Although the decree to conquest Li Chongjin was issued under the operation and persistence of the crossing team, judging from the current situation, in fact, now is not the best time for the crossing team to rebel. On the one hand, it has only been two months since the crossing team entered Kaifeng, and the control of the Later Zhou court is not very firm, and the focus of its work should be more on the court, rather than Huainan thousands of miles away. On the other hand, although the screening and reorganization of the former Later Zhou forbidden army, including the forbidden army loyal to the imperial court and the rebel army of Zhao Kuangyin, had been preliminarily completed, and after they were broken up, they were incorporated into the various units of the "security army" of the Beiping Army that remained in Kaifeng, and the control of these 30,000 forbidden troops was basically realized. But first, whether it was the forbidden army loyal to the imperial court or the rebel army of Zhao Kuangyin, they did not agree very much with the Beiping army that came from afar and occupied the military and political power of the Later Zhou Dynasty. In particular, most of the soldiers of Zhao Kuangyin's rebel army were resentful of the generals of the Beiping Army who prevented them from "making meritorious contributions", killed or exiled their former commanders, and now "parachuted" into their heads as their new bosses. Although at the beginning of the screening and reorganization, Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin, Wang Feng and others successively beheaded hundreds of assassins who were unwilling to be dismissed and returned to their hometowns, or who did not obey the command of their new superiors, and took the lead in making trouble, they did not dare to go against the Beiping Army as before, but the situation of causing trouble to the Beiping Army behind their backs still happened from time to time. The existence of such generals in the army under his command who are not really of the same mind as himself, who are contrary to his own yang and yin, and who secretly stumble over him, is absolutely unfavorable to the Beiping army that is about to go on an expedition.

Second, due to the differences in the previous training concepts, training methods, operational concepts, and combat methods, the combination of the Beiping Army and the former Later Zhou Forbidden Army not only did not add one to two or greater than two in terms of combat effectiveness, but rather a loss of one plus one less than two. In other words, the 30,000 Yuan Hou Zhou forbidden army joined the Beiping Army, which was equivalent to adding low-alcohol wine or even white water to a jar of spirits, so that the degree of the entire jar of liquor decreased and the strength decreased. This is tantamount to invisibly weakening the combat effectiveness of the Beiping Army, and it is obviously unfavorable to the upcoming Huainan Battle.

In fact, according to the Jihua before the crossing team, it will take at least half a year to screen and reorganize the original Zhou forbidden army, as well as the training and run-in in the later stage. During this period, as long as Li Chongjin did not take the initiative to provoke the Later Zhou court, he would definitely not take tough measures against him. Since the Beiping Army entered Kaifeng, Li Chongjin has also been very "cooperative" with the crossing team and has not made any excessive moves. Therefore, whether it is the committee, or Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin, Wang Feng and others, they are very down-to-earth, and feel that they have enough time to effectively control the Kaifeng court and successfully complete the reorganization of the original Later Zhou Forbidden Army.

Speaking of which, the change in the attitude of the crossing team towards Li Chongjin was due to a piece of historical data from the past life that Zhang Weixin casually talked about at a regular meeting of the committee at the end of April of the lunar calendar of the ninth year of Xiande. At that time, the Commission was discussing a recent military build-up and operational report submitted by the Ministry of Military Affairs. In this jihua, the military department proposed that while stabilizing the situation in Kaifeng and completing the reorganization of the original Later Zhou Forbidden Army, it should speed up the formation of the Fourth Composite Infantry Division of the "Feilong Army", the Third Independent Cavalry Regiment, the Third Independent Artillery Regiment, and the Third and Fourth Independent Cavalry Regiments of the "Security Army", so as to prepare for the next decisive battle in the process of unifying China in the next step of attacking the Khitan in the north and pacifying the Southern Tang Dynasty in the south. With regard to Jihua of the Ministry of Military Affairs, the committee agreed in principle, but there were still some hesitations and differences of opinion on the issue of whether to go north or south first. Although it is easier to "go south" than "go north" in terms of the strength of the targets of battle, considering that there are now six or seven secession regimes in the south of the Yangtze River, such as the Southern Tang Dynasty, Wuyue, Southern Han, Houshu, Wuping (Hunan), Nanping (Jingnan), and Dali, the process of pacifying these separatist regimes is more complicated and troublesome than the process of conquering the Khitans, who have only one regime and one emperor. Therefore, the four committee members could not unify their thinking for a while - Xu Shaoan wanted to go north, Zhang Weixin and Li Junwu wanted to go south, and Wang Kunjun had not expressed his position for the time being.

Just when the two opinions were indistinguishable, Zhang Weixin, who adhered to the strategy of "easy first and then difficult" and "first south and then north", suddenly remembered a piece of history in his previous life, and said that according to the records of the previous life, in September and October 962, Zhou Xingfeng, the ruler of the Wuping (Hunan) regime, would die of illness, and his son, Zhou Baoquan, who was only 11 years old, would inherit his throne. And Zhang Wenbiao, an important minister of Wuping (Hunan) and a good brother of Zhou Xingfeng back then, raised troops and rebelled shortly after his brother's death, wanting to put the power of Wuping (Hunan) in his own hands. Due to Zhang Wen's great power, Zhou Baoquan ordered the general Yang Shifan to lead his troops to quell the rebellion, and at the same time, he also sent an envoy to the Great Song Dynasty for help. Although Yang Shifan quickly quelled Zhang Wenbiao's rebellion, Zhao Kuangyin, who had already sent the generals Murong Yanzhao and Li Chuyun to lead the troops south, did not issue an order to recall the army, but under the pretext of quelling the rebellion, he successively forced the landing of Nanping (Jingnan) and Wuping (Hunan), and successfully incorporated the land of Huguang into the territory of the Great Song Dynasty.

In Zhang Weixin's view, it is now April of the ninth year of Xiande, and it is very close to the time node of Zhou Xingfeng's death and Zhang Wenbiao's rebellion in his previous life. In this way, if the strategy of "south first and then north" is implemented, then Nanping (Jingnan) and Wuping (Hunan) can be easily obtained almost effortlessly, so why not.

Zhang Weixin's intention to put forward such a history of the past life was originally to increase the bargaining chips for the "first south and then north" strategy advocated by himself, but Wang Kunjun, who has never expressed his opinion, took this possible historical fact as a reference for decision-making, and also found a situation that is very unfavorable for the crossing team - if history really develops as Zhang Weixin said, the crossing team will inevitably choose the strategy of "first south and then north" to speed up the pace of unification. However, in order to take advantage of the Wuping (Hunan) rebellion to recover Wuping (Hunan) and Nanping (Jingnan), a strong armed Liliang was needed to back it up. Although, according to the estimates of the Ministry of Military Affairs, after six months of reorganization, it should be possible to complete the goal of integrating the former Later Zhou Forbidden Army into the Beiping Army. However, the effect of the adaptation still needs to be tested in practice. Originally, this test was intended to be placed on Li Chongjin, but according to Zhang Weixin, he was afraid that the Wuping (Hunan) Rebellion would occur before the pacification of Huainan in Jihua. In that case, the Beiping Army would have to put Huainan aside first, and instead use the "water-smedied" Beiping Army, which had just completed its reorganization and had not yet experienced actual combat, to go on a thousand-mile expedition to fight an unfamiliar enemy in an unfamiliar place -- this was by no means what Wang Kunjun wanted to see.

Therefore, after pondering for a long time, Wang Kunjun finally made a decision. On the one hand, he supported Zhang Weixin and Li Junwu's strategy of "first the south and then the north", and was determined to solve the regimes in the south of the Yangtze River first, and then return to the north to restore the homeland of the Han and Tang dynasties. On the other hand, Wang Kunjun proposed to step up the screening and reorganization of the forbidden army of the former Later Zhou Dynasty, and strive to send troops to Huainan before the middle of the year, so as to take the opportunity of destroying Li Chongjin, the weakest opponent at this stage, to conduct an actual combat test of this new Beiping army, which was one and the other, to discover as many problems and deficiencies as possible of this army and to solve all these problems and deficiencies before marching into Wuping (Hunan) and Nanping (Jingnan), so as to ensure the recovery of Wuping (Hunan) and Nanping (Jingnan).

The other three committee members had no objection to Wang Kunjun's proposal. Even Xu Shao'an, who was the most confident in the strength of the Beiping Army, felt that what his fifth brother said was a strategy for the country, and the reorganized Beiping Army really needed a battle to test the combat effectiveness of the troops, discover potential problems, enhance the self-confidence of officers and soldiers, and make adequate preparations for the future conquest of the world. Therefore, after a short discussion, the committee finally decided to bring forward the battle to pacify Huainan, which had been fought in September and October, to May and June.

Subsequently, the committee began to make preparations, on the one hand, to speed up the screening and reorganization of the former Later Zhou forbidden army, and on the other hand, to secretly instruct the imperial envoy controlled by his own family to write a letter to impeach Li Chongjin for supporting the army and self-respect, plotting against him, and intending to rebel, and demanding that the imperial court thoroughly investigate the matter and punish the crime according to the law.

Because Li Chongjin was one of the few envoys who had heavy troops and the status of a relative of the emperor, and because Zhao Kuangyin was increasingly powerful in the court, he was afraid that the other party would be unfavorable to him once he took Zhou Dynasty, so he had the intention of raising troops to raise troops. Therefore, after the Later Zhou monarchs had to hand over the power of the imperial court to the brothers of the Beiping Army, they started to secretly communicate with Li Chongjin, "their own person", and get closer to each other, so that one day he could become his own right-hand man and foreign aid to regain the power of the imperial court. Therefore, at the beginning of the impeachment of Li Chongjin by the imperial history, the Later Zhou monarchs also tried their best to prevaricate and perfunctory, hoping to make this matter "big and small" in order to keep Li Chongjin's shili. But he had already made up his mind, how could the crossing team that wanted to use Li Chongjin as a "sparring partner" and "whetstone" give up the actual combat test experience that had to be carried out this time. As a result, the ministers of the Later Zhou Dynasty, who had crossed the team system, and other Later Zhou Wenwu who had already attached themselves to the team system, stood up to support the impeachment of Li Chongjin, and strongly advocated that troops should be sent south immediately to quell the rebellion of the same hill as Zhang Yongde.

In the face of the surging impeachment, in the face of Wang Kunjun, Zhang Weixin and other important civil and military officials, the Later Zhou court finally had to give in, first ordered Li Chongjin to go to Beijing to report on his work, and then issued an order to rebel after the other party did not comply with the order, and put his few possible arms and foreign aid to death.