At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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Both Niu Fu and Dong Yue believed that Guo Peng was a child who had gained a false reputation, they despised Guo Peng, ignored Dong Zhuo's warning, and took the initiative to send troops to fight Guo Peng.

Guo Peng's army had just won the victory, cleared away the fear of the Xiliang Army, and had a psychological advantage. It was the time when the morale was like a rainbow, and it was also led by fierce generals like Zhang, Zhao, and Gongsun. The battle took less than an hour. Completely defeat the Liangzhou army with an equal number.

After a great battle, Guo Peng led his army to clear all the military auxiliary facilities around Gongxian County, fill in the pits, refuse to pull the horses away, and removed the obstacles to the march.

The morale of Dong Zhuo's army was low. Niu Fu and Dong Yue couldn't resist Guo Peng's attack, so they could only accept the defeat. They left thousands of corpses, retracted the defense line, and deployed the defensive forces mainly in and around Gong County. To stop Guo Peng's westward advance.

At the same time, Niu Fu adopted Jia Xu's suggestion, the school lieutenant under his command, to stick to his defense, not take the initiative to fight, fight defensively, and not fight field battles.

The Liangzhou Corps, which is best at fighting in the field, was also unable to withstand the front of this crusade army, unable to fight, and was forced to fight a defensive battle.

In fact, before the battle, Jia Xu advised Niu Fu, suggesting that Niu Fu and Dong Yue lead the army to strictly guard Gong County and not fight, and fight defensive battles instead of field battles.

Jia Xu believed that Guo Peng had won a big victory just now, and the morale of the army was high, so it was not possible to confront him head-on.

On the other hand, the morale of the Liangzhou army is low, and it is difficult to persevere on the frontal battlefield. Therefore, it is recommended that Niu Fu and Dong Yue take advantage of their logistics advantages and fight a protracted war.

Jia Xu believes that doing so can drag down Guo Peng's logistics and achieve the effect of defeating others without fighting.

But both Dong Yue and Niu Fu felt aggrieved by this, and Li Jue, Guo Si, Zhang Ji and others even opposed it, threatening to fight Guo Peng to the death to defend Dong Xiangguo's majesty.

Jia Xu's suggestion was not adopted, and the Liangzhou Army expanded its defense area to engage in a full-scale battle, and then was defeated by Guo Peng's army commanding the entire front.

Li Jue was almost stabbed to death by Zhang Fei, Guo Si was chased by Guan Yu and fled desperately, and all the guards around Zhang Ji were killed by Zhao Yun.

Jia Xu led his troops to block the attack of the Gongsun brothers, and fired arrows with all his strength. The arrows rained down, slowing down the attack of the crusading army, and finally covered the retreat of the three men, gathered the defeated soldiers, and returned to Gong County to guard.

After Li Jue, Guo Si and Zhang Jijing were defeated, they dared not underestimate the army and generals under Guo Peng's command. They stayed around Gong County and refused to fight.

And Jia Xu's suggestion was finally adopted. Niu Fu and Dong Yue knew how powerful Guo Peng was, so they stopped seeking confrontation and turned directly to defensive operations.

Guo Peng led his troops to attack Gongxian County, and all arrows were fired. The army filled the ravines with big shields, pushed the well fence and carried the ladders to attack the city wall, and the attack was extremely fierce.

While Niu Fu and Dong Yue commanded the army to defend to the death, Guo Peng had no choice but to take Gong County for a while.

In the next few days, Guo Peng continued to send troops to challenge, but the defenders of Gong County refused to fight. Guo Peng could only continue to send troops to attack, but the effect was limited.

Although the effect is limited, the morale of Guo Peng's army is high, while the soldiers of Dong Zhuo's army in Gong County are in panic all day long. Faced with Guo Peng's offensive behavior of sending people to shoot arrows into the city, they never dare to come out to fight, and they just passively defend. .

Although Guo Peng took the initiative, facing Guancheng in Gong County, Guo Peng failed to break through in one fell swoop.

If they try to retreat, there is really no good way on their side, after all, it is not a day or two that they lack means of attacking the city.

Guo Peng feels that he is good at field battles and short at siege.

Guo Peng is not afraid of anyone in field battles. During his seven years on the battlefield, no matter who he is, he dares to bring soldiers and horses to fight face to face with them, and compete to see who is stronger.

But in terms of siege, facing the absolute advantage of the defenders, no matter how good the command ability is, it can only bring about a very limited impact. This is independent of human will, and there are too many uncertain factors.

Guo Peng was troubled by this, and felt that the development of new siege equipment was urgent.

When he was in Qingzhou, Guo Peng was already aware of his weakness in this area, so he gathered more than [-] senior carpenters from the three major manors and asked them to collectively study the trebuchet, which appeared in the Warring States period but was inexplicably lost. Siege killer.

Then Guo Peng, who knew nothing about woodworking, showed them the principle of leverage, and there was no other way.

Theory is theory, reality is practice, and how to operate it depends on professionals. Guo Peng, who knows what is happening but doesn't know why, can only talk about it. Specifically, Guo Peng has nothing to do about it.

Things like Zhentianlei can only be used to frighten people and horses in field battles. The lethality is basically negligible. It is to concentrate on studying the trebuchet.

The development of new weapons was not so easy. A group of carpenters studied for several months, but the results were limited. Guo Peng couldn't wait, so he led his troops to attack Dong Zhuo.

And at this moment, the news brought by the grain urging courier who came back from Suanzao confirmed Guo Peng's previous guess.

He has no more food to get.

Although he had expected it a long time ago and was mentally prepared, when he actually met him, he still couldn't help but want to laugh.

Ironic turmoil occurred in Suanzao camp.

Someone Guo finally realized how philosophical the saying is that you are not afraid of god-like opponents, but pig-like teammates.

Dong Zhuo is like this, Sun Jian is also like this, and Guo is also like this.

Chapter 225. 220 Can they still call themselves Hanchen?

"A fight?"

Hearing Guo Peng mention that the princes of the alliance in Suanzao camp started fighting with each other, Bao Xin was surprised.

"Yes, Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, and Qiao Mao, the prefect of Dongjun, had a fight. The two completely ignored the covenant and fought directly in Suanzao. It is said that Qiao Mao did not obey the orders of Liu Dai, who is the governor. Dai was angry and ordered to attack.

Right now it seems that Liu Dai has the upper hand, Qiaomao is a little dangerous, and because of the lack of food, the rest of the troops sent people to plunder food everywhere. Chenliu prefect Zhang Miao was very angry and sent troops to defend the counties. Chenliu County was in chaos, and the alliance was dead in name only up. "

Guo Peng held a military meeting in his tent and told his staff and senior officers about the incident.

Finally, Guo Peng concluded: "So, in fact, we have no logistics, we can no longer supply food, and there are not many people in the Suanzao camp. Everyone is working hard for their own food. Who can afford it?" Take care of us?"

After Guo Peng concluded, the camp fell into deathly silence.

"It's all come to this point, as long as Gong County is conquered, Luoyang is close at hand, and the national thieves are close at hand, now, we have no food?"

After a while, Bao Tao said with an unbelievable expression on his face: "The fight against Dong Daye has not yet been completed, and they actually started killing each other? Dong Zhuo is right in front of them, and they actually fight among themselves over a trivial matter?"

Guo Jia and Xi Zhong frowned and remained silent, all the generals in the tent were shocked and puzzled.

"This is the case. Right now, our army has only about 20 days of food in stock."

Guo Peng sighed: "Food is the life of the army. Without food, how can we fight? They treat Dong Daye as a joke? It's ridiculous..."

Everyone in the tent looked very bad.

Suddenly, Wei Zi said, "General, can't we still contact Yuan Gonglu? Yuan Gonglu is stationed in Luyang. Let's cross Yingchuan to ask Yuan Gonglu for some food and grass. How about it?"

Guo Jia shook his head immediately.

"No, even if Yuan Gonglu agreed to support our food supply, this supply road is far from safe, and if Dong Zhuo finds out, Dong Zhuo can send troops to cut off our supply supply at any time.

Once this new food road is cut off, there is really nothing we can do. If there is no other way, instead of withdrawing the troops by then, it is better to stop now and withdraw the troops. "

"Withdraw now?"

Wei Zi stood up all of a sudden: "Then why have we fought desperately for so long? Seeing that the national traitors are right in front of us, but now we want to withdraw our troops? Are so many lives lost for nothing?"

Zhang Fei is very supportive of Wei Zi's opinion.

"That's right, General, we can't withdraw now! Otherwise, wouldn't our brothers all die in vain?"

"But if the troops are not withdrawn, how will the food problem be solved?"

Guo Jia said with an extremely calm expression: "Even if we use small dendrobium to provide food to the soldiers, it will last for a month at most. The enemy's food roads are unblocked. Although the city wall of Gong County is not tall and deep, if more than ten thousand enemy troops stick to it If so, can we really break through Gong County within a month?"

Wei Zi and Zhang Fei opened their mouths, not knowing what to say.

It is very difficult to capture the city.

If you don't eat, you can't live.

Everyone was silent, and then Qi Qi looked at Guo Peng.

Guo Peng needs to make the final decision.

Guo Peng took a deep breath and slowly stood up.

"I raised an army to attack the traitor Dong Zhuo, to welcome the emperor back to Luoyang, to stabilize the world, to prevent the world from being in turmoil, and to prevent the people of the world from being displaced. Therefore, I went into the army with all my heart, and I had no time for him. Gu.

But I never imagined that in the eyes of some people, the crusade against the traitors is just an excuse, and our struggle is just a futile joke. They don’t care whether the traitors are crusaded, they only care about whether their desires are satisfied ! "

Guo Peng suddenly increased his volume: "They're all a bunch of bastards! Everyone who has read poetry and books and is known as a celebrity, receives such a great favor from the country but doesn't want to repay it, and speaks the words of a saint, but his desires are insatiable! They can still use Han Chen Do you live on your own?"

Guo Peng took a few heavy breaths and closed his eyes.

"Ming Gong..."

Xi Zhong stepped forward: "Duke Ming, although the current situation is dangerous, it is not completely hopeless."

"any solution?"

Guo Peng asked immediately.

"Divide the troops, go south, attack the Gou family, and then attack Dagu through the Gou family, attack from behind, break through the Dagu Pass, join forces with Yuan Shu's general Sun Jian, and drive directly to Luoyang! The defense of Gong County will be meaningless. The overall situation is settled!"

Xi Zhong opened his mouth and told Guo Peng what he was thinking, and also told the senior officers present.

After listening, everyone did not speak for a long time.

"Zhicai, this is a dangerous move. If the Gou Clan and Dagu Pass cannot be successfully captured, that army will be in a very dangerous situation."

Guo Peng looked at Xi Zhong.

"Soldiers are impermanent, and water is impermanent. If we want to win, the opponent may not want to. Minggong, we really have no other way this time. If we don't try, it's better to withdraw the army as soon as possible. There is no food, really. It's no child's play."

After Xi Zhong finished speaking, he stopped talking and just looked at Guo Peng.

Others also looked at Guo Peng.

Guo Peng narrowed his eyes and thought about it carefully.

"My lords, we have reached this point, I am not willing to withdraw like this."

Guo Peng's words set the tone.

"I'm not willing to withdraw my troops either!"

Weiss was the first to respond.

"It's the same with flying!"

Zhang Fei was the second to respond.

Afterwards, all the generals responded one after another, and Gongsun Zan asked again to take on this responsibility.

So everyone agreed, decided to adopt Xizhong's strategy, and took a risk.

In fact, it cannot be called an adventure. Strictly speaking, every military operation is an adventure, but this time it is more dangerous.

This time, Guo Peng did not agree to Gongsun Zan, but decided to carry out the task himself. He personally led the elite soldiers of the headquarters and launched a surprise attack as quickly as possible, catching Dong Zhuo by surprise.

Guo Peng decided to lead his own body guard Cao Chunbu, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and [-] elites to attack the Gou family in a surprise attack, and Guo Jia was also brought with him by the way.

Then the main force was left behind, led by Bao Xin, Xi Zhong as the military adviser, and Gongsun Zan in charge of the front line command.

Zhao Yun, Guo Lie, Gongsun Yueweizi and others stayed to assist and continued to attack Gong County to attract their attention.

On September 24, Guo Peng led his troops to leave the camp in Gong County at night, and led his troops to Goushi Town.

In the early morning of the 25th, Guo Peng led an army to break through Goushi Town in a surprise attack, beheading more than a thousand defenders, and then rushed to Daguguan without stopping.

At that time, Sun Jian was leading his troops to storm Dagu Pass. Taking advantage of sufficient logistics supplies and Dong Zhuo's main force being restrained by Guo Peng, he suppressed the defenders of Dagu Pass, making Dagu Pass dangerous.

But the defenders of Dagu Pass never imagined that their real troubles were yet to come.

Chapter 226. 220 Is there such a truth in this world?

In the early morning of September 28th, the first year of Chuping, Guo Peng led his troops and appeared behind the defenders of Dagu Pass like ghosts, catching them by surprise.

Guo Peng revealed his identity as the left general Qingzhou Mu Guo Peng to the defenders in the pass, falsely claiming that Dong Zhuo had fled to Chang'an and had abandoned them.

Luoyang has fallen, and they have no way of retreat. If they don't surrender, they will die.

The general of Dagu Gate turned pale with fright. He really thought that Luoyang had fallen, Dong Zhuo had fled, and his will to fight suddenly collapsed.

Sun Jian was in front of him and Guo Peng was behind him. He was attacked from both sides and was abandoned again. It was a dead end and there was no need to continue the fight to the death. So the defenders of Dagu Pass quickly decided to abandon their weapons and surrender, just to save their lives.

Then Guo Peng accepted the surrender of the defenders of Dagu Pass and disarmed them. Under the protection of the personal guards, together with Cao Chun, he opened the gate of Dagu Pass and put the bewildered Sun Jian army into the pass.

So far, the two crusade armies successfully joined forces and all entered the pass, Luoyang was safe to defend, and Dong Zhuo's defeat was irreversible.

Only after this did the guard of Dagu Pass know that Luoyang had not fallen at all. Guo Peng only brought an army of 5000 people to detour to attack Dagu Pass.

Sun Jian was very surprised by Guo Peng's sudden appearance behind Dagu Pass to attack the enemy at Dagu Pass, and was even more amazed when he learned of Guo Peng's situation and his determination to take this risky operation.

"It's a great fortune to have a man with lofty ideals like a general!"

Sun Jian admired Guo Peng's actions very much, praised the sharpness of this wave of actions, and then joined forces with Guo Peng to quickly march towards Luoyang.

When Guo Peng and Sun Jian were only ninety miles away from Luoyang, Dong Zhuo learned the news, and was so frightened that he dropped the wine glass on the spot.