At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

The army, lacking food, marched forward hungry and full, and the dissatisfaction in the army slowly accumulated. Before they reached Huguan County, internal strife broke out.

One night, a mutiny broke out in Hu Cai's army.

The reason was that Hu Cai’s men and horses lacked food, and the income from hunting and gathering was not enough to distribute. Many people were hungry, but they were forced to go on their way, so a mutiny broke out, looking for food everywhere, and Hu Cai’s entire army camp was in chaos. .

Chapter 373 .370 Two Prove to me that you are a strong man

Faced with this mutiny, Hu Cai led his personal guards to suppress it, but failed, so he had to rely on Yang Feng's army to suppress it.

They worked together to kill many people, and finally stabilized.

But the morale of the entire army has been greatly affected. Everyone is uneasy and doesn't know what will happen to them.

Seeing that this battle could not be fought, Li Le and Hu Cai both turned their anger on Yang Feng.

"The whole plan was decided by you. We will follow you, and you will always give us something to eat! At this point, we have lost our troops without even seeing Guo Peng's shadow. How can we continue to fight this battle? ? Can you win?"

Yang Feng was very annoyed.

"I'm also thinking about everyone's wealth and honor. If we don't fight this battle, will wealth and honor fall from the sky?"

"Then you have to live to enjoy wealth, right? Now you can't advance, you can't retreat, what do you want us to do? What should we do?!"

Hu Cai and Li Le were very angry and quarreled with Yang Fengda, and the two parties broke up unhappy.

Yang Feng has already noticed that the morale of the army has been slackened, and the team is not easy to lead. The only hope now is to find Guo Peng's army, fight decisively with it, win, and then wantonly loot.

Otherwise, it would be a U-turn to retreat and go back, success depends entirely on God's will.

Yang Feng was also a little tangled in his heart, but before he was tangled for a long time, Guo Peng came to him by himself.

Thinking that the other party has almost consumed all the food and physical strength, when the combat power is at its weakest, his own preparations are almost complete.

Therefore, Guo Peng took the initiative to attack and led his army to the north from Huguan County. At a place more than 30 miles north of Huguan, he detected the coalition forces of Baibo Army and Yu Fuluo.

At this time, Yang Feng and Yu Fuluo also learned that Guo Peng's army was attacking. They were shocked and immediately ordered all the troops to line up and prepare to resist.

Although the armies had time to prepare, their fighting spirit was low and their operational efficiency was very low. When Guo Peng sent his troops to attack, the coalition forces were still in disarray.

Guo Peng commanded the army to attack the coalition forces in a rigorous manner.

Generals Zhang He and Gao Lan commanded two army formations in the front, Generals Yan Liang and Zhu Ling commanded two army formations in the middle, and Zhao Rui and Jiang Qi led a small number of cavalry to conduct guerrilla attacks on the two wings to disrupt the enemy's formation.

One side is the army that is exhausted from the expedition, and the other is the army that is waiting for work. In fact, there are not many twists and turns in this war that has taken advantage.

Zhang He and Gao Lan commanded the army to move forward, and first covered the attack with a strong crossbow. After the opponent was hit by the strong crossbow arrows from the sky, the corpses were scattered all over the field, and the spearmen and shield soldiers followed closely and killed the army. Destroyed in one fell swoop.

The weak infantry couldn't compete with Guo Peng's elite soldiers at all. They fought head-on and fought face-to-face. The winner was soon determined, and the army hardly encountered any strong resistance.

Hu Cai and Li Le's army formation collapsed quickly, and Yu Fuluo's and Han Xian's army formation did not last long.

The Xiongnu cavalry under Yu Fuluo's command persisted for a while, fighting with Guo Peng's cavalry, but how could the cavalry turn the tide of the battle under the premise of a rout of the infantry?

Yang Feng watched helplessly as tens of thousands of troops were defeated. The defeat of the front army led to the disintegration of the central army, which in turn caused the collapse of the entire army formation. It was only a matter of time before the entire army collapsed from point to point.

Although he felt that this battle was not easy to win, Yang Feng never thought that he would lose so quickly and so miserably.

So he turned around and ran away, leading the soldiers under his command to turn around and run away, regardless of the life and death of the scattered soldiers behind him.

Running and running, running all the way back and forth, I don't know how long he ran, and when he saw the outline of Xiangyuan County from a distance, Yang Feng felt a little relieved.

In the end, before he could take a few breaths, shouts of killing came from all directions, and the Guo family's banner was suddenly erected in all directions, and Yang Feng was so frightened that his soul flew away.

It turned out that Tian Feng himself proposed to lead people to copy their back roads and beat the dogs behind closed doors. Guo Peng handed over the most elite tiger guards to Tian Feng's command and let Tian Feng make contributions.

Tian Feng commanded two generals, Xu Chu and Dian Wei, to lead an army that suddenly rose up and surrounded Yang Feng. Yang Feng's resistance was in vain, and he was soon killed and defeated. Yang Feng himself had to kneel down and beg for mercy. , seeking a way out.

A war that seemed to be a lot of movement, in fact, the winner was already decided in a very short period of time. Guo Peng destroyed more than 3 people and nearly 4 people. The coalition won a complete victory.

During the battle, Li Le and Hu Cai were killed, Han Xian, Yu Fuluo and Yang Feng were captured, Guo Jun beheaded thousands of people, and the remaining soldiers, numbering in the early [-]s, were all captured.

His army was wiped out.

Later, Guo Peng did not surrender, and ordered Han Xian, Yu Fuluo, and Yang Feng to beheaded directly, and all the officers with surnames were beheaded, and then the prisoners were taken to Jizhou in batches to work as coolies.

Cao Cao needs people to do a lot of things, and many places need people to rebuild and repair. He often complains to Guo Peng about the lack of manpower. This time, he directly dumped 3 people, which should be enough to meet his needs.

According to Guo Peng's request, the army beheaded all the officers with surnames in the coalition army. Guo Peng personally supervised the beheading. Everyone cried and begged for mercy. Only a strong man shouted: "If the general wants to achieve great things, why not To indiscriminately kill strong men!"

Guo Peng heard the words and looked around, and saw a big man with disheveled clothes and a dirty face but sharp eyes.

"Who are you?"

"I am from Hedong County, Xu Huang, named Gongming!"

After reporting his name, Xu Huang shouted loudly: "I heard that in ancient times, people who wanted to achieve great things were good at recruiting talents and accepting talents from all over the world to do things for them. Only in this way can they achieve great things. The generals have not achieved great things, why should they kill the strong men first? ?”

Being able to speak and being educated, I probably want to express such a meaning to myself.

Guo Peng raised his eyebrows, smiled, and walked up to Xu Huang to look at him.

"Are you a strong man?"

"nature!"

"Since he is a strong man, why was he captured by me?"

"The general has strong soldiers and horses, and there are many people, how can I resist by myself?"

"That is to say, only you are a strong man, and the others are not strong men?"

Guo Peng smiled and pointed to the dozens of colleagues around Xu Huang who were about to be beheaded.

"I……"

"Since you are a strong man, why don't you die in a heroic battle?"

Guo Peng asked again, but Xu Huang didn't know how to answer.

"Leave this person, kill the others, and arrange for him to join the Tiger Guards."

Guo Peng gave the order, and his subordinates immediately acted, leaving Xu Huang behind, and beheading all the other officers.

Dozens of human heads fell to the ground in unison. Xu Huang was shocked and looked at Guo Peng in a daze.

"I don't know if you are a strong man, but I know that you want to live very much. Since you really want to live, then I will give you a chance to prove to me that you are a strong man."

Guo Peng glanced at Xu Huang and left the execution place.

Subsequently, Guo Peng rectified the army and went north to attack Taiyuan Jun and Xihe County.

Chapter 374 .370 Three As Much As Possible (Repair)

Guo Peng swung his army to the north, and quickly occupied the two counties that Yu Fuluo and Baibo's army had ravaged for a long time, regained and expanded his jurisdiction in Bingzhou.

In mid-July of the first year of Xingping, Guo Peng tabled Zhang Yan as prefect of Xihe from Shangdang prefect, and Lu Qian as prefect of Shangdang, and took the opportunity to represent his son Guo Yi as prefect of Shangtaiyuan.

In the case of Cao Hong's crime, Guo Peng felt that Cao's and Xiahou's power in the government and army was relatively strong, which made many subordinates feel troubled and felt that this was a hidden danger.

Although the Cao family and the Xiahou family had a very close relationship with him, for the sake of long-term consideration, Guo Peng began to vigorously promote the Guo family's children into the officialdom and the army.

In addition to Guo Rui who had already served as Zhao Guoxiang, Guo Jia who planned military affairs by his side, and Guo Lie who served as the guard of the Lu State at Xiahou Dun's side, Guo Yi, a son of the family who had been with Zaoyi for a long time, was promoted to Shangdang County served as the prefect.

Then, Guo Dong, who had been serving as a captain in the Tiger Guard Army, was promoted to Taiyuan County to serve as the Taiyuan garrison, and the commander of the army faced the Southern Huns.

Guo Peng began to take the initiative to cultivate the power of the Guo family.

He used the Cao family and the Xiahou family as his important forces, and has been promoting and appointing them vigorously. However, he also knows that too much is too late. His family may not always be reliable. They also represent the interests of the Cao family and the Xiahou family. Necessary restraint is a must. of.

Guo's children are on the one hand, on the other hand, Guo Peng has not forgotten to vigorously promote grassroots talents from Li and Shu to a higher level.

For example, he released Li Shu's children who served as personal guards around him many times as military officers, starting from the grassroots, and sent some outstanding talents trained by village and township heads to counties and counties to serve as assistants, or sent Go to the academy for further studies, with a view to improving to a higher level.

These Lishu children who have no background and are promoted by Guo Peng are their most reliable subordinates, and their loyalty is no lower than that of their own family members.

Guo Peng mainly relied on them to control the grassroots, whether it was the army or the political power, to ensure that the farming system would not be destroyed and eroded, which was the economic basis for Guo Peng to pacify the world.

Once this economic foundation is destroyed, the peace of the world will change.

By doing that, Cao Hong was touching Guo Peng's bottom line. If his surname was not Cao, and if it was not out of natural greed, but for other purposes, he would have been killed by Guo Peng long ago, and Guo Peng didn't need to spend so much effort Come to flaunt your personality.

If you dare to touch my foundation, if you dare to touch it, I have spent so much time and effort to build up the foundation. I am looking for death, and whoever touches it will die.

The process of pacifying the world is also a process of shuffling the cards. If the cards are not shuffled, then the pacification of the world must be very fast, that is, it depends on the so-called transmission, but what is established in that way is an Eastern Han Empire.

What Guo Peng wants is not the Eastern Han Empire.

This method can be used depending on the propaganda, and it can save some time that does not need to be wasted when necessary, but accidental injury during a war is always more open and aboveboard than the political turmoil after the war.

Do as much as you can.

Guo Peng can't be like Gongsun Du's separatist regime in Liaodong.

Liaodong is far away from the Central Plains, with inconvenient transportation and bitter cold. Basically, no one wants to go there. This is the main premise.

That's why Gongsun Du was able to calmly dominate Liaodong County, kill more than 100 rich and powerful families in Liaodong County, completely control the entire Liaodong County, and then go south to capture part of North Korea and establish his own independent kingdom.

This guy is really gangly.

In one go, he killed more than 100 rich and powerful families in Liaodong who were against him, and killed all over the field. He seized all the power and the right to speak, and established the separatist situation of the Gongsun family in Liaodong for nearly half a century.

He achieved what Guo Peng dreamed of but dared not do.

Therefore, in order to put down the Gongsun clan, Sima Yi had to lead an army thousands of miles to attack and use military means to eliminate the Gongsun clan's regime.

Guo Peng did not have this condition and could not do so. He could only use the war as an excuse to do his best.

Just like in Xihe County and Taiyuan County, Guo Peng wiped out the remaining powerful sects in the two counties in the name of colluding with the Yellow Turban Bandits and the Southern Huns, forcibly wiped out their armed forces, razed their fortresses, and captured them. everything of.

It is more straightforward and thorough than Liu Biao's elimination of the sect thieves in Jingzhou, controlling everything in the two counties.

Then Anran re-established the rule, using Zhang Yan's prestige in this area to let Zhang Yan go out, recruit the fleeing households in the mountains to return to the land to cultivate the land, join the sequence of farming, resume production, provide food, and do a good job for the further Northern Expedition to the Southern Huns Prepare.

Guo Peng killed Yu Fuluo, his younger brother Huchuquan and his son Liu Bao, and wiped out his clan. Yu court.

Now is not the time for the Northern Expedition and the Southern Huns to completely tear their face apart.

Guo Peng asked Zang Hong to serve as the general of the Xiongnu, trying to restore relations with the Southern Xiongnu, explaining the reason why Yu Fuluo was killed for his crimes, and then stated in the table that the current actual manager of the Southern Xiongnu, Old Wang, is the Southern Xiongnu Shanyu, to appease his Heart.

In this way, we can buy some time for Guo Peng to gain a firm foothold in Xihe County and Taiyuan County, establish his own forces, train cavalry, and build a base for the Northern Expedition.

Jia Xu wanted Yu Fuluo to be Guo Peng's trouble, but in the end, Guo Peng really resolutely resolved the trouble, and even solved the bigger trouble in the future.

Yu Fuluo's grandson, that is an emperor.

Although it is not an orthodox emperor, but in that dark and chaotic era, it is no ordinary person who can be an emperor.

To be honest, it is easier and smoother for a barbarian to be an emperor than a Han person. There is no moral burden when killing people.

Those who are afraid of being killed are also really cheap. They don't want to be human, they have to be dogs, but there is no way, most people are like this, and they don't cry when they see the coffin.

Of course, Guo Peng felt that he had no position to criticize others. After all, he was not a moral model and would do all kinds of dirty things.

After this insignificant war subsided, Guo Peng's class returned to Puyang.

At the same time that the above table asked the Chang'an court to add the title of Shanyu to the old king of the Southern Xiongnu, Guo Peng also asked people to give Yang Feng, Li Le, Hu Cai, Han Xian, Yu Fuluo, Huchuquan and Liu Bao The heads were packed together and sent to the court of Chang'an, so that Li Guofan, the three thieves, and Jia Wenhe could have a look together.

Don't mess with me.

Guo Peng just wanted to convey these three words.

If the Three Thieves and Jia Wenhe still had some desire to survive, they would definitely not do anything that would make Guo Peng unhappy.

These seven heads should allow them to understand something.

And Guo Peng felt that they should pay more attention to themselves than to themselves now.

Lack of food and clothing, the army is about to collapse, the situation is difficult to maintain, and there is still an emperor to control.

Are they really not afraid of a total collapse?

Guo Peng felt that a certain moment might be approaching, that crucial moment.

And his preparations are progressing steadily.