After Leling, we didn't have much effort, and broke through the defenders in Rao'an, Wuli and other places, and gathered in a hurry, and finally arrived at Yanshan County, Cangzhou, on the shore of Bohai.

The name of Salt Mountain is due to the allusion that as a transshipment and distribution center for the local traditional salt industry, the salt pile is as high as a mountain.

Therefore, it is close to the famous Changlu Salt Farm, and it is also one of the main sources of salt industry in the north in ancient times, known as "Shiban Kanto", but because of the severance of the sea route and the invasion and plunder of the Southern Dynasties over the years, the Changlu Salt Farm has been greatly decayed.

As a result, there are only less than 1,000 households left in Yanshan County, as well as a large area of saline-alkali tidal flats submerged in reeds. It is also a gray area where all kinds of salt barons and smugglers and other outlaws are active and congregated.

Therefore, the troops under the banner of the so-called "Criminal State Army" actually received new reinforcements here for the first time.

The drought in the north of the year has also had a great impact on the livelihoods of these unscrupulous groups, and since most of them are displaced or dying of starvation, there is naturally not much need left.

Therefore, these ruthless and brave outlaws, as long as they have real money and food, they don't care who they actually work for. Of course, the only problem is to take effective means and measures to prevent them from escaping halfway.

I even simply used Liu Jiye's name to let the Sixth Brigade of the Auxiliary Army, which is dominated by Yunzhou people, pretend to recruit troops in the local area under the banner of the Criminal Zhou Army, and then announced that it would openly stand on its own side in Cangzhou, which is near the sea, and set up various official titles, thus setting off a tide of rebellion.

In order to deceive and confuse the neighboring audio-visual, so that my headquarters will take the opportunity to fish in troubled waters.

Of course, this is also a trick to fully extract value and force this general, who seems to be unreliable, and there is no turning back.

As a result, what surprised me was that there were still people who came to defect after hearing the news, although most of them were from some unpopular characters or homeless groups that didn't have enough to eat.

But for the sake of some kind of role-playing, I still pinched my nose and accepted it, plus those Yunzhou soldiers made another one, and it was a decent one in Cangzhou, a little drilled and reorganized.

In order to reflect the taste of horse bones in a certain Qianjin City, and then sent to the surrounding areas to grab money, food, and girls, and brush up on the zài sense and refugee tide.

As for the movement of the headquarters, in Qingchi City, which is governed by Cangzhou Prefecture, a temporary military meeting is being held in the official office of the former Hejian Town Guard.

"What's next......

Deputy General Xin Jiaxuan looked at the sand table and asked first

The situation of being too smooth was certainly beyond our expectations, but it also disrupted the original step-by-step deployment and needed to be redone.

After all

Cangzhou was known as the water and dry wharf in ancient times, the north line of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, and the Yongji Canal ran through the whole territory, so it can be called the pivot of the exchange in all directions.

Therefore, there are many specific options:

Not only can they go up to the northwest along the seaside, but with these local salt lords leading the way, they can easily reach the Qianning Army adjacent to Pinglu Road, and use this as a basis to threaten and plunder the so-called Shanqian Prefectures south of the Yanshan Mountains such as Huizhou, Yaozhou, Vaud, Dunzhou, and Changzhou in Pinglu Road.

However, this possibility, because of the relationship between risk and investment-return ratio, is ranked last in my thinking.

Because, according to this line, the Northern Dynasty will certainly have to have the worry of the risk of erosion, and it will be extremely beneficial to the front war, but for myself and this unit that has penetrated deep into the enemy's territory, there is not much benefit, and it is easy to be cut off and outflanked by the enemy who reacts because of the elongated rear front.

And I hate itinerism, and I don't have Hannibal's kind of way if I had to choose it.

Or, along the canal of Yongji Canal, go straight north, all the way through Mozhou, Yingzhou and Yizhou, and you can also reach the territory of Xuanzhou on Pinglu Road.

Moreover, the advantage of this road is that it is easy to obtain supplies and equipment, and the Northern Dynasties have built many military stations and post stations along the way, and they can also use the ready-made conditions of Yongji Canal to transport military Zi.

However, there is a problem along this way, that is, the direction of the attack is too close to the Fanyang Jiedu envoy located in Youzhou, Pinglu Dao, and it is all a flat terrain, and there are not a few decent rivers as a danger.

Although, Youzhou is no longer the capital of Pinglu Road in the old days, the scenery and prominence; However, Fanyang Jiedu envoy is an old important town inherited from the Kaiyuan period, even if a large number of troops are transferred to Henan, but I don't know how much background and mobilization capacity there is.

Once entangled, it is easy to fall into the flanking and outflanking of the two northern armies, which is inconsistent with our purpose of avoiding the real and attacking the weak, and fighting a quick victory.

There is another way, after defeating Yingzhou, turning west to attack Dingzhou, all the way through Zhaozhou, Hengzhou, and arriving at Xingzhou, and then south to Zhaozhou, and finally back to Xiangzhou on the bank of the Yellow River.

The only advantage is that it can be used to return to my starting point in a relatively short time, and there is no repeating route, which means that if we act decisively enough, we can leave the enemy behind relatively easily.

With the participation of the army, the stripping of the cocoon of the main three plans suddenly led to a controversy, and there were voices of approval and doubt.

After thinking about it, I decided to make a compromise between the latter two, and make use of the canal transportation capacity of the Yongji Canal to make a posture and bluff of a long drive straight into the attack on Pinglu Road.

Then, starting from the northern section of Yingzhou, it quickly crossed Mozhou and entered the territory of Dingzhou to complete the second half of the route back to the banks of the Yellow River. Although some important points and possible results were abandoned, the use of the Guò Canal also improved the efficiency of the army's marching attack.

Thinking of this, I was about to open my mouth to make a statement, but at this time, Han Liangchen, who was speechless, suddenly stood up and walked to the sand table.

"I think,"

He pointed to a deliberately marked point on the sand table that was excluded from the candidate route.

"You can try to hit a dozen Hebei Xingtai in Jizhou,"

"What,"

There was a loud uproar in the tent.

"Since our army has entered Hebei with great fanfare......"

He faced my position and continued to speak loudly

But he never tried to attack Hebei Xingtai...... Even a detour......"

"You can know what this means......".

In places beyond my reach, the waves and shocks brought about by this decision are brewing and fermenting, rolling up more rights and wrongs.

For example, compared with the Southeast Road Frontier Military Division, for the civil and military forces of Hebei Xingtai in the Northern Dynasties, it is a great disaster, and it is not enough to describe it.

Especially for Zhang Bangchang, who is the chief official of Xingtai, the ambassador of Lianghe to arrest, Shangshu Zuocheng, and the governor of the east of the Taiwan, and Zhang Bangchang, who is known as the governor of Dazhang, it is a disaster.

Hebei had already suffered a catastrophe, but the starving people and riots were forcibly suppressed, and then the deployment of the army crossing the border was washed and cleaned.

However, the news of the rebellion spread by the criminal state army, which made this suppressed surge seem to have an outlet all of a sudden. Suddenly, there were several responsive commotions, Cao Cheng from Mozhou, Li Xiang from Yizhou, Cen Si from Weizhou and several other unknown people, raising their own side, calling themselves pacified and temperate.

Of course, for him, these are just troubles, real troubles, or worse, the rebellion in the name of Liu Jiye, the general of the criminal state army, has brought self-chaos to all the towns and towns in Hebei, and everyone is in danger of suspicion.

The military towns of the Northern Dynasties were not a harmonious group, and Xingzhou was located in the hinterland of Hebei, and there were not a few people entangled in grievances and grievances with the adjacent states.

And this Liu Jiye also has some impression, before he arrived, he had already been a counselor of Xingtai, and it was only because he wanted to make room for his cronies that he released the personnel left by his predecessor to the Xingzhou Army in disguise, and then hurriedly sent south as one of the suspicious soldiers who crossed the river.

He wanted to punishively slaughter Liu Jiye all over the house to serve as a police officer, but found that this Liu Jiye had no family to kill.

In addition to a few old servants with inconvenient legs and feet in a house, his relatives had already been killed and injured in a border riot in Linzhou a few years ago......

And he was able to sit firmly in this position, not by virtue of martial arts and the ability to command, but by the power and reconciliation methods of the vertical and horizontal curtains, as well as the strong background of the Zhang family, although he was named the chief official in martial affairs, but in fact, he was mainly the deputy, Zhang Shuye, who was known as Xiao Zhang's envoy.

Now that Zhang Shuye has taken away most of the army, he has to maintain the smooth transportation of the battlefield on the western front of the Yellow River, so there are not many troops in his hands, and most of them are Henan and Huaibei soldiers who followed him across the river and were collected again.

Therefore, the current goal and priority is to mobilize Hebei's resources and make every effort to supply Luodu to tide over this difficulty. In terms of exterminating thieves and civil uprisings, some of them are very good at searching for shortcomings, but in the face of enemy troops attacking step by step, they are somewhat insufficient.

What's more, the Cao River has been cut off by the so-called rebels, and the soldiers and materials from Andong and Pinglu Dao are all maintained by this ancient canal that can go directly to the Yellow River.

Although it is true that personnel can be rerouted by land and spend more time, it is not so convenient to transport large quantities of materials. The activities of these rebels inadvertently hit the nail on the head, and caught Hebei Xingtai off guard.

Secondly, the house leak happened to rain overnight, and the "northern defense command" of the Southern Dynasty also followed the army to kill.

Others may not be familiar with what this "northern defense commander...... is" is sacred. But as the official of the Xingtai who stands alone, how could he not have his own news channels, and how could he not know that the other party is on the battlefield in Henan, but there is another alias of "invincible".

From the Jiuyuan Soldiers, Huangliang Cavalry, to the Shenbiao Army, the various military numbers planted in the hands of the other party are almost half a dozen, such a strong force, suddenly crossing the river to kill his own subordinates, it will definitely not be without any other intentions, just rob a circle and leave.

Some of the people who escaped swore that they had seen at least a few military trumpets and corresponding flags, and it was obvious that this "northern defense was in command" and would not act alone.

And if there is no connection between the two, then it is really a hell of a thing.

He didn't believe that those defenders scattered all over the country would be able to hold off this fierce Southern army for a long time.

So he gave an order that he thought was more correct, and it was also the most prudent and conservative, to abandon those cities that were not conducive to defense, and to shrink to the Jizhou line with all his might, so that he would at least have enough troops and confidence to cope with this situation.

Then it is how to explain and present to the Luodu side, how he needs to intercept and delay the soldiers and materials that should have been sent to the Weizhou-Luodu front in order to hold the key points in Hebei.

Despite this, he can still foresee the bleakness of his career and future, and the possible accountability afterwards.

However, if he didn't act like this, he was afraid that he would not even have any hope of the power in his hands and his own safety. The Southern Army came to kill him, but they would not sympathize with his good intentions.

He is a relative of the Zhang family, and the most unfortunate thing is that in the name of mediocrity and incompetence, he was punished and deprived of an errand afterwards, and was confined at home to eat and wait for death, but if it fell into the hands of the Southern Yankees, he didn't dare to imagine what treatment and ending he would have.

"This is for the sake of the dignity of the dynasty and the overall situation,"

After giving the order, he secretly comforted himself

"I still need to save my useful body, and I can't frustrate my ...... here."