Just when Deng Zhi and Deng Ai were entangled with Jia Xu and Xun You in order to cover Li Shengjun's strategy in Liangzhou, and the whole negotiation became extremely difficult due to repeated changes, Li Shengjun's Qiang soldiers and Yizhou soldiers were quickly entering the second stage of the Liangzhou strategy. www.biquge.info They began to clean up several large cities that were still resolutely resisting them: Dunhuang, Zhangye, and Jiuquan.

The situation at this moment is that under the command of Zhao Yun and the planning of Fa Zheng, the armed forces directly controlled by Li Sheng in Liangzhou have swelled to a huge 300,000 people, and they have cleared the trade routes, cut off the letter routes, and completely isolated the three major cities of Western Liangzhou from each other, turning them into small islands in the midst of stormy seas, shaking in the face of the incoming wind and rain. With the passage of time, the grain and grass in the three cities continued to decrease, coupled with Li Shengjun's constant frightening actions outside the city, many of the three cities were not determined to go out of the city and surrender. The arrival and surrender of these people was naturally treated well by Li Shengjun's side, and as the propaganda on the spot distributed to them with grain, butcher shops, and other superficial propaganda unfolded in front of the eyes of the people of the four cities, their originally firm heart to defend the city was shaken, and in the face of the almost desperate place, they also thought of surrendering.

However, before they could finally make up their minds, Li Shengjun's onslaught opened very quickly. Due to the strong strength and the low morale of the other party, Li Shengjun's attack on the four cities was launched almost simultaneously. The battle report with a constant face was sent to Zhao Yun, who was sitting under the mighty city, and the two bigwigs in the army, Zhao Yun and Ma Loan, were happy about this: "Oh my God, I never thought that there would be such a large-scale battle and attack four big cities at the same time." This is not unprecedented, but it can be regarded as unprecedented. Mr. Xiaozhi, you are really amazing. ”

"Where, where! I'm just following the lord's plan. So far, it's just that the melons are ripe and have received the ripe fruits. Fa Zheng listened to such a compliment, and said humbly, while he couldn't help but feel complacent. It's just that in addition to being complacent, he can't help but admire Li Sheng more and more for planning all this in general. "The lord's hand is really amazing. I never thought I'd be able to fight like this. Although there were still shouts of killing outside the tent, Fa Zheng's thoughts drifted back to two months ago, when he had just entered Liangzhou through Qiangdi.

In May, shortly after Cao Cao sent troops to Hanzhong to attack Yangping Pass, Fa Zheng followed the newlywed Zhao Yun on the road to Qiangdi. They went through the prairie of the Qiang Land, and it took them nearly a month of hard work, and it was only in the shortest possible time that they could join Ma Dai, who had been operating in the Qiang Land for several years, in the shortest possible time -- this was still the result of Li Sheng's great efforts to repair the Yiqiang Ancient Road, otherwise it would be strange that Fa Zheng and Zhao Yun would not have to go to the Qiang Land for more than a month.

The scenery of cattle and sheep in the Qiang land, the peculiarity that day was overhead, Fa Zheng and Zhao Yun both saw it, and they also felt the simplicity, kindness, hospitality and worship of the strong of the Qiang people. Of course, because the march did not have much time to further understand the Qiang land, Fa Zheng and Zhao Yun's observations of the Qiang land were very one-sided. They just took a look at the flowers and had a basic impression of the Qiang land and the Qiang people.

Although when he was in Yizhou, from Li Sheng's side and from the spy reports from Qiangdi, he had long heard that Ma Dai had done an excellent job in Qiangdi, but he had not really seen it with his own eyes, but he definitely couldn't imagine how outstanding Ma Dai's excellence was: there were dozens of large and small tribes in the entire Qiang Land, except for some remote tribes, only four of them had never obeyed Ma Dai's orders. And the four tribes that have never listened to this mere have only not listened on the surface, in fact, in secret, they have already been connected with Ma Dai, doing something for Ma Dai that Ma Dai wants to do but can't do because of some kind of "rules". It can be said that Ma Dai is the king of the entire Qiang land.

“…… That's not a great situation! People are ambitious, Ma Dai has created such a foundation alone, is he still willing to continue to obey our command? I'm afraid his ambition will take him out of our control. After meeting with Ma Dai and learning about the specific results Ma Dai has achieved, Fa Zheng can't help but have this faint worry in his heart. For this worry, he directly found Zhao Yun and told him everything he was worried about. After all, in such a place where it is very likely that everyone around him has become enemies, the only person he can rely on is this Zhao Yun who came with him.

“…… Why are you so worried? Did you hear something? Zhao Yun couldn't understand how a military advisor like Fa Zheng could be suspicious of Ma Dai, so he asked.

"Not really." Fa Zheng shook his head slightly, but said, "However, don't you think that Ma Dai's power is too strong, and he can completely eat our group?" If something happens to him, we will all die these days without a place to bury. Aren't you scared of that? ”

"Why be afraid of things that don't have a shadow? Strategist, are you thinking too much? I don't think General Ma Dai is like that kind of person. Zhao Yun still refused to believe this.

"I hope so. However, instead of pinning your mind on other people's thoughts, it is better to take precautions yourself. Fa Zheng suggested: "I wonder if General Zilong has adjusted his camp to deal with the changes that are likely to come?" As long as it is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, it will be fine. ”

"That's fine." felt that Fa Zheng had some truth in what he said, so Zhao Yun agreed.

Then the two discussed some more things, and finally decided on the next point: that is, to directly summon Ma Dai and several leaders tomorrow to announce the personnel adjustment. If Ma Dai is willing to hand over his military power according to the opinion of personnel adjustment, then Ma Dai can still use it; But in case Ma Dai disagrees, this Zhao Yun will take Ma Dai down in one breath and directly take over Ma Dai's army.

This may be regarded as a "non-necessary" preparedness. But in the end, it turned out to be all in vain. After Fa Zheng issued Li Sheng's military order, Ma Dai handed it over without saying a word, he did it very simply, without any reluctance at all, but it made Fa Zheng breathe a long sigh of relief: "It's finally in danger."

Integrating the forces of both sides, Fa Zheng, Zhao Yun, and Ma Dai began to discuss the next battle strategy. After hearing that Ma Dai continued to use plundering tactics in order to better survive in this Qiang land and further prevent his own intervention from being suspected by Cao Cao. As soon as Fa Zheng's mind turned, he came up with a complete set of combat plans based on such a strategy.

"Let those four tribes increase their plundering of Liangzhou. No, this can't be plundered. It can only be said to be an attack, in short, let them be the vanguard, attack Liangzhou, and make a picture of the Qiang people plotting against Liangzhou, and we are in the name of fighting the Qiang people for Cao Cao, closely pursuing behind them. As soon as they break a place, we will follow and take over. When we take over the whole of Liangzhou, fight a few battles with those Qiang people in a pretend, and then subdue them, we can take over the land of Liangzhou openly. Fa Zheng looked at them with a smile.

"Isn't that good? Using the Qiang people as the vanguard, these Qiang people are very brutal, they didn't plunder a single land, and they killed a lot of people. If I hadn't been able to do it, I wouldn't have agreed to them. After listening to Fazheng's strategy, let alone Zhao Yun, even Ma Dai couldn't help frowning: "If it's not my race, its heart will be different." ”

"Uh...... There's no way around it. Fa Zheng also seemed very helpless about this: "You can't let our people and Qiang people appear together." Then it will become us colluding with the Qiang people and killing the Han people. This is very detrimental to our foothold in Liangzhou in the future. You also know that at this time, the Qiang and Han people are not so easy to talk to. ”

"That's right...... However, for our purposes, it is always ...... to make the people suffer," Ma Dai still groaned at this.

"I don't think that's the case? Let our men guide these Qiang people, and use our white clothes to choose every target we are going to attack. Tell him what should be killed, what can be killed, and what can't be killed. There are also many big families in the land of Liangzhou, who are deeply cultivated here, and have great energy in the local area. That's what we don't want to see. Even if they are willing to surrender to us for now, after seeing the policy we have imposed on them, they will rebel if they have the opportunity. Rather than let them surrender and rebel against us and cause us heavy losses, it is better to exterminate them in one go and let Liangzhou become a blank slate. Zhao Yun thought about it and made such a suggestion.

"Well, that's a good suggestion." Fa Zheng and Ma Dai listened to Zhao Yun's suggestion, smiled and thought for a while, and immediately stroked their palms and laughed: "This is a matter that benefits all three parties, and it also hides the fact that we are not really Qiang people - Qiang people are bloodthirsty." ”

"Well, that's pretty good." Ma Dai nodded heavily, "Those people in Liangzhou do have some that need to be cleaned up." His eyes were red, and his face was full of anger. For him, cleaning up those damn big families is also part of his revenge. You must know that when they drove themselves and their brothers out of Liangzhou at the beginning, those people from the big family did their best.

The battle strategy was thus determined. With the determination of this combat strategy, a grand show unfolded on the land of Liangzhou.

Jiuquan County, Yanshou County, everything is still calm, under the hazy moonlight, this small city located on the desolate land is silent, it is like a hermit standing there alone and quietly waiting for this new day to come.

The small city is really small, although it has the name of the county seat, but its city wall is only two zhang high, and its width is only half a zhang, which is extremely thin, and it is not even as thick as some private dock forts in the interior. The small city had no moat, but stood straight on the loess, and surrounded everything in the city with its four-mile-long walls.

This encirclement is of course nothing to the city of the Central Plains, but for such a remote and wild place, such an encirclement can undoubtedly make the people in the city feel at ease.

After all, there is nothing attractive about this place, there is only a road that runs through the east-west mountain road and thousands of acres of barren dry land: the wealth on the trade route is of course attractive, but even the horse thief who makes a living by plundering the merchants on the trade route understands the truth of the long stream; And thousands of acres of barren fields, although they sound like a huge amount, but except for the Han people in the city, no one regards this as a treasure. It's an almost forgotten corner - almost only because they can't get out of Jiuquan's control, and every time the sky on Jiuquan changes, they have to change with it. Of course, this is only a face-saving matter.

In today's world, large and small wealthy families have become the main force to grasp the common people. No matter how remote the place is, as long as there are people living together, the power of this wealthy clan will appear. Even this Yanshou County in front of you is no exception.

Yanshou is a small place, and there is only one person who can speak in this small place, and that is Yanshou Zhang's family. Due to its remote location, for the people in Yanshou City, even the Taishou of Jiuquan County is a very distant thing. They don't know who governs the world today, they don't know who sits in the Dragon Court in the Central Plains, and they don't know who the sky in Liangzhou is, but they always remember who the piece of heaven above their heads belongs to. The Zhang family of Yanshou, a wealthy family that occupies more than eighty percent of the world around Yanshou County, is the day of this longevity.

Of course, the sky is very powerful, especially for those who depend on the sky for food. If the heavens still have some conscience, the people under the sky will naturally have some good lives, but if this day does not speak of any benevolence and righteousness, the people under the heavens will be regarded as being in the region. Although some people say that hell is completely imaginary and non-existent, but for the people in Yanshou City, this is completely wrong, what is hell, just take a closer look at the people in this Yanshou City. Because the head of the Zhang family is a cruel and murderous person who is extremely greedy, the entire people of Yanshou are in dire straits, whether it is the Han people or the Qiang people.

In the middle of a mountain col four miles southwest of Yanshou, a military camp stood solemnly, and the soldiers sat on the ground as quietly as possible, quietly waiting for the time to set off. Tonight is about to attack Yanshou City, as the vanguard of the Qiang soldiers have arrived less than two miles away from Yanshou, and they are about to set off now. It stands to reason that at such a moment, everyone should have stood up and reorganized the team, but the whole offensive plan seemed to have gone a little wrong, and the generals and military advisers all gathered in the Chinese military tent at this moment to discuss the information they had just obtained.

This is a very important piece of information. I don't know if it's a coincidence or if there is some news from Jiuquan County, but in short, a cavalry of about 3,000 people has entered Yanshou City this afternoon, and it is currently stationed in the city. Although the 3,000-strong contingent was not too many, and it was a class of cavalry that was not suitable for defense, the reinforcement of the opponent's strength at this critical juncture was a problem.

"In such a situation, at all. What about an attack on life extension? "Zhao Yun, Ma Dai, and Fa Zheng are discussing such a question right now.

"It's really not a good feeling to give up like that. I didn't expect that there would be such a scumbag in such a border town. Ma Dai said in annoyance, and he slammed his hammer into the sand in front of him, making a "pop" sound.

"Nobody said they were going to give up. I'm just saying to be more careful. The foundation of the Zhang family is all local, those cavalry who came to reinforce can go, but the foundation of the Zhang family can't go, if they really don't come to attack us, then we need to wait quietly for a few days. This can still wait. Zhao Yun said calmly. The shadows reflected by the soaring firelight kept jumping on his face, and the agile posture set off the silence and coldness of his moment. No one dared to say anything further about his silence, because everyone knew that the more indifferent he Zhao Yun was, the more the anger in his heart burned.

"That's true, but I don't want to be passive." Since he got this information, Fa Zheng, who had never spoken much, opened his mouth at this time, and the words he said surprised Zhao Yun and Ma Dai even more: "Don't stop fighting tonight." As long as we make some arrangements in secret, we can use these damn cavalry to our advantage. The news of the Qiang people's raids on the area could not be abolished like this, and it was too slow to expect them to spread the news for the population of Liangzhou. I think we can get these cavalrymen to take the seeds of fear and sow them for us. ”

"What are we going to do?" Zhao Yun and Ma Dai asked in unison.

"It's very simple, we just need to ......" Fa Zheng motioned for Zhao Yun and Ma Dai to lean over, and then said in their ears in an extremely low voice: "Regardless of whether this cavalry is coming at us or not, they would never have thought that we would attack tonight. Because of this surprise, they will lose a lot in our raid. What we have to do is to divide the Qiang cavalry that originally carried out the raid mission into a part to carry out the robbery of these cavalrymen who have already suffered heavy losses. We have to pester them until they are terrified. As long as we reach this point, our goal will be completed, and then we only need to let them go, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and let them go a few more times, then the Qiang people's attack on Jiuquan County will inevitably spread far and wide. Wouldn't this be even more shocking to the enemy? ”

"Well, that's in our best interest." Zhao Yun and Ma Dai thought about it and agreed: "Cheng, just do it." ”

Since tonight's battle was not canceled, the army set off. Perhaps it was the result of worrying that outsiders would find their tracks here, the tents in the col, the people in the col were all clean for a while, and all traces were eliminated, if there were no professional people, carefully observed, I was afraid that no one would find that an army had been stationed here.

Shortly after the group in the col set out, the Qiang cavalry, which was one step ahead, had already launched an attack on Yanshou City. It was a sneak attack. Under the guidance of a few Qiang infantry, the gate of Yanshou City, which was not patrolled, was heavily pushed open, and countless Qiang horsemen swarmed in from the city gate, breaking the tranquility of the small city. For a moment, cries, shouts, screams, and the crazy laughter of the Qiang cavalry resounded over the town, and the town became full of people. Countless people were awakened in their sleep, driven out of their homes, and then sat back and watched as the Qiang people, who seemed to be very strong and fierce, surrounded themselves with bright weapons in their hands. In the face of these Qiang people's actions, almost everyone's hearts sank, and they all thought that they were doomed.

Death is death, anyway, there is nothing to be nostalgic in this world, living in this hell is suffering every moment of the moment, maybe death is a relief, but it's a pity for my children. But they don't quite understand the pain of being alive now, but we do know that it's better to let them go on than ...... Most of the people thought so, and did not resist, although they did not have the ability to resist. It is said that the people of Liangzhou in the northwest are strong, but such a strong place is really in Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang, Weiwu and other big places, which are the backbone of the entire business road, and those who can get some food and clothing "through their own efforts" are the strong subjects. As for these people in Yanshou City, it was a special case in the entire Liangzhou, under the high-pressure and bloody rule of the Zhang family, all those who resisted were killed, and all the strong ones were slaughtered. In order to consolidate their rule, the Zhang family did not allow any strong people's customs. To say that the only "strong" crowd in the entire Yanshou City is the eight hundred private soldiers of the Zhang family.

Facing these numb and weak people, the Qiang cavalry had nothing to say. They just separated some people to surround them, and looked at them coldly, with some contempt in their hearts. They held up their knives but did not move their hands. Because their mission is not to kill these people, but to pull out the most damned guy in Yanshou City. Before they set out, they all heard: don't do anything to the poor Han people, they are very poor, they don't have any good things, they will fight with you if they don't get it, and you will get nothing but the pleasure of slaughter. It is better to set your sights on those wealthy people who have more money and are fairer-skinned, and can obtain more from looting or slaughtering. What's more, the Shenwei Army behind us doesn't have any good feelings for them, on the contrary, they hate them very much, so killing them is still very beneficial to our future naturalization.

Although they were once "enemies" of the Shenwei Army, the tribesmen of the four tribes that formed the alliance did not reject the naturalization of the Shenwei Army. They saw with their own eyes that after naturalization, the other tribes that had not had enough to eat and could not dress well became better fed and more expensive, and they exchanged their grazing horses for more salt, more tea, more goods, and more weapons from the Han people, and those naturalized tribes became stronger one by one. Although the number of people has not increased, the combat power has increased more than a notch, and Ju said that this is because the younger brother of the great general Kamui helped them. With his help, the Han caravans, who had only known cunning and deceitful, became more honest and trustworthy, and exchanged their supplies for what they could accept, and the supplies were said to be abundant and spoke very kindly, and they did not consider themselves barbarians at all - and that was enough. For the tribesmen, their lives can become better after naturalization, and for those chiefs, their rights have not been weakened after naturalization, and the warriors in their hands have become more elite, and they can enjoy more luxurious things, which is enough.

"Perhaps...... Isn't naturalization a bad thing? Almost everyone was shaken by the fact that they were in front of them, and they thought like this, and they were very willing to accept what the patriarch had said about submission. When the patriarchs announced that it would be beneficial for them to attack the big clans in the city, they naturally burst out with great combat power.

Of course, these four tribes will have such an awareness, which includes the hard work of Bai Yi and Ma Dai. But for now, these labors are all other things, and these ordinary Qiang people don't understand and don't want to understand these things. These things are too complicated for them, and they have nothing to do with them, they just need to follow the orders of the patriarch to step forward and kill the people who should be killed.

The attack on the Zhang family was quickly launched. Since the Zhang family is more or less a longevity person, there are still some profoundness of the house. The walls of the Zhang family are as high as the county seat of this longevity, and the private soldiers of the Zhang family are as fierce as the soldiers who came to attack the Qiang, but the number of people used by the Zhang family to defend is still too small. Although they were also very desperate, under the continuous attack of thousands of cavalry with arrows and arrows, the wall of the Zhang family was quickly lost, and the gate of the mansion was also opened, and countless fierce Qiang people broke into it to indiscriminately slaughter and clean the people of the Zhang family, among which there were naturally plunder, rape and other things. For a while, the Zhang family, who always thought they were superior in Yanshou City on weekdays, fell into the hell they once brought to others. What hell is like, these people finally know.

The flames burned on the Zhang family's mansion at some point. Because the Zhang family's mansion is very large, it almost occupies the territory of Yanshou City, so people who don't know the truth look at it from afar as if the entire Yanshou City is burning. As the flames rose, the voices in the mansion gradually became muffled, no one was alive anymore, and the ground was full of all kinds of dead corpses, large and small—these Qiang soldiers had done a very thorough job of the order given by the patriarch of the family to behead the Zhang family.

"The Zhang family is finished...... "Looking at the fire a mile away, Zhao Yun said coldly.

"This is what they deserve...... Ma Dai replied in a cold, equally cold manner.

"It's a pity that some of the innocents in there." Fa Zheng sighed at this, but he didn't want to talk about it deeply, but quickly changed the topic: "What is the situation of the three thousand people?" He asked about the three thousand Xiliang cavalry who had only been stationed in Yanshou today.

"According to the information I just got, those guys in Xiliang were rewarded at Zhang's house today. It seems that he drank too much. was lightly assaulted by us, and it turned out to be a scattered. More than 2,000 of the 3,000 cavalry were captured, and only a few hundred saw the opportunity early and quickly broke away. Right now, they should be chased by the cavalry of the Kehana patriarch and have no way to go to the sky, and there is no way to go down. A clerk dressed as a Qiang man listened to his military advisor's question and quickly reported the latest situation.

"Ha, it's Kehana who is on a rat hunting mission today. Looks like we're going to have to pray for these guys who ran out. Oh my God, I met Kehana. I hope this guy who likes to play doesn't go too far. If I lose all their pants, it's not my fault. Ma Dai prayed to the heavens with a serious face.

"Haha!" Zhao Yun and Fa Zheng couldn't help but laugh when they heard this.

The next battle, perhaps speaking, was simple: just when the cavalry of the Qiang people was arrogantly tossing in Yanshou City, a cavalry under the banner of the Han Dynasty pursued from the rear of the Qiang people. They took the lead in entering the south gate, taking down the people and Qiang soldiers at the south gate in one go, and then attacked the Qiang army that was still ravaging the city. After a period of ping-pong killing, the Qiang soldiers couldn't hold it anymore, and immediately retreated in defeat and headed northwest. In this way, Yanshou City fell into the hands of Li Sheng.

Everything was done as planned at the beginning: the four tribes of the Qiang people grabbed the gold, silver and money they wanted to rob, and Li Sheng got the foothold he needed in Liangzhou. From then on, it was Li Shengjun who took the extension of life as the base point and cooperated with the vanguard of the Qiang people to capture the city everywhere. Because the battle in Hanzhong was still going on at this moment, the regular army of Xiliang was transferred to Chang'an for assistance defense because the defense of Chang'an was greatly weakened, and the entire Xiliang was in a state of emptiness, so that the strategy formulated by Fazheng could be implemented smoothly. After everything was carried out in accordance with the plan of uniting the people at the bottom and uniting the ordinary Haoqiang to attack the Haoqiang at the top, Li Shengjun's power in Liangzhou grew stronger day by day. In three months, more than 50 battles were fought, more than 20 cities were captured, and the army swelled to 300,000, becoming one of the most powerful forces in Liangzhou.

At the beginning, people were still a little suspicious about where this power that suddenly rose in Liangzhou came from, but after Zhao Yun and Ma Dai officially played the banner of Li Shengjun, almost everyone knew that this was Li Sheng's invasion of Liangzhou. All of a sudden, those who were trapped in the few remaining cities and still had some loyalty to Cao Cao were worried about this, and they wanted to report the news to Xuchang, but this was simply impossible. Under Li Shengjun's combat method of encircling the city from the countryside, the city became a prison, and the Liangzhou army could not get out of the city at all, so it could only passively wait for Li Shengjun's attack.

Shortly after Xiahou Yuan led his troops back to Chang'an, Li Shengjun's final general attack on Liangzhou also began. And Xuchang's quarrel continues.