Zhao Yun ambushed the Roman army and destroyed their stronghold.

At this time, it was impossible for the Roman army to send a large army over.

Small groups are still easy to get through, but large groups are too risky and can be wiped out in the desert.

After five days, the enemy did not appear again, Zhao Yun and the others collected all the water, then brought enough grain and grass, and burned all the remaining grain.

This fire, which has been burning for a long time, has been poured with white wine and burned clean.

Zhao Yun and the others left, and the team they left before had already destroyed a stronghold.

The number of people in these bases is not large, and the number of people is only about a few hundred at most.

Because Ma Teng has specially cleared the cities, villages and villages in the desert are under his control, so there are no robbers, so these strongholds are very safe.

In order to reduce the burden on the base, they naturally wanted to reduce the number of people.

The other team arranged by Zhao Yun had 2,000 people, and under the sneak attack, it was naturally easy to destroy the stronghold.

The team then continued to walk back, destroying a place to rehydrate.

In that place, only two days away from the last place of supply, there were more than a dozen people in charge of the water source.

For the water source Zhao Yun, they will not destroy, the water source in the desert is too difficult.

All they can do is try to cover up the source of the water.

Destroying all the surrounding man-made buildings, after the change of wind and sand, may cover the previous tracks, and the enemy may not be able to find it without a detailed map, or it will also waste a lot of time to find.

In fact, there are still some towns in the desert, but the conditions are very difficult.

If Zhang Yu knew, he would only keep a few towns as transit points, and the rest would have to be moved, the ecology of the desert was too fragile.

Zhang Yu has long planned to protect the northwest, and when he controls the whole of China, the ecology of the northwest will inevitably be protected by him.

Zhao Yun went back, and on the way, they destroyed another stronghold.

In this way, in the middle of the desert, there was no stronghold to replenish for more than 20 days.

There is a blank period of more than 20 days, and if you accidentally get lost.

Then it would be a devastating blow to the army.

At least after making sure that they couldn't come over in the short term, Zhao Yun and the others went back.

During the period of time when Zhao Yun left, Zhang Yu's actions did not stop.

After repeated attacks, their army was now familiar with the Romans and was not afraid.

They are still devils, but they are devils who can be killed.

The devil is not very powerful, and gradually the soldiers are no longer afraid.

After they are no longer afraid, their combat power against them will naturally increase, and some soldiers will try their best to summarize their experience and find out more loopholes for the enemy.

During this time, Ma Teng was very sad.

Ma Chao's army made no progress, they were firmly targeted.

And Zhang Yu had a large army, sending more than 100,000 troops to attack and harass everywhere.

Some came from the steppes to attack.

Attacking from all sides, Ma Teng and they could only hold on to the city.

Ma Teng's activities are becoming more and more difficult, and Ma Chao thinks that he has dragged Zhang Yu and their main force, but in fact it is not.

Zhang Yu's army was very large, dragging Ma Chao's army, and then moving around.

Ma Teng and their army did not have that much, and they could not control too many places.

Just control a few large cities, and the others can't do anything.

Ma Chao fought in front, while Ma Teng stabilized in the rear.

However, the rear is not very stable nowadays.

On the surface, the wind and waves are calm, and Zhang Yu's army will not harass these places.

But in some townships, Ma Teng they are completely out of control.

In this way, Marten's rule will slowly spiral out of control.

Ma Teng was very anxious, and he often visited those families to try to stabilize them.

And these families are very stable, no one has made small moves, Ma Teng needs to cooperate, and they are also very cooperative.

"I hope Zhang Yu's promise is valid."

"After Zhang Yu takes Liangzhou, he will not embarrass our family, nor will he confiscate our property, but in the future, he can only be a businessman, and he cannot own a large amount of land, nor can he have arms."

"It's better than cleaning it out, this Ma Teng is hopeless."

"How can a marginal state confront Zhang Yu, who has all over the world."

"Alas, I don't know when Ma Teng will come to his senses."

Zhang Yu has already sent people to secretly only get rid of these families, these people go to the west all the year round, after Zhang Yu takes Liangzhou, he has to rely on them to continue to open the Silk Road, so Zhang Yu will let them go.

To take the Silk Road, capital is needed, and if Zhang Yu confiscates their property, they will not be able to go, so Zhang Yu let them go.

However, it is not permissible to have a large amount of land, to have a large number of armed forces.

Zhang Yu will naturally protect their safety and does not need them to have armed forces.

Zhang Yu's actions, Ma Teng didn't know.

All the big families and big businessmen were dormant, and at this time, they didn't dare to offend Zhang Yu or leak the news.

Ma Teng urgently needs to appease them now, and these merchants, although they cooperate, but also make trouble, often run to Ma Teng to complain.

It's not normal if they don't complain, and they want Ma Teng to open the road to the west, otherwise their goods will continue to be backlogged.

Ma Teng spent a lot of energy just to pacify these people.

He needs to rely on these people, and if Zhang Yu fights, he also needs these people to help defend.

However, Ma Teng didn't know that these people had long since separated from him.

A few days later, Zhang Yu and Ma Chao fought twice.

At this time, there were still 150,000 soldiers and horses under Ma Chao's control, but they were already replenished by the army.

After a long period of fierce battles, Ma Chao's troops were also consumed.

Ma Chao is willing to slowly consume with Zhang Yu here, also in order to block Zhang Yu's army, so that the Roman army in the west can come over.

It's just that what Ma Chao doesn't know is that they can't get over.

Zhao Yun had already burned three strongholds, and the Roman army would never dare to come over.

They would also send small teams to reconnoitre, and when the time came, they found that many strongholds had been burned and were difficult to overcome.

Zhang Yu finally received their message from Zhao Yun.

"Great, the annihilation of the 10,000 Roman army, plus the burning of the stronghold, can already carry out a general attack on the Maten father and son." Zhang Yu said.

Zhang Yu has been preparing for a long time, as long as he can break their morale, and then he will attack.

"Spread the word to me, and let those families do the same."

Zhang Yu ordered the news to be disseminated, which was a sign that he was about to start working.

As long as they shake their morale, as long as they do not see hope, the Romans cannot come to their aid, of course they have no hope.

Once everything is ready, just let the news continue to spread, and it won't be long before they will naturally disintegrate.

"My lord, we have gathered hundreds of thousands of troops, and this Roman army is no longer a cause for concern, and it is completely possible to start a war of extermination." Guo Jia asserted.

(End of chapter)