The first merit undoubtedly belonged to the general who took the lead in attacking, but the meat was eaten by them, and it was not difficult for the others to drink the broth.

After all, this piece of meat is too big and fatty, and the soup cooked is enough for many people to enjoy, and even the meat can feed many people.

The victory was a foregone conclusion, the morale of the army was high, and everyone's face was full of excitement or unconscious, as if they had seen a bright future that belonged to everyone and themselves.

Guo Peng swung his sword forward, and countless warriors bravely marched forward in the direction he guided, killing the enemy, cutting off the head, obtaining meritorious service, and then making meritorious contributions and reaching the peak of life.

From this moment on, the end of Guo Peng's domination of the world has been irreversible.

On November 29 of the second year of Xingping, Guo Peng, the general of the expedition to the north, led a crusading army of 70,000 to defeat the 100,000 army led by the puppet Chen Emperor Yuan Shu near Peiguo Qi County.

10,000 were beheaded, more than 50,000 defeated soldiers were captured, more than 60,000 auxiliary soldiers and civilians were captured, and less than 10,000 defeated soldiers were able to escape.

All of Chen's ordnance and materials were seized by Guo Peng, and the piles of materials looked very gratifying.

Yuan Shu was not caught in the end, and successfully retreated under the desperate protection of the emperor's personal guards and the general Lu Mian, but for this he paid the tragic consequences of almost the entire army being wiped out and several important generals being killed in battle.

Zhang Xun, the general of the pseudo-Chen Che Cavalry, led the army to Yuan Shudian, but was caught between Yu Ban and Zhang He, and died in battle, and the credit was divided equally between the two.

Yu Ban was promoted to Zhongwu Zhonglang General, and Zhang He was promoted to Jianwu Zhonglang General.

Ji Ling, a pseudo-Chen Wei general, was rescued after being shot in one eye, and Cao Xing, who shot him, was rewarded by Guo Peng and was promoted to Captain Yingyang.

The puppet Chen Hou General Li Feng, the left general Le and the right general Liang Gang were killed in battle, and the former general Qiao Rui escaped after being injured.

Cao Xiu and Cao Chun teamed up to kill Liang Gang and shared the credit equally, Cao Xiu was promoted to Captain Jiande, and Cao Chun was promoted to the rank of rebel general.

After that, Zhu Ling led the army to surround Liang Gang, forced Liang Gang to die in battle, obtained the credit, and was awarded the title of general of the conquest.

Le was killed by Guo Lie, and after the war, Guo Lie was promoted to the rank of general in the town army.

Later, when Guo Peng was reorganizing the army and cleaning up the battlefield, he sent Xiahou Yuan, the captain of the school, to lead an army of 5,000 to the south to pursue Yuan Shu.

Xiahou Yuan led the army to chase all the way, and when he caught up with Longkang County, he easily took Longkang County, forcing Yuan Shu to continue to cross the Huai River and flee back to Shouchun.

Fortunately, Lu Mian set fire to the bridges and boats, making it impossible for Xiahou Yuan to cross the river, which stopped the momentum of the pursuing army.

When Yuan Shu and Lu Mian fled back to Shouchun together, they were only followed by hundreds of soldiers.

After this battle, Yuan Shu lost all the land north of the Huai River, retreated to Shouchun, not to mention the loss of spirit, but also lost all the army, lost all the capital, and collapsed.

After that, he could no longer compete with Guo Peng head-on.

Guo Peng captured more than 100,000 people in the first battle, and the harvest was extremely huge, directly eating Yuan Shu's main force, so that Yuan Shu couldn't make a comeback.

The vitality of his direct territory has been defeated by him, and there is nothing left.

However, for Guo Peng, it is not easy to arrive, such a large amount of seizures, such a large number of prisoners, it is still difficult to digest them all, and the opinions on how to deal with this huge number of prisoners are relatively unified.

Take them away for your own use, and give them a full meal to eat, so that they may be at ease.

Some people think that this should not be done, it is a waste of the army's food, but Guo Peng does not think so.

"They are all Li Shu who was forcibly conscripted by Yuan Shu, they are all farmers, they work as farmers at home, and once they were arrested as soldiers, they don't even know what they are doing, how can they be blamed for this?"

Therefore, Guo Peng ordered to treat these captives well, find out their household registration, and prepare for the next step of diversion.

Guo Peng's big victory here was quite proud, and Yuan Shu vomited a mouthful of blood when he returned to Shouchun City and passed out in a coma, not waking up for several days.

Yuan Shu's crown prince Yuan Yao lacked prestige and could not control the overall situation, the court of the Chen Empire was in chaos, and the newly established Chen Empire fell into a stormy situation in an instant.

Thanks to the fact that General Lu Mian was still there, he barely maintained the situation,

He sent troops to guard the city gates, declared a curfew, entered a wartime state of emergency, arrested and killed more than 300 troublemakers, and the city was slowly stabilized.

Subsequently, Lu Mian, as a general, mobilized the only remaining soldiers and horses inside and outside Shouchun City to deploy defenses on the south bank of the Huai River to Shouchun City.

Because the main force was all lost on the north bank of the Huai River, the soldiers and horses that Lu Mian could master at the moment were only 20,000, and he could not compete with Guo Peng at all.

In order to gather enough soldiers and horses to defend the city, Lu Mian forced the powerful officials in the city to sacrifice their domestic slaves and private soldiers to join the army, and used this method to increase the number of soldiers and horses to fight against Guo Peng's southern expeditionary army.

Because extraordinary measures must be carried out at extraordinary times, Lu Mian ordered all the men in the city to join the army, and all the women in the prime of life were also recruited to serve in the army, without any opposition.

For this reason, not only Li Shu, but also the officials and wealthy families in the city were also disturbed by Lu Mian.

In order to gather more people, Lu Mian even ordered the elite guards to go out of the city to capture Li Shu and enter the city to assist in the defense, expanding 20,000 soldiers and horses in a short period of time, and recruiting nearly 100,000 people to join the city defense.

In the busy process, Lu Mian suddenly felt that it was not a bad thing for Yuan Shu to be in a coma, at least he could do everything he wanted to do, and Yuan Shu would not give some confusing orders to everyone.

It seems that everything is getting in order.

It's a strange thing.

At the same time, Lu Mian once again sent people to Lujiang to forcibly recruit strong men, trying to get more soldiers and horses, and sent people to find out what Liu Xun was doing in the southern expedition to Sun Ce.

If Liu Xun's army can retreat, it must be a very important help for the defense of Shouchun City.

However, he soon learned that Liu Xun was cut off from retreat, and it was difficult to retreat, and he now had no troops to go south to assist Liu Xun, so he could only send someone to send a letter to Liu Xun, asking him to ask for more blessings.

Now that Shouchun is unable to protect himself, where is there any way to help Liu Xun who is in a predicament?

Lu Mian's current task is to ensure that Shouchun is not lost, which is the limit of what he can do.

Compared with Lu Mian, who was terrified all day long, Guo Peng was very rich.

Rectify the battlefield near Qi County, clean up the battlefield, set fire to the corpses to prevent the spread of the plague, and then began to collect and rectify the captured defeated soldiers and people.

Whenever he conquered a land, Guo Peng would send a mature team of grassroots political power to the newly occupied area, centered on the county seat, to recruit displaced people, pacify the people, and re-establish new rules and new rules.

This is the real occupation, not the occupation of a county seat is the occupation of the entire land of the county.

Villages must be established, townships must also be established, and the imperial power does not go to the countryside, but the power of Guo must go down to every household.

Since the occupation of Qingzhou, the policy of educating Li Shu to be literate has harvested a large number of literate people with minimum literacy requirements.

From among these people, Guo Peng can select talents who are enough to serve as village and township heads, let them enter the People First Department for training, and then come out to serve as village and township heads.

After the initial initial stage of creation, the system of selecting village chiefs and village chiefs gradually became more and more mature, and the "People-friendly Administration" as a training institution for village chiefs and village chiefs also became more and more mature.

This time, it is also an opportunity for these village chiefs and township chiefs who were born in Li Shu and were pinned on by Guo Peng to show themselves.

Among them, those who do well will get the opportunity to go to the palace to study and strive for more possibilities for the future.

And with each expansion of new territory, more people will be given the opportunity to be appointed, and Guo Peng hopes that this will be a new possible beginning, not the end.

Of course, for Yuan Shu, this is the end.

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