Prediction is a prediction after all. It is just a trend of the development of the situation, not a fact. Apart from Li Fengyun, there are still a very small number of people who truly feel that the storm is coming, the crisis is everywhere, and the sky is falling and the earth is broken. Most people still have the attitude of believing and skeptical and waiting for the change.

The general trend of China and foreign countries has been tense for hundreds of years, and the war between the north and the south has never stopped. The invasion of the northern enemy was common. Therefore, in the next few years, whether the northern enemy invaded or not, as long as it did not touch the vital interests, most people were still "insensitive". Fortunately, the Cui family of Boling had unique vision. What they saw was not just a war between the north and the south, but the adverse impact of war year after year on the domestic political situation. The core of today's domestic political situation

Contradiction is the contradiction between reform and conservatives. Once the reform encounters a heavy blow due to the failure of the war, and the reformists and conservatives fight, the domestic political situation may collapse. The collapse of the domestic political situation may lead to the collapse of the cause of unification. Zhongtu is once again trapped in the abyss of division and war. This has a great impact on wealthy families and is related to survival. Therefore, the Boling Cui family must of course prevent problems before they happen and prepare for the future to prevent accidents.

The worse Li Fengyun's prediction of the future situation is, the more relevant the wealthy families like the Boling Cui family are, the more careful they should be. In comparison, ordinary nobles (poor families) and civilians have few benefits from the cause of unification, and they are "numb" to the adverse changes in the situation between China and abroad. Of course, they do not have the ability and strength to prevent in advance. When the flood comes, they have nowhere to escape and can only wait for death. Unlike the wealthy families, they have prepared boats early to think of escape. This is the difference between the high-end and low-end of the "food chain".

Faced with the coming flood, the most powerful Holy Lord and the Central Committee tried their best to dredge the river. The weaker King Qi and Li Fengyun joined forces to strengthen the embankment in some areas, while the weaker Boling Cui family built a ship to escape. As for the general public, whether they are sober or ignorant, they can only wait for death. The ability and responsibility are great, and the things that are shaking trees can be done, but they have no meaning. Li Fengyun is shaking trees now, and the Boling Cui family will not do such meaningless things. The Boling Cui family must do everything possible to seek profit and avoid harm within their own ability.

Therefore, what Cui Yu and Cui Jiu are most concerned about is how the alliance has a foothold in Hebei and how it develops. How much impact will the alliance's foothold and development have on the vital interests of Cui Qiu. According to Li Fengyun's prediction, even if the third Eastern Expedition is formed, it may not be able to achieve the expected results. Once the third Eastern Expedition is "start and missed" or even fail again, the war between the North and South will break out quickly. In this way, in the worst case, the war between the North and South will be necessary within two years.

The fight is bad news for the alliance, and it is purely a self-dead death. What should the alliance do? Of course, it must speed up the development speed, and the primary prerequisite for accelerating the development speed is to ensure that it has sufficient food, solve the stomach problem first, and then grab the territory. This makes it simple and clear, the alliance army will immediately attack the cities and villages, burn, kill and plunder, and the counties in northern Hebei will repeat the mistakes of southwestern Shandong, and corpses are everywhere in the wilderness and even thousands of miles of barren land.

This must be the situation that the wealthy families in northern Hebei, such as the Li family of the Zhaojun, the Lu family of Fanyang and the Liu family of Zhongshan, did not want to see. So after hearing Li Fengyun's bad predictions about the future, Cui Yu immediately went straight to the point and spoke out bluntly, explaining the situation that the wealthy families wanted to see. To sum it up, it is just one sentence. The current stability situation cannot be destroyed. The implication is that you cannot burn, kill, kill and loot the four counties in northern Hebei, Hengshan, Boling and Shanggu.

This is a difficult task forcing people. The alliance was originally a rebel, a bandit. They fought from southwestern Shandong to the Central Plains, and from the Central Plains to the northern part of Hebei. The purpose was to survive. Now if you don’t let them burn, kill, plunder, how do they survive? It is really unreliable to rely on the mountains to eat the mountains. Although the Taihang Mountains are large, they cannot support 200,000 soldiers and civilians. There is no doubt about this.

"This is the bottom line, there is no room for compromise." Cui Yu was firm in his attitude, "In the war between the north and the south, the Great Wall was the first line of defense, and Taihang was the second line of defense. If the Northern Barbarians broke through Taihang, Hebei would be poisoned. Therefore, for us, the northern part of Hebei must not be in chaos. Only in this way can we ensure that the water and land transportation connecting the north and the south are smooth, and we can ensure that Hebei defends the Taihang barrier, ensure that Youyan blocks the far east, and ensure that the Weifu can concentrate the main force to fight fiercely with the Northern Barbarians in Daibei, thereby minimizing the losses caused to the Central Plains by the Northern Barbarians to the greatest extent, and help the Northern Frontier garrison defeat the Northern Barbarians to defeat the Northern Barbarians to the greatest extent."

Li Fengyun was speechless and could not find any reason to refute.

Cui Yu is telling the truth. What is the most important thing in the war between the north and the south? It is most afraid of the invasion of the three northern barbarians. If the northern barbarians come from the Hexi Corridor in the northwest, from Daibei in the northeast, from Yanshan line in the northeast, and from the three northern barbarians invade south, then the Middle Earth will be in danger. Of course, this is theoretical. The Northern Barbarians are not a single piece. In many cases, they invade in two groups, one main attack and one restraint, but the threat is still very great. For this reason, Middle Earth has to find ways to do so.

Divergence and division of the Northern Legs. After the Holy Lord ascended the throne, he expeditioned the Western Expedition to destroy Tuyuhun and attacked Goguryeo in the Eastern Expedition. In terms of national defense strategy, he defeated the "right-handed" of the Northern Legs in the Desert to completely eliminate the threat of the invasion of the three routes of the Northern Legs. Now, due to the successive failures in the Eastern Expedition, this plan has been seriously hindered. Because of the serious threat to survival, the Northern Legs in the Desert are even more ready to move, intending to take advantage of the current favorable opportunity to severely damage Middle-earth and then destroy Middle-earth New National Defense Strategy.

If the war between the North and the South broke out quickly, first of all, the Northwest Army in Zhongtu could not move, because Tuyuhun was carrying out a counterattack to restore the country, and the Turks placed in Huining, Hexi were clamoring to return to the West Land. The situation in the Northwest was very bad; secondly, the Liaodong Town Garage Army could not move, because even if Goguryeo was destroyed in the third eastern expedition, Zhongtu would need time to occupy the peninsula and stabilize the Far East. In this way, only the Northern Frontier Town Garage Army were left, mainly the Daibei Legion and Youyan Legion. Daibei was the main battlefield, and the Daibei Legion was of course all put into the battlefield, while Youyan took on the important task of blocking the Northeast's enemy, supporting Liaodong and defending Hebei. Therefore, although Youyan was a restraining battlefield and the troops supporting the main battlefield were limited, its position was extremely important. Once Youyan fell, Hebei would fall into the enemy. Daibei's main battlefield was then attacked from both sides and would definitely collapse, and the North-South War would be defeated.

By the same token, if Hebei is the rear of Youyan, then Taiyuan is the rear of Daibei. When the war between the north and the south is about to break out, Hebei, especially in northern Hebei, cannot be in chaos, and Taiyuan cannot be in chaos. In this way, the living space of the alliance will be very small, leaving only the two border areas of Daibei and Yan, which are not only extremely barren, but also always face the threat of the Northern Territory.

When Cui Jiu saw Li Fengyun's expression was cold and worried that he would make impulsive actions in anger, he reminded carefully, "As far as a certain person knows, the Li family of Zhaojun was afraid that the situation would be out of control and intended to let the alliance go west to Taiyuan to develop."

Li Fengyun glanced at him with contempt. This is a typical "dead fellow Taoist who is not dead" and everyone? Sweep the snow in front of the door, don't worry about the frost on his family. The Li family of Zhaojun and the Cui family of Boling were too unkind and would break up with the Wang family of Taiyuan for their own interests.

Li Fengyun fell into deep thought. Cui Yu and Cui Jiu were waiting patiently. After all, there were 200,000 soldiers and civilians in the alliance to have dinner and survive. Before the King of Qi went north to guard the border, Li Fengyun could only fight alone in northern Xinjiang. The Li family of Zhaojun and the Cui family of Boling were too little help before the war between the North and the South broke out, so Li Fengyun was under too much pressure. Cui Yu and Cui Jiu even felt desperate. Think from the perspective of others, what should they do now if they were in Li Fengyun's position? How can they gain a foothold and develop?

Soon Li Fengyun made a decision, and he said, "The alliance needs food. Before conquering the territory, the alliance needs a large amount of food to maintain the battle of tens of thousands of troops in the next two months. Next is winter, and the alliance's demand for food will be greater." Li Fengyun looked at Cui Yu and Cui Jiu and said solemnly, "So before the end of July, a certain person must fight a war in Hebei, capture a city, and grab enough food. This is a certain person's bottom line, and there is no room for negotiation."

Cui Yu's face suddenly looked ugly. Li Fengyun's toughness and threat made her feel that she was humiliated and very angry.

"Just fight only?" Cui Jiu questioned.

"I keep my promise, fight only one battle, capture only one city, grab the food and leave."

"Which city?" Cui Jiu asked.

"Gaoyang."

Cui Jiu widened his eyes, unbelievable, and Cui Yu covered his mouth in surprise, feeling that Li Fengyun was a lunatic and a ignorant who knew nothing about life and death.

Gaoyang is an important town in northern Hebei, located on the banks of the Hutuo River in Hejian County. It has beautiful scenery. The Hutuo River is connected to the Yongji Canal and has convenient transportation. Therefore, the Holy Lord built Gaoyang Palace here as a rest place on the way to inspect the north. At the same time, it can take into account both Dai, Yan, You, Ji and remote control command. Since it is the palace, Gaoyang Town's status is of course rising. Not only are there heavy troops, but it is also a food, grass and supplies storage place for the counties and counties in northern Hebei. During the Eastern Expedition, the food, grass and supplies collected by the counties in northern Hebei were transported from Gaoyang to Zhuo County through water and land.

Now the counties and counties in northern Hebei are harvesting summer grains. After the harvest, they will be sent to Gaoyang and quickly transported to Zhuo County. Yang Xuangan rebellion has caused the Grand Canal to be cut off for more than a month, which has seriously endangered the security of the eastern expedition and the needs of the northern border towns. The palace and the garrison are anxious and are sent to the counties and counties in northern Hebei like snow, urging local officials to be sure to harvest and collect and transport summer grains. So if nothing unexpected happens, Gaoyang's grain will soon accumulate like mountains.

Li Fengyun set his sights on this batch of grain and wanted to lead the alliance army to attack Gaoyang and seize the grain. The timing was indeed very good, but there were heavy troops in Gaoyang Town. In addition, Gaoyang was less than 400 miles away from Jicheng, the capital of Zhuo County. Reinforcements were roaring, and the attack was too difficult. What's more serious is that even if the alliance captured Gaoyang, how could the alliance move away? Where to move? Can we avoid the pursuit of the Weifu Army?

Cui Yu sneered, "Do you know that the Holy Lord is coming back day and night and will soon arrive at Linshuo Palace in Zhuo County."

Li Fengyun nodded.

"Do you know the consequences when you hit Gao Yang at this time?"

Li Fengyun smiled and nodded, "Only by hitting Gao Yang at this time and angering the Holy Lord, can he help King Qi."

Cui Yu was extremely angry, "You are not helping the King of Qi, you are going to kill the King of Qi."

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