On the first month of the year, Duke Huan Dudu was the alliance chief camp.

New Year and new atmosphere, but for the alliance, the prospects are still bad. Internal and external troubles coexist, and there are official troops encirclement and suppression outside, and there is danger of money and food inside. Fortunately, Dongdu launched a second Eastern Expedition, and the pressure of external troubles has temporarily eased, but the internal troubles have become increasingly serious as the team gradually expands. At this moment, Li Fengyun is no longer needed to give a warning. The heroes and coaches all realized the seriousness of the crisis, stopped blindly expanding, and voluntarily accelerated the speed of integration into the alliance so that while maintaining their own strength, they can obtain more money and food support from the alliance.

In the alliance, only Li Fengyun's strength was still increasing. He won the southern expedition of Xuzhou, and all the prisoners were reorganized into the inner government's three armies, which made the strength of the inner government's three armies reach more than 10,000 elite soldiers and generals. He also won the northward Qinghe. Although the troops did not increase, the plunder was very abundant, which made the alliance's cultural treasury greatly enriched. Because the rich and powerful generals were cherished, except for Meng Haigong who participated in the southern expedition of Xuzhou, the rest of the people sat at home to earn their old capital. Although their strength was temporarily preserved, in the special period of fighting, if you don't fight, you will have no spoils. The consequence of sitting in vain is that your strength "straight decline".

During the New Year's military discussion, Chen Rui, the General Secretary of the Alliance, who came from Mengshan, gave a detailed explanation to the Haoshangmen on the serious imbalance of the alliance's income and expenditure. In short, the alliance's finances are insufficient to make ends meet and cannot support the army.

The alliance Sima Yuan'an came up with two countermeasures, and his first choice was to grab territory. For this reason, the alliance must join forces with various heroes from northeast Shandong to attack Qi County and defeat Zhang Xutuo. Only in this way can the Qi and Lu Rebel Army actually control Qi County and Lu County.

Qi County and Lu County are the core areas of the Qilu region. If you control these two counties and then get Jibei County and Beihai County, it is equivalent to controlling most of the counties and counties in Qilu, which can basically support all the Yi army in Qilu. The three counties in Donglai, Gaomi and Langya in the southeast of Qilu have poor geographical location and limited financial resources. In addition, they involve the Donglai Navy and the Eastern Expedition plan, the attack is difficult and the military value is small. I will not consider it for the time being.

Seizing Qilu and using Qilu as the base of the rebel army was the best strategy for the rebel army to survive and develop, but this strategy has been repeatedly setbacks and is still at the stage of "talking about war on paper".

According to Li Fengyun's idea, if this strategy could be installed around the New Year, the Hebei rebel army and the heroic commander Wang Bo first crossed Henan and attracted Zhang Xutuo's attention, restrained Zhang Xutuo's army on the front line of Jishui, and then joined forces with Meng Rang, Zuo Junheng and others to launch east-west Lu rebel army attacks on Qi County. Finally, the three rebel army gathered at Jishui, and three rebels attacked Zhang Xutuo, which would be determined by a battle.

The reason why Li Fengyun wanted to gather three rebel forces to siege Zhang Xutuo was to defeat Zhang Xutuo with his superiority and fight quickly so that the rebel army could free up his hands to deal with the Donglai Navy and fight the suppression from the Dongdu, and to achieve the final victory.

On the contrary, if the alliance army and a dispersed rebel army in Northeast Shandong attack Zhang Xutuo from the east and west, there is no absolute advantage in strength, and it is very likely that Zhang Xutuo will defeat each one. If you take a step back, even if the two rebels work together to defeat Zhang Xutuo, their own losses will be difficult to estimate. Once you kill a thousand enemies and lose 800, what will you do to stick to your territory next?

If the rebels cannot grab the territory and do not have a wealthy base to support themselves, they always stay in Mengshan, a place where birds do not shit, and are trapped in southwestern Shandong, a four-war area, then under the front and back attacks with the official army outside without the support of money and food, it will be too difficult to survive, and sooner or later they will be surrounded and killed by the official army. Therefore, they must go out of Mengshan and southwestern Shandong, and must use war to support the war, and must turn passive into initiative. This is the second countermeasure that Sima Yuan'an took out and switched to the war.

The transition is an active strategy, an active fight against the crisis, but if you keep moving, burning, killing, looting, and always struggling on the line of life and death, there will definitely be no way out. After being surrounded by the government army, it will be a dead end. Therefore, the real purpose of the transition is to find a piece of territory, rely on this land to support yourself, and develop and strengthen yourself.

The two countermeasures that Sima Yuan'an actually came to the same end, both of which were to grab territory, but one was to grab territory with a purpose, and the other was to catch a great fortune. From the perspective of the heroes, no one wanted to leave his hometown, and he took up all the right time, place, and people in his hometown, but he went to a foreign land and went to a strange place. He was not familiar with the place and could imagine how difficult it was to survive.

So everyone focused on attacking Qi County. After repeated discussions, everyone had to face a reality. After the Hebei rebel army basically had no possibility of crossing Henan and going south, if the alliance continued to implement this strategy, they had to fight with all their might. They could not rely too much on Meng Rang, Zuo Junheng and others in northeast Shandong. That would only be a bad thing. However, relying solely on the power of the alliance, it would be impossible to fight in one battle. The two sides would fight repeatedly, so the battle would last longer, which would win time for the Donglai Naval Division to support Zhang Xutuo. Once the Donglai Naval Division entered the battlefield of Qi County, the alliance would be defeated.

The reason why the alliance has persisted until now and has a certain strength and scale is because it is invincible and invincible, and has always been on the road of rapid development. Military victory and acquisition of interests are the two major foundations for maintaining the alliance. Once these two major foundations collapse, the alliance will collapse. The alliance collapses, and the heroes and the generals fight on their own, giving the government troops the opportunity to defeat each one. It can be foreseeable that defeat is just a matter of time.

This poor prospect prediction forced the rich and coaches to study the strategy of "changing the battle".

Last summer, the westward expedition to the Central Plains, plundered Tongji Canal, and this winter went south to Xuzhou and north to Qinghe. These successful "transfers" have indeed promoted the development and growth of the alliance, but there are gains and losses. As the alliance continues to grow, the demand for money and food is increasing. It is difficult to sustain it by plundering. One area is enough to support oneself. If there is no territorial, the development path of the alliance will be cut off, and the alliance will undoubtedly die. If you want to die, you can only "transfer" and use war to support the war. However, the alliance has grown up and its "attract" has become very large. The income from plundering can only be maintained for a while. If you want to solve the problem of food and clothing for a long time, if you want to develop and strengthen the ambitions of kings, princes, generals and ministers, you must find a piece of territory.

Therefore, the study of the "transfer" strategy actually became a search for territory and a foundation for the future alliance to dominate the world. This territory needs to meet at least three conditions: one is rich, at least self-sufficient in money and food; the second is that the geographical conditions are good, and there must be broad offensive and defensive space, and you must advance, attack, retreat, and defend, and have development potential. For example, Henan, the offensive and defensive space is large, but it is a place of four battles and there is no danger to defend. If the alliance's current strength develops based on Henan, it is purely seeking death. For example, Mengshan, it can attack or defend, but the offensive and defensive space is too narrow, which is equivalent to a trapped corner.

The cage cannot support the continued development of the alliance. If the alliance continues to stay in Mengshan, it is equivalent to locking itself in a cage and waiting for death. Third, it is the most important thing to win enough development space and time in politics. Whether it is Henan or Qilu, the chaos in the situation directly threatens the stability of the Dongdu politically. Therefore, it is certain that when the Eastern Expedition is over, the Dongdu will inevitably encircle and suppress it. The reason why the Alliance struggles in the shadow of death from beginning to end is also the reason, because Dongdu does not allow their existence, and Dongdu must kill it quickly.

For the rich and powerful men, it is easy to find a territory that meets these three basic conditions. Jiangzuo is first excluded. Jiangzuo is indeed rich, but how could the people of Jiangzuo agree to the people of Jiangzuo? Besides, Jiangzuo is the rise of the Holy Lord, which is equivalent to the "hometown" of the Holy Lord. The consequences can be imagined. Guanlong is also excluded. It is the birthplace of this dynasty and the origin of the dynasty. Shandong's rebels rushed into Guanlong? It is something that even Shandong is the only choice. Shandong does not rely on Shandong, whom? History has proved with its more than two thousand years of experience that Shandong has the most Longqian lands, and they are all on both foothills of the Taihang Mountains, from west to east, and they are Taiyuan, Daibei and Youyan in order.

These three places are ideal foundations for kings and dominance. As for the current situation in China-Turkey, if the alliance wants to occupy any of these three places, it must first cross Hebei, go to Hebei, and win the support of Hebei people, and then cross the Taihang Mountains, wait for an opportunity to attack Taiyuan west, attack Daiheng north, and attack Youyan east, and find a suitable territory. Without the support of Hebei people, the alliance will be like water without source and tree without roots, and it will be difficult to sustain. But these are not the biggest obstacles encountered by the alliance during the transition process. The biggest obstacle comes from the desert and from the Northern Barbarians. Foreign enemies are the strongest opponents encountered by the Alliance in the development process. It is precisely because of the importance of the defense of the Northern Barbarians, because the Eastern Town needs to unite all the forces in the Northern Barbarians to fight against the Northern Barbarians. The Eastern Town will tolerate the existence of rebellious forces to a certain extent in the special period, and this tolerance of the Eastern Town is the most urgent political space and time that the Alliance needs to develop.

What is a special period? What is a certain degree of tolerance? Only then did the heroes know Li Fengyun's "foresight". Li Fengyun's prediction for the future is that the Eastern Expedition was that for three consecutive years, the Eastern Expedition was exhausted and the people were damaged. What's more serious is that the domestic situation was chaotic, and the defense of the Northern Frontier was weakened. The Northern Frontier roared down, and the war between the North and the South broke out. Zhongtu was in trouble internally and externally, and the Eastern Head was attacked from both sides. In such a special period, how could the Eastern Header still take care of eradicating the rebellious forces? On the contrary, in order to resist the Northern Header and win the war between the North and the South, the Eastern Header not only tolerate the existence of the rebellious forces, but also to use the rebellious forces to attack the Northern Frontier and strengthen the defense line in the Northern Frontier. This not only gave the alliance space and time to develop, but also gave the alliance the opportunity to seize and consolidate the territory.

If we extend the association, if the alliance still sticks to Mengshan in a special period and barely survives, then before and after the war between the North and South, Dongdu will inevitably increase its encirclement and suppression efforts to stabilize the domestic situation to the greatest extent, and the alliance is very likely to be defeated. Without long-term plans, there must be immediate worries. In order to prevent problems before they happen, and to realize the lofty ideals, the alliance must use the Dongdu to do its best to find a path full of hope for itself, rather than guarding Mengshan and waiting for death.

However, ideals are full, reality is skinny, the difficulty of "turning into battle" is too great, there are too many difficulties encountered, and uncertain factors are difficult to estimate. Compared with the poor prospect of the alliance joining the rebel army in Northeast Shandong to attack Qi County, the prospect of "turning into battle" is even worse. The two evils are the least, and the rich and powerful men put their "turning into battle" at the same time, and instead focused on the strategy of attacking Qi County.

Li Fengyun accepted the choice of the Haoshangs, but this strategy is related to the future of the alliance. The alliance must fight with all its might. Therefore, all the alliance's troops must enter Qi County to fight. No longer, like last year, Li Fengyun and his direct troops charged in front, while the Haoshangs sat in the back to enjoy the success.

Li Fengyun has been strong enough to threaten or even determine the life and death of other heroes, so this time he is very strong. He wants to concentrate military power and ask the heroes to follow their rules, otherwise he will not be able to guarantee that the alliance will have a chance to win this battle.
Chapter completed!