"Xianling Qiang, Baima Qiang, and Shenlang Qiang, regardless of the court's kindness, rose up in violence, invaded the prefectures and counties, and plundered property. Their crimes were extremely heinous and cannot be tolerated by heaven. I decided to send troops to conquer, destroy their clans, promote the power of the Han Dynasty at home and abroad, and eliminate them. The evildoers should be eliminated and the good will be brought to peace!"
Liu Bei issued an expedition order to the entire army.
The Liangzhou army will leave the country and launch a strong attack on the Xianling Qiang, Baima Qiang and Shenlang Qiang camps, letting them know that they will pay the price for doing something wrong!
These three tribes never imagined that they would encounter such an ending before the Liangzhou Iron Cavalry arrived in front of them and started killing them.
It was freezing cold and the wind was blowing. They huddled in their tents to cook meat and endure the cold winter, looking forward to the coming spring when the flowers would bloom and they would have a better life.
Of course, if the men who went on the expedition could rob them of more food, daily necessities, and Han people as slaves, then their lives would definitely be better.
They are in a semi-nomadic and semi-settled state, so they can grow food. However, due to inadequate farming technology and climate problems, they cannot grow enough food.
The sheep they grazed and raised also became less fat due to the bitter cold.
Their leaders also demanded higher and higher taxes from them.
All of this leads to war and plunder as the solution to the problem. Without the seizures brought back from the war, they would be hungry.
If there are seizures and slaves to sell for money, this winter will be very easy to survive.
They fantasized, fantasized, fantasized... Then Liu Bei led the Liangzhou cavalry roaring in, crushing their fantasies.
The Liangzhou Iron Cavalry was divided into three groups, Liu Yong's group, Liu Sheng's group, Liu Bei personally led the group, with Pang De and Xu Huang as the vanguard, and attacked the three major tribes like wind and clouds, overwhelming the three Qiang tribes with overwhelming force. The tribe was torn to pieces.
The three major tribes tried their best to resist, but the elite coalition forces were unable to compete with the Han cavalry, let alone the unlucky ones who stayed behind and had no defense at all.
The fragile resistance was quickly shattered by the cold-gleaming ring-headed swords of the Han cavalry. Everyone was running away in panic, hoping that they could run faster, afraid of being further away, and avoid those waving ring-headed swords. The pursuit of the terrible cavalry with swords.
But on this freezing day, even if they could escape, how could they survive in such a harsh environment?
Nature has never been unkind.
In the last month of the fourth year of Zhongping, Liu Bei led 20,000 Han cavalry to wipe out the three Qiang tribes outside the Great Wall and won a complete victory.
However, their population was obviously not as large as that of the Xianbei people. Liu Bei annihilated the three tribes and captured only 120,000 to 30,000 people in total. Including the more than 10,000 Qiang soldiers before, the total number was less than 150,000.
Among them, the Xianling Qiang has the largest population. Neither the Baima Qiang nor the Shenlang Qiang have a large population. They are not powerful enough to become a serious problem for the Liangzhou capital.
During the war, Liu Bei was a little surprised to seize a relatively large amount of grain. After Jia Xu explained, Liu Bei found that these were food crops accumulated by the Qiang tribe for agricultural production.
They can also engage in agricultural production, but the technology is not good enough and the soil is not fertile enough, so agricultural production is not enough to feed them. They still have to rely on their old skills to avoid starvation.
Moreover, it can be determined from statistics that the exploitation of these tribes is also very serious. The grains are mainly concentrated in the camps of the leaders, piled up like mountains, and ordinary herdsmen lack grain savings.
In addition, the scale of herding in their respective tribes is very large.
Horses are second, and sheep are the most numerous. The number of sheep among the three tribes exceeds one million.
For Liu Bei, this was a considerable amount of seizure, which directly led Liu Bei to decide to set up a ranch directly under the jurisdiction of Liangzhou Prefecture in the hometown of Shenlang Qiang and Baima Qiang.
The establishment of a large number of pastures gave Liu Bei the confidence to provide more meat to the army, improve the treatment of the army, and reduce the price of meat as much as possible, giving Liangzhou people more opportunities to eat meat.
And the large-scale animal husbandry industry can also provide a sufficient number of war horses for the Liangzhou government.
After this battle, the number of horses controlled by the livestock farms directly controlled by Liangzhou Prefecture exceeded 400,000.
This will give Liu Bei the confidence to further recruit soldiers and train more cavalry in Liangzhou.
Liu Bei originally brought 30,000 troops to Liangzhou, consisting of ten battalions. Later, he recruited four battalions of local troops from Liangzhou, and the total strength exceeded 40,000.
This army is currently able to form a huge deterrent to Liangzhou and surrounding forces, and its military strength can basically adapt to the number required for combat and maintaining stability.
Liu Bei only planned to expand the army to fifteen battalions in a short period of time, and then he did not plan to continue recruiting more soldiers.
First, Liangzhou could not afford a large army.
Secondly, Liu Bei planned to provide officer-style education to these soldiers, teach them enough knowledge that officers need to know, and regard them as the backbone of his future expansion of the army.
They need to be able to read and write, master reading and writing skills, and undergo preliminary military education. They must master a series of knowledge during marching and fighting.
Those who learn well will be rewarded, and those who learn poorly will be punished.
As long as the foundation is laid and they are trained into excellent grassroots officers, it will not be difficult to expand the army in the future.
Moreover, there are many official horse farms in the Liangzhou area. A large number of war horses captured through capture can be equipped to the army and train extremely powerful assault cavalry.
In order to deal with the Huns, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty trained three powerful cavalry units, the Youzhou cavalry, the Bingzhou cavalry, and the Liangzhou horse.
Now that Liangzhou was in disarray, Liu Bei was very emotional and decided to use his own financial resources to regain the prestige of Liangzhou Malaysia and make Liangzhou official's martial ethics full again.
Because the seizures were large and the results were great, it was already the beginning of the fifth year of Zhongping when Liu Bei returned home in triumph. After winning this battle, Liangzhou's external environment improved greatly.
What's even more interesting is that after the Shaodang Qiang people learned that Liu Bei had successfully conquered the three Qiang tribes, they took the initiative to send people to contact Liu Bei and said that they could be called upon to do such things in the future.
They also hate these bandits who come to rob at every turn. They have no pattern at all. They don’t want to live a good life, but they have to come to fight life and death. If this kind of thing happens again in the future, the Shaodang Qiang are willing to stand on a united front with the Liangzhou government. , to maintain peace and tranquility around Liangzhou.
There were thirty-six representatives of the Qiang tribe who came with the Shaodang Qiang to express their loyalty to Liu Bei and promote harmony. They all lived in the area west of Jincheng County and Longxi County.
The Shaodang Qiang have a population of more than 200,000 and are the most powerful among the major Qiang tribes around Liangzhou.
They united with the other thirty-six Qiang tribes to publicly express their stance and stand with the Liangzhou government to maintain peace and tranquility around Liangzhou. They can basically represent the attitude of the entire Qiang group, and they also have a negative attitude towards the Qiang people of other tribes who have not expressed their stance. It was also a big shock.
Liu Bei then happily received them, drank with them, and made a public agreement that they would not invade each other and help each other, and that the Qiang people would try their best to obey Liu Bei's instructions and assist Liu Bei in all military operations he needed to carry out.
After the public agreement ended, Naduo, who initiated this action, breathed a sigh of relief.
After he learned that the three tribes of Xianling Qiang, Baima Qiang and Shenlang Qiang invaded Longxi County, he was frightened.
He scolded the people of these three tribes that they were sick in the head and it was not good to offend anyone but Liu Bei.
The two major Xianbei tribes plus more than 300,000 people were wiped out by Liu Bei. Did they not know the fate of the 300,000 Xianbei people or something?
Liu Bei is such a strong man with martial virtues. I can't even offer him sacrifices. How dare you provoke him?
Are you sick?
Moreover, Naduo was even more worried that Liu Bei would change his views on all Qiang people due to this rebellion and would adjust his policies towards them, so Naduo was very anxious.
Finally, at the suggestion of his subordinates, Naduo united with the thirty-six Qiang tribes who had better relations with the Shaodang Qiang to convey their goodwill to Liu Bei, hoping that they could maintain their relationship with Liu Bei and avoid any changes.
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PS: The most painful thing in the world is to control your diet... In order to alleviate my pain, I will add another chapter angrily!
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