That night, Xianshan came to Li Mu's tent and asked to see him.

"What's the matter with you?" Li Mu looked at Xianshan in front of him with some surprise.

Since this Xiongnu Shan Yu led the army to join the Zhao army in this war, he has always been very low-key, and this time he actually took the initiative to ask for a meeting, which is really unexpected.

Xian Shan smiled very humbly and said to Li Mu, "Governor, I think I should know where Yiqu Bo is. ”

"Oh?" Li Mu's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "Come quickly!" ”

Although Li Mu has basically determined that Yiqubo is in the West Sea, the scope of the entire West Sea is also very large, and if there can be a specific coordinate, then it will definitely save a lot of trouble.

Xianshan took out a rather simple-looking sheepskin land from his bosom and put it in front of Li Mu, then pointed to a place on the map that was specially marked with a red dot and said, "This is it." ”

Li Mu observed it carefully, and then finally determined that the location of this place was somewhere in the southeast of the West Sea.

Li Mu thought for a while and said, "Is this map true?" ”

Xianshan said: "This map is from the people around Yiqubo, and it is absolutely true. ”

Li Mu glanced at Xianshan deeply, and only said after a while: "This time, you did a very good job. ”

Xianshan bowed and respectfully withdrew.

After determining the location of Yiqubo, Li Mu led the cavalry formation of the Zhao army and began to continue to pull out the camp and march westward.

To some extent, Yiqu Bo escaped so far that it was not too bad for Li Mu.

As long as he can defeat the coalition army composed of Yiqubo and Qiang people in one fell swoop, Li Mu will be able to achieve his goal in one fell swoop and completely occupy the Hehuang region.

With the excellent horse breeding farm in the Hehuang area, it is obviously very beneficial to the development of the cavalry of the Zhao State.

Although it is said that the current Zhao State already has the three major horse farms of Hetao, Monan, and Daijun, there is a good saying that eggs cannot be put in the same basket.

Every time there is an additional horse farm, it means that the strength of the cavalry of the Zhao State has increased by another point, and as the highest-level general of the cavalry of the Zhao State now, Li Mu is naturally happy to see it.

What's more, there is also the credit of expanding the territory.

The nobles of the Zhou Dynasty were always very pioneering and enterprising.

When the Zhou Dynasty was founded, all that could really be controlled was the Guan Zhong and Cheng Zhou (Luoyi) generation.

When King Wu of Zhou divided the thousand kingdoms, these colonists and princes of the Zhou Dynasty who went out to expand their territory had to face all kinds of barbarians, Dongyi, Beihu, Xirong, Nanban, and the Di people in the Taihang Mountains, etc.

After a thousand years, there are only a few of the thousands of princes left, and the original barbarians were completely wiped out and assimilated by the princes of the Zhou Dynasty.

Although Zhou Tianzi has completely lost the authority of the past, the territory controlled by the princes of the Zhou Dynasty is many times wider than the territory that Zhou Tianzi was able to control.

The thousand-year-old war brought deep suffering to the people in the land of China, but at the same time, it also allowed the princes to expand continuously in the wars, radiating the influence of Chinese civilization to an unprecedented level.

And today, Li Mu, who is familiar with history books, will lead the 30,000 cavalry under his command to open up a new territory for Chinese civilization, and bring another barbaric land into the glory of Chinese civilization!

To some extent, Li Mu now even looks like a devout missionary, and the object of his mission is the Qiang people in the Hehuang region.

"Why, why didn't we offend your Zhao Kingdom, but your Zhao Kingdom traveled such a long distance to attack us!"

A captured Qiang patriarch had red eyes and let out a hoarse roar at Li Mu in front of him, looking eager to break Li Mu's body into pieces.

Li Mu looked at the Qiang patriarch in front of him with a calm face, and only after thinking about it did he answer.

"Where the tiger roars and reaches, how can you and other sheep live here in peace!"

After saying this, Li Mu waved his hand and motioned to his subordinates to take down the patriarch who had cost more than a dozen lives for the soldiers of the Zhao Army to capture and behead him.

He still needs this head to hang on a stake.

In a civilized world, persuasion is a viable solution, but in such a barbaric place, strong force is the guarantee of deterrence of all small things.

Li Mu didn't mind killing or capturing all the Qiang people he saw as prisoners.

If you refuse to surrender, then you should die.

Li Mu was right, for the well-trained and well-equipped Zhao Jun, these Qiang people with fur on their bodies and many of them holding stone axes in their hands were indeed no different from sheep.

Many Qiang women and children were even completely unclothed, wrapping a strip of fur around their lower bodies, and their entire upper bodies were completely exposed to the air.

Even if he was also a member of the Hu people, Xianshan couldn't help but shake his head with emotion when he saw this situation: "The life of these Qiang people is really too hard......

Next to Xianshan is Yiqu Sheng, this general who has almost become the most professional slave catcher in the Zhao army's array has long been accustomed to this situation in front of him, and said with a smile: "These people are all Qiang in the mountains, basically no different from wild beasts, even their Qiang people don't like them very much." ”

According to Darwin's theory of evolution, it is actually a kind of human progress to move out of the mountains and forests to live in the plains, and these mountain Qiang obviously did not do this.

In fact, according to Yiqusheng's knowledge, these blood-drinking mountain Qiang were hunted and conquered by almost all their neighbors.

Wusun, Yue's clan, and even Huangzhong Qiang and Cizhi Qiang, who came from the same origin, adopted the same attitude as the Zhao army towards these mountain Qiang, hunting and besieging them.

Under such circumstances, it is not easy for these mountain Qiang to survive tenaciously.

Xianshan sighed and said, "Isn't there any possibility of edification?" ”

It can be seen that this Xiongnu's Shan Yu is somewhat unbearable.

After all, thousands of human heads were hanging on the stakes all the way in blood, and this scene was still very shocking.

Yi Qusheng glanced at Xian Shan in surprise: "Why do you have such an idea?" As a prairie person, you should know that wild horses are difficult to domesticate, and only foals raised from an early age are more suitable as lifelong companions. ”

Yiqusheng felt that Xianshan was not a qualified steppe man, so how could the steppe wolf have sympathy for its prey?

In order to punish the Qiang tribe in the mountains who dared to block the way of the Zhao army, Li Mu used the most primitive rules of conquest on the grassland - men and old people who were higher than the horse's legs were all executed, and only women and children could survive.

For this, Yiqusheng was not surprised at all.

The adult man represents force, that is, the possibility of rebellion, and the old man represents wisdom, and when force and wisdom are ruthlessly deprived, what awaits the tribe is extinction and annexation.

In many cases, the seemingly bloody rules of the steppe also imply wisdom, wisdom that can keep a tribe alive for a long time.

After cutting off thousands of heads one after another and slaughtering six mountain Qiang tribes, the entire road at the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain was finally completely opened, and all the mountain Qiang chose to flee to the north in front of the powerful Zhao people, and the eastern part of the Hehuang region was included in the scope of the Zhao army.

"To be honest, I don't think this kind of expansion is reliable." Tu Xian said to Yi Qu Sheng: "Although we have now beaten away these mountain Qiang, as long as we leave, they will definitely go and return." ”

For some reason, Tu Xian always liked to discuss these issues with Yi Qusheng.

Yi Qu Sheng glanced at Tu Xuan: "Of course, no one will give up their territory, whether it is a savage or a civilized person. Those guys who say that so-and-so place doesn't matter and just give up are stupid, and you remember to stay away from the idiots, or they'll hurt you when they die.

As for your question, the answer is actually very simple, as long as you build a city. ”

Tu Xian's eyes widened: "Build a city again?" ”

"Of course we have to build a city!" Yi Qusheng glanced at Tu Xian in a tone of hatred for iron and steel, and said, "If you don't build a city, how can you maintain control of this area?" Only by establishing a city here will there be a logistics base for the endless slave hunters, and a place to supply the army when it goes out to Hehuang and beyond. ”

Tu Xian was a little puzzled: "Do you want to catch slaves again?" ”

"Of course you have to catch slaves!" Yiqu Sheng said angrily: "I found that your head really can't turn around, how can you clear this area without catching slaves, and how can there be migrant workers to build a city?" ”

Tu Xian smiled, touched his head a little embarrassedly, and said, "I understand all these big truths of yours, but I forgot about them when I slept well." ”

Yi Qusheng looked up at the sky and decided not to talk to the idiot Tu Xian anymore.

However, after hearing these words, Xianshan on the side showed a thoughtful look on his face.

After nearly half a month's march, the cavalry of Zhao swept across the entire Hehuang region, and the West Sea was already close at hand.

"Did Yiqubo run away?" Li Mu asked Tu Xian, who had just returned from a reconnaissance mission.

Tu Xian thought for a moment and replied, "Back to the Dadu Governor, Yiqu Bo has already united a large number of Qiang tribes, and it seems that he is ready to have a decisive battle with the Dadu Governor here. ”

Li Mu continued to ask, "How many are there?" ”

Tu Xian replied: "It is said that there are as many as 100,000 people from the mouths of the captives I have captured. ”

"100,000?" Li Mu's brows jumped slightly, but he was quickly relieved.

100,000 tribes and 100,000 cavalry are not the same thing.

"Since Yiqubo didn't run, it really saved the governor of Pontus. The order is to go down, the whole army to speed up, and strive to find Yiqubo within three days, and we must go home before the autumn comes! ”

On the other side, Yi Qubo, who had no way to retreat, was also making many promises to the Qiang patriarchs without money: "As long as we defeat the Zhao people, we will continue to attack their land eastward, where there are fertile pastures and a warm climate, so that your people will no longer be cold and hungry, and you can live a better life!" ”

A great war is about to unfold in the land of the Western Sea.