Li Shanchang married Han Sui's daughter, but it did not prevent him from doing things for Zhang Yi. During the Spring Festival, Li Shanchang spent time with Han Sui's family, and the next day, he appointed Han Sui's son as the county lieutenant and Yan Xing as the main secretary. Originally, Yan Xing was Han Sui's son-in-law in history, but now the woman who married Yan Xing was married to Li Shanchang by Han Sui.

Of course, Yan Xing didn't know about this, but he was grateful to Zhang Yi, so he happily accepted Li Shanchang's appointment and said that he would do his best to help Li Shanchang.

Although Jincheng County is in Han Sui's sphere of influence, Yan Xing has his own power, and he himself is a handsome man in Xiliang, so Han Sui wants to woo him and marry his daughter to him. He is different from Pound, Pound is Ma Chao's general, and Yan Xing can make his own decisions. Therefore, Li Shanchang can win over Yan Xing, and Xue Rengui and the others have only met Pang De, but they can't even say a few words.

Xue Rengui led his army north and set off from the warriors into Wuwei County. This time he brought six or seven generals, divided one to attack Zuli in the east, and a large army attacked Yuanwei, and then went north to join in Yuyin. Attack Pu Bi along the Great Wall to the west, Cangsong, Zhangye, Luanniao, and Zhuci, until Guzang.

Since the turmoil in Liangzhou, it has been controlled by warlords and marshals. However, during this time, the Qiang people spread Xue Rengui's deeds in Wudu to the entire Liangzhou, and the Qiang people heard that Xue Rengui's army was coming, so they were convinced.

The rest of the heroes gathered in Guzang, intending to have a decisive battle with Xue Rengui. They gathered tens of thousands of cavalry and charged Xue Rengui, but the rain of arrows shot by Xue Rengui's crossbowmen was drowned, and before they could rush to Xue Rengui's formation, they were scattered.

The heroes failed, and Xue Rengui recovered Guzang. Xue Rengui sent Wang Ping to the north to attack Xiu Tu, Xuanwei and Wuwei, and Xue Rengui waited for Zheng Hao to come over to take over the government affairs, and immediately went west. After Xianmei, he entered Zhangye County, attacked Lijing, Fanhe, and Rile, and went to Delete Dan and Yalan to attack Zhangye County. Divide one to attack the pool.

After Hu Zong took over the political affairs of Zhangye County, Xue Rengui continued to move westward, attacking Biaoshi, Lejuan, Anmi, and Lufu from Zhaowu, and attacking Huishui in one general. After waiting for Yan Pu to take over the political affairs, he continued to think west, attacking Yanshou, Yumen, Ganqi, Shatou, entering Dunhuang County, from Yuanquan and Ming'an, attacking Guangzhi, Xiaogu, Dunhuang, Longle, and finally to Yumen Pass.

In this battle, more than 18,000 people were killed, more than 36,000 horses, millions of cattle and sheep, and countless gold and silver treasures were obtained.

The northwest of Liangzhou is basically stable, although the subject state of Zhangye has not yet been requisitioned, but Xue Rengui's military rations are almost used, so he can only give up for the time being.

Now that it has come to early spring, Li Hongzhang began to prepare grain and grass for Ma Chao, and Xue Rengui could only stop.

Xue Rengui has no choice, he really wants to finish the whole battle, but Ma Chao's matter is related to the strategy of Guanzhong. Compared with the entire Guanzhong, the subject state of Zhangye is insignificant. After all, Zhangye's subject country is deep in the desert and it is difficult to supply, and the fertile soil in Guanzhong is thousands of miles, and Xue Rengui can still distinguish which is more important.

If it weren't for Li Shanchang to stabilize Han Sui, Xue Rengui would not have had a chance to attack these four counties. Jincheng County can be said to have contained the throat of these four counties, and if it is unstable, these four counties will be chaotic.

When Han Sui rebelled, Jiuquan Taishou rebelled directly, and the other three places also rebelled, not without reason.

Xue Rengui returned to Ji County, and Li Hongzhang immediately congratulated him. Although the credit for attacking Jingzhou and Yizhou is great, people will subconsciously feel that the credit for attacking Liangzhou is more, because of the distance.

Look at the greatest feats since the Han Dynasty, all of them are the Northern Expedition to the Xiongnu and the pacification of the Western Regions. Speaking of which, are they really more than the credit for fighting the world?

It's obviously impossible, but it's been written in the history books, and it's because Vega is far away, and it's self-esteem that is at work.

Those remote places, because they don't know about the Han family, they don't respect the Han Dynasty, and as a result, they are slapped in the face by the Han one by one, and this routine has been popular with people since ancient times.

It's like the idiom of Yelang's arrogance, Yelang is just a small country, and it's not worth mentioning to destroy him. But it was because King Yelang said that he had never heard of the Han family, so he became a laughing stock for the ages.

Besides, Zhang Qian, Chen Tang and others, Zhang Qian's pacification of the Western Regions relied on the Western Regions' own soldiers and horses, and Chen Tang fought only a small Xiongnu force, and his contribution was not great.

But when Zhang Qian left, he took more than 30 people and completed a big thing that tens of thousands of people did, this is Zhang Qian's ability.

Chen Tang also said afterwards: Those who clearly offend me as a strong man will be punished even if they are far away! It has become the backbone of the Han people.

Xue Rengui pacified the four counties of Liangzhou, and did not fight any big battles, almost crushing them all the way. But this trip was fruitful, and Li Hongzhang felt that Xue Rengui would definitely become a pillar general like He Di Qing and Fu Youde in the future.

Indeed, Zhang Yi learned that Xue Rengui had gained so much, and also promoted him to an official and promoted him to a captive general. And this officer is not because of how many enemies he killed, but because of the war horse.

With more than 30,000 horses, it can arm nearly 20,000 cavalry troops. You must know that Zhang Yi now has 20,000 cavalry, but there are less than 50,000 war horses, all of which were brought back from the north by Gan Ning's hard work.

The grain transported from Fangling was soon sent to Ji County through Hanzhong. Although the road from Xiangyang to Hanzhong has been repaired, it is still difficult to walk.

However, Zhang Yi handed over the task of transporting grain to Zhuge Liang, who was educated in the workshop and reminded by his wife that he had made a wooden ox and a horse in advance, saving a lot of capacity.

Many people say that the so-called wooden ox and flowing horse are wheelbarrows, but they are not. Wooden oxen and horses are two kinds of things, the way of transportation, and the principle of movement are different.

Zhang Yi went to see it in person out of curiosity, but he didn't know the principle, as if he saw a car engine.

The principle of movement of the wooden ox flowing horse is very unique, and it is difficult to build it without drawings and real objects. I have to say that Zhuge Liang is really a wise man through the ages, and it is not easy to create something that will stump future generations for thousands of years!

With wooden oxen and flowing horses, the problem of transportation capacity in the mountains has been solved, and the road consumption of grain is much less. From Jingyang Erdi, the past 5 million Hu grain and grass were transported, and more than 3 million Hu were left in Ji County, which greatly saved the problem of no grain in Liangzhou.

Zhuge Liang also sent a lot of seeds and farm tools to help the reclamation work in Hanyang and Longxi.

At the same time, Zhuge Liang also brought a reward for Xue Rengui and others, and brought Zhang Yi's words, so that they could endure for a while.