With the surrender of the remnants of the western army in Tongguan, and the defenders in Xiaoguan City rushed to abandon them, Dasanguan and Wuguan successively went down without blood; Including the imperial capital of Qinchuan, which is eight hundred miles in the Guannei, it has completely fallen into control. ◢ with ◢ dream ◢ small ◢ .lā .

It's just that the so-called "emperor's capital" with dangerous mountains and rivers, solid and fertile fields, has long been out of character;

Overexploitation and obvious soil erosion from the previous dynasties, coupled with wars and frequent disasters and the collapse of the water conservancy system, have turned the once fertile fields and populated villages and towns into vast expanses of wilderness and ruins full of birds, beasts, and plants.

Even the once prominent Xijing Chang'an City had to be abandoned by the later dynasties, and only the location of the Daming Palace in the northwest of the original city was left, and the city was rebuilt with civil engineering, and the right to occupy and control in a certain sense was declared.

Therefore, after encompassing the entire huge Guannei Dao, there are only more than 200,000 people, and some of them are immigrants from Shannan, Bashu and other places brought over by Gao Chong, while the other part is the possession of the Western Army Domain Town that moved with the army.

So, the first thing I did under my rule was to set up ambassadors to continue the immigration to fill in the customs, and then send out all the prisoners to level the roads and repair the canals.

It's just that what is more surprising is that I actually found a few small units of the Guannei Army under the command of Gao Pet, who hid in Taibai Mountain and Louguan Mountain, and lost contact after being broken up in the past.

Although the territory under my new occupation now spans several roads, it is still quite vast and sparsely populated relative to the population as a whole; Therefore, for at least two or three generations for decades, there is no need to worry about the land problem caused by population pressure for the time being.

In addition, the population of Kannai Province is insufficient, so it is completely possible to introduce Hedong Province, which is relatively narrow and poor, and Hebei Province, which is relatively rich in population, to fill and replenish it in a short period of time, and at the same time, it can easily dismantle a series of associated problems such as clans and township parties remaining in these places.

No matter how deeply bound and intertwined your personal dependencies are, you can rely on the resources and influence accumulated in the local era to resist and rebel against the officials at all levels of the previous regimes;

However, as long as they are dispersed by military forced immigrants and resettled in other places, the so-called influence and cohesion of blood and kinship will naturally be cut off and gradually alienated over time.

But this also requires a strong local government and military structure to promote and carry out both policy inducement and force repression. As for the grain, farm tools, livestock, seeds, and even the construction of the corresponding exemplary tunzhuang project, it is the least rare thing under the internal large-cycle production system of Huaizhen.

In fact, under the accumulation of the primitive fertilizer industry and the fermentation of struvite and green manure, the well-developed network of canals and the irrigation of steam water wheels, etc., which have accumulated over the years; Even in Lianghuai and Andong, which are the main producing areas, even if it is not in the year of great harvest or local drought and flood gains and losses, it can still provide and guarantee a relatively stable and considerable amount of agricultural and sideline products.

Although the main battle troops and garrison troops are no longer very used and looked down on in addition to the cavalry equipment, they are still more useful for arming the local garrison regiments and Tunzhuang patrols that lack firearms.

Of course, another key is to catch the pseudo-emperor Li of the small court in Xining; Although this is only a role for each monkey, whether it is in terms of righteousness and people's orientation, it will disintegrate the Western Army that has suffered a crushing defeat; It is also of great benefit in boosting the morale of the military and civilians in the rear.

Even the Western Army, which was invincible to the Great Liang of the Southern Dynasty, was captured by us in terms of the nominal lord and the object of worship. Just as the so-called "destiny is clear, it is right for me" is enough to become the main material for a new round of rear propaganda and the offensive of public opinion in the south.

The fly in the ointment is that Zhao Xi, the commander-in-chief of the Western Army who is advancing eastward, let him run away and disappear;

Although Luo Kedi and Zhao Liangsi led a cavalry to intercept most of the famous "Shazhou Guanjian" and "Dunhuang Cavalry" in the northwest of Yanzhou, a tragic battle of annihilation broke out at the foot of Wulong Mountain in Fushi County; But in the end, the main general, who was willing to be bombarded into a blood gourd and a rotten sieve by the small cannons of the approaching horses, and refused to surrender to death, proved to be just a stand-in with a similar appearance.

However, even a stand-in has the effect of a stand-in. What's more, this time he also captured the identity of the commander-in-chief of the Western Army, and most of the genuine honor guards, together with the head of this stand-in, are enough to use the fake and real as an important means to surrender and hit the morale of the enemy.

Anyway, the remnants of the Western Army and the local factions are still truncated in the south and scattered in the northwest, and the remnants of the Western Army and the local factions of the various ministries do not know and have no way to distinguish the true from the false. The news of this result alone was enough to keep them in trouble for a while.

As for the final decision and trade-off in the follow-up strategy, after collegial discussions in the army, it is still a compromise and multi-pronged attack in order to achieve the greatest results and follow-up benefits.

The first selection of stragglers and mountain troops in the army who are good at trekking through hardships and dangers, and dividing a group of troops to go south from Dasanguan to wait for the opportunity to seize Hanzhong, so as to open the gateway and springboard of Jiannan Road in Shuzhong, and by the way, under the banner of high favor, recruit rebels and wait for the opportunity;

In addition, a group of hunters and hussars, cavalry and rangers, as well as some light chariot armies, was organized to carry out the Xiao Pass with a pursuit force suitable for rapid marching; In order to continue to strike and sweep away the remnants of the defeated and fleeing Western Army, and by the way, destroy and destroy the follow-up military potential of the places along the way, and make advance preparations for the follow-up northwest attack.

Finally, the remaining soldiers and horses of this formation advanced north along Yanzhou and Suizhou in Guannei Province to conquer and recover the Yin, Xia, Hong, Yan, Long, Lin, and Shun prefectures belonging to Jiuyuan and Yunzhong Dao located inside and outside Beisai, destroy the remnants of the local feudal forces, and reach the southern edge of the Hanhai Desert as the stopping line.

In the end, there was no need to leave many troops in the local area, on the one hand, there was no need for it, and on the other hand, it was really poor and could not afford to maintain and support; Therefore, with Fufeng County as the division, it is also divided into two roads, east and west, respectively, for military strategy and recuperation.

After all, the distance from here to the Huaibei Provincial front and logistical supplies has been stretched long enough, and it is necessary to breathe a sigh of relief to readjust the deployment and accumulate strength.

As for the remnants of the Western Army left in the Shannan Liangdao and Jinghu areas, they were only dry bones in the grave after being cut off from support and retreat; Temporarily reserved as a buffer with the South Korea, it is also conducive to continuing to cut off and block the news, delaying the day when the war with the South Korea will resume.

Then, with the nameplates of most of the wounded and all the fallen soldiers, I began to change boats west to Chishui Town in Huazhou, and entered the old road of the Yellow River along the west line of Weishui, and then embarked on the waterway journey home of the class teacher.

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And in Canton,

The news that has just announced the reform of the yuan and the succession of a new generation of emperors is still in the midst of a wave of persuasion and echo voices and seals, and while preparing for the next step, a certain trend continues to brew.

And Xu Qing, who was already the deputy head of the rebel army, also returned from the sea with his own soldiers; But already in the place where he was passing, he felt some kind of oppressive momentum that was about to come.

Outside the city of Lin'an, the army of apologists led by Fa Dali and Jin Qiude was also somewhat satisfied to withdraw from this southeastern city that was basically in ruins; Their ranks had almost doubled, and everyone seemed to be fully loaded; But the biggest achievement was the current Lord of the Great Cloud Divine Kingdom, Xiao Tianjun, who was taken away from the city by them.

Therefore, as the leader of this guardian army, Fa Dali also got the title of the king of political discipline and the general charge of military and state affairs, and the Shangzhu Kingdom, while Jin Qiude became the left assistant and the chief military adviser of the Great Cloud Divine Kingdom;

Behind them, the blood flowing from the ditches under the city walls was dyed red along the moat to the Hangzhou Bay, more than a dozen miles away.