In late September, the alliance army was mobilized more frequently in southwestern Shandong, and more main corps entered the Jishui line, which not only alarmed Dongping, Jibei and other southern counties, but also alarmed the military and political leaders of Qilu and Xuzhou. The rumors that Li Fengyun was going to cross the Hebei region with the alliance army, and even rushed to the north. The situation in the northern counties of Dahe was suddenly tense. Many military and political chiefs in Hebei urgently begged Duan Da, the general of Zuoyiguard, to lead his army as soon as possible from Zhuo County and go south along Yongji Canal to suppress the rebellion and suppress the bandits.

On September 24, the commanders of the internal and external military commanders gathered in the West Coast Alliance in Henggongdu.

Sima Yuan'an, on behalf of the Alliance Command, first announced the new military system of the Alliance. The Alliance was established with the Five Route General Administration Office, and on the basis of the original Three Route General Administration Office, the Front and Back General Administration Office was added.

After specific consultation with the Wagang people, Zhai Rang and other Wagang leaders agreed to incorporate the Wagang army into the alliance as a whole and establish the Alliance Qianlu General Administration Office, the former General Administration Zhai Rang and the deputy General Administration Office Shan Xiongxin. The Wagang army currently has more than 6,000 people, and on this basis it is reorganized into the 16th and 17th Army of the Alliance. According to the alliance system, each army has four governments, and the insufficient parts can be filled in future development.

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During the Alliance's Western Expedition to the Central Plains, Chen Rui and Han Yao, who were left behind in Mengshan, had only six regiments. After expansion, there were only ten regiments and two prefectures, which was much different from the two armies and eight prefectures given by the Commander-in-Chief. However, this was the direct line of Li Fengyun, the Supreme Commander of the Alliance. During the Western Expedition to the Central Plains, they sat in the rear to ensure the safety of Mengshan and the safety of the alliance's retreat. They worked hard and made great contributions, and rewarded them according to their merits.

The establishment of the two armies does not only represent the number of troops, but the power and wealth brought by this number.

The power structure of today's alliance, after a series of victories and development and growth, was very different from the past. The most prominent of them was that Li Fengyun, while his personal authority continued to increase, gradually took the three powers of military, political and financial through the alliance command headquarters.

The most obvious example is that although part of the proceeds from the alliance plundering Tongji Canal were occupied by the rich and powerful commanders, most of them fell into the hands of the alliance commander. The reason is very simple. The big move of plundering Tongji Canal requires the coordination and cooperation of the alliance's army. No one can be missing. Therefore, in the distribution of wealth, it is certainly necessary to take more work and get more, but part of it must be taken to take care of other people to take care of the interests of the entire team. The alliance has developed and the team has improved, and the individual can improve. This principle is too simple. In a single case, it is impossible to understand and support the wisdom of the rich and powerful coaches. Therefore, they all handed over part of the plundering proceeds to the Alliance Command, and the command was to "equalize the wealth", but the result was different from their expectations, because they unknowingly "fatten" the Alliance Command, and the command "had money" and became richer. On the one hand, they did take into account the interests of everyone, and on the other hand, they took it for granted to use the wealth in their hands to "buy" the three major powers of military, political and financial powers in the hands of the rich and powerful coaches to the greatest extent.

Why did Zhai Rang and Wagang people finally choose to compromise and merge into the alliance? There is no other reason. To survive and develop, you need a steady stream of wealth. If you want to obtain a steady stream of wealth, you must make the alliance bigger and stronger. So there are only two choices: either merge into the alliance to strengthen the alliance's strength and rely on a strong alliance to obtain a steady stream of wealth; or leave the alliance, because the alliance is not a compassionate Bodhisattva, it is impossible to raise a "passerby" with its own food day after day, but under the current situation, it is too difficult to develop alone. Even if it is supported, it is just a waste of time. As for development and growth, it is simply a delusion. Therefore, from the minimum requirement of food, clothing and living, the Wagang people can only "storage" their ambitions for the time being, follow the alliance honestly, and everyone works together to make a living.

Now the alliance has assumed part of the responsibility of "supporting" all the soldiers of the rebel army. When the treasury allows, they give money, grain and silk according to the head, which in fact, it concentrates the "financial power" to the greatest extent. The "concentration" of financial power directly promotes the concentration of military and political power. However, under the current situation, the alliance does not even have a fixed territory, so how can it maintain its own treasury? The treasury income is limited. Once it is used up, how can the alliance support tens of thousands of soldiers? Although the alliance's army is necessary under the current situation, the consequence of self-reliance must be gradually separated from the control of the alliance. Once the alliance collapses, it will go against Li Fengyun's wish. Therefore, if Li Fengyun wants to firmly control the alliance and control the military, government and financial power, he must find ways to obtain wealth, feed the army with wealth, and strengthen his strength.

The General Administration of the Back Road was under the jurisdiction of two armies, with a system of 8,000 people and a military capital of 8,000 people. It is conceivable that this reward is of great importance, but the rich and powerful generals knew that Li Fengyun was nominally a "heavy reward", but in fact, he went in and out with his left hand, and the money and grain were still in Li Fengyun's pocket. To put it bluntly, he used the 6,000 vacancies of these two armies to leave enough money and grain reserves for the commander to maintain his control over his financial power.

Controlling financial power means controlling the army and the alliance, but this is a practice of fishing in the waters and is unsustainable. Fortunately, Li Fengyun and Duan Wencao reached a compromise. The alliance can obtain some food in Lu County without using force. These foods and other materials are conservatively estimated to help the twenty-tenth armies of the alliance spend this winter.

But what to do next year? Li Fengyun's strategy is to attack the north and south of the rebel army in northeastern Shandong, defeat the official army, control Qilu, and then use southwestern Shandong as the "territory". To achieve this goal, two conditions must be met. First, southwestern Shandong must be occupied before the spring plow next year, otherwise there will be no spring plow, where will the autumn grain come from? Second, the "territory" must be firmly guarded next year's summer and autumn, otherwise even if the autumn grain harvest is bumper, it will have nothing to do with the alliance.

This immediately led to a new problem. If the alliance wants to defeat the Qilu official army before the spring plow next year, in addition to Wang Bo and the Hebei rebels going south in time, and the northeastern Shandong rebels should actively cooperate, the alliance itself must also have the conditions to attack north in early spring next year. In other words, the alliance not only needs to defeat southwestern Shandong, but also encircle and suppress the official army in Henan and Xuzhou before the beginning of spring, but also plunder enough money, grain and other materials. If the food is only enough to maintain the survival of the alliance's soldiers, how can we go north to fight?

Therefore, the decision made by the Alliance Command was to go south to Xuzhou to plunder enough money and food. However, in this way, the four places including southwestern Shandong, Henan, Xuzhou and even Jiangdu will encircle and intercept the Alliance on the Xuzhou battlefield. It is really harder for the Alliance to defeat its opponents on the Xuzhou battlefield than climbing to the sky.

Sima Yuan'an read out the combat deployment of the Alliance Command.

During the war, Chen Rui, the chief of the General Administration Office of the Grand General Administration Office, continued to sit in Mengshan and cooperated with Han Yao, the general administrator of the General Administration Office of the Backlu. While maintaining a "tactic understanding" with Duan Wencao, he scrambled to harvest autumn grain in accordance with the secret agreement between the two sides to ensure sufficient vetting of the alliance.

Li Fengyun led the Grand General Administration Office and Hu Ben, Fengyun and the three armies of the Cavalry to fight south, among which the Hu Ben Army, who was in charge of Zhen Baoche, was the southern selection army.

The Central General Administration Office and five armies under the jurisdiction of the First, Second, Six, Seven, and Eighth Army went south to fight. Among them, the General Administration Officer Meng Haigong led the Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Army as the Central Army of the Southern Expedition. The Deputy General Administration Officer Lu Mingxing led the First, and the Second Army as the Left Army of the Southern Expedition.

Guo Ming, deputy general manager of the left-road general manager, led the fourth and fifth armies, and the right-road general manager, Junyue Gao, led the third armies of the alliance, and was the Southern Expedition Right armies.

The commander of the right-road General Office, Rentai, led the ninth and the 10th Army in Heshui and Jishui areas. While restraining the Henan government troops, he maintained a threat to Lu County. Deputy General Manager Xu Shiren, led the 13th Army in Heshui and Sishui areas, and was in the middle to support Han Jinluo and Han Yao's troops. His main task was to cooperate with Han Yao's troops to maintain the alliance's head-on confrontation with the government troops on the battlefield of Lu County, and prevent Duan Wencao from taking action behind his betrayal.

The left-level general manager Han Jinluo led the 11th and the 12th Army were deployed in the Jishui area northeast of Juyeze. While restraining the official troops of Dongping, Jibei and Qi County, they maintained a threat to Lu County.

The general manager of the Qianlu, Zhai Rang, led the 16th and 17th Army to deploy in the southwest of Juye Jersey. While restraining the official troops of Dongjun and Jiyin, they actively supported Han Jinluo, Shuai Rentai and Xu Shiren to ensure the alliance's actual control over the southwestern Shandong region.

After the operational deployment was read out, the commander's tent was silent and the atmosphere was very depressing.

Logically, Li Fengyun completely met the requirements of the Haoshangs. The Haoshangs should be grateful to Li Fengyun and should be satisfied. Han Jinluo hopes to go north and return to Jibei, so he will deploy in the direction of Jibei; Shuai Rentai and Xu Shiren do not want to go south to fight and are unwilling to lose their strength, so he will deploy in He and Ji's front line, all in his hometown; Zhai Rang neither wants to go north nor south, but just wants to return to Henan in the unfavorable situation, so he will deploy in the direction of Henan, so he will be worried about advancing and retreating.

However, in this way, except for the three armies of Meng Haigong, the main forces of the army that fought south were basically Li Fengyun's direct lineage, and they were all the main forces of the alliance developed on the basis of the Cangtou Army. Before the Western Expedition to the Central Plains, Li Fengyun's direct lineage was also charged in front of the battle, while other heroes took advantage of the situation. However, Li Fengyun's advantage was not easy to take advantage of. "Eat others' soft mouths and take their hands short." The independence and autonomy of the heroes was eroded by them, but they were unable to "resist". As a result, they fell deeper and deeper, and now they were difficult to even break away from the alliance.

It’s not that Li Fengyun does not allow them to leave the alliance, but that Li Fengyun’s strength has grown too fast, and the heroes cannot catch up with him, and the strength gap between the two sides is getting bigger and bigger. In the past, Li Fengyun was still a little hard to eat them, but now he can eat them with just one mouth. In this case, who can guarantee that Li Fengyun keeps his promise? Besides, the benefits of staying in the alliance are far greater than leaving the alliance. Of course, the heroes will not leave easily, but the heroes’ "ambition" is still there, so they all "hide" under the "big tree" of the alliance, while growing and growing, while waiting for the opportunity to "fly soar freely".

The time came unexpectedly. During this battle to the south, Li Fengyun abandoned them and gave them the opportunity to "season freely". It is certain that as long as Li Fengyun was defeated in the Xuzhou battlefield, these heroic coaches would definitely scatter and go their separate ways.

But what if Li Fengyun wins? If Li Fengyun makes a fortune on the Xuzhou battlefield and his strength grows again, even if Li Fengyun is willing to "equal wealth", how much will the heroes get? How big will the strength gap between them widen? The strength gap is too great. Can the heroes still be on par with Li Fengyun? Can they compete with him for the long term? Can they still compete with him? I am afraid that at that moment, it is not that they take the initiative to break away from the alliance, but that Li Fengyun will take the initiative to drive them away to avoid dragging them down. In other words, if they want to continue to stay in the alliance, they must surrender and submit.

Li Fengyun did it too "perfect" and too impeccable, but the heroes were worried about gains and losses. Why did Li Fengyun be so generous? So generous? Is he absolutely sure to defeat the official army? Thinking of the incredible "tactic understanding" established between him and King Yang Nan of Qi, this possibility greatly increased.

Li Fengyun seemed to see through the thoughts of the coaches, smiled slightly, and shattered the coaches' luck mentality. "This time we head south, our biggest enemy is not King Yang Nan of Qi, nor Liang Dezhong of Xuzhou, but the army from Jiangdu."

Jiangdu is the Yangzhou in the past, the place where the Holy Lord rose. After more than ten years of hard work, its status in Central China has been comparable to that of Dongdu and Xijing. Dong is the capital city, Xijing is the capital, and Jiangdu is the second capital. The number and force of its garrison troops are comparable to that of Dongdu and Xijing. It can be foreseeable that once the garrison troops in Jiangdu cross the Huaibei, the alliance army will be in danger of destruction.
Chapter completed!