The leaders of the five Qiang people don't want to do this, it's really not like a person.

Although in the game, the IQ of the Hu leader is rarely in the double digits, but in fact, no one is stupid to be able to hold the power of a tribe and decide the life and death of everyone in the tribe.

They may be arrogant, they may be proud, but they are not idiots.

Who doesn't know how strong the Han people are in combat with the help of the city, and who doesn't know that the Han people have thick armor and sharp weapons, and the Hu people can't compare with them at all.

Running to fight the Han people in the city attack and defense war, it is completely based on their own shortcomings to compare with the strengths of the Han people, no matter how brainless the tribal leader is, he can't do such a heartless thing.

But now, the leader of the five Qiang people has really done this stupid thing.

No way, there are too many of them, and there are more and more!

The initial and most essential reason for the Qiang rebellion this time was that everyone couldn't survive anymore, so they had to stand up and fight to find a way to survive.

But no one expected that this rebellion would be so big, and the reinforcements of the Han people would come so quickly.

The rebellion became bigger, and not only the small tribes of the Qiang people around came to attach themselves, but also some tribes of the Di people and Xianbei people also came to take refuge.

In the northwest of these years, after four or five years of severe cold and heavy snow, Hu people who couldn't survive abounded.

In the first two years, the Qiang people and Ma Chao helped take care of it, and at least there was some relief from the Han court, but the Xianbei people and the Di people did not have this treatment, and their lives were even worse than those of the Qiang people.

That is, these tribes of Xianbei and Di people are too small and too scattered among each other, and they really dare not rebel.

The Qiang rebellion can still try to find a way to survive, but if they rebel, it is a pure dead end.

Originally, these small tribes were already desperate, but who knew that the Qiang people's rebellion had made such a big noise, and these small tribes of the Hu people looked at it, don't they take the opportunity to go over and get some benefits and give the tribes winter, isn't that a bad brain?!

Although the revenge of the Han people will be terrible, if you don't pick up the bargain now, you won't be able to wait for the day when the Han people retaliate.

In this way, when the leaders of the five Qiang tribes gathered their own people, they found that the number of each tribe under his command was half more.

Originally, the five tribes added up to only about 100,000 people, but now they have become 150,000 or 60,000. A dilemma.

Continuing to occupy Qinzhou and cause rebellion, the food they looted was simply not enough for these 1560,000 people to survive this winter, and if they retreated back to the grassland, the food would be also insufficient.

Therefore, the people who can't wait to fight now have become the Qiang coalition army.

Only by breaking through Tianshui County and looting the grain in Tianshui County can the Qiang coalition army have the possibility of survival.

After all, among the four counties of Qinzhou, Tianshui County is the richest and has the most grain reserves, which is the only hope for the Qiang coalition army.

This is the official reason why the Qiang coalition army suddenly gathered and assembled and began to attack Ji County.

Yes, official reasons are just an excuse to fool those small and medium-sized tribes of the Qiang people and incite them to fight against the Han people.

In private, the real reason is that the leaders of the five major tribes of the Qiang people have united and played with a knife to kill people.

The leaders of the five Qiang tribes rebelled, and the original purpose was just to survive, they didn't want to freeze to death and starve to death.

But as the rebellion grew louder, the ambitions of the leaders of the five Qiang tribes were also stimulated.

So many Qiang and Hu tribes responded, giving them the idea of reviving the glory of their ancestors.

However, none of the people who can be the leaders of the five Qiang tribes are fools, and they know very well that the Han people are not easy to mess with.

Before, he relied on the advantage of preemptive strikes to capture the three counties of Qinzhou in one fell swoop, but with the arrival of Han reinforcements in Tianshui, it was the prime minister of the Han Dynasty who personally led the troops, and the leaders of the five Qiang tribes immediately understood that this matter was not so easy to be good.

Although the rebellion is huge now, except for the five Qiang people, there are not many Hu people who are really fighting hard, and if they continue to fight like this, they will have to suffer the heaviest losses in the end.

Therefore, the leaders of the five Qiang tribes did not have much hope for this attack on Ji County.

It is naturally the best to be able to fight down like before, the Qiang people have become a momentum, and then whether it is against the Han or admitting and begging for attachment, they have a certain respite.

But if it can't be defeated, the leaders of the five Qiang tribes also have other plans.

After this rebellion, the number of small and medium-sized tribes that came to join was quite large, and almost most of the Qiang and Hu tribes in the northwest region participated.

Although these small and medium-sized tribes are very poor, they still have some assets, and the most important thing is that there are really a lot of them, and the sum of the cattle and sheep of these small and medium-sized tribes is not a small amount.

If you really can't kill the Han people, you can annex the women, children, cattle and sheep of these small and medium-sized tribes, and expand the scale of your original tribe, then this winter is not really unbearable.

Go back and wait until the beginning of spring, and then push the responsibility on these small and medium-sized tribes, and make two people come out for the dead ghosts, and ask the emperor of the Han Dynasty for their guilt and surrender, maybe this rebellion will be revealed, and even say something good, come to a minister or something, and ask for some rewards.

Isn't it the best of both worlds to be able to strengthen your tribe and get rid of the charge of being the mastermind of this rebellion.

In this way, the leaders of the five Qiang people got together, discussed for a long time, and unanimously decided to send troops to Tianshui County and find the Han people to fight to the death.

Soldiers sent to Tianshui County, that's true, but it's not the five Qiang tribes that fight to the death, but those small and medium-sized tribes who come to take refuge in themselves.

Use the hands of the Han people to consume the males in these small and medium-sized tribes, and wait until these tribes have suffered heavy losses. According to the rules of the grassland, the five Qiang tribes can rightfully annex them, and they can also leave a good reputation for taking care of women and children.

Anyway, if you want to hate, you will hate the Han people, and your husband and father were all killed by those Han people.

No matter how you think about it, the five Qiang tribes will not suffer.

In this way, under the leadership of the five Qiang tribes, the Qiang-Hu alliance army went straight to Tianshui County.

And Zhuge Liang, after learning that the Qiang people did not need the Han army to search, actually took the initiative to send them to death, he was not polite, and began to formulate a battle plan on the spot.

If you are willing to die thousands of miles, then I will definitely be willing to bury you.

The first step is to let go of the defense of Xixian County and open the passage for these Qiang people to enter Tianshui County.

The second step was to send Zhang Xi to lead 5,000 soldiers, make a detour, and wait until the main force of the Qiang people passed through Xixian, and then choose the opportunity to reoccupy Xixian and cut off the retreat route of the Qiang people.

In the third step, Pang De led 3,000 cavalry to hide outside, and when the Qiang people were defeated and retreated, they chose to follow and kill.

In the fourth step, Zhuge Liang personally sat in Ji County, led Ma Dai and Wu Yi to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Qiang people in Ji County.

The strategy is really not that complicated, this is based on confidence in the combat strength of the Han army, to deal with these Qiang people, there is really no need to set up complex tactics, the simpler it is, the more effective.

The only thing to note is that among these Qiang-Hu coalition forces, there are up to thirty percent of the strength of the rangers, and it is difficult to say how effective these rangers are, but they are very good at escaping, so it is impossible to completely annihilate these Qiang, and they can only kill as much as possible.

And how lethal it is, it depends on whether Zhang Xi is blocked or not, and the lethality of Pang De's 3,000 cavalry.

In this way, the battle plan was set, and the troops carried it out according to the plan, waiting for the Qiang people to send it to the door themselves.

didn't let Zhuge Liang wait too long, but in seven or eight days, the vanguard of the Qiang people had already arrived under the city of Jixian.

At this time, Zhang Xi had also set off for two days and made a detour to Xixian.

How to fight Zhuge Liang's offensive and defensive battles under Ji County, Zhang Xi is not worried, what Zhang Xi is most worried about now is that Tianshui County is starting to snow.

And it's snowing heavily.

In this kind of weather, it is already very unsuitable to send troops to fight, but Zhang Xi's current task has not been completed.

In fact, Zhang Xi had already moved to the vicinity of Xixian two days ago, but he had not immediately launched an attack to occupy Xixian.

It's not that the Qiang people are well-guarded, in fact, this group of Qiang people has no concept of defending the city.

Their biggest concept of defending the city is to close the city gate at night, and they don't even have the concept of sending troops to check the city gate when they enter and exit the city gate of Xixian County.

In this way, if you want to take down a city that is lax, you can take it at any time.

And the reason why Zhang Xi didn't attack the city was because there were too many Qiang people.

Along the way, it stretched for more than ten kilometers, all of them were Hu people, some were Qiang people, some were Xianbei people, they had been moving in the direction of Ji County, and they were almost dragging their families, men, women and children, and they couldn't see where the tail was in the short term.

Really, in this state of marching, Zhang Xi has the heart to launch a surprise attack directly, and this thing is accurate one by one.

But Zhang Xi was still level-headed, and knew that his task was to block the way for the Qiang people to retreat.

Calculating the time, at this time, the vanguard of the Qiang people may have arrived in Ji County, but the follow-up troops still can't see the end, Zhang Xi plans to wait a few more days, and wait for a few days after all these Hu troops have passed through Xixian County, and then launch an attack on the city.

In this way, all the Hu people can be locked up on the road from Xixian to Jixian.

The traffic conditions in this era are like this, as long as the road is blocked, even if you run for your life to bypass the city and escape into the wilderness, it is unknown whether you will survive in the end.

The cavalry with horses is better, and the Qiang people without horses are basically waiting to die in this winter.

But. Zhang Xi didn't wait for the end of the Hu team, but waited for the third snow of the year in Tianshui County.

And this snow, it is getting heavier and heavier, and it does not stop at night.

Zhang Xi suddenly knew that he couldn't wait any longer.

With this amount of snow, by the next day, the whole land would have been completely white, and if we waited another day, the snow might have reached the point where it would affect walking, and it would have been too late to launch a siege at that time.

Again, with such a heavy snowfall, Zhang Xi didn't believe that Ji County could continue to fight, it is very likely that the Qiang people had already chosen to retreat at this time, and if they didn't block the retreat of Xixian County, it would really be too late.

Therefore, Zhang Xi had to launch a surprise attack on the city early the next morning, despite the wind and snow.

There was no big difficulty, Zhang Xi just sent a team of 100 people, pretending to be a small tribe of Di people, and easily approached the city gate, and before the Qiang people defending the city could react, they killed people and seized the city gate.

After the capture of the city, although some battle losses were paid, it did not take long, but in half a morning, the Hu people in Xixian were dispersed and regained control of the four gates of Xixian.

Then Zhang Xi ordered to close the four city gates, sweep the snow at the head of the city, prepare bows and crossbows, prepare for battle at any time, and begin to defend the city.

Facts have proved that Zhang Xi's decision was quite timely, and in the afternoon of the same day, a group of Qiang rangers, about seven or eight hundred people, followed by more than a thousand Qiang people, appeared outside the city of Xixian County.

At this time, the leader of the Qiang people did not seem to realize that Xixian had been occupied by Zhang Xi, and led the team of men and horses close to the city wall without warning, so he stood under the city tower and shouted, asking Zhang Xi to open the door quickly and let their people pass.

As a result, Zhang Xi was unceremoniously, and after a burst of hard bows and crossbows, the leader of the Qiang people was hit by seven or eight arrows on the spot, and he couldn't survive.

Only half of the seven or eight hundred rangers remained, and the Qiang tribe suffered heavy losses, and when they escaped from the range of the arrows, only three adults were left.

What's worse is that these Qiang people, they run too fast, some of the frames and tents on the frames, there is no time to carry the food, even if they escape, if they can survive at night, it is really not certain.

Zhang Xi didn't have time to sympathize with them.

This time, the Qiang people are not sober-minded, and they dare to lean on the city wall so close, but the Qiang people who come next time will definitely not be so easy to deal with.

Even if the Qiang people are not good at attacking cities, after all, there are many people, and if more than 100,000 Qiang people flock to Xixian together, there will still be pressure.

Therefore, Zhang Xi really didn't sleep all night, and was always on guard against the possible arrival of this Qiang person.

It wasn't until the next morning that Zhang Xi was finally on the horizon and saw a chaotic snowflake Obviously, this is the snowflake that the cavalry ran and brought up.

A large number of cavalry arrived.

The Qiang people's large number of defeated troops are finally here.

(End of chapter)