At the same time that Zheyan rushed into Liaoyang Mansion, another army entered the Liaoxi Corridor and choked the eastward advance of the Zongfu Division. The Western Liaoning Corridor is now the world of the Han people, so as soon as the Han soldiers and horses arrived, the local villages responded in groups, and formed 36 Lianzhu Fortresses together with the army to completely cut off the Western Liaoning Corridor.

When Zhi Yanchong and Yang Yingqi organized a major offensive in the northeast, the civil affairs on the Central Plains side were managed by a civilian-official group formed by Chen Zhenghui, Wang Shizhong, Yu Qi, and others, and the three major military regions of Tanggu, Hedong, and Qilu were respectively deployed by Yang Kaiyuan, Cao Guangbi, and Zong Ying. Yang Yingqi's political strategy in the northeast did not take the initiative to send back to Shandong, but the prestige of Zheyan's march was delivered to Tanggu, Shandong and Hedong in a timely manner through battle reports!

Liaoyang Mansion is pacified!

Come to Yuancheng to settle down!

Shenzhou has been reformed!

Xianzhou is pacified!

Tongzhou has changed flags!

Liuhe is pacified!

The main army of the Han Department has arrived in Shinshu!

The siege of Huanglongfu has begun!

The frequent successes made the soldiers and officials of the Central Plains feel overwhelmed! They had a hunch that Hanbu would gain an advantage, but no one expected that the advantage would be so obvious! This made the civil warriors of the Central Plains shocked by Zhi Yanchong's martial arts, but also had an extremely optimistic mood!

"Great counteroffensive! Great counteroffensive! ”

"Respond to the Great General!"

"Restore the Central Plains!"

"Reclaim the two rivers!"

"Pacify Yanyun!"

The voices of the generals became louder and louder, and even the civil officials became agitated when they were infected. yes, it's time to counterattack, it's time to counterattack! The Han people have been silent for too long, if the enterprising spirit of the old Han subordinates is out of the ambition of expansion, then the enthusiasm of the Central Plains Martial Arts is out of the desire for revenge!

At the beginning, after Zhi Yanchong, Yang Yingqi and Cao Guangbi met, they decided on the strategy of first northeast and then Yanyun, with Yang Kaiyuan cutting off the western Liaoning corridor, and then Zhe Yanchong launched a major offensive against the Liao River valley with the main force of the Han army. As long as Huining falls, then Zonghan and Zongfu will become lost dogs, and then they will attack Yanyun like pincers with the strength of the Northeast Army and the Central Plains Army, and the morale of the Jurchens will have to collapse!

This grand strategy was originally the consensus of the military top brass of the New Han regime. However, the victory of the northeast came too quickly and too greatly, and the officials and soldiers of the Central Plains side were encouraged and rejoiced, believing that the Central Plains army should also cooperate with the victory in the northeast to launch an attack!

But is it that simple?

The victory in the Liao River valley seemed easy, but in fact it was the result of concentrating most of the manpower and material resources of the Han Dynasty, including not only the combat team led by Zhi Yanchong, but also the administrative, logistical and intelligence teams led by Yang Yingqi. It can be said that in order to achieve a big victory in the Northeast, all the chess pieces that the Han Department has been ambushing for many years have been used, and the efforts of the Han Ministry high-level have also been spent on this.

Although the fighting contingent on the Central Plains side was not transferred to the northeast, the launching of the war was not just a matter for the combat contingent itself. The New Han regime had to carry out two operations at the same time, and in addition to the questionable question of whether the logistics coordination could be as efficient as in the Northeast, it was also necessary to consider that the astonishing military achievements affected the attitude of the Southern Song Dynasty and Western Xia!

At this time, the military strength of the New Han regime in the Central Plains mainly had three parts, that is, the Hedong Army led by Cao Guangbi, the Yanyun Army led by Yang Kaiyuan, and the Qilu Army led by Zong Ying, as well as more than a dozen righteous armies that were under the control of these three military regions and had not yet had time to integrate into the regular army. Among them, the internal situation of the Qilu army was more complicated than that of the Hedong and Yanyun armies, and Zong Ying's control over the Qilu army was the weakest.

It can be said that the current internal military structure of the New Han regime has not achieved a high degree of unity, especially within the three major military blocs in the Central Plains. However, in such a troubled world, the choice of the timing of war does not necessarily have to wait until there are no internal problems, because you have problems, and the enemy also has problems, and when your problems are solved, maybe the enemy's problems will also be solved. Therefore, Zhi Yanchong and Yang Yingqi chose to strike first, not because they were optimistic enough to think that the new regime had no worries at all, but because they considered that the Jin State now has more problems than the Xinhan regime! This is an era of chaos and chaos, and the Jin people will not wait until the rear is completely done before they start. Therefore, if we continue to wait, we will only lose the initiative in the war.

After the victory of Zhi Yanchong in the northeast came, the Central Plains generals -- especially the middle and lower-level generals -- collectively issued a call for an all-out counteroffensive, and this call was obviously contrary to the strategic direction agreed upon by Zhi Yanchong and other high-level generals, but the top level of the military could not ignore this kind of call, and even many high-level generals themselves were infected by this victorious atmosphere and advocated "acting from power"!

Things on the battlefield are changing rapidly, and sometimes we should stick to the established strategy, and sometimes we should not be too rigid about it, so there is a creed in the art of war that "the general will not be subject to the orders of the king abroad", so it can be said that it is understandable that some generals demand to act under their authority. However, if the military forces of the Central Plains "act from power", then the previously negotiated war situation will be completely disrupted, and the entire political, military, and diplomatic forces of the Xinhan regime will be under pressure several times heavier than the previous plan!

But at this moment, another weakness of the military situation of the New Han regime in the Central Plains was exposed, that is, the Han Ministry had such a temporary administrative center as Dengzhou in the civil administration of the Central Plains, but its military system lacked a powerful command center! The reason why there is no such center is not because of the lack of consideration of Zhi Yanchong and Yang Yingqi, who personally presided over the overall situation in the northeast and could not be established for the sake of the internal political balance of the new regime!

If the original defensive counterattack strategy is followed, then the military deployment of the New Han regime in various parts of the Central Plains can be said to have few flaws, because although the Yanyun Army, the Hedong Army, and the Qilu Army each have their own commanders, they have a tacit understanding in advance, and the functions of the three aspects echoing each other in the defensive counterattack can be fully brought into play.

However, this pattern is more than defensive, and it is insufficient to take the initiative to attack. What's more, now it is necessary to suddenly change the overall strategy from a defensive counterattack to an active offensive, neither Cao Guangbi, Yang Kaiyuan, nor Zong Ying have enough power to make this decision, and Zhi Yanchong, who has the highest decision-making power, is far away in the northeast battlefield, so the military decision-making level cannot make a quick response to the new situation.

Among the several giants of the military, Yang Kaiyuan, who has always been known for his conservatism, is completely opposed to the temporary change of offensive and defensive strategies, and in his opinion, it will be a very dangerous thing to be too obedient to this kind of unthoughtful enthusiasm.

Contrary to Yang Kaiyuan, Zong Ying advocated taking the initiative to attack Yan Yun. Zong Ying's consideration is not entirely short-sighted. At this time, the military strength of the new regime in the Central Plains was different from the main force of the Han Dynasty, and most of them were neither die-hard troops who followed Orihiko all the way to kill, nor were they regular troops recruited and trained from the territory of the Han Dynasty, but most of them were gathered by heroes from the grass. Most of these people have experienced several major traumas from the era of the Seed Master Dao to the Zongze era, and each time the great trauma is almost related to the cowardice of the old Song regime.

This situation is most obvious in the rebel armies from all walks of life, and this atmosphere is also very strong in the army led by Wang Xuansuo, that is, most of the Hedong army generals under Cao Guangbi are also united under the banner of "anti-Jin" rather than the banner of "supporting Han".

Because the Central Plains army has such a situation, Zong Ying believes that if it is too conservative at such a time, it will make the generals and officials misunderstand that the New Han regime is as cowardly as the old Song regime, which will not only hit the morale of several legions in the Central Plains, but even centrifuge the gentry who have just been annexed!

"These two opinions are reasonable......" Cao Guangbi, who had not long returned to Longde Mansion, sighed and said to Deng Su: "When my eldest brother and I discussed this strategy in Dengzhou, we took all kinds of circumstances into account, and even predicted the worst result of our fiasco in the northeast. But what we didn't expect was not a fiasco, but a big victory! ”

Deng Su asked: "What do the two generals mean, do they continue to garrison, or attack?" ”

Cao Guangbi muttered: "It is better to have a crisis in affairs than to hit our morale!" Let the gentry not doubt our determination to expel the Hulu! ”

Deng Su said: "But to expel Hu Lu, you have to come step by step." ”

Cao Guangbi sighed: "The truth is so, but people's hearts don't think so." Some truths make sense to a few people, but they don't make sense to people in the world! It's easy to get thousands of people to go crazy, but it's hard to calm down the millions of people who are already manic! ”

Deng Su said: "So...... Beat? ”

Cao Guangbi said: "I had no choice, I had to fight." ”

Although Cao Guangbi was ready to fight, he was not as impulsive as the group of rebels after all, and in terms of "seeking stability", Cao Guangbi and Yang Kaiyuan were no different. Before deciding to attack, he still wants to make all the preparations properly.

However, things on the battlefield are not what the boss of a certain aspect wants. The idea of being ready for anything is something that everyone has, but not everyone has the opportunity. It's just that this time it was not the pressure from the enemy troops that forced Cao Guangbi to march ahead of schedule, but the impetus from his own troops.

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