Li Xiang accepted Chen Ping's vicious plan!
If you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight!
The more qualified an emperor is, the more he is a scumbag and the more likely he is to do some shady things. From ancient times to the present, which emperor has not done so many things? The most typical one is Li Shimin's Xuanwumen Incident.
Light and darkness have always gone hand in hand. Where there is light, there must be darkness. As for Li Xiang, he can open his arms to embrace the light, but he will never reject the darkness.
As long as it can increase the winning rate of this battle, even if it is a poisonous trick, Li Xiang will accept it. Some roads are destined to be approached by walking on the bones of countless people.
At worst, in the future, Li Xiang would kill ten times more Qiang people to avenge the innocent people of Liangzhou who died tragically in this battle. And this should be regarded as Li Xiang's last mercy.
Although it is a poisonous plan, it is also a good plan.
On the one hand, this incident can be used to stimulate the morale of the army, amplify the hatred of the entire army, and aim this hatred at various princes.
Secondly, it will maximize the influence on the people's hearts and minds of all princes. People's morale sometimes has a subtle impact on military morale.
We are all of Han family blood. No matter whether we fight life or death, no matter who wins or loses, in the end our flesh will rot in the pot. If we are fighting against foreigners, we must work together and deal with the outside world as one!
However, once the news of various princes colluding with foreign barbarians spread, their reputation would be completely ruined. That is, disregarding national justice and colluding with other races, you will be drowned alive in the saliva of the people of the world!
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Dingyi City.
This city belongs to Wudu County, Liangzhou. It is located at the bend of the lower reaches of Bailong River. It is a majestic and beautiful square city with a circumference of about eight miles. It is surrounded by crisscrossing rivers and neat fields. The famous grain-producing area provides the livelihood of a large part of the people in this county.
In fact, more than ten years ago, this place was still a barren meadow. There were no villages within hundreds of miles. Instead, jackals, tigers and leopards often appeared here. There were also some nomadic tribes who came to settle here and use the rich aquatic plants to graze their livestock.
However, just many years ago, the Yongliang War broke out. The Jin army defeated three Liangzhou princes, Han Sui, Ma Teng, and Fu Jian, and established Liangzhou.
In the following years, Su Dingfang defeated the Qiang people one after another and opened up more than a thousand miles of territory. In order to guard the newly acquired land, he built a large number of cities and moved people to guard the borders!
Dingyi City is one of them. The name was chosen by Su Dingfang himself, and it has no special meaning, because there are Pingyi City and Zhenyi City nearby... This is to prove that these places are all the territory of the Han Dynasty! At the same time, it is also a way to record one's great achievements.
Influenced by the Jin army, Han troops and merchants now like to leave marks whenever they visit strange places, either by erecting Han monuments or by carving words. The most common ones are:
The territory of the Han Dynasty cannot be violated!
In the territory of the Han Dynasty, outsiders are prohibited from entering, otherwise their heads will be left behind!
This place has a radius of three hundred miles and is all Han territory. Foreign intruders with knives will die!
The Jin army has been victorious in several battles against foreign barbarians. Which of the Xiongnu, Yuanmeng, Xianbei, Manchu and Qiang people has not suffered heavy losses at the hands of the Jin army?
As we win more external battles, the people's confidence will become stronger!
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The Jin garrison wrote this and did the same thing. They often sent various small-scale ranger troops to patrol where the monument was erected. If they saw nomadic tribesmen crossing the border, or were suspected of crossing the border, they would immediately draw their swords and kill them. Fight until death!
Regardless of whether you really want to come to the Han people's territory to cause trouble, as long as you are suspected of this, if you are noticed by the passing Jin army rangers, they won't mind getting rid of you!
In terms of external strategy, although the Jin army had some cooperation with foreign barbarians, this was the case with Wanyan Aguda and the same was true with Yelu Abaoji. However, the Jin army's external attitude has always been tough.
Even though the Jin army had some cooperation with foreign barbarians, it was actually to devour each other. Wanyan Aguda was the most typical example.
Over time, the literacy rate of the nomadic tribes in the northwest has skyrocketed, but at a heavy cost, and they only know a few words: "The territory of the Han Dynasty cannot be violated...if you cross the border...die!"
After the construction of Dingyi City, the population increased and industries prospered, and it soon became an important town in the northwest. However, in recent times, Dingyi City has become unstable.
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"Put the bodies of the Qiang people down, carry the bodies of our own people to the back, put them together after cremation, and carry the wounded down for treatment!"
"Have the golden juice been boiled? When it's done, carry it to the tower and let the Qiang people taste it later. The swords, guns, and arrow clusters will also be replenished!"
"It's been seven days, why haven't the reinforcements arrived yet? Send someone to urge them!"
Up and down the walls of Dingyi City, corpses were piled up, remnants of soldiers were everywhere, and there were marks of hacking everywhere. The originally clear water in the moat was completely dyed red with blood, including the blood of the Qiang people and the blood of the Han people!
The guard, Ma Cheng, had a dark face and walked back and forth on the city wall. His armor was in pieces, and the sword in his hand was chipped. His originally fair face was also blackened, and there were several bloody gashes on his lips...
Ma Cheng was once a subordinate of Ma Teng, one of the most powerful princes in Liangzhou. At the same time, he was Ma Teng's younger brother and could be regarded as Ma Chao's uncle.
After Ma Teng was destroyed, although Ma Chao and others fled to Yizhou, a large number of Ma clan members also joined the Jin army.
Among these people, the most outstanding are of course the three heroes of the Ma family. After the three heroes of the Ma family, the two most outstanding ones are Ma Wu and Ma Cheng.
Over the years, Ma Wu and Ma Cheng have been among the generals guarding Liangzhou. Although Li Xiang is wary of these people from the Ma family and does not want them all to be concentrated in Liangzhou where they have the greatest influence, he does want to take advantage of the Ma family's influence among the Qiang people.
Therefore, the three heroes of the Ma family were split into various states, while Ma Wu and Ma Cheng stayed in Liangzhou.
Under the command of Ma Cheng, soldiers and civilians ran back and forth, cleaning up the corpses on the battlefield, repairing the damaged city walls, and devouring food and drink to replenish their exhausted energy and prepare for the next fight!
Although Liu Xiu's Yuntai generals are not as famous as the founding generals of other dynasties, as elites of an era, these people are definitely not bad in ability. Even if they don't have many people in their hands, facing tens of thousands of Qiang people, they can succeed. But still persist until now.
(End of chapter)
