Liu Pi concentrated 30,000 main forces to set up defenses in Pingyu County and the surrounding areas, captured tens of thousands of strong men to build fortifications, and focused on guarding Runan.

At this time, he also learned that in addition to Cao Ren's army coming from Shangcai County, there was another army coming from north to south, breaking Ruyang County and Nandun County along the way, and coming towards Pingyu County with great momentum.

It was Guan Yu's army. Guan Yu led his army to capture two counties in a row and was heading to Pingyu County to help Cao Ren.

A decisive battle of 60,000 people is about to begin.

Just as Cao Ren and Guan Yu were sieging Liu Pi in Pingyu County, the 70,000 army led by Guo Peng himself successfully captured Liang State.

Because the Liang State was close to Jiyin County, Guo Peng had already penetrated all over the country. The army headed south and in an instant, the troops arrived at Suiyang County.

The Prime Minister of Liang was fleeing in a hurry, and was killed by his subordinates during the escape. He came to Guo Peng for rewards.

By the end of September, the entire territory of Liang State was simply and neatly captured by Guo Peng. The bureaucrats appointed by Yuan Shu either fled or surrendered, and none of them chose to fight for Yuan Shu until death.

From this we can see that Yuan Shu rashly proclaimed himself emperor is really unpopular.

The next step is that Guo Peng will attack Peiguo and where he grew up.

This time in the southern expedition, Guo Peng brought Cao Chun, Cao Xiu, Xiahou Yuan, and Cao Hong, who was lifted from his position after admitting his mistake and started again as a captain, these friends from all over the county magistrate in Qiao County.

Perhaps he knew that Guo Peng would definitely come to attack Qiao County, so Yuan Shu appointed 10,000 soldiers from the Prime Minister of Pei State Shu to resist Guo Peng's attack in Qiao County.

Guo Peng didn't know why Shu Shao had resisted him in Qiao County. Just saying that the 70,000 army was really brave to fight against ten thousand militias.

However, Guo Peng also knows some information about this person.

When this man was the prime minister of Pei State, Yuan Shu once allocated him 100,000 stones of grain as military rations, but he dispersed the military rations to local people to rescue the hungry people. Yuan Shu was furious when he learned that he personally led his troops to question the crime.

Shu Shao said that he could not bear to see the people starve to death, so he used military rations to help the people. If Yuan Shu thought he had committed a crime, he could kill him and he would never resist.

Yuan Shu was moved by it and got off from his horse and grabbed Shu Shao's hand, saying, "Do you want to get such a good reputation yourself without regard for my reputation?"

So Yuan Shu pardoned Shu Shao and continued to let him be the prime minister of Peiguo.

Therefore, Shu Shao was quite popular with the people in Pei Kingdom. Even under the background of Yuan Shu's proclaiming emperor, he could recruit 10,000 troops to resist him. Although Guo Peng was a little reluctant.

Although his hometown is Yingchuan County, Guo Peng lived in Qiao County, Pei State at the age of three, and lived until he was twelve to Luoyang. He had a deep affection for Qiao County, and naturally the same was true for Pei State.

Therefore, Guo Peng was unwilling to lead his troops to attack his true hometown, so he wrote to Shu Shao to surrender him.

Guo Peng said that Qiao County was where I grew up, which was equivalent to my hometown. I didn’t want to make a big fight in my hometown. I heard that Shu Jun used military rations to prevent the people from being hungry and was almost killed by Yuan Shu. So why don’t you surrender to me for the people today?

Shu Shao's reply was very straightforward, saying that Yuan Shu had great kindness to him, and he wanted to use his life to repay Yuan Shu's kindness. He would not betray Yuan Shu like some shameless people who accepted the kindness but bite him back.

Guo Peng wrote another letter to advise him not to make the most important thing wrong

Yuan Shu had already become emperor. He betrayed the Han Dynasty. He was a Han thief. Everyone in the world believed that Yuan Shu was a Han thief. At this time, the person who helped the Han thief was also a Han thief and was exterminated from the world.

Shu Shao was very unhappy and wrote a reply letter to scold Guo Peng directly.

"I have been deeply grateful to Yuan's family, but I don't want to repay the kindness, but I raise my troops to face each other. Such a shameful person is the general of the Northern Expedition of the dynasty. I am deeply ashamed of him! Once he rebelled, he was powerful all over the world. What would Guo Zifeng want to do?"

Understand someone?

Guo Peng grinned and continued to write a letter to Shu Shao to persuade him to surrender, advising him to see clearly the general trend of the world and not ignore the national justice because of personal relationships. This is for the Han Dynasty, not for personal friendship. Guo Peng felt in pain, but had to do so.

Shu Shao seemed to see through what Guo Peng was thinking, calling Guo Peng a hypocritical person. Under the banner of eliminating the thief, it was actually for his own selfish desires, and he was very traitorous and loyal!

Guo Peng suddenly felt murderous.

This tug-of-war of persuading surrender lasted for several days. In early October, Guo Peng received a military report from Xiahou Yuan.

Xiahou Yuan reported to him, saying that he had led the cavalry to successfully attack Jianping County, Taiqiu County and Linsui County as instructed by Guo Peng, cut off the retreat of the Qiao County army in Shushao, and had contacted Guo Lie's troops who conquered the Peiguo County, so please rest assured.

Guo Peng was very satisfied.

When he first marched into Qiao County, Guo Peng sent Xiahou Yuan, who was good at raiding from a long distance, leading 5,000 cavalrymen to raid for a long distance, and captured Jianping County, Taiqiu County and Linsui County, cutting off Shu Shao's retreat.

He had previously ordered Guo Lie to march alone from Lu State and directly attack the Xiang County of Pei State, so as to block Shu Shao and make him have no way out.

Then Guo Peng kept writing letters to Shu Shao in Qiao County, quarreling with him, and sent troops to the city of Qiao County to attract his attention and give Xiahou Yuan time to cut off Shu Shao's retreat. Now that Xiahou Yuan has successfully completed the task, Shu Shao should have noticed it.

That's right, Shu Shao did notice it, and the food and reinforcements he had ordered did not arrive in time. Shu Shao felt something was wrong and immediately sent someone back to see the situation, but there was no news.

Shu Shao realized that something was wrong, so Guo Peng sent someone to spread rumors that the entire territory of Pei State had been attacked by Guo Peng. Now they only had an isolated city and had no food. They either starved to death or surrendered and chose by themselves.

As soon as the news came out, the defenders of Qiao County were panicked, and Shu Shao was also shocked, and he knew that it was very likely that it was true... no, this was true.

Guo Peng has cut off his retreat and food route, and his resistance here has become meaningless, and it is a rhythm of dying for nothing.

Shu Shao was stunned for a long time, then gritted his teeth and scolded Guo Peng as the number one hypocrite in the world, scolded Guo Peng as a person who harmed the country and the people, and then ordered the entire army to defend the country and the people.

Seeing this, Guo Peng was not impatient and directly ordered the army to surround the city. Then he ordered Yu Jin, Le Jin and Zhang Liao to lead 10,000 people to go south first, attack other counties under Pei State, and to open the way for the army. He was here waiting for Shu Shao's head to deliver it to him.

The city was besieged on all sides and had no food. Guo Peng sent people to shout every day to shake the morale of the army in the city. As a result, the qualities of these temporarily recruited troops were worse than Guo Peng thought. A mutiny broke out on the third day of the besieged city.

Guo Peng took the opportunity to order the army to launch a fierce attack, fight fiercely until dusk, and seized Qiao County with the lowest cost of losses, while Shu Shao was captured by the rebels in the city and presented it to Guo Peng.

When Guo Peng learned about this, he directly ordered the execution of Shu Shao, and ordered all the families of Shu Shao in Xiang County to be killed on the political charge of the Han thief to destroy the tribe.

Qiao County was acquired by Guo Peng at a very small price. On the same day, Guo Peng entered the city and restored order in the city.
Chapter completed!