"First Lingqiang, Baima Qiang, Wolf Qiang, disregarding the kindness of the imperial court, rioting, invading the prefectures and counties, plundering property, the crime is extremely evil, and heaven does not tolerate it, I decided to send troops to conscript, destroy their clans, preach the prestige of the Han Dynasty inside and outside, eliminate the traitors, and eliminate violence and peace!"

Liu Bei issued an order to the whole army to go out.

The Liangzhou army will leave the border and launch a strong attack on the Xianlingqiang, Baimaqiang, and Shenwolf Qiang garrisons, and let them know that they will pay the price for doing something wrong!

The three tribes had never imagined that they would meet such an end before the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry arrived in front of them to kill.

The weather was cold, the cold wind was gusting, they huddled in the tent to roast the fire and cook meat, and endured the cold winter, hoping that the spring flowers would bloom in the coming year, and they could have a better life.

Of course, if the men who went out on the expedition could plunder more food, daily necessities, and Han Chinese as slaves for them, then their lives would have been better.

They are semi-nomadic and semi-sedentary, so they can grow food, but because of inadequate farming techniques and climate problems, they do not grow enough food.

The sheep they grazed and raised were also less fat because of the bitter cold.

The taxes demanded from them by their leaders were also getting higher and higher.

All of this leads the solution to the problem in the direction of war and plunder, and if it were not for the capture that the war brings, they would have starved.

If there is a seizure, if there are slaves to sell for money, this winter will be very good.

They fantasize like this, fantasize, fantasize...... Then Liu Bei led the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry to roar over, crushing their illusions.

The Liangzhou Iron Cavalry was divided into three routes, Liu Yong all the way, Liu Sheng all the way, and Liu Bei personally led the way, with Pang De and Xu Huang as the vanguard, attacking the three major tribes like a whirlwind and clouds, and tearing the three Qiang tribes into pieces with the momentum of destroying and decaying.

The three major tribes tried their best to resist, but the elite coalition could not compete in front of the Han army's iron cavalry, let alone these unlucky people who were left behind and had no defense.

The fragile resistance was soon shattered by the glowing swords of the Han cavalry, and everyone fled in confusion, hoping that they could run faster and farther away from the pursuit of the fearsome cavalry wielding the ring-headed swords.

But even if they were able to escape, how could they survive in such a harsh environment?

Nature has never been human.

In the last month of the fourth year of Zhongping, Liu Bei led 20,000 Han troops to sweep away the three tribes of the Qiang people outside the Saiwai and won a complete victory.

However, their population is obviously not as large as that of the Xianbei people, Liu Bei exterminated the three tribes, and together they captured 1230,000 people, plus the previous more than 10,000 Qiang soldiers, the total is less than 150,000.

Among them, the largest number of people is still Xian Lingqiang, Baimaqiang and Shenwolf Qiang do not have too many populations, they are not strong, and they are not enough to become the henchmen of Liangzhou Prefecture.

In the capture of the war, Liu Bei was a little surprised that a relatively large amount of grain was captured, and after Jia Xu's explanation, Liu Bei was a grain crop accumulated by the Qiang tribe for agricultural production.

They also do agricultural production, but the technology is not good, and the soil is not fertile enough, so agricultural production is not enough to feed them, and they still have to rely on their old profession to avoid starvation.

Moreover, it can be determined that the exploitation of these tribes is also very serious, and the grain is mainly concentrated in the camps of the head people, piled up like a mountain, and the ordinary herdsmen lack the savings of grain.

In addition, the scale of grazing by their respective tribes is large.

Horses are still second, sheep are the most numerous, and the number of sheep in three tribes plus one is more than a million.

For Liu Bei, this was a considerable amount of seizure, which directly made Liu Bei decide to set up pastures directly under the jurisdiction of the Liangzhou Prefecture in the birthplaces of Shenluoqiang and Baimaqiang.

The setting of a large number of pastures gave Liu Bei enough confidence to provide more meat to the army, and improve the treatment of the army, along with reducing the price of meat as much as possible, and giving Liangzhou people more opportunities to eat meat.

And the huge animal husbandry industry can also provide a sufficient number of war horses for the Liangzhou government.

After the end of this war, the number of horses controlled by the livestock farms directly controlled by the Liangzhou Prefecture had exceeded 400,000.

This will be the basis for Liu Bei to further recruit soldiers and train more cavalry in Liangzhou.

Liu Bei's original army brought to Liangzhou was 30,000, with a scale of ten battalions, and the number of soldiers and horses recruited in Liangzhou later also had four battalions, and the total strength had exceeded 40,000.

At present, this army has been able to form a huge deterrent to Liangzhou and the surrounding forces, and the number of troops can basically adapt to the number required for combat and maintaining stability.

Liu Bei only planned to expand the army to fifteen battalions in a short period of time, and then he did not plan to continue to recruit more soldiers.

First, Liangzhou could not afford too large an army.

Second, Liu Bei planned to educate these soldiers in officer style, imparting them enough knowledge that officers need to know, and using them as the backbone of his future expansion of the army.

They need to be literate, read and write, and have a preliminary military education, which requires them to master a series of knowledge in the process of marching and fighting.

Those who learn well will be rewarded, and those who do not learn well will be punished.

As long as the foundation is laid and they are trained to become outstanding grassroots officers, it will not be difficult at all to expand the army in the future.

Moreover, there are many official horse farms in the Liangzhou area, and a large number of war horses obtained through seizure can be equipped to the army to train extremely powerful assault horses.

In order to deal with the Xiongnu, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty trained three strong cavalry troops, the assault cavalry of Youzhou, the cavalry of Bingzhou, and the Liangzhou horse.

Now that Liangzhou is in a state of collapse and dilapidation, Liu Bei is very emotional, and decides to use his financial resources to regain the prestige of Liangzhou Malaysia, so that the official martial arts of Liangzhou will be full again.

Because of the great capture and great results, when Liu Bei triumphed, it was already the beginning of the fifth year of Zhongping, and after the victory of this battle, the external environment of Liangzhou had improved greatly.

What's even more interesting is that after the Burning Dangqiang side learned that Liu Bei had successfully pacified the three Qiang tribes, he took the initiative to send someone to contact Liu Bei, saying that this kind of thing could be called to them together in the future.

They also hate these robbers who come to rob at every turn, there is no pattern at all, they don't want a good life, they have to come to fight for life and death, there will be this kind of thing in the future, Dangqiang is willing to stand on the united front with the Liangzhou government to maintain peace and tranquility around Liangzhou.

There are a total of thirty-six representatives of the Qiang tribe who came to express their loyalty to Liu Bei and promote harmony with Dangqiang, all of whom live in the area west of Jincheng County and Longxi County.

With a population of more than 200,000, it is the most powerful of the major Qiang tribes around Liangzhou.

They united with the other 36 Qiang tribes to publicly stand with the Liangzhou government to maintain peace and tranquility around Liangzhou, which basically represented the attitude of the entire Qiang community, and was also a great deterrent to the Qiang people of other tribes who had not expressed their position.

Liu Bei was glad to meet them, drank with them, and made a public agreement that they would not invade each other, help each other, and that the Qiang people would do their best to obey Liu Bei's instructions and assist Liu Bei in all military operations he needed.

After the public agreement was over, the person who launched the operation was relieved.

After he learned about the invasion of Longxi County by the three tribes of Lingqiang, Baimaqiang and Shenwolfqiang, he was very frightened.

He scolded the people of these three tribes for having a sick head, and it was not good to provoke anyone, so he had to provoke Liu Bei.

The two major tribes of the Xianbei people plus a piece of more than 300,000 people were cleaned up by Liu Bei in this way, and they didn't know the fate of the 300,000 Xianbei people.

Liu Bei is such a fierce man with full martial virtues, I can't even provide it, how dare you provoke?

Sick, right?

Moreover, Naduo was even more worried that Liu Bei would adjust his policy towards all Qiang people because of this rebellion, so Naduo was very anxious.

In the end, at the suggestion of his subordinates, Naduo united with the thirty-six Qiang tribes who had a good relationship with the Qiang people to convey goodwill to Liu Bei, hoping to maintain relations with Liu Bei and not cause changes.

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PS: There is nothing more painful in the world than controlling your diet...... In order to alleviate my pain, I will add another chapter of indignation!

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