Time flies, and it’s April in the blink of an eye, and the land in Guanzhong is gradually getting hotter.
All the forces in the world were relatively restrained, and no major war broke out.
Except Liu Bei was defeated again.
Cao Ren led an army of 30,000 to raid Runan County. Liu Bei suffered a series of defeats, and finally the entire army collapsed.
Liu Bei once again displayed his talent for escaping and led the remaining defeated troops to escape from Cao Ren's hands and fled directly to Jingzhou, preparing to seek refuge with Liu Biao, the governor of Jingzhou who was also a member of the Han clan.
As for the land of Guanzhong, Han Sui was destroyed, Ma Chao surrendered, and the Xianbei people retreated and fell into a short period of peace.
However, the Qiang people who lost 400,000 elite troops started wars in Longxi County, Jincheng County, Wuwei County and other places.
The reason is also very simple, the Qiang people want to live.
Hundreds of thousands of Qiang people began to revolt after their surrender to Liu Zhang failed.
For a time, rebellions broke out everywhere in Liangzhou.
Four hundred thousand strong Qiang people were unable to do anything against Liu Zhang, so what could the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled people do?
The entire Liangzhou has been completely deserted, and there is no food except within the city!
Even under the severe cold, even vegetation and tree bark are very rare.
The Qiang people had no choice but to attack Liu Zhang's high and deep city wall in order to survive.
As can be imagined, the Qiang people once again suffered more than 100,000 casualties, while Liu Zhang's Yizhou Army gained the advantage of occupying the city wall and suffered minimal losses!
Facts have proved that Liu Zhang completely overestimated the Qiang people's determination to attack the city.
In less than a month, the Qiang people's attention shifted from the city wall to other Qiang people.
The five chiefs were killed at the same time, the elites of the five tribes were wiped out, and it was time for the Qiang people to reshuffle their cards.
For a time, all Qiang tribes aimed their butcher knives at their comrades who had fought side by side.
Small tribes united with each other to attack the big tribe that had oppressed them for a long time.
Since all the elites were lost, the numerical advantage of the large tribes became a liability.
Not only are all the tribesmen old, weak, sick and disabled, but they also consume huge amounts of food and grass.
Once war breaks out, there is no possibility of restraint.
The Qiang people also used practical actions to tell Liu Zhang and the Yizhou Army what it means to fight a decisive battle at the beginning of a war!
Since the warring parties had few elites, large numbers of Qiang people died every day.
After only one month of large-scale tribal annexation and property grabbing, the Qiang people stopped fighting.
All the Qiang people in Liangzhou suffered a devastating blow after the war.
The Qiang people over fifty years old, who were the main force in the war, are almost extinct!
There is not even one Qiang person between 20 and 50 years old, and they are completely rare!
More than half of the entire Qiang people were injured, including women and children under the age of ten.
Just when the Qiang people thought they could finally usher in peace, the high-walled and fortified cities in Liangzhou counties opened their gates.
Liu Zhang gave an order, and tens of thousands of troops marched to the battlefield together, setting off a war in Liangzhou once again.
However, the war started suddenly and ended extremely suddenly.
The Qiang people have no resistance at all. Many tribes can't even form an army even if all their men are put together!
Facing the wolf-like and tiger-like Yizhou Army, the only way to avoid destruction is to surrender unconditionally!
Under the command of Lu Su, the governor of Liangzhou appointed by Liu Zhang, the Yizhou Army began to accept the Qiang people on a large scale and uniformly distributed and resettled them.
Among the surrendered Qiang people, those who are good at herding and raising horses will be prioritized.
Lu Su, the governor of Liangzhou, has gathered all the cattle, sheep and horses captured in the war. These Qiang people who are good at herding will be arranged uniformly to breed livestock and breed war horses continuously.
The rest of the Qiang people, regardless of gender, are required to learn farming in accordance with the requirements.
In this way, Liu Zhang obtained hundreds of thousands of Qiang people in rural areas at almost no cost.
If you blindly oppress, you will eventually be forced to resist. Liu Zhang understood this truth deeply.
Therefore, they treated the surrendered Qiang people equally and did not treat them as slaves.
The Qiang people only had to farm for Liu Zhang for three years before they could regain their freedom and gain the status of ordinary people.
Not only is there no risk to life, but you no longer have to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation in the future.
This can hardly be called a price. After all, in three years, the Qiang people learned to farm and acquired survival skills.
The only regret was that the elite Qiang army was almost wiped out, and Liu Zhang could not recruit soldiers among the Qiang people in Liangzhou.
The benefits are also very obvious. When the next generation of Qiang people grow up, they will be seriously assimilated by the Han people.
One day, the problem of Qiang rebellion will be completely solved.
After most of the Qiang people in Jincheng County, Longxi County, and Wuwei County surrendered, the time came to take full control of Liangzhou.
Liu Zhang ordered Pan Feng to lead his troops and five thousand soldiers from Yizhou County to march westward and conquer Zhangye County, Jiuquan County, Xihai County and Dunhuang County one by one.
After conquering the counties in Hexi, Pan Feng led his troops to Yumen Pass and served as the guard of Yumen Pass.
With Lu Su serving as the governor of Liangzhou and the Qiang people from all over the country gradually surrendering, Cheng Gongying could also step down as the governor of Jincheng and go to Dunhuang County to serve as the governor of Dunhuang.
Liu Zhang gave Cheng Gongying great power, allowing him to boldly connect with the countries in the Western Regions.
Pan Feng led five thousand troops to station at Yumen Pass to provide Cheng Gongying with enough confidence.
After several months of fighting, coupled with the continuous recruitment of Qiang people, there was finally a problem with food and grass.
In less than half a year, the Yizhou Army once again consumed nearly a million shi of food and grass!
Even Liu Zhang, who was as strong-willed as Liu Zhang, couldn't help but feel his head buzzing after hearing Xun You's report on the remaining situation of grain and grass.
Liangzhou is like a bottomless pit, as if Yizhou can be completely hollowed out at any time!
Fortunately, there is no limit to the road ahead. When Liu Zhang emptied the grain depot in Hanzhong, Jia Xu finally raised another one million stones of grain and grass and successfully transported it to Hanzhong.
But what followed was a letter sent by Jia Xu to Liu Zhang.
Liu Zhang praised and sighed at Jia Xu, saying that these million stones of grain and grass were nothing less than life-saving food for the Yizhou Army!
Even Xun You didn't expect that Jia Xu could raise so much!
Liu Zhang happily opened Jia Xu's letter, thinking that it must contain a detailed explanation of the source of the food and grass.
The result was completely different from Liu Zhang's imagination. There was not a word in the letter!
Jia Xu sent a blank letter to Liu Zhang.
According to Liu Zhang's understanding of Jia Xu, the other party would definitely not be so careless as to get the wrong letter.
Explain that this blank letter is what Jia Xu meant.
After thinking hard for a long time, Liu Zhang also understood what Jia Xu meant.
I'm afraid it's saying that the Yizhou treasury is just like this letter, not even a grain of food can be taken out!
While Liu Zhang smiled helplessly, he still couldn't help but express his deep admiration for Jia Xu.
Jia Xu must have worked hard and gone through many hardships to get these one million stones of food and grass!
With food, Liu Zhang could continue his conquest.
There are Xianbei people ahead and a large area of Guanzhong waiting for him!