In the battle of Fengye Gorge, Li Li's army lost two thousand warriors and burned a large number of supplies.

In the three days after the war, Li Dian and Fan Yong recovered more than 3,000 lost Pegasus robbers and war horses, as well as a large number of weapons and arrows.

At the exit to the west of Maple Leaf Canyon, Li Li's army camped here for five days to rest and reorganize the army.

More than a thousand infantrymen turned into light cavalry in a blink of an eye. After a little training, they were dispersed and supplemented to the battalions. The three combat cavalry under Li Li returned to their original number, and they were still as many as five thousand. There were no infantrymen, but they were all combat cavalry.

There are very few soldiers under Li Li's tent who can't ride horses. However, they may not be good at riding and shooting skills, and they still need to train and grow slowly. Therefore, their combat power is worse than the previous five thousand iron cavalry, and it takes some time to get in and temper.

The cavalry and shooting technique is the advantageous skill of the Western Liang Iron Cavalry far better than the army of the Kanto princes. The second is the excellent war horses, and the last is the strong and brave fighting spirit and strong and tall physique of the people of Xiliang.

In the battle of cold weapons, strategies are important, but the key is whether the soldiers who ultimately achieve the strategy are strong.

Zhuge Liang was wise and almost demonic. Before Liu Bei personally led more than 700,000 troops to conquer the Eastern Wu, he could be said to have won every battle. All the strategies he offered worked and shocked the world.

However, after Liu Bei was defeated by Yiling, more than 700,000 elite soldiers were burned by Lu Xun in a fire. Since then, the combat power of Shu Han soldiers plummeted. Zhuge Liang made northern expeditions to the Central Plains and six out of Qishan, but he was always blocked by the Wei army, who were stationed in Yongliang, as weak defeated the strong and tenaciously resisted. Although there were some inappropriate decision-making, the most fundamental reason was that the combat power of the Shu army was limited. Although he launched hundreds of thousands of troops in the northern expedition every time, his actual combat power was far less powerful than that of the soldiers of Liu Bei's era.

Faced with the Wei army, which was at a disadvantage in numbers, the Shu army was only a little short of conquering the two states of Yongliang every time, and the troops were aimed directly at the Central Plains. However, this little difference took Zhuge Liang's lifelong efforts. Several northern expeditions were abandoned halfway and ended in regret.

Therefore, the strategy of the strategist is certainly essential, but the combat effectiveness of the soldiers is the key to determining the victory or defeat of the war.

As long as there is no major decision-making mistake in Cao Cao's defeat in Chibi and Liu Bei's defeat in Yiling, the final outcome of the war will still depend on the number of troops and combat effectiveness.

········ Back to the topic.

Five days after the reorganization of the army, Li Li's army once again led the camp westward, and the troops headed straight to Wuwei County.

During this period, Huan Fei, the leader of the Pegasus thief, sent a quick horse to send a message to Li Li, saying that the two brothers Ma Chao and Ma Dai had fled back to the Ma family, and their identities were confirmed. Everything was indeed as Li Li said. Ma Jin's true identity was Ma Chao, the eldest son of the Ma family.

Huan Fei was very grateful to Li Li for this, claiming that as long as Li Li is in danger in the future, he only needs to send a scout and a token to inform him, and the Pegasus will definitely come to help with all his might. In fact, it means forming an alliance with Li Li and helping each other.

Yes, it's just an alliance.

In the territory of Liangzhou, the size of the official position is insignificant to many desperate people holding troops.

Only strong strength is the most convincing thing, and everything else is in vain.

Because this is the western border of the Han Dynasty, no matter how big the official position is, it is not as powerful as tens of thousands of troops; it is more intimidating; it is rich and rich enough to rival a country, and it is even more frightening if you don’t have heavy troops in your hands.

Strength, troops, territory, money and grain are the most practical things, and it is also the basis for whether Li Li can gain a foothold in Liangzhou.

With Li Li's existing thousands of war cavalry and dozens of vehicles of weapons and supplies, Huan Fei, who was a Pegasus robber, still looked down upon. It was already a friendly expression of being able to form an alliance with Li Li, and there was also a bit of repaying favors.

Otherwise, Huan Fei would have been circling the Western Regions and galloping across Liang and Liang for many years, and the direct light cavalry in his hands would have more than 10,000 brave men. In addition, this time, 20,000 miscellaneous Pegasus thieves were cleaned up by Li Li. From then on, Huan Fei would completely control the Pegasus thieves' thieves. Not only would the strength not be weakened, but would become stronger and stronger, and his combat power would be increased to a higher level. In addition, his accumulated income from his years of plundering, his strength is far above Li Li. With this strength, how could he compete with Li Li?

Although Li Li and Huan Fei have some friendship and have a good impression of each other, this is just a personal relationship. Strength is the key to making the other party surrender. Li Li does not have enough strength yet.

Therefore, although Li Li likes Huan Fei very much, he cannot immediately take it for himself.

Perhaps, one day in the future, if Pegasus thieves hinder Li Li's power expansion, they will fight each other and fight for another battle.

Seven days later, Li Li and his party entered Wuwei County and temporarily stationed troops here.

Although Wuwei County is only one word different from Wuwei County, the county seat of Wuwei County is not here, but is located near Guzang City, Zhangye County to the west.

Wuwei County is located in the hinterland of the county with a population of tens of thousands. It is considered to be a middle-class county in Wuwei County. In the city, only hundreds of old and weak soldiers are responsible for guarding the city on a daily basis.

Since officially setting foot in Wuwei County, Li Li's army has not encountered much resistance along the way and has traveled unhindered.

In just five days, Li Li sent two generals Bo Cai and Li Dian to lead a thousand light cavalry to conquer all the county towns south of Wuwei County, screened the soldiers guarding the city and reorganized them into an army.

As of the time when Li Li entered Wuwei County, he had received nearly 2,000 soldiers from guarding the city. After eliminating the elderly, weak, sick and disabled, he had obtained more than 1,200 infantrymen.

Wuwei County Government Office.

Jia Mu walked into the main hall quickly and reported to Li Li respectfully: "Report to the lord, Wuwei County is like other county governments, the treasury is empty, and all the money, grain, and weapons have been emptied. Moreover, judging from the traces left in the warehouse, it must have been moved away in the past two days."

Although Li Li was prepared in his heart, he still felt angry and frowned after hearing Jia Mu's report.

This is not the first county government office to be evacuated. All county government offices south of Wuwei County have been evacuated, as if they were looted, with no grain or half a piece of pig iron left behind.

It's so clean and neat, and it's really nice to do it!

In addition, the public security in various counties was extremely chaotic, and gangsters were rampant. They dared to humiliate good women on the streets, and they were rampant and lawless, which led to many people running away from home and attempting to take refuge in Jincheng.

For this reason, Li Li issued a killing order to Bocai, Li Dian, Li Zheng and others. In five days, thousands of rogues were arrested in each county and taken to the city gate to behead and displayed for public display. The corpse was stormed for three days to serve as a warning to you.

With such a clear and righteous punishment, the civilians were curbed from the escape, and the thousand war cavalry of Li Zheng's troops also intercepted the people who went to Jincheng and distributed some food to appease the people's fear and fear.

While arresting the gangsters, Li Li also learned from these people about the recent happenings in various county government offices.

About ten days ago, Li Kan and Cheng Yin, who occupied Guzang City, divided into two groups to go to various counties to rob. They emptied the treasury of each county, forced the plunder, forced the young and young women in the city, and ransacked the money and food of the people and wealthy families. The methods were extremely cruel and cruel, and their behavior was outrageous. The people who robbed the counties south of Wuwei County were Cheng Yin.

Cheng Yin personally led more than 3,000 troops to plunder the counties in southern Wuwei, from the county government treasury to the townships and pavilions of the counties, they did not spare the villages at both levels, like a carpet-like robbery, one by one.

Cheng Yin's evil deeds made Li Li extremely hate him.

You should know that most of the soldiers led by Cheng Yin were young and strong children from this county, and were also from poor families and native to Wuwei. As a result, under the leadership of the demon Cheng Yin, a group of honest children actually killed their fellow villagers, plundered money and grain, and robbed young and strong women.

It is simply worse than a beast, and a hundred deaths are not enough to make up for the sins they committed.

"Cheng Yin is a thief, lawless and extremely evil! One day, Li will definitely chop you alive with his own hands!"

Cheng Yinzhi's rampant aroused the deepest memory buried in Li Li's heart.

Later generations of Japanese pirates invaded China and implemented the Three Lights Policy in a large manner, with a heinous crime, which made countless descendants of Yan and Huang never forget them for a hundred years.

Now Cheng Yin's evil deeds are almost equivalent to the Japanese pirates in later generations.

The only difference is that Cheng Yin dared not burn and kill him at will, because most of the soldiers under his command were locals in Wuwei County.

Once he killed too much, his soldiers would be unable to bear it and would inevitably mutiny collectively and point swords and guns at him, the commander; then he would die without a burial place and become a laughing stock that would be in danger for thousands of years.
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