After coming out of the heavy cavalry battalion, Guo Peng first went to the military camp in charge of Cao Hong, the left general of the guards, to inspect.

As a human being, Cao Hong is greedy.

As a courtier, Cao Hong was submissive.

As a warrior, Cao Hong is brave and fearless.

As a general, Cao Hong is barely qualified.

Looking at Cao Hong from four angles, Guo Peng feels that Cao Hong is still useful, at least at the level of loyalty, Cao Hong will not lose to anyone else.

Whether it is the emperor's money or the emperor's death, Guo Peng attaches great importance to loyalty, and Guo Peng will not treat those who have other thoughts in their minds that are not pure.

Loyalty is Guo Peng's first criterion for judging whether a person can be appointed.

Therefore, even if there is a lack of ability, some people can still get the favor and appointment of their superiors.

Without him, rest assured.

It doesn't take much military talent to command troops by Guo Peng's side, as long as you are brave and loyal, it will be enough, because if you can command the troops again, you will not and cannot be stronger than Guo Peng.

For those who command the army abroad, this aspect can be slightly relaxed, after all, the lives of thousands of troops and horses are tied to the hands of one person, and Guo Peng still understands the truth that one general is incapable of exhausting the three armies.

At this time, the rule of [single and unresponsible] is needed.

Those who do not have a family cannot be sent outside, of course.

Anyone who holds an important position outside the country must be placed in the capital to show respect and express his attitude to the emperor.

Cao Hong, Cao Chun, Li Dian, Guo Dong, they are all loyal and brave people, and they are trustworthy people who implement the rules of singleness.

Cao Hong had been punished for committing crimes before, and he lost all his status at that time, and he was originally in the first echelon, but at the moment when Guo Peng was the emperor, he could only be counted as a second-echelon player.

It was also Guo Peng who saw his loyalty and bravery, so he gradually promoted him, and Guo Peng really wanted to let him be a rich man at home at ease.

However, his performance was indeed okay later, including handing over the dominance of the Cao family's caravan, collecting money at home with peace of mind, and dismissing all the doormen, all kinds of behaviors made Guo Peng forgive him.

And his identity and his characteristics are very suitable for leading an army at the feet of the Son of Heaven, this kind of position, Cao Hong is indispensable.

After receiving the order to start the war, Cao Hong was also quite conscientious, reorganizing the army, training the army on a large scale, and letting the army enter a state of combat readiness as soon as possible.

Guo Peng hadn't seen Cao Hong for a while, and now it seems that Cao Hong is much calmer than before.

I just don't know if this stingy problem is a little better.

Well...... Most likely, no.

I heard Cao Lan complain before, several clansmen of the Cao clan were in urgent need of money, so they borrowed from the richest Cao Hong, who had a huge family property and was stunned that he didn't borrow.

The reason is that the landlord's family has no money to spare.

Cao Hong probably judged the possibility of the other party repaying the money, and how he thought about it and felt that there was a possibility of being cheated on the money, so he simply didn't borrow it.

To be a man and do this, Cao Hong is also a wonderful.

As the saying goes, if you don't help the poor, you can't borrow money, but you can judge whether you should borrow money or not, depending on whether the other party is really in a hurry, and whether you have the ability to repay the money.

Cao Hong is good, no matter who the other party is, basically I have never heard of him borrowing money from outside.

As for it?

Guo Peng had difficulty understanding Cao Hong's thoughts.

Why do you want so much money at home?

Is it really a miser?

Of course, this doesn't matter, as long as you perform your duties well and don't make trouble, Guo Peng doesn't plan to make any demands on him in other aspects.

Loyal and brave, how could such a person not allow him to have one or two minor faults that ordinary people could not understand?

And this kind of small problem did not affect the overall situation, so Guo Peng didn't care, at most, the people of the Cao clan were dissatisfied with Cao Hong, and often said bad things about him behind his back.

However, Guo Peng felt that Cao Hong would not care.

"How's the army getting ready?"

Guo Peng asked Cao Hong as he walked inside the barracks.

"The 37,163 members of our army have been canceled from vacation because of the combat readiness, all of them have returned to the team, there are no injuries or sick leave, all of them have arrived, please review them."

Cao Hong replied very quickly, and it seems that after the order was given, he was also very attentive.

"Well, the review will be exempted, now is not the time, in the next period, all the staff will assault and train horsemanship, and increase the number of soldiers who can ride as much as possible, Zilian, not less than eighty percent, and the soldiers who can ride cannot be less than eighty percent of the whole army."

Guo Peng gave his request, and Cao Hong nodded.

"Even if you don't sleep, the minister will do it for Your Majesty."

"Hahaha."

Guo Peng couldn't help laughing: "Don't don't sleep, if you don't sleep, I'm afraid that you will fall off the horse." ”

There was nothing wrong with Cao Hong's barracks, and it seemed that he didn't have any major problems in governing the army other than being greedy and stingy.

Naturally, Zhao Yun is the gatekeeper, and Guo Peng has nothing to worry about.

After that, Cao Chun and Guo Dong had no problems, the whole army was very smooth, and Guo Peng's request for eighty percent of the army's cavalry was also said to be met as much as possible.

Finally, Guo Peng inspected Li Dian's military camp.

As the only one among the four main generals of the Wei Army under Zhao Yun who was not a relative general, Li Dian was obviously concerned by many people.

His uncle Li Gan was following Le Jin in Shu, Li Gan's son Li Cheng was following Yu Ban in Pingzhou, and Li Dian was placed in the Central Army as a general of the Guard.

The three members of the Li family also followed Guo Peng very early, and basically entered the Guo Peng Group at the same time as Lejin and others.

At that time, Guo Peng had just obtained the position of Qingzhou Assassin, and Li Gan joined Guo Peng's army with his son and nephew, and also took the initiative to give Guo Peng a large part of the grain and obtained a certain status.

It has been sixteen or seventeen years now.

At that time, the reason why Li Dian was chosen to join the Wei Army was also to show that he was not always nepotistic.

In addition to Zhao Yun in the guard, one of the four main military leaders should also be reserved for generals with foreign surnames.

The three members of the Li family have always been hardcore supporters of Guo Peng, whether it was attacking Yuan Shao, moving the clan station, or cooperating with the Yantie official camp, the Li family was the first to respond.

Their buttocks sat very upright, so out of the idea of rewarding and setting a model, Guo Peng gave this important position to Li Dian.

Li Dian is a person and Zhao Yun have similarities.

He is very calm, cautious, humble, and likes to read, respects the reader, is not very old, and acts steadily like an old man who has been trained in the field.

What's more, like Zhao Yun, he doesn't like to fight for merit, always avoids disputes, and takes the initiative to back down, so everyone thinks that he has the style of an elder.

Such an attitude was not even possible for Wei Yan to say anything among the guards.

When facing Li Dian, arrogant as Wei Yan would be polite, destined to be proportionate.

It can be seen that Li Dian is still relatively popular in the army.

For such a general, Guo Peng likes it very much, and he does not fight or grab, saying that this person does not have a heavy sense of fame, and like Zhao Yun, he belongs to the category that can be appointed with confidence.

Because of his steadiness, leading the troops to become old and serious, and taking safety as the top priority in everything, Li Dian can be described as a model of a general in this regard.

So handing over a guard unit to him to lead, Guo Peng was not worried that it would make the army waste training.

And so it is.

In addition to normal training, the army under Li Dian's command also had additional military formation training every day.

He had his soldiers encircle the formation on all sides with sticks, and he would attack the shield men who maintained the formation, and sometimes even had the crossbowmen attack the shield men of the formation in dense numbers with arrows without arrows.

If the shield soldier maintains the formation for a certain period of time, the rest of the soldiers will be punished, and if the formation is broken, the rest of the soldiers will be rewarded and the shield soldier will be punished.