At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

With extremely strong strength, the Wei army destroyed a large number of manor docks in the Hexi Corridor.

Seeing one bulldozed and the other bulldozed, these docks with a population of thousands or tens of thousands effectively divided the resistance forces, making it difficult for them to unite for a while.

If you can't concentrate on fighting an offensive and defensive battle with the Wei army, you will naturally be unable to resist the full advance of the Wei army.

Between ten and a month, all the powerful separatist forces in Wuwei County were destroyed, and the Wubao Manor in Wuwei County was swept away by the Wei army, regardless of whether it was Han, Qiang or other miscellaneous people, they were all disposed of.

Under the leadership of Zhang Fei, the iron cavalry of the Wei army galloped freely, and there was no enemy wherever they went. They were crushed and collapsed by the iron cavalry of the Wei army.

Zhang Fei, who fought in this battle, screamed and yelled.

Soon, various Han, Qiang and Hu tribes and powerful forces in Wuwei County were hit more severely by the Wei army. Large numbers of them were uprooted by the Wei army and wiped out, leaving nothing left.

After that, Cao Ren began to plan to lead the Wei army into Zhangye County.

When the Wei army swept Wuwei County, Zhangye County had already received the news.

When Han Hu Haoqiang in Wuwei County chose to resist instead of surrendering, the tycoons in Zhangye County also rarely gave up fighting each other, chose a temporary truce, and gathered together to discuss countermeasures.

The separatist tyrant Zhao Chong who occupied Goide County called himself the prefect of Zhangye.

Although no one admits it sincerely, his power is the strongest in Zhangye County, occupying three counties, including Zhaowu County and Wulan County in Jide County, which are all under his control.

I don't usually talk about it, but in this case, seeing that Wei Jun is coming, everyone starts to panic.

Especially those who occupy the area close to Wuwei County are even more worried when they hear that Wuwei's tycoons have been defeated by the Wei army every day.

They gathered in Jide County, hoping to discuss this matter with Zhao Chong.

Zhao Chong was also very worried, thinking that Wei Jun's arrival was not kind.

There has been no movement in the past few years, only Hanyang County is open to do business with everyone, but suddenly troops are launched to attack, what is going on?

Emperor Wei decided to take back the four counties in Hexi so that everyone would not continue to fight for hegemony?

Zhao Chong saw the frightened faces of the rebellious and disrespectful tyrants in the past. Although he felt a little refreshed, this is not the time now.

"In short, I will communicate with Cao Zixiao in the name of the prefect of Zhangye, and explain to him the situation of Zhangye County's willingness to submit to Wei, and see how he reacts."

In the past, no one would accept Zhao Chong as the self-proclaimed prefect, but at this time, they need someone who can resist, so they admit it. If the Wei people really agree and appoint Zhao Chong as the prefect, they will naturally I recognized it even more.

Nobody wants to be like those guys from Wuwei County, right?

Zhao Chong wrote an autograph trustee and sent it to Wuwei County. He knew Cao Ren's identity and status in Wei, and thought it was meaningful to communicate directly with Cao Ren.

At that time, Cao Ren, who was resting in the garrison in Guzang County and preparing to continue to Zhangye County, received this letter and laughed a lot after reading it.

"The self-proclaimed prefect of Zhangye County wrote to me, saying that he is willing to lead Zhangye County to belong to Wei, and is willing to pay taxes. Please let me submit to your Majesty and make him the prefect of Zhangye County."

Cao Ren smiled and handed the letter to Zhao Yan who was beside him. Zhao Yan stroked his beard after reading it, smiled contemptuously, and handed it to Zhang Fei, who was the stalker.

Zhang Fei, Xia Houyuan and other generals burst out laughing after watching it, thinking it was a very funny and ridiculous thing.

"It's all over and you still want to dream of the emperor's spring and autumn dream? The world is unified, and these people haven't woken up yet."

After reading the letter, Yan Liang smiled disdainfully.

"Yeah, it's already at this time, they haven't seen the situation clearly yet, does the land His Majesty wants still need their consent."

Gao Lan read it, and threw the letter on the table in front of him in disdain.

"According to me, General Cao, let me lead [-] troops and drive straight in. Go directly to Jide County to chop off his head and use it as a chamber pot."

Zhang Fei asked for a fight with a loud voice.

Cao Xiu immediately stood up too.

"General Cao, the last general will also invite tens of thousands of soldiers to drive straight in and seize Zhangye County for His Majesty!"

Zhang Fei and Cao Xiu competed for the right to fight. Now Xia Houyuan, Yan Liang and Gao Lan couldn't take it anymore, and stood up to fight.

Cao Ren waved his hand and told them all to sit down.

"The current four counties in Hexi are full of forts. The local powerful forces protect their territory and defend themselves. It is not conducive to the army to drive straight in. Instead, the main force should advance step by step and fight steadily, otherwise the food road will be threatened. Therefore, the whole army Let’s act together, don’t prioritize any more.”

Cao Ren was the second member of Guo Peng's Wei army. He grew up with Guo Peng. He has rich experience and high prestige. Naturally, the generals did not dare not listen to his words, so they all resigned.

Zhao Yan looked at Cao Ren and asked, "General Cao, since you are going to march, do you need to reply to this letter?"

Cao Ren thought about it.

"Back, of course I have to go back. It's not indecent to come and go. I am a big country like Wei, how can I not be polite? But how do I go back... Staff Zhao, you go back and forth."

Zhao Yan looked at Cao Ren and immediately understood what Cao Ren meant.

"As ordered."

So Zhao Yan took on the task of replying the letter.

Just the day before the Wei army marched into Zhangye County, this letter was delivered to Zhao Chong. Zhao Chong opened the letter and read it, and his face was flushed with anger.

"Demolish Wubao by yourself, hand over iron smelting tools and blacksmith households, and also hand over all iron weapons, hand over household registration, and pay such a heavy tax?! What does Cao Zixiao think of us? Slaves? Really think me Afraid of him?!"

Zhao Chong slammed the letter on the ground and looked at the powerful landlords with different expressions.

"The people of Wei are shameless. They have already made up their minds to occupy Zhangye County... No, it is the entire four counties in Hexi! They want to occupy it! They have to offer such harsh conditions, and they have no sincerity for peace talks at all! Gentlemen, war Right in front of us, we must work together, otherwise our ancestral property will be destroyed!"

Powerful landlords, you look at me and I look at you, your complexion is extremely bad.

"I heard that Wuwei County has been pacified by the Wei people, and all those who resisted have been killed. The Wei people are so tyrannical, can we really resist?"

A slightly older Hao Qiang looked at Zhao Chong with worry.

"There is still a way out for resistance. If you don't resist, then demolish Wubao, hand over your weapons and blacksmith households, pay heavy taxes, and become servants of the Wei people from then on. Is this what you want to see? If you are willing to do so, Leave on your own, Zhao will never stop you!"

Zhao Chong made up his mind to persist in resistance.

You look at me, I look at you, everyone knows that the Wei people are not easy to deal with, but facing such harsh peace talks with the Wei people, they also feel that there is no way out, so they all nodded and agreed to join the resistance alliance. Resist the Wei army with all its strength.

Zhao Chong asked everyone to prepare resistance forces immediately, gather in Wulan County, and follow his unified order to resist.

Then Zhao Chong also sent people to contact the Qiang people's forces, knowing the benefits and promising rewards. A few days later, he persuaded more than a dozen Qiang people to be willing to bring people to help Zhao Chong resist the Wei army.

But when they were preparing, Wei Jun had already entered Zhangye County.

It took only two days for Liqian County and Fanhe County to be taken by Wei Jun.

Then they swept up the surrounding powerful Wubao, destroyed 36 Wubao within a few days, killed more than 1 members of the powerful family, and captured nearly [-] people.

On May 27th of the third year of Yande, Cao Ren led his army to Rile County, captured Rile County, wiped out the surrounding powerful forces, and gained a firm foothold.

It wasn't until this time that Zhao Chong brought people to Wulan County to make final preparations.

Chapter 939 Nine Cao Ren's strategy is effective

Zhao Chong counted the number of soldiers who could send troops in Wulan County, and got more than [-] Han soldiers and Qiang Hu soldiers, which is a hodgepodge army.

Although a hodgepodge, he had never seen so many troops, so he felt confident.

At this time, he suddenly learned that the Wei army had advanced to Rile County and was marching to Zendan County.

Zhao Chong and the tyrants were shocked, and immediately discussed the countermeasures. The countermeasure was to immediately go south to seize Zendan County, defend the city, and block the advance of the Wei army.

"Wei people are a bunch of liars! One side makes demands and another side sends troops to attack. I don't think they have ever thought about peace talks! It's just a cover-up, delaying time! Damn! Damn!"

Now that things have happened, Zhao Chong finally saw through the wolf ambitions of the Wei people, so he immediately sent troops south to Zendan County in a rage, preparing to defend the city and block the road of the Wei army.

Hurrying quickly, they finally arrived at Zendan County before Wei Jun, and began to deploy city defenses. Before they were fully prepared, the murderous Wei Jun had already arrived.

This group of people saw the black and murderous soldiers of the Wei army coming from afar. The terrifying momentum, the strong murderous intent, and the large number of people all made the tyrants in the city feel terrified.

The power gap between the powerful and the real empire is clear at a glance.

Many tyrants looked at Zhao Chong, whose face was slightly pale.

"There are too many Wei people, right?"

"Can this city really be defended?"

"What if I can't keep it?"

Everyone's doubts followed one after another, and Zhao Chong felt a little anxious.

"Don't even talk about it. What is the intention of saying such words to shake the morale of the army before the battle? In the midst of the war, is there any point in saying these things now? If you have this skill, why don't you think about how to retreat from the enemy!"

Zhao Chong roared angrily to stop everyone's criticism.

But such a real objective situation will not be shifted arbitrarily with people's subjective consciousness, what should happen will happen, and no one can stop it.

When Wei Jun introduced the terrifying existence of the trebuchet, there was no need to say anything.

Boulders were flying in the air, flames exploded in all directions, and a huge thunder-like sound exploded near the army in the city. The terrifying deterrent force lasted for a day and a night. In the early morning of the next day, the Wei army launched a general attack. At noon that day, the city was destroyed.

Zhao Chong boosted morale several times, and personally led people to fight against the Wei army who rushed to the city wall several times, but in the end he couldn't recover from the failure.

All the elite soldiers around him were killed in battle, and he himself was surrounded and hacked to death by soldiers of the Wei army.

The situation collapsed completely, and the Zhangye Allied Forces failed to persist until the end, but they were completely defeated by the Wei Army in just over a day.

The Wei army completely surrounded Zendan County, and none of the resisting powerful forces in the city escaped, but were all beheaded, and the rest surrendered and were captured by the Wei army.

After this battle, there were no forces in Zhangye County that could resist the Wei army. The Wei army fought steadily and advanced step by step, destroying the powerful Wubao one by one, destroying all the walls, capturing all the population, and moving forward.

At the beginning of June, Cao Ren arrived at Jide County, the prefecture of Zhangye County, and officially pacified Zhangye County, and the second of the four Hexi counties had been pacified.

Immediately afterwards, Cao Ren began to plan to enter Jiuquan County for a strategy.

The situation in Jiuquan County is no different from that in Zhangye County and Wuwei County, that is, the farther the distance, the more Qianghu people, etc., and there are many miscellaneous Hus who can’t distinguish their ethnicity living here, which seems to be a good scene.

But in the eyes of the ruler of the Great Unity, this is really not a good scene. Someone Guo has made up his mind to turn this place into an outpost for marching into the Western Regions. A large group of people occupy this place and refuse to obey orders. How can they be an outpost? ?

So of course they have to be wiped out.

The situation in Jiuquan County was the same. Before Zhao Chong sent troops, he had contacted powerful figures in Jiuquan County, hoping to get help, but before Jiuquan County could respond, Zhangye County was captured by Wei Jun.

In fact, such a large county would not be taken so quickly, but because of the small population and too few settlements, it was taken very quickly.

According to a little statistics, the entire Wuwei County has a population of just over 6, and going forward, the entire Zhangye County also has a population of over 6.

After the capture of the two large counties, they had a total population of more than 12, which was not enough to cover the total number of Wei troops marching, let alone deal with a single county.

Wei Jun dispatched 15 people for this battle, and winning the battle was not easy.

So in this way, Wei Jun's victory is not a problem at all, and the end of everything is only a matter of time.

The tyrants in Jiuquan County regard the arrival of the Wei army as the end of the day. Some tried to resist and some tried to surrender, but they were all for their own interests. No one was willing to accept the extremely harsh conditions of the Wei army, so the only thing waiting for them was war.

Wei Jun also completely saw through the sternness of this group of people, rushed forward without hesitation, and wiped out Wubao one by one.

The Qiang and Hu cavalry living near here also tried to attack the Wei army, but every attack would attract crazy revenge from the Wei army.

Wei Jun's crazy revenge reminded many Qiang and Hu people of Duan Ying, one of the Liangzhou Sanmings, who was the hero who pacified Liangzhou in the Han Dynasty.

This man's methods in the Han-Qiang war were extremely brutal, and the Qiang and Hu people feared him like a tiger.

While Cao Ren was stationed in Liangzhou, he learned a lot about Duan Ying's stories, and he admired Duan Ying's way of dealing with the Qiang rebellion in Liangzhou. Even good words are hard to understand, only swords and guns can make them obedient.

So Cao Ren didn't worry about this kind of thing at all. Why should he be afraid of the army?

Directly push all the way to wipe out the troubles of the Qiang Hu and the local Han tyrants together, simply and completely.

Obviously, Cao Ren's strategy is effective.

After destroying these unstable factors, the remaining honest local households will be very easy to manage, and the grassroots officials who came with the army can manage them well without much effort.

Since both Wuwei County and Zhangye County can calm down and establish their basic order in a short period of time, Cao Ren has nothing to worry about, and he plans to do the same with Jiuquan County and Dunhuang County.

The army scattered out to attack the county seat, and after the attack on the county seat, scattered out around the county seat to wipe out the powerful Wubao Manor, killed the powerful, seized the population, and completely controlled the entire area.

A set of procedures is as fierce as a tiger. Cao Xiu and Zhang Fei were sent out by Cao Ren with cavalry to sweep up the miscellaneous beards. They spoke completely with the army and force, and they did not engage in softness or accept surrender.

With a population of less than [-], it can't even match the number of Wei Jun's troops. What's there to talk about?

Under such circumstances, the powerful resistance forces in Jiuquan County were completely wiped out by the Wei army.

No matter who the local tyrants are, as long as they are tyrants, as long as they have certain influence and will affect the governance of the Wei Empire here, they will be completely wiped out. Anyway, the scholars in the Central Plains will not pay attention to this place.

Just learn from Gongsun Du who killed Liaodong tycoons.

After the capture of Jiuquan County, Cao Ren counted the population, and got more than 4 people, and the number of households was less than [-]. This number was much smaller than that of Wuwei County and Zhangye County.

"The farther you go west, the smaller the population. With such a population, it is difficult to carry out effective farming. If you want to open up the Western Regions and maintain the army, you must farm. Farming requires people. It is estimated that immigration to the four counties in Hexi must be done. thing."