Five or six days after the capture of Jincheng County, Li Suguan Yu and other generals of the Western Expedition Army were still busy. While dividing and acquiring Han Sui's prisoners of war, identifying the elderly thieves, and dealing with them separately, they divided their troops to pacify the counties.

In order to prevent the remnants of Han Sui, who had not yet captured the county town, from resisting desperately because the generals were afraid of death, Li Su had to temporarily hide what he did in Jincheng City, so it would be difficult to be too ostentatious to avoid irritating people.

On July 13, just two days after Jincheng recovered, Zhang Ren first surrendered Zhiyang County on the other side of the Yellow River. On the 15th, he captured Wogan County in the Gaolan Mountains and pacified three or four counties within five or six days. There was only one Yuzhong County left in the eastern part of Jincheng County and Han Sui's army's dead and hard generals were defending.

After Li Su received Zhang Ren's reward, he ordered Zhang Ren to maintain a siege in Yuzhong. After he and Guan Yu finished the prisoner identification work, he would take the death row soldiers who should have entered the punishment camp to the battlefield in Yuzhong.

They used crossbows and horse-killing swords to supervise the battle, and asked them to fill trenches and dig city walls and hit the city gates, and undertake all the consuming cannon fodder work. This would not only consume the rebels' final hard combat power, but also prevent Li Su and Guan Yu from killing prisoners by himself.

Yuzhong County was also considered the gateway of Lanzhou in later generations. If Li Su had persuaded Liu Bei to use Guanzhong’s grain to support the Western Expedition and transport grain through the Wei River, then from the source of the Wei River to Jincheng, he would definitely pass through Yuzhong in the middle.

This place is the lowest obstacle to crossing Gaolan Mountain from the Wei River to the Lanzhou River Valley. You can pass through the grain truck. Gaolan Mountain actually plays a watershed between the Yellow River and the upper reaches of the Wei River in this area. In previous years, the imperial court also took this path from Guanzhong to attack Liangzhou.

Therefore, Han Sui left some hard-core players who were trustworthy in Yuzhong who were no less than Li Kancheng Yin's defense. But he didn't expect that this year, Li Su used Yizhou's grain and grass to cut off Long and went to Dazhong-Lintao, which led to Yuzhong being left untouched. Jincheng captured Yuzhong and had not yet captured it.

It’s okay to keep this place and use a knife to kill people and slowly clear out the stubborn thieves.

Wang Ping and Xu Shu had a longer journey, and only recovered the first county town in the upper reaches of the Huangshui River on July 15th. Before recovering Poqiang County on July 18th, Poqiang County was one of the spheres of influence of Yang Qianwan's tribe, and it was the main area where Yang Qianwan dispatched troops to tribes, so now it is very empty and unable to resist at all.

But then, when Wang Ping continued to go deeper along the upper reaches of the Huangshui River, he found that there was still Xiping County (now Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province), which was still occupied by Yang Qianwan tribes. There were still thousands of soldiers and 20,000 to 30,000 people, who refused to surrender for the moment.

At the same time, there are more small tributaries on both sides of the Huangshui River. Each river on those tributaries also corresponds to a small county town, an independent tribe, and there are so many factions on the hills that no king can make decisions for everyone.

So if Wang Ping wants to conquer, he has to fight one by one or win over one by one, and he doesn’t have that much military strength or energy at the moment.

The local situation is complex, and the respective ministries are more terrifying than Iraq after Saddam was killed. Iraq is in that state: before killing the iron-fisted leader, you can at least deal with this iron-fisted leader, and he can just be convinced and maintain order in a large area.

Once the Saddam-type strongman is destroyed, dozens or hundreds of hills that are not subordinate to each other will rise up in an instant. If you want to negotiate and win over, you don’t know who to negotiate. No one can represent you. You can only talk or fight slowly one-on-one.

Several river valleys around Linqiang County are in the hands of a group of Qing Qiang tribes; several river valleys around Anyi County are in the hands of a group of Di tribes, and Longyi is in the hands of a group of Eastern Qiang tribes, and the Yanchi (Qinghai Lake) is in the hands of a group of Xianling Qiang tribes... In addition to the Han people, there are dozens of tribes of five tribes.

With Xu Shu's IQ, he could not think of a good way to help Wang Ping quickly sort out the clues here. They could only divide their troops to block the estuary of the Huangshui River after conquering Qiang County, so as not to let the Qiang people deep in the source of the Huangshui River rise out any further.

Then Wang Ping returned to the estuary of the Yellow River, where the Huangshui River converged, and continued to go deeper into the main source of the Yellow River from July 20th. Before July 25th, he took down Baitu and Anguo, and successfully won the Qinghan County at the end of July. He successfully caught Song Jian's dead and hard remnants to the hinterland of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, blocking the mouth of the Yellow River Valley of Jishishan, located in Qinghan County.

The 沪克 occupied by Wang Ping is roughly equivalent to Linxia, ​​Gansu in later generations. After the remnants of Song Jian crossed Jishi Mountain, they stationed in Xihan County. This place was the first time that Hou Ba, the guard of the Qiang school, arrived during the reign of Emperor An of Han. He then planted barley on the border, which was covered by the Han Dynasty's rule, which was equivalent to Hualong, Qinghai in later generations.

Most people in later generations have basically never heard of this place, but in fact, everyone usually eats Lanzhou ramen that is everywhere in the country, which is produced by Hualong people. There are tens of thousands of families across the country who are led by local people and the government supports them with loans.

The remnants of Song Jian's troops were expelled by Wang Ping and fled to Xihan with troops from Jincheng County (Lanzhou), which can be regarded as bringing the custom of Han people to the plateau barley production area.

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While Zhang Ren and Wang Ping struggled to explore and pacify the counties, Li Su's "repentance" was also well held in Jincheng County.

To divert the hatred of those who have been thieves for more than ten years towards the Han Dynasty, even if it is the hatred that has been suppressed in the subconscious after being captured or surrendered, it is difficult to convince the public without holding a complaint conference.

Because when Li Su was a negotiating expert in her previous life, she was well versed in criminal psychology. He knew that no one would easily admit that he was doing something despicable and shameless

Even thieves, robbers, and other serious criminals, they subconsciously make excuses for themselves, and their psychological suggestion is that they are a "chivalrous thief" and are "doing the way for heaven", or at least social injustice is in front, so they "forced" to do bad things.

Just like before World War I broke out, every belligerent country's pre-war mobilization slogan was "We are forced to take up weapons", and it seemed that all countries were self-defense, and none of them recognized themselves as the invaders.

If a person knew that he was doing bad things that were worse than animals and insisted on doing them every day, he would have been mentally perverted and crazy.

Therefore, it is difficult for people who have been thieves to directly realize that "being thieves is fundamentally wrong", so Li Su must of course choose to take advantage of the situation and guide their "involuntary" to the officers who are holding the thief over the thief.

Of course, this guiding ideology is not enough. Since Li Su is well versed in history and is a negotiable background, he is naturally familiar with the specific operation, and he is simply a collision with half of his career.

He knew that complaints were just the first step, but most of the soldiers were speechless. Many people couldn't say anything after talking for a long time, and they were just confused. Therefore, the second key step was to "set a typical example."

Although most prisoners are not good at speaking, there are always people with a little better eloquence. If the short one is taller, as long as their ideological awareness is higher than other similar types, their eloquence is better, and their reflection is more thorough, such people will be selected.

Then, among the same tile, you have to pick out the one with the highest awareness of complaining about the struggle and tying. If there are ten tiles in a tile, you can pick out ten, and then let these ten typical tiles exchange experiences in front of the entire tile.

These ten people compared the best speeches, the most miserable men were led to the thief experience, the most innocent ones, and then went to Qu or Jun Sima to speak, and so on.

As for the final "exploration of the bitter roots" and letting everyone attribute all their sins to Beigong Boyu, the kingdom of Han Sui Bianzhang, this step is not to worry about ordinary prisoners.

Among them, the "excellent individuals complaining about" will have the opportunity to pay homage to Li Su, and then Li Su will personally solve their doubts and let them know who caused their miserable life.

Of course, Li Su would definitely carry Dian Wei with him when he showed up at the prisoner reception. He was worried that these prisoners would be convinced. If there was a particularly tolerant person, Dian Wei would send them on the way.

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In the prisoner camp in Jincheng, after seven or eight days of screening, the parade of complaints between each garrison of the army has been completed.

After complaining for so many days, hundreds of elderly thieves who have been thieves for more than ten years and have been complaining about the anger of the army have also been rectified. The heads of them are poked on the pointed wooden stakes outside the county magistrate's yamen. Many of them are officers in Han Sui's army.

The basic principle is that if an old thief who was strong and was mentioned by three or more military-level model soldiers at the same time, "I was an innocent good citizen back then, but someone forced the thief to follow the thief," then the old thief who was mentioned would be pulled out and chopped off to vent his anger for the soldiers.

Finally, the model soldiers who were selected at Qu Yi's level basically had no experience in resisting the court's combat, and had been a thief for no more than five years. Even after the thief, the main combat achievements were between the Western Qiang and the Qiang people, rather than the civil war of the Han people.

There are usually five or six hundred people in a Qu. Even if the captive troops are not satisfied, Han Sui's army has only seventy or eighty Qu-level model soldiers complaining. In the future generations, it is only the size of two classes in the university.

After seeing the list, Li Su felt that the number of people at this level was too small, and he could personally receive the guidance. At worst, he would think it was the kind of big class he taught in college in his previous life, and he took two classes together. After the guidance, he would let them go back to perform on a tour and convey Li Su's thoughts to ordinary soldiers.

On July 20, Li Su posted a notice in advance, and then summoned more than 70 model soldiers in front of the lobby of the Jincheng County Governor's Office. Because so many people could not stand in the lobby, some of them stood in the yard.

Li Su followed the list and found a few grassroots officers who performed the best and the most innocent, and gave a lecture one by one, just like a teacher asking questions in class, so that others could listen to each other.

When taking a big class, it is impossible for every student to ask questions. If you are not energetic, you can only ask the top students and others will see their understanding.

Li Su first saw a resume, which was a team leader, that is, the grassroots officer who brought dozens of soldiers. He was only nineteen years old and named Jiang Jie. The resume stated that this person was from Tianshui County, and was originally a good citizen. He was less than the third anniversary of his reign.

It was after Dong Zhuo was killed in 192. Han Sui was emptied by Li Jue and Guo Si, and was also known as the prefect of Tianshui County. He recruited good children to expand his army in Tianshui County. Jiang Jie joined the army at the age of sixteen at the time.

But less than a year later, Han Sui was exposed and rebelled again. Later, he resisted Liu Bei. Jiang Jie had achieved some martial arts and abide by discipline, so he had to continue working. Although he was promoted to the team leader for his merits a year and a half, his resume said that his merits were driven back to Jincheng and fought against Qianling Qiang in Hehuang, and beheaded for several levels, and then he was promoted. That was not the Han people's civil war merits.

"This person is good. He can be used as a typical example of condemning Han Sui's "pretending to be cleansed and surrender to the court and lure good children to join the army to serve him." It also wins over the hearts of the local soldiers who were conquered after Han Sui invaded Tianshui County. Let them know that

'The Tianshui soldiers were later than the Jincheng soldiers in Han Sui's hometown, so now they return to the court. After they return to the court, the Tianshui soldiers' status is higher than that of the Jincheng soldiers. If they want to not be discriminated against, they have to kill more Qiang people and clean themselves up'." Li Su thought to himself.

He continued to look down and found that there were many grassroots officers from Tianshui on the list of prisoners, who had experienced being lured and coerced by Han Sui, and some of them knew them, and had vaguely seen names in history books, such as Ma Zun, Jiang Xu and others.

But it is not surprising to think about it. Han Sui was in charge of Xiliang for more than 30 years in history, and finally the imperial examination was laid off. Later, many officials and even famous officials and generals in Xiliang must have had the experience of being bullied by Han Sui.

Otherwise, you would not have the chance to become an official in places like Tianshui and Longxi. However, after Han Sui surrendered to Cao Cao in history, these things didn't matter, and Cao Cao would not pursue them.

Now it is Li Su-guan Yu's turn to Pingliang, and these tasks of distinguishing, differentiating and winning over can only be done by Li Su-lai.

When Li Su thought of this, he comforted them loudly: "You are all right. In addition to rebelling and rebelling, this thief Han Sui also has a despicable and shameless thing, which is that he is capricious and colluding with Li Jue and Guo Si, and once pretended to be a court official, making it difficult for the good family to distinguish and accidentally trapped the thief's nest!

The court has always been tolerant, especially the King of Hanzhong assisted the government. After taking charge of Guanxi, he would definitely carefully identify the officers who mistakenly recognized the thief and try to maintain their original positions. Anyone who made great contributions to foreign wars will also admit it! Come and get wine, and everyone drinks three bowls of them, and be loyal to the court in the future."

The captives naturally thanked them all, and then they talked about their achievements in fighting against the Xianling Qiang and Di tribes, emphasizing that the Han people should share the same hatred of the enemy, and the dispute between warlord factions is the business of the warlords, and they cannot lose their national integrity.

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While Li Su held the complaint meeting in Jincheng, in Cangsong County, the gateway to Guzang County, Wuwei County, Ma Chao's troops finally started an offensive against Guzang after more than 20 days of preparation and plunder.

From early July to July 20, from ten days before the decisive battle between Guan Yu and Han Sui, to ten days after Han Sui was awarded the title of head, Ma Chao relied on Guo Si and Jia Xu's hard walls to clear the defensive policies, and successively won the two counties and cleared the obstacles.

After Guo Si held it in this moment, he finally realized something was wrong.

First of all, he asked Han Sui to cut off Ma Chao's food route, which must have failed. Han Sui besieged Guan Yu camp on the tenth day of July, because he knew that Ma Chao's next huge convoy would arrive at the mouth of the Yellow River-Langshui River within two or three days for transportation, Han Sui wanted to swallow the supplies.

Now that Han Sui is finished, the supplies naturally entered Langshui as scheduled on July 12, and then walked for another five or six days. He arrived at Lingju on July 15 and Cangsong on July 18.

Two days later, Guo Si received a reward from scouts who came to Cangsong in Guzang, and of course he knew that Ma Chao had arrived again.

Since Ma Chao has arrived, the significance of keeping the wall clearing the wilderness and stalemate will be greatly reduced.

On the other hand, the reason why the Guan Yu army started harvesting wheat around the fifth day of July was because they were worried that the confiscated wheat would be wasted after the Lanzhou River Valley was flooded by the water attack tactics, so they had to harvest it.

But Ma Chao did not have to wait for the wheat to fully mature, and then rushed to harvest these twenty days in advance. Because the area of ​​the Wuwei County hinterland grain area that Ma Chao had to face was larger than that of the Lanzhou River Valley and had a higher total output. The harvest resulted in a loss of 20% or 30% of the output, and also led to a decrease in the shelf life of the grain, which was very unprofitable.

Because this place is further away from the rich grain-producing area of ​​Liu Bei's army, if the whole season of wheat cannot be stored for the winter, then you have to transport grain from thousands of miles south to avoid starving people to death. It is not cost-effective.

After holding it, it was in late July. Guo Si and Ma Chao had to fight to the decisive battle. Now we can't delay it anymore, because the wheat is completely ripe and the normal harvest season has arrived. If we drag it on, Ma Chao will cut the ripe wheat and fill the military rations, it will be Guo Si's turn to be unable to withstand the logistics of his own logistics.

Guo Si and Jia Xu, who cleared the moon's strong walls, was completely lonely.
Chapter completed!