Chapter 156 is another bait

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Duan Wencao was right, the outcome of this battle made all the soldiers participating in the battle extremely aggrieved.

For the rebels, victory is a miracle, an unexpected joy, and an unbelievable thing, however, with the favor of the god of fate, victory comes so quietly, right in front of you, a stone's throw away, and at your fingertips. However, at the moment when the opponent was about to fall, the god of fate suddenly abandoned them, sheltered the opponent, and let the opponent retreat calmly.

After all, a miracle did not appear, and defeating the strong with the weak was a wishful wish after all. If the rebels have stronger strength, they will win this decisive battle, however, it is the official army that has stronger strength, even if the rebels have the upper hand on the battlefield, they will not be able to defeat the opponent after all.

This frustration made the rebels feel very depressed, and a sense of powerlessness like a grasshopper shaking a tree welled up from the bottom of their hearts, and the joy was washed away in an instant.

For the officers and soldiers, the victory belonged to them, the thieves had fallen into the trap, and defeat was an ironclad thing, however, this decisive battle subverted their cognition, and for the first time, they appeared, and the thieves actually had the strength to fight them to the death. Although their strength is still strong, although they relied on their strong strength to safely evacuate the battlefield, but the strong man who was previously invincible was suddenly knocked to the ground, and the strong frustration of having their dignity trampled on and their honor being humiliated still made them feel humiliated. Shame and courage, the defeat of this decisive battle is a good thing for the officers and soldiers, they will face the reality, face the opponent, and vow to defeat the opponent in the next battle and maintain the glory of their own strong.

Duan Wencao wielded his strength to the extreme, and when he was almost one-sided because of arrogance, conceit, and carelessness, he saved the army to the greatest extent, reduced losses, and made up for the impact of this decisive battle on his authority. The temporary defeat on the battlefield is not terrible, what is terrible is the collapse of confidence and morale, and Duan Wencao managed to maintain the confidence and morale of the army, which is enough for him to launch a counterattack in the shortest possible time and with the fastest degree.

The officers and troops withdrew in an orderly manner and withdrew towards the city of Bianqiu.

The rebels defeated the official army and won the decisive battle, cheering and screaming in the sky.

Han Jinluo, Shuai Rentai, Zhen Baoche, Huo Xiaohan, Li Fengyun, Han Yao, and Meng Haigong met under the city of Ningyang, all of them were happy and excited. Xu Shiren was also among them, but his mood was completely different. He betrayed Duan Wencao at a critical moment and went to the opposite side of the Qilu aristocratic group, and he was about to face not only Duan Wencao's revenge, but also the accusations and denunciations of the Xu clan of Rencheng and many Qilu nobles. The hero has become a thief, and decades of hard work have come to naught, and the resentment and pain in his heart can be imagined.

Li Fengyun was also in a bad mood. It is not because this battle was fought "anticlimacticly", but in fact, the fact that this battle was able to achieve such a result and achieve the main goal before the war has already exceeded his expectations and can be regarded as a "miracle". This also proves that if the rebel army wants to grow rapidly, it must form alliances and cooperate, and it must work together as a group.

However, the decisive battle is over, the alliance has come to an end, and after the life and death crisis of the various heroes is resolved, the selfish desires that were previously suppressed by the shadow of death have swelled again. Everyone wants to be the boss, they all want to be princes and generals, and they all want to create the business of kings, Li Fengyun is like this, why is Han Jinluo Zhuxiong not like this? What kind of prince will Xiangning have? Everyone is on the same starting line, and they all have a chance to win the final victory, so who wants to give up this opportunity? Is Li Fengyun willing? Of course not. Since Li Fengyun is unwilling, what qualifications does he have to ask others to give up the opportunity to dominate the world? So, the alliance is definitely going to be dissolved.

Li Fengyun didn't say anything about the "disbandment", let alone the other heroes, and if he did, he would be the target of the public.

This battle has proved that everyone has no strength to confront the official army, and only by joining hands and forming an alliance can they contend with the official army, but everyone has their own interests, and how can they give up their personal interests and form an alliance when they are not at the moment of life and death? When an alliance is formed, there is an overall interest, and the overall interest must inevitably override the interests of the individual. Li Fengyun also proved this point to everyone with his own actions, for the overall interests of the righteous army, Li Fengyun did not hesitate to sacrifice all his personal interests, and fought bravely at the risk of being crushed and the whole army annihilated. It was precisely because Li Fengyun took into account the overall situation and made a promise that he won this decisive battle, reversed the crisis, and saved the righteous army from the moment of crisis.

The benefits of the alliance are real, but the overall interests endanger personal interests, and you can't have both, so the heroes from all walks of life are very contradictory, they don't want to break up, they don't want to take responsibility, they want to maintain the alliance and share the benefits, but they don't want to pay the price, and it's difficult to make a choice. Fortunately, Li Fengyun never said anything about the dispersal of the gang, and in the distribution of the spoils, he also strictly followed the covenant and tried his best to satisfy the heroes from all walks of life, which eased the internal contradictions in a large way, and also gave the heroes more time to think.

But this matter is a hurdle that cannot be avoided after all, and it must be faced and a choice must be made after all.

On the third day after the decisive battle, Li Fengyun convened all the heroes to discuss the strategy of exhibition and growth, to put it bluntly, whether to continue to maintain the alliance and everyone to show together, or to part ways and show alone.

The heroes are silent, and no one is willing to reveal their true thoughts. After all, the immediate interests are here, Li Fengyun is the strongest, he is a man who is trustworthy, and the Cangtou army occupies the territory of Mengshan, although it is a little barren, but you have room for maneuver at the critical moment, even if you are surrounded and suppressed by the official army on all sides, it can support it for a period of time. On the contrary, the strength of the others is not strong, even if there is territory, there is no danger to defend in the land of the four wars, and they will fall into a desperate situation at any time, and once they fall into a desperate situation, the best object for help is Li Fengyun, and if you want Li Fengyun to be willing to come to the rescue, you must maintain the alliance.

However, there is a price to be paid for maintaining the alliance, and Li Fengyun is the strongest and pays the biggest price. Of course, if you pay, you will gain, for example, in this decisive battle, the Cangtou army will not be able to win this battle if it does not have the cooperation of other righteous armies, and if it can't win this battle, the Cangtou army will not be able to take the bulk of the spoils. In the same way, other rebels also have to pay the price for maintaining the alliance, and if they don't pay, there is no return, and they don't take responsibility but only share the benefits, which is absolutely impossible.

The contradiction comes out. My strength is small, the responsibility will naturally be less, the price paid will be less, the return will be less, and the exhibition will be slow, in the long run, the disparity between the Cangtou army will become bigger and bigger, although Li Fengyun promised never to annex them, and resolutely maintain the independence of the rebel army from all walks of life, but the strength determines a qiē, and one day the strength of the cangtou army can eat other rebels, is Li Fengyun's promise still valid?

Therefore, the understanding of the heroes of the joint exhibition is that regardless of adults and children, a piece of pie is divided equally, adults eat less, and children eat more, so that the gap in strength will not widen, and there will be a foundation for the rebels from all walks of life to maintain their independence. Also in terms of the distribution of the spoils after this decisive battle, the battle was fought by everyone together, and the spoils of the more were paid, and the Cangtou army got the bulk of the spoils, and the result was a pot of rice, the strong men ate the most, and the longer they were, the stronger they were, while the weaker they ate less, although they were also growing meat, they were much slower, and they couldn't catch up with the strong.

Is it to eat a big pot of rice, or to work more and get more? Whether the alliance can be sustained or not depends on the question of whether it can be answered.

Li Fengyun knew the thoughts of the heroes, and he had been thinking about a solution for the past two days, and he also discussed with Han Yao, Yuan An, Lu Xingxing and others for a night, and finally chose to give up. There is no way, the interests are uneven, if you want to satisfy the heroes, the pace of the cangtou army has to slow down, but time waits for no one, the situation is changing, the environment is getting worse and worse, and the only way for the righteous army to survive is to expand and grow, and if the cangtou army wants to speed up the exhibition, the marshals are not satisfied, in this case, it will lose the meaning of maintaining the alliance. The original intention of establishing the alliance was to show itself stronger, but now maintaining the alliance hinders its own development, so why maintain the alliance?

However, Li Fengyun could not openly say that he would break up the alliance and dissolve the alliance openly, which would not only break the alliance, break his promise, damage his reputation, and become the target of public criticism, but also burn all the efforts he had made before, and the contradictions between the Qilu and Chu people would also be aggravated, and the little trust that the rebels had built up with great difficulty would also be lost.

Li Fengyun then made a big banner and laid out an overall situation.

The expansion of the rebel army should not be confined to Mengshan and the southwestern part of Shandong, but should enter the Central Plains.

Since ancient times, those who get the Central Plains have the world, there is no other reason, the Central Plains has a flat terrain, a vast territory, a dense population, a rich economy, and a large number of talents.

The Grand Canal was opened up in this dynasty, connecting the north and south water systems, and transporting the country's materials, among which the Tongji Canal section of the Grand Canal runs through the Central Plains and intersects with the golden waterway river that runs through the east and west, and its intersection point is in the eastern capital. From the topographical point of view, the big river and the Tongji Canal form a giant funnel, the mouth of the bucket is in the eastern capital, and the bottom of the bucket is in Qilu and Xuzhou. The eastern capital at Douzui gathers the wealth of Middle-earth, and the two golden waterways are the main arteries that continuously transport the wealth of Middle-earth into the eastern capital.

If the rebel army wants to expand quickly, it needs people first, a large population; secondly, we need money, inexhaustible financial resources; Again, wisdom is needed, the inheritance of the culture of the Middle Earth of the wealthy families and the learned scholars and Confucians, and these three are the only ones in the Central Plains, so the rebels must enter the Central Plains.

Li Fengyun's strategy was to use Mengshan as the foundation, quickly expand to the southwest of Shandong, enter the Central Plains as quickly as possible, and then plunder the two golden waterways to provide financial resources for the righteous army, and at the same time recruit people as soldiers to expand the army. The righteous army had financial resources, troops, and its strength swelled dramatically, so naturally there were ambitious children of families and famous scholars who came to offer advice. They use the power of the rebels to achieve their political goals, and the rebels can certainly use them to achieve their own hegemony.

This is a realistic and actionable strategy, practical, simple, effective, and more importantly, it somehow alleviates the contradiction between maintaining the alliance and distributing benefits.

The basis for the implementation of such a grand strategy was that several rebel armies joined forces and worked together, and the alliance was maintained.

In the process of implementation, while maintaining their independence, the rebel armies of all walks of life launched attacks according to the jointly formulated strategy, showing their magical powers, allowing you to plunder property, expand your army, and show your strength. The faster your strength is displayed, the faster this strategy will be promoted, and the greater the blow to the Eastern Capital and even the local government, and in this cycle, the rebel army will grow like a snowball. In this way, the problem of the distribution of interests within the alliance is solved, and the problem of not eating a big pot of rice is solved, and self-reliance is achieved.

Next, Li Fengyun described the prospect for everyone.

The future of the rebels depends mainly on bloody battles, but luck is also indispensable. If you are lucky, the rebel army may be able to reach a new height after the end of the Weifu Army's Eastern Crusade, even if it can't directly confront the Weifu army, at least it can hold on, and it won't be swept away by the Weifu army like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves. The longer the rebels held out, the more variable the situation in the eastern capital became. Considering the fierce contradictions inherent between the Guanlong people and the Shandong people, and considering the desperate struggle between the reformers and conservatives within the imperial court, Middle-earth may enter a chaotic era of competition for hegemony, and the great cause of the unification of Middle-earth may collapse violently.

With Li Fengyun's depiction, the mood of the heroes from all walks of life was up and down, for a while the blood was boiling, the passion was overflowing, and the moment was nervous and worried, but everyone was on high alert, and clearly knew that this was another bait thrown by Li Fengyun, but this bait was too attractive and fascinating.