Chapter 210: Justified
With five brigades and more than 6,000 people, Mark arrived at the county seat of Luochuan in a mighty way.
It has been nearly a year since the fall of Luochuan County, and this is the first time that a team of non-barbarians has appeared outside Luochuan County.
As soon as Mark's centaur appeared, it immediately attracted everyone's attention.
The barbarians are concerned, and so are the aborigines who are still alive in the city.
The barbarian's expression was nervous at the moment, their grain guard team had been attacked twice in a row, and they had already lost a lot of grain and grass. During this period, their food and grass were very tight, and the morale of the entire team was affected.
However, at present, no one outside is willing to send reinforcements to them. Everyone is busy plundering good things where there is oil and water, and who will patronize them.
Mark was very cautious, and after arriving here, he just led people around Luochuan County and showed his face. After that, he led his men and horses to find a suitable place nearby and began to set up camp.
Mark did not immediately launch an attack on the county seat of Luochuan.
However, this posture of besieging but not attacking made the barbarians in the county feel great pressure. If you really want to fight, the barbarians are not afraid, they are nothing more than desperate, who will not fight?
However, now that the other party does not fight, this is troublesome. Besieging but not attacking brings people a very depressing atmosphere, and I don't know what conspiracy the other party is hiding.
Mark didn't explain his decision, and none of the captains under him, including Lu Tao, asked. Lu Gengsheng did not come out with Mark this time, he took the initiative to choose to take people to garrison Luoya Mountain. However, he graciously handed over the other two brigades to Mark.
The combat effectiveness of the two brigades handed over by Lu Gengsheng is much stronger than that of ordinary mountain bandits, after all, Lu Gengsheng is also from a regular border army, and he usually knows how to train soldiers. This soldier, if he is trained, is stronger than not practiced.
"Guys, today's task is to let your people rest well. At the same time, tell the personnel on duty that someone will definitely come quietly tonight, as long as they are not barbarians, they will be placed in the temporary area in the northwest corner of the camp first, and I will arrange them tomorrow. In addition, the logistician was informed to prepare some food and grass in the temporary area, ready to be provided to those people. ”
Mark's arrangement made the captains not very clear about what was going on for a while. However, these captains didn't ask anything, but went straight back to carry out Mark's order.
However, by the next day, they had all understood Mark's order.
It turned out that on this night, quite a few aborigines quietly slipped out of the city and entered Mark's military camp. Among the aborigines, there is naturally no shortage of bloodless people, although they did not stand up to fight the barbarians before, but their hearts still regard themselves as Qin people, and now, their own people and horses have arrived, where do they not seize the opportunity to escape from the tiger's mouth and return to their own team.
In fact, Mark brought people to Luochuan County, and attacking the county seat was not his goal, taking the opportunity to absorb a group of aborigines and weaken the power of the barbarians at the same time was his fundamental purpose.
In the past, no one took the lead, and some people followed the crowd or were forced to give in. However, now that the situation has changed and hope has emerged, those who still have the courage to resist in their hearts will naturally stand up.
Of course, there are not many aborigines who have been able to hold on to the present. Most of the aborigines, at first, were either killed by the barbarians or fled to other places. Although Luochuan County was poor, when the barbarians did not invade, there were more than 200,000 people in Luochuan County.
However, the total number of aborigines living in Luochuan County does not exceed 50,000, and more than half of them are old and weak women and children, and about 40% of the remaining half are disabled.
Therefore, in Luochuan County at this time, the total number of adult aborigines with complete hands and feet is more than 10,000. Most of these people were controlled by the barbarians as slaves, and they had to do a lot of tiring work every day, but they ate very little, and they were all too thin to look like individuals. In fact, it was precisely because they had to be kept to work that the barbarians allowed them to live.
However, there are still some people who rely on their own means to avoid the search of the barbarians, and live in Luochuan County with difficulty but still freely. These people are a bit forceful, and the reason why they choose to stick here is for their families.
At this moment, the vast majority of those who came out of Luochuan County and asked to take the initiative to enter the Mark camp were this kind of people.
Attacking Luochuan County is secondary, and taking the opportunity to recruit this group of people is the main purpose of Mark to bring people to Luochuan County this time. The reason why Mark made such a choice was naturally inseparable from the information provided to him by the hidden guard. The hidden guards had already infiltrated the county seat of Luochuan and felt the situation inside very clearly.
With Mark's two consecutive attacks on the barbarian grain guards in Luochuan County, the number of barbarian soldiers stationed in Luochuan County was sharply reduced, and those aborigines in Luochuan County also began to be active in secret.
Some people who have good relations have secretly contacted each other and are ready to take some revolt against the barbarians. In other words, the mass base in Luochuan County has become better and better.
More than a thousand.
Overnight, more than 1,000 aborigines had fled from Luochuan County to Mark's camp. Obviously, these more than 1,000 people are the most courageous among them. After these people saw Mark, they did not hesitate to say their thoughts, and they asked to join Mark's team and together drive the barbarians out of Luochuan County and recover Luochuan County.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I am Mark, the younger brother of Ma Shuo, the general of the Great Qin Auxiliary Qin. I infiltrated the barbarian-occupied territory on the orders of my eldest brother, with the aim of contacting all the people with lofty ideals to resist the brutal rule of the barbarians, drive the barbarians from our homeland, and exterminate them. ”
After Mark entered Luochuan County, he disclosed his identity for the first time. Before, he led people to attack various cottages, giving people the feeling of a fire between bandits. However, this time the situation is different, this is to prepare for the recovery of a county seat. In this case, in order to win the support of as many people as possible, things must be done in the right name.
If the name is not correct and the words are not good, it will be difficult to achieve great things.
"Sure enough, it's General Fuqin's team!"
In fact, these aborigines had never heard of who the auxiliary Qin general was, but it still did not prevent them from expressing their inner excitement, and finally heard that an official general came to help them and others.
"My lord, we are willing to join the team of General Fu Qin and fight together for the recovery of Western Xinjiang!"
One of the aborigines suddenly shouted loudly, looking very excited.