At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Before rushing back, he appointed his trusted general Lu Mian as the general, and led Qiao Rui and Li Feng, who rushed back, to lead [-] troops northward to Longkang for defense, and gave him time to lead the main force northward.

Then Yuan Shu tried to let Liu Xun's army, which was being tied up by Sun Ce, return to the north, and on the other hand, he ordered the Shouchun court to mobilize urgently, recruit strong men to join the army, expand the army, and then prepare military rations.

All the food obtained from Xuzhou was transported back to Shouchun, and Yuan Shu didn't want some gold and silver treasures, and used them to help the army to calm dissatisfaction with the army.

After the Shouchun court received Yuan Shu's "sacred order", it began a full-scale mobilization.

The people who were in charge scattered out to plunder the strong men everywhere. The wealth and life of these guys depended on Yuan Shu.

Of course, while performing tasks, you can also do something for yourself, such as robbing and robbing women and other things, which is the same as robbing houses, and the surrounding area of ​​​​Shouchun is made into a mess.

Not only that, they also want to extend to other places to recruit more troops, and the farthest one went directly to Lujiang County to catch strong men and force them to requisition food.

Yin Yanghong of Huainan warned Yuan Shu, saying that disturbing the people too much would only have a counterproductive effect. The more troops the better, the more troops the better, the army food would not be able to supply.

Yuan Shu angrily reprimanded Yang Hong, saying that his meat would be used to make up for the shortage of military rations. Yang Hong was so frightened that he had to bite the bullet and raise military rations everywhere.

Because they couldn't get enough of the military rations that Yuan Shu needed, the Shouchun court had no choice but to attack some powerful and powerful families who had been more cooperative in the past, destroying them with arbitrary charges, and plundering their population and food.

Before the decisive battle started, Yuan Shu had already made a mess of his jurisdiction, every household was crying, and every household was crying bitterly.

Of course, Yuan Shu didn't care at all, he just wanted to lead his army north to fight Guo Peng decisively.

Guo Peng was not in a hurry, he knew that according to Yuan Shu's personality, Yuan Shu would definitely explode his troops and come to trouble him fiercely, so instead of continuing to stretch his supply line southward, it would be better to stay in Qi County to fortify and relieve the pressure. Logistical pressure.

In late October, the weather turned colder, and winter will begin in less than a month. At that time, the logistics pressure of the [-] troops will be very high. If we continue to speed up and stretch the front line, it will be at our own disadvantage.

So Guo Peng decided to set up defenses on the spot, consolidate the current logistics and transportation routes, and then lengthen Yuan Shu's logistics supply lines along the way, increasing his logistics consumption and causing his all-round collapse as soon as possible.

People are iron rice and steel, and if they don't eat a meal, they will be very hungry.

If you want to march and fight, you have to let the soldiers eat. The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers. Are you bringing a large army to fight or beg for food?

Guo Peng felt that Yuan Shu was asking for trouble when he went north with his explosive troops. The already extremely fragile and unstable logistics stretched the supply line again. Isn't this just sending people away?

Guo Peng felt that this battle didn't need to be fought much, and after a little delay, he himself collapsed.

Guo Peng knew Yuan Shu too well.

For Yuan Shu, the best approach at this time is to shrink the troops, abandon Longkang, abandon Yuzhou, withdraw to the south of Huai River, deploy defenses in Huainan, reduce logistical pressure, and manage the rear area, always ready to abandon Shouchun and move south.

In this way, relying on one's own strategy to fight in depth, regardless of the gains and losses of one city and one place, it can also lengthen Guo Peng's logistics supply line and increase Guo Peng's logistics pressure.

The logistics pressure of the [-] army is very heavy. If something goes wrong, the car will overturn. Guo Peng may not be able to continue the pursuit and can only wait for the spring to bloom before going on the campaign. In that case, Yuan Shu's Chen Empire can continue to survive.

But Yuan Shu would never do this, Guo Peng was sure.

Chapter 405 Four hundred and four

Sure enough, Yuan Shu did not exceed Guo Peng's expectations.

He resorted to militarism, scavenged food and grass everywhere, and prepared military supplies.

Of course, he was also very worried about his relatives. He led the army back to Shouchun, and when he knew that there was no news of Guo Peng’s garrison going south in Qi County, Peiguo, he was a little relieved. Seeing that his family was fine, he was relieved. Nodding his head, he began to prepare to go north.

He mobilized all the resources in Shouchun, reluctantly took out some of his gold and silver treasures to win people's hearts, and used all his strength to organize the army, so that Guo Peng could have a good experience of the majesty and strength of Emperor Chen.

In order to support Yuan Shu, the Yuan family and Yuan Shu's wives and concubines also made great efforts.

They are all tied to Yuan Shu, and they can't do without effort. If Yuan Shu is gone, they will be gone. For their own glory and wealth, they took out a lot of things.

Empress Feng took the lead in donating gold and silver jewelry and makeup money, and Prince Yuan Yin also took out his own private money to help Dad—if Dad is gone, what kind of emperor would he be?

Yuan Shu's influence is quite poor, and the army is also poor. He often cannot eat enough to eat, and it is common to go up the mountain to pick fruits and fish in the water, but Yuan Shu himself is still very rich.

Now he has given out a large amount of wealth to reward his subordinates in one breath, showing his financial strength, which can be regarded as barely stabilizing Shouchun's hearts and the army's morale.

Then Yuan Shu held a military meeting and knew that his power in Yuzhou had been defeated in all directions, and all the counties and states had been basically taken by Guo Peng, leaving only a small part of Runan County and Peiguo.

Most of the Yellow Turban Army in Runan was wiped out by Guo Peng, and they came to ask for help a few days ago.

Yuan Shu ignored this, and just sent someone to pass on a message to Liu Pi and the others, asking him to persist as much as possible until he defeated Guo Peng, and to rescue him when he defeated Guo Peng.

This is tantamount to nonsense, but Yuan Shu is willing to say it.

Yuan Shu really had no way to support Liu Pi. The huge pressure of Guo Peng going south had made it difficult for him to fight. At this time, dividing troops to fight would be suicide.

Liu Pi can only ask for more blessings.

Guo Peng claims to have 20 troops marching south. This is definitely an imaginary number, but the number of enemies in Runan County is about 20 to [-], and Guo Peng himself leads an army of no less than [-] to [-]. One hundred thousand.

That is enough terrifying force.

At that time, Guo Peng dispatched only [-] soldiers to attack Yuan Shao in the north, but now, in order to attack him, he directly doubled the number of troops and dispatched [-] soldiers.

Yuan Shu knew of its strong financial resources, military strength and productivity, and Yuan Shu realized that a problem that he hadn't paid much attention to had now exploded.

Guo Peng's strength may be far beyond his imagination, far beyond his estimation, and the entire Yuan Shu Group underestimated Guo Peng's actual strength.

Guo Peng really has the ability to annex Yuan Shu.

"Has he been lying to me all this time?"

Yuan Shu suddenly had such a guess.

In fact, it cannot be said that, Yuan Shu himself has never paid attention to these issues.

There was no affiliation between them, and Yuan Shu had no way of investigating Guo Peng's accounts, so he naturally didn't know how much Guo Peng had accumulated.

Now, once it explodes, Yuan Shu will be dumbfounded, so it is not an incomprehensible problem.

However, these issues are not the most important right now. The most important thing is to defeat or repel Guo Peng's troops, so as to stabilize the situation.

Otherwise, the nascent Chen Empire would definitely be strangled in the cradle.

Yuan Shu had waited for many years, and after so many years of waiting, he finally became the emperor, but he was about to face the result of the overthrow of the regime within a few months of his prestige, how could this be acceptable?

Absolutely not.

"Tao Qian in Xuzhou suffered a heavy blow. It will take time to recover the lost ground in a short period of time. It is impossible to support Guo Peng's attack. Sun Ce in Jiangdong is fighting fiercely with Liu Xun. Liu Xun sent someone to report that the situation is unfavorable and ask for support. Your Majesty, do you think we are here? Should support?"

An official questioned Yuan Shu.

"Where does Gu have soldiers and horses to support him? Liu Xun is a veteran general and has been on the battlefield for a long time. If he can't even take care of a yellow-mouthed child, don't come back to see Gu!"

Yuan Shu refuted Liu Xun's request for help with a wave of his hand, and announced that he would go north to attack Guo Peng with all his strength, defeat Guo Peng, and kill Guo Peng.

"Guo Bandit lied to Gu, Gu and Gu will not live together! This time, Gu wants to go on a personal conquest! Lead an army to attack Guo Bandit! The owl's head will tell the world!"

Yuan Shu announced so.

Shangshu ordered Han Yin to dissuade him.

"The army's Northern Expedition requires a lot of logistical food and grass, but our army is short of food and grass right now, and there are so many soldiers. With such a heavy pressure, the existing food, grass and people's strength may not be able to support it. Your Majesty, please think twice."

Yuan Shu was furious.

"The Son of Heaven's personal conquest, do you dare to stop it?"

"Your Majesty, if it wasn't for the ministers to stop us, the food and grass would be unsustainable. If we go as far away as Longkang, or even go north to Qi County, our army will be under too much logistical pressure, and a large number of strong men will be sent to the army. Now the people are old, weak, women, children and children. With their transportation capacity, they really can't bear the food and grass of a [-] army."

Han Yin continued to persuade.

"That's your problem! Gu will entrust you with the logistical task. If you can't finish it, then come and see Gu!"

"..."

With a look of grief on his face, Han Yin heaved a long sigh and stepped back slowly.

Seeing this, Yang Hong couldn't help coming out to speak to Yuan Shu.

"Your Majesty, it is already late October and the weather is getting colder. Our army is short of military supplies, warm clothes, and transport capacity. If the [-] troops are far away from Shouchun to fight, I am afraid that the supplies will really be insufficient. Why not shrink our troops and fight in the spring?" Huainan is on defense, waiting for work at ease?"

Yuan Shu's eyes widened upon hearing this.

"Soldiers of the Son of Heaven want to wait for work when they are attacking the rebels? Waiting for the rebel army to hit the capital of the Son of Heaven before fighting back? If something goes wrong, will it be convenient for you to join the enemy? What kind of mind do you have?!"

Yuan Shu angrily reprimanded Yang Hong so frightened that his face turned pale, and he dared not speak again.

"The lonely will has been decided. Yujia personally conquered the Guo bandits in the Northern Expedition. It will never be changed! The logistics must be done properly, otherwise, you will all come to see Gu!"

Yuan Shu issued the death order, and the atmosphere in the entire Shouchun court was very bad.

From late October to early November, the situation in the whole world is not very clear.

On the one hand, Guo Peng's main garrison stopped marching in Qixian County, Yuan Shu's main force was reorganized in a hurry from Shouchun, and hurried northward to Longkang area.

On the other hand, the other two opposing forces against Yuan Shu, Tao Qian and Sun Ce, are still fighting Yuan Shu's army.

Tao Qian's main force was fighting Yuan Shu's army near Guangling County, and Sun Ce was still fighting Liu Xun, so the battle situation was not clear.

It seems that Yuan Shu still has the strength to fight, but the crusade army under the banner of supporting the Han Dynasty and crusade against the Han thieves seems to have not achieved a decisive victory in the three aspects.

Although Guo Peng captured more than half of Yuzhou, Yuan Shu's strength still remained, and the final result of the war still cannot be said to be absolute.

Indeed, from late October to early November, Yuan Shu's troops staying near Guangling County withstood the attacks of Zang Ba and Chen Deng, and dragged Tao Qian's main force near Guangling County, leaving Tao Qian with no time to join forces with Guo Peng attacked Yuan Shu.

Sun Ce's side is similar. Although Liu Xun's troops were cut off from retreat, Liu Xun's troops persisted by relying on local looting and careful storage of grain, as well as the grain obtained from repelling Sun Ce's army many times. There is nothing to do with them for a while.

Moreover, forces opposing Sun Ce also appeared in Wu Jun and Lu Jiang counties that had just been settled down, trying to take advantage of this battle to defeat Sun Ce.

So Sun Ce's situation is not good.

Therefore, the only one who confronted Yuan Shu was Guo Peng.

Guo Peng had a strong force of nearly 30 soldiers, and Yuan Shu was even more ruthless. When the army was completed and went north, it was said to be [-]. Such a large scale really bluffed many people.

However, according to Guo Peng's analysis, plus the 10 Yuan troops already in the Longkang area, Yuan Shu could only gather [-] people at most.

This scale is not scary, but for Yuan Shu, it is not a good thing.

Chapter 406 Four hundred and five wins to dominate the world, but loses the dead bones in the grave (repair)

For Yuan Shu, the number of 10 people is already the limit, and it is at the level of militarism.

If it exceeds this number, he will never even think about fighting, and the army will starve to death directly.

And there are not so many strong men, so it is time to recruit women into the army and learn from the women in Liangzhou to fight on the battlefield.

Guo Peng, relying on his strong reserves, needed 20 auxiliary soldiers and peasants to maintain the logistics of an army of [-], tens of thousands of carts, and tens of thousands of livestock. Absolutely.

It is still a little difficult to do so, and he dare not continue marching south rashly, lest the logistics supply line be stretched too long and the pressure is too great, Yuan Shu is lucky, dare to use 30 troops?

Everyone likes to call it a name when marching and fighting, so as to deter the enemy, but Yuan Shu is really outrageous. You have tossed 30 people in a territory that can't be reached in a single state. I'm afraid it's because the men have finished sex and the women have sex?

So Guo Jia took this matter as a joke.

"If His Majesty Chen Guo really came with a 30 army, I don't think we need to panic, and don't even think about surrendering, just wait here, as long as he can bring the 30 army to us, Guo will drink A jar of horse urine!"

In order to ridicule Yuan Shu, Guo Jia even said such words, which made Xi Zhong laugh at Guo Jia as a "horse urine Sima".

But don't say 30, the same [-] troops, does Yuan Shu have such a big reserve as confidence?Is there such a strong capacity to maintain logistics?

If not, he is taking a risk, he is betting, betting on a quick solution, betting on the quick elimination of Guo Peng and the resolution of the crisis.

Won the clubhouse... Bah!

Win to dominate the world, lose the dead bones in the grave.

So this is Yuan Shu's last ripple.

But don't say it, there are some things that normal people can't do, but Yuan Shu can.

So Guo Peng was thinking, if Yuan Shu really gathered an army of 30 people, let alone other places, if he could bring the army from Shouchun to Qi County, Guo Peng would admire him and promise to surrender without a fight. He is a loyal minister and general of the Chen Empire.

This bragging is too much, so that everyone does not believe it, which is obviously not a good thing.

But it doesn't matter, Yuan Shu doesn't care, Yuan Shu feels that there are many people, and Guo Peng can be crushed to death with a large number of people, and he needs to fight quickly.

So before Yuan Shuren arrived at Longkang, he asked Lu Mian on the front line to launch an offensive, fight an outpost, and build barracks for the army.

So Lu Mian led his army from Longkang to the south of Qixian County and set up camp. He sent sentry cavalry to search for news and military intelligence. When he learned that Guo Peng had set up a company camp here, he sent people to attack tentatively.

Guo Peng ordered the school lieutenant Zhang Yun to lead the army to counterattack and won a few small-scale victories, which caused Lu Mian to suffer a lot.

Zhang He made a lot of contributions, and Guo Peng personally hosted a banquet, rewarded him with items, and held his hands and stroked his back in a very intimate manner, which made Zhang He very happy and made other generals a little jealous.