At this time, it was the twenty-seventh day of the second winter of the first two years.

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!" Meng Hu and a few Hao chiefs gathered together: "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 he attacked the city, Menghu 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, Menghu knows that the Qiang people's troops will definitely collapse!

It was not clear why the cavalry had remained still.

But Meng Hu and the others, now aware, had 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, Meng Hu 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.

The original 6,000 Moon Clan's cavalry can still move

I'm afraid less than half of them are played.

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!" Meng Hu said with a cold face: "As far as I know, the Yue's people, as well as those cat cubs and little girls, 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.

"We need to unite!!" Meng Hu said with a cold face.

The witch of the prison sister Qiang set up her camp behind a small hill.

Hundreds of warriors from prison sister Qiang firmly protected it.

Around this hill, it is densely covered with the tribe of prison sisters and Qiang.

Meng Hu, under the guidance of a well-friended prison sister, Chief Qianghao, underwent several body searches before he was able to enter the camp.

This camp is not much different from other Qiang camps.

A dome of sheepskin, made of wood, stood in the camp.

In the camp, the samurai with weapons looked at Menghu's figure with malicious eyes.

Meng Hu ignored these people and followed his friends in front of him into a vault.

As soon as you enter the dome, a strong smell of burning animal fat comes to your nose.

In the middle of the vault, a thin old woman sat there, as if she was closing her eyes.

It's just that her appearance is really scary!

A face full of wrinkles, with several shriveled sarcomas, looks like a monster, and what is even more memorable is that the nostrils in the middle of her face are empty - this is the characteristic of all prison sister Qiang's witches, every prison sister Qiang's witch will choose to take the initiative to cut off their noses in order to get closer to the mother goddess they worship!

The old woman opened her eyes slightly and asked, "Tiger cub, why did you come to the territory of the Great Mother Goddess?" ”

Meng Hu stepped forward, bowed his head and saluted: "I am here for the guidance of the tiger!" ”

"Just like the ancestral god and the mother goddess at the beginning, under the guidance of the tiger, they escaped the pursuit of the pursuers......"

"Humph!" The witch snorted disdainfully: "Don't say that you don't have these!" ”

"Mother God taught us not to trust men!"

In the myth of the prison sister Qiang, after a lot of hardships, the Wuge sword that fled from the Central Plains, after gaining a firm foothold in the Qiang land, ascended to the position of the leader, liked the new and hated the old, and was confused by the woman who raised Qiang and Xian Lingqiang, and actually made an act of abandoning the mother goddess!

The mother goddess was sad, so she led the crowd out and established a cottage of Sister Qiang.

Since then until now, Sister Qiang has been matrilineal for countless years.

Men, in prison sister Qiang, have only two roles - breeding and working.

Not to mention, all the Qiang chiefs know that for the Qiang people, the best relationship with each other is that it doesn't matter!

Because, once you get into a relationship, for better or worse, the end result is likely to be a big battle!

Meng Hu listened, and he didn't have half an opinion, because this is the consensus of all Qiang people for countless years - alliance? Join your sister! Between the different species of Qiang people, there are barriers thicker than high mountains.

Like Sister Qiang and Xian Lingqiang, in addition to being called Qiang people, culture, beliefs, customs and structures are completely different things.

Under normal circumstances, when a prison sister Qiang and a feudal Qiang meet in the wild, it must be a situation where the white knife enters and the red knife comes out, and you live and die.

It is only under special circumstances such as today that one can barely breathe the same air under one sky.

Therefore, he also got up directly and said with a smile: "It's still a witch who is refreshing, then I'll make a long story short......"

"I am here to represent the son of the great tiger...... Menghu straightened his waist, extremely serious, and said with a holy face: "To the descendants of the great mother goddess, pass on a message ......"

"Say!" The shrine maiden looked up and looked at Menghu.

"The emperor of the Han Dynasty, more than two months ago, once gave an order to the second division general of the Han Dynasty......" Meng Hu said slowly, repeating what he knew.

When the witch and all the shamans and chieftains of the prison sisters in the tent heard this, all of them immediately turned their heads to each other.

The long siege of the city left almost all the Qiang tribes exhausted and suffered heavy losses.

Thousands of people died under the high walls of Ling Jusai alone.

In addition, the lack of food also made them anxious.

It's not that there is no way to retreat, Sister Qiang has already withdrawn her troops!

Most of the Qiang people have already run away.

The Qiang people had never fought such a strong and resilient city in their history, and they had a feeling of powerlessness and even despair in the face of the fortress of Lingju.

Now, the news brought by Menghu shocked them!

"Do the Han people really have such an order?" The shrine maiden asked incredulously.

"Really!" Meng Hu bowed his head and said, "I just don't know, the Han people in Lingju will admit it......"

As soon as he said this, the Hao chieftains of Sister Qiang suddenly began to be anxious again.

Meng Hu hurriedly reassured them and said, "Don't worry, I have already sent a few Wuge and brought a few fire slaves to Ling Ju ......."

"In another hour or two, you will almost be able to know the attitude of the Han people!"

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Lingjusai.

Not too tall under the city walls, corpses are everywhere.

The crows in the mountains, clattering from the sky, landed on the battlefield, and soon fought for carrion and detritus.

The ground was littered with broken wooden shields and broken armor, as well as a large number of arrows digging deep into the soil.

In the distance, you can also see that more than a dozen shield carts built by the Yueshi people with wood to attack the city are scattered on the ground.

The huge crossbow arrows directly pierced the fragile front edge of the wooden structures of these shield carts, and after the powerful kinetic energy tore them apart, the castration continued unabated, directly penetrating several Yueshi people who were pushing the shield carts forward.

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In the distance, you can vaguely see the big flags and flags scattered on the field.

Several wounded and undead horses lay on their backs in a low-lying area, dying and struggling.

A few Qiang people walked tremblingly in this battlefield.

They looked at the world before them, and their eyes were full of horror and horror.

A month's siege of the city gave these people their first taste of what modern warfare is? What is the war of the Han Chinese?

In everyone's eyes, they can't help but recall what they have seen and heard in the past few days.

At the head of the city, the Han crossbowmen squatted in rows, and under the command of the commander, they kept shooting.

The dense rain of arrows came one after another, and the unlucky people were constantly hit by the arrows, wailing and falling, and weeping.

But these people are lucky.

The most miserable people are those who push the instruments of merit.

At the head of the city of Lingju, the head of the city like the devil, the heavy ballistas of the Han people were set aside one by one.

Dozens of people pulled the winch apart, and then mounted a heavy arrow several feet long and weighing several pounds on the ballista, and then under the command of the officer, the quadruple noose was completely opened, and the huge bowstring creaked and creaked.

And then, bam!

The huge winch was released, the powerful kinetic energy was released instantly, and the heavy arrows flew out of the city with a roar, stringing together rows of people, and penetrating the Qiang people and Yueshi people one by one.

And the target of their attack is those who push shield carts, rush carts, carry wooden ladders, and hold shields.

These crowds are large, easy to hit, and very threatening!

The heavy crossbows of the Han people were specifically aimed at these crowds to attack.

The attacking troops, finally braving the rain of arrows, dodged the attack of the heavy crossbows, and walked to the Lingju City Fortress.

They filled the moat of the reiju with corpses, sand, and wood, and then rushed to the city walls with shouts and howls.

They thought they would be victorious and at least climb to the top of the city.

But in fact, the real purgatory has only just begun.

At the head of the city, hot oil poured down like raindrops.

Like ants, the crowd that climbed upwards with various tools and even with their hands immediately screamed and fell down one after another.

And between the hot oil, there are stones that fall from above.

Then, there are round sassal trees.

The first group of siege troops were killed and wounded in an instant.

But the disaster is far from over!

Almost at the same time as the wood fell, thousands of archers walked to the head of the Han city, and they took excellent bows and arrows, aiming at their enemies one by one, shooting point by point.

Even so, there are still people who have escaped this disaster and climbed to the top of the city.

But he was greeted not by victory, but by a sharp-handled ring-headed sword..............................

In the end, the siege troops could no longer sustain, so they had to roll with each other, and under the rain of arrows of the Han people, they retreated with rolling and crawling, leaving corpses all over the ground.

Some Yue nobles once privately estimated that for every hundred people killed by the coalition army, only three or five of the Han people died.

Just thinking of this, the fear in the eyes of these Qiang people is even higher.

But they can only bite the bullet and move forward.

Because that's the only way to live.

That devilish city is their last hope!

Otherwise, they will starve to death and freeze to death in this field.

The corpse becomes food for crows, vultures, and even the residue of the stomach of a companion!

And that's not the worst of all!

The worst outcome is to retreat from this wilderness to the West Sea Plateau, on the vast frozen soil, to snatch food from children and grandchildren, and to snatch food from the mouths of those children and women who stay in the cottage!

Therefore, they had to cheer each other on, encourage each other, and approach the terrifying Ling Jusai step by step.

As they advanced, the soldiers on the Ling Sei naturally spotted them immediately.

"Captain, there are a few Qiang sneaky people coming to us......" Someone immediately asked the officer on duty: "Do you want to shoot them?" ”

The officer on duty poked his head out, observed for a while, shook his head and said, "Wait a minute, see what they want to do?" ”

So, under the watchful eyes of the defenders, these people approached step by step and arrived under Lingjusai.

"What do you want, what do you want?" The officer on duty shouted loudly, and at the same time he held the saber at his waist, ready to give the order to attack.

The language he used to shout was pure and incomparably pure Han official dialect, the kind that didn't even have a Hexi accent, even in Chang'an, it was considered a standard!

As for the sneaky Qiang people under the city, can they understand?

What does it have to do with him?

For him, the reason why these people are approached is purely boring and funny.

The shouting and warning is out of education and conscience.

Confucius said: Although it is ruined, it cannot be abandoned!

But at the same time, Confucius and his old man also said: Yidi has a king, and it is not as good as the death of Zhuxia.

The contemporary three views are all Yidi, all of them are beasts walking on two legs.

Therefore, if they don't understand the official language, then there is no need to rescue them - a scum who can't even understand Yayu must be distracted from the Han family and have no Chinese beasts!

Besides, when two armies are at war, there is no such thing as mercy.

Fortunately, among these Qiang people, there are really people who understand.

I saw a man who replied loudly: "Chinese gentleman, Chinese gentleman, please listen to the slave maid, please listen to the slave maid!" ”

He raised an object in his hand, knelt down and kowtowed, and said, "I am the envoy of the Qiang tribe, and the leader of my family, Pyer, is waiting to deliver a message!" ”

"The slave has admired China for a long time, and he specially cut the anti-Han lowly race to offer, hoping that the gentleman will be gracious! Mercy! ”

The lieutenant listened, his eyes widened, he didn't expect this result at all.

He looked left and right and asked, "What do you think?" ”

They looked at each other left and right, and they both felt a little headache.