At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Cao Ren observed for a while, and found that Song Jian had set up a fortress-style barracks at the main road leading to Fanghan County. It was built with wood and stones, and it looked like a grand pass.

But it is quite a bit, about one or two points. Compared with Hangu Pass and Tongguan that are under construction, it feels like a child piling up blocks, which is really inconspicuous.

Chapter 676 Wuheshou Pinghan Kingdom was erased from the map and history by Cao Ren

Cao Ren and Chen Gong were old partners. Faced with such a situation, they quickly remembered the yellow scarf soldiers they faced when they attacked Yuzhou.

The Runan Yellow Turban Army occupied the city and fought against the Wei Army.

At that time, the Wei army could use the old version of the trebuchet to capture the city firmly held by the Yellow Turban Army. Now facing this kind of thing, can the new version of the trebuchet, which is more powerful, not be able to deal with it?

Cao Ren gave an order, and the boulder flew into the sky, then fell to the ground, destroying the fortress that Song Jian painstakingly built.

The garrison inside was bombarded by the flying boulders and fled in all directions. How can they stop it?

Song Wei, who originally planned to rely on this barracks to hold on to the local area to block Cao Ren, had bad luck and was killed by flying stones. The dragons in the fortress were leaderless and in chaos. A large number of soldiers gave up their posts and retreated, trying to escape back to Fanghan County .

So Cao Ren gave another order, the war drums rumbled, and the Wei army infantry stepped forward, shouting the Wei army's battle horn, advancing step by step, like a wall, and directly pushed and destroyed the defense line of the Song Jian army.

This wave of flat push went very smoothly, and it went all the way to the outside of Fanghan County.

At this time, it was only three days before the battle began.

In just three days, Song Jian's line of defense completely collapsed. The Wei army rushed to the core area of ​​Fanghan County, and began to attack the city, destroy the manor, and kill the Hu Han people. , The tribe was completely destroyed, and more than [-] men and women were captured, and more than [-] livestock were captured.

The final goal is in the core area of ​​this small kingdom built by Song Jian - the county seat of Fanghan.

In fact, before the war, Song Jian and others also found out the news. They learned that there was a big turmoil in Liangzhou, that Han Sui and Ma Teng had a falling out, and even brought in the Wei army in Guanzhong to help out.

But Song Jian Group is just a small group that wants to be king behind closed doors. It has no bigger ambitions, and the peaceful life of the previous ten years was not bad.

The criss-crossing situation of various forces makes their strategy of claiming the king behind closed doors very useful, so Song Jian has always been very happy.

He thought that the situation in Liangzhou would be even more chaotic this time, and the forces in several areas would become more and more intertwined to contain each other, so his situation would be the same as before, even better and more favorable than before.

But who knew that in less than two months, Ma Teng and Han Sui both perished, and the Wei army became the overlord of Liangzhou.

This……

This is real?

Song Jian couldn't believe it when he first heard the news, but more and more information told him that it was true.

Song Jian's ability to rule in a place like Liangzhou for more than ten years is inseparable from his flexible and changeable communication methods and his intelligence network. They know less.

Including the news that Cao Ren personally led the army to attack Longxi County, especially himself.

Song Jian was taken aback when he learned that Cao Ren led an army of tens of thousands to attack Fanghan County. This was the most unacceptable situation for him.

Liangzhou is in chaos, the warlords of all parties are separated from each other, and the forces of various places are intertwined. This is his favorite situation. Only in this situation can he survive better.

Once there is a trend of unification in Liangzhou, then he is finished, and he will definitely be killed.

Fortunately, in the previous ten years, neither Dong Zhuo, Ma Teng nor Han Sui could unify Liangzhou, at most they reached a state of confederation.

But now, the situation has changed drastically. Guo Wei's forces have joined in and eliminated Ma Teng and Han Sui, who had maintained the separatist regime for a long time. They directly intervened in the situation in Liangzhou, and Liangzhou was about to be unified.

Song Jian panicked and prayed every day that the worst news would not come, but the worst news did come.

Cao Ren led his troops to attack.

Shocked, he first sent people to peace talks, trying to maintain the current situation through peace talks, but was flatly rejected by Cao Ren, so he could only choose to resist.

The eldest son Song Wei led [-] troops to resist, trying to defeat Cao Ren and let Cao Ren know that he was not easy to deal with.

As a result, Song Wei suffered a disastrous defeat.

His natural line of defense was breached, his own army retreated in large numbers, and suffered heavy losses. Only more than 1 people were left to use.

The eldest son Song Wei also died because of this...

It’s over.

Song Jian no longer has any power to use. He wants to be king and hegemony behind closed doors. With only a small population base, how much help do he want to win?

Cao Ren's army aggressively marched into the Fanghan County area, and carried out a devastating blow to the Hu Han Haoqiang in the Fanghan County area, destroying all the wings of Song Jian, and then besieged the city.

Besiege the city on all sides, leaving no way out, and aiming for destruction from the very beginning.

To deal with the big separatist forces, play the game of encirclement, three, and one, but to deal with your small separatist forces, you still need to play the encirclement, three, and one?

Wei Jun doesn't want face?

The trebuchet hurled huge stones at the county seat of Fanghan, and the defenders in the county ran away like ghosts and wolves, unable to maintain the line of defense at all.

With Cao Ren's order, the army besieged from all sides, and the ants attached themselves to the city. The not tall Fanghan County was quickly climbed up by the Wei army, and the fierce fighting took place at the top of the city.

The Wei army's swift and violent actions had already knocked them out of their wits, but now this direct battle made them unable to resist. The soldiers of Song Jian's army retreated one after another, and the city was quickly lost.

Knowing this situation, Song Jian was ready to break out of the encirclement and run away. With some belongings and the most trusted soldiers, he broke through to the north of the city where the Wei army was the weakest. However, during the process of his breakout In the middle, the Wei army had entered the city.

The soldiers of Song Jian's army ran away desperately, while Wei's army bit them and chased them bravely. The whole battlefield was completely one-sided massacre scene.

The leaders of Song Jian's small kingdom took the lead in fleeing one by one. It's no wonder that the army didn't have the courage to continue fighting.

Faced with an opponent like Wei Jun, such an army has no other way to go except to be destroyed.

The battle lasted from morning to afternoon. Of course, the main content was that Wei Jun chased and captured the defeated leaders and soldiers of Song Jian's army. They were not very good at fighting, and they were able to run one by one. It took Cao Ren a lot of effort to catch them all. Complete, not a single one slipped through the net.

At the beginning of September in the first year of Jian'an, this large-scale but completely unranked battle ended. The Heshou Pinghan Kingdom established by Song Jian was erased from the map and history by Cao Ren.

From the king Song Jian, to his prime minister, and many other Hu and Han officials, as well as their relatives, none of them escaped.

When Song Jian was captured, all the soldiers around him had died in battle. The person who captured him was Cao Xiu. Cao Xiu excitedly carried Song Jian to ask Cao Ren for credit. Cao Ren was very happy and credited Cao Xiu with a credit. He ordered Song Jian to be beheaded.

When Song Jian heard that he was going to be beheaded, he was frightened out of his wits.

"General Cao, spare your life! General Cao, spare your life! I am willing to use all my property to buy one life! Just one life! General Cao, spare my life!!"

Song Jian knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Cao Ren non-stop. How could he seem to be a king or hegemon?

Cao Ren looked at him with contempt.

"Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the world has been bustling with hustle and bustle, thieves and feudal lords stand side by side, fighting each other endlessly. It has been more than ten years. However, in the past ten years, except for Yuan Gonglu, there is no one who is rebellious. Who dares to pretend to be king, what are you? How dare you pretend to be king during the Zhongping period?"

Song Jian kowtowed again and again.

"It wasn't my will, but someone forced me to become king!"

"Forcing you to become king? Why don't you say that someone is going to force you to become emperor?"

Cao Ren sneered: "I've never heard of such a ridiculous thing! If you want to get rid of the crime, you have to find a decent reason! Come here! Drag Song Jian out and behead him! Send the head to Yecheng Dedicated to Duke Wei!"

"Yes!"

Immediately, strong soldiers stepped forward and dragged out the howling Song Jian. Song Jian struggled desperately, but he couldn't struggle with the strong soldiers.

After a while, the sound of howling ghosts and wolves disappeared completely.

In addition to Song Jian, Song Jian also has hundreds of officials, such as the Prime Minister, the General, the Minister of the Book, the Jiuqing and so on.

Although this sparrow is small, it has all five internal organs. It is a tiny place, and it can create a complete set of administrative structures.

These people were no exception. After they were all captured, they stepped into the back of Ma Teng and Han Sui, and were all beheaded by Cao Ren's order.

All the males were killed, and the female family members were taken as prisoners. Cao Ren kept some of them for the army's own use to relieve the soldiers' desires accumulated after the long-term battle, and sent the other part to Yecheng for Cao Cao to handle. Increase the population of Guo Peng.

The captured soldiers of the Song Jian army were all sent to the mountains of the Qinling Mountains to build roads. There is nothing to say about this.

Cao Ren swept away Fanghan County and its surrounding areas. It was found that the Hu Han population dependent on Song Jian was more than [-], and they obtained more than [-] livestock, which is indeed not a small number.

There are many Hu people and few Han people here, but basically the leadership is all Han people.

No wonder Song Jian was able to toss out more than 3 troops. His feelings are also supported by the population, and there are so many livestock, and a large amount of gold and silver treasures that were discovered and seized. Let alone, after this battle, Cao Ren gave Guo Peng a lot of money. A lot of money.

Here, the Han people were kept, and the Hu people still followed the old rules, and the men and women were dealt with separately to ensure that no human resources were wasted.

Song Jian's separatist forces were wiped out by Cao Ren, and the entire Longxi County was also broken.

As long as Xia Houyuan, the prefect of Longxi, came to Longxi County with his army and his administrative team, the rule would be restored and construction would begin.

Cao Ren eliminated Song Jian and restored Longxi County. Xiahouyuan and Guan Yu's march went very smoothly. There was no resistance along the way. Among the many famous warlords in Liangzhou, only one Yang Qiu was left alive. .

When Guan Yu led the army to attack Anding County, Yang Qiu resisted for a while, but failed and was captured. Guan Yu saw how majestic he was, so he asked a lot if he would surrender.

Yang Qiu really didn't want to die, seeing that there was no hope if he continued to fight, so he confessed, knelt down in front of Guan Yu and surrendered, Guan Yu was very happy, and made Yang Qiu a captain under his command.

Anding County was quickly pacified, Guan Yu continued to pacify Beidi County, and then Xiahouyuan also pacified Hanyang County and Wudu County. Too fast, too resolute, they are too embarrassed to do it, so they can survive.

Even so, the population of these manors was also deprived of them, and only a part of the land was left to these people, and the rest was regarded as money for life, and was taken away by the Wei army.

A strong government and strong rule have begun to be established, and no one can escape within Liangzhou.

Chapter 677 Six Longyou Ma Zheng (repair)

After a whole set of military operations, by mid-October, when Yan Liang and Gao Lan led troops to take office, Cao Ren counted a population of 18 Han Chinese in these five counties.

After learning that Wudu County was included in the newly established Yongzhou, the remaining four counties had a population of about 15 Han Chinese.

This 15 population is the only remaining population in the four counties, and it is also the main number of Han people in Liangzhou. Going west, this is not the case. The population of Han people will decrease, and the population of Qianghu will increase.

The combined population of these four counties is not even as large as that of Qingyan Erzhou and Jizhou, which shows that these areas lost a large number of people after the war and the production damage was serious.

This made Cao Ren very tired, and also Chen Gong.

Chen Gong participated in the Guanzhong immigration plan in an all-round way. He knew how serious the population loss in Guanzhong was, and also knew how difficult it was for Guo Peng to migrate people from Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou and other populous states to Guanzhong to supplement the population. The fact that the population is distressed.

Guo Peng was forced to incorporate foreigners into the Han nationality to increase the population. Now that he has obtained a more sparsely populated Liangzhou, according to Guo Peng's character of developing madness, he will definitely be more distressed.

Manpower is always needed for development, but what Guo Peng lacks most is manpower. The existing manpower is already very difficult to maintain the development and production of the original Central Plains elite area. It is not easy to continue to immigrate.

So after learning about this situation, Chen Gong felt that Guo Peng was going to have a big head again.

But no matter from which aspect, Chen Gong felt that Guo Peng had implemented the idea of ​​benevolent government in civil affairs.

But Guo Peng is willing to practice and implement any policy that can improve people's livelihood, and he does his best to take care of the people.

Although some people privately commented that Guo Peng's policy of garrisoning land and the policy of reorganizing households to equalize the people is to squeeze the power of the people to the maximum extent, and there are signs of a change to the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty, but Chen Gong does not think so.

Guo Peng once said to him that stability and peace are the most beautiful things, and it is worth paying any price for stability and peace.

Squeeze is necessary, without which strong armies and long marches cannot be maintained, but the rapid advance of peace thus obtained will shorten the duration of this misery.

He will compensate the people who have paid now, and when the world returns to peace, he will try his best to compensate, even if there are some things that cannot be compensated.

With such a ruler who puts his vision at the lowest level, Chen Gong no longer knows whether this is a good thing or a bad thing.

Because Chen Gong vaguely sensed that the things advocated by Confucian scholars in Guo Peng’s thought did not seem to occupy the mainstream, even though he himself grew up with an orthodox Confucian education.

He didn't even grow up under the legal family education of the Guo family in Yingchuan. He was trained by Lu Zhi alone, and Lu Zhi is undoubtedly a great Confucian in China.

Chen Gong did not believe that Lu Zhi only taught Guo Peng the art of war.

However, Guo Peng's ruling method and his ruling ideas seem to be more inclined to the period of Emperor Wu and Shihuang than to other periods.

However, even so, Chen Gong also felt that this was not something he could control.

Guo Peng is a mature ruler, and no one can restrain his skills and tactics.

Gao Lan and Yan Liang brought [-] troops to the Chang'an camp, and the number of Guanzhong front troops increased from [-] to [-]. If the [-] troops from Hanzhong and Shangyong were included, there would be a full [-] troops.

Among them, Guo Peng stipulated that [-] people should be stationed in Liangzhou, and [-] people should be stationed in Guanzhong.

Depending on the current population and land reclamation situation, unless the army also joins the farming sequence, in a short time, the rations for the extra [-] troops will have to be allocated from nearby Luoyang.

The number of troops is large, but the population of the people is small. The Guanzhong immigration plan is a long-term project, and it will not be effective in a month or two. So right now, Cao Ren really can't continue to march to the northwest and enter the remaining half of Liangzhou. .

Right now, Cao Ren needs to mobilize soldiers and auxiliary troops to set up military settlements in Liangzhou. After the supplementary population is in place, gradually convert the military settlements into civilian settlements, so as to accumulate food as a reserve ration for future marches to the northwest.

In addition, Guo Peng's order to set up horse administration in the Longyou area also passed to Cao Ren.

This time Song Jian was cleaned up, and the Longyou tribe was in the hands of Guo Peng, so Guo Peng got a lot of horses. Although the horse administration in the Eastern Han Dynasty was far from as prosperous as the Western Han Dynasty, there were officials in Bingzhou Youzhou and Liangzhou. The state raises horses, and the number of horses raised is no less than 20.

After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Eastern Han government could not protect itself, so the horse administration naturally fell into disuse, and the horses fell into the hands of local warlords and tyrants.

Guo Peng fought all the way and got no less than 15 horses from Bingzhou Youzhou and foreigners.