Xie Ai was fortunate to be present at the hearing, and it was quite amazing.

He didn't have a similar experience before, after all, he was just a Confucian in the cool land. However, on the topic of Shenzhou Lu Shen and Hu Lu ravaging China, I also hear people talk about it on weekdays, and the words are either indignant or pathetic, and so on.

However, in the middle of the table, he heard the Huainan people discussing all kinds of karma, and there was neither anger nor heaviness, as if they were discussing a very ordinary matter. They just said it simply, but in this calm atmosphere, what was revealed was an indescribable confidence.

This kind of mentality, Xie Ai is not unfamiliar, just like what problems he encountered in his studies, this problem is not difficult, but Xie Ai does not have much fear when facing it, because he knows very well that this problem may be difficult, but as long as he studies it carefully, the problem will be solved sooner or later.

Huainan people seem to have this kind of mentality, they can calmly talk about things, not because they underestimate problems and opponents, but because they know their mission, and whether it is difficult to discuss problems or not, that is what the spectators do, and their task is to solve problems.

The fact that the state is now divided into several ministries does not mean that the military pressure on Huainan is small. A person may be able to defeat an opponent who is impossible to defeat through various tricks, but when an opponent splits into several, it may be much weaker, but it will make the game environment more complicated than many times, and it will add more variables.

When the eight kings of China and the DPRK were in chaos and killing each other, they should not have expected that in the end, it was the miscellaneous Yicong they looked down on who picked up the cheapest. Hu Lu was the first to prosper, and they were rampant for a while, probably not expecting that it was the inconspicuous Tuoba clan in Daibei who had the last laugh. The Tuoba clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty vigorously carried out the Sinicization reform, but the soldiers of the Six Towns who were ignored and abandoned by them rebelled. The soldiers of the six towns, Gao Huan alone owns the five towns, and probably had the ambition to swallow the world, but he was still counterattacked by Yuwen's dick.

In the original history, Shi Kan was originally just a small discordant syllable in Shi Zhao's civil strife, and Wu Xing Shen was just a little bug with a head in the eyes of Jiangdong Gaomen. Who would have thought that these two parties could become the main force in the Central Plains at present.

Shi Kan's strength is not weak, it can even be said to be very strong. The territory controlled by his people spanned the Yellow River and the Taihang Mountains, and the territory of the original Shizhao from Yecheng to the west was almost fully accepted, and a considerable number of forbidden troops of the Qianguo State were received, and there were as many as 10,000 men and horses in the Yellow River Yaojin Fangtou alone, and as for his own town Yecheng, it maintained an army of at least 50,000 people.

These armies should not be regarded as a rabble, and it must be known that this group of men and horses is separated from the core forces of the kingdom and must have inherited a considerable part of the legacy left by Shile. This can be seen from the rapid westward expansion of his people, earlier the Huainan army entered southern Henan, and even as far as Hanoi there were local villagers willing to liaise, but now this kind of voice has long disappeared.

However, the size of the power is one thing, and the power that can be exerted is another. However, Shen Zhezi knows very well that this future war cannot be pinned on the internal strife and contradictions of the opponent.

It's also a funny thing to say, when Shi Leshang was alive, although there were contradictions and suspicions among people from all walks of life in the country, at least there was one co-master, which was also the culmination of the country's prosperity. As a result, hundreds of thousands of troops rushed south, but they could not cooperate with each other, and contradictions broke out, resulting in great defeat and loss.

Now it seems that the kingdom has been divided into several parts, and the prestige of the Shi Kanqi people is far less than that of the royal people, but with the strong rise of the Huainan army, the current situation provides them with the possibility of uniting and helping each other.

In the past few years, although Huainan focused on operating localities, Shen Zhezi did not have the idea of launching a strong encirclement and suppression of several rebellious armies in Henan to resolve some border pressure. You must know that with the Huainan Army pushing into southern Henan, the Huaishui natural danger is no longer enough to be feared, and the entire southern Henan has no danger to defend, and the surrounding long border can be said to be completely undefended.

Especially in the north, there is Chen Guang, the head snake of the chaotic army, in order to prevent his people from coming south to plunder, the Huainan army had to prepare heavy troops between Yingchuan, Qian and Liang. Once the Huainan Army showed signs of massing and using troops on a large scale, whether it was the peach leopard in Luoyang or Liu Zheng in Surabaya, they were all ready to move, and they were all ready to copy the back road of Huainan. Therefore, before there was a sure chance of victory that could be resolved quickly, Huainan was also not very calm by these people.

With such a flat and unobstructed terrain in southern Henan, even a heavily armed fortress can play a very little defensive role. Just like a few years ago, the Huainan Army succeeded in attacking the city guarded by Shi Cong, and now the Huainan Army is also facing such a dilemma. Therefore, in order to prevent the invasion of the surrounding area, the Huainan Army not only built a fort in southern Henan as a warning, but also spared no expense to create a strong cavalry team, so as to deter the surrounding area a little and create an environment that can develop rapidly.

Of course, this situation of confrontation can be maintained, and there is no lack of results of mutual connivance between the two sides. For the Huainan Army, although there are some scruples in gathering heavy troops to exterminate one of them, it is not a price that it cannot afford or has to pay.

But Shen Zhezi still connived at the maintenance of this situation, in fact, he also used these hostile forces to squeeze the living space of the villagers around the realm. People just have a kind of temperament that does not die without the heart of the Yellow River, the Huainan army regards itself as a king, although those township sects are powerless to parry, but they are also quite fearless, thinking that the Huainan army does not dare to oppress them too much, and even secretly harbor dissenting intentions.

Shen Zhezi was unwilling to compromise with them, nor did he want to condone the Huainan army to plunder the countryside, so he simply let those rebellious troops ravage them. The Huainan Governor's Mansion has seen a surge in household registration in recent years, which also has a great deal to do with it. The rebels will not talk about any friendship with these villagers, and they will naturally have to fight for their lives in order to survive. They either clinged to the rebels or fled south. Once they flee the country, it doesn't matter what their wishes are.

And these hostile forces in the surrounding areas are also suffering themselves, and they are a group of chaotic soldiers, even if they occasionally have a place to live, they are completely unable to organize production, and they cannot form a stable rule. To survive, captivity seems to be the only option.

But there is also a cost to plunder, and those township docks are also non-renewable resources in the short term. Seeing the rapid development and rise of Huainan, on the one hand, there is more and more severe survival pressure, and on the other hand, it is not a desire to raise Huainan as a guinea dog, and occasionally prey and prey.

At least as far as Shen Zhezi knew, the surrounding township sects that traveled to and from Runan for commercial transactions had a background in the rebellion. Shen Zhezi didn't hit too hard in this regard, but occasionally brought out one or two to slaughter and demonstrate. After all, in commercial transactions, Huainan gains more profits, and he also needs to fish these rebel troops around, and kill them as soon as they are well prepared.

It's a brutal game of survival, with no shortage of connivance between the two sides, but whichever side shows obvious flaws will immediately be dealt with in a brutal blow. Obviously, in this competition, the Huainan army has an absolute advantage, so those rebel forces need to cooperate more closely if they want to obtain greater security.

In this regard, the reason why Shikan's forces were able to cross the Yellow River was also greatly helped by the Huainan army.

Now among the surrounding parties, the strongest is the Peach Leopard Army in Luoyang. The Peach Leopard Department was originally part of the southern expedition of the slave country, although it was defeated in Hanging Gourd a few years ago, but at that time, Huainan mainly dispatched a naval army, the purpose was also to meet the army and civilians of Runan, and the goal was not to kill or injure the enemy. In the follow-up decisive battle at the vortex, Peach Leopard did not participate, so its military strength should not be underestimated, so it dared to go straight to Luoyang.

More than three years have passed, and the Huainan Army has never pressed Luoyang again, and the slave country is also completely divided, so Taobao has stayed in Luoyang for so long. But it is not easy to maintain tens of thousands of people to eat and chew, and the surrounding area of Luoyang was full of chaos during the Sino-Korean period, and then it was called the core area of the war between the two Zhaos, and it has long ceased to be prosperous.

The peach leopard is trying its best to maintain it, and there should be an army of nearly 30,000 people at the moment, but there is a considerable amount of cavalry among them, so the threat is very large. Moreover, the terrain around Luoyang is quite complicated, even if the Huainan army occupies an absolute advantage in the force, it is difficult to completely cover it in Luoyang, once its army escapes again, it will bring a very serious blow to the commercial and trade system of Huainan that has developed for several years.

Recovering the old capital of Luoyang was a great temptation, but after a long discussion, the generals finally decided that it was not appropriate to regard Luoyang as the primary goal. The reason why the rebel army is difficult to deal with is that there is no pressure to defend the territory at all. Moreover, there is a great enemy of Huainan nearby, and Nanyang in the south has been lost, so it is impossible for Taobao to take Luoyang as a foundation to defend.

Shen Zhezi still remembers the first battle he crossed the river, and the slave general Huang Quan, who was supposed to defend in Hefei, suddenly appeared in Tushui, hundreds of miles away, and the slave general Peng Biao also went out to fight in the field during the first battle of Huainan, and he did not hope to be able to march with a large army to besiege the lonely city of Taobao. Therefore, the goal of the first battle was Chen Guang in the north, and first swept away the enemy in Yuzhou.

Chen Guang's own strength is not strong, although he bragged a lot when he surrendered in the early years, but in the past few years, under the slow push of the Huainan Army, the living space has become smaller and smaller. But to deal with Chen Guang, you must guard against Shikan on the north bank of the Yellow River. Therefore, this battle is to cooperate with the Xuzhou army, advance on two fronts, the Huainan army will seize the Langdang Canal in the upstream, and the Xuzhou army will seize the Fangtou in the lower reaches, control the waterway of the Yellow River, and then carry out a thorough sweep of the rebel army in the territory.

As for Luoyang, it is necessary for Sima Wuji, the king of Chen, to look north at the south gate of Luoyang. However, King Chen's Nanyang Army may not be the opponent of Peach Leopard on the frontal battlefield, so it still needs some reinforcements from the Huainan Army. This was a war with a huge geographical span and a large number of battle steps, and it was also a great test for the Huainan Army.