Chapter 446: Out of the Sai First Settle on the North Diqiang
Three days after Duan Xuan's return, about 5,000 Qiang horsemen gathered outside Fuping County, Beidi County, and a total of more than 20 tribal chiefs or chiefs' sons led troops to listen to Duan Cheng's meeting.
As soon as the chieftains of these tribes arrived in Fuping County, they immediately brought only their entourage to the county office to visit Duan Cheng, and the appearance of sincere fear was enough to surprise Fuquan, and the secret way was really as Jia Xu said, if Duan Cheng was in Liangzhou, the Qiang people did not have the courage to rebel at all, after all, the various achievements created by Duan Cheng when he was in Pingqiang were really too terrifying.
Knowing that there were still some Qianghu cowering in the tribe and not bringing troops to attach, Fuquan naturally couldn't bear it, and the army newly recruited Qianghu soldiers, so he naturally needed people to train and integrate his troops.
Moreover, purging them, on the one hand, can deter the Qiang people in the north, reduce the Qianghu forces, and prevent them from having a heart of disobedience after knowing that the Han army went out to conquer Xianbei; On the other hand, it can also perfectly use the name of purging Qianghu to confuse the Xianbei spies who came to find out the true intentions of the Han army in the northland, so it is naturally a top priority to eliminate these disobedient Qianghu.
On August 5th, Dahanba County guarded Fuquan, held the festival, marched to the northern general's military, led the Yue cavalry captain Duan Cheng and other 8,000 cavalry, and first Lingqiang Hu miscellaneous cavalry more than 5,000 horses, out of the north, straight into the land of Xiqiang first Lingqiang. The Han army rode everyone on horseback, gave up the felt tent of cattle and horses, and walked lightly, only one day and night, and went deep into the Qiang land for more than 200 miles.
Two days later, the army entered the nearest Qiang Lu ten miles away, looking at the Qiang Lu Lu in front of him, Fu Quan sneered, this is the nearest Qiang Hu settlement that did not listen to Duan Cheng's order and came to rely on the Han army.
According to the attached Qianghu chieftain, there are 1,200 Qianghu settlements in this place, and "Luo" refers to "Luluo", which is equivalent to the "household" in the "hukou" of the Han Dynasty. Of course, unless there is a border war and population loss in the Han Dynasty, the household registration is mostly counted as a household of five, but the Qianghu is more than ten or twenty people, and the least is seven or eight people, so this Qianghu Dalu is also the overlord of the near and far side, with tens of thousands of people and nearly 10,000 soldiers.
Today, this big house can't rely on the Han army, so they can only wait for the Han army to let them know that there is no medicine in the world called regret medicine.
The Qiang people ride horses more, and advocate attack, plus the Qiang village rarely has serious defensive measures, in addition to the foot soldiers patrolling around, there are only those corner towers with archers, this time the elite of the Han army is exhausted, and there are Qiang Hu and Hu as servants, Fuquan is naturally fearless, and there is Duan Gong this military god is there, so even if the Han army sees that the opposite Qiang village has a defense, it is not afraid at all, and they have carried out pre-war strong attack preparations under the command of the captain Sima of each department.
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
……
As the sharp sword in Fuquan's right hand fell, the soldiers of the Han army shouted loudly and steadily advanced to the front of the Qiang village.
Yes, the Han army was advancing steadily, and was not in a hurry to advance, because there were more rapid Qianghu cavalry, roaring towards the opposite Qiang village. They are the cannon fodder recruited by the Han army, and they are also the main force used by the Han army to train troops this time, for Fuquan, who does not want his elite to be damaged in the Qianghu camp, it is naturally his best choice to use the Qiang people to attack the Qiang people.
Before deciding to capture the Qiang village, Fuquan had already negotiated with more than 20 commanders of the Qiang and Hu tribes who had surrendered to the Han army, and they were the vanguard of the attack
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, the population of the village is divided by Zhuqiang.
These Qiang tribes who joined the Han army were originally mostly small and medium-sized tribes, and they naturally did not dare to refuse the task of being cannon fodder because they were afraid of Duan Cheng and the Han army's momentum. What's more, the Han army may have promised to give up all the population in the village to the Qiang people, which is even more of a motivation for them to refuse, because every Qiang tribe wants to grow stronger and gain a firm foothold in the Qiang.
And if you want to grow, the most important point is not anything else, only the population of their tribe, now that the Han army has put such a big gift in front of them, how can they not accept it? Even if they knew that they were cannon fodder, they had no complaints, because they knew that under the attack of themselves and the Han army, the Qiang village on the opposite side would have only one end, and after the village was broken, it would completely disappear from this world.
Seeing the Han army Qiang cavalry wearing Qiang clothes outside the village surging forward, the Qiang Hu guarding the village on the city tower did not care whether the opposite side was his own clan at this moment, and took out the bow and arrow in his hand and shot at the surging Han army Qiang cavalry.
However, they shot arrows with pleasure, but the bows and crossbows suppressed by the Han army were not bad at all, and soon after they shot arrows, the arrows from the rear of the Han army also shot towards the city tower. All of a sudden, many archers from Qiang Village were shot down the city tower by the arrows of the Han army, fell heavily to the ground, and completely lost their lives.
In fact, this battle has already had a result, not the Qiang archers defending the city, how many arrows in their hands can be decided, only to hear the sound of "bang", the originally strong walled gate, under the impact of the Qiang cavalry fearless of death, was directly broken by the impact of the huge horse impact, and then heard the Han army in the rear shouted in Chinese, with strong morale, accelerated the pace of their march into the camp.
"The Han army is mighty!"
"Kill!"
"Kill into Qiang Village, those who dare to resist, don't hesitate to kill!"
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When the Han army rushed into the camp, the village was already in chaos at this moment, and it looked like countless Qiang people were killing each other, and there was a great force that could not distinguish between friend and foe.
Fortunately, when he came, Fuquan ordered the Han army Zhuqiang to tie it with a red cloth on his chest, and its color was similar to the tassel of the Han army, but it would not be too messy. In addition, the Qiang cavalry of the Han army also deliberately avoided it when they saw the Han army, but fought with other Qiang people who were not tied with red cloths, but there was no accidental killing.
Since the Zhaimen was breached, this battle was also doomed, with the Zhaimen being breached, the Han army's iron cavalry was all armed with heavy charges, and the Qiang soldiers in the Qiang village did not have much victory at all. After all, now is not the era when they were able to confront the powerful Han army nearly a hundred years ago by relying on rudimentary weapons and the courage to not be afraid of death.
After the Qiang people in the village were broken, most of them were unwilling to be captured, and gathered in groups to resist. The cavalry of the Han army, under the leadership of the commander Sima of each department, rushed left and right, and when they saw that most of the Qiang people were resisting, they ran to wherever they went, rushed and killed until they were defeated, and then went to find another target to ensure that the Qiang people could not effectively concentrate their forces and not give them any chance to turn the tables.
If the Han army does not choose to use cannon fodder to break through the gate in order to save time, but builds siege equipment by itself, the Qiang people will only be defeated faster.