In the blink of an eye, the hot summer has quietly passed, and more than three months have passed since Li Wenyuan recovered the three northwestern counties, and the newly recruited soldiers have completed the training of new recruits and begun to be incorporated into their respective battle sequences, and the eight regiments under Li Wenyuan have all been replenished, and the ordnance and materials have also been distributed in place. At the same time, under Qiu Niang's efficient efforts, the dark chess of Dunhuang County, and the end of the county, and Shanshan County have almost been removed, and the rest except for Li Wenyuan's name and agreement to stay, all the others have been uprooted by Qiu Niang, and even the small fish and shrimp that are left have lost their role because they can't contact their respective superiors.

In other words, except for the bandits composed of the remnants of Li Rail's army entrenched in the Haixin Mountain of Puchang Hai, Li Wenyuan basically completed the work of suppressing the newly recovered territory. After practicing his internal skills, Li Wenyuan is now ready to find someone to make a move and learn from each other. Li Liang was still useful, and it was not suitable to do it for the time being, so Li Wenyuan set his sights on the tributary bandits.

The leader of the tributary bandits is called Zhao Wei, who is a disciple of Li Rail, because he has some brains and his martial arts are okay, he was appointed by Li Rail as the general of the defenders of Shanshan County. With the rout of Li Liang in Guazhou, Li Wenyuan's army took advantage of the victory to attack the three counties with weak garrison strength, Zhao Wei led the army to fight bravely, but in the end it was outnumbered, which led to the loss of Shanshan County, Zhao Wei led the remnants of the army to withdraw from Shanshan County in a panic when the city was broken, and fled to the Haixin Mountain of Puchanghai for temporary refuge.

There is a secret warehouse set up by Li Liang on this Haixin Mountain, stockpiling some grain, grass and ordnance, which was originally used to expand the army after the uprising, but now it is giving Zhao Wei a chance to breathe. Zhao Wei occupied this warehouse, and sent the few remaining elites under him to guard the only land passage in and out of Haixin Mountain. At the same time, he sprinkled his manpower to gradually collect the remnants, collecting the defeated soldiers of the three counties, and at the same time, many people who were afraid of public trial came to defect, and slowly gathered more than 5,000 people, and the soldiers were strong for a while. Zhao Wei's army was even stronger than when he defended Shanshan County before, which finally made Zhao Wei feel a little at ease, and began to send people to try to contact Li Rail, trying to regain the lost territory with Li Rail.

However, all the messengers sent by Zhao Wei to contact Li Liang were intercepted by Qiu Niang's night owl, and Zhao Wei's letter was forwarded to Li Wenyuan for decision. When Zhao Wei recovered Dunhuang County, there were already night owls who handed the news to Li Wenyuan, and later when Zhao Wei fled to Haixin Mountain, Li Wenyuan also knew it clearly. The reason why he didn't directly eliminate Zhao Wei when his forces were still relatively weak was because Li Wenyuan was still preparing to keep this person as a magnet to gather the remnants of Li Liang who might become a hidden danger together, and then exterminate them together. Now that his role has been almost played, it's time to raise his knife.

Li Wenyuan immediately issued an order for the reorganized Eighth Army Corps, led by the corps commander Chai Huaixing, to go to Puchanghai to suppress Zhao Wei's rebels.

After the reorganization, the eight corps were led by the following military commanders: Zhang Juntai, commander of the First Legion, Qin Qiong, commander of the Second Legion, Fu Wen, commander of the Third Legion, Wu Delu, commander of the Fourth Legion, Cheng Yanjin, commander of the Fifth Legion, Le Zhengming, commander of the Sixth Legion, Wang Ping, commander of the Seventh Legion, and Chai Huaixing, commander of the Eighth Legion.

With the exception of the Fourth Army Corps of Udru, the other legions were changed to the previous establishment of Zhang Juntai's army, that is, a 15,000-strong corps composed of a mixed division, two traditional infantry divisions, and two cavalry divisions equipped with muskets.

This time, it was Li Wenyuan's intention to promote Cheng Yanjin to the commander of the Fifth Legion, and it was enough for Cheng Yanjin to be promoted to a higher level by taking the sentry card of Dangjin Pass and recovering the last county without spending a single soldier. Moreover, in the study of the military academy, Cheng Yanjin also worked hard, which also made Li Wenyuan realize what it means to say that romance is not credible. Although the real Cheng Yanjin in history under his own command also has a sick old mother, he is not the kind of person who only knows how to play clever in Romance, on the contrary, he inherited the intelligence inherited from his family, and he is very talented in military affairs.

At this time, Cheng Yanjin was doing adaptation training in Jimo County, and then they would be the vanguard to deal with the possible invasion of the Western Turks. Therefore, Li Wenyuan did not deliberately mobilize them to deal with Zhao Wei this time, but only chose the Chai Huaixing army that had been reorganized nearby to exterminate Zhao Wei.

Qin Qiong's second army is now stationed in the area of Yamansu, guarding against the counterattack of Li Rail's army, some time ago also repelled a Turkic temptation force, in the field battle Qin Qiong took the lead in the enemy formation, led by the cavalry of the attack each extremely brave, the Turkic army that killed had no intention of fighting collapsed, leaving a place of corpses and retreating in a hurry to the vast Gobi. According to Li Wenyuan's order, after every battle with the Turks, it is inevitable that the corpses of the Turks will be built into a Jingguan to deter those barbarians in the steppe.

Chai Huaixing sat in the camp tent and commanded his army to start attacking Zhao Weibu. Zhao Wei also relied on the combat effectiveness of his army this time to be much stronger than before, and he was also ready to fight with the officers and soldiers to stimulate the morale of his subordinates. Zhao Weibu, who was besieged by Li Wenyuan's army on the mountain, was also a little confused at this time, and the long-term inability to contact Li Liang made people panic, and they were worried about their future. Zhao Wei also knows these things, but there is no good way to solve this matter, the easiest way is to lead the army and the official army to fight, victory can dispel all doubts and confusion.

Zhao Wei's department went out of the cottage and set up a formation at the foot of the mountain to prepare for a duel with Chai Huaixing, instead of being slowly surrounded by all the valves and being trapped alive in the cottage, Zhao Wei still chose to lead his troops to fight to the death with the official army.

Zhao Wei rode in front of the battle to inspect the soldiers under him, cheered them up and said: "Don't be afraid, although the enemy army in front of you is numerous, they are just a rabble, just a few months ago they were all farmers in the field, and they were captured as soldiers to fight against us, and the fear in their hearts is undoubted. And on the other hand, we have been through a hundred battles, and we have never seen any scenes, how can we lose to a group of peasants who have just put down their hoes in momentum? ”

(End of chapter)