Cheng Yu and Tian Feng are leaving, and they all have to go out with the army and follow the emperor.

This dramatic result not only dumbfounded officials who had previously speculated about it, but also Cheng Yu and Tian Feng.

They didn't expect Guo Peng to leave any of them, take both of them away, and directly let the crown prince preside over the daily operation of Shangshutai.

Even if the crown prince is to preside, no matter what, one person must be left among Cheng Yu and Tian Feng to assist, so that the crown prince can get started with government affairs faster.

After all, Shangshutai is the core of national government affairs, the number of officials is extremely large, and the government affairs are complex and diverse.

But no one expected that Shang Shu Ling and Shang Shu's servants didn't stay, and they were all taken away.

At best, it is the emperor who wants to temper the crown prince's ability to govern and give the crown prince a chance to exercise.

At worst, it means that the emperor doesn't trust Cheng Yu and Tian Feng, thinking that as soon as he leaves, Tian Feng and Cheng Yu will make trouble again, so he simply takes them with him.

It's been a long time, but they still haven't regained the emperor's trust?

It's a real trepidation for them.

The emperor took the two leaders of Shangshutai away, leaving behind other officials who were specifically responsible for handling affairs.

Of course, there are also officials who don't have to follow the emperor to the front line, but they can't stay in Luoyang, such as Dong Zhao, the secretary of the military department.

He is the person in charge of logistics for this Northern Expedition, and in order to do a good job in logistics, Dong Zhao will naturally not stay in Luoyang, but in Hebei.

Specifically, on the front line of grain and grass dispatch in Bingzhou, Xiahoudun and Youzhou Thorn Shi Xianyu were the assistants to handle the dispatch of grain and grass logistics for the army together, and there must be no mistakes.

After the administrative problem was basically solved, Guo Peng began to arrange the military problem again.

This expedition took Guo Peng himself as the commander, and the troops were divided into three routes, advancing in unison, sweeping Mobei together, and completely devouring Xianbei.

However, Guo Peng alone obviously cannot directly command an army of more than 100,000 or nearly 200,000, so he must also arrange candidates for other generals.

The Middle Route Army under his personal command was composed of the main force of the Wei Army, with Cao Hong, Cao Chun, Li Dian and Guo Dong as the main generals.

On the issue of the personnel deployment of the left and right armies, Guo Peng, after some thought, decided to transfer Guan Yu and Zhang Fei under Cao Ren, Xu Huang and Zang Ba under Zhang Liao, and Tian Yu under Yu Ban to lead the troops respectively.

Guo Peng decided to take Guan Yu as the chief general of the Left Route Army and Zhang Fei as the chief general of the Right Route Army, with the two of them as his right-hand men, and he sent troops simultaneously with himself to advance hand in hand.

If the Xianbei people send troops to resist, they will defeat them, and then outflank them, surround the Xianbei people's lair, and cut off their escape route.

When Guo Peng personally led the main force to completely defeat the main force of the Xianbei people, they needed to assist Guo Peng to completely devour this nomadic tribe with a population of more than 500,000.

This time, Guo Peng didn't use any of the five tiger generals, but used five people other than them to take them out to fight.

You can't think of the Five Tigers or something as soon as you fight, and the Wei Empire is not without other outstanding generals, if you really want to talk about it, that is, the difference between experience and combat record.

And this time, all five of them have things to do, and they can't be transferred.

Zhao Yun guarded the center, Cao Ren guarded the west, Yu Ban guarded Liaodong, Lejin guarded the southwest border, and Zhang Liao sat in Yangzhou.

Except for Zhao Yun and Cao Ren, who currently have no combat missions, the other three may face various combat missions at any time.

Especially Zhang Liao, Guo Peng has already ordered Zhang Liao and Tai Shici to join forces and go to sea to find the island of Taiwan, ready to explore at any time.

The five tiger generals are not suitable for being deployed at this time, and it is natural to use the generals of the second group.

And they have all made high feats and are full of skills, so they don't need Guo Peng to worry too much.

Needless to say, Guan Yu's ability to lead troops to fight can be summed up in the word "fierceness", and he is never soft when he fights, which is especially suitable for this kind of grassland warfare.

Not to mention Zhang Fei, the reason why Guo Peng asked Zhang Fei to lead the troops to be the chief general of the first army is because Zhang Fei is too familiar with this prairie and too familiar with the Xianbei people, and he doesn't need Guo Peng's arrangement at all, Zhang Fei can play brilliantly.

Give Guan Yu 30,000 troops and Zhang Fei's 10,000 troops, and let them march side by side with the main Chinese army led by Guo Peng as the left and right wings, which is the only tactic of the Wei army.

Simple and crude, unreasonable.

When it was strong to a certain point, the Wei army no longer needed to devise a lot of tactics in the face of a powerful enemy as before, but now, it was not needed.

They themselves are the most powerful tactics, and their own combat effectiveness, organization, and mobility are the strongest tactics.

No matter how much the Xianbei people resisted, it was impossible to resist the charge of the Wei army head-on.

A real torrent of steel will teach them to be human.

In May of the fifth year of Yande, Guo Peng's order had been implemented.

The Northern Expedition Three Route Army set out from Yunzhong County and Yanmen County in Bingzhou and Shanggu County in Youzhou respectively.

Guan Yu led 30,000 iron cavalry from Yunzhong County, and Zhang Fei led 10,000 iron cavalry from his headquarters and 30,000 cavalry from Karasuma Division of Shanggu County to set off together.

Guo Peng himself led the main army of 130,000 from Yanmen County.

In this battle, the Wei army dispatched 170,000 troops, plus 30,000 cavalry from Karasuma's division in Shanggu County, adding up to a total of 200,000 people.

Guo Peng drew the main force of the forbidden army and the main force of the guard army as his own main army.

Zhang Fei led his headquarters to follow him in the southern and northern wars, and after arriving in Shanggu County, he would attack with the 30,000 cavalry of his old acquaintance Nanlou.

Guan Yu led the 20,000 elite cavalry drawn from the Northwest Corps, and after arriving in Yunzhong County, the 10,000 cavalry from the Yuyang camp would also join Guan Yu's army, making up 30,000 for Guan Yu.

Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others received orders as early as April, led the army to set off, and after passing through Luoyang to meet Guo Peng, they went straight to the designated sortie point to assemble.

Guo Peng demanded that the whole army arrive at the designated sortie point before the 10th of June, and then after 10 days of rest and preparation, it will officially attack.

June 20 of the fifth year of Yande was the day when the whole army set off on the Northern Expedition.

The entire Wei State has moved.

In April, all prefectures, counties, and counties in Hebei began a comprehensive mobilization, with auxiliary troops and people in place, counting manpower, arranging tasks, and preparing for an attack.

After the purge, the surviving and newly inaugurated officials, including the chief executives of each township and village, led the strong men of each township and village to gather at the designated place, take the name tags, assign tasks, load all kinds of materials into trucks, and start the transportation work.

They transported all the materials in various military arsenals scattered throughout Hebei to the starting point of the front.

It is even necessary to be one step ahead of the army and open up the grain routes to lay the foundation for the army's advance.

A large amount of grain, meat, ordnance, and so on were stored in large quantities and advanced from the arsenal of Hebei to the starting point of the army's assembly, and people who used various means of transportation to transport supplies to the army could be seen in every county and county in Hebei.

Dong Zhao had already gone to Hebei to arrange the transportation of grain and grass, and Xiahoudun and Xian Yufu also moved.

Now, it is necessary to start the operation in accordance with the plan that has been determined before, and transport the grain and grass to the designated place for assembly in advance.

On the logistical front, a full-scale mobilization operation is in full swing.

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also led their respective armies to the designated starting point.

The whole of Hebei is ready for war, has entered a state of war, and is ready to contribute to the burning of this war.

In this context, on May 15, Guo Peng swore in Luoyang for the Northern Expedition.