The three armies of the Southwest Shandong Rebel Alliance advanced together, like a roaring hurricane, causing a shocking tide on both sides of the Jishui River.

Jiyang City trembled in the craze, and Wei Baoluan and the bureaucrats of Jiyin County Government fell into a desperate situation. Some Jiyin local village clan groups who originally vowed to support Wei Baoluan saw that the city was like a sea, and immediately abandoned the city and fled. Such a traitorous act not only seriously weakened the power of the garrison, but also severely damaged morale and morale. Jiyang City became fragile and crumbling in the storm.

Li Fengyun arrived at the city of Jiyang and ordered the three armies to launch an attack immediately, attacking day and night, and to take down Jiyang City at any cost and open the passage into the capital. Only in this way can one plunder the two golden waterways of Dahe and Tongji Canal, and obtain enough food to save Henan victims struggling on the line of life and death.

The deterioration rate of the situation far exceeded Wei Baoluan's expectations. He did not expect that these rebels were already crazy and had lost their minds. He knew that they would encounter strong obstacles from the Tianqiu Pass in the Jingji River and knew that the powerful garrison of Jingji would give them a devastating blow, they still fought forward without hesitation and attacked forward without knowing how to do so. This suicide attack not only pushed Wei Baoluan into the abyss, but also pushed countless Henan victims into desperate situations.

Wei Baoluan reported to Dongdu for a hundred thousand times: The white-haired thief was extremely guilty and unforgivable. He threatened the government with the life and death of the victims of Henan and threatened the Dongdu. The situation had deteriorated to the extreme and was helpless. If an attack was launched, the dead would be innocent victims. In this case, the government and Dong would have the crime of killing innocent people indiscriminately, and would be morally questioned and condemned. Even if we eventually defeat the traitors, we would have left an eternal infamous in history.

Wei Baoluan abandoned Jiyang for himself and fled Jiyin to find a reason to escape from his crime. From a moral standpoint, his reasons are acceptable, but from a legal perspective, he, the governor of Jiyin, must bear the blame for the fall of Jiyin, and it is impossible to try to push all the blame to the traitor.

Wei Baoluan only held on for an hour and gave up, fled to Xingyang with a few defeated generals.

The rebel army took Jiyang, opened warehouses and released grain, but the food was very limited, so the rebel army sued all the victims, and the food was stolen from the Dongdu and the government. If we wanted to save ourselves and save the whole family, we could only continue to attack, attack the capital, and plunder the rivers and Tongji Canal waterways. For this reason, the rebel army needed more troops and more bravery to join the rebel army. If we succeeded and defeated, we could only survive tenaciously.

The rebel army opened warehouses and released grain. The overwhelming victory of the rebel army over the official army made the victims see hope for survival. The continuous natural disasters, the greed and deception of the government and the bullying of local forces, made the victims fall into deep despair. Should they die in despair or struggle in hope? If they do not join the rebel army, they can only die in despair. If they join the rebel army, they still have a glimmer of hope for survival. The victims have no choice. Since there is hope, of course they have to fight for hope and for survival.

The victims joined the rebel army with unprecedented enthusiasm. The number of rebel alliances in the southwestern Shandong expanded rapidly, from less than 5,000 at the beginning of entering the Central Plains to more than 50,000.

The Cangtou Army was invincible and invincible because it attacked the cities and villages, and it was invincible. It was the greatest momentum and the strongest strength. The reputation of the White-haired Commander was well known, which made the victims proud of joining the Cangtou Army. As a result, it was overcrowded, forcing the Cangtou Army to raise the "barrier" to join. Even so, the Cangtou Army expanded to more than 20,000 people in a short period of time.

The Cangtou Army originally had sixteen regiments, two of which were subject to Chen Rui and guarded Mengshan. Four regiments were controlled by Han Yao and stayed in Lu County. The remaining ten regiments followed Li Fengyun to the Central Plains. After the Western Expedition began, Li Fengyun led these ten regiments to the Central Plains, but the number of these ten regiments was insufficient and all were short of personnel. In fact, there were only eight regiments. Suddenly, the Cangtou Army quickly expanded to a scale of more than 20,000 people, and the number of people expanded more than ten times. The series of difficulties brought about can be imagined. Fortunately, the more than 1,000 soldiers who entered the Central Plains to fight were considered old soldiers with many battles. The Cangtou Army had sufficient reserves of officers, which made the progress of the expansion of the army stable, did not cause too much chaos, nor did it seriously affect the morale and morale of the army. However, the combat effectiveness of the army rapidly declined with the increase of the number of people.

After conquering Jiyang, Li Fengyun summoned the commanders of various armies to urgently discuss and resolve a series of problems caused by the sharp expansion of the army's number.

At this point, the Western Expedition has achieved a lot of results. Although the Rebel Alliance is currently in a disaster relief dilemma and has many crises, the expansion speed of the army has achieved its pre-war goal. Before the war, Li Fengyun's goal was to expand the number of troops to more than 100,000 in the next five months. Now the Western Expedition has been less than a month, and the number of troops has expanded to more than 50,000. According to this expansion speed, the scale of 100,000 people will be achieved quickly, and at least about half of the young and strong soldiers will be elite soldiers after intensive training and practical training. After intensive training and practical training, the young and strong soldiers will be elite soldiers, which is the main force. If the Rebel Alliance can establish an elite soldiers of 50,000 people, its strength will be extraordinary, and it is possible to compete in the Central Plains. However, with the current strength of the Rebel Alliance, it is purely a dream to establish an elite soldiers of 50,000 people. The elite soldiers of 50,000 people not only require young soldiers, but also money. What can I use to equipment, train and support this team without money?

Therefore, the first countermeasure that Li Fengyun took out in the military discussion was to stop expanding the army and stop immediately. Otherwise, the disadvantages caused by the expansion of the army would be quickly amplified, and the rebel alliance would not only lose its combat effectiveness, but also its own survival.

This crisis does not require Li Fengyun to analyze and explain. All heroes and heroes know that. Your appetite is only that big. Although there is a table of delicacies in front of you, you can't eat it. If you eat it desperately without your body, it will definitely hurt yourself and you may die. Expanding the army is a good thing, but the premise is that you must have the ability to expand the army. Just like everyone wants three wives and four concubines, they all want to raise a large group of children. But the problem is that if you don't have financial strength, what will you use to marry three wives and four concubines? How can you support a large group of children?

Now the Cangtou Army is overwhelmed, and Han Jinluo, Meng Haigong and other heroes are also in a hurry, so Li Fengyun's suggestion was immediately unanimously recognized by the heroes.

However, the Rebel Alliance has expanded to more than 50,000 troops and is already "overwhelmed". The consequences of blind expansion have already emerged. We must find ways to resolve the crisis. The first crisis to be solved is how to maintain the current combat effectiveness. Without combat effectiveness, the Western Expedition will fail. The Western Expedition will fail. The Rebel Alliance will be defeated like a mountain. Everything you get will disappear in an instant, and the dust will return to dust, and the soil will return to the soil, and nothing will be left.

Li Fengyun came up with two plans. One was to continue to maintain the independence of each army. Each army immediately planned a new system after the expansion, and then completed the reorganization of the army as quickly as possible according to the new system to stabilize the morale of the army. However, because the main elite forces of each army were very limited, the reserve of officers was extremely insufficient. If this plan was implemented, although the army could quickly stabilize the army, it could not curb the sharp decline in combat effectiveness of the army. In other words, the Western Expedition was actually unsustainable.

The reason why Henan disaster victims enthusiastically joined the Rebel Alliance was because they saw hope for survival was because the Rebel Alliance captured cities and villages and won one victory after another, and opened one official warehouse after another. On the contrary, if the Rebel Alliance stopped fighting, retreated, or was beaten to the point of being dismantled by the official army, their hopes were shattered. Will they continue to stay in the Rebel Army? Of course not, they would definitely disperse, because continuing to stay in the Rebel Army would definitely be dead. It would be better to escape and escape to a place where there was no disaster in the south, and perhaps they could find a way out.

So Li Fengyun came up with a second plan, that is, each army divided its elite main force into three, and some of the elite main force was formed into a new army, directly commanded by the General Administration Office to maintain the combat effectiveness of the Rebel Alliance; and some elite main force formed the reserve army with the strongest and most deficient combat potential among the new recruits, and used war instead to train them so that they could grow up quickly in battle so that the combat effectiveness of the Rebel Alliance can be improved in the shortest time. Considering that the battle in the Western Expedition became more and more intense, this army was also directly commanded by the General Administration Office to improve the overall combat capability of the Rebel Alliance; the remaining elite main force assumed the heavy responsibility of commanding and training new recruits, and was also responsible for guarding the rear important towns, raising and transporting food and supplies, organizing disaster victims to produce and rescue themselves, etc., to ensure that the Rebel Alliance digested and absorbed the results of this crazy expansion at the fastest speed.

The benefits of this plan are self-evident, but the premise of its implementation is that from this moment on, each army must give up its independence to the greatest extent, and each army's heroes must hand over most of its power to the General Administration Office. Although it is temporary and forced by the situation, as long as the Western Expedition continues, the impact this plan has on the Rebel Alliance and on every soldier in the Rebel Alliance is difficult to estimate. Especially as Li Fengyun's prestige becomes higher and higher, as the power of the General Administration Office becomes heavier, can each army continue to maintain its independence? Can all the heroes continue to maintain their power?

Han Jinluo, Meng Haigong and other heroes were in a heavy mood and had a very fierce ideological struggle. On the one hand, it was the survival and development of the army, and on the other hand, it was the loss of their own interests. Which one was more important? If the independence of each army and their rights were maintained, the Western Expedition would definitely not be able to continue. Once the Western Expedition was stopped, it would not be possible to continue to "kidnapping" the victims of Henan. Next, the Rebel Alliance would not only lose the early results of the Western Expedition, but also bear the bad reputation of the people, lose the hearts of the people, lose morality, and be criticized by thousands of people. Even if they were safely withdrawn to Lu County, the future would be dark, and defeat was inevitable.

It is obvious that giving up one's own independent position in the alliance and completely binding one's own interests with Li Fengyun's is the only wise and correct way at present.
Chapter completed!