Guo Peng led his task, ordered a thousand soldiers and horses and corresponding ordnance, took food, and slowly went to the camp he was going to attack.

The first time he led his troops into battle alone, although he only had 1,000 men under his command, he still maintained a high degree of tension and vigilance, and the sentry cavalry scattered to search for news, and there was no one in the whole army who was not ready for battle.

The Yellow Turban military camp he was responsible for the attack was on a hill, camped along the hill, showing a condescending posture, standing on the hill and overlooking the county seat of Guangzong, the terrain was very good.

When Guo Peng marched, he happened to encounter a Yellow Turban army of about 500 people coming down from the camp on the hill.

So Guo Peng immediately led his cavalry to rush over, and the encounter on the plain made the Yellow Turban Army unable to even put out the formation and was defeated by the Changshui cavalry.

Guo Peng killed more than a dozen people and wiped out this small army, and only a few dozen of them escaped.

Guo Peng also captured more than a dozen people alive, and asked them for information about the presence of more than 2,000 Yellow Turban soldiers and some grain in the camp, as well as some information about where to get water and where to cut firewood in daily life.

Then Guo Peng ordered them all to be killed.

With this good start, the confidence of the whole army has been significantly improved, and the new troops under Guo Peng's command have also become more obedient to Guo Peng.

After that, Guo Peng personally led people to observe the surrounding environment.

Then, according to Guo Peng's command, the soldiers marched steadily to the place designated by Guo Peng and began to set up camp.

The place where Guo Peng camped was next to the river on the hill where the Yellow Turban Army wanted to get water.

That's right, the gang chose a hill with no water source and put the camp on the hill.

There is only one trail on the mountain, and there is a river at the foot of the mountain, so you can get water at the bottom of the mountain, but there is no defense here.

They made the same mistake as Ma Tan.

People can live for five to seven days without eating, depending on the amount of body fat, they can live longer, but if there is no water, they will be finished in three days.

Condescending, overwhelming.

Rise from the ashes.

That's what the art of war says, but that's not how it works.

Guo Peng looked at the camp of the Yellow Turban Army on the hill mockingly, and did not intend to attack it.

Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan came to Guo Peng's side.

"Big brother, why don't you give the order to attack it?"

The consecutive victories seemed to give Cao Ren the idea that he could win as long as he attacked.

Xiahoudun seems to have the same idea.

"Zifeng, did you find anything?"

Xiahou Yuan watched Guo Peng camp along the river, and felt as if there was something worth noting.

Guo Peng nodded.

"There is only this river in a radius of miles, and there is only one way down the mountain, and if they want to get water, they can only get it from here."

Several people looked at each other and immediately understood Guo Peng's approach.

Cut off the water source.

People can survive for a few days without eating, and if they don't drink water, it's really fatal, so they basically have to choose to be close to the water source when marching and camping, or simply include the water source, otherwise they really can't survive.

At present, the Yellow Turban Army's road to water has been interfered by Guo Peng, and if they want to get water, they must pass through Guo Peng's camp, which is a problem.

Guo Peng ordered the army to dig ditches and set up camps to set up shelters, and made defensive facilities at the foot of the mountain, just waiting for them to come down from the mountain, and the five hundred cavalry were eyeing them, waiting for them to come down from the mountain to fight a field battle.

Just now, these people were wiped out by Guo Peng, and they didn't dare to come down now.

Although they may have discovered that Guo Peng was cutting off their water supply by doing so.

But the fear of the cavalry will make them afraid to come down.

Isn't it safer to get water at night, not necessarily during the day?

Guo Peng also thinks so.

So, he ordered the army to take turns to sleep, half of them during the day, and half of them at night, to be on guard at all times.

During the day, the Yellow Turban Army camp on the hill was in full array, and the camp gate was closed, and no one came down.

That night, in the middle of the night, no one came down.

In the second half of the night, there was movement of the Yellow Turban Army on the mountain, and they came down to fetch water.

At this moment, Guo Peng was ambushing them with soldiers and horses, and they ran to the river to start fetching water, and Guo Peng decisively ordered rockets to be lit in the camp, and a sudden burst of fire made them cry and howl.

Then the Han army camp made a loud noise, beating the horn, and the faction looked like it was going to attack, and the Yellow Turban Army who fetched water was suddenly in chaos, and you pushed me to run away without my life, and the scene was chaotic.

However, Guo Peng did not lead the army to kill, but only ordered the army to release arrows.

Then he took the soldiers back to sleep.

At dawn the next day, I saw that some of the Yellow Turbans had been shot to death, trampled to death, had rolled down from the hill and smashed their heads on stones, and some had drowned in the river for some reason......

There were 361 corpses.

The Han army suffered no casualties.

In the afternoon of the next day, probably thinking that the water was really insufficient, the officers of the Yellow Turban Army on the mountain opened the gate of the fortress and began to use the prepared rolling wood and stones to try to attack the Han army camp at the foot of the mountain.

As a result, the rolling distance was not enough, and the rolling wood and stone were purely given to the Han army as weapons.

The commander of the Yellow Turban Army was probably dumbfounded, and in the end he really had nothing to do and couldn't sit back and watch the whole army die of thirst, so he rushed down with the Yellow Turban Army to attack Guo Peng's camp.

Guo Peng was prepared, and immediately ordered the army to release arrows, and then the sword and shield men and gunners lined up to meet the battle, fought with the Yellow Turban Army, and then the cavalry killed.

The superior cavalry rushed and killed two back and forth, and the Yellow Turban Army, which outnumbered the Han army, collapsed, and hurriedly ran to the cottage, closing the gate of the village and defending it.

They really couldn't defeat the superior cavalry, and it was impossible to fight without forming a military formation in the face of the cavalry, and they had to flee in defeat, because the cavalry could not catch up with the mountain.

After the defeat, the Han infantry pursued up the mountain, and the Yellow Turban soldiers who stayed in the camp on the mountain fired arrows to block, and the Han army lost some manpower.

Seeing this, Guo Peng immediately ordered the Han army infantry who attacked the mountain to retreat, not to attack on the back, the advantage of this battle was him, and he didn't need to attack strongly.

In this battle, the Han army killed more than 400 Yellow Turban soldiers, and the number of Yellow Turban troops dropped to about 1,500, and they did not get water.

After that, until the evening, the Yellow Turban Army organized several battles to force water down the mountain, but without success, and was repelled by the crossbows and cavalry of the Han army, which instead consumed a lot of physical strength and water.

That night, they didn't dare to come down to get water, probably because they were afraid of being ruthless and had nothing to do.

During the day on the third day, it was a sunny day, the temperature was quite high, and when the sun rose overhead, the Yellow Turban Army on the mountain sent people down, saying that they hoped to surrender to the Han army, and begged the Han army to save their lives.

Guo Peng refused on the spot, and beheaded the person in front of the people in the cottage, telling the Yellow Turban Army on the mountain to wash his neck and prepare to die.

Cao Ren and the others didn't understand why Guo Peng categorically refused.

"You see that this person's lips are not chapped and peeled, it can be seen that they still have water to drink right now, so these people are not sincere surrender, if they are so thirsty that they can't really surrender, and it is not now, their so-called surrender is just a ploy."

Only then did Cao Ren and the others understand Guo Peng's intentions.

When people are at the end of their ropes, they will not give up the last glimmer of hope in most cases.

So the Han army continued to stick to the camp, waited for the battle, cut off the Yellow Turban Army's way to get water, and after another two days, the Yellow Turban Army twice went down the mountain to try to get water, and lost more than 200 corpses and retreated to the mountain.

This time, Guo Peng felt almost.

The lips of the Yellow Turban sergeants who came down the mountain were chapped and peeling, which was obviously a sign of dehydration.

They probably didn't have much water to drink.