While Wang Ping was making smooth progress in Huangzhong, Ma Chao also grabbed land in the newly established Yinchuan County area and made rapid progress. The supplementary strategies Zhuge Liang planned for Guan Yu were also somewhat beneficial in Ma Chao's military operations.

However, due to the geographical characteristics of Yinchuan County, Ma Chao only enclosed land and occupied a relatively fast land area, but the work of searching and annihilated the enemy's living forces seemed much slower than Wang Ping's side.

This cannot be blamed on Ma Chao, it is really due to the environment. As mentioned earlier, the Huangzhong area has already slightly deeper into the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. There are Qilian Mountains on both sides of the north and south. There are snow-capped mountains and only mountain valleys can live in people.

The Di people and Xianling Qiang there have the characteristics of "grazing but not traveling". They cannot escape when they encounter a large army of imperial court. They can only choose to either surrender or die in battle.

In contrast, the Xianbei and Qiang people in the Hetao area can run, after all, the terrain here is flat and open. So after Ma Chao's troops passed, the local barbarians just tentatively resisted Ma Chao and showed their determination.

But after discovering that Ma Chao's combat effectiveness was over, these barbarians did not fight to the death. They immediately fled north along the Yellow River, temporarily looking for those grasslands that were not fertile enough to graz, accumulating strength to gather troops, and forming cliques to unite more tribes in order to recover.

After all, for nomadic peoples, no matter how fertile the Yinchuan Basin is, it is just a "more rich pasture" and has no farming value. During the winter, there is no pasture in other grassland areas, so they have to come to the near Yinchuan Basin to avoid the cold and get water for food.

Now that spring is warm, grass has grown elsewhere, and it is possible to give up here, so there is no need to spend all your life on the best grassland. From Yinchuan County along the Yellow River to the north, mainly Shuofang County and Wuyuan County. Obviously, the main escape direction for those barbarians is there.

Originally, around Yinchuan County, the tribes that coveted the most plump grassland, including the Qiang people, Xianbei and the Southern Xiongnu, could come here to grazle in one year.

The Qiang people, including the Tang Dynasty and the Pixie tribe, were active in the west of the Yellow River in Yinchuan County. Because the Qiang people were not good at long-distance migration, the farthest was to the Alashan Left Banner area in Inner Mongolia in later generations. Further west was the Tengger Desert, and the Qiang people would not run anymore.

The local Xianbei was the "Hexi Xianbei", and the main barbarian king was Tuoba Liwei. At that time, the Xianbei had been mainly divided into four large pieces. Since Tan Shihuai and Lian died more than ten years ago, the Xianbei has never been unified again.

The easternmost part is the Xianbei county of Youzhou, bordering Shanggu, Yuyang and Youbeiping, and there are many tribes that respect the Kebineng tribe as their supreme. There are also Queji and Mijia tribes (there was originally a Suli tribe, but this time and space were extinct when Liu Bei pacified Liaodong, and it was extinct with the tribes of Wuyan Wusu brothers of Wuhuan)

To the west are the Xianbei in the north of Bingzhou, with relatively loose organization, including the Daihulang Anni tribe and the Yuyan tribe, each of which is in charge of their own affairs, and some small tribes that depend on them are mainly active in Yunzhong County and north of Wuyuan County.

Further west, the third faction is the Hetao Xianbei in the north of Guanzhong. However, because the Hetao Xianbei and the pseudo-Khan of the Southern Xiongnu in Hetao were intertwined, it was often difficult to distinguish them. When the pseudo-Southern Xiongnu Chanyu was powerful, the Xianbei people sometimes depended on surrender. The Xianbei in this area mainly supported the Luohan brothers, and operated in the grasslands in Shuofang County, Shangjun and even further north.

The western edge of this Xianbei force is close to the Yinchuan Basin, so they will also travel from east to west to grazing in the Yinchuan Basin.

The westernmost faction among the four Xianbei factions is the "Hexi Xianbei", and its power and number are smaller than the top three factions. It is mainly led by the Tufa tribe.

There are also some small tribes with strange names, such as the Yifu tribe, the Qihan tribe, the Zheji tribe, the Vessel, the Weed Field tribe, and some are transliterations, while others are simply named by the Han people based on their characteristics.

The easternmost activity range of these tribes will go to the western bank of the Yellow River in Yinchuan Basin to grazing, which is similar to the Qiang people in Yinchuan County.

However, the Hexi Xianbei moves westward farther than the Hexi Qiang. They have more horses and livestock, and can migrate from a distance and cross the Tengger Desert. Therefore, the Hexi Qiang can only move in the later Alxashan Left Banner, while the Hexi Xianbei can reach the Alxashan Right Banner and all the way to the Juyanhai River Basin.

This time, Ma Chao met the Tang Dynasty tribe and Pi Feng tribe of the Qiang people, the Tufa tribe, the Yifu tribe, the Zheji tribe, and the Chegu tribe of the Xianbei people. In addition, the Gudu Marquis of the Burgundi tribe under the command of the pseudo-Khanyu of the Southern Xiongnu. There were a total of six large tribes, and they competed with Ma Chao in a mess.

After Ma Chao's relaxed and bloody massacre, he completely destroyed the Qiang Piss Piss tribe. The skulls of the Piss tribe were used as urination tools by Ma Chao. All adult men were killed, and women were sold to soldiers without wives in Han soldiers. After the thunder established their power, the other tribes became more honest.

Seeing that the Piss tribe of the Qiang tribe was destroyed, it also damaged some people and the chief was also killed in battle. The remaining tribes surrendered to Ma Chao because they could not move. Ma Chao obediently accepted more than 20,000 Qiang households and forced them to accept the Qimin households, and from then on they lived a lifestyle of growing rice and herding sheep. The Hexi Qiang was almost destroyed.

Among the four tribes of Xianbei in Hexi, the Zhejiu tribe rushed in front because they were not eyed at first and were killed by Ma Chao in large numbers. The rest were surrounded and captured, and the women and children had no time to escape. They were also incorporated by the Chinese version, and those who were not convinced were killed.

Seeing that the other three departments were not good, they escaped westward under the leadership of the Bafa Department and grazed the deep Gobi Desert. However, Xihai County, which lives in Yanhai, was also recovered by Ma Chao last year, and Ma Chao was there to kill Guo Si.

Therefore, they did not dare to move to Juyan Beach to grazing, so they had to hang out on the relatively barren grassland where Qianbuba Village was not in the back. They did not rely on the Yellow River in the east, nor on the weak water in the west. There was no big river or lake at all, and the water source was pitifully small.

The Bugendu of the Hetao Xianbei and the Hetao Xiongnu Huns Guduhou also fought with Ma Chao in early March. Unfortunately, because Ma Chao came quickly and suddenly, the Hexi Qiang had been destroyed at that time.

Therefore, the Hetao Xianbei and the Hetao Xiongnu were beaten to a time difference, forming a tactic of adding fuel to the oil. The gourd kids saved their grandfather and sent them one by one, but were defeated by Ma Chao.

Fortunately, they were at least enough horses, and it was not that the tribe itself grazed in this area. They came to rescue the Hexi Qiang and the Hexi Xianbei after hearing that Ma Chao came and felt that he had "dead lips and cold teeth". So when they came, they were all fighting troops, and there were no grazing women, children and tribes, so the losses were not great. They could run away after a little contact, and no chief-level generals died.

Bugendu and the Marquis of the Lu Gudu were able to successfully withdraw back to Shuofang and Wuyuan respectively, continue to grazle and raise the people, and contact friendly troops at the same time, intending to make complete preparations next time to ensure contact with the Xianbei in Hexi.

At least six tribes will start a team together at the same time, and they have to wait for the ultimate move and flash to cool down. They must not be beaten by Ma Chao in time and save their grandfather. However, considering that Hetao and Hexi are thousands of miles wider, it takes a lot of time for them to communicate with each other. The wounded soldiers who were beaten by Ma Chao before also have to recuperate within two or three months, so it is impossible to counterattack in at least two or three months, and they will have to retaliate against Ma Chao as soon as May and June this year.

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It was in this environment that Ma Chao and Wang Ping temporarily stabilized the situation in Huangzhong and Yinchuan Basins, and promptly invited Guan Yu to send civil affairs officials and officials to persuade farmers to take office. They organized spring plowing in March, and gradually realized the production organization of "animal Husbandry to farmers" that year.

Guan Yu and Li Su-Zhuge Liang were in Lanzhou. In just a few months, everyone was excited to hear the continuous good news on the front line.

Guan Yu decided to strike while the iron was hot, and sent someone to discuss with Huchuquan, re-dividing the establishment of Yinchuan County and the sphere of influence of the Southern Xiongnu, and thoroughly finalizing it with Huchuquan, suggesting that he accept the new plan and join forces to deal with the six major tribes that may counterattack Ma Chao.

This mission is not dangerous. After all, Hu Chuquan is considered a friendly army, but Li Su is already in a high position and power, so Li Su doesn't need to come forward in person for such semi-diplomatic affairs - after all, Li Su is old-fashioned. Nine years ago, he wrote a letter to Liu Yu to persuade Qiangqu Shanyu to send troops to help the Han Dynasty. Later, when he negotiated with Yu Fuluo, Li Su was already in a strong position, let alone Hu Chuquan now.

Of course, there is something to do with this kind of small matter. The disciples will give Zhuge Liang a chance to train, so that Zhuge Liang can also see how diplomatic negotiations are done.

After all, when Zhuge Liang first debuted in history, he was sent by Liu Bei to join the Eastern Wu to form an alliance with Sun Quan, completing the highlight of his diplomatic career, and also accumulated a lot of experience and life experience. Later, Zhuge Liang took office and had no chance to become a diplomat himself.

After all, this kind of work is only suitable for people with low official positions. If they have a high position and a high position and are in power, how can they be used as a mission? Are you not afraid of being detained directly by the enemy?

Nowadays, Liu Bei is already the two great princes in the world who are on par with Yuan Shaoping. Considering the fear of other princes of Liu Bei, they will definitely "the weak are united and united to fight against the strong" in the future, so Liu Bei will most likely play the role of the great devil, and there are few opportunities for diplomacy to win over. In order to get Zhuge Liang to make up for his diplomatic resume in his early debut, Li Su was also very hardworking.

The start was so smooth that the disciples had to experience the skills and affairs that only people in adversity would use. Li Su's family-teaching course design really cost a lot.

Guan Yu was embarrassed to choose a person at first, but later Li Su took the initiative to show his favor and told Guan Yu not to be afraid of using others: "Chang Yun, I think this matter, just let Aliang do it. It's okay for young people to exercise and see. Hu Chuquan is not an enemy, and even if you make some excessive demands on him, it will not hurt the messenger."

Guan Yu then took advantage of the situation and said, "Since that's the case, Boya, your vision will not be wrong. Although Zhuge's nephew is knowledgeable, I am still afraid that he will be rude when he is young and will not be calm. But if you promise him, I feel relieved.

However, I am still a little worried. After all, Huchuquan's station was on the grassland of Beidijun. In the past two years, he has attacked Hexi and Shangjun's pseudo-Khanyu, and the Khan Court has been erratic. On the way to find Huchuquan, he has not strictly controlled the grassland.

If there is a small group of scouts or cavalry of the Marquis of the Gudu Hou infiltrate and investigate and loot, it will be dangerous if they run into it halfway. If you ask Zhuge Xian to go, you must also send troops to escort it. How many soldiers do I need to borrow?"

Li Su smiled confidently and said, "It's just a small group of scouts. From Yinchuan to Beidi and Shangjun borders, there is no way to penetrate the large number of enemy troops. Send a thousand iron armored cavalry to escort it.

Anyway, I was idle and had nothing to do. I took Aliang to train and inspect the newly conquered areas. I walked with him in the first half of the journey. After arriving in Yinchuan, I lived in the newly built Yinchuan city, and I was protected by Boqi's guardian army and would not run around. I sent Dian Wei to Aliang's division and asked Dian Wei to take the thousand iron armored cavalry to Huchuquan."

Guan Yu was shocked again after hearing this.

He had already discovered that Zhuge Liang was quite talented, and he also noticed that Li Su valued him very much. But he did not expect that Li Su's respect was far beyond Guan Yu's imagination.

Li Su actually dared to send Dian Wei to protect Zhuge Liang when he was in Yinchuan City. This treatment was something that Guan Yu had never seen before in nine years of knowing Li Su.
Chapter completed!