Now that the Jiangdong issue has been solved, it has become a stable rear, and there are no worries, and the power of the king can be brought into play without scruples.

The biggest enemy of the Northern Expedition, whether in terms of law or reality, was Zhao Shihu. There are also many people who support the fight to completely eliminate Shi Hu when he is under attack on his belly and back, and the north and the south cannot take care of both.

But Shen Zhezi thought about it for a long time, and still chose to tackle the key problems first, not only because of the hidden danger of the Fu clan in the original history, but mainly because even if Shi Hu was killed during this period, it would not be able to fundamentally improve the border defense situation. It is necessary not only to guard against the elbows and armpits of the Guanzhong Qunhu, but also to bear the threat of the Xianbei tribes such as Liaodong and Monan.

Now put Shi Hu aside, let his people bear the pressure of the Hu people in the north, and concentrate on completely eliminating the hidden dangers in Guanzhong, in Shen Zhezi's opinion, this is a relatively reliable choice, which can greatly avoid the dilemma of fighting on two fronts.

The adjustment of the Tongguan garrison after the autumn is to prepare for the next attack on Guanzhong. The defenders of Tongguan are now about 20,000, and the strength of this road alone exceeds the respective forces of those miscellaneous and powerful in Guanzhong, but compared with the chaotic people in the entire Guanzhong, this part of the troops is still far from enough.

Shen Zhezi's plan was to gather 60,000 to 80,000 horses under his personal command under the condition of ensuring that the Hebei defense line would not be transferred, and march west along the Yellow River to directly enter Guanzhong, and after recovering Chang'an, he would separately suppress the chaotic people on all sides, and strive to completely calm down the situation in Guanzhong within two to three years.

The westward march into Guanzhong is another great military advance after Wang Shi has been silent for several years, and it is conceivable that there will be many opportunities to win special achievements. Therefore, at present, the generals of the various departments of the Wang Division, except for Fangtou Xie Yi, Qingyan Shen Mu, and Lu Yong, who is responsible for the planning of the two, all the others have either personally or sent envoys to Luo to fight, hoping to be included in this battle sequence.

Recently, in addition to mobilizing the resources south of the Yellow River to be used as military reserves, various discussions in Xingtai are competing with each other for the battle list, and the atmosphere can be said to be very lively.

"This time is a war, different from previous years, the Guanzhong ring is closed and the interior is wide, and all parties are scattered in chaos, although they cannot be unified, but the trend of gathering and dispersing is inevitably more treacherous, and it must not be careless."

Xie Yi has been guarding Tongguan all the year round, and he has been quite generous, and this time he handed over the defense of Tongguan to Yu Manzhi temporarily, personally returned to Luoyang to attend the meeting, and brought the first-hand information of the Tongguan front back to Bi Chen for the general's reference.

This time the western expedition to Guanzhong can be said to be different from several major battles in previous years, and the unique terrain of Guanzhong has greatly offset the power of the Wang Division's naval army.

Therefore, this time the battle did not choose to start in midsummer based on the season, but began in early autumn and late winter. As for the various supplies and supplies of the army, they had been mobilized as early as a few months ago in the summer and autumn, concentrated in Luoyang, and transported to Tongguan in batches.

Therefore, this operation, regardless of the form of operation or the environmental climate, is a new test for Wang Shi. From this point alone, a considerable part of the king's division was excluded, such as the lack of water in the mountains and field battles, although Guanzhong is also known as the eight rivers around Chang'an, but those water flows are difficult for the large ships of the Wang division to put into battle.

As for the enemies faced, they were also different from previous years, unlike the opponents directly faced in the previous Central Plains operations, or the peach leopard in Heluo, or Shikan in Hebei, there was no accurate target. Originally, there was also a Shi Sheng who was stopped in Hongnong County outside Tongguan, but Shi Sheng also abandoned the defense and fled north as early as last year.

Xie Yi put out the list of Guanzhong forces collected by the Tongguan garrison in recent years on the palace, and there were as many as twenty or thirty shares, and there were three people who claimed the title of king, namely the Xiongnu Tu Ge who occupied Feng Yi and Beidi and other counties in the three auxiliaries, Liu Yongming, who called himself the King of Han, the Huyan clan of the Xiongnu who occupied a part of the area of Longshang, the Huyanxu who called himself the King of Liang, and the Qiang Lei Bai who called himself the King of Qin in Qiangzhong, Nan'an.

The list of these grass kings was handed over to the generals in the palace, and everyone laughed at these dog-daring and arrogant people. However, after Shen Zhezi saw this list, he felt more in his heart, and there was a bad taste that history had changed greatly in his hands.

These three Hulu are called kings, and he doesn't know any of them, and he doesn't know where they are. It can also be seen from this that the chaos within these Guan Longzahu is really full of chance and randomness when it can rise for a while.

As for the Di people Fu Hong and the Qiang people Yao Yizhong, who Shen Zhezi was more familiar with, they were also on this list, and they were ranked relatively high, and they each had a lot of people. It's just that these two people are more low-key than the three arrogant King Hu, and they just call themselves dukes.

And after seeing the banners they each drew up for themselves, Shen Zhezi couldn't help laughing.

Fu Hong, a native of Di, has not changed his surname at the moment, and is still the original surname Pu in Luoyang, named Pu Hong, and calls himself General Hudi, Luoyang Gong, and Yongzhou Thorn History. As for the Qiang people, Yao Yizhong's name is also similar to Pu Hong, the general of the Qiang Protector, the Duke of Fufeng, and the history of the Qinzhou Thorn.

There is nothing to say about this usurpation of their names, long before the Yongjia Rebellion and Han Zhao have not yet invaded Guanzhong, they have already done it once.

However, at that time, the history of Yongzhou was Yao Yizhong, and Pu Hong was the history of Qinzhou, but now they are exchanged with each other. The reason why this is so is because Han Zhao played with them in his early years.

Yao Yizhong of the Qiang nationality lives in the stable and northern, and the right Fufeng between the three auxiliaries is near, so Yongjia is called Fufeng Gong on the occasion of Yongjia, and Yongzhou Thorn History. And the Puhong of the Di nationality lives in Lüyang on Longshang, which is also the origin of its Lüyang Duke and Qinzhou Thorn History.

After Liu Yao of the Han Zhao Dynasty invaded Guanzhong, he moved the Pu clan of the Luoyang tribe to the vicinity of Jingzhao, but relocated Yao Yizhong of the Qiang tribe to Longshang, which is equivalent to replacing their respective spheres of influence, which is why when the two clans restarted, the Thorn Shi was replaced.

This replacement also directly caused the forces of the two ethnic groups to languish to varying degrees.

Especially after Shi Zhao's reign was in turmoil and Heluo was captured by Wang Shi, the Zhang clan of Liangzhou went east to plot against Guanzhong, and the Yao clan of the Qiang nationality living in Longshang bore the brunt, and it itself was not very good with the local Haozong and Hu Bu, and was hit to a great extent.

As for the Di tribe Pu Hong was not spared, there are many Jin people in the land of Sanfu Hao Qiang Wu Zong gathered, after the chaos in Guanzhong, Jingzhao County is the focus of the competition of all parties, Pu Hong was directly driven out of Jingzhao by the Hao clan, and now he is wandering between Shiping and Fufeng on the west side of Chang'an.

This pair of brothers and sisters are now also in love with each other, and at the beginning of the turmoil, they were suppressed and weakened to varying degrees, and the forces that failed to occupy the front line were each other's roots, and they all wanted to return to their roots, so they fought with each other, which can be described as very lively.

The power groups that are now standing side by side in Guanzhong are not only these parties, but also Zhao Guojing, who occupied Shangluo and accepted a part of Feng Yi after Shi Sheng's collapse, and the Jin people in Sanfu and other places.

In fact, for a long time, the power of the Jin people in Guanzhong has become extremely weak, and people like Du He, the descendants of the Jingzhaowang clan, have to flee in embarrassment, so it can be seen that the situation of other Jin people and Haozong is really not good.

However, in the early years, after Han Zhao captured Guanzhong, in addition to displacing Hu chiefs such as Pu Hong and Yao Yizhong, and instigating chaos, he also moved a large number of miscellaneous Hu to Pingyang.

In particular, more than 100,000 Qianghu between Feng Yi and Shangjun were moved out of Guanzhong, and these Qianghu were mostly placed around Pingyang, the capital of Han and Zhao at that time.

Even the Shihu army defeated by Shen Zhezi in Huaishang in the early years, a considerable part of Hu Bu's righteous servants were composed of these Hu people who were moved out of Guanzhong.

The relocation of Han Zhao and Liang Zhao to Guanzhong Zahu increased the proportion of Jin people in Guanzhong to a certain extent, and slightly improved the situation of those Jin people. Therefore, as Guanzhong was besieged by Wang Shi, and all parties fought internally, Sanfu Haoqiang also had a lot of influence in it.

For example, the one who occupies Chang'an at the moment is Jingzhao Duhong who was elected by the powerful people in Guanzhong. This Du Hong may have been born in the Jingzhao Du clan, but he has little to do with Du He, the third chief of Xingtai, probably analogous to Huan Xuan and Huan Yi of the Huan clan of the Qian Guo clan, although they share a county prestige, but the relationship between them is already very estranged.

Therefore, when formulating the strategy of Guanzhong, it is not possible to take it for granted that the three auxiliary heroes will definitely welcome the potential help of the king, but because these heroes are in a good situation at the moment, they may become a great obstacle for the king's division to capture Chang'an.

Just about the situation of these powerful forces in Guanzhong, it makes people hear a lot, and this is still without involving the distribution of peripheral forces in Guanzhong such as Hongnong and Hedong. The complexity of the situation in Guanzhong as a whole can be seen from this.

Now that the king of Xingtai is dominant, once the strong army is in the pass, it is conceivable that it will greatly change the game state in the current Guanzhong, which is one of the reasons why Xie Yi said that "there are many tricks". In the face of the huge pressure exerted by Wang Shi, it is very likely that there will be fornication within these fighting forces, and it is really difficult to determine what the variables are.

Forceful suppression, supplemented by pacification, is a basic principle of Shen Zhezi's strategy in Guanzhong. Although the Wang Division is powerful, it is impossible to completely put all the troops into the Guanzhong battlefield, and in addition to maintaining superior forces and focusing on cracking down on the thieves, we must also pay attention to dividing and co-opting the forces that can be cited.

Tongguan originally had 20,000 defenders, which was a large army that had been determined to participate in the western expedition.

After the assembly of the army in October, Shen Zhezi personally led the Fenwu Army and the Hongwu Army with a total of 10,000 soldiers to settle in Tongguan, and then directly took Hongnong.

Huan Xuan's Xiangyang army will also cooperate with the dispatch, mobilize 10,000 people to go north to Nanyang, and after Wang Shi attacked Hongnong, he will march west to Wuguan, and then outflank and attack Shangluo's Zhao Guojing's troops and wipe them out in the realm.

This is all the operational objectives of the first phase of Wang Shixi's offensive and capture, and it is expected that the first phase of the battle will be ended before the arrival of the New Year.