After Li Tai's persuasion with affection and reason, Wu Mingche also accepted this arrangement. And with the addition of Wu Mingche, the team prepared by Li Tai for Chen Chang can be regarded as having a strong support point.

Because he still had to discuss with Nan Chen the issue of coordinating the dispatch of troops and attacking Huainan, after finalizing the repatriation of Chen Chang, Li Tai first arranged for the envoy to go to Jiangdong as soon as possible and informed Chen Baxian of the matter.

Next, Li Tai specially prepared a family banquet to see off Chen Chang and Chen Ji, the two cousins. During the banquet, the two of them were grateful to Tang Gong, and they seemed very excited, probably imagining that after leaving the prison of Guanzhong, the sky would be high and the birds would fly, and they would be indescribably happy.

Li Tai looked at them like this, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart that when they were brought back to Guanzhong as people who had died in a few years, would they remember the joyful imagination of parting today?

After the banquet, Li Tai arranged for Wu Mingche to lead a thousand elite soldiers to escort Chen Chang and his party out of Wuguan and all the way to Jiangdong.

At this time, the mobilization of personnel and materials between the prefectures and counties in the Western Wei Dynasty was also in full swing, and all the people, horses, money, and grain were continuously sent to the same state.

The mobilization of troops was more efficient than the delivery of supplies, and in just ten days more than 100,000 troops had gathered in the territory of Tongzhou.

These 100,000 troops are only the men and horses who have been incorporated into this conscription sequence, and do not include the people who remain behind. Such a large-scale conscription and mobilization was also a big test for the masses of the hegemon, and they all worked up a spirit and did not dare to slack off, from the arrangement of the route, the drawing up of the military period, to the setting up of the barracks and the supply of grain and grass.

The mobilization of a war is not only a test of military construction, if the administrative side cannot give full cooperation, then even if the men and horses are barely gathered, it may be difficult for the army to carry out long-distance conquest.

It is probably that the masses attach too much importance to this, but they seem to use too much force, and the specific manifestation is that the speed and efficiency of the army and the collection and distribution of materials have greatly exceeded Li Tai's prediction.

It must be known that it is the first time for him to experience the dispatch of personnel and materials of such intensity and scale, although it is estimated based on past experience and data, but because of the intentions of the masses, the process is extremely smooth, and the achievement of the goals of the different stages of the requisition task is much ahead of his estimate.

This brings up the question of whether to go or when?

Although this time's fighter was the Northern Yuzhou Assassin Sima to eliminate the difficulty of Juzhou and surrender to Cheng, in fact, Heluo was not the main battlefield expected by Li Tai, but he needed Northern Qi to regard Heluo as the main battlefield of the next battle.

Northern Yuzhou is located in the territory of Northern Qi to the east of Heluo, and if you want to take it over, you will inevitably need a large army to go straight to Heluo. This is the most basic and normal idea, and it is precisely because of this that the last battle of Bishan was fought. Moreover, Li Tai has a brilliant record and almost no defeat in Heluo, and now he is recruiting the first soldiers in the country on a large scale, so he must be going to fight Heluo again!

Not only ordinary people, but also many subordinate officials of the current hegemony who are not involved in secret, also think that this big move is bound to recapture Heluo, and may use this to recapture the old capital of Luoyang and occupy it for a long time.

As for the Northern Qi Middle School, it must be common to hold such a view. People's cognition of things first comes from experience. For people who have not seen it, even if you imagine it, it is difficult to get a general and wide recognition. In particular, the blows and contusions brought by Li Tai to the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi in Heluo are impressive, so most people should also follow this inertia and make assumptions about the problem.

Li Tai wanted such an effect, and he put pressure on the Northern Qi side by recruiting soldiers in the country, thus forcing the Northern Qi to invest a large amount of military strength in Heluo to prepare for war. When he waits until this time, he attacks from other directions, which will naturally put the Northern Qi army in a passive state.

Although the Jinyang soldiers of the Northern Qi Dynasty are still strong elite soldiers, they are not optimistic in other aspects.

First of all, the previous battle of crossing the river to attack Jiankang buried a large number of new troops in Henan, Huainan and other places.

Secondly, the heavy labor in these years also greatly depleted the national strength of the Northern Qi Dynasty, although there were no large-scale wars in the past two years, but

It is the Great Wall of the Northern Qi Dynasty in the north that is still being built and reinforced, and Jinyang, Yecheng and other places in the country are also building palaces and gardens.

Under such circumstances, if the main forces of the Northern Qi Dynasty carry out a reactive rush to the aid operation, the exertion of combat effectiveness will inevitably be greatly reduced. If any personnel rifts and contradictions are exposed from this, it will be even more anxious.

Of course, Li Tai could not publicize such a strategic concept, and even deliberately carried out some operations that disrupted judgment in order to confuse the opponent.

For example, the first to send forward men and horses to settle in Tongguan, and build the first line of the military road and supplies along the way, etc., of course, the most important thing is to delay the time for the official expedition through the requisition process.

He deliberately set the time for levy and dispatch to one month, which was enough time for Northern Qi to increase the number of men and horses and improve the defense between Heluo. Even if Northern Qi was puzzled by this in the later period, it was impossible to remove the completed defensive line arrangement because of a trumped-up guess.

But now, because the subordinates of the overlord are as excited as chicken blood, it only took ten days to complete most of the recruitment tasks, these guys are working overtime to complete the task, and they are probably still preparing for the reward, but they don't know that they will cause flaws to Tang Gong's plan to confuse the enemy by being so active.

This is also a relatively happy worry for Li Tai. On the one hand, we are pleased and proud of the efficiency of this mobilization in the country, and on the other hand, we must find ways to cover up the progress of this mobilization a little.

Fortunately, for such a large-scale military dispatch, it would be difficult for ordinary people to accurately judge the specific mobilization progress if they did not grasp the key core data reports. If even this kind of secret can be leaked, then Li Tai doesn't have to worry about these operations anymore, just wash his neck and wait for Beiqi to play Assassin's Creed with him.

In fact, the current military mobilization is to a considerable extent a cover-up operation, and the tactical strategy that Li Tai really wants to implement has already begun to pave the way for a long time.

When he first went out to Hedong, he gave instructions to use his feudal wealth to dredge the canals and waterways in Hedong. In addition to the Yongfeng Canal, a canal related to the salt industry, another waterway in the east of the river has also been renovated and dredged to ensure the smooth flow of water transportation.

In the past two years or so, the trade between Fenjiang has become more and more prosperous. Through the smuggling trade on these borders, on the one hand, the spoils captured in the previous battles of the Western Wei Dynasty could be realized for profit, and on the other hand, the personnel penetration into the Northern Qi side could be strengthened.

At the same time, there is another more important role, that is, through these commercial activities, the establishment of a logistics and warehousing system that can be converted to military use at any time.

Generally speaking, it is difficult to carry out such a large-scale military operation, and it is difficult to carry out any surprise operations that advance and retreat suddenly and move thousands of miles, even if the troops and horses can carry out orders and prohibitions, and have super enforcement power for various military orders.

However, with so many men and horses advancing and retreating, a series of preparations such as the arrangement of roads, the search for water sources along the way, and the supply of grain and grass must be properly arranged long before the army is launched. Otherwise, it is really a question of whether the hundreds of thousands of troops will be cut off from food and drink at every turn, not to mention whether they can win the battle and whether they can return as an organization.

Since Li Tai went out to patrol the east of the river, the Western Wei Dynasty continued to expand the city along Fenqu, and at the same time the defense line was pushed outward, when the border soldiers of the Northern Qi Town were obsessed with the huge profits of the border city, a storage system was established under their noses, and some of the warehouses stored a considerable amount of military rations and equipment.

Of course, this is a bit risky, once the Northern Qi army enters the Kou and occupies these cities and cangs, and at the same time seizes these materials, I am afraid that the Western Wei will have a big plan in this direction.

But the damage done by a strong opponent is far less than that of a pig teammate. In order to ensure that the smuggling in this city can continue, the soldiers under his command are strictly forbidden to take the initiative to provoke, and even the small friction that the Western Wei can provoke in order to desensitize them is to maintain a tolerant attitude.

A few days later, Li Tai personally went to the Chaoban River Defense Camp and secretly summoned Wei Xiaokuan, who was guarding the jade bi, and after the meeting, he went directly to Wei Xiao

Kuanfa asked, "According to what the general has seen, how sure is it that he will take Jinju directly at the moment?"

"Jinju is an important town of thieves, even if you ignore the Zhengping land in Fenbei, it still needs to be uprooted on both sides of the Fen River. And Pingyang White Horse City is divided into several parts, and they are subordinate to each other, and their county towns, state cities, towns and other prefectures have their own hands, and they reject one side, even if there is a leak in one place, they can also be quickly replenished elsewhere. If you want to pull it out quickly, it will be very difficult."

Wei Xiaokuan is also a master of spy warfare, when Tang Gong put forward such an idea in the old years, he strengthened the infiltration and espionage of Jinzhou, and talked about the streets and alleys in Jinzhou City. And it is precisely because he understands very carefully that he is not very confident in conquering Jinju as soon as possible.

Jinju is not as single as Northern Yuzhou, as a large town of Linfen, there are more than 20,000 military personnel engaged in the town alone, and these personnel are under the jurisdiction of different generals. Although Wei Cang, the assassin of Jinzhou, is incompetent, he still does not lose the cooperation of his personnel to correct his mistakes, even if he wants to learn Sima to eliminate difficulties and directly surrender to the enemy.

Wei Xiaokuan took out another map of the garrison layout around Jinzhou, and continued to analyze: "After the Jinzhou Zhufang fortress is broken, it may not be necessary to stay, if you want to besiege the city, you need at least 30,000 people. If you want to seize Jinju, you can't do it quickly, especially you need to cut off its various road reinforcements, and you need to divide troops to garrison the passages such as the Bird Mouse Valley and the Thousand Miles Path in the north......

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