Chen Zhen led the cavalry of Gu Zang Garrison out of the city to the south, entered Wuwei County and stopped for a day, almost at the same time, the cavalry of Wuxing and Wuwei County also gathered one after another. A little later, Xin Peng and Xie Ai, who received Zhang Yuanjun's order, also sent all the cavalry of Guangwu County to the north one day later, and the cavalry of several cavalry communicated regularly with each other, intending to find out these captives who had entered the state border and wipe them out.

Li Yanzhi knew that with his own men and horses, it would be difficult to pose any threat to the enemy cavalry heading west, and at the same time as the whole army was marching, he also sent several cavalry soldiers all the way to the north, and then galloped to the state to govern, so that the movement of the captives and cavalry that had just been judged could be informed to the rest of the troops in time. At present, it seems inevitable that the various departments of the state will encircle and suppress this captive cavalry. And Li Yanzhi also believes that everything he has done before will be fermented and brewed in the near future, and he will reap the results he wants.

If the rangers sent by Liu Yin this time did not achieve the results he wanted or expected, and the actions of the Qiang people reached his ears, Li Yanzhi had no doubt that this narrow-minded and arrogant king of Nanyang would use thunderous means to rectify those Qiang in Longxi. And that's exactly what he expects to see.

For the current situation of insufficient population in Liangzhou, where the labor and military resources are extremely limited, it is impossible for the scholars to spit out the shade in their mouths, so they can only try this. By attracting and accepting ethnic minorities such as Diqiang who have flowed into the state, we will enrich the labor force and soldiers.

Regarding the turmoil and unrest that will be caused by the internal migration of foreign races, he also has a lot of thought in his heart. The Western Jin Dynasty is a vivid example: since the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, the Southern Xiongnu and their slaves who were attached to the north moved inward together and gradually settled in the Central Plains. With the Eastern Han Dynasty's action to defeat the Qiang military group, the Qiang people in Longxi also moved inward to live with the Han people.

After the Three Kingdoms, until the Western Jin Dynasty, most of the scholars of Xu were on the political stage, forming a "gate lord politics" that overturned the monarchy, and the landlord class of the scholars in power became extravagant. And the growing family business requires a lot of labor. Under this demand, the social atmosphere of buying and selling Hu people as slaves became a common practice.

The hearts of those Hu who were oppressed and bought and sold as slaves sowed the seeds of hatred for the Jin Dynasty because of this. coincided with the Western Jin Dynasty clans, and the world-famous "Eight Kings Rebellion" broke out. The kings of each sect attacked each other, and the war was endless. And the Sima clan's Zhuzong king's own troops were consumed, so they started the idea of the Hu people again. They handed over their swords to these Hu people, who were extremely inferior in their eyes, in the hope that through them, they could accumulate a certain degree of military superiority for themselves.

Once opened, this Pandora's box can never be closed. The Hu people, who had a long-standing grudge against the Jin Dynasty, seized this opportunity and the Hun Liu Yuan took the lead in unveiling it. Immediately, the "begging army" composed of bankrupt peasants displaced by the attack of the Eight Kings, and the local warlords of the Western Jin Dynasty with a high degree of autonomy, appeared on the stage, and the head of the city changed into a great king's flag. The most turbulent chapter in the history of China has been written.

The example of failure is already in front of him, and Li Yanzhi naturally can't turn a blind eye to it. However, he always believed that no matter what nationality it is, what the people at the bottom of the population want is nothing more than a very humble vision of a stable life, being able to be fed and clothed. If a regime wants to maintain the stability and longevity of its rule, the first issue that needs to be considered is people's livelihood.

One of the factors that cannot be eliminated is that there are always some leaders of these ethnic groups who are half-minded and try to profit from the turmoil. For these people, in terms of strategy and practice, it is relatively simple: that is, to favor these so-called tribal leaders with preferential treatment. Instead, all its people were resettled to live with the Han people, and the Hu and Han intermarriages were encouraged through policies, and the Hu people changed customs. In this way, within three generations, these inward migrating tribes will no longer have the distinction between Hu and Han.

The plans are interlocking though. However, Li Yanzhi understands that in the implementation process, no matter how good and perfect the plan is, it will have its flaws. It's just that this kind of variable is not something he can expect at the moment. Now is to prepare for all kinds of things, and then in the upcoming things, find problems and solve them.

It was a very uncomfortable feeling to march at night and not be able to light it with torches. Tao Heng had to send a few soldiers with good eyesight to open the way ahead. The rest of the cavalry lined up and continued along the footsteps of their predecessors. After all, in this era, it is not a strange thing that quite a lot of soldiers are blind in this dark night.

This team of men and horses traveled more than ten miles, and it took nearly an hour. Tao Heng knew that this was what it was like to travel in the dark at night, but he was not in a hurry. However, just as the team continued to move forward slowly, the cavalry who were exploring the way ahead saw two sentry horses galloping back from a distance ahead. After seeing their own team, the two dismounted and galloped to Li and Tao, and a horseman was full of anxiety between the words: "Yu Changshi, Tao Bairen General, ten miles ahead, there are traces of the captive horse!" ”

"Do thieves have sentry horses? Have your whereabouts ever been exposed? Tao Heng waited for the horseman's voice to fall, and immediately asked. The horseman who reported the news took a few breaths before saying: "We have been walking through the mountains and forests all the way, and we have encountered several patrolling thieves and sentinels, but they have all avoided it from a distance. The whereabouts should have not been revealed. ”

"Can you see the camp of the captives? I don't know where it is? Li Yanzhi immediately asked. The horseman's tone was a little eager: "The subordinates approached the place where the captives were at the risk of death, but they saw that the captives were besieging a group of troops. Those parts seem to be escorting a car, but I don't know where they come from. ”

"Driver?" Li Yanzhi changed color a little, when Tao Heng led his troops to pursue the thief before, Li Yanzhi also knew about the corpse of the noble girl found on the side of the road, and for some reason, after he heard the news reported by the sentry horseman, the voice and smile of Su Xiaoniang suddenly appeared in his mind.

"What about those parts?" Li Yanzhi felt anxious in his heart, and even his voice changed his tone a little.

"Back to the long history, the situation of those tribes is okay, it should be evenly matched with the captive cavalry, and when we arrived, the two sides were in a stalemate. It seemed that there were about two or three hundred men in those tribes, and it was evident that they were also long-fought men, and the guards were not leaky, but all the captives who tried to storm the chariot were slaughtered by them. The captives were thirty or fifty paces apart, and they were shooting at those tribes endlessly......"

Li Yanzhi glanced back at Tao Heng, both of them knew that this time the captives were prepared, and even if the part of the escort car could hold on for a while, most of them would not last. Tao Heng hesitated, and was about to ask Li Yanzhi how to act, but when he saw that Li Yanzhi had already waved his hand, he immediately said in an unquestionable tone: "Tao Bairen, I should rescue as soon as possible!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Tao Heng had already picked up the bamboo whistle on his chest and blew it. The cavalry who followed immediately became vigilant, and looked in the direction of the front team. Under the leadership of the messenger sentry cavalry, Li Yanzhi and Tao Heng drove their horses forward and went straight to the direction where they discovered the enemy's situation.

After more than an hour of advancing in the dark, this Wu Wei army cavalry soon arrived at the place where the two sides were fighting. Li Yanzhi got off the horse, went to the side of the mountain with Tao Heng, and reported that the horsemen pointed to the mountain and told the two that the remaining horsemen would occupy the mountain.

The two of them walked up, and then stood on the top of the mountain by the starlight and moonlight, and observed, only to see that there were still several groups of enemy horsemen patrolling back and forth in the valley below. In the distant col, from time to time, there were dotted torches, and the faint light of the fire illuminated the situation in the col. The sound of swords clashing came from time to time. And the captives and horses that attacked the chariots around them sometimes dispersed, sometimes gathered. Hu Yu's shouting could be heard clearly from a long distance.

After observing the situation around the car, Li Yanzhi and Tao Heng went down the mountain together, and then each rode on their horses. Tao Heng whispered an order, telling the surrounding cavalry to prepare for battle. So, the riders of the outer circle drew their swords and spears, and the cavalry of the inner circle drew their bows and arrows, ready to use these guys in their hands later to deal a severe blow to the thieves on the opposite side.

Tao Heng held the bamboo whistle to his mouth, listened to the reports of the soldiers around him, and then blew the bamboo whistle in his mouth with a drum of his cheeks. A series of mournful bamboo whistles suddenly sounded, and Tao Heng and Li Yanzhi were already the first to rush out. The rest of the horsemen followed, struggling towards the valley.

The sound of horses' hooves echoed in the valley with more than 200 horsemen galloping, and the indistinguishable echo made it impossible to tell how many riders came. The unknown captive sentry rider followed the sound, wanting to find out what was going on, and then go back to report. Unexpectedly, a dense rain of arrows followed. Even though half of the thieves and sentinels patrolling the valley fell, the other half quickly turned their horses and headed deeper into the valley, trying to relay the news of the attack to the captives who were still fighting.

Li Yanzhi and Tao Heng drove side by side in the valley, looking at several black shadows running in front of them only twenty or thirty paces away, Li Yanzhi took out a horn bow with his left hand, and his right hand had gone to the quiver tied to the side of the saddle to take the arrow. Before he could bend his bow, however, he heard a faint bowstring sound from the galloping hooves of the horses beside him. Looking sideways, I saw Tao Heng holding a bow, an arrow had already left the string, and the last of the several black shadows in front of him fell in response.

Li Yanzhi smiled, unwilling to be weak. He stepped on the stirrup with both feet, and his right arm also pulled the bowstring with force, aiming slightly at a dark shadow in front of him, and then suddenly let go of his right hand, and the bowstring quickly rebounded, and immediately launched the arrow on the string.

After just a breath or two, among the several dark shadows in front of him, another person fell off his horse. Li Yanzhi didn't care about showing his pride in his first hit, but just went to the quiver and drew an arrow, put it on the bowstring again, and suddenly tightened the bow. Immediately, almost at the same time as Tao Heng beside him, he let go of his hand, and the two arrows left the string again, and quickly flew towards the enemy riders who were still running away on horseback.

This time, both of them missed. The arrow shot by Li Yanzhi grazed the ears of the fleeing captive riders in front of him. The arrow shot by Tao Heng hit the shoulder of the other fleeing captive. The captive shook his horse for a moment, then quickly stabilized his body and continued to run for his life.

"The last arrow wound has not healed yet, and it is inaccurate." As he spoke, Li Yanzhi drew out his arrows again and continued to shoot at the fleeing enemy in front. And just as the two of them were struggling to chase and eliminate the fleeing thief sentry, the sound of fighting in front of them was getting closer and closer to them.

The two of them shot seven or eight arrows each before they shot the fleeing captives in front of them. Immediately, the two of them saw the two sides fighting endlessly in the faint light of the fire in front of them. The guards had already fallen a lot, and the chariot that looked so luxurious, in the faint light of the torches, also showed the white but hideous feathered arrows next to it.

"Rush!" Among the captives who besieged the chariot, many people had already seen their uninvited guests, and Li Yanzhi and Tao Heng, who knew that there was no way to retreat, shouted this command almost in unison, and then each picked up their bows and crossbows, and successively pulled out the horse lance from behind, and immediately charged at the enemy formation first!

Seeing that the two of them began to charge, the cavalry behind the two also aimed in the general direction, and shot the arrows in their hands one after another, and then took out the horse lance, began to speed up, and charged with the two.

The distance between the two of them was less than 100 steps away from the periphery of the line where the thieves were besieging the chariot formation. With such a short distance, galloping on a horse is only a few breaths. As the horses in the hands of the two of them first broke through the armor of several captives on the periphery, the thieves who were besieging the chariot reacted one after another. Immediately, the two of them watched the captives on the opposite side turn their horses' heads one after another, and then besieged the two of them!

Li Yanzhi struggled to pull out the horse lance that had stabbed a captive horse, and then stabbed at a captive horse that rushed towards him with a dancing knife. Xu is galloping speed is too fast, under the action of the reaction force, the moment he catches up with the horse lance in Li Yanzhi's hand, it is the end of flying out upside down immediately.

Tao Hengwang Li Yanzhi was so brave, he was also unwilling to be weak, and the horse lance in his hand flew up and down, suddenly like a dragon going out to sea, and suddenly like a poisonous snake spitting letters. He was originally a cavalry general, and with his amazing marksmanship, he successively overturned several thieves and generals who wanted to come up to him to challenge. He majestically punched a hole in the already thick line of the thieves, and then rushed to the front of the cavalry of the Wuwei army to quickly expand the results of the battle, and in the blink of an eye, they had already chiseled through the front line of the thieves on the opposite side!

Seeing that a sudden enemy cavalry from here had chiseled through their own line, and several bamboo whistles sounded in the thief formation, and then, the captive cavalry, which was sometimes scattered and sometimes gathered around the periphery, surrounded one after another, and seeing this formation, it was to cut off these enemy horses that had done bad things to them.

In the face of the invisible coercion emanating from these captives gradually surrounding, Li Yanzhi, who had been in and out of the formation several times, also felt a breathless pressure. These captives were not good at stubble, and their numbers were no less than their own. In this hasty battle, can he really lead his troops to defeat or annihilate this enemy horse?

When Li Yanzhi was playing the small drum in his heart, he suddenly heard a drum sound in a trance. He looked up, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary. However, the sound of the drums, as if it was still in bursts, echoed in his ears.

After the sound of this drum, Li Yanzhi only felt that the expressions of the thieves who were fighting with him on the other side seemed to have become a little unnatural. He looked closely, and these captives were also looking around, dazed. However, before he could find out, there were already drums, cheers, and shouts of killing. This sudden voice made Li Yanzhi also feel surprised, but he could vaguely hear the scolding and commands in it, all of which were issued in Chinese, so he was also a little relieved.

In just a few breaths, several teams were killed in all directions. Crossbowmen with crossbows and torches appeared on the ridges, and they calmly wound their bows, and by the faint light of the torches, they shot arrows at the most dense places in the valley where the thieves were most concentrated. On the other side of the valley mouth, another cavalry appeared, rushing straight towards the captives who were still fighting with Li in the valley!