In the last few days of August, the newly formed Eagle Yang Brigade was already able to carry out a formation assault in a decent manner.

Zhang Yue then chose to take them to Xinfeng and practice with the security song, intending to let the Eagle Yang Brigade adapt to the security song, and at the same time let the security song play for the Eagle Yang Brigade as an assistant.

Three days after the joint training in Xinfeng, Zhang Yue received a report that the captain of Changshui and the Flying Fox cavalry who had set off earlier had rushed to Guyuan, the seat of the county administration of Beidi County, and set up a camp in the local area to stand by.

So, he led his army back to Chang'an and waited for orders.

At this time, it was the autumn and August 27 of the second year of Yanhe.

It was just a month since the Qiang-Hu coalition besieged Lingjusai.

The Qiang people and the Yue clan allied forces and fiercely attacked the outer city of Lingju City.

Under the city fortress, there are corpses all over the field, but now that the temperature has gradually cooled, I am afraid that the inside and outside of the city will be enveloped by the stench of corpses.

By the siege now, both the Qiang people and the Yueshi people have become numb and tired.

What's worse is that they don't have enough food.

The Qiang people didn't say that there was no food in the first place.

After crossing the river, they ate and clothed themselves with the Yue's stored grain and fish heads hunted and caught from the river.

But these things were quickly eaten up.

So, they began to gnaw on grass roots, bark, digging insects from the ground, and digging roots in the mountains.

Up to now, some people have begun to pick up the carrion of cattle and horses on the battlefield, and even quietly eat the dead corpses.

Both the Qiang people and the Yue people knew that they had to take down Lingju.

Otherwise, everyone will die here!

However, Lingguese was too strong.

They had been attacking for a month, and the walls looked crumbling.

However, the Han people can always find a way to strengthen and repair the broken walls.

They used sacks of sand and made ladders of bamboo and wood, and then built rammed earth, and even demolished the houses in the city and used bricks and stones to fill the gaps.

And, over time, their reinforcements kept coming.

Soldiers and horses from Longxi and Beidi gathered near Lingju.

Although most of the main forces of these reinforcements were heading to the direction of Yumen, there were five or six thousand people who were sent out to support Lingju.

plus the Wuwei soldiers and militia recruited by the Han people.

and food, bows, crossbows, armor and other materials that were constantly transported through the post road.

On the face of it, if Ling Jusai is besieged for another year, he may not fall.

And the Qianghu coalition army may not be able to last even ten days, let alone a year.

Once it gets to September, the weather will get even colder and maybe even snow.

The hundreds of thousands of Qiang people and Yueshi people who have no food or clothing will be directly exposed to the cold north wind, and at that time, let alone attack, I am afraid that they will not even have the strength to run.

"It can't go on like this!" Sheyang gathered with a few Hao chiefs who had been in the first place: "We have to find a way!" ”

After the Qiang were expelled from the Hexi Corridor, they became standard opportunists.

Like hyenas and vultures, some don't care how they eat.

Whether it is carrion, bones, maggots or flies, as long as they can fill their stomachs, they don't care about the way or the type of food.

If they don't, they will starve to death and freeze to death.

Now, under this Lingju, it has been a month.

During this period, they tried their best to bypass this fortified city.

It's a pity that the methods have been exhausted, and it turns out that if you want to enter the hinterland of Hexi, there is only one passage in Lingju!

The other options just look good, but in fact they are a dead end!

Taking advantage of the night, the people who quietly crossed the Jianhe River, after crossing the river, there was no news.

Only the ghosts know that they were arrested by the Han Chinese? Or die in the snowy mountains and swamps?

And the other way, bypassing Lingju, many people have also tried, and it turns out that they want to bypass Lingju? You have to hit the mountain passages that are more dangerous and dangerous than Lingju, and at the same time narrower.

And the Han people also have fortresses in those places.

It's not big, and there aren't many people, but it's enough to get stuck on the road.

Naturally, the careful thinking of the Qiang people, especially the high-level ones, is becoming more and more day by day.

If it weren't for the fact that Ling Ju hadn't sent someone to contact them, I'm afraid they would have been fighting among themselves.

Even so, the protracted siege and the high number of casualties forced these people to ask the question - where is the way out?

The Han people hoarded heavy troops in Lingjusai, and there was a cavalry after Lingjusai that had been stationary. Although they haven't moved, their presence is super strong!

Every time a city was attacked, Sheyang had to worry about that cavalry joining the battlefield.

Fools know how sour it would be if a high-speed cavalry rushed into the array during the siege?

Not to mention, Sheyang knows that the Qiang people's army will definitely collapse!

It was not clear why the cavalry had remained still.

But Sheyang and the others, now aware, have to make a choice.

Wait any longer, it's a dead end!

In case, the Han people have already defeated the Huns, and their main force will turn around and maybe skewer all the Qiang people into a meat skewer.

Just like they did back then!

Just thinking of this, Sheyang felt a little cold in his neck.

No Qiang will forget the end of the great rebellion!

The corpses of hundreds of thousands of Qiang people are scattered all over the mountains.

The earth seemed to be stained red with blood, and the cavalry of the Han people walked in it with high spirits, and hundreds of thousands or even more Qiang prisoners of war knelt from Qilian Mountain to Hugh Tuze in Wuwei.

Almost all of the chieftains who raised Qiang, Xian Lingqiang, and prison sister Qiang were killed.

The Hao chieftains of Heqiang and Guqiang were so frightened that they trembled, trembled, and led the whole clan up and down, walked out of the mountains, knelt in front of the Han generals, kowtowed and asked for surrender, and became Han slaves from then on.

Then, the Han exiled the remaining Qiang people to the other side of the Huang River, on the Xihai Plateau.

imprisoned them in the local area to this day.

It is said that this result is the result of the intervention of the great Confucians of the Han Dynasty.

Otherwise, what awaits the Qiang people will be a mass extinction!

"We'll have to think of a way...... "A hideous-looking man with a pitted scar on his face said, "However, we have no friendship with the Han Chinese, and we don't have any chips in our hands, so how can we do it?" ”

This is the only reason why the Qiang people have been able to hold on until now!

Otherwise, as early as half a month ago, they would have turned against the water.

Just thinking about it, there is no reason or excuse.

You can't stupidly send it to the door and tell the Han people: Dad, I was wrong, I will be a dog for you, and you will accept me!

Of course, if this is useful, it is estimated that the Hao chieftains of the Qiang people also went with their noses pinched.

But the problem is, nine times out of ten, it's useless!

Most Han people will not believe it, and even if they do, the result will be terrible!

If you don't have chips in your hand, you're afraid you'll be kicked out of the door.

The others listened and were immediately a little frustrated.

Under this order, the Qiang people hit their heads and broke their blood, and within a month, there were more than 30,000 casualties!

This is still the result of their deliberate control of the rhythm and their lack of willingness to work hard.

In comparison, the Yueshi people are much more miserable.

Of the original six thousand moon cavalry, less than half of them can still move.

Even in the past month, more than 5,000 people have been replenished and mobilized one after another, and most of them have been killed or injured.

Morale hits rock bottom!

For the Yueshi people, what is even more terrifying may be that despite such huge sacrifices and costs, the results they get are nothing more than gnawing away the beacons and fortresses on the periphery of Lingju, and causing a small half of the Lingju city walls to collapse, but these collapsed city walls were quickly repaired by the Han people.

"We have to find a way!" She Yang had a cold face and said, "As far as I know, the Yue's people and those cat cubs and little lady's skin are all trying to find a way!" ”

"If they think of a way first, we'll be abandoned!"

The current situation has become more and more inventive.

Ling Jusai was like a nail, firmly rooted between the mountains and the river, blocking the eastward advance of the Qiang people.

A month of attack did not shake the fortress of Lingju.

Now, everyone has to think about how to deal with the aftermath.

Among them, the Yueshi people are the most embarrassing.

Because they are traitors and betrayers, even if they kneel and lick, the Han people may not forgive.

But within the Qiang people, the issue is equally sensitive.

The first zero Qiang, the sealed Qiang, the prison sister Qiang, and other large and small Qiang species are already full of contradictions.

Even now, the resolution of hatred is an alliance, and there are still great differences and differences.

Even for the siege of the city, all the Qiang came in turns, and they dragged each other's feet, quarreled endlessly, and even almost fought among themselves because of the siege many times.

This leads to a problem - everyone is very annoyed with their home, and even wants to die at home!

So, if in the future, everyone needs to live in one place, under a sky, and receive the love of a father.

So, are you still fighting?

If you don't fight, do you want to be kind and loving?

Just thinking about this, many people are already nauseous and uncomfortable.

So it has to be fast!

It's like the story: when you encounter a bear in the wild, you don't need to run faster than the bear, just faster than your teammates.

It's the same with Xian Lingqiang, you don't need to be very smart, as long as you are smarter than others, find a way to contact the Han people first, and submit to the softness.

Naturally, everyone else knew the seriousness of the matter, lowered their heads, and began to think.

For a Qiang person, the biggest and most hated enemy is never someone else, but another Qiang person!

Especially another kind of Qiang!

Therefore, during the period when the Xiongnu ruled Hexi, the ruling strategy of the Xiongnu was to provoke the Qiang people to fight among themselves, so as to force all Qiang races to rely on the Xiongnu's judgment, which made the Xiongnu firmly occupy and grasp the dominant power in Hexi.

She Yang looked at these Hao Chiefs, suddenly laughed, and said, "If you have no way to fight the sword, I know a piece of news......

And everybody lifted up their heads and looked at the shepherd.

She Yang slowly took out a sheepskin from his arms, spread it out, and said to the others: "This is the ...... I found a few days ago in a beacon tower abandoned by the Han people."

The others leaned over and saw the dense writing on the sheepskin.

It's a pity that no one knows anyone.

The Qiang people do not have writing and do not need it.

Their culture lies between knotted rope chronicles and bell and drum inscriptions.

It relies on word of mouth and stories from the mouths of shamans to perpetuate the history and beliefs of the community.

So they looked up at the sheep and asked, "What is this talking about?" ”

"I asked people who have been to the Han Dynasty......" She Yang slowly raised the sheepskin in his hand and said, "This is an order from the emperor of the Han Dynasty to the second division general of the Han Dynasty!" ”

Everyone's eyes widened and they held their breath.

I only heard Sheyang say slowly: "As mentioned above, the emperor of the Han Dynasty took pity on Xihai and wanted to be benevolent, so he ordered the generals of the second division of the Han Dynasty to declare that the Qiang and Yueshi departments of the Xihai Dynasty could kill those who were anti-Han and those who were interested in pro-Han and surrendered, they could hold the head of the anti-Han people, and offer the four counties of Hexi and the official office!" ”

"There is a magistrate's office, and you must not hinder or obstruct it, and those who violate it will be punished with great disrespect!"

"And should be rewarded, and the standard of reward is that ordinary Qiang people, whether they live or die, are counted as a thousand yuan......"

"Nobles and sacrifices are rewarded according to their high and low ......"

"All rewards can be exchanged for grain, cloth, salt, iron, and even officials!"

Listening to Sheyang's words, every Hao chief pursed his lips tightly.

Finally someone shouted, "So what are you waiting for?" ”

Killing people for money, for food, cloth, salt and iron, and even for officials?

If he had known that such a good thing was happening, then who would want to die under this fortified city that made Jusai strong?

The feudal Qiang, the prison sister Qiang, and the other Qiang people add up to a million in the West Sea, right?

Kill casually, won't you have money and food if you catch it?

Why bother to go to Lingju to find death again?

She Yang grabbed the sheepskin and said softly, "Fellow swordsmen, do you know when this order was given?" ”

He pointed to the time when the sheepskin was issued, and said, "Gengzi ...... in the autumn and July of the second year of Yanhe."

"More than two months ago!"

"At that time, we were still on the West Sea, and the Yue people had not yet rebelled!"

"The Han Emperor has already issued this order......"

The others listened and were stunned.

Although they are not educated, they are not stupid, how can they not understand the problem here?

The order of the Han emperor, more than two months or even three months ago, reached Hexi, arrived at Lingju, and was attached to a certain beacon platform.

But the Han people never sent anyone to talk to them.

No one even advertised it!

The question of this is naturally worth pondering.

Just thinking about it, they understood, and then their whole bodies began to tremble.

"The second division general of the Han people is treating us as grass...... "She Yang said calmly: "We came here, long in the Han people's calculations!" ”

The others lowered their heads, and the hideous, ugly man asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

"I mean ......"

"We're going to test ......"

"Send someone to take this sheepskin, take a few cat cubs, and quietly go to the Han city to see if the Han people want it, and whether they dare to ask for it!"

"If they want to ......," Sheyang licked his lips, his eyes showing a fierce look.

The same goes for everyone else.

It's just that this business can't be done by relying on a single Lingqiang.

She Yang thought for a while and said, "I'm going to talk to the witch of Prison Sister Qiang......

The prison sister Qiang, who is organized in a matrilineal society, has a shrine maiden who represents and symbolizes the mother goddess.

This shrine maiden is usually the mother or grandmother of other Hao chieftains.

For Xian Lingqiang, the feudal Qiang is a mortal enemy, and although the prison sister Qiang is also an enemy, the sequence is a little later.

It's not that you can't cooperate.