Although Xianbei after the division is far less terrible than when it was unified, it should be said that the population is still there, the heritage is still there, and from time to time there are also southward invasions and robberies along the ancient route.

Guo Peng ordered Xian Yufu and Tian Yu to lead the army to garrison in Liaoxi County several times, appointed Tian Yu as the Taishou of Liaoxi, and set up ambushes and strikes on the road that Xianbei people must pass south, but the effect was not great.

Over time, the Xianbei people in this place really regarded Youzhou as a soft persimmon to pinch.

This time, it wasn't so good.

Guo Peng personally led 50,000 cavalry to crusade, as long as he saw the Xianbei tribe everywhere he went, he waved his hand, and the army pounced, killed, arrested, looted materials, and escaped like bandits, beating the Xianbei people to cry and cry and flee in embarrassment.

In addition, they have no other way to fight Guo Peng, they do not have a unified command.

And when they realized that the threat was very great, and wanted to gather together to fight Guo Peng, there were already too many tribes that had been destroyed by Guo Peng's troops.

After observing the state of the Wei army fighting with the Xianbei people, Xun You put forward his own suggestions to Guo Peng.

"Whether our army is a single soldier or a group, the combat strength is above Xianbei, Xianbei is scattered, our army is gathered, although we can defeat a strong enemy, but we can't do it all, why not break it into parts, divide the army into dozens of thousand-man cavalry teams, and scatter them in all directions.

Set a time limit, each of them swept away the Xianbei tribes they encountered, dispersed to disperse, and when they reacted and tried to gather all their strength against our army, then our army would also gather together, and in this way, it would be a sure victory. ”

Guo Peng adopted Xun You's strategy, and on the basis of the individual combat effectiveness completely surpassing the Xianbei cavalry, he adopted the tactic of breaking the whole into parts.

He will turn the 50,000-strong army into dozens of thousand-strong teams and scatter them to give the generals a fair stage to show themselves.

The generals were very excited, they quickly attacked, grabbed Xianbei people everywhere as guides, and smashed the Xianbei tribes all over the prairie one by one, killing one by one, and destroying one by one.

Guo Peng was accompanied by thousands of Tiger Guards, marching hand in hand with everyone, constantly sweeping away the Xianbei tribes and insignificant resistance he encountered.

The few times he encountered a resistance of more than 1,000 people was easily annihilated by Guo Peng.

Although it took a long time from March to May, the Xianbei tribe that was eliminated was real.

The desperate plan is vicious, but it has an effect, and by the time the Xianbei people try to unite, there are no longer enough people to gather to resist Guo Peng.

However, because of the fast advance speed and the distance from the border, so that the logistics could not keep up, so Guo Peng decisively ordered everyone to disperse to fight and feed the war, plunder and eat on the spot, so as to continue the battle.

Eating the enemy is a tactic in itself, but the risk is relatively large, because there is no guarantee that there will be enough food to eat, but as long as there is food where there are people, the generals will take the captured cattle, sheep and horses with the army, and when they are hungry, they will slaughter the cattle and sheep and roast them and eat meat, and the food is quite good.

From the beginning to the end, the biggest resistance was only the head-on confrontation between the Xianbei cavalry of more than 5,000 people and Guo Peng, and in addition, there was no resistance from the Xianbei cavalry of the formation.

The tragedy of the loss of unity of command is evident.

A divided enemy is not terrible at all, but once it is unified, it is terrible.

It is necessary to take advantage of the fact that the Xianbei people are not unified, and cripple them, so that they cannot be unified, cannot prosper, and decline.

In the biggest resistance, Guan Yu, who followed Guo Peng's side, showed great courage, took the lead in charging with a spear, brought his personal bravery to the extreme, and led 5,000 Hu Han cavalry to defeat the Xianbei cavalry completely, and finally the five leader-level figures were killed by Guan Yu Two and three were captured.

Guo Peng praised Guan Yu fiercely.

"Yun Chang is brave, I only saw it today!"

Guan Yu's whole face turned red with joy.

Then Guo Peng noticed Guan Yu's long beard.

"Yun Chang's beard hasn't been trimmed for a long time, right?"

"The body is skinned, and the parents who receive it dare not destroy it, so they have been raised like this, and they have never been trimmed."

Guo Peng nodded.

"Does this beard usually fall out?"

Guan Yu nodded.

"When it's cold, two or three will fall, and if you accidentally pull it, you will drop a few."

"It's inconvenient."

Guo Peng smiled: "That's it, I'll ask Yun Chang to make a cloth cover to help Yun Chang protect his beard, otherwise, this wisp of beautiful hair will be too much of a pity." ”

"Thank you, Duke Wei."

Guan Yu was overjoyed and thanked Guo Peng.

Since then, the title of "Bearded General" has risen in the army, and Guan Yu will be called a Bearded General wherever he goes, with a complacent face, regarding his beard as his life, no one can touch his beard, not even the closest Zhang Fei, so as not to hurt his beard.

For this reason, some generals felt that Guo Peng might like generals with long beards, so in order to cater to Guo Peng's preferences, they also began to follow the trend and grow beards, which is quite funny.

This wave of sweeps lasted more than two months.

By the time Guo Peng knew that Zhao Yun had successfully killed Bu Dugen and killed Xianbei over there, it was almost June.

At this time, Guo Peng led the army to the vicinity of White Wolf Mountain, preparing to enter Youzhou from here and return to Jizhou.

It has to be said that the time has come for this war to end.

The war went a little more smoothly than expected, but it cannot be said that it was not unreasonable.

The combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Wei army has been fully verified, and the legion under the command of a strong unified command against a plate of scattered sand, if it does not have such an effect, it will make people laugh.

According to the current statistics, at least more than 50,000 Xianbei cavalry were killed, more than 300,000 Xianbei people were captured, and more than 700,000 livestock were captured.

Xianbei and the rest of the miscellaneous Hu along the border between Bingzhou and Youzhou were swept away, and some of the severed heads were cast by Guo Peng as Jingguan and stood on the border line to deter people who wanted to come over to do things.

It's just a small fight, it's really a small fight, it's a small fight that has only been prepared for four months.

In the future, the real battle of the country will take more than a year to prepare, and more than 100,000 iron horsemen will be dispatched.

Go deep into the grassland, completely beat the Xianbei people into the Northern Xiongnu, sweep all the way, either die or surrender.

That day, Guo Peng had already thought about it.

On this day when the establishment of the empire seemed to be far away, Guo Peng had already thought of the future of that day and thought of his own future.

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