"Look, the damn Qiang people are about to attack again, everyone, get ready to fight!"
"Woo!......Woo!"
The loud horn bugle woke Ma Cheng up. He hurriedly lay down on the crenel and looked at the situation outside. He saw densely packed cavalry slowly approaching...
The Qiang people are very tough. They all wear animal skin coats, carry ox-horn bows on their backs, and ride strong war horses... Holding high various flags, they formed a charging formation!
The weather this year has been abnormal, with heavy rains in Hanzhong and Bashu, and some places even suffered floods, destroying a large amount of farmland.
Similarly, the northwest grasslands are not peaceful, but the situation is exactly the opposite - drought!
For more than three consecutive months, no rain fell in the northern part of the territory controlled by the Qiang people. The rivers dried up, the pastures withered, and herds of livestock died of starvation and thirst. The Qiang tribes were all in dire straits due to lack of food and clothing. middle!
At this time, the princes of the Central Plains offered large sums of money to induce some Qiang people to temporarily lose their fear of the Jin army, and several large and small tribes united to cause chaos. They invaded Wudu, Jincheng, and Longxi counties and plundered food, people, and livestock frantically to make up for their losses in the disaster.
There are also many Qiang people who are afraid of being beaten by the Jin army. They would rather move south towards the plateau than touch the tiger's beard of the Jin army again.
Every veteran hunter knows that the hungrier the beast, the more ferocious and brutal it becomes. In less than a month, the Qiang people conquered more than a dozen border towns, and blood flowed into the villages and towns along the way, killing 30,000 Han soldiers and civilians. People also looted a lot of supplies, but failed to satisfy their appetites!
Over the years, Li Xiang relocated a large number of people in order to build the part of Qiang land that Liangzhou and Su Dingfang once captured. However, after this incident, all the hard work he had put in over the years was wasted for no reason.
Dingyi City is an important town in the west, famous for its prosperity, and it is also the only way to penetrate into Wudu County. Therefore, the Qiang tribe gathered here with tens of thousands of elite cavalry, hoping to open a breakthrough and penetrate into the Han territory to plunder Ichiban!
As for the Jin army, most of its forces are concentrated in the north and west of Liangzhou, taking Yuanmeng as the main defense target. Especially when the vanguard troops of Jebie and Subotai have begun to attack the Western Regions, the Jin army will be more Most of the energy is focused on the north and west sides.
Therefore, in the south, this force is relatively weak. There are only a thousand soldiers and horses scattered here in Dingyi City.
Fortunately, among the Qiang people who had been conquered by the Jin army, the most effective ones have been on the battlefield as mercenaries of the Jin army since the beginning of the Battle of Jingbei. Some of them are still fighting in Jingbei and Yue Fei fought.
At the same time, most of the Qiang women and children were Sinicized.
Otherwise, the Qiang people have the character of feeding unfamiliar wolf cubs. If they really have a certain amount of strength, they might collude with the invading Qiang people this time and give Li Xiang a central flower.
Nowadays, at least this worry no longer arises.
After seven days of fierce fighting, most of the defenders had been killed or injured. But one thing is certain, the Qiang people suffered more heavy casualties. It would take at least three lives to replace a Han warrior!
"It's a wolf pack tactic again. Do you want to attack the east and attack the west? I will use my strategy to gather the ordinary people to the southeast, beat the drums and shout loudly. The strong ones will follow me to the northwest to defend!"
"promise!"
Ma Cheng is a famous Yuntai general, and the Qiang people's methods are not enough in his eyes.
What's more, the Ma family was originally from Liangzhou, and they had a thorough understanding of the habits of the Qiang people.
If it weren't for the fact that the power of the palm in his hand was too weak, and the people under his hand were all infantry, how could he be afraid of these Qiang people?
"Kill!... Warriors from all the grassland tribes, rush into the city, kill all the Han people, and steal all their belongings!"
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Ma Cheng expected exactly what he expected. The horn sounded first from the southeast, and the Qiang cavalry rushed over with shouts. About two hundred steps away from the city wall, they suddenly scattered again. They just galloped left and right and fired cold arrows to attract the attention of the defenders. force.
At the same time, a group of people also rushed out from the northwest, making no sound or yelling, just rushing quickly and silently. This was the main force of the siege.
To be honest, the Qiang people's tactics are good, as cunning as a pack of wolves, but their weapons and equipment can only be described in four words - terrible!
Only the small tribal leaders have armor and weapons made of wrought iron. Ordinary soldiers can only use sticks, wooden forks, and stone chains. Most of the arrow clusters are ground from horns. If you can have a few bronze arrow clusters, that's fine. It's rich.
This is not surprising. The nomadic tribes are backward in civilization. They can do nothing but herding horses and sheep. They have no writing and no handicraft industry, let alone smelting with high technical content.
It is not that some powerful people have been implanted among the Qiang people, Fu Jian is one of them, but they went to mix with the Han people. As a result, among the current Qiang people, there is no such far-sighted figure as Temujin, Tuoba Tao, and Huang Taiji.
Temujin, Tuoba Tao, and Huang Taiji were all actively learning all aspects of the Han Dynasty. Every year, a large number of spies were sent out to learn the techniques of the Han family. In addition, these people took advantage of the powerful tool of merchants and exchanged resources with Li Tang. Exchange has achieved tremendous development in all aspects.
In order to support Tuoba Tao and Huang Taiji in their fight against Temujin, the Han princes imported a large number of eliminated soldiers and armor to Tuoba Tao and Huang Taiji, and exchanged them for their cattle and horses.
Temujin, on the other hand, took the initiative to open source resources at the suggestion of Kublai Khan and Yelu Chucai, and actively used the power of the Han people to explore the resources in their grasslands.
In the impression of the Central Plains people, grassland has always been synonymous with poverty, and various resources are extremely scarce. However, this does not mean that the grassland is really barren to the point of having nothing. It is just that the backward production methods of the previous nomadic civilization cannot support their development. Moreover, they themselves did not pay attention to the development of resources before.
Kublai Khan advocated using the Han people to open slaves to the Han slaves in Yuan and Mongolia, improve their status, and select some talented people for reuse. It was during this period that Yuanmeng unearthed an iron mine in the grassland, which became the very famous Mongolian iron mine in later generations.
In contrast, the Qiang people are still in the original backward production mode.
It is precisely because the Qiang people are too backward in terms of weapons and equipment that when the nomadic cavalry enter the Han Dynasty, they like to snatch iron weapons. Sometimes they will kill each other for an iron weapon or armor. In the harsh survival Under such circumstances, human life is worthless.
(End of chapter)
