At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Guo Peng himself led his troops directly to Handan, and easily captured Handan, which was not prepared in time. Zhao Guoxiang appointed by Yuan Shao fled in a hurry. Handan was occupied by Guo Peng, and he got a lot of supplies and food.

It didn't take much effort for several armies to take down all the counties of Wei except Yecheng, and Guo Peng even led his army into the state of Zhao.

There is still a war here, and Guo Peng has already sent people to start digesting Wei County, and began to send officials and administrative teams to Wei County to start post-war reconstruction and rule, and seize the opportunity.

After the Qingyan Erzhou experiment, the feasible policy was determined to be laid in Jizhou with the advance of the army. A group of qualified grassroots officials trained in Jizhou were stationed in Jizhou, and Qingyan Erzhou began to operate on the land of Jizhou. It is already a routine policy.

Guo Peng wants to turn Jizhou into his own, occupying it and ruling it at the same time. This is not a strategy of rogues.

War is the means, rule is the end.

Yuan Benchu, I want to make you really homeless.

After capturing Handan, Guo Peng paused for a while, summing up what he had seen in Jizhou since he captured Weijun.

In short, there are manors everywhere, and the fertile land is occupied by powerful landowners.

Many bankrupt peasants who lost their land and homes due to war or various reasons were taken in as private serfs, providing food, utensils, wine and various luxuries of that era to the owners of the manor, and became tools for their enjoyment.

The serfs farmed, weaved, raised livestock, made pottery, blackened iron, brewed wine, and produced various luxury goods, achieving a complete manor economy in exchange for a small amount of rations.

All the things obtained through hard work are handed over to the owners of the manor for their enjoyment, and some of the special features are sold to various cities to earn high profits.

Naturally, the government does not get any of the wealth produced.

This era is completely a paradise for the gentry and powerful landlords, and a hell for the common people.

Along the way, manors were everywhere, and the fertile land was surrounded by manors and belonged to private individuals.

Somebody Guo knew why Emperor Ling had to sell his official position in Xiyuan.

The emperor's family has no food left, and if they don't sell their officials, they won't even have to sell them.

Of course, he didn't use much of the money he sold for official affairs, and he didn't feel wronged if he suffered a complete defeat.

So as he was walking, Guo was thinking, he must not make Liu Xiu's mistake, this is a mistake made by the ancestors and the descendants pay the bill, and they also cheated all the common people.

Liu Xiucai is not the chosen one, let alone a great magister. He is the spokesperson elected by the people who own a lot of land and a lot of wealth.

Fair, just, open, and democratic.

Walking on the streets of Handan, breathing the sweet air of Handan, Mr. Guo grinned.

This time is the third day of July.

Someone in Guo planned to continue northward after the grain road was consolidated, and at the same time sent a large number of sentries to the north to detect Yuan Shao's movements.

At the same time, the troops attacking Hanoi and Bohai County and Qinghe State were also progressing smoothly.

After Bohai County and Qinghe Kingdom were invaded by Guo Peng's captive population and Gongsun Zan's massive invasion, they have not been well governed and restored.

Yuan Shao himself was too busy to take care of himself and had no time to govern the region, so he let the local wealthy families carve up the vacated land to expand their family property, and by the way gave Yuan Shao some insignificant money as thanks and compensation.

Their construction results are not bad, and large tracts of manors have been established.

And these people who own the land are not very powerful characters. Facing the rapid assault of the army, they ran and surrendered. Only a few chose to resist and were wiped out.

Bohai County and Qinghe Country basically have no organized resistance army. Each county has only dozens of armed forces. Facing the ferocious regular army, it is nothing, and it is brave to not pee your pants.

However, there are a large number of hungry refugees everywhere. Compared with the negligible resistance, the refugees are the real trouble.

Compared with the very weak Bohai County and Qinghe State, the resistance of Hanoi County is relatively fierce.

Guo Peng ordered the West Route Army led by Le Jin and Han Hao to attack Hanoi County, broke into Hanoi County in one fell swoop, and even Poji County, Huojia County and Xiuwu County.

Among the three counties, except for Xiuwu County which put up some resistance and was finally captured, Ji County and Huojia County did not resist and surrendered obediently.

The magistrate of Xiuwu scolded Han Hao as a traitor and a traitor, which made Han Hao very angry, so after capturing Xiuwu County, Le Jin allowed Han Hao to kill the magistrate of Xiuwu.

Han Hao contributed a lot to being able to successfully obtain Ji County and Huojia County. What he, the leading party, has done is really too successful.

After taking Huojia County, Le Jin led his army to rush forward without encountering resistance all the way, and smoothly reached Shegou, where he encountered almost [-] troops led by the panicked Zhang Yang.

At first glance, this army was put together impromptu. There was no neat formation, uniform uniforms and standard weapons. It was a hodgepodge.

Han Hao persuaded Zhang Yang to surrender directly. Zhang Yang thought that he had a grudge against Guo Peng and could not get it back. He also hated Guo Peng for killing Lu Bu, so he refused to surrender and let the army attack.

"Where did he have the courage to take the initiative to attack?"

Le Jin felt very curious.

So in order to let Zhang Yang recognize the cruel reality, Le Jin waved his army to cover up the killing, and taught Zhang Yang how to behave, how to look at people, and how to choose the boss with absolute strength.

In less than an hour, Zhang Yang's cobbled together army was defeated. Zhang Yang even his personal guards suffered heavy casualties. He was so frightened that his liver and gallbladder were torn apart, he turned around and ran away. Le Jin really didn't catch up.

More than 2000 people were killed, and the rest were basically captured. Then Le Jin commanded the army to surround Huai County, the county seat of Hanoi, and trapped Zhang Yang in Huai County. This time was June 27.

Han Hao persuaded to surrender again, but was shot away by Zhang Yang with an arrow, so Han Hao was very annoyed and gave up the persuasion.

"Uncle Zhang Zhi will not surrender anymore. For the great cause of the general, Captain Le, I suggest to attack Huai County. Even if Huai County cannot be broken, as long as our army strengthens the attack, people in the city will be able to change their minds. In a few days, Hanoi County It shall be mine!"

Le Jin nodded, and ordered the army to besiege Huai County, the effect was very significant.

Three days later, a mutiny broke out in the city of Huai County. Zhang Yang's subordinate Yang Chou did not want to be sent to death, so he sent someone to attack and kill Zhang Yang, opened the city gates to surrender, and offered Zhang Yang's head as his vote.

Le Jin was overjoyed, accepted Yang Chou's surrender, and then ordered Yang Chou to lead his army as a guide to help Le attack other places in Hanoi County.

In Hanoi County, there is no longer an established resistance force, a few diehard elements have been killed, all counties in Hanoi County have been taken down, and the strategy of Hanoi has been successfully completed.

Next to Zhang Yang was a man named Dong Zhao who was originally Yuan Shao's subordinate.

But because Dong Zhao's relatives were in Zhang Miao's army, Zhang Miao and Yuan Shao had always had a grudge against each other, so someone slandered him to kill Dong Zhao. In order to survive, Dong Zhao fled Yuan Shao's camp and was taken in by Zhang Yang.

When Yang Chou rebelled and killed Zhang Yang, he arrested Dong Zhao, who was desperately protecting the Lord, and dedicated them to Le Jin and Han Hao. Han Hao persuaded him to surrender, but Dong Zhao closed his eyes and remained silent, which made Le Jin very angry.

Just as Le Jin was about to order Dong Zhao to be killed, Han Hao hurriedly stopped him.

"Dong Gongren is very famous. Killing him may cause other people's uneasiness, and it will be detrimental to Minggong's great cause. It would be better to keep him and hand him over to Minggong."

Le Jin thought about it too, so he followed Han Hao's suggestion and sent Dong Zhao to prison, under strict supervision, without harming him.

During the entire process of Zhendong Army's elimination of Zhang Yang, Yuan Shao didn't have time to react.

The day Zhang Yang died was also the day Yuan Shao read Guo's call for Yuan Xiwen.

When Guo Peng led the army to advance rapidly and defeated Yuan Shao's Jizhou army like a mountain, Yuan Shao, who was talking and laughing with the powerful gentry in Ji County, finally learned that Guo Peng sent troops to the Northern Expedition, defeated Yan Liang and Gao Lan, and came to Ye city ​​news.

Chapter 325 .320 Four True Lies

To be precise, this incident happened almost at the same time as the powerful families in Youzhou received Guo Peng's call for Yuan Xiwen.

Yuan Shao got the news of Guo Peng's Northern Expedition, and the tyrants over there received Guo Peng's call to discuss Yuan.

The mighty and powerful families in Youzhou whom Yuan Xiwen saw were sweating, their foreheads were covered with cold sweat, and their backs were also soaked in cold sweat.

Killing and punishing one's heart, that's all.

It's too cruel.

Yuan Shao has simply become a rebel who must be crusaded.

Of course Yuan Shao was also in a panic.

But when he saw the family members who had been sent in advance by the judge, he breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he still had a chance to counterattack.

As a result, after Yuan Shao saw Yuan Xiwen with his own eyes, his expression...

how to say?

Probably the boss with staring eyes, his face was flushed red, and he kept panting heavily. After reading this essay on calling for Yuan Shao, Yuan Shao rolled his eyes and passed out. His subordinates were in a panic.

After finally settling down with Yuan Shao, his subordinates also began to circulate this plea against Yuan Shao, and understood why Yuan Shao was so angry.

Not to mention that Yuan Shao was angry, even they broke out in a cold sweat when they saw this letter calling for Yuan Shao.

This essay not only scolds Yuan Shao and exposes Yuan Shao's scandals, but also has a very good writing style and extremely gorgeous writing, which gives people a feeling that they are singing about Yuan Shao's scandals while singing a beautiful song.

He secretly held banquets to eat and drink while observing filial piety, secretly joined Dong Zhuo when begging Dong Zhuo, entrapped allies, refused to recognize the emperor, and conspired to abolish the emperor.

Is this the general they are following?

Although he knew that this was a political offensive and political slander from his opponent, but thinking about it carefully, couldn't these things be done by Yuan Shao himself?

Guo Peng just used gorgeous words to vividly describe the scandalous things Yuan Shao did, and then extended and inferred Yuan Shao's actions and psychological activities, and came to his own conclusion. If Yuan Shao hadn't done these things, Guo Peng How can you slander him?

Then it is obvious that these things were indeed done by Yuan Shao, and then they could be used by Guo Peng as materials to attack his reputation.

This method is very common, and it has been seen frequently since ancient times, but there are not many that can be done well and seamlessly.

A true lie is the most deceptive.

Using the most real cases to confuse the public, secretly changing the concept when describing the facts, so as to get your own purpose and conclusion, so as to incite emotions, this is called a true lie.

Most people can't find traces of subverting concepts.

Because such articles are often written in a provocative way, it is very common to read them in one go without hindrance, without feeling that your thinking has fallen into the trap of the other party.

For example, Yuan Shao refused to recognize Emperor Xian, and wanted to support other descendants of the Liu surname as emperors. Guo Peng concluded from this that Yuan Shao had a heart of disobedience and was a traitor, so it was just for him to send troops to attack him.

At first glance, it seemed that there was no sense of disobedience, and I even felt that what Guo Peng said was right.

But are these things necessarily connected?

Yuan Shao really wants to rebel and become emperor?Is someone Guo really just?

not necessarily.

The so-called true lie is to use this ingenious connection to secretly change concepts, guide emotions, and secretly connect what actually happened with the conclusion I hope everyone will reach, so as to achieve my goal.

Under the spiritual guidance of someone Guo, supplemented by Chen Lin's literary talents that are capable of scolding the dead, it is enough for most people to find the loopholes in this method, although smart people can definitely find it.

But rumors stop at wise men, and only wise men.

In this world, there will always be few wise men and many mediocre people. You don't need to fool the smart people, as long as you can fool the mediocre people.

Yuan Shao's subordinates are no exception.

Of course, Xu Youfeng, Ji Jushou and his like dismissed this kind of appeal, they were also participants themselves, and the reason for the struggle for hegemony was clear.

But not everyone knows it all.

Other literate people are not so smart. They were stunned by this proclamation, and their military spirit was greatly moved, and they kept guessing whether they were really rebelling.

If it wasn't for the fact that the judge had packed up and sent all the family members of the main officials under Yuan Shao's command to the north, it is estimated that Yuan Shao's group would almost collapse by now.

But even so, the trial and dispatch failed to send the family members of Yuan Shao's army, so that many of the soldiers' family members were in the south of Jizhou, under the threat of Guo Peng's soldiers, and the officials and generals did not mess up first. , The soldiers were in chaos.

Rumors began to circulate in the army that their family members had been captured by Guo Peng and that they would lose their families if they dared to fight.

It's dying.

Almost from the fifth day of July, when the news spread, deserters began to appear in Yuan Shao's army.

When Yuan Shao convened his subordinates to discuss countermeasures, deserters continued to appear, forcing Yuan Shao to issue a must-kill order, anyone who found deserters could kill them, so as to deter deserters.

Desertion is not a big problem, the big problem is Guo Peng.

Yuan Shao was a bit unwell. After seeing his family, his spirit improved a little, but he still felt very bad.

Guo Peng's march made it difficult for him to adapt, and he was not ready for Guo Peng to send troops north now.

Not to mention Yuan Shao, none of the civil and military personnel under his command thought that Guo Peng, who had just experienced the chaos of Lu Bu's war, had the ability to restart the war within a year, so they planned to quickly eliminate Gongsun Zan during this intermission to stabilize the rear, and then turn around Confront Guo Peng.

In the end, Gongsun Zan was eliminated, but Guo Peng also came.

Who can believe it?

Oh, there seems to be one.

Tian Feng.

He is currently in the jail in Yecheng.

Xu You, Feng Ji, Xun Chen, Ju Shou, etc., all the counselors felt very embarrassed and uncomfortable about this.

Yuan Shao blushed and scolded them severely, especially when he took Xu You and Feng Ji out and scolded them severely. After scolding for more than half an hour, he dropped countless bamboo slips of writing brushes and inkstones before he calmed down.

"It's all right now, it's come to this point, tell me, what should I do, tell me, what should I do!"

Yuan Shao looked angrily at the advisers.

The counselors looked at each other, embarrassment and disbelief intertwined in their hearts.