Zhao Chong counted the number of soldiers who could send troops in Wulan County, and obtained more than 15,000 Han soldiers and Qiang and Hu soldiers, which was a hodgepodge army.

Although he had never seen so many troops, he felt full of confidence.

At this moment, he suddenly learned that the Wei army had advanced to Rile County and was advancing to Didan County.

Zhao Chong and the powerful men were shocked and immediately discussed countermeasures. The countermeasures they got were to immediately go south to seize Doudan County, defend the city, and block the Wei army's advance.

"The Wei people are all a group of liars! They will send troops to attack here and there. I think they have never thought about having a peace talk! They are just tricks, they are delaying time! Damn it! Damn it!"

At this point, Zhao Chong finally saw through the Wei people's ambitions, so he was furious and immediately sent troops south to Didan County, preparing to defend the city and block the road of the Wei army.

Hurry up and rushed, they finally arrived in Diodan County before the Wei army and began to arrange city defenses. Before they were fully prepared, the murderous Wei army had already arrived.

The group of people then saw the black and murderous Wei soldiers coming from afar. The momentum was terrifying, the murderous aura was strong, and the number of people was numerous, which made the powerful people in the city feel scared.

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

Many powerful men looked at Zhao Chong, whose faces were slightly pale.

"There are too many people in Wei?"

"Can this city really be kept?"

"What if I can't hold on?"

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

"Don't say anything. What's the point of saying such words that shake the morale of the army when the war is coming? At the moment of the war, is there any meaning to say these things now? With this skill, it's better to think about how to retreat to the enemy!"

Zhao Chong roared angrily, which was considered to stop everyone's criticism.

However, such a real objective situation will not be randomly transferred with people's subjective consciousness. What should happen will happen and no one can stop it.

When the Wei army launched a terrifying existence like a catapult, there was no need to say anything more.

The huge rocks were flying in the air, and the flames exploded on all sides. A huge thunder-like sound exploded near the army in the city. The terrifying deterrence lasted for a day and a night. The next morning, the Wei army launched a general attack, and at noon that day, the city was broken.

Zhao Chong boosted morale several times and personally led people to fight against the Wei army who rushed up the city wall several times, but in the end he could not save the failure.

All the elite soldiers around him were killed in battle, and he was also trapped in a siege and was killed by Wei soldiers.

The situation completely collapsed, and the Zhangye coalition forces failed to persevere until the end. In just over a day, they were completely defeated by the Wei army.

The Wei army completely surrounded the city of Doudan County. None of the powerful forces resisting in the city escaped and were all killed. All the remaining people surrendered and were captured by the Wei army.

After this battle, there was no force in Zhangye County that could still resist the Wei army. The Wei army took steady steps and advanced step by step, sweeping out the powerful forts one by one, destroying all the walls, seizing all the population, and moving forward.

In early June, Cao Ren arrived at Weide County, the capital of Zhangye County, and officially pacified Zhangye County. The four Hexi counties had pacified two of them.

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

The situation in Jiuquan County is no different from that in Zhangye County and Wuwei County. The further the distance, the more Qiang and Hu people, and there are many mixed Hu people who cannot distinguish between ethnic groups living here, which is like a beautiful scenery.

But in the eyes of the rulers of the Great Unified, this is really not a good sight. Mr. Guo made up his mind to turn this place into an outpost to march into the Western Regions. A large group of people occupy this place and refuse to obey the orders. How can they make an outpost?

So of course, it will be eliminated.

The situation in Jiuquan County is just like that. Before Zhao Chong sent troops, he had contacted powerful figures in Jiuquan County, hoping to get help, but before Jiuquan County responded, Zhangye County was captured by the Wei army.

In fact, a county that was originally a big one would not have been seized so quickly, but because of the small population and too few settlements, it would have been seized very quickly.

After a little statistics, the entire Wuwei County only has a population of more than 60,000. Going forward, the entire Zhangye County also has a population of more than 60,000.

After the two major counties were captured, they only obtained a total of more than 120,000 people, which together could not reach the total number of Wei marches, let alone dealing with one county alone.

The Wei army dispatched 150,000 people to this battle, and it was not too easy to win the battle.

So in this way, the victory of the Wei army is fine at all, and the end of everything is just a matter of time.

The powerful men in Jiuquan County regarded the arrival of the Wei army as the arrival of the doomsday. Some tried to resist, while others tried to surrender, but they were all for the purpose of protecting their own interests. No one was willing to accept the extremely harsh conditions of the Wei army, so only war was waiting for them.

The Wei army also completely saw through the severity of these people, rushed forward without hesitation, and flattened the forts one by one.

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

The crazy revenge of the Wei army reminded many Qiang and Hu people of the Qiang and Hu people of the former Han Dynasty, Duan Ying, one of the three Mings of Liangzhou.

This man's methods in the Han and Qiang War were extremely cruel, and the Qiang and Hu people were afraid of it like tigers.

During his stay in Liangzhou, Cao Ren learned a lot of Duan Ying's stories and praised Duan Ying's method of dealing with the Qiang Rebellion in Liangzhou. He believed that such people "afraid of power but did not have virtue" and had soft methods. They were meaningless, and they could not understand good words. Only swords and guns could make them obedient.

So Cao Ren didn't care about such a thing at all. Why did the army be afraid of it?

We will push the Qiang and Hu disasters and the local Han tyrants to eliminate the disasters of the Qiang and Hu people, and simply completely.

Obviously, Cao Ren's strategy is effective.

After destroying these unstable factors, the remaining honest local households will be very easy to manage. The grassroots officials who come with the army will not have to spend much effort to manage them.

Since Wuwei County and Zhangye County can pacify and establish its basic order in a short period of time, Cao Ren has no worries, and he plans to do the same for dealing with Jiuquan County and Dunhuang County.

The army scattered out to capture the county town. After conquering the county town, they scattered out in all directions with the county town as the center to wipe out the fort manors, kill the powerful men, seize the population, and completely control the entire area.

A set of processes is as smooth as a tiger. Cao Xiu and Zhang Fei were sent out by Cao Ren to take cavalry to sweep the miscellaneous people, talking completely with the army and force, not being gentle or accepting surrender.

The population of less than 100,000 is not even as large as the number of Wei army troops. What is there to talk about?

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

No matter who the local tyrant is, as long as it is a powerful person and has a certain force, it will affect the governance of the Wei Empire here, and it will be completely wiped out. Anyway, scholars in the Central Plains will not pay attention to it.

Just learn from Gongsun Du to kill the powerful people in Liaodong.

After conquering Jiuquan County, Cao Ren counted the population and obtained more than 40,000 people, with only 10,000 households, which was much smaller than that of Wuwei County and Zhangye County.

"The more we go west, the fewer the population. With such a population, it is difficult to effectively cultivate farming. If we want to open up the Western Regions and maintain the army, we must cultivate farming. Cultivation farming requires population. It is expected that immigration to the four counties in Hexi is a must."
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