Five miles downstream of the Yangju defense line, it is the burning Dangqiang defense line.

This is a large Qiang department that Wu Zhen won the decisive battle in Hexi and forcibly moved to Guanzhong when he retreated.

In the early stage of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dangqiang became stronger and stronger, and also defeated Xian Lingqiang, but was later attacked by the Han army, collapsed, and failed to develop into the leader tribe of Xiqiang.

Of course, this also indirectly preserved the inheritance of Burning Dangqiang...... Those tribes who have been leaders of the alliance have little to no good end.

For example, Xian Lingqiang is the leader of the Dongqiang Alliance, and the large and small tribes in the entire Dongqiang Alliance can be regarded as the branch of Xian Lingqiang.

As a result, as everyone can see, the huge force of hundreds of thousands of people who fell like the sun was swept away by Emperor Huan.

Such an astonishing record, in addition to the Xiqiang Ministry, has been remembered for a long time, but it has been diluted and forgotten by other forces, intentionally or unintentionally.

At this time, the opposite side of Burning Dangqiang is the Eagle Yang Left Guard, Eagle Yang Right Guard, which is not the main attack line in the north, but Burning Dangqiang does not dare to relax a bit.

Because the flanks of their and Yang Ju's department are Zhang Xiong, Zhang Xiong is here to save the field and supervise the battle.

At present, the fortifications built by the various departments are one-directional, in other words, if the Burning Dangqiang and Baima tribes rebel, Zhang Xiong will be able to launch a fierce attack on their backs.

Behind Zhang Xiong is Wang Zhong, and there is a 7,000-strong Wujie knight, which is selected from the five divisions of the Southern Xiongnu and has experienced the decisive battle in Hexi. These 7,000 martial arts knights are the anchors and killer weapons of the sea in stabilizing local areas.

The defense line arranged by Wu Zhen can be said to be supervised layer by layer, one ring after another, and if any unit changes, then the neighboring unit can kill the killer.

These armies have no historical ties with each other, and they have no friendship with each other.

For example, if there is chaos in front of the Qiang Array, will Zhang Xiong and Wang Zhong keep their hands when they are pressing? Definitely will not leave hands, how efficient how to come.

If Zhang Xiong and Wang Zhong defected, would the seven thousand martial arts knights behind them stay? If you don't keep your hands, you won't have a relationship, and it's better to force you to fight with a sword than to go forward and kill yourself.

Not only the eastern defense zone is arranged in this way, but the western defense zone is also in a similar way.

The Guiyi Army reorganized by the Xiongnu slaves in the south and the Fengyi Army reorganized by the Zhuhu in Hexi were nailed here to resist the three guards of the Huya Army commanded by Lu Yi.

In order to supervise the two reorganized miscellaneous servant armies to fight desperately, the Changshi Guo Huai was in command, and Guo Huai still held five thousand Wuhuan Yicong knights in his hands.

The Wuhuan people will definitely actively supervise the battle and force the two servant infantry adapted by the Southern Xiongnu and Zahu to fight hard.

These 5,000 Wuhuan Yi came from the Wuhuan tribe who moved inward, and their families lived in Hebei, and they had made a fortune with Wu Zhen in recent years, and they already had the arrogance of a strong army and their disregard for life.

In terms of terrain and troops, the Beifu soldiers crossed the Bashui to participate in the battle, and the formation must be unorganized; Even if the formation is reorganized after it is stabilized, it will be divided by the Wei army, which has the advantage of cavalry, on the vast and flat deer plateau.

And the knights of the Wei army have new harnesses, Tian Xin can't understand Wu Zhen and Guo Huai's thinking, but Wu Zhen and Guo Huai ...... in their eyes Your side has at least a 40% chance of winning, which is already very high.

Anyway, it is a decisive battle that cannot be retreated, not to mention the chance of winning forty percent, even one percent, and we must go all out to fight for a chance to win.

Just as the silent confrontation was waiting for Ma Chao to arrive at the battlefield, the chiefs, little marshals, and leaders of the large and small tribes of Yaodangqiang also gathered together to discuss.

Different from the Di people, the Burning Qiang has a long heritage, the tribal structure of each branch is stable, its chieftain and Xiaoshuai are almost hereditary, and the village heads are mostly hereditary.

In order to urge Burning Dangqiang to fight actively, in this small army of 5,000 people, Wu Zhen also carefully deployed and joined a 1,000-person Bayi.

Ba Yi, hence the meaning of the name, is a combination of the Ba people, Di people's customs, and bloodline; The Ba people are the guarantee of combat effectiveness. Bayi's combat effectiveness and morale are definitely higher than those of ordinary Qiang, and they have never dealt with the Qiang people.

The leader of this Bayi tribe was Li Hu, the captain of the hunting school, and when the Battle of Hanzhong broke out, Li Hu led his tribe to migrate north to Lüyang...... Then he was packed and moved to Guanzhong by Wu Zhen together with his competitor Dangqiang.

Ba Yi Ba Di, it must be that the customs of the Ba people are heavier.

Therefore, Wu Zhen followed the system of Yizhou to manage the Ba people, and organized this Ba Yi into a hunting army, which was commanded by the Dongqiang hunting general, and six hunting captains were set up under it, and each unified department.

Some of the Ba people in the Yizhou area are organized as a guard army and some are organized as hunting troops, all of whom are security soldiers, and they can barely be regarded as local standing forces; As a reward for their service, the families of these servicemen are no longer required to pay taxes...... This is a blood tax that has been passed down for a long time.

And now, when the chieftains of Dangqiang discussed the problem of laying traps, Li Hu put on a straight face and drew a pen to outline the layout of the trap.

As far as the loess plateaus on both sides of the Bashui are concerned, it is too convenient to excavate traps, not only traps, but also trenches.

Now, like rats, the Di people dug trenches on the periphery of the defense line, and led mountain streams to irrigate them...... If it takes a little longer, the stream water will soak and scour, which is enough to form large areas of mud and ravines.

It's a pity that Ma Chao will soon appear in sight.

Li Hu quietly pondered the chain reaction caused by Ma Chao's appearance on the battlefield...... It's a tricky thing.

Previously, Bayi, Diren, and Burndangqiang all lived far away in Tianshui, Longxi, and Wudu, and lacked recognition of Tian Xin's prestige and legend, and felt that it was too outrageous, and it was obviously overblown; But Ma Chao is different, now Ma Chao has come full circle and is fighting back.

always suspects that Burning Dangqiang, Ma Chao's old friend, will fight back on the battlefield, and will take the opportunity to vent his hatred and cut off his head to show favor to Ma Chao.

It was precisely because of the suspicion of Dangqiang's loyalty that he had more than 1,000 hunting troops stationed in and assisted in defense, and supervised the battle nearby.

At the end of a simple meeting, Li Hu followed the chiefs to lay wooden stakes and demarcate new traps and trench excavation areas.

Dig a trench and put the loess on the north side of the trench, which is a very effective fortification.

After Li Hu planned the area together, he took the layout plan to Wang Zhong's main camp on the hillside to report the matter, and after Wang Zhong's permission, he could dig new traps and trenches by burning Dangqiang.

When he came, Wang Zhong was also studying the fortification plans of the various departments under his command, except for the strong end of the department to lead the mountain stream into the trench and strengthen the fortifications as much as possible, the construction of other Baimayi and Burning Dangqiang fortifications was somewhat perfunctory.

Lacking enthusiasm for civil engineering, preferring to chop wood for fences, antlers, and all sorts of anti-horse thorns...... I always feel like these people are going to do big things.

Wang Zhong reviewed the new planning plan brought by Li Hu, and did not care about the careful thinking of burning Dangqiang, so he signed and approved it casually, and asked: "The Governor of the Great Metropolitan ordered the preparation of poisonous smoke and lighting grass everywhere, how is the progress of these two matters?" ”

Poisonous smoke cannot be used indiscriminately, but the straw curtain wrapped in animal fat and rolled into bundles is an indispensable lighting material for night battles.

Beifu is good at night fighting, and before Ma Chao arrives on the battlefield, Beifu may launch a night attack...... It may also be a fake night attack to achieve the effect of harassing and exhausting the enemy.

At the very least, tonight and tomorrow night, a lot of grass should be arranged along the Bashui River, and it should be thoroughly illuminated, so as not to give the Beifu a chance to attack.

Otherwise, the true and false are repeatedly harassed, and the initiative is in the hands of Beifu, who can stand it?