387.Chapter 387
Akadulla was the Burke of the Qiang army, and his status was not up or down, and he should be in charge of a disgruntled hundred-man team belonging to the left army of the Qiang army.
Over the past decade, the climate in the north has become more and more abnormal, with snow in August, spring in March, little rain in summer, and no snow in winter. No matter how abundant the water and grass are, the grassland can no longer support it under such bitter cold and drought alternation. The good pasture, which used to be able to graze for half a year, is now only enough for the livestock to be replanted for three months.
For the nomadic tribes, such a climate was not a good thing, but Qianghu nobles like Akadullah were unmoved.
Yes, the sheep and horses obtained by nomadic herding are limited, but they can't stand the Taishou of several large counties in Liangzhou, and they are all out-and-out pro-Qiang factions. The Zoroastrian priests who lived in the city were generous enough to rely on donations from the parishioners and the collection of prayer donations, but the bulk of the local wealth in Liangzhou was the Anqiang money allocated to Qianghu nobles like Akadullah.
The so-called "Anqiang money" is the initiative of the guards of several counties in Liangzhou headed by Zhangye Taishou Duan Gang, plus the echo of some pro-Qiang wealthy family heads, and the rules set down. From the Zoroastrian Spring Festival around the spring equinox, the so-called "Nowruz" festival in the Hu language, to the autumn equinox festival of Bahram when the Qiang tribe beats the grass valley in the autumn, in a year, the Liangzhou guards have to send money and grain to the large and small Qiang tribes seven or eight times.
There are also a variety of items for the relief of money and food, such as "god-worshipping money" for the sacrifice of the Zoroastrian gods, "scripture study money" for those Zoroastrian priests who traveled to the Sabbath country to worship the holy places, "groundbreaking money" for the renovation of Zoroastrian temples, and "sheep wine money" allocated according to the head of the head so that these Qiang people would not be able to eat cheap meat according to the Zoroastrian teachings, and if it is those prosperous Qiang tribes, another amount of "child-rearing money" should be allocated every year , for fear that the Qiang Department has not recovered from the counterinsurgency war more than ten years ago.
As for taxes, military service, and criminal names, the door is open everywhere.
If it is a good law, it is really a virtuous government that can be ranked since the three generations of ancient times, Zhou Zhao's governance and Wenjing's governance.
However, this kind of virtue and politics does not seem to buy the slightest loyalty of the Qiang tribe. In each worship mosque, the Zoroastrian priests waved burning sticks on the ground: "After receiving the money from the Han people, the little light in your heart has been bought by these Han people? You must remember that the people of Ahura Mazda will eventually return to his side, and these dirty desires of the world will only corrupt you and make you fall into a bottomless black prison!"
Of course, as for the money, let the priests collect it first, and purify it with the sacraments.
As for the money and food sent to the Qiang tribe, what was not said belonged to Berks like Akadullah. And the Akadullas have only one use for this money.
The idea is to buy knives, guns, bows, and crossbows, so that more Qiang people can put down their pastoral posts and pick up weapons, and go to occupy and rob the places of the Han people. In this way, more Anqiang money will fall into their hands. Compared with playing grass valley, this is really called a million profits!
And the adults and gentlemen who presided over the distribution of Anqiang money will also feel that they have really worked hard to stabilize the frontier, and it is worth remembering and passing on through the ages.
Throughout the classical era, such follies seem to have been repeated. The means of harmony and kinship of the two Han Dynasty can also be said to be prepared for Le Shi Yanran in the future, but the Anqiang money of the Liangzhou guards, the so-called New Year's coin, and the so-called peace religion believers' subsidies, the appeasement intentions that are inherited in the same vein, are worthy of being inherited from the same mold.
This civilization, which has been inherited for thousands of years, has just given birth to such a kind of person, who hates her so much, and is willing to destroy her. And most of these people are just stupid cannon fodder who are ahead of others, and they don't get any benefit from it at all.
What kind of hatred is there, what kind of hatred is there?
Such a long-term vision is not known to a figure like Akadullah. He only knew that since the Zoroastrian uprising, when he committed suicide in Wuwei, the hinterland of Liangzhou, he was like a bamboo, and he burned and looted along the way.
Wuwei guarded the ministers, went up to a state to assassinate the history, down to the county Taishou, as soon as he joined the Qiang soldiers, they collapsed into an army, fled in a light car, and even abandoned the wives and concubines around them. And the Han people, under their swords and guns, are even more like dogs and sheep, although the oracle descended, they were not allowed to rob the raw women, as long as they did not seal the knife and slash all the way. But just the looted gold and silver, cloth, cattle and horses, sheep wine, and all kinds of fine tricks made by Han craftsmen, didn't the big and small tribes earn enough money that Anqiang money couldn't compare with for more than ten years?
This kind of downwind battle went all the way, and it also made those Qiang people who faced the Han army fearless many years ago regain their confidence. In Akadullah's view, although the Han army won a slight victory in the war against the Qiang tribe in the past, it relied on nothing more than a huge army to suppress it, supplemented by a plan to divide and disintegrate the nobles of the Qiang people.
Now, with the protection of the gods and the unity of the Qiang army, how can it turn the entire Liangzhou upside down, right?
Although there is a Zoroastrian religion that is more demanding and powerful than the Han government, but power is power, and the gods of Zoroastrianism are willing to share this power with the Qiang people, so what's the big deal about selling themselves to Zoroastrianism? At least, this power can help them live a richer and more prosperous life than the Han people, as long as they obey the oracle and kill and rob!
The ideal is so wonderful, but the reality is so irritable.
With the few remaining Qiang troops in his headquarters, Akadulla had a tired look on his face, and kept holding his horse's belly, galloping back and forth under the county seat of Fanhe.
Occasionally, after summarizing the enemy's bow and crossbow shooting range from the previous few sieges, he and his men rushed to the bottom of the city and fired one or two arrows at the top of the city.
There is no way not to be nervous, in the previous war, all the priests who were quite capable in the gods were almost all sent to Fanhe City. However, what awaited them was the arrows of evil magic that shot down from the city, raising waves of qi and fire clouds, so that until now, there were not many priests with status in the camp of the Qiang army!
Even the priests could not survive in front of the evil law of the Han people, and what good way could ordinary Qiang people, who did not have many gods attached to them, be careful, be careful, and not send their lives lightly......
Rao was so embarrassed that they still followed the old method of all the nomadic tribes attacking the frontier cities, and every now and then let out a beastly howl, trying to terrify the defenders.
But at this time, the Han army, which is like a rainbow, can be frightened by a few strange screams that are not painful?
The city defense of Fanhe county town can only be regarded as second-rate among the cities in Liangzhou, and the maintenance over the years is not good, there is grass between the city bricks outside the rammed earth city wall, and the moat is not too deep, and there is an extra layer of ice in winter. According to the eyes of everyone in the art of war, it is extremely easy to break through such a city.
It's a pity that these Qiang people from nomadic tribes don't have as many siege equipment as in later generations, and it is almost impossible to attack the city without using human lives.
The most important thing is not the amount of grain and grass in this city, and the benefits of armor and equipment. It's that the defenders in the city also have the divine power to help them like the gods they believe in. Even if you have to fill in the lives of the two hundred or three hundred young and strong Qiang troops, then the entire family of a small Qiang tribe will be finished, and eight hundred or one thousand, even those nobles who have the most power in the Qiang tribe and the first zero Qiang tribe, will suffer for a long time.
So how much blood did the Qiang people have to shed to break away from this city guarded by the divine power of the Han people?
Akadullah didn't know, he only knew that His Royal Highness the Lord Bahram who appeared before them, and the Qiang people who lost their temper every day and made them trample to death on their horses, added up to the number of young and strong people of a small tribe.
It is not known when the Don soldiers were left with only two paths left in the county town of Tun, which was far inferior to the city of Tibet, - either to be killed by a steady stream of arrows under the city walls, or to be executed by the divine punishment of the temperamental Lord Bahram. If the war does not improve again, and there is no need for the Han army to be dispatched, they will all become dead ghosts punished by the great god of Bahram, so that the Qiang people in Liangzhou will be completely exterminated!
His subordinates are all young and strong brought out of their own clan, and their luck is still good, and they have fought against the Fan and Han armies several times, and the damage is not too great. They didn't draw the fateful lot, so that the moody Lord Bahram could punish them. But after coming down so many times, the miserable screams of the Qiang people tied under the cowhide felt blanket under their horses' hooves made them all feel frightened and scared all the way to burn and loot, and as soon as they closed their eyes, they saw the fleshy corpses of the Qiang people under the horses' hooves.
Even if he was in battle, Akadulla didn't know if he was in reality or in a nightmare.
Even if he is already frightened and has a nervous breakdown, but to make Akadulla rebel against God?
No way!
In this desperate situation, Maharaja Bahram is everything. Even if you are shot by the terrifying long arrows of the Han people, and you are blown to pieces of meat all over the ground in the blink of an eye, it is better than being taken down and sent to the Lord Bahram because of poor fighting, and then wrapped in a cowhide blanket and trampled into a pile of mud by a chaotic horse!
If you are blown to minced meat, you can still die a happy death, but when you are trampled into mud, you will become a blur of flesh and blood, crawl to the old bald donkey in the camp who keeps reciting strange scriptures, and finally become part of the mountain of corpses of the old bald donkey's flesh and bones. And on the mountain of corpses, there was always a wail of the souls of the deceased being tortured to the point that they could not survive or die.
In order not to fall into that fate, you must continue to rush forward and kill!