"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 either, but the situation is just the opposite - drought!
For more than three consecutive months, there was no rain 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. Several tribes, large and small, joined forces to cause chaos. They invaded Wudu, Jincheng, and various counties in Longxi, and carried out crazy robberies.
They plundered food, people, and livestock to make up for their losses in the disaster.
There are also many Qiang people who are frightened by the Jin army and would rather move south towards the plateau than touch the tiger's beard of the Jin army.
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.
They 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 Liangzhou and the part of the Qiang land that Su Dingfang once captured. However, this incident has completely destroyed all the hard work he has put in over the years.
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 combat-effective ones had been put into the battlefield as mercenaries of the Jin army since the Battle of Jingbei, and some of them are still in Jingbei and Jingbei.
Yue Fei fought.
At the same time, most of the Qiang women and children were Chineseized.
Otherwise, the Qiang people have the character of feeding unfamiliar wolf cubs. If they really have a certain strength, they may collude with the invading Qiang people this time and give Li Xiang a center to bloom.
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 even more casualties. It would take at least three lives to replace one 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 was a famous Yuntai general, and the Qiang people's methods were simply not enough in his eyes.
What's more, the Ma family was originally from Liangzhou and 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, shooting cold arrows to attract the attention of the defenders.
force.
At the same time, a group of men and horses also rushed out from the northwest, making no sound or yelling, just rushing quickly and headlong. This was the main force of the siege.
Frankly speaking, 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, stone chains, and arrow clusters are mostly made of horns. There are only a few bronze arrow clusters, so that's it.
It's rich.
This is not surprising. The nomadic tribes are backward in civilization. They know 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 figures have not 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 one like Temujin and Tuo
Such far-sighted figures as Ba Tao and Huang Taiji.
Temujin, Tuoba Tao, and Huang Taiji were all actively learning all aspects of the Han Dynasty. Every year, they sent out a large number of spies to learn the techniques of the Han family. In addition, these people took advantage of the powerful tool of merchants and conducted resource exchanges 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, with various resources in extreme shortage. 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 it.
They are just developing it. Moreover, they did not pay attention to the development of resources before.
Kublai Khan advocated using the Han people to convert the former Yuanmeng Han slaves into slaves, improve their status, and select some talented people for reuse. It was during this period that Yuanmeng unearthed a man in the grassland.
Iron ore, also known as Mongolian iron ore, is very famous 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.
