Since Chai Rong's death was expected, the news of his death did not have much impact on the crossing team - the "Overlord Operation" was carried out as usual, the Northern Expeditionary Force went north as usual, and the preparations for the implementation of the "Jianye No. 1 Operation Jihua" were carried out in an orderly manner. Among all the departments of the crossing team, the only one that was significantly affected was the contact point of the "Dark Feather" Kaifeng Branch of the "Hidden Garden" of Chenqiaoyi (the Intelligence Collection and Processing Center of the Kaifeng Station of the Ministry of Intelligence). With the Commission's order to intensify the infiltration and snooping of the various shili of the Later Zhou court, the amount of intelligence information received and processed here on a daily basis increased dramatically. Although there are more than a dozen senior agents responsible for the preliminary screening and classification, because there is too much information gathered here, as a "checkpoint" for Zuihou to screen and analyze, Zheng Zhiwei has to process hundreds of pieces of information that the screening team considers important or urgent and needs to be selected by Zuihou every day, and sends the most important and urgent part of it to the committee in Beiping City through telegrams, so that several members can refer to it when making various decisions.

Because during this period of time, he was almost busy from morning to night, and there was no moment of leisure, so that Zheng Zhiwei sighed. He came here to lament the intelligence gathering ability of his subordinates -- just in Kaifeng alone, there were no less than 1,000 pieces of news and intelligence of all kinds sent to the "Hidden Garden" every day, which showed the strength and enormity of the "Dark Feather." The second is the liliang of emotion science and technology -- with the science and technology that surpasses the millennium of this era, any important information that needs to be submitted to the committee will only take about an hour at most from Zheng Zhiwei's completion of analysis, writing a report, handing it over to the "Hidden Garden" telegraph room to code, encrypt, and send, and then receiving, decrypting, and decoding through the telegraph room of the Beiping Military Jiedu Mansion, and finally sending it to Wang Kunjun, Zhang Weixin, Xu Shaoan, and others. And the same news, if the traditional intelligence transmission method of this era is used, even if it is carried out at the fastest so-called "800 miles expedited" speed in this era, it will take at least two days to achieve. It can be said that the Liliang of science and technology has made the crossing team take the lead in intelligence information and walk ahead of the opponent.

Of course, the news that is delivered to the committee every day is not limited to the "Hidden Garden", and there are also all kinds of news from the four fixed radio stations distributed in various points in the Beiping Army's control area, a mobile radio station carried by the generals who went out to fight, and the intelligence department (the "Hidden Feather" headquarters). Among these sources, in addition to the important information about the Later Zhou court from the "Hidden Garden", the news that attracted the most attention from the members of the committee at this stage was the news of the mobile radio carried by Mutel, who was fighting thousands of miles away to achieve the set goal of "Operation Overlord". In fact, in a sense, from the end of June to the beginning of July of the lunar calendar, the committee paid more attention to Mutel's troops than to the Zhou court later, because with the continuous advancement of the "Overlord Operation Jihua" and the serious and effective implementation of the Khitan policy of clearing the wilderness, harassing small groups, and isolating the grain route, the attack carried out by Mutel's troops in the northern area of the Khitan Zhongjing Province against the Khitan army in Dadingfu and its surrounding areas did not go smoothly. Not only did his 5,000 men and horses fail to capture any city, but the number of Khitan troops annihilated was also very limited, but the combat and non-combat losses had exceeded the total number of Jinzhou operations in the previous stage.

The reason for this situation is that Muttel does not take it seriously, nor that he rashly advances against the enemy - in fact, since leaving Jinzhou and advancing westward, Mutel's troops have carried out every move very carefully, striving to achieve something in every battle. The main reason for this is that the Khitans adopted a series of correct and effective countermeasures, which deprived the Beiping Army's Northern Expeditionary Force of the basis for practicing the previous mode of "nourishing the war with war and taking it from the enemy." On the one hand, the Khitan people's policy of clearing the wilderness made it impossible for Mutel's subordinates to buy or loot grain and grass from the local people and herdsmen. On the other hand, since Muter's troops were all cavalry, the artillery carried by the army was mainly mortars, supplemented by a small number of light 75-mm field guns. These artillery pieces were more suitable for field warfare than siege warfare, and could not collapse the walls of the Khitans in a short time. As the commander-in-chief, Muttel was unwilling to turn his cavalry into infantry and carry out traditional sieges of cities, increasing unnecessary casualties. Therefore, after more than ten days of westward marching, his subordinates did not even capture a decent city, so they could not use the materials in the city to supplement their needs. In addition, the Khitan army of more than a dozen wandering troops, ranging in number from one to two thousand, continuously attacked and harassed the road from Jinzhou to Andezhou and the first line of Jianzhou, and the Jinzhou and Yellow Sea sides did not have extra troops to protect the smooth flow of this supply line, and the mountains along the route were continuous, and the traffic conditions were very poor, which was not conducive to the passage of vehicles transporting grain and straw, so that since Muttel entered the west, Jinzhou did not transport a grain or a single bullet for him. All these unfavorable conditions eventually caused Muttel's troops to lack food and food, ammunition, fatigue, and morale, and they were in a dilemma between Ande and Jianzhou.

After the situation of Muttel's department reached Beiping, it was highly valued. The Committee immediately convened a military meeting attended by members of the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of Intelligence, the Ministry of Logistics and other relevant departments to discuss the matter and strive to come up with a solution in the shortest possible time. Although Muttel's troops failed to accomplish their tasks during this westward advance, the brothers in the congregation did not criticize or criticize Mutel, who was in charge of the command, at the military conference. Because all the participants, including several members of the committee, were well aware of the root cause of this situation -- because the crossing team had previously placed too much emphasis on the urgency of time on the issue of turmoil in the Later Zhou court and the coup d'état by Zhao Kuangyin and other Shili cliques, for fear of taking action for convenience before completing a new round of large-scale military expansion, and then overemphasizing that the military liliang required for the implementation of the "Jianye No. 1 operation Jihua" must be absolutely guaranteed, and they were unwilling and did not dare to act for the "overlord operation" Large-scale use of troops. At the same time, the possible countermeasures of the Khitan court in the face of the Northern Expedition of the Beiping Army were underestimated and the plan was imperfect. Especially after the Laohugou ambush, it was too optimistic that the other side would be crushed and completely lose the ability to resist because of the huge losses in the battle. Therefore, the number of troops and types invested in the second phase of the operation was very limited, and it was a lone army, lacking the cooperation of other troops, which made it passive and helpless in the face of the Khitans' strong walls and small troops.

As the saying goes, "it's not too late to make amends". At present, although the situation of Muttel's department is somewhat difficult, it is far from the point of exhaustion. As long as Mutel himself is not stupid, does not continue to go to Dadingfu regardless of the lack of food and grass, and reluctantly attacks Jiancheng, then even if he is surrounded by the Khitans on all sides, he can still successfully fight his way out of the encirclement and return to Jinzhou. Therefore, after the analysis and discussion of the committee and the members of the relevant departments, after fully considering the recent developments of the Later Zhou Dynasty and the possible actions in a short period of time, fully considering the expansion of the Beiping Army and the reserve and production of various materials, and comprehensively analyzing and understanding the deployment and mobilization of the Khitan Army, the emergency military meeting made a decision: revise the existing "Overlord Operation Jihua", expand the scale of the Northern Expeditionary Force, adjust the direction and tasks of each department, and strive to complete the goals set by the operation at the minimum cost.

According to the resolution, the Northern Expeditionary Army, which had previously gone out to fight at the customs, was changed to the Right Route Army of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the "Flying Dragon Army" was composed of the cavalry regiment of the 1st Synthetic Infantry Division, the 1st Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Synthetic Infantry Division, the 1st Cavalry Regiment of the Division, the 1st Artillery Regiment of the Division, the 1st First Regiment of the 3rd Synthetic Infantry Division, the 1st Independent Artillery Regiment, and the 1st and 2nd Infantry Regiments of the "Security Army." Correspondingly, the Lulongshan battalion, which had completed the task of confusing it, was immediately withdrawn, and the 5,000 "security troops" who pretended to be the main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army were all transferred back to the Great Wall.

At the same time, the committee also telegraphed to Muttel to immediately lead his troops back to Jinzhou, and after a short rest and replenishment, he immediately marched eastward, entered the Khitan Tokyo Road, and forced Liaoyang Prefecture, turning the richest area of the Khitan upside down. In addition, in order to cooperate with Muttel's operation, the Navy will dispatch a fleet and a transport fleet, carrying the 1st Marine Regiment and a large number of supplies, along the coastline to the north and cruise along the coastal area of Tokyo Province. On the one hand, it waited for an opportunity to attack and attack Chenzhou, Ningzhou, Fuzhou and other coastal prefectures and counties on the Liaodong Peninsula in order to respond to Muttel's actions in the interior. On the other hand, they were also ready to set up temporary supply points by the sea to supply the other side with food, grass and ammunition in the event that Mutel's headquarters encountered a situation similar to that of Nakakyo Province where the walls were clear and it was impossible to support the war with war. As for the defense of the 1st Marine Regiment in Jinzhou, it was handed over to the 1st Regiment of the 1st Composite Infantry Division of the "Flying Dragon Army," which had just returned from Jinzhou not long ago and was resting near Shanhaiguan.