Send troops to Qilian!

Taking advantage of the confrontation between the Western Xinjiang Protectorate and the Yumen Army, Ma Shuo decided to send troops to Qilian County and take Qilian County down.

At this time, Daqin had already entered the Warring States Period. Fusu's dishonesty made those princes more determined to choose independence. At the same time, Fusu's pit killing behavior indirectly helped these princes, forcing many forces that had lost their leaders to choose the fate of being co-opted.

With the passage of time, in addition to the Western Xinjiang side, there were almost thirty princely forces in the territory of Great Qin. Of the thirty-six counties of Great Qin, only Xianyang County, Fufeng County and Julu County are really in the hands of Fusu.

The number of people in Fusu's hands is not small, almost nearly 400,000. This, of course, also includes some of the forces that have lost their leaders. In fact, when they were killing the heads of those forces, Bai Qi and Zhang Jiang also made some arrangements, so taking advantage of the chaos, the men and horses of some forces were taken advantage of the opportunity to be incorporated into Fusu's army.

Kill their leaders and take their men.

More than 30 princes, naturally it is impossible to live in peace, today you beat me, tomorrow I will fight him. Sometimes, there would be a war between several princes in a day, and the whole world would be filled with gunsmoke and corpses.

People in troubled times are not as good as pigs and dogs!

It's just that in this case, if you want to protect yourself, you must first make yourself strong. Therefore, although he was very reluctant to break out of war in his heart, Ma Shuo still decided to send troops to Qilian and take the Qilian County occupied by the barbarians.

Perhaps it was the influence of taking Guyang County before, but this time when Ma Shuo entered Qilian County with his men and horses, the rebels from Qilian County soon took the initiative to come to the door.

According to the information collected by the hidden guards before, there were a total of 70,000 or 80,000 barbarians in the entire Qilian County, scattered in three main places. Among them, there are about 40,000 in Qilian County, 10,000 in a military village near Qilian County, and about 20,000 in a small city called Songpo.

In the land of Western Xinjiang, every county is actually very vast, and in the case of not having enough people, these barbarians did not dare to stay in the wild for a long time after plundering, so they chose to concentrate in the city.

Originally, these barbarians were more accustomed to tribal life. However, when these barbarians saw the prosperity in the city, first of all, those upper classes could not walk directly, and then those ordinary barbarians also chose to stay in the city one by one and enjoy themselves.

Of course, it turns out that the aborigines of the city have long been unlucky. Their houses were occupied, and they themselves were taken into slavery by the barbarians. As for those barbarians, they naturally became masters. For the aborigines, the barbarians are very cruel and kill and maim at every turn.

Naturally, because of this, many aborigines finally chose to resist when they could not bear it. Coupled with those plundered border people, many rebels appeared in Qilian County. These rebels were mainly engaged in guerrilla warfare, constantly harassing the barbarians.

The existence of these rebels is also one of the important factors why those barbarians choose to gather together.

Now, after learning that Ma Shuo's soldiers had sent Qilian, some well-informed rebels chose to take the initiative to come to the door. Even, some rebels offered to join Ma Shuo's army and accept the reorganization. In fact, for these rebels, Ma Shuo has long learned about them through the hidden guards.

Although they all call themselves righteous soldiers, it is undeniable that these people are actually good and bad. Because the predecessors of some of the rebels were actually mountain bandits, and now they are just under the banner of the rebels. However, there are also many rebel armies that are indeed composed of aborigines who have been plundered and oppressed by the barbarians and cannot survive.

For those rebels who did not have any bad deeds, as long as they were willing to join, Ma Shuo welcomed them. However, Ma Shuo also expressed his intention to the other party, once he joined, he had to abide by Ma Jiajun's discipline. Not only that, all those who join will also be re-selected, and those who are qualified will remain as recruits of Ma Jiajun, and those who are not qualified will be arranged to be resettled in other places, and Ma Jiajun will allocate land and basic means of living to them.

Regarding Ma Shuo's conditions, the rebels who chose to surrender did not have too many opinions, and some were even very happy.

For those mountain bandit teams who had a bad influence in the name of the rebels, Ma Shuo was also unceremonious, and directly chose to solve it by force. First of all, the chief offender among them was directly found out, and after their crimes were clarified, they were publicly executed after public approval.

Then, let the other members expose each other, those who are too guilty will be killed directly, and those who are less guilty will be escorted to the mining area to work, and if they behave well in the labor process, they can be eligible for early restoration of freedom.

Others, if there is no big problem, those who meet the conditions can join the Ma Jiajun, and those who do not meet the requirements will be treated as ordinary farmers and resettled in relevant places.

It turned out that when Ma Shuo sent troops to Qilian County this time, he only used three cavalry battalions and two infantry battalions. The two infantry battalions were Lü Kuang's Muzi Battalion and Liu Harrier's Huozi Battalion. The reason why these two infantry battalions were used this time was that the Jinzi Battalion had already been on the battlefield and contributed to the capture of Guyang County before. The second reason is that only these two of the five infantry battalions have reached full capacity, and they just need to improve their cohesion and combat effectiveness through a big battle.

Among the four cavalry battalions, this time Ma Shuo left the Xuanwu battalion, and he had to keep a mobile force at home. On the side of the cottage, this time Ma Shuo did not leave any special people. Because during this period of time, Qi Jing and Ninth Princess Wan'er actually expanded the scale of the Women's Army to 5,000 people again.

Not only that, but the combat effectiveness of these 5,000 women's army is not weak at all, at least comparable to the original guarded army. According to Qi Jing's report, several heroines have emerged in the Women's Army, not only with excellent personal combat effectiveness, but also with first-class ability to lead soldiers. These heroines have all fought against the male generals in the original Guardian Army, and the fact is that some of the male generals have never fought these women.

So, Ma Shuo handed over the task of guarding the cottage to the Women's Army. For this task, Qi Jing gladly accepted it, and behaved very happily. Not only that, Qi Jing also asked Ma Shuo to give her an official title of captain.

Qi Jing's request, Ma Shuo was not stingy, and directly gave Qi Jing a position of chief general and captain, and transformed the 5,000 women's army into a women's battalion.

After Ma Shuo's men and horses entered Qilian County, about three days later, they finally arrived at the first place where barbarians gathered, the small city of Songpo. At this time, the number of people around Ma Shuo had increased from more than 50,000 at the beginning to nearly 80,000.

Along the way, he collected more than 20,000 rebels.

Among the more than 20,000 rebel troops, most of them are infantry, but the scattered cavalry adds up to more than 2,000 people. Of the more than 2,000 cavalry, Ma Shuo directly placed them in the Vermilion Bird Battalion and the White Tiger Battalion, increasing the number of the two cavalry battalions from 5,000 to more than 6,000.

For the remaining 20,000 rebels, Ma Shuo directly formed the rebel camp.

At this moment, the Muzi Battalion, the Huozi Battalion, and the Volunteer Army Battalion were surrounding the small city of Songpo, just waiting for Ma Shuo's order.