The subsequent battle was not as fierce as imagined, and Li Yizan, who was supervising the battle at the head of the city, was directly shocked to death by the explosion and was seriously injured.

The main reason is that the violent "heavenly thunder" blew up the city tower, which was regarded as a "heavenly punishment" by most of the superstitious Qiang army, and they knelt on the ground to pray one by one, and they had lost the courage to resist. After the Tang army stormed into the city, the resistance encountered was not stubborn. The fear of the unknown completely disintegrated the Qiang people's will to resist.

As a result, the Tang army only spent more than 1,000 casualties to conquer Yinzhou, a fortified city that was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

This result made Yuan Xingqin, Yang Zhaoyuan, An Congjin and others, who had always been at the top of the mountain, dumbfounded, and couldn't figure out what was going on for a while. Only Yuan Ren, Fu Yanqing, An Xianqi and other pro-army generals were still calm, and these guys, under the instigation of Shi Kang, played a lot of "artillery battles", and it was not until later that Li Qi heard about it and strictly forbade them to test with gunpowder at will.

The party Xiang Qiang of this era did not have the self-confidence accumulated by the three generations of Li Jiqian's ancestors and grandchildren in the later generations of Li Yuanhao's time because of the successive victories against the Song Dynasty, and they were still more afraid of the Central Plains Dynasty. In particular, some generals who fled Yinzhou fearfully reported to Li Renfu, who had already gathered a large army in Shizhou and was preparing for a big battle with the Later Tang Empire, that Yinzhou had suffered "heavenly punishment" and that the scene of heavenly thunder destroying the city tower also made Li Renfu suspicious.

I don't believe it, but fear is inevitable.

At the beginning of August, Zhi Congyuan and Huo Xunzhen led more than 5,000 horsemen to raid Xiazhou, the old nest of the Dingyan army, although it was not much of a threat to the city, but Huo Xunzhen deserved to be surnamed with fire, and set fire to the fields with Zhi Keyuan, and set fire to most of the grains to be harvested in the fields around Xiazhou, and then returned to Fuzhou with great strength.

At this time, Li Renfu suddenly felt scared, this year's famine is inevitable, if he and the Tang army are consumed until winter, the party tribal alliance is afraid that it will collapse on its own without the Tang army attacking.

The eight departments of the party and the Tuoba department are not big clans, but they only occupy the name of the descendants of Xianbei in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and they are more civilized than other tribes. If you go on like this with Tang Guo, it will be the end of the whole clan being killed.

After weighing the pros and cons, Li Renfu was also very honorable, and immediately submitted a petition for guilt, and sent his heir Li Yichao to Yinzhou to show his loyalty to the Son of Heaven in person.

Li Qi also knew that the poor Kou Mo was chasing, and his side was also a mess, so he didn't have to force the other party to work hard with him, but he just reprimanded Li Yichao in person. In addition, the two states of Suiyin were separated from Ding, and the new Suide army was placed, which was managed by the newly appointed Jiedu envoy of the imperial court.

Although the Li family of the party has a grudge, they now have to break their teeth and swallow it in their stomachs, which can be regarded as pinching their noses and admitting it. So Li Qi appointed An Xianqi as the defense envoy of the Suide Army, responsible for the defense of Yin, Sui, and the two prefectures, and stabilized the place. In addition, in view of the rampant bandits in northern Shaanxi and the lack of tranquility in the place, he ordered the generals Yuan Ren and Fu Yanqing to lead the army to suppress the bandits.

This order to suppress the bandits was naturally because the Northland Grasslands were in dire need of immigrants, and these bandits happened to forcibly migrate and exile to the Northland Grasslands after being appeased.

I just don't know what these bandits and steppe tribes are the most powerful in the end.

In contrast, Li Qi is still more optimistic about these bandits.

The battle between the Jinyang army and the Dingyan army had only been fought for less than a month, and when Luoyang got the news and was preparing to mobilize troops to attack Zhenzhou, Li Qi had already settled Li Renfu and returned triumphantly.

This time, the pro-conquest of the difficult army, in fact, did not fight any battles, Suizhou was given up by the party members on their own initiative, and Yinzhou was easily sent down after a cannon. Then there was a game of intrigue between the two sides, and in the end Li Qi still got the result he wanted.

The losses were much smaller than he had imagined.

As for arranging for the transport team to deliberately send the troops to death and lure the Qiang army in Suizhou to rob, after Li Qi returned to Jinyang, he immediately ordered Zhang Gan to destroy all the written materials, but this matter did not exist at all.

The Emperor's light is so high that he can't tolerate the presence of black spots......

Li Qi can finally breathe a sigh of relief, this time the personal expedition to Suizhou, the most shock to several Jiedu envoys in Guanzhong, close to Suizhou, close to Suizhou, Baosai Jiedu envoy Gao Yuntao went to Suizhou to meet the Son of Heaven when he returned to the division. In addition, Ren Yuan, who was in a semi-free state, also took the initiative to send people to Jinyang for the first time this time to congratulate Li Qiqin on his victory in conquering the difficult army.

The biggest significance of controlling Suiyin Erzhou is to open up the land connection with Guanzhong, although this road is relatively bumpy, not as smooth as taking Hezhong Fu, but in the end, Zhang Jinda, who has been isolated and helpless, can be regarded as calm.

With the support of Jinyang, the Tonghua side was no longer afraid of the attack of the Southern Army.

The biggest problem in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties was that the martial arts were in power, although the local Jiedu sects also accommodated some literati and gave advice to them. However, the local officials in various places, including the county commanders, were all served by military generals, and most of the local officials from these warriors were uneducated, and many were even illiterate. Their vision and insight determine that it is impossible for them to have a complete set of ideas and regulations for governing local civil affairs.

Military generals fight the world, but governing the government needs literati to do it, which will involve the struggle for power and interests.

In Taiyuan Prefecture, Yanmen, Zhenwu, and Shanbei, as Li Qi gradually grasped the power to appoint officials, he began to implement the system of civilian officials serving as local governors in county-level administrative districts, and military generals serving as county governors. However, the appointment and management of the county lieutenants were placed in the Privy Council, which belonged to the military system, and was separated from the officials.

However, in order to limit the power of the Privy Council, Li Qi handed over the personnel and management power to implement and implement the military tuntian in various localities to the Taifu Temple, and the military and civil affairs in the Tuntian army and the Tuntian guard in each locality were under the unified management of the Tuntian Metropolitan Supervisor under the jurisdiction of the Taifu Temple. This is to learn the Tuntian system in the Cao Wei period, and the Taifu Siqing was appointed by the envoy of the inner court, and he was also the supervisor of the Tuntian. In this way, a three-phase pattern was formed, with Shang Shuling in charge of government affairs, the Privy Council in charge of military affairs, and the Zhongmen envoy in charge of the five superintendents and military tuntian affairs.

The power of Taifu Temple, one of the nine kings of the Qin and Han dynasties, was basically mostly replaced by the household department during the Sui and Tang dynasties, and Li Qi now greatly strengthened its power.

Li Qi's way of weakening the power of the military towns in various localities was to implement military cantonment in the localities through the envoys of the central gate, so as to achieve the goal of dividing the monopoly of military and political power among the local defenders.

This kind of thing didn't feel very serious at first, but after these military garrisons developed and expanded, their military strength was enough to compete with the military towns in various places, and even surpassed the strength in the hands of the Jiedu envoys.

Due to the scarcity of talents for reading, there is no way now, Jinyang for the recruited readers, as long as they can read and write, and the writing is smooth, they will arrange their positions first. It is inevitable that there will be mixed good and bad, and most people will not be able to take charge of the job. There is no way to do it, so I can only open a "party school" in Jinyang Academy, and take turns to conduct refresher training for officials from all over the country, and then slowly screen them.