And in the midst of the snow, Guo Peng sent spies, dressed in white robes and white hats, to detect what happened in Yuan Shu's military camp, and then reported the matter to Guo Peng.

Guo Peng held a meeting and discussed the matter with the strategists and generals.

Knowing that Yuan Highway abandoned all the people who froze to death and used their clothes to keep the rest of them warm, Guo Peng's subordinates and Wu all felt embarrassed about this.

Xi Zhong sighed.

"How innocent is Li Shu...... If everyone in power in the world treats Li Shu like Yuan Highway, Li Shu will die! ”

"Yuan Highway hastily gathered a large army, but he did not prepare the logistics, it will not last, general, he will definitely launch an attack as soon as possible."

Guo Jia immediately pointed out this point and said: "Whether our army will face it head-on or hold it out is only waiting for the general to decide." ”

Guo Peng nodded, looked around at the soldiers under his command, and said: "The soldiers under my command are not dispensable, I regard everyone as a treasure, Yuan Highway doesn't care about human life, I care, I can't defend it, no matter how he attacks, I can't defend it, in a few days, our army will win without effort." ”

Guo Peng made up his mind, and the generals promised one after another, and returned to the camp to hold on.

As Guo Jia said, Yuan Shu soon ignored the heavy snow falling from the sky and the snow on the ground, and listed 30,000 soldiers and horses to attack Guo Peng's company defense line.

The generals held out according to Guo Peng's orders, and commanded the army to use superior ordnance to calmly counterattack.

The battle was only half an hour, Yuan Shu's army was too poor and the road was too slippery to continue the attack, although Yuan Shu was incompetent and furious, but he could not change the road condition, so he had no choice but to withdraw his army.

In this battle, Yuan Shu lost nearly 1,000 soldiers, and Guo Peng's troops suffered very little losses.

Yuan Shu was greatly annoyed, but Tiangong didn't do beauty, he really had no choice but to wait.

Fortunately, the snow stopped in the afternoon of the same day, and Yuan Shu immediately ordered someone to clear the snow, and then prepared for the next day's battle.

During this period, the temperature continued to cool.

Guo Peng felt that the temperature dropped further, which was not conducive to the soldiers' conquest, and he was afraid that some soldiers would get sick and spread the infection so much that it would affect the battle situation, so he ordered the "scarf" to be distributed.

Every soldier, including the men and auxiliaries, had to wear a scarf to protect them from the cold.

He also ordered that ginger soup be changed from one bowl a day to two bowls a day, and that it should be served to the soldiers before they got up in the morning and before entering the barracks at night, and ordered the soldiers not to eat raw or cold food, and that if they had fever, runny nose, sore throat, etc., they must go to the military medical camp on their own.

The army strictly enforces these winter regulations until the weather warms up, and if there is a mistake, the officers at all levels will be directly held accountable, and not a single one will want to run.

And Yuan Shu's department froze to death hundreds of people, more than 1,000 people froze to death, and had to continue to work according to the usual practice.

Yuan Shu felt more and more that this battle could not last, so he was busy assigning offensive tasks, and early the next morning, he sent troops to attack Qi County.

Obviously, Yuan Shu had realized that if the war continued, his side would be defeated by the continuous low temperature without a fight, and he would have to retreat, thus ceding the land to Guo Peng.

How could someone as strong as Yuan Shu accept such a situation?

While people still have strength, they will attack more than once, and they must break through Guo Peng's defense.

It's cold and it's not cold on his side, Guo Peng's side must be cold too.

Yuan Shu's idea was so simple and thorough.

So this offensive battle was unsurprisingly another failure, defeated on the slippery road, defeated under the rain of arrows, defeated in the cold wind.

The attack lasted for an hour, and it was really impossible to continue, so it had to retreat again.

The so-called snow is not cold and the snow is cold, this snow is melting, even if the sun is out, the temperature is low and scary, Guo Peng can't stand this low temperature, let alone Yuan Shu.

That is, Guo Peng is well prepared and willing to spend money, but Yuan Shu does not have these preparations at all, he just relies on human lives to pile up, and as a result, more people freeze to death every day than die in battle, and this battle cannot be fought at all.

Therefore, Lu Mianqiao, Li Feng, Liang Gang and other generals asked Yuan Shu to withdraw his troops to Longkang, so that the soldiers could have houses to protect themselves from the cold.

Even if you want to attack, you have to wait until the temperature rises.

In this way, the soldiers are not killed in battle, they are all frozen to death, they have no combat effectiveness at all, and they die in vain, which is meaningless.

Yuan Shu couldn't agree.

He was recruited by the royal driver, and the Son of Heaven was personally recruited, how could he retreat? How can I go back?

"Intensify the attack! We are cold, Guo thief is even colder! Give me offense! As long as you defeat the Guo thief, the world is at your fingertips! ”

Yuan Shu is very determined.

The generals looked at each other, their faces full of helplessness.

"Your Majesty, we can't continue to garrison, if we continue like this, we will freeze to death more people and lose more soldiers and horses, and we will be defeated without a fight! Guo thief is waiting for the moment when we are exhausted and exhausted! Guo Thief is just waiting for that moment, Your Majesty! ”

Lu Mian knelt on the ground and kowtowed, asking Yuan Shu to withdraw his troops to Long Kang.

"Even you have to disobey Lone's orders?!"

Yuan Shu was very annoyed, seeing that his most trusted generals were going to disobey him, his mentality was a little unbalanced.

"Don't you think Lone will win in the end?!"

Lu Mian didn't dare to say more, but just kowtowed and asked Yuan Shu to think twice.

Yuan Shu's anger was about to explode, but at the moment of the great enemy, he did not choose to punish Lu Mian, but ordered Lu Mian to personally lead his troops to attack Guo Peng.

Lu Mian was forced to attack, and he had no choice but to lead his troops to attack.

From November 16 to November 18, for three consecutive days, Lu Mian led his troops to attack, Guo Peng could not defend the city, Lu Mian's attack had no effect, and he could only lose more and more soldiers and horses.

And the most important thing is that the temperature continues to drop, and there can be soldiers who freeze to death and frostbite in the Yuanshu camp every day, and the clothes worn by the survivors are getting thicker and thicker, but their hearts are getting colder and colder.

During this period, Yuan Shu wrote to Guo Peng several times, Guo Peng didn't even look at it, and directly ordered it to be burned, and when Yuan Shu's messenger appeared again, Guo Peng directly ordered to shoot it with arrows to show that the Han and the thieves were not separate.

Yuan Shu was irritable and constantly scolded Guo Peng, but he couldn't get any results except for leading his troops to attack wildly and then returning with a feather.

The scales of victory have been fully tilted.

Yuan Shu was incompetent and furious in the barracks.

Guo Peng was wearing a thick brocade robe in the city, holding a bowl of ginger soup in both hands, chatting with Guo Jia and Xi Zhong around him while drinking.

"Don't be in a hurry, let him attack, let him fight, wait for him to consume everything that should be consumed, and when his military spirit is fluctuating and the people's hearts are disheartened, it is the time to win the blow, this battle, I will not give him the slightest chance to rise again, I want to win the battle in one battle."

Guo Peng slowly drank a sip of hot ginger soup, breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly asked Guo Jia and Xi Zhong a question as if they were very casual.

"Fengxiao, Zhicai, you say, Yuan Highway is already the first prince in the world, and I and Tao Gongzu are his subordinates, even if he is not called the emperor, he already has the honor of the Son of Heaven, why bother to be called the emperor again, to cause dissatisfaction and anger in the world?"