At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Grab the food into the hands of the army and feed it to the army, nothing else is important, as for whether the Liaodong people will starve to death...

Won't they go to the sea to catch fish when they are hungry?

Liu Yi and Yang Yi were very surprised when they learned of Gongsun Kang's decision, and immediately came to dissuade them.

"Such a big damage to the hearts of the people of Liaodong, it is easy for the people of Liaodong to revolt violently. In this difficult situation, this is really not the best policy. Please think twice!"

"My lord, the people of Liaodong also want to eat. Forcing food collection will hurt people's hearts and they will be extremely rebellious. When the time comes, the rear will be unstable. How can they safely resist the enemy in the front?"

Liu Yi and Yang Yi asked Gongsun Kang to think twice, and Gongsun Kang felt that he had already thought twice, so he rejected their suggestion.

"The most urgent thing is to ensure that the army has enough food. Nothing else is important. To fight against the Wei army, what is needed is the army, not Li Shu! And we don't don't pay, we also pay!"

Gongsun Kang took out the military talisman that Gongsun Du gave him, and let everyone know that he, Gongsun Kang, has the final say in Liaodong now, and Gongsun Du has retreated to the second line.

So a very fierce food competition began.

Starting from Xiangping County, such grain grabbing incidents have occurred in many surrounding counties, and many soldiers with steel knives went to the fields to collect grain from farmers, and snatched all the grain they had stored.

He said that this action sounds good in name, what money is spent on food, in fact, he didn't pay a lot of money, basically it was a free robbery.

And among other things, in this situation, five baht coins are just like scrap copper, meaningless, and five baht coins that can’t buy food are scrap copper, so what if there are more?

Can I still eat it?

Chapter 871 880 A Flying Soldier Comes to Xiangping City

Indulging in the illusion of a prosperous economy, the people of Liaodong finally realized at this time that everything was false.

Only food is real.

If they were given another chance, they would definitely not do this again, and they would definitely... Really delicious.

Well, it is part of human nature to forget the pain with the scars.

In fact, as long as they become citizens of the Guo Wei Empire, they really don't have to worry about such things. Since they are paying taxes to someone Guo, how could someone Guo let them die?

But they are still desperate now.

Because the people who robbed them of food were not gentle at all, very cruel and bloody.

Not to mention forced buying and selling, if they don't sell food to them, they will directly threaten with swords, and even more straightforwardly kill people directly.

How dare you disobey the orders given by General Gongsun?

At first glance, you are the secret work of the Wei people!

The people of Liaodong were brutally looted.

And there are still many soldiers who don't just go for the food at all, and take away any valuable things when they see it. Anyway, as long as they turn in the food, it is enough, and the other officers don't care.

This is their hidden benefit.

Under such circumstances, many families who have just started to get rich in recent years have been looted, suffered various blows, and even died and suffered disasters.

Among these people, those merchants from Wei State were the worst. When dealing with the people of Liaodong, these Liaodong soldiers would be more or less reserved, and generally they would not kill people unless they resisted too much.

But dealing with those Wei country business travelers is basically burning, killing and looting.

The officer said, this is the sin of the Wei people, which is why we are in today's predicament, so we have to rob and kill all the Wei people, and encourage the Liaodong soldiers to plunder the shops of the Wei country.

This group of Wei State business brigades were not official caravans with imperial merchant attributes like the Cao family and the Mi family. They did not have official backgrounds like official caravans, had official endorsements, and accepted the leadership of Guo Peng, specializing in the grain industry in Liaodong.

They are just speculative caravans that some wealthy families from Qingzhou, Youzhou, and even Jizhou made their fortunes with in the past, and they are restricted from engaging in grain sales, and can only do other businesses.

Whether they died or not, Guo Peng didn't care, and he never gave them any idea of ​​how to retreat. As long as the imperial merchants who obeyed his orders escaped smoothly, the remaining merchants of the wealthy and powerful families would be sacrificed.

Sacrifice them and summon a better future.

A bright future in which the Gongsun family will be wiped out.

Gongsun Du, relying on the sky-high emperor, is far from being able to control himself, so he became the local emperor here, killing all the disobedient wealthy families, and there are more than 100 households in one shot, which is much sharper than Guo.

Somebody Guo had to be careful to find someone to take the blame for some small tricks, but Gongsun Du did it very simply.

With a knife in his hand, he killed when it should be killed, without delay at all, and his strikes were steady and ruthless, which directly established a complete grasp of Liaodong.

So this guy's control over Liaodong is not inferior to Guo Peng's control over his own territory at all, so he can be the overlord in Liaodong with such a population base, pointing to where to fight.

He has basically mastered what he has, and his mobilization power is actually very strong.

Therefore, in order to deal with this miniature self, Guo will take the agricultural economy of Liaodong to a standstill and kidnap him in advance, and destroy Liaodong's mobilization force economically.

Now, as expected, the Gongsun family's mobilization power was destroyed by themselves, and the grassroots were in chaos.

So much so that when Zhang Fei and Tian Yu led the elite cavalry to the territory of Xuantu County suddenly, there was no established Liaodong Army to stand up and resist.

Zhang Fei and Tian Yu ran wildly on the road and entered Xuantu County on September 26.

Two days later, on September 28, Gaogouli County, the county seat of Xuantu County, was captured by surprise like lightning, the county magistrate of Gaoguli County was killed, and more than a hundred defenders were killed, and the county seat was captured very smoothly.

Then scattered to attack other counties in Xuantu County, the progress was rapid, almost flat all the way, without encountering effective resistance at all, and a wave of charges occupied the main city.

The only slightly threatening Liaodong Army annihilated was a group of Liaodong Army who had robbed food and was about to leave. About [-] people were beheaded by Zhang Fei's charge.

Undoubtedly, Zhang Fei is a very brave general. He longs for war and loves war. When he was a guard in Youzhou, he drank and made troubles all day long.

After the cavalry revolution, Zhang Fei's [-] fine cavalry were the first group of cavalry to change their equipment. Zhang Fei was like a fish in water, like a tiger with wings added, and became more vigorous. From then on, he could go deeper into the grassland to attack the Xianbei tribe.

Any Xianbei tribe that tried to get close to the border would be made dumplings by Zhang Fei. After many years of fighting, Zhang Fei said that the command of the cavalry in front of the Wei army was the second, and no one dared to say the first.

But now, the strategic battle of Xuantu County is an opportunity for Zhang Fei to carry out the long-distance raid and surprise blitzkrieg that he has conceived for a long time.

With the help of the three cavalry artifacts, the cavalry's attack radius and long-distance trekking ability are greatly enhanced. Under the premise of one man and two horses, this ability is further strengthened.

Zhang Fei, on the other hand, brought this ability to the extreme, and plunged into Xuantu County in a big circle, turning Xuantu County into darkness.

He has been in the army for more than ten years, and Zhang Fei is also a veteran in his 40s, but his spirit is still sharp and unstoppable. The killing spirit fed by human heads and flesh and blood on the battlefield is far from that of the generals guarding the peaceful land of the Central Plains. Can compare.

He is a simple military general, a simple military general that Guo Peng admires. It is actually a very worry-free thing to have such a general. As long as he is placed in the right place, he can play a great role.

So before, Zhang Fei's eldest son, Zhang Bao, and Guan Yu's second son, Guan Xing, were included by Guo Peng as reserve candidates for Guo Jin's small team. When they graduated from the school, they would be assigned to Guo Jin's subordinates Do things and become one of Guo Jin's team members.

This is a way for Guo Peng to win over the generals and make them feel at ease fighting for him.

Of course, there are also many smart generals who will use their own methods to express their loyalty and non-threat to Guo Peng.

But speaking of it, Guo Peng has such a high prestige that no one in the Wei army can replace him. He is the creator, the creator, and no one can surpass him.

Rather than saying that the loyalty of the generals is to prove something to Guo Peng, it is better to prove that they will not do anything even after Guo Peng's death.

Zhang Fei is not stupid at all, he is just more straightforward.

After he led his army to conquer Gaoguli County and other counties within a few days, he began to split up with Tian Yu.

He learned through the mouths of the captives that a large-scale food shortage broke out in Liaodong. In order to survive the crisis, Gongsundu plundered the folk grain and gathered it in Xiangping City, trying to survive the crisis.

Zhang Fei didn't understand what happened, but it didn't prevent him from making the right decision.

He asked Tian Yu to lead his own troops to sweep the Liaodong Army's military strongholds in Xuantu County and wipe out all resistance. Then he personally led a main force of cavalry to go south and drive directly to Xiangping City. He wanted to take Xiangping and capture Gongsun Du in one fell swoop. Make the first contribution and grab the food by the way.

Zhang Fei then led [-] fine cavalry to head southward towards Xiangping County.

On September 29, Zhang Fei broke through Hou County and continued southward.

Soon, on the first day of October, Zhang Fei's cavalry corps had already appeared north of the Daliang River, and wiped out more than a dozen Liaodong Army detachments north of the Daliang River that were going to transport food to Xiangping City, directly threatening Arrived in Xiangping City.

Because Zhang Feijin's speed was so fast that when he appeared north of the Daliang River and was about to cross the river, Gongsun Kang finally learned the news that terrified him.

what?

Wei Jun has already reached the north of Daliang River, only one river away from Xiangping?

Chapter 872 Zhang Yide fell from the second sky

Gongsun Kang was completely stunned at the time, never expecting such a situation to happen.

Wei Jun is here?

Not to mention Gongsun Kang, the officials and generals of Liaodong were also unprepared for this and could not react at all.

There is no military situation at all in the direction of Liaoze, where they are strictly guarding, so they think that the Wei army has not yet launched an attack, and the Wei army has appeared to the north of them?

How did it come?

It fell from the sky?

Zhang Yide fell from the sky?

"The people of Wei came from the north...it is Xuantu County! Could it be that Xuantu County already..."

Liu Yi finally woke up.

He realized that if the Wei army came from the north, they would have to pass through Xuantu County anyway, but if they wanted to reach Xuantu County without passing through Liaoze, then there was only one possibility.

Departing from Liaoxi County, passing through the vast prairie, making a big circle, and rushing directly to Xuantu County, smashing Xuantu County that was caught off guard, and then approaching Xiangping City.

Obviously, this is Wei Jun's marching strategy.

This requires adequate preparations for battle, a guide, a lot of horses, the best knights, a large supply of food and fodder, a strong will and good luck.

It can be said that both are indispensable.

When Gongsun Kang and the officials analyzed the battle situation before, no one raised this possibility.

Yang Yi raised this possibility.

Many people don't care about it, but they mainly think that the road is beyond the Great Wall, unsafe, and may be attacked by Xianbei people at any time. If it is used as a marching road, it lacks the inevitability of grain roads, and it is not suitable as a marching road.

Yang Yi thought more about it.

He said that the Wei people had dominated the northern territory for many years, and the Wei army had repeatedly attacked the Xianbei people outside the Great Wall. The Xianbei people suffered heavy losses and were quite afraid of the Wei people, so they might not dare to attack the Wei people.

Moreover, Guo Peng personally commanded an army to exterminate the Xianbei people on the front line of the Great Wall on a large scale, annihilating tens of thousands of Xianbei people from west to east, causing a large number of Xianbei people to flee north and dare not go south.

Under the leadership of Tan Shihuai, the Xianbei people who were strong enough to defeat the Northern Expedition of the Han Army had already sunned down and were no longer as strong as before, and could no longer threaten the Wei Army.

So he worried that the Wei people might start from Liaoxi County, bypass Liaoze, and make a detour from the prairie to attack Xuantu County, and then attack Xiangping.

At that time, most people rejected this possibility, thinking that the road would be very far away, and even if the army could come, supplies would still be a problem.

And even though Guo Peng once made a northern expedition to Xianbei, it cannot be said that this road is safe. The food road is the most important thing. If such a grassland road is used as a food road, once it is targeted by the Xianbei people, it will be doomed to the army. disaster.

Liu Yi also thought it was impossible at the time. He said that Guo Peng was very prudent in using his troops, and he would not choose to take risks when the national power had the absolute upper hand.

There is a short distance to go, but a long detour through the grassland. Does he think he has too much food?

Many people opposed it, so Yang Yi didn't stick to her point of view.

So Gongsun Kang didn't even deploy any soldiers and horses in Xuantu County. Instead, he transferred more than half of the border guards in Xuantu County to Liaotu County to assist in defense.

It turned out that Wei Jun really came from Xuantu County!

Gongsun Kang was so frightened that he lost his mind and finally stabilized his mind. He immediately asked Liu Yi, Yang Yi and others what to do, and the officials panicked.

At this time, only Liu Yi quickly stabilized his emotions and immediately made a suggestion.

First, send troops to defend along the river, trying to prevent the Wei army from crossing the river.

Second, Gongsun Kang and Gongsun Du must leave Xiangping immediately under the protection of the cavalry, and go to the southern county to hold on, turning Xiangping into a fortress, a fortress for the Gongsun family to defend against disasters, and prevent the Wei army from defending. succeed.

In order to implement such a plan, Liu Yi took the initiative to ask Ying to be the guard of Xiangping and become the umbrella of the Gongsun regime.

Gongsun Kang was very moved immediately, and thanked Liu Yi who stepped forward at the critical moment, and then agreed to Liu Yi's decision, and gave him [-] soldiers and horses to guard the city and the rear, and he immediately began to prepare to evacuate Xiangping City.

After Liu Yi got the military power, he immediately began to make city defense arrangements, and personally led troops out of the city to confront the Wei army along the Daliang River, and tried his best to resist the Wei army for Gongsun and his son.

And at this moment, Gongsun Du finally knew the news, he was taken aback, and then coughed violently out of anger, he managed to catch his breath, but almost passed out.

"Guo Zifeng! Guo Zifeng!!"

Gongsundu cursed very annoyed, and was extremely panicked by the sudden attack of the Wei army. At the same time, he was also quite angry, and even decided to personally lead troops to resist the Wei army.

He is much older than Guo Peng and is not of the same generation, but he and Guo Peng basically entered the stage of history at the same time.

Guo Peng and he were both officers and soldiers in Youzhou in the early years, but Guo Peng was in Shanggu County and he was in Liaodong County. There was no necessary connection between them, and there was almost no communication between them.