At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

For example, Cao Hong, who is still a captain, is a little jealous of a surrendered general like Zhang He, and looks eagerly at Guo Peng who can give him a chance to get back the lost face.

On the other hand, Lu Mian was very angry and blamed the generals, but he also had concerns about the combat effectiveness of Guo Peng's troops.

Anyway, Guo Peng took his time. After collecting summer grain and autumn grain, the warehouse was full of grain, so he wasn't worried at all.

Then, seeing that winter was coming, winter clothes were mobilized from various warehouses to change for the soldiers, hot water ginger soup was prepared, and everything was in order.

But Yuan Shu's side is different, it's good to have a stutter, and want to change into winter clothes?

This is obviously impossible.

So seeing the weather getting colder day by day, Lu Mian was also very worried. Seeing the soldiers rubbing their hands and stamping their feet coldly and unable to hold their weapons, he wrote to Yuan Shu many times to ask for more cold protection.

Yuan Shu emphasized victory again and again. If you win, you will have everything.

In fact, Yuan Shu himself can't produce more things, and all the cold clothes in the treasury are not enough to arm the [-] troops. Although Yuan Shu doesn't care how many of these big soldiers die, if his victory is lost , he will be very unhappy.

While eating and clothing warmly waiting for the battle, while being cold and hungry, the combat power is worrying. Outsiders don't know, but everyone inside knows that this battle is really difficult to fight.

On November [-]th of the second year of Xingping, after arriving in Longkang, Yuan Shu led his army to the barracks in the south of Qixian County, and officially started a large-scale battle with Guo Peng face to face.

The combined strength of the two sides is 17, so the scale of this war is indeed large.

After arriving at the barracks, Yuan Shu immediately convened a military meeting, demanding that the entire army launch an offensive immediately, launch a decisive battle against Guo Peng, destroy Guo Peng's main force in one fell swoop, and make Guo Peng pay for his actions.

However, all the subordinates looked worried.

Yuan Shu was puzzled and asked immediately.

"Your Majesty, please follow the future."

Lu Mian brought Yuan Shu to the barracks, walked around the barracks with Yuan Shu, and watched the actual situation of the soldiers.

What Yuan Shu saw was soldiers with red hands, blue faces, and purple lips from the cold wind.

All the soldiers looked like this, rubbing their hands and stomping their feet, a gust of cold wind blew, all shivering, and some sneezing non-stop.

Yuan Shu could see some soldiers gathered around a pile of firewood to keep warm. The pile of firewood was about to be extinguished, but people kept coming over to keep warm. It was probably overcrowded and a fight broke out.

Lu Mian waved his hand to let the soldiers deal with it, and led Yuan Shu into a tent.

"The weather is too cold, the tents are difficult to keep out the cold, there are too many troops, and there is not enough firewood to make a fire, so the tents are wet and cold, and the soldiers are easy to get sick. Since this time, hundreds of people have been suffering from high fever, and the number is still keep increasing."

Lu Mian earnestly said to Yuan Shu, "Your Majesty, victory in battle is important, but if soldiers don't have something to protect them from the cold, they can't even hold their weapons, let alone fight. Your Majesty, please add more clothes to protect the soldiers from the cold."

"This is about Han Yin and Yang Hong, you should ask them, Gu has already ordered."

Yuan Shu looked at Lu Mian with a serious face: "And are we the only ones spending the winter? Could it be that Guo Bandit's side is spring, but we are here in cold winter?"

"Your Majesty, all the warm clothes for the Guo thief army have been issued. The soldiers of the Guo thief army that our army saw were well-dressed, with winter hats and winter boots from head to toe. They are not afraid of the severe cold at all, and our army comes in cool autumn. After stationing here, a month passed in a blink of an eye, and the cold wind came together, and it was difficult to keep out the cold with clothes."

Lu Mian told the truth.

"If you can't stand the cold, are you still a soldier of the Yuan family?"

Yuan Shu was dressed tightly and didn't feel cold at all. He looked around seriously, curled his lips, and said, "Tell them, if we win this battle, each of them will be exempted from taxes for one year. Tax exemption for each household for three years!"

Chapter 407 No matter how awesome Yuan Shu is, he is also the son of heaven (repair)

Yuan Shu believed that the soldiers did not want to fight because of other reasons, but because the simple rewards were not enough.

As long as the rewards are in place, you are not afraid that the army will not win the battle.

The so-called great rewards must have brave men, as long as the rewards are in place, everything can be easily solved.

Apparently Yuan Shu does not believe that objective facts do not change with people's subjective consciousness, but that everything in the world revolves around him, Yuan Gonglu.

It was like this in the past, and it should be like this now. If something goes wrong, then eliminate the problem and continue like this.

Yuan Shu, the middle-aged and elderly prince, was getting more and more ill.

But there is really nothing to say, his status is still the same as that of a prince, and he is equal to being a prince when he is born, so he cannot be said to be sick.

It can only be said that Guo Peng and other shameless people around him have succeeded in making him evolve, evolve, evolve, and evolve to the peak of a prince—the emperor—through decades of flattery and kneeling.

So Yuan Shu, the emperor of Chen Kingdom, was born here.

Yuan Shu, as always, did things according to his own ideas, and also believed that everything would be the same as his own ideas.

Naturally, such things as tax exemption are fatally attractive to Li Shu.

So when they learned that they would be exempt from taxes for three years after defeating Guo Peng, they all immediately forgot about the cold, shouted long live, and wanted to fight Guo Peng to the death.

Yuan Shu was overjoyed and left triumphantly saying to Lu Mian: "Did you see that? There must be a brave man under a heavy reward. Any problem will no longer be a problem. You should prepare your army seriously. This time, Guo Zifeng must pay the price." !"

Yuan Shu, who was in a good state of mind, gazed intently at the north, Qi County, where Guo Peng was located.

He wanted to capture Guo Peng, ask him personally why he betrayed him, and then kill him all over his family, so that everyone in the world would know the fate of betraying Yuan Gonglu.

Yuan Shu also believed that the only person in the world who could stop him was Guo Peng, as long as Guo Peng was eliminated, everything would no longer be a problem.

Whether it is Tao Qian or Sun Ce, they are all small troubles, but the real big trouble is Guo Peng.

Yuan Shu hated himself for not recognizing Guo Peng's true face earlier, which made his current situation so bad.

After one battle, however, it was all over.

So Yuan Shu ordered the army to be supplemented with food, let them have a full meal, and then recharge their batteries, and attack Guo Peng tomorrow morning to show him off.

Yuan Shu felt that he had already become the emperor, and no one should be able to oppose him, but he ignored a person who could justifiably oppose him and he was powerless to resist.

God.

No matter how good Yuan Shu is, he is also the son of heaven.

On the night of November [-]th, a cold wave hit and the temperature dropped sharply. On the morning of the fifteenth day, heavy snow fell and the wind was howling.

If the [-]th is still barely passable by rubbing your hands and stamping your feet, then the [-]th is a different concept from yesterday.

Guo Peng was wearing thick clothes. When he got up early in the morning, he felt that the temperature had dropped sharply and the wind was biting his bones. Looking at the heavy snow that had piled up outside, he was a little worried.

So after the court meal, Guo Peng quickly ordered the Huotou soldiers to boil ginger soup, and gave each soldier a bowl to keep out the cold, so as not to catch a cold.

He also made a bowl of ginger soup and poured it down to warm up his body.

The body here just warmed up, and Guo Jia and Xi Zhong came together talking and laughing.

"Hey, why are the two military advisers so leisurely, what jokes are they talking about?"

Guo Peng stepped forward with a smile on his face, and asked someone to pour a bowl of ginger soup for each of them.

"General."

The two greeted Guo Peng, and then Guo Jia said, "No, the two of us are talking about the heavy snowfall and the sudden cold, and our army needs ginger soup to keep out the cold. The 30 troops of Yuan Gonglu are short of food and clothing , shouldn’t you freeze to death early in the morning?”

Guo Peng froze for a moment, then blinked his eyes.

"I didn't expect that. What you said makes sense. With the sudden heavy snowfall and the sudden turn of cold, Yuan Gonglu's army is short of food and clothing. I'm afraid they will really freeze to death."

Xi Zhong suggested: "The general can send someone to investigate and verify. If this is the case, Yuan Gonglu's so-called 30 army should be vulnerable. , doesn’t the general think so?”

Guo Peng nodded.

"It makes sense, immediately send someone to investigate the situation, and then order the whole army to prepare for battle."

As soon as Guo Peng gave an order, someone immediately went to do it.

Then Guo Jia and Xi Zhong began to praise Guo Peng.

In other words, Guo Peng was well-prepared and willing to spend money. In the past, no matter which army he marched in winter, he would inevitably suffer from frostbite and frostbite.

But Guo Peng was willing to spend money to buy winter clothes for the army, and distributed them to every soldier. Even the civilian men and auxiliary soldiers who transported food had warm clothes.

Although the cost was huge, what was exchanged was the maintenance of combat effectiveness and the situation that no one froze to death.

Money can be earned again, and it takes more than ten years to grow up without people, so people are naturally more important than money.

Guo Peng has always believed that human life is more precious than anything else.

It can even be said that if this battle is won, more than half of the factors should be attributed to Guo Peng, who was willing to spend money to buy winter clothes for the army.

So they could dress warmly, and while drinking ginger soup, they could relax and watch Yuan Shu's miserable situation, and then discussed when it would be more appropriate to give Yuan Shu's army a fatal blow.

"If the victories in the battlefield can be bought with money, then I would rather only eat one meal a day, and exchange the remaining money for victory."

Guo Peng laughed and joked, then held Xi Zhong and Guo Jia's hands from left to right: "Unfortunately, there are no such good things in the world. The victory of our army depends on your battle planning."

Xi Zhong and Guo Jia were deeply moved, and hurriedly bowed to salute, saying that they would do their best to plan for Guo Peng's victory.

In fact, Xi Zhong and Guo Jia didn't need to do too much planning.

As long as they ensure that there will be no chaos in the battle formation, and everyone can attack according to the pre-planned tactics, basically this battle will not be defeated.

The news from the spies has confirmed everyone's guess.

Yuan Shu claimed to have an army of 30, but in reality it was a maximum of [-], and they came here by force to loot the young men.

People in Huainan are full of grievances, and every household has young men who have been taken away, even elderly people in their 50s and teenagers in their eleventh or twelve years old.

Not only that, Yuan Shu has not provided them with enough military supplies, from military uniforms to weapons, some people even went to the battlefield with a bamboo spear, their clothes are ragged, and the spies feel like the Yellow Turban Army they encountered ten years ago Same.

Ragged clothes, a mixture of old and young, some people didn't even have shoes, and were brought to the battlefield barefoot. At a glance, they were all skinny, like beggars better than soldiers.

I don't know how Yuan Shu will use such an army to defeat Guo Peng.

Of course, this is not the primary issue. The primary issue is that Yuan Shu must consider whether these people will all freeze to death before the war.

This is indeed the primary issue that Yuan Shu needs to consider.

Because it did freeze a lot of people to death.

Yesterday, the tax-free stimulus policy was finally used to stimulate the morale of the army, but the temperature dropped sharply overnight.

When he woke up in the morning, Yuan Shu received a report that a large number of soldiers were frozen to death in the barracks, and there were also many sick soldiers. The situation was very serious.

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chapter 408

In Yuan Shu's barracks, there was a chilling scene.

"Why did so many people freeze to death?!"

Yuan Shu looked at the preliminary statistics on the number of people who died of freezing, and was very annoyed: "Why did it suddenly turn cold last night? Why is there a heavy snowfall today!"

"Your Majesty, the people who died of freezing are not enough to affect the overall situation, but there are too many people who are sick from the cold. From last night to this morning, it suddenly turned cold and heavy snow fell. Many soldiers were wearing single clothes and had no protection against the cold. Frostbite is hard to contain."

Sima, who accompanied the army, reported the matter with a worried face: "Your Majesty, the number of people suffering from frostbite is far higher than the number of people who died from freezing. Those who died of freezing just dig a pit and bury them. Those who suffer from frostbite...how should we deal with it?"

Yuan Shu frowned and looked at the generals.

"Tell me what to do."

Yuan Shu skillfully dumped the blame on his subordinates.

The subordinates looked at me and I looked at you, and then looked at the new general Lu Mian together.

Lu Mian didn't know how many alpacas were flying past in his heart, so he had to endure this complicated emotion and speak slowly.

"Your Majesty, according to what I see, the most important thing to do now is to immediately send people to maintain order, so that the barracks cannot be disrupted due to too many people who died of freezing and sickness. Second, immediately send people to lead elite troops Watch out for the movement of Guo Bandit's army, if Guo Bandit wants to start a war at this time, something bad will happen."

Yuan Shu stared, and immediately felt that Lu Mian was right.

"What you said makes sense, pass on the order, and do it!"

"Yes!"

I have my own soldiers to convey Yuan Shu's orders.

Then Qiao Rui stood up and spoke to Yuan Shu.

"Your Majesty, those who die from freezing are irreparable, and those who suffer from frostbite... pardon me for speaking bluntly, it is impossible to recover at all. There is a lack of medicine and medicine in the army. Once you get sick, you will still suffer from frostbite. If you develop a high fever, you will almost certainly die and cannot be cured. , why not..."