In the fourth year of Daqian Yuanxing, just after the Chinese New Year, the north was still covered with ice and snow, and Ma Heng finally commanded the army to attack. After full preparation, Ma Heng used a completely different strategy.

Ma Heng appointed local hunters, and then used various tactics to break the army, and mobilized troops against those southwest barbarians, after training, the big cadres and soldiers have adapted to the environment here, and under the suppression of the big cadres and advanced armor, they broke through several cottages in a row, and a large number of southwest barbarians were killed and captured.

For a time, the southwestern barbarians in the mountains and forests were also in danger and wanted to gather again to deal with the Great Cadre army.

After Ma Heng learned that the southwestern barbarians were united again, he still fought steadily, while sending a large army to block the mountain road and prohibit all kinds of materials from entering it, and at the same time sending people to contact other barbarians.

The Southwestern Barbarians are nothing more than a general term, and there are many ethnic groups in it. This time it was part of the rebellion, Ma Heng sent people to contact these barbarian cave masters, and then allowed them to go to Bazhong to trade, and was willing to sell salt and iron tools at a fair price, while not lowering the price of the skins they sold.

These barbarians live in poverty, they can't smelt iron, they don't have salt, and they have little cloth, and now they are told that they can give them to you, how can those barbarians endure it?

Through trade, Ma Heng quickly united a part of the southwestern barbarians around him, and then, with the cooperation of these barbarians, began to attack the remaining southwestern barbarians.

With the help of these barbarians, those southwestern barbarians could not maintain their superiority in the mountains and forests, and the poisonous miasma and poisonous insects in the mountains and forests were also overcome. Ma Heng led the army to drive straight in, and even the southwest barbarians defended the cottage and were conquered by the cadres.

With the help of other barbarians, Daqian continued to win, and finally forced the remaining southwestern barbarians to a precipitous place deep in the mountains and old forests. At this point, Ma Heng did not attack again, but adopted a siege strategy.

There are a large number of barbarians living in the jungle, and it is difficult for these barbarian courts to wipe them all out with the current strength. So the best thing to do is to beat them up hard and then divide them up.

The imperial court has always adopted a set of strategies for barbarians, such as entertaining, beheading, and accepting them as dogs.

With this set of strategies, it can be said that it is invincible, first striking hard at those hard bones, then befriending some of them, and then taking some of them as dogs.

After striking hard at these southwestern barbarians, these southwestern barbarian coalition forces have reached the point of falling apart, and even the big leader with extraordinary means can no longer control the situation.

The imperial army was besieged, and even if they didn't attack, they wouldn't be able to last long by relying on their current food reserves.

The imperial army attacked with stone throwers and bows and arrows every day, but did not send people. Even if these barbarians have a geographical advantage, there is nothing they can do.

After several modifications, the trebuchet required four or five people to operate, and was able to throw stones of several catties at a distance of 120 meters. Ma Heng used this trebuchet to attack, and the Southwest Barbarian Coalition Army had no power to fight back.

If they go out of the camp to fight back and lose their geographical advantages, these barbarians are not the opponents of the big cadres at all, and if they can't hold out, they can only be beaten. Faced with this situation, these barbarians are also in a dilemma, sitting in a lonely city.

At this time, Ma Heng asked the other barbarians to secretly go to persuade him to surrender, saying that as long as the leader was handed over, he could be exempted from the death penalty.

The Southwest Barbarian Alliance, which had fallen into a desperate situation, suddenly became more chaotic, and Ma Heng did not send people to attack, but still besieged the city every day, and then harassed it. One night, a sudden fire broke out among the coalition forces of the southwestern barbarians, followed by a shout of killing.

The flames soared into the sky, and the shouts of killing resounded in the sky, until the sky was almost bright, and the cottage of the southwest barbarians was finally opened, and a group of barbarian leaders escorted a large number of barbarians to ask for surrender.

At this point, the rebellion of the barbarians in the southwest was completely put down.

Ma Heng sent all the leaders of the southwestern barbarians who surrendered to Luoyang, and at the same time brought back all the plundered cadres, and at the same time killed all the men in the tribe of the leader of the southwest barbarian coalition army who were taller than the wheel, and the women were rewarded to the soldiers who stood up for their exploits.

There were more than five cave lords in the southwestern barbarian coalition army, twelve village lords were broken, and the entire population was plundered. The other southwestern barbarian tribes were also greatly injured, and the young and strong ones with the least loss of about half.

The imperial court captured a large number of captives, and these captives were not put back, but were organized to come and farm.

After Daqian defeated these barbarians, he then began to return to the court, and at the same time, in order to prevent those barbarians from rebelling, he directly forced these barbarians to relocate.

The chieftain was given a knighthood and then lived in the surrounding counties, and the barbarians lived in the mountains and forests of the counties, from which the court drew adult men to form auxiliaries.

After this, the remaining southwestern barbarians have no possibility of resisting.

Next, Ma Heng reported the soldiers who had made meritorious contributions to the imperial court, and the imperial court rewarded them according to their merits, and some of the soldiers who were not worthy of the knighthood were divided into peasant soldiers in Bazhong County.

The difficulty of paying homage to the marquis is too high, and the peasant soldiers can be said to be the pursuit of the vast majority of soldiers. As long as you are called a peasant soldier and do not make a big mistake, you will basically not be deprived of your status as a peasant soldier.

What's more, after becoming a peasant soldier, he has time to learn martial arts, has the money to train offspring, and is qualified to learn the art of war. Later, when he was conscripted into the army, he was at least fifty long. If you pass the art of war and work hard, you will have the opportunity to be called a captain. And after being called a captain, it is possible to make great contributions to the marquis and pay homage to the prime minister.

This is also the easiest way for the people in the world to achieve promotion in addition to the school palace.

In order to help the development of these peasants and soldiers, the imperial court sold the captured southwestern barbarians as slaves to these peasants and soldiers for farming, and at the same time, the imperial court set up farms in the southwestern counties for mutual markets.

The imperial court sent envoys to send orders to other southwestern barbarians, and the southwestern counties established a field where everyone could come and trade. The imperial court would sell salt, cloth, ironware, wine, sugar, tea, lacquerware, and grain at low prices, and weapons, armor, crossbows, books, and other goods were forbidden to trade.

Of course, the so-called low price is only relative, and the price here is definitely much more expensive than that in the Central Plains, after all, material transportation is also costly.

The price is 20% cheaper than the goods sold by powerful officials in those counties and counties in the past.

Those southwestern barbarians traded herbs, precious stones, ivory, rhino horn, furs, large trees and even slaves, although these things were very expensive in the Central Plains, but they were hardly much more expensive than cabbage here, and as long as they were transported to the Central Plains, they could obtain rich profits.

The imperial court can completely control those barbarian tribes through trade, make friends with the big cadres, and give them some benefits if they are obedient, and give them less or less if they are disobedient. and even instigated those barbarians to fight.

(End of chapter)