The Three Kingdoms: The Cold Gate World

Chapter 322 Cynical
Xu Shu passed Jincheng's military situation to Chang'an.

Guo Jia listened to the report of the messenger in the mansion, and finally let go of his hanging heart.

Guo Ye is safe and sound.

Just as he was waving for people to go down, he heard hurried footsteps outside the door. Guo Jia looked up, and Cai Yan walked over with a flustered face, walking over the threshold and asking, "Ye'er Is it life or death?"

Guo Jia kept silent about the Northwest battle report, and there was no need for Cai Yan to know about it, but Guo Ye’s life and death were unknown. Guo Jia thought to himself that there was no reason to hide Cai Yan, but he still kept it secret.

Now, I don't know where Cai Yan heard the news.

Guo Jia raised her hand and just wanted her to calm down and stop panicking, but Cai Yan walked up to him and held his hand and asked again: "You are talking, what happened to Ye'er? I heard that Ye'er The [-] new troops where my son lived were wiped out outside Zuli City! Is it true?"

Seeing that she was so anxious that she couldn't help crying, Guo Jia quickly helped her to sit down and said, "Don't worry, Ye'er is fine."

Cai Yan said with some disbelief: "Could it be that the news I heard is all false?"

Guo Jia wiped the teardrops from her face with his hand, and said softly, "It's true. But Ye'erfu is so desperate that he escaped death, and now he is recuperating in Jincheng."

Hearing this, Cai Yan was relieved, but she was afraid for a while. She only had this one son. If something happened to her, she didn't know how to face her future life.

Guo Jia concealed it from her, and Cai Yan understood that Guo Jia now said that Guo Ye was fine, Cai Yan didn't think Guo Jia would deceive her about this kind of thing.

Leaning against Guo Jia's body limply and exhausted, Cai Yan said with a sad look on his face, "Husband, let Ye'er come back."

Guo Jia hugged her, quickly wiped away the tears she shed, and said embarrassingly: "Oh, are you mother and son sincerely making it difficult for me? I will transfer him back. You are happy, but he is not happy. I Let him go to the battlefield according to his will, and you are worried all day long, and I am caught in the middle. If you want him to come back, you go and tell him yourself, anyway, you are his mother, and he has been obedient to you since he was a child. .”

Cai Yan raised his pear-blossoming rainy face, stared at Guo Jia for a long time, put away tears, smiled charmingly, and said, "Let my husband see the joke."

Guo Jia breathed a sigh of relief again, at least his wife is not a messy woman who would lose her mind in a moment of impatience, but at least she won't be willful after thinking clearly.

In broad daylight, the couple couldn't just hug each other in this lobby, so Cai Yan stood up and saluted politely, then turned and walked out.

Stepping over the threshold, Cai Yan looked up at the sky, Xia Qiu's sun turned from venomous to warm, Cai Yan secretly said: Ye'er, if you live, it proves that his choice is not wrong.

Cai Yan knew that Guo Jia had no shortage of military generals, and Guo Ye was by no means a peerless general who could overpower mountains and overpower the world. Guo Jia was willing to let Guo Ye go to the battlefield at the risk of losing a son. The purpose was definitely not to cultivate an excellent general. After all, the risk between gains and losses is obviously not worth it to Guo Jia.

Then, the answer to why Guo Jia watched Guo Ye join the army is ready.

Five days later, Dianman took the remaining soldiers of his battalion and escorted Cheng Gongying and other four prisoners back to Chang'an.

After Guo Jia heard the news, he ordered people to hold a banquet in the mansion, and opened the door of the mansion directly to let the four of Dianman, Xu Yi, Guo Ye, and Gan Gui come to the mansion to meet.

The four of them were all a little downcast, not to mention that they were unlucky in their studies, and they hadn't made any achievements. They just came back to see Guo Jia. They were both ashamed of their lord and ashamed to face their elders.

Bite the bullet and step into the lobby of the mansion, Dianman looked suspiciously at the sumptuous delicacies on the low tables on both sides, a little puzzled, Guo Jia sat on the main seat with a faint smile, Dianman lowered his head and clasped his fists and said: "The general will not know My lord is preparing for a banquet, so I will take my leave first."

After saying that, Dianman turned his head and was about to walk out, Xu Yi, Guo Ye, Gan Gui and the others also turned around.

"Come back here and take a seat. This is for you. The food and accommodation conditions in the military camp are very difficult. It is a blessing in misfortune to be able to come back alive. It's okay, today is a family feast, don't be cautious."

Guo Jia had a pleasant smile and a gentle tone.The four Dianman look at each other, and the last four sit in order according to their positions.

Picking up a glass of wine, Guo Jia shook it, looked at Dianman with some playfulness, and asked, "Dianman, how do you feel when you are on the battlefield for the first time?"

Dianman put down the chicken leg in his hand, quickly chewed and swallowed the meat in his mouth, and replied: "I don't feel much. Before I killed a few enemies, I was ordered to retreat by General Meng. My lord, I beg you It’s a matter, the governor is still in Wuwei and hasn’t mobilized troops, why don’t you let me be a soldier under the governor?”

The four of them looked at Guo Jia in unison, looking forward to it.

Guo Jia leaned on the seat, crookedly holding the wine, and said with a light smile, "Dianman, you are now a captain in command of 2000 people, don't you know the rules in the army? If the soldiers of each battalion are transferred at will, Isn’t the organization of this army messed up?”

Dianman smiled to hide his disappointment. Seeing his appearance, Guo Jia turned his gaze to Xu Yi and asked, "Xu Yi, Yuanzhi punished you and Dianman with fifty army sticks. Do you feel dissatisfied?"

Xu Yi, who had straightened her chest, froze, and said, "Convince, take it with all your heart."

Guo Jia pointed at him and shook his head.

"You look dissatisfied, let me tell you, if it were me, your father would not complain to me if you cut off your head. If you and Dianman want to dispose of captives at will, first of all, you must at least have the status of a major governor , Secondly, you have to ask me for instructions, even if the governor cut the prisoner with a knife, you should either not let me know, or wait to be punished by me. Hehe, when I was your age, I was young and vigorous, and I killed some People who have annoyed me, but well, at that time, I was in the rivers and lakes, but now you are in the army. The army has military regulations, and you can't just act on your own will. The so-called no rules make a square. Although you have few soldiers and horses to govern, But if your subordinates act without orders, wouldn’t your official titles be in name only? Whether to kill a prisoner or not depends not on the status of the prisoner or the meaning of killing him, but on the inviolability of military laws and regulations.”

After Xu Yi and the others thought about it, they cupped their fists at Guo Jia and said, "My lord's lesson is that the general will promise not to do it again."

Guo Jia nodded in relief, Xu Yi was like his father Xu Chu, Guo Jia was not afraid of generals making mistakes, but he had to be a general who could listen to good words and correct them if they did.

Looking past Xu Yi, Guo Jia looked at Gan Gui, and Gan Gui was also prepared. This roll call would be followed by the same, and it was his turn to listen to the lecture.

However, Guo Jia just said a word to him lightly.

"Gan Gui, don't hate your father, he can't help himself. If you want to blame, you can blame me, I gave him the military order."

Gan Gui was taken aback, then lowered her head silently, her eyes were moist, and she held back her tears.

He was in a desperate situation outside Zuli City. Gan Ning's army was only two days away from Zuli at the fastest, but Gan Ning did not lead his army to come from the beginning to the end.

"My lord, my father, as the commander-in-chief of the three armies, how can he disregard the lives of the soldiers and military affairs of the three armies because of his own selfishness? The last general has no resentment in his heart, and he takes the commander-in-chief as an example."

Seeing him wiping his tears and saying this solemnly, Guo Jia nodded with a smile.

Looking away, Guo Jia suddenly asked Dianman again: "Where are the prisoners you escorted? Ask someone to bring them up, I want to have a look."

Dianman immediately got up and left the table, and ran to the door to escort the prisoners. After a while, the four tied horse players, Yang Qiu, Li Kancheng, Gongying, and others were escorted into the hall.

The four of them looked at this posture and guessed that the person in the main seat should be Guo Jia.

It's just that Guo Jia didn't look majestic at this time, on the contrary, he was a little foolish, which caught them off guard.

I thought I would face a ruthless monarch who was as majestic as Mount Tai, but I didn't expect to be a young man who seemed cynical.

young people?
That's right, Guo Jia is like a young scholar in their eyes.

"Dianman, untie them, I don't know you either, so please report your family."

Guo Jia raised his head and drank a glass of wine, then lifted the jug and poured himself another glass.

The four people who had been untied squeezed their sore wrists and looked at each other. Dianman stood aside and did not return to the table. He scanned the four people with fierce eyes. Anyone who dared to act rashly would be hit by a thunderbolt.

None of the four spoke, Guo Jia shook his hand holding the wine glass, and said to Dianman, "Dianman, go back and sit down, someone is going to kill himself, and staring at him like this is not a solution."

Cheng Gongying and the four of them could understand the implication.

Not to mention the presence of Dianman and Xu Yi, Guo Jia himself is not an incompetent person who can be easily captured. There is a saber next to the low table in front of Guo Jia. I don’t know if they are unarmed and fast, or Guo Jia draws the sword. Move fast.

Dianman returned to his seat, picked up the wine and drank a glass, still staring at the four prisoners.

Guo Jia tilted his head and raised his hands, indicating that they can introduce themselves.

The four of them hesitated for a long time, Yang Qiu bowed first and cupped his fists and said, "Yang Qiu, the criminal, has met the envoy."

"Criminal people are playing around, and I have met the envoy."

"Criminal Li Kan, I have seen the envoy."

"I'm Cheng Gongying."

After the four people finished speaking one by one, Guo Jia waved his hand to the left and said: "The four of you must have suffered a lot in the prison car all the way. Sit down and drink a glass of water and wine and eat some dishes. You don't have to be afraid of me. I will kill you, your future is in my own hands."

Asking someone to fill the low table on the left side with wine and food, Guo Jia raised his glass to them after the four of them were seated and said, "This glass of wine is my toast to you as the host."

Ma Wan, Yang Qiu, and Li Kan quickly raised their glasses to toast Guo Jia respectfully. Cheng Gongying looked indifferent since entering the hall, as if he was not afraid of life and death. He raised his head and did it first.

After drinking heavily, Guo Jia put down the wine glass, suddenly picked up the saber beside the table and held it in front of him, and said to himself: "Four, you are my captives. Is there anyone who wants to die? If so , then come here and pick up this sword and kill yourself, and I will bury him generously."

(End of this chapter)