Time flies, from April to September. There is no big deal between the Kanto Alliance and the Xiliang Army. At most, there is only a small group of scouts fighting, and no large soldiers are coming. Now the pass is closed and the traffic is not smooth. I don’t know what Dong Zhuo is doing. But I think it’s still the matter of stabilizing Jingzhao Chang'an, and it may be that he is dealing with Huangfu Song.

The only major event during this period was that Cao Cao recruited more than 4,000 elite soldiers in Danyang County to prepare for the war. However, when he arrived at Long Kang, mutiny occurred, and the rebel soldiers burned Cao Cao's tent. In a hurry, Cao Cao was calm and determined, and he held a sharp knife to kill dozens of people, calming down the situation. However, many soldiers were dispersed, and only more than a thousand men were left. Cao Cao had no choice but to surrender to Yuan Shao's command again. Cao Cao's agreement to advance with He Bai was naturally cancelled.

Others may think that the Long Kang mutiny is a trivial matter, but He Bai knew that after the defeat in Xingyang and the Long Kang mutiny, Cao Cao's combat and control ability improved rapidly, and he was promoted to the ranks of famous generals in less than a few months. After all, he was a natural talent for generals, and his progress was very fast. He Bai was afraid that he would be worse than that of him at this time.

After several months of persuasion and teaching, and in-depth understanding of the customs and habits of the people of Xiliang among the soldiers, eliminating evil and promoting good, and transforming labor, the thousands of captured Xiliang soldiers finally changed their tyrannical thoughts and repented and reformed themselves. With Song Guo as the leader, all of them changed their festivals and their edicts.

Therefore, He Bai successfully obtained the loyalty of nearly 3,000 Xiliang Jingqi, and changed Zhang Liao to the commander of the cavalry, specifically commanding the three thousand Xiliang Jingqi. Song Guo and Ye Xun were the deputy generals of Zhang Liao. As for the three thousand infantrymen of Zhang Liao, plus two thousand Yingchuan new recruits, He Bai changed Chunyu Qiong to the commander of the commander of the Zhaoxin Commander, with four ordinary army Sima as deputy.

This is also a helpless move for Chunyu Qiong's actual position. Who made the other generals not grow up yet and cannot be of great use? It seems that only Chunyu Qiong is still competent. Moreover, these five thousand people are considered to be the remaining army among He Bai's army, and it is not very good to call it a good idea, so Chunyu Qiong is cheaper.

At this point, He Bai had a total of 26,000 direct troops under his command, including the Xiyuan Xia Army, Huang Zhong's army, Fu Zhengmen, Chunyu Qiong's army, Dian Wei's army and Zhang Liao's army, and a total of 36,000 troops in Donglai County. If 12,500 troops were used as one army in the Spring and Autumn Period, He Bai had already prepared three armies at this time. If 5,000 troops were used as one army in the Eastern Han Dynasty, He Bai would have already had seven armies at this time.

It was the time when the autumn weather was clear and the autumn harvest in Yingchuan County had been completed. Under the protection of He Bai's army, the prefect of Yingchuan County, Li Min, safely cleared Yingchuan County and returned to peace. This year, due to the chaos of the Xiliang army, the harvest was less than 50% of the army, and the total tax was 260,000 stones and 330 million yuan.

In addition to keeping 100,000 stones of grain and 130 million yuan of money for county expenses, Li Min gave all of them to He Jun for use. Under Li Min's call, the great families of Yingchuan, large and small, opened up support doors to help He Jun stay in Yingchuan for a long time and protect his side, and raised a total of 500,000 stones of grain.

Nowadays, there are shortages of grain in Yingchuan, Chenliu and Nanyang, and the grain is expensive and the money is low, almost 800 coins per stone. The wealthy families in Yingchuan County can support He Bai’s 500,000 s of grain, which is considered a lot of money. In addition, Yang Yuan from Zhongmu also prepared 100,000 s of grain. He Bai’s army had a total of 760,000 s of grain, and 1.3 billion yuan in money, which can definitely be considered as a sufficient amount of troops. Even if he does not need support from Jizhou and jujube, He Bai’s army does not have to worry about food and grass.

Seeing that the army was strong and the horses were strong, He Bai could no longer hold back. Recently, he heard that the prefect of Changsha Sun Jian finally led his troops north, but when he went north, he first killed Wang Rui, the governor of Jingzhou who had been ruling Dong Liang for a long time. From the fact that he did not force Jingzhou, but continued to lead his troops north, He Bai knew that Sun Jian was also a truly loyal and righteous person at this time.

It seems that there are so many loyal ministers in the Han Dynasty at this time. You must be careful and careful. You must not be exposed too early, otherwise you will definitely be besieged and eliminated early as Yuan Shu, who was promoted to the emperor.

Sun Jian's arrival will be another time for the Kanto Alliance Army, which has been suppressed by Dong Zhuo's army, to advance. Therefore, He Bai, who has always been unwilling to do more damage, also wanted to take the opportunity to rise up and earn the final political reputation of Dong. He then left the alliance and returned to Beihai, preparing to take the military plan to seize Qingzhou and separatist the country.

For a time, messengers came out everywhere, and arrows were dancing. The armies scattered in Yingchuan counties gradually gathered in Yangdi, and money and grain were also constantly gathering in Yangdi. At this time, Yangdi had no death silence a few months ago, and had recovered a lot of popularity, with a population of 20,000. Now tens of thousands of troops have arrived, which has made Yangdi City even more crowded.

He Bai summoned all the generals and officials in the city, and Li Min, the prefect of Yingchuan, and others to discuss military affairs. In the hall, a huge rectangular sand table appeared in front of everyone. This was abbreviated topographic map of the various garrisons and passes of the Xiliang Army in Henan. He was built by He Bai for several months.

There was no detailed topographic map at this time, and there were no satellite maps. He Bai could only make some primitive sand tables. Everyone was amazed when they saw them. Li Min sighed: "This plate that Mr. He did is really amazing. The terrain at the junction of Yin and Yingchuan in Henan was all in this plate, and the distribution of the military forces of the Xiliang army was also in the palm of his hands. In the past, I read history and heard that Qin Shihuang personally piled up military sand tables to study the geographical situations of various countries. Later, General Fubo Ma Wenyuan also used valley piles to build geographical plates for the southern barbarians. Now I finally saw the real thing."

He Bai was stunned. He didn't expect that the sand table would appear so early. He thought it was only available in later generations. It seemed that the ancients' talents were not inferior to those of descendants, but they had a little less knowledge. He Bai couldn't show off and had to ask for punishment to teach everyone military intelligence pictures.

Fu Xing coughed lightly, stood up and pointed to the sand table with a bamboo stick and said, "Since the Kanto princes jointly attacked Dong Zhuo in the first month of this year, the coalition forces have divided into three north, middle and south armies to suppress Dong Zhuo. However, in addition to actively resisting, Dong Zhuo also defeated the earth and moved the capital to Chang'an, in order to extend the front line of the Kanto princes, forcing the Kanto alliance to destroy itself without fighting."

"However, the Hanoi prefect Wang Gongjie's troops marched actively and intentionally crossed the river to advance Luoyang. Dong Zhuo was forced to take the initiative and cross Xiaopingjin, and destroyed the 20,000 troops of the vanguard of Wang Gongjie's troops in one fell swoop; and the southern line of Yuzhou governor Kong Gongxu was also defeated by the Xiliang army, losing 10,000 troops, which greatly increased Dong Zhuo's confidence in the battle against the princes of Guandong. This is the situation of the two armies before our army entered the alliance."

"After the independent Duke was appointed as the vanguard of the Allied Central Army, he first fought with Hua Xiong in front of the Sishui Pass, captured a city of Xingyang, and then went south to eliminate Li Meng's unit, and wiped out more than 8,000 Xiliang troops. Seeing that the troops were not large, they were all Dong Zhuo's direct troops. Compared with the 40,000 or 50,000 Xiliang soldiers, about 20%, which must have hurt Dong Zhuo."

"And our Guandong princes, first the Jinbei prime minister Bao Yuncheng, an army of three thousand people were wiped out, and then the Kong Gongxu army was wiped out. Finally, the 15,000 people joined by Cao Mengde, Zhang Mengzhuo and Bao Yuncheng were wiped out again. At this point, the Kanto coalition army lost a total of 70,000 troops."

"This has suffered heavy losses compared to Dong Zhuo's army, but it is mostly a mob that has not been trained for a long time, and can be recruited at any time. The main forces of the Allied forces such as Yuan Benchu, Yuan Gonglu, Gongsun Bogui, Tao Gongzu and our army have not suffered a major blow. Therefore, although Dong Zhuo's army has the upper hand, it dared not rush its troops to the east and took the initiative to launch an attack. This is the first stage of war."

"Now the enemy and our side have rested for April. After the autumn harvest, the army with money, food and training in hand will definitely be the beginning of a new battle. Even though the other princes are still waiting and watching, our army, which has always respected justice, is about to move."

"After April, the Xiliang army dispatched the troops as usual. Except for the original two or three thousand soldiers guarding the pass, there were still only the mobile forces of Xu Rong, Hua Xiong, Zhao Cen, and Wang Fang, the four troops of 20,000 soldiers and horses, and all gathered on the Sishui, Xingyang, and Hulao. Except for the guarding the pass, there were almost no soldiers or soldiers on the southern front."

"However, our army was originally a very hatred for Dong Zhuo, but the unknown generals commanded the army to deal with it on the southern side, which would inevitably be a fraud. Therefore, the lord thought that this must be Dong Zhuo's plan, and there must be a large army hidden in the mountains on the southern side, specifically to lure our army to attack Xuanyuan, Taigu, and Yique. Just wait for our army to go, and we will be surrounded by Dong Zhuo's army on all sides."

"Now, in the face of the Xiliang army's strategy, our army has two countermeasures. First, the Xiliang army has been waiting for our army for four months, and it must have been exhausted from the teacher's veterans and the soldiers' hearts have been slackened. Our army does not need to use tricks, but directly promotes the army to break the front. Second, it is to hand over the southern front to the prefect of Changsha Sun Jian. Our army still switches to the front and front lines of the Sishui Pass. After the navy smuggles through the Sishui Pass, attacks from front and back, breaks the pass in one fell swoop, and goes straight to Chenggao. It can make the dangerous pass a smooth road."

"The generals can discuss one thing. Which of these two strategies is better or worse? Which one should be the best? Of course, if you have better solutions, you can also tell them together."

Chunyu Qiong smiled and said, "The Dong bandits were guarding the gates and attacked with cavalry and horses. If they were not careful, they would be attacked. The attack from the south road requires preparations for a strong attack. Moreover, from Taigu Pass to Luoyang, there are only 90 miles of land, and the terrain along the way is dangerous. Moreover, Dong bandits have many soldiers, and they can be said to be difficult to defend according to the danger. You need to have the spirit of moving forward to force them to break them."

"Which is not the case with Sishui Pass. The lord had already had a plan to pass the pass. As long as he could pass the Sishui Pass, Chenggao was ahead. After Chenggao was brought down, the Kanto coalition forces could influx in endless aid. Dong Zhe was too late to die, so he dared to fight with our army. Therefore, the attack from the middle is least effort, the loss is less, and the gains are more. Therefore, I thought it was time to attack from the middle."
Chapter completed!