On the way, Guo Peng, Zang Hong and Cheng Li exchanged their views on the current situation in the north, and they all thought that the situation was not optimistic.

Since the failure of the Northern Expedition that year, the Han government has lost the ability to organize the Northern Expedition on a large scale, and at present, on the northern defense line, the Han government actually does not have much strength to attack except for defense.

The Karasuma battalion that Guo Peng could command and his own soldiers together were only more than 2,000 people.

Even if you recruit locally, you will recruit more than 3,000 at most, and you can't recruit more, and you can't organize a decent Northern Expedition at all.

So the best way to clean them up is not military confrontation, but to sow discord.

Let them not be unified, but their internal contradictions can never be resolved, and there is constant infighting, so that the Han Empire can profit.

This is Cheng Li's specific idea, and the strategy will have to be formulated according to local conditions after it arrives in the local area, but there is no doubt that before that, Guo Peng needs to show his bravery.

If he communicates with the leaders of Karasuma Xianbei at his age, he will only be despised by jokes, and he needs prestige, prestige that makes those guys fearful.

In short, there is no other way to fight and stand up.

It's hard to say anything else in northern Xinjiang, there are too many opportunities to fight, because the Xianbei Huns always like to go south to plunder, and there is no way.

Cheng Li formulated a strategy for Guo Peng, asking Guo Peng to reorganize the army, train cavalry, make friends with the members of the Youzhou Assassin Shi Sect, gain a firm foothold, and then send people to search for intelligence, accumulate information, and prepare for war.

The next time the Xianbei or Huns went south again and plundered his defense area, he could directly clean up those barbarians.

And before that, Guo Peng needs to make a lot of preparations.

The first thing to do is to go to Jixian County to meet the sect members before arriving in Ning County.

Guo Peng and the sect member had a good relationship during the war, they drank wine together, chatted, and the sect member was very polite to him, and he is still very polite to him.

Because Lu Zhi has been promoted, Guo Peng's status and future expectations are rising, and the sect member, as a side general, needs to have a good relationship with Guo Peng.

"I really didn't expect that after I was promoted to the assassin history, it would be Zifeng who would succeed me as the captain of the Karasuma school, Zifeng is young and promising, and he is good at commanding the army, so he will definitely be able to do a good job in this position."

The sect member praised Guo Peng first, anyway, it is always right to praise first.

Guo Peng smiled bitterly and said: "The envoy praises the king, the envoy also knows the last general, the last general has only been in the army for half a year, although he has made military achievements, but his experience is still shallow, and he is not clear about the position of captain of the Karasuma school, and he has no experience before."

This time I was able to get this position, thanks to His Majesty's favor, so the last general trembled for this, and could not sleep for several days and nights, lest he would not be able to respond to His Majesty's entrustment, and it would hurt His Majesty's wisdom to know people, and his personal honor and disgrace would be small, and the royal prestige would be damaged, and the matter would be big. ”

In this meeting, he really deserves to be a disciple of Lu Zigan.

The sect member secretly applauded this impeccable scene.

Originally, Lu Zhi had already written to him, asking him to take care of Guo Peng more, and give him more advice and guidance in the position of captain of Karasuma, he would definitely do this thing, and if he did it well, Lu Zhi owed him a favor, this favor was very valuable, and the sect member would definitely make good use of it.

So the sect member set up a position and told Guo Peng about the current situation at the border pass, as well as the problems that he, the captain of the Karasuma Captain, needs to face, etc., and after talking for a long time, Guo Peng barely sorted out the relationship and knew that he had a heavy responsibility.

At the same time, Guo Peng also knew that the situation of the sect member was not good, and he also had his own troubles.

The Youzhou volunteers and local tyrants who have not yet been dismissed, as well as the Xianbei people who are eyeing each other, as well as the restless Karasuma people and the Southern Xiongnu, are all trouble.

His arrival and taking charge of the soldiers and horses is also a good thing for the sect members, which means that the battalion soldiers and county soldiers in Youzhou can coordinate their command when necessary, and they will not be disordered, and he has also received strong foreign aid-

Guo Peng himself led more than 2,000 cavalry who could fight well.

With the cavalry under his own command as a confidence, the sect members have more to rely on when doing things.

Therefore, the sect members will fully assist Guo Peng in taking charge of the army and horses, assist him in mastering the Karasuma Battalion, coordinate the Yuyang Battalion, and establish his identity and status.

But at the same time, he also hopes that Guo Peng will keep pace with him, become his arm when dealing with things, and the soldiers and horses under his command will also become the weight of his negotiations with various ethnic groups.

Captain Gokarasuma has always had to have a good relationship with the Youzhou Thorn History, otherwise the two command systems of the two armies will be very troublesome if they are not coordinated with each other, and Guo Peng can guarantee this.

After getting Guo Peng's assurance, the sect member was very happy, and opened the Youzhou Mansion Treasury to allocate a large number of weapons and leather armor to Guo Peng, and among them, Guo Peng was the happiest fifty pairs of Xuanjia.

Generally speaking, ordinary soldiers are equipped with leather armor, while iron armor is a sophisticated equipment that only elite troops can equip at this time, and even equip cavalry to turn light cavalry into heavy cavalry, with heavy impact power that light cavalry does not have.

When the Yellow Turban Army was defeated, Guo Peng's subordinates had 3,000 soldiers at the most, and there were only seven pairs of Xuanjia, but now the sect members directly transferred 50 pairs of Xuanjia to Guo Peng, which can be described as a generous gift.

In this way, Guo Peng will be able to build heavy cavalry, although the number is small now, but it is of great significance to use it at critical moments.

Guo Peng thanked the sect members for their help, and then led his subordinates to Ning County, entered the Gokarsuma Captain's Mansion, and then officially sent someone to announce himself as the new GoKarasuma Captain to the surrounding tribes according to the standard procedure.

This can only be said to be a process, and it has no practical significance, and if the other party knew that Han Ting had sent a twenty-year-old young man to be the captain of the Karasuma school, he would probably laugh at it and despise Guo Peng.

Guo Peng didn't care, and asked his family to clean up the mansion a little, Guo Peng began to prepare for the construction of a military camp for his subordinates, and then set camp rules, such as washing hands before and after meals, and not drinking raw water, etc., to prevent the occurrence of water and soil adaptation.

Then, it is to go to the Karasuma Battalion, take over the command of the Karasuma Battalion's soldiers and horses, and let them serve themselves.

Guo Peng brought a large amount of money over, and immediately gathered all the soldiers of the Karasuma battalion and counted the number of 1,069 people.

Then Guo Peng ordered a large military parade to test the fighting skills and riding skills of the Karasuma battalion soldiers, and rewards were given to those who met the standards, and those who did not meet the standards were sent home and were not left.

He must first clean up a group of useless and streamline personnel.

After two days of testing, Guo Peng eliminated 110 soldiers who did not meet his standards, and most of them actually met the standards.

After all, living in the border areas and always being war-ready, it is impossible to be a weak brigade.

Guo Peng's elimination of the soldiers was not mainly based on their combat skills.

In fact, most of their combat skills are not problematic, Guo Peng still looks at some of the problems they have embodied in the exercise.

Some soldiers can be kept, and some soldiers can't.