I didn't pay much attention to the noise coming from behind;

Any old forces that want to be forced to withdraw from the stage of history have a period of dying and struggling and counterattack, hoping that they can accept the reality one after another without making any efforts and schemes, or that they can accept the new order and new things brought about by the new era without enough bloodshed and cost, that is just the wishful thinking of little Bourgeovia, fruit fans, and silly white sweets.

Moreover, whether it is in Hebei and Ludao, the undoubted plain terrain certainly gives these stubborn old forces the remnants of the old forces, and they can take advantage of the opportunity and geographical convenience of running around, but it also gives the Huai Army and the horse infantry army responsible for suppressing and recovering and quelling the rebellion, as well as the corresponding wide access to the rear, which is almost equivalent to fighting on the home field and the inner line in a small half of the home.

Therefore, as long as the garrison officers and cantonment chiefs in various localities can stabilize their own territory, continue to implement the system of resettlement and land management of cantonment households, and the engineering army repairs and widens the roads along the route, and gradually advances and spreads the grain supply station and the grain yard, as well as the strongholds used as post stations and signal towers, these are just birds out of the forest or fish swimming at the bottom of the kettle that have been tightened and nets have been tightened.

This point is somewhat similar to the concept of "North China Public Security War" advocated by later generations of devils.

And although the rebel forces emerging in these places seem to be very powerful, not to mention that they are on a par with the base areas behind the enemy lines that lead the united city, even those guerrillas of all kinds behind the enemy lines and the other party's armed forces cannot be compared, and even the plague of scabies is very reluctant to scatter the sand, lacking sufficient coordination and contact, and not only has no clear proposition and long-term goal, that is, through seemingly endless sneak attacks and sabotage, to achieve some vague purpose of obstructing change.

And the human heart is also fickle and determined, and when they can be replenished and helped locally, and gradually decrease and dry up, the soil on which they depend for their activity will naturally disappear, after all, it is not for everyone to continue to starve and play the work of rebellion; When the die-hards who go to the dark and ignore the needs of reality are much dead, the remaining people will have the basic rationality to calmly and objectively accept reality.

As the saying goes, force cannot solve problems, but it can eliminate them!

The only effect is probably to make all kinds of petty troublemakers and disgusting people in the relatively hollow rear of Hebei, and to drag some hindrances on the outside. Of course, if they drag on for a long time, maybe there will still be some changes and incidents; For example, the leaders of the old forces who have already surrendered and are under supervision and house arrest may have some different ideas and thoughts under the instigation and impetus of those around them.

Therefore, what I really need to pay attention to is the location of the Western Army in front of me. Because, because of the garrisons of the Dynasties that had blocked several provinces before, for the Western Army forces that had been separated from Xiao Pass for a long time and participated in the chaotic wars in the Central Plains from time to time, the corresponding understanding and intelligence management work was almost blank except for some vague rumors that had been tossed and turned.

However, after the frontal battlefield contact, the situation and understanding of the Western Army gradually became clear and clear.

For example, although the current Xining Imperial Court still respects Li Tang in name, and takes a so-called clan Li Shenghuo who I don't know where to find it as the Son of Heaven, but the real power is in the hands of the real power faction of many feudal town alliances in the northwest, among which the Zhao family, who was born in the northwest of Hexi, is respected, and he oversees most of the Western Army and internal and external affairs as the generalissimo of the world's soldiers and horses.

Therefore, according to the actual strength and proximity of relatives and distances, under his command, it is divided into several Daxing Dayu groups and more than a dozen factions; Among them, the Hexi Domain Group, which is closely related to the Zhao family, is the most powerful, followed by the Longyou Group, which is adjacent to the Long Right Group, and the Qingtang Metropolitan Protectorate, which is located on the plateau and embraces the West Sea; In addition, they were attracted by interests and ideas, and some of them came from the military towns in the inner Western Regions of the former Anxi Prefecture and the grasslands in the southern part of the Beiting Prefecture, as well as the vassal domains within their borders.

These also constitute the basic plate of the first and second echelons of the military forces under the command of the Xining regime, and they are also the backbone forces with the best equipment and the strongest strength.

Then, it has been inextricably linked with the Northern Dynasties for a long time, Shuofang, Beisai, Yunzhong, Guannai and other traditional inland towns and avenues; It is only because most of these forces are involved too deeply and too involved in the Northern Dynasties, and they have become the key objects of division and disintegration in the Northern Expedition of the National Dynasties.

In the end, under the pressure of famine and civil strife, he had to give up the dominance of the original Western Army and the town alliance, and subordinate to the New Western Army Alliance advocated by the Zhao family, which later rose to prominence; Now it belongs to the third echelon and peripheral vassals with relatively loose cohesion and large fluctuations in strength.

Finally, there was an indefinite number of subordinate forces under the name of the Xining Imperial Court, mainly because the remnants of the Saiwai feudal domains that fled north of the Hanhai to the west in the direction of Beiting under the sweep and destruction carried out by Su Yuanjing's troops to sweep and destroy the governor's mansions outside the Saiwai; Because of the displacement, he can only rely on the local feudal towns to survive; Therefore, after the new army marched eastward, these free forces and armed forces without a foundation were specially compiled into four military orders by the Xining regime.

Then, recently, the remnants of the Northern Dynasties entrenched in Hedong led by Zhang Dekun were added; Therefore, although the quality of the army seems to be quite uneven, it is likely that the final size will be thirty or four hundred thousand; However, it is one thing to have so many troops, and quite another to be able to use them to some extent.

Except for Zhang Dekun's troops, who ate on their own in Hedong Province and only listened to propaganda in name, whether it was the Guannei Province, which was almost a white land, or the Yunzhong and Beiyuan provinces, which were relatively barren and had many desert grasslands and did not produce abundantly, or the withered Shuofang, they could not support and maintain such an army for a long time, let alone provide the nearest place where they continued to fight.

Therefore, with the old Northern Dynasty army as the reference template, it is great that most of the Western Army gathered in the pass can have 100,000, and if there are more, I am afraid that I will eat all the land and let everyone eat the soil;

In addition, Zhang Dekun's department, who brought his own dry food to the south to pick up cheap ones, was full of the enemies we had to face along the river in Hedong and Henan, and the scale of 40,000 or 50,000 that could be unfolded was very remarkable.

Therefore, in a sense, it can be said that the Dapeng Bird, which was the first to settle in Baiya City earlier than expected, and successfully defended the local area under the fierce attack of the superior enemy, and insisted on the arrival of backup. Otherwise, if these large numbers of Western troops were able to break through the barrier of the mountains of Hanoi and kill on the Hebei Plain, it would really not be so easy to clean up.

Therefore, as long as we hold a few points and rush to meet the enemy with a small number of points, we can completely give full play to the firearms units and heavy equipment in a state of time and in the course of subsequent preparations, and whether it is in the construction of field fortifications or in the construction of strongholds to deal with the enemy, it is the greatest specialty and advantage of "being good at defending the first."

Since they have not been able to gain the upper hand in the frontal battlefield, and they have not succeeded in making a sneak attack by dividing their forces or attacking them separately, it is natural that they will return to the diplomatic field, which is relatively divided into different minds and rich positions, and use another level as the stage for a new round of wrestling and contesting.

Therefore, on the sixth day of the end of the attack and defense of Baiya City, on the third day of the Battle of Dayang Bridge, a small delegation composed of more than a dozen people but of no low standard finally arrived by boat from Fenglingdu in the upper reaches of the Great River under the so-called flag granted by the Son of Heaven in Xining

It's just that the negotiation documents presented by the other party in advance made me, who was doing something quite shameful and unspeakable with the army Li Ji, couldn't help but laugh on the spot.

The other party actually put forward a certain suggestion in the official document in advance, hoping that I could nominally be a vassal to the Xining Imperial Court, and canonize me as the first vassal king of the North after the Zhao family, who was in charge of military and state affairs-the King of Beiping? and then avoid fighting and sharing the great rivers and mountains of the Northland; As a result, I sat in the hinterland of the Central Plains east of the Taihang Mountains, and the Western Tang Dynasty court was widely based on the outside and has been in peace for a long time.

Even the two sides reached a hand in hand and tacit understanding, and unanimously sent troops to the south to relieve the people of the southeast and southwest.

Well, it seems a little tempting. In particular, the conditions for the two sides to strike troops and join hands to echo the southward march, the western army took the Shannan Zhudao and entered Shu and went straight to Jinghu, while the Huai army entered Jiangdong and Jiangxi and took all the southeastern roads

However, what is contained behind it is much more self-evidently complex;

For example, it has been lost, and what Huaizhen has always created, such as the basic principles and potential hearts of the people who hang the people and fight crimes, revitalize teachers and determine difficulties, etc., are difficult to describe and the implicit righteousness is added; After all, all of a sudden, the image of having to stand on one's own feet in the face of rebellion against injustice and persecution has suddenly changed dramatically from a serious style of painting that does not hesitate to collude with foreign enemies to seek personal gain.

Another example is the confusion and vacillation in the minds of the local military and civilians, after all, from the army to the localities, there are many people who have one kind of origin and connection with the south; But it's not so easy to bridge and fool the past.

These hidden problems and worries during the period can be easily seen even by the role of a temporary auxiliary intelligence officer by my side, and Li Ji, who has nothing to do and bites it.

However, for me, everything I have now is more the result of the blood and sweat of countless soldiers, rather than the result of playing tricks and scheming against certain forces.

Furthermore, with the strength I have now mastered and the general trend I have accumulated, what I lack is only time for recovery and stability, and there is no need to use any pretense at all, and continue to do some strategies that require low-key actions or bury one's head in development.

Could it be that this is one of the three major illusions of life with a certain information asymmetry and overconfidence? In the end, I didn't see them, so I sent them back on the grounds that there was nothing to talk about.

(End of chapter)