At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Then raise a knife and kill.

Wives and concubines, young children, maidservants, all killed.

Some people begged, some people ran around, unwilling to die.

Faced with such a situation, Gongsun Zan was very annoyed and scolded these family members angrily.

"Do you still want to be Yuan Shao's slaves to survive? Gongsun Bogui's family is not allowed to live!!"

Gongsun Zan slaughtered his family members as if he lost his mind. In the end, seeing his wife whose face was full of tears but no longer crying, Gongsun Zan couldn't help shaking his hands.

"I'm sorry, I will make it up to you in the next life."

"Bogui, do we have an afterlife?"

Gongsun Zan was taken aback for a moment, leaned back, pursed his lips, forced himself to hold back his grief, and then roared, stepped forward and stabbed his wife into the body, using resolute means to relieve his wife's pain.

In the end, those who followed Gongsun Zan were all old personal guards who had followed him since he raised his army.

They silently watched Gongsun Zan's efforts to ensure his final dignity.

"If you want to surrender, if you want to escape, go, and do one last thing for me before you go."

Gongsun Zan pointed to a pile of wood next to him: "I will never allow Yuan Shao to humiliate me. Before you flee, light the wood here for me."

The guards looked at me and I looked at you, silently helping Gongsun Zan to prepare for the ignition, and then handed the torch to Gongsun Zan.

"Let's go, maybe you can escape with your life. From now on, keep your identities incognito. Don't say that you have followed me. In this way, maybe you can get a good death."

Gongsun Zan threw the torch onto the firewood pile, and the greased firewood pile quickly burned violently.

"General, I don't want to go."

A guard spoke up.

"I don't want to go either."

"Me too, I won't go."

"Even if you go, you will die, general, I am willing to follow the general to the end."

The personal guards said this one after another, and dozens of people stood behind him, unwilling to leave.

Gongsun Zan looked back at these old guards whom he had even forgotten their names, sighed deeply, and felt infinite remorse in his heart, which he had never felt since he was besieged.

At the last moment of his life, Gongsun Zan finally began to reflect on what he had done.

"What did Gongsun Bogui do in his life..."

Chapter 317 .310 Six Let Jizhou have more loyal ministers

After Yuan Shao heard about Gongsun Zan's self-immolation, he immediately gave the death order.

He asked the soldiers to rush in immediately to extinguish the flames, capture Gongsun Zan alive, and reward those who made contributions.

For the sake of credit, the soldiers poured water in buckets with red eyes, and many people rushed in with wet cloth towels and braved the flames.

The flames were finally extinguished, but on the top floor of the castle, the bodies of Gongsun Zan, his family members, and dozens of personal guards were found.

In the end, in order to fight for Gongsun Zan's head, dozens of soldiers rushed to the top floor and killed each other. The killing was extremely brutal. Dozens of people were killed in an instant, and many corpses were added to the whole fortress.

And Gongsun Zan's head was constantly being transmitted in the hands of countless people.

During this process, people were constantly killed by their comrades just now. It was obvious that they were fighting back to back just now, but suddenly they drew their swords and turned to each other.

After the annihilation of Gongsun Zan, the civil war broke out again.

In the end, Qu Yi's subordinates were strong in fighting and snatched Gongsun Zan's head for Qu Yi. Stepping on the corpses of countless fellow soldiers, Qu Yi proudly offered Gongsun Zan's head to Yuan Shao, full of complacency.

Yuan Shao was overjoyed, looked at Gongsun Zan's head, and cursed angrily, "Dog slave!Can you continue to do evil? 』

Then, Yuan Shao ordered Qu Yi to be rewarded heavily, and ordered Gongsun Zan's head to be sent to the court of Chang'an to show his merit.

He heard that the imperial court appointed Yuan Shu as General of Wei and Guo Peng as General of Zhendong, but he didn't get the real chariot general, he only got the title of a miscellaneous general, which made Yuan Shao very dissatisfied, but he couldn't say anything .

This time, with Gongsun Zan's head as his confidence, Li Jue should give something, right?

Gongsun Zan was also the fierce general who followed Guo Peng to defeat Dong Zhuo at that time. Li Jue should hate Gongsun Zan very much.

Worried about not getting a good job?

Anyway, Yuan Shao is very happy and excited now.

He finally wiped out this opponent who gave him a headache!

This day was June [-]th in the fourth year of Chuping.

After eliminating Gongsun Zan, Yuan Shao immediately had friendly and in-depth exchanges with the leaders of the Youzhou United Army, and proposed the idea of ​​playing the role of the most heroic Xian Yufu as the governor of Youzhou.

Xian Yufu and others naturally knew Yuan Shao's thoughts on Youzhou, and they put forward this idea for nothing more than to occupy Youzhou and rule Youzhou.

Youzhou has no leader now, and it is the time when a leader is needed. Yuan Shao, the fourth generation and the third prince, is a very good sign. As long as he can take care of everyone's interests, there is nothing wrong with letting Yuan Shao be the leader of Youzhou.

It's better than Gongsun Zan being the leader of Youzhou.

But at this time, Gongsun Zan's son Gongsun Xu came to support Gongsun Zan with the troops under Zhang Yan of the Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army, but he was sad to find that Gongsun Zan had fallen.

Gongsun Xu was very sad, and regardless of Zhang Yan's obstruction, he led his men to attack Yuan Shao, wanting to avenge his father and his family, but Qu Yi ordered him to shoot him into a sieve with a strong crossbow, and died on the spot.

Zhang Yan led the army to fight hard, but failed to rescue Gongsun Xu. In order to survive, he had to retreat. In this way, he was chased by Qu Yi for a long distance, losing more than [-] soldiers, and finally fled back to the mountains.

The enmity between Zhang Yan and Yuan Shao was a death feud, and Zhang Yan vowed viciously that he would make Yuan Shao pay the price.

Yuan Shao completely wiped out Gongsun Zan's forces, and also defeated Zhang Yan. Satisfied, he was welcomed by Xian Yufu, Xian Yuyin and others to Ji County, the seat of Youzhou, to "discuss big plans together".

Little did he know that Guo Peng had already led a powerful army towards him.

And the momentum is like a broken bamboo.

On June [-], after Guo Peng entered Jizhou, he ordered Zhao Yun to lead three thousand light cavalry to raid Liyang County.

Liyang County was unprepared, and was rushed down by Zhao Yun, who killed the stubborn magistrate of Liyang County, occupied Liyang County, and then Zhao Yun led his troops northward to join Guo Peng's main force.

On June [-], Guo Peng led [-] main forces to Fanyang County and officially began to attack the Yuan's defenders Yan Liang and Gao Lan in Fanyang County.

Guo Peng's military operations this time are divided into three routes.

The West Route Army took Wei Lejin as the main general, and Han Hao joined the army as the marching commander. He led [-] soldiers and horses to attack Hanoi, wipe out Zhang Yang's troops, and occupy Hanoi.

The Eastern Route Army had Cao Hong as the main general defending the Pingyuan Kingdom, and Chen Gong, as the marching Sima Counselor, commanded [-] soldiers and horses to attack Bohai County and Qinghe Kingdom and occupy these two counties.

The Central Route Army was led by Guo Peng himself, with [-] elite main forces, Xi Zhong and Guo Jia as the marching commanders, and went straight to Yuan Shao's garrison in Fanyang County. After defeating them, they went north to attack Yecheng.

Yuan Shao's main force stayed in the northern part of Jizhou, and the rest of the army was mainly stationed in Fanyang County and Yecheng. There were basically no troops stationed in various places, and they were all in the private domain of the major manor owners.

Although these manor owners also have strong forces, they cannot cooperate with each other and cannot form a single rope. In front of a professional army, they are like mantises.

Before the war, Guo Peng gave certain indicators to the generals in various places, asking them to pay attention to using up the indicators for destroying the manor and eliminating the manor owner as much as possible, so as to lay the foundation for him to strengthen his local control.

Although he also wants to fight Jizhou, but if he can't destroy some of the original manor owners in Jizhou, what is the difference between him and Yuan Shao?

He didn't want to be full of people who surrendered without a fight when he attacked Jizhou. He hoped that Yuan Shao's "lenient and magnanimous" policy of governing Jizhou could give him more "popular support" and let the "people" of Jizhou do more for him. If he died, it would be better to reach Qingzhou.

Make room for someone Guo to step in.

Otherwise, Mr. Guo would be really troubled and troubled.

Mr. Guo really hates watching the wind and surrendering. He hopes that there will be more people who are willing to resist.

If you resist me desperately, I have the reason and excuse to destroy your manor. If you don't resist me, how can I kill you in a fair and just manner?

At that time, this piece of land will still belong to you, so I am ashamed to snatch it away.

There are all kinds of conspiracies and tricks to calculate, which is very tiring.

Yuan Benchu, at this time, it is time for your charisma to play a role, please help me, please, let Jizhou have more loyal ministers.

Guo's face was full of wicked smiles.

Regarding Guo Peng's sudden northward invasion, Yan Liang and Gao Lan didn't find out about Guo Peng's attack, but also learned about it a little earlier.

Originally, they wouldn't have learned about it so late.

However, Guo Peng's anti-reconnaissance work was so good that Yuan Shao sent spies south to Yanzhou several times to try to spy on Guo Peng's military operations, but the people they sent never came back.

If one dies and one dies, two dies and one pair, they can't get effective information at all.

Yuan Shao had no choice but to disperse the spies to the border of Yanzhou in stages, a little closer to Puyang, to see what was going on around Puyang, and then go deeper to the south of Puyang, and he would be dead.

Yan Liang and Gao Lan also sent sentries into Yanzhou several times to spy on the news in case Guo Peng launched a surprise attack, but the results were minimal, and no effective information was obtained at all.

Their intelligence gathering was woefully inadequate.

Chapter 318 .310 Seven I'm afraid we will all become his captives!

Originally, intelligence spying was very difficult these years.

The means of communication are extremely backward and extremely time-consuming. The two places are a little farther apart, and it takes several days to go back and forth.

In this way, there must be enough roads, horses, post stations and other institutional assistance to achieve it. It is impossible to complete intelligence espionage only by one person and one horse.

The road traffic at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty is really difficult to describe in words. Xun You wanted to go to Yizhou to be an official, but he couldn't enter Yizhou because the roads were blocked.

Jixian County, Youzhou sent someone to deliver a letter to Luoyang, but because the road was impassable, they had to detour through the prairie, and it took two years to reach Luoyang.

With this road condition, you still want to play Lonely Hero?

Some people in Guo think that infrastructure is king.

Therefore, while he was governing the region, the most important thing was to engage in road traffic, not only for spying on intelligence and military operations, but also for a deeper meaning.

Do an experiment now, it will be of great use in the future.

Ever since, because Mr. Guo set up a complete information transmission system and route early in the morning, he also set up a professional intelligence force Linzi Camp, thus walking ahead of all the warlords.

So they want to play an intelligence war with someone Guo, purely for fun.

The task and main target of the Linzi camp at this stage is Yuan Shao's forces, and most of their energy is focused on the direction of Jizhou.

Guo Peng can understand as quickly as possible what is going on in Jizhou, but Yuan Shao has no way of knowing Guo Peng's actual actions.

However, Yuan Shao's basic strategy is to go north first and then go south. He has no idea of ​​going south to fight Guo Peng before the north is pacified.

Before the extermination of Gongsun Zan this time, there was still a quarrel in his camp.

The reason is that Tian Feng insisted that Guo Peng would go north in the near future, and hoped that Yuan Shao would leave only a small number of troops to restrain Gongsun Zan, support the Youzhou United Army, and hand over the main offensive task to the Youzhou United Army, while he himself would lead the main force to garrison Yecheng to guard against Guo Peng. the Northern Expedition.

Therefore, before Yuan Shao was about to leave, Tian Feng repeatedly wrote letters to dissuade Yuan Shao from leading troops northward in person, which made Yuan Shao very unhappy.

But even so, Tian Feng didn't think his advice was unreasonable, he still insisted on his own opinion, saying that the focus should be on the south, not the north, Gongsun Zan is a minor annoyance, and Guo Peng is an enemy of life and death, they must be taken seriously .

Yuan Shao was very angry.

I fought Gongsun Zan to have a stable rear, and I wanted a stable rear to deal with Guo Peng, but you said I didn't value Guo Peng?

Tian Feng immediately said that he didn't mean that, but said that Guo Peng should be solved first, and then the scourge in the north, reversing the order of priority.

This is to start with the basic line.

Xu You immediately stood up to fight with Tian Feng and insisted on his own opinion. The two quarreled inseparably, and finally made Yuan Shao very angry and severely reprimanded Tian Feng.

At this point, Tian Feng knew that Yuan Shao had already made his own decision, and let everyone argue, just pretending, he didn't like his subordinates questioning his ideas, even if it was wrong.

"If we can't plot against Guo Peng first and eliminate Guo Peng, I'm afraid we will all become his captives!"

Tian Feng finally yelled out in despair.

Now Yuan Shao was completely enraged.

"Shaking the morale of the army before the battle, what on earth are you thinking! Are you cursing me for defeat!"

Yuan Shao was furious and dismissed Tian Feng and took him into custody. It was useless to persuade Tian Feng. After Tian Feng was locked up, he sent troops north to attack Gongsun Zan.

Some colleagues tried to rescue Tian Feng, but this time Yuan Shao was very angry, and directly said that whoever dared to release Tian Feng would be guilty of the same crime as him.

So no one tried to stop Yuan Shao.