In his previous life, Cao Xing vaguely remembered a statistic, it is said that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was still there, the population had a full 50 million people, but in the later period of the Three Kingdoms, when the world was about to be unified, the population of the Three Kingdoms dropped sharply to the point of only 10 million people.

This shrinkage can be described as very staggering, in other words, to put it simply, because of the war, the population of the Three Kingdoms period was forced to decrease by a full 40 million, and Cao Xing's heart was a little shocking.

War is not only the business of the monarch, not only the affairs of the soldiers, but also the affairs of the people.

So on the day Cao Xing was crowned king, he already had an idea in his heart, Cao Xing wanted to end this troubled era as soon as possible and end the dispute between the Three Kingdoms that had lasted for more than 80 years in history. In this way, we can win the opportunity for more people to live.

Now in 199 AD, Yuan Shao, the greatest prince in the world, has been destroyed. And because of the arrival of Cao Xing, the trajectory of history has more or less accelerated a lot. So there are a lot of things that are going in the direction that Cao Xuan imagined.

For example, in the Central Plains today, the major princes are all ready to move, and it seems that Yuan Shao's demise has given them great vigilance, so they all began to use the power in their hands to fight for the greatest interests for themselves.

Originally, Cao Xuan was also ready to face Zhang Ren in an all-round way, although Yizhou has the reputation of the country of abundance, but the population is sparse, if Cao Xuan does not take this opportunity to destroy it quickly, I am afraid that when he grows up in the future, there will be endless troubles.

Cao Xing's Jinyiwei has infiltrated Shu, as Cao Xing expected, Shu's spy defense force is not very strong, in just one month, Jinyiwei has a clear understanding of Shu's bottom.

Although Cao Xuan didn't dare to say that he dared to send a large army, he would conquer such a large territory as Shu at one time. But if Cao Xing relies on advanced weapons and powerful soldiers to move forward little by little, this is still possible.

So Cao Xuan was ready to do this immediately, but just when Cao Xuan was about to make a move, a news came that he didn't expect it.

The Liang Kingdom and the Yong Kingdom, which were at war, were originally fighting in full swing, regardless of whether they were up or down, Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry was so strong, coupled with Han Sui's old scheming, the two countries actually fought a tie for a while.

But this is only temporary, just when Cao Xuan was preparing to use troops against Shu, a battle report suddenly came from the west, and Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry was about to collapse on the battlefield. At this moment, Ma Chao's army has begun to retreat in an all-round way, and Han Sui seized the opportunity to take advantage of the situation to advance, it is said that Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry died one-third, was captured one-third, and the remaining one-third all escaped.

This battle situation can be described as very tragic, and then Han Sui drove straight into the interior of Yongguo in one fell swoop, and Yongguo has already begun to face the danger of survival.

Qin State had already received Ma Teng's urgent request for help, and Cao Xuan couldn't do anything about it, after all, he was the one who instigated Ma Teng to deal with Han Sui, so Cao Xuan immediately asked Chen Hu to lead an army of 50,000 to Yongguo to help them garrison the city.

Chen Hu's arrival was also like a timely rain, which prevented the destruction of Yongguo in time, because Han Sui didn't know what method he used, and after defeating the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, he incorporated most of the soldiers inside, and the combat effectiveness of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was already strong. Coupled with Han Sui's command, it is invincible to conquer Yongguo.

Yongguo was directly defeated half of its territory, and at this moment, Fufeng County has become the front line of Yongguo.

Fortunately, Chen Hu came in time with a large army, so he prevented the end of Yongguo's destruction.

However, Chen Hu's dispatch of troops this time completely disrupted Cao Xing's plan, because most of the soldiers Chen Hu took away were some elite soldiers, resulting in Cao Xing's inability to conquer Shu in the south now, so Cao Xing was also very helpless in his heart.

However, what Cao Xing didn't understand was that although Han Sui was known as the Yellow River, Ma Chao and Ma Teng were not fools.

Both of them are warlords on one side, and logically speaking, everyone is on guard against each other, even if you are not pure-minded, but if you want to defeat the other party, I'm afraid it's not so easy.

But why Ma Teng was defeated by Han Sui so easily now, this is a bit unbelievable, it is because Ma Chao was too impulsive and commanded improperly on the battlefield, so it led to the rout of the whole army.

Cao Xuan raised this question in his heart, and soon, Jin Yiwei's Che Wu also handed over one piece of information after another to Cao Xing.

When he saw this information, Cao Xing's eyes immediately became solemn, according to the information on it, Ma Chao is familiar with military books, plus he is a fierce general, and every time he fights, he charges in person, so there is no problem with Ma Chao's command.

The reason why Han Sui was able to defeat Ma Chao was because he used a double strategy, first of all, to lure the enemy deeper. If you want to completely attract Ma Chao's army, you must have enough bait.

So Han Sui risked his life and came to the battlefield in person, showing it in front of Ma Chao like this, and seemed to release a message to Ma Chao again, he Han Sui is here, if Ma Chao really has the ability, he will come over to take him to the head, but there are more soldiers and horses around him.

If Ma Chao wants to defeat Han Sui, it is estimated that he will also need to send a large number of soldiers and horses.

When he learned the news, it is said that Ma Chao was also ecstatic and defeated Han Sui, this is Ma Chao's strategic purpose this time, and now such a good opportunity is in front of Ma Chao, how can Ma Chao not be moved.

However, although this thing looked very tempting, Ma Chao's subordinates, such as Pang De and others, were not by Ma Chao's side, and repeatedly told Ma Chao that this was likely to be Han Sui's lure of the enemy to go deeper.

And Ma Chao also thought of this, so even if Han Sui immediately revealed his flaws, Ma Chao's heart was not in a hurry. He first wanted to test whether this Han Sui had any backhand.

So at that time, Ma Chao was slowly advancing forward with his Xiliang Iron Cavalry every day, and Han Sui's army could be said to be crushed at the touch of a button, and was killed by Ma Chao batch after batch.

Over time, Ma Chao seemed to have defeated half of Han Sui's soldiers, and seeing this, Ma Chao gradually relaxed, this is not because Ma Sui is careless, but because Han Sui is retreating, and the men and horses under his hands have been killed and injured countless times.

So on a dark and windy night in the moon, Ma Chao quietly gathered his troops, and then prepared to launch a fierce attack on Han Sui.

Ma Chao directly took most of his soldiers, like a storm, and descended in front of Han Sui's camp, it is said that Han Sui's camp was already in a panic at that time, and Han Sui was also in the crowd, and there was some panic.

Ma Chao was overjoyed when he saw this, and directly entered the crowd, preparing to take down Han Sui's head, but what Ma Chao didn't find was that even in this situation, although Han Sui looked panicked, he didn't retreat, let alone run away.

Han Sui not only did not have any panic, but also tightly organized the troops and began to carry out a powerful counterattack, Ma Chao's attack was blocked for a while, but seeing that Han Sui was in front of him, and in general, his side still had an advantage, so Ma Chao did not retreat, but continued to launch a general attack.

However, what Ma Chao didn't expect was that the battle was just halfway through, and suddenly there were shouts of killing behind him, only to see that from behind him, bursts of people shouted horse neighing, and then, rows of cavalry showed Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and these cavalry behind them were all equipped with strong bows.

These archers will not rush up to fight with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, after all, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry are all cavalry trained by Ma Chao, and their combat effectiveness is quite superb, what they choose is to constantly pull the bow and arrow in their hands and shoot Ma Chao's army.

Although the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is indeed very strong in terms of hand-to-hand combat, it does not mean that he is invincible, and in the face of bows and arrows, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry really has a feeling of having nowhere to hide, but they are facing these cavalry archers, not only can they shoot arrows, but their feet are extremely fast, so these cavalry archers completely kill the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. The Xiliang Iron Cavalry couldn't make a good attack.

This change can be said to have made Ma Chao unexpected, Ma Chao couldn't have imagined that this Han Sui really dared to risk his life and use himself as bait to lure Ma Chao's army to come out, according to Ma Chao's previous understanding of Han Sui, Han Sui belongs to the kind of person who is very scheming, this kind of person usually has a significant characteristic, that is, he is particularly greedy for life and afraid of death, Han Sui now dares to take risks, which is really incredible.

And Han Sui's level of adventure has long been beyond Ma Chao's expectations. Han Sui's trick is too dangerous and dangerous, because Ma Chao is standing here now, he can see Han Sui in the middle command, and even only need to give Ma Chao another half an hour, Ma Chao believes that under his full force raid, he will definitely be able to take down Han Sui, in this case, Han Sui even dares to keep showing weakness, which is definitely not the courage that ordinary people can show.

There is even one point that makes Ma Chao even more puzzled, Ma Chao has already gained the absolute upper hand in the previous war with Han Sui, this Han Sui, why does he think that Ma Chao will definitely do his best to assault and fall into his trap, if Ma Chao will accept it when he sees it, then won't his plan be all over?

But in any case, maybe it was a coincidence, under the superposition of these various coincidences, Han Sui finally lured Ma Chao here and successfully completed his raid.

Ma Chao saw that his Xiliang Iron Cavalry was being attacked from front to back all the time, and he knew that if he didn't run, he might not have a chance, so he raised his arms and shouted, preparing to let his soldiers give up the pursuit of Han Sui and retreat from then on.

Therefore, Ma Chao was ready to retreat in time, but what Ma Chao didn't expect was that at this critical moment, Han Sui, who had always been cowering, burst out with amazing command, and he commanded the troops in an orderly manner, holding back Ma Chao's retreat.

And the archers behind seized this opportunity and started a fierce attack directly on Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry.

In this way, Han Sui used the unpredictable formation, coupled with the cooperation of the archers and cavalry behind, Ma Chao was beaten to the point that he had no power to fight back, and finally formed such an ending, Ma Chao's Xiliang Iron Cavalry was completely defeated.

And Han Sui so far, he also quickly gathered the remnants of the army, captured a large part of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and used various means to make these Xiliang Iron Cavalry loyal to him, and counterattacked Yongguo In this way, Yongguo completely fell by half.

When he first heard these news, Cao Xing's heart was full of surprise, he was surprised how this Han Sui could become so powerful, and how flexible he was in the use of tactics, no matter how he said it, he was also the level of a first-class general, not to mention Han Sui, he was able to calculate Ma Chao so deadly.

It is by no means possible for ordinary people to do it, and it seems that Cao Xing has to re-acquaint himself with this Jiuqu Yellow River.

Although Han Sui's sudden outburst caught Cao Xuan by surprise, in any case, Cao Xing's top priority now was not to discuss how to deal with Han Sui, but to deal with Zhang Ren in the south, and Zhang Ren seemed to have learned that Han Sui's side had already occupied a great advantage, so he couldn't control it so much, and directly launched an attack on Qin.

However, Zhang Ren also seemed to know that the gap between the national strength of Shu and Qin was too big, so even if he attacked, he would only launch some small-scale attacks, seize some county seats, and grab some grain, nothing more, although the movement was not big, but it caused some substantial damage to Cao Xing.

Harming oneself and making up for others is not Cao Xing's approach, so Cao Xing can only send troops and horses again to prevent Zhang Ren.

Although Cao Xing also took precautions in time, but this does seem to be a little embarrassing in the world, what are you kidding, Qin finally defeated Zhao and became the largest country in the north, but now it is so embarrassed by Shu, it is indeed a little funny.

If you say that it is humiliating, I am afraid that it is far more than just Qin, there is another big country in the north, that is, Wei, and Wei is now beaten a little miserably.

Cao Cao finally found a reason, saying that Liu Biao was born as a clan member of the Han family, plotting against him, and was disloyal and unrighteous before, he asked Liu Biao to write his own edict, which probably means to repent of his own mistakes, for Cao Cao's unreasonable request, Liu Biao naturally will not do it.

However, it was precisely because Liu Biao refused that this gave Cao Cao a good opportunity, and Cao Cao did not hesitate and immediately sent troops to attack Chu.

It's just that he just hit the border of Chu State, and he encountered a hard stubble, that hard stubble is more or less related to Zhao State, because that person is Liu Bei, after Liu Bei came to Chu State, the King of Chu left a message and directly assigned Liu Bei to let him be the Taishou of Xinye, and by the way, guard against Cao Cao in the north, but I didn't expect this. It really worked.