Mobilization is hard to come by.

But once you have mastered the mobilization power in a certain place, even if you really take root in that place, the rule has entered the hearts of the people, and it is no longer a rootless duckweed.

Except for Guo, most of the current warlords still follow the old thinking of the Eastern Han Dynasty, recruiting troops to join the army when they fight, and they will be eliminated after the war.

This was a strategy that began during the reign of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.

When Liu Xiu fought the world in the early days, he lacked military salaries, could not recruit enough troops, and could not do things, which was a headache.

So some of his subordinates offered him a plan.

It is to recruit troops without paying, but to give them the right to plunder the place after victory, drive them to fight, and after the war, they will be cut off and return to their hometowns, which is very economical.

Liu Xiu adopted this strategy, and indeed recruited many people to join the army, and accomplished many great things, but it also set a precedent for the sacking of places after the victory of the army, which had a far-reaching impact.

It was at this time that the army really became a military disaster.

Burning, killing and looting is the reward they should get after winning the battle, this is allowed by the emperor, the emperor wants the result, and the process does not ask.

Both the emperor and the big-headed soldiers tasted the sweetness, so they turned this expedient measure into the rule.

Therefore, the Eastern Han Dynasty was far inferior to the Western Han Dynasty in terms of the number of professional troops, and the standing professional army was only more than 10,000 in Luoyang, Kyoto.

Since then, until the moment where Guo Peng is located, the military thinking of powerful factions in major places is also the same.

Except for a very small number of elite cronies who pay for their own money, most of the army is recruited temporarily.

Of course, there are practical factors as well.

Because they are not as far-sighted as Guo someone, they play in the fields on a large scale to accumulate food, and they have enough confidence to raise soldiers, they don't have so much food and money, so they can only recruit temporarily.

The temporarily recruited army is not very reliable, and the march and war must have its own basic plate, so there are generals who spend money to support private soldiers.

Private soldiers are often the most elite troops, with the best food, clothing and training, and are the decisive trump cards in wartime, and the others are soy sauce.

At that time, people did not have the concept of a state and a nation.

Neighboring counties are not their own people, and different states are not their own people, and they belong to different spheres of influence to plunder and even slaughter cities, without moral pressure, which is completely different from today's family.

You have to tell the people at that time that we are all big Han people, a family, don't kill me, guarantee that the other party will give you a knife directly, and spit on you.

Bah! Who is your family?

Because of this tradition, the major warlords seem to be able to fight, and there are many people, but there are really not many elites.

In the early stage, when the warlords' melee territory was very small, it was completely rookies pecking at each other to see who could do better, and it was not until the later period that the major warlords had a great cause and began to gradually develop the army in the direction of detachment and professionalism.

At the moment, everyone has no such concept at all, and it is still the same old rules.

Isn't it beautiful that a war can quickly pull up tens of thousands of troops with a scale of tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands, conquer each other, grab a good time after the battle, and then dismantle the army without paying military salaries?

Yuan Shao is like this, Yuan Shu is like this, Gongsun Zhan is like this, Dong Zhuo is like this.

It's like this all over the world.

Anyway, the unfortunate thing is that they are basically civilians.

Only Guo carried out such a large-scale operation in Qingyan Prefecture.

Therefore, he harvested enough military rations to support the 100,000 army and disaster relief reserves, and when the summer and autumn grains were harvested this year, Guo Peng would be able to accumulate the rations needed by the 100,000 troops for four years.

In the troubled times, there is food in his hands, and he is not panicked.

Guo is now building granaries in various places and hoarding grain on a large scale for emergencies.

Because there are granaries in various places, military operations within the two states of Qingyan do not need too many auxiliaries.

Rao is like this, Guo Peng organized the officials under his command who have the ability to calculate and deduce collectively, and calculated that with the current transportation capacity, it is not difficult to leave Qingyan Prefecture to fight a large-scale invasion war, and it is not difficult to dispatch an army of 100,000 at one time.

But among them, there are only 30,000 or 40,000 real soldiers, and the rest are auxiliaries, and there must be more civilians to ensure that the food is enough for the front line.

Although Guo Peng has trained these high-quality soldiers, with the civilian power and transportation capacity he currently masters, if he wants to leave Qingyan Prefecture for hundreds of miles to fight, he will only be able to use 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers in one go.

If there are more, there will be difficulties in transporting supplies.

Therefore, in order to increase the transportation capacity as much as possible, Guo Peng mobilized farmers and idle people to build roads and open roads within the scope of Qingyan Prefecture, and also combined roads and rivers to increase transportation capacity.

It's a big project and it takes time.

But to be honest, with these professional soldiers under Guo Peng's command who have undergone rigorous training, they are not afraid to deal with any warlord.

The earliest backbones who were pulled up from Kamiya County are now all officers, each of them has hard skills, and more than 90 percent of the soldiers have war experience, which is definitely not comparable to the recruits who are randomly pulled up.

The most important thing is to have discipline, understand military regulations, and know how to cooperate in battle.

If you are really a new soldier, Guo Peng will not rashly put you on an important battlefield, but send you out to suppress bandits, see blood, and then come back to participate in the real war.

The other party pulled up an army of 100,000 in a battle, and it seems that the number of people is more powerful than Guo Peng, but Guo Peng can also use the same method to pull the army.

And my 70,000 people are a full-time professional army, with guaranteed food and clothing, well-equipped, and well-trained, do you compare the improvised militia with my elite professional army?

On a battlefield of a certain scale, the number of troops on both sides at the same time is only 10,000 or 20,000, and it is impossible for an army of 100,000 to press it together.

Guo Peng has not relaxed the training of the army for a day, and the training is even stricter when he is not fighting.

Therefore, Guo Peng is really not happy to mobilize troops to fight everywhere and expand his territory now.

Now he wants to spend more time laying a solid foundation, consolidating his rule, properly managing the townships and villages at the grassroots level, making good arrangements for the affairs of the tuntian, building water conservancy, and preventing and controlling the locust plague.

Especially in the prevention and control of locust plagues, Guo Peng is particularly concerned about this matter.

From the time he was doing thorn history in Qingzhou, he attached great importance to the construction of water conservancy and the prevention and control of locust plagues.

He knew quite well that a locust plague could cost hundreds of thousands of people an entire year's hard work, followed by mass starvation and displacement.

When he took over Qingzhou, Qingzhou was really in ruins, Guo Peng invested a lot of resources and money to renovate Qingzhou, establish villages, generally tuntian, build water conservancy, and promote the technology of using ducks to prevent and control locust plagues.

Guo Peng is familiar with this technology.

When the locusts do not grow wings and still belong to the locusts, they drive the ducks into the fields and acres, and the ducks like to eat locusts, and a duck can destroy several catties of locusts a day.

In the locust growth period, ducks can be used to get rid of locusts, not only can the locusts be eliminated, but the meat of the ducks that grow up after eating locusts is very delicious, and it is more delicious than eating feed.

So Guo Peng introduced some duck seedlings and put them in some areas where locusts had appeared before, not to mention, it really worked.