Guo Peng treated the heads of all the well-known figures of the Southern Xiongnu troops with lime, and sent them to Hongnong with the heads of Guiyi Shanyu to the court for rewards.

The reason is to clear away the border troubles for the court for a hundred years, and from then on, the Huns will no longer be troubles.

The Hongnong court is now Guo Peng’s cash machine. They will do whatever Guo Peng wants, so Guo Peng attached a list of prefects and county magistrates he wants to appoint. The Hongnong court must agree if he doesn’t agree.

Otherwise, Guo could now lead troops to attack the Southern Xiongnu in the north, and still could attack Hongnong in the south.

The more than 200,000 soldiers from the Southern Xiongnu were not Guo Peng’s opponents, let alone others?

The battle was resolved in one month, and then until the end of November, the Wei general Cao Xiu's troops arrived at Jilusai, the westmost side of Shuofang County, and reset the defenders.

Xu Huang's troops were ordered to cross the wasteland and arrive at the desolate, dilapidated and abandoned Sanfeng County, and complete the exploration of Shuofang County and the restoration of the liberation.

At the same time, Cao Ren also led 20,000 troops to successfully capture Yanmen County and Dingxiang County, killing nearly 10,000 Zahu, capturing more than 80,000 people and more than 100,000 livestock.

Then, Cao Ren killed the old and weak according to Guo Peng's order. The young and strong man was sent to be a coolie, and the young and strong woman was assigned to the Han nationality, recorded her household registration, and brought her to the mainland.

Xiahou Yuan also conquered Yunzhong County according to the established plan, killed more than 5,000 people from various tribes, captured more than 60,000 people and more than 100,000 livestock, and also acted according to Guo Peng's order.

During the entire military operation, the organized Xianbei people retreated from the Wei army and fled within the scope of Yanmen County and Yunzhong County.

After the frightened Xianbei people found that the Wei army was approaching, they ran north with no chance, and did not dare to confront the Wei army at all, for fear of war and being swept away by the Wei army, which would be a disaster.

The Wei army wiped out the Zahu who illegally occupied the land in the territory, freed up the living space, and prepared to re-arrange the defense according to Guo Peng's order.

These territories may be desolate, with poor soil, or even deserts. They cannot plant food, cannot immigrate to live in, and have no economic value. However, the occupation of land cannot be simply based on economic value, but also on military value and political value.

Having these seemingly desolate lands is equivalent to having a strategic buffer zone.

When an enemy invades, it must cross the buffer zone, and cannot directly enter the economic zone and densely populated areas to rage. It also has to bear the risk of lengthening the logistics supply line and being cut off from the rear.

This is another sense of defending enemies outside the country's borders without damaging the country's population and destroying the production order. It can indirectly reduce a large amount of war losses. This type of war losses will not be cheaper than launching a medium-sized encounter.

We cannot just rely on the Great Wall for defense, but we must go out of the Great Wall, expand the controlled area to the grassland, and build a mobile Great Wall.

This area outside the Great Wall is built into the second Great Wall, and the economic zone and densely populated area south of the Great Wall are used as a logistics base, and reliable transportation routes are built to support the battle ahead. The economic zone and densely populated area will be preserved.

Destroy it is much easier than building it.

On November 27, the third year of Xingping, Guo Peng led his army back to Taiyuan County and ended the seemingly sudden war.

Bingzhou was completely ruled by Guo Peng.

Since the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the five counties of Wuyuan, Dingxiang, Yanmen and Shuofang have gradually been occupied by the Southern Xiongnu, Wuwan and various tribes. The Han people gradually lost their dominance, and then the complete disorder after the Yellow Turban Rebellion has exceeded one Jiazi.

Guo Peng will re-allocate Bingzhou under the strict control of the government, reset the prefect and garrison of the nine counties of Bingzhou, and still use Zang Hong to lead the governor of Bingzhou to organize reconstruction and economic construction.

The more than 80,000 Xiongnu captured, Wuwan and Zahu Qingzhuang were also used as laborers to carry out construction slowly, and the village, township, county and county structure was the same as those in the mainland.

Because there was no intervention from the powerful landlords and gentry, Guo Peng had a comprehensive control over Bingzhou. He easily implemented his will to the end. With the 400,000 and 500,000 captured livestock as the confidence, Guo Peng formally assigned tasks to Zang Hong, asking Zang Hong to start preparing for horse politics and raise horses in Bingzhou.

In the past, Guo Peng bought horses from the Wuwan people and transported them to the Central Plains. The best were left for himself to fight, the fewer ones were used for transportation, and the fewer ones were sold to Yuan Shu, Liu Biao and Jiangdong people, making high profits and very bad.

This time, Guo Peng no longer needs to spend a lot of money to buy horses from the Wuhuan people, but can run his own horse farm.

There was a vast grassland for raising horses. Guo Peng planned to train a large number of cavalry in Bingzhou to prepare for his future advancement in Guanxi and Liangzhou, as well as the Northern Expedition to Xianbei.

Raising horses in the north, training naval forces in the south, and working hard to farm and store food and grass. Guo Peng's war preparations never stopped for a moment. He worked hard and fought endlessly.

Having this advantage is still not the end of Guo Peng. The construction of Bingzhou will take time because it has been severely damaged and it is difficult to recover.

Compared with Bingzhou, Youzhou has been well preserved in all aspects. He himself started in Youzhou and is more familiar with the situation in Youzhou.

So the next step is to target the Xianbei people in Yanbian, Youzhou.

The situation in Youzhou is quite special.

His rule over Youzhou was more of nominal governance, with the local tyrant Xian Yufu of Youzhou as the governor of Youzhou. On the surface, he held great power, but in fact he was a united group of many powerful families.

Yuan Shao won the cooperation of some people, and Guo Peng destroyed that part of them, and the remaining half were still there. He also made great contributions to "mastering" Youzhou, and was rewarded by Guo Peng, and continued to live their lives.

There are many powerful men like Mi and Li who have a population of more than 10,000 in Youzhou. The Xianyu family he appointed was a large powerful man with a population of 20,000.

The large and small ones are counted as many as 100, and the number of people in the government list is more than twice as many as the number of self-cultivated farmers.

Don’t underestimate the population of Youzhou. During the Central Plains melee after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the Dong Zhuo Rebellion, the population of people who fled from Hebei of the Central Plains to Youzhou for refuge were nearly one million.

Although some of them were returned later, hundreds of thousands remained in Youzhou, greatly expanding the population of Youzhou.

A considerable part of this population surrendered to the local tyrants in Youzhou to survive, and the power of the local tyrants in Youzhou has increased greatly. Gongsun Du, who occupied Liaodong and proclaimed himself king, was one of the biggest beneficiaries of this wave of immigration.

So the problem in Youzhou is really quite big.

Guo Peng actually maintained his influence and part of his control over Zhuo County, Shanggu County, Dai County and Guangyang County.
Chapter completed!