In the end, Ma Dai unexpectedly also gave up the city of Caohan, reached an agreement with the leader of the Qiang tribe, and took the initiative to exchange Caohan County for Xiangwu County, a county closest to Wudu County and Hanyang County, and successfully moved the people in the city to the county seat of Xiangwu County.

It is precisely because Xiangwu County is very close to Hanyang County that when Ma Dai develops here, there is less threat from the Qiang people. Although Ma Teng has some prestige among the Qiang people, he is still inferior to Han Sui in this regard.

Although Ma Dai only had one county in Longxi County, he relied on the geographical advantages of Xiangwu County to quickly gain a firm foothold, and gradually encroached on several surrounding counties and took them back.

The so-called morality naturally does not compare with interests.

Ma Dai, who is only eighteen years old this year, can gain a foothold in Longxi County alone, and it is no wonder that he will be valued by Han Sui and others. Of course, it is just important, in more than ten counties of Longxi County, Ma Dai spent more than a year, relying on Ma Teng's help, to win the land of four counties. But in front of Jin Jue, this achievement will be bleak.

Although the princes of Liangzhou still don't know how Jin Jue's progress is in Yizhou, they already know that not only most of Wudu County, but even Hanzhong County has completely fallen into Jin Jue's hands, and even Jin Jue has successfully entered Bashu last year.

What Jin Jue didn't know was that if they didn't march into Bashu, but sent troops to Guanzhong Sanfu Land or Liangzhou, even Han Sui would have to consider whether they should send troops to stab their capricious brother in the back.

Han Sui himself is actually this character, but most people in the world are generally only allowed to set fires by state officials and not allow people to light lamps, and no one wants to have such a person by their side.

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Let's go back to Jin Jue's army outside Chengdu.

Jin Jue's subordinates who adjusted overnight.

In addition to Cheng Lian leading half of the Yellow Turban elite soldiers to the south, Jin Jue divided the 60,000 soldiers in his hands into four parts, and 15,000 soldiers were placed on each side of Chengdu City. However, among them, in the east and north of the city, 15,000 soldiers are composed of 10,000 Shu soldiers and 5,000 soldiers from Hanzhong County.

In the south of the city where Cheng Lian is located, the same is true of the composition of its soldiers.

In other words, the remaining 15,000 soldiers of Hanzhong County were all placed in the north of the city.

There are two reasons why Jin Jue arranged it this way.

First, let the soldiers in the north of the city be stronger, after all, Jin Jue's army has now become a state of lack of available generals.

Jin Jue and Wei Yan's best of the guards, Wei Ming, Zhao Hu, and Zhang Long, had all been sent to Runan County, while Ma Han was replaced by the dynasty because of his injuries, and stayed in Xindu County, generally recuperating from his wounds while training soldiers.

Second, the north of the city is related to the safety of Jin Jue's military grain route, so he has to be cautious.

Therefore, Jin Jue had to stop the task of besieging the east of the city by himself, and the task of besieging the west of the city was handed over to Fa Zheng and Meng Da, and the task of besieging the north of the city was handed over to the previous personal guards, and now Sima Zhong, another department, ranked fifth in the implementation of the plan to scatter beans into troops.

The first place is Wei Ming, and the second to fourth places are Zhang Long, Zhao Hu and Ma Han. Now, the four of them have gone, and Wu Ming has naturally become the first.

Wu Ming, as his name suggests, before, he had always been unknown among the guards around Jin Jue, and his martial arts abilities and so on were all very mediocre, to put it bluntly, he was a little transparent.

But who knows, as soon as Jin Jue let him out, he was out of control. This Wu Ming is quite down-to-earth, and he is born with an affinity, and when the people see him, they will trust him more than when they see other guards under Jin Jue.

This is Wu Mingsheng's talent, in fact, his talent has already appeared. Among the hundred Xuzhou guards around Jin Jue, Wu Ming has always been the most popular one, and even the dynasty can't compare to him.

Because the Jin Jue army camp in the north of Chengdu City has been completed, the defense task of the northern city is the lightest. However, just in case, Jin Jue still transferred a scholar from Sanfu who took the initiative to join Jin Jue as Wu Ming's helper, this person is Yan Gan, compared to his good brother Li Yi, Yan Gan has a pure temperament, good fencing, and is more suitable for military counselors.

Before leaving, Jin Jue also repeatedly instructed Wu Ming that when he encountered something, he must discuss it with Yan Gan, of course, it was Wu Ming himself who made the final decision.

To the west of Chengdu City, all the counties of Shu County, including Hanjia County in the subject state of Shu County, have all been controlled by Jin Jue. Taking Hanjia County can block the reinforcements that may come from other counties of Shu County, so it is said that the western part of Chengdu City is second only to the north of the city in terms of military pressure in the four directions.

Meng Da's personality is also capricious, but at this stage, he has completely broken with Liu Zhang, has developed well in Jin Jue's army, and with the help of his good friend Fa Zheng, there is no problem in holding the west of the city.

Of course, 15,000 soldiers alone were not enough to stop the hundreds of thousands of Dongzhou soldiers and Shu soldiers in Chengdu, so in each direction, Jin Jue also assigned twenty other commanders and their recruited recruits to each of the four commanders. When these individual subordinates were carrying out the plan of sprinkling beans into soldiers, the one with the least number of recruits recruited was 3,000 people, and the recruits were all young and strong.

Thus, the total number of soldiers in each direction combined exceeded 80,000.

It's no wonder that when the sun rose above the city of Chengdu, Zhang Ren was also taken aback when he saw such a battle.

At this time, some people suggested that they should immediately lead their troops out of the city while the army besieging the city on all sides was not firmly established.

It is naturally inappropriate to attack from all sides, but if Zhang Ren only chooses one side to concentrate his forces to attack, it is very likely that he will break Jin Jue's encirclement in one battle, which will greatly reduce the morale of the other three Jin Jue troops.

Zhang Ren also understood in his heart that the words of the person who made this suggestion were right, but whether to send troops out of the city to fight was no longer up to him, a general with a guilty body, who could call the shots.

This time, when Zhang Ren took over the task of defending Chengdu City, Liu Zhang always emphasized that whether to go out of the city to fight, he must consult him, the lord, before making a decision.

Sure enough, after Zhang Ren sent someone to inform Liu Zhang of the situation, two hours later, the envoy came back, brought Liu Zhang's message, and rejected Zhang Ren's proposal.

Liu Zhang naturally knew that this was a very good opportunity to break the deadlock.

However, there was one thing that made Liu Zhang very worried-when Zhang Ren led his troops to the expedition, which direction was the most appropriate to choose.