Duan Wencao was right, the ending of this battle made all the soldiers participating in the battle extremely depressed.

For the rebels, victory is a miracle, an unexpected joy, and an incredible thing. However, with the favor of the God of Destiny, victory comes so quietly, just in front of you, just a short distance, and is within reach. However, the effort was in vain. Just as the opponent was about to fall, the God of Destiny suddenly abandoned them, protected the opponent, and let the opponent retreat calmly.

A miracle did not happen after all, and defeating the strong with the weak is a wishful desire. Strength determines everything and determines the outcome of this decisive battle. If the rebel army has stronger strength, it will definitely win this decisive battle. However, the one with stronger strength is the official army. Even if the rebel army completely gains the upper hand on the battlefield, it will eventually fail to knock down the opponent.

This sense of frustration made the soldiers of the rebels feel very frustrated. A feeling of powerlessness like a flock shaking a tree surged out of the bottom of their hearts, and in an instant, it completely wiped out the joy.

For the official army, victory belongs to them. The thieves have fallen into a trap and the defeat is a foregone conclusion. However, this decisive battle overturned their perception. They discovered for the first time that the thieves actually had the strength to fight life and death with them. Although their strength is still strong, and although they safely evacuated the battlefield with their own strong strength, the strong man who was arrogant and arrogant was suddenly knocked to the ground, and the strong sense of dignity was trampled on and honor was humiliated still made them feel humiliated. Knowing shame and then brave. The defeat of this decisive battle is a good thing for the official army. They will face the reality, face their opponents, and swear that they will defeat their opponents in the next battle to safeguard the glory of their strong men.

Duan Wencao brought his strength to the extreme. With the situation almost one-sided due to arrogance, conceit, and carelessness, he saved the army to the greatest extent, reduced losses, and made up for the impact of this decisive battle on his authority. Temporary defeat on the battlefield was not terrible, but terrible was the decline of confidence and morale. Duan Wencao saved the confidence and morale of the army, which was enough to allow him to fight back at the fastest speed in the shortest time.

The official army withdrew in an orderly manner and retreated to Xiaqiu City.

The rebels defeated the official army and won the decisive battle, cheering and thrilling.

Han Jinluo, Shuai Rentai, Zhen Baoche, Huo Xiaohan, Li Fengyun, Han Yao, and Meng Haigong successfully met at Ningyang City. They were all happy and excited. Xu Shiren was also among them, but his mood was completely different. He betrayed Duan Wencao at a critical moment and walked towards the opposite of the Qilu noble group. What he was about to face was not only Duan Wencao's revenge, but also the accusations and condemnations of the Xu family in Rencheng and many Qilu nobles. The hero turned into a big thief, and decades of hard work turned into nothing. His inner resentment and pain can be imagined.

Li Fengyun was in a bad mood. It was not because of the battle that was "starting and miserable". In fact, this battle was able to achieve such a result and achieve the main goals before the war, which was beyond his expectations and was considered a "miracle". This also proves that if the rebels want to grow rapidly, they must form alliances and cooperate, and they must work together. If they work together, they will win the game, and if they are divided, they will be hurt.

However, the decisive battle was over and the alliance came to an end. After the life-and-death crisis was resolved, the selfish desires that were previously suppressed by the shadow of death were once again expanded. Everyone wanted to be the boss, the kings, princes, generals and ministers, and all wanted to start a career of kings and dominance. Li Fengyun is like this, why is Han Jinluo and the heroes like this? Are there any kings, princes, generals and ministers? Everyone is on the same starting line and has the opportunity to win the final victory. Since that is the case, who is willing to give up this opportunity? Is Li Fengyun willing? Of course he doesn't want to. Since Li Fengyun is unwilling, what qualifications do he have to ask others to give up the opportunity to dominate the world? Therefore, the alliance will definitely be dissolved.

Li Fengyun didn't talk about the "breakup" incident, let alone other heroes. He said that he was the target of public criticism.

This battle has proved that everyone has no strength to fight against the official army. Only by joining hands can they compete with the official army. However, everyone has their own interests. How can they give up their personal interests and form an alliance until the critical moment of life and death? If an alliance is formed, there will be overall interests, and the overall interests must be above personal interests. Li Fengyun also proves this point with his own actions. For the overall interests of the rebel army, Li Fengyun sacrificed all his personal interests and fought bravely at the risk of being wiped out. It is precisely because Li Fengyun takes the overall situation and makes righteous promises that the victory of this decisive battle has reversed the crisis and saved the rebel army from danger.

The benefits of the alliance are real, but the overall interests endanger personal interests. They cannot have both fish and bear's paws. For this reason, the heroes and coaches from all walks are very conflicted. They neither want to break up nor take responsibility. They want to maintain the alliance to share their interests, but they don't want to pay a price, so it is difficult to make a choice. Fortunately, Li Fengyun never said the matter of the separation. In the distribution of spoils, he strictly abides by the alliance and tries to satisfy the heroes from all walks of life. This greatly eases internal conflicts and gives the heroes more time to think.

But this matter is ultimately a hurdle that cannot be avoided. We have to face it and make a choice.

On the third day after the decisive battle, Li Fengyun summoned all kinds of heroes to discuss strategies for development and growth. To put it bluntly, is it a saying, whether to continue to maintain the common development of the alliance, or to go their separate ways to develop alone.

The heroes and coaches remained silent, and no one was willing to reveal their true thoughts. After all, the immediate interests are here, Li Fengyun is the strongest, and he is righteous and trustworthy. The Cangtou Army occupied the large territory of Mengshan again. Although it is a little barren, it is important to have room for maneuver at critical moments. Even if he is surrounded by the official army, he can support it for a period of time. On the contrary, the others are not strong, and even if he has a territory, he is in the four battles and has no danger to defend. He will fall into a desperate situation at any time. Once he falls into a desperate situation, the best target for help is Li Fengyun. If Li Fengyun wants to help him willingly and unwilling to rescue him, he must maintain the alliance.

However, maintaining the alliance requires a price. Li Fengyun is the strongest and pays the greatest price. Of course, there is gain if he pays. For example, in this decisive battle, if the Cangtou Army does not have the cooperation of other rebels, he will not win this battle. If he cannot win this battle, the Cangtou Army will not be able to take away the big trophy. Similarly, other rebels also have to pay the price to maintain the alliance. Without paying, there will be no reward. If he does not take responsibility and only shares benefits, it is impossible.

The conflict arises. I have less strength, so I will naturally bear less responsibilities, pay less price, get less rewards, and develop slowly. In the long run, the disparity with the Cangtou Army will become increasingly greater. Although Li Fengyun promised not to annex them and resolutely maintain the independence of various rebels, strength determines everything. When one day the strength of the Cangtou Army can eat up other rebels, is Li Fengyun's promise still effective?

Therefore, the rich and handsome men's understanding of common development is that no matter adults and children, they can even divide a piece of big cake, eat less, and eat more, so that the strength gap will not grow bigger and bigger, and the rebels from all walks of life will have a foundation for maintaining their independence. Similarly, in terms of the distribution of spoils after this decisive battle, the battle was fought together, and the more spoils they paid, the more spoils they had, the Cangtou Army got the big head of the spoils, and the result was a pot of rice. The strong man ate the most, the stronger the heavier the longer he grew, while the weaker ones ate less, and although they were growing flesh, the speed was much slower and they could not catch up with the strong ones.

Should we eat a big pot of rice, or do we have more effort and more rewards? Whether the alliance can continue to maintain it, we must first answer this question.

Li Fengyun knew the thoughts of the heroes and had been thinking about solutions these two days. He also discussed with Han Yao, Yuan An, Lu Mingxing and others for one night, but finally chose to give up. There was no way, the interests were uneven. If you wanted to satisfy the heroes, the development pace of the Cangtou Army had to slow down. However, time did not wait for anyone, the situation was changing, the environment was getting worse, and development was the only way for the rebels to survive. If the Cangtou Army wanted to speed up the development speed, the Qiantou Army would be dissatisfied. Since this was the case, it would lose the meaning of maintaining the alliance. The original intention of establishing the alliance was to develop and strengthen itself. Now maintaining the alliance hindered its own development. So what should we do to maintain the alliance?

However, Li Fengyun cannot openly say that he has disbanded the alliance and cannot disband the alliance openly. That will not only betray the alliance, destroy his promises, damage his reputation, become the target of public criticism, but also burn all the efforts he has made before. The conflict between the Qilu people and the Chu people will also intensify. The little trust that the various rebels have finally established will be lost. Everyone will eventually be restored to a mess and give the government troops the opportunity to defeat them.

Li Fengyun then made a big banner and laid out a big picture.

The development and growth of the rebel army cannot be limited to Mengshan, but to the southwestern Shandong region, but to enter the Central Plains.

Since ancient times, those who have won the Central Plains have won the world, but there is no other reason. The Central Plains has a flat terrain, a vast territory, a dense population, a wealthy economy, and a large number of talents. Whoever gets the Central Plains will have the right time, place, and people, and the career of kings and dominance can be achieved.

This dynasty opened up the Grand Canal, which penetrated the north-south water system and transported national materials. The Tongji Canal section of the Grand Canal runs through the Central Plains and intersects with the Golden Waterway, the Great River that runs through the east and west. The intersection is in the Dongdu. From the topography, the Dahe and Tongji Canal form a giant funnel, the Dongdu is in the Dongdu, and the Doudu is in the Qilu and Xuzhou. The Dongdu at the Dongdu is gathering the wealth of Middle Earth, and the two golden waterways are the arteries that continuously transport the wealth of Middle Earth into the Dongdu.

If the rebel army wants to develop rapidly, it first needs people and a large population; secondly, it needs wealth, inexhaustible and inexhaustible financial resources; again, it needs wisdom, wealthy families that inherit Middle-earth culture and well-educated scholars and scholars, and these three are the most important in the Central Plains, so the rebel army must enter the Central Plains.

Li Fengyun's strategy was to quickly expand into southwestern Shandong with Mengshan as the foundation, enter the Central Plains as quickly as possible, and then plunder two major golden waterways to provide the rebel army with financial resources for development, and at the same time recruit people as soldiers and expand the army. With financial resources and military strength, the strength of the rebel army expanded rapidly, and naturally there were ambitious children of aristocratic families and famous scholars and scholars who came to offer suggestions. They used the power of the rebel army to achieve their political goals, and the rebel army could of course use them to achieve their own great cause of kingship.

This is a realistic and operational strategy, practical, simple, effective, and more importantly, it alleviates the contradiction between maintaining alliances and distribution of interests to a certain extent.

The basis for such a big strategy is that several rebels united together to work together, and the alliance was maintained.

During the implementation process, while maintaining their independence, all the rebels launched attacks according to the jointly drafted strategies, showing their magical powers, allowing you to plunder money, expand your army, and develop your strength. The faster your strength develops, the faster the strategy will be promoted, and the greater the blow to the governments in the Dongdu and even local areas. In this cycle, the rebels will grow rapidly like a snowball. This will successfully solve the problem of interest distribution within the alliance, not eating a big pot, relying on one's own strength, and getting more work.

Next, Li Fengyun painted the prospects for everyone.

The future of the rebel army mainly relies on bloody battles, but luck is also indispensable. If you are lucky, the rebel army may be able to develop to a new level after the end of the Eastern Expedition of the Guard Army. Even if you cannot directly confront the Guard Army, you can at least persist, so that you will not be swept away by the Guard Army like the autumn wind sweeping away the fallen leaves. The longer the rebel army persists, the greater the variables in the political situation in the Dongdu. Considering the inherent fierce contradictions between the Guanlong people and the Shandong people, and considering the desperate battle between the reformers and conservatives within the court, Middle-earth may enter a chaotic era of heroes fighting for hegemony, and Middle-earth's great cause of unification may collapse.

As Li Fengyun described it, the heroes and heroes were in a state of ups and downs. They were excited and passionate, and nervous and worried. However, everyone was very cautious and knew clearly that this was another bait thrown by Li Fengyun, but this bait was so attractive that it was fascinating.

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