In June of the second year of the Apocalypse, the weather in the south was already very hot, and the territory of Nanzhao, which is located on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, was slightly cooler than other places because of its high altitude. Everywhere in the city of Yang Tho, you can see the soldiers of the Tiance Army who have come out of vacation walking on the streets in twos and threes, and they are telling the people of Nanzhao in another way that the current style of the Tang Dynasty also allows the people to gradually dispel their concerns about the previous war after close contact.

It has been several days since the Battle of Tieqiao City, but Xue Yang has been discussing and meeting with Chen Yu and other generals for several days in the past few days, and he has written a report on the experience of this battle and all the experiences of this battle, and hurriedly sent it to the Chang'an base camp. During the Battle of Tieqiao City, the Tiance Army was the first positional battle since the large-scale replacement of gunpowder weapons, and the battle against the Tubo Iron Cavalry had great reference significance, and its battle process and the advantages and disadvantages of the musket in the process of the battle would greatly affect the combat effect of other troops in the later period. Xue Yang and the others did not dare to slack off, and recorded these details and sent them to the General Staff Headquarters.

"Alright, let's write down almost everything we can think of these days. Next, it's time to relax and think about what happened after Nanzhao was pacified. Chen Yu sat on the side with a big grin and said with a smile, at this time, among the senior generals sitting in Yangtho City, he was the longest, and he spoke and acted a lot more casually.

"Chen Shuai, how can I listen to what you mean that you don't seem to care about the battle against the Black Tooth Ten Divisions in the south at all, so confident?" Li Shenfu took a tea bowl from the side, poured him a cup of tea, and said with a smile.

Chen Yu shook his head and said, "You have been fighting in the north and have not experienced the pain of that rainforest, and after the ten black tooth divisions were defeated by the 30,000 main forces, there is nothing to worry about. And the most important thing is that the rifles in our hands may be a little difficult to deal with cavalry, but if the infantry against the infantry, there is no problem. His words aroused everyone's interest, and even Xue Yang, who had been following Xu Ying's movements on the map, turned his head to listen to what he had to say.

"I heard Tiancheng and Xiaosi say before that what the emperor originally wanted to equip was not the musket in our hands, but the technical requirements of the equipment department were not met, so there was the current replacement. Although the current musket is slow to fire, in infantry combat, because the opponent's charging speed is not as fast as the cavalry, the three-stage method of battle can have enough room to play, and I also found in the battle over there that the three-stage method of war can cover the impact speed of the opponent's infantry with the density of bullet projection when the scale is more than 10,000 people, so as to maintain the balance between the two sides in the battle for half an hour. And in this way, in the face of great lethality, the opposite side has only one way to retreat. Chen Yu's words made everyone ponder how to fight the battle in the future.

"So before the new rifle is redressed, the power of the cavalry should not be underestimated, and don't you see that the central garrison battalion has basically not moved except for the Modao battalion, which has changed its uniforms? And the most important heavy cavalry battalion also retained part of the personnel. I think the General Staff also has this kind of consideration. Chen Yu said with a smile.

"Okay, the General Staff should have thought about this matter, but I didn't expect the result of the confrontation with the cavalry." Xue Yang waved his hand and said: "Now on Nanzhao's side, in addition to the battle in the south of Heizhi, there is only Hu Jingzhang left as an enemy. We have one last thing to decide today. After the end of the war, a main force corps needs to be placed in the south, so a few of you think about it, we need to report to the General Staff to determine the personnel and unit numbers after the war on the southern front is over. ”

"Why don't you let Xu Ying stay, isn't he leading his troops to pursue Hu Jingzhang now?" Li Shenfu said disappreciably: "And he is good at handling more complicated things, and it must be better to stay than me." ”

"No, the General Staff has other tasks for him and the mountain battalion." Xue Yang shook his head and vetoed Li Shenfu's suggestion, waved his hand and said, "There is still time for this matter. Let's start dividing our forces in the next few days. Brother Chen, you lead your troops back to Jianshui City or Profit City to sit in the town, Li Yang, you stay in Yangtho City, on the one hand, to prepare for the arrival of cabinet officials, and on the other hand, to keep in touch with Brother Xu's side, ready to receive them at any time. The rest of the men and horses set off with me and returned to Dali City. ”

When Xue Yang was arranging the post-war affairs, Xu Ying had already led his troops to chase after Yongchang Mansion, and there was basically no road to go along this way, so Xuan Yingwei recruited more than a dozen local guides to arrive in Yongchang with the mountain battalion and the third battalion. But at this time, it was too late, Hu Jingzhang had already left, and Zheng Maisi had already withdrawn from Yongchang Mansion to Cangwang City. These two strands went in two directions, which made Xu Ying not think about which one to chase for the time being.

"Dashuai, I think it's better to pursue Hu Jingzhang. Zheng Maisi was already a lost dog at this time, and Cangwang City was not a place to stay for a long time, so it was impossible for him to stay there for long. On the contrary, Hu Jingzhang ran from Sichuan to Nanzhao, and at this time he actually ran to Lishui, in case he escaped from the border of Nanzhao again, we really couldn't catch up. These people are much more difficult to deal with than Zheng Maihei. Xu Ying didn't think about it, but the captain of the personal guard beside him persuaded him to pursue Hu Jingzhang.

"Marshal, with the marching speed of my third battalion and the mountain battalion, I will definitely be able to approach Lishui City without the other party being caught off guard, and he Hu Jingzhang will definitely not be able to run at that time." The words of the captain of the guard made Xu Ying think about it, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect your kid level to be quite high." If you are right in this battle, I will let you go to the field army for training and training, and it is really a waste of talent to be a personal guard captain by my side. Go and pass the order, the whole army immediately assembles to develop Lishui City, and asks Xuan Yingwei to inform the commander and send someone to Yongchang Mansion as soon as possible to prevent Zheng Maiji from going and returning. ”

Xu Ying went all out towards Lishui City. At this time, Hu Jingzhang and Wen Tao were also discussing the next plan, and the Mino country they were targeting was now in civil strife, and it was a good time for foreign forces to intervene. You must know that at this time, in addition to the tens of thousands of soldiers he brought out from Sichuan, he went to sea to encircle the three or four people of Longxun, and there was no problem for nearly 100,000 troops to go to Mino Country. Moreover, Hu Jingzhang and Wen Tao keenly felt that the Tiance Army would not let them go, so after resting in Lishui City, they crossed the border and headed towards Mino Country without stopping.

Mino's country is located about 700 miles southwest of Lishui City, but the mountain road is rugged and difficult, and it takes almost a month to reach 6 or 700 miles. However, I know a lot about Wen Tao and Hu Jingzhang of the Mino Kingdom, this small country was beaten once during the Tang Dynasty, and there are still their remnants in Lishui City. At this time, the Mino Kingdom was also established by the descendants of the royal family of that year. Hu Jingzhang originally didn't have much interest in this small country, but he couldn't stand the map that Wen Tao took out, and Mino Country was the only way to go to Tianzhu. Only by taking the country of Mino can you cross the sea to Tianzhu, and even according to Wen Tao's words, you don't need to cross the sea, you can reach it directly by land. And there is a greater use of taking the Mino country is to find a place to settle down and rest, after all, in the past few years, the soldiers under him have not had a stable habitat, and the army has long been discouraged and unable to hold on for a long time.

However, there is basically no suspense for Hu Jingzhang to cross the border, there are no large cities and castles in the Mino, and even the king's residence is built on the water with wooden villages. Therefore, the 100,000 troops rushed up without encountering any decent resistance, and the Mino Kingdom was wiped out by Hu Jingzhang within three days.

At the end of June of the second year of the Apocalypse, at the same time as Hu Jingzhang destroyed the Mino Kingdom, Xu Ying also rushed to Lishui City, but he was still a step slower, and Lishui City was almost emptied. Xu Ying looked at the sky to the west and sighed, then collected his troops and stayed in Lishui City for a while, and sent someone to report to the rear quickly, asking if it was necessary to continue the pursuit.

At this time, Xue Yang, who was in Dali City, naturally didn't know the problems Xu Ying encountered in the west, even if Xuan Yingwei used the transmission method of flying pigeons to pass the book, and set up several intermediate bases in the middle, this backward transmission method was still time-consuming and laborious. Moreover, there are many birds of prey in the mountainous areas of southwest China, and if you are not careful, you are also prone to the danger of carrier pigeons being injured and shot down. Although Xuan Yingwei has adopted a bird similar to a kitty domesticated by the locals to replace the carrier pigeon in the southwest region, it is still not satisfactory. In this way, one stop after another, by the time Xue Yang learned about it, it was already in July. However, Xue Yang was much more decisive than Xu Ying, and immediately replied to him and asked him to leave it alone, and directly wave his army to kill him until Hu Jingzhang was completely eliminated, and at the same time sent some additional men and horses to the west to reinforce Xu Ying.

At this time, the cabinet of Nanzhao has sent members to accept, and various places are also being redivided, some areas in the east are assigned to Yunnan Province, where the Qiqi is located, and the location of the ten departments of the southern black teeth is directly merged into Jiaozhou Province, and other places in Nanzhao are established separately Nanzhao Province, and the party members are rich and transferred to the post of political envoy of Nanzhao Province. The prisoners of the brigade were also taken over by the logistics department and escorted to Qinzhou and Lianzhou for loading, and then quickly transported to the north to participate in the construction of the Fengzhou Railway. There were about 100,000 prisoners of prisoners in the Nanzhao War, accounting for almost a quarter of the population of Nanzhao, and such a large-scale population transfer once made the cabinet feel that it would cause turmoil, but after Li Xuanqing decided to build the Fengzhou Railway, Cen Tianshi directly ignored this factor, anyway, according to the principle of the construction company, after three years of hard labor, he would be discharged home, and the Fengzhou Railway Line would have been completed in three years, so it didn't matter.

After the large-scale civil affairs within Nanzhao were handed over to the cabinet and generously handled, Xue Yang and others began to report to the General Staff to ask the main army to return to China for rest, and he and Chen Yu also had to take Long Xun back to the base camp, and all the battles in Lishui on the Western Front were handed over to Xu Ying to deal with by himself.

In the middle of July of the second year, Xu Ying immediately set out from Lishui City to attack the Mino Kingdom, and the 3rd Battalion and the Mountain Battalion crossed various complicated terrain in the middle and arrived at the border and began to look for Hu Jingzhang's headquarters for a decisive battle. At this time, Hu Jingzhang was already ill, and in addition to the eldest son Hu Changling, the affairs of the ministry basically relied on Wen Tao to preside. Wen Tao advocated abandoning the Mino Kingdom and continuing westward into Tianzhu, where the land was vast and the people were rich. However, most of the soldiers in the army represented by Hu Changling were unwilling to continue to go deep into foreign countries, some of them wanted to settle down as a people, and it was a good choice to have more gold and silver than Mino Country, and some people felt that they should not confront the Tang Dynasty anymore, and should surrender and return to their hometowns. This situation made Wen Tao helpless, and he had always assisted Hu Jingzhang because although he was very resourceful, he lacked prestige and could not suppress the majority of generals under him.

In desperation, Wen Tao could only go to Hu Jingzhang, hoping that he would speak out to suppress the backlash of his generals and quickly lead people out of danger. But Hu Jingzhang, who died early in the parallel world, lived for so many years at this time, and this time the disease outbreak never stopped, and Wen Tao fell into a coma again while talking to him, which completely blinded Wen Tao, and hurriedly recruited a military doctor to relieve himself. But although Hu Jingzhang was rescued, he was no longer able to serve, and Wen Tao could only leave in disappointment.

And Hu Jingzhang's downfall of the news although Wen Tao and others tried their best to conceal it, but but it was quickly gone, his this is equivalent to making the group completely out of control, that night, hope to surrender to the Tiance army some of the generals pulled the army out of the garrison to the east, looking for the Tiance army to take the initiative to surrender. The men and horses controlled by Hu Changling took Hu Jingzhang from the capital of Mino to the south to prepare to take refuge in the country of Pi, and the remaining part of the dragons began to scatter without a leader.

This upheaval left Wen Tao dumbfounded, he didn't have time to take action or even react to let the situation get out of control, and in the blink of an eye, there were only a few thousand troops left around him, and he was still lost. This made him, a wise man who had been scheming all over the world, feel helpless. In fact, the mutiny of Hu Jingzhang's group had already laid the root of the bane when he and Wen Tao chose to leave the mainland and come to this foreign country, but Hu Jingzhang had a high prestige in the army and could be suppressed. This time he fell is equivalent to the usual contradictions suddenly lost their suppression and concentrated outbreak, several years of depression and the insecurity of living far away from their hometown and having no fixed place made the soldiers unable to bear it anymore and broke out in a concentrated manner.

"What a good foundation." Wen Tao looked up to the sky and sighed, looked at the submissive soldiers around him and sighed: "Now you should also go and find your own way out." ”

"My lord, we have no foundation here, no way out, it is better to follow the adults." The captain of the guard beside Wen Tao stepped forward and said with a wry smile: "Those who have ideas are gone, and now those who stay here are only those who can't leave, I hope the adults can rescue one or two." ”

"Fate is bitter, and I am helpless. Let's go east, too. No matter what the Tiance Army does to us, at least we are the same ancestor. Wen Tao waved his hand and motioned for everyone to follow east to find the Tiance Army.

At the end of July of the second year of the Apocalypse, Xu Ying accepted the surrender of the two groups of Hu Jingzhang's group in the middle of the Mino Kingdom, so that all the opponents in Nanzhao were swept away, and the ruling territory of the Tang Empire directly reached the distant Western zone for the first time after integrating into the Mino Kingdom.