In June of the eleventh year of the summer calendar, the winter wheat planted in Hedong was ripe, and two buckets were sown, and the average yield per mu was seven buckets in one stone.

Recuperation for three consecutive years, the Hedong Wei army has been full of treasury, the military tun and the people's strongholds are connected before and after, an average of three or five miles, the voice of chickens and dogs is heard, just like the prosperous era of Qingping.

And the general Cao Zhen felt more and more urgent, and the real Great Wei recuperated for three years, but the opposite side recuperated for four years.

The decisive battle is not this year, it is next year.

If the recuperation period is a few years longer, the sharp soldiers in the army will degenerate, showing a trend of lack of success.

Therefore, the other party will not give a chance, even if there is no determination to destroy Wei, it will start a war to strengthen the officers in the army.

As long as this round of tentative or decisive offensive is held, the morale and combat experience of the Great Wei army will be greatly enhanced.

But he was worried that Sima Yi would persuade Chen Qun to take the initiative to break the false peace and attack the Central Plains.

Taking the initiative to tear up the hard-won armistice agreement will arouse the resistance of the Wei people and the people, which is not conducive to the national war.

With apprehension, Cao Zhen inspected the places and inspected the warehousing ...... It can only do this, anyway, I dare not take the initiative to mobilize the army in advance for large-scale training.

The intensive training of any army is a kind of consumption of national strength.

Therefore, the Wei army only retained the normal summer and autumn trials, which was similar to that of Beifu, and only maintained the assembly and training at the battalion level; Don't do big.

For Beifu, the biggest achievements of the three-year recuperation are three, the first is to complete the population statistics of the prefectures and counties under its rule, and the second is to mint the Great Xia Tongbao in the world, and it has been wary of the new coins issued at the beginning of the country, so that the word "Great Xia" permeates the daily life of officials and people.

The last thing is that the construction of Chang'an New City is completed, known as a thousand households and a square, now there are officials, government soldiers, guards, people four types of neighborhoods a total of 64 squares, the octagonal building where the official office is located six squares, the north palace group also occupies the area of 12 squares, and the south near Kunming Pond also began to plan the palace group, the scale will be equal to the north.

The new Chang'an City, in terms of structure and layout, can be said to be the tomb of thieves.

According to the population statistics, there are 17 prefectures under the rule of Beifu, including Liang, Xia, Si, Jia, Yi, Jiang, Jing, Hunan, Guangzhou, Jiao, Fujian, Jiangxi, Yang, Xu, Qing, Yan, and Henan, as well as a Nanzhong Prefecture.

There are a total of 7.6 million Han Yi officials and slaves, more than 13 million men and women, and more than 18 million old and weak people.

The total population of the six towns of Hebei, Shanxi and Youyun combined is close to 7 million.

It seems that the manpower of both sides is three to one, but the population ratio of the two sides of the Yellow River Eye Line is always about two to three, and the Wei army is three.

After a three-year respite, Wei regained its self-confidence from top to bottom...... At least as a defender, he has an innate advantage.

For Beifu, a three-year recuperation is also an advantage...... Although it was difficult for the manpower along the Yangtze River to be invested in the war in Hebei, some grain and materials were transported to the north every year, and the continuous transportation was carried over the past three years, and the combat baggage was saved on the front line.

The population of 18 million on the books is a bit empty, and there are more than 2 million people in Nanzhong, and the population is most densely populated in the traditional Jingyi area, and most of them are children.

Wei's national strength in the war is obviously stronger, but the initiative in the war is in the hands of Beifu, and it is Beifu who has the final say on how to fight.

Worry about one thing right now.

In Chang'an, in the hall on the third floor of the Chunyang Building, south of the octagonal building, which is one-fifth completed, Tian Xin observes the meeting.

The octagonal building is built in the middle of the large square in the middle of Chang'an, which is the future government center, and the whole is like a huge octagonal earth building. It covers a total of six square areas.

The overall height is three floors, nearly 15 meters high, with stone, brick and tile, lime triple soil as the main building materials.

Timber is used for floors, stairs, and roofs to reduce the likelihood of fire.

And the use of various colors of glass filled, decorated large windows, so the hall has a bright sight...... There is a little bit of a modern atmosphere that Tian Xin feels kind.

If he could, Tian Xin would like to recuperate for another year...... The steamship has been built and left the factory, and it is still a timber transport ship, powered by a steam engine, which completely solves the huge labor consumption of material transportation in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

Wait another year, and the front line will be able to stock up on more baggage...... At that time, the goal of the war can be achieved through the stupid method of besieging the city.

Steam ships have appeared, and the cost of manufacturing rough steel plate armor is decreasing and the efficiency is increasing day by day.

The more you wait, the greater your army's combat readiness advantage.

But I am afraid that the Wei army will not be restrained, and with Sima Yi's character, it is very likely that he will compete for the advantage of being the first mover and launch an attack war.

If he was not careful, and let Sima Yi lead the death troops to disrupt the Kwantung region, then the defeat of the battle would be a small matter, and the morale of the entire Wei army would be greatly boosted...... It's really troublesome.

At that time, if you want to destroy Wei, you will have to fight tough battles one after another.

When the army suffers heavy casualties, the more and more hatred between the military and the people on both sides accumulates, the stronger the resistance will be, and the other side's revenge will naturally rise, and it will fall into a vicious circle.

It's best to prevent and avoid this before the cycle starts.

So you have to deal with it in a variety of ways to avoid the worst.

In the past few years of development, Sima Yi has caused the greatest damage to rectify Hebei, cut off all kinds of trade and smuggling channels, and also cut off the channels for information transmission.

The Wei State fully implemented the policy of closing the country to the outside world, and the news of the enemy and the enemy could not be circulated through the caravan, and even the Shu brocade began to be squeezed and unsalable.

It is also difficult to obtain credible information on the recuperation situation of Wei in the past three years.

While Tian Xin and the core of Beifu were discussing, Zhuge Liang of Luoyang had already received a warning of an abnormal military movement in Hebei.

Sima Yi's basic plate is the six towns of Youyun, and the way of transferring troops is different from that of Hebei's integrated town garrisons, which can directly complete the mobilization outside the reconnaissance range of the Han army, and then march south in detachments, and then assemble and converge.

Both sides built granaries along the front line, like military stations, so Sima Yiruo suddenly mobilized the troops of Youyun Six Towns to launch a surprise battle on the south bank of the Yellow River...... There is a chance to succeed after all.

The Yellow River is so long, and the soldiers reorganized from the Kwantung region are mainly infantry...... No matter how many cavalry they are, it is impossible to have more cavalry than Wei under Sima Yi.

The defensive forces could not be evenly distributed, so Sima Yi chose weak points to forcibly break through, and then obtained supplies by plundering and destroying the production base of the four Kwantung states.

There was an abnormal movement in the Wei State, and some were not sure whether Sima Yi was going to take the initiative to attack the south bank of the Yellow River, or whether he was setting up a suspicious formation to stimulate the Han army to take the initiative to attack?

The right to start the war of the Middle Route Army, the Eastern Route Army, and the Beiyang Naval Division of the entire Northern Expedition was in the hands of Zhuge Liang.

Once he issued an order from Luoyang, the entire war machine, which had been in preparation for three and a half years, would rumble into operation, and the entire Yellow River and Yangtze River valleys would be mobilized in batches to speed up the transportation of manpower and material resources to the north.

Strive for a war to settle the world, no matter how bad it is, it will drag the Wei State to death and abolish it, so as to lay the foundation for the next round of war of annihilation.

The bottom line of combat is to avoid a tug-of-war, which will stimulate and accumulate hatred between the two sides.

Therefore, Zhuge Liang first summoned Jiang Wei to see Jiang Wei's opinion, whether he should do it directly.

In three years, Jiang Wei has been the sister-in-law of Guangluxun, Qi Hou, and Chen Gongxin of the Han Dynasty.

Three years ago, Jiang Wei desperately wanted to fight, trying to prove himself in the war.

Now Jiang Wei was more calm and thought about it: "Master Ge, the student thinks that since the death of Gong Wei, Gong Song has become more and more weak. There are changes in the north today, although the whereabouts are unknown, I might as well break it with my strength, so that Song Gong can return to his hometown. ”

No one knows if Guan Yu's body can last another year, and Guan Yu's assistance in attacking Hedong can reduce resistance.

At the beginning of the war, reducing the resistance of the defenders a little bit will have a great impact on the subsequent battles, and the momentum of the breakthrough depends on whether the first blow can break the enemy smoothly.