Under the evil and shameless coercion of Chen Kefu, Empress Xiao finally did not look for a way to die, and accepted medical treatment with peace of mind. However, when she looked at Chen Pojun's eyes again, it was an indescribable hatred.

However, for all this, Chen Kefu could only accept it reluctantly. In the afternoon of the same day, Chen Kefu could only temporarily put aside the matter here, and after disappearing for most of the day, he finally returned to the Marshal's Mansion.

Although the Liaodong Army has now captured the six counties of Hebei, it has also successfully forced the Hebei army. However, this expansion has reached its limit for a while. The six counties of Hebei and the four dangerous passes of Taihang all need to be garrisoned by heavy troops.

Moreover, the 200,000 Hebei Army that had just surrendered also needed time for the imperial court to reorganize and digest. The civil affairs of the six counties in Hebei also need to be taken over by the Liaodong Army. At the same time, the base camp of the Liaodong Army was moved from Liaodong to the newly renamed Beijing City, and Yang Gao's enthronement ceremony was also to be prepared on the first day of August. Even at the urging of the eldest grandson Wuji and Gao Shilian, the wedding with the eldest grandson Wuji was also mentioned on July 26. And Chen Kefu also promised Queen Xiao that he would marry Yang Jier on August 15.

All these things are waiting in line there, although the Liaodong Army now has 200,000 people entering Hebei. But to the current level of expansion, it has also reached its limit for a while. It must take time for this round of dilated digestion to take place.

Only after more soldiers and horses were transferred from Liaodong to Hebei could the Liaodong Army smoothly carry out the second round of expansion. Even for the sake of the immediate plan, Chen Pojun had to temporarily cancel the previous plan to send a naval division to attack Shandong immediately.

Although it has entered Hebei at present, there are still three Hebei peasant armies such as Sun Anzu between the Liaodong Army and Shandong. Before the arrival of Liaodong's new soldiers and horses in Hebei, the Liaodong Army was now unable to continue to fight the peasant army in the south. However, Hailongwei, the Liaodong Naval Division, which has not yet formed combat strength, is very dangerous if it attacks Shandong alone now. With one blow and moving the whole body, the Sea Dragon Guard Water Division will attack Shandong, which will definitely immediately detonate the current situation in Shandong.

Whether it is the Chen Dynasty in the south or the peasant army in Hebei, they will definitely go south to fight for Shandong at that time. And as long as the Liaodong Army does not send troops to Shandong for the time being. Then whether it is the Hebei peasant army or the Chen Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River, they will not attack Shandong immediately, but will continue to encroach on and stabilize the surrounding territory step by step.

When the soldiers are used, they hate less.

At this time, Chen Kefu felt that he had too few soldiers and horses in the Liaodong Army.

If all the government soldiers, town soldiers, county soldiers, township soldiers, and militia regiments of the Liaodong Army are mobilized, it is estimated that there will be nearly 300,000 troops. And if it is urgently mobilized, Chen Kefu can mobilize a total of about 400,000 soldiers and horses. No matter how much it is, not only will the strength of the Liaodong Army be greatly reduced, but also the production and life of all parts of Liaodong will also have a great impact.

Moreover, the situation in Liaodong is special, and there are Khitan, Ya, Silla, and Baekje ethnic groups around it. Although most of them are allies of the Liaodong Army now, Chen Kefu has never dared to be careless when dealing with these tribes. These are all nations that believe in strength as respect, and those who only believe in strength are simply rebellious and incommon. For the base camp of Liaodong, Chen Kefu did not dare to be careless, no matter when, Liaodong must also maintain about 100,000 soldiers and horses, just in case.

So Liaodong at this time. In fact, there are not many troops left. Among the 200,000 troops who entered Hebei this time, there were 40,000 allied soldiers, so there were still 150,000 soldiers and horses in Liaodong at this time. If Liaodong retains 100,000 troops to defend it, Chen Kefu can only transfer 50,000 troops to Hebei at most. A mere 50,000 people is not much for the current situation in Hebei.

Therefore, the Liaodong Army's goal now is on the 200,000 surrendered Hebei Army, and if the 200,000 Hebei Army is eliminated, half of it will be eliminated. Leave 100,000 people to be reorganized into the Liaodong Army. That's a lot of that, too. At least it can immediately add another level to the strength of the Liaodong Army, but it is impossible to complete the reorganization of so many men and horses for a while and a half. Although Chen Kefu was anxious and wanted to continue to go south immediately, he could only come step by step.

Looking at the map, Chen Kefu couldn't help but hit the idea on the surrounding tribes again. Since the Khitan and other ethnic groups have formed an alliance with Liaodong, in the past few years, not only has their strength not decreased, but they have been following the Liaodong Army to fight one victory after another. Packed up a lot. These tribes, which have won several wars, can be regarded as making war profits in recent years. Those prisoners of war, the captive population, and the property they plundered, through the prosperous trade and trade on the Liaodong side, made all ethnic groups much stronger. …,

And now all the departments in Liaodong are already under the Liaodong Army, and there is no longer a war between them. The strength only increases, not decreases.

"Old man, your staff headquarters has drawn up a plan. This time, we will transfer 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses from Khitan, Yaya, and Silla. In recent years, the strength of these ethnic groups has grown by leaps and bounds, and we have to guard against it. At present, our troops are limited, and in the face of the war in the Central Plains, which is about to unfold, we urgently need to increase our reserve strength. And for these few tribes. We must also appropriately curb their rapid growth, otherwise. I'm afraid that it will be difficult to fall off in the future. ”

Li Benlei also nodded, "Tie up the Khitan and the Yan Ya and other surrounding countries to our chariot, this is the consistent strategy of our Liaodong Army." We've made a lot of plans over the years, and we're doing pretty well so far. In particular, our assimilation strategy is very encouraging. Over the years, we have continuously strengthened ties with the upper nobles of several countries, and by helping them build cities, carry out a large number of luxury goods trading, and assimilate education of Chinese civilization, etc., we have made Chinese characters already used in Khitan, Yata, Silla, Baekje and other countries, and even those nobles are also using Chinese language, and even learning our Han culture is a noble thing. ”

This Chen Kefu is also clear, politically through the alliance, they are tied to the Liaodong Army. Economically, through the rewards and trades of the Liaodong army, these kingdoms became more and more dependent on Liaodong, and even culturally they continued to assimilate the various tribes. Nowadays, the nobles of those countries have been greatly influenced by Liaodong, one of the Khitan and Jin Ya kingdoms is a grassland nomad, and the other is a mountain, forest, fishing and hunting people, but under the management of the Liaodong army, the nobles of the two kingdoms have begun to build cities, and even they who have no surnames have begun to learn the Han people to use Han surnames. Among the two countries, the number of nobles surnamed Chen is the most, followed by the surname Yang, the surname Wang, the surname Li and so on.

Even the upper-class nobles of those nationalities on horseback now not only change their Han surnames, build cities, but also intermarry with Han people, use Chinese characters, speak Chinese, and wear Han clothes, as if they are Han people in the Central Plains. And all of this is the result of the hard work of the Liaodong Army in the past few years. At this stage, Liaodong and the surrounding countries can only be allies. But in the next stage, he plans to slowly assimilate them into his own vassal states, and even the goal in the future is to completely swallow the surrounding countries into Liaodong.

With such a goal, Liaodong will make them rich, but will not make them strong. Every time the Liaodong Army sent troops, in fact, many times there was no need to use the forces of these allied forces at all. But in fact, every time the Liaodong Army will pay a very large price in exchange for the help of various allied forces. After the war, a large part of the booty would be given to him, and in this way, the nobles of various countries could make a lot of money every time. Even later, as long as Liaodong had a request to send descendants, they would happily agree.

Many officials in Liaodong were very opposed to this, feeling that the cost of inviting the allies was much greater than calling up their own men. But Chen Kefu and the high-level officials in Liaodong have never changed this decision. One of its main purposes is to continuously reduce the strength of the nations through war. Adult warriors are the most important resource of a country, and for every one that dies there is one less, and without twenty years, it is impossible to grow a warrior. For Liaodong, they have money, but they lack people. And for them, the more populous the countries, the greater the potential threat to Liaodong.

This time, as long as you spend some more wealth, it will not be a big problem to transfer another 50,000 or 60,000 allied troops into Hebei. And with the transfer of 60,000 soldiers, the security of Liaodong will also be raised by one level. This is a matter of killing two birds with one stone, and it is also the fastest way to solve the strength of the Liaodong Army.

As long as a large army is assembled, Chen Pojun will continue to wave south.

Just south of Zhuo County, Gao Shida, the leader of the Hebei Peasant Army, who called himself Donghai Gong, is now with more than 50,000 troops to occupy Hejian County on the front line of the canal. Although Gao Shida is only the leader of the peasant army, this is not an idle person. At that time, the most well-known anti-kings in Hebei and Shandong were, Zhishilang Wang Bo of Zouping, Liu Badao of Douziou of Pingyuan, Zhang Jincheng of Hequ, Sun Anzu of Bohai, and Lu Mingyue of Zhuo County, but now, there are few people who still have their heads on their heads. There are still a large army in their hands, and there are few who occupy a county.

And Chen Kefu knew that as long as they went south to fight Gao Shida, then the other two Hebei peasant armies close behind Gao Shida, Liu Badao, the uncle army of Pingyuan County, and Sun Anzu of Bohai County, would wave their troops to the north and jointly resist the Liaodong Army going south. As far as he knew, these three groups of men and horses, occupying the land of the three counties, claimed to have 300,000 soldiers and horses. Not fully prepared, Chen Kefu did not want to fight them easily. If you want to fight, you must fight and draw.

Picking up the small banner representing the Liaodong Army, Chen Kefu suddenly planted it on the sand table of the three counties of Hejian, Pingyuan, and Bohai.

Just when Chen Pojun's eyes were pointing directly at the three-way Hebei peasant army blocking the southward road, Yang Guang, who was far away in Taiyuan, Hedong, and had been unconscious for almost two months, suddenly moved his fingers. Among the several palace maids who served the emperor in front of the imperial couch, there was a careful palace maid who was clearly able to see it. The palace maid stared at the faint emperor on Chuáng with a moving face, and she didn't dare to blink her eyes.

Sure enough, after a while, the fingers of the right hand on Yang Guang's right side of his body, which was not paralyzed, trembled a few times! ……，