On August 29, the mobilization for the war in the two states of Qingyan was completed at an unimaginable speed, Guo Peng completed the reorganization of the army, held a pledge meeting, and then ordered the march.

As in the original plan, the army marched from Chenliu County to 30,000 people, Cao Ren was the main general, Guan Yu was the deputy general, and Chen Gong was the military aircraft of Sima Counselor, marching southwest from Chenliu County and entering Yingchuan County, with the goal of taking Chen State and Runan County in two ways after capturing Yingchuan County.

The army from Jiyin County was the elite main force led by Guo Peng himself, and originally only planned to send 50,000 people, but then Guo Peng thought about it and felt that this war could also be used for training, so he added 20,000 troops from the Jizhou battalion to the south and gathered 70,000 troops to attack Liang State.

Guo Lie's troops stationed in Lu would move south from Lu to attack the northern part of Peiguo, and then join Guo Peng in Peiguo.

Therefore, in this battle, Guo Peng mobilized a full 100,000 soldiers, added 50,000 people, and a total of 200,000 logistics troops to ensure the transportation of food, ordnance and materials, and ensured that this battle could be carried out smoothly and would not be dragged down by logistics.

The sufficient amount of grain, animal power, and manpower accumulated by Qingyan Erzhou for many years in Tuntian burst out in an instant, and an extremely powerful war mobilization force broke out.

In order to maintain and explode this mobilization force, the general's office issued an order and ordered the cavalry to scatter in all directions, mobilizing all the township and village chiefs from the chief executive down to the grassroots level.

They went down to every household, requisitioned the strong men of each household, registered them, issued name tags, and then led the team to set off.

This kind of experience is not uncommon before, Guo Peng has had similar mobilizations in the battles against Yuan Shao, the crusade against the Yellow Turbans and the occupation of Yanzhou, and against Lü Bu.

After a long period of training, the grassroots officials in all parts of Guo Peng's jurisdiction have been fully trained.

So Guo Peng officially broke with Yuan Shu, and with the power of Ji Qingyou and Yan Wuzhou, he raised 100,000 troops to the south to crusade against the puppet Chen Emperor Yuan Shu.

At the same time, Yuan Yuanwen scattered out, and the world was shaken.

The Central Plains is back in smoke.

For this, the people who hated Yuan Shu were overjoyed.

The people who were still hesitating and waiting also strengthened their minds and knew that they had made the right choice, and this correct choice would inevitably bring more benefits to themselves.

At least, he won't find an excuse to kill him because of Yuan Shu.

Almost no one thinks that Guo Peng will not win, and almost no one thinks that Yuan Shu will not be abandoned by the world.

From the very beginning of its establishment, the Pseudo-Chen Empire was destined to die quickly, even if it had established a lineage of heirs.

Therefore, when Guo Peng marched into Yingchuan County and Liang State, he encountered almost no resistance.

These disgraced places that were plagued by Yuan Shu, the Yellow Turban Army, and the Liangzhou Army were almost all large areas of ruins and no man's land, as well as deserted land and dilapidated grassy houses.

At this moment, Yingchuan County is not too guarded.

A few years ago, after the last Taishou Li Min was killed by Dong Zhuo, Yingchuan County was plundered by the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry several times, and after the Liangzhou people retreated, it was symbolically occupied by Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu saw that there were no households here, let alone any powerful clans, those who should have fled had fled, and those who died ran away, what else was there?

So it was symbolically occupied, and there was no rule here, and there was no heart to restore production.

After Cao Ren's army entered Yingchuan, it was like no one's land, and there were almost no soldiers and horses and resisters in the counties, but there were many bandits and a small number of Yellow Turban troops gathered together, and they became Cao Ren's biggest enemy.

But are they really qualified to be Cao Ren's enemies?

Obviously, no.

After being beheaded by Guan Yu five or six leaders in a row, the bandits and the Yellow Turban Army retreated faster than anyone else, and Cao Ren waved his army to cover the killing, defeating tens of thousands of bandits and the Yellow Turban Army, and capturing the population of tens of thousands.

Subsequently, Cao Ren placed them in Yingchuan County on the spot, ordered them to farm, compiled them into civil registration, and made a register.

Later, the administrative team and reconstruction team that entered Yingchuan County from Chenliu County arrived and began to restore rule and production in Yingchuan County.

This is also a mature one-stop industry under Guo Peng's command, the army opened up territory in front, and the officials and production and construction teams settled in the back, began to establish villages and townships, restored rule, and turned this land from de facto to Guo Peng's.

Yingchuan County was taken by Cao Ren in mid-September, and then Cao Ren and Guan Yu divided their troops to advance, Cao Ren and Chen Gong led an army of 20,000 to Runan County, and Guan Yu alone commanded 10,000 troops to march into Chen State.

Chen State was still very prosperous a few years ago, under the leadership of Liu Pet, the king of Chen at that time, and Luo Jun, the minister of state, there were many people who went to Chen to attach themselves, making Chen Wang Liu Pet bring 100,000 armor, and his prestige was great.

As a result, Yuan Shu sent an assassin to the state of Chen, assassinated Liu Chong and Luo Jun, and the state of Chen was in chaos, and 100,000 parts were scattered.

After that, Yuan Shu sent his own clansman, Yuan Si, to serve as the prime minister of Chen and re-rule the Chen state.

Knowing that Guo Peng issued a document against Yuan Shu, broke with Yuan Shu, and wanted to crusade against Yuan Shu in the name of the general of the Great Han Expedition to the Great North, Guan Yu's army of 10,000 rushed towards Chen State, and Yuan Si was very frightened.

Yuan Si did not have 10,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and in the face of the fierce Guo army's menacing southward movement, Yuan Si decided to resist a little and test the water.

So he sent a force of 2,000 people to be the vanguard to test Guan Yu's vanguard strength.

Then this vanguard was defeated by Guan Yu's vanguard Gao Ran, only two or three hundred people escaped, more than a thousand were killed, and all the rest were captured, and the general who led the army was beheaded and sent back to Yuan Si.

Yuan Si was frightened, thought about it, and felt that Yuan Shu's claim to be the emperor was really unreliable, Yuan Shao died, was destroyed by Yuan Shu's group, and now Yuan Shu himself is going to die again, isn't this ignoring the inheritance of the Yuan clan in Runan?

In fact, there was a lot of opposition in the Yuan family to Yuan Shu's claim to be emperor, but Yuan Shu couldn't resist it, and all those who opposed it were put under house arrest by Yuan Shu, and house arrest was equivalent to Yuan Shu's traditional skills.

Yuan Si pretended to support, but in fact, he was very worried about the future of the Yuan family, and felt that the Runan Yuan family, which had been heirloom for more than a hundred years, might be in the hands of Yuan Shu, so he simply stopped fighting.

He sent someone to inform Guan Yu that he had surrendered, and then opened the gate of the county seat of Chenxian County, disarmed the army and sat on the ground, while he himself took the lead and sat on the ground, waiting for Guan Yu to come and take prisoners.

When Guan Yu came, Yuan Si surrendered very simply, not dragging his feet at all, very simply.

In his capacity as Chen Guoxiang, he informed other officials to surrender on the spot and was not allowed to resist, so Guan Yu took control of all the counties of Chen State very smoothly, ending the history of Chen State belonging to Yuan Shu.

In late September, Guan Yu turned south and headed for Runan County.

The vast Runan County in the region has many bandits and remnants of the Yellow Turbans, and it is the base camp of the Runan Yellow Turbans that cooperated with Yuan Shu.

Yuan Shu proclaimed himself emperor, appointed several leaders of the Yellow Turban in Runan, Liu Pi, Gong Du, Huang Shao, He Man, He Yi, etc., to serve as generals, appointed them as miscellaneous generals, and also gave the Pavilion Marquis, and appointed the leader Liu Pi as the Taishou of Runan.

This is tantamount to in fact absorbing the Runan Yellow Turban Army, which gathered hundreds of thousands of people and had tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

This allowed the Runan Yellow Turban Army to be recognized by officials and the pseudo-Chen Empire, which was tantamount to being "whitewashed", although they were themselves a black and swarthy empire.

But this is also whitewashing.

From a thief to a general, the Runan Yellow Turban Army became a loyal supporter of the puppet Chen Empire.

When He Yi, who was active in Yingchuan, sent the news of his defeat and the robbery of Yingchuan County, they all tensed their nerves and gathered troops to prepare for battle.

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