Burst! Dou Da's head was split from afar, his gray hair was flying, and his cloudy eyes didn't have time to close, and they were full of fear and pleading. The headless corpse spewed a mist of blood from the sky, and fell to the ground with a bang, kicking up dust.

Qin Li helplessly looked at the feather forest general beside him, his face was a little pale. This Yulin boy named Zhao Li meticulously carried out the military orders of Shangguan, leaving only the strong captives of the Qiang tribe, and the rest of the old and weak women and children were all slaughtered, without any mercy.

Whenever Qin Li raised the butcher knife to the old man and the child, he would always feel a little unbearable in his heart, and he couldn't help but hesitate a little when he started. He even felt that Zhao Li was more qualified to be surnamed Qin than him, because Zhao Li was brutal, blood-hungry, and had no compassion.

When Qin Li was looking at Zhao Li, Zhao Li also slandered Qin Li in his heart. This tiger general is said to be from the Qin family, Zhao Li was originally excited, and planned to learn some skills from him, after all, the famous generals of the Qin family are born, and the hot-blooded young people in Guanzhong will yearn for it.

Who knew that since more than 200 Hu Ben and Yulin generals were sent out to carry out the task of clearing out the Qiang tribe, Qin Li's performance was really lackluster, and Zhao Li couldn't help but be disappointed. The soldiers who had the heaviest military merits in the Han army, and the civilian-born soldiers were the most disgusted by the gold-plated second ancestor who enlisted in the army. Thinking that Qin Li was such a gatekeeper, Zhao Li felt very disdainful.

Especially when the two were assigned to the same tun and Qin Li was appointed as the tun chief, Zhao Li was even more annoyed.

According to the Han military system, temporary combat units led by generals were sent during the war. Under the general, there is a long history, Sima assisted, the troops are divided into several cadres, the department is led by the captain of the ministry and the military Sima, the subordinate is set up by the song, the song is led by the military candidate, 500 people are a song, and there is a tun chief under the song, and 50 people are a tun.

General An Yi divided the 200 members of the official regiment into exactly four tuns, let them compete with each other, judge heroes by their military merits, and said that they would report truthfully to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Zhao Li still remembers that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince once said such a sentence when he lectured the soldiers in the Yulin camp: A lion leading a flock of sheep can defeat a group of lions led by a sheep.

Now Zhao Li feels that he is a lion, and Qin Li, the head of the tun, is the sheep that led him to failure.

"Tun Chang, you need to use more force when you go under the knife, it's soft and unpleasant!" Zhao Li saw that Qin Li was in a daze again, so he rode his horse and leaned up, and said quietly.

Qin Li frowned, and said unhappily: "When you cut down the old and weak women and children, didn't you have the slightest compassion, and you had to kill them all?" If your relatives were tortured and killed like this, how would you feel?! ”

"Humph! My father has died on the battlefield, and my brother was frozen to death on the mountain in order to find food for me. Now I'm alone, and I only have a monstrous hatred for the barbarians, where does I have compassion?! Zhao Li's face changed, he waved his hand and shook the saber, letting the dirty blood on the knife splash out, and pointed at an old Qiang man who was moaning in pain under the horse with the tip of the knife, and snorted coldly: "If you have compassion, you should chop him to death with a clean knife, but not let him moan in pain." ”

With that, he stepped forward, tightened the reins, and raised his front hooves high under his crotch. He let go violently, and the war horse stomped on the head of the Qiang old man with his front hooves in a sense.

With a muffled sound of the horn, the skull burst open like a cold melon, and the red and white liquid splashed everywhere, and the scene was extremely terrifying. Zhao Li didn't care, and then brandished his saber again to join the other companions in slashing and slashing.

Qin Li's face became more and more pale, he held the reins tightly, and the green tendons on the back of his hand burst out. After a long time, he raised his head, looked at the Qiang camp filled with gunsmoke and slashed the sky, and sighed helplessly, he could only collect the pity in his heart, brandished his saber, galloped wildly, and killed all the Qiang people he encountered under the horse.

On the northwest grassland outside Longxi Pass, the tragedy of exterminating the tribe was constantly staged, a large number of Qiang tribes were wiped out, and groups of prisoners of war and livestock were tied to a queue with hemp rope and escorted to the city of Didao.

Wu Kuai, the Taishou of Longxi County, looked at his subordinates who were eager to try, and said with a smile: "Don't talk about you, even this official is also greedy." The bounty for each slave is 10,000 dollars, and Your Majesty is really bold. ”

The generals of Longxi couldn't help but show a look of shame, these said, the prisoners of war and livestock sent by the Anyi general Gongsun Yu were all registered, counted as money, and kept for the class teacher, and then they could be taken out for their own use. The Beihe Hou Wasuge, who had already been attached to the Han Dynasty, also led the soldiers of the Beihe tribe to plunder on a large scale, exchanging prisoners of war and livestock for a large amount of grain, grass and ordnance.

This kind of good errand of "robbing by order" is exactly the military order that people in the army are most willing to carry out, and even the generals in Longxi who are in high positions are not exempt from vulgarity.

Wu Kuai naturally understood the thoughts of his subordinates, and he smiled again: "Your Majesty has already issued an order to let this official assist in clearing the Qiang people outside the Guan, but it can be cheap." Since you and the others are all eager to fight, follow Feng Yuan to bring your personal guards and earn some money for drinks. Just remember not to be greedy for merit and harm the lives of the soldiers, otherwise you will be severely punished! ”

The generals were overjoyed when they heard this, and they promised one after another, and they gathered the personal guards cavalry under their command, handed them over to Feng Yuan to lead, and went to the northwest grassland to fight the grass valley.

They didn't have the slightest doubt about Feng Yuan's robbery ability, he was a pity that one of the most powerful horse thieves in the northwest, with hundreds of horse thieves, wiped out several powerful Qiang tribes in a row, and even the wolf king Kashgar of the blue wolf tribe was his soul. Now let him lead more than a thousand elite iron cavalry, I am afraid that the strongest Qiang chieftain will be a little afraid.

Feng Yuan and several old brothers who were born as horse thieves under his tent were even more excited. Now that they have been whitewashed and joined the army, Feng Yuan has even sat in the high position of a lieutenant, which can be said to be a glorious lintel. I don't know how many times more comfortable than the life of a horse thief who is worried about the end, but I still feel itchy hands from time to time, and now I finally have the name of robbery and murder, and I am full of joy.

The west gate of Didao Pass City slowly opened, and more than a thousand elite horsemen roared out and galloped westward, bringing endless killing and death to the Qiang people outside the gate.

Outside the east gate of the city, a large number of slave hunters with different clothes and armor, but all of them were full of flesh and fierce faces.

Since the implementation of the border ban last year, the Northwest rangers, who originally made a living by catching slaves, have lost their livelihood and have had to join Haoqiang's family and become private soldiers. Who knew that Longxi Haoqiang was wiped out by the imperial court again, so that these rangers suddenly had no food and clothing, and many of them had the idea of falling into the grass.

However, in the face of the heavy troops stationed in countless fortresses and the rabble that the imperial court is now stationed in countless fortresses, they dare not really do any shocking cases, they must occasionally rob homes and houses, and they dare not kill people at will, so as not to make the government worry about their lives. It can be said that in the past half a year, the Northwest rangers, who were originally accustomed to drinking wine and eating meat in large bowls, have not even been as good as lost dogs.

Fortunately, news has recently come out that all the major cities are going to open their borders and collect foreign slaves and livestock at high prices. The rangers spontaneously organized a large number of slave hunting teams and rushed to the outside of the city, waiting for the opening of the border ban.

Seeing the slave catcher team outside the city, Wu Kuai waved his hand and asked the doorman to start letting him go. A large number of rangers slowly passed through the city and poured into the prairie outside the gate in spring.

Not only Didao City, but also the Great Wall Passes, which have now been firmly controlled by the Han army, have all opened their gates. The majestic Great Wall, which stretches for more than 10,000 miles, is like a, and hundreds of thousands of slave hunters flock out at dozens of small breaches. Among them, there are rangers who gather spontaneously, and there are also private soldiers of major families. People die for money, birds die for food, and for expensive slaves and livestock, and they don't hesitate to risk their lives.

Needless to say, even the seemingly tough Huns could not resist the crazy slave hunting team, and in just over a month, there were no herdsmen and livestock in sight of the land within a radius of 100 miles outside the wall. In this spring season, the grassland outside the Guan, which is rich in water and grass, has such a withered scene, which is really a situation that has not been seen in a hundred years.

In Yunzhong City, Tai Shouzhi was smiling and receiving the envoys sent by Wuhuan to ask for help, and frequently raised his glass to toast.

The Wuhuan language is the same as Xianbei, which belongs to the branch of the Donghu language, has no writing, and carves wood for letters. When Donghu was in his prime, he was an important member of Xianbei at the same time. At the end of Qin, Donghu was broken by the Xiongnu Mao Dun Shan Yu, the troops were scattered, and the Wuhuan fled to Wuhuan Mountain, hence the name.

Since the Xiongnu defeated Donghu, Wuhuan was alone, so the service belonged to the Xiongnu. The Xiongnu levied livestock and leather from Wuhuan every year, and if they did not pay it on time, they confiscated their wives as slaves.

The Xiongnu clashed with the Han army several times last year, but they were all defeated, and they lost the land of Henan and the grasslands of Yanbei, which are rich in water and grass. In order to meet the needs of wintering, they became more and more violent and harsh to other nomadic peoples in the surrounding area, plundering people and animals everywhere. The Wuhuan tribes were all looted, and countless clansmen froze to death and starved to death throughout the winter.

In desperation, the lords of the Wuhuan tribes gathered together and agreed to send envoys to pay tribute to the Han court a large number of slaves and maids, cattle and horses, tigers and leopards, mink, etc., hoping to become a vassal country and seek refuge.

In addition to slaves, there are two main types of classes within the Wuhuan: one is the upper class of adults and small marshals, and the other is clan and tribal members (free people). Adults are elected by election, and often recommend "those who have the courage and ability to fight dueling lawsuits" as adults, and if they die, they are elected separately, and their descendants cannot be hereditary.

It can be said that the envoys sent by Wuhuan this time can fully represent the ruling class of the Wuhuan clan. Zhidu attached great importance to it, but he did not rejoice, but first placed the Wuhuan envoys, and secretly sent fast horses to present a secret report to His Majesty the Emperor, waiting for the edict.

After Emperor Jing received the secret report, he was also overjoyed. In recent years, with the subtle transformation of the crown prince Liu Che, Emperor Jing began to pay attention to the intelligence of foreign clans, and he also knew a lot about the internal situation of Wuhuan.

The form of social organization of Wuhuan is divided into branches, yi, and luo. The town is a grassroots organization under the ministry. Each ministry rules over hundreds, if not thousands. Each of the towns has a small handsome, and hundreds of cadres are their own. Fall, usually for the meaning of the household, each account or account, less than seven or eight mouths, more than ten mouths. A number of settlements gather together for the eup. There are about twenty or thirty households in each eup, and each euple should have a population of 100 to 200 people.

All things considered, today's Wuhuan tribes, even if they don't count slaves, are never less than 500,000. And this half-pastoral and half-cultivated nation can at least reach more than 100,000 soldiers. If you can make good use of it, it will be a great help.

Emperor Jing was overjoyed, and hurriedly summoned the crown prince Liu Che, the prime minister Yuan An, and the cavalry general Qin Yong to discuss how to deal with it all night. (To be continued.) )