On the way back, Han Sui kept thinking about what Ma Teng had said to him before he died.

Open the door of your own house and invite the robbers in?

If the gate of his house is the Longdi defense line, then Cao Ren and other Wei troops are robbers?

Is such a metaphor really appropriate?

But thinking about it carefully, Han Sui felt that it was really like that.

Longdi was an important line of defense to resist the attack of the Guanzhong army, and he directly let go of the defense line, allowing Cao Ren to enter Liangzhou without much effort.

It's easy to let him in, he just comes in smoothly, let him go, it doesn't seem that simple.

Can the two counties of Northland and Wudu satisfy Cao Ren's appetite? Will Cao Ren make more and more excessive demands?

Han Sui began to worry.

But......

Can I live without inviting the robbers in?

Ma Shoucheng, what is the difference between you and the robbers? Is there another way for me to go?

If you want to be rich, don't I want to live?

Is there any better option for me?

Han Sui was desolate in his heart, thinking that he had been fighting for half his life, but he never got what he wanted, and he had to compromise again and again for this, and he lost a lot of things, and he couldn't help but feel sad about it.

But at least, at least the position of Liangzhou Thorn Shi is getting.

Cao Ren personally admitted it, saying that he would definitely be allowed by Guo Peng.

Even if he becomes Guo Peng's subordinate, even if there is no de facto independence, as long as he can do the history of Liangzhou Thorn, isn't it also a kind of luck?

At least it is a justifiable history of a state assassin, and it is a justifiable history of assassination appointed by the Han Emperor!

That's enough.

Han Sui comforted himself like this, and then went all the way south, taking Ma Teng's head to Xiangwu County.

When entering the territory of Xiangwu County, you need to cross a valley road to see Xiangwu County, Han Sui took his own soldiers through the valley path and rushed to the position of Liangzhou Assassin of his dreams.

But I don't know why, Han Sui always felt a little uncomfortable.

Killed Ma Teng, destroyed his worst enemy, and saved his life and future.

It should be a very beautiful situation, but why don't you feel the slightest joy, but your heart is full of worry?

Riding on the horse, Han Sui thought about it left and right, and couldn't figure out why he was unhappy.

Why?

Han Sui couldn't figure it out, but it didn't matter, the crossbow arrows that came from somewhere helped him figure it out.

More than a dozen pro-soldiers, including Han Sui himself, were shot into a sieve by the dense crossbow arrows that came from nowhere, fell to the ground and convulsed, their strength passed quickly, and their consciousness passed quickly.

At the last moment of his life, Han Sui finally figured out why he was so worried in his heart.

The vigilance of wandering on the verge of betrayal for a long time......

Wonderful sixth sense......

Unfortunately, it was too late.

Han Sui never expected Cao Ren to be so despicable and so eager to kill him.

Han Sui, along with his own war horse, was shot into a sieve with dozens of arrows in his body, and died in this nameless place without making any sound.

Cao Ren soon learned the news that Han Sui had been killed, and that Han Sui was carrying Ma Teng's head in his hand.

He went to see Han Sui's corpse and Ma Teng's head in person, and after seeing it, a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

"Miaocai, Yun Chang, this time, we have made a great contribution."

Cao Ren said this to Xiahou Yuan and Guan Yu.

Xiahou Yuan and Guan Yu both laughed, thinking that this time they would be able to completely pacify Liangzhou.

Ma Teng is dead, Han Sui is dead, Ma Chao is dead, Pang De is dead, Yan Xing is dead, and Cheng Gongying is also dead.

They are all finished, the leaders on the bright side of Liangzhou are all finished, no one survives, and the Wei army killed them all very shamelessly.

Guo Peng didn't believe in these people, he didn't believe it at all, he wanted to destroy them all at the beginning of the fight, and he had no idea of compromising with them to share the benefits together.

These people's families are also influential in Liangzhou, so they will all be labeled as anti-thieves and wiped out together, and no one will survive.

More than 10,000 and nearly 20,000 captives have been arranged by Cao Ren to be escorted to Hanzhong and handed over to Zhang He to be responsible for arranging the maintenance of the Qinling Shu Road, and everyone will contribute their lives in the Qinling Mountains in the future.

For the rest, there will be nothing.

After the war, the local people suffered heavy losses, and Liangzhou did not have too many people, and it was very miserable by the repeated wars, which was a big problem.

But that's for later, and there are other questions at the moment.

It is true that most of the Han heroes and a small number of servants who rebelled in Liangzhou have been swept away, but Liangzhou seems to have been pacified, but in fact this is not the case.

Xiahou Yuan and Guan Yu didn't know much about Liangzhou, but Cao Ren had an in-depth understanding of the situation in Liangzhou and the history of Liangzhou in the past under Guo Peng's instructions.

He knew very well that it would be very difficult for his 30,000 people to pacify the entire Liangzhou.

Counting the 20,000 reinforcements brought by Cao Xiu, it is estimated that it is a bit reluctant.

In the future, it is not clear that Guo Peng will need to send reinforcements to continue to support the war.

Because the most troublesome thing in Liangzhou is not the powerful forces of Ma Teng and Han Sui, the farther west, the fewer Han people, and the more Xiqiang and Zahu people, they are the biggest problem in Liangzhou.

Since Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty crusaded against the Qiang people, the war between the Xiqiang and the Han government has not subsided, and it is difficult to completely quell the Qiang rebellion whether it is a means of restraint or military conquest.

Zhao Chongguo, a famous general of the Western Han Dynasty, once made great contributions to the pacification of the Qiang Rebellion, but that was only a phase.

Han government officials and generals lacked understanding of the Xiqiang and other Zahu tribes and took them too lightly, which made the Han government repeatedly lose ground on the issue of the Qiang rebellion.

Thinking of the imprisonment, there are often corrupt officials and corrupt officials who oppress others, and the national policy has always been unstable, and the public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable, and finally the Qiang people lose all their trust in the Han Central Committee.

Thinking that they have killed all of them, some people say that this is not humane enough, that it is unknown what kills too much to the country, and that killing and killing is detrimental to the national dignity and so on.

The ambiguous policy eventually drained everyone's patience and directly triggered the century-long Han-Qiang War in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, a war that dragged down the Eastern Han government.

The Eastern Han government invested more than 30 billion yuan in military spending for the Han-Qiang War, but it only suppressed the outbreak of the Qiang Rebellion in stages.

After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the central Han Dynasty declined and collapsed, and Liangzhou fell into a situation of warlord autonomy.

It's okay to be in the east, but the further west you go, the more chaotic it becomes.

In the past ten years when the central government has not governed the entire Liangzhou, Liangzhou has basically become a hodgepodge of nationalities, the original grassroots rule has completely become chaotic and ineffective, and local autonomy has become a fact.

With this in mind, Guo Peng proposed a plan to seize the five eastern counties first, and then advance westward after the five eastern counties established and perfected their rule.

This is not a matter of overnight, it can be achieved overnight, not to mention whether the army can support it, grain and grass is also a problem, Guo Peng's hoarding of grain and grass in Guanzhong is not enough to support Cao Ren to fight all the way to Dunhuang.

And it was not completely without enemies along the way.

The main Han heroic armed forces represented by Ma Teng and Han Sui were swept away, the Qiang tribesmen's armed forces were still there, and the Zahu were still there, and it was not easy to continue the attack.

Guo Peng doesn't plan to play Huairou, what he wants is the entire Liangzhou, that is, the complete Hexi Corridor.

In the future, he also wanted to restore the Han Dynasty's Chinese rule over the Western Regions and reopen the Silk Road, so the five eastern counties of Liangzhou were the logistics base for this plan.

Tuntian is bound to be carried out, and Longyou Ma Zheng must be put on the agenda, and this newly acquired land must be built into an advance base with abundant grain and grass.

And for those Qiang people and Hu people of other tribes, Guo Peng did not spare them when he swept away Ma Teng, Han Sui and other Han people, and killed a lot of Qiang Hu, so naturally he would not be trusted.

Ma Teng, Han Sui and many other Han people have the same attitude towards the Qiang people, that is, to win over, as a rebel force that also opposes the Han central government, they are in a similar situation to the Qiang people, and they can naturally unite.

Guo Peng is different, Guo Peng represents the central government.

The road to the west will inevitably be met with strong resistance from these Qianghu tribes.

If you want to take Liangzhou completely, there are still a lot of things to do, and there are still some tough battles to be fought.

What the two Hans did not complete, Guo had to take over and complete it completely.

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