At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

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Zheng Xuan sighed, and said slowly: "The situation of the country has reached this point, the country will not be the country, no one knows what will happen in the future, the world is in chaos right now, everyone is fighting, only Zifeng is still doing his best Heart power to quell the Yellow Turban rebellion.

I don't dare to ask for more, I only hope that Zifeng can calm down the Yellow Turban as soon as possible, restore stability in Qingzhou, let the displaced people get shelter, live and give birth safely, and the feeling of being hungry is not good. "

The Zhengxuan family used to be prosperous, but by the time he arrived, it had already fallen, and they were typical children of poor families.

He lived a hard life when he was young. Although he wanted to study and improve his knowledge, his family could not afford the cost of supporting him to study. In order to make a living, Zheng Xuan had to work as a small official to earn a salary. He knew how much a full stomach is for a person. importance.

"Peng must do his best to pacify Qingzhou."

"So good."

Zheng Xuan was very satisfied with Guo Peng.

Chapter 252 Sun Jian is dead

After chatting for a while, we talked about some things about Zheng Xuan when he was young. Guo Peng told Zheng Xuan about his time in Luoyang, and basically told Zheng Xuan what happened in the past few years.

After Zheng Xuan heard that Yuan Wei and Dong Zhuo had caused chaos in the world, he sighed very much and shook his head again and again.

"The family of the fourth generation and the third father actually did such a thing, what is Yuan Shi going to do!"

Zheng Xuan was very dissatisfied with Yuan Wei and Yuan Shao's actions.

So Guo Peng put forward his hope and wanted to invite Zheng Xuan to become an official. After thinking about it, Zheng Xuan declined.

"I'm already so old, I don't want anything else, I don't want to be an official, I just want to write a book and talk about it with peace of mind, write down everything I want to say, as long as I can eat enough, I can write a book and talk about it, Enough is enough, Zifeng made Qingzhou stable and made me feel at ease, I am already satisfied."

Although Zheng Xuan declined Guo Peng's invitation, he recommended his son Zheng Yi to Guo Peng.

Then he recommended several proud disciples such as Xixi and Guoyuan to Guo Peng, and Guo Peng called them to work beside him to exercise their abilities.

He obtained some talents from Zheng Xuan and was praised by Zheng Xuan.

Guo Peng made another agreement with Zheng Xuan to invite Zheng Xuan to Linzi to attend the school banquet after the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army was pacified, and Zheng Xuan agreed.

Guo Peng was very satisfied and led his army to leave Gaomi County.

Afterwards, Guo Peng continued to lead his army to attack the Yellow Turban Army. Those who wanted to surrender in the Yellow Turban Army all surrendered, while those who were unwilling to surrender kept fleeing to other places.

After discovering this trend, Guo Peng immediately sent an order to Xiahouyuan and Xiahoudun to slow down their march and postpone their attack.

Don't fight, but force, drive the Yellow Turban Army out of Qingzhou, and drive towards Langya Kingdom in Xuzhou and Taishan County in Yanzhou.

The following things are easy to talk about. Guo Peng chased all the way, and the Yellow Turban Army fled all the way.

Not to mention, there are just a few yellow-turban Qu Shuai who would rather die than surrender, leading tens of thousands of people to play the desperate escape.

Guo Peng also has things he wants to do, such as getting revenge on Tao Qian and Liu Dai, so he deliberately slowed down to cooperate with them and let them escape.

Tao Qian and Guo Peng don't have any deep hatred, the main reason is that the old guy Tao Qian is not authentic.

When he was governor of Xuzhou a few years ago, he drove the Yellow Turban Army to Qingzhou and ignored it. He allowed the Yellow Turban Army to harm Qingzhou and let himself work hard to deal with them. Fortunately, he lived comfortably.

Is there such a good thing?

Guo Peng sneered, and asked Xiahoudun and Yu Jin to expel a group of Yellow Turbans to Xuzhou, and asked Tao Qian to do his duty!

Then there is Yanzhou, Liu Dai's pretentious appearance, and the narrow-minded Guo always grits his teeth with hatred every time he thinks about it, and he really wants to get Yanzhou, so he must use the Yellow Turban Army as an excuse.

When the Yellow Turban Army entered Yanzhou, Guo Peng wanted to see how Liu Dai would deal with it. If he couldn't handle it well, someone Guo would have an excuse to enter Yanzhou in a fair manner.

This excuse is definitely much better than Yuan Shao's lame excuse.

In late August, Guo Peng basically recovered the entire Beihai Kingdom and established his rule within the Beihai Kingdom. Then he sent troops to Donglai County and drove the Yellow Turban Army in Donglai County to run around.

Finally, according to the predetermined plan, Guo Peng drove a group of Yellow Turbans into Xuzhou, and drove another group of Yellow Turbans into Yanzhou.

It was mid-September at this time, and Guo Peng stopped the march on the high-sounding reason that he could not cross the border to conquer.

It took more than two months for Guo Peng to mobilize [-] troops to pacify Beihai Kingdom and Donglai County, which occupy half of Qingzhou.

Then Du Xi, who was extremely capable, was transferred to be the prefect of Donglai, and Gu Yong was transferred to be the prime minister of Beihai. He established rule in these two places and initially stabilized the order.

Then hundreds of thousands of displaced refugees and Yellow Turbans were scattered and resettled, many townships and villages were established, and the policy of garrisoning land was continued to ensure the smooth operation of the policy of garrisoning land, and efforts were made to restore order and stability in the two places.

The harvest of autumn grain gave Guo Peng a lot of confidence. With this season's summer grain and autumn grain, there was enough food for the refugees, and they could settle down.

Later, Guo Peng drove them to build houses, build water conservancy, prevent and control locust plagues, and rectify wasteland to prepare for spring plowing in the coming year.

Then the census and household registration statistics were carried out, and all the effective policies operated by the other four counties were copied to Donglai County and Beihai State.

The soldiers recruited during the campaign and after the war maintained the total strength at [-], and then opened the conscription for a long time to allow strong men who are willing to join the army to join the army to expand the number of troops.

After this military operation, Qingzhou was basically pacified, and all of them were controlled by Guo Peng.

Guo Peng started to work mainly in Beihai Country and Donglai County from the beginning, focusing on restoring order, and temporarily had no time and energy to take care of other things.

During this period, he learned that Xu He, the Yellow Turban Army that had entered Xuzhou, had defeated Xiao Jian, Prime Minister of Langya, and Tao Qian hurriedly dispatched the cavalry captain Zang Ba to resist, but failed to go deep.

This group of people wanted to flee back, but they were overwhelmed by Guo Peng's soldiers and did not dare to flee back, so they had to turn around and flee to Taishan County.

This group of Yellow Turbans also entered Taishan County.

Soon after, Guo Peng got the news that the Yellow Turban Army who had entered Taishan County had defeated the Taishou Taishou Ying Shao, occupied Taishan County, looted the place wantonly, and hunted powerful landlords to supplement his army rations.

Liu Dai, the governor of Yanzhou, was in a hurry to get angry and was preparing to lead an army to conquer the Yellow Turban Army himself.

While Guo Peng was gloating, a piece of news that surprised him came.

Sun Jian died.

In July of the second year of Chuping, Sun Jian raised troops almost at the same time as him, and he went to attack Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou.

The reason was that Liu Biao cooperated with Yuan Shao to attack Yuan Shu from north to south. Yuan Shu was annoyed and ordered Sun Jian to attack Liu Biao.

Sun Jian was reluctant at first, but this was Yuan Shu's order, and Yuan Shu was his boss, so he had to attack.

So Sun Jian set out and led his army to attack Liu Biao. Liu Biao sent Huang Zu, the prefect of Jiangxia, to meet Sun Jian between Fancheng and Deng County.

Huang Zu is quite evil, as if he was born to make Sun Wu's regime unhappy, he became famous because of Sun Wu, and died because of Sun Wu.

He has never won many battles with Sun Wu, but he can always take away Sun Wu's generals in one wave, forcing Sun Wu, who is in an advantage, to retreat.

Sun Jian died at his hands, Sun Jian's nephew, Xu Kun, an early famous general of the Sun Wu camp, died at his hands, and General Ling Cao also died at his hands. An unknown number of Sun Wu soldiers were buried in a Jiangxia city.

Logically speaking, this person is by no means a famous general, nor is he a very capable person. The reason why he served as the prefect of Jiangxia is because his Huang family is worthy of Liu Biao's win over.

But such a person can become a nightmare for the Sun Wu regime for 15 years.

And the enmity between him and Sun Wu started from this year.

In terms of using troops, how could Huang Zu be Sun Jian's opponent?

So it was no surprise that he was beaten all over the floor by Sun Jian, and retreated. Liu Biao tried to cooperate with Yuan Shao, but Sun Jian's combat power was too strong, Liu Biao was really not an opponent, and he was defeated in the first battle.

After Sun Jian defeated Huang Zu, he took advantage of the victory to pursue, crossed the Han River, surrounded Xiangyang, tried to attack Xiangyang and killed Liu Biao in one fell swoop to relieve the trouble, and then continued to the front line of Luoyang.

Liu Biao was so frightened that he didn't dare to confront Sun Jian head-on, so he could only rely on a large number of troops and sufficient food and grass to hold on to Xiangyang City.

However, besieging the city like this is not the way to go. Liu Biao accepted the advice of counselor Kuai Liang and Kuai Yue, released Huang Zu at night, and let Huang Zu return to Jiangxia to dispatch troops. He and Huang Zuli cooperated with each other and defeated Sun Jian.

Huang Zu did as he did, and returned to Xiangyang with his troops. However, under Sun Jian's overly strong combat power, the tactics of internal and external cooperation were not enough.

Liu Biao was beaten into a shrinking turtle again, and Huang Zu was beaten and fled in embarrassment.

Sun Jian felt that Huang Zu was a problem, so he decided to kill Huang Zu, so he left an army to besiege Xiangyang, and led another army to pursue Huang Zu, and chased him to the vicinity of Mount Xian.

Then, one night, when Sun Jian personally led the soldiers to investigate the military situation of Huang Zu's troops, he was shot and killed by the archers in ambush of Huang Zu.

Before the Great War, it is not uncommon in military affairs for the commander to personally investigate the situation of the enemy camp. Many generals in ancient and modern China and abroad will do this, and Sun Jian is not the only one who was killed for this kind of thing.

Sun Jian died like this.

The world-renowned Jiangdong Tigers and Sun Polu, who beat Dong Zhuo and fled in embarrassment, died meaninglessly like this.

Really pointless.

Yuan Shao, Liu Biao, Huang Zu, they did things that Dong Zhuo couldn't do with all his life without much effort.

To be reasonable, Guo Peng didn't know if Sun Jian would die, but Guo Peng knew that if Sun Jian died, it would be good for him.

Even so, Guo Peng still felt a sense of sadness in his heart.

Sun Jian, who didn't study much, with his loyalty and courage, could not play against bastards and liars like Guo who had read a lot. Sun Jian's death may also be inevitable.

If you can't be more of a jerk than a jerk, you can't kill a jerk.

Brother Wentai, you are too naive.

But for a naive person like you, the more the better.

Are there any more?

Someone like you?

Guo Peng walked outside his house, held up a glass of water and wine, faced southwest, and poured it slowly.

Ugh……

Chapter 253. 250 Second Gongsun Zan's Ambition Begins to Breed

Sun Jian's death was sudden, but inevitable.

After Sun Jian's death, the old army could not continue to fight, so under the leadership of Sun Jian's nephew Sun Ben, he joined Yuan Shu.

When Yuan Shu learned of Sun Jian's death, his face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly organized his army to try to recover the disadvantage, but it was unable to reverse the situation.

Soon, Yuan Shu was cut off by Liu Biao and could no longer gain a foothold in Nanyang County.

So Yuan Shu could only lead his army to leave Nanyang County, and went eastward into Runan County and Jiujiang County, trying to regroup the disadvantages in this area and wait for an opportunity to take revenge on Liu Biao.

Kong Rong, the prefect of Runan, learned of Yuan Shu's entry, and sent someone to invite Yuan Shu politely. Yuan Shu saw that Runan County was densely populated and rich in products, and he became possessive.

Kong Rong is good at talking and giving pears. These two aspects are not bad. Governing the local area is governing by doing nothing, but he is completely incompetent in foreign conquests.

Yuan Shu pretended to invite Kong Rong to drink as a guest, and Kong Rong happily went to Yuan Shu's barracks, carefree, and brought a lot of good wine.

As a result, the good wine was laughed at, and Kong Rong was placed under house arrest.

The unlucky Kong Rong can't escape being a soft persimmon anywhere.

Later, Yuan Shuzong took control of Runan County Zhipingyu and forcibly occupied Runan County. No one dared to oppose it.

After that, Yuan Shu sent troops to annex Jiujiang County, killed Chen Wen, the governor of Yangzhou appointed by the imperial court, occupied Shouchun, and called himself Yangzhou Mu, and also led Yuzhou Mu.

Occupying Jiujiang and Runan, two well-populated and wealthy places, Yuan Shu began to reorganize his army, expand his territory around, expand his power to Yuzhou and Yangzhou, and planned to avenge Liu Biao.

But before that, Yuan Shu needs to crusade against the Runan Yellow Turbans, otherwise the Runan Yellow Turbans will be entrenched in the mountains and forests of Runan County, and will always be a great threat to Yuan Shu.

Kong Rong was incompetent, but Yuan Shu wanted to do something.

At the same time, in September of the second year of Chuping, Yuan Shao had an enmity with Gongsun Zan because of the killing of Gongsun Zan's younger brother by his subordinates. Gongsun Zan refused to listen to the advice of the clan members and forcibly led his troops to attack Yuan Shao.

Gongsun Zan convinced the clan members that if he killed Yuan Shao, he could take Jizhou, and the whole of Hebei would be within the clan members' sphere of influence, wouldn't it be a wonderful thing?

The Zong member was a little old at this time, his mind was not clear, and his stand was not firm, so he let Gongsun Zan go.

Because Yuan Shao was defeated by Guo Peng, Yuan Shao's vitality was greatly injured, and he didn't want to fight Gongsun Zan, so he immediately sent someone to give the seal and ribbon of the prefect of Bohai to Gongsun Fan, another brother of Gongsun Zan, and appointed him as the prefect of Bohai.

Yuan Shao tried to ease the relationship with Gongsun Zan, but Gongsun Zan hated Yuan Shao because of Yuan Shao's stabbing in the back, and because Yuan Shao was defeated by Guo Peng, Gongsun Zan knew that Yuan Shao's vitality was greatly damaged, so this time he did not intend to give Yuan Shao a chance anyway.

So Gongsun Zan pretended to accept Yuan Shao's peace proposal, and asked Gongsun Fan to accept the seal and ribbon of the prefect of Bohai.

Then Gongsun Fan declared his defection, and together with Gongsun Zan, he led an army of [-] troops and entered Qinghe Kingdom from Bohai.

In Qinghe Kingdom, Gongsun Zan easily defeated several small troops of Yuan Shao, and then Gongsun Zan quickly marched to Jieqiao, the junction of Qinghe Kingdom and Julu County.

Gongsun Zan tried to enter Yuan Shao's ruling core through here, destroy Yuan Shao's rule in Jizhou, destroy Yuan Shao, and occupy Jizhou.

When Yuan Shao learned of this, he was shocked and turned pale. With the support of his subordinates, he had no choice but to send [-] troops to the Great Plains near Jieqiao to meet Gongsun Zan's elite soldiers of the Yan Dynasty.

Yuan Shao didn't want to fight this battle, but Gongsun Zan took advantage of his illness and wanted his life.

He now regrets that his feverish head and fighting with Guo Peng made Jizhou, which had just stabilized, become turbulent, and the power that had just recovered was weakened a lot.

The battle with Guo Peng caused Yuan Shao to lose [-] troops, and the main army was damaged. After several months of rectification, he managed to gather an army. As a result, he just started to recover, and Gongsun Zan came again.