There is no way to defend an isolated and helpless city.

This point, Li Wei, who is barely familiar with military books, knows it very well in his heart, and Zhong Jian also knows it even better.

Fortunately, Tianshui City is not a regular square city, but an ancient city built by the mountains and water according to the topography. Therefore, after the New Han Army arrived in Tianshui City, it never carried out a siege operation on Tianshui City.

Of course, for the New Han Army, it doesn't actually mean that Li Dao in Tianshui City must be killed in Tianshui City, so there is no need to surround Tianshui City. It only needs to break through one gate of Tianshui City, so that the New Han Army can enter the city and capture Tianshui City, which has achieved the strategic purpose of the New Han Army.

Therefore, this made Li Dao and Zhong Xuan able to take advantage of the fact that the New Han Army did not have the convenience of encircling Tianshui City entirely, and led the Flying Bear Army to evacuate Tianshui City from the north of the city, and rushed straight to the river north of the city, crossing the river and escaping.

Liu Yi was already aware of Li Wei's escape, but Liu Yi did not order the military horses to pursue. It's just that when it was dawn, he ordered the trebuchet to symbolically throw a few stone bullets at Tianshui City, and then forced those military horses in Tianshui City who didn't know their master, Li Dao, to open the city gate and surrender.

There are tens of thousands of troops and horses in Tianshui City, but Li Dao only took more than 10,000 people and horses, and those are Li Dao's elite personal soldiers, including the remaining more than 3,000 "Flying Bear Army". Therefore, when the defenders learned that Li Dao had escaped, their psychological defense line collapsed instantly, and they did not dare to confront the Xinhan army anymore and abandoned the city and surrendered.

Over here. Let's talk about the "Flying Bear Army".

The "Flying Bear Army" is an elite division formed by Dong Zhuo, and he relied on the "Flying Bear Army" to run rampant in Xiliang at the beginning. Let the minority tribes of Xiliang be afraid of Dong Zhuo's elite army, so they will agree to submit to Dong Zhuo, so that Dong Zhuo can nominally unify Xiliang.

The personal soldiers of Dong Zhuo mentioned before, the ironclad personal guards, are actually the "Flying Bear Army".

Its army is actually a bit like a combination of Liu Yi's Modao Battalion and the mountain and forest special forces. Once called a real invincible lion who can dominate the world.

Because when Dong Zhuo formed the "Flying Bear Army", he did spend countless manpower and material resources, the most important thing. It was Dong Zhuo at the beginning of the formation of the Flying Bear Army that he specially recruited some strange people from Xiliang, all of whom were composed of some strange people with special skills. is like Hu Che'er who has voted for Liu Yi. Although he was Zhang Ji's subordinate, he was also recruited into Dong Zhuo's "Flying Bear Army" for a period of time.

Regarding Dong Zhuo's "Flying Bear Army", Hu Cheer also reported some information to Liu Yi. Among them, the average "Flying Bear Army" almost has a strength of hundreds of pounds. It can be said that it is really similar to the Modao Battalion of the New Han Army. Other than that. There are also some people who are proficient in mountain and forest warfare, which is extremely difficult.

However, Liu Yi doesn't have to worry about the "Flying Bear Army", because the real "Flying Bear Army" is actually only about 2,000 people. Moreover, when Dong Zhuo went out of the customs and occupied Luoyang, the core figure of the "Flying Bear Army". Most of them had already left Dong Zhuo and did not follow Dong Zhuo to Luoyang. This one. It was the conditions that Dong Zhuo had negotiated when he recruited them back then. They only help Dong Zhuo pacify Xiliang, and will not follow Dong Zhuo to conquer the world.

This, in fact, is also very easy to understand, those strange people are all idle clouds and wild cranes, and they generally do not participate in most secular disputes. Among them, most of them were persuaded by Dong Zhuo with rhetoric, or for some reason, they could serve Dong Zhuo. Moreover, many of the talented people among them are not Han Chinese, but capable people among some foreign nationalities.

Capable people of different races, most of them will look at the interests of their own tribe and serve Dong Zhuo. Therefore, when Dong Zhuo sent troops from Xiliang and occupied Luoyang, most of the people in the real "Flying Bear Army" left Dong Zhuo's army.

Only a very small number of people can stay by Dong Zhuo's side. The later "Flying Bear Army" was formed on the basis of the original Flying Bear Army and drawn elites from the army. In this way, the so-called Flying Bear Army is actually just a team of some particularly elite. And Dong Zhuo suddenly expanded the Flying Bear Army to tens of thousands of people, which made the combat power of his Flying Bear Army actually equivalent to the elite of the current Xinhan Army. Therefore, most of the later "Flying Bear Army" were called by Dong Zhuo's ironclad guards, and they were rarely named after the Flying Bear Army.

Tens of thousands of flying bear troops, Li Dao got two or three thousand, this is Li Dao's last capital.

Now, Li Dao took these horses and horses to escape from Tianshui City, and Liu Yi didn't think that Li Dao's military horses could bring too much threat to his Xinhan army, so it was nothing to let him escape from Tianshui City.

Of course, this is also a dark night and high wind, under Li Dao's prepared escape, even if the New Han Army pursues, I am afraid that it will be able to catch up with Li Dao, so I simply don't chase.

The people of Tianshui City, under the governance of Li Dao, can be said to be really miserable, and the people of the city, although they have not had much contact with the people of the New Han Dynasty, but they also know the benefits of the New Han Dynasty. Therefore, when the defending army and horses abandoned by Li Dao surrendered to the New Han Army, and the New Han Army marched into Tianshui City, the people in the city seemed to be a little happy, and welcomed the New Han Army into the city.

Having a good reputation really brings a lot of convenience. The people of Xiliang have suffered too much because of the troubles. In the whole Xiliang, the warlords are constantly fighting, bandits are rampant, and the ordinary honest people have no way to live at all. This makes the ordinary people, their hearts, extremely eager for stability.

The New Han Dynasty was famous, and they were happy to enjoy peace under the rule of the New Han Dynasty.

Liu Yi naturally knew the suffering of the people of Xiliang, so the first thing Liu Yi did after entering the city was to announce that the people of Tianshui City would be exempted from sharp for three years. This alone made the whole city of Tianshui City boil, and the support for the New Han Army suddenly reached a very high height. Naturally, I sincerely respect Liu Yi.

Well, for the people of Tianshui City, taxes are the mountains that oppress them and make them breathless. Especially during the period when Li Wei occupied Tianshui City, he could be taxed every month and every day, and all kinds of political and tax items. emerges in an endless stream, so that the people of Tianshui City are overwhelmed, but they are helpless. Dare to be angry but dare not speak.

Therefore, tax exemption for three years will allow Liu Yi to gain the hearts of the people of Tianshui City at once. This laid a very good popular foundation for the officials who followed to govern Tianshui City.

At the same time, Liu Yi also sent an order that the people of Jicheng, Beiyuan, Shanggu, and Longxi City would be within the next three years. All are tax-exempt. In the future, the towns captured by the New Han Army will be given a three-year tax exemption policy to the local people.

Liu Yi believes that this policy will most quickly gain the support of the people. It is believed that it will not take long to spread to the entire Xiliang area. In this way, it will bring a lot of convenience to the Xinhan army to recover the entire Xiliang, and it is conceivable that if the people of Xiliang listen to the wind. Or if it can provide the New Han army with more information about the forces, princes, and bandits who are harming the people in the local area. It also brought many benefits to the New Han Army.

In addition, in order to cooperate with Jia Xu to govern the minority ethnic groups in Xiliang in the future, Liu Yi also privately gave Jia Xu some advice, so that Jia Xu could have some more preferential policies according to those who are not easy to live and survive and are relatively poor. Even, when necessary, some foreign nationalities can be granted permanent tax exemption policies.

This, in fact, has no choice. It is not easy for them to survive in those barren lands. Even under the guidance of the New Han Dynasty government, under their harsh environment, it was impossible to grow crops and be self-reliant. Of course, this so-called exemption refers to the exemption of agriculture, and in terms of industry and commerce, it will still collect a certain amount of taxes in the future according to the actual situation.

Followed, there were officials from the New Han Dynasty stationed in Tianshui, Jicheng, Longxi and other cities, and there was no need for Liu Yi to ask too much about the specific governance of the place.

Liu Yi summoned a group of generals and announced his decision to them.

In terms of military affairs, Ma Chao was appointed as the commander of the Xiliang Group Army, and Chongde, Hao Zhao, Hua Xiong, and Xu Rong were appointed as deputy generals, and Ma Chao was coordinated to recover Xiliang one by one. Ma Teng sat in Longxi and was the logistics manager of the Xiliang Group Army, responsible for the allocation of grain and grass for various armies.

Jia Xu temporarily served as the Taishou of Xiliang, responsible for handling the government affairs of Xiliang Yiqiē, and was also the chief army division of the Xiliang Group Army, with the right to intervene in the war in the army and set the combat strategy for the whole army. Li Ru is the deputy military division and will act with Ma Chao.

In addition, Liu Yi originally wanted to appoint Wang Yi as the deputy military division, but she refused Liu Yi's appointment.

She and Ma Chao have a grudge against killing their parents, and Liu Yi has asked them to confront each other and figure things out. The fault of the matter is on the side of Wang Yi's parents, so it is difficult for Wang Yi to entangle with Ma Chao too much. However, the revenge of killing her father ended up killing her father, and she couldn't let go of her heart, and it was impossible for her to work with Ma Chao.

In this way, Liu Yi originally felt that Wang Yi's talent was extraordinary, and it was impossible to make good use of it, she was now a little infatuated with Liu Yi, and she wanted to follow Liu Yi back to Luoyang. However, the masters of her Wang family stayed, and Liu Yi asked them to stay by Jia Xu's side, listen to Hou Jiaxu's orders, and protect Jia Xu's safety in Xiliang by the way. After all, Jia Xu can't just sit in a city and a pond to deal with military and political affairs, he is very likely to go deep into some foreign tribes to negotiate with those tribal leaders or something, if there are no masters around to protect him, in case some bandits who are not long-sighted are accidentally handed over to Jia Xu to kill, then Liu Yi's loss will be great. Therefore, there are a group of masters from Wang Yi's family who protect Jia Xu, and Liu Yi is also relieved to let Jia Xu preside over the overall situation in Xiliang.

As for Huangfu Song, he was transferred back to Chang'an to preside over the military and political affairs of Chang'an, and in addition, he was also responsible for the grain, grass and baggage of the Xiliang military horses. After all, the seizure of Xiliang was actually a pure expenditure for the New Han Dynasty, and it was impossible to have income for the time being. In the future, many materials will have to be transported from Chang'an to Xiliang.

Everything was arranged, and Liu Yi felt that Xiliang was in the overall situation, and he no longer needed to stay in Xiliang. The forces of Xiliang do not have many threats to Ma Chao. Especially Liu Yi has now taken Wang Yi as his own woman, and has gone to Ma Chao's fateful rival, I believe that even if there is no Jia Xu, Hua Xiong, Xu Rong and others to help, I am afraid that with the current situation of Xiliang and other forces, it is unlikely that Ma Chao will be driven away from Xiliang.

In this way, Liu Yi immediately chose a day to return to the court.

In this way, he just returned to Luoyang in time to spend the Spring Festival with his wife and children in Luoyang.

Of course, after returning to Luoyang. The first thing was to bring Wang Yi into the palace and introduce her to the queen He Wan and other women in the palace, so that they could get close to each other. After telling He Wan and the princesses about her situation, they didn't have much opinion and agreed to return Wang Mang's head to Wang Yi.

However, no one really knows where Wang Mang's head is hidden in the palace, even if Liu Yi invited a group of concubines of the former emperor who became his wife. For example, when Concubine De, Concubine Shu and other women asked, they also shook their heads, saying that they had never heard Emperor Liu Hong talk about Wang Mang's head. It was the first time they had heard of it.

For several days, accompanied by several princesses, Wang Yi had already searched all the conspicuous places in the palace, and even many relatively hidden treasure vaults in the palace. Some dungeons. The cellars were searched, but they were never able to find them.

Liu Yi could only comfort Wang Yi, so that she didn't have to be too anxious, and allowed her to move into the palace, live with a group of concubines of the former emperor, and slowly look for her.

During the Spring Festival this year, the New Han Dynasty did not hold too many large-scale activities, and even Liu Yi did not order the people of the New Han Dynasty to celebrate the coming of the festival or anything. Lewis was thinking. Most of the soldiers of the New Han Army were on the battlefield. At a time when soldiers are fighting the front line. But in his own home, he celebrates the Spring Festival with big fish and meat, which will make people feel unharmonious. Therefore, this year's Spring Festival was uneventful.

Even, Liu Yi has never been in the palace, nor has he been unbridled with the daughters in the family, and he has passed in a low-key manner.

During this period of time, the entire Han world seemed to be much quieter all of a sudden. There is a great kind of tranquility before the mountain rain is coming.

This is mainly due to the alliance between Cao Cao and Liu Biao years ago, so that Liu Yi had to let the New Han army slow down the pace of the attack, and return to Luoyang from Youzhou and Jizhou. The battle in Xiliang Tianshui was quickly resolved, except for Ma Chao's attack on the pass between Tianshui and Chencang Pass, there was not much fighting. Come and go as fast as you go.

Even, many princes, after Liu Yi returned to Luoyang, they knew that Liu Yi had secretly gone to Xiliang to force Li Dao of Tianshui. opened a passage for the New Han Army to enter Xiliang.

Of course, this is nothing to the princes of the world, because, in the minds of most of the princes, Xiliang is already the meat on Liu Yi's mouth, and he can eat it whenever he wants. Only Cao Cao and Liu Biao were a little annoyed, because they both felt that the fighter plane was fleeting.

Originally, Liu Yi was in Luoyang, which could reassure the soldiers and civilians of the New Han Dynasty, but the period when Liu Yi left Luoyang should have been a good opportunity for them to try to attack the New Han Dynasty.

However, because they didn't know in time that Liu Yi actually dared to leave Luoyang and go to Xiliang secretly under the pressure of their army. Let them miss a good opportunity to attack in vain.

Of course, this is also a flash of chagrin in their hearts, for Cao Cao and Liu Biao, their alliance is really not strong. Because both sides were very cautious, neither dared to launch a fierce attack on the New Han Dynasty lightly, or rather, they were all waiting and seeing, hoping that the other side could fight hard with the New Han Army, and then see if the situation was a big attack.

In addition, in their hearts, they all knew that the New Han Army was too difficult, and even if they could seize the opportunity to attack the New Han Dynasty, they were not sure that they could defeat the New Han Army.

Therefore, there are some chagrins, but they are not too concerned.

Now, what really cares about the princes of the world is, after the Spring Festival, what actions will the New Han Army take?

At this time, anyone with a discerning eye can see through the situation. That is, the New Han Dynasty has become a general trend, and now, the strength of the New Han Dynasty has become the most powerful and threatening court among the Han princes. Under the whole world, I am afraid that it is difficult to have the power to confront the New Han Dynasty.

Yuan Shao can't do it, Cao Cao can't do it, and Liu Biao can't do it.

As long as anyone with a little vision can see that if they want to suppress the development of the New Han Dynasty, restrain the New Han army, and save themselves, then they only have one way to go now, and that is to form an alliance with each other. The heroes of the world rose together to resist the New Han Army.

However, it turned out that Cao Cao took the lead, and he tried to form an alliance three or four times to form a coalition to fight against the New Han Dynasty, but all of them made a lot of money, but in the end, none of them succeeded.

The princes of all parties have different intentions, and everyone has their own ambitions, which makes the so-called alliance just a flash in the pan, and I am afraid that it will never be possible. If the princes of the world can't do it together, why should they confront the New Han Dynasty again?

Of course, there are also many objective reasons for this, which make it difficult for the princes of the world to form an alliance to fight against the New Han Dynasty. This is not the same as the situation when Dong Zhuo occupied Luoyang.

Dong Zhuo is a tyrant, and what he did in Luoyang has aroused the indignation of people all over the world. Moreover, under the circumstances at that time, the princes of the world had just emerged, and they all wanted to take the opportunity to build their own reputation, so they were willing to participate in it, reap the benefits from it, and lay the foundation for their future self-reliance.

And now, Liu Yi is not a tyrant, and, in the minds of the people of the world, there is still a good reputation, especially under the rule of Liu Yi, the people under the rule of the New Han Dynasty, their lives are changing with each passing day, getting better and better day by day, and there are thousands of people to promote the New Han Dynasty, all of which are talking about the good aspects of the New Han Dynasty, which makes the princes of the world want to discuss the New Han Dynasty together, they are nameless, and they are morally untenable. If they want to send troops to attack the New Han Dynasty, the people under their rule will not understand and cooperate, and there will even be people who oppose it.

Of course, these are secondary, and the most important thing is that in addition to the princes bordering the border of the New Han Dynasty, other princes, if they want to send troops to fight against the New Han Dynasty, then they must send troops into the territory of Cao Cao or Liu Biao and Yuan Shao. For them, this is a matter of the labor expedition.

But this is not afraid, the most important thing is, who does the coalition listen to?

Everyone knows that the New Han Army stationed elite soldiers in the cities of Hugao Pass, Bishui Pass, Wancheng, and Baima in the northeast of Bingzhou, and there were generals guarding them. Everyone knows that the combat power of the New Han Army is not trivial. No matter which direction they launched an attack on the New Han Dynasty, they would first have to fight a tough and vicious battle.

Once these wars are fought, they will be out of control, and their military horses will definitely suffer great sacrifices. And these sacrifices, whose military horses are they sacrificed?

Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Liu Biao are all great forces in the Han world. The other princely forces are not as strong as these three major forces. When their horses reach the territory of these forces, if they listen to their commands, then their horses will definitely be the first to be sacrificed. If their horses have a lot of damage, then it is equivalent to weakening their already not very strong strength. At that time, what if these three major forces suddenly turn around and swallow their power territory in one gulp?

Don't say anything, everyone is a matter of allies not fighting each other. Over the years, in order to gain territory of influence, or to expand their own power, who has not been in constant friction with each other? What's more, Cao Cao sent troops to capture Xuzhou, Yuzhou, and Yangzhou one after another, and anyone who was not blind could see Cao Cao's wolf ambitions. Under the circumstance that their strength is not as good as that of Cao Cao and other forces, forming an alliance with these people is tantamount to seeking skin with the tiger and seeking their own death.

The threat given to them by the New Han Dynasty is only a potential threat in the general trend, and it has not been able to directly threaten them for the time being, so why should they send troops to work for Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Liu Biao?

Even now, the New Han Army sent troops to capture Youzhou, and Yuan Shao of Jizhou had no power to fight back, but so what? That's just Yuan Shao's business, and it has no direct relationship with them.

Therefore, all the time, Cao Cao ordered the princes of the world to discuss the affairs of the New Han Dynasty, but none of them were successful.

And now, if you want to succeed, that's even more unlikely.

You must know that the New Han Dynasty is no longer the only one with a large army in Luoyang. The armies of the New Han Dynasty were not limited to expanding outward around the territory of influence centered on Luoyang.

With the Dazepo base in Zhuo County, Youzhou, the Xinzhou base in Dongting Lake in Jingzhou, and Qu'a in Jiangdong, as well as the naval army of the New Han Dynasty that can control the entire Yangtze River Basin, and after Sun Ce, the little overlord of Jiangdong, surrendered to Liu Yi, the entire Han Dynasty seems to be under the front of the New Han Dynasty.

At this time, there was already a sense of urgency that made the princes of the world take care of themselves, who would send troops to Tiger Prison Pass or Wancheng to seek a battle with the New Han army? (To be continued......)