This situation that Guo Peng is worried about is not impossible.

This happened during the deduction of the staff platform.

A staff team in the staff platform successfully deduced a possibility that the Xianbei people gave up their ancestral land and fled north regardless of everything, chose a safer place to survive, and learned about the possibility of the Northern Huns escaping from that time.

The staff who proposed this possibility was named Pang Tong, who was sent to the staff platform by Guo Peng himself.

He held a basic position in the staff station, and then visited the military forces of Yangzhou, Hepingzhou, Jingzhou, and accumulated experience. He was transferred back to the staff station at the beginning of the year and served as the chief of a combat team.

After all the possible battles were fully proposed, Pang Tong proposed such a possibility that the Xianbei people would avoid fighting, which prompted Guo to think seriously.

In this way, Guo Peng's strategic goal is of course to be achieved.

But he won nothing and had no spoils. He tried his best to hit the air with one punch, and he would vomit blood.

Then I don’t know when the expenses of this war will be recovered.

That feeling is really painful.

Guo Peng did not have any good responses to this, so he could only follow what Pang Tong said, try to delay the Xianbei people's time to learn the news, not give them too much time to consider, not give them enough opportunities to prepare, and disrupt their deployment.

Then the army should advance quickly and not deliberately slow down.

Guo Peng expressed his agreement and this battle brought Pang Tong with him, allowing him to shine in the staff team that accompanied him.

In addition, Guo Peng asked the enemy cavalry to approach the direction of Langjuxu Mountain as much as possible and to explore the movements of the Xianbei people as much as possible.

If those guys really fled north, what else can they fight in this battle?

Suli, Fu Luohan, don’t let the soles of your feet run away.

How embarrassing it would be if this battle was won inexplicably.

While sitting in the chariot to handle government affairs during the march, Guo Peng was also constantly praying and making wishes, hoping that Suli and Fu Luohan would not learn from the Northern Huns and would stay and fight to the end.

In addition to managing marching and military affairs, he also has to deal with a lot of government affairs.

When it comes to military affairs, the most troublesome thing is naturally the military's logistics supply.

The entire Hebei was indeed mobilized, mobilizing about 800,000 civilians to participate in the march and mobilizing about 200,000 auxiliary soldiers.

Together, there are one million logistics support personnel who maintain this war.

In order to ensure the long-distance conquest of 200,000 troops, the Wei government needed to use one million laborers for logistics support, and the military and miscellaneous expenses spent on this were astronomical.

In other words, Mr. Guo has had a lot of income and reserves in recent years. He opened his position directly at critical moments, otherwise he might not be able to rely solely on the national finances.

Liu Che had the foundation laid by Wen and Jing's rule, the foundation laid by his grandfather and father, so he had the confidence to fight.

Mr. Guo has no foundation, and everything he has accumulated is taken from the middlemen and squeezed out from the farmers.

Only after years of accumulation and construction have been achieved can we have the confidence to carry out this large-scale Northern Expedition.

A large number of horses and more than 300,000 sheep also provided him with a lot of help, greatly reducing the burden on the logistics forces and reducing the burden intensity of the logistics personnel by an order of magnitude, so that a considerable portion of the rice and grain could be transported less.

Even so, 800,000 households in Hebei have been affected and will face some trouble in the upcoming autumn harvest season.

To this end, Guo Peng asked areas with a large population to organize and send people to assist areas with small populations to harvest food. In short, wars cannot make people hungry or let their food rot in the fields.

In addition, during the entire march, not only should the food rations of 200,000 troops be guaranteed, but also the food rations of 1 million logistics personnel, and they also have to eat.

The quality is slightly lower, and it is a little worse. Multiplied by one million, that is also a huge number. If Guo Peng had not had a strong foundation, he would really not be able to bear it.

So after Guo Peng planned this war, he almost knew why Emperor Wu of Han defeated the Huns to half of his household registration in the country.

It really consumes manpower, material resources and financial resources. If the logistics support personnel are not well provided, a large number of logistics personnel will die, and a small number of people who are actually killed in battle will be a small number.

Therefore, Guo Peng repeatedly emphasized ensuring the safety of logistics personnel, ensuring that they can eat enough, not go hungry, and strictly implement it in accordance with rules and regulations.

Of course, officials dare not do anything randomly, but it is normal for them to complain.

After going out for a month, he fought several small encounters in a sporadic manner. Dong Zhao, who was in charge of logistics, made a statement and gave Guo Peng five bitternesses.

What are the money, the supplies are not enough, the difficulty in sustaining, the officials are not enough staff, etc., they are all complaining.

Guo Peng initially comforted him, then opened the inner warehouse himself and allocated 10 million yuan to Dong Zhao for use. He allocated 60 million yuan in a row, and Dong Zhao was still complaining.

That means that Guo Peng reduces the amount of staffing, reduces the amount of rations, and reduces the burden on him.

In a fit of anger, Guo Peng started to curse.

If you can do it, do it. If you can’t, resign me and then get out!

If you can’t do things, what’s the point of asking you! There are so many people who can do things. How many people are staring at you and their eyes are red. Do you think I can’t find a replacement?

Want to be relaxed?

Yes! Take off my official uniform! Go back to your hometown! You will be relaxed forever!

After a angrily scolding, Dong Zhao became honest.

He is reluctant to give up his official position.

Instead of continuing to complain, he gritted his teeth and did things.

Afterwards, Guo Peng mentioned that some officials had hemorrhoids caused by sitting for a long time in their handling of government affairs. He hoped that Guo Peng would add personnel to help handle logistics affairs.

Guo Peng agreed to this and sent an order to Luoyang to ask Guo Jinzeng, who was left in Luoyang, to transfer personnel to support Dong Zhao.

Then he called Tian Feng and asked Tian Feng to go to the Bingzhou border to supervise and assist Dong Zhao in Bingzhou in handling logistics, leaving Cheng Yu with him only to assist in handling daily government affairs.

The Wei government has expanded to this day, and the number of government personnel has increased significantly, but it seems that its ability to do business has declined slightly.

A big mobilization made these guys cry in a hurry. It seemed that it was necessary to streamline and eliminate personnel after the war.

This war is a touchstone, and it is a touchstone of great quality for both the army and the officialdom.

If you do well, you can naturally stay. If you don’t do well, Guo will never tolerate it.

If they don’t give them a little color in some things, they really think that Mr. Guo is a paper tiger.

Guo Peng also had a comprehensive understanding of the entire logistics issue.

It was nothing more than that the army was advancing so fast that the logistics transportation speed could not keep up with it. The grassland roads were not specially repaired. After leaving the territory of the Wei Empire, the speed of the logistics team was reduced.

In response, Guo Peng asked the frontline troops to increase the amount of mutton as food, use these fattened sheep more as soldiers' rations, and eat more meat to supplement oil and water to reduce the slight burden on the logistics forces.

However, the marching speed cannot be reduced. The slower the marching speed and the longer the journey take, the greater the impact on the development of the national economy. Mr. Guo is very clear about this.

He intends to sacrifice Hebei's economic data for a year to fight this battle.

It doesn’t matter a year, but for more than a year, Hebei’s problems need to be supported by other places.

We must maintain the current marching speed and move decisively towards Langjuxu Mountain. We cannot stop or expose the difficulty of logistics to avoid damaging our morale.

However, looking at the logistical difficulties reflected in Dong Zhao's memorial, Guo Peng also deeply felt the importance of confidence and reserves. Really, at any time, whether it is a country or an individual, you must make reserves.

To put it bluntly, the Wei Empire could provide astronomical material reserves.

To put it simply, Mr. Guo’s own internal warehouse can provide 60 million yuan to support logistics.

But this province still needs to save.

So in late June, Guo Peng lowered his food standards to the same level as soldiers, ate the same food as soldiers, and stopped using ice cubes. He would rather get some heat than continue to spend so much.

After doing these things, he was not very worried about other things, just worried that the war would not be fought.

If the Xianbei people choose to escape if they don’t fight each other, the battle will be like a joke, and it is the only thing that he cannot control.
Chapter completed!