After the collapse of the central court of the Han Dynasty, Liangzhou did not even have nominal jurisdiction, and Liangzhou completely let itself go.

It was not until Guo Peng re-established the central Han Dynasty and nominally established his rule over Liangzhou, but Guo Peng only captured four counties, and the four counties of Hexi had not yet really been governed.

These four counties have begun to let themselves go since the establishment of the Wei State, anyway, whoever has the biggest fist has a loud voice, the real law of the jungle.

From the county order to the county guard, everyone can fight for it, as long as the fist is big, there are several who claim to be the assassin of Liangzhou.

A county has several county orders, fighting with each other, and a county has several county guards, also fighting with each other, from top to bottom, all day long, fighting for power and profit, competing for the few pitiful resources.

There is no unified leader in the four counties of Hexi who can command them all.

The most powerful is in Zhangye County, but it only occupies a few counties, barely having influence on Zhangye County, and the other three counties are miniature versions of warlord secession.

The Han warlords, the Qiang warlords, and the Zahu forces, the forces of all parties are intertwined, and no one can help anyone, and they fought very happily in the years when the Wei army did not intervene.

Guo Peng blockaded the four counties of Hexi in a certain sense, and did not let anyone get their hands on his chassis.

He was only allowed to put in a certain number of caravans to trade in a few designated locations in Hanyang County, and there were troops around him, and no one was allowed to enter the unauthorized area, so the four counties of Hexi knew very little about the Wei State.

The news of the full-scale march was naturally blocked, so when Cao Xiu and Zhang Fei's army began to wreak havoc in Wuwei County, the warlords of Wuwei woke up like a dream.

But at this time, can they still unite against the Wei army?

Impossible.

Zhang Fei and Cao Xiu are both fighting generals who like to fight, relying on superior forces and superior equipment, they can sweep almost all resistance they encounter.

The steps are still the same old steps, first capture the county seat, and then take the county seat as the core, go out on all sides to attack Haoqiang Manor, demolish the dock fort, kill Haoqiang, seize the population, and restore order.

The actions of the Wei army have their own set of rules and regulations, and they also have their own tactics, and they are simply flat against the armies of those big and small powerful forces.

The armies of those big and small powerful forces cannot be said not to be fierce, on the contrary, they are quite fierce, the kind that will get angry if they don't kill people, and lick blood from the knife to get by.

But no matter how fierce the rabble is, it is also a rabble.

There is no unified order to advance and retreat, there is no unified and mature military formation and tactics, and there is a strong sense of individualism and advocating individual bravery.

The equipment is uneven, there are elites wearing well-dressed armor and steel knives, and there are also cannon fodder with wooden sticks, foxes and fake tigers.

Their tactics are simple.

The cannon fodder is in front, the elites are behind, and after the war, the cannon fodder comes forward to fight, and then the elites charge into battle under the leadership of the main general, and the opponent's elite will fight to the death.

The elite have lost, and the cannon fodder will not keep up, and they will definitely turn around and run.

He is not very active in fighting, and his legs and feet are full of kung fu when he runs.

That's about how it works.

Some of them have deep pockets and cavalry, and they are like tigers in battle.

Cannon fodder fights, elites duel, cavalry duel with mounted archery, or charge each other with steel swords, and fight for several rounds until the winner is decided.

It is an indisputable fact that the people of Liangzhou are fierce and have strong individual combat effectiveness.

But no matter how strong a single soldier is, it is a dead end when he encounters a military formation.

So they died.

Cao Xiu and Zhang Fei marched all the way, sweeping all the big and small forces in Wuwei County all the way, without any taboos at all, without any worries, and those who disobeyed would be killed anyway.

The order given by Guo Peng is also very simple, called "Dangping".

What Dangping meant, the generals of the Wei Empire's army all understood.

That's literal flattening.

Destroy all the dock forts, kill all the heroes, seize all the population, and lay the foundation for the construction and development of Liangzhou in the Wei Empire.

So everywhere Cao Xiu and Zhang Fei went, Haoqiang, regardless of Han, Qiang, or Zahu, swept away one after another, destroyed Wubao, seized the population, killed Haoqiang, and established a new order belonging to Wei.

The mighty Wei Empire began to extend its dominion to the four counties of Hexi.

These miniature versions of the warlords of the troubled times are not without their efforts to resist.

They resisted hard, relying on their own dock forts to resist, and even joined forces to form a dock fort community in an attempt to contain the Wei army's attack in this way.

The cavalry of the Wei army was a fierce cavalry they had never seen, and under the leadership of Zhang Fei and Cao Xiu, they each broke through countless powerful men who fought them head-on.

As a result, the remaining separatist warlords did not dare to leave their respective dock forts, and chose not to go out, but to defend their respective dock forts, and faced the cavalry of the Wei army with a defensive posture, refusing to fight.

They felt that this would contain the cavalry of the Wei army.

Indeed, in the face of such a situation, the cavalry of the Wei army did not have a very good way, but who told them that the Wei army was only strong in cavalry?

The Northwest Corps did achieve full cavalry mobility, but before they became cavalry, they were quite good and fierce infantry troops.

As a vanguard, they did not carry heavy weapons, but the main force led by Cao Ren carried heavy weapons, and the main force led by Cao Ren was also very good at attacking this kind of dock fort.

The soldiers got off their horses, assembled the trebuchet, and then faced the not too tall dock fort, and at the sound of an order, the boulders flew wildly, the fire was everywhere, and a large number of dock forts were shattered and torn apart under the long-range attack of the Wei army, and the dock fort defense was over.

On May 13 of the third year of Yande, the main force of the Wei army advanced to the county of Wuwei County to govern Guzang County, at that time, Cao Xiu had already led troops to surround Guzang County, and carried out the tactics of encircling and sending reinforcements for a while, that is, there were not many heavy weapons, and it was difficult to conquer Guzang County.

So simply surround and wait for work.

After Cao Ren's main force arrived, the operation was as fierce as a tiger, but in a day and a half, the county town of Guzang was broken under the onslaught of the Wei army.

Cao Ren then ordered the army to scatter out and sweep away the dense Haoqiang Forts, sweeping them one by one and erasing them one by one.

I have to say that in the long-term state of uncontrol, the Haoqiangwu Fort on the boundary of the four counties of Hexi is really special.

And not only the Han people are strong and have dock forts, but even some Qiang tribes have learned from the Han people to build dock forts together.

The reason is that the killing and attacking of each other between places are too frequent, and if you don't build a dock fort to protect yourself, it is difficult to say that you will be robbed and taken away in a wave one night.

The Han people will use the dock fort to protect themselves, and then go to attack other forces that do not have the protection of the dock fort, and if they can fight, they will be in waves, and if they can't fight, they will be pushed back to defend the city, and the Qiang people will suffer a great loss.

After suffering many losses from the Han people, whether it was the Qiang people, the remaining Huns, or other miscellaneous Huns, as long as they were on the scale, they all learned to build dock forts to protect themselves, enclose the land to defend themselves, and then go out to attack other enemies.

Battles between cavalry have decreased a lot, and infantry offensive and defensive battles have become the mainstream.

Under the premise of the manor economy, everyone has achieved a certain sense of self-sufficiency, and the stragglers have gradually lost the basis for survival, and they really can't live without a dock fort.

So much so that now the four counties of Hexi are full of dock forts.

Leaving the county seat and walking around, you can see dock forts and simple walls connected together, and even small villages and towns, the kind with earthen walls outside, and the separation between them is quite serious.

This is unforgivable for Wei Jun.

The Wei Empire refused to secede, and the Wei Empire chose to reunify.

The secession of the four counties in Hexi was broken by the Wei army that intervened from outside.