Xie Ai was lucky enough to attend the audience and felt quite wonderful.

He had no similar experience before, after all, he was just a Confucian scholar in Liangdi. However, he often listened to people's talk about the topic of Lu Shen in China and the ravages of China. His words were either indignant or sad, and they were all in a lot.

However, when he heard the people in Huainan discussing Jiehu in the banquet, he was neither angry nor heavy, as if he was discussing something extraordinary. The Hu disaster that made people feel scared, they just said it simply, but in this calm atmosphere, it revealed an indescribable confidence.

Xie Ai is not unfamiliar with this mentality. It is like he encountered some problems in his academic research. This problem is not difficult, but Xie Ai was not afraid of it when facing it, because he knew very well that this problem might be difficult, but as long as he studied it carefully, the problem will be solved sooner or later.

The people in Huainan seem to have this kind of mentality. They can calmly talk about things, not because they underestimate the problem and their opponents, but because they know their mission and whether it is difficult or not. That is what the spectators do, and their task is to solve the problem.

The Jie Kingdom is now split into several parts, but it does not mean that the military pressure in Huainan is less. A person may be able to defeat an opponent that could not be defeated through various tricks, but when an opponent splits into several, the power may be weakened a lot, but it will make the game environment more complicated than several times, and will add more variables.

When the Eight Kings of the Central Kingdom were in rebellion and killed each other, they probably didn't expect that the one who finally got the advantage was the Miscellaneous Hu Yicong, who they looked down upon. The Hu barbarians prospered in succession and were rampant for a while. Perhaps they didn't expect that the Tuoba clan, who was inconspicuous in the North of the North, was inconspicuous. The Tuoba clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty vigorously reformed the Chinese reform, but they rebelled by the soldiers of the six towns whom they ignored and abandoned. Gao Huan owned the five towns alone, and probably had the ambition to swallow the world, but was still counterattacked by the Yuwen clan's losers.

The scenery should be looked at in the long run. In the original history, Shi Kan was originally just a disharmonious small syllable in the civil strife of Shi Zhao, and the Shen family of Wuxing was just a small bed bug with a small head in the eyes of Jiangdong Gaomen. Who would have thought that these two sides could become the main force in the current competition for the Central Plains.

Shi Kan's power is not weak, and it can even be said to be very strong. The territory controlled by him spans the Yellow River and Taihang Mountains. From Yecheng to the west, Shi Zhao's territory was almost accepted, and he received a considerable number of Jie Kingdom imperial guards. He arranged it to Jinfangtou in the Yellow River alone. As for his own town, Yecheng, it maintained an army of at least 50,000 people.

These troops cannot be regarded as a mob. You should know that this group of troops was separated from the core forces of Jie Kingdom and must have inherited a considerable part of the legacy left by Shi Le. This can be seen from the rapid expansion of his man's westward moments. Earlier, the Huainan army advanced to southern Henan, and even in the far and wide, there were local clans willing to contact him, but now this kind of voice has long disappeared.

However, the size of the power is one thing, and the power that can be exerted is another. However, Shen Zhezi knew very well that this future war could not be expected from the internal conflicts of the opponent.

It is also a funny thing to say. When Shi Leshan was alive, although there were conflicts and rifts among the various people in Jie Kingdom, at least there was a common leader, which was the prosperity of the country. As a result, hundreds of thousands of troops rushed south, but they could not cooperate with each other. The conflict broke out and ended up losing.

Now it seems that the Jie Kingdom has been divided into several parts, and Shi Kan's prestige is far less than that of the people. However, with the strong rise of the Huainan army, the current situation has provided them with the possibility of uniting and helping each other.

In the past few years, although Huainan focused on operating local areas, Shen Zhezi did not have the intention to launch several Henan rioters to encircle and suppress some border pressure. You should know that as the Huainan army pushed into southern Henan, the natural danger of the Huainan River was no longer reliable, and the entire southern Henan had no strange dangers to defend. The long border around could be said to be completely unprepared.

Especially in the north, Chen Guang, a local tyrant in the chaos, was in order to prevent the person from coming to the south to plunder, the Huainan army had to set up heavy troops between Yingchuan, Qiao and Liang. Once the Huainan army showed signs of a large-scale gathering of troops, both Taobao from Luoyang and Liu Zheng from Sishui were ready to move, as if they wanted to seize the Huainan rear route. Therefore, before the sure chance of winning was to be decided by the quick battle, Huainan was also restrained by these troops.

A flat and unobstructed terrain like southern Henan can play a very small defensive role even fortresses set up by heavy troops. Just like the Huainan Army succeeded in attacking Qiaocheng, which Shi Cong guarded several years ago, the Huainan Army is now facing such a dilemma. Therefore, in order to prevent the surrounding invasion, the Huainan Army not only built a garrison fortress in southern Henan as a warning, but also spared no expense to build a powerful cavalry team. In this way, it will be a little shock to the surrounding area and create an environment that can develop rapidly.

Of course, this confrontation situation can be maintained, and there are also results of mutual condolence between the two sides. For the Huainan Army, although there are some scruples in gathering heavy troops to wipe out one of them, it is not a price that cannot be afforded or paid.

But Shen Zhezi still indulged in this situation to maintain it. In fact, he also used these hostile forces to squeeze the living space of the rural sects around the territory. People only had a kind of undying temperament that was not as good as the Yellow River. The Huainan Army regarded itself as the king's army. Although the rural sects were unable to resist, they were quite fearless, thinking that the Huainan Army did not dare to exploit them too much, and even had unconspiracy and conspiracy.

Shen Zhezi was unwilling to compromise with them, nor did he want to instigate the Huainan army to plunder the countryside, so he simply let the chaos army ravage them. The Huainan Governor's Office surge in recent years, which has a lot to do with this. The chaos army will not talk about any friendship with these villagers, and naturally they will have to exploit their lives in order to survive. They either rely on the chaos army or flee south. Once they escape from the countryside, then their wishes will not matter.

The hostile forces around them are also indescribable. Even if they accidentally get a place to live, they cannot organize production and cannot form a stable rule. If they want to survive, looting seems to be the only choice.

However, plundering also requires costs, and those villages of Zongwu are also non-renewable resources in the short term. Seeing Huainan's rapid development and rise, on the one hand, it is becoming increasingly severe survival pressure, and on the other hand, it is not a matter of raising Huainan as a pig dog, or occasionally plundering and cutting food.

At least as far as Shen Zhezi knows, there are many backgrounds of the surrounding villages that travel to Runan for commercial transactions. Shen Zhezi did not attack too much, but just occasionally took out one or two companies to slaughter and demonstrate. After all, Huainan gained more profits in commercial transactions, and he also needed to fish these military troops around and immediately culled them as soon as he prepared enough.

This is a rather cruel survival confrontation game. Both sides are indulging each other, but no matter which side reveals obvious flaws, it will immediately bring cruel blows. It is obvious that in this competition, the Huainan army has an absolute advantage, so those chaotic troops need closer cooperation if they want to obtain greater security.

In this regard, the Huainan Army was also very helpful to the reason why Shikan's power was able to cross the Yellow River.

Nowadays, the strongest one is the Taobao army located in Luoyang. Taobao's troops were originally part of the southern expedition of the Slave Kingdom. Although they were defeated in Xuanhu a few years ago, Huainan mainly dispatched naval troops at that time, with the purpose of helping the military and civilians in Runan, and did not aim to kill the enemy. In the subsequent decisive battle of Wokou, Taobao did not participate in the military power, so his military strength should not be underestimated, and he dared to enter Luoyang directly.

More than three years have passed, and the Huainan army has never been pressing against Luoyang anymore, and the Slave Kingdom has completely split, so Taobao stayed safely in Luoyang for so long. However, it was not easy to maintain tens of thousands of people eating horses. Moreover, the Sino-Korean period around Luoyang fought endlessly, and it was later called the core area of ​​the war between the two Zhaos, which was no longer as prosperous as before.

Taobao is very strong, and there should be nearly 30,000 troops at present, but there are quite a large number of cavalry, so the threat is very great. Moreover, the terrain around Luoyang is quite complicated. Even if the Huainan army has an absolute advantage, it will be difficult to completely kill Luoyang. Once its army flees again, it will bring an extremely serious blow to the commercial system that has been developing in Huainan for several years.

Recovering the old capital of Luoyang was a great temptation, but after a long discussion, the generals finally decided not to regard Luoyang as their primary target. The reason why the chaotic army was difficult to deal with was that there was no pressure to defend the territory. Moreover, there was a great enemy in Huainan near the border, and Nanyang in the south was lost, so Taobao could not use Luoyang as a foundation to defend it.

Shen Zhezi still remembered that he had the first battle across the river. Huang Quan, the slave general who was supposed to defend in Hefei, suddenly appeared in Tushui hundreds of miles away. During the battle of recovery of Huainan, the slave general Peng Biao also went out of the field to fight, and he did not expect to advance together to siege Taobao to siege the lonely city. Therefore, the target of the first battle was Chen Guang in the north, who first swept the enemies in Yuzhou.

Chen Guang's strength is not very strong. Although he brags a lot when he asked for surrender in his early years, his living space has become smaller and smaller in the past few years under the slow push of the Huainan Army. However, to deal with Chen Guang, he must be prepared for Shikan on the north bank of the Yellow River. Therefore, this battle was to cooperate with the Xuzhou Army and advance on both sides. The Huainan Army seized the Huainan Canal in the upper reaches, and the Xuzhou Army seized Fangtou in the lower reaches, controlled the Yellow River waterway, and then carried out a thorough sweep of the internal strife.
Chapter completed!