Under Chang'an City, a series of shocking battles were made, and Li Zhejun showed his power. He captured Ma Teng in one battle and defeated Han Sui in the second battle, all of which were clean and neat, without any drag. Zhang Xiu's army defeated Han Sui's side army, Cheng Yin's army in one fell swoop in the pursuit battle in Xianyang, and killed Cheng Yin in the formation in the chaos. This series of battles fully demonstrated Li Zhejun's current invincible strength, which shocked the people in Chang'an City. Even if they had some small thoughts, they had to remind themselves to dispel them quickly! The people in Guanxi were martial and had a deeper understanding of force! I know that this is the only truth to survive in troubled times!

However, this result was still a little regret for Li Zhe. Due to the existence of cavalry and terrain, this series of battles could only be defeated. In the battle with Han Sui, nearly 10,000 were killed and 20,000 were captured. A total of nearly half of Han Sui's army was annihilated, but 20,000 were created. In addition, the defeated soldiers of Ma Teng's army fled in all directions and spread across the entire Guanzhong Plain, which was urgently difficult to deal with. Among them, there were even several waves of considerable miscellaneous soldiers, who could not encircle and annihilate them all with the cavalry power that Li Zhe currently possessed.

Although Li Zhe had prepared for this, he sent 5,000 Cao Hong's five thousand soldiers to block the Jingshui River that stretched hundreds of miles north, while sweeping the Han Sui forces on the north bank of the water, and blocking the northward journey of the group of scrambled soldiers. On the other hand, Zhang Xiu's three thousand cavalry occupied Xianyang in the west, like a comb, constantly filtering out the defeated troops of the brigade and sheltering prisoners. However, with the vast terrain of the Guanzhong Plain, these can only be said to be emergency measures and cannot block the longer-distance detours of the opponent's cavalry.

Next, a series of pursuit wars began to take place. Xiahou Yuan and Zhang Xiu's two cavalrymen advanced westward. Zhang Xiu's troops headed south and entered Fufeng County, along the Wei River, Huaili, Meiyang, Meiguo, and Yong County, all the way to Sanguan, and peeked at Zhang Lu, Hanzhong.

Xiahou Yuan followed the Jing River and headed northwest, and finally met with Cao Hong in Xinping County, encircled Xinping County and Fuyi Guardians in Beidi County, blocked the way for the Hu people from Hetao Xiliang to march. He fully conquered Yongzhou.

But even so, Li Zhe was still helpless in the scattered soldiers in the mainland of Yongzhou. He could only seize the strategic location, adopt the tactics of curbing his mobility range, and slowly cleared out the battle between the cavalry and the terrain of the Great Plains, which opened a new combat mode, and Li Zhe's military system could not fully adapt to it.

Time passed by Li Zhejun's further large-scale pursuit and containment of prisoners. December was approaching, and the northwest was in a bitter and cold state, and survival in the wild became more and more difficult. Even Li Zhejun had to start to reduce his mobilization and lie dormant during this season.

The Xiliang soldiers who were still hiding in most parts of Yongzhou were in tragic situations. Thousands of miles away from their hometown, Guanzhong was ruined by them, and there was no place to go. In the wild, they would face the tragic fate of dying from freezing and starvation. If they did not turn back and surrender to Li Zhejun, nature would bring these chaotic soldiers to hell with their own hands.

This end is obvious.

In this way, Li Zhe basically completed control of the situation in Guanzhong and began to carefully take stock of the many gains that he could inherit from Chang'an.

Chang'an is a great city. It is even greater than Luoyang. It is Chang'an, as the starting point of the Silk Road, that opened up the history of the intersection of Eastern and Western civilizations, and the sparks generated by the collision of wisdom of Eastern and Western civilizations shine together, reflecting the entire Western Han Dynasty. It has convenient transportation and developed commerce, showing the world the confidence, openness, grandeur, inclusive and upward national spirit that civilized China has, and forged a cultural highland that the descendants of Yan and Huang will always be proud of.

The area of ​​Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty was about 36 square kilometers, about four times that of the Roman city of the same period. There were twelve city gates and eight main streets, and the longest street was 5,500 meters. The palaces, aristocratic houses, government offices and ancestral temples in the city accounted for about two-thirds of the city's area. The palaces were concentrated in the middle and south of the city, including Changle Palace, Weiyang Palace, Gui Palace, Beigong and Mingguang Palace. Among them, Weiyang Palace was the place where many emperors lived and handled government affairs since Emperor Hui of Han, and was one of the most famous palaces in Chinese history.

Residential areas are distributed in the north of the city and divided into 160 "Luli". The market is located in the northwest corner of the city and is called "Nine Cities in Chang'an". In the west of the city, there is a large Shanglin Garden, which mainly includes Kunming Lake, Jianzhang Palace, etc. In the south of the city, there is a group of ritual buildings built during the Wang Mang period. The Han Dynasty Chang'an City changed the pattern of large and small cities in the Warring States Period, and concentrated residential areas, industrial and commercial areas and palace areas in one city, creating a model of Chinese metropolitan architecture and creating a world-renowned metropolitan civilization. Later Chinese dynasties have adopted this system.

Although the city has experienced wars and withered several times, it is still much better preserved than Luoyang, especially the Weiyang Palace among several palaces. The main building is still preserved and can still be inhabited. After Li Zhejun moved in, he made this place initially repaired and became Li Zhe's place to stop.

All institutions accompanying the army began to fully accept various departments, warehouses, official offices, arsenals, craftsman's mansions, etc. in Chang'an City. Although most of them were already broken, there were still many things worth asking for, including official documents, map records, etc., which were all valuable documentary materials.

A large number of things that can only be seen from documentary records in modern time and space history emerged in front of Li Zhe. The brilliant and splendid cultural treasure house immersed Li Zhe in succession of amazement. In this era of war, even a corner of civilization that was only left in the past made Li Zhe admire it.

The most worth mentioning gain is in Li Zhe's view that a rare treasure in ancient Chinese history - the last two of the twelve golden men in ancient Xianyang!

Its sizes vary, one is as high as ten meters and weighs about 69 tons, and the other is twelve meters and weighs about 87 tons. They are both hollow bronze statues, the two largest of the twelve golden men. Because of their huge shape and difficulty in moving, they were able to escape Dong Zhuo's clutches. They were not remolded by Dong Zhuo as copper coins like his brothers.

These twelve Jin people in Xianyang were twelve large bronze statues made by Qin Shihuang after unifying the six kingdoms and to prevent the people from resisting, they collected all the soldiers of the six kingdoms in the world. They were stored in front of Afang Palace to declare Qin Shihuang's great martial arts.

This is the largest physical object preserved in ancient Chinese historical records, showing the strong strength of ancient Chinese metallurgical technology. Such a huge metal object, even in modern times, is a matter that consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, let alone in ancient times. It can be called the largest miracle of ancient industrial metal objects retained in the world! However, in history, after Dong Zhuo took over Chang'an, he was ordered to be melted into copper coins and used, and disappeared ten of them. After the Three Kingdoms, Wei and Jin Dynasties, it finally disappeared after the Five Barbarians Rebellion, becoming an eternal regret in the minds of the descendants of China.

Now, it finally fell into Li Zhe's hands.

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On the fourth day of the 12th month, the north wind raged, and heavy snow fell in Yongliang. For a moment, thousands of miles of ice were frozen and thousands of miles of snow fell. Inside and outside the pass, it turned into a world covered with silver.

It’s just a pity that although it is such a strange sight, it is not a good thing to most of the Xiliang soldiers who are still wandering around the Guanzhong Plain, but a terrifying white demon.

Under the turmoil of hunger and cold, large areas of Xiliang soldiers died of starvation. Under the vast white background of the Guanzhong Plain, there were frozen corpses covered with snow everywhere. Li Zhejun had no choice but to deal with them, but the cold air from the northwest had enough patience to cure them one by one. Afterwards, it was estimated that there were nearly 40,000 or 50,000 people in Xiliang who disappeared on the Guanzhong Plain during this period, and the Guanzhong common people who died of disaster before were several times that of this number.

Large-scale surrendered troops began to appear around the cities controlled by Li Zhejun in various places. Under the pressure of severe cold and hunger, the defeated soldiers had to come to Li Zhejun in groups to seek survival opportunities. Ma Tie and Yang Qiu, under Han Sui's command, surrendered with their troops one after another. From the surrendered soldiers, they knew that a few people such as Han Sui, Cheng Gongying and others had broken through the siege from the west and fled back to Xiliang.

However, by this time, Han Sui could no longer form any obstacle for Li Zhe. What he was imminent to solve now is the next step to sort out the situation in Guanzhong.

The surrender of Zhong Yao and others was of great significance to Li Zhe, which means that the potential and public opinion of Guanzhong society were no longer an obstacle to Li Zhe. The surrender of Ma Teng and his son and Han Sui's remaining troops represented the surrender of most of the indigenous families of Xiliang to Li Zhe. Of course, the reliability of local tyrants like this was the pressure of Mount Tai. However, Li Zhe was not the same as before. He now had the candidate who could control the land of Xiliang instead of Ma Teng and others.

Yang Fu was named the governor of Liangzhou by Li Zhe for his merit of persuading surrender, and Jiang Xu, Zhao Ang and others were divided into Liangzhou militia commanders. These people were all local gentry in Liangzhou, and their influence on the ground was even greater than that of Ma Teng and others. Coupled with force suppression, it was enough to establish the ruling structure of Liangzhou, but it is still on the surface. Since Zhang was named the governor of Yongzhou, Du Ji, Wei Xian and Wei Kang were respectively the militia commanders of Yongzhou, he also fully considered the local situation.

The Guanzhong area will be a huge military zone, the starting point of a torrent that continues to expand territory, and the stability of its region is extremely important. The unification of Hanzhong, Bashu, the submission of Hetao Xiliang, the attack of the northern grasslands, and even further apart. The second Silk Road opening operation will be based on this.

The Fuyuan Army was once again expanded on a large scale to guard Yongliang.

The organization of the light cavalry and breastplate cavalry of the Fuyuan Army has increased significantly, and will become the main force of the Fuyuan Army. The total strength will reach a record 50,000, so that the regiment level has to be added to the battalion level. The two battalions are a regiment, with an organization of 10,000 people and one general.

After the reorganization, Wei Yan was still the commander of the Fuyuan Army. Zhang Xiu was promoted to the Fuyuan Army and the general of the Cavalry Regiment for his merits. Xiahou Yuan Yujin Cao Hong and Xu Huang were promoted to the general of the cavalry for his merits. Several newly established cavalry battalions, Ma Chao, Pang De, Yang Qiu, Jiang Jue and others were appointed as Sima, and were under the jurisdiction of Xiahou Yuan and other elderly people. With the military system of Li Zhejun, it would be difficult for these people to rebel again after entering the army.

The entire Yongliang area will be established with a super-large Chang'an Military Region, with Wei Yan as the governor, and Zhong Yao and Zhang Xiu as the deputy governor. The march towards Hanzhong, the infiltration of Xiliang and Hetao areas will be carried out on a large scale after the beginning of spring. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to subscribe to (this site) and reward. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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