Guo Peng treated the heads of all the heads and faces of the Southern Xiongnu with lime, and sent them to Hongnong to ask for rewards from the imperial court together with the heads of Guiyi Shan Yu.

The reason is to clear the border troubles for the imperial court for a hundred years, and the Xiongnu will no longer be a trouble.

The Hongnong Imperial Court is now Guo Peng's ATM, and they will do whatever Guo Peng wants, so Guo Peng attached a list of the Taishou County Orders he wants to appoint, and the Hongnong Imperial Court will agree if he does not agree.

Otherwise, now Guo can raise troops to the north to attack the Southern Xiongnu, and he can still go south to conquer Hongnong.

More than 200,000 and 50,000 soldiers of the Southern Xiongnu were not Guo Peng's opponents, let alone others?

After a month of settling the battle, and then until the end of November, Wei general Cao Xiu's troops entered Jilusai, the westernmost part of Shuofang County, and reset the defenders.

Xu Huang's subordinates were ordered to cross the wasteland and arrive at the desolate and dilapidated Sanfeng County, which had been deserted, and completed the exploration and recovery of Shuofang County.

At the same time, Cao Ren also led 20,000 soldiers and horses to successfully take Yanmen County and Dingxiang County, killing nearly 10,000 Zahu, capturing more than 80,000 people and more than 100,000 livestock.

Then, according to Guo Peng's order, Cao Ren killed the old and weak, the young and strong men were assigned as coolies, and the young and strong women were incorporated into the Han nationality, recorded in the household registration, and brought into the mainland.

Xiahou Yuan also conquered Yunzhong County according to the established plan, killed more than 5,000 people of various ethnic groups, captured more than 60,000 people, and captured more than 100,000 livestock, and also acted according to Guo Peng's orders.

During the entire military operation, intimidated by Guo Peng's great military might, all the organized Xianbei people retreated from the Wei army and fled within the range of Yanmen County and Yunzhong County.

After the frightened Xianbei people reconnoitred the approach of the Wei army, they ran north without their lives, and did not dare to confront the Wei army at all, lest there be a war and be swept away by the Wei army, which would be bloody mold.

The Wei army swept away the miscellaneous people who illegally occupied the land in the territory, freed up the living space, and prepared to redeploy the defense according to Guo Peng's orders.

These sites may be desolate, the soil is barren, or even desert, they cannot grow food, they cannot be immigrated, and they have no economic value, but the occupation of land cannot be based solely on economic value, but also on military value and political value.

With these seemingly inhospitable lands, it is equivalent to having a strategic buffer zone.

The enemy's invasion will have to cross the buffer zone, and it will not be able to directly enter the economic zone and densely populated areas to wreak havoc, and it will have to bear the risk of elongating the logistical supply line and cutting off the back route.

This is another sense of keeping the enemy out of the country, without losing the country's population, without destroying the order of production, which can indirectly reduce a large number of war losses, which will not be cheaper than launching a medium-sized encounter.

We must not just rely on the Great Wall for defense, but go out of the Great Wall, expand the control area to the grassland, and build a mobile Great Wall.

The economic zone and populated area will be preserved by building this area on the periphery of the Great Wall into a second Great Wall, and using the economic zone and densely populated area south of the Great Wall as a logistics base, and building reliable transportation routes to supply and support operations ahead.

It's always much easier to destroy than to build.

On November 27, the third year of Xingping, Guo Peng led his army back to Taiyuan County, ending this seemingly sudden war.

Bingzhou was fully incorporated under Guo Peng's rule.

Since the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the five counties of Yunzhong, Wuyuan, Dingxiang, Yanmen, and Shuofang have gradually been occupied by the Southern Xiongnu, Karasuma and various ethnic groups, and the Han people have gradually lost their dominant position, and then to the complete disorder after the Yellow Turban Rebellion, and now, it has exceeded a Jiazi.

Guo Peng will reassign the annexed prefecture to the strict control of the government, reset the nine county guards and the nine county garrisons, and still use Zang Hong to lead the annexation of the prefecture to organize the work of reconstruction and economic construction.

In addition, more than 80,000 captured Xiongnu, Karasuma and Zahu Qingzhuang were used as laborers, and the construction was carried out slowly, and the pattern of villages, townships, counties and counties was the same as that of inland counties.

Because there was no intervention of powerful landlords and scholars, Guo Peng's control over Bingzhou was all-round, and he easily carried out his will to the end, and with the four or five hundred thousand captured livestock as the confidence, Guo Peng officially assigned tasks to Zang Hong, so that Zang Hong began to prepare for horse politics and raise horses in Bingzhou.

In the past, Guo Peng bought the horses from the Karasuma people, and then transported them to the Central Plains, and the good ones were kept for himself to fight, and the ones that were almost used for transportation, and the ones that were even worse were sold to Yuan Shu, Liu Biao, and the Jiangdong people, earning high profits, and the bad ones were very bad.

This time, Guo Peng no longer needs to continue to spend a lot of money to buy horses from the Karasuma people, but can run his own horse farm.

There was a vast grassland used to raise horses, and Guo Peng prepared to train a large number of cavalry in Bingzhou, preparing for his subsequent expedition to Guanzhong, Guanxi and Liangzhou, as well as the Northern Expedition to Xianbei.

Raising horses in the north, training the navy in the south, and working hard to store grain and grass in the fields, Guo Peng's preparations for war never stopped for a moment, he worked hard and fought endlessly.

Having this advantage is still not the end of Guo Peng's journey, and the construction of the annexed state will take time, because it has been seriously damaged and it is difficult to recover.

Compared with the state, all aspects of Youzhou are relatively well preserved, and he himself started in Youzhou and is more familiar with the situation in Youzhou.

So the next step is to target the Xianbei people in Yanbian, Youzhou.

The situation in Youzhou is still quite special.

His rule over Youzhou is more of a nominal governance, with Youzhou's local powerful and rarely supplemented by Youzhou's assassin history, ostensibly holding great power, but in fact it is a union of many powerful clans.

Yuan Shao won the cooperation of some people, Guo Peng destroyed that part of the people, and the remaining half was still in good shape, which made a great contribution to his 'mastery' of Youzhou, and was rewarded by Guo Peng and continued to live their lives.

The Mi clan and the Li clan have more than 10,000 people in Youzhou, and the Xian Yu clan he appointed is itself a large strong man with 20,000 people.

There are more than 100 large and small ones, and the number of people in their hands is more than twice the number of yeoman farmers on the official register.

Don't underestimate the population of Youzhou, in the melee in the Central Plains after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Dong Zhuo's Rebellion, nearly one million people fled from the Central Plains Hebei to Youzhou for refuge.

Although some of them returned later, there were still hundreds of thousands of people who remained in Youzhou, greatly expanding the population of Youzhou.

A considerable part of this part of the population took refuge in Youzhou's local Haoqiang in order to survive, and the power of Youzhou's local Haoqiang increased greatly, and Gongsun Du, who occupied Liaodong and established himself as king, was one of the biggest beneficiaries of this wave of immigration.

So the problem in Youzhou is really not small.

Guo Peng actually maintained his influence and some control over Zhuo County, Shanggu County and Dai County, as well as Guangyang County.

Shanggu County and Dai County still have a considerable part of the power of Nanlou, and Guangyang County mainly relies on the strength of the Xianyu clan, and on the whole, he does not have an advantage at all, except for Zhuo County.