In mid-July, Tong Guan led his army out of Jiangnan and into the Huainan East Road, where he received Xu Shisong's army, and then in early August, he began to attack the southern part of Qi.

The Zhou army was divided into three routes, the East Route Army was composed of the Forbidden Army and the Huainan East Route Army, with a total strength of 80,000 troops, and 300,000 were claimed to be 50,000 in fact.

The Central Route Army was entirely composed of the forbidden army, with a strength of 100,000 troops, and 400,000 were claimed to be external, but in fact there were 80,000.

The Western Route Army was the Huainan West Route Army under the governor of Weng Shuping, with an establishment of 60,000 people, and it was claimed that there were 300,000 to the outside world, but in fact there were only 20,000.

Not counting the people, the actual strength of the Zhou army is 150,000, but it claims to be a million troops!

According to the battle plan formulated by Tong Guan, the Eastern Route Army attacked along the coastline, and the goal was to directly attack Juzhou in Qingzhou Prefecture, Qi Province, through Ganyu, which is the location of the Xu family's nest and ancestral tomb, Tong Guan believes that the Qi army will not give up easily.

The Central Route Army and the Western Route Army attacked along the canal together, dividing their troops near Pei County, and the Middle Route Army attacked Teng County, Zou County, and Yanzhou Mansion, and then entered Quancheng Mansion, attacked Tai'an, and finally took Quancheng directly.

The Western Route Army had been advancing along the canal, and their targets were Jining, Dongping, Dongchang, and Linqing.

Tong Guan's plan is extremely aggressive, and it seems that he wants to occupy the entire Qi Province and destroy the core territory of the Qi State.

However, the ideal is beautiful, but the reality is completely ...... opposite.

This action of the Zhou army did not receive the unanimous support of the political affairs hall, which was actually the reason why Emperor Longdao thought that the opportunity was rare and forced Tong Guan to attack.

As a eunuch and the last remnant of the original lord and faction, Tong Guan had no choice but to obey the emperor's orders to attack.

But without the cooperation of civilian officials, the logistics of his army became a fatal problem.

No matter how imaginary the number of troops attacking, there are still 150,000 troops, and the daily grain and grass required is an astronomical amount, and a large number of civilians are needed to provide transportation support to transport these grain and grass to the front-line troops.

However, if a large number of people are mobilized, more grain and grass are needed to support them.

What's more, without the unanimous support of the political affairs hall, the Zhou army would not be able to find enough people - the magistrate will not support you at all, if you force Raf, then Tong Guan will basically cut himself off from the Great Zhou.

He didn't dare, and he couldn't let his troops force him, even if Emperor Longdao supported him.

Without a people's husband, it means that there is no support for grain and grass from Jiangnan itself, so why does Tong Guan dare to attack? Don't he know the truth that the soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved?

Of course he knew, after all, he had already commanded the army many times, how could he not know this kind of basic common sense.

However, when he sent out the army, he was not too worried about the problem of military rations.

Because the east and west roads of Huainan are not far away from Qi Province, and Weng Shuping once said when he encouraged the emperor that after more than five years of development, these two places each have more than 3.5 million mu of public and private land, totaling 7 million mu.

After entering the Qi Kingdom...... It is an enemy country, and military rations can be robbed.

Moreover, the problem of the people can be solved when it reaches the territory of Qi State, in Jiangnan, of course, without the support of the Political Affairs Hall, you can't force Rafu, but in Qi State, you don't have to worry about these problems.

Moreover, in order to show his "foresight", Weng Shuping also proudly declared that when he launched an attack in August, he could rely on the grain stocks of the east and west roads of Huainan to support it for a month, and in September, the grain of Qi began to be harvested, which happened to be used as military food for the Great Zhou.

"Eat the enemy for one minute, and be me for twenty minutes."

At that time, Weng Shuping spoke so proudly in front of Emperor Longdao and Tong Guan:

"Then our army will win!"

"I don't dare to say that I will win." At that time, Tong Guan whispered helplessly: "If you can bring the army back peacefully, it will be considered a victory." ”

Tong Guan's military experience taught him that it was completely absurd to rely on food for large-scale military operations.

But it is still the same reason, Weng Shuping gave a plan that seems to be able to solve the problem of military rations, and Tong Guan, as a eunuch and remnant, is not qualified to oppose it.

The only way he could stop this military operation was to fight to the death, but he didn't want to trade his life for the comfort of an army of 150,000, so he could only lead the army to carry out this unreliable war plan.

When he set off, Tong Guan quietly instructed the main officers of the Eastern Route Army and the Central Route Army (who specifically avoided the West Route Army in charge of Weng Shuping):

"The plan is to go to Quancheng, but don't take it seriously, we can't beat Quancheng, we can take down a few border cities, just give an explanation to the housekeeper, don't go up, if you trap yourself in it, it's all over!"

Tong Guan thinks that he is absolutely loyal to Da Zhou, and he knows very well that Da Zhou may be very wealthy from the previous two levels, but militarily speaking, Da Zhou actually only has the current set of belongings.

If it was all lost, Tong Guan didn't think that the Qi State would give the official family more time to purchase such an army.

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Tong Guan knew that this battle would definitely not go well, but he didn't expect that there would be constant trouble from the beginning, and it was all big trouble.

He knew that Weng Shuping's plan to go to Qi to grab grain was not reliable at all, and as a result, there was a food crisis in Huainan.

There are indeed a large number of fields on the east and west roads of Huainan, and the number is even much more than Weng Shuping predicted, Tong Guan himself investigated, and he estimated that there are at least four million acres of Huainan East Road alone.

This is enough to show that Xu Shisong attaches great importance to Tuntian.

However, this did not make any sense to the Zhou army, because with Xu Shisong going into the wilderness, there was no one to protect the generals of Huainan East Road, and it took only one month for the gentry from Jiangnan to divide more than two million acres of land under their own names.

In the Great Zhou, the gentry with merit and fame had a tax-free quota!

In other words, Tong Guan is not qualified to directly collect military rations on the Huainan Two Roads! If he wants food, he can only buy it with money!

Tong Guan jumped to his feet angrily, but he still had no choice but to reach out to the court to ask for money to buy food.

As a result, the gentry took the opportunity to raise the price of grain, and Tong Guan's patchwork of wealth could only buy enough grain for seven days at more than five times the usual price.

Seven days, if everything goes well, it is enough to enter the Qi country, but in order to buy food, Tong Guan took out the reward money and promotion fee given to the soldiers by the Longdao housekeeper and spent it.

The soldiers of the Jianghuai East Route Army didn't say much, but the soldiers of the forbidden army stopped doing it, and they strongly demanded that they pay a promotion fee and a reward, otherwise they would not move forward!

So Tong Guan had to return to Lin'an alone, and asked Emperor Longdao and some Zaizhi who supported Vaqi for some of the wealth, and gave a little to each of the forbidden officers and soldiers, and then began to attack again.

However, four days have passed back and forth, ...... four days.