"Pure excuse to Lord Sikong!" Cao Chun just rushed out of the Xiliang Army's military formation with a few personal soldiers, and immediately pleaded guilty to Cao Cao as soon as he returned to the Taishou Mansion.

"Zihe, get up, today you asked for orders to attack, and you lost many soldiers, are you guilty?"

"Pure knowledge, please punish Lord Sikong."

"Our army is upright, and the two armies are facing each other, and when employing people. Remember your mistakes first, and punish them when the Xiliang Army is pacified in the coming day. Cao Cao waved his hand and signaled that Cao Chun could get up.

"Thank you, Lord Sikong!"

"Zihe, just now I was waiting on the city tower to watch the battle, I didn't look very carefully, you tell us about the situation in the military formation, why did our army show defeat so quickly?" Only the approximate battle situation can be observed on the city tower, and the specific situation needs to be explained by Cao Chun to everyone.

"Lord, after I rushed into the military formation of the Xiliang Army with more than 100 cavalry, the cavalry of the Xiliang Army came up, and the Xiliang cavalry was equal to the cavalry of our army."

"Well, Zihe continued."

"After testing the strength of the cavalry of the Xiliang Army, he tried to return to Chang'an with his subordinates, but encountered difficult infantry."

"Difficult infantry?"

"Exactly! When Chun led the cavalry to try to break out of the encirclement, a group of topless dead soldiers stopped our horses with their bodies, dragged the cavalry off their horses, or sniped our horses with their bodies or spears. ”

"What? Sniping with a body? Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, although every wealthy family in the Three Kingdoms would raise dead soldiers for their use, but it was unheard of to invest in military battles on a large scale. It is basically the upper limit for a wealthy family to raise more than 100 dead soldiers, could it be that Ma Teng threw the dead soldiers into battle all of a sudden?

"My lord, the dead soldiers that General Cao is talking about are not the dead soldiers that we generally think. It's the slave army of the Xiliang Army! Wei Duan stood up after listening to Cao Chun's description. Explain to Cao Cao.

"Slaves?"

"Exactly. Lord, what General Lu said was true, Xiliang Ma Teng and Han Sui referred to the law of selecting troops in the country of the Western Regions, enriched the army with slaves, and used money as military salaries, so that the Qiang people could serve the two. ”

"This is the slave army?"

"Lord, every time the Xiliang army conquers a city, it will open its treasury and divide the treasury equally as a reward for the slave army."

"I see!" Cao Cao nodded. The slave army of the Xiliang Army is really novel.

"Xiu Fu, is each Xiliang soldier responsible for distributing military funds to their respective slave troops?" Lu Rui listened to Wei Duan's introduction, and had a measure in his heart, Xiliang's regular army was equivalent to the knights of Europe, and the so-called slave army was equivalent to the slaves of the knights in Europe.

"What General Lu said is true, each registered Xiliang sergeant will be responsible for commanding four to six slave troops, and the Xiliang sergeant will be responsible for the military resources of the slave army, as long as it is the income from looting, it can be distributed to his own slave army. Therefore, many Qiang people and people from the Western Regions are willing to die for the Western Liang Army. ”

"Hugh Fu, can't my Han's policy of soothing the people make the Qiang people return to their hearts? Are they willing to serve the Xiliang Army? And not for our army? Sima Lang listened to Wei Duan's words and was very puzzled. Could it be that a good farming life is just a life of fighting and killing every day. The slave army is still willing to hand over their lives to the Xiliang army?

"Sima joined the army, you don't know about this. The Qiang people and the foreign tribes near Xiliang are basically good at riding and shooting, good hunters, barbarians are not open, most people do not like the life of farming, although there are many Sinicized Qiang people are willing to accept the Sinicized life, but after all, it is a minority, many Qiang people like the life of conquest and crusade. Wei Duan arched his hand and bowed to Sima Lang.

"Boda, the Qiang people have believed in the strong since childhood, and the Qiang people who survived hunted and had meat every season. The Qiang people can keep the meat for the month when they fight around for the slave army, but if they are ordinary people of the Han people, can they have meat for the rest of the month? Lu Rui smiled, a big family like Sima Lang naturally didn't know the lives of poor people.

The productivity of the Han Dynasty is not very developed, especially in the era of war, the people are not able to fill their stomachs, and it is common to eat and gnaw on tree bark. Therefore, as a farmer of the family, it is a very good thing in Sima Lang's eyes, at least he will not starve to death.

In the Qiang people, those who can survive are warriors, and as long as they are willing to fight, they will have meat to eat, so why should they be exploited Han farmers?

"This?" Sima Lang was stunned and speechless.

"Lord Sikong, what General Lu said is reasonable, all babies born in the Qiang tribe are abandoned in the wild or outside the house, and they are chosen by God, and only the strong can be left to raise. Although this method is cruel, it has also cultivated a fierce Qiang people, who can eat meat for the slave army, and fear that there will be no meat for a year for our Han people. If I were a Qiang, I would also be willing to be a slave. ”

"According to what Xiu Fu said, the Qiang people cannot be used by our army?"

"Lord Sikong, this is a bad word! Our army can still make the Qiang people use our army. Guo Jia arched his hand and stood up.

"Oh? What is Bonghyo's opinion? When Cao Cao heard that he could let the foreign race be used for his own use, his eyes lit up, if there were people from the foreign race to enrich the army, then he would have another bargaining chip to unify the world.

"My lord, Hugh Fu also said just now that the people of the Qiang nationality also take the initiative to sinicize and submit to the people of my Han culture. This shows that there are still foreigners who are willing to work for the Han Chinese. ”

"Bonghyo talk about it carefully!"

"Yes, Sikong-sama!"

"Adults are familiar with history books, and they should know the law of Dou Xian and Dou Gu to pacify the Southern Xiongnu back then, and our army can imitate its method to subdue the Qiang people and use it for our army."

"The law of the Pingnan Huns?"

"Moving the people from within, educating the farming, and collecting troops with heavy money is the policy of the Xiongnu in Pingnan, and our army can also use this method to subdue the Qiang people."

The internal migration of the people is to move the foreign people into the city dominated by the Han culture, and use one or even three generations to sinicize the people of the foreign race, identify with the Han culture, and become Han people.

Cultivating agriculture is to let foreigners change their way of life and survival, lay down their weapons and live a life of killing, read and write, and live a farming life of the Han people, no longer taking killing as the main theme of life.

Heavy money is to give extremely high material treatment to foreigners, to include them in the army of the Han Dynasty, and to use the army composed of foreigners to deal with the rebellious foreigners. This has something in common with the recruitment of slave troops by the Xiliang Army, and it is also the source of the later generations.

"Well, extraordinary, what do you think?" Cao Cao glanced at Lu Rui, since Lu Rui understood the reason for the formation of the Xiliang Nu Army, Cao Cao also wanted to hear Lu Rui's opinion.

"My lord, my subordinates think that the strategy of the Xiongnu in Pingnan is indeed a good policy to pacify the foreign races, if the adults subdue the Qiang people, they can directly wave the army to the south, attack Xichuan, and Kuang Fu Han is just around the corner." The wisdom of the ancients is extraordinary, especially the use of razing is a clever trick in strategy, and Lu Rui certainly wants to use it.

"Okay, Fengxiao, extraordinary, this Sikong decided to send the two of you to Liangzhou, give a lot of money, and persuade the Qiang people who are willing to serve our army to raid the rear wing of the Western Liang Army."

"Yes, sir!"

"The rest of the generals will be stationed in Chang'an with this division, so that the Xiliang army can see the strength of our Yanzhou army!"

"No!" (To be continued......)

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