On the seventeenth day of the first month of the fourth year of Xingping, the battlefield was in Jiangzhou, and the Dongzhou soldiers led by Pang Xi broke the Yizhou soldiers led by Zhao Wei.

Thousands of beheaded, tens of thousands of enemies were annihilated, and the Yizhou soldiers were routed on all fronts, unable to form an army, and scattered and fled.

Dongzhou soldiers chased all the way, chasing Zhao Wei and running, Zhao Wei was chased by heaven and earth, and was planning to run all the way to Jingzhou to survive, following in the footsteps of Gan Ning, but was inadvertently backstabbed by his own subordinates and killed.

Zhao Wei didn't have Gan Ning's good luck, and after losing his power, he was killed like this.

At that time, it was February, and Zhao Wei had escaped for half a month, but he still couldn't escape and died.

The local forces in Yizhou suffered a serious blow, and the Dongzhou soldiers, under the leadership of Pang Xi, annihilated the local resistance in Yizhou and maintained Liu Zhang's identity as the king of Shu.

So Liu Zhang finally sat in a firm position and became the real king of Shu, although the locals of Yizhou were not convinced, but Liu Zhang's position could not be moved, because he had the support of a strong army, and the people of Yizhou no longer had the protection of strong force.

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

They plundered the place on a large scale, and at first the target was only those who helped Zhao Wei, and they were labeled as anti-thieves to retaliate against the autumn queen to settle accounts, but then they couldn't control it.

The retaliation has expanded, and those who did not support Zhao Wei and those who sat back and watched the success or failure of the soy sauce all suffered.

The Dongzhou soldiers burned, killed, and plundered in the area of Ba County, destroying the Haoqiang family, and robbing them of their property, food, women, and slaves.

While the Yizhou people were killed, they also planted the seeds of a split between the Dongzhou and Yizhou people.

Since then, the people of Yizhou have been reduced to second-class citizens, while the people of Dongzhou have officially taken power, and they have continuously suppressed the rights of Yizhou people in the economy and politics, harmed the interests of Yizhou people, and encroached on the land and property of Yizhou people, which made Yizhou people hate this Shu kingdom more and more.

Liu Zhang's personality is weak, and after Pang Xi defeated Zhao Wei's power and increased greatly, he didn't know how to restrain Pang Xi.

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

Liu Zhang didn't want Pang Xi to go too far, he tried to restrain Pang Xi and sent someone to tell Pang Xi not to do it, but he found that he had almost no control over Pang Xi, and the same was true for the Dongzhou soldiers, which made Liu Zhang feel very uneasy.

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

Liu Zhang couldn't just rely on the people of Dongzhou to rule Yizhou, he suddenly understood why his father Liu Yan wanted to keep the ambitious Zhao Wei and lead troops to be stationed in Ba County, and why Liu Yan did not give Pang Xi a higher position.

He is a ruler and needs checks and balances, in the past, Yizhou was powerful, and he needed Pang Xi to maintain balance, but Zhao Wei couldn't bear his ambitions, couldn't control his desires, died and his clan was wiped out, his power collapsed, and the balance of the power field of the Shu Kingdom was broken.

Checks and balances bring stability, and that stability no longer exists.

However, Liu Zhang's methods were really poor, and he didn't know what to do to balance the Dongzhou people.

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

Dongzhou people don't know moderation, they don't know how to forgive people and forgive people, offend Yizhou people to death, and suppress them for a while, but what about later?

After all, Yizhou people still account for the majority, and the people who control the vast majority of labor and means of production are also Yizhou locals.

Similarly, Guo Peng also thinks so, he also thinks that the Dongzhou soldiers have gone too far, even if the political liquidation is over, it will be expanded, and this is to make the whole world an enemy and will not stop.

Jingzhou is still in the Cold War, Liu Biao and Jingzhou people are still confronting, no matter what, this Chu Kingdom just can't be established, Jingzhou people are smarter than Yizhou people, their power is greater, and their luck is better, so Liu Biao does not have the military group of Dongzhou soldiers.

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

Without soldiers and horses to be confident, how could Liu Biao forcibly ascend the throne and become the monarch of the kingdom like Liu Zhang?

Although I don't know what Liu Biao thinks, but according to the news that came before, Liu Biao seems to be very calm, except for continuing the cold war with his subordinates, there is no tendency to use other ways and subordinates to tear their faces, and Jingzhou will not have any major changes in a short time.

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

At this moment, isn't it a good time for Guo Peng to attack Xianbei to sweep away the northern border troubles?

Guo Peng worked hard for several months, prepared the grain, grass and supplies needed to send troops at the end of February, and gathered a large number of troops in Zhuo County, Youzhou.

This time, it was a simple sabotage battle, no need to occupy, only destruction and killing, so the army was a full cavalry lineup.

Guo Peng dispatched 50,000 Han cavalry in one go, and ordered Karasuma to send out 30,000 cavalry, a total of 80,000 cavalry to kill the grassland.

Guo Peng personally commanded the troops, and led all the fierce generals who could lead cavalry and kill.

Cao Chun and Cao Xiu should be brought, Zhao Yun and Le Jin should be brought, Xiahou Yuan, who is good at long-distance attacks, should be brought, Zhang Fei should also be brought, Cao Hong and Guan Yu were also brought by Guo Peng, Xu Huang and Gao Ran and other miscellaneous generals who were eager to make meritorious contributions and Zhonglang generals and lieutenants who were not mixed with the generals had to attack.

A rare opportunity to achieve great merit, and a chance to kill wantonly without sparing your hands, is also not common at all.

When attacking other warlords, Guo Peng asked them to keep their hands, watch the point, pay attention to the point, and not allow the destruction of the place to a mess, let alone burning, killing and looting, and the military regulations and military discipline are very strict, and they are absolutely not allowed to overstep.

This rule has been this rule since the beginning 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, doing everything they could to destroy their living forces, plundering them everything, and strangling their threat in the cradle.

Guo Peng's idea is very clear, that is, a devastating blow, kill as many as you can, and kill them until they can't get back blood for one or two decades, and they can't breathe.

One or two decades later, according to the plan, his Wei Empire had been successfully established and entered a period of stable development.

After the whole country is pacified, the whole country can mobilize the strength of the whole country to invade the grasslands in the north, sweep away the nomads on the grasslands in one go, and completely relieve the northern border troubles.

For now, let's fight a sentinel battle first, and let these bastards remember that when they go south to fight for the world, don't think crookedly!

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

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

A large number of cattle and sheep obtained from the previous sweep of the Southern Xiongnu were slaughtered, the fresh meat was salted, and then dried, and a large bag of jerky was given to each soldier participating in the battle, which he carried on his back.

When marching and fighting, you can not only ride on a horse and eat jerky to save time, but you can also use jerky to cook soup and drink, and you have both salt and protein.

Such a plan brought a high cost, and once Shang Shutai led by Cheng Yu raised objections, which was forcibly suppressed by Guo Peng - money has to be spent on the blade, this is the blade!

Fierce soldiers are not raised from dried vegetable leaves, they must eat meat when they should eat meat, and they must drink blood when they should drink blood!

Otherwise, what to take and fight with the nomads?

With a wave of Guo Peng's hand, 50,000 Han horsemen and hundreds of thousands of war horses marched towards the grassland with dried meat on their backs, and 100,000 people and hundreds of thousands of carts of livestock were fully mobilized.

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