After finalizing the garrison at Jingcheng Pass, Wang Rong, Li Sujie, and Zhang Genghuang began to discuss the defense of Yanmen County, Fenchuan County, and Shangdang County.

In particular, Shangdang County, which has a high and dangerous terrain, has been a strategic place since ancient times, and there are mainly Changzi Basin and Changping Basin in its territory.

The meaning of "Shangdang" is the place above the high place, that is, "on the top of Taihang Mountain, the terrain is the highest and the sky is the party", and "the earth is extremely high, and the sky is the party, so it is called the party". Because of its dangerous terrain, it has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times, and is known as the saying that "the party can hope to win the Central Plains".

Shangdang County is a highland surrounded by mountains, bounded by the Taihang Mountains and Jizhou in the east, and the Yihuo Mountains and Yanshan Mountains in the west bordering Hedong County.

In the eyes of the three of them, Shangdang County is an easy place to defend and difficult to attack, and Hanoi County has been occupied by the Yong State, and the defensive status of Hukou Pass has dropped a lot, and the Third Division can develop and recruit soldiers while defending this place of beauty.

The Second Division, as a matter of course, was assigned to Yanmen County, which connected Jizhou, Youzhou and the grassland, and was an important source of horses in Bingzhou, and the military capital and Flying Fox were the focus of the defense of the Second Division.

A division defends a county, and with the addition of county soldiers and township soldiers, the number of soldiers and horses that each division commander can command has exceeded 30,000. The Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry Brigade and the Xiandeng Dead Soldier Brigade were accepted as direct subordinates of the Bingzhou Army, and the two generals, Sledgehammer and Iron Tower, returned to the direct command of Wang Rong, and the two were very happy.

The personnel of the two brigades were re-established to more than 5,000 people, and Wang Rong decided to streamline them, and these more than 10,000 people were the mobile strength of the Bingzhou army, which would go to support wherever there was danger.

Wang Rong, Li Sujie and Zhang Genghuang were busy in Zhangqi City for nearly a month, but they still did not wait for the officials sent by the Xushan Imperial Court. Such a situation is really rare, and the three of them have never encountered this kind of thing by chance.

On this day, the three of them came to the main hall of the Fenchuan County Shoufu normally, and were planning to work normally, but they saw Wang Hao coming in in a hurry, and there was a bamboo tube in his hand, and the top of the tube cover was painted red, which meant that the information in the bamboo tube was extremely urgent.

Wang Rong took the bamboo tube, opened the cover, took out the silk inside, and began to look at it, Li Sujie and Zhang Gengxiao also came over, and the three heads gasped when they saw the information above.

It is very clear that Emperor Dayong Qin Heng died half a month ago. Now there is chaos in the court, and the ministers of each faction have their own princes who support them.

The abolished prince Qin Mu gathered the old department in the Hongnong Palace, and quickly became the most powerful faction in the city, and at the same time, the third prince Qin Mu and the fifth prince Qin instantly joined forces to fight against this Qin Yu. But when these two forces were fighting openly and secretly, a united faction led by the second prince, the fourth prince and the sixth prince quietly rose and defeated the other two factions in one fell swoop.

The abolished prince Qin Yu retreated west to Liangzhou with the remnants of the defeated army, while the third prince retreated to Bashu with the fifth prince. The second prince, Qin Province, succeeded to the throne amid the shouts of the Chinese military officials of the Xuxi court.

But this result was obviously not recognized by the eldest prince and the third prince, and Qin Yu directly ascended the throne as emperor in Fulu County, Liangzhou. The third Qin Mu ascended the throne and became emperor in Rongcheng, Shu County, Yizhou.

At this point, the entire Dayong was split into three

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Divided, Liangzhou, Bashu and Guanzhong, and because it is a newly annexed place, it is very different from these three parts in many things.

First of all, because Dayong only occupied Hedong County, Shuofang County, Yunzhong County and Linwo County in the state, the forces of all parties were chaotic and complicated, Hedong County was the fief of the second prince, and the second prince ascended the throne as the emperor.

Shuofang County has a special situation, the county guard is Zhang Songqi, Marquis of Shuofang, in the background, it is natural to be the Bashu faction, after all, it is the uncle of the three princes. But because Zhang Songqi has always opposed the third prince seeking his daughter, the relationship between the two is not good.

Needless to say, Yunzhong County and Linwo County are the chassis of the Northern Army, and whoever Qin Ke's position is on, these two counties will stand on whose side.

Yanmen County, Fenchuan County and Shangdang County, which were under the jurisdiction of the Bingzhou Army, did not have a special tendency, because Wang Rong and others had just learned about the changes in the imperial court.

Wang Rong really didn't expect that this originally good Dayong would now fall apart. Wang Rong said to Wang Hao: "Go, call the fifth candidate." ”

"Whoa!"

After a while, the fifth candidate came, and he first bowed to the three of them.

Wang Rong waved his hand and said, "Let's put aside the etiquette or something, and talk about the situation in the Western Regions, grasslands, plateaus, and the Central Plains." ”

The fifth candidate nodded to show that he understood, and he started with the Western Regions: "General, the Pusha Kingdom on the Western Regions is now in a fierce infighting, and the princes who can inherit the throne are basically involved in the battle for the throne. The changes that happened in Dayong, Pu Shaguo could not take care of it for the time being. ”

Wang Rong then asked, "What about the plateau?" ”

The reason why Wang Rong paid attention to the plateau was because it was the chassis of the Qiang people, and they established a loose tribal alliance system of the state, called the state of Xuan, whose military strength should not be underestimated.

The Qiang people have a very long history, calling themselves "Erma" or "Erba", known as "the people on the clouds", and are famous for shepherding sheep.

Originally, the Qiang people were a general term for the nomadic tribes living in the west of the Central Plains. Originally, the Qiang people were distributed in the southern part of the Hexi Corridor, in a vast area west of Taozhou (present-day Lintan, Gansu) and Minzhou (present-day Minxian, Gansu). The Yellow River, Huangshui, Tao River, Datong River and the upper reaches of the Min River in Sichuan are the activity centers.

During the Xia Dynasty, the Qiang people stayed south of the Yellow River because of their contribution to assisting Dayu in controlling the water, and were named many Fang countries.

During the Shang Dynasty, the Qiang people, as one of his "Fang States", had leaders who held official positions in the court.

Most of the Qiang people live a nomadic life, and a few are engaged in agricultural production.

During the Zhou Dynasty, one of the Qiang tribes, the "Jiang", had a very close relationship with the Zhou Dynasty, and a large number of Qiang people were integrated into the Central Plains during this period.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Yiqu State built by the Qiang people, its territory was located in the north of the Qin State, the area was several times that of the Qin State, and the strength was strong, and it was an important force in the Central Plains countries, and the Qin State fought a war for more than 170 years.

After the Qin State became strong, Qin Mugong dominated Xirong and fused many Zhurong with Qiang people as the main component.

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The Qiang people, who refused to integrate into the Qin state, were forced by the pressure of the Qin state to carry out large-scale and long-distance migration. The Qiang people living in Gansu, Qinghai and the upper reaches of the Yellow River and the Huangshui River basin are still in a state of "less grain, more livestock, and shooting and hunting".

After Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty rebuilt the Han Dynasty, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty moved east to Luoyang, and his control over Guanzhong Longyou was insufficient, so a large number of Qiang people migrated eastward and occupied the original Han homeland. And the migration is frequent, so there is the saying of "East Qiang" and "West Qiang". The Western Qiang are still the Qiang people who lived in the Longyou region of Gansu, the Huangshui River Valley of Qinghai, the south of the Hexi Corridor, and the vast area west of the two prefectures of Taomin, while the Dongqiang refers to the Qiang people who moved to Anding (now Yulin, northern Shaanxi), Shangjun (now Guyuan, Ningxia), and Beidi (now Yijin Huoluo Banner, Inner Mongolia).

The Han Dynasty's management of the Qiang people in the border counties was very rough, although they were not included in the households, but the officials set up officials to strictly manage them, and the officials treated the Qiang chieftains and the people to oppress and exploit them arbitrarily, wantonly plundered their arable land and pastures, and even slaughtered them indiscriminately, resulting in continuous uprisings of the Qiang people, which seriously weakened the strength of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

During the Three Kingdoms, Wei, Shu, and Wu used the Qiang people as the object of contention and use in order to expand their territory and power, and the Qiang people were also oppressed and resisted.

During the period from the two Jin Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the heroes of various ethnic groups in the north supported the secession, and the Yao clan of the Qiang people in the south established the Later Qin regime. The Later Qin regime was located in the south of the Northern Wei Dynasty and the north of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and ruled the Qiang people and all ethnic groups in the Central Plains for 33 years. After that, the Danchang Qiang in Longnan, the border between Sichuan and Gansu and the Deng Zhiqiang in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, both existed for more than 140 years and were prominent for a while.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties and the Song Dynasty, the Qiang people established the Western Xia State, whose territory included most of present-day Gansu, all of Ningxia, northern Shaanxi, Qinghai, and parts of Inner Mongolia, and confronted the Song and Jin dynasties for more than 100 years, and this period was also the last highlight moment of the Qiang people.

The fifth candidate flipped through his small notebook and reported: "General, the Qiang people seem to have formed an alliance with the three princes, they did not pose a threat to Bashu, but the border between the two places is very lively. The specialties of Bashu entered the plateau through the tea horse road, and the salt and war horses abundant in the plateau were transported into Bashu. ”

When Wang Rong heard this information, he rubbed his chin and said to Li Sujie and Zhang Genghuang with interest: "The energy of this third prince is not small, and he should have promised a lot of rewards to be able to let the unruly people advance and retreat with him." ”

The fifth candidate went on to report on the situation of the grassland, and now the east and west are constantly attacking each other, and the turmoil in the grassland has also bred a large number of careerists. Originally, they were all servants of the Khan, and they provided various resources for the Khan free of charge: cattle and sheep, horses, grain and grass, etc., and even mink, bear skins and other valuables.

But now that the grassland is turbulent, the strong are strong, and the weak are dead, and careerists have begun to "cross the sea with eight immortals, each showing their magical powers." ”

By the time the Khans and Shan Yu of the Eastern and Western Clans reacted, several large tribes had risen on the steppe, and they were no less threatening to them than their own kinds.

Next is the Central Plains, and the countries of the Central Plains applaud the division of Dayong, especially the countries bordering Dayong. Ji Guo's strength has been greatly reduced, so he has no substantive actions. Yu Guo had just been beaten up, and he was thinking about revenge, so he danced very happily. Jing Guo contacted Bashu and planned to intervene.

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