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

Although it was a hodgepodge, he had never seen so many troops, so he felt full of confidence.

At this moment, he suddenly learned that the Wei army had advanced to Rile County and was marching towards Cutan County.

Zhao Chong and Haoqiang were shocked, and immediately discussed countermeasures, and the countermeasures they got were to immediately go south to seize Cutan County, defend the city, and block the advance of the Wei army.

"The Wei people are a bunch of liars! If they ask for something here, they will send troops to attack, and I don't think they ever thought of making peace! It's just a trick, it's stalling for time! Damn it! Damn it! ”

Now, Zhao Chong finally saw through the wolf ambition of the Wei people, so he was furious and immediately sent troops south to Jiedan County, preparing to defend the city and block the road of the Wei army.

Hurrying and hurrying, they finally arrived in Koudan County before the Wei army, and began to arrange the city defenses, and before they were fully ready, the murderous Wei army had already arrived.

This group of people then saw the murderous Wei soldiers coming from afar, the momentum was terrifying, the murderous aura was strong, and the number of people was so large that all the heroes in the city felt fear.

The difference in power between the powerful and the true empire is clear at a glance.

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

"The number of Wei people is too much, right?"

"Can this city really hold on?"

"What if I can't hold it?"

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

"Don't say it, what is the intention of saying such words that shake the morale of the army when the war is about to go? Is there any point in talking about these things now? With this kung fu, it is better to think about how to retreat from the enemy! ”

Zhao Chong roared angrily, which can be regarded as stopping everyone's criticism.

However, such a real objective situation will not be transferred at will with people's subjective consciousness, and the same thing that should happen will happen, and no one can stop it.

When the Wei army introduced the terrifying existence of trebuchets, there was no need to say more.

Boulders flew in the air, flames burst out on all sides, a huge thunder-like sound exploded near the army in the city, the terrifying deterrent 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 for the Wei army that rushed to the city wall several times, but in the end he could not save the defeat.

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

The situation completely collapsed, and the Zhangye coalition army failed to hold out to the end, but in just over a day, it was completely defeated by the Wei army.

The Wei army completely surrounded the county town of Quedan, and none of the powerful forces resisting in the city escaped, all of them were killed, and the rest of the people all 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, and the Wei army fought steadily, advancing step by step, sweeping away Haoqiangwu Fort one by one, destroying all the walls, seizing all the population, and moving forward.

At the beginning of June, Cao Ren arrived in Zhangye County and officially pacified Zhangye County, and the four counties of Hexi had already been pacified.

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

The situation in Jiuquan County is no different from that of Zhangye County and Wuwei County, that is, the farther away it is, the more Qianghu people wait, and there are many miscellaneous Hu people who cannot distinguish their ethnicity living here, which is like a good scenery.

But in the eyes of the ruler of the Great Unification, this is really not a good scenery, Guo has made up his mind to turn this place into an outpost for entering the Western Regions, and a large group of people occupy this place and do not obey orders, how to do an outpost?

So, of course, it must all be wiped out.

The situation in Jiuquan County is also such a situation, Zhao Chong had contacted powerful people in Jiuquan County before sending troops, hoping to get help, but before Jiuquan County responded, Zhangye County was captured by the Wei army.

In fact, a county that was so large would not have been captured so quickly, but because the population was too small and the settlements were too few, it was captured very quickly.

A little bit of statistics, the entire Wuwei County only has a population of more than 60,000, and further forward, the entire Zhangye County also has a population of more than 60,000.

After the two large counties were captured, they only gained a total population of more than 120,000, which together could not reach the total number of Wei troops on the march, let alone deal with one county alone.

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

So in this way, the victory of the Wei army was no problem at all, and the end of everything was only a matter of time.

The powerful people of Jiuquan County regarded the arrival of the Wei army as the arrival of the end of the world, some tried to resist, some tried to surrender, but it was all to protect their own interests, no one was willing to accept the extremely harsh conditions of the Wei army, so the only thing that awaited them was war.

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

The Qianghu cavalry living in the vicinity also tried to attack the Wei army, but each attack would attract the Wei army's crazy retaliation.

The Wei army's crazy revenge reminded many Qianghu people of Duan Ying, one of the three masters of Liangzhou, who pacified Liangzhou in the former Han Dynasty.

This duke's methods in the Han-Qiang War were extremely brutal, and the Qiang-Hu people were afraid of him like tigers.

And Cao Ren learned a lot of Duan Ying's stories during his garrison in Liangzhou, and praised Duan Ying's methods of dealing with the Qiang chaos in Liangzhou, thinking that such people were "afraid of power but not virtue", Huairou's methods were meaningless, and they couldn't understand good words, only knives and guns could make them obedient.

So Cao Ren didn't care about this kind of thing at all, why was the army afraid of it?

Directly push all the way to wipe out the Qianghu plague and the scourge of the local Han people's heroism together, simply and completely.

Clearly, Cao Ren's strategy worked.

After destroying these unstable factors, the remaining honest local households will be very easy to govern, and the grassroots officials who come with the army will not have much trouble managing them.

Since Wuwei County and Zhangye County can be pacified and establish their basic order in a short period of time, then Cao Ren has nothing to worry about, and he plans to deal with Jiuquan County and Dunhuang County in the same way.

The army scattered out to attack the county seat, and after attacking the county seat, they scattered out with the county seat as the center to sweep away the Haoqiangwu Fort Manor, kill Haoqiang, 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 also sent out by Cao Ren to sweep away the miscellaneous beards with cavalry, completely speaking with the army and force, not engaging in tenderness, and not accepting surrender.

The population of less than 100,000 is not even comparable to the number of Wei troops, what is there to talk about?

The strong resistance of Jiuquan County was completely wiped out by the Wei army under such circumstances.

No matter who the local Haoqiang is, as long as it is Haoqiang, as long as there is a certain amount of power, it will affect the governance of the Wei Empire here, then it will be completely wiped out, and the scholars in the Central Plains will not pay attention to it anyway.

It's good to learn from Gongsun Du to kill Liaodong Haoqiang.

After conquering Jiuquan County, Cao Ren counted the population and got more than 40,000 people, and the number of households was not more than 10,000, which was much less than that of Wuwei County and Zhangye County.

"The further west, the smaller the population, with such a number of people, it is difficult to carry out effective tuntian, if you want to open up the Western Regions, maintain the army, you must tuntian, tuntian needs population, it is expected that immigration to the four counties of Hexi is a must be done."

When Zhao Yan accompanied Cao Ren to go out to inspect Jiuquan and experience the scenery of the northwest by the way, he put forward such an opinion to Cao Ren.