Sam Wolf Qiang was subdued, and Xue Rengui immediately moved them to Wudu County. Pang Ji also began to get busy, and Li Hongzhang and others also helped settle the Qiang people.

General Xue Rengui only left 3,000 Qiang cavalry, because there was no cavalry in his army at all, and he needed some Qiang cavalry as scouts. Although Xue Rengui also looked down on these Qiang people a little, because they had no military discipline at all. But Xue Rengui still treats them equally, there are prosecutors in the army, and the others are not responsible, but he prevents such things as empty salaries and abuse of soldiers.

This kind of thing was too common in ancient times, and Zhang Yi must put an end to it. He definitely gave a lot of salaries and rewards to the generals, but if they still found a way to embezzle, Zhang Yi would definitely not be merciful. It is precisely because of these prosecutors that Zhang Yi can ensure the elite and morale of the soldiers, and can win more with less.

With the help of Li Hongzhang and others, Pang Ji settled the Qiang people within a month, assigned county orders, and rectified the rule of officials. The laws formulated by Zhang Yi are no joke, and all those who enter the Academy of Arts and Sciences are told on the first day that they must abide by the law.

The responsibility of the party responsible for the pacification of the Taishou may be reduced as appropriate, but it will never be exempted. The death penalty can be commuted to life imprisonment, and it will never become ten or twenty years. Only if there is meritorious service or good performance in prison in the future can the sentence be commuted, this is what Zhang Yi learned from the modern prison system, everything must be based on the law.

After rectifying the corrupt officials and corrupt officials, the Qiang people also felt that they had come to clean up the officials. So he settled down and cooperated very much with the various calls of the government.

Just when Xue Rengui pacified Wudu, Cao Cao and Ma Chao also started a big battle.

Cao Cao sent troops to cross the river from the north of Weishui to the south of Weishui, threatening the place where Ma Chao camped. Ma Chao and Han Sui had no choice but to retreat to Weikou to prevent Cao Cao's army from continuing to cross Weishui.

Cao Cao was not a fuel-efficient lamp, he set up suspicious soldiers many times, used boats to secretly cross the Weishui, made pontoon bridges, and gained a firm foothold in the south of the Wei River.

Ma Chao and Han Sui led the coalition forces to attack, but were defeated by Cao Cao's ambush. Ma Chao and others were stationed in Weinan and wrote a letter to Cao Cao, wanting to cut off the area west of the river and talk to Cao Cao. But what Cao Cao wanted was not just Hexi, but Guanzhong and Xiliang.

Ma Chao and Han Sui continued to attack Cao Cao's camp, and Cao Cao did not have many men and horses crossing the south bank of Weishui. At this time, it will definitely be a loss to start a war with Ma Chao.

At this time, Lou Gui made a note, "Prime Minister, now that the weather is cold, we can take water and pour it into an ice wall to block the Xiliang soldiers." ”

Cao Cao thought this attention was good, so he asked the soldiers to do the same.

Lou Gui is a native of Nanyang, and at the beginning he was attached to Liu Biao, and later to Cao Cao. He and Cao Cao are old friends, and they have known each other since their early years. He was usually inconspicuous under Cao Cao, but at this time he came up with a good idea.

However, the method of pouring ice to cast the city is still good, and a city wall can be poured out in a few days under the freezing weather. Of course, it is impossible to pour out a city overnight as written in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms". Even if six or seven feet of ice wall were to be poured out, it would take several days, and if a city was to be poured out, it would not be possible in three or five months.

But even a few days ago surprised Ma Chao and others. With a wall, their cavalry could not rush behind the wall. Cao Bing's crossbow fired continuously behind the ice wall, repelling two attacks. Ma Chao and the others stopped attacking when they saw that the attack was completely a loss of troops.

Ma Chao and Han Sui kept sending people over to challenge, wanting Cao Bing to get out of the ice wall and fight them fairly. But Cao Cao just didn't send troops, but kept accumulating strength.

Cao Cao is not in a hurry, but Ma Chao and Han Sui are in a hurry, they have been stationed here for several months, and the food and grass are a little short. The soldiers in the camp were impetuous, and the generals no longer had illusions about defeating Cao Cao.

Contradictions broke out among the coalition forces, and many people wanted to make peace with Cao Cao. Ma Chao couldn't stand alone, so he had to agree. Han Sui sent someone to ask Cao Cao for peace, and was willing to send hostages to Cao Cao.

Cao Cao sneered after seeing the letter, of course he wouldn't believe that these people were sincere. They also had hostages in Xuchang before, but they still said the opposite.

At this time, Jia Xu proposed: "There is discord within the Xiliang Army, and the lord and Han Sui have old friends, so they can use this to drive a wedge between him and Ma Chao." Ma Chao is brave and unscrupulous, and he will inevitably fall into the scheme. ”

After Cao Cao heard this, he immediately nodded his head before replying to the book and saying that he agreed to the peace talks.

Ma Chao didn't want to negotiate peace with Cao Cao, after all, this was his father-killing enemy. Ma Chao wanted to arrest Cao Cao during the peace talks. So he placed six rice sacs in front of the horse to measure Cao Cao's weight, and then rode the horse back and forth. However, before it was implemented, I heard Han Sui say that Cao Cao had a fierce general Xu Chu by his side, so he gave up this idea.

Cao Cao and Han Sui had a very happy conversation in front of the two armies, after all, the two were old friends and could talk a lot.

After the conversation, Cao Cao wrote a letter to Han Sui, but there were many scribbles in the letter. Ma Chao really hit the plan, and he and Han Sui became suspicious of each other.

Cao Cao took the opportunity to launch an attack and fought with the Western Liang soldiers in the area of Weinan. The Xiliang soldiers were defeated, and Cheng Yi, Li Kan and others were killed. Ma Chao and Han Sui retreated to Liangzhou, intending to make a comeback.

Although Cao Cao won a big victory, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians were killed and wounded, which made Cao Cao regret it a little. Wei Kai once dissuaded Ma Chao when he was forced to oppose Ma Chao, but he did not listen. Thinking about it now, even if he knew the result, Cao Cao would still have done so. Although the casualties were large, it was the most important thing to suppress Zhang Yi.

Cao Cao immediately sent troops to pursue, during which Ma Chao and Han Sui once again sent people to ask for peace, demanding that the land west of the river be cut. Cao Cao still did not agree and continued the pursuit.

Ma Chao retired to Shangti, and the Ren Yang of Hanyang County greeted Ma Chao.

Cao Cao pursued to Anding County, and received the news that Zhang Yi had taken Wudu County, and stabilized the Qiang people in Wudu, and they might go north at any time.

Ma Chao also heard that the soldiers and horses had appeared, so he sent people to Wudu County, wanting to ally with Zhang Yi against Cao Cao.

Xue Rengui was not sure about this matter, so he asked Li Hongzhang. Li Hongzhang knew that his lord's biggest enemy was Cao Cao, so he said to Xue Rengui: "You can agree to Ma Chao's alliance, but you must also be careful of his capriciousness." Then he told him that we were going to send troops to Hanyang and Longxi, and in exchange, we could provide him with 100,000 stone of grain and grass. ”