"Lord, it's easy to let the Qiang people die on a large scale!"
Xun You's confident and relaxed tone surprised Liu Zhang.
These are four to five million people, not four to five million pigs!
"Gongda, what are you going to do? We can't massacre them."
The difficulty is that the Qiang people want to die on a large scale, but they cannot have anything to do with Liu Zhang.
In order to avoid the hatred of other Qiang and Di ethnic groups under Liu Zhang's rule.
"My lord, you only need to let the soldiers quickly recover Longxi County, Jincheng County, and Wuwei County, and then strengthen the walls, clear the fields, and hold on to the city!"
"Gone?"
Liu Zhang didn't understand what Xun You meant. It didn't seem to have anything to do with foreigners.
"The general strategy is this, but in terms of specific facts, all personnel and materials from each county must be moved into the city to completely clear the city!"
Pang Tong suddenly realized that he understood Xun You's meaning first.
"Haha, the military advisor wants to starve the Qiang people to death..."
"Starve to death? How is that possible!"
Liu Zhang did not understand what they meant. Could it be that millions of Qiang people in the past relied on robbing Han people for food to survive the winter?
The answer is absolutely no. With how many Han people there are in Liangzhou, there is no way they can support the Qiang people who number more than one million!
"Totally possible!"
When Liu Zhang was puzzled, Fazheng's voice of surprise suddenly came to his ears.
"Can Xiao Nao explain something more clearly?"
Fazheng nodded quickly, his eyes filled with joy.
"My lord, you don't know. The Qiang people rely on animal husbandry and farming. Every winter is their nightmare!"
"It would be okay if it were placed in peacetime. With Han Sui and Ma Teng taking care of the tribes with which they have good relations, it won't be too difficult."
"Even so, the Qiang people will still attack each other in winter just to get food!"
"Starting from April this year, my lord led his army to attack Yongliang. No matter Han Sui, Ma Teng or Zhu Qiang, they had no time or opportunity to cultivate."
"Especially after the Qiang people gather together, livestock husbandry will definitely be greatly affected!"
"With no food and no time to raise animals, how can the Qiang people survive?"
After hearing Fazheng's analysis, Liu Zhang couldn't help but think of what happened along the way.
Desolation!
At least in Longxi County and Hanyang County, there are almost no signs of farming.
The people are not short of food, but there is no food at all!
This is also the reason why so much food and grass is consumed to relieve the people.
"If you do this, the Qiang people will definitely jump over the wall..."
A person would be crazy about food, let alone a race!
The entire Qiang people are facing the crisis of starvation, and millions of people may riot!
"No need to worry, my lord, hasn't Military Advisor Xun already thought of a countermeasure?"
Liu Zhang suddenly realized that no wonder Xun You wanted to strengthen the wall and clear the country.
"Gongda, is there more to the story?"
Liu Zhang knew very well how powerful Xun You was, and as long as he took action, he would definitely plan everything until the end!
"Nothing can be hidden from my lord!"
Xun You smiled, nodded, and told his plan.
"The Qiang people have lost all their elites. Although there are millions of people in the population, most of them are old people, young people, women and children, so survival will immediately become the biggest problem!"
"When the Qiang people learn that Han Sui was defeated and hundreds of thousands of elites were killed or injured, they will definitely unite again for survival."
"But they are not declaring war on the lord, but expressing surrender or surrender to the lord to ask for food to ensure the survival of the tribe!"
"My lord, you don't need to pay attention at all. You only need to order the soldiers to inspect and accept the city."
"If the Qiang people cannot get food, they will definitely take risks and gather again into various counties to burn, kill, and loot!"
"But we have already established a stronghold and cleared the country, and the Qiang people cannot get a grain of food! They will only have one fate in the end!"
Xun You paused for a moment and suddenly showed a cold smile.
"Kill each other!"
I see!
Everyone looked shocked. It turned out that Xun You didn't just want to starve the Qiang people to death!
The Qiang people have no choice but to turn their attention to the Qiang tribe without the obstruction of the city wall!
Once the looting begins, it means fighting.
Once the massacre starts, how can it be easily stopped?
"Fazheng admires the military advisor's clever plan!"
Fazheng thought he had seen through Xun You's intentions, but in fact he did not see the essence at all.
"Takanao is so polite!"
Xun You regained his humble and friendly appearance, and then looked at Liu Zhang.
"My lord, if hundreds of thousands of Qiang people starve to death, I'm afraid the blame will be placed on my lord. But the Qiang people kill each other, no matter how many casualties there are, it has nothing to do with my lord!"
"Let the Qiang people get into chaos first, and then we will add fuel to the fire so that they can fight to their heart's content!"
"When the Lord feels that the number of Qiang people is acceptable, we can extend an olive branch to them."
"At that time, the Qiang people have only two options. Either they can flee to the northwest like the Huns, or they can honestly surrender to their lord!"
Xun You was so ruthless, not only did he figure out the outcome of the Qiang people from the beginning, but he also made them have no choice but to follow Xun You's plan.
"Wonderful, wonderful!"
"With Gongda here, the Qiang people no longer pose any threat!"
Liu Zhang was very lucky that Xun You was not his opponent, otherwise he would have been lucky to thank him for selling him.
People can always see through Xun You's strategies at a glance, but it's hard to see through his true intentions.
After everyone heard Xun You's plan, their first thought was that Xun You was going to starve the Qiang people to death.
But can half of the Qiang people be wiped out simply by starvation?
Undoubtedly very difficult.
Throughout the hundreds of years of Qiang history, food problems have always been with them.
But did any of them cause widespread death?
No.
The Qiang people can survive for hundreds of years. There must be a way for them to survive. It is impossible to completely kill them with a mouthful of food.
"My Lord, we must immediately order the soldiers to move the people outside the city into the city as quickly as possible. Once Han Sui dies and the news that the Qiang soldiers are wiped out spreads, I'm afraid there will be immediate action on the Qiang side."
"good!"
Liu Zhang didn't have any objections. He still understood the importance of speed in fighting.
"Does Gongda have any other instructions?"
Xun You smiled and nodded, looking at Liu Zhang with admiration in his eyes.
The monarch and his ministers have always had a tacit understanding, and Xun You felt very happy assisting such a monarch.
"My lord, the only disadvantage of having a strong wall and clearing the country is that we need to rely on us for all the food."
"Food...huh..."
Liu Zhang never expected that he had prepared five million stones, thinking that it would be enough for several years!
Unexpectedly, within a year, we started to run out of money!
"Continue to mobilize grain and grass in Hanzhong, and send someone back to Chengdu to deliver a message to Wenhe, asking him to find a way to mobilize grain and transport it to Hanzhong."
"When everything is ready, I will personally lead the army to attack the Xianbei people!"