No wonder the Qiang people have a population of millions, fierce and good at fighting, and also occupy the northwest horse-producing land, for more than 100 years in the northwest of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but they have never formed the same climate as the Huns, they are too lacking in unified scheduling, not to mention the co-master, their internal disagreement with each other, divided into burning He, burning dang, first zero, participating in the wolf and other Qiang, attacking each other!

From the past few days in the loess slope of the Qiang squatting, this point Wang Hou has experienced a vivid, robbers do not knot the scholar post station outside the doctor, now to burn the Qiang village to send food, is equivalent to drinking to quench thirst to rescue the men in their tribe, the real food is the name, but to Wang Hou shocked that this knot, there are actually other Qiang people to rob, gathered to attack the Han Daqiang more than 20, half of them were robbed by his Qiang, the grain cattle and sheep of the small Qiang village below were robbed, There are dozens of people who can't be ransomed.

"General!"

A few days ago, Wang Hou wanted to kill all the captured Qiang people with a wave of his hand, and he would definitely die anyway, and the black-faced man spoke hard.

But now, there is a way to live, seeing this Qiang village that handed in food, in the crying of women and old people in the village, was released from the encirclement, and those who could not hand over the grain, cattle and sheep, could only watch the longing with relatives across the trench, the wife looked at the husband, the child looked at the father, the look was enough to make people heartbreaking. So the black-faced man was also coaxed, and knelt in front of Wang Hou full of sorrow, kowtowing heavily and begging.

"Ask the general for forgiveness! The general is mighty, the Han army is descending like a heavenly soldier, and the Qiang people are already afraid and obey! If the general is willing to be merciful and liberalize these Qiang people who have no food to redeem, Dongqiang will definitely be grateful to the general! ”

"Thanksgiving? Scold! Ben will take their food for this year's winter, and when they are hungry, the Qiang people are afraid that they can't wait to eat Wang's meat and sleep Wang's skin! Still grateful to Dade? ”

A chrysanthemum choked the black-faced man there, and then Wang Hou looked at him with his shoulders in his eyes, his voice was disgusted, and he asked coldly.

"But you, who the hell are you? didn't help my Han court, but made plans for these Qiang people to attack my Chang'an! That day the canyon was chasing, and when I saw my guiding banner, it was you who ordered the Qiang army to retreat, right? Do you still have the face to be this Han man? ”

It seems that there is little hope for life, and the black-faced man is wilting again, and he responds listlessly.

"Xiaguan Jiang Yin, a native of Tianshuiyi County, is appointed as the protector of Qiang Gongcao!"

"As for the general blaming the lower official Tongqiang, the lower official has a clear conscience!"

Loyalty is particularly important to the ancients, loyalty to the lord is even loyal to the country many times, and in the era of the world, the sense of belonging to this country is indeed not as strong as before Wang Hou crossed, looking at this Jiang Yin's unashamed appearance, Wang Hou was also speechless, and simply waved his face irritably.

"Get up!"

"Those people can't be released, otherwise it will be unfair to those tribes who transport grain to the generals, and their words are unauthoritative, how can this seat shake this northwest? If these people want to live, let them worship the Lord and be the slave of my Wang family! With this will return to Chang'an! ”

"Is this true?"

Hearing this, Jiang Yan became excited again, I really don't know whether he and the Qiang people kowtowed to each other, or got married, listening to him ask rhetorically, Wang Hou simply rolled his eyes impatiently.

"Lao Tzu is idle? Fooling you to play? "Beautiful

"General Xie is merciful!"

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Nearly one-half of the tribes in the entire Loess Plateau had to exchange the stored grain for people, and the cattle and sheep and grain sent were still considerable, at least more than 200,000 stones of corn, 670,000 cattle, and more than 200,000 sheep, but it seemed to be quite a lot, in fact, compared to Duan Cheng's suppression of Dongqiang, the record of 420,000 heads of livestock was far worse, and I don't know whether Wang Hou was not ruthless enough to scrape, or the Qiang people have become poorer in recent years.

Then there are more than 4,000 Qiang tribes who have no food to send, and there are no way to redeem people to go back, if Sun Shangxiang is here, it is estimated that he should be able to get used to it, because among the more than 4,000 people, there are more than 800 fierce Qiang female warriors, and what surprised Wang Hou a little is that these Qiang people don't seem to be too resistant to worshiping themselves as masters and selling themselves into slaves, and they don't know whether they have the will to cope with their lives or what, Jiang Jian went to talk around, and they agreed almost immediately.

Wang Hou also experienced the majesty of a slave owner, and in front of the Qiang people who had not dispersed yet, looking at the faces of the Qiang people with their own food eyes, Wang Hou was invited to the high platform by several chiefs, and these 4,000 Qiang male and female warriors were visited in public.

The Dongqiang on the Loess Plateau here, Wang Hou has completed the temporary layout, and I have to admit that the terrain of burning Qiang Village is easy to defend and difficult to attack! Hoarding the Qiang people's corn here is like cheese on a rat clip, attracting their saliva all the time!

With this strategic goal, with the strategic vision of the Qiang people, it is impossible for the time being to take up arms and merge into Ma Chao's troops to continue to fight against themselves! The corresponding price paid by Wang Hou was to leave the 6,000 3rd Mixed Brigade, which was slightly less mobile, on the Loess Plateau.

Harvesting the grain of the Qiang people also has a strategic advantage for Guanzhong, that is, in the winter season, Wang Hou can rely on the grain stock of Chang'an to blackmail the Qiang people, forcing some Qiang people to leave the loess plateau and come to Chang'an to farm, making a great attempt to subdue the Qiang people.

But the task now is not to force them to jump over the wall in a hurry.

"Cook some porridge every day, slaughter some sheep, and put them outside the Qiang village, no matter which tribe of the Qiang people, let them eat, but! If you dare to raise troops to rob you, you will be left with a thousand jars of oil, all the sheep will be slaughtered, all the grain will be burned, and you will no longer have to stick to the Qiang village, just retreat to Guanzhong along the path! ”

"The last general understands!"

Leaving Wei Yan to guard the granary of Qiangzhai, before leaving, Wang Hou was particularly solemn to advise, and Wei Yan also bowed with a serious expression, and promised heavily. It is said that Wei Yanchang is anti-bone, but among the generals of Liaodong, now Wang Hou is the most relieved is this Wei Yan, nodded with satisfaction, did not say more, and shook the reins of the horse suddenly, Wang Hou led the Liaodong knights and the four thousand Qiang slaves who had just been collected, and tens of thousands of cattle grazing by the Qiang people, rushed back outside the dam on the same day.

At this time, another part of the battlefield, the hegemony on the outer edge of Chang'an, is already a rich war cloud, jointly attacking Chang'an, Han Sui was absent, but Ma Chao was not absent, and the old nest of the Ma family in the Jincheng area was replenished, and he led 20,000 horses, and the momentum rushed over.

But! The cavalry under Ma Chao is also not much cavalry of the Han army, most of them are also Qiang cavalry, and the performance of the Qiang people on the battlefield of the Loess Plateau is noncommittal.

And I got the news half a month earlier, although it was stationed on a large plain, but Xiahou Yuan had already stationed the military camp in advance, and used the stones and beams of Chang'an City to build a boxy camp, and the felt bag made of cow and sheepskin in the middle was like a mushroom after the rain.

And the one who is close to the pig is fat and close to the ink is black, it seems that he has been following Wang Hou's shameless stay for a while, Xiahou Yuan is a little shameless, under the banner of Xiahou, more than a dozen military drums are rumbling, but in front of the snare drum, there are ten big black pots, and there is a coal fire below, and the rice from Guanzhong is cooked together with canned fish from Qingzhou, and more than 100 sergeants are snoring and drinking porridge around the big black pot, and they are also very indecent.

Outside, those Qiangliang cavalrymen who were galloping on horseback were so angry that their eyes were blood-red.

The big war is also on the verge of breaking out!