The situation that Guo Peng fears is not impossible.

In the exercise of the staff station, such a situation occurred.

A staff team in the staff station successfully deduced a possibility, that is, the Xianbei people desperately abandoned their ancestral land and fled north, chose a safer place to survive, and learned the possibility of the Northern Xiongnu fleeing far away.

The staff officer who proposed this possibility was named Pang Tong, and Guo Peng personally sent it to the staff station that year.

He successively held a basic post in the staff station, and then went to Jingzhou, Yangzhou, and Pingzhou to conduct on-the-spot inspections to accumulate experience, and was transferred back to the staff station at the beginning of the year to serve as the chief of staff of an operational group.

In this battle, after various battle possibilities were comprehensively proposed, Pang Tong proposed such a possibility for Xianbei people to avoid fighting, prompting Guo to think seriously.

In this way, Guo Peng's strategic goal was of course achieved.

But there was nothing to gain, no loot, and a punch thrown with all his strength hit the air, and he would vomit blood.

Then I don't know when the expenses of this war will be recovered.

It really hurts.

In this regard, Guo Peng did not have a very good response plan, so he could only delay the time when the Xianbei people learned the news as much as possible according to what Pang Tong said, not give them too much time to think about it, and not give them a full opportunity to prepare, so as to disrupt their deployment.

Then the army must advance at a fast pace and not deliberately slow down.

Guo Peng agreed, and he also brought Pang Tong with him in this battle, allowing him to shine in the staff team with the army.

In addition, Guo Peng asked the enemy cavalry to get as close as possible to the direction of Wolf Juxu Mountain, and to explore the movements of the Xianbei people as much as possible.

If it's true that those guys fled north, what else would they fight in this battle?

Sori, Fu Luohan, don't run away with oil on the soles of your feet.

How embarrassing it would be if this battle was won without explanation.

During the march, when he was sitting in the chariot to deal with government affairs, Guo Peng was also constantly praying and making wishes, hoping that Su Li and Fuluo Han would not learn from the Northern Xiongnu and must stay and fight to the death.

In addition to managing the marching military affairs, he also had to deal with a lot of government affairs.

When it comes to military affairs, the most troublesome thing is naturally the logistics supply of the army.

The whole of Hebei was indeed mobilized, about 800,000 people were mobilized to participate in the march, and about 200,000 auxiliary soldiers were also mobilized.

Taken together, there are one million logistical support personnel who have sustained this war.

In order to ensure the long-distance expedition of 200,000 troops, the Wei government needed to use 1 million laborers for logistical support, and the military and miscellaneous expenses spent for this were astronomical.

That is to say, Guo has a lot of income and reserves over the years, and he directly opened a position at a critical moment, otherwise he may not be able to rely on the national treasury alone.

Liu Che has the foundation laid by Wenjingzhizhi, and the foundation laid for him by his grandfather and father, and has the confidence to fight.

Guo has no foundation, and everything he has accumulated is taken from the middlemen and squeezed from the peasants.

After years of accumulation and construction, we have the confidence to carry out this large-scale Northern Expedition.

A large number of horses and more than 300,000 sheep have also provided him with a lot of help, greatly reducing the burden on the logistics troops, reducing the burden intensity of the logistics personnel by an order of magnitude, and reducing the transportation of a considerable part of rice and grain.

In this case, 800,000 people's homes in Hebei have been affected, and they will face a certain degree of trouble in the upcoming autumn harvest season.

For this reason, Guo Peng demanded that areas with large populations should organize and send people to assist areas with small populations in harvesting grain; in short, fighting a war is a war, and people should not be allowed to go hungry and their grain should not rot in the ground.

In addition, during the entire march, it was necessary to ensure not only the rations of 200,000 troops, but also the rations of 1 million logistics personnel, who also had to eat.

The quality is a little lower, a little worse, multiplied by one million, that is also a huge number, if it weren't for Guo Peng's solid family foundation, this is really unbearable.

Therefore, after Guo Peng planned this war, he almost knew why Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty fought the Xiongnu to the point where the household registration in the sea was halved.

It is really very consuming manpower, material and financial resources, if the logistics support personnel are not well guaranteed, a large number of logistics personnel will die is the norm, and the real war dead are a minority.

Therefore, Guo Peng has repeatedly emphasized ensuring the safety of logistics personnel, ensuring that they can eat enough and will not go hungry, and strictly follow the rules and regulations.

Of course, officials don't dare to mess around, but it's normal to vent bitterness.

After a month of expedition, there were a few small encounters, and Dong Zhao, who was in charge of logistics, vomited bitter water to Guo Peng five times.

What is not enough money, not enough materials, unsustainable, not enough officials, etc., all complaints.

Guo Peng appeased at first, and then opened the inner treasury by himself, and allocated 110 million to Dong Zhao for Dong Zhao to use, and allocated 60 million yuan in a row, Dong Zhao was still spitting bitterness.

That means asking Guo Peng to reduce the number of personnel rations, reduce the amount of rations, and reduce the burden on him.

In a fit of anger, Guo Peng scolded directly.

If you can do it, if you can't do it, give me a resignation, and then get out!

If you can't do anything, what's the use of you! There are so many people who can do things, how many people are staring at your position and their eyes are red, do you think I can't find a replacement?

Want to take it easy?

OK! Take off your official uniform for me! Say goodbye to the old man and go home! You'll be relaxed forever!

After an angry scolding, Dong Zhao was honest.

He can't bear his official position.

He didn't continue to spit out bitterness, but did things head-on.

After that, Guo Peng was given a few points in the table mentioning that some officials had hemorrhoids caused by sitting for a long time to deal with government affairs, and hoped that Guo Peng would increase manpower to help deal with logistics affairs.

Guo Peng agreed to this point and sent the order to Luoyang, so that Guo Jin, who stayed in Luoyang, could transfer additional manpower to support Dong Zhao.

Then he called Tian Feng and asked Tian Feng to go to the border of Bingzhou, supervise and assist Dong Zhao in handling logistics in Bingzhou, and only left Cheng Yu by his side to assist in daily government affairs.

The Wei government has expanded to the present day, and the number of government personnel has greatly increased, but it seems that the ability to do things has decreased slightly.

A big mobilization made these guys cry in a hurry, and it seemed necessary to carry out a wave of personnel reduction and elimination after the war.

This war is a litmus test, both for the army and for officialdom.

If you do a good job, you can stay, and if you don't do a good job, Guo will never tolerate it.

If you don't give them a little color in some things, they really think that Guo is a paper tiger.

Guo Peng also had a comprehensive understanding of the entire logistics problem.

It is nothing more than that the speed of the army's march is so fast that the speed of logistics and transportation cannot keep up, the grassland roads are not specially repaired, and the speed of the logistics team is reduced when they leave the territory of the Wei Empire.

In this regard, Guo Peng asked the front-line troops to increase the ration of mutton as food, use more of these fattened sheep as soldiers' rations, and give soldiers more meat to replenish oil and water, so as to reduce the burden on the logistics troops.

However, the speed of the march cannot be reduced, the slower the march, the longer the journey takes, the greater the impact on the development of the national economy, Guo is very clear about this.

He was going to sacrifice a year's economic data from Hebei to fight this battle.

It doesn't matter if it's a year, but after a year, Hebei's problems will need support from other places.

It is necessary to maintain the current speed of the march, advance decisively in the direction of Wolf Juxu Mountain, and not stop, and not expose the logistical difficulties, so as not to damage morale.

However, looking at the logistical difficulties reflected in Dong Zhao's recital, Guo Peng also deeply felt the importance of confidence and reserves, really, at any time, whether it is a country or an individual, we must make reserves.

To put it mildly, the Wei Empire was able to come up with astronomical material reserves.

To put it mildly, Guo's own inner treasury can take out 60 million to support logistics.

However, the province still has to be saved.

So in late June, Guo Peng lowered his food standard to the same level as the soldiers, ate the same things as the soldiers, and stopped using ice, preferring to be a little hot rather than continue to spend so much.

After doing these things, he was not very worried about other things, he was worried that this battle would not be fought.

In case the Xianbei chicken thief does not fight and chooses to escape, this battle is just like a joke, and it is the only thing he can't control.

Don't.