At the end of November of the second year of the Apocalypse, Xue Wanli led his army into Huizhou and took the last stronghold of Liu Changlu's remnants, officially announcing the annihilation of the largest separatist force in Lingnan. As a result, the forces of the Tiance Army also officially incorporated the entire southeast into their territory. And Chen Yu in the middle of the road after converging with Chai Jia took on the task of eliminating the large and small separatist towns in northern Guangdong, and the offensive of more than 100,000 troops was like a tide, in the face of strong combat power, almost all the large and small forces along the way looked down on the wind, and none of them could resist the unification alone. After Xue Yang led his army to advance into the garrison, Li Tianyi's cavalry corps and Qian Ning's brigade began to move south from Yongzhou to Daozhou and Guizhou in the southwest, and began to cooperate with Xue Yang's corps to outflank the Qiqi forces clockwise, cut off the connection between the Qiqi and the large and small forces in northern Guangdong, and cut off the supply lines of the Qiqi. Subsequently, Li Tianyi led the cavalry corps from Guizhou to the north to join Xue Yang's main force in the mountainous area north of Rongzhou to help him open up the mountain passage.

As a result, the largest tribal separatist force in the southwest was officially put on the agenda by the Tiance Army, preparing to eliminate its living forces before the year. However, the logistics of the southwest operation was the key, and under the huge supply of prisoners of war labor, the third brigade of the construction company led by Yang Hu began to dig roads in the mountains and mountains, starting from Xuzhou to build a strategic straight road through the southwest.

Due to the complex terrain, the difficulty of the front-line army, on the one hand, it has to deal with the pervasive small-scale attacks, the southwest campaign is extremely difficult compared to the eastern and central lines of Xue Wanli and Chen Yu, even if the logistics department has equipped almost all members of Xue Yang's corps with mountain bikes, it is still impossible to increase its speed on a large scale. For generals like Xue Yang, Xu Ying and Li Yang, who are known for their quick reflexes, this is the most humiliating battle in history. Even at one time, Yang Hu's logistics department built roads faster than the speed of marching, but fortunately, the situation improved after Li Tianyi's cavalry arrived, but even this could only expel the harassing forces of Qi Qi, far away from the large army and the road repair brigade of the logistics department, and could not really form a big war.

Xue Yang decided to divide the troops after thinking about it for a long time, and the large army took Li Tianyi as the main commander, and the commander continued to go towards Mazhou, the core area of Qiqi, and fought steadily along the way, not seeking great achievements but forcing the other party to follow his own pace to concentrate troops and horses, and on the other way, the three main forces of the third battalion, the mountain battalion and the fifteenth battalion were concentrated to break away from the large army and set off to the north, bypassing the obstruction in the mountainous areas of northern Yunnan, and preparing to go upstream along the Jinsha River. Attack Sizhou, an important town in the north, and then move south.

When the attack of Xue Yang's corps was launched, Chen Yu's side engaged in fire with Pang Juzhao and Ye Guangluo, the remaining big forces in the southwest. Because of their adjacent territories, these two people jointly sent troops to confront Chen Yu in the area west of Yiju in an attempt to intercept the westward movement of the Tiance Army. More than 200,000 troops on both sides prepared to fight in the hills west of Uiju.

Xue Wanli on the eastern front received an order from the Guangzhou headquarters at this time, and led his troops south to sweep the Leizhou Peninsula area, waiting for an opportunity to cooperate with the navy to capture Yazhou Island. This is the best forward base of the Navy Attack Needle Navy, starting from Danzhou in the northwest of Yazhou Island, almost all areas of the Jing Navy coastline are within the range of the Navy's strike, and Yazhou is also the best naval escort base from Guangzhou to Nanyang. In the planning of the Navy Department, Yazhou Island will be one of the home ports of the Nanyang Fleet in the future, and its military status will even be higher than that of Guangzhou and Shantou. At this time, under the influence of Li Xuanqing, the navy of the Tang Empire was all offensive in its strategic thinking, and local security was not the starting point for naval considerations. Therefore, Yazhou, as the farthest land island in the South China Sea before the mainland, will play the most suitable role.

Therefore, when Xue Wanli led the army to Gaozhou, the navy also began to plan to establish an advance port on the west side of the Leizhou Peninsula as a supply base and began to attack the Jing Navy Naval Division. But it all depends on how fast Xue Wanli moves. At this time, the workers, equipment and raw materials prepared for the construction of the port in Guangzhou were basically ready, and the transportation of other materials gradually gave way to military supplies after the logistics fleet stabilized in Guangzhou. The civilian goods have basically met the needs of the people's livelihood through the land channel, and the rest can rely on the caravans of the southern merchants themselves. Large-scale convoys of transport ships loaded with coal and weapons were unloaded in Shantou and Guangzhou to await the military's action.

At this time, the large and small forces on the Leizhou Peninsula were originally attached to Liu Changlu's wings, and after Liu Changlu was exterminated, a small number of them began to surrender to the Tiance Army, and the territory was successfully received, but the rest were received by Pang Juzhao and Ye Guangluo. It's just that the time is too hasty, although these two people have taken over the territory, they basically have no spare strength to operate, and even the army city defense can't resend troops to come over before Chen Yu arrives at the doorstep, so after Xue Wanli's army arrived, the offensive was fierce, and soon took Gaozhou, officially advanced into the peninsula area, and completely cut off the land connection between the remaining places such as Leizhou and Luozhou and the mainland. Luo Dahai, head of the navy's Nanyang Fleet, also led his troops from Guangzhou to enter the waters of the Beibu Gulf through the Qiongzhou Strait at the right time. This was originally the sphere of influence of the Jing Navy, but the last time the main force of the Jing Navy was destroyed by a typhoon, and the new Navy troops were all concentrated in the Aizhou and Yanzhou areas in the south of Jiaozhou for training, so the huge Beibu Gulf basically did not see the traces of the Jing Navy's sailors, and few other small forces around spent money to form expensive sailor troops, so after passing through the Qiongzhou Strait, the Nanyang Fleet almost went around the Beibu Gulf for most of the circle, and finally found Lianzhou as a suitable place. After the navy had chosen a good place, it saw that the land troops had not yet attacked, so they simply went it alone, let all the men and horses of the logistics fleet land, and in a grand manner, they built a large number of construction projects to dig the port wharf under the nose of the Lianzhou city defense army.

Originally, the city defense army of Lianzhou planned to go out of the city to drive away, but they were bombarded by the artillery of the nearby naval warship, and this unprecedented weapon frightened them, and they no longer dared to go out of the city to meet the battle, and even the south gate was closed. The relieved workers began to intensify the construction, and began to organize a blasting team to blast the reefs for the internal channel of Lianzhou Bay, and blew up more than a dozen reefs with brute force, and finally dredged this tortuous and inward channel.

After the channel is dredged, everything will be easy to do, and the shore wharf, trestle, etc., is familiar with the construction team of the latest construction company named the tenth brigade of the construction company with experience in building Shantou and Guangzhou ports, and Lianzhou Port is almost the same every day.

The news that the navy was alone soon spread to the front line of Luozhou, Xue Wanli felt his face gloomy after receiving the news, and began to give up the early persuasion to surrender, regardless of the order to attack the city, with the support of sufficient explosive packs and blasting canisters, Luozhou only lasted half a day before being blown up by the demomen of the Tiance Army, Xue Wanli commanded the army to rush in, and it took half a day to clear the recalcitrant forces in the city, announcing that Luozhou changed hands. After Luozhou was captured, Xue Wanli divided his troops into two routes, and continued to move south to sweep the Leizhou area of the peninsula, encircling the last enemy in Leizhou City. He personally led the main force of soldiers and horses to continue westward to Lianzhou. The arrival of the main force of the Tiance Army made the construction team put down their last thoughts. And Xue Wanli quickly surrounded Lianzhou after arriving at the city of Lianzhou, and directly sent people into the city to demand that the other party surrender immediately and unconditionally, otherwise the Tiance army would be severely punished after entering the city. What I didn't expect in this almost straightforward way was to arouse the rebellion of the Miao people in the city, and the expected descent did not appear, but the defense in the city was carried out in an orderly manner, and there were many small tribes here, and the strength of the city suddenly tripled in a short period of time. By the time Xue Wanli realized the seriousness of the matter, the situation had become uncontrollable, and he had no choice but to break the city defense first and then think of other ways. So Xue Wanli asked the Tiance army to start attacking the city. On the tower of the city, thousands of arrows were fired to stop the Tiance army from approaching, and suddenly three or four demolition teams were wiped out under this poison-stained arrow.

Xue Wanli, who was furious, let the accompanying artillery battalion bombard Lianzhou City, and after the explosives package set off a bloody storm on the tower of Lianzhou City, these people realized the lethality of this mysterious weapon of the Tiance Army outside the city, but it was too late at this time, Xue Wanli, who hated the conspiracy, had no intention of stopping, and ordered the blasting team to step forward again while throwing the explosives package, and directly blew up the gate of Lianzhou City. Xue Wanli combined the archers with the melee troops into a small team into the city. Even so, there were still many soldiers of the Tiance Army who fell on the way forward, and the final result of the casualties of this siege battle was actually more than the sum of the previous battles. Xue Wanli, who was stimulated, could no longer resist his murderous instinct, drove all the captured Miao people to the pit outside the northern city to kill, and asked all his combat units to kill directly if the Miao people were unwilling to give up their weapons, and use bloody human heads to deter all the surrounding minority tribes.

In this way, in the subsequent purge of the remnants of the forces and the subsequent advance into Qinzhou, the resistance encountered by the Tiance army increased again. Xue Wanli, who eats a trench and grows wise, does not care about directly using explosives to open the way, and if a few tribes shout not to surrender, they do not need to fight in close combat, they directly greet with explosives and crossbow arrows, and completely destroy the opponent with gunpowder weapons. As a result, in the battle from Lianzhou to Qinzhou and afterward, the Eastern Route army led by Xue Wanli caused the greatest killing, almost all the few tribes along the way were swept away, a large number of young and middle-aged people were killed, and the rest were also escorted to the north as prisoners of war. The consequence of such violent means was that the few surrounding tribes fled to the mountains to avoid disaster, and the rest were also trembling under the noses of the Tiance army, not daring to make the slightest move, for fear of provoking this killing god.

Although Xue Wanli's method was brutal, it unexpectedly played a very big role in dealing with these few tribes who were good at playing Gu and using poison, so in the last month of the second year of the Apocalypse, the entire eastern front continued to rumble in explosions almost every day, so that the soldiers of the Tiance Army directly called for explosives to serve almost whenever they encountered resistance, and almost blew up all the mountainous areas north of Qinzhou.

Xue Wanli used violent means to clear a few tribes in the south, and after Chen Yu confronted Pang Juzhao in Yizhou, Ye Guangluo also rushed to the front line from Xunzhou in the rear, and the two worked together to personally command the troops to start a field battle with Chen Yu. In this battle, Ye Guangluo once again used war elephants to attack the defense line of the Tiance Army, but after the artillery battalion was set on fire, the explosion that covered the sky completely destroyed the more than 100 war elephants that he had finally gathered. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chen Yu led the army to launch a full-line attack, and the army of more than 100,000 strongly defeated the combined army of the two with overwhelming momentum, forcing Pang Juzhao and Ye Guangluo to retreat back to Xunzhou City and defend the city.

After the news was transmitted back to the Guangzhou headquarters, Yang Tiancheng and Wang Houchun laughed, they were very happy that Chen Yu had learned and used Liu Changlu's previous practice, and even Yang Qiu on the side laughed after hearing Chen Yu's approach, this former brave general didn't expect to be quite wise. However, the battle report sent by Xue Wanli immediately afterwards made the faces of the three of them have a trace of gloom, although this bloody suppression can have a temporary effect, but it has buried a huge hidden danger for post-war governance. Those few tribes will inevitably have a deep estrangement from the empire in the future.

Yang Qiu has more say in this point, but he can't say anything at this time, although the military is doing this out of temporary anger, but the deeper consideration is to suppress the strength of a few tribes by force, and prepare for future national integration. This fusion has active fusion, and naturally there is also this passive fusion that relies on the butcher's knife to fuse. So Yang Qiu gradually had an idea in his heart after thinking for a while, and said: "It's useless to regret the matter so far, but in this way, at least the vitality of these few tribes will be greatly damaged, as long as we can quickly stabilize the place after the war, the prosperity of the people can actually be resolved, but it takes a little longer, and it is impossible to let these barbarians take the initiative to integrate into the mainstream society like Sichuan and other places." ”

Yang Qiu's words made Yang Tiancheng nod, Lianzhou will be used as a military port of the navy in the future, and some of the main forces will also be stationed in case of emergency, so it can still be stable for a period of time by relying on force, and the rest depends on the water milling work of the cabinet.

"Houchun, write this matter into a special special summary and send it to the Chang'an General Staff and the emperor." Yang Tiancheng said to Yang Qiu: "Lord Yang might as well summarize his opinions and send them to the prime minister as soon as possible, and it is estimated that the matter of the Imperial Conference after the year will still be discussed for special discussion." After we basically unify the native land, ethnic integration will definitely form a system of rules and regulations, so that in the future, there will be a reference for the large and small tribes in the northwest and northern Tibetan plateau. ”

The two looked at each other and nodded. Three days later, a joint military-government special report was urgently sent to Chang'an, which also became a major event at the three-year imperial meeting of the Apocalypse, affecting the major decisions of the empire in the future.