After this battle, I also deeply understood the true meaning of the so-called "good fighters have no outstanding achievements".

In the face of the desperately powerful disparity of power, it doesn't matter what tricks and tricks there are, as long as you don't make stupid mistakes and try not to make mistakes, just crush the past with dignity; In other words, as long as you accumulate enough general momentum, it will naturally come to fruition as soon as you have an opportunity.

Of course, after this return, as long as I am allowed to operate and operate for half a year, there will be a number of new military orders that can be put into use as a new force.

Under the wartime system that has been gradually launched in Huaidi, in fact, it is possible to provide more upper limits on the number of soldiers, but it will have to pay a series of problems and costs, such as the decline in the quality and training of soldiers and the lack of equipment.

When I returned to Pengcheng, Xuzhou, in a wave of jubilation and shouts after a routine victory, several other good news had already followed, and they were basically the result of overwhelming results.

First of all, Liangzhou/Xingyuan Mansion in the Hanzhong Basin, the gateway to Shu, plus Yangzhou and Xingzhou were taken lightly; Then they followed the Micang Road and the Jinniu Road respectively, and continued to drive directly to Bazhou (now Bazhong, Sichuan) and Lizhou (now Guangyuan, Sichuan);

Then the main force that went north from Guannai easily swept through the 11th Military Prefecture of Shuofang Road, Yanbian Kyushu of Yunzhong Province, and most of the 45th Military City of the Great and Small Six Towns of Beiyuan Province; Because it was the Western Army that swept through the areas where most of the military strength had been taken away, the small number of armed forces that maintained order in those places were simply unable to resist the sweeping momentum of the Huai Army.

Instead of causing some trouble, the stragglers who fled back to their town after the rout. They have both armed and military experience, as well as local cover and support, so it can be said that they have a certain natural geographical advantage; However, the number is not too much, and they are scattered and belong to different branches, and the slow demise is just around the corner.

Finally, the light cavalry chasing troops who entered the northwest, since then Qinzhou, Longzhou, Weizhou, Minzhou, Yuanzhou, Jingzhou, Rongzhou, Huizhou, Deshun Army, Huaide Army, Jingbian Army and other military states along the way are almost looking at the wind and descending, and competing to lead the way for the Huai Army; He even took the initiative to show strong hostility and hatred for the joint forces of the Western Army;

The reason is also very simple, in the tragic local invasion and integration before the western's eastward advance, their military towns close to the Guannai can be said to be the most fiercely resistant, and they are also the most damaged interests from the top to the bottom. Therefore, once the western army loses this large-scale eastward advance, they will naturally rebound the most fiercely;

Therefore, the suggestion sent back by the front commander Zhi Keshi and his deputy Zhao Liangsi was; Under the circumstance that our army has no intention of intervening in the northwestern provinces on a large scale for the time being, it can appropriately support and co-opt these local forces in the south, so as to prevent and weaken as much as possible the remnants of the combined forces of the western army that are fleeing westward, so that they can recuperate in a short period of time or make a comeback in the future.

However, if you want to take advantage of these local forces and the momentum of the counterattack in the future, you will need a large amount of grain and long-distance transshipment to transport the past capacity.

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In Hexi Province,

Zhao Xi, who had regained nearly 10,000 horses all the way to the west, also returned to Guzang City in Wuwei County, Liangzhou in a certain mood and thoughts, of course, his mentality at this moment was extremely heavy and complicated.

The battle in Guannai Dao made him thoroughly understand the true meaning of the so-called "invincible" of the Huai army in those rumors, and once these troops who are good at using firearms form a formation that is large enough, it will be difficult to break through and shake the opponent's position.

However, the opponent can rely on a strict lineup and continuous firearms to inflict a steady stream of damage and suppress their own offensive and defensive momentum; Although it was not easy to endure at first, compared to the bow and crossbow that temporarily weakened after a few or ten rounds, the damage caused by a more durable firearm is inexhaustible, and it is easy for the new division to fall into it for the first time, until it is too late to suffer heavy casualties or completely collapse.

Even though the army under his command had successfully broken through and crushed the opponent several times by virtue of the huge superiority in infantry and cavalry strength, and divided most of the Huai army, he did not see the expected result of the opponent's morale collapse or collapse;

And as long as the Huai army is still fighting in a strong formation in the chaotic battle, it will attract those defeated Huai troops to regroup in the past, and there is still no fact that he has been able to change his army, and continues to suffer casualties and weakens in battles that seem to have the upper hand and superiority.

After all, although they did not have any advantages or strengths in the face of the battle-hardened Western army in individual battles, they were unsurprisingly knocked down and killed by the Western army's iron cavalry. But once the scale of the number of trips is repeated, the casualty comparison is suddenly reversed;

Over time, this kind of exchange ratio of easy and then difficult is enough to make people feel shocking and outweigh the losses.

After all, the cavalry of the Western Army spent on maintenance and training, even if it was a one-to-two exchange for the firearms and infantry of the Huai Army, no matter how you look at it, it is some kind of loss-making deal that will lose to your grandmother's family, but the confidence in the final victory and the outcome of the war is supporting them to persevere, and they are constantly assembled and put into it.

By the time he discovered the clues and inappropriateness and wanted to retract and reorganize, it was already a step too late; The new firearms thrown in by the other side are like a whirlwind mowing grass and a landslide and sweeping one-sided lethality, which suddenly made these Western Army troops who have persisted until now begin to despair.

This huge disparity and psychological contrast between before and after made many of his veterans can't help but burst into tears or cry, because those who have fallen in a row are how many of their children have kinship. In order to miss the Central Plains flower world, or the simple appeal of their wealthy children, they fell here halfway out of the young and strong family.

It's just that the price of awakening and understanding is too painful.

The 60,000 troops of the Beiliang system, one of the pillars of the original Western Army, were wiped out, and the entire 130,000 athletes from Longyou, Hexi, as the main force of the Western Army, collapsed and collapsed on the land of this pass; And at least more than half of them are the heartfelt armed forces that belong to or are attached to the Zhao family.

This was also a tragic result for the family, so that Zhao Xi, who fled all the way out of Xiaoguan, didn't even dare to stay too much along the way;

Because he has begun to faintly worry and worry, these remnants of these places that have been suppressed and cleaned, after getting the follow-up news of the Great War in Kannai, will take the opportunity to rebel and do something to their defeated divisions, or collude with those pursuers of the enemy, and cause some unexpected changes and obstacles.

Therefore, he could only use the strong wall of Qingye as an excuse to coerce and roll away all the soft treasures, and then leave the team to set fire to destroy most of the military materials that could be used by the pursuers.

It wasn't until he saw the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty at the southern end of the Hexi Corridor at the foot of the Qilian Mountains that he really stopped and rested for a while, contained the routed troops who fled one after another, and arranged the defense line and guards on the spot; Then he crossed the wide Tianzhu grassland non-stop and went straight to the important town and capital of Liangzhou.

At least here, there are tens of thousands of troops left by him, one of the ambassadors of the grain platform who was transferred, and the newly supported King of Beiliang, who has just changed his surname to Xu's younger brother Zhao Ji.

And the follow-up countermeasures have also been initially formed in his mind when he came along the way, for the Huai army's firearms military formation, the traditional infantry and cavalry combined frontal battlefield, no longer has an advantage, especially those heavy armored cavalry has become more than worth the loss of the elimination of the object, in the future countless soldiers and soldiers of the northwest light cavalry galloping battlefield situation.

He needed to retrain a lot of light cavalry, a lot of light cavalry that were inexpensive to arm and maintain, as long as the most basic cavalry and archery skills and armament were sufficient; Then, with the vast and complex terrain in the northwest, they carried out wolf-like wandering maneuvers and raiding warfare to maneuver and confront the advancing Huai army in the future;

After all, as long as they lose the cover of the formation and the bonus of collective strength, these armies will not be more difficult to contain and deal with than traditional infantry armies. The traditional infantry team is used to build forts based on the dangers of the mountains, to resist and weaken the firearms projection advantage of the Huai army step by step, and to cooperate with the cavalry attack and harassment warfare with the attrition of leisure and labor.

No matter how sharp and difficult Huaizhen's firearms are, the corresponding material consumption and transportation capacity will not be less, even more than in the traditional army; Coupled with the transportation and supply lines that have been stretched to thousands of miles, this gives the northwest horse athletes more opportunities and space to gallop.

With this kind of shameful thinking, he drove straight into Guzang City and went straight to the palace, and even ignored the complicated expressions and meanings of the local civil and military officials who came to greet him.

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And in Guangfugi, far away from the mountains, the atmosphere of Bing Ge was once again shrouded.

With the change of the Great Liang of the Dynasty and the merger of the Emperor, as well as the news of the change of the imperial throne, it was inevitable that there were different degrees of commotion and chaos in the sea and land territories of ten roads and twenty-three roads outside the mountains, and even more than a dozen branches of various sizes appeared in the locality, claiming to "protect the Son of Heaven" and "Qingjing Jun's side"

and even the rebel forces who "overthrew the shogunate" for a period of time.

The most recent one, even in Guizhou (now Guilin), the capital of Guangui Province, which is adjacent to Jinnei, raised tens of thousands of troops and was called the "Royal Army" from the Li River, and successively occupied Yangshuo, Lipu, Yongning, Xiuren and other seven cities; and the western army in Jingnan Road outside Wuling, almost echoing the trend.

Under this trend of internal and external tension, there were also thousands of people in Guangfu City, from courtiers, eunuchs, nobles, ordinary merchants, scholars, and students, involving hundreds of families, to be assigned to the West Gate to be collectively executed in the name of the rebellious Zhengding Party members, confiscated their homes, lost their nationality, and exiled to remote islands for life.

(End of chapter)