The northeast edge of the land of Guanzhong, which is shrouded in the hot and sassy of the autumn tiger,

The faint sound of cannon salvo and fierce battles passed through the distant skyline, and it was the forward chariot battalion troops and ranged cavalry engaged the Western army that they encountered.

Although it took only more than half a month to more than 20 days to conquer and conquer most of the entire territory of Hedong, and then conquer and surrender the two prefectures in the northwest that were stubbornly resistant;

However, it took more than a month to complete the replenishment and rearmament of the various armies in Hedong, as well as the combing and rectification of several parallel transportation lines and traffic environment in the rear of Hedong through the Taihang Mountains;

At the same time, the remnants of the local separatist forces and resistance forces were greatly purged and suppressed, forcing them to flee into the mountains to survive; The initial outlets and extension bases were established in the main plains and valleys of Hedong, and the grain stations, post stations, and cantonments in various places of hope and folding.

In addition, the waterway transshipment and transportation from the lower reaches of the Yellow River has gradually improved, and the pressure of mountain transportation from Hebei to Hedong has been somewhat distributed and reduced from the southern route, mainly after the wartime mobilization and militarization transformation, the shipbuilding capacity of the river system has gradually increased.

However, the first to make progress and breakthroughs in the battle situation was the southwestern front on the other side of the Yellow River.

For example, after the Western Army's targeted shrinking of forces and the continuous elongation of the battle line between the north and the south, the large and small exploratory counteroffensives launched in the Nanyang Basin eventually evolved into an overall local offensive led and coordinated by Zhao Long, the garrison envoy outside the river, and linked to the three main battle armies and one garrison army in Huainan and Henan, along the three lines of Fangcheng, Miyang, and Tongbai in about a certain period of time.

As a result, most of the Tang, Deng, Xi, Junzhuzhou and Guanghua armies in the Nanyang Basin were recaptured, leaving only the remnants of the generation of stubborn resistance near the Funiu Mountains and the Bashan Mountains in the southwest to the west; Since then, it has also cut off most of the units of the Western Army after going south, and the rear transportation, support and retreat routes from Kannai and Shannan Dongdao.

As a result, many Western military units and units stranded in the south also had obvious differentiation and associated reactions;

After a little engagement and setback, some of them did not hesitate to retreat to the north and west respectively in the direction of Shannan West Province and Kannai; the other part is because of the delay in presenting the news to each other or the reaction is obviously late, and in the luck and the arrogant victory of the enemy, they are defeated by the frontal response of the Huai army or scattered in the plains of the hinterland of Nanyang in a roundabout way;

The other part is to speed up the south, and quickly break away from the offensive of the Huai army with a certain unattainable momentum, and there is a great possibility of friendly forces from the south to the north of the river, so that they will converge and huddle together for warmth;

In the end, there was actually a small part of the Western Army that had missed the frontal battle and was forgotten and trapped in the city in disguise, and did not hesitate to choose to surrender to the Huai Army that was approaching on the spot. And some of them, after eating the food of the prisoner camp, asked directly whether it was possible to change the court and continue to serve as soldiers for the victors.

At this time, under the relatively bloated and complex size of the Western Army, the disadvantages of chaotic internal subordinate relations and serious delay in orders were fully reflected in this chaotic situation.

For the first time, we have also grasped a more intuitive understanding of the internal situation and first-hand information of the Western Army.

For example, compared with the western armies we encountered in Hedong, Hebei, and Henan in the north, they were all more difficult or tenacious and warlike old military orders or old Western feudal departments;

The success of these Western armies that marched south in a big way was much more complicated, and many of them were newly established new army orders and numbers after the large-scale conscription and mobilization of the northwest, or the rapid products of the expansion of second- and third-rate local troops;

As a result, it was even filled with a large number of troops from outside Kannai and Kansai, as well as many porters, forced laborers, and mules and horses under their care, and the proportion of non-combatants was not small. In the rest of the soldiers, there are also many sons and daughters of military families who are fathers and sons, brothers, and even grandchildren, and there are obviously some children of military families who are uneven;

As for those surrendering troops who seem to have no intemperate and warlike will, they are the losers under the successive struggles and invasions between the northwest forces;

So in the loss of the land and identity that has existed for generations. After the status, he can only use a long-term and short-term employment status similar to righteousness, and wander between various forces in order to have a chance to make a living and start again.

Therefore, when the western army came from the east, it could be said that it was fighting bravely to be the first, and after the situation took a sharp turn and even became impossible, it was also a very neat and neat place to change course and decisively surrender to the enemy.

And during this period from summer to autumn, many things also happened in the south;

For example, the Dayun Sect, which is entrenched in several places in Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Fujian, began to intensify the trend of civil strife and division;

There is also the Jiangning Left-behind Division that was able to pull out, and launched a recapture offensive against the upper reaches of the Yangtze River; At present, the entire territory of Jiangling Prefecture, which is guarded in and out of Bashu, and Yuezhou, Ezhou and other places in the middle reaches have been restored.

It's a pity that these changes and incidents are far from me, and I can only wait and see and pay attention to them for the time being. At most, through the agreement of exchanging people for food, he privately funded tens of thousands of stones of grain, grass and canned products from the Jiangning Left-behind Division.

On the contrary, on the northern front, which was the main battlefield, because it was fully prepared after more than a month, it was a condescending geographical victory in Hedong, and it was also a matter of breaking the momentum to attack the Kannai Province again.

The Western Army, along with the old and new fortifications and fortifications it had set up and built in the territory of Hajian Province, also collapsed like a pile of mud from the dunes washed by the waves.

Of course, if it is in a relatively narrow and rugged terrain, or under a dangerous terrain, these tenacious and tenacious Western Army units may still have the strength to resist in a war; However, once it is on relatively open and flat terrain, under the suppression and siege of sufficient firearms, it is basically easy to evolve into one-sided unilateral hanging and crushing.

"Qi Yu is handsome."

A voice suddenly interrupted my wandering thoughts.

"Ahead is the Weihe Bridge."

"The scouts have spotted the enemy arraying on the other side."

After crossing the Weishui in the previous section, the front is the boundary where Chang'an City is located, and the so-called Tang Dynasty Emperor of Xining ****** is residing in the ruins of this magnificent old capital.

It is also the place where the famous historical event of the founding of the previous dynasty - the Weishui Alliance took place.

The Weishui Alliance, also known as the Benqiao Alliance, refers to the alliance concluded between Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty after the Xuanwumen Rebellion during the Tang Dynasty, and the two khans of the invading ****** Jieli and Tuli.

Tang Taizong, who had just completed a series of coups d'état such as killing his brother and forcing his father to abdicate, only led Gao Shilian, Fang Xuanling and other six horsemen to the Weishui water, negotiated with the Turkic Khan Jieli across the river and completed the retreat of the enemy at a considerable price.

In the words of later historians, it was to avoid the Tang Dynasty's battles under unfavorable conditions and stabilize the situation for itself. It bought time for economic development and accumulation of strength, and was an important turning point in the changes between the Tang Dynasty and the Turkic strength.

It's just that what will happen on this time and space and this node and the allusions that will be passed down to future generations for eternity. I couldn't help but have mixed feelings and ordered with great ambition.

"Let's cross the river."

"Cross the river."

"Crossing the river...

"Crossing the river...

Amid the sound of the tsunami spreading from the mountains to the left and right, I got out of the car and changed my horse and rode on the Red Tiger XXXI, and then led the candidate Grizzly Panda XXX to follow closely behind, and began to walk towards the sparkling river in the distance, surrounded by countless sparkling armor.

。。。。。

And somewhere in the northwest, Zhao Ji, the fourth son of the Zhao family, who had just been ordered to succeed to Concubine Xu's knees, was also surrounded and escorted by many Shazhou horsemen, and entered the almost undefended capital of Liangzhou, Guzang City, with the internal envoy of the decree

(End of chapter)