In the afternoon, in the camp outside the city, the marching marshal, Xiyang Wang Yuwenwen was convening a meeting of the main generals, he had just finished the meeting in the city, rushed to the camp outside the city non-stop, and rushed to the big tent of the Chinese army when there were still five minutes left, and the generals in the tent were ready.

The meeting was presided over by Marshal Shi Weixuan, and the marching commanders Yang Su, Shi Wansui, Han Baohu, and many other major generals were also present.

The time is accurate to the minute, which is actually not necessary for "ancient" wars, and even for agricultural societies, this kind of time accuracy is not necessary, but Yu Wenwen still has to lead by example to promote Huangzhou clocks.

He asked the generals attending the meeting to arrive at least five minutes in advance, so the main generals had two pocket watches, of course, these pocket watches were given by Yu Wenwen for free.

Yu Wenwen is very busy, he is busy from morning to night all day, so this military discussion can't say too much nonsense so as not to waste time, his opening remarks are very direct: "The soldiers have had enough carnival in the past few days, enough rest, it's time to continue to kill the enemy!" ”

"After relaxing for a few days, probably some people haven't come back to their senses, and the widow emphasizes again, the officials and soldiers came to Lianghuai to regain lost territory, not to be chic and happy!"

"Now, the important areas south of Huaishui are owned by Chen Guo, so at the current stage, our army's goal is to recover Huaibei Prefecture, and now Huaixi has been pacified, and the army is stationed in Wuyang, and the area to the east is Huaisi, which is the next target of our army!"

As the commander of the whole army, Yu Wenwen is self-aware, he knows that his so-called military talent can be described as an axe in front of Han Baohu, Yang Su, and Shi Wansui, so he does not plan to charge forward in the next battle.

Yu Wenwen's ambition is high, so between generals and generals, he chooses generals, even if the starting point is not high, but he wants to seize every opportunity to accumulate experience and improve his generals' abilities.

Therefore, these three famous generals in "history" charged in front, and he sat in the rear to dispatch in the center, and completed the strategic mission of the southeast road march given by the imperial court as soon as possible.

What is the strategic mission of the Southeast Road March? Raiders two Huai.

But because of the alliance with Chen State, as Yu Wenwen said in his opening remarks, the top priority is to recover Huaibei.

Vortex, now has been recovered by Yuwen Wen, in fact, from a tactical point of view, his next best choice is to go north to attack Bozhou Prefecture to govern Xiaohuang, once Xiaohuang is taken, the army of Wei Chishun entrenched in Zhengzhou, its flank will be dangerous.

Wei Chishun is Yu Wenwen's father-in-law, at this time in the Zhengzhou area and Yu Wenming confrontation, the battle is stalemate, the battle line has not changed much for several months, the two sides are in the balance of power, once Yu Wenwen successfully captures Xiaohuang, can seriously threaten Wei Chishun's flank, resulting in a decisive change in the Henan war situation.

However, the Bozhou area belongs to Henan and does not belong to the offensive direction of the southeast road march, and if Yuwenwen waves his division to attack Xiaohuang, it will be a "cross-border operation", which is theoretically a resistant.

But this problem is not a problem, after all, as long as Henan can be recovered, no one pays attention to such minor procedural problems.

The main problem is that if he attacks Xiao Huang with his army, it will be equivalent to giving up the best opportunity to attack Xuzhou, which will give Wei Chi a chance to breathe and consolidate the defense of Pengcheng, and the other party will even take the opportunity to make peace with Chen Guo.

This raises the issue to a strategic level, a situation that Yuwenwen must avoid.

The territory of the Wei Chi clan in Huaibei is now left with the Xuzhou Governor's Office, and the fiasco of Yu Chi Youqi has led to the fact that the Yu Chi clan has no strong field force south of the Yellow River except for the army of Yu Chi Shun.

The other party can only take a defensive position in the Bozhou Governor's Mansion and Xuzhou Governor's Mansion, while the rebellion that broke out in the Qingzhou Governor's Mansion seems to be unsettled, and it should not be able to send troops to support Bo and Xu.

Therefore, for Wei Chidun, the head of the Wei Chi family, once the Xuzhou Governor's Mansion has a tendency to be unable to hold on, he is very likely to use it as a bargaining chip to make peace with Chen Guo.

Xuzhou Prefecture to govern Pengcheng, is to control the Surabaya water system of the important place, but also the Huaisi area of the first important town, the southern army has Pengcheng, the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains can use the Surabaya water system to transport grain and grass, support the army to attack the south bank of the Yellow River.

Therefore, Pengcheng is an important stronghold that the Southern Army must occupy in the Central Plains during the Northern Expedition, and once Chen Guo gets Pengcheng, he has the hope of coming back to life.

And Chen Guo has 'recovered' Huainan, and sooner or later the strategic goal will turn to Jiangzhou and even Ba and Hunan Prefectures, and the contradictions with Zhou (Yuwen's) will deepen, and sooner or later they will have to turn their faces.

If Yuwen Wen gave up attacking Pengcheng in the east and chose to take Xiao Huang in the north, he might be attacked by the enemy on his back before Xiao Huang was taken, exposing all his back and flanks to the Chen army occupying Huainan and Xuzhou.

If he is not careful, Yuwenwen will become another Guan Yu, when the situation is good, he was attacked by someone and cut off the back road, defeated and captured, and pulled to Jiankang to tour the street and then stabbed in the neck.

This is not Yuwenwen scaring himself, but the risk that the generals unanimously believed, the southeast road march may not be sure to get down Xiaohuang quickly, and although the Bozhou army has no strength to attack south, there is no problem with self-preservation.

Not to mention that Yu Wenwen's father-in-law, Wei Chi Shun, will not sit idly by and watch Xiao Huang being surrounded and ignored, and will definitely divide his troops to rescue, when the southeast road march will not be able to take Xiao Huang, and he will lose the opportunity to take Pengcheng quickly, and he will miss a great opportunity.

However, even if the southeast road march smoothly eastward and take the Xuzhou Governor's Mansion, the strategic situation facing it next is still very dangerous.

The Yellow River, Huaishui, and the Yangtze River, looking from north to south, these three east-west rivers form a "three" character, if the southeast road marches to recover the entire territory of Huaibei, then the Huaibei controlled by the Zhou State (Yuwen's) will become the horizontal in the middle of the word "three".

To the north, there is the Henan region controlled by Wei Chi, and to the south, there is the Huainan region controlled by Chen Guo.

And in this kind of long strip area, as long as the middle point is cut off, the army at the end (the eastern section, the Huaisi area) will be isolated and will be finished sooner or later.

Even so, Yu Wenwen still chose the eastward strategy, and the generals also agreed with it, because going out to fight was originally to risk their lives, and since everyone was not even afraid of death, of course they were not afraid of taking risks, it was nothing more than worth it.

Based on this strategic goal, Yu Wenwen formulated a series of tactical plans, and today's military discussion is to ask everyone to work together to improve this tactical plan and immediately put it into practice.

In short, Yuwen Wen has to race against time, take Pengcheng before Chen Guo and Wei Chi's concubine, and then stabilize the Huaibei defense line before Chen Guo turns his face, and the time node is this autumn harvest.

Yu Wenwen judged that the Chen army, which had just 'recovered' Huainan, would not have enough food to support the army's northern invasion until at least the autumn harvest, and by the way, "eat on the enemy" to reduce the logistical burden.

Therefore, he wants to take Pengcheng before the autumn harvest, recover the boundary of the Xuzhou Governor's Mansion, and then decide whether to draw troops to the north depending on the situation.

At that time, either take Pengcheng as a stronghold and go north to take the land of Qingqi, or take Wuyang as a stronghold and go north to take the land of Bozhou, the ultimate goal is that Yuwenwen will assist Yu Wenming and drive Wei Chi's army to the north of the Yellow River.

When the time comes, it will be useless for Chen Guo in the south to jump.

This series of strategies and tactics, the foothold is to take Pengcheng before the autumn harvest, it is summer, there is still a long time, and there are still fighters, so Yuwen Wen and the generals discussed for more than an hour and made a final decision.

Yang Su, the commander of the march, led his troops eastward, mainly attacking Pengcheng; Han Baohu, the commander of the march, also led his troops eastward and took the southern barrier of Pengcheng. To prevent a possible sneak attack by Chen's army near Sikou in the south, the two armies were dominated by Yang Su.

The marching commander Yuwen 15 continued to sit in Huaixi, preventing possible changes in the direction of Shouchun's Chen army, and at the same time, ensuring that the Huaixi area completed the autumn harvest and raising grain and grass to supply the army.

The most critical battle nodes: Ruyin and Voryang, which were personally guarded by Marshal Yu Wenwen of the march, and the garrison was Voryang; Long live Shi Wansui, the commander of the march, led the troops to be stationed north of Wuyang to prevent the possible southern attack of the Bozhou army.

Shi Wansui's department was also responsible for waiting for an opportunity to feint on Xiaohuang, forcing the Bozhou army to shrink its forces, and could not divide troops to the east to reinforce Xuzhou, or to divide troops to the west to reinforce Zhengzhou.

At the same time, Shi Wansui and Yu Wenwen were horns of each other to prevent the sneak attack of the Chen army in the south.

With Yu Wenwen sitting in the vortex and dispatching in the center to ensure the logistics and rear routes of the officers and troops fighting on the Eastern Front, the generals had no objection to this decision, and even thought that no one was more suitable than Yu Wenwen.

This is not a compliment to Yuwen Wen, but Yuwen Wen's outstanding record in guarding the hanging gourd, which makes the marching commander and other generals full of confidence, with the king of Xiyang guarding the back road, Yang Su and Han Baohu can go all out to attack the Huaisi region.

Another reason is that Yuwen Wen does have a set of food and grass and military supplies, so the requests of the marching commanders are coming one after another.

It is not easy to meet these requirements by building a large number of trebuchets, a large number of thunderstorms, and a large number of materials.

The two-year war, the successive battles over the past year, and the simultaneous use of troops in the two directions of Henan and Lianghuai have overdrawn the manpower and material resources in the Shannan region, and it is very difficult for Yuwenwen to raise all kinds of materials and soldiers in the requirements of the marching commanders.

But Yu Wenwen was still confident in this, he looked around at the generals present, and said:

"When it comes to marching and fighting, attacking cities and plundering land, the widows may not be as good as you, but when it comes to raising military supplies and transporting grain and grass, you are not as good as the widows!"