By this time, the army had almost divided into two parts.

One is stationed in the Bird Mouse Valley, occupying the choke point between the south and north of Jin.

One was stationed in Jiexiu, which controlled the entire Xihe County from afar, and also became the rear guard of the army.

After the siege, the army rested for several days.

The whole army was exhausted, full of morale, and high morale.

After the first battle, more than 20,000 Tang troops were captured, not to mention the self-confidence of the infantry army was increasing, and the cohesion of the various units was also obviously different from the past.

If war is the best whetstone, then victory is the best catalyst for the creation of a strong army in the army.

After a big victory, the sergeants will naturally have a sense of honor, and then the increase in recognition, which is almost a chain reaction.

Of course, they still have a long way to go if they want to become a strong army that wins without being arrogant and discouraged, and today, such a military is rare.

Moreover, the damage of the army in this battle is not large, whether it is a cavalry army or an infantry army, the desire to fight at this time is very strong.

Needless to say, the cavalry generals very much hoped that Li Po would let go of the shackles on them and give them more and greater combat space and autonomy.

Because the role of cavalry is always in the field, for large-scale mobile operations, the cavalry generals who followed Li Po to defeat the Turks repeatedly understood the essence of this.

That is to say, the old classic tactics of frontal assault and breakthrough are fading in the minds of cavalry generals, and the light cavalry combat mode of cruising in a wide range and finding the right fighter to hit with one blow is gradually becoming clear.

Especially when they were fighting in Hebei, Wei Chigong, Luo Shixin and others fought with Dou Jiande's army, which was the most direct embodiment of this tactical concept.

Thousands of cavalry can make hundreds of thousands of troops clumsy and dare not advance lightly.

In other words, the parallel cavalry led by Li Po is quietly changing the cavalry combat mode of this era, and the trend of light cavalry replacing heavy cavalry as the main force of war is irreversible.

Now that he is attacking Tang in the south, the reins of the cavalry army have actually been firmly held in Li Po's hands, and before the siege of Jiexiu, it was slightly loosened, and then it was tightened again, so that Wei Chigong contracted his troops and did not act rashly.

In this way, the cavalry generals' meritorious intentions are naturally more tangible, especially with the infantry army as a comparison.

Compared with the cavalry, the infantry generals, who almost won the first battle, were more eager to fight, they wanted to strike while the iron was hot and establish the position of the infantry army in this campaign, because they had been suppressed by the cavalry for too long.

They need their military exploits more than the cavalry to prove their worth, and of course, after this battle success, it is natural for Chen Yuan to open a mansion.

Once the military government is established, it will inevitably not be a single seedling, and the permanent military government will be opposite to each other, and in addition to mutual restraint, it will also have to compete with each other.

That is to say, it is very likely that there will be someone who will follow in Chen Yuan's footsteps and set up the Wei Mansion, and this is what they want to fight for.

Therefore, after a few days, the voices of the generals begging for war began to increase, and the soldiers' struggle for merit was a disguised external manifestation of morale, which could only show that the army was about to move.

The generals in the army thought very simply, after this victory, the morale of the soldiers was high, and they should take advantage of the situation to go south and conquer the city, not to mention fighting to Chang'an in one fell swoop, Linfen County is in front of you.

But this time, they were suppressed by Li Po, and Li Po's eyes seemed to have been hovering over the desolate Xihe County, and he had no intention of leading the army to continue south.

The infantry soldiers went down to Xicheng without blood, and in the eyes of Wei Chigong and others, it was another bargain.

There is no doubt that this guy was lucky after the war, first captured Li Zhongwen, and then captured Xicheng, and his military exploits were no less than Wei Chixin, Yuwen Wok and others.

But Buqun's good luck ended here, Li Po ordered him to eliminate the bandits, the Luliang bandits have been making a lot of trouble near the left of Xicheng, and Xicheng County is the most prosperous territory in Xihe County today, and the elimination of bandits must be the first thing to do.

From the army on the road of self-unification to the local suppression of bandits, the gap between the big can be imagined, Wei Chigong and the others are quite gloating, the only pity is that they can't sarcastically say a few words to their faces, and see how their faces are.

At this time, Li Po was suppressing the restless generals while trying to restore the hierarchy of Xihe County.

The officials said that they could all be transferred from Jinyang, and there was not much to do about the population, and the Tang army had done a very thorough job of clearing the wilderness, and even places like Pingyao were depopulated.

And this time, the matter of immigrating from the two states is not within Li Po's consideration.

The two states have just settled down, and the population is not large, and if the population is moved south, there will definitely be a lot of trouble.

He ordered Buqun to suppress the bandits on the spot, and also had the intention of supplementing the population of Xihe County with mountain bandits, half suppressing and half appeasing, take your time, the land is here, and anyone who wants to live a stable life can come here to farm.

If it doesn't work out, it's not uncommon for the army to be tuntian, just get some military tuntian.

Of course, that's all for later, and now that the army is fighting, everything else will naturally have to be put behind.

At such a time, some guests were sent to Jiexiu by Wei Chigong one after another.

Pei Xu's name Li Po has no impression at all, Hedong Pei's son......

Li Po can figure it out with his ass that this Hedong clan is playing the old trick of both ends of the rat again.

Pei Xu himself, Li Po doesn't value it, even if he implicates the Pei clan lord in Hedong, it's just the same thing, and now he can still let the Pei clan help him?

This is just a back road left by others, if you win, it is naturally easy to say, if you lose, people are still Tang Chen, the whole world knows it, but there is no way to do it.

Of course, Pei Xu did not come empty-handed, and he also brought the news that the Tang Army was stationed in Jiangzhou.

In fact, it must be Pei Xu who was even more surprised, 30,000 Tang troops were stationed in Jiexiu, and when he arrived, Jiexiu had already changed masters.

Thinking of the Tang army who was still in Jiangzhou Shi Shiran's army, Pei Xu also pinched a cold sweat for them, and at the same time, he was also glad that his uncle was really like a god, and the soldiers of the two states were uncontrollable, and it might be a matter of time before the soldiers heard the joy.

It's just that the old saying is good, and its rise and fall are also sudden, I don't know how far Li Ding'an and his people can go?

And after he saw Li Po, he also obviously felt that the Pei family of Hedong, who was well-known in the Jin Dynasty, did not have much weight in this person's mind.

Li Po's first impression of him was that he was an unpredictable person.

Etiquette is thoughtful, not as it is rumored in the south, he is a rude martial artist who does not know how to be polite, and between laughs and conversations, it sounds very approachable, but it is inevitably perfunctory.

Pei Xu tried to contradict a few words, but this one also smiled, not angry, and his mind was still relatively spacious.

Of course, he didn't know that Li Po just regarded him as the envoy of the Pei clan in Hedong, otherwise, he was only surnamed Pei, and he might have an official position, but it was not so easy to see Li Po.

And what kind of idea this Jindi big valve thinks is actually not important to Li Po at all.

In his opinion, as long as the soldiers arrive, there will be nothing unexpected in the performance of these gate lords, and they will always quickly find a suitable position under your rule.

If you've been moving forward steadily, that's needless to say, and if you've had a setback, don't expect them to be with you.

In the final analysis, most of the gate valve clans are the icing on the cake, and if they want them to send charcoal in the snow, it is really difficult for them.

sent Pei Xu away lukewarmly, and asked him to go to Jinyang to find Wen Yanbo to talk, and the first guest was able to cope with the past.

Such a process can be said to be both expected by Pei Shiqing and unexpected by him.

He could think that no one in the Pei family dared to insult him, and if he came to serve, he would always be courteous, and he guessed correctly.

What he guessed wrong was that he overestimated the reputation of the Pei family in Hedong, so Pei Xu was not reused by Li Po as soon as he came.

Such a deviation may be corrected by Pei Xu's talent, but it will take a lot of time, if Pei's children come to vote at this time, it may be about the same, if there are two people, Pei's obviously miscalculated.

As for the impact on Pei's family in the future, we can only wait to see in the future.

The second wave of guests arrived a few days later, and they were much more miserable than Pei Xu, covered in dust and ragged clothes, similar to the homeless people Li Po had seen in the camp camp in Mayi.

Needless to say, Kansai Xiaoguo escorted He Chou and the others to arrive.

The treatment of this old man is different, because He Chou, this person Li Po recognizes it, and he is extremely impressed.

This person's ability to build a pontoon bridge in Liaodong is breathtaking, not to mention, it is also brilliant under the city of Liaodong, not to mention all kinds of strange siege equipment, and a square city has been built.

Of course, for Li Po, this is not a wonderful memory.

It's just that He Chou's idea was really good before, he is a useful person, and he will not be treated coldly wherever he goes, this is the importance of skills.

When He Chou arrived at Jiexiu, he was already a half-dead person, and he was sick on the way, but it was not a big problem, but his body couldn't hold on and he was infected with the cold.

But in this year, the people who died of illness on the road were generally not seriously ill, and the old man was there every year, and when he arrived at Jiexiu, the group was warmly entertained by Li Po, and they also found more than a dozen military doctors to treat the old man.

The old man said that he was grateful, but he was not indifferent, and when he drank the first sip of hot soup, the old man cried again, and this time he really suffered a great sin.

The old man's health is really good, he tossed it for so much, but he was almost sick in a few days, and he came to see Li Po with his limping son.

(Commuter Pass) (To be continued.) )