Seeing that Guo Peng seemed to be ready, Lu Su and the other three could only worry about Sun Ce in their hearts, hoping that he would not make such a stupid move.

For Guo Peng, who is already prepared, it is better for him to be sensible, if he is not rational enough......

Guo Peng will help him be sensible.

For Guo Peng, he deeply understands that most of the time, the victory or defeat of the war does not lie in the crushing of IQ, but in the level of execution.

It's rare for military geniuses to play against military idiots on both sides of a war, and you know things, I know, are more about strategy than strategy.

Guo Peng may not be smarter than anyone else, but his Guo Wei regime has the world's first-class execution.

Under his leadership and building, his team of officials is the most executive team in the whole world, from top to bottom, with strong execution.

If this battle happens, it will become a classic confrontation between the northern tuntian farm flow vs. the southern river system maneuvering flow.

In a war, to a large extent, the fight is on food and logistics, and a large part of the army's combat effectiveness is limited by logistics supply.

For the Central Plains, where the waterways are not dense, the Tuntian farm is the lifeline of the army.

Guo Peng set up Tuntian villages and townships in the Central Plains, connected them by roads, and in a few years created a land logistics and transportation system that was not inferior to the Jianghuai water network, and the army advanced in the hinterland of the Central Plains and took grain on the spot, without worrying about the shortage of grain and grass at all.

And this is the biggest reliance on Guo Peng's army to maintain combat effectiveness.

Where the Tuntian Farm is, Guo Peng's ruling power can radiate to wherever it is, and everything is based on grain.

However, once it is separated from the support of the land logistics and transportation system, then the combat effectiveness of the army will be inversely proportional to the distance.

No matter how well-trained the Wei army was, if they didn't have enough to eat, it would be fatal.

On the other hand, for the Jiangdong regime, which has a dense water network, the river network is their lifeline.

Even in the modern era of convenient and developed transportation, water transportation still has irreplaceable carrying advantages, large carrying capacity, low cost, then in the late Eastern Han Dynasty without railway and air transportation, water transportation has an incomparable huge advantage.

As far as possible, the army's marching route should choose a direction that is basically the same as the direction of the water flow, so as to reduce the pressure on the army's logistical transportation by means of water transportation; the more water flow and the greater the carrying capacity, the lower the army's logistical pressure.

The Jiangdong Naval Division, which was good at manipulating boats, had a greater advantage in this respect than the northern army.

The northern army could only use ships to transport grain and straw, and was not good at fighting on the water, while the Jiangdong army could not only transport supplies, but also fight on the water, making it difficult for the northern army to fight.

Therefore, the lifeline of the Jiangdong army is the water network, and the combat effectiveness of the Jiangdong army can be maintained wherever the river water flows.

And once the Jiangdong army broke away from the water network, the farther away from the water surface, the combat effectiveness would decline in a straight line, and it would not be able to resist the northern infantry cavalry, which was skilled in land warfare.

The Jiangdong army used the water flow to achieve combat advance and grain transportation, and it could hit wherever the water flowed, which was a great advantage, but for the northern regime, if it wanted to fight, it had to set up forward bases everywhere.

For Guo Peng, the forward base is the Tuntian Farm, that is, those villages and townships directly under the central government, and wherever these Tuntian Farms extend, his control will extend to wherever he goes, and the farther he extends, the farther his arms will stretch.

Each large-scale Tuntian village and township is an advance base, which can not only strengthen his control over the place, but also curb the advance of the Jiangdong Naval Division, after all, the Jiangdong Naval Division cannot stay on the water all the time, it must land.

They can go deep along the river, but as long as Guo Peng's Tuntian base cannot be destroyed along the way, then Guo Peng's army can be stationed in it and cut off the retreat of the Jiangdong Navy Division at any time.

If Sun Ce wants to go north, he must attack the Tuntian base set up by Guo Peng along the way, destroy, plunder, and turn it into his own forward force, otherwise, he will be blocked layer by layer until it collapses.

Guo Peng knew that Sun Ce's military ability was not comparable to his younger brother Sun 100,000, Sun 100,000 was really not very glorious in military affairs, but the little overlord Sun Ce was not ordinary, his command ability, coupled with Zhou Yu's planning ability, joined forces, and it was difficult to be sharp.

Zhang Liao, Xu Huang, Zang Ba, these three people are the generals at the forefront of the frontline, and they are also Guo Peng's first line of defense.

At this time, Guo Peng could not get out of Guanzhong, and the 60,000 troops of the Southeast Front set up in the southeast battlefield would also be the only army that could cope with Sun Ce's attack.

Guo Peng trusted Zhang Liao and gave Zhang Liao a lot of cheap power, at the command level, Zhang Liao's position was above the ban, and when necessary, the East China Sea battalion under the command of the ban should also follow Zhang Liao's instructions.

If Sun Ce really goes north, it will depend on how Zhang Liao responds.

In the same way, if Liu Biao chooses to go north, it is estimated that it will not be difficult for Lejin to deal with it, but he must also pretend to be and not make Zhang Yun embarrassed.

If this battle really starts, Guo Peng has actually made the highest level of preparation.

The battlefield battle, the gains and losses of both sides, all depend on who can create a more comfortable and favorable combat environment for themselves, Guo Peng has been operating Huainan and Huaibei for several years, in order to come to this moment.

The generals and county guards placed along the border line will also have to go through a severe test, and once this test is passed, it will go to a higher level, and if they fail to pass, their future will be worrying.

Guo Peng believes that they can understand this themselves.

Therefore, Mao Jue, the Shou of Jiujiang County, and Gu Yong, the Shou of Lujiang County, worked very hard to actively prepare enough logistics for the army, repaired enough military roads and advance bases, and actively went deep into the grassroots to grasp the population, so that they could recruit strong men to assist in the war at any time.

Regardless of whether Liu Biao and Sun Ce decided to go north to respond to Liu Zhang's Liangzhou offensive, Guo Peng was ready.

If you want to come, then come, and if you dare, then come and try.

Not to mention, whether it is Liu Biao or Sun Ce, when they learned that Liu Zhang went north to Liangzhou to fight for the intelligence of Longxi, they all planned to try to go north to compete for the Central Plains.

Sun Ce's enterprising spirit is much higher than Liu Biao, because Liu Biao already has Nanyang as a barrier to Jingzhou after all, but Sun Ce does not.

When Liu Biao convened a military meeting to discuss this matter, he was almost unanimously opposed by his subordinates.

They believed that it was enough for Nanyang County to be in their hands, and if they continued to invade the hinterland of Yuzhou in the north, it would definitely touch Guo Peng's nerves, prompting Guo Peng to mobilize his army south to attack Jingzhou at all costs.

At that time, it is difficult to say whether Nanyang can hold on, let alone enterprising.

Liu Biao was actually beating the drum in his heart, and he also felt that what these people said made sense, although at this time he was bullying Guo Peng for not being able to return to the Central Plains, but once he really annoyed Guo Peng, Guo Peng would inevitably retaliate, and it was a question of whether he could hold Nanyang at that time.