After the army besieged Gushi County, Cao Ren sent a war report to Guo Peng, telling Guo Peng that the battle situation in Runan had been decided, and their mission was successfully completed, and only the final end was missing.

Guo Peng received this battle report in Qi County, and was very happy to learn that Cao Ren Guan Yu's march was going well, and he had nothing to worry about Yuan Shu's army that was fortified in the Longkang area.

Yuzhou was basically pacified, and the most prosperous Central Plains state in the past fell into Guo Peng's control, and soon, Yangzhou on the north bank of the river will also become Guo Peng's target and bag.

As for the prosperous Xuzhou, Guo Peng will inevitably get it.

There is no rival in the Central Plains, and there is no rival in the world.

Guo has become invincible, and what he needs to do now is to strip off the fur of the beast on his body and become an upright person again.

Leading the times.

The army of Yuan Shu, which was fortified in the Longkang area, numbered about 30,000 and was one of the troops that Yuan Shu attacked Xuzhou, led by Qiao Rui and Li Feng.

After returning to Shouchun, Lu Mian, the general of the Chen Empire who was newly appointed by Yuan Shu, commanded and transferred strong men and soldiers and horses from Shouchun, gathered 30,000 people, and went north in advance.

Yuan Shu could have rushed back to Shouchun in time, but he encountered some trouble because of Zang Ba.

The army led by Zang Ba fought Yuan Shu to the death in order to defend Xuzhou, and actually occupied some upper hand, Yuan Shu was distracted, lost several battles in a row, and wanted to retreat but it was difficult to do, Zang Ba attacked Yuan Shu's military camp like chicken blood.

So Yuan Shu had to send troops to stay behind to stop Zang Ba, and he took advantage of the night to rush back with the army.

He gave up a lot of the land he had taken from Tao Qian, but only maintained some of the captured land in Guangling County, sent troops to defend it, and all the other soldiers and horses were withdrawn, and all the land was abandoned.

This made the morale of Yuan Shu's army very low, and a large number of deserters appeared for a while, and Yuan Shuli killed sixteen people to stabilize the situation and continued to drive the army to forcibly march back to Shouchun.

Yuan Shu kept cursing Guo Peng all the way, and kept writing to Guo Peng, scolding him, and then ordering him to repent immediately and return to his side, so that he could not blame the past.

However, there was no reply.

Yuan Shu became more and more panicked in his heart, and when he heard the war reports of the continuous fall of various parts of Yuzhou, he couldn't figure it out anyway.

Obviously, you supported me as emperor, why are you opposing me now?

Obviously you have always supported me from the beginning, and you have been my most loyal subordinate and my minions from the beginning, why should you oppose me?

Haven't you always listened to me the most? Why are you against me?

How can you oppose me?

Panicked with thick doubts and incomprehension, as well as a psychological defense line that was about to collapse, Yuan Shu rushed to Shouchun panting like a wounded beast.

After making sure that there is no problem with Shouchun, he will lead the army to face Guo Peng, he will ask Guo Peng personally, he will look at Guo Peng, watch Guo Peng and ask him why he betrayed him.

Where am I not right for you?

You're going to betray me?

I believe in you so much, and you want to betray me!

Yuan Shu has lost his normal judgment, of course, he doesn't have any reliable judgment anyway, anger and ecstasy are the same.

Before rushing back, he appointed Lu Mian, a trusted general, as the general, and led Qiao Rui, who rushed back first, together with Li Feng, to lead 30,000 troops north to Longkang for defense, giving him time to lead the main force north.

Then Yuan Shu tried to let Liu Xun's army, which was being tied up by Sun Ce, return to the north, and on the other hand, he ordered the Shouchun court to urgently mobilize and forcibly recruit strong men into the army, expand the army, and then prepare military rations.

All the grain obtained from Xuzhou was transported back to Shouchun, and Yuan Shu did not want some gold and silver treasures, so he took them out to help the army and calm the dissatisfaction of the army.

After receiving Yuan Shu's "holy order", the Shouchun court began to mobilize in an all-round way.

The people who did the work scattered out and plundered the strong men everywhere, and the net worth of these guys was counting on Yuan Shu, and they didn't dare to do things badly, so they caught the strong men everywhere.

Of course, while performing the task, you can also do something for yourself, such as robbing or something, robbing people's girls or something, and doing the same as robbing homes and houses, and the surroundings of Shouchun are made into a miasma.

Not only that, but they also had to extend to other places, recruit more troops, and the farthest actually went directly into Lujiang County to catch strong men and forcibly requisition food.

Huainan Yin Yanghong admonished Yuan Shu, saying that disturbing the people too much would only have the opposite effect, and that the more troops the better, because there were too many troops, and the military rations would not be supplied.

Yuan Shu angrily reprimanded Yang Hong, saying that if the supply of military food was not enough, he would use his meat to make up for it, Yang Hong was so frightened that he had to raise military food everywhere.

Because it was really not in a hurry to get the military rations that Yuan Shu needed, the Shouchun court had no choice but to attack some powerful clans who were more cooperative in the past, destroying them with indiscriminate charges, and plundering the population, grain and grass.

Before the decisive battle began, Yuan Shu had already made a mess of his territory, and every household was wailing, and every household was crying bitterly.

Of course, Yuan Shu didn't care at all, he just wanted to lead the army north to fight Guo Peng.

Guo Peng was not in a hurry, he knew that according to Yuan Shu's character, Yuan Shu would definitely explode troops, and then come to trouble him fiercely, so instead of continuing to go south to stretch his supply line, it was better to stay in Qi County to fortify and reduce the logistical pressure.

In late October, the weather will turn cooler, and winter will begin in less than a month, and the logistical pressure on the 100,000-strong army will be very great, and it will be disadvantageous to us if we continue to accelerate the elongation of the front.

So Guo Peng decided to fortify on the spot, consolidate the current logistics and transportation routes, and then lengthen Yuan Shu's logistics supply lines to intensify his logistics consumption and promote his all-round collapse as soon as possible.

People are iron and rice are steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic.

If you want to march to fight, you have to let the soldiers eat, the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, do you bring a large army here to fight or beg for food?

Guo Peng felt that at this time, Yuan Shu's troops were asking for trouble when they went north, and the extremely fragile and unstable logistics themselves stretched the supply line, isn't this just a send-off?

Guo Peng felt that there was no need to fight this battle, and if he delayed it for a while, he himself would collapse.

Guo Peng knows Yuan Shu too well.

For Yuan Shu, the best way to do this time was to shrink the troops, give up Longkang, abandon Yuzhou, withdraw the army to the south of Huaishui, deploy in Huainan, reduce the logistical pressure, and operate the rear, ready to abandon Shouchun and move south.

In this way, with the help of his own strategic in-depth operations, he does not care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, and can also lengthen Guo Peng's logistics supply line and increase Guo Peng's logistics pressure.

The logistical pressure of the 100,000-strong army is very high, and if one is not good, it will overturn, Guo Peng is very likely to be unable to continue the pursuit, and can only wait for the spring flowers to bloom before going to battle, in that case, Yuan Shu's Chen Empire can still continue to live.

But Yuan Shu would never do this, Guo Peng was sure.