The second major event was to conquer Han Sui and completely bring Liangzhou into his sphere of influence.

According to Cao Ju's scout report, since the last defeat, back in the three counties of Jiuquan, Han Sui sent people to increase the defense on the one hand, and on the other hand, began to recruit troops in the three counties, but all men over the age of thirteen were forcibly conscripted, so that Han Sui's strength more than doubled at once, and there were 500,000 troops.

As a result, two problems have arisen, the first is the issue of military rations.

Liangzhou was originally a place with short grain, and the three counties of Jiuquan were the closest places to Qianghu, and they were often harassed by Qianghu, so Han Sui was already stretched thin to feed the more than 200,000 troops, and if it doubled, the military food would not be enough at all.

Han Sui understood this question in his heart, but he understood even more that Cao Ju had now taken the four counties of Liangzhou, how could he let go of his three counties? There is also that Ma Chao, who has already surrendered to Cao Ju, and Ma Yunlu has become Cao Ju's woman, and Cao Ju will raise troops to attack him sooner or later.

If the military food is not enough, then use the people's food, so Han Sui ordered to buy the grain in the hands of the common people on a large scale.

Who would have thought that there were so many wealthy families, seeing the huge profits, and after learning the news, they took the first step to hoard grain, and then sold it to the military at a high price.

Of course, there was also collusion between people from the military, and as a result, Han Sui soon found out that the money he prepared only bought half of the food for the estimated target, and he was puzzled, so he sent someone to conduct a secret investigation.

Soon, the situation was clarified, which made Han Sui furious, and immediately ordered to uproot those wealthy families and kill them all over the house, leaving no men, women and children. Among them, several wealthy families who strongly supported Han Sui in the three counties of Jiuquan at the beginning, and all of them were poisoned by Han Sui.

As for the collaborator of the military, it was also found out that it was the brother-in-law of Han Sui's son-in-law Yan Xing.

Han Sui gave Yan Xing face, and did not kill his brother-in-law, but scolded thirty military sticks with a cane and expelled him from the barracks.

Moreover, Han Sui was suspicious, and he even suspected that behind this matter, there was the shadow of Yan Xing.

The news was brought back to Chang'an by Cao Jubu's secret agent in Jiuquan, Cao Ju was of course overjoyed, and immediately asked Xi Zhong and others for advice, and Xi Zhong presented Cao Ju with a counter-plan.

First of all, Cao Ju sent people to Jiuquan and bribed Yan Xing's brother-in-law with a lot of money, promising him a high-ranking official.

Then, Cao Ju asked Yan Xing's brother-in-law to secretly get a few pieces of evidence, and deliberately pretended to be accidentally known by Han Sui, all of which pointed to Yan Xing, which was related to raising the price of grain and making profits from it.

Sure enough, Han Sui's suspicions became heavier, and he was also quite dissatisfied with Yan Xing in his heart, after all, at this juncture, Yan Xing, as his son-in-law, should help him get through this difficulty, instead of falling into the well and filling his pockets.

Moreover, Han Sui secretly revealed this meaning to his daughter, that is, Yan Xing's wife, and wanted to remind Yan Xing in this way not to make such a mistake again, this time he would not hold Yan Xing responsible, but there could be no next time.

If Yan Xing really participated in this matter, Han Sui's goal would have been achieved, but Yan Xing did not participate at all, but Han Sui guessed it like this, but he couldn't take the initiative to distinguish for himself, so he could only suppress his belly.

The food problem has been solved for the time being, and then there is the problem of combat effectiveness, because the combat effectiveness of the recruits is very weak, especially the age of the newly recruited army of more than 200,000 people is basically 13 or 14 years old.

One side paid close attention to Cao Ju's movements, and Han Sui trained the 500,000 army at the same time.

After Cao Ju took Zhangye County, he suddenly retreated, which surprised Han Sui, who thought that Cao Ju would win and attack him and pacify Liangzhou in one fell swoop.

However, Han Sui knew that Cao Ju was cunning and did not dare to take it lightly, and was always ready for Cao Ju's attack.

However, soon, the news of Cao Ju's change came from Yongzhou, and it took half a year to get it, which made Han Sui even more confused, what Cao Ju was going to do.

However, Han Sui did not dare to relax his vigilance, and took advantage of Cao Ju's failure to send troops, and hurriedly trained his 500,000 troops, strengthened the city defenses, and built military facilities on the main roads that Cao Ju's army must pass through, so as to block the advance speed of Cao Ju's army and increase the casualties of Cao Ju's army.

However, the most worrying thing for Han Sui soon happened, that is, the problem of grain and grass was highlighted again, and Liangzhou was short of grain again, this time there was no surplus for the people's homes.

This is troublesome, Han Sui is the first time to make such a big worry, there is no food, which means that there are only two ways to go, the first is to disarm, according to the current grain and grass situation, at least 200,000 must be disarmed, and the second is to forcibly snatch away the rations of the people's homes, which is tantamount to drinking water to quench thirst.

As for the dealers in the field, there are still more than a month to harvest, so the most critical period for Han Sui is how to spend more than a month.

Han Sui had no strategists under him, and the most trusted person was his son-in-law Yan Xing, who was both civil and military, and was not comparable to Ma Chao in terms of wisdom and force.

However, since the last incident, Han Sui has slowly distanced himself from Yan Xing, including Han Sui's guards, and Han Sui has also been replaced by Yan Xing and replaced by the former deputy commander.

Of course, Yan Xing was angry in his heart, but he didn't say anything, so he endured it, because no matter what, Han Sui was kind to him, and he married his daughter to him, although there were some political factors in this.

Since that incident, Yan Xing has basically checked out in depth, either in his own mansion or in the military camp to train the army, if Han Sui does not order to summon him, he will never take the initiative to find Han Sui.

Han Sui was also a little angry, so he deliberately distanced himself from him, but whenever there was any military situation to discuss, he called several other generals over to discuss, but he didn't call him over.

The relationship between the two Weng and his son-in-law is a bit delicate, and they can see that the other generals are all nervous, and they faintly feel that at this juncture, such a situation is a curse or a blessing.

This relationship only lasted for about half a year, and it was broken by a piece of news, which was that Cao Ju's army had gone north and had reached the northwest of Zhangye County, at the junction with Jiuquan County.

It was so shocking, it was almost unaware, after Han Sui got this information, he was completely stunned, there was still more than a month before the dealer became, Cao Ju chose to send troops at this time, obviously taking advantage of his illness and asking for his life.

Han Sui didn't care about anything else, and immediately shouted: "Come on, quickly call Yan Xing and other generals to come here to discuss the military situation." ”