Jiang Feng's words are right, no matter how careless Wang Shouzhong is, Qingzhou City will definitely stay with enough troops, and the Ya Army is his elite henchmen, not that you can succeed if you want to sneak attack, if you don't get it right, it will turn into a strong offensive battle.

The current Huaiyou (Wuning) Army certainly has some capital, but to conquer such a city, I am afraid it will also hurt its vitality.

At present, although the strength of the Huaiyou (Wuning) Army has swelled a lot, with the expansion of its territory, the weakness from the east, west, north and south has been more and more exposed in front of the enemies of all sides.

The fall of Xiangguangzhou is the most typical example, and now the Huaiyou (Wuning) army can only hold back, because you don't have so much strength to fight the enemy on all sides at the same time, and you need to prioritize clearly.

Once too many forces are mobilized in the attack on Qingzhou, the more vulnerabilities in all aspects will be exposed, and similarly, if the losses in the battle against Qingzhou are too great, then it will also give those enemies who have been spying on the Huaiyou (Wuning) army to take advantage of.

"Your Majesty, it has never been said that you don't die in war, our Huaiyou Army has had a smooth ride, and we have also encountered bitter and bloody battles, a huge territory, without paying the price, it is impossible to think about it. ”

Yang Kan's words were a little more agitated in silence.

"I think this battle can be fought, worth fighting, and very worthwhile, I dare not say that the first battle will be decided, but once Pinglu is resolved, our strategic depth will be greatly increased, and the situation will be greatly improved, more importantly, although our Huaiyou (Wuning) army has experienced some hard battles, but it is far from enough, I think that with the continuous growth of our army, we need a war to temper our old and new armies, so that they can accelerate the integration and growth, only after completing this step, we will have enough confidence to deal with the next enemy, the Shatuo people, or the Khitans！”

Jiang Feng's eyes were shining, although the expression on his face had not changed, but the blood in his bones had already surged, Yang Kan's words were deeply in line with his intentions, and his previous words were to test the generals under his command to see if they were mentally prepared to pay a huge price.

And Yang Kan's words also moved him, whether it was the Huaiyou Army or the Wuning Army, they had not really experienced a decent war, and the Battle of Xuzhou was not able to really play a role in tempering, which was lucky, but it was also a pity.

Now it's time to hammer this piece of iron on an anvil.

It seems that they had discussed it before they came back, and they were prepared.

That's right, fighting this battle will definitely be more expensive than any previous battle, without him, the battle of Xuzhou, Shi Yu didn't have much will to fight, plus the previous arrangement, from this point it was decided that the Huaiyou Army did not need to face the fortified city of Xuzhou, otherwise Jiang Feng really didn't have the courage to give up his body, you must know that at that time, he only had this little capital, and when the battle was over, it would be really over.

But now that the Huaibei Army and the Taining Army have started, and the Wuning Army has been formed, he already has the capital to fight this battle, and he also has the confidence to face and pay the price, because it is worth it!

"Okay!" Jiang Feng clapped his hands and looked around at everyone, "It seems that you all have this idea, it is very much in line with me, this battle should not be early, nor late, you must choose a good time, especially to cooperate with precise and tacit understanding, which requires good planning,......"

Timing is a very critical issue indeed.

Because the Pinglu Army is inferior to the Reform Army and the Taining Army.

The probation army is divided internally, Shi Yu can't control the four major soldiers under him at all, even Shang Yunxi, who has the closest relationship with him, can only be said to have limited influence, and the other three depend more on whether their interests are aligned.

At this point, Jiang Feng unceremoniously made it clear even in front of Yu Mingzhen and Lu Qiming, and Yu Mingzhen and Lu Qiming both admitted it calmly.

Of course, there are also reasons for this, Shi Yu is not angry, only cares about his own lineage, and is content with the status quo, addicted to wine, and can't complain about others.

Like the four major soldiers are all in the prime of life, the oldest Yao Chengtai is only forty-six or seventeen, the youngest Lu Qinian is forty, and Yu Mingzhen is not even forty-five.

With the strength of Huaibei at the beginning, I dare not say that I will challenge the Liang, but it is completely possible to destroy Caizhou in the east and go south to Huainan to achieve a career.

But Shi Yu is incompetent in governing the country, playing his own small abacus all day long, the five states of Huaibei are huge, there is no shortage of soldiers and horses, and there is the benefit of salt and iron, but it has been dragged step by step to the current appearance.

Sitting back and watching the civil strife in Huainan, but also because of the drought and the inability to deal with the ant thieves, the situation collapsed, and gave Huaiyou and Caizhou such an opportunity to divide Huaibei, it can be said that even Yu Mingzhen and Lu Qiming said that Huaibei was destroyed by Shi Yu alone.

The situation of the Taining Army is another one.

The conditions of the three states of Yanyun and Yi are not very good, especially Zhu Mao himself has no ability to govern the locality, and he is completely governed by martial artists, which makes the three states of Yanyun Yi the worst region in the north in terms of persuading agriculture and industry and commerce.

After stumbling over the years, in Jiang Feng's opinion, it was pure luck that did not collapse.

Even if Zhu Mao is used to fighting, but there is no money and food, how can you raise soldiers?

Therefore, Zhu Mao, with the strength of Sanzhou, can only barely maintain a few of his own pro-army, and the other armies of the Taining Army can basically only "support themselves".

In the face of several years of severe drought, the common people almost had to change their children and eat, and the entire Yanyun Yi people did not survive in three out of ten, and even the little gentry could no longer survive, and the collapse of the Taining army, which had no money and food savings, was a matter of course.

Therefore, the Huaiyou Army has to thank the three consecutive years of drought in the north and the poison of the ant thieves to Huaibei, if there are no two conditions, even if the Reform Army and the Taining Army are unbearable, it is definitely not Huaiyou, a fledgling cutting-edge snake swallowing elephant.

But in the face of the Pinglu army, it was different.

In the land of the six states of the Pinglu Army, the two brothers Wang Shouzhong and Wang Shouxin have relatively strong control, although Wang Shouzhong's ability to govern is not strong, but he is also passable.

The relationship between the two brothers is not as dangerous as the Nanyang Liu brothers, although the six states of the Pinglu Army have also suffered from the attack of the northern drought, but in general it is much stronger than Yanyunyi, and they also have some money and grain reserves.

Although the people in the prefectures under the control of the Pinglu Army are also very difficult, and there are also a large number of people who can't survive to flee to the south, the overall situation can barely be maintained, which is much stronger than that of Yanyunyi, and probably similar to the situation in Huaibei before.

Wang Shouzhong's own style is also relatively conservative, and he is not the kind of person who is arrogant and extravagant.

It can be said that for so many years, the Pinglu Army and the surrounding feudal lords have basically been in a relatively stable state, although the relationship with the Taining Army and the Reform Army is not good, but generally speaking, there has been no war.

Sending troops to Haizhou is probably Wang Shouzhong's biggest "adventure" for so many years, it is estimated that it has been planned for a long time, Haizhou salt is too tempting, and Huaibei is in such a state, no one thinks that Huaiyou can sweep Huaibei and Yanyunyi, or that even if Huaiyou can swallow Huaibei, it will take some time to operate and digest.

Wang Shouzhong never dreamed that Huaiyou not only swallowed Huaiyou at once, but also took advantage of the situation to take down the chaotic Yanyunyi Sanzhou.

Jiang Feng estimated whether Wang Shouzhong regretted taking Haizhou now, but the benefits from taking Haizhou made the Pinglu army unable to give up, especially Huaiyou had clearly set quite harsh conditions and demanded the price of compensation from the Pinglu army, which also made the Pinglu army see the possibility of bargaining.

Maybe you can't return Haizhou and give some compensation?

Or if you want to return Haizhou, can you negotiate and drag on for a while to see what happens?

No matter how bad it is, it's okay not to give or even a little less compensation?

Even after a battle, look at the wind and talk about it again?

All kinds of thoughts are probably the biggest entanglement between Wang Shouzhong and his advisers now, right?

After all, the fat you eat has to be spit out, and the taste is really uncomfortable.

Timing depends on a number of things.

On the one hand, it is necessary for the Huaiyou (Wuning) Army to readjust its deployment, which is still under the condition of continuing to carry out strategic deception on the Pinglu Army.

It is necessary to ensure that the Pinglu Army judges that the direction of attack of the Huaiyou (Wuning) Army will be Haizhou or Mizhou, or even before the false attack on Haizhou, but in fact, it wants to poison Mizhou.

This adjustment will take time, and the five armies of the Huaiyou Left Army that were considered before may not be enough, especially considering that a war will be launched against Qingzhou, if there are no more than 30,000 troops, even if various means are used to mobilize Qingzhou's troops, it is unlikely that they will be able to go down in one go.

It's not a day or two to take this one, and the time given by Jiang Feng is within seven days.

Within seven days, all the Huaiyou (Wuning) army had, capture Yidu (Qingzhou Prefecture), and completely destroy the Pinglu army's confidence in war, only in this way can the goal be achieved, otherwise once the nearby Zizhou and Mizhou reinforcements rush back, then with the existing strength of the Huaiyou (Wuning) army, it will be taken again.

On the other hand, it requires the cooperation of all parties.

Zhu Mao is the main aspect, and it is necessary for Zhu Mao to send troops from Jeju to storm Qizhou, forcing Ziqing troops to come to help, and also to delay.

In addition, the East China Sea pirates mentioned by Yu Mingzhen can allow them to attack and harass Denglai, drag down the Denglai town army, prevent it from reinforcing Qingzhou, and it is best to attract a Qingzhou army to help, but this is estimated to be more difficult, with Wang Shouzhong's conservative and cautious style, it is unlikely to send his own tooth army to reinforce Denglai to suppress the bandits.

In addition, it is necessary to find some other ways to mobilize as many forces as possible at their disposal.