Jiang Wei and others defeated King Youguli, and Ling Tong and Wen Yang defeated King Zuoguli again.

Huchuquan is the one who has gained the most benefits in these two battles.

After defeating King Youguli, Jiang Wei and others sent troops to take over Yuanyang.

Outside Yunzhong City, Cao Heng also received news that the left and right Guli King was defeated.

He invited Cao Yi to the commander's account.

After Cao Yi entered the tent, Cao Heng said to him: "I just got the news that Jiang Boyue and others sent troops to take over Yuanyang. King Youguli had led the remnants of his troops to surrender. General Ling led the soldiers of Feixiong Camp to guard Cheng Le, and attacked King Zuoguli's troops in Cheng Le. Now King Zuoguli has also sworn to be loyal to Hu Chuquan, and Liu Meng's reinforcements are completely gone."

"What are the emperor's plans to do?" Cao Yi asked him.

"Both teams are rushing here." Cao Heng said: "When they come, there are still some variables. I plan to break through Yunzhong as soon as possible and take Liu Meng's head. As long as Liu Meng dies, the King of Guli will completely lose the hope of returning to the tent. Our army will advance into Hetao, and there will be more chances of winning."

"Hetao is different from Yunzhong." Cao Yi said: "The Jie people who fled to Hetao before could organize at least three or five thousand people. After the Huns were killed in the early years, they also stayed in Hetao after they worked with their father to defeat the Huns. When the Huns left the Central Plains, they left all their women. Although they have not become enemies with our Central Plains for so many years, the Huns have always paid attention to their women, and the Huns should also hate the Great Wei."

"The Huns and the Huns fought for years, and their strength was not as strong as the Huns. In recent years, they have been very depressed." Cao Heng said: "Tu Ge alone is not an opponent of our soldiers of the Great Wei. Moreover, they had followed their father back then, so they should also know the bravery and strength of the soldiers of the Great Wei. I don't think they dare to be enemies with us. Instead, they may come to serve their loyalty after our army enters Hetao."

"The emperor's meaning is also understood by the emperor," Cao Yi said: "This time we go to the expedition to completely erase the Huns from the world. Tu Ge comes to serve his loyalty, and it will be difficult to deal with them in the future."

"There is nothing wrong with it." Cao Heng smiled slightly: "If they really come to be loyal, I will hand them over to Huchuquan. When the army enters the Huns, the soldiers of the Great Wei will only sweep the formation behind the scenes and hand over the main battlefield to the Huns themselves to fight. Although Huchuquan will strengthen its strength in every battle, the consumption of Huchuquan is still the Huns. The population of Huchuquan has decreased, but our soldiers have almost no loss. When the Huchuquan is pacified, the loss of both sides will be considerable. At that time, I will announce my father's decision to move all the Huns to the mainland and live with the people of the Central Plains, and Huchuquan will enter the court to become an official. The strength is not as good as us. Even if Huchuquan refuses, he will not dare to do anything, let alone other Huns."

Cao Yi nodded in agreement, but did not make any further statement.

Cao Heng then moved him: "You go and order the artillery, concentrate on firing artillery at Yunzhong City, and first open a gap."

"I'll go and pass the order now." Cao Yi bowed and received the order, then left the command.

Watching Cao Yi leave, Cao Heng also stood up.

He walked out of the tent, came to the edge of the military camp, and looked at the Yunzhong City, which was not too far away.

After several days of bombardment, the city walls of Yunzhongcheng were actually a little loose. Once the artillery concentrated its firepower to bombard, at most one day, it could completely collapse the city wall.

Cao Heng was looking at the city wall in the clouds, and the artillery soldiers who received the order began to bombard the city wall.

Unlike the bombardment a few days ago, this time the bombardment was extremely dense, and all the shells were bombarded towards the loosest part of the city wall.

After many conquests, Cao Heng knew very well that the city gate was not the best place to enter the city.

If the soldiers enter the city through the city gate, the enemy guarding the city can dump countless boiling oil, and countless soldiers will die under the boiling oil.

If the city walls collapse, the result will be very different.

Although the enemy can also dump oil on both sides of the collapsed city wall, they do not have battlements as a cover. As long as some archers are sent to suppress the enemy on both sides, the chargers will no longer have to worry about being injured by the stones and oil thrown from the city.

The Wei army's cannons poured shells towards the loose city wall, and Liu Meng, on the top of the city, hid under a battlement.

A Xiongnu leader beside him shouted: "King, the Wei army's artillery this time seems different from the past..."

"They are going to attack the city." Liu Meng gritted his teeth and said, "Yunzhong has been surrounded for so long, but King Zuo Guli never came to rescue him. King You Guli showed his head, and for some reason, he disappeared again. When I return to the royal court, I will ask my father to take their heads and kill all their tribesmen!"

"It's useless to say these now." The leader of the Huns asked: "What should we do if the Wei army really launches an attack?"

"What else can I do?" Liu Meng said: "You go and pass the orders and prepare the warriors. As long as the Wei army attacks, they will be beaten back!"

"I'll go now." The Hun leader responded, stood up and ran under the city wall.

He had only run a few steps before a mountain cannon shell fell from top to side.

With an explosion, Liu Meng watched the Hun leader be blown into a mess of scattered meat and flew into the air.

Looking at the scene in front of him in surprise, Liu Meng was stunned for a moment before reacting and shouting to another Hun man beside him: "Go and convey my order."

Liu Meng talked with the Hun leader who was killed by the bombing. Because the sound of cannons continued, they both shouted at the top of their voices, and the Huns next to them also heard what he shouted in the sound of cannons.

The sound of cannons came, and although the Huns were reluctant, they stood up and ran under the city wall.

When the Huns ran down the city wall, Liu Meng clenched his fists tightly.

He stumbled up a little and looked at the Wei army artillery formation outside the city.

Mortars and mountain cannons were fired together.

Each mortar shell flew towards the city wall, trying to collapse the city wall, while the mountain cannon shells were shot in mid-air and landed parabolicly towards the city head. Many Hun warriors hiding on the city wall and hiding at the foot of the city wall were blown into pieces under the bombardment of the mountain cannon.

The Wei army started firing artillery from noon until sunset, and shells continued to bombard the city walls.

With each loud noise, the city wall would tremble a few times, as if it was about to collapse.

Cao Heng stood at the edge of the military camp, silently looking at the city wall in the clouds that were under bombardment.

Cao Yi came to him and said to him: "Brother, the artillery has been fighting for so long, and the city walls should have been loosened."

"Actually, the city wall has loosened a long time ago." Cao Heng replied: "It has not collapsed yet, but the last bit of strength is there. As long as our artillery continues to bombard, at most, a hole can be opened in the city wall in the middle of the night today."

"I understand what the emperor brother means." Cao Yi replied: "I will urge the artillery to step up the bombardment, so I can't give the Huns a chance to breathe at all."

"No need to be so troublesome." Cao Heng said: "The artillery knows what to do. As long as I don't order the bombardment to stop, they will keep bombing. You go and send the soldiers and ask them to be prepared for the siege, which is the most important thing."

"The soldiers have received orders long ago." Cao Yi replied: "The army has been stationed here for many days and has not yet siege the city. The soldiers have been waiting for a long time. The emperor issued an order to siege the city. How could they not prepare?"

"That's right." Cao Heng smiled slightly, then lowered his voice and said to Cao Yi: "Have you noticed that the soldiers in the army are very strange?"

"Strange?" Cao Yi asked in surprise: "The emperor's meaning is..."

"The soldiers have always been on the battlefield. The soldiers should hate the war coming, but our soldiers of the Wei Dynasty are going the opposite way." Cao Heng said: "The soldiers have an indescribable persistence in the battlefield. If there is no war to fight, they will feel that something is missing. Only when they are asked to go to the battlefield every day will they feel that life is interesting. Sometimes I can't understand how my father trained such soldiers."

"If the emperor brother doesn't say it, I also found that the soldiers of the Great Wei really seem to be born killers." Cao Yi replied: "When I went to convey the order, I heard that I was about to launch an attack, and almost every soldier's eyes were lit. Did they just think that they could kill the enemy in battle, but never thought that while killing the enemy, they might die themselves?"

"Of course they can think of killing the enemy and may die." Cao Heng replied: "But for them, the battlefield is everything, and the battlefield is their life and the place where they exist. When I led the army out of seclusion, many veterans who had retired from the military followed. Although they got a lot of benefits from the battle to kill the Jie people, I can see that what they really want is not just those benefits, but returning to the battlefield."

"The war will end one day." Cao Yi said: "I really couldn't imagine where the soldiers of the Great Wei will find the meaning of their existence after the war is over."

"As long as there are people, there will be no day when the war ends." Cao Heng replied: "If we defeat the Huns, we still have many places to go."

He raised his hand and pointed to the west, Cao Heng asked Cao Yi: "Have you ever heard of the Western Regions?"

"Western Regions?" Cao Yi replied: "I have heard that there are thirty-six countries in the Western Regions. The Han Dynasty had traded with them back then. Could it be that our Great Wei..."

"The Han Dynasty is in trade with them, but our Great Wei wants to conquer them." Cao Heng said: "If we destroy the Huns, new alien races will appear. As long as there are alien races, the Great Wei will not be stable. As the princes of the Great Wei, we may be on the battlefield in our lives."

"Being able to conquer the four sides of the Great Wei Dynasty is also the glory of our princes as the Great Wei Dynasty." Cao Yi said to Cao Heng: "Don't the emperor think so?"

"Of course I think so." Cao Heng said: "Oh, I wouldn't have gone to Yanmen Pass only with my third and fourth uncles. You know, at that time, I was not sure that the soldiers would follow me and fight the aliens as devotedly as they are today!"

"The emperor's brother is today, and the soldiers can see the ability." Cao Yi replied: "It was because my father saw the talent of war back then that he was entrusted with important tasks by his grandfather. Now the emperor's brother has some of the styles of his father back then. I don't dare to say anything else, at least I have followed the emperor's brother in my life."

He patted Cao Yi's arm gently, and Cao Heng said with a smile: "I understand your thoughts. When you break through the clouds and capture Liu Meng, we will go to Hetao next. Although the water and grass in the Hetao area are lush, it is much more desolate and desolate than the Central Plains. Do you want to stay in the clouds and wait for me to win and return?"

"I never thought of staying somewhere after following the emperor's brother out of seclusion." Cao Yi replied: "If the emperor needs someone to take care of Yunzhong, I think Zhang Shao is suitable."

"Zhang Shao?" Cao Heng asked: "Do you think he can make Yunzhong prosper?"

"That's of course." Cao Yi replied: "Yunzhong belongs to Bingzhou. Although it is north of the Great Wall, it is still the boundary of our Central Plains. Leaving Zhang Shao to develop this place is the fundamental reason. As for breaking Hetao and other places in the future, I feel that there is no need to develop it well there."

"Why?" In fact, Cao Heng understood what Cao Yi meant, but he still asked.

"Although the Hetao area has always been affiliated with the Central Plains, it has long been a place for the Huns to recuperate over the years." Cao Yi replied: "It is enough for us to build a horse farm there to raise war horses. It is not much benefit to the Central Plains when developing it too well. Before the alien races were completely integrated, they always had different thoughts from our Central Plains people. If they were too prosperous and strong, one day, they would cause a lot of trouble to the Central Plains!"

Cao Heng deeply agrees with Cao Yi's statement.

In fact, not only did he think so, but even his father, who was far away in Chang'an, also had the same view.

Cao Shu never asked him to develop the Hetao area after he attacked the Huns.

He did not even ask Cao Heng to make plans to station in Hetao for a long time.

When the Wei army seized Hetao, local officials should soon come to take over. As for what Hetao will be like in the future, Cao Heng could think of it. Cao Shu would definitely not invest too much money and food in places where foreign races once gathered. Those places cannot be prosperous and strong, so they can only develop some basic economy and keep them weak. Even if they want to be prosperous, they have to make the people of the Central Plains who went there to settle there rich. As for the foreign races that have not been integrated, the more poor they are, the more beneficial they are for ethnic integration and maintaining stability.

Cao Heng and Cao Yi both knew very well that for the Great Wei Dynasty, where foreign races once gathered, stability is the foundation, and development is optional!

Just as the two brothers were talking about what would happen in the future, the city wall in the clouds made a roar different from the sound of cannons, and the wall that was under the shelling finally collapsed.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!