Zhang He, Gao Lan, Yan Liang, Zhu Ling and other Yuan Shao generals waited for the war.

Now that the war has finally arrived, and there is finally a chance for them to make meritorious contributions, they are so excited that they have taken their armies to prepare for war.

At the beginning of June of the first year of Xingping, the combined forces of the Baibo army and Yufula invaded Shangdang County, and the first target was Nie County.

Captain Zhu Ling was ordered by Guo Peng to lead an army of 2,000 here to block the Baibo Army and Yu Fuluo's coalition army, Zhu Ling and the vanguard of the coalition army fought for a while, lost the enemy, quickly retreated, and abandoned Niexian.

The coalition forces were overjoyed and immediately entered and occupied Nexian, trying to grab a big pass, only to find that Nexianxian was already an empty city.

Guo Peng had already ordered the evacuation of the people of Nie County, destroyed roads and bridges, filled in wells, and taken away everything he could carry, and implemented a resolute policy of fortifying the walls and clearing the wilderness.

The terrain in this area is rugged, the road is inaccessible, and in many places there is only one road, which is still a necessary way, and if you want to move forward, you must pass through here, and there is no other way.

Guo Peng, just like when he dealt with Yuan Shao, took advantage of the enemy's momentum and desire to take the initiative to attack, fortified the wall, cleared the wilderness, lengthened the enemy's supply line, shortened his own supply line, and made himself gain an advantage in logistics and supply, and reduced his own war losses.

Fighting a war is an art, and for Guo Peng, it is the art of command and the art of saving money.

You can't go bankrupt with a fight, it's not worth it.

To deal with this group of rogue-like enemies, it is necessary to use various methods to drag him to death, starve him to death, make him go crazy in a hurry, take advantage of the vast and sparsely populated area, lack of development, and difficult roads, expand the no-man's land, and increase the difficulty of the opponent's march.

Yang Feng and Yu Fuluo marched all the way, and basically did not encounter any people along the way, and after defeating Zhu Ling and arriving in Nie County, they were ready to plunder, but it turned out that there was no one in Nie County at all.

There were no people, no livestock, no food, even wells for drinking water were filled, and they searched for a long time, but they found nothing useful except for many traps.

Yang Feng and Yu Fuluo were dumbfounded, and immediately realized that this was a tactic of Jianbi Qingye.

"It seems that Guo Zifeng is ready, if this continues, we will be very passive, General Yang, what do you say we should do?"

Yu Fuluo counted the food in everyone's hands, and felt that he had no bottom in his heart, so he asked Yang Feng, the representative of the imperial court.

Yang Feng is just a rogue yellow turban thief, and he doesn't have much wisdom, he has no force and bravery, but he is actually not a ruthless character.

"Continue to go south, no matter how powerful Guo Zifeng is, can he relocate the entire Shangdang County? Let's continue south, and we're sure to run into people! ”

Yang Feng said.

Yang Feng said it simply, but he told Yu Fuluo to beat the drum in his heart.

"We don't have that much food, what if we don't meet anyone if we continue south?"

"We are ordered by the imperial court, to win this battle, I will be promoted and make a fortune, you can also go back to be a single Yu, wealth has always been a struggle, and it didn't fall from the sky, you won't want to retreat, right?"

Yang Fenghu looked at Yu Fuluo suspiciously, and Yu Fuluo suddenly had nothing to say.

Indeed, only by winning this battle can you go back justifiably, otherwise, you really can't go back.

Now the de facto controller of the Southern Xiongnu can refuse his return.

And judging from the effect of the previous engagement, Guo Peng's army is not an elite army, and it will retreat after a little fight, and Yu Fuluo is still relatively confident in dealing with this kind of army.

Then you can only bite the bullet and go all the way south.

But don't say that they didn't meet anyone in Nie County, they still didn't meet anyone in Xiangyuan County.

The defenders of Xiangyuan County are Gao Lan's department, Gao Ran was ordered to guard Xiangyuan County, Yang Feng thought he had learned the art of war, and played a siege of three missing one, so a few days later Gao Ran was defeated and retreated, broke out of the city, and fled.

Yang Feng also pretended to be very forced to come to a poor Kou Mo chase, and then he was very excited to occupy Xiangyuan County.

The result was dumbfounded.

Xiangyuan County is also empty.

Empty cities, low, dilapidated houses, the stench of feces and urine, and nothing else.

The food collected and looted before the departure was almost exhausted, and the march had been gone for more than ten days, and not a single enemy had been encountered, which was considered a war?

Yang Feng couldn't hold it anymore, let alone the others.

They didn't have much food reserves, but they were almost unable to hold on when they walked to Xiangyuan County, and the army of tens of thousands of people could not find anything to eat, so they could only hunt and fish, pick fruits, dig grass roots, and chew tree bark to supplement the lack of food.

Although it is green, healthy and pollution-free, it is really difficult to fill the stomach with this little thing, and now the coalition forces are tired and hungry.

In desperation, Yang Feng and Yu Fuluo had no choice but to order the army to rest in Xiangyuan County, and send people to hunt and fish to find food, so that they could have a full meal.

The sentinels probed around, saying that there was still no human population within a radius of twenty miles, and that they might not be able to meet the enemy until further south.

Yang Feng and Yu Fuluo were helpless for a while, but fortunately their luck was okay today, the hunting army encountered a herd of beasts, the fishing army also caught a lot of fish, and the fruit-picking army also picked a lot of fruits, barely enough to make the army feast.

But tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, what to do?

The rogues, who are accustomed to fighting to feed the war, lack the thinking of logistics and supply, and they don't care about this kind of thing, they feel that the war is the king's way, so they eat the enemy, but once they encounter a problem that they can't control, they will be cowardly.

"Further south is Huguan County, and then there is the place with the most people in the entire Shangdang, I guess everyone is over there, Guo Peng will not take the entire Shangdang County away, that is too abnormal."

Yang Feng sighed.

Han Xian looked at Yang Feng.

"We don't have any food now, what if there is still no one in Huguan County?"

"Impossible, unless Guo Peng really doesn't want to go to the party county, or wants to starve us to death!"

Yang Feng said viciously.

"If we go back now...... What will happen? ”

Hu Cai asked very unconfidently.

"Of course we starved to death, and now that we have no food, how can we go back?"

Li Le rolled his eyes.

There was a moment of silence for a while.

"How do I feel like we've been tricked?"

Han Xian suddenly asked: "Walking all the way south, it's like being led forward." ”

When Han Xian asked this, a group of people blinked and looked at each other, as if they all sensed that something was not quite right.

However, the matter has come to this point, and if you want to retreat, you can't retreat, so you can only continue to move forward.

The army, short of food, marched forward hungry and satisfied, and discontent slowly built up in the army, and when they had not yet reached Huguan County, infighting broke out.

One night, a mutiny broke out in Hu Cai's army.

The reason was that Hu Cai's men and horses lacked food, and the income from hunting and gathering was not enough to distribute, and many people were hungry, but they were forced to hurry, so a mutiny broke out, looking for food everywhere, and Hu Cai's entire military camp was in chaos.

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