On July 12 of the fourth year of Chuping, before sending troops, Yuan Shao got relatively complete information and learned that Guo Peng's blow to Jizhou was already relatively serious.

The Qing and Bohai kingdoms had already fallen, and the Wei and Zhao kingdoms were also crumbling under Guo Peng's troops.

The core of his rule, Wei County, only one Yecheng was still under the defense of the trial, and all the other cities fell and were occupied by Guo Peng.

Guo Peng, under the banner of Yuan Shu, took down these cities very easily, and basically did not encounter strong resistance, and there were very few people willing to resist.

Yuan Shao's losses were very heavy.

Yuan Shao was extremely annoyed, and immediately arranged for the strategists to carry out strategic planning, and the strategists put forward a lot of suggestions, which made Yuan Shao a little unable to react, but in the end Yuan Shao still came to his own decision.

Appointed Chun Yuqiong, the lieutenant of his cronies, and Jiang Qi and Han Juzi, the two lieutenants, to lead 10,000 cavalry south to Bohai County, defeat Guo Peng's army attacking Bohai County, recover Bohai County, recover Qinghe Country or attack Pingyuan Country in the south.

Yuan Shao himself personally commanded the main army of 50,000 to move south from Jixian County, counterattacked all the way south along the way he came, and sent orders to the counties that were still under his control, so that they could prepare for defense.

At the same time, Yuan Shao also sent Xu You and Xun Chen as lobbyists to go to various counties and counties in Jizhou to find well-known powerful families to lobby.

Xu You and Xun Chen explained the current situation to them, calling on them to learn from the powerful clan of Youzhou and use their savings to support Yuan Shao in defeating Guo Peng.

He also revealed to them Yuan Shao's qualifications to study "Meng Shi Yi", as well as his plan to go south to Yanzhou directly after defeating Guo Peng.

He promised that as long as they could use part of their family savings to support Yuan Shao and make meritorious contributions, they might get the opportunity to learn "Meng Shi Yi" and be absolutely qualified to divide the interests of Yanzhou.

"Guo Zifeng is popular in Qingyan Erzhou, those people support Guo Zifeng's crusade against General Yuan, General Yuan will definitely not forgive them, after taking Yanzhou, General Yuan will inevitably execute them, and those empty lands, don't you want them?"

Xu You and Xun Chen persuaded the wealthy families in Jizhou in this way, and as in the case of Youzhou, after a short period of argument, the powerful landlords in Youzhou were also divided.

They also split into two factions, one faction decided to support Yuan Shao, and sent their children north to Jixian to study "Meng Shi Yi".

One faction decided not to move, waited for Guo Peng to come, took refuge in Guo Peng, took refuge in Yuan Shu, and continued his daily life.

This choice is very normal, some people like to fight for the future, while others care more about their own lives than the future.

The dilemma will inevitably result in two different opinions and two different paths.

In their eyes, this civil war of the Yuan clan is both an opportunity and a challenge.

So Yuan Shao still got the support of some powerful landlords with heads and faces, and with these heads and faces taking the lead, they opened their family savings to Yuan Shao, and showed their fierce and greedy fangs to Guo Peng with the amazing family accumulation as the foundation.

On July 24, Yuan Shao, who had completed preparations for war, issued an order to march.

Chun Yuqiong, Jiang Qi, and Han Juzi first led 10,000 cavalry to Bohai County and pounced, intending to annihilate Guo Peng's army attacking Bohai County in one fell swoop.

On July 25, Yuan Shao's main army had not yet officially set off, and suddenly received the news that 10,000 elite soldiers under the Black Mountain thief Zhang Yan had invaded Changshan Country and plundered it.

Yuan Shao was greatly annoyed, and immediately ordered his nephew Gao Gan to lead an army of 10,000 to Changshan to attack Zhang Yan with two generals, Jiao Touch and Zhang Nan.

So on July 26, Yuan Shao was finally able to lead the main army of 40,000 to march south, and the 40,000 army marched southward with great prestige, as if the victory had been won before the war began.

They had to do it, they had to build momentum like this.

Because Yuan Shu was stronger, the base area was wider, and he was more supported by the local princes, which was obvious.

Guo Peng is Yuan Shu's licking dog, isn't this enough to reflect the seriousness of the problem?

Therefore, although Yuan Shao is the pastor of Jizhou, a class brother and relative whom they admire, but in the face of Guo Peng, who came under the banner of Yuan Shu, he is a person, and he will feel entangled if he has a little knowledge.

Then split into two factions.

The people who supported Yuan Shao had naturally decided to give up the back road to fight for the future, not to mention that Yuan Shao also gave them the right to carve up the fertile soil of Qingyan Erzhou.

As long as Guo Peng can be defeated and Yuan Shu's attack can be thwarted, not only can he get the opportunity to learn and transform into a scholar clan, but he can also expand his family business and expand his family power to Qingyan Erzhou and become more powerful.

What could be more important than the transformation of the noble family and the expansion of the family business?

Because Yuan Shao opened up the opportunity to study and gave a batch of places for them to fight for, they who originally ignored Yuan Shao instantly became the cornerstone and biggest supporter of Yuan Shao.

So Yuan Shao went all the way, and the "fathers and villagers" of various counties and counties along the way were "looking forward to it", very "eager" for Yuan Shao's arrival, and "eating pot pulp" to welcome Yuan Jun.

It created a huge momentum for Yuan Shao.

It was as if Yuan Shao, who had not even won a battle, had won a complete victory.

This half of the powerful landlords provided Yuan Shao with a large amount of grain, ordnance, war horses, cloth, grain transporters, and private soldiers with a certain combat effectiveness.

Your family is out of 500, my family is out of 300, and his family is out of 600, as soon as everyone is combined, in an instant, an army of more than 20,000 people was formed, joined Yuan Shao's army, and was sent by Yuan Shao to each general.

The army of 40,000 marched all the way forward, and it became an army of 60,000.

Yuan Shao has achieved the general trend, and it seems that he has reversed the situation, obtained stronger troops than Guo Peng on the frontal battlefield, gained the confidence and strength to fight to the death with the Yuan Shu group, and has the hope of turning the tables.

The landlords who supported Yuan Shao did their best to support Yuan Shao, and they sent themselves to wear armor and ride horses to help Yuan Shao fight.

Yuan Shao is really surging like a giant now, with a fierce momentum, as if he can crush Guo Peng in the next second.

And Yuan Shao's entire strategic preparation process, Guo Peng has always been very concerned in Handan.

Basically, Guo Peng already knew about Yuan Shao's every move, and also got the news of Yuan Shao's army and the specific tactical trend.

Guo Peng learned that Yuan Shao's army was divided into three routes, all the way to Changshan Kingdom, to attack Zhang Yan, and all the way to Bohai County, as if to recapture Bohai County.

The main force had already moved south under the personal leadership of Yuan Shao and was coming towards Guo Peng.

Seeing that Yuan Shao had an army of 80,000 in a few minutes, of which 60,000 was not recruited by himself, but sent by others, Guo instantly understood what it meant to be more popular than a person.

Guo Peng now understands.

In the face of such Yuan Shao, if Cao Cao did not coerce the Son of Heaven, did not rely on the name of the Son of Heaven to control the name of righteousness, and controlled the management of Taixue, he could arrange for the children of his officials to enter Taixue, and he would definitely not be able to hold out the official war.

Even with the Son of Heaven in hand, after the war, Cao Cao still found a large box of collaborator letters.

Guo does not have the Son of Heaven in his hands, but fortunately, there is a college and university to guarantee the bottom, and there is also the banner of Yuan Shu as a deterrent, and Yuan Shao is not as strong as he was later, and his foothold is so stable.

So anyway, Guo forcibly took away the other half of the help that Yuan Shao should have gotten, and successfully split the powerful landlords in Hebei, so that Yuan Shao could not do his best.

This is the power of the Fourth World and the Third Duke.

Although he is not a person from the fourth world and the third prince, as the most powerful dog of the fourth world and the third prince, Guo still uses the power of the fourth world and the third prince like a fox and a tiger, and has obtained good results.

It's called dog fighting.