Through the intelligence organization, Luo Zhaoyun learned that Dou Jiande had left the front line of the Daqing River, traveled 300 miles south, and returned to Leshou City in Hejian County, where he set up a base camp, because it was located in the center of several surrounding counties, adjacent to Xindu County in the south, Bohai County in the east, and Boling County in the west. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

These four counties belong to the big counties in Hebei, with a large population, many counties and towns, Dou Jiande accepted Song Zhengben's plan, temporarily fortified the wall, avoided its edge, and did not fight to the death with the Sui army of Zhuo County, but came back to run his own territory, and waited for work.

After returning to Le Shou, Qi Shanxing submitted a new strategy, that is, to the west through Boling County, attack Hengshan County, and at the same time take Zhao County, Xiangguo County, Wuyang County, Wei County, Wu'an County, Qinghe County, Pingyuan County north of the Yellow River, control the canal, and Liyang Cang, then the Hebei army notified half of the north, at that time, the imperial capital was enough.

When Dou Jiande, Ling Jing, Dou Xinglie, Su Dingfang and others heard this, they were also excited, this is a very large territory, enough for them to develop, they can expand the army to three or four hundred thousand, and the collection of taxes and labor can make the Hebei army stronger and stronger.

However, for the time being, although these counties are also in chaos, half of the county guards and government soldiers will still be there, and there are still some places where there are strong and uprisings, so if the Hebei army wants to be dominant, it has to work hard, attack the city, and merge with each other, which is indispensable.

Su Dingfang immediately stood up to ask for battle, eager to make meritorious service and wash blood and shame, Dou Jiande knew that he had a delicate relationship with his daughter's red line, and also hoped that he could make more military merits to block the criticism in the army, so he allocated 30,000 soldiers and horses to open up westward and attack Boling and Hengshan County.

After Luo Zhaoyun grasped the local news, he felt that he had no place to use on the front line, so he decided to return north with a part of the army, return to Jicheng, the seat of Zhuojun Governance, and deploy the next development outline.

Xue Shixiong was appointed as a general to guard the defensive line, and the rest of the generals and civilian officials returned north with the army and returned to Jicheng.

Luo Zhaoyun also transferred the eldest grandson Wuji and Du Ruhui back, because the poor county was already on the right track, and other civil officials could be governed.

Jicheng, the White Tiger Festival Hall of the Governor's Mansion, Luo Zhaoyun sat behind the handsome case, and summoned the backbone of the current military generals to discuss the new development strategy.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Hebei rebels and the Liaoxi Gao rebels have formed an alliance to besiege the four northern counties of our country, which has been completely disintegrated, and the four counties are currently stable, the people have received food, and there are no people who are starving to death.

Luo Zhaoyun first summarized the crisis and people's livelihood in the four counties, so that the civilian, official and military generals here all knew what to expect, understood the people's situation and situation, and had no worries.

"For the time being, the county guard of the four counties remains unchanged, but the county order is swept by the Gao army, there are defectors who have become traitors, and there are also those who have died defending the city, there are many vacancies, and half of the list drawn up by the county guards is handed over, and the assessment is carried out by Changshi, Sima, and Yanguan, and the other half is proposed by the governor's office, and they will take office in various places, and after the establishment of Yanshan Academy, they will recruit students in the north in a few years and cultivate a large number of talents for governing civil affairs, and we will not be as short of manpower as we are now."

At this time, the eldest grandson Wuji hugged his fists and said: "Marshal, I think that we can send people to post posters in dozens of counties such as Hebei, Hedong, and Guannei to recruit the children of the big clans in Hebei and Hedong to come to the north to serve. ”

Luo Zhaoyun hesitated, shook his head and said: "For the time being, our Zhuojun Governor's Mansion must be Taoguang and obscure, and we can't promulgate a large-scale promulgation of the edict to cause hostility between other forces and the imperial court, besides, after all, we are not the Yan State of the year, and we can't issue an order to seek merit like King Yan Zhao, after all, we are not the imperial court, not a local vassal king, but just a governor's office that governs the four counties, so we can't be too ostentatious."

"However, I think I can let you write letters to the people of the family, and introduce your cousins and cousins, people from the side tribe, to you. In addition, after the Wei and Jin dynasties, there were also many clans in Fanyang and other places in Youzhou, which could attract more children of the clan to come over to serve. ”

Everyone nodded, feeling that what the manager said made sense.

Zhuojun Shou Yu Zhongqian got up and said: "Marshal, my four counties are vast and sparsely populated, although they are only four counties, but each county in the border area is one or two times larger than the counties in the hinterland of the Central Plains, so it is necessary to take the four counties as the basis, the population problem needs to be solved, as the so-called ten years of trees and a hundred years of people, relying on hundreds of thousands of people in the four counties to multiply, I am afraid that after a few decades, the population can be doubled, it is too long." ”

Luo Zhaoyun's eyebrows moved, and he pondered: "My four northern counties are in the northeast region, and outside the pass, there are Khitan, Murowei, Xianbei, Yan and other former Donghu branches, if you can recover these tribes, it will naturally be an elite, but at present, our army has at most 100,000 people, and even fewer elites, so it is not suitable to go north to attack and start a war with the Hu people, or to maintain harmonious relations and actively trade." ”

"Then, the population problem needs to be considered in other counties, and the marshal intends to temporarily reorganize the army and train the troops, and personally lead the troops three months later, and take Liaodong County first, where after several major battles, the vitality has been greatly damaged, Goguryeo has been withdrawn, and Liaodong City is still under the control of the imperial court. However, the Sui soldiers did not have many soldiers, and there was a danger of being recaptured by Goguryeo at any time, if it wasn't for the fact that the king of Goguryeo didn't dare to tear his face with the court for the time being, maybe he could have captured Liaodong City a long time ago. Ben Shuai personally went to occupy it, which could deter the border passes, build an earthen wall defense line with Liaodong City and Motianling, and use Goguryeo as a boundary to complement the attack, if the Goguryeo people were not convinced, Ben Shuai would not mind driving them all back to the east of the Yalu River. ”

The generals were a little enthusiastic when they heard what Young Marshal Luo said so domineeringly, but there were also scribes who were worried that Liaodong County was a bottomless pit, and Yang Guang poured the strength of the whole country into Liaodong, but he could not gain a foothold in Liaodong, and the young marshal only brought tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, could he completely control Liaodong County?

Luo Zhaoyun made a decision in an unquestionable tone, full of the coercion of the decision-maker, and continued: "In addition, please General Luo Yi to lead a group of troops to the west, and the eldest grandson Wuji will be the commander of the army, and in the name of quelling the local rebellion, he will take over Shanggu County, so that the four counties in my north will become the six counties in the north." ”