Returning to Taixue's residence, Zang Hong still stayed in Guo Peng's house as always, eating fruits while studying, and did not regard himself as an outsider at all.

Guo Peng had long been used to it, so when he came back, he asked Guo Mu and Guo Shui to cook, and went into the house by himself.

"Xiao Yi, where have you been today? I went to Dongguan to look for you, and the people over there said that you left early. ”

Seeing Guo Peng come back, Zang Hong put down the book in his hand.

"Gong Cai took me to see Gong Lu."

Guo Peng took off his coat and changed into comfortable home clothes.

"Lu Gong? Which Lu Gong? ”

Zang Hong looked puzzled.

"Lu Zhi, Lu Zigan."

"Lu Zhi?"

Zang Hong was surprised: "Ma Gong's disciple Lu Zhi? Mr. Zheng Xuan's fellow disciple Lu Zhi? ”

"Yes, it's him, Cai Gong and Lu Gong have an old relationship, so he took me to see him, hoping that Lu Gong will accept me as an apprentice."

"Huh?"

Zang Hong didn't react for a while: "Gong Cai asked Gong Lu to accept you as an apprentice?" What's the situation? Lu Gong agreed? ”

"Well, I agreed, so I'm a student of Lu Gong now, oh, by the way, I shouldn't call Lu Gong, I should change my mouth and call the teacher."

“…………”

Zang Hong blinked, and the expression on his face gradually changed from confusion to consternation: "Ah?!! Gong Lu has accepted you as a disciple?!! That Lu Gong?! ”

Seeing Zang Hong's extremely stunned expression, Guo Peng no longer concealed it, and smiled proudly.

"That's right, the teacher agreed to accept me as a student! From then on, I could study with the teacher, and the teacher had just come to Luoyang as an official, and I was the only student by my side, and it seemed that he didn't plan to continue to accept other disciples, I was the only one! ”

Guo Peng kept showing off, Zang Hong's envious eyes were red, and he bluntly said why he didn't have such good luck, and the whole person was about to explode.

Lu Zhi learned from Ma Rong, and Zheng Xuan's gang are brothers in the same school, and they already have the reputation of being a great Confucian at home, and they have military exploits, and they are famous, like a promising political star, and they can take up higher positions at any time.

After a long while, Zang Hong, who was separated from the jealous quality wall, returned to normal,

"Xiao Yi, I really don't know how to say it, but I am so lucky to be able to learn from Lu Gong, if we become colleagues in the officialdom in the future, we will help us more."

"Whereever, I have to say this, in the future, we will support each other and take care of each other."

That's how the two completed an extremely dirty PY deal.

After the transaction, Zang Hong and Guo Peng talked about something a little unexpected.

"Huh? Your father is going north to fight against Xianbei? ”

Zang Hong said that Guo Peng felt a little surprised.

Zang Hong's father, Zang Min, was a Xiongnu lieutenant general, commanding troops in the northern border fortress, and in May this year, Guo Peng heard about Xianbei's attack on the border fortress in April when he was on Cai Yong's side.

At this moment, the border troubles in the north of the Eastern Han Empire were not too serious.

Generally speaking, as long as there is no large unifier on the grassland, it will never be able to pose a substantial threat to the Han Empire, and once a slightly larger unifier appears, there will be a threat.

This man's name is Sandalwood Acacia.

From the period of Emperor Huan, he went south to invade the northern frontier of the Han Empire for many years, and Emperor Huan was overwhelmed, and because the war in the northwest was tight and it was difficult to draw troops and horses to fight, he wanted to use a friendly way to appease him, which was also the consistent means of the rulers of the Han Empire.

As a result, this Tanshi Huai is really a character, in the face of the Han Empire's Huairou policy, he insisted on not accepting it, not to be knighted or to be a woman, that is, to rob, and he was stunned that Emperor Huan had no choice.

He not only rejected the Huairou of the Han Empire, but also insisted on going south every year to invade the borders of the Han Empire, and the Han Empire had no way to deal with him until April this year, when he went too far, causing Emperor Ling to be furious.

And it happened that at this time, Tian Yan, the general of Xianbei Zhonglang, had violated a little law and wanted to be punished, in order to escape responsibility, he paid money to bribe Wang Fu, and said that Emperor Ling was moved, and sent troops to the Northern Expedition to Xianbei, thinking that he would redeem his merits.

It just so happened that the war in the northwest of the Han Empire was generally calmed down and got a chance to breathe, and Xianbei was really excessive, so Emperor Ling estimated that there was no problem and ordered to send troops to the Northern Expedition to teach this northern captive who did not know the height of the sky and the height of the earth a hard lesson.

Zang Hong's father, Zang Min, served as the general of the Xiongnu Zhonglang, leading troops in northern Xinjiang, and if he wanted to fight, he naturally had an unshirkable responsibility, and he was counted among the generals who sent troops to the Northern Expedition.

It should be said or not, since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's Northern Expedition to the Xiongnu won a complete victory, the Han Empire has hardened its anger towards the Beiyu, and the Beiyu has not been able to pose any effective threat to the Han Empire, whether it is the Xinmang period or the Eastern Han Dynasty, so the Han Empire's contempt for the Beiyu is also reasonable.

However, at this time, the Han Empire had just ended the hundred-year war against Qiang, the treasury was depleted, and the people's power was greatly consumed.

Moreover, the enemy of Tanshi Huai is not simple, the unity of Xianbei is vigorously developed, there are many cavalry under his command, and the combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated.

The Han Empire didn't know much about him and didn't have much intelligence gathering, thinking that he could go straight to his lair with a guide and destroy him, it was as simple as that.

But is it that simple to fight a war?

Apparently not.

The voice of the imperial court against this war was very loud, and the reasons were nothing more than the suspension of the army and the emptiness of the treasury, but Emperor Ling didn't care, especially after seeing that the opposition was all from the scholars, he was even more disgusted in his heart, and felt that it was necessary to use "martial arts" to restore the imperial power.

The dissuasion of the ministers was ineffective, and Cai Yong was still worried about this, and no one in the entire Dongguan school book team supported the war.

Even Cai Yong talked about this issue when he took him to meet Lu Zhi, and Lu Zhi also felt that this war was launched too hastily from a professional point of view, and it was not the way to win.

Lu Zhi can be regarded as giving Emperor Ling a little face, and feels that this is not the "way to win", in fact, this is indeed not the way to win.

From the southern plundering of Tanshihuai in April, the dispatch of troops in July, and the dispatch of troops to the Northern Expedition in August, excluding the time for reporting the situation on both sides and discussing the military aircraft with the imperial court, it was less than three months of preparation time.

Less than three months to prepare for a war is really not well prepared in this era.

It takes time to recruit and mobilize people, it takes time to raise grain and grass, it takes time to prepare and mobilize the army, it takes time to cooperate with the border government to cooperate, it takes time to search for intelligence, and it takes time to plan routes.

Lu Zhi thought that their preparations were too hasty, but Tian Yan believed that he had defeated the Xianbei people, and he had a lot of contempt for the Xianbei people, and he was even more eager to make meritorious contributions to get rid of crimes, so he accelerated his preparations.

If you make a mistake, you can make mistakes, and if you make a mistake, everything will be over.

In the past few years, there was no assistance in marching and fighting wars, and they all relied on the temporary maneuvers of the commander-in-chief.

Lu Zhi was very worried about whether they could cope with the unexpected situation in such a hasty preparation, and he was even more worried about how Tanshihuai would deal with the attack of the Han army, all in all, he was not optimistic.

Guo Peng is naturally not optimistic, although he does not remember that the Eastern Han Empire actually launched an active war against Xianbei at this time, but he is not a fool, he has received military education since he was a child, and he also has his own views and understanding of the military, and he is also not very optimistic about this war.

"The preparations for this war seem to be too hasty, in April Tanshi Huai went south, and now it is only in August that the imperial court is already going to send troops to attack, this is not a simple counterattack, it is to eliminate Tanshi Huai as the goal, is this goal too big?"

Guo Peng said to Zang Hong.

Zang Hong frowned and thought for a while.

"My father wrote to me, saying that this war can be won nine times out of ten, because the sandalwood locust was unfavorable before, and there was a rumor that he was injured and could not act, and this moment is the best time to crusade against the sandalwood locust, and it must be annihilated in one fell swoop, and there will be no future trouble."

Guo Peng frowned.

"Xianbei tribes can maintain the system one, all rely on the personal prestige of the leader, in this way, if the leader is injured or even seriously injured because of the war, he must be kept strictly secret, and cannot be known to outsiders or even ordinary people, how can we know? Do we have a reliable internal response? ”

Zang Hong was stunned for a moment.

"Makes sense...... This kind of thing is clearly a sign of weakness, how can we easily let it know? Internal ...... I don't know. ”

Guo Peng thought about it, looked at Zang Hong's worried expression again, then shook his head and patted Zang Hong's shoulder.

"Don't worry, don't think too much, we can think of it, Ling Zun and they must also be able to think of it, they are experienced in a hundred battles, and it is not our turn to worry."

"That's right, my father has been through a hundred battles, so he must have known it a long time ago, but I was too worried."

Zang Hong put away his worries and smiled again.

Let's hope things really go in a good direction!