Before Wang Hanxin's counterinsurgency army arrived in the Huizhou area, the situation of the two sides of the dispute had also undergone subtle changes.

Yeerqiang had the secret support of the Tubo people, and although he was at an absolute disadvantage in numbers, he had relatively sufficient war materials, and won four successive victories under the command of the Gul brothers, and his morale was high; On the other hand, the alliance of the three tribes of Tangqiang, Yaodangqiang, and Maqiang is huge but has lost successive battles, and the trust between them is getting less and less.

There is nothing peculiar about the method Wang Hanxin first adopted, which can be summed up in one word: surprise attack.

It's easy to summarize this tactic, but it's very different to implement. To achieve the suddenness of the surprise attack, first of all, it is due to the ultra-high speed of the movement of Wang Hanxin's troops. His speed stunned the entire Hexi Corridor, and the ministries didn't even have time to do a basic response after learning the news of the Silk Country's troops. The second is that Wang Hanxin has done a lot of intelligence gathering work before, and he is very clear about the geographical location, environment, and deployment status of the two sides of the war, so he took the lead in launching a night attack against the weakest deployment of Shaodangqiang.

Wang Hanxin and Zhou Siyi broke through from the north to the garrison of Shaodangqiang, while the Chen brothers led a small number of cavalry to attack on two wings. Because it was a night operation, the Chen brothers who made a big noise on the two wings were the main force of the attack, but they were hit by Wang Hanxin, who broke through in the middle, and the frightened Burndangqiang people thought that there were more enemy troops on the two wings until they were broken through in the middle, and immediately scattered and fled. As a result of the fierce battle in the middle of the night, the more than 7,000 people who burned Dangqiang were all scattered, and more than half of their two dozen leaders were captured alive.

But this was not the end of Wang Hanxin's surprise attack, he threw down the remnants of the burning Dangqiang scattered everywhere, and led the army to attack the Tangqiang camp closest to the burning Dangqiang. This move greatly surprised the Tang Qiang people, and even after they got the news of the rout of the Burning Dangqiang, Wang Hanxin's troops were killed. Faced with the sudden arrival of the army of the Silk Country, the Tang Qiang people also fell into a panic. Fortunately, the Tang Qiang people were the most powerful of the three ethnic alliances, and the Qiang armed forces with more than 20,000 people were also composed of cavalry, so unlike the Burning Qiang who suffered a night attack, they were still regrouped after a short period of chaos. Unfortunately, they faced Wang Hanxin, one of the most powerful generals in the Silk Country, and Wang Hanxin immediately sensed that the opponent's actions began to become orderly and changed his combat strategy, and his goal changed from defeating the enemy army to directly attacking the center of the Tang Qiang army, and the target became the leaders of the Tang Qiang tribe. At this time, the disadvantages of Tang Qiang as a tribal alliance were exposed, and the small tribes of the Tang Qiang tribe were subject to the leadership of the leader, but the obedience of each small tribe was completely different, and the reactions of each ministry were different when faced with the overall situation and the choice of their own tribal interests. The different reactions of maintaining the leader or maintaining the array to prevent the enemy from breaking through gave Wang Hanxin a valuable opportunity, and he made the most of the flaws in the originally neat Tang Qiang army array, and quickly disintegrated the Tang Qiang army's imminent array, and finally forced the leader of the Tang Qiang to retreat first, which led to the final defeat of the Tang Qiang army.

Having defeated the two strongest and weakest armies of the Three Clans Alliance in two consecutive days, Wang Hanxin's prestige resounded throughout the Huizhou region overnight. The balance between the two sides of the Qiang struggle was completely shattered in just one battle, and the alliance of the three tribes was broken up in an instant. If Ye Erqiang cooperates with the Silk Country to raise troops to attack at this time, then the only remaining Maqiang may be unable to support it alone.

At this juncture, Wang Hanxin did not continue to send troops to attack Maqiang, leaving his 5,000 men and horses to rest in place, and he took the captured leaders of Shaodangqiang to visit Maqiang's camp.

This has blinded the Maqiang people. At this time, the Maqiang people were in a panic, on the one hand, they regretted that they should not have waded into this troubled water, and they did not get any benefits but faced the attack of Yeerqiang and the crusade of the Silk Country, on the other hand, they were worried about how to act to ensure that their tribe retreated. At this time, Wang Hanxin's visit made them feel completely confused, originally they thought that Wang Hanxin would take advantage of the victory to pursue and immediately launch an attack on themselves, but they were shocked and frightened and had to welcome Wang Hanxin and his party into their camp.

In this meeting with the leaders of the Burning Dangqiang and Maqiang, Wang Hanxin made clear to them his attitude: the country of silk really has no intention of plunging the Qiang tribes into war. The reason why he attacked Dangqiang and Tang Qiang first, but in order to punish them for provoking a battle first, he did not rush to kill them as before, but only aimed at defeating them. For such a small attack, it is impossible for the Qiang to benefit from attacking each other like this, but it allows the Tubo to take the opportunity to get involved in the internal strife of the Qiang and expand their power. As the country that rules this region, the country of silk will not take sides, and if the attack is really committed by the Yeerqiang people, then the country of silk will definitely make the Yeerqiang people apologize and compensate. But the question is whether the mastermind of the incident is really the Yeerqiang people? Judging from the current situation, it is very suspicious that only the Tibetans benefited from the whole incident, so it is recommended that the two sides put aside the dispute for the time being, give themselves time to find out the truth of the incident, and prevent the Qiang people from sacrificing more lives in vain because of this meaningless fight.

Under Wang Hanxin's soft and hard rhetoric, he successfully persuaded the leaders of Maqiang and Burning Dangqiang, and then under the auspices of Wang Hanxin, the three parties found the fleeing Tang Qiang leaders back to persuade them, and finally the alliance of the three clans agreed to temporarily stop the army and truce, but the premise was that the Yeerqiang people must also give up continuing to solve the problem by force, and wait for the country of silk to investigate the whole incident. So the biggest problem in front of Wang Hanxin is the Ye'er Qiang tribe who have joined forces with the Tubo people.

In fact, Wang Hanxin's actions had already alarmed the Ye'erqiang and Tubo people. They were also shocked by Wang Hanxin's quick action, and it was difficult to determine what the attitude of the Silk Kingdom was for a while. At first, they thought that the country of silk was to help the Ye'er Qiang crusade against the alliance of the three tribes, take the opportunity to suppress the Qiang forces and win over the Ye'er Qiang tribe, but later found out that this was not the case, obviously the country of silk formed an alliance with the alliance after teaching the alliance of the three tribes a hard lesson, so what they had to deal with next was obviously the Ye'er Qiang tribe.

"What a wonderful fellow." Temon, who assumed the alias of Gul, looked at the map in his hand and smiled at his brother Hesa, "I didn't expect that this Wang Hanxin would choose to attack the Three Clans Alliance first, and then join forces with them to deal with us. Looks like I'm underestimating this guy. ”

"Then the battle will be even more difficult." Hassa, who goes by the pseudonym Baal, replied.

"Not really. If I were Wang Hanxin, I wouldn't do that. He was able to succeed before because of the surprise attack. Now everyone knows how many troops he has, and it is impossible to make another surprise attack. On the contrary, he took advantage of the fact that he quickly persuaded the three tribes to cooperate with him after he was scared, and his political offensive was even more worrying. ”

"Then should we use some means to divide and disintegrate the relationship between these three races and the Silk Country?"

Teemon smiled and pointed at Hesa, and he praised the progress of Hesa's strategic cognition during this period: "You said it well, but unfortunately our goal is not to make Ye Erqiang the ultimate winner, of course, not Tubo, but ourselves." ”

Teemon put down the map as he spoke, stood up and said, "Next, just let him work hard, we just have to wait quietly." (To be continued.) )