Regarding this "desperate plan" of the Later Zhou court, Liu Jun scolded the Hou Zhou monarchs and ministers for being vicious, but he was also afraid. If it weren't for the secret spies placed by the Beiping Army around the Later Zhou Emperor to send this information in time, then once this "desperate plan" of the Later Zhou court was realized, I am afraid that even if their own monarchs and ministers were determined to resist the attack of the Later Zhou army and repelled the attack of the other party, under the blow of this "desperate plan", the Han Dynasty would have collapsed from now on, and there would be no liliang to compete with the increasingly powerful Later Zhou court.

Thinking of the serious consequences that the "desperate plan" of the Later Zhou court would bring to his side once it succeeded, Liu Jun could no longer sit still, and he immediately ordered the important ministers of the Xuan Dynasty to enter the palace to discuss countermeasures. After more than an hour of discussion, the Northern Han monarchs finally decided to strike first. Taking advantage of the fact that the Hou Zhou army was still assembling in Luzhou and would not launch a large-scale attack for the time being, he immediately issued an order to all the states and counties within 100 miles around Taiyuan, ordering these states and counties to evacuate all the gentry and people in the area under their jurisdiction immediately on the grounds that the war was imminent and in order to protect the people from the flames of war, and all of them moved to Taiyuan City for temporary refuge, and then returned to their homes after the war subsided. Therefore, it is not included in the migration jihua.

With the summons of the Northern Han Dynasty, all the prefectures, counties, villages and towns within 100 miles around Taiyuan City suddenly became lively. The gentry left their homes voluntarily or forcedly, and migrated on a large scale under the escort and supervision of the local defenders. Although the holy decree stated that this migration was only a temporary measure to deal with the expedition in the coming week, it would be returned after the fighting subsided. But for Chinese with a strong sense of locality, even a short period of leaving their homeland is very difficult to accept. During this period, there were gentry and people who were difficult to leave their homeland and give up their family business, and they would rarely cry and delay their actions.

However, in the face of the emperor's decree, no matter how much the officials and defenders understood the mood of these gentry and the common people, they had to be ruthless not to be moved by the other party's pleas, but only insisted that they had to move, and the violators would be punished according to the conspiracy. In the face of hard-hearted officials and defenders, and in the face of severe punishments, those gentry and common people who belonged to the migration had no choice but to pack up their gold and silver in the case of ineffective resistance, and reluctantly left their homes where they had lived for years, decades, or even hundreds of years, dragging their families slowly but irresistibly to Taiyuan City.

The population migration of the Northern Han Dynasty lasted nearly ten days before basically all the gentry and people within 100 miles of Taiyuan were moved to Taiyuan City. Fortunately, with the support of a large amount of food aid provided by the Beiping Army, the nearly 50,000 people who had newly moved into the city would not go hungry -- it was difficult to ensure that all the people in the city had a full meal by relying on the Northern Han court's own grain stockpiles. Of course, all the Northern Han court could do was to provide food for these newly moved people to the city, and as for the daily necessities such as shelter and clothing, they had to rely on these gentry and ordinary people to solve their own needs.

In this way, those who have relatives and friends in Taiyuan City can naturally go to relatives and friends, those who are more well-off can also spend money to live in guest houses or rent local houses, and those who have poor family backgrounds and no local relatives and friends can only sleep on the streets, and the sky should be used as a bed. Fortunately, it is summer, and although the conditions on the streets are harsh and you will inevitably be harassed by mosquitoes, you will not freeze to death. It is precisely because of this that although the people who migrated into the city this time were full of complaints, under the pressure of the government, they did not really cause any major turmoil and turmoil. …,

With such a large-scale migration of people around Taiyuan City, it is naturally impossible for the news to be blocked. Therefore, only three days after the relocation order of the Northern Han court was issued, the relevant news had already been sent to Chai Rong. Because the migration of the people of the Northern Han Dynasty was an important policy of the Later Zhou Dynasty to weaken their strength, so after receiving the news that the Northern Han Dynasty began to move the people around Taiyuan into the city, Chai Rong immediately summoned his civil and military generals to the imperial tent to discuss his own countermeasures.

Although some ministers of civil and military affairs questioned why the Northern Han court suddenly ordered immigration, the focus of most of the people involved in the court discussion, including Chai Rong, was how to firmly control the initiative in the war against the Han Dynasty in their own hands when the Northern Han court had already made some moves.

Although the relocation of the Northern Han court to Taiyuan would have an impact on the strategy of its own weak enemy, the Northern Han court only moved the people around Taiyuan, and other distant states and counties did not take action, so as not to completely invalidate the strategy of the weak enemy. Second, after the Han Dynasty, Zhou Junchen was full of confidence, believing that with the strength of the Great Zhou, he could completely destroy the small puppet Han court that had lost the strong support of the Khitan. Even if the puppet Han court moved the people into Taiyuan City, these people would still fall into the hands of the Great Zhou court and become the subjects of the Great Zhou court on the day the city was broken. Therefore, the reaction of the Later Zhou monarchs to the move of the Northern Han court to Taiyuan was basically the same, that is, since the Northern Han court had begun to move the people into Taiyuan City, and Luzhou was hundreds of miles away from Taiyuan City, even if they immediately sent troops north, it would be impossible to stop the Northern Han court's move to move the people. Then, it is better to respond to all changes with the same, not to be affected by the relocation action of the Northern Han court, and continue to carry out the war against the Han Dynasty in accordance with the previous plan. However, in order to prevent the Northern Han court from continuing to expand the scope of relocation, and also to prevent the Northern Han court from having more time to improve the defense of Taiyuan City, after the court meeting, Chai Rong still ordered the Han army to set off immediately, and the troops were directed at the first target of the Han - Qinzhou.

Like the previous year's Northern Expedition to Youyun, this time the Han army was still divided into front, middle and rear armies by Chai Rong.

Among them, there were 15,000 people in the front army, including 9,000 infantry troops, 1,000 horse troops, and the most elite "Shenji Army" in the 5,000 Hou Zhou Dynasty. The former commander of the military capital is still Zhang Zangying, who performed well in the Northern Expedition last year and won the first tough battle of the Northern Expedition in Gu'an. However, the former deputy commander of the army was replaced by Liu Guangyi, who was now the commander of the "Shenji Army" -- in the Battle of Youyun last year, although the rear army commanded by Liu Guangyi suffered heavy losses due to a sneak attack by the Liao army, as the general who had become the deputy envoy of the Beiping Army and could never return to the "Shenji Army" again, he became the best choice for the commander of the "Shenji Army" among the senior generals of the Later Zhou Dynasty.

The 60,000 men and horses of the Chinese army were led by Chai Rong and the generals of the next week, and followed closely behind the front army. Although the 15,000 men and horses of the rear army were mainly responsible for escorting grain, grass and weapons for the front army and the Chinese army, due to the heavy losses suffered by the enemy during the Northern Expedition in the previous year, and caused the front army and the Chinese army to face the threat of running out of food. In addition to these three routes, Chai Rong also sent the general Li Chongjin to lead a detour alone to attack Fenzhou, another important prefecture and county in the Northern Han Dynasty.

On the 14th day of June of the lunar calendar in the seventh year of Xiande, the army of the Han Dynasty left Luzhou.

On June 16 of the lunar calendar in the seventh year of Xiande, 15,000 men and horses of the front army of the Later Zhou and Han Dynasty arrived at the city of Qinzhou under the leadership of Zhang Zangying, the commander of the vanguard capital, and Liu Guangyi, the deputy commander of the capital, and the battle of the Later Zhou and Han Dynasty officially kicked off.