Chapter 198: Expanding the Territory

Looking at the leaders of the Qiang people who were escorted to the front and knelt down, Dong Zhuo waved his hand, and did not even leave them a chance to speak, and immediately ordered the soldiers to pull out and cut them, and for those Qiang people, Dong Zhuo did not make much killing, but he didn't want to let them go like this, so he simply branded all of them as slaves, and he used them as official slaves.

After destroying the main force of these Qiang people, Dong Zhuo did not intend to stop there, and in the next nearly a month, Dong Zhuo reorganized the soldiers under the command of Ma Teng and Han Sui, and eliminated the old and weak, Ma Teng only had 11,000 horsemen left, and the remaining people in Han Sui's hands were a little more, and there were still 21,000 people.

At the same time, Dong Zhuo also smoothly took Ma Chao, Pang De, and Ma Dai under his command, but Ma Chao was just fifteen, and Ma Dai was even younger, only thirteen years old, but compared to Ma Xiu and Ma Tie, who were almost the same age as him, Ma Dai looked much more mature, and Ma Chao's sister, who was originally pinned on by Dong Zhuo, is now just a teenage little Lori.

At the beginning of May, Dong Zhuo used Zhong Xuan's strategy to order Ma Teng and Han Sui to lead people from Jiuquan, one to the west and the other to the north, and began a thorough sweep of the Qiang people.

Whether it is Ma Teng or Han Sui, both of them are ruthless people, although the Qiang people were still their allies before, but now when they appear as hostiles, they show no mercy, among the Qiang people, all those who dare to resist are slaughtered, and the captured Jing Zhuang are all official slaves after the two of them give an order, and the old and weak in the tribe are slaughtered by the two of them, so that in the end, most of the Qiang tribes who can survive are women and girls.

It's just that what awaits them is not a good fate.

Those who are weak or kind were ordered by Dong Zhuo to let meritorious people choose to be their wives and concubines, and for those younger girls, Dong Zhuo specially sent someone to set aside a courtyard for them to live in, and they had only one thing to face every day, which was brainwashing.

For a long time, among the three guards directly under Dong Zhuo, the number of shadow guards has never made much breakthrough, and because of Dong Zhuo's emphasis on human life in his heart, as well as the bottom line that he does not want to touch, most of the people recruited in the shadow guards are men, and now that he has these Qiang girls, Dong Zhuo can't help but think.

War, whether you win or lose, in the end, it is the woman who suffers the most damage, and there is no right or wrong, and there is no good or evil. Although Dong Zhuo couldn't bear this kind of approach, he was even more reluctant to do such a thing with his own compatriots, not to mention that he was actually very kind.

I have to say that Dong Zhuo's feeling is really not wrong at this point, when the Qiang people rebelled in the past, the entire Yongliang land would suffer, and the Han women who were ruined by them did not know how many. Not only them, but also the people in the land of Bingzhou and Youzhou, they will suffer such disasters for a long time, and compared with the Qiang people, the methods of the Huns and Xianbei people are even more ruthless, and in the short period of tens or hundreds of years at the end of the Han Dynasty, the women who were just looted by them cannot be counted.

Soon, Xu Huang and Zhang Liao chased after Ma Teng and Han Sui as follow-up forces.

One tribe after another was wiped out, and one tragedy after another continued to be staged among the Qiang people, and in this continuation, the Qiang people's hatred for Ma Teng and Han Sui became more and more profound.

Different from Ma Teng and Han Sui's frowning, as the news continues to come, Dong Zhuo's mood is getting better and better, since he has recruited Ma Chao, he also has plans to use Ma Dai, not to mention that Dong Zhuo still has a coveting of Ma Chao's sister Lori in his heart, no matter what, for Ma Teng, Dong Zhuo must use it, and how to collect his heart has become a headache for him.

Zhong Xuan's strategy is very simple, since Ma Teng and Han Sui both rely on each other with the Qiang people, then just cut off their dependence, as for how to cut it, it will be simpler, one word, kill! Kill until the Qiang people are cold, kill until the Qiang people are heartbroken, and kill until the Qiang people see the two of them and can't wait to raise a knife and stomp the two into pieces.

Now it seems that Zhong Xuan's plan has indeed been realized.

Ma Teng chose the west, and when he fought all the way to the Shule River, the more than 10,000 people under Ma Teng's command were sharply reduced to 4,000, plus he was tired and tired, and he was no longer able to cross the river to clear it. Han Sui chose the direction of the north, although he said that in terms of soldiers, he had a lot more than Ma Teng, but after Dong Zhuo transferred six of the "eight generals" under his command, the army without the command of the general suddenly became a flock of sheep, and the combat effectiveness was sharply reduced several times.

The purging did not stop there. As Zhang Liao and Xu Huang arrived with their troops, and after converging the soldiers and horses of Ma Teng and Han Sui, the army quickly radiated towards the surrounding area again.

At the beginning of July, Ma Teng led people to fight across the Dang River, and took the Longle and Yumen Pass on the west bank of the Dang River into his hands, when the news was transmitted back to Jiuquan, the whole Jiuquan was crazy, although the Yumen Pass was nominally the territory of the Han Dynasty, but for many years, how could it have really belonged to the Han Dynasty? Based on this matter alone, Ma Teng and Zhang Liao are enough to go down in history.

Zhangye is better, not to mention Yumen Pass, even if it is Dunhuang and Jiuquan, it can hardly be counted as the territory of the Han Dynasty in these years, although the land of Yongliang is said to be the land of two states, but Liangzhou is almost in a state of semi-waste, Liangzhou's decree, basically after Guzang, there is no binding ability, even Zhangye, it was occupied by Niu Fu last year before it returned to Dong Zhuo, basically most of the land of Liangzhou, have become the "grassland" of the Qiang people's horses, and now, these places have finally been taken down by Dong Zhuo.

The successive "opening up the territory and expanding the territory" made Ma Teng seem to be addicted, with Zhang Liao cleaning up the situation behind him, Ma Teng took the army to rush and kill, that kind of wanton pleasure, let Ma Teng sweep away the previous depression, and now, he seems to have seen it, and he is no longer so resistant to the matter of purging the Qiang people, but after the Yumen Pass, there is basically no trace of the Qiang people's life, Ma Teng had to go to Jiuquan and ask Dong Zhuo whether the army wants to continue to move west.

Being able to beat Dong Zhuo was naturally reluctant to give up, and just as he was about to reply to Ma Teng, a letter from Chang'an suddenly made Dong Zhuo dispel the idea of continuing to clean.

After ordering Ma Teng to be stationed on the spot to rest, Dong Zhuo handed over the big and small matters here to Zhong Xuan to deal with, leaving him to sit in Jiuquan, and then let Zhang Liao and Xu Huang command 60,000 troops and Ma Teng, Han Sui and their subordinates complement each other, and then rushed towards Chang'an with Lu Bu, Ma Chao, Niu Fu, Duan Xuan and other cadres.