Jia whispered: "Is it still because of Cao Cao? Since the lord is not at ease with him, why not call him back? As long as he stays by his lord, even if there are any conspiracies and tricks, he can only throw himself into a lord's harshness and obediently obey the lord's command." This is a temptation to test Li Li, and it is also a very willing suggestion.

Li Li nodded slightly: "What Fengxiao said is very much. I have ordered people to summon Cao Cao just now and ordered him to come to the camp after dawn. In addition, the siege will be temporarily stopped, and the entire army will rest for three days, and then I personally command the army to attack the city."

Guo Jia nodded in agreement and asked softly: "The lord is very appropriate in this arrangement. But I am a little confused. Why should I rest for three days? Recently, our army has been resting and can attack the city immediately, and there is no need to rest for another rest."

Speaking of this, Guo Jia suddenly realized: "Can the lord wait for Cao Cao's subsequent troops to arrive before attacking the city?"

Li Li nodded and said, "That's right. Cao Cao has lost 50,000 elite troops this time. If he dispatched another 60,000 or 80,000 troops to join the war, then after this battle, his troops will be at least half of them, so there is no need to worry about it."

Guo Jia continued: "Of course we are happy to see Cao Cao lose his troops, but isn't he worried that we will wipe out him and Yuan Shao together? Is he completely unaware of the truth we understand? The minister is deeply suspicious of this, and always feels that Cao Cao's performance this time is a bit abnormal, as if it is completely different from his previous life. It is not like his usual style of doing things."

As he spoke, Guo Jia's expression gradually became solemn and said deeply: "What's more, we have always had hatred with Cao Cao, and we once became in power and were incompatible. We were irreconcilable. Just imagine that his eldest son, Cao Anmin, his nephew Cao Anmin, and the Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan brothers of the Xiahou family all died at the hands of our Xiliang army. Such a deep hatred. How could a coalition can resolve the Yuan alliance that only had the name of the alliance but no such alliance?

If he was a vulgar minister, he would rather die on the battlefield than form an alliance with his enemies who killed his son. I believe the lord would be the same. Since we can't accept this kind of thing, can Cao Cao accept it? His mind is so broad that it makes the Cao clan members feel disheartened. Is this possible?" In fact, these words have been pressing into 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 had, whether he really let go of all his previous grievances, and what he wanted to come to the alliance this time. Unfortunately, after more than 20 days of getting along, Guo Jia got nothing. He could not see anything unusual about Cao Cao, and could not figure out what he wanted to do. Until today Li Li took the initiative to mention Cao Cao, Guo Jia realized that he might have done something wrong and should remind his lord to beware of Cao Cao as soon as possible. Or get rid of him directly.

Guo Jia even had a bold idea. That is, he temporarily gave up his strategic intention to conquer Yuan Shao in Jizhou, and instead pointed his finger at Cao Cao in Yanzhou, and took advantage of his follower of his lord Li Li to kill him directly. Then he led his troops to Yanzhou, first destroying Cao Cao's remnants, and then turned around to conquer Yuan Shao.

In this way, even if Yuan Shao got some breathing opportunity, he would not do anything big. Because Jizhou was still in the front and back attacks of the army led by Zhang Liao's troops in Youzhou and Li Li personally, it was like a bird in a cage that could not fly out at all.

Unfortunately, Guo Jia's strategy has only been planned recently. In addition, he hesitated for a while and wasted some time, so he still didn't tell Li Li until today. At this moment, he wanted to say it, but he vaguely felt that it seemed too late and missed the best opportunity. Now it was too late to change the strategy.

In addition, the reason why Guo Jia was hesitant was not only because Cao Cao's arrival disrupted his ideas and plans, but also because Yuan Shao openly provoked Li Li's power and status after he became emperor, and severely humiliated Li Li. This was why all the troops besieged Jizhou were forced to fight, and even led the army to start the war without waiting for Li Li to issue military orders. This led Li Li to hurried back from Huainan and rushed to Jizhou without stopping, which naturally triggered the war to fight Yuan Shao in Jizhou.

If Guo Jia proposes to change his tactical strategy at this time, not to mention whether Li Li will adopt his suggestion, the saliva of the accusations of various generals from various troops will be flooded with Guo Jia.

What is the trouble of public anger?

Everyone has times when they have no choice in life. Even if they have ideas, they have to compromise in the face of the general trend, and force their ideas to slap in the cradle and swallow them back. After all, people cannot be without groups, and they must be separated from occasions. People who are innovative everywhere cannot last long, so that the road becomes narrower and narrower, and eventually they enter a dead end and have no way to go.

So Guo Jia thought about it over and over again, but still did not express his tactical strategy. He chatted with Li Li in the tent of the Central Army for half an hour, drank a lot of tea, and then he stood up and walked back to his tent slowly with his heavy armor.

Standing at the door of the big tent, Li Li watched Guo Jia leave. He felt that Guo Jia had something to do, but Guo Jia himself didn't say it, and he didn't ask much, just like he was also full of worries. Although they were the main ministers, were there no personal ** between the main ministers?

So Li Li did not take the initiative to ask, and Guo Jia did not say much. This is the case in the world, everything is like this coincidence, and what seems to be accidental coincidence is actually an inevitable result of unpredictable nature in people's hearts.

This night seemed particularly long. Li Li, who was worried, was destined to be unable to rest. Guo Jia, who had drunk a lot of tea, was carrying heavy armor, and he could not fall asleep either. But they probably wouldn't have thought that there were still many people who didn't fall asleep this night, and not dozens of people, but two armies.

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Chapter completed!