Ma Chao was shocked and said, "Don't you want to protect Han Sui?" Why do you want me to conquer him? ”

Cheng Gongying wept and said: "Han Sui went to the Western Regions, didn't he want to turn the Western Regions into China?" ”

"Yes! What's wrong? With Han Sui's resourcefulness, coupled with the 20,000 elite iron cavalry under his command, and the 200,000 Dunhuang people as his reserve army, the countries of the Western Regions, which have many countries and small populations, and are weak, are definitely not his opponents. It was not very difficult for him to complete the transformation of the Western Regions into the cause of China. ”

Cheng Gongying said: "Since the Western Regions will become the land of China, it must be unified. As long as Han Sui completed his mission, it would be enough, in other words, he would be useless. At that time, the Western Regions, which is part of the Han land, must be unified! ”

Jia Xu said lightly: "Therefore, in the eyes of the next step, the interests of the Huaxia ethnic group are the most important. Even Han Sui is insignificant in front of the interests of the Chinese ethnic group. It is also tolerable to use the young master's future conquest of Han Sui and the death of Han Sui as a price in exchange for the expansion of the distribution range of the Chinese ethnic group. ”

Cheng Gongying said calmly: "Isn't it? He is also a person from China, a person with his hair tied to the right, and of course he is happy to see the expansion of the Chinese crowd. The subordinates are loyal to Han Sui, but the subordinates are more loyal to Huaxia and Han, and the subordinates know who is more important. But Han Sui is the old master after all. Therefore, when the young master was conquering Han Sui, his subordinates did not want to participate. ”

Ma Chao nodded and said, "Okay, I have approved this condition." In addition, as a reward for my loyalty, I will let Han Sui go immediately, and I will not send troops to guard against him. Han Wenyue can go on his own, collect the people of Dunhuang County, and go west together. ”

"The subordinates are for Han Sui, thank you to the young master."

Looking at Cheng Gongying, who fell to the ground, Ma Chao breathed a sigh of relief happily, as Han Sui had to retreat to the Western Regions for development, the entire Hexi, that is, Dunhuang, Zhangye, Jiuquan, and Juyan, was reincorporated into Liangzhou, Liangzhou was unified again, and his territory expanded again.

The meeting dispersed, and Ma Chao and Jia Xu went to patrol the camp again. At this time, he had already sent another envoy to contact Han Sui, who was ordering his troops to pack up and slowly head west. But Ma Chao was still a little uneasy, thinking that it would not hurt to have more eyes, so he ordered Ma Dai to lead 10,000 horsemen to stare at Han Sui's troops and watch Han Sui's troops go west.

Ma Chao and Jia Xu walked from the shogunate to the Yuanmen, and the Yuanmen was facing the desert where Han Sui's tribe was stationed.

In the distance, the Great Wall of camels filled with the smell of rancidity, and the soldiers of Han Suijun were moving away. The rest of the soldiers put away their tents in an orderly manner, packed the food, fed the war horses again, and packed up the weapons that could be used on the battlefield, as if they were busy.

Ma Chao and Jia Xu looked at each other for a long time, and Ma Chao suddenly thought that Han Suijun hurriedly escaped from Lufu City, and he must not have brought enough food and baggage; And after last night's fierce battle, the soldiers of Han Suijun probably didn't have too many weapons and armor. Relying on his strength after this vicious battle, Ma Chao felt that Han Sui would have a very difficult process to attack the Western Regions in the future. And he can't ask the horses to run or the horses not to eat grass.

Ma Chao asked Jia Xu: "Wenhe, do you think Han Sui will still regret it, take advantage of our army to let him go, and then attack our army again?" ”

Jia Xu was confident and said: "First, Han Sui's army has suffered heavy losses, and if it really fights back, it will be difficult to defeat our army, which is in the upper hand; Second, the morale of Han Sui's army was low, which was not the benefit of using troops; Third, the conditions offered by the young master were not too harsh, and Han Sui would not regret it; Fourth, and most importantly, Cheng Gongying is in the hands of the young master. ”

Ma Chao completely understood, and said with a smile: "It turns out that the reason why you forced Han Sui to hand over Cheng Gong Boying was because you wanted to gain me while weakening Han Sui; But I didn't expect that in your mind, Cheng Gongying would be taken hostage, and Han Sui would not dare to act rashly, so he could only obediently go to the countries of the Western Regions. ”

Jia Xu said with a smile: "Fang Cai Cheng Gongying said that he designed for Han Sui, but he has repeatedly failed to succeed, and he is deeply ashamed. His subordinates don't want to be like him, because the design is not fine, and they have no place to be ashamed. ”

Ma Chao said: "Then I will rest assured." ”

Ma Chao found a few Changshi who were in charge of military quartermasters, and instructed them to divide a part of the military rations and weapons and hand them over to Han Sui.

Ma Chao suddenly thought that most of the countries in the Western Regions, Shanshan, Jingjue, Yuning, Kumi, Shache, Xiaowan, Wensu, Qiuzi, Yanqi, Cheshi, Shule, Pishan and other countries, are oases surrounded by deep deserts, and there is a lot of sand......

Ma Chao then called Cherrigi again and ordered him to hand over a hundred pairs of armor to Han Sui. There were only 500 pairs of armor in the whole army, and 100 pairs were handed over at a time, which made Cherrigi very unhappy. But he couldn't resist Ma Chao, so he still sent someone to hand it over to Han Sui.

Five hundred armors, this is the only armor in the whole army, and suddenly handing over a hundred pairs of armor to others, in fact, Ma Chao felt even more uncomfortable, and his heart was dripping blood. Ma Chao remembers it clearly, Cao Cao said in the "Military Policy Order": "Yuan Benchu armor 10,000 collars, my big armor 20 collars, Benchu 300 horse armor, I can't have 10 bodies, seeing that it is few, I don't do it, so I broke it." ”

Yuan Shao, the overlord of Hebei who owns the four states of Qing, You, and Hebei, has only 300 pairs; Cao Cao, the overlord of the Central Plains who sat in the four states of Yan, Yu, Xu, and Si, was even more miserable, and he didn't even have ten pairs of armor. If it weren't for the frequent wars in Liangzhou, the Eastern Han Dynasty concentrated its most important military forces in Liangzhou for more than a hundred years, and he would not have been able to obtain 500 pairs of armor. It is not easy to build, it is labor-intensive and time-consuming, and it is difficult to forge it casually like an ordinary sword. Today, as soon as he let go, he had a hundred pairs of armor, and he didn't know when he would be able to gather five hundred pairs of armor again.

Watching the soldiers struggle to lift the armor onto the carriage and transport it to Han Suijun one by one, Ma Chao's flesh hurt a lot, and Cherrigi was about to cry.

Ma Chao said to Jia Xu: "Wenhe, you said that I have strengthened Han Sui's power like this, he should be able to complete the Western Regions plot, right?" ”

Jia Xu smiled and said, "Why does the young master still have doubts? ”

Ma Chao said: "After all, there are thirty or forty large and small countries in the Western Regions, with tens of thousands of people and thousands of people, and the strength is still there after all." Besides, the Western Regions are eight thousand miles in circumference, not much smaller than the Central Plains! ”

Jia Xu said with a smile: "There are only hundreds of thousands of people, not even a county, but the territory is vast." Besides, how could there be someone more powerful than the young master in the Western Regions as Han Sui's opponent? The young master should have some confidence in Han Sui. The young master even gave him a hundred armor and riding equipment, if he couldn't take the Western Regions, then he was still the Jiuqu Yellow River that the young master was familiar with? ”

Ma Chao relaxed his frowning brows and said, "That's right!" It's me who is too careful and nervous. ”

Ma Chao thought about the history of the Western Regions carefully, and sighed: "The Western Regions have set up a capital protection mansion before!" Zhang Qian, Ban Chao, Chen Tang and others, in order to control the Western Regions, made many efforts and sacrifices to defeat the Xiongnu and exchange for the Western Regions. Our dynasty also used to garrison troops in Tuntian in the Western Regions, Yanqi and other places, and set up Yihe Lieutenant and Shuji Captain, and the Western Regions seemed to be close to the annexation of the Han Dynasty. Now, the Western Regions have separated from the Han Dynasty and are in charge of their own affairs. If we can't take over the Western Regions, and hand over this heavy responsibility to future generations, future generations will definitely not be ashamed of our generation! If it weren't for the fact that I didn't have the spare strength to conquer the Western Regions now, and with Huangfu Song on my side, I would have already led my own army to attack the Western Regions and turn the Western Regions into the Han Realm, so why use Han Sui? ”

Jia Xu said: "Young master, rest assured, Han Sui is not an ordinary mediocre person. As long as he follows Yang Fu's method of slaughtering the people, gets rid of the men in the Western Regions, leaving only the women, and then adds the Han people in Dunhuang, within ten years, the Western Regions will definitely turn into Han land, and it will never be possible to divide it from then on. ”

Ma Chao thought that he had secretly betrayed all the people of Dunhuang County to Han Sui this time, and he was a little uneasy in conscience, and said: "Is it really appropriate to hand over the people of Dunhuang County to Han Sui for use?" In order to force the people of Dunhuang County to stay away from their homeland and trek to a foreign land, Han Sui will definitely adopt brutal methods. Isn't that too cruel? ”

Jia Xu said with a smile: "Those who have achieved great success are not informal. The young master did not hand over the people of Dunhuang County to Han Sui for use, but to the entire Huaxia ethnic group for use. Young master, think about it, I am waiting for Huaxia, it is not easy to expand, and now the Han Dynasty is thousands of miles away, and it is all a little bit of cannibalization over thousands of years. For example, Liangzhou was still the territory of the Xiongnu hundreds of years ago, if it weren't for Huo Yanyao, how could Liangzhou be the territory of the Han people now, and the Qiang would be difficult to shake?

Now there is an opportunity that can make Huaxia suddenly expand a radius of 8,000 miles, how can we let it go? And this opportunity can only be seized and used by using Han Sui. The young master was unable to open up the Western Regions in a short period of time, but Han Sui was desperate and used him to open up the Western Regions, which was the most labor-saving strategy.

Moreover, to open up the Western Regions, it is necessary to use Han people, otherwise the Western Regions will never become a Han realm. The people lived and worked in peace and contentment, and if there was no forced migration, it would be impossible to transfer the people to fill the Western Regions. The young master has the reputation of loving the people like a son, and he can't be easily destroyed, forcing the people to fill the Western Regions, and only Han Sui can do it. Han Sui was a traitor and had a bad reputation, and he forced the people to move west into the Western Regions, but his reputation was not damaged. When he completely occupies the Western Regions, the history books will give him the reputation of meritorious land expansion. Therefore, the young master drove Han Sui, and Han Sui drove the 200,000 people of Dunhuang County, which is the best choice for the young master, and for the Chinese ethnic group, it can also maximize the benefits. Therefore, the subordinates believe that the young master does not have to have a troubled conscience. ”

Ma Chao also knew that if he wanted to do big things, he had to be ruthless, and his hands had to be a little blacker, so he said: "Okay, listen to you, I won't be worried anymore!" ”

Jia Xu said with a smile: "According to the opportunity, the young master can be good and evil, not bound by good, not driven by evil, but can change freely, which is invincible." ”