The fog of war has always been a real thing, not just a concept in the game before Guo Rong travels through.

Hiding one's own purpose, strategy, and deployment, and exploring the other side's purpose, strategy, and deployment is the process of breaking through the fog on both sides.

Chen Hongzhi tried all kinds of ways to hide his strategy, hide his goals, and even hide his existence, and it can be said that Chen Hongzhi succeeded for most of it.

It's just that Chen Hongzhi is still greedy after all!

Guo Rong bet that Huaixi is just Chen Hongzhi's idle chess and cold move, with the aim of becoming a time bomb ambushed in the hinterland of Datang's finance and taxation.

It's just that Chen Hongzhi's kung fu of idle chess and Bu Lengzi is far from being comparable to Zhou Gong of the Republic in later generations, and his idle chess has become his biggest flaw.

If it weren't for the accident in Huaixi, if it weren't for the fact that the two brothers Wu Shaoxiang and Wu Shaoxiong finally chose to completely fall to the imperial court and to the Tang Dynasty, thus telling the truth hidden behind it, Guo Rong probably would never have dreamed that it was Chen Hongzhi, a guy who disappeared for four years, who was secretly planning all this.

Of course, this is not Chen Hongzhi's fault, after all, Chen Hongzhi is lurking in the shadows, and he can't completely control the overall situation in the open, how can a Chen Hongzhi in the dark hold everything in his hands.

Although everything Chen Hongzhi has done has not transcended the shadow of Ju Wenzhen, Huaxia has only been a variety of reincarnations since ancient times.

On the other hand, with the help of the huge network left by Ju Wenzhen, it took four years to connect such a big scene, and Chen Hongzhi can also be regarded as better than the blue.

Moreover, Chen Hongzhi has not done anything behind, and now the changes in the entire Liaodong, Hebei and even the whole Shandong are not only Chen Hongzhi's responses, but also not Chen Hongzhi's smokescreen to hide his true purpose.

It's just that Chen Hongzhi's godfather Ju Wenzhen is still a bad move compared to Li Yu, who is also a teacher and friend of Guo Rong, and is also a gentleman and a father, because Guo Rong doesn't need to know Chen Hongzhi's arrangement at all, just knowing Chen Hongzhi's purpose is enough.

Drunk and lying on the knees of beauties, ruling the world, it is said to be the ultimate dream of every man.

As an incomplete man, although Chen Hongzhi is useless even if he lies on the knees of a beauty, he can still control the affairs of the world.

Chen Hongzhi is the de facto heir of Ju Wenzhen.

launched a rebellion in Chang'an, under the Xingqing Palace, one moment it was only one step away from "ruling the world", and the next moment it became a lost dog.

Under this huge gap, Chen Hongzhi did not go crazy and actually admired Guo Rong, but Guo Rong did not think that Chen Hongzhi belonged to the kind of broad-minded, open-minded and cheerful person.

With the dream completely shattered, Guo Rong believes that it is the normal reaction of Chen Hongzhi and others to hate Datang, and what cannot be obtained is directly destroyed is the goal of Chen Hongzhi and others.

"The whole world is attacking Tang!"

Thinking of these four words, thinking of Chen Hongzhi's efforts for these four words, and then thinking of Chen Hongzhi's miserable appearance detected by the scouts, Guo Rong sighed inadvertently.

"It's been four years, and it's really hard for Chen Hongzhi to be so ghostly."

"General, what did you say?"

The opponent's ultimate goal has been shown in front of him, which means that most of the fog of war shrouded in the territory of Datang has been revealed, and most of Guo Rong's long-standing uneasiness has dissipated.

Hearing Wu Shaoxiong's blank inquiry, Guo Rong's thoughts were taken back from Chen Hongzhi's body.

The fog has been lifted, but the problem is still there, Chen Hongzhi's conspiracy is still there, and the situation of the whole world attacking Tang is still there.

Now Guo Rong is most worried about two points.

First, Li Yu who went north.

In the case of full mobilization, the three towns of Hebei have at least 300,000 troops;

The number of rebels from the various ethnic groups in Liaodong who invaded Liaodong, as well as the Tang rebels who rebelled after the chaos in Liaodong, definitely exceeded 100,000;

Silla, Baekje, and Goguryeo, which was restored with the help of chaos after a hundred years of destruction, the total number of allied troops formed by the three countries exceeded 100,000;

There are also an unknown number of people from the Bohai Sea and the Japanese from the east......

To simply list the numbers, the entire Hebei Province, including Liaodong, can become the enemy of Li Yu's army of more than fifty-five, and the Hebei army under Li Yu's army, which is composed of the back soldiers of the forbidden army as the core, is only more than two people, even if you add the temporary conscription of auxiliary soldiers, the full battle is not more than 30,000 people.

If it's a defensive battle, forget it, the key is that Li Yu took the initiative to attack and went deep into the enemy's territory alone.

Judging from the battle situation in the entire Tang Dynasty or the entire Shandong, when the rebels were not fully prepared, it was definitely a good move for Li Yu to lead the army to take the initiative.

No matter what Chen Hongzhi thought or planned, in order to continue to hide the purpose, the rebels did not dare to do it before Li Yu entered Liaodong, which meant that Li Yu, who risked going deep alone, bought himself at least a month, and a month is precious under the current war situation.

However, in a land full of hostility, with more than 20,000 people, facing an astonishing number of opponents, this level of confrontation, even if the god of war Han Xin is reincarnated, the killing god Bai Qi is resurrected, and the martial saint Sun Wu cheats the corpse, I am afraid it will be difficult to guarantee that he can have a full corpse, let alone Li Yu.

After having a macro understanding of the battle situation, Guo Rong didn't dare to ask Li Yu to do anything more now.

Guo Rong only hoped that Li Yu would be able to join up with the scouts of the Changying Army under the command of Yu Qian as soon as possible, understand his true situation earlier, and find a place to hold on until he arrived with his troops and horses.

As for the second point, it is Jiaodong Li Shidao.

Originally, Guo Rong was just suspicious of Li Shidao in Jiaodong, and he personally took a detour to Jiaodong only to prevent accidents.

However, now the suspicion has been confirmed by Wu Shaoxiong, which has led to the fact that he must adjust his purpose and strategy.

Participated in the rebellion but was not the main force of the rebellion, participated in the secret meeting of the rebels in Youzhou, but sent his own cronies, entered the Wa Kingdom but kept it secret......

If it is said that the three towns of Hebei, Mr. Liu, Wang Chengzong, and Tian Ji'an are chess pieces on the bright side.

The Liaodong tribes are fools who were fooled out to be bait and destined to become cannon fodder,

Balhae, Silla, and Baekje are bandits who are ready to take advantage of the fire,

Dongying's little devils are thieves who don't die,

Chen Hongzhi is the driving force behind everything,

Then Guo Rong feels that Li Shidao is the evil wolf lurking in the shadows, the most cunning and dangerous, ready to choose someone to devour!

Guo Rong now has a feeling of fear, if he didn't know this situation and entered Jiaodong with a partial division, he might not be able to take advantage of Li Shidao with the two regiments of less than 7,000 soldiers and horses at hand.

Guo Rong is not worried about anything else, after Pinglu Town was dismembered and turned into Jiaodong, only a small part of the strength was left, and the remaining Jiaodong army was only twenty or thirty thousand people, and it had to be distributed in the four states, which was indeed not too strong, but it did not mean that Li Shidao could not have other forces in his hands.

In the news that Yu Qian sent back from Liaodong, Silla and Baekje already had the figure of the Japanese samurai, and the news from the direction of Jiaodong had not yet come, but no one dared to guarantee that Li Shidao would not introduce the Japanese soldiers into Jiaodong.

In this era, Guo Rong still had no experience in fighting with the Japanese state, but the Tang army had experience in fighting with the Japanese soldiers, and a big battle could break out between the two sides at the mouth of the Baijiang River.

In the end, the Wa Kingdom was severely beaten by the Tang Dynasty sailors, and more than 40,000 Japanese troops were beaten by more than 10,000 Tang troops, and they honestly sent Tang envoys for more than 100 years.

According to the information obtained by Guo Rong from the Ministry of War, the evaluation of the Japanese soldiers by the generals of the Tang Army, including Liu Renliang, who participated in the war, was basically quite consistent:

These little people from the Wa Kingdom are short, poorly equipped, and average in combat effectiveness, but they are brave, tenacious, and not afraid of life and death.

Regarding the quantity and quality of the army, Guo Rong heard similar judgments from the mouths of Fan Xichao and Han Hong:

The soldiers are expensive but not too expensive, but this is conditional, but if the number of elites is too small, and the number of miscellaneous soldiers is too much, the elites will really be consumed in infinite consumption.

The combat effectiveness of the Japanese soldiers is indeed limited, but what if these tenacious wolf cubs are armed by Li Shidao?

If there are really tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers, without sufficient preparation, their thousands of people will not necessarily suffer losses, and it will be a great loss if they are bitten to death by ants from the Japanese country.

Guo Rong was powerless on Li Yu's side, but Jiaodong had to be solved by himself, and Guo Rong immediately began to think about where he could transfer new troops?

If you don't know that the opponent is Chen Hongzhi, and you don't know that the other party is indeed attacking the Tang Dynasty, Guo Rong can consider it, but now, in the direction of Chang'an, Guo Rong is a soldier, and he doesn't dare to withdraw it anymore.

Wu Shaoxiong clearly explained Chen Hongzhi's original plan, the two wings of Liaodong and Tubo, the middle assault of Ren Dijian in Fengzhou, the thinking is clear and clear, Chang'an is the center of the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the gate of life, Guo Rong wants to admit that this is a good plan.

In a sense, Chen Hongzhi's hand also belongs to the yang conspiracy that Han Hong just demonstrated to himself!

Ren Dijian has been quietly dropped, but since Chen Hongzhi wants to destroy the Tang Dynasty, he launched a global attack on the Tang Dynasty, although Guo Rong believes that Chen Hongzhi will definitely not arrange only Fengzhou.

Guo Rong didn't know what Chen Hongzhi had behind him, but Guo Rong knew that the fall of Chang'an was unacceptable, and it was absolutely right to leave enough troops in Chang'an to ensure the safety of Chang'an.

As for the back hand, it is possible for the weakened nobles, the uneasy feudal towns, and even the bald heads who have been hit by Li Yu and Li Chun's disgust......

But Guo Rong knows one thing, as long as there are 100,000 newly formed forbidden troops in Chang'an, not to mention a small number of enemy troops sneak attack, even if the enemy army has a million troops, it is absolutely impossible to break through Chang'an.

If the direction of Chang'an is not good, then the main direction of the Eastern Expedition to counter the rebels, which is attracting the attention of Hebei and the people of the world, obviously cannot be arbitrarily withdrawn.

Otherwise, once the rebels discover the abnormality and understand that they are not well prepared, it is easy to destroy the situation that Guo Rong has painstakingly created.

Once Chen Hongzhi determined his reality and purpose, he abandoned Li Yu and directly instigated 300,000 Hebei troops to pour out, and the consequences were unimaginable.

Of course, there is still the Xuanwu Army left.

To be honest, the Xuanwu army is sufficient in terms of establishment and strength, and Han Hong has also tied his interests to the imperial court several times, but they are obviously not suitable for large-scale transfers.

On the one hand, the current strength of the Xuanwu Army has been drained.

In the north, according to Guo Rong's request, it has been sent to deter Wei Bo and Chengde.

In the south, the news that the 40,000 Xuanwu Army was confronting the Huaixi Army had spread all over the world, and if Guo Rong dared to draw this part of the force, it would be tantamount to spreading the news about the surrender of the Huaixi Army that he hoped to conceal, and the consequences would be equally unimaginable.

When he arrived here, Guo Rong found that he had almost no choice, and the only one who had the ability and could be mobilized now was the tens of thousands of Huaixi soldiers and horses who had just been defeated.

In fact, the quality of the Huaixi Army is quite good.

Under the adversity of the battlefield, the turmoil of the army, and the collapse of the whole army, under the command of Wu Shaoxiang, the organization was restored to a certain extent, and it almost organized a counterattack.

Guo Rong knows that being able to do this is actually beyond most other forces.

After analyzing the existing situation and situation, a completed idea gradually appeared in Guo Rong's mind, but it was just ......

"Mr. Wu, I remember you said that all the soldiers of the Huaixi Army were trained by Brother Ling himself, and this part of the people is actually quite good in combat effectiveness, and they are quite loyal to Brother Ling."

"Exactly!"

"That's good, there is no problem with the communication of the information pointed out by Mr., I will write a letter tonight to send the situation to Chang'an, but the time for my brother to go to Chang'an will be postponed."

"General, is there something wrong with the accident?"

It can be seen that at this meeting just now, Guo Rong's thoughts have undergone a huge change, and the abnormality of this change even made Wu Shaoxiong feel slightly uneasy.

"Sir, don't worry, all this is harmless to Brother Ling,

It's just that the sudden situation now makes me need Wu Sikong's help with some things."

"General, please!"

"Mainly the Huaixi Army......

When Guo Rong just said his thoughts, Wu Shaoxiong was a little confused.

However, from inference to purpose, after listening to Guo Rong's complete statement, Wu Shaoxiong had to admit that what Guo Rong said was the only way that could be directly realized by plug and play.

And to achieve this method, it does require the cooperation of his brother, and after carefully thinking about the causes and consequences and the impact it brings, Wu Shaoxiong gave Guo Rong a positive answer.

After receiving affirmation from Wu Shaoxiong, Guo Rong felt a lot more relieved, and after sending someone to take good care of Wu Shaoxiong, who was already very tired, Guo Rong revised his plan for the Huaixi Army, and then went to find Han Hong and Wu Shaoxiang.

According to the situation just now, at this time, Han Hong and Wu Shaoxiang should be having a discussion, and Guo Rong is very curious about what the two bigwig-level characters will look like.

However, after arriving, Guo Rong found that in his understanding, the two people who should have been beaten were sitting next to a table facing each other at this time, looking at each other, each holding a wine jar.

"Tons! Ton! Tons!"

"Tons! Ton! Tons!"

With his eyes wide open, looking at the two guys who were frantically pouring wine into their mouths, Guo Rong was confused, he didn't say anything, but he was already scolding in his heart.

These two old immortals made trouble for a long time, creating such a big posture, and finally came here to drink!

You TMD directly said that you want to drink, although alcohol is forbidden in Lao Tzu's army, but you are not from my Changying army.

"Boss! Chief! Boss!"

Seeing Guo Rong coming, Zhi Muyu, who was enjoying watching the excitement, shouted directly.

"You don't know, these two people are just two wine barrels, in less than half an hour, everyone has drunk almost five jars of wine."

Looking at the empty jar next to him, Guo Rong was dumbfounded......