With the heroic struggle of the soldiers of the Golden Battalion, they finally succeeded in taking the southern half of the city wall of Hanoi County, opened the city gate, and occupied almost half of the area of Hanoi County after losing nearly 1,000 people.

The auxiliary Qin army broke through the south gate of the county seat, which was naturally equivalent to helping Li Mu. After learning that the south gate had been breached, the barbarians in the north immediately lost the courage to resist, and some of them, led by their respective leaders, chose to flee without hesitation.

An hour after the auxiliary Qin army took the south gate of Hanoi County, Li Mu successfully broke through the north gate of the county seat.

The county seat of Hanoi was finally subdued again. In addition to those barbarians in the city, there were almost 10,000 people who were killed in battle and fled, and they were basically disabled. In fact, the barbarians are not old and weak here, because the old and weak are still in the barbarian domain and have not migrated.

These crippled barbarians were actually abandoned by their kindred. For these disabled barbarians, whether it was Ma Shuo or Li Mu, they did not kill them, but temporarily took them into custody.

According to the agreement, the two sides divided the jurisdiction of Hanoi County.

As soon as the county seat of Hanoi was taken, the other two smaller counties in the Hexi Corridor area were also in the bag, so neither Ma Shuo nor Li Mu was in a hurry to occupy those two places, but temporarily stopped here to consolidate the harvest and take a rest.

Compared with Li Mu, Ma Shuo's losses are actually not very large. Taking advantage of the rest and recuperation, Ma Shuo asked Cui Xiucheng to select a group of sturdy men from the barbarian captives he accepted to supplement the team.

Transforming these barbarian captives, Ma Shuo's generals are already very experienced, and now except for the Qinglong Battalion and the newly formed Font Battalion, there are barbarians in all other battalions. However, these barbarians would soon be assimilated into a qualified auxiliary Qin army soldier.

With sophisticated weapons, three full meals a day, and a monthly salary paid on time, these barbarian captives, who had lived a very difficult life in the tribe, quickly changed their identity in a happy and surrendered manner.

Not only that, for each of the selected barbarian captives, Ma Shuo also promised them that as long as the military merits were sufficient, he would also send them women at that time. The reason why Ma Shuo dared to make such a promise was naturally because during this period of time, on the side of the secret base of the Barbarian Domain, Wuyan Muchi's Tuzi Battalion had captured many women from various tribes when they conquered the surrounding tribes.

These barbarian women, Ma Shuo decided to give full play to their role. Sure enough, when they knew that there would be women, those barbarian captives were like taking medicine one by one, full of energy, and when they fought, they were even more fearless of death.

The other captives, Ma Shuo sent them to other places as labor to reclaim wasteland or mine, which solved the problem of labor shortage.

The land of western Xinjiang is vast and sparsely populated, and the most scarce thing is actually population. In the land of Western Xinjiang, for the people of Daqin, the living environment here is very harsh, so under normal circumstances, only border soldiers and people who have been assigned will live here.

However, in fact, the resources here are still very rich, but they have not been fully developed.

For example, land, despite the fact that most places in western Xinjiang are very desolate now, but if the land in many places is really developed, it can actually be turned into fertile land or high-quality grassland.

In addition, mineral resources are also very abundant, but many of them are in a state of undeveloped.

Therefore, to develop Western Xinjiang, for Ma Shuo, as long as there are people. Because he does not lack technology, does not lack means, but lacks people. There is technology in the brain domain, and there is data, but it cannot generate a real population for him.

Therefore, this barbarian invasion may be a disaster for Western Xinjiang. However, for Ma Shuo, it is not an opportunity. It is absolutely impossible to move the population from within Great Qin for the time being.

In this way, the only way to solve the population problem is to capture the barbarians. Before, so many barbarian soldiers were killed by Bai Qi, and Ma Shuo was actually very distressed. However, his status at that time was not qualified to ask for someone from nothing.

After Ma Shuo and the others rested in Hanoi County for two days, they left 4,000 men and horses to garrison outside the city, and Ma Shuo led the remaining 20,000 people to go straight to Heyuan County. The remaining two small counties, one is called Heshou and the other is Heyuan. Li Mu took a fancy to the head of the river, and what was given to Ma Shuo was the source of the river.

Because Hanoi had already been taken, Ma Shuo informed the 3,000 people who had been sent out to intercept the possible source of the river head to withdraw as soon as possible and rush to Heyuan County to assemble. As for the 3,000 men and horses that were sent to another place before, it just so happened that the brigade of centaurs would pass by them, and they would just take them with them when the time came.

In this way, in fact, more than 26,000 people will go to Heyuan County. According to the information sent back by the hidden guards, the barbarians stationed in Heyuan County were only in their early 10,000s, which was not very many. Therefore, the more than 20,000 people of Ema Shuo should not have much problem taking down the other party.

From Hanoi to the source of the river, it is almost 100 miles. More than 20,000 people walked all the way and arrived at their destination the next day. After arriving here, Ma Shuo got the latest information from the hidden guards, because some of the barbarians who had been scattered from the military village and Hanoi had fled here, and the number of barbarians in the current Heyuan county town had reached about 15,000, which filled this small county town with a small scale.

However, although the number of people has increased, the overall morale has been lowered. After those who fled brought the news of the defeat, the confidence of the barbarian soldiers who had been stationed here was suddenly shattered.

It is precisely because of this that when Ma Shuo's men and horses arrived here, the barbarians of the entire Heyuan County were busy with one thing, that is, packing up their things and preparing to evacuate.

Yes, they did not want to resist, but to escape, to abandon the place completely, and to seek help in the place occupied by other barbarians. In fact, these barbarians didn't know that even if they left before Ma Shuo's men arrived, they might not be able to leave the Hexi Corridor area smoothly.

Because if they want to leave here, they can only take the same road as the ancient wasteland road. However, at the exit at this time, the 20,000 horses of the Wuzi Battalion of the Auxiliary Qin Army were stationed there, firmly guarding the exit, and would not let a single fish escape from the net.

At the same time, because many barbarians were reluctant to grab what they had grabbed before, the time wasted by packing up their things made them lose the best time to leave Heyuan County. When they were about to open the city gate and leave with their previous harvest, Ma Shuo's men and horses had already arrived and blocked the way!