However, if the big battle is not fought, the small war still cannot be stopped, for example, although Ma Teng said that he was the assassin of Liangzhou, he did not recover an inch of land in Liangzhou, and Ma Teng had already told Lu Bu to recover Liangzhou.

Finally, when the reorganization of the new army was over, Lu Bu also agreed to Ma Teng's request to recover Liangzhou, and formed a new organization separately, at the corps level.

The Liangzhou Expeditionary Force was established, with Zhang Liao as the commander and Ma Teng as the deputy commander, and three divisions were transferred to form the Expeditionary Force.

They are Zhang Liao's Second Division of the Central Army, Ma Teng's Third Central Army Cavalry Division, and Hou Cheng's Second Central Army Cavalry Division, in addition to an additional engineer regiment and Wang Quan's special operations brigade.

Because Lu Bu took into account that the terrain of the Liangzhou region is relatively complex, and the customs and customs are also relatively special.

In addition, the General Staff Headquarters also dispatched operational staff officers Fa Zheng to assist Zhang Liao and Ma Teng in commanding the operation, and Li Su's intelligence department was responsible for intelligence support work.

At that time, there were three routes to enter Liangzhou, one was to take the old road of Wudu County, go through the pass, and enter Wudu County.

The second is to enter Hanyang County from Long County, and the third is to enter Anding County from Qi County.

Because Ma Teng was a native of Liangzhou, when formulating the marching route, Zhang Liao and Fa Zheng fully listened to Ma Teng's opinions.

Fa Zheng became famous in the first war, and during this expedition to Liangzhou, Lu Bu sent him to be an operational staff officer, but only because he was too young did not appoint him as the chief of staff of the expeditionary force.

However, Zhang Liao and Ma Teng did not dare to underestimate him, in the battle of Huaili, Fa Zheng's wisdom has been widely known, and he has also solved the siege of Ma Teng.

Ma Teng thought twice and thought that it was necessary to divide the troops into two routes, and march from Hanyang and Wudu at the same time.

Mudu is mountainous and suitable for infantry operations, and Hanyang is mostly flat and suitable for cavalry.

The south of Wudu borders Hanzhong, Guanghan and other counties in Yizhou, and now Zhang Lu in Hanzhong is showing goodwill to Chang'an, and there are many contradictions with Liu Yan in Yizhou, and Lu Bu also appointed Zhang Lu as the assassin of Yizhou.

So don't worry about the hostility between Hanzhong and Guanghan, the two of them are fighting tightly.

Zhang Liao and Fa Zheng also felt that what Ma Teng said was reasonable, and they could indeed march in two ways.

According to Li Su's intelligence, after Han Sui fled back to Liangzhou, because he could not get the support of the local Hao clan and Qiang people, he did not stay in Hanyang, Longxi and other places, but fled back to Wuwei early.

The Liangzhou region looks like a dumbbell-shaped area from the map, with a vast area at the east and west ends, and a thin Hexi corridor in the middle.

Although Liangzhou has a vast area, many areas are the Gobi Desert, and the truly suitable cities for human habitation are also distributed along the post road.

Moreover, some counties, such as Beidi County, Zhangye Subject State, and Juyan Subject State, are basically in name only, with few populations, and are all no-man's land such as the Gobi and desert.

Liangzhou was originally the least populated of the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty, and after the Liangzhou Rebellion, the population is now smaller, so it has led to the rebels, mainly Qiang, Di and other ethnic minorities.

Han Sui now controls the four counties of Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, and Dunhuang, but it is also due to the long distance and inconvenient transportation, in fact, these four counties are sparsely populated, and Han Sui does not have many troops under him.

In the end, it was agreed that Zhang Liao led the 2nd Division to Wudu County, and Ma Teng's 3rd Cavalry Division and Hou Cheng's 2nd Cavalry Division entered Hanyang County from Longxian.

Ma Teng's route is the one he is most familiar with, and many officials and wealthy families in Hanyang County are also mostly Ma Teng's old acquaintances, and Ma Teng believes that he can easily get Hanyang County.

Although Zhang Liao is the chief general of the expeditionary force, he still respects Ma Teng very much, he asked Fa Zheng to follow Ma Teng on this march, and the engineer regiment and special operations brigade followed Zhang Liao to advance.

The expeditionary force prepared for a month before leaving Chang'an, and Lü Bu, Jia Xu and others also went to see them off in person, and Lü Bu also awarded Zhang Liao a military flag of the Liangzhou Expeditionary Force to show his attention.

Lu Bu told Zhang Liao, Ma Teng, Fa Zheng, and Hou Cheng to be cautious, and not to underestimate the enemy, because the people of Liangzhou are complicated, and the ethnic relations are serious, so they can't despise him because of Han Sui's defeat.

Lü Bu also said that Chang'an would prepare for Ma Teng, and the officials who took over in the follow-up and the recovered counties would restore normal production and life order as soon as possible, and supplement and improve local government agencies.

Lu Bu also exhorted them to improve their relations with the local wealthy and ethnic minorities, and not to blindly use violent means to suppress them when they encounter problems.

It is still necessary to let them see the advanced farming technology and lifestyle of the Han people, and see the wealth and prosperity of the Han people, so that they can be convinced from the bottom of their hearts.

After sending Zhang Liao and Ma Teng's expeditionary force away, Jia Xu told Lu Bu that there was an envoy from Zhang Yan of the Black Mountain Army who asked to see him, and he had been waiting for many days.

Of course, Lu Bu knew what was going on with the envoy of the Black Mountain Army? It's not because Zhang Yan formed an alliance with Gongsun Zan in Youzhou and repeatedly went against Yuan Shao in Jizhou, Yuan Shao joined hands with Cao Cao to teach Zhang Yan a hard lesson, and beat away many cottages of the Montenegrin army.

So Yuan Shao and Zhang Yan can also be regarded as a deep hatred, the latest time, Yuan Shao originally wanted to go south and rob Qingzhou and Yanzhou of food.

Cao Cao's power grew stronger day by day, and his original alliance with Yuan Shao had long since died in name.

As a result, Yuan Shao left Yecheng on the front foot, and his subordinates launched a rebellion on the back foot, occupied Yecheng, and attracted the Montenegrin army.

The news reached Yuan Shaojun, because the families of his subordinates were all in Yecheng, so people were panicked, lest the Montenegrin Army do something to their families.

Only Yuan Shao can still maintain his composure, his demeanor has not changed, and he can still be regarded as a hero.

Fortunately for Yuan Shao, there was a traitor in the Black Mountain Army, this person was named Tao Sheng, he had long wanted to take refuge in Yuan Shao, he ordered people to protect Yuan Shao and other Yuan Shao's subordinates, and secretly sent them to Qiuqiu.

When Yuan Shao heard this, he immediately marched into the army to reprimand Qiu, and he rewarded Tao Sheng heavily.

Next was Yuan Shao's Xingjun attack, retaliating, attacking Lugut Mountain, and then all the way to the north, destroying Liu Shi, Zuo Xiao, Guo Daxian and many other Black Mountain Army or the remnants of the Yellow Turban.

Everywhere he passed, he didn't leave a single inch of grass, and he slaughtered villages and villages at every turn, beheading tens of thousands.

This time, the envoy of the Montenegrin army came to Chang'an for Yuan Shao's matter, and Lu Bu did not hold a grudge against Zhang Yan because he had set a trap to ambush him and almost succeeded.

He admires Zhang Yan's courage and resourcefulness, and he has survived in the cracks of the princes so far, and countless bandits, grass bandits, and the Yellow Turban Rebels in Taihang Mountain have named Zhang Yan as the big leader, which seems to be really outstanding.

Therefore, he thought it was a good thing for Zhang Yan to send an envoy, and he welcomed it, and Lu Bu personally met with the envoy of the Black Mountain Army, Yang Feng, in the General's Mansion.

Yang Feng was originally an important leader of the Baibo Yellow Turban Army, but later the Baibo Yellow Turban Army was suppressed by Lu Bu and Cao Cao and others, and finally fell apart.

Therefore, this time the major event that decided the future and fate of the Montenegrin Army, Zhang Yan still entrusted Yang Feng to handle it, and others really couldn't do it, and they didn't feel at ease.

(End of chapter)