Guo Peng is not actually worried about Yuan Shu.

Guo Peng's secret agents learned that Yuan Shu was conquering cities and expanding his sphere of influence recently and plundering food and supplies everywhere, which triggered a serious rebound in the area.

For example, Lu Kang, the prefect of Lujiang County, raised an anti-flagration and resisted Yuan Shu, which made Yuan Shu furious and sent his Huaiyi Captain Sun Ce to lead 20,000 troops to attack Lujiang County.

Based on this, Chen Gong believed that Yuan Shu would not have the strength to interfere in the war in the north, because in addition to the war in Lujiang County, Yuan Shu also caused great trouble.

He cheated Ma Riyi from Fu Jie, put Ma Riyi under house arrest, and then simply angered Ma Riyi to death.

After Ma Rizhe died, it triggered a strong reaction from famous scholars and clans everywhere.

Who is Ma Riyi?

He is a member of the Ma family of Fufeng, a grandson of Ma Rong, a master of Confucianism. He is the most famous person in the Ma family in contemporary times and a famous scholar in the world.

The news that Yuan Shu was pissed off from house arrest and pissed him spread. Everyone who knew about it was extremely dissatisfied with Yuan Shu, thinking that he had a disobedience and actually put him in house arrest and killed the envoys of the court.

The Chang'an court will inevitably counter this.

Chen Gong boldly inferred that before, the Chang'an court had not granted Yuan Shu local official position, but it might have been a trick. As a result, Yuan Shu was too disrespectful, and the Chang'an court was very likely to confront him.

If you don’t give me face, I won’t give you the inner world. I will send someone to compete with you.

Chen Gong believed that the Chang'an court would send people to Yangzhou to deal with Yuan Shu, and that it would be very likely that Yuan Shu's backyard would catch a fire, so it would be difficult to wipe his butt, let alone interfere with Guo Peng.

Guo Peng thought what Chen Gong said was very reasonable.

Then, among the princes, there was only one Tao Qian left.

The territory is safe and sound, and the people of Xuzhou live a peaceful life, without external enemies or internal worries. Xuzhou has a lot of household registration, so it is not a problem to mobilize it in time.

Moreover, Tao Qian and Guo Peng had some holidays.

The first festival is the problem with the Yellow Turban Army.

When Tao Qian drove the Yellow Turban Army to Qingzhou, the territory of Guo Peng was in trouble. Guo Peng's climate used his own way to cure him, and he retaliated against Tao Qian once. There are traces of unhappiness between the two.

The second festival was when Guo Peng served as the general of Zhendong and Tao Qian served as the general of Anton.

Guo Peng is very experienced and young, and has not served in official positions for a long time. Tao Qian is very experienced and old, and has served in various places with rich experience. He is one of the representative figures of the old bureaucrats.

Can he be willing to let him be Guo Peng’s assistant?

This old guy must have held his breath and didn't let it go.

Then Guo Peng also won over the Mi family, the richest family in Xuzhou, to help him, and let Mi Zhu become an official under his command. Now he has achieved the position of Prime Minister of Jinan and has given his sister to Guo Peng as a concubine. Obviously, he is determined to surrender to Guo Peng.

As the richest family in Xuzhou, the Mi family not only has a large amount of land and industries, but also has a archery and horse-drawn family. They have a considerable scale of private troops, and their military power cannot be underestimated.

This is equivalent to laying a time bomb within Tao Qian's sphere of influence, which may explode at any time, as long as Guo Peng has an idea.

Now Guo Peng sent troops to suppress it. Xiahou Yuan led his troops to guard the Xuzhou border, deterring Xuzhou for many years and preventing Tao Qian from attacking the Mi family. Once Guo Peng went north to attack Yuan Shao, Tao Qian was very likely to attack the Mi family.

This old guy is not a simple guy. He is not only cunning, but also tough and bold. But Guo Peng's army is so powerful that he is really afraid that he dare not act rashly.

Therefore, the strategists collectively believed that Tao Qian was the biggest hidden danger for Guo Peng to go north to attack Yuan Shao. If necessary, they could send troops to Xuzhou to intimidate Tao Qian and prevent Tao Qian from acting rashly.

Guo Peng agreed with this opinion, so he ordered the Polu-Pai Captain, Xiahou Yuan, the magistrate of Donglai County, to increase the troops to 5,000, and to add Taishan Guard in Taishan County. He ordered Zhongwu Captain Yu Jin to lead 5,000 troops to serve as Taishan Guard, and to cooperate with Xiahou Yuan to intimidate Tao Qian.

After the army officially launches the Northern Expedition, take office.

After making arrangements for Tao Qianhe, Guo Peng can finally make a complete assessment of Yuan Shao and Zhang Yang's forces and discuss how many troops should be sent to attack them.

Only in this way can we start to calculate the required food and grass, auxiliary soldiers and civilians, and various transportation equipment.

It involves the army's food, clothing, housing and transportation. These must be accurately calculated. If the calculation is wrong, it will cause a devastating blow to the army's conquest.

Guo Peng trained digital and statistical talents in his own manor very early, specializing in their digital and computational capabilities, and continuously increased the training of talents in this area to cope with the increasingly large gap in digital and computational talents.

Thanks to the early start, Guo Peng can now arrange a 500-man computing army to be put into the administrative department for services. In wartime, he can also draw personnel to gather them together to calculate the various data proposed by the strategists and draw data conclusions.

The so-called war actually contains the calculation and application of many data, which is absolutely inseparable from mathematics. Any calculation mistakes will bring disastrous consequences to the war.

The number of troops dispatched, the number of rations, the number of war horses, the number of weapons, the average daily consumption of various materials, and the consumption transported to the front line, etc., all require precise calculations to draw the most reliable conclusion.

To this end, Guo Peng introduced the concept of Arabic numerals, taught them the rules of four operations and the production of statistical charts, which simplified the cumbersome operation process, reduced their workload, and improved accuracy.

Everything is inseparable from mathematics, and Guo Peng has deep feelings about this.

He was also deeply touched by having a qualified numerical team that obtained accurate data and how much help it can bring to war and agricultural production.

For example, after exploring the intelligence and actual situation of Zhang Yang's Hanoi County forces, it was determined that Zhang Yang could not drive more than 10,000 troops to fight through the accurate calculations of the digital team.

Even if he started preparing now, he would give him half a year to mobilize and prepare food and grass. With the current situation in Hanoi County, he could recruit more troops, but he could not get more food and grass and could not fight.

Zhang Yang's small threat only requires a ten thousand lieutenant to attack his ruling core.

Han Hao also said that he could persuade some county towns to surrender voluntarily to avoid the pain of attacking the army.

Zhang Yang's threat was further lowered.

Moreover, according to the important information of the spies, Zhang Yang’s relationship with his military generals was not close, and even a little stiff, which may be a breakthrough point.

Compared with the simple Zhang Yang, Yuan Shao is a little more complicated.

According to the precise calculation data of the calculation team, Jizhou's households are abundant, with as many as one million.

When Guo Peng defeated Tuo Yi, he plundered the population of Qinghe Kingdom and Bohai County, and obtained about 40,000 households, which failed to shake the foundation of Jizhou.

Yuan Shao expanded his army to deal with Gongsun Zan. Now he can mobilize as many as 50,000 troops, with an elite standing army of about 10,000, and the remaining 40,000 are miscellaneous troops.

The so-called "100,000 armored armor" is just a big statement, and it should not be true.

Although these miscellaneous military rations are difficult to supply now, when needed, Yuan Shao will give them a little less.

During the war, it is not a problem to continue to recruit strong men and expand their troops. It is not a problem to bring 100,000 armor. In the case of excessive taxes, tens of thousands are possible, although they basically have no combat effectiveness.

This is Guo Peng’s biggest advantage, that is, the combat effectiveness of the army.

"Ming Gong's army was carefully trained by Ming Gong. It does not require mobilization and recruitment. It is ordered to be dispatched at any time. The number is as large as 70,000. In addition to the local garrison troops, there are still 50,000 to be mobilized. Although Yuan Benchu ​​also has an army that can be mobilized, the elite level is not the same as that of today."
Chapter completed!