For Yuan Shu, the number of 100,000 people is already the limit, and it is at the level of reckless force.

Beyond this number, he will not want to fight, and the army can starve to death.

And there are not so many strong men to be found, so it is time to pull women into the army and learn from the women of Liangzhou to fight on the battlefield.

Guo Peng, with his strong reserves as his foundation, used 200,000 auxiliary soldiers, civilian men, tens of thousands of carts, and tens of thousands of livestock to maintain the logistical needs of the 100,000 troops.

It was still a little difficult, and he didn't dare to rashly continue to march south, so as not to stretch the logistics supply line too long and the pressure was too great, Yuan Shu was good, and he actually dared to use 300,000 troops?

Everyone likes to march and fight wars, in order to deter the enemy, but Yuan Shu, this is really a bit outrageous, not a single state of the territory, you are stunned to toss 300,000 people, I'm afraid it's not a man who finishes a woman?

So Guo Jia took this matter as a joke.

"If His Majesty the Emperor Chen really comes with an army of 300,000, I don't think we need to panic, don't think about surrendering, just wait here, as long as he can bring the 300,000 army to us, Guo will drink a jar of horse urine!"

In order to ridicule Yuan Shu, Guo Jia even said such things, which made Xi Zhong ridicule Guo Jia as a "horse urine Sima".

But not to mention 300,000, the same 100,000 troops, does Yuan Shu have such a large reserve to do it? Is there such a strong capacity to maintain logistics?

If not, he is taking a risk, he is gambling, betting on a quick solution, betting on a quick elimination of Guo Peng and resolving the crisis.

Won the clubhouse...... Bah!

Won the world and lost the dry bones in the mound.

So this is already the last ripple of Yuan Shu.

But don't really say it, there are some things that normal people can't do, but Yuan Shu can do it.

So Guo Peng was thinking, if Yuan Shu really gathered an army of 300,000 to come out, let alone other places, if he could bring the army from Shouchun to Qi County, Guo Peng would admire him and promise to surrender without a fight and be a loyal and good general of his Chen Empire.

This cowhide is blown too much, so that everyone does not believe it, and it is obviously not a good thing.

But it doesn't matter, Yuan Shu doesn't care, Yuan Shu feels that there are many people, and Guo Peng can be crushed to death by relying on many people, and he must fight quickly.

Therefore, before Yuan Shuren arrived in Longkang, he asked Lu Mian on the front line to launch an attack, fight outpost battles, and build barracks for the army.

So Lu Mian led the army to set out from Longkang, arrived at the south of Qi County, set up camp at the Ten Numbers Office, sent sentry cavalry to explore news and military intelligence, and learned that Guo Peng had set up a company camp here, so he sent people to attack tentatively.

Guo Peng ordered the captain Zhang He to lead the army to counterattack and fought several small-scale victories, which made Lu Mian suffer a lot of losses.

Zhang He made a lot of contributions, and was personally entertained by Guo Peng, rewarded with goods, and held his hand and stroked his back quite intimately, which made Zhang He very happy and made other generals a little jealous.

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

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

Guo Peng is not in a hurry anyway, after the summer and autumn grain collection is completed, the warehouse is full of grain, and he is not worried at all in this regard.

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

And Yuan Shu's side is different, it's good to have a stutter, and you still want to change your winter clothes?

This is clearly impossible.

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

Yuan Shu repeatedly emphasized victory, victory, everything.

In fact, Yuan Shu himself can't take out more things, and all the warm clothes in the treasury are not enough to arm the 100,000 army, although Yuan Shu doesn't care how many of these big-headed soldiers die, but if his victory is gone, he will be very unhappy.

While being fed and clothed, he was cold and hungry and his combat strength was worried, outsiders didn't know, and insiders knew that this battle was really difficult to fight.

On November 14 of the second year of Xingping, Yuan Shu led his army to the military camp in the south of Qi County after arriving in Longkang, and officially wanted to start a large-scale battle with Guo Peng face to face.

The combined strength of the two sides is 170,000, so this war is indeed a grand scale.

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

However, all of his subordinates had a worried face.

Yuan Shu was puzzled and immediately asked.

"Your Majesty, please follow the end."

Lu Mian took Yuan Shu to the barracks, accompanied Yuan Shu to walk through the barracks, and then watched the actual situation of the soldiers.

What Yuan Shu saw was a soldier whose hands were red and his face was blue and his lips were purple in the cold wind.

The soldiers all looked like this, rubbing their hands and stomping their feet, and a cold wind blew, all shivering, and some sneezed incessantly.

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

Lu Mian waved his hand and asked his soldiers to deal with it, and he walked into a tent with Yuan Shu.

"The weather is too cold, the tent is difficult to keep out the cold, the number of troops is too large, and there is not enough firewood to make a fire, so the tent is wet and cold, and the soldiers are easy to get sick.

Lu Mian said bitterly to Yuan Shu: "Your Majesty, it is important to win the battle, but if the soldiers can't get the cold, they can't even hold their weapons, let alone fight?" Your Majesty, please add warm clothes for the soldiers. ”

"This is Han Yin and Yang Hong's matter, you should go and ask them, Gu has already given the order."

Yuan Shu looked at Lu Mian with a serious expression: "And is it only us who is spending the winter?" Could it be that it's spring over there, but it's winter here? ”

"Your Majesty, all the warm clothes of the Guo thief army have been issued, and the soldiers of the Guo thief army that our army has seen are well dressed, with winter hats and winter boots from head to toe, they are not afraid of this cold at all, and our army, in the cool season of autumn, came to camp here, and in the blink of an eye, a month has passed, and the cold wind is together, and the clothes are difficult to keep out the cold."

Lu Mian told the truth.

"Can't stand this bit of cold, is it still Yuan's soldiers?"

Yuan Shu was dressed tightly, he didn't feel cold at all, he swept around very seriously, pursed his lips, and said: "Tell them, to win this battle, they will be exempt from taxes for one year per person and every household, and eliminate Guo thieves, and each person and household will be exempt from taxes for three years!" ”