Tai Shici and Li Ru took Guan Ping to fight steadily in the Dianchi area, not in a hurry or in a hurry. That's because they calculated that Sima Yi would be so anxious that after learning that Yizhou County had missed, he would definitely jump to his feet, and then send a large army to seize Yizhou County. Therefore, they spent all their time in Dianchi Lake to appease people's hearts and build fortifications, waiting for some unlucky ghost to bump into him headlong at that time, and then be flattened and bruised and swollen.

The reason why Tai Shici and Li Ru are so sure is closely related to the current actions of Wang Lujun on the East Road and Gan Ning Army on the West Road.

Because at the beginning of the division of troops, Tai Shici made a division of labor for the three armies, so Wang Lu, who was heading north, and Gan Ning, who was heading west, adopted strategies that were different from those of the Qinghuai army under the command of Guan Ping, or even very different.

Because Wang Lu's Eastern Route Army only wanted to create chaos and panic in the sparsely populated and barren territory of Qiqi County, and had no intention of stationing it for a long time, the policy used was the word "scare".

After Xisui County broke away from the Chinese army, Wang Lu took 25,000 soldiers to the north, and along the way passed through Jincheng, Rongfeng, Wanwen, Leaky River, Sentence Town, Leaky Lying, Talking Fingers, and Talking Drafts, and finally arrived at Yelang on the bank of the Qiqi River, which stopped the rapid march of "chickens flying and dogs jumping, chickens and dogs restless, chickens flying and eggs beating".

If the route of the Eastern Route Army is plotted on the map, you will find that Wang Lu and his troops have been walking the zigzag route like a giant snake. It takes twice as long to march in a zigzag line than it does to go straight straight, and if not to avoid enemy tracking, then to conduct a wide search and patrol.

But this time, the East Route Army took the "zigzag", which did not belong to the above two reasons.

Wang Lu led the troops like a sharp ploughshare into the land, and after the army passed, he unceremoniously lifted the cottages and villages along the road, and then rolled them to both sides. Because it was not the "devils" who entered the village and did not engage in the three-light policy, the resistance that Wang Lujun suffered along the road was not fierce. Of course, for those tribes who have to resist to the death, Wang Lujun will not be polite, he also needs to kill a few chickens to show the monkeys. Although it seems a bit cruel to get rid of a few tribes, after all, this kind of recalcitrant tribe will not obey the management of the government, and only think about occupying the mountain as the king, expanding the territory, and eradicating it one day sooner or one day later, it is inevitable.

Under the scare of Wang Lujun's gongs and drums, the tribal people along the way either fled westward into the territory of Yizhou County, which happened to be recruiting a large number of young and strong people to work on the side of Dianchi Lake, or fled eastward into the territory of Jiaozhou and its neighbors, which happened to be sparsely populated and could settle down with confidence; or fled northward, and then frightened more unwitting people to flee in the direction of Chengdu with false rumors.

That's what Wang Lu wants. According to his observation along the road, this place is really poor and bad, and it is really not suitable for human habitation, let alone unified governance, but it has found several large copper mines, which seem to be suitable for mining in the future, rather than a place for people to live. With the Jin state's current great thirst for population, these people living in the mountains were far from enough to absorb and receive the towns that had sprung up like mushrooms.

After Wang Lu came to Yelang with a large army, he stationed down with peace of mind, waiting for the troops sent by Sima Yi to come and clean up these bold and rebellious "natives".

Wang Lu's army played the trick of "entering the village in a high-profile manner, and the chickens and dogs were restless", while the Western Route Army led by Gan Ning was just the opposite, they played "quietly entering the village, don't beat the gong".

Unlike the chaotic coexistence of many small tribes in Qiqi County, several foreign tribes in Yongchang County are all giants, if Gan Ning is like Wang Lu to cause trouble, I am afraid that before he has reached Buwei, he will be eaten alive by the Jiu Bureaucrats, Minpu and Liyue Tribes encountered along the road.

Gan Ning kept a low-key march, but it didn't mean that he, an authentic Shu person, had no way to take the local tribe, he adopted the "between" strategy this time.

The so-called tribe is big, and there are all kinds of "birds". The two large tribes lived on both sides of the Lancang River (now the Lancang River, known as the Mekong River outside Yunnan), and there were always many rights and wrongs in the struggle for the right to fish on the water and the land in the adjacent areas, which provided an opportunity for Gan Ning to sow discord.

What's even more interesting is that there is also a Liyue tribe in the northwest of this Minpu tribe, although the two large tribes are bounded by Zhoushui (now Salween River), but the Liyue fishermen from the upper reaches of Zhoushui often go down the river to break into the sphere of influence of the Minpu tribe. Caught between the Ku and Liyue, the Minpu tribe was very sensitive to the invasion of their territory, and would retaliate fiercely if they were discovered, while the other two tribes who strayed into the Minpu would be brutally executed.

The Gu Ministry and the Liyue Department are not vegetarians, and their own people were killed by the Minpu Department, so they will naturally come to seek revenge, and in the long run, the three departments will fight each other. Because the Minpu Department is one against two, it has gradually become a little unsupported and declining over the years, but it happened to be known by Gan Ning, who was passing by, and it happened to be used.

Gan Ning sent a team of special operations soldiers to capture some "tongues" and people who could understand Chinese from the Minpu Minbu, found out the location of the chieftain of the Minpu Minbu, and then asked a few Minpu people to go and report the news and come to participate in the negotiations at the time and place agreed upon by themselves. Gan Ning made it clear that if the Minpu chieftain didn't come, he would take his brothers to open the killing ring and help the dove department and the Liyue department to clean up the portal!

After receiving Gan Ning's notice, the chief of the Minpu tribe was very panicked, so he had to bring some native soldiers to visit Gan Ning, but he got a result that made him grin. The Han general in front of him actually said that he would help the Minpu Department clean up the Jiu Bureaucracy Department and the Liyue Department, and the premise was that the Minpu Department would provoke a larger-scale inter-tribal conflict and put on a posture of taking all the big and the small.

Although these tribal leaders look vulgar and stupid, they are actually better than monkeys. The chieftain of the Minpu tribe discussed with the elders of the tribe and felt that the conditions proposed by the Han general were acceptable, so according to Gan Ning's deployment, he wantonly instigated the young and strong of his own tribe to provoke the other two tribes, which naturally attracted a fierce counterattack from the other party. Gan Ning, who had already been ambushed nearby, led the wolf-like dragon army to defeat the dove and Liyue troops who came to fight.

The Jiu Ministry and the Liyue Department, who suffered a big loss, soon learned that the Minpu Department had won a great victory this time, all thanks to the help of a Han general who suddenly appeared, so they hurriedly sent envoys to meet Gan Ning, and expressed their willingness to surrender, hoping that Gan Ning would not help the Minpu tribe.

Gan Ning tossed a lot, waiting for the current result, naturally he had to beat a few tribes well, and after they were all packed up, he went straight to Yongchang to govern the city, and became the leader of the local indigenous tribe in Yongchang!