Although the gate of Guazhou has been broken, there are still 30,000 or 40,000 troops in the city, but with Li Rail's westward flight, there is not much resistance, except for some troops led by Li Rail's loyal henchmen who stubbornly resist to the end, the rest are confused and choose to surrender Li Wenyuan's army.

The rest of the recalcitrant armies were also divided, with a small number of poorly equipped traditional infantry driving them slowly to a dead end, and a large number of well-equipped swordsmen drove them to a dead end, and cooperated with the musketeers behind them to annihilate them directly. Soon, the defenders in Guazhou City were completely wiped out, except for some who fled in all directions, and some who resisted to the end, Li Wenyuan also captured nearly 10,000 prisoners and scattered them to the rear recruit camp for training. Li Wenyuan didn't want to use this way of forcibly recruiting strong men to expand his army, but because he really lacked manpower here, he could only listen to Zhang Juntai's suggestion and start preparing to integrate these prisoners into his army.

At this time, Guazhou had been captured, and the officials who Li Wenyuan had prepared for a long time also set off from Zhangye County and rushed to Guazhou under the stars to prepare to appease the people and implement the new policy. The prosperity of the political work cadres in his hands made Li Wenyuan begin to formally pacify Li Liang, otherwise Li Wenyuan would have to consider whether to follow the example of his ancestors and support a bandit force in the territory. Fortunately, however, the training of political work cadres went smoothly, and in line with the principle of taking a firm foothold in every county he occupied, and not giving any opportunity to some forces with ill intentions, Li Wenyuan resolutely set a plan to take Dunhuang County first, then Shanshan County, and then the last county.

After handing over his horses to his own soldiers, Li Wenyuan walked in through the blown up city gate, and when he entered the city gate, he saw that the doctors accompanying the army were directing the soldiers to carry the corpses of the soldiers guarding the city and burning them in a concentrated manner, and he also splashed a large amount of water on the blood-stained streets to prevent the emergence of epidemics.

There are also many craftsmen in the city gate cave began to erect simple scaffolding, began to measure the damaged part of the city gate hole, and the repair work of the city wall was also launched.

If you don't know the price of firewood and rice, Li Wenyuan can only sigh that it is not easy to be in charge. Now it is only a Guazhou that has been recovered, not to mention the military rations spent, this part can be directly used from the official warehouse, but it is the most troublesome for Guazhou's work to appease the people. Li Liangjun's military rations were all raised on the spot, and it can also be directly said that he was grabbing grain in columns, which also made the people in Guazhou not have much grain in stock. Moreover, when Li Liang escaped, he ordered someone to burn the military rations that could not be taken away, even if he found it in time, most of it could not be saved. Therefore, this part of the food shortage of the people fell on Li Wenyuan's head, and he could only be transferred from the people's warehouse set up by Li Wenyuan.

Li Wenyuan saw a familiar figure not far away, and immediately beckoned and asked, "Qiu Niang, why did you come here in person." ”

Qiu Niang over there heard Li Wenyuan greet her, so she also came with money, and said to Li Wenyuan: "What is the manager calling me?" ”

"How did you get here? Aren't you supposed to be in the back of the command? Li Wenyuan asked curiously.

"There's no way, my subordinates still owe some time to deal with these things, and I have to do some things myself."

"What do you need to do yourself? Aren't Ellie and Gai Suzhen good? Li Wenyuan frowned. After all, he never asked about the development of the night owl himself, and it was all left to Qiu Niang for Qiu Niang to decide for herself, but in such a short period of time, he also stepped into the army, and also set up a military owl, which must be better than he expected. But what exactly is it that needs to be personally interrogated by her, the big boss of the intelligence organization?

"Although the two of them are pretty good in martial arts and brains, they still have some deficiencies in the handling of intelligence, plus Guazhou has just been captured, and it is still a little unstable, and there are still a lot of remnants of dark chess, some of which can be moved directly now, and some of them cannot be moved for the time being, these have to be done by me personally, and I don't feel at ease to deliver them to other people." Qiu Niang frowned and said.

After listening to Qiu Niang's words, Li Wenyuan was also a little relieved, this kind of thing is very subjective, and the scale must be very fine, and he really has to catch the knife himself. However, after Li Liang occupied Guazhou, he sorted out the Guazhou officialdom, and at this time, Li Wenyuan had the righteousness of counterinsurgency on his head, and he was even more ruthless in rectifying the Guazhou officialdom, all the big and small officials were dismissed and reviewed, and once it was found that there was a trouble, the local area was directly handed over to the court for trial, and the others who did not bully the people were sent to the political work school in the rear for retraining to continue to serve as officials. It is precisely for this reason that many officials who were originally biased towards Li Liang let down their guard and threw themselves on Li Wenyuan's side.

After sending off Qiu Niang, Li Wenyuan also slowly came to the headquarters left by Li Rail in Guazhou, and looked around at some official documents and other things that Li Rail didn't have time to take away. Since Li Liang personally went to the front line in Guazhou, some official documents that needed to be personally reviewed by him were directly transferred to Guazhou, and it was not until Qin Qiong blocked the back road of Guazhou that it stopped.

In addition to the daily reports on the situation of Li Rail's territory, those official documents also mentioned that the food in the four counties under his rule was somewhat insufficient, and there were even bandits in some places in the last county, because the troops were insufficient and they were unable to suppress the localities.

Li Wenyuan shook his head with a smile after reading it, and then picked up another book and read it, which was written as a follow-up to the previous bandits, and mentioned that there seemed to be Turkic figures among those bandits, so the local county guard speculated that behind these bandits they could also be called horse bandits should be Turkic. Li Wenyuan could only shake his head again when he saw this, Li Rail's cooperation with the Turks was tantamount to seeking skin with the tiger, at this time Li Rail was in decline, and the Turks who were eyeing the Turks on the side would definitely not give up this opportunity, and they would definitely have some bad thoughts about the three counties on the border, and I am afraid that the people of the three counties would also fall under the iron hooves of the Turks, and it is estimated that the phenomenon of slaughtering villages will not be limited to that one place at that time.

Thinking of this, Li Wenyuan couldn't help but shiver, remembering that he had seen the masterpiece of the Turks a few days ago. This is not what he wants, he is not short of territory now, but the reason why he is expanding outward is because his land lacks enough population, such as Shandong County can easily raise an army of more than 100,000 people, and his Western Regions can only barely have more than 50,000 people in four counties. Li Wenyuan came to the map hanging in the house again, and his eyes focused on the place further west.

(End of chapter)