At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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Having said that, Dongzhou soldiers still did not get rid of the urine of the feudal army after the victory.

They wantonly plundered places. At first, their targets were only those who provided help to Zhao Wei. They were labeled as rebels to retaliate against Qiuhou and settle accounts, but they couldn't control it later.

Retaliation has been expanded, and those who did not support Zhao Wei, and those who sat on the sidelines and made soy sauce, all suffered.

Dongzhou soldiers wantonly burned, killed and looted in the area of ​​Berkshire, destroying powerful families and robbing their property, food, female relatives and servants.

While the Yizhou people who were killed were heartbroken, they also planted the seeds of the continuous struggle between Dongzhou people and Yizhou people.

Since then, Yizhou people have been reduced to second-class citizens, while Dongzhou people have officially taken power, constantly suppressing the rights of Yizhou people economically and politically, harming the interests of Yizhou people, and encroaching on the land and property of Yizhou people. People's hatred for this Kingdom of Shu is getting deeper and deeper.

Liu Zhang has a weak personality. After Pang Xi defeated Zhao Wei and his power increased greatly, he didn't know how to restrain Pang Xi.

Originally, Pang Xi and Zhao Wei could maintain a certain sense of balance, but now that this matter broke out, the balance was broken.

Liu Zhang didn't want Pang Xi to do too much, he tried to restrain Pang Xi, and sent someone to tell Pang Xi not to do this, but he found that he had little control over Pang Xi, and the same over Dongzhou soldiers, which made Liu Zhang feel very disturbed.

But Liu Zhang had no choice. Dongzhou people wantonly suppressed Yizhou people and robbed rights and interests, which not only harmed the interests of Yizhou people, but also harmed Liu Zhang's interests.

Liu Zhang couldn't just rely on Dongzhou people to rule Yizhou. He suddenly understood why his father Liu Yan wanted to keep the ambitious Zhao Wei to lead troops to station in Berkshire, and why Liu Yan didn't give Pang Xi a higher position.

He is the ruler and needs checks and balances. In the past, Yizhou had a large population and he needed Pang Xi to maintain the balance. However, Zhao Wei couldn't bear his ambition and control his desires. The balance of the power field has been disturbed.

Only checks and balances can bring stability, and now this stability no longer exists.

However, Liu Zhang's methods are really bad. He doesn't know what to do to check and balance the Dongzhou people.

After learning of this situation, the counselors in the staff desk asserted that there would be chaos in Yizhou.

Dongzhou people don't know how to be temperate, don't know how to be forgiving and forgiving, offend Yizhou people to death, and suppress them for a while, but what about in the future?

After all, Yizhou people still account for the majority, and Yizhou locals control most of the labor force and production materials. You group of foreigners with superficial foundations won a battle and thought it was over?

Similarly, Guo Peng also thinks so. He also thinks that the Dongzhou soldiers have done a little too much. The political liquidation is ignored, and it is actually expanded. This is to make the world enemies.

Jingzhou is still in the cold war, and Liu Biao and Jingzhou people are still confronting each other. No matter what, the Kingdom of Chu cannot be established. Jingzhou people are smarter, more powerful, and luckier than Yizhou people. Liu Biao does not have the military group of Dongzhou soldiers. .

Although Liu Biao asked his nephew Liu Pan to lead troops in Changsha, the main force of Jingzhou soldiers was still in the hands of Jingzhou people, and Liu Pan could not make waves.

Without the confidence of soldiers and horses, how can Liu Biao forcefully ascend the throne and become the king of the kingdom like Liu Zhang?

Although I don't know what Liu Biao's thoughts are, but according to the previous news, Liu Biao seems to be very calm. Apart from continuing the cold war with his subordinates, he has not used other methods and the tendency of his subordinates to tear his skin. What a big change.

The same is true in Xuzhou, but in Liangzhou, it seems that Zhang Ji's recklessness made Ma Teng and Han Sui very angry, and the war was about to break out.

At this moment, isn't it a good time for Guo Peng to attack Xianbei to wipe out the border troubles in the north?

Guo Peng raised his troops for several months, and at the end of February, he prepared the food, grass and supplies needed for sending troops, and assembled a large number of troops in Zhuojun, Youzhou.

This time, it was a pure raid, no occupation needed, only destruction and killing, so the army consisted of all cavalry.

Guo Peng mobilized [-] Han cavalry in one breath, and ordered Karasuma to send out [-] cavalry. A total of [-] cavalry were powerful to kill on the grassland.

Guo Peng personally leads the army, and all the leaders are titans who can lead cavalry and kill.

Cao Chun, Cao Xiu, Zhao Yun and Le Jin, Xia Houyuan who is good at long-distance raids, Zhang Fei, Cao Hong and Guan Yu are also taken by Guo Peng, Xu Huang, Gao Lan and other miscellaneous people who are eager to make meritorious deeds must be brought along. General No. [-] and General Zhonglang who didn't get mixed up with the general and the school lieutenants will attack even more.

A rare opportunity to make great contributions, and a chance to kill wantonly without holding back, which is not common at all.

When attacking other warlords, Guo Peng asked them to keep their hands, watch and pay attention, and they were not allowed to destroy the place in a mess, let alone burn, kill and loot.

This rule has been in place since the founding of the army, and no one dares to violate it.

There is only one exception.

During the Northern Expedition to the Grasslands, there were no such rules, so they did whatever they wanted, and tried their best to wipe out their vital forces, plunder everything they had, and nip their threats in their cradle.

Guo Peng's idea is very clear, that is, a devastating blow, as many as can be killed, so that they will not be able to recover their blood for 20 years, and they will not be able to breathe.

Twenty years later, according to the plan, his own Wei Empire has been successfully established and has entered a period of stable development.

After the whole country is pacified, it will be possible to mobilize the power of the whole country to attack the grasslands in the north, wipe out all the nomads on the grasslands in one go, and completely relieve the border troubles in the north.

Right now, let's make an outpost first, so that these bastards will remember that when they go south to fight for the world, don't be fooled!

On the first day of March in the fourth year of Xingping, Guo Peng held a swearing-in meeting in Zhuo County, and then announced that the whole army would advance.

In order to match the cavalry lineup this time, Guo Peng adopted a method similar to that of nomads marching.

They slaughtered a large number of cattle and sheep obtained from the previous sweep of the Southern Huns, salted the fresh meat, then dried it, and gave each soldier a large bag of dried meat to carry on his back.

When marching and fighting, not only can you eat jerky on a horse, saving time, but you can also cook soup with jerky, which has both salt and protein.

Such a plan brought a very high cost. At one time, the Shang Shutai led by Cheng Yu raised objections, but Guo Peng forcibly suppressed it—the money should be spent on the blade, and this is the blade!

Brave soldiers can't be raised with dried vegetable leaves. If they should eat meat, they should eat meat, and if they should drink blood, they should drink blood!

Otherwise, what are you going to do with the nomads?

With a wave of Guo Peng's hand, [-] Han riders and tens of thousands of war horses marched towards the grassland with dried meat on their backs, and [-] peasants and hundreds of thousands of carts and livestock were fully mobilized. Not only Jizhou people, but also Youzhou people were killed. Guo Peng made a strong move.

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With Guo's prestige and strength today, the powerful people in Youzhou have trembled and dare not make mistakes.

A decree was issued, and Xian Yufu took action immediately.

Guo Peng asked Youzhou to mobilize [-] civilians, and asked Youzhou to provide part of the food needed for marching and fighting.

After all, a pack of dozens of catties of jerky can’t solve the problem of eating for a long time, and the logistics still have to keep up.

It is very risky to use war to support war, so we have to make two-handed preparations, and Bingzhou is in need of construction. For this campaign, Jizhou will send part of the materials, and Youzhou will also send part of the materials.

In these parts, the powerful landlords of Youzhou and Jizhou once again contributed.

In order to please Guo Peng, to make Guo Peng happy, and to give them some care by the way, they "donated generously" one after another. Army service.

Under the leadership of Xian Yufu, Youzhou tyrants contributed a lot. Xian Yufu mobilized his family, and his family contributed [-] catties of grain and [-] civilian husbands.

This is not too much, and there are some wealthy and food rich who donate [-] catties to [-] catties of grain in one go, and the rich donate money and some donate others.

One by one, the positive ones are like fighting a war.

Their efforts have reduced Guo Peng's financial burden by nearly one-third.

This battle had been deduced by the staff station before the war. Xi Zhong and others believed that Guo Peng should first attack the Kirby Neng tribe, which is the closest to the frontier fortress and has the largest number of Xianbei tribes.

After eliminating the Kebi Neng tribe, wipe out all the Xianbei tribes around Danhan Mountain, and then advance westward to the root, and eastward to the Xianbei tribe north of Youbeiping.

In another decade or so, well-known Xianbei leaders such as Budugen and Kirby will be able to unify a considerable part of the Xianbei people and form a relatively strong fighting force, but right now, the Xianbei people who have just been split for a few years are far from achieve local unity.

Give them a few more years, and there will be local kings like Guo Peng among them, but definitely not now.

This timing is very ingenious, the Xianbei people are scattered and difficult to gather, but the most Xianbei people gather near the Xianbei King's Court on Danhan Mountain.

On March [-], Guo Peng led his army to Ning County, Shanggu County, where the former Colonel Hu Karasuma was stationed and where he first made his fortune. Here he joined the [-] Karasuma Jingqi from Nanlou and headed north together.

The Xianbei people were not completely unaware of Guo Peng's large-scale military operations, but they didn't realize it at the beginning.

By the time they realized it, Guo Peng had rushed over aggressively.

Kirby was able to find out that Guo Peng's marching direction was at the core of his rule, and he was shocked. He immediately sent people south to continue to investigate the news, and then urgently assembled troops to prepare for resistance. advance.

On March [-]th, two troops of Cao Chun and Cao Xiu, the vanguard troops of Wei, encountered two Xianbei cavalry respectively.

There were not many of them. Three thousand vanguards led by Cao Chun and Cao Xiu each made dumplings, and 30 of them escaped, and the rest were caught.

Cao Chun and Cao Xiu obtained information from them that Kobe Neng was gathering troops to prepare for resistance, then killed them, and went back to report to Guo Peng. Go forward in the direction and go straight to the royal court.

Cao Chun and Cao Xiu jointly led a vanguard army of [-] to attack Danhan Mountain first, followed by Guo Peng's army.

On March 21, the vanguard army of the Wei army encountered more than [-] vanguard troops of the Xianbei army of the Kirby Neng Department dozens of miles south of Danhan Mountain.

There was a chaotic battle between the two sides, the Xianbei army was defeated, defeated by the Wei army, and fled in embarrassment. Cao Chun and Cao Xiu considered that they would encounter the main force of the Xianbei army later, so they did not advance rashly.

What they did was right. Although it was in a hurry, Kirby could also urgently gather a cavalry team of more than [-] people to prepare for resistance.

Of course, he didn't know that Guo Peng was swarming with [-] cavalry. If he knew, he would definitely choose to run away instead of being tough.

He didn't know why he was regarded as an enemy by Guo Peng, so he came to attack him suddenly.

Obviously everyone lived in peace before, and he was even discussing with Budugen that he would surrender to Guo Peng, pay him tribute, and then ask for a border market to trade with each other or something.

Then you can rely on Guo Peng's power to develop your own power on the grassland.

The previous predecessors also developed in this way, and he intends to follow suit.

But he never expected that it was not Guo Peng's kindness, but Guo Peng's killing intent, that came to him.

Tens of thousands of cavalry swarmed in black, with a strong killing intent, which made Kirby's scalp tingle.

After a while, Kirby realized that his preparations were not sufficient, because Guo Peng had obviously more cavalry than him.

If Xianbei is still intact, one hundred thousand cavalry can also be brought out, there is no need to be afraid of Guo Peng, and he can directly fight against him, but now...

Kirby could grit his teeth, his face full of resentment.

The subordinates asked him what to do, what else could he do?

There is no other way but to bite the bullet and fight. Could it be that you want to escape now?Isn't that courting death?

So Kirby was able to order to prepare for battle. As soon as the order was issued here, Guo Peng ordered the Wei army to start attacking.

The cavalry of the Wei Army rushed towards the Xianbei cavalry in three groups, detoured to the left, detoured to the right, and the stormtroopers in the middle.

Leading the assault team are the titans Zhang Fei and Cao Hong, and the left and right flanks are Zhao Yun, Xia Houyuan, Cao Xiu and Cao Chun.

Zhang Fei's battle is characterized by a loud voice. When the drums sounded rumbling, Zhang Fei clenched the spear in his hand and shouted: "Boys! Follow me to kill the enemy!!!!"

The voice was so loud that even Guo Peng, who was in the Chinese army, could hear it.

Led by such a strong general, the cavalry of the Wei army charged away with a hundred times their morale.

Cavalry battles are so three-handed, riding and shooting, fighting each other, and then whoever wins will chase.

Riding and archery is the housekeeping skill that nomads rely on to fight against the Han people. It once brought huge troubles to the Han people, making the military formations that the Han people are good at unable to exert their due effectiveness.

Until the Han people also learned to ride and shoot, established a fierce cavalry team, and learned to use other throwing weapons, they used more sophisticated equipment and technology to crush the nomads.

It's not just a joke that one Han is five Hu.

The housekeeping skills of Guo Peng's cavalry is riding and shooting. They are very proficient in riding and shooting. They are also good at attacking with ring swords and spears. , Wei Jun did not lose the wind in the slightest.

Both riding skills and attacking methods are remarkable.

Zhao Yun led the team to play horseback riding and archery. All Han riders in the team were not able to practice riding on horseback since they were young, but they suppressed the Xianbei cavalry on the opposite side, forcing them to rush forward to fight Zhao Yun.

When Zhang Fei led the charge, a burst of handaxes threw the Xianbei people on the opposite side, and then they all charged with their spears, and the sharp and sharp spears smashed the Xianbei people to pieces.

In order to express himself, Nanlou led Karasuma Jingqi to overthrow the Xianbei cavalry team that he was facing with with cavalry and long knives. The old guy was almost sixty and still so vigorous.

The Xianbei people did not have such good technology to make such good weapons. After Guo Peng nominally unified Hebei, he imposed a certain degree of iron blockade and craftsman blockade on them, preventing them from obtaining the technology and iron objects of the Han people in the Central Plains.

It is wishful thinking to equip the army only by smuggling and plundering the resources obtained.

There is no doubt that Wei Jun won the battle in a crushing manner.

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Facing the incomprehensible strength of the Wei army, Kirby could only watch his army fail miserably.

Watching his own people being killed and scattered by Wei Jun's iron cavalry, watching the people around him fight hard but they are not Wei Jun's opponents.

The ferocious Zhang Fei killed the enemy himself, and charged with spears with his personal guards, dismounting the Xianbei cavalry one by one.

Zhao Yun led the army to intersperse and sprint, killing and scattering the Xianbei cavalry. They fled around and could not gather to form a fighting force. Instead, they were defeated by the Wei cavalry one by one, causing countless casualties.

Cao Chun and Cao Xiu were young and energetic, leading the team to rush and fight, their eyes were red.

Cao Hong's eyes were even redder, and his desire for merit, achievement, and appreciation was stronger than anyone else's. He rushed and beat the officer who caught the other party, without stopping, even if he was hit by an arrow in the arm, and continued Leading the team to charge into battle, brave and unparalleled.

The situation quickly became one-sided, and Kirby, who was at a disadvantage in combat effectiveness, equipment and numbers, was completely defeated.

A certain Guo fights with more and fights with less, bullies the weak with the strong, has no demeanor of a big country or the strong, only thinks of bullying the weak, especially likes to bully the weak, and is good at enslaving the defeated, shameless to a certain level.

But the victory was his.