On the first day of heavy snowfall in Qinzhou, the Qiang and Hu coalition forces were relatively stable and continued to gather troops and restore morale.
On the second day of the heavy snowfall in Qinzhou, commotion began within the Qiang and Hu coalition forces.
Not all tribes are well prepared to survive the winter. They originally came to join the Qiang and Hu coalition forces to fight for a chance of survival because of the severe cold in winter.
After all, the Qiang people are just a coalition, a makeshift alliance, and there is no unified logistics. Each tribe manages its own affairs.
Therefore, after two days of heavy snowfall, some small tribes could no longer hold on and began to make noises.
Or, attack Ji County immediately, break the city, rob the Han people of food and materials, and spend the winter in Ji County.
Or, they can break up the group, divide their luggage, distribute the looted grain from the Han people, and go back to the grassland to spend the winter.
On the third day of continuous snow, the differences within the Qiang and Hu coalition forces became even greater.
Although there are factors in this that the Qiang and Hu soldiers are not unified and have their own ideas, it is also indispensable that the leaders of the five Qiang tribes deliberately indulged.
In the view of the leaders of the five Qiang tribes, the current situation makes it impossible to conquer Ji County in the short term.
On the one hand, Han reinforcements have arrived, and these reinforcements are not as vulnerable as the Han troops encountered in Longxi and Nan'an counties before.
On the other hand, if God doesn't help, the snow will not stop for three days, and it looks like it will continue to rain. If they continue to camp in the wild, no one in the Qiang and Hu coalition forces will survive.
Therefore, the leaders of the five Qiang and Hu tribes discussed in private and decided to adopt the second plan - killing with a borrowed knife.
On the fourth day of the siege of Ji County, the Qiang and Hu coalition forces finally launched an siege. The small and medium-sized tribes who were eager to attack the city took the lead and began to attack Ji County.
But the problem is that the Qiang people will not attack the city, and the person who defends the city is Zhuge Liang.
Basically, there is no need to ask. After a day of fighting, the Qiang and Hu coalition forces suffered heavy losses, while the casualties on the Jixian side were less than a hundred.
Zhuge Liang was a little confused, what on earth were these barbarians doing? They were such novices in attacking the city, they were not even as good as the people in Soochow.
On the fifth day of the siege, the Hu people suddenly began to retreat one after another.
Well, if you want to retreat, then just retreat. It's nothing unusual in the first place.
But what made Zhuge Liang dumbfounded was that during the retreat of this group of barbarians, not to mention the formation was loose and there was no structure. There was no argument about who retreated first and who stayed behind. They were just running back together.
Zhuge Liang was originally more cautious. He felt that the behavior of these Qiang people was too abnormal, and he doubted whether there was some conspiracy. Even Pang Tong, a risk-taking person like Pang Tong, suggested that Zhuge Liang wait and see.
But soon, both Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong discovered that the Qiang coalition army was becoming more and more chaotic. It was impossible to tell who was the front army and who was the rear army. They were running around and everything was in chaos.
Faced with such a situation, regardless of whether the enemy had a conspiracy or not, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong felt that if they did not fight, they would really be sorry for the good opportunity now.
Therefore, with Pang Tong's support, Zhuge Liang once again sent Ma Dai to lead 10,000 soldiers as the vanguard, and Wu Yi led 5,000 soldiers to support them, launching a pursuit of the Qiang and Hu coalition forces.
Then, the situation was completely messed up.
This situation is really not what the leaders of the five Qiang tribes want to see.
They wanted to use the help of the Han people to eliminate the strong men of some small and medium-sized tribes, and then take the opportunity to annex the women, children, cattle and sheep of these small and medium-sized tribes, take the opportunity to strengthen themselves, and survive this winter.
Therefore, when they attacked the city, they let the people from the small and medium tribes advance first. Now that they couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to retreat, they also chose to let their tribes retreat first, leaving the people from the small and medium tribes to take charge of the rear.
But the problem is that not all of these small and medium-sized tribes are fools, and they don't have to listen to the words of these five leaders to retreat. They can run faster than anyone else.
Seeing the Han people coming out of the city to pursue them, some of the stupider and more obedient Qiang tribes reversed their retreat direction and took the initiative to greet the Han pursuit troops and shoulder the task of breaking up the rear.
But this group of people was too inexperienced and had not many troops. At most, there were only more than a thousand people at one time. Facing Ma Dai's 10,000 Han soldiers, they almost collapsed at the first touch.
After coming here two or three times in a row, the leaders of the small and medium-sized tribes are not all fools. Everyone has noticed the problem - why are they the people from the small and medium-sized tribes who are responsible for cutting off the rear? !
Isn't it clear that they are going to die? ! !
In this case, how many leaders of small and medium-sized tribes would be willing to risk losing their men to undertake such a death mission? !
After the troops were cut off, the main force of the five Qiang tribes was busy gathering the women, children, cattle and sheep of these small and medium-sized tribes to retreat. The battlefield suddenly became chaotic. How could a general of Ma Dai's level seize such a fighter opportunity? !
Seeing that the enemy's formation was in chaos, Ma Dai immediately led his soldiers to charge forward, dispersed the "rear-cutting troops" set up by the Qiang people, and bit the tail of the retreating Qiang troops.
As Ma Dai led his army into the main force of the Qiang people, more and more Qiang people chose to retreat and escape. At this time, the leaders of the five Qiang tribes were already crying.
This is not a situation they want to see, but things have developed to this point. Even if they want to withdraw, they must first find a way to get rid of the Han people's pursuit. It is impossible for their own troops not to fight.
Therefore, the leaders of the five Qiang tribes could only order their own tribes to fight. But the battlefield situation had become so chaotic, what role could the Qiang soldiers, the main force of the five Qiang tribes, play.
Even if the organization is intact, the situation is not chaotic, and the Qiang soldiers of the fifth Qiang tribe are fighting head-on, they are no match for the Han army. Let alone the situation is now in chaos. If the main force of the Qiang soldiers of the fifth Qiang tribe wants to fight the Han army, first of all What they have to face is the impact of the Qiang people from other tribes escaping.
With this attack, the formation of the main Qiang soldiers of the five Qiang tribes was completely disrupted.
The whole city of Ji County was in chaos like a pot of porridge, and all the Qiang and Hu armies were in a state of bewilderment.
What's even more terrible is that at this moment, Pang De, who was wandering outside the battlefield on a guerrilla mission, saw the chaotic scene of the Qiang people. Without any hesitation, he immediately led 3,000 cavalry and launched an attack on the Qiang people's rear flank. Assault.
The addition of three thousand cavalry assaults would not have much effect under normal circumstances, but on such a chaotic battlefield, the deterrence and chain effects caused by the three thousand cavalry assaults directly caused part of the Qiang troops to appear. collapsed.
Once the army breaks up, it is easy to spread the news to ten, ten, and hundreds, spreading throughout the entire army. The Qiang troops attacking Ji County were completely broken up.
The battle has reached this point, and Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong really can't see that the Qiang people have any back-ups. So let's attack with the whole army.
Then, the Qiang people began to flee all over the mountains and plains, no one cared about where they should run.
In a word - this battle was won, but even Zhuge Liang was a little baffled by the victory.
The Qiang people lost because their command system seemed to have never made the right choice from the beginning to the end. It was all a mistake.
But what Zhuge Liang couldn't understand was that the Qiang rebellion was so big this time that they even captured states and counties, and yet they were able to mobilize troops at a critical moment to attack Hebei County. This is not what an army without a command system should do. ah.
So, what are the Qiang leaders doing in this battle? !
What can I do? I have too much selfishness, and in the end I shoot myself in the foot.
Anyway, Zhuge Liang really didn't figure it out, but the situation on the battlefield was already one-sided, and Zhuge Liang would not let go of such an opportunity.
He immediately ordered that he lead ten thousand people to stay in Ji County. Wu Yi, Jiang Xu, and Pang De led the army to pursue and kill the Qiang people, killing as many of the Qiang people as possible.
In this way, relying on the speed of his cavalry, Pang De was the first to chase the tail of the Qiang and Hu coalition forces and rushed to Xi County. He cooperated with Zhang Xi at the gate of Xi County and severely damaged the Qiang and Hu coalition forces for the second time.
Zhang Xi finally figured out the cause and effect of the incident.
At the same time, Zhang Xi also understood that Xi County was unlikely to encounter a large-scale Qiang attack. At most, it would only encounter harassment from some defeated Qiang troops.
After two defeats, the Qiang people were unable to organize a large-scale offensive. In addition, it was snowing heavily in Qinzhou and it was too late for the Qiang people to escape. So they had the time to fight a siege against themselves.
In addition, now in Xi County, including the 3,000 infantry brought by Ma Dai, the total number of infantry is nearly 8,000. There are also 3,000 cavalry led by Pang De to help. Even if the Qiang people attack with tens of thousands more troops, It is more than enough to guard a western county.
Zhang Xi originally judged this way, but sometimes, the development of things is always so unexpected.
After all, Xi County encountered Qiang people, a large number of Qiang people.
However, they are not Qiang soldiers, but Qiang and Hu women and children.
(End of chapter)
