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Did Duan Wencao, as Li Fengyun said, maintain a certain tacit understanding with the righteous army when it no longer endangered his own interests and the interests of the Qilu aristocratic group?

Li Fengyun has a positive attitude towards this. In the past period of time, it can be clearly seen that Duan Wencao has always responded passively to the war, which can be explained as a deliberate preservation of strength on the one hand, and on the other hand, it is also in line with the view that he has always insisted that Qi people do not kill Qi people. It can be inferred from this that when the main force of the righteous army marched west to the Central Plains, if Duan Wencao was willing to maintain a certain tacit understanding with the righteous army left behind in Mengshan, then Lujun would have stabilized in the confrontation between the two sides.

The stability of the situation in Lu County and even in southwest Lu is what Duan Wencao urgently needs. At this critical time, he needed a stable environment and a period of calm to recover from the heavy blow inflicted on the Beihai Duan clan and the Qilu aristocratic group by the sudden death of his brother Duan Wenzhen, and renegotiate with the core members of the Qilu aristocratic group a heavy strategy to safeguard the interests of the group.

On the contrary, if Duan Wencao was unusual, resolutely wanted to suppress the thieves, and wanted to take advantage of the fact that the main force of the righteous army left Lu County to kill all the righteous troops who stayed in Mengshan, then the main force of the righteous army had no choice but to give up the western expedition and return to Lu County to fight. If the situation develops like this, it will inevitably be unfavorable to Duan Wencao, and with Duan Wencao's wisdom, how can he make such a decision?

Li Fengyun's explanation was accepted by everyone in the tent, but the western expedition will not be smooth sailing, the closer the righteous army is to Xingyang, close to the two golden waterways of the Great River and Tongji Canal, the greater the resistance encountered, and the strength of the Eastern Capital and the Gyeonggi Garrison is very large, once the Eastern Capital feels threatened and sends the Gyeonggi Garrison into Xingyang to protect the two major waterways, the Righteous Army's westward expedition plan is very likely to encounter a heavy setback. Once the righteous army's westward expedition is frustrated and fails to achieve the goal of the westward expedition, what countermeasures will Duan Wencao take? Will it unite Zhang Xutuo and Cui Deben to cut off the road for the rebels to withdraw to Mengshan?

If the rebel army didn't solve the problem of the back road, the western expedition would actually be an empty word, so Xu Shiren continued to ask, "General, if the western expedition fails, will Duan Wencao strike at us in the back and give us a fatal blow?" ”

Li Fengyun frowned slightly, sensing that Xu Shiren's mentality was very bad, he didn't want to rebel but couldn't recover his past life, he was very contradictory, suffering from gains and losses, and his mind was always on Duan Wencao, trying to find a way to reconnect with Duan Wencao, so as to seek Duan Wencao's assistance at a critical juncture.

"One thing I have said to you many times is that this crusade is ostensibly a foreign war between the emperor and the central government in order to implement a new grand strategy of national defense and diplomacy, but in fact, the domestic contradictions caused by the reform have reached the verge of exploding, and the emperor and the central government have to use this eastern crusade to divert and ease the contradictions, trying to further consolidate and strengthen the authority of the emperor and the central government by establishing unprecedented martial arts, and then win more time for resolving the fierce contradictions in the country. Because of this, a certain person has always been pessimistic about the Eastern Crusade, and the Eastern Crusade may not necessarily win, but will be as devastating as we imagined, invincible, and falling with one blow. ”

It is true that everyone has heard Li Fengyun say these words many times on different occasions, but the truth is the truth, the reality is the reality, and no one believes that Middle-earth cannot destroy a small barbarian country with the strength of the whole country. Taking a step back, even if Middle-earth is defeated, it is just a few more wounds on the giant's body, and it can't be broken at all, and after a little breath, he can attack again with his fist. The country of Goguryeo projectiles, blocked the first attack of Middle-earth, and still has the ability to block the second attack of Middle-earth? So the Crusade must have been a great victory.

Li Fengyun saw that everyone was unimpressed, and he didn't want to waste his tongue on this matter, he just wanted to tell everyone that no matter whether the Eastern Crusade won or lost, it could not divert and alleviate the fierce contradictions in the country, on the contrary, it would only make the contradictions more and more intense, and the time for the contradictions to explode became shorter and shorter. Since the fundamental contradictions in the country cannot be resolved through a foreign war, the domestic rebel army has a living space on the political side, and the previous domestic political group has begun to use and manipulate the chaotic local situation of the rebel army in various places to help them realize their political intentions.

It can be inferred from this that whether in the process of the Eastern Crusade or after the end of the Eastern Crusade, Duan Wencao, as a representative of the Qilu aristocratic group, and Cui Deben, who is a representative of the Shandong aristocratic group, are driven by the interests of the group, they must use the righteous army as a pawn in the political game, as a necessary or supplementary means to achieve the political goals of the political group, that is, before the political game at the highest level of power in Middle-earth is decided. Before the most fundamental and fierce contradiction in Middle-earth was fundamentally resolved, because of this game and this contradiction, it was nominally "anti-Eastern Crusade, anti-re-endowment, and anti-conscription", but in fact it was "anti-reform, anti-emperor, anti-Sui", and the rebel army composed of local heroes and their loyal followers, as well as a large number of victims of hunger and cold, would not be exterminated, but on the contrary, would grow stronger and stronger.

As a chess piece in the hands of the political group, of course, the more important it is, the more it can wield, but the extremes of things must be reversed, once the strength of the chess piece is too great, the political group loses its control of it, and the consequences are unimaginable. This kind of example abounds in history, and the lesson is very profound, and of course all political groups must take precautions before they occur, and of course they must control the strength of their chess pieces. Therefore, the chess pieces must have the consciousness of being chess pieces, not rampage because of ideals, but also have a strategy, and actively adjust their exhibition strategy according to the general climate and the development of the political team.

When the strength of the chess pieces has reached a certain level, as long as they seize the appropriate opportunity, they may become the opponents of the political chess scale, sit down with the aristocratic bureaucrats who controlled it back then, and participate in the feast of dividing power and wealth in Middle-earth.

This is the goal of the chess piece, and it is also the goal of Li Fengyun.

The people in the tent probably understood. Now the strength of the righteous army is not enough, don't look at the battle of Ningyang to beat Duan Wencao away, in fact, it was Duan Wencao's "mercy", if he arrived at Ningyang City and attacked it with force, Lu Junxing would have been one-sided long ago. At present, it seems that Duan Wencao is very passive, but combined with Li Fengyun's analysis of the current situation, and after careful consideration, Duan Wencao not only did not fall into passivity, but still firmly controlled the initiative.

It's a very simple thing, Li Fengyun doesn't want to mix up in Lu County, he wants to go to the west, and the west expedition needs a big rear, and the big rear is actually Lu County, which requires Duan Wencao's "cooperation", and the initiative is naturally in Duan Wencao's hands. On the contrary, if Li Fengyun continued to mix in Lu County, beat Duan Wencao to the point that he could not shrink, and Yan zhòng hindered the Eastern Crusade, then Zhou Fashang, Zhang Xutuo, and even Cui Deben of Pengcheng had to rescue Duan Wencao and had to join forces to encircle and suppress Li Fengyun due to the needs of the common political interests, and the initiative was still in Duan Wencao's hands.

In a sense, Li Fengyun planned the western expedition to the Central Plains, but also had no choice, he wanted to show, to always seize the initiative, he had to go out of Mengshan, just like when he was in Xuzhou, the same for the exhibition, in order to seize the initiative, he had to run all the way to Mengshan.

Li Fengyun seized the strategic initiative, and he could advance or retreat, which forced Duan Wencao to tacitly "cooperate" in order to ensure the initiative in his hands. Two people take what they need and each achieves his goal. By the end of the Eastern Crusade, on the domestic battlefield, the unfurled rebel army had to retreat in great strides in the face of the fierce attack of the Weifu army. In the same way, in the face of aggressive political opponents, in order to ensure their own vested interests, in order to ensure that the local forces will not be dealt a heavy blow, they will inevitably launch a fierce counterattack, and the best means of counterattack is to use the rebel army that has reached a certain scale to block the attack of the Weifu army on the battlefield, and then win the important weight of bargaining with the political opponent.

Li Fengyun stood high and saw far away, and through his detailed analysis, the necessity and urgency of the westward expedition to the Central Plains were already very clear. At the same time, the heroes from all walks of life know better that if the alliance is dissolved at this moment, everyone will go their own way and fight separately, Li Fengyun's pace of development is difficult and slow, but others will not even have the opportunity to show it, and they will soon be thrown into the garbage heap of history as "waste" and "outcast".

So far, the exhibition strategy of the Western Expedition to the Central Plains has been unanimously recognized by all the heroes and many generals, especially the five heroic commanders, who expressed their public support for Li Fengyun's Western Expedition strategy.

The alliance was finally saved, which made Li Fengyun breathe a sigh of relief. He didn't have much hope before, although the strategy is to retreat as advance, you don't agree with my exhibition strategy, we will break up, but the contradiction between the Qi people and the Chu people is real, and the heroes from all walks of life are different because they are in different regions, and their interests are also different. Fortunately, the Eastern Crusade will soon be over, and everyone thinks that the Eastern Crusade army will return triumphantly, so the pressure to survive is too great, unless there is a qualitative leap in the strength of the rebel army in the next few months, it will definitely die. Everyone feels that the future is bleak, and Li Fengyun's exhibition strategy has become a "life-saving straw", and if you don't catch it, you have to catch it.

Next, there is a more specific battle plan.

During the Western Expedition, how should Mengshan be defended and how to help the front-line army to the greatest extent. Han Yao's conquest of Lu County, what kind of tacit understanding should be adopted with Duan Wencao, and what countermeasures should be taken to ensure the existing interests when the two sides clash.

On the battlefield of the Western Expedition, the environment in which the Northern Route Army was located was very bad, not because of the large number of officers and soldiers, but because the drought situation was becoming more and more severe, the number of people affected by the disaster was increasing day by day, and the conflicts between the local government, the local nobles and bureaucrats and the local disaster victims were becoming more and more intense. Everyone is in a difficult situation, starving all over the wilderness, at this time you run in and grab it, isn't it a tiger's mouth? If you don't let us live, how can we make you feel better? Therefore, if the Northern Route Army wants to achieve its attack goal, it must come up with a practical and correct strategy, otherwise it will definitely be defeated.

The shape of the Southern Route Army was no less severe. The attack route of the Southern Route Army was very close to the Tongji Canal, and Liang County and Xingyang County deployed heavy troops on both sides of the Grand Canal, especially since Li Fengyun raised troops to mangdang and plundered the Tongji Canal, both counties were authorized by the Eastern Capital to begin to recruit a large number of township regiments to strengthen the protection of the Tongji Canal. Therefore, if the Southern Route Army wants to achieve the goal of attack, the strength of the army is very important, and if the strength is not enough, it will inevitably be passively beaten.

In the end, everyone set their sights on the Middle Route Army, as long as the Middle Route Army is well fought, all the way to attack the city and pull out the village, pass the pass, and will be able to give strong support to the left-behind righteous army, and give strong support to the north and south armies.

Li Fengyun has taken on this heavy task without shirking his goal, and the goal he has set is that before the onset of winter, that is, in the next five months, the number of troops will reach the size of 100,000 people, and the main force, that is, the elite combat elite, mainly young and strong, must reach at least 20,000 to 30,000 people.

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