At this time, the whole city was filled with screams, shouts, begs for mercy, cattle and sheep, and the crackling of the fire burning tents. Listening to these voices, Tulan, the leader of Ma Lanqiang, felt like he had been cut by a knife, but the short knife around his neck behind him and the more than 100 Jin troops surrounded him made him unable to move at all.

Turan could only watch helplessly as all this happened, just today during the day, he still thought that he and even Ma Lanqiang were at the peak of their glory, who knew that these things would happen at night. Listening to these voices, Turan knew in his heart that it would be difficult for Ma Lanqiang to see the sun tomorrow.

The sun finally staggered up in the thick smell of blood. The firelight that once reflected the red sky turned into hundreds of black smoke that was still rising, and the corpses all over the ground showed that more than 10,000 Shi defenders and personal guards were killed by the Jin army, and it also showed that many Malanqiang people were killed in the chaotic battle.

The horses swam all over the land were full of murderous Jin troops, who roamed the city with the eyes of victors and surveyed all the people who saw suspicious shapes or dead corpses, and once they found their arms stretched out sideways, they were stabbed.

The Malanqiang people, who had experienced last night's catastrophe, trembled under the sabers of the Jin army, like dead leaves in the autumn wind. The only thing they could do was look at these new owners of Skinsh with frightened eyes.

Sima Shu lifted the hem of his robe, wiped the blade of the saber that had turned black and inserted it back into the scabbard, and at this time the mount had slowly paced in front of a mansion, and a Jin army sergeant guarding the door in front of him immediately stepped forward to hold Sima Shu's mount.

Sima Shu turned over and dismounted and walked into the hall quickly, and as soon as he arrived in the hall, he saw Li Te, who had already come in to take care of it, immediately greeted him and reported: "Your Highness! We have captured all three hundred and sixty-two Qiang tribal leaders and nobles, including the nine brothers of Turan and his three sons. All are waiting for the fate of His Highness. ”

"Okay, Lone knows, Xuan Xiu, you have worked hard." Sima Shu said as he sat down.

"Isn't Your Highness going to see Turan?" Li Te asked with some curiosity.

"What's there to see, the fate of him and Ma Lanqiang is doomed from the moment they start a rebellion, so there's no need to be in such a hurry! The most important thing for us next is to rectify the problem of Ma Lanqiang as soon as possible, and Gu plans to implement the Juntian system here, and then take advantage of the fact that the surrounding Hu people have not yet reacted, and recover Shangjun as soon as possible. ”

Sima Shu said that there is a certain reason, at this time the Jin Dynasty Yu Wei was still there, Tuoba Xianbei had not yet gone south, Murong Tuyuhun had not led his troops to move west, although the Huns were strong, but their main forces were concentrated in Bingzhou. And the two most powerful forces in Shangjun: Lu Shuihu and Ma Lanqiang fell apart under Sima Shu's surprise attack!

This was the best time for the Jin Dynasty to recover Shangjun, with Shangjun, Sima Shu was able to lay the foundation for the future recovery of the Hetao region, in fact, the northern part of Shangjun already belonged to the Hetao region, but the rest of the Hetao was thrown under the rule of Tuoba Xianbei. Now Sima Shu does not have the strength to wrestle with the powerful Tuoba Xianbei, but sooner or later there will be a battle between the two.

"Your Highness should meet those Qiang leaders!" The two discussed the future strategy for a long time, and Sima Shu went outside to meet the leader of the Qiang tribe under the reminder of Li Te.

When I came to the front of the mansion, I saw more than 300 Qiang leaders kneeling there respectfully, and when they saw Sima Shu, Li Te, and others coming out, they hurriedly kowtowed and saluted: "I have seen His Royal Highness the Prince!" ”

"This time, the palace came to quell the rebellion on the orders of the imperial court, pacify the place, and let the leaders be frightened, I hope you will forgive me." Sima Shu looked very kind and said, "Ma Lanqiang was originally a Qiang tribe who moved east to Shangjun to settle down on the order of the imperial court, and should have understood the difficulties of the imperial court and helped the imperial court solve problems, hehehe...... But what did you Ma Lanqiang do? I'm afraid everyone knows it. Relying on the Emperor of Shangao to bully the weak, burn and loot, how many Han people died in your hands? How many Han families have been ruined by you? Not only did you oppress the subjects of my Heavenly Dynasty, but you also claimed to be the king and rebelled against the king! Speaking of this, Sima Shu was quite angry.

"From the perspective of the Qiang people and our people in the Central Plains, they are all descendants of Yan and Huang with the same root and the same origin, and I want to pull you along, but who knows that after arriving in Beidi County, I saw you wantonly bullying my Heavenly Dynasty subjects!" Sima Shu said more loudly, "Lone's main task this time is to drive Hu and protect the people!" Anyone who has bullied my Han people will be retaliated a hundred times over! And in order to promote the prestige of our dynasty, from now on, the water source of this pasture will be managed by my Great Jin, and you have no other way out except to be a well-behaved Han Chinese. ”

Speaking of this, Sima Shu glanced around at the more than three hundred Qiang leaders with solemn faces, he knew that he couldn't let them sincerely attach himself to him with a single word, but this lesson still had to be taught to them first, and when he used the knife again, don't say that Lao Tzu didn't greet you first.

After chatting with the leader of the Qiang people for a long time, Sima Shu brought Li Teh again, "Xuan Xiu, has the lonely person arrived?" It turned out that since the raid on Lu Shuihu, Sima Shu asked Zu Ti to transfer a group of literate and law-abiding veterans from the rear to serve as grassroots officials in the border areas.

During his five years in Xincheng, Sima Shu not only trained a large number of scholars, but also promoted literacy education on a large scale in the army, and it can be said that the troops under his command had the highest literacy rate in the world at that time.

"No, but it should be soon. Your Highness, we have just recruited 5,000 Han slaves and frustrated Qiang people who are good at riding and archery locally, do you want to take a look? ”

Since the raid on Malanqiang, Li Teh began to recruit new cavalry according to Sima Shu's orders, and the main targets for him were slaves and middle- and lower-class herdsmen in the Qiang tribe, and those who knew the times were indispensable in any era.

In the end, Sima Shu gathered 5,000 Qiang cavalry, he mixed the original 6,000 cavalry with the newly recruited Qiang cavalry, and then selected 5,000 of them as the prince's personal army, and the rest were redivided into two compartments by him, and the two cavalry armies were led by Li Te, Li Liu and the brothers respectively.

After being mixed together, the original cavalry did not dare to look down on these "very lowly" people, and some of these "slave Qiang people" were originally ordinary Qiang people like them or the sons of small and medium-sized Qiang people, and later they all became slaves when Ma Lanqiang unified the Qiang tribe; Second, these recruiters told them that they all belonged to the prince's army, and they would make meritorious contributions in the future, not only with pastures to share, but also with benefits such as cattle and sheep slaves, which made those Qiang people from middle and lower classes join one after another. Especially when Sima Shu ordered a part of the property of the Qiang nobles to be distributed to them, this group of people became even more interested in the Jin Dynasty.

At the end of the month, Sima Shu saw that the 11,000 cavalry under his command were wearing leather armor helmets that had just been transported, carrying strong bows and arrows, and carrying new-style sabers.

Since the start of the war in Guanzhong, the transport teams from Xincheng to and from the Guanzhong camp have not been interrupted, and a large number of weapons, equipment, grain and grass have been transported to the Guanzhong camp, and in recent days they have been transferred to Beidi County by Zu Ti, Jiang Tong and others to supply the front line.

Once the new troops are formed, there must be sacrifices of the sacrificial swords!

Sima Shu ordered hundreds of Ma Lanqiang nobles and leaders who had been imprisoned for more than half a month, including Tulan's brothers and their families, totaling more than 3,000 people, to be concentrated in the wilderness of Fushi City. Then, in front of nearly 50,000 Qiang and "Qiang slave" tribesmen and more than 200 "neutral" Qiang leaders, 10,000 Jin cavalry divided into four directions, brandished new sabers, and instigated mounts to rush back and forth to kill and slash.

Suddenly, the cry on the wilderness shook the sky, and the miserable sound was terrible, and more than 3,000 Ma Lanqiang people were chased by the Jin army, or were cut to different places by sharp sabers, or were washed to the ground, so that the thunderous horses' hooves were trampled into meat paste.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the Jin army carried a blood-dripping saber and slowly walked through the corpses in the field: young people, old people, and children lay there in all directions, except for the blood that had been blackened or the blood that was black.

Sima Shu mixed 50,000 "former slave tribes" with the remaining Ma Lanqiang tribesmen, and each household designated pastures and distributed cattle, sheep and horses. Ten households are set up as a directory, and they are responsible for internal affairs such as regular coordination and management. Each household signs a ding, prepares its own mount saddle, and sets up a cavalry lieutenant, who is responsible for gathering the cavalry of each household for training, and is responsible for the regular security of each purpose, and in wartime, the cavalry in the assembly is in the upper level of convergence.

There are 100 households for every 100 households, which is not only responsible for housekeeping matters such as regular management among the 100 households, but also responsible for the coordination of various purposes. There is a lieutenant for every 100 households, who is responsible for the regular training of the cavalry in the 100 households and the assembly and command in wartime.

The property, cattle and sheep, and young wives and daughters of the Malanqiang nobles who were killed, totaling more than 1,000 people, were "given" to those "advanced elements" of the Qiang people and those with notable military achievements in the old army, and all the rest were transported to Beidi County to support the construction being carried out in Beidi County.

In the following time, Sima Shu led more than 10,000 cavalry troops and began to sweep the Hu people in the entire Shangjun, and for a time Shangjun was shrouded in bloody rain. Of the hundreds of thousands of Hu people who had been begging for a living in Shangjun, most of them were subjugated by Sima Shu, except for some who fled to the north or the west.

This was the first time that the Jin Dynasty had its own rule so deep into the grassland, and for a time the situation in the grassland changed abruptly, and the prestige of the Jin Dynasty was reduced among the grassland tribes because of the weakening of the imperial court, but it was suddenly contained. Even the powerful Tuoba tribes in the north strengthened the defenses of the Hetao region, fearing that the Jin army would take the opportunity to regain the Hetao.

After the wax moon, on Chinese New Year's Eve, this is the first time Sima Shu spent the New Year in the Northland, and he and the Li Teh brothers spent an unforgettable Spring Festival in the city of Fushi. Just after the Spring Festival, Sima Shu sent out the cavalry to monitor the Hu people in Shangjun to implement the Juntian system with grassland characteristics.

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