Ma Cheng turned his eyes and observed the half-cut corpse next to him.
This is a young Qiang man, about fourteen or fifteen years old. He is wearing a tattered sheepskin jacket. He is very thin and has many scars. His palms are covered with calluses!
The waist was cut off with a knife, and the appetite was also cut open. There was basically no food inside, mostly undigested grass roots, bones, and shredded cowhide...
As you can imagine, when he was in the tribe, he was also a diligent young man. He herded horses and sheep, hunted and fished every day, and lived a poor but happy life!
But the disaster from heaven forced him to say goodbye to his relatives, mount his war horse, hold weapons, and come to the battlefield, where he stayed forever. His relatives who remained in the tribe were still looking forward to his return, right?
"The Han people are human beings, and the Qiang people are also human beings. Why do they have to fight each other and cannot live in peace?" Ma Cheng sighed helplessly in his heart.
The Ma clan actually has some Qiang blood in them, Ma Teng does the same, Ma Chao does the same, and Ma Cheng also has some Qiang blood in him.
On the battlefield, Ma Cheng can be focused and decisive in killing. However, after the battlefield, seeing this tragic battlefield, Ma Cheng always has more other thoughts than others.
Compared to Ma Cheng, Han Qinhu didn't have so many extra thoughts. If he was not from my race, his thoughts would be different. As a pure Han Chinese, to Han Qinhu, the dead Qiang people were the most important.
Good Qiang people.
Since Han Qinhu joined the Jin army, he fought in Hezhou in the early stage, and then he has been in Liangzhou. Except for fighting with Ma Teng, Han Sui, and Fu Jian during the Yongliang War, the rest
Han Qinhu's only opponents were Yuan Meng and the Qiang people.
After a long experience of fighting against foreigners, Han Qinhu did not have the slightest sympathy for foreigners.
In his opinion, when it comes to foreign races, the Central Plains dynasty should uphold the attitude since ancient times to conquer, conquer, and conquer again. Conquer by force, conquer by culture, conquer by race, and even those who don’t accept must obey!
As early as the reign of Dayu, he sent troops to conquer the Sanmiao tribe, which kicked off the national war. The Yin Shang Dynasty repeatedly conquered the Dongyi tribe, which consumed huge national power, and the Zhou people took advantage of it!
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the princes fought so hard that they did not forget to attack foreigners. Zhongshan, Guzhu, Linhu, Loufan, Donghu, Yiqu... all suffered heavy blows, and some were even genocide. Qin
After unifying the world, they drove the Xiongnu more than 700 miles north and built the unparalleled Great Wall!
After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, foreign wars not only did not stop, but intensified. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty alone conducted fourteen northern expeditions against the Huns. Later, during the reigns of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Han He,
They all used troops on a large scale. In the words of historians: 'For more than 400 years since the Han Dynasty, the war has never stopped!'
After hundreds of years of war, I don’t know how many sons of the Han family have been killed, and how many orphans and widows have been left behind. However, the surrounding foreign tribes are like weeds, with terrifying tenacity. As soon as one crop is cut, another crop will grow, forever.
It can't be cut cleanly!
Therefore, Han Qinhu quite recognized Li Xiang's previous approach to the conquered Qiang people. During the process of conquest, he killed a group of people, and after they were conquered, he sent their men to the battlefield to be used.
They came to be consumed, leaving the women to distribute to the soldiers who had made meritorious service. After a few decades, these people naturally became Han people.
…
What happened to the Qiang people who had been conquered during Su Dingfang's conquest of the Qiang, and the same is true for the Qiang people who have not yet surrendered.
Kill him, kill him until his head is rolling and dripping with blood. Kill all the men of these foreign races. Then integrate their women into the Han people, and the problems of these foreign races will naturally be solved.
"General Han, this Qiang disaster is not easy to solve!" Ma Cheng said helplessly.
Before Temujin, Huang Taiji, and Tuoba Tao, were the overall strength of the Qiang people weaker than those in the north?
This is not possible!
Even when it comes to population alone, the Qiang people are even better.
"Since Yuanjian, there have been one hundred and fifty kinds of descendants. Nine of them are west of the Cizhi River, and in Shu and north of the Han Dynasty. There is no oral number in the history. Only Shenlang is in Wudu, and the number of victorious soldiers is
Thousands of people. Fifty-two of them are declining, unable to stand on their own, and are scattered as appendages, either extinct or having no heirs, or driven away. Of the eighty-nine species, only Zhong is the strongest, with more than 100,000 victories. The rest are large
There are more than 10,000 people in the group, and thousands in the small ones. They also steal from each other, and the rise and fall are unpredictable. When they obey the emperor without hesitation, the total number of victorious soldiers can be 200,000. The Qiang, the Tang Dynasty and others are far away, and there is no exchange. The cattle are consumed, and the white horses are Qiang.
In Shu and Han, their species and names are unknown."
Judging from this description in the Later Han Dynasty, the number of Qiang people during the Han Dynasty was very large, at least millions.
The scariest thing about being a nomad is that everyone is a soldier. When necessary, even the elderly and even women and children can ride horses onto the battlefield.
However, in people's impression, when it comes to the threat to the Han Dynasty, the Qiang people are far inferior to those in the north.
The important thing is that the Qiang people are too scattered and there is no unified command at all. The large-scale migration of the Qiang people is a joint action of some relatively large tribes, but they do not say who has a higher status than the other.
high.
In the past, there was a nominal Qiang king. Although it had no actual role, it was at least a decoration. But when the nominal Qiang king was defeated by the Jin army, the loose sand became even more scattered.
This also led to the fact that during this Qiang disaster, it was difficult for the Qiang people to have a unified leadership among themselves. It could even be said that each one was robbing each other and fighting each other.
It is indeed easier to break them up and defeat them one by one. However, this also means that it will take a lot of time. If you want to determine the outcome in one battle, it is necessary to solve all the problems at once.
Nothing is possible anymore.
"Deputy Governor Yang has personally led more than 10,000 cavalry. In addition, General Li's two thousand Modao troops are also accompanying the army. In addition, Governor Meng of Hezhou has also dispatched three thousand golden fire cavalry to assist in the battle. With the wishes of the two deputy governors,
We should kill its branches first!”
It is certainly impossible to relax the military forces in the north and west. Faced with the general's chaotic situation, if you want to deal with them all at once, you will have to mobilize a large number of troops.
Therefore, after discussion, the two deputy governors, Li Keyong and Yang Xuangan, decided that Li Keyong would continue to watch from the north, while Yang Xuangan would lead the war in the south, and first concentrate their efforts to deal with several relatively powerful Qiang groups.
The remaining weak ones can only slowly figure it out.
