The news of Han Sui's instant domination of Xiliang quickly spread to all places, some people panicked, some people strengthened their ambitions, and of course more people didn't feel anything.

Tong Yuan urgently led the main force of the dreadnought army into Fufeng County to deter the actions of the Xiliang warlords, and summoned Jia Xu and others to gather in Yi County to discuss the current situation.

Wei Qi, Su Ze, Du Qi, and others first briefed on grain and grass, military supplies, and mobilization.

At this time, another round of corn cultivation was experienced, and under the condition of ensuring the supply of tuntian, the reserves of Fengyi County alone exceeded 800,000 stones. Under normal circumstances, salt, dried meat, and charcoal from Hedong, Yan'an, Xihe and other places can be continuously supplied to Yongzhou.

Although the two counties of Jingzhao and Fufeng have not been under their jurisdiction for more than half a year, the tuntian areas of five or six counties, including Fufeng and Chencang, have developed well, and the rest of the counties are also sufficient to support the needs of military service and labor service.

Xu Rong, Yang Feng, captains of various brigades, and generals of the Tuntian Army also gave briefings on combat readiness.

After half a year of training and exercises, the whole army has reached a satisfactory state in terms of physical fitness, equipment, morale, knowledge, and tactics. In particular, special training was conducted in the northwest, and there was special training for both the Qianghu light cavalry and a small number of heavy cavalry and infantry.

In addition, Jia Xu also introduced the situation of the Yongzhou Army. At present, there are 10,000 county soldiers and Qianghu soldiers under his direct control, and there are more than 1,000 elite Huangzhong righteous servants. The major scholars of Tianshui also have many clans, and if half of them can participate in the battle to support, they are 3,000 soldiers and horses.

There was also a letter from Zhang Ji's side, saying that Yu Poison's 10th Brigade, Shenlong's Jieling Division, and the Unseeded Qiang Division could all participate in the battle, and if necessary, they could send some elites from Yan'an County to directly kill Liangxing, Cheng Yin and other entrenched Beidi Counties.

However, in terms of war or not, Tong Yuan is more entangled.

The battle is not very famous now, not to mention that Han Sui's posture is relatively low, saying that except for the counties of Liangzhou, other places in Yongzhou still obey Jia Xu's arrangement. He only temporarily protected the territory and the people, and managed order on his behalf.

If you don't fight, isn't that admitting that Han Sui and others annexed the prefecture and county, and sat back and watched him grow and develop? It's hard for him to be sure of others, but the warlords behind the Xinxi Liang Army are definitely not honest and stable forces.

Regarding this point, the outstanding talents under Tong Yuan are also divided into two factions, and it is difficult to reach a unified opinion.

As generals, the lieutenants of the various departments of course said that they could enter the war at any time, and they considered it necessary to strike at their opponents and curb their development.

In terms of specific strategies, Xu Huang and others believed that they could use the army to attract the enemy's attention head-on, and then divide the division to eliminate the warlords entrenched in Beidi County and shake the opponent's entire defense line.

This style of play may coincide with Zhang's letter, and Yan'an and Shangjun have also preliminarily repaired the roads in the west, and they can indeed take down the thieves in Beidi County.

And according to Xu Huang's introduction, Cheng Yin, Hou Xuan, and Li Kan, who were entrenched in Beidi County, were all from Hedong, and later transferred to Beidi County to form an alliance with Ma Teng and Han Sui. And to deal with these people, there is just a certain reason to send troops.

However, Xu Rong and Wei Qi believed that the time was not yet ripe to fight Han Sui, Ma Teng and others.

Xu Rong believes that the Qiang Rebellion has lasted for a hundred years, and Han Sui and Ma Teng are also part of it. If you fall into a tug-of-war with the Xiliang warlords and the Han Hu army, I am afraid that the new Xiliang army will have a lot of consumption, and it will even be taken advantage of by others.

Wei Qi believes that most of these warlords have no ambitions, and only a few of them need to be particularly vigilant. It is completely possible to give them a relatively false title, buy them, and then prepare to fight later. And now the offensive will only force them to be more united, and the situation is only more dangerous.

Tong Yuan's pupils shrank, feeling as if he had heard this somewhere, and suddenly remembered that this was somewhat similar to Jia Xu's advice to Cao Cao.

He looked at Jia Xu, who had not spoken, and felt that he was in a more front-line position, and he should have something to say. Moreover, he has an extremely dazzling performance on this matter in history, why did he not speak this time?

Just as Jia Xu's deep gaze came over, Tong Yuan saw some deep meaning from it, so he presided over a little discussion with everyone, and decided to talk about it tomorrow.

After he went back, he didn't visit Jia Xu immediately, but sorted out his thoughts first.

In the original history, the rebellion of Han Sui and others did not come until more than ten years later, and because of this, he originally planned to deal with Yuan Shao and others first, and then the warlords of Xiliang.

However, it seems that since this year, the development of many places has been quite different from history, and it seems that it can no longer be planned according to memory arrangements.

After he had a little idea, he made a special trip to visit Jia Xu.

Jia Xu had been waiting for Tong Yuan for a long time, and when he met him, he said, "Xu didn't say it directly, so I am really sorry that the lord has to wait." ”

Tong Yuan asked, "Wen He must have countermeasures, are there some words that are not suitable for saying in public?" ”

Jia Xu nodded slightly, and said, "Has the lord ever analyzed, why can the Hedong Shi clan support us?" ”

Well, this is from other topics, I remember that I also used the anti-Yuan Cao alliance encirclement to test him at the beginning.

After a little thought, he knew that it was really boring to hide it from Jia Xu, so he said frankly

"It's because of profit, right? When I became the ruler of Hedong, not only did I not touch the assets of each of them, but instead implemented tax reductions to encourage them to develop their own basic businesses and industrial mines. ”

After that, he was able to appoint some outstanding people, adopt their suggestions, recover the state, and open up trade routes. The more the situation develops, the more open it becomes, so this support has gradually been solidified. ”

Jia Xu smiled with satisfaction and said, "The lord is wise. Then let me ask another question, with the same method, what is the effect of the implementation of Tianshui? ”

Tong Yuan said, "I think it also has a certain effect, among which the Wang family fully supports us, and the rest of the Yang, Zhao and other families also welcome it." But ......"

Speaking of which, he seemed to have discovered the problem, but he couldn't say it, feeling that he was one step away from the truth.

Jia Xu reminded, "Today's lord should be more familiar with trade routes than me, and the mystery lies here. ”

"Uh......"

After Jia Xu's reminder, Tong Yuan gradually discovered the mystery. In this era, Hexi declined, while Hetao had a tendency to catch up.

The Xiongnu and Xianbei correspond to the Hetao and the north, and the Qiang corresponds to the area around the west and west of the Hexi.

He recovered and annexed the state, and the expansion of the Hetao and Yinshan routes was obviously more beneficial to the Hedong Shi clan, who were more dependent on this trade route. For the Tianshui clan, the Wang family that is expanding in this direction must be happy to see.

The Yin family, who originally relied more on Hexi and the Western Regions, had a limited good impression of him, and the Yang family and the Zhao family, who were involved in trade routes in various places, were in a state in between.

Thinking about this clearly, Tong Yuan immediately figured out whether he should fight or not, and how to fight.