Compared with other counties and countries, Runan County is indeed a very difficult bone to crack, so after Cao Ren led his army into Runan County, he was resisted by the Runan Yellow Turban Army in Dingying County.

Liu Pi and He Man and He Yi led 20,000 elite troops of the Yellow Turban Army to resist the siege led by Cao Ren.

Chen Gong observed the situation of this Yellow Turban Army in front of the formation and found that many of them were using standard weapons.

Wearing armor, helmets, cavalry, and under the banner of "Chen", he seemed to be treating himself as the army of the fake Chen Empire.

"It seems that the information is correct. The Yellow Turbans in Runan responded to Yuan Highway and were named General by Yuan Highway, and were all incorporated. Now this Yellow Turban thief is already Yuan Highway's army. The military equipment is much better than other Yellow Turban troops. Cao Yangwu should not underestimate the enemy."

Chen Gong carefully evaluated the power of this Yellow Turban Army.

Cao Ren also carefully observed the formation of the army and felt that the army was not weak and his morale was not weak, so he retreated for more than ten miles and set up camp on the spot.

Then he sent his subordinate general Yan Liang to lead a feint attack to test the strength of the Yellow Turban Army.

Yan Liang led his army to attack the Yellow Turban Camp and the Yellow Turban Camp relied on Dingying County to build it. The defense was quite strong. Yan Liang did not dare to get too close, so he sent someone to challenge it.

At the beginning, the Yellow Turban Army refused to go to the battle, so Yan Liang sent people to scold according to what Chen Gong said, the more ugly the scolding, the better.

Sure enough, the Yellow Turban Army couldn't help it anymore. He Yi led his army 3,000 to fight. The two fought face to face. Yan Liang defeated He Yi, and He Yi retreated and escaped by chance.

After Yan Liang returned to the camp, he told Chen Gong and Cao Ren about the situation. Chen Gong and Cao Ren were confident and were not impatient. They were waiting here for the arrival of large-scale weapons in the rear such as catapults.

Then, Yan Liang was sent to challenge and scold the enemy every day.

The Yellow Turban Army did not respond at all.

After being defeated by Yan Liang once, he seemed to realize that Cao Ren's military strength was relatively strong and did not dare to rashly engage in the battle. He wanted to consume Cao Ren's military rations by defending his utmost.

Cao Ren was not worried at all, he had no fluctuations in his heart, and even wanted to laugh.

If we delay you these few days, we can't fight, and all the grain guards should be cut off.

It just happened to take this opportunity to give the troops that had forcibly marched through Yingchuan for a few days to rest, eat some good food, accumulate strength, and prepare to defeat the enemy in one battle.

Speaking of which, after the implementation of the military farming system, Qingyan and other prefectures have been in operation very maturely.

The food handed over by the farmers themselves has basically met the needs of the army. Guo Peng's army is probably the only army among all warlord armies that is not troubled by food shortages.

Against this background, Guo Peng began to seek to increase the treatment of the army, increase some military pay, and then increase the richness and taste of the military rations.

In ancient China, military rations paid the most attention to filling the stomach and not the taste, or it can be said that military rations from countries around the world are the same.

Only crops that are widely planted and have considerable storage space can be used as military rations. This is undoubtedly true. Guo Peng began to consider adding nutrition to the army and training more elite soldiers who are good at fighting on the premise of achieving abundant military rations.

The strategy of raising ducks and treating locusts was proposed in this context.

Ducks can control locusts, which has not occurred in the Qingyan Prefectures in recent years that have been enough to warn Guo Peng. It is not that there is no, but that the scale is quite small and is not enough to endanger the bumper harvest of food. People are sent to exterminate it directly.

When the ducks grow up, they purchase them from farmers with military expenses, and use them as meat for the army. They can also give farmers some spare money, which is also a benefit to the people. Therefore, Guo Peng's army is also the only army in the Han Dynasty that can eat meat on time.

In addition to this, Guo Peng will also pay attention to other nutrition of the army and provide fish and fruits and vegetables to the army.

The military farming is not all planted, but some places also plant fruits and vegetables in a concentrated manner, and some organized coastal fishermen are fishing in a concentrated manner. These two things are also supplied to the army on time and in quantity.

In addition, in order to ensure that the army can eat enough salt and have enough strength, Guo Peng organized people to make special salt and then make easy-to-storage pickles for the army.

So when other troops were going up the mountain to pick fruits and go down the river to catch fish in order to fill their stomachs, the 200,000 troops under Guo Peng had already stepped into a new field.

Although it is quite expensive, it is very important to be able to organize an army that is strong enough and loyal enough to fight.

If the army is not allowed to eat enough, it will definitely not be able to lead the army well. If the army is not allowed to eat well, it will not be able to improve the army's combat effectiveness and loyalty.

The Kuomintang army is much richer than the Communist army, but in the real treatment of grassroots soldiers, it has never surpassed that of grassroots soldiers of the Communist army.

Guo Peng knew this well, so he never slacked off in the treatment of the army.

Some of the taxes collected and the profits in the war horse trade were always to ensure the supply of the army. Warlords like him who valued the treatment of the army were the only one.

Therefore, no matter when, Guo Peng's army can always maintain a relatively strong morale and combat effectiveness, and more importantly, dare to fight, which is something that most other warlord armies cannot compare with.

Therefore, the Yellow Turban Army is the Yellow Turban Army. Although it has obtained slightly more formal equipment, it cannot be compared with Guo Peng's regular army in terms of training level or tactics. The Yellow Turban Army still has not left the scope of the bandit army.

Therefore, in Chen Gong's entire plan, the Yellow Turban Army was just a small problem. It was not difficult to occupy the entire Runan County. What was more difficult was that after occupying Runan County, it would also be necessary to disperse troops and suppress bandits everywhere.

In addition to the Yellow Turban Army, Runan also had quite a lot of bandits, one mountain after another, and there were many bandits. Without suppressing bandits, you could not successfully occupy Runan County, and you could not successfully restore rule and production. That is to say, you would not be strategically prepared for the future southward to Jingzhou.

Guo Peng decided to plan military farming in the entire Runan County, mobilizing the power of at least 300,000 households to military farming, and to prepare food for the subsequent conquest to Jingzhou.

In any case, food must be put first. No matter where it is seized, Guo Peng must first look at whether he can farm farms, whether he can establish administrative villages and townships, whether his own policies can be implemented, and whether he can gather a certain amount of mobilization.

This is the most important, and the others are secondary.

Especially Runan County, which was destroyed by bandits and the Yellow Turban Army, had almost all normal orders, which was of greater significance to Guo Peng.

On September 27, the second year of Xingping, Cao Ren was delivered all the weapons needed, and the powerful suppressive firepower brought by fifty trenchers were delivered. Cao Ren laughed, and Chen Gong laughed too.

On the 28th, Cao Ren directed the army to form a complete army to launch an attack on Dingying County. When the Yellow Turban defenders saw Cao Ren launching a general attack, they immediately defended with all their strength, strictly guarded the camps and cities, and refused to go out to fight, but the troops could not stop Cao Ren's offensive.
Chapter completed!