Su Dingfang took a piece of suede and wiped his Imperial Shang Fang sword.

It is said that only eighteen knives can be made in a year, and each one is a one-of-a-kind artifact. This is a Shang Fang imperial creation exclusively for the emperor.

It was a great honor for the courtiers to get a Shang Fang Imperial Sword. Especially now that the emperor gives his courtiers a sword, he will give him a sacred privilege.

"Fine Seal Rhino, do you know the name of this knife?"

The fine seal rhino looked at the knife, "It seems to be a horse chopping knife!" ”

"That's right, this knife is a horse chopping knife, also called Shang Fang chopping horse sword, built by the master craftsman of Shang Fang Fang in the palace, the best of the best. What's more precious is that it was given by the emperor. When His Majesty gave me this knife, he once said that with this knife, I can cut down to three grades. Fine seal rhino, your position is the Taishou of Mi County, for the four products, the lord is the false uncle, and the four products are the four products. ”

The blade is like a mirror, and it is extremely bright.

The fine seal rhino couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle.

"Marshal, the fine seal rhino is willing to be the head of the forward, and he will not be a minister."

"Do you think Ben Shuai can believe you? Will you rebel against the court again at the first opportunity, or even fight back on the battlefield? ”

"There is no double heart in the fine sealing department!"

"Get up, Ben Shuai will give you another chance, but this is only one chance, cherish it. If you dare to have the slightest rebellious heart, then you will be exterminating the species, and no one will be left, and Ben Shuai will do what he says. If you are loyal to the imperial court and the Emperor Wutian of Shengwen Shenwutian, you can still continue to be your Taishou from Sipin Jishi County, and maybe you can change from a fictitious earl to a real earl because of merit! ”

Return the knife to the sheath.

The father and son of the fine seal finally breathed a sigh of relief, at that moment just now, the fine seal rhino really felt that the head of the Qin army wanted to kill him.

"Xifeng Taishou, this time my Qin sent troops to Xishan, and there is still a lack of cadres around the commander, so why don't you ask Xifeng Taishou to temporarily serve as the marching Sima of my Xishan marching camp, how about it?"

After going through the round just now, how dare he resist at all, and nodded his head.

"Very good, I see that the young patriarch of the fine seal is also brave and strategic, so I will award the young patriarch of the fine seal as the vanguard of our battalion, and lead the warriors of the fine seal department as the vanguard, okay?"

Now he didn't dare to put one of them, knowing that Su Dingfang was going to take him hostage and let his son play as a striker, but he didn't dare to object, he just nodded blindly.

"Hahaha, the fine seal Taishou is really refreshing, I, Su Lie, just like refreshing people." Su Dingfang smiled and pulled up the fine seal rhino father, and personally untied them, and helped them pat the footprints and dust on their bodies.

Over there, Tang Jian was packing up his things and preparing to leave, going back to Chang'an to impeach Su Dingfang, but he heard that Su Dingfang had released the fine seal father and son again.

"Where do you want to go? I would also like to ask you to stay and serve as the pioneer envoy of the fine seal. ”

Su Dingfang came in with a smile.

Tang Jian didn't have a good face, "Since you want to release it, why did you attack it just now?" Isn't that redundant? ”

Su Dingfang said, "These Qiang people have always bullied the weak and feared the hard, and they respect the strong the most, although they said that they surrendered, they occupied Jiacheng and other places and refused to return them, making it clear that they were half-hearted, I led the army to raid and capture this city, but also to teach him a good lesson to deter him, let him know that my Great Qin is strong, you see that he is now very honest?" ”

"But Su Dudu is not afraid that this will make these people resentful?"

"Hmph, do you really think any of those Qiangyi are truly attached? No, there won't be one, they are only attached because they are afraid of the strength of my Great Qin, they were previously attached to the powerful Tubo, and now they are afraid of my Great Qin's retaliation, so they want to turn their heads and join my Great Qin, but these people will never be sincerely attached, and when they have the opportunity, they will still think about betrayal and make trouble. Therefore, for these people, they have to be used, but they also have to be careful, I am here, the strategy of the imperial court is to recover the occupied territory in the west and west of Jiannan, and at the same time to go deep into the Xishan, while fighting and pulling, to be both graceful and powerful, to pull the Xishan Qiang Yi to the side of the imperial court, and set the Xishan Qiang land as a county of the county. ”

"We must slowly detain all these Qiang people, put a frame on them, formulate rules, and tie them up, so that they can no longer get out of the control of the imperial court, and in the future, little by little, they will have to build roads and cities, garrison troops and immigrants, until the Qiang land is completely included in the direct rule, you are a civil servant, these things should be clearer and more understanding than me."

Tang Jian put down the clothes in his hand and sat down again.

"I understand what you said, but I think you are still acting too recklessly, and the fine seal department has obviously been attached, so there is no need to come to this one."

"Okay, I won't argue with you about this, and you don't have to rush back to sue me, and it's the same if you want to sue later. Now stay first, you are more familiar with the fine seal Bu Lai, you go to be his long history, it can be regarded as half of the prison army, I will send some officers and soldiers to you, you master the fine seal department. In this Qiang land in the western mountains, if you want to fight with the Qiang people, you still have to use their set of tactics. ”

Su Dingfang has come all the way and has fully felt the difference here.

First of all, the terrain is too difficult and dangerous, the logistics and transportation will be extremely difficult, this time, are to use goats to transport grain, this is also a practice of the Qiang people, the grain on the back of the goats can be supplied to the army, goats are also military food, there are many roads, even the pony in Shu is difficult to climb, but the goats can walk on the ground.

Just like the Qiang soldiers brought by Shen Guang, these people are not wearing armor, carrying a short bow and carrying a knife, climbing the mountains as if walking on the ground, very fierce.

In comparison, the Qin army of the Central Plains brought by Su Dingfang was not very suitable for the terrain and climate here, especially the cavalry of the Central Plains, which was difficult to use here.

"I am going to rebuild Jiacheng County here, increase the garrison of soldiers and horses, and set up military and civilian tuns to control Minshan and Minjiang. Then regain Wenshan County to the south, drive Zhuqiang to the west of Qionglai Mountain, in the west of Wenshan County, on the east side of Qionglai Mountain, in the main road of the Zahe Valley, build another city, and hold the east of Qionglai Mountain. ”

The two places selected by Su Dingfang are both strategic places and important passages for Zhuqiang to enter Jiannan.

At the Zahe Valley in the south, the snow in Longshan Mountain is like jade in the north, and Chengdu is like the bottom of the well in the east. It not only controls the main road, faces the river on three sides, but also occupies the high ground, which has a tendency to subduct into the Chengdu Plain, which is very important.

Su Dingfang, a person with great strategic vision, suddenly saw that the key to defending Jiannanxi was to pacify the Xishan Zhuqiang, and to pacify the Xishan Zhuqiang, especially to prevent them from being capricious, the key was to guard Jiacheng in Pingchang County and this miscellaneous river valley in Wenshan County.

Jiacheng County has been in hand, but Qionglai Shandong is still in the hands of the Qiang people, in fact, it has been the territory of the Qiang people for several dynasties, and it can even be said that in fact, the power of the Central Plains Dynasty has not expanded to the foot of Qionglai Mountain.

And this time, Su Dingfang took a fancy to an important place here, not only to take back the original territory of Wenshan County, but also to take over the eastern slope that he had never owned, and garrison the city here, and Tuntian to defend it.

"If we build a city and garrison troops in these two places, our army will be in an invincible position, and we can attack and retreat and defend, and the grain reserves in the rear will be transported and the output of the military tun will be able to support the long-term garrison and campaign."

Qionglai Mountain is also the watershed of the Luojiang River and the Dadu River, the upper reaches of the Dadu River are from the source under the Dajishi Mountain, through the Dangxiang Qiang territory, into the Mi Sang, Chun Sang and other departments, and then go south, into the large and small Jinchuan River, the area of the large and small Jinchuan is the East Nu Kingdom and other Qiang departments.

Further south is the section of the Dadu River, which enters Shu to the east, and finally joins the Luojiang River.

The Dadu River is bordered by Qionglai Mountain to the east and the Daxue Mountain to the west. To the west of the Great Snow Mountain is the south of the mountain where the Yalong River arose in Tibet.

However, from Qionglai Mountain to Dadu River to Daxue Mountain, this section is also the most difficult and harsh geographical environment, even if an ambitious general like Su Dingfang can only sigh in the face of these dangerous mountains and valleys and the Qiangyi tribes. If you want to clear this area, it is impossible to estimate it in one or two decades.

So at the beginning, Su Dingfang didn't think about deciding Xishan in a battle, and his plan was to build a fortress on the bank of the Luojiang River first, at the gateway, so that he could attack, retreat, and defend. Then slowly Tuzhi, along several river valleys, continue to advance to build castles, garrison soldiers and horses, and at the same time tuntian, through such a devouring strategy, to slowly control this area.

Of course, it would be better if there were tribes like the Fine Seal Department who were willing to join and take the lead for the Qin army.

"I have sent someone to send a letter to Governor Feng Xiaoci of Qinghai Province, requesting that Qinghai Province send troops from the north of Dajishi Mountain to respond, and cooperate with the attack on the Tuoba Division."

Su Dingfang and Tang Jian's thoughts are actually the same, in the Xishan Zhuqiang, the party is the most powerful. If you want to level Xishan, you must first level the party. But none of them thought of directly recruiting party items to attack other Xiaoqiang, but first took the party items to attack.

Otherwise, once the party is recruited and other Xiaoqiang are equalized, the result may be that the party is sitting big in the West Mountain, and it will be more difficult to control it in the future. Therefore, the imperial court wants to separate the strong from the weak and take the strongest party first.

But it is not a direct attack on the party, but an internal division, recruiting the second strongest party department, and first joining forces to destroy the strongest Tuoba department, so that the Qin army also has a helper, and the party's strength can also be greatly reduced.

"Our army will be divided into three divisions next, and I will lead an army to Tun Jiacheng and build a new city here, so as to attack and defend the base camp on the northern front. General Shen Guang would lead an army south to recruit and attack the west of Wenshan as far as Zhuqiang on the east side of Qionglai Mountain, and then build a new large city there and garrison it. ”

"You and the fine seal Bu Lai led 5,000 of his fine seal troops, and I sent two generals, Qi Bi He Li and Zhi Si Failure, each commanding the troops, a total of 8,000 soldiers to attack with you."

This made Tang Jian a little surprised, he was just a member of the Ministry of Rites, but now he was asked to lead the troops.

"You are optimistic about the fine seal Bu Lai, and is responsible for recruiting the Qiang along the way, this should be your strength, as for the command of the army, there is the fine seal of the Bu Lai to command the Qiang soldiers, there is the contract must be He Li and the two generals who are stubborn and weak to command my Qin army, you don't have to worry. The three generals are united in the army, and you are responsible for coordination, and if there is a dispute, you will listen to the advice of the deed. At this time, Tang Jian understood that he was the nominal commander of the way, but he was actually responsible for the task of recruiting Zhuqiang and coordinating the three generals.

"Why doesn't the Governor personally command the troops?"

"Ben Shuai is sitting here, it is more important, pacifying the Qiang Department in the rear, raising and transporting grain and grass, and ensuring the supply of baggage, but it will not be simple, Ben will be in the center to respond to the command, rather than personally acting as the vanguard."

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