Chapter Twenty-Four: The Qiang People Take the City

Everything was arranged, and the day of the official handover of the tiger talisman came, and Zhai Yi boarded the simple point of the general platform for the transfer of military power and accepted the worship of the ten thousand troops.

For his own army, Zhai Yi is very satisfied, he has endured hardships and seen blood, as long as the equipment can keep up, it is completely an elite division.

is the so-called three fires for new officials, Zhai Yi understands this truth, he brought a lot of money tickets with him before he came, and he specially exchanged it for copper coins a few days ago.

Huang Cancan's copper coin fell to the ground, and the manpower was half-through, and the core general took the lead and shouted: "Thank you, Lord reward." The group of people behind him chanted, which felt so cool that Zhai Yi could wake up laughing in his dreams.

"Get up, as long as you are loyal to me, the reward will never be missing."

"Swear allegiance to your lordship. Swear allegiance to your lordship. The shouts of the army shook the sky, and Zhai Yi's whole person was full of passion, so he burned a second fire on the spot, announcing that the army would rest for three days and play as much as he wanted.

People sometimes always suffer from gains and losses, such as now, after the surging passion, Zhai Yi began to worry, the army is there, but how can he move the army back to Hedong County unknowingly.

There are at least 20,000 or 30,000 people in these 8,000 troops.

In the main hall, Zhai Yi was already sitting on the main seat unconsciously, Cheng Yong and Liu Xiu were sitting below, and Pang Meng, the little brother, was naturally standing behind Liu Xiu.

Around the whole migration topic, Liu Xiu, Cheng Yong, and Zhai Yi all fell into their own small circles and put forward different opinions, and everyone quarreled for three days, and finally decided to use Cheng Yong's method to lure the Qiang people to seize the city and create chaos.

At the beginning, the leader of the Qiang tribe was willing to take the Han Dynasty's military force and greedy for money, so he led the tribe of 12,000 people to leave, and it has been nearly two years now. The Qiang herdsmen were forced to have no choice but to take cattle and sheep to Xihai County for grazing, but each time they were driven away by the border army of Xihai County, and in the past few days, the border army of Xihai County has turned the drive into a massacre.

Cheng Yong, Liu Xiu, and Zhai Yi led the team to kill and rob several times, but the Qiang people were really afraid of the Han Dynasty and did not dare to fight back at all, but ordered the herdsmen not to go to Xihai County to graze, and even sent gold and silver in the hope that Cheng Yong could dissipate his anger.

Cheng Yong, Liu Xiu, and Zhai Yi thought about it and thought of a way, it was useless to kill the herdsmen, so they chopped the leader to the general line, so they left the messenger to play for a few days, and even returned to the post, and warmly invited the leader to come to the county guard mansion for friendship.

Conscience was extremely reluctant to come to Xihai County but was afraid that Cheng Yong would not give up, so he could only stubbornly take a team of guards to the meeting, and the result was obvious, Liangyuan was killed, and his head was hung on the city gate along with the guards to detonate the hatred of the Qiang people.

When the Qiang chieftains Pang Tian and Fu Wan learned that the leader had been killed, they immediately called on the rest of the chiefs to gather, wear linen and filial piety, and lead all the young and strong people in the headquarters to fight to the death with Cheng Yong.

"Report! Pang Tian and Fu Wan, the Qiang people, led the army to capture the five counties of Xiuyuan, Jianqiang, Xingwu, Junqing, and Shunli, and they could reach the county seat Longyi at the latest. ”

"After a month of going back and forth, this group of Qiang people finally came." As soon as Zhai Yi finished speaking, another general came to report that the people of Xihai County had withdrawn seven or eight out of ten, and the rest of the people would all be evacuated tonight. ”

"Everything is ready, in order to avoid Wang Mang's suspicion, it is time for me to set off." Cheng Yong stood up and said goodbye to Liu Xiu and Zhai Yi, he had to hurry up and run to Linjun for help.

"Uncle Cheng, you must be careful along the way, Wang Mang is not easy to deceive."

"I know where I'm going, but please don't let me down." Cheng Yong said goodbye and only took away the eight guards who followed him when he came.

Sometimes the plan always does not change quickly, Cheng Yong, Liu Xiu, and Zhai Yi always feel that things are under control, but the development of events has given them a slap in the face, the Qiang army has long been divided into two routes, one led by Fu Wan as smoke, and the other led by Pang Tian, and the rapid march detour is waiting in front of the front.

Cheng Yong rushed to Linjun with his personal guards, but was blocked by Pang Tian halfway, and he didn't even fight, and when a rain of arrows fell, five of the eight personal guards became hedgehogs, and Cheng Yong himself suffered two arrows.

"Turn around and go back, naturally someone will clean them up." Cheng Yong turned the horse's head and kept spurring the horse to escape from the Qiang people's pursuit.

The two sides chased me for about twenty miles, and then they encountered the evacuation army of Xihai County, and a group of soldiers saw that the former lord would be chased and killed by the Qiang people, and immediately bent their bows to meet the battle.

The night was not very bright, and it was very difficult to shoot the enemy accurately, but the blind cats all encountered dead rats, not to mention the rain of arrows, and some unlucky Qiang people were shot dead on the spot.

"Array, meet the enemy." With the shouting, the front army was in full formation, shouting slogans and slowly pushing closer. As soon as the armies of the two sides came into contact, Pang Tian realized that something was wrong, the combat power of the Xihai County army was off the charts, and they were completely pressed and beaten, and the two thousand troops led by him were actually shattered by 800 people.

"Withdraw, withdraw."

The Qiang ran away, and everything went according to plan again. Zhai Yi led the army and the people to all turn into refugees after leaving the Longyi territory, and rushed to Linjun.

As for Cheng Yong, he did not go with the people who turned into refugees, but rushed to the Linjun Shoufu again with his personal guards.

While receiving Cheng Yong, the Linjun Taishou shouted that the Qiang people were bold, but he did not dare to act rashly, so he could only order the soldiers and horses to start the defense and submit an urgent document of 800 miles to the Chang'an Imperial City to ask for instructions.

Eight hundred miles to rush to submit the paperwork, this back and forth will take at least two weeks, if you wait for the order of the Chang'an Imperial City to come again, the daylily is already cold. Liu Xiu, who was hiding in the city, was very disdainful of this kind of process, and he reminded himself that he must get rid of this bad habit when he is in power in the future, and give the border generals a certain amount of authority.

Knowing how the border army dealt with it in the event of war, Liu Xiu had no excuse to stay, so he left with Zhai Yi.

Because of the horses, Zhai Yi and Liu Xiu soon returned to Hedong County, and the two of them took turns to appear at the city gate every day, paying attention to the return of the army.

At that time, there were only about 7,000 of the 8,000 troops who really came to Hedong County, and the rest had disappeared, although Zhai Yi had a small loss in his heart, but looking back, these people who stayed behind were the people who returned to their hearts, and those who left halfway should not be.

For his own army, Zhai Yi has already chosen a place to resettle, which is in a valley more than ten miles outside the city. In order to hide people's eyes, he also deliberately released the news, saying that a branch of a family in a certain place came to Hedong County to take root and build a village.

In addition to releasing the news, Zhai Yi also held a large-scale welcome ceremony and led the magistrate of Hedong County to congratulate, and the head of this branch, who didn't know it, was shocked when he saw it, and he was just a teenager.

Although the age of the family is not very old, judging from his words and deeds, he should be the son of the family who lost the battle.