It took a while to rectify internally, giving the army time to recuperate, and after the internal rectification was completed, it was to explore externally.

Guo Peng decided to regain the regaining plan of Donglai County, Beihai Kingdom, which had been delayed for more than a year. In July of the second year of Chuping, Sun Jian officially led his troops south to attack Liu Biao.

At that time, Gongsun Zan was very angry when he heard that his younger brother Gongsun Yue was shot to death by Yuan Shao's general Zhou Ang, and vowed to avenge his younger brother, so he declared war on Yuan Shao.

At the same time, Dong Zhuo appointed Yang Yi, a Hongnong man, as the Yin of Henan because Guo Peng and Sun Jian led his army to attack Luoyang, trying to recover the lost territory.

Upon hearing the news, Zhu Jun led the army left by Sun Jian to attack Yang Yi. Yang Yi was defeated by Zhu Jun and had to retreat.

Seeing that Henan was broken and could not be used as a barrier, Zhu Jun led his army eastward, stationed in Zhongmu County, and sent a message to various prefectures and counties, calling on them to learn from Guo Peng and Sun Jian, and sent troops to jointly attack Dong Zhuo, trying to use his reputation to launch the second alliance to fight against Dong Zhuo.

Unfortunately, Guo Peng attacked the Yellow Turban Army and Sun Jian attacked Liu Biao, but he could not return to the alliance.

However, the governor of Xuzhou Tao Qian smelled the opportunity and sent three thousand elite soldiers to help. Other prefectures and counties also sent some soldiers, thinking that they could join in the fun and earn a lot of people's expectations.

Guo Peng and Sun Jian defeated Dong Zhuo very much and received great expectations from people, which made some people a little unable to sit still.

So Tao Qian submitted a memorial to Zhu Jun as the acting General of Cheqi and Cavalry, and jointly fought with Zhu Jun to fight Dong. After Dong Zhuo heard about it, he asked his generals Li Jue and Guo Si to lead tens of thousands of people to station in Henan to resist Zhu Jun.

Zhu Jun attacked and was defeated. The attack on Dong Daye, who had just improved a little, stopped again, and the support from various places.

Zhu Jun knew that his troops were not as strong as Dong Zhuo, and he could not defeat him, so he had to retreat and no longer sought to attack Chang'an.

In the second year of Chuping, the world was bustling with wars, with frequent wars, with wars in Jizhou, Youzhou, Qingzhou, Yuzhou, and Jingzhou. It seemed that the world was fighting, but the court could not stop it.

Not only were the sacred people displaced due to war, but even many powerful and powerful gentry were forced to leave their hometowns to hide from wars everywhere, social productivity was severely damaged, and life was not just the sacred people.

The prestige of the Han Dynasty was like the ruined Luoyang City, meaningless and had no effect at all, and could not stop local wars.

So some people began to realize that some people began to admit that troubled times have come.

Big man, it's not possible.

When the summer grain harvest was achieved, on July 11, the second year of Chuping, Guo Peng consolidated 30,000 troops to fight and defeated 10,000 of the Yellow Turban Army in Dong'anping.

On the 16th, he lost 10,000 yuan in the Yellow Turban County.

Then the troops were divided into three groups, and Le Jin and Xiahou Yuan led 5,000 troops to the south. Yu Jin and Xiahou Dun led 5,000 troops to the north. He personally led 20,000 main forces to attack the middle and comprehensively attacked the Yellow Turban Army of the Beihai Kingdom.

The Yellow Turban Army was defeated step by step, and was not the opponent of the elite soldiers trained by Guo Peng. Not to mention the hasty cavalry, some of them were not the opponents at all. Under Guo Peng's classic cavalry and shooting tactics, the troops were defeated like a mountain.

From July 16th to August 15th, in one month, Guo Peng went to Pingshou, Yingling, Zhuxu, Anshou and other counties, and won most of the Beihai Kingdom.

Before sending troops, Guo Peng had appointed county magistrates from the counties of Beihai Kingdom and Donglai County and organized an administrative team.

The administrative team followed the army and after taking the local area, Guo Peng ordered the administrative team to rush to the local area in time to start restoring order and establishing rule.

In these severely damaged areas, we follow the example of the other four counties and states, prepare for military farming, restore order, establish villages and villages for military farming, and continue to march.

The fighting will of the Yellow Turban Army declined greatly. Under the continuous failures, many Yellow Turban Qu coaches could not see the hope of victory, so they gave up the battle and surrendered to Guo Peng.

Once surrendered, the surrender was to join the strong men who formed the army and their families. Thousands of troops could have tens of thousands of families and tens of thousands of people, and the scale of surrender was very large.

Guo Peng also ordered the surrendered Yellow Turbans that those who were willing to be civilians would be included in the households, registered and allowed to farm. Those who were willing to join the army would choose strong people to join the army.

None of them was killed for surrender.

The news came out that for a time, many of the Yellow Turban Army surrendered as the eyes of the wind. As Guo Peng pointed out, many of the Yellow Turban Army surrendered without fighting.

The scholars and the clans of Qingzhou praised Guo Peng's achievements in quelling disasters and stabilizing the local area.

On August 17, Guo Peng led his army to Gaomi County.

During the process of advancing, many Yellow Turban soldiers were killed and captured. Later, Guo Peng ordered the army to set up camp and personally led a few counselors and some personal guards to Gaomi County.

Among the Beihai Kingdom and Donglai County where the Yellow Turbans were raging, most counties were attacked by the Yellow Turban Army, and some could not be defended.

The only county that has not been robbed by the Yellow Turban Army is Gaomi County.

The reason why Gaomi County has not been robbed by the Yellow Turban Army is also very simple, because Gaomi County is the hometown of a world-famous Confucian master.

The master is named Zheng Xuan.

It may not be clear to say how powerful he is, even if he says he has created the theory called "Zheng Xue", he can roughly explain how powerful he is.

Then because of his great reputation and high knowledge, the Yellow Turban Army disrupted the entire Qingzhou and never plundered Gaomi County, which was able to preserve Gaomi County.

When Guo Peng came to Gaomi County in person, Zheng Xuan asked his son Zheng Yi to go out to greet Guo Peng as a representative and invited Guo Peng to his mansion. Zheng Xuan was waiting for Guo Peng at the door of the mansion.

Guo Peng respects the truly capable and knowledgeable great scholars, so he does not ride a horse all the way and walks to express his respect for Zheng Xuan. After meeting Zheng Xuan, he will pay homage to his disciples.

Zheng Xuan met Guo Peng with a smile, praised Guo Peng for his extraordinary ability and ability to stabilize the country, and asked him to talk to his mansion.

"Your teacher Lu Zigan is a friend of mine. Back then, the reason why I was able to enter Guanxi to study with Ma Gong was thanks to Zigan's matchmaking."

Zheng Xuan talked about his past with Lu Zhi. Only then did Guo Peng realize that Zheng Xuan and Lu Zhi were good friends. When Zheng Xuan wanted to go to Fufeng to become his disciples, Lu Zhi made a match for him.

Lu Zhi really brought Guo Peng a lot of unimaginable hidden wealth.

Guo Peng was quite moved by this.

Later, Zheng Xuan asked Lu Zhi about his current situation.

"The teacher opposed the former Grand Tutor Yuan Gong's deposed and established the emperor, and opposed Dong Zhuo's dominance. He was expelled from the capital. He was discouraged and lived in seclusion in Shanggu County. I once wrote to the teacher, hoping that the teacher would come to Qingzhou. The teacher was unwilling to say that he only wanted to spend his old age in Shanggu."

"Oh, so that's it."

Zheng Xuan sighed and said slowly: "The national situation has reached this point. If the country is not a country, what will it become in the future? No one knows. The situation in the world is now in chaos and there are wars everywhere. Only Zifeng is still doing his best to quell the Yellow Turban Army.

I dare not ask for anything else. I just hope that Zifeng can pacify the Yellow Turban as soon as possible, restore Qingzhou to stability, allow displaced people to get shelter, and live and produce safely, and it is not good to have hunger."

The Zheng Xuan family once flourished, but by the time he was defeated, and they were a typical poor family.

He lived a hard life when he was young. Although he wanted to study hard and learn, his family could not bear the expense of supporting him. In order to make a living, Zheng Xuan had to be a minor official to earn a salary, and he knew how important it was to a person with enough food.

"Peng must do his best to pacify Qingzhou."

“So very good.”
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