Speaking of this victory, it is also quite accidental.

Sun Jian's victory is more consistent with one sentence.

Call the god opponent who is not afraid of difficult to deal with, and the pig teammate who is afraid of the laggard.

Sun Jian led the army to cover up the night to kill, and the Dong Zhuojun who killed was defeated and lost, and Hu Zhen, who had nothing to do, fled with his own soldiers in embarrassment, and the more he ran, the more he felt that it was not a taste, and that something was wrong with this matter, and someone was making trouble.

As a result, when Hu Zhen escaped and returned to Luoyang to appeal to Dong Zhuo, he was only punished by cutting off his position and being sent to prison.

Lu Bu and the others fled back first, and complained to Dong Zhuo that Hu Zhen's light soldiers did not listen to the words of loyalty, which led to a great defeat.

The so-called three people became tigers, preconceived, Dong Zhuo was furious, and immediately ordered Hu Zhen to be dismissed from his position and put him in prison to wait for punishment.

Although the goal of Lu Bu and the others was achieved, this defeat was not the result that Dong Zhuo wanted to see.

Sun Jian, who defeated Hu Zhen, will be able to continue to march to Dagu Pass, but his own side is very dangerous, and it is taboo for soldiers to attack from both sides.

Do you really want to leave Luoyang?

Dong Zhuo didn't give up and didn't want to give up this land, so he repeated the old trick and sent someone to persuade Sun Jian to surrender.

The rhetoric used is the same as the rhetoric used when persuading Guo Peng to surrender, they are all fake and empty clichés, and then they promise a bunch of benefits.

Sun Jian was furious.

"The national thief dares to insult me!! If you don't punish the three clans, it will be difficult to eliminate the hatred in my heart! ”

Sun Jian drove Dong Zhuo's envoy away, led the army to rectify, and then marched to Dagu Pass.

The news of Sun Jian's victory came back to Luyang, and Yuan Shu was very happy, but before he was happy, someone whispered in Yuan Shu's ear.

"Sun Jian himself has a great reputation, as well as an army, if Sun Jian is allowed to get Luoyang like a bamboo, where can he be restrained by the general? If it is allowed to develop, won't it get rid of one wolf and add another tiger?

I heard the ancients say that raising a beast of prey should not be full first, if it is full first, the prey has not been hunted yet, the beast will run away, if the beast is hungry, then you will know the importance of dependent people, and it should be like this for a tiger like Sun Jian. ”

Yuan Shu's ears are relatively soft, his position is not firm, and he often does things on a whim.

So Yuan Shu agreed to stop providing Sun Jian's military rations like a ghost, cutting off Sun Jian's grain channel.

Sun Jian was attacking in the direction of Dagu Pass, and suddenly learned that there was no grain coming, so he was immediately shocked, sent someone to see the situation, and found that no one had come to intercept his grain, so he knew that there was something wrong with Yuan Shu.

Sun Jian's people in Yang, where Yuan Shu lived, were more than 100 miles away, and Sun Jian was so anxious that he couldn't get food, so he rode a horse straight to Luyang overnight to meet Yuan Shu.

In front of Yuan Shu, Sun Jian was very excited.

"Why on earth did the general stop distributing my rations?"

"Doesn't the general know the importance of military rations?"

"How can I march without military rations? How do I crusade against Dong Zhuo? ”

"I, Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo, don't have a deep hatred, is it for me Sun Jian himself to crusade against Dong Zhuo to serve the country and repay the general's family?"

"Right now, I am threatening Luoyang from the southern front, and General Guo is threatening Luoyang from the revolving gate, which is about to form a two-sided attack, so I can force Dong Zhuo to fight on two fronts, and the victory rate has increased greatly.

"The current situation is the same as Wu Qi's tears and Le Yi's failure! In a critical situation, the general must make a decision immediately! Can't hesitate! Do you want to fight this battle? Does Dong Zhuo want to be wiped out? Please give me a word of approval at once! ”

Sun Jian pressed forward step by step, Yuan Shu was already ashamed, and at this time, he couldn't lift his head when Sun Jian talked about the truth.

Yuan Shu, whose ears are soft, his position is easy to change, and his head is easy to get hot, was eaten to death again.

Yuan Shu originally wanted Sun Jian to realize his importance and beat Sun Jian, but Sun Jian's momentum was too strong, and Yuan Shu couldn't help but admit his mistake.

The result, of course, was that Yuan Shu immediately allocated military rations to Sun Jian, and Sun Jian was not ambiguous, and immediately returned to the front line, leading his troops to continue to advance and threaten Dong Zhuo's southern defense line.

At this time, on September 18, Guo Peng had already marched out of the revolving gate and marched to Gongxian, and learned that Dong Zhuo had sent his subordinates Zhong Lang to lead Dong Yue and Niu Fu with 20,000 soldiers and horses to Gongxian to defend against his attack.

On 20 September, Guo Peng arrived fifteen miles east of Gongxian and led his troops to attack the surrounding areas of Gongxian.

Guo Peng sent generals to disperse and attack the military facilities and camps set up by Dong Zhuo's army around Gongxian, and the offensive was rapid.

And Niu Fu and Dong Yue both thought that Guo Peng was a child who had lost his name, despised Guo Peng, did not listen to Dong Zhuo's warning, and took the initiative to send troops to fight Guo Peng.

Guo Peng's army had just won, swept away the fear of the Western Liang army, and occupied a psychological advantage, it was when the morale was like a rainbow, and it was also led by fierce generals like Guan Zhang and Zhao Lianggongsun, and the battle was less than an hour, and the Liangzhou army with the same number was completely destroyed.

In a big battle, Guo Peng led the army to sweep all the military auxiliary facilities around Gongxian County, fill in the pits, refuse to pull away, and remove the obstacles to the march.

Dong Zhuo's army was demoralized, Niu Fu and Dong Yue could not resist Guo Peng's troops, so they could only accept defeat, left thousands of corpses, shrank the defensive line, and mainly deployed defensive forces in and around Gongxian City to block Guo Peng's westward advance.

At the same time, Niu Fu adopted the advice of Jia Xu, the captain under his command, and did not hold out, did not take the initiative to engage in battles, fought defensive battles, and did not fight field battles.

The Liangzhou Corps, which was the best at field warfare, could not resist the advance of this crusading army, and was unable to engage in battle, so it was forced to fight a defensive battle.

In fact, before the battle, Jia Xu made a proposal to Niu Fu, suggesting that Niu Fu and Dong Yue lead the army to strictly defend Gong County and not fight, and fight a defensive war instead of a field war.

Jia Xu believed that Guo Peng had just won a big victory, and the morale of the army was high, so it was not possible to confront it head-on.

On the other hand, the Liangzhou army was demoralized and difficult to persevere on the frontal battlefield, so it was suggested that Niu Fu and Dong Yue take advantage of the logistical advantages to fight a protracted war.

Jia Xu believed that this could drag down Guo Peng's logistics and achieve the effect of surrendering without a fight.

But Dong Yue and Niu Fu both felt a little aggrieved by this, and Li Dao, Guo Yan, Zhang Ji and others were even more opposed, threatening to fight to the death with Guo Peng to defend the majesty of Dong Xiangguo.

Jia Xu's suggestion was not adopted, and the Liangzhou army expanded the scope of defense to engage in a full-scale battle, and then was defeated by the army commanded by Guo Peng.

Li Ji was almost stabbed to death by Zhang Fei, Guo Yan was chased by Guan Yu and fled lifelessly, and Zhang Ji's guards around him were all killed by Zhao Yun.

Jia Xu himself led his troops to block the assault of the Gongsun brothers, and fired arrows with all his might, and arrows rained down, so that the offensive of the crusading army slowed down, and it was easy to cover the retreat of these three people, and then collected the defeated troops, and then returned to Gongxian to defend the town.

After this defeat, Li Dao, Guo Yan and Zhang Ji did not dare to underestimate the army and generals under Guo Peng, and retreated around Gongxian County to defend and refuse to fight.

And Jia Xu's suggestion was finally adopted, Niu Fu and Dong Yue knew how powerful Guo Peng was, and no longer sought a frontal confrontation, and directly switched to defensive operations.

Guo Peng led the troops to attack Gongxian, ten thousand arrows were fired together, the army filled the ravines with a big shield, pushed the well and carried the ladder to attack the city wall, and the offensive was extremely fierce.

And Niu Fu and Dong Yue commanded the army to defend to the death, Guo Peng had no way to take Gong County for a while, he couldn't take Gong County in one go, so he could only retreat more than ten miles back and set up camp.

In the following days, Guo Peng continued to send troops to challenge, but the defenders of Gongxian County refused to fight, so Guo Peng could only continue to send troops to attack, but the effect was limited.

Although the effect was limited, Guo Peng's army was demoralized, while Dong Zhuo's soldiers in Gong County were in panic, and in the face of Guo Peng's attack of sending people to shoot arrows into the city, they never dared to come out to engage in battle, but only passively defended.

Although Guo Peng took the initiative, in the face of Gongxian's Guancheng, Guo Peng failed to break through in one fell swoop.

If they retreat with all their might, there is really no good way on their side, after all, the lack of siege means on their side is not a day or two.

Guo Peng feels that he is now better at field battles and shorter than sieges.

Guo Peng is not afraid of anyone in the field, and in his seven-year battlefield career, no matter who it is, he dares to take soldiers and horses to compete with him face-to-face, and compete to see who is stronger.

However, in terms of siege, in the face of the absolute superiority of the defenders, no matter how good the command ability is, it can only bring a very limited impact, which is not subject to human will, and there are too many uncertain factors.

Guo Peng was troubled by this and felt that the development of new siege equipment was urgent.

When he was in Qingzhou, Guo Peng had already realized his weakness in this regard, so he gathered more than 500 senior carpenters in the Sanjia Manor and asked them to collectively study the trebuchet, a siege weapon that once appeared in the Warring States Period but was inexplicably lost.

Then Guo Peng, who didn't know anything about carpentry, demonstrated the principle of leverage to them, and there was no other way.

Theory is theory, reality is practice, how to operate, it depends on the professionals, Guo Peng, who knows what it is, can only fight with his mouth, specifically, Guo Peng has no way to do this.

This kind of thing can only be used in field battles to scare people and horses, and the lethality is basically negligible, relying on sound, and it has almost no use in siege warfare, so Guo Peng did not continue to make it, but concentrated on studying trebuchets.

The development of new weapons was not so easy, a group of carpenters studied for several months, but the results were limited, Guo Peng couldn't wait, so he led his troops to attack Dong Zhuo.

At this time, the news brought by the grain messenger who came back from the sour jujube confirmed Guo Peng's previous speculation.

He had no more food to obtain.

Although he had expected it a long time ago and was mentally prepared, when he really met it, he couldn't help but want to laugh.

There was a ridiculous upheaval in the jujube camp.

Guo finally realized how philosophical the saying is that he is not afraid of a god-like opponent and a pig-like teammate.

Dong Zhuo is like this, Sun Jian is the same, and Guo is the same.