207 Join the Alliance
At that time, Guo Peng led the four troops of Zhao Yun, Guo Lie, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, a total of 10,000 troops to defeat Xu He in Le'an Kingdom. The Yellow Turban Army of Sima Club was 20,000, beheading thousands of them to pacify the entire Le'an Kingdom.
The Mercedes-Benz cavalry made the Yellow Turban Army at a loss. Xu He and Sima were beaten to death by Guo Peng and quickly fled.
The remaining more than 10,000 Yellow Turban Army prisoners and more than 30,000 men and women were captured again, and Guo Peng organized them into the refugee team.
Half of these people will arrange for military farming in Le'an Country, and half will arrange for military farming in Jinan Country, and will be handed over to Zang Hong and Cao Cao respectively.
If these people are called Yellow Turbans, they are also Yellow Turbans, and if they are called Yellow Turbans, they are also not Yellow Turbans.
They simply make a living by using the name of the Yellow Turban. They don’t even know how to write the word Yellow Turban, nor do they know the Taoist teachings of peace. Some people don’t even know the great wise and good teacher Zhang Jiao.
These people are honest with the food they have to eat and have a piece of land to grow.
The ones who are really dishonest are those who are the ones who are literate, ambitious, and cunning. They will kill them if they are caught and are absolutely merciless.
These people can be organized into dozens of villages and townships. Guo Peng arranged a large number of his own people to be village chiefs and township chiefs, and led them to build a new home.
If anyone wants to join the army, Guo Peng will accept it and will bring them into the army and send them to the camp of new soldiers in Linzi, Qi, and hand them over to Yu Jin for training.
Yu Jin is really a talent who is good at training troops. Guo Peng discussed some principles on training troops with him, and Yu Jin talked very well.
Guo Peng was very happy, so he handed over the troops to him for training, and then organized into the army, and organized the elite soldiers brought out from Shanggu to serve as grassroots officers, pulling the army up.
From mid-November to early February, Yu Jin trained more than 3,000 new recruits into the army in more than three months, and gave Guo Peng an excellent answer.
When Guo Peng was happy, he enthroned Yu Jin as the lieutenant and gave him an alias, named Zhongwu, who was specialized in training troops.
In mid-February, the news that Liu Bian was killed by Dong Zhuo reached Guo Peng. Only one day later, Bao Xin's letter was delivered to Guo Peng again.
Bao Xin sincerely explained this matter, explained the importance of Dong Zhuo as a traitor, and once again sincerely invited Guo Peng to join their alliance.
This time, Guo Peng did not refuse.
"Dong Zhuo was tyrannical and unjust, and he harmed the royal family. Everyone was punished. Guo was burdened with the emperor's kindness. He had already broken his heart when he heard about this. There is no reason not to be strong and hold on to the sharpness for this."
Guo Peng replied to Bao Xin and confirmed that he would participate in the alliance to attack Dong Zhuo.
However, this matter is just a catalyst. Before Guo Peng confirmed his joining, the coalition forces that attacked Dong Zhuo were basically established.
After the old factions of the general led by Yuan Shao gathered, in late January, the factions of famous scholars operated by Yuan Wei almost gathered.
The initiator was Zhang Chao, the prefect of Guangling.
As an opportunity, Yuan Sui, who was an official in Luoyang, returned to his hometown.
Yuan Sui was from Guangling. His position was quite special. He was the Grand Tutor and an official of Yuan Wei.
Yuan Wei was unwilling to fail, so he secretly tricked Dong Zhuo into appointing officials to famous scholars, and sent Yuan Sui to sneak out of Luoyang secretly, return to his hometown, and find Zhang Chao, the prefect of Guangling.
Yuan Sui explained to him Yuan Wei's dissatisfaction with Dong Zhuo and his preparations, hoping that Zhang Chao could join forces with his brother, Chenliu Prefect Zhang Miao, to contact the famous scholars and launch a war to attack Dong Zhuo.
Zhang Chao readily agreed and entrusted the duties of the prefect of Guangling to Yuan Sui. He led the army and supplies to Chenliu and found his brother Zhang Miao.
The two hit it off and followed Yuan Shao, they launched the second batch of assembly orders to attack Dong Zhuo.
They sent the decree to Xuzhou governor Tao Qian, Shanyang governor Yuan Yi, Nanyang governor Zhang Zi, Runan prefect Kong Rong, Yanzhou governor Liu Dai, Yuzhou governor Kong Yichang, Jizhou governor Han Fu, and the latter general Yuan Shu who recruited troops in Nanyang.
So the two major factions that attacked Dong Zhuo, the old faction of General He Jin and the Kanto famous faction gathered together.
Yuan Wei's original idea might be to let Yuan Shu lead the famous scholars to attack Luoyang, and the general faction led by Yuan Shao may not be within his plan.
As a result, Yuan Shu was too humble. After the news of Liu Bian's death in February came out, the general faction and the famous faction of the princes joined forces because of their common demands.
In the end, the leader was actually recommended as Yuan Shao, who was the first to issue a manifesto and defend Dong Zhuo's reputation, was not Yuan Shu.
Yuan Shu was very annoyed by this, and he also issued a manifesto. As a result, only Changsha Prefect Sun Jian and Jiangxia Prefect Liu Xiang responded to him and wanted to lead the army from Jingzhou to cooperate with him.
Yuan Shu also wrote to Guo Peng, hoping to attack Dong Zhuo with Guo Peng to enhance his momentum. Guo Peng wrote back to him that the journey to Nanyang was too far, and he would go to Suzao to join the rebel army first, and then meet with Yuan Shu in Luoyang.
Because Guo Peng wanted to participate in the coalition to fight against Dong, he summoned his important subordinates to discuss this matter and decided who would accompany him and who would stay and hold on.
The first thing to be confirmed is that prime ministers and county magistrates of various countries cannot leave, and must continue to stay and handle government affairs and resettle refugees.
Under Guo Peng's consolation, Zang Hong and Cao Cao, who had wanted to go but were busy with government affairs, were unable to escape, no longer fought for them.
"Brother, Ziyuan, at this time, there are not many people I can trust, so I can only ask you. The Yellow Turbans are powerful and those who have no trust are left in Qingzhou. I am really worried."
Guo Peng held Cao Cao and Zang Hong's hands, and they were moved and decided to stay and guard the place so that Guo Peng could fight with peace of mind.
After Zang Hong left, Guo Peng had a secret talk with Cao Cao.
"Brother said in the past that in order to protect himself, we need one person to follow Yuan Shu and the other to seek vitality, but the situation is chaotic and we don't know what will become tomorrow.
Yuan’s own protection, so how could he care about us? Brother, to say something inappropriate, Yuan Benchu and Yuan Gaolu can be friends, but they cannot entrust their lives and family future.
The most reliable one is always our own family, brother, I am already the governor of Qingzhou. Although my background is not as good as the Yuan family, it is not difficult for us to do something on our own."
When Cao Cao heard Guo Peng say this, he immediately had expectations for the future.
He decided to cooperate with Guo Peng and his family to start his own career, rather than surviving under the protection of Yuan.
To be honest, the fact that Yuan Shao exposed his scars in front of He Jin was really disappointing. Yuan Benchu, who was so arrogant and generous, was no longer here.
Cao Cao confirmed this matter.
The most reliable one is your own family.
With the belief of making a career, Cao Cao returned to Jinan Country with his ideals and feelings.
Guo Peng also divided the four generals Cao Ren, Cao Hong, Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan into school lieutenants, and asked them to lead troops to stay in the four counties and states that Qingzhou could control.
Cao Ren cooperated with Chen Ji to guard Pingyuan County, Cao Hong cooperated with Cao Cao to guard Jinan Kingdom, Xiahou Yuan cooperated with Zao Zhi to guard Qi Kingdom, Xiahou Dun cooperated with Zang Hong to guard Le'an Kingdom, and Cheng Li was in the middle to command, so that everyone's victory would be preserved.
Yu Jin did not take him there and stayed in Qingzhou to train troops. Guo Peng decided to lead Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun and Guo Lie to attack.
Cao Chun and Guo Jia were taken to see the world.
Chapter completed!