The leaders of the five Qiang people, although they have some courage, but they really lack strategy, except for some breeding ambitions, they really don't have any special strategy for using troops.

The reason why they didn't send people to intercept Zhang Xi and Pang De was not because they were luring the enemy deeper, but simply because they didn't expect the Han reinforcements to come so quickly. At this time, the tribes of the five Qiang people were all scattered in various counties and counties of Qinzhou, busy plundering.

Therefore, when Zhang Xi and Pang De had already led their troops into Xixian, the leaders of the five Qiang tribes were still working hard to gather the scattered troops and gather troops, intending to fight the Han army in Tianshui County.

Therefore, after Zhang Xi and Pang De joined forces, the real Qiang opponent they encountered was actually the Qiang army besieging Ji County.

There are not many troops, but there are also a lot, more than 20,000 people.

But the problem is that after Zhang Xi and Pang De joined forces, there were also 20,000 people, including 3,000 Liangzhou cavalry brought by Pang De.

The infantry of the Han people is the elite soldiers with complete armor and sharp armaments, and the cavalry of the Han people. Not to mention, the combat concepts are all different, and they are not on the same level at all.

The cavalry of the Qiang people is mainly based on rangers, and they are good at cruising and fighting, killing the enemy with cavalry.

This kind of ranger has a certain advantage in fighting in the vast grassland, but in the face of the Han people who have the cover of the city, or in the face of cavalry assault, the role of the ranger will not be revealed.

And the 3,000 Liangzhou cavalry brought by Pang De are commandos with men and horses, not only are they also good at riding and shooting, but their frontal impact ability is not at all something that the Qiang rangers can fight against.

If you want to fight a chase battle with the Qiang people on the grassland, then Pang De's 3,000 cavalry may not necessarily be able to outperform the Qiang cavalry, but now Zhang Xi and Pang De's purpose is only to kill the Qiang soldiers besieging the city and enter Ji County to support Jiang Xu. With the same strength, the Qiang people could not stop the Han army under the command of the two at all.

In this rescue battle in Ji County, there was no suspense at all, and even the Han army led by Zhang Xi did not have much loss, so they easily dispersed the Qiang soldiers besieging the city and led the army into Ji County.

When I entered Ji County, I met Jiang Xu and Ma Dai, who had been holding Tianshui for two months, and tens of thousands of Qinzhou people who were trapped in Ji County.

Jiang Xu is still a qualified local assassin in the end, although he was caught off guard by the sudden rebellion of the Qiang people, and had some misjudgments about the scale and combat ability of the Qiang rebellion in the early stage, but after all, he still did not panic.

The four counties of Qinzhou, although Jiang Xu could not take care of every county, he still protected some of the people as much as possible, and with the help of Ma Dai's command, he led the people all the way to fight and retreat, and retreated to Tianshui County.

Ji County is relatively large, and it is also the county of Tianshui County, Jiang Xu protected tens of thousands of people here, and finally waited for reinforcements.

Other counties have more or less gathered some people, although it is not possible to go to the rescue immediately for the time being, but since Ji County has reinforcements, it will be a matter of time before the other counties break the siege.

Therefore, when Zhang Xi and Pang De led the troops into the city, they were cheered by tens of thousands of people in Ji County.

But Zhang Xi and Pang De couldn't be happy.

It's not about coming back from a victory and gaining the support of the people. This is the happiness of the people for the rest of their lives, and it can only be said that they have not lost hope in the imperial court.

Especially Zhang Xi, as soon as he saw Jiang Xu, he began to ask Jiang Xu, how did the matter of Qinzhou come to this point!!

Although theoretically speaking, Jiang Xu is the history of Qinzhou and Zhang Xi is the history of Yongzhou, and the two are considered equal, Zhang Xi asked this, which was somewhat disrespectful to Jiang Xu.

But the problem is that there is only one Tianshui County left in Qinzhou today, and even if the remaining three counties are not completely lost, they have already lost contact, and he, Jiang Xu, is mainly responsible.

Another one, Tianshui Jiang's ability to mix up a Qinzhou thorn history in the Han system has a lot to do with Zhang Xi's recommendation of the Jiang family to Liu Bei Privately, Zhang Xi is the benefactor of the Tianshui Jiang family.

Coupled with Zhang Xi's status within Liu Bei's group, anyone with a discerning eye can see it, so Zhang Xi really dared to ask Jiang Xu, and Jiang Xu didn't dare to fool Zhang Xi.

Jiang Xu told Zhang Xi about the situation in Qinzhou, 1510.

This rebellion of the Qiang people in Qinzhou, more than half of which is indeed a natural disaster, but a small half is indeed a man-made disaster.

Needless to say, the cause of natural disasters.

After four or five years of heavy winter snowfall, not to mention Qinzhou, even Yongzhou is not having a good time, Zhang Xi has to allocate a snow disaster reserve fund every year to help the people in winter.

But the problem is that Yongzhou is a plain area, where there are few elite areas in the Han Dynasty, and Zhang Xi has Zhuge Liang's promise that he can mobilize Hanzhong to store grain at the necessary time, so Zhang Xi has this certainty that he can settle the people in winter.

Qinzhou is different, Qinzhou itself is vast and sparsely populated, and the land is barren, Jiang Xuneng can resettle the Han people under the continuous snowstorm of the past four or five years, which can be regarded as a manifestation of his ability.

For the Qiang people, one is that Jiang Xu doesn't look at it very much, thinking that "if it is not my race, its heart will be different", and the other is also powerless.

Therefore, compared with the previous time when Ma Chao was the assassin of Qinzhou, the living standard of the Qiang people suddenly fell by a notch.

Ma Chao can help the Qiang people to fight for some winter relief, in exchange for them as mercenaries to help the Han fight, Jiang Xu will not be embarrassed with Ma Chao in this matter, but after Ma Chao's death, the Han implemented the national policy of recuperation and recuperation, coupled with Jiang Xu's potential attitude towards the Qiang people, the Qiang people are not even qualified to be mercenaries, what else can they expect in winter.

In addition, the Qiang people's ability to withstand disasters is significantly lower than that of the Han people, and the snow disasters for four or five consecutive years have indeed made the Qiang people on the verge of not being able to survive.

In this case, doing the old business of the ancestors and robbing the Han people has no psychological burden on the Qiang people at all.

And man-made disasters, this is going to talk about some historical problems in Qinzhou.

In the past, Qinzhou was not called Qinzhou, and when it was still part of Liangzhou, the power of the big families in this place was very large.

Back then, Ma Chao was here, and he was united by the four major families, and he didn't want to be in the pit, and his wife and children were gone.

But since Liu Bei's Northern Expedition and the recovery of his homeland, in order to appease the local family and Ma Chao at the same time, he made this place into a four-like place, and finally carved it out separately and established a Qinzhou.

One thing to say, since Liu Bei's Northern Expedition, Ma Chao has become much gentler and has made a lot of concessions. In addition to being a little shameless in Zhao Ang's affairs, it can be regarded as revenge after all, which is in line with the concept of right and wrong in this era.

Shameless is not to say that Ma Chao killed Zhao Ang, that is not a problem, the real shameless is to strengthen Zhao Ang's widow Wang Yi, and recognize Zhao Ang's son Zhao Yue as his stepson.

This matter, although it has eased some of the relationship with the local family, but. These families have always kept a certain distance from Ma Chao.

No one dares to believe shameless people.

But it was precisely because of this that Ma Chao knew his embarrassing position in Qinzhou, and he had to try his best to appease the Qiang people, using the Qiang mercenaries as his political capital within the Han Dynasty to fight against the clans in Qinzhou.

But when Ma Chao died, Jiang Xu took over as the assassin of Qinzhou, Jiang Xu himself was born in the Jiang family of Tianshui, one of the proper families, and Ma Chao was different.

In the early days of Jiang Xu's tenure, the local family was still very supportive of Jiang Xu.

For a period of time, in addition to the external environment being a little unstable, Qinzhou really has a bit of "political communication and harmony" internally.

But this scene, two years ago, was somewhat shattered.

Two years ago, Jiang Xu didn't know where to get a means, called it "Qingchu Strategy", which could provide war horses and grass in winter.

This matter was originally a good thing, and Qinzhou had the responsibility of providing war horses for the Han Dynasty, and the local families had some horse farms and pastures.

Therefore, when Jiang Xu had this "green reserve strategy", the relationship between the local family and the Jiang family became more enthusiastic, and he almost beat around the bush, hoping to get this "green reserve strategy" from the Jiang family.

It's all money.

But Jiang Xu was stunned and refused to tell anyone, and in the end he would rather put on the possibility of turning his face, and explicitly rejected the local family's covetousness of the "Qingchu policy", and refused to leak half a sentence.

At this time, the local families began to be dissatisfied with Jiang Xu.

There is a chance to make a fortune, let's earn it together. What's the drop, you Jiang still want to eat alone?!

The grassland is so big, there are so many cattle, sheep and horses, you Jiang eat alone, and you are not afraid of dying of yourself?!

The family was very dissatisfied with the Jiang family because of this, but Jiang Xu couldn't say anything about it.

This is not that the Jiang family wants to eat alone, but this "Qingchu policy", he doesn't dare to tell these Northwest families at all.

"Qingchu's strategy", although it was proposed by Zhang Xi, Zhuge Liang had already told Jiang Xu and Zhao Yun that this thing is classified at present, and it must not be listened to by Cao Wei.

Cao Wei himself is a big country with strong cavalry, and with this "Qingchu strategy", isn't it like a tiger with wings? !

Therefore, before the Han Dynasty did not have a large number of cavalry armed, this strategy could only stay at the level of the government and definitely not flow to the people.

As for the local families, you guys are calculating it yourself, how many families are there that no one is an official on Cao Wei's side?!

If this method is passed on to these people, it is estimated that it will not take a few days for this strategy to be placed on Cao Ei's imperial case!!

Especially the Wang family and the Yang family.

The Tianshui Wang family itself and the ancestors of the Taiyuan Wang family are a family, and Yang Fu of the Yang family is now a master craftsman of the Cao Wei Group, and he is in charge of this kind of technology.

Give Jiang Xu ten guts, and he doesn't dare to reveal this thing to these families.

Another one, the current Tianshui Jiang clan is already deeply tied to Ji Han.

Jiang Xu is the assassin of Qinzhou, although there is also a Ma Dai division of power, but after all, he is also the highest governor of a state.

And Jiang Wei is not to mention, it was the first emperor who valued cultivation, and now he is a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and the future is limitless. How could Jiang Xu easily put the Jiang family in danger for the benefit of these families.

So be it. The reason why the Qiang rebellion can have such a large scale and cause such a big consequence is difficult to say that it has nothing to do with these local families.

In the end, these families still have some discipline, at least they did not take the initiative to fan the flames and set off a rebellion, but in the early stage of the rebellion, these families did not contribute to the work and sat back and watched the rebellion expand, there must have been.

Their purpose is actually very clear, that is, they hope that this rebellion will cause a shock, and the imperial court whip is beyond their reach, so they have to use the "Qingchu technology" in exchange for their money and efforts to help the imperial court quell the rebellion.

But. One thing to say, they also played badly, underestimating the threat of this Qiang rebellion.

Now, these families can only be like Jiang Xu, retreating to Tianshui County, trying to protect the counties and keep their last foundation.

But. The Qiang rebellion is already on the rise, and it is not so easy to suppress.

(End of chapter)