The battle also made me more deeply understand the true meaning of the so-called "those who are good at fighting have no great achievements."

In the face of the huge power gap that is so powerful that it is hopeless, there is no matter what strategy or surprise weapon. As long as you don’t make stupid things and try not to make mistakes, you can crush them upright; or as long as you accumulate enough momentum, it will naturally come naturally as soon as you have an opportunity.

Of course, after this return, as long as I am allowed to operate and operate in the first half of the year, several new military orders as new forces can be put into use.

Under the wartime system that is gradually launched in Huai, more military caps can be provided, but a series of problems and costs such as declining military quality and training degree and insufficient equipment are required.

When I returned to Pengcheng, Xuzhou, amid the waves and shouts of cheering after a routine victory, the other good news had already come one after another, basically all the unstoppable results.

First, Liangzhou/Xingyuan Prefecture, which entered the Hanzhong Basin, and Yangzhou, Xingzhou took it lightly down; then followed the Micang Road and Jinniu Road, and continued to drive directly to Bazhou (now Bazhong, Sichuan) and Lizhou (now Guangyuan, Sichuan) along the Micang Road;

Then the main force heading north from the pass easily swept across the 11th Army Prefecture of Shuofang Road, Yanbian Jiuzhou of Yunzhong Road, and most of the 45th Army City of Beiyuan Road. Because the Western Army swept away areas that took away most of the military power, a small number of armed forces that maintained order in those places were unable to resist the Huai Army's sweep.

What can cause some trouble are the straitors who fled back to the town after the defeat. They have both armed and military experience, as well as local cover and support. They can be said to have some natural geographical and human resources; but the number is not too large, and they are scattered and different branches of each other, and slowly disappearing is just around the corner.

Finally, there were the pursuit of the light cavalry entering the northwest. Since then, Qinzhou, Longzhou, Weizhou, Minzhou, Yuanzhou, Jingzhou, Rongzhou, Huizhou, Deshun Army, Huaide Army, Jingbian Army and other military prefectures along the way almost surrendered and rushed to lead the way for the Huai Army; they even actively showed their strong hostility and shared hatred for the Western Army this time;

The reason is also very simple. During the fierce invasion and integration of the Western Army before the eastward advance, the military towns near the pass were the most fierce resistance and the most severely damaged interests from the upper to the lower level. Many long-standing generals or vassal states with several generations were uprooted and destroyed; therefore, once the Western Army failed to advance eastward, they were the most fierce natural rebound;

Therefore, the suggestion sent back by the front-line commander Zhe Keshi and his deputy Zhao Liangsi was that if our army did not intend to divide troops on a large scale and intervene in the northwest path, we could appropriately support and win over these local forces located in the south to prevent and weaken the remnants of the Western Army's joint forces as much as possible, and to recuperate in a short time or make a comeback in the future.

However, if you want to take advantage of the power and counterattack momentum in these places in the future, you need a large amount of food and long-distance transportation to transport the past transportation capacity.

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In Hexi Road,

Zhao Xi, who ran west and gathered nearly 10,000 people again, also returned to Guzang City in Wuwei County, Liangzhou in a certain mood and thoughts. Of course, his mentality was extremely heavy and complicated at this moment.

The battle in Guannei Dao made him fully understand the truth of the so-called "invincible" of the so-called Huai Army. Once these troops who use firearms are well-used, it will be difficult to break through and shake the opponent's position again.

However, the opponent can rely on the strict lineup and continuous firearm emission to continuously kill and suppress the attack and defense of one's own side; although it was not enough to bear it at the beginning, compared to several shots, the damage caused by the crossbow that was temporarily weak after more than ten shots, and the more lasting firearms caused by the firearms is endless, which can easily make the new army in the first formation unable to stop falling into it, until the casualties or complete collapse is too late.

Even though the army under his command had successfully broken through and defeated several formations of the opponent with the huge advantage of infantry and cavalry, and divided most of the Huai Army, he did not see the result of the morale of the opponent being greatly destroyed or collapsed as expected;

As long as the Huai Army is still fighting in a chaotic battle, it will attract the defeated Huai Army to gather again, and it will still not be able to change its army and continue to suffer damage and weakening in battles that seem to be superior and superior.

After all, although they had no advantages or strengths in individual battles against the Western Army, they were unsurprisingly knocked and killed by the Western Army cavalry. However, once the number of trips was in the scale, the casualties were immediately reversed;

Over time, this exchange ratio of easy first and difficult first is enough to make people feel shocking and not worth the loss.

After all, even if the Western cavalry that was spent on maintenance and training was one to two, they would be a loss to the loss of grandma's family. It was just that their confidence in the final victory and the war result was supported to persist and gather and devote themselves continuously.

When he discovered the clues and inappropriate things, he wanted to reorganize them, but he was already one step too late. The new firearms invested by the other party were like whirlwinds and like landslides, sweeping across the one-sided lethality, which immediately made these Western Army troops who had persisted until now began to despair.

This huge gap and psychological contrast between the past and many of his veterans couldn't help but burst into tears or burst into tears, because the fallen one after another were many of their relatives. In order to miss the Central Plains world, or the simple demands of their children, they fell here in a young and unexplained way.

But the price of awakening and understanding is too tragic.

Since the 60,000 troops of the Northern Liang clan, one of the pillars of the Western Army, were destroyed, the 130,000 soldiers from Longyou, Hexi, who were the main force of the Western Army, collapsed and destroyed one after another on the land within the pass; and at least more than half of them were trusted armed forces affiliated to the Zhao clan.

This was also a tragic result for our family, which made Zhao Xi, who had escaped from Xiaoguan, dared not even stay too much along the way;

Because he had already begun to worry and worry about the remnants of these places that had been suppressed and cleaned, after receiving the follow-up news of the war within the pass, he would take the opportunity to rebel and do something to them, the defeated troops, or collude with the pursuers of the Huai enemy, and cause some unexpected changes and obstacles.

Therefore, he could only use the excuse of clearing the wilderness and strengthening the walls, and then took away all the fine and soft wealth, and then left a small group of people to set fire to destroy most of the military and Zibo objects that could be used by the pursuers.

It was not until I saw the Han Great Wall of Hongchiling (now Wushaoling, Heshangling, Gansu) at the Yuzuo Mountains at the southern end of the Hexi Corridor that I really stopped and rested for a while to accommodate the defeated troops who had fled one after another, and arranged defense lines and guards on the spot. Then I went over the wide Tianzhu grassland and headed straight to the important towns and capital of Liangzhou.

At least here, there are tens of thousands of troops left by him, one of the Ambassadors of the Transfer of Grain and Taiwan, and the newly supported King of Northern Liang. He had just changed his surname to Xu's younger brother Zhao Ji.

The subsequent countermeasures have already begun to take shape in his mind when he came along the way. For the firearm formation of the Huai Army and the traditional frontal battlefield of infantry and cavalry, he no longer has an advantage, especially those heavy armored cavalry have become the target of elimination that is not worth the loss, and in the future, countless soldiers of the northwest light cavalry galloped on the battlefield.

He needed to re-engineer many light cavalry, many light cavalry with low armed and maintenance costs, as long as the most basic riding and shooting skills and armed equipment were enough; then, with the vast and complex terrain in the northwest, he carried out wolves-like swaying and harassing wars to deal with and confront the Huai army that was advancing in the future;

After all, as long as the cover of the formation and the bonus of collective strength are lost, these gun troops will not be more difficult to deal with than the traditional infantry. Traditional infantry are used to build forts based on the mountain, resist step by step and weaken the Huai Army's firearm projection advantages, and cooperate with the cavalry's harassment war with the consumption of the waiting time.

No matter how sharp and difficult the firearms in Huaizhen are, the corresponding material consumption and transportation capacity will not be less, even more so than in the traditional army. In addition, the transportation supply line that has been extended to thousands of miles has given the horse athletes in the northwest more opportunities and space to gallop.

With this idea of ​​avenging his shame, he led his troops straight into Guzang City and headed straight to the royal palace, and even ignored the complex expressions and meanings of the local civil and military officials who came to greet him.

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And in the Cantonese capital outside the distant ridge, it was once again shrouded in the atmosphere of rumbling wars.

With the news of the reign of the Daliang Dynasty and the reorganization of the throne, and the relocation of the Emperor's throne, it was inevitable that the ten 23 roads outside the ridge of the sea and land areas were caused to varying degrees, and even more than a dozen large and small groups appeared in the local area, claiming to be to "protect the emperor" and "the side of the Qingjing king".

Even the rebels who "overthrew the shogunate" number came.

The closest one is even in Guizhou (now Guilin), the capital of Guangui Road, adjacent to the capital, with tens of thousands of troops being called the "Imperial Army" descending from the Li River and successively occupied seven cities including Yangshuo, Lipu, Yongning, Xiuren, etc.; it almost echoed the Western Army in Jingnan Road outside the Wuling Road.
Chapter completed!