At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

After Guo Peng took office as the captain of Hogaramaru, it was conceivable that war would soon be fought.

Therefore, the time left for Guo Peng is actually not much, or even very little.

Guo Peng needs to rectify his [-] cavalry in the shortest possible time, so as to cope with the possible Xianbei going south.

How difficult is the road to the north.

Chapter 94 Guo Peng's Preparatory Action

On the way, Guo Peng, Zang Hong and Cheng Li exchanged their views on the current situation in the north, and they all believed that the situation was not optimistic.

Since the failure of the Northern Expedition that year, the Han government has lost the ability to organize the Northern Expedition on a large scale. At the moment on the northern defense line, the Han government does not have much attack strength other than defense.

The Karasuma battalion that Guo Peng can command and his own soldiers add up to more than [-] people.

Even if they go to the local area to recruit, they can only recruit more than 3000 people at most, and there can be no more. It is impossible to organize a decent Northern Expedition.

So if you want to clean up them, the best way is not military confrontation, but to sow discord.

Make it impossible for them to be unified, but their internal conflicts will never be resolved, and they will continue to fight within each other, so that the Han Empire can benefit.

This is Cheng Li's specific thinking. The strategy will have to wait until the local area to formulate measures according to local conditions, but there is no doubt that before this, Guo Peng needs to show his bravery.

If he communicates with those Karasuma Xianbei leaders at his age, he will only be laughed at and despised. He needs prestige, and prestige that makes those guys fear.

In a nutshell, it is to fight for power, and there is no other way.

In the northern Xinjiang, it is hard to say, there are too many opportunities to fight, because the Xiongnu people of the Xianbei always like to go south to loot, and there is no way.

Cheng Li formulated a strategy for Guo Peng, asking Guo Peng to rectify the army, train the cavalry, befriend the governor of Youzhou, gain a firm foothold, and then send people to search for information, accumulate information, and prepare for war.

When the next time the Xianbei or the Xiongnu went south and sacked his defense area again, he would be able to take care of the barbarians directly.

Before that, Guo Peng needs to do a lot of preparations.

The first thing to do is to go to Jixian to meet the priests before arriving in Ningxian.

Guo Peng and the clan members had a good relationship during the war. They drank and chatted together. The clan members were very polite to him, and they are still very polite to him now.

Because Lu Zhi was promoted, Guo Peng's status and future expectations have risen. As a side general, it is necessary to have a good relationship with Guo Peng.

"I really didn't expect that after I was promoted to the prefect, Zifeng would be the successor as Colonel Hogaramaru. Zifeng is young and promising, and is good at commanding the army, so he will definitely be able to do this job well."

Zongmen praise Guo Peng first, but it is always right to praise first.

Guo Peng smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty is wrong, and your Majesty knows the last commander. The last commander has only been in the army for half a year. Although he has made military exploits, his experience is still inexperienced. without any experience.

Getting this position this time is entirely due to His Majesty's favor, so the General was trembling with fear and could not sleep for several days and nights, lest he would not be able to respond to His Majesty's entrustment. big. "

What was said in this scene really deserved to be Lu Zigan's disciple.

The clan members secretly applauded this impeccable scene.

Originally, Lu Zhi had already written to him, asking him to take more care of Guo Peng, and give him some advice and guidance on the position of the school captain of Ho Karasuma. He will definitely do this. If he does it well, Lu Zhi will owe him a Favor, this favor is very valuable, and the sect members will definitely make good use of it.

So the sect members set up a battle to tell Guo Peng the current situation at the border, as well as the problems he needs to face as a guard of the Kasuga Maru Colonel. After talking for a long time, Guo Peng managed to sort out the relationship here. Know that you have a great responsibility.

At the same time, Guo Peng also knew that the situation of the clan members was not good, and he also had his own troubles.

The undispatched Youzhou volunteers and the local tyrants, as well as the Xianbei people who are eyeing them, as well as the restless Karasuma and Nanxiongnu, are all troublesome.

His presence and command of the troops are also good for the clan members, which means that the battalion and county soldiers of Youzhou can coordinate and command when necessary, and they will not be disordered, and he has also received strong foreign aid——

Guo Peng himself led more than 2000 cavalry capable of conscripting and fighting.

With the cavalry under his command as the confidence, the clan members have more reliance when doing things.

Therefore, the clan members will fully assist Guo Peng in commanding the military and preparing for war, assisting him in mastering the Karasuma Camp, coordinating the Yuyang Camp, and establishing his identity.

But at the same time, he also hoped that Guo Peng would keep pace with him, be his assistant when dealing with matters, and his troops and horses would also be his weight in negotiating conditions with all ethnic groups.

The Colonel Hu Karasuma has always had a good relationship with the governor of Youzhou. Otherwise, the two command systems of the two armies will not coordinate with each other, and it will be very troublesome. Guo Peng can guarantee this.

With Guo Peng's assurance, the clan members were very happy, and opened the Youzhou treasury to allocate a large number of weapons and leather armors to Guo Peng. Among them, the fifty pairs of mysterious armors that made Guo Peng the most happy.

Generally speaking, ordinary soldiers are equipped with leather armor, while iron black armor is excellent equipment that can only be equipped by elite troops at this time. impact.

During the crusade against the Yellow Turbans, Guo Peng had at most [-] soldiers, and there were only seven pairs of mysterious armors, but now the sect members have directly allocated fifty pairs of mysterious armors to Guo Peng, which can be said to be a generous gift.

In this way, Guo Peng can build heavy cavalry. Although the number is small now, it is of great significance to use it at critical moments.

Guo Peng thanked the help of the clan members, and then led his subordinates to Ningxian County, entered the Go Karasuma Captain's House, and then officially sent people to declare to the surrounding tribes that he was the new Go Karasuma Captain in accordance with the standard procedure.

This can only be said to be a process without any practical significance, and if the other party knows that the Han court has sent a 20-year-old young man to be the captain of Hu Karasuma, they will probably laugh at it and despise Guo Peng.

Guo Peng didn't care, and asked his family to tidy up the mansion a little. Guo Peng started to build a military camp for his own troops, and then set up camp rules, such as washing hands before meals and after toilet, not drinking raw water, etc., to prevent The situation of acclimatization occurs.

Then, go to Karasuma Camp, take over the command of Karasuma Camp's troops and let them serve him.

Guo Peng brought a large amount of money there, and immediately summoned all the soldiers of Karasuma Battalion, and counted them, 69 soldiers.

Then Guo Peng ordered a military parade to test the fighting skills and riding skills of the Karasuma soldiers.

He has to first clean up a group of useless and streamline personnel.

After two days of testing, Guo Peng eliminated 110 soldiers who did not meet his standards, and most of the soldiers actually met the standards.

After all, living in the borderlands and always prepared for war, it is impossible to be an underdog.

Guo Peng eliminated the soldiers, not mainly because of their combat skills.

In fact, most of their combat skills are fine. Guo Peng is still looking at some of the problems they showed during the drill.

Some soldiers can be kept, and some cannot be kept.

Chapter 95 Prestige

The Han government moved some criminals to the border and forced them to perform military service, which not only lowered the status of the soldiers, but also destroyed the military's sense of discipline and honor.

Guo Peng focused on selecting the criminals in the Karasuma camp, eliminated them, and handed them over to the clan members to arrange them as county soldiers, instead of staying in the Karasuma camp that Guo Peng wanted to build as an elite division.

Discipline and honor in the military really matter.

Therefore, Qi Jiguang's recruitment of soldiers is very careful not to be slick in the market, but to be simple, hard-working, hard-working farmers and mine children.

Guo Peng decided that if there is a need to recruit soldiers in the future, he will also choose these two groups to recruit soldiers, and the market slickers and criminals are resolutely not.

While weeding out, we reward the remaining ones with money to win people's hearts so that they can obey themselves more quickly.

Those who were eliminated saw that others were rewarded but they didn't. They were dissatisfied and wanted to make trouble. In the end, they were surrounded by the personal soldiers brought by Guo Peng.

The clan member received a letter from Guo Peng. In the letter, Guo Peng explained such a matter. The clan member felt that it did not matter, so he placed them in the ranks of the county soldiers.

After this step was completed, on the third day, Guo Peng announced that he would mix the Karasuma camp and the parts he brought together, that is, break up and recompose.

The original officer did not change his position for the time being, but the soldiers he led had to change because he wanted to train Karasuma Battalion to achieve his goals and fight according to his own tactics.

This reason is understandable, no one has reason to refuse, and it is unreasonable to just take the reward and make trouble now.

So Guo Peng set up the newly established barracks next to the original barracks. The obstacles between the two barracks were removed, opened up, and turned into one. kind of training.

The newly established Karasuma Battalion had no infantry. In order to meet the needs of fighting the nomads, Guo Peng also changed the troopers he brought to full-scale cavalry.

Therefore, the first priority of military training is to transfer a group of soldiers who cannot ride horses to practice equestrianism, and those who can ride horses will start formal training.

It will take time, but fortunately, most people can ride horses, and there are only three to five hundred people who can't ride horses. They gather together for intensive training, and they can basically master equestrian skills within three months.

Of course, it is difficult to force others, such as swinging a sword immediately, shooting a gun immediately, and riding a shot, etc., which all take a lot of time.

While training soldiers, Guo Peng established new military regulations belonging to Karasuma Battalion. Some things that cannot be done and some things that must be done are clearly listed. Every soldier must know and follow them. When you arrive, you can play the board and do an excellent reward.

There are no rules and no square circle. The original two teams were broken up and reorganized by Guo Peng in a mixed way, and the commander-in-chief was re-appointed. This is the first step. Setting up your own rules is the second step. After that, Karasuma Camp belonging to Guo Peng was born.

The next step is to exercise tacit understanding and life-and-death friendship in the war, and further gain the heart of this army.

Troubled times are coming, and the army is the foundation of its existence, especially when it comes to starting an army.

At the same time, Guo Peng also sent people out of the fortress to explore outside the fortress to obtain relevant information and search for relevant news.

Gather these information together, so that Guo Peng can judge whether there is a possibility of war, so as to prepare in advance.

This matter Guo Peng handed over to Cheng Li.

Cheng Li admired Guo Peng's style of preventing trouble before it happened, so he was very supportive. Guo Peng dispatched a [-]-man cavalry team to Cheng Li's command, and the task was to investigate intelligence.

The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was an eventful year, and the Yellow Turban Rebellion was just the beginning. With the beginning of the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the frontiers of the Han Empire were not stable during the entire Zhongping period.

In the northwest there was the rebellion of Bianzhang and Han Sui, in the northeast there was the rebellion of Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, and then there was the second Yellow Turban uprising throughout the mainland——

This is a real uprising, because the Yellow Turbans at this time are completely rogues and remnants, and they have no complex attributes.

It was not until Emperor Han Ling died that these rebellions were slowly contained. It was the local powerful warlords who restrained them, and they started an even bigger disaster.

Guo Peng needs to exercise himself during this period, sharpen himself, play a prestigious name, and play an army of his own. Only with soldiers in hand can he be confident.

As for other futures...

Guo Peng didn't want to think about it for the time being.

In November, when Guo Peng began to prepare for the war, Bian Zhang and Han Sui... were called Bian Yun and Han Yue at that time, and they were taken as hostages by Bei Gong Boyu, a Qiang man, and threatened the prefect of Liangzhou. It can be done, so the rebel army of the Qiang people actually chose these two people to be the leading brothers.

The two had no hope of escaping, so they were half-forced to become the lead elder brother, and later changed their names to Bian Zhang and Han Sui, starting the Liangzhou Rebellion.

Once attacked the land of Sanfu, threatening the tombs of the previous emperors of the Han Empire, things were serious, so Emperor Ling began to order the army to form again and go west.

This fight is endless.

A few months passed in a flash, and the second year of Zhongping came. At the beginning of February of the second year of Zhongping, Cheng Li brought a piece of news that Guo Peng didn't really want to know.

"Xianbei people move?"

"It seems to be certain, the Xianbei people are moving."

Cheng Li's face was serious: "Last year, when the news of the lord's inauguration came to the Xianbei Danhan Mountain Royal Court, the leader Helian laughed on the spot, saying that Dahan had sent a boy to be the captain of the school. The matter is over, and it is expected that Kazuya will commit the crime.”

"Helian, is he Tan Shihuai's son?"

Guo Peng asked.

"Yes, he is the son of Tan Shihuai. After Tan Shihuai's death, he took over the position of Tan Shihuai, but according to the information we have collected, this Helian is far inferior to his father, Tan Shihuai. The reputation is not good, many people disapprove of him, and in recent years, he has been harassed several times in the south without much success."

Cheng Li took a piece of information and handed it to Guo Peng. Guo Peng nodded after reading it: "If that's the case, you don't need to guard against him like Tan Shihuai."

"However, the situation is still not optimistic."

Cheng Li said solemnly: "We only have [-] combat cavalry, and Zongshi-jun can support us at most [-] cavalry, and the rest are infantry. Once a fight occurs, we have no help."

"What about the Karasuma cavalry?"

"There is nothing wrong with the process, but there is a very critical thing we must consider."

"what?"

"prestige."

Cheng Li opened his mouth and said: "Only people with enough prestige can command the people who move the Karasuma, otherwise the people of Karasuma will not take their lord seriously. Right now, there are not many people in Youzhou who have the prestige to command the people of Karasuma, and Zongshijun is one of them.

But Zongshijun wants to sit in Jixian County, so he can't go out to fight easily. You are the captain of Huwuwan, and something happened to Xianbei's south defense area. You should take the initiative to fight against Xianbei, so we still have to rely on ourselves. "

Guo Peng frowned, less tilted his brows, and looked at Cheng Li.

"Zhongde, if you win a battle, if you win a big battle, you will have prestige, right?"

"Correct!"

Cheng Li's eyes flashed a little bit of coldness.

Guo Peng narrowed his eyes, took a deep breath, and began to figure out how to fight this battle.

Chapter 96 Thunderbolt