At the beginning of Liangzhou, there were so many handovers and affairs that it was outrageous, which really made Wang Xu painful and happy.

Ma Chao, Pang De, Ma Dai, Ma Tie, Ma Xiu, Ma Zun, Hu Zun, Cheng Gongying, Zhang Meng, Zhao Ang, Pang Rou, etc., almost in an instant, a large group of Ziwenchen generals came over, happy and happy, but it was very uncomfortable to wait for him to arrange, and I didn't know how to place it at all.

With the current situation in Liangzhou, it is best to change the blood of Liangzhou, tear down and rebuild the entire system, and complete the entire blood exchange with the help of the people who now benefit from tax exemption and the situation is the most stable.

Although it takes a long time, it can be done once and for all!

In addition, the army directly under the Liangzhou forces is easy to do, and can be reorganized and dismantled, and the independent armies of the Qiang and Hu tribes are in trouble, after the Ma family surrendered, they also surrendered nominally, but the army was brought back to the tribe by the leaders of the Zhiyuan Duo and other departments, although they expressed their submission and were willing to pay tribute, but this did not conform to the policy of the Chu State, and sooner or later it needed to be properly resolved.

On this day, Wang Xu was discussing the reorganization of the Liangzhou army with Guo Jia, Gao Shun and others, but suddenly received an urgent report from Zhou Zhi secretly sent back from Wuwei.

Wang Xu thought it was an ordinary report, but when he opened it, he was stunned in an instant.

Gao Shun saw that he hadn't reacted for a long time, and asked out loud: "Lord? Lord? ”

"Huh? Oh! Wang Xu came back to his senses.

"What's wrong with the lord? But has the situation changed? Gao Shun asked.

"It's not much that has changed, but Gao Shun, you have something to do!"

"My lord, but you can command!" Gao Shun frowned solemnly.

Wang Xu looked back at him and said resolutely: "You immediately lead 80,000 troops." Tong Wei Yan and Chen to the generals. Troops marched into the state. The sooner the better! ”

"Now to merge the state?" Guo Jia exclaimed. "Lord, Cao Cao is hoarding heavy troops on the border of Bingzhou, Liangzhou has been decided, is it a bit hasty to take the initiative to march now?"

"It's not that I want to fight, it's that I have to fight, and it's not that I want to enter the hinterland of Bingzhou, but to march into Shangjun and other areas west of the Yellow River."

Guo Jia and Gao Shun were confused and looked at each other. I don't understand how this could happen all of a sudden.

Guo Jia dissuaded: "My lord, the west of the Yellow River is the barrier of Cao Wei, and it is heavily guarded, how can we succeed in marching in our current situation?" Moreover, we did not have a unified deployment, we dispatched troops in a hurry, and all our actions were under the careful observation of Cao's army, and all the armies and departments had already been shown to the public, and they were bound to be defeated! ”

"I understand this!"

Wang Xu nodded, but then shook his head and said, "But it is precisely because Cao Wei is guarding against the Chu State." Therefore, it does not have many troops in the northern frontier of Bingzhou! ”

"Fight from the north? But even if the north is empty, wait for our army to pass. Cao Wei must have done the same good scheduling! ”

"The problem is that we don't have to fight!"

Wang Xu smiled and continued: "Jia Kui will lead more than 40,000 warriors in three days to attack the Hexi region of Bingzhou from the northern grassland. Gao Shun only needed to bite Cao Wei's main force and expose it to the enemy on the back of the abdomen, so that Jia Kui and them could quickly attack him, and finally force him to retreat to the east of the Yellow River. ”

"Hiss......" Guo Jia and Gao Shun gasped in unison.

Guo Jia asked in disbelief: "Where did General Zhou get so many soldiers and horses?" ”

Wang Xu spread his hands and signaled that he couldn't say clearly!

But no matter what, Guo Jia and Gao Shun no longer have any doubts.

Such a great opportunity must not be missed, when the Chu State began its westward expedition, Cao Wei had to gather troops in the western part of the state in order to prevent the Chu State from suddenly turning around and raiding the state, and the troops in the north of the state were almost emptied, if Jia Kui really led tens of thousands of people to kill from the north, then it could be broken in an instant.

At this time, if Gao Shun led his troops to bite Cao Wei's main force from the front, causing it to be attacked on both sides, it should have retreated.

If you don't withdraw, then the opportunity for the Chu State will come, and you can use this Cao Wei army as the center, and then let the Wei State plant a big fight. Of course, this is just to think about it, Cao Wei has a lot of talents, and Cao Cao will not jump into the pit knowing that it is a pit.

In the next month or so, Wei State can really be regarded as a disaster!

A Xianbei army suddenly moved south from Shuofang County to Shangjun, broke through the big city fortress in three days, and then drove straight into Shangjun at a very fast speed. At this time, the urgent report from the border pass had not even been able to reach the capital of Wei.

Shuofang County was once prosperous in the Western Han Dynasty, but because of the great weakening of the intersection of the two Han Dynasty, the Han people in the territory were greatly reduced, and the Southern Xiongnu moved inward. In the fifth year of Yonghe, that is, in 140 AD, the left part of the Southern Xiongnu Dragon King Wusi and Che Niu rebelled and killed Shuofang Changshi. Subsequently, the Southern Xiongnu led Wumei and Qianghu southward, and since then, Shuofang County and its subordinate county have almost all been reduced to ruins and forced to be abandoned. It took more than 260 years from installation to abandonment. The grasslands here are fertile, but due to overuse in later generations, desertification has been serious for thousands of years, and eventually a large area has become a desert, and the green grasslands and mountains of the past can no longer be seen.

Shuofang County is now next to the grassland where Tuoba Xianbei's hegemony is located, after Zhou Zhi developed and grew on the grassland, he borrowed the strong support of Tuoba Xianbei to quickly annex the Southern Xiongnu and Qiang and Hu tribes gathered in Shuofang, and moved his own thorn blade to the grassland in the western part of Shuofang, in order to recapture Shuofang County, and at the same time facilitate the dispatch of troops to Liangzhou and Bingzhou.

Cao Ren and Sima Yi originally led 100,000 soldiers to be stationed in Shangjun, guarding the western gateway of Bingzhou to prevent a sudden attack by the Chu State of the Western Expedition.

It stands to reason that under such a deployment, it is difficult for the Chu State to have a chance, and the 100,000 Cao army is enough to stop the Chu army for a long time, and the Wei State can be deployed calmly at that time. But now that all this has been broken by Jia Kui, Wei never dreamed that this Xianbei army would suddenly go south. Even if the Xianbei tribe occasionally went south to plunder, they would not dare to go all the way south to the hinterland like this army, as if seeking death.

Of course, it would no longer be strange if they knew who the masters of this army were, and what their purpose was.

Sima Yi's reaction was actually very fast, although he didn't know the exact purpose of this Xianbei army, but he realized that it must be coming for Cao Jun. Make a decisive deployment. Intended to encircle and annihilate him. Unexpectedly, the deployment had not been completed, and the army of Chu led by Gao Shun had already marched east to Shangjun.

At that time, Cao Ren thought that the Xianbei soldiers had penetrated deep into the Han land, and they were not afraid, so they could first rely on the danger to block the Chu State, delay in a circle, and wait for the troops to exterminate the Xianbei, and then turn back to fight the Chu State.

However, this strategy was strongly dissuaded by Sima Yi, and Cao Ren's strategy was based on the fact that Xianbei and Chu were fighting separately. Fang had a chance to succeed, but he was keenly aware that the two armies were likely to march together, and the enemy situation was unknown, so Cao Ren's strategy would be used, and the Wei army would not be able to resist the orderly cooperation of the two armies.

Cao Ren didn't listen and insisted on executing according to his own judgment, Sima Yi was helpless, and on the one hand, he sent people to report to Cao Cao quickly, and on the other hand, he led tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in his headquarters to begin to arrange a retreat.

Eight days later. Cao Cao's reply came, and only two words were written.

"Retreat!"

But by this time it was too late. Jia Kui led the army to continue to advance the Shangjun County Government, Cao Ren led the troops to rescue, wanting to destroy it quickly, but he didn't think that Jia Kui was "repairing the plank road in the bright and Chen Cang in the dark", but in fact, he had already let Deng Kai divide his troops to detour south, and kill the rear of the Wei army on the front line that resisted the army of Chu.

Gao Shun, Wei Yan and Chen Zhi seized the opportunity to take advantage of the chaos and panic caused by Deng Kai to the Cao army, and broke three important places in a row, and the Cao army was completely defeated.

Cao Ren was shocked to hear the bad news, and then waved his army to the rescue, but was attacked and killed by Jia Kui, suffering heavy casualties.

At this time, the Cao army can be said to be at the end of the road, but fortunately, Sima Yi had long expected that Cao Ren would be defeated, so he returned to the army in time to rescue and respond, and when Gao Shun and Jia Kui pursued respectively, he set up ambushes many times to buy time for the withdrawal of the army, and the remaining Cao army quickly crossed the river east according to the retreat route he had planned earlier.

It can be said that if there is no Sima Yi to deploy and prepare in advance, then the 100,000 troops of Wei will inevitably be annihilated, not to mention that there is no chance to withdraw to the bank of the Yellow River, even if they are lucky enough to withdraw to the Yellow River, they will not have time to gather ships to cross the river, and the Yellow River will be the end of Cao Ren at that time!

It's just that all this was destroyed by Sima Yi, Gao Shun and others missed the opportunity, and watched the Wei army withdraw to the east of the Yellow River, looking at the river and sighing! As for the pursuit of crossing the river, they absolutely did not dare, the lone army went deep, and there was the Yellow River to block it, and the past was a dead end, so they had to arrange for defense on the spot.

When Wang Xu received the battle report, he was also very sorry and sighed helplessly.

Guo Jia even asserted sharply: "There is no Xun Yu in the Wei Kingdom, but there is Sima Yi!" If this person is not broken, the Wei State will be difficult to destroy! ”

Since then, the state of Chu has gained control of the Hetao region, ruling across the Yellow River from the state of Wei in the north, and the entire western half of China is in the hands of Wang Xu.

In the first month of 193 AD, the state of Chu completed the initial control of Liangzhou, the border west to Yumen Pass, Yangguan line, a total of Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Zhangye, Wuwei, Jincheng, Longxi, Hanyang, Anding, Beidi nine counties, the collection of Liangzhou army nearly 200,000, except for those few special elite troops, all the others were dismantled and reorganized.

Because the area of Liangzhou is too narrow and long, and the difference between east and west is very large, which is not conducive to management, Wang Xu changed Hanyang County back to Tianshui County, and divided Longxi, Tianshui, and Anding into Yongzhou, plus the original four counties of Fufeng, Fengyi, Jingzhao, and Hongnong in Yongzhou, a total of seven counties.

Beidi County was included in the merger state, and for the time being, it was merged with Shang County and Shuofang County to form the three counties of the Chu State.

Although Shuofang is now inhabited by foreigners, Wang Xu has regarded it as an inherent territory, and has decided to rebuild the fortress and city in Shuofang when Liangzhou is stable.

After Zhou Zhi completed his two great wishes to conquer Liangzhou and the Hetao region, he also laid the border foundation for the Chu State, and then led his troops back to Shuofang, and openly separated from the Tuoba Department and officially incorporated into the Chu State.

Zhou Zhi, the general of Chu Guowei, returned to the court, and Jia Kui, the commander of the Northern Army of the Border Guards, concurrently served as the general of Xianbei and continued to lead this tribe!

It was not until this time that the truth of Zhou Zhi's earlier plan was revealed, and the cause and effect were truly made public, and the world was shocked!

The Tuoba tribe is even more furious, clamoring to attack Shuofang, but now that the Chu State has 200,000 heavy troops stationed in Shuofang and Shangjun, plus tens of thousands of warriors from the Han Department, he can only shout on the grassland, and if he really wants to send troops into the Han realm to start a full-scale war, it will be more than worth the loss! (To be continued......)