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Chapter 414 Recapture of Liangzhou

When it was dawn, Wei Yan, the governor of Liangzhou, finally moved into the governor of Liangzhou. This official office belonged to Cao Wei in the past few years, and from today onwards it returned to the hands of the Han Dynasty.

"Report to the envoy, the remaining enemies in the city have been basically eliminated, all the officials in the city have taken over, and the soldiers are returning to the camp to rest." A side general entered the main hall of the governor's mansion to report to Wei Yan.

Wei Yan nodded and smiled and said, "Very good. I ordered the Chinese officials of the army to come out as soon as possible to safeguard the people, and ordered Wei Zhang to lead a team of men to inspect the city. If anyone finds a criminal offender, he will immediately get severe punishment."

"promise."

The side general took the order out, and another military officer came in and reported, "Empress, the results of the battle have been roughly counted."

"Oh? Tell me quickly." Wei Yan said anxiously.

The military officer took out a book from his arms and started to recite: "Except for the pseudo-governor of Wei Liangzhou, Xu Miao, the prefect of Wuwei, Zhen Xian, the prefect of the state general Hao Zhao, and more than 2,000 people were fleeing. In this battle, our army killed more than 4,300 Wei generals from Wei Ping, captured more than 5,800 Wei soldiers, seized military funds, grains, and countless wealth."

"Okay, this battle was really exciting. We basically wiped out the main force of the Wei army in Liangzhou. It's a pity that we escaped Xu Miao and others." Wei Yan said with a little regret.

Liu Yin comforted, "The envoy of Wei does not need to sigh. General Ma Dai has led his troops to chase Xu Miao and others. I believe that good news will be sent back soon."

When the situation last night was basically controlled by the Han army, Ma Dai was worried that there would be insufficient troops to hunt down Xu Miao and others, so he ordered another two thousand cavalry to lead the city to reinforce. Several hours have passed and no news has been heard back.

"I hope so."

Wei Yan smiled and said to Liu Yin again: "It is thanks to your help to defeat Guzang this time, otherwise I don't know when this battle will be fought. When the entire Liangzhou area is recovered, I will ask you for merit from the court."

After a pause, he turned his head and promised to the Hungry Qiang and Hu leaders, "Of course, your achievements will be reported to the emperor."

It is a good mood to be able to defeat Guzang Wei Yan at a smaller price. Now he has changed his arrogance and is rarely kind to Liu Yin and others.

"Thank you, the envoy." Everyone bowed in unison.

Liu Yin said: "The last generals dare not take credit. The plan to deceive the city depends on the plan and deployment of our envoy Yang Junqi. We are just following the plan."

"Um."

Wei Yan nodded heavily when he heard this. If he had looked down on Yang Qing a little before, he would have to admire Yang Qing after breaking the city quickly this time, because Yang Qing's plan to defraud the city was really beautiful. It was a victory in the east to defeat the dilemma in the west. He thought that he would not have come up with such a brilliant plan in a short period of time.

"After going back, I met Mingzhi, please thank him."

Liu Yin bowed and replied, "I will definitely bring you my intentions."

In the next few days, the Han army did not do much rest, but instead struck while the iron was hot, to pacify other counties under Wuwei. Guzang had been lost, Xu Miao had fled, and the army had been defeated. How could the remaining city at such a disadvantage have the will to resist?

Before the Han army arrived at the city, the counties had already sent envoys to send surrender letters, so all the counties in Wuwei were recovered by the Han army.

Ma Dai led his army back to Guzang on the afternoon of the third day. Of course, he could not return empty-handed. Without mentioning other captures, the head of the Wei army alone brought back more than 600 pieces, and the heaviest one was the one of Zhen Xian, the prefect of Wuwei of Cao Wei.

"Haha, General Zhonghua, you are finally back. The generals can finally have a big drink tonight." Seeing Ma Dai back, Wei Yan immediately stepped forward and patted his arms and laughed.

Because Ma Dai's pursuit of the remaining soldiers before he returned means that the Wuwei battle has not yet ended, so the Han army's celebration wine has been waiting until now. Now that he has returned victoriously, Wei Yan can finally hold a celebration banquet to reward the three armies. After all, the soldiers have been looking forward to it for many days, and if they continue to drag it on, it will affect the morale of the entire army.

"Haha, Wei Jun was joking." Ma Dai waved his hand and laughed a few times, then sighed, "Oh, I just couldn't capture that guy Xu Miao. The soldiers chased after three days without hesitation, but they still let the guy escape."

"General Zhonghua doesn't have to worry too much. If these lucky escapers want to return to the Central Plains, they may have to borrow from the northern grassland. The Thousand Miles of Desert is not that easy. Besides, there is still a difficult situation in the peace. General Ziyuan and the others will not let them pass easily.

Besides, although Xu Miao was the governor of Liangzhou in the pseudo-Wei, he seemed to be just a useless scholar. Even if this person escaped back to the pseudo-Wei, he would not have much threat to our Han Dynasty.

However, the Wei general Hao Zhao is indeed a character. This man is a veteran in military service and is very good at defending. It is indeed a pity to let him run away." Wei Yan said.

It turned out that when Ma Dai led his troops to catch up with Xu Miao and others, there were more than a thousand people around Xu Miao. Hao Zhao took the initiative to stay and command hundreds of sergeants to occupy the mountain pass and block the Han army with the advantage of geographical advantages, and bought time for Xu Miao, Zhen Xian, Jia Chun and other senior officials to escape.

Even though Hao Zhao fought to the death, the Han army was large in number and high in morale. In less than an hour, Hao Zhao had no choice but to abandon the army and lead more than ten cavalry to escape.

Ma Dai left the main force of the army to annihilate the remaining enemies, and he personally led hundreds of light cavalry to chase Hao Zhao and others who were fleeing. Unexpectedly, no trace of Hao Zhao was found in the end, but he caught up with Xu Miao and the others.

After a fierce battle, Xu Miao, Jia Chun and Li Mai led dozens of cavalry to escape by luck, but Zhen Xian was killed by a soldier because he couldn't ride an arrow on his thigh.

Since it was getting late, Ma Dai did not go deep into the grassland to continue chasing. This time, he almost wiped out the Wei army. Although it was not perfect for not leaving Xu Miao in this trip, how could he get a comprehensive life every time? It was God's will that he should not force it too much.

Ma Dai understood this truth, and at this moment he heard Wei Yan's relief, and felt relieved, and said with a smile: "What the envoy of Wei said is, there is indeed a stop to the Wufujun of Anding County. The envoy can write a letter to Yang Envoy to ask the Yongzhou army to search the north and maybe there is still a chance to capture Xu Miao, Hao Zhao and others."

"Well, this matter must be written in Yongzhou, I have recorded it." Wei Yan said: "Okay, I won't talk about business now. I'm afraid the celebration banquet will be ready. I'll go and have a drunken relationship with my men." Everyone agreed happily and followed Wei Yan to the military camp outside the city.

The next day, Liu Yin, Wu Que and Tao Gong came to the governor's mansion to bid farewell to Wei Yan and led their troops to set off for Yongzhou.

Once Wuwei was recovered, Liangzhou fell into Ji Han's hands. They would not need their help in the subsequent war. Wei Yan's 30,000 troops were enough to deal with it.

Sure enough, in the following month, the Han army's western expedition could be said to be unstoppable and invincible. Wei Yan left Ma Dai to guard Guzang, and he himself led 20,000 Han and Hu coalition forces to recover the four counties of Jiuquan, Zhangye, Dunhuang and Xihai.

Except for Xihai County, the other three armies surrendered in the four counties, and they did not hold on for a few days. The powerful families in the county joined forces to attack and kill Zhang Mu, the prefect of Xihai in Cao Wei, and other stubborn elements. Then they offered the city to surrender and welcomed the Han army into the capital of Xihai County.
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