Chapter 671 Kill and Cripple

The night is as cool as water, the night is as dark as a curtain, and the wind is as cool as a complaint.

Chen Kefu stood solemnly on the fifth deck of the Anlan Building, and the slightly watery night breeze on the surface of the Yellow River blew his cloak and bright red helmet, but it did not cause any change in his face.

Holding the sword of the emperor's road, the sword of the Red Night, which symbolizes the dignity of the emperor, is surrounded by more than 100 tall and hideous ships, thousands of troops and horses are waiting for his orders, and they have the right to kill. seems to be so beautiful and majestic, but who knows the tension in Chen Kefu's heart under this appearance.

At the end of the troubled times, the heroes rose together. The times create heroes, but heroes are also changing history. The wind and clouds are changing, and no one knows what the world will be like after the sun rises tomorrow.

It was a time of insecurity and a time of confusion. Not only are the ordinary Shengdou people living in shock, but they are also heroes like Chen Kefu and the commander of thousands of armies, who are also walking on thin ice and cautious.

The battle for world dominance was always turbulent and turbulent at first. But in the end, it's always the same way. Throughout history, this has been the case. Chen Kefu remembered that Li Jing once summed up, saying that in all dynasties, at the beginning of the uprising, most of them were in the southeast, but most of the people who returned in the end were in the northwest. He also once said that in the past dynasties, most of the people who started the incident were peasants. But every time they bury the old dynasty almost completely, those real nobles will rush to rise.

And history is always strikingly similar, from Chen Sheng and Wu Guang to the Yellow Turban Uprising, no matter how much trouble the peasant rebels made, it was always those heroes who represented the world bureaucrats who won the world in the end.

Li Jing's words hit the nail on the head, the peasants can mess with the world, but they can't win the world. Although the southeast and the central plains in the hinterland are always the battleground of war, the heroes who started from the southeast and the central plains generally rarely have the last laugh. The last laugh has always been the northwest as the most, followed by the northeast.

Chen Kefu agrees with these words. In the chaotic times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the peasant rebels from all walks of life in the world were the most powerful and famous, especially in Henan, Hebei, Shandong, and Jianghuai. But only a few years have passed, and now there is only one Wei Daoer left in Hebei's righteous army, and it is still trapped in a corner of southwest Hebei, and its destruction is only in sight. The rebel armies in Shandong and Huaibei were swept away, either perishing or perishing, and the remaining small troops all fled to Henan to join Li Mi.

Although Li Mi of Henan is known as the leader of the world's righteous army, in the past few years, his strength has not increased but retreated, and his appearance is beautiful, but the real living space is getting smaller and smaller. On the contrary, the Liaodong Army, which occupied the most bitter cold place back then, is now marching south step by step, faintly becoming the strongest force in the world.

Chen Kefu is now based in Liaodong and Zhanghebei, and controls Shandong and Huaibei, which can be said to hold a small half of the sky. First occupy a corner of Hebei, and then take the Shandong side. With Liaodong as the stable rear, Hebei as the center, Shandong and Hedong as the two wings, and the Central Plains can be mapped.

This is the strategic plan that Chen Kefu discussed with Li Jing and others at the beginning, but the plan is dead, and people are alive. Chen Kefu can have today because he is by no means a dogmatist, otherwise he would not be where he is today. At the beginning, he was dedicated to the development of Liaodong, a place that no one cared about, which can be seen.

For Chen Kefu, Li Jing's strategy is a decent plan, a very safe and medium-sized strategy. According to this plan, we will advance step by step, and we will take land and land and compete for the urban population as the top, and we will roll over step by step.

But in Chen Kefu's heart, it was a long-term plan. And there is also a more radical plan, that is, to focus on annihilating the enemy who stands in the way of reunification. In today's troubled times, from Yang Guang's death to the present, there have not been many years of chaos. Although there are many heroes and strongmen on one side of the world, the time is still short, and there is no real stable local rule. Especially in today's situation, Hedong has become a chaotic battlefield, and the local powerful forces in Hedong and Longshang, the Guanlong group and the original royal forces, all parties have entered this place that is related to the northern Guanjian. …,

The chaos in Hedong is not only a headache for Chen Kefu, but also something that Chen Kefu is looking forward to. The more forces that join the melee, the more difficult it will be for Hedong to separate his subordinates in a short period of time. Hebei is a rich land, and it is also the base camp of the Guanlong Group's forces, such a place, the local forces are too strong. Chen Kefu can also really occupy it for a while, if they fight more fiercely, it will not only consume the strength of all parties to participate in the battle. And it can also completely destroy the powerful forces of the local clan in Hedong.

The chaos in Hedong, to a certain extent, allowed Chen Kefu not to worry about the safety of Hebei's left wing in a short period of time. The more fierce they fight, the safer the Taihang Mountain barrier in Hebei will be, and he can pull out his hand and clean up other places with all his might.

Although Wei Dao'er in southern Hebei has 400,000 people, Chen Kefu no longer cares about him. After the full deployment, Chen Kefu had already erased them in his heart. What he really has to deal with now is the most powerful force of the peasant army, and it will also be the only peasant army force after the fall of Wei Dao'er in Hebei.

Although Li Mi and Wang Shichong fought in the Central Plains for several years, they beat a Central Plains into tatters, if it was a quagmire. But in Chen Kefu's eyes, the current Central Plains region is quite important in his eyes.

Even if it was a year earlier, even if Li Mi invited him to go to the Central Plains and give him the Central Plains, Chen Kefu would not blink his eyes, and would definitely refuse immediately. Because at that time, the Quartet was in a scuffle, and he himself did not have a solid rear. If you venture south, you will only be surrounded by a heavy siege. The strongest tiger will eventually die in the siege of the wolves, shedding every drop of blood.

However, now it is different from the past, with the stable rear of Hebei and a stable logistics support, Chen Kefu has cleared all the obstacles to the Central Plains in the south. Now that he only needs to seize the Central Plains, the status quo of Hebei's current long belt of territory is about to be broken. Although Chen Kefu's previous territory was large, he owned Liaodong, Hebei, Shandong, and Huaibei. However, Liaodong and Hebei are north of the Yellow River, and Shandong and Huaibei are south of the Yellow River. This long and narrow shape is just separated by the Central Plains in the middle.

Chen Kefu captured the Central Plains, and he could unravel this thin status quo of a long serpentine shape, so that it could avoid the weakness of the middle waist. As long as the Central Plains is mastered, then not only can we connect all parts into a large area to form a broad and profound strategic depth, but we can also connect the two huge mountain ranges of Taihang Mountain and Dabie Mountain from north to south to form a solid strategic defense line and push the deployment of troops and defense lines to the west front line.

Moreover, in addition to the defense line of Taihang Mountain and Dabie Mountain in the west, which connects the north and south, Chen Kefu also has the north-south depth of the Yangtze River, the Yellow River, and the north-south canal, and is equivalent to having a complete transportation line that runs through the north and south and the east and west. It has not only strengthened logistics, but also accelerated the ability to transport troops and horses.

As long as he took the Central Plains and Henan, Chen Kefu could immediately build an overall defense with the Yangtze River as the defense in the south, the Dabie Mountains and canals in the southwest, and the Taihang Mountains in the northwest. With these, the three-point world has been completely in hand, who else is there in the world?

Now that all other obstacles to this strategic plan have been removed, the only remaining target is Li Mi. According to the original plan, Chen Kefu would not fight Li Mi at this stage. At the very least, he will not go south to the Central Plains until he has pacified Wei Dao'er and Hedong counties in Hebei. It is even possible that he will turn back to take the Central Plains after he takes Hedong and then goes west to Guanzhong.

Now, however, Chen Kefu has changed that plan. Hedong was temporarily put on hold, and Hebei Wei Dao'er continued to besiege, but was ready to fight Li Mi first.

This is not Chen Kefu's arrogance, it is really that the plan cannot catch up with the changes. Li Mi suddenly defeated Wang Shichong, so that Chen Kefu had to go west to Mengjin to join Wang Shichong in order to restrain Li Mi and prevent him from getting out of the quagmire of the Central Plains and seizing the center of the world. …,

And the conspiracy of Li Yuan's father and son, in the end, directly killed Wang Shichong, and further pushed the Jianghuai army, which had already been defeated once, into the abyss. If Chen Kefu doesn't make a move, then the current Jianghuai army will inevitably be difficult to stop Li Mi. There is even a great possibility that when Chen Kefu swept Hebei, Li Mi also swept the Central Plains. At that time, the real battle with Li Mi will have to happen.

Chen Kefu has the confidence to defeat Li Mi, but one is the strongest army in the world, and the other is the most soldiers in the world. When two tigers fight, one will be injured. Even if Chen Kefu defeats Li Mi, he may lose control of the situation. The Chen Dynasty in Jiangnan, Yang Hui in Jianghan, and the chaos in Hedong are all unstable factors, and no one knows when the war with Li Mi will end. Perhaps when he finally defeated Li Mi, there were also great changes around him.

Chen Kefu did not want such a result, weakening the enemy, and sometimes strengthening himself. Before Li Mi swept away Henan, he hit him again, hit him hard, and made it impossible for him to climb out of this big quagmire in Henan, which is what Chen Kefu is most willing to see and the method that is most in line with his interests.

Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and when Chen Kefu is constantly worrying about revising his strategic plan according to the current situation, Feng Wan is also worried. This time I went north, although I experienced many difficulties, but in the end, I finally found a way to survive for Lingnan. Although the alliance with Chen Kefu is equivalent to a complete break with Nan Chen in Lingnan, and it is also equivalent to a complete irreconcilable break with Jianghan, Feng Wan still believes that her decision is right.

boarded Chen Kefu's big battleship, Feng Wan also understood that she and Chen Kefu shared weal and woe. Now Chen Kefu suddenly decided to fight with Li Mi, which made Feng Wan happy and worried. Happily, if Chen Kefu wins this battle, the situation in Henan will change immediately. As long as Chen Kefu defeats Li Mi, then Chen Kefu's army will directly attack Shannan, directly bordering Jianghan, so that Lingnan will no longer have to face Jianghan's soldiers and horses alone.

But on the other hand, she is worried, now Hebei is her last backer, if Chen Kefu is defeated, then how can Chen Kefu have reinforcements to go south