Originally, intelligence espionage was very difficult these days.

The means of communication are extremely backward and time-consuming, and the two places are a little farther apart, and it takes several days to go back and forth.

In this way, it is necessary to have enough roads, horses, post stations and other institutions to assist in order to achieve it, and it is impossible to rely on one person and one horse to complete intelligence spying.

The road traffic in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was really indescribable, Xun You wanted to go to Yizhou to be an official, but he was stunned because the road was not accessible and could not enter Yizhou.

Jixian County, Youzhou, sent someone to send a letter to Luoyang, but because the road was impassable, he had to take a detour to the prairie, and it took two years to get to Luoyang.

With this road condition, you still want to play Lone Hero?

Guo believes that infrastructure is king.

Therefore, while he governs the local area, the most important thing is to engage in road traffic, not only for spying on intelligence and military operations, but also for a deeper meaning.

Do an experiment now, it will be of great use in the future.

As a result, because Guo set up a perfect intelligence transmission system and route early on, and set up a professional intelligence force Linzi Battalion, he walked in front of all the warlords.

So they want to play intelligence warfare with someone Guo, purely to find a draw.

The task of the Linzi camp at this stage and the main target were Yuan Shao's forces, and most of the energy was focused on the direction of Jizhou.

Guo Peng could understand what was going on in Jizhou as quickly as possible, but Yuan Shao couldn't know Guo Peng's actual actions.

However, Yuan Shao's basic strategy was to go north first and then south, and he had no idea of going south to fight Guo Peng before the north was pacified.

Before the extermination of Gongsun Chan this time, there was still a quarrel in his camp.

The reason is that Tian Feng insisted that Guo Peng would go north in the near future, and hoped that Yuan Shao would only leave a small part of his troops to clamp down on Gongsun Zhan, respond to the Youzhou United Army, and hand over the task of the main attack to the Youzhou United Army, while he led the main force to garrison Yecheng to guard against Guo Peng's Northern Expedition.

Therefore, before Yuan Shao was ready to leave, Tian Feng repeatedly wrote to dissuade Yuan Shao from personally leading his troops north, which made Yuan Shao very unhappy.

But even so, Tian Feng didn't think that his exhortation was unreasonable, and still insisted on his own opinion, saying that the focus should be on the south, not the north, Gongsun Chan is a small trouble, and Guo Peng is the enemy of life and death, so he must not ignore it.

Yuan Shao was very angry.

I beat Gongsun Chan just to have a stable rear, and I want a stable rear just to deal with Guo Peng, but you say I don't pay attention to Guo Peng?

Tian Feng immediately said that he didn't mean this, but said that he would solve Guo Peng first, and then solve the disaster in the north, reversing the order of priority.

This is the need to take the basic route.

Xu You immediately stood up and fought with Tian Feng, insisting on his own opinion, and the two quarreled inseparably, which finally made Yuan Shao very angry and reprimanded Tian Feng fiercely.

At this point, Tian Feng knew that Yuan Shao had already made his own decision, let everyone argue, just pretending, he didn't like his subordinates to question his ideas, even if it was wrong.

"If we can't plot against Guo Peng first and eliminate Guo Peng, I'm afraid we will all become his prisoners!"

Tian Feng finally shouted out in despair.

This completely angered Yuan Shao.

"Shake the morale of the army before the battle, what do you think! Are you cursing me for defeat! ”

Yuan Shao was furious and dismissed Tian Feng from his post and detained him, it was useless for anyone to persuade him, and after imprisoning Tian Feng, he sent troops north to crusade against Gongsun Zhan.

Some colleagues tried to rescue Tian Feng, but this time Yuan Shao was particularly angry, and directly said that whoever dared to release Tian Feng would be guilty of the same crime as him.

So no one tried to stop Yuan Shao.

This matter caused a stir in Jizhou, and Guo Peng also learned about it through special channels and felt very happy.

Of course, there are fewer people like Tian Feng in Yuan Shao's camp, the better, if there are more, how can Guo clean up Yuan Shao?

Yuan Shao believed Xu You's judgment, and Xu You insisted that Guo Peng would not be able to react and attack Yuan Shao north before Gongsun Zhan was exterminated, because that time was simply not enough for him to mobilize troops, horses, and grain and grass.

Therefore, Yuan Shaocai was very relieved to lead his elite to the north, and sure enough, he destroyed Gongsun Zhan's Yi Jing, killed Gongsun Zhan, and relieved the trouble, and then Guo Peng did not go north.

Yuan Shao's psychology was suddenly full of pride.

As long as he is given another period of time, he will be able to recover his vitality and begin to consider merging states, and then he will go south to fight Guo Peng.

The whole process may be done in three or four years, and during this period, he already has the confidence to face Guo Peng's attack.

Recruiting Youzhou soldiers and horses, as well as Karasuma cavalry, with such elite soldiers and horses against Guo Peng, Guo Peng does not have an advantage, and Yuan Shao's confidence is a lot.

After he was ready to return to Yecheng, he would laugh at Tian Feng fiercely and laugh at his pedantic incompetence.

But he underestimated Guo Peng's accumulated strength and determination to march to eliminate him.

In order to eliminate Yuan Shao, Guo Peng worked really hard.

So when Guo Peng led the army to Fanyang County, Yan Liang and Gao Ran were in a hurry.

The army that had been sent to block the city was neatly cleaned up, unable to buy more time, and then the city was ready to be defended, and the messenger for help had only been out for two days, and it was not known when the reinforcements would be brought in.

However, Yan Liang and Gao Ran were not panicked.

Guo Peng's army doesn't seem to be too much, at least not to 100,000, and he has 10,000 soldiers and horses to defend the city, so if Guo Peng's troops are not enough, it is still not a big problem to hold on for more than two months.

But if it's more than two months, the problem is bigger.

Because they were not prepared for war, there was not much food in the city, and it was only two months' worth when it was full, and after two months, everyone would happily gnaw the bark and eat grass roots.

With a small army, you can still defend the city, and if you don't have food, it's really over.

Therefore, Yan Liang and Gao Ran summed it up a little, and decided to use Xiao Hu to release grain and save a little bit of food before getting accurate source information.

They felt that Guo Peng's siege was still the traditional mode as always, but when they saw Guo Peng launch dozens of trebuchets aimed at the city wall, they were surprised and asked the people around them what kind of weapon this was.

They soon found out.

The huge stone projectiles that fell from the sky told them what kind of weapon it was.

Although the trebuchet is not very accurate and it is difficult to hit the intended target, as long as it can hit the city wall or the inside of the city, it is considered a victory.

The smashed city head jumped for a while, smashed until they collapsed, and then Guo Peng ordered the army to attack, fill in the ravines, send out obstacles, and the army formed a formation, with a big shield, pushing the ladder cart forward, and began to attack the city.

To say that Yan Liang and Gao Ran are not small characters, they still reacted quickly.

Hurry up and order the army to defend the city, saying that the enemy can't use the stone-smashing weapon when attacking, everyone hurry up to the city to defend!

The soldiers of the Zhendong Army under Guo Peng fought bravely to get to the city first, killing many Yuan soldiers.

Gao Ran and Yan Liang desperately commanded the army to counterattack, pushed out the hot gold juice again, poured down, and finally repelled the first wave of attack of the Zhendong Army with the momentum of destroying the world.

The first attack thus failed.

But it's okay, there's a second time.

Xi Zhong found that the current wind direction was favorable to Guo Peng, so he suggested that Guo Peng light the smoke of firewood and grass at the upwind outlet, and the smoke blew along the wind direction to the city.

The defenders at the head of the city could not stand at all, so they ran around in the smoke, and it was difficult to breathe.

So Guo Peng immediately ordered the army to wrap their mouth and nose with a damp cloth towel, took the opportunity to go to the city to fight, climbed the city wall again, destroyed a large number of their city defense equipment, and finally was unable to defeat the outnumbered people, forced to retreat, and the second wave of siege also failed.

After two waves of sieges, it was almost evening, and Guo Peng ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops and stop the siege on the first day.

Through this wave of offensives, Guo Peng roughly understood the number and combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the city, and felt that this was not a difficult army to deal with, so he commanded the army to surround the city wall on three sides and attack it on three sides the next day.

Then use a third powerful siege weapon.

Use a powerful crossbow to launch a large Megatron Thunderbolt onto the city walls.

The lethality was not great, and it mainly relied on scattered debris to kill, but the victory was that the sound was extremely loud, and these soldiers who had not experienced it were frightened by the sudden explosion, and the city was in shambles.

Guo Peng ordered the trebuchet to be launched, and the stone projectiles and earth-shattering thunder completely tore apart the defense line of the city head in a short time, and the Yuan army at the head of the city scattered and fled, unable to stop it.

"Ming Gong! It's time! ”

Xi Zhong said to Guo Peng with excitement on his face.

Guo Peng nodded.

"Drum attack!"