At this point, the territory of the entire Three Kingdoms period exceeded 70% of the area, and all of it was in the hands of Zhao Mu alone.

Zhao Mu ate the huge territory in one fell swoop, and did not advance again, but once again chose to fight steadily, and used two years to expand the army of the five major states that he had occupied, and exterminate the small warlord forces that existed in the surrounding areas.

The Fifth Army, the Sixth Army, the Seventh Army, and the Eighth Army were newly established, and all the major corps of the Group Army were expanded to 30,000 troops.

So far, the First to Eighth Group Armies, with a total army of 250,000 troops, and an average second-rate combat power, are all in the hands of Zhao Mudian's direct Qingsong.

The 100,000 troops of the three armies of the Central Group were in the hands of his righteous brother Tai Shici, and the 70,000 people's troops of the Minwei Regiment were in the hands of Fang Yang.

The number of 50,000 Huwei regiments is in the hands of Songjiu Songwu.

One qiē, the general trend has been achieved!

In 198 AD, Zhao Muqin led 20,000 tigers and leopards to ride, and 50,000 tigers and leopards to enter Zhanglu, Liangzhou, who had been stubborn.

The fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth-four major group armies, followed by the army, with a total of 180,000 troops, overwhelmed Zhanglu in Hanzhong, Liangzhou.

The battle immediately began, this battle, Zhang Lu was not cast, under the bombardment of pig iron cannons, several large group armies turned over and grinded soldiers, the city wall was broken within two days, and on the third day, the army entered the city, but it was a mutation.

It was Zhang Lu who served Cao Cao at a critical moment.

The two armies of Zhao Mu and Cao Cao had an encounter in Hanzhong City, and the battle entered a white-hot battle for a while.

Cao Cao personally led 50,000 elite soldiers, plus 60,000 troops in Hanzhong, with 110,000 against 180,000, and fought a hellish war in the huge Hanzhong City.

Since the Fifth Army was formed not long ago, its combat strength was between the third rate. And in the streets and alleys of the city, the heavy cavalry and heavy artillery could not exert the power they should have, this battle was the heaviest loss in Zhao Mu's history.

The momentum of the march was stopped.

Every day, a large number of soldiers on both sides fell and perished, and every day new troops continued to invest in the rear.

The entire city of Hanzhong has become a huge meat grinder.

After two months of continuous fighting, more than half of Zhao Mu's major group armies suffered casualties, and if it weren't for the 50,000 elite Huwei regiments behind him, it is estimated that the morale of several major groups in this battle collapsed.

Equally. The opposite side is not good, Cao Lu's two armies are 110,000, and the number is less than 60,000, if it is not for Cao's army to transfer another 30,000 troops later, and come from Chang'an to support in time, the opposite side will also collapse.

In short, there is no one to win or lose in this battle, and both sides are big losers with heavy losses, but the same shape. The opponent also had to fight, and then retreated, and all the candidates were in danger.

In short, the most stubborn resistance. It's finally happening.

Zhao Mu's power was too big to fall, and all the candidates on the map stopped fighting each other, and Cao Cao and Zhang Lu fought fiercely in Hanzhong, and Zhang Ning at this time. It was also attacked by the combined army of Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan, so that it could not take care of itself and could not take the opportunity to attack Chang'an, which was already empty.

Received an emergency rescue from Helian Light Mist. Zhao Mu ordered a piece of paper, issued several orders, and ordered Tai Shici to lead the transfer of the second and third armies of the Central Committee with a total of 60,000 troops, and urgently went north to support the Yellow Turban Zhang Ning Division.

Suddenly, the relationship between Zhao Mu and Princess Zhang Ning finally surfaced.

Cao Cao, Zhang Lu, Yuan Shao, Gongsun Zan, Gongsun Yue, the five major candidates attacked Zhao Mu and Zhang Ningbu, fought for several decades, fell into the war millstone, and the two sides could not fight for a long time.

Finally, entering the Spring Festival in 200, Ma Teng, who had been entrenched in the extreme west, was moved by Cao Cao and others, and then 40,000 Ma Teng's army and 10,000 cavalry were about to rush to Hanzhong.

The balance of war is about to be broken by this variable Ma Teng army.

Zhao Mu was furious when he heard the news, and immediately decided not to be entangled in the war anymore, and led all the sergeants to withdraw from the smashed Hanzhong City.

Due to the pig iron cannons and terrifying heavy cavalry that shocked Zhao Mu, Cao Lu's two armies did not go deep into the suburbs to pursue in the plains.

However, they never imagined that Zhao Mu made a chilling order the day after he withdrew from Hanzhong City.

That is, Zhao Mu was angry, burned Hanzhong City, and thousands of cannons bombarded him, leaving no chickens and dogs.

On this day, it seemed that the heavens and the earth were also angry, angry at what Zhao Mu had done, and hundreds of pig iron cannons kept bombarding the defenders in Hanzhong City.

At the same time, a series of giant catapults were brought in from the rear and quickly assembled, and dozens of giant catapults were no longer huge boulders, but bags and bags full of mixed debris of fire oil, hay and stones.

When these flammable materials, along with dozens of giant catapults again and again, were thrown into the city without any scruples.

All of a sudden, the screams of the Cao and Lu armies in the city were endless, and hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in Hanzhong were also burned to the city.

A few days later, the Ma Teng army, which quickly came to their aid, was greeted only by the withdrawal of one after another of burnt and miserable civilians and Allied soldiers from Seoul.

Zhang Lu committed suicide in Hanzhong City because there were few soldiers left under him, and Hanzhong was destroyed again.

In this battle, Cao Lu was defeated.

Defeated by Zhao Mu's extremely ruthless and decisive hands.

At the same time, Zhao Mu was also indirectly defeated, and for a while, his reputation in the world was infamous.

However, for Zhao Mu, this qiē no longer matters, between life and death, the most people died, and it was far from the end of his defeat and being surrounded and annihilated by the combined attack of the six major candidates.

As for fame?

It doesn't matter, in the absence of absolute power, reputation is very important, because without reputation, you can't attract talent, and without talent, it's even more difficult to take charge of the army, and you can't recruit soldiers to join the army.

But now that the overall situation has been decided, no matter how much reputation there is, it is just icing on the cake for Zhao Mu, mastering hundreds of thousands of troops, good and bad reputation, that is, history has a winner to write, and the king is defeated, this is the cruel fact of Chiguo's reality.

Although he robbed Liu Bei of the opportunity, Zhao Mu and Liu Bei are two kinds of people, the former is a real villain, and the latter is a hypocrite.

The fire burned Hanzhong, and finally broke the reins that had been held for a long time, and Zhao Mu then led the reassigned first, second, and third armies through Hanzhong, and the troops pointed straight at Chang'an.

He also ordered the disabled Fifth to Eighth Armies to retreat to the rear.

At the same time, Zhao Mu encountered the same situation again, Cao Cao Ning destroyed Chang'an rather than give up the last piece of territory, gathered the last 30,000 remnants of the army, and defended Chang'an City with 50,000 Ma Teng's army. (To be continued.) )