On 16 April, the rebel army on both sides of the strait began a large-scale mobilization, and the atmosphere that had been relaxed by the withdrawal from the battlefield of Qi County suddenly became tense again.

Zhen Baoche, the commander of the Tiger Ben Army of the Alliance, Lu Xingxing, the commander of the Hussar Army, and Cao Kun, the commander of the Second Army of the Alliance, each led their headquarters to Heshui and marched together to kill Jinxiang City.

Zhai Rang, Bing Yuanzhen and Wang Ruxin bid farewell to Li Fengyun and returned to the camp of Juyeze headquarters. Shan Xiongxin also said goodbye to Li Fengyun, hurriedly returned to his army, and led his troops to Juyeze to meet Zhai Rang, and then returned to Wagang together, leaving the Righteous Alliance.

Almost at the same time, Meng Haicheng led his army and rushed to Yangping City.

After Meng Haigong received the news from the Wagang people, he hurriedly visited Li Fengyun overnight, and Li Fengyun also fulfilled his promise, not only allowing him to lead his army to break away from the alliance, but also handing over all the cities occupied by the alliance to Meng Haigong. Meng Haigong's scope of activities was originally in this area, before he joined the alliance, he was mainly guerrilla warfare because of his limited strength, and he did not dare to attack the city, but now his strength has been displayed, and the alliance basically controls the urban and rural areas in this area, so when the alliance leaves, it is natural to hand over this occupied area to Meng Haigong.

Meng Haigong was grateful to Li Fengyun for his generosity, but before Li Fengyun's promise became a reality, Meng Haigong still maintained a high degree of vigilance in case of accidents, so after he said goodbye to Li Fengyun, he left the alliance camp overnight, and impatiently took Li Fengyun's order to first take over the control of Yangping, Guting and other cities, in his opinion, it was much safer to stay away from Li Fengyun than to stay by Li Fengyun's side.

What is Meng Haigong worried about? I am worried that there are other heroes who will also break away from the alliance, such as Huo Xiaohan, Shuai Rentai and Xu Shiren, they are also active in the places where Ji, He, and Sishui are connected, if they also break away from the alliance, there will be more monks and less porridge, and everyone will inevitably turn against each other for the sake of grabbing the territory, and fight hard, once both sides are defeated, the result will not be good, so Meng Haigong decided to "strike first", get the city first, and establish the advantage of the "boss" in his own region first.

Meng Haigong's worries are not mere mediocrity. On the same day, the news of Zhai Rang, Shan Xiongxin and Meng Haigong leaving the alliance spread among the top leaders of the alliance, which immediately had an impact on the heroes, especially Huo Xiaohan, Shuai Rentai and Xu Shiren, whose position of sticking to the alliance was not firm, and this time it swayed even more. The three of them first got together to discuss. Among the old factions of the alliance, Xu Shiren is the weakest one, and the strength of Huo Xiaohan and Shuai Rentai was originally okay, but the first battle of Zhongchuan Water made a big mistake due to a mistake in decision-making, and his strength decreased sharply, and now he can only "live a difficult life". In addition, in the open and secret struggle between factions, Xu Shiren has always been close to Meng Haigong, but he has sharp contradictions with Huo Xiaohan and Shuai Rentai, and now that Meng Haigong has left the alliance, Xu Shiren immediately took the initiative to "get close" to Huo and Shuai, which is purely "grass on the wall", so Huo and Shuai don't trust him at all, so you can imagine what the result of the discussion is.

Meng Haigong went first, seized the opportunity, and he had three armies under his account, and the strength exceeded the sum of Huo, Shuai, and Xu, so if Huo, Shuai, and Xu broke away from the alliance, they would inevitably face the threat of Meng Haigong, a strong opponent, in the case of unequal strength, the difficulty of cooperation was too great, and the merger was easy, and if the three wanted to fight against Meng Haigong, they had to join forces, but Huo and Shuai couldn't trust Xu Shiren anyway, so they discussed and discussed, and after breaking away from the alliance, they turned against Meng Haigong and fought hard. It's better to follow Li Fengyun all the way to the dark, and the hope is greater.

Xu Shiren was hesitant and unwilling, so he found Li Fengyun privately and asked Li Fengyun's opinion.

Li Fengyun clenched his right hand into a fist, stretched out a finger with his left hand, and asked him, do you think that one is stronger? Hope for more?

Xu Shiren understood and resolutely made a decision, and thus gave up the idea of breaking away from the alliance.

Zhai Rang and Shan Xiongxin left, Meng Haigong also left, and the alliance suddenly vacated the establishment of six armies, and Li Fengyun had a headache when he had to expand a large number of troops for the joining of the Hebei Righteous Army and the Qilu Righteous Army, which just solved Li Fengyun's urgent need.

On the morning of the 16th, Li Fengyun convened Hebei and Qilu Haoshuai to discuss the reorganization matters, and finally agreed that Hao Xiaode's army would be reorganized into the Sixth Army of the Alliance, the armies of Du Yanbing and Wang Run would be reorganized into the Seventh Army and the Eighth Army of the Alliance respectively, Li Deyi's army would be reorganized into the Thirteenth Army of the Alliance, the armies of Liu Heimin and Liu Shishan brothers would be reorganized into the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Armies of the Alliance, the armies of Sun Xuanya and Shi Jiji would be reorganized into the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Armies of the Alliance, and the Changbai Mountain Righteous Army of the Zuo brothers would be reorganized into the Nineteenth and Twentieth Armies of the Alliance. The armies of Guo Fangzhu and Qin Junhong were reorganized into the 21st and 22nd armies of the alliance.

On this basis, Li Fengyun readjusted the troop allocation of the internal and external governments and appointed the chief and deputy governors of the five road governors' offices.

Because they wanted to abandon Mengshan, the officials, troops, craftsmen, people's husbands, and family members of the original Mengshan left-behind camp were all under the general camp of the alliance, so Li Fengyun ordered that the original Mengshan left-behind camp and the general camp and baggage battalion were combined into one, and the 14th Army and the 15th Army of the alliance that were originally left behind in Mengshan were combined into the Xiao Cavalry Army, which was directly under the general camp and was the garrison of the Great Governor's Office. These two armies are also Li Fengyun's descendants, which originally belonged to Han Yao's back road governor's mansion, and have always been short of strict zhòng, but now the alliance has greatly increased and the army has been greatly adjusted, considering the relationship and interests of all aspects, Li Fengyun has to integrate them into the general camp.

After agreement, Chen Rui was appointed as the left chief of the Great Governor's Mansion, Han Yao was appointed as the right chief of the Great Governor's Mansion, Yuan An was appointed as the left Sima of the Great Governor's Mansion, Shantai Wuyang was the right Sima of the Great Governor's Mansion, Xiao Yi was appointed as the Recorder of the Great Governor's Mansion to participate in the military, Wang Yang and 6 Ping were the Cangcao Counselors of the Great Governor's Mansion, and Han Shou was the general manager of the Xiao Cavalry Army.

Central Road Governor's Office: Guo Ming, the chief manager, Xia Houzhe, the deputy governor, has jurisdiction over the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth armies of the alliance. This is actually the main force of the alliance, Li Fengyun's descendants.

Left Road Governor's Office: Governor Wang Bo, Deputy Governor Guo Fangpre, under the jurisdiction of the 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, and 22nd armies of the alliance. This is the original team of the Qilu Righteous Army.

Right Governor's Office: Huo Xiaohan, the chief manager, Han Jinluo, the deputy governor, has jurisdiction over the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth armies of the alliance. This is the rebel army of the former southwest of Lu.

Qianlu Governor's Office: Hao Xiaode, deputy commander, Liu Heimin, deputy commander, under the jurisdiction of the sixth, seventh, eighth, fourteenth, and fifteenth armies of the alliance. This is the former Hebei Plain Righteous Army.

Back Road Governor's Office: Sun Xuanya, the chief manager, Li Deyi, the deputy governor, under the jurisdiction of the 13th, 16th, and 17th armies of the alliance. This is the original Hebei Douzigang rebel army.

The expansion of the inner government to four armies and seventy regiments of 14,000 people, although the outer government is still the five-way governor's office, but the expansion to 22 armies, 88,000 people, the total number of troops in the inner and outer government has reached an astonishing 102,000 people, plus the craftsmen, people, and family members of the alliance's baggage battalion, as well as the old and weak women and children who followed the Hebei righteous army to cross the river to the south, the total number of the alliance's military and civilians reached more than 200,000.

Such a large team has far exceeded the carrying capacity of the alliance, and what is even more serious is that at this moment, the alliance does not have a territory of its own, and can only fight guerrilla warfare, and can only live in captivity.

This time the army, Li Fengyun gathered all his descendants together, so that the major factions within the alliance were in charge of the army, so that the "clear" pattern, although in line with the alliance principle of cooperation, gave the heroes the greatest autonomy, and fulfilled the promise of "sharing the rights of the alliance", but the strict zhòng weakened Li Fengyun and the Grand Governor's Office to the overall control of the alliance, so the alliance became more loose, power could not be centralized, and orders and prohibitions could not be made. And this is clearly not conducive to the alliance to cope with the unpredictable and complex situation that follows.

However, Li Fengyun could only choose between concentrating power and maintaining the alliance, if he continued to concentrate power, the alliance would be difficult to maintain, and conversely, if he wanted to maintain the alliance for a long time, he would have to share the power and wealth of the alliance with the powerful commanders.

Although the Hebei Yijun and the Qilu Yijun both chose to join the alliance at the moment of life and death, the alliance is strong in their eyes, and it is a big tree that is enough to shelter them from the wind and rain, so before joining, in order to protect their own interests to the greatest extent, they all tried to bargain with Li Fengyun, but now that they have entered the alliance, the environment has changed, and the mentality has also changed. At this moment, the alliance has fallen into a difficult and unsustainable predicament, and the only way to alleviate the predicament is to go west to the Central Plains, that is, to plunder the Tongji Canal, and the Tongji Canal is under the nose of the Eastern Capital. It is precisely because of this that the heroes cherish their own interests more and more, and they can't get it in the pot, of course, they have to hold on to what they have in their hands.

On the afternoon of 16 July, Li Fengyun and the alliance's military and political leaders drew up specific arrangements for advancing westward into the Central Plains.

Li Fengyun led the three armies of the Inner Mansion Huben, Fengyun and Hussar, as well as the five armies of the Central Route Governor's Mansion to select a front for the westward advance, and the first target of attack was Tongji Canal.

Huo Xiaohan led the right governor's office to follow up and attack along the left flank of the Xuanfeng Army.

After completing the reorganization of the 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd armies of the alliance as quickly as possible, Wang Bo, the commander of the left flank, immediately advanced westward and attacked along the right flank of the Xuanfeng Army.

After completing the reorganization of the army, Hao Xiaode, the head of the front road, and Sun Xuanya, the head of the back road, immediately marched westward, Hao Xiaode led the army to follow behind Huo Xiaohan, and Sun Xuanya led the army to follow after Wang Bo.

Chen Rui led the governor's office to temporarily stationed in Kangfu City, and after all the aftermath affairs were settled, he quickly marched west to join the main army. The responsibility of guarding the Grand Governor's Mansion is the sole responsibility of Han Shou, the head of the Xiao Cavalry Army.

On the night of the 16th, Li Fengyun left the main camp and rushed all the way to Jinxiang City.

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