In Liangzhou, on April 21, the fourth year of Zhongping, an urgent report came from Zhangye County and Jiuquan County, saying that the Xianbei cavalry had invaded the border areas and plundered, and the local losses were serious.

The two county guards tried their best to resist, and their defenses could only be maintained in a few key cities, and they cried blood and asked for help.

Liu Bei was furious when he heard this, and convened his subordinates to discuss, judging from the news, it was Zhijian Luoluo, one of the Xianbei lords in the west, and his subordinates who invaded this time.

His people have invaded the border counties of Liangzhou many times in the past, which can be described as a lot of crimes, and when Liangzhou was in turmoil, this guy did not move, and after Liu Bei governed Liangzhou and Liangzhou was stable, he came.

Liu Bei has not yet started the industrial layout in Jiuquan County and Zhangye County, and his hand has not yet been stretched out, but as a pastor in Liangzhou, it is the responsibility to defend the territory, and this group of bastards dares to invade their territory, that is, they are slapping themselves in the face, and if they don't clean them up, there will be a question mark over whether his decree will work in Liangzhou in the future.

If he wants to do big things in Liangzhou, he must prove one thing.

He's the strongest!

He did not allow anyone or anything that challenged his authority to appear in Liangzhou.

"Since he dares to invade Liangzhou, he must be ready to be cut off by me to build a Jingguan, since this is the case, then I will meet his request!"

Liu Bei's eyes showed a fierce look, his eyes were full of fierce light, and Yan Wen, Yan Zhong and the others around him who were full of murderous anger were not very comfortable.

But they all knew that Liu Bei was really angry.

If this master who has been killed in the sea of corpses and blood is angry, he really can't guarantee that they can do anything.

Liu Bei quickly made a decision to leave Yan Zhong in Hanyang County to handle daily government affairs instead of him, and he would personally lead the army to attack.

After some mobilization, Liu Bei was ready to send five battalions of cavalry to attack with him.

The main book led the move to attack with him, Wu Jie engaged in Liu Sheng, Wu Ping engaged in Pang De, Wu Rui engaged in Xu Huang's three generals attacked with him, joined the army to engage in Shu Zuo Jia Xu followed him to attack, and Hanyang County Taishou Gaixun temporarily led the state capital Wude to engage in and attack with him.

This is Liu Bei's second military operation since he took office as the pastor of Liangzhou, and everyone has a certain amount of experience, so they will not be in a hurry.

Zhen Yan of the Finance Department and Yin Da of the Warehousing Department were ordered to prepare for logistics affairs, and soon transferred the military rations brought by Liu Bei to the store, and handled them properly, so Liu Bei was ready to attack on the first day of the fifth month, and after saying goodbye to his family, he led the army to attack.

At that time, the Xianbei cavalry plundered in Jiuquan and Zhangye counties respectively, and did many evils, because of the large number of people, many places in the two counties were destroyed, and some Haoqiang manors were also destroyed, and the people suffered heavy losses.

Some of the survivors hid in the city and resisted desperately to survive, relying on the rich experience of surviving in the borderlands, and the Xianbei cavalry could not break through the city for a while.

The remaining survivors took refuge in the manor of the famous Haoqiang, and united with the Haoqiang to defend themselves and resist to a certain extent, so that the Xianbei cavalry could not easily obtain a large amount of supplies.

At this time, the "advantage" of Liangzhou as a border land is reflected.

These places are often invaded by the Qiang, Xianbei and other tribes, and there are many Han bandits, all kinds of bandits and thieves work intensively on this land, and the people who live here are as Dong Huang said, sleeping with knives.

Ordinary aggression does not really make it difficult for them to survive, on the contrary, there will be a possibility of being successfully counterattacked by them, if it were not for the fact that there were too many Xianbei people who came this time, and there was no warning for a while, the Jiuquan people and Zhangye people would not have been beaten and immediately asked Liu Bei for help.

According to the reports of the two counties, the state government preliminarily judged that the number of Xianbei cavalry invading was about 10,000 or more, which was not a small number, and it should be a large-scale raid.

But if you really want to talk about it, it's still that sentence.

The Han army was not satisfied with the salary, and the full salary was invincible.

The Han army is not full, and it is invincible to be full.

After taking a full salary and eating a full stomach, the Han army is invincible.

The Xianbei people may have been better at equestrianism than the Han cavalry, but neither the weapons they used, nor the protective gear they worn, nor their techniques and tactics were as sophisticated as those of the Han army.

The weapon forging technology of the Han Empire was far superior to that of the northern nomads during this period, and since the rise of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the nomads have not posed any major threat to the Han Empire.

As long as the soldiers of the Han army are well fed and clothed, and the weapons and equipment are well-equipped, against the nomadic cavalry, basically every battle will be won.

Unless there is a big problem within the Han Empire, and the nomadic side has a genius leader who is very good at fighting, and has a numerical advantage.

For example, sandalwood locust.

At that time, the Han Empire was really dreaming back to the Wenjing era, and was ridiculed by the unbeatable Hun Empire, which was very helpless.

Even wanting to make peace was rejected by Tanshi Huai.

But now that Tanshi Huai is dead, the unified Xianbei no longer exists, and his son Helian was even shot to death by an arrow from the Shu people who were good at shooting on the Han border, and the Xianbei Empire, which once brought a huge threat to the Han Empire, has collapsed.

The Xianbei forces that threatened Liangzhou were the western Xianbei of the Tanshihuai period, after the death of Tanshihuai, the western Xianbei rebelled from the Xianbei royal court of Danhan Mountain, and developed independently, although there was still a certain scale, but the strength was far inferior to the Tanshihuai of the year.

This time, 10,000 people were dispatched south to plunder, and it is estimated that they also wanted to fight a wave of autumn wind, and there was no purpose of all-out war.

But this is also something that Liu Bei can't tolerate.

Liu Bei fights and attaches great importance to weapons and protective gear, even if the production capacity of Liangzhou armor and horse armor is not high now, and it cannot achieve full coverage for the cavalry and war horses of the Han army, he will also concentrate all the forging production capacity to give priority to providing protective gear for the army, and give priority protection to the vital points of soldiers and war horses.

Therefore, the soldiers under Liu Bei's command are very willing to fight to the death for Liu Bei, and they are indomitable, and their will to fight is often very firm, not to mention the elite who have good armor all over their bodies.

That is the meat tank of the classical era.

After the Han cavalry entered Zhangye County, they soon spotted that the main force of the Xianbei people was in the area of Zhangye County, and he took Pang De as the vanguard and led the army to rush forward.

On the seventh day of the first month of May, the vanguard of Pang De's department and a Xianbei ranger encountered, and started an encounter battle, the Han army surrounded and annihilated the Xianbei rangers of more than 500 people, and only a few Xianbei cavalry slipped away early when they saw that the situation was not good, which can be described as deaf and clear-sighted.

In this small encounter, Cao Ren, who served under Pang De, made a lot of contributions, and with his bravery, he overturned five or six Xianbei cavalry in a row, and performed brilliantly.

On the eighth day of the fifth month, the vanguard discovered that the main force of Xianbei was approaching the main force of the Han army, and apparently got the news, Pang De immediately informed Liu Bei of this matter, and led the army to move closer to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei thought it was funny, more than 5,000 people dared to fight close to him with 15,000 people, did these Xianbei people not be beaten by the Han army for too long, so they were so arrogant?

This is really true, since the fight against Tanshi Huai, Xianbei people are really arrogant, although after the death of Tanshi Huai, the Xianbei split civil war continued, but when Zheng'er Bajing defeated the Han army's tens of thousands of cavalry Northern Expedition, the battle example still made them proud to this day.

Regarding Liu Bei's view, Jia Xu, who was in charge of the Senate military aircraft, agreed.

"In the past, I heard some businessmen talk about it, in the eyes of many Xianbei people, maybe their defeat was not because of the Han army, their defeat was because of the death of Tanshi Huai, not because the Han army defeated Tan Shihuai, so they were not afraid of the Han army."

Liu Bei sneered.

"In that case, then I will make them fear the Han army again."