Near the end of September, Zhao Hongrun led the Shangshui Army and Yanling Army that arrived in Luocheng to formally attack the hinterland of Sanchuan.

Before commanding his army to march westward, he summoned his staff Jie Ziyu and entrusted Luocheng to the latter, allowing him to temporarily take charge of Luocheng.

In order to facilitate Jie Zigong's actions, Zhao Hongrun also left Zongwei Gao Kuo, Zhong Zhao, Mu Qing, He Miao, Zhu Gui and half of Su Wang's guards in Luocheng to protect Jie Zigong's safety.

It's not that Zhao Hongrun doesn't trust the entire Sichuan-Luo Alliance. In fact, Zhao Hongrun quite trusts the Yi tribes governed by tribesmen such as Lu Balong and Meng Liang, as well as the Northern Sichuan Tribe Alliance led by Gu Yigu.

What he didn't trust were the Shen tribes.

Although he has used intimidation and inducements to make the Shen tribes under the Sichuan-Luo Alliance temporarily surrender, there is no guarantee that there will not be a few hot-headed guys among them.

This time when marching westward, Luocheng is a vital rear defense, and Zhao Hongrun does not want his backyard to catch fire.

Of course, originally, Zhao Hongrun had a better way. For example, as the "Battlefield Commander of Western Wei", he transferred Gao Army General Zhu Hai to Luocheng and asked him to temporarily take over the city defense.

But in the end, Zhao Hongrun chose Jie Ziyu. He wanted to see whether this staff member, who was not inferior to Kou Zheng in talent and learning, could stabilize the entire Sichuan-Luo Alliance.

Of course, the "stability" mentioned here does not refer to whether there will be rebellion, but to the public opinion of the Sichuan people, as well as the Sichuan people's views and evaluations of the Wei State - Lian refuting this invincible man

With the distinguished guests here, who can cause trouble in Luocheng?

This is the first thing Zhao Hongrun entrusted to Jie Zizi. As for the second thing, it is to let Jie Ziu continue to eat well and cater to Lian Pi in every possible way. Zhao Hongrun wants Lian Pi to eat and drink for free until he feels happy in his heart.

ashamed.

After giving all these instructions, Zhao Hongrun led the Shangshui Army and the Yanling Army to set off.

Of course, the troops he sent out were not just the Shangshui Army and the Yanling Army, which totaled 100,000 troops. In addition to the Wei Army, he strictly ordered all tribes under the Sichuan-Luo Alliance to send troops to participate in the war.

In this matter, he brought up the regulations of "Advance and retreat together" in the "Luoshui Alliance" that year. As long as those tribes do not want to withdraw from the Sichuan-Luo Alliance and do not want to be regarded as enemies by the Wei State, then they will

It is necessary to coordinate with the Wei army to send troops to attack the Wuxu, Jie, Ling and other tribes.

However, what surprised Zhao Hongrun was that Halegoh, the leader of the Baiyang tribe of the Sheang tribe who had strongly opposed the war against the Wusu tribe a few days ago, actually did not do so after receiving Zhao Hongrun's order that he "must send troops to coordinate".

After resisting again, 5,000 Aries warriors gathered together, which surprised Zhao Hongrun.

Five thousand tribal warriors, as far as a single tribe is concerned, is already a quite impressive number, at least half of the young and middle-aged men of the Aries tribe.

Although the Lun clan of the Yi clan dispatched 6,000 warriors, in fact, half of these 6,000 warriors were slaves of other clans. After all, the Lun clan could not make up the army just by relying on the young men of the clan.

There are no more than 6,000 warriors.

Of course, these Lun warriors who were born as slaves are completely different from slaves. They were strong warriors who were selected from slaves by Lu Balong himself and underwent strict training. As the patriarch, Lu Balong personally awarded them the Lun clan.

The identity of the tribe's people - this is something that can't be helped. After all, the Lun tribe of the Yi tribe has grown rapidly with the support of Zhao Hongrun. This has only happened in the past five years. The Lun tribe cannot give birth to women alone.

In just five years, it has grown to its current scale, so it is necessary to absorb strong men from other tribes.

In addition to the Lun tribe, other Yi tribes have more or less adopted this approach. It can only be said that the Yi people are not like the Yi people who talk about "the glory of their ancestors" all the time.

Do you mind replenishing the tribe from slaves? After all, going back hundreds of years, the ancestors of the Yi people were slaves of the Yi people.

This is the reason why the Yi tribes under the Sichuan-Luo Alliance have grown rapidly and have gradually caught up with the Yi tribes.

Whether through coercion, inducement or personal charm, the total number of troops Zhao Hongrun sent out this time has reached 170,000. Together with the vanguard army led by General Sima An of the Dangshan Army and Commander Bosile of the Northern Sichuan Cavalry, this time

At the time of the expedition, Zhao Hongrun's troops had exceeded 220,000.

This is not the ultimate number. As long as Zhao Hongrun is willing, he can gather at least 50,000 soldiers and as many as hundreds of thousands of slave soldiers to increase his strength to 400,000.

Of course, this is not necessary. After all, in Zhao Hongrun's eyes, "slave soldiers" cannot be regarded as combat power at all. They are just consumables on the battlefield. Rather than wasting these slaves on the battlefield, Zhao Hongrun would rather let them build roads.

What's more, the 220,000 troops are enough to sweep the entire Sanchuan.

The departure of the 170,000-strong army was undeniably spectacular. Because it did not affect the march, Zhao Hongrun divided the 170,000-strong army under his command into three parts, namely the Shangshui Army, the Yanling Army, and the Sichuan-Long Allied Army.

Among them, he personally led the Sichuan-Luoyang coalition forces, while Wu Ji and Qu Cheng led the Shangshui Army and Yanling Army respectively as Zhao Hongrun's deputy generals.

During the march, the Sichuan-Luoyang Allied Forces were also in the middle, with the Shangshui Army and the Yanling Army on both sides, maximizing their deterrence against the Sichuan-Luoyang Allied Forces.

In order to facilitate the command, Zhao Hongrun took with him all the clan chiefs who participated in the expedition. Among these clan chiefs or representatives of the clan chiefs, the ones he trusted the most were undoubtedly Lu Balong and other Sheang clan chiefs, as well as his brother-in-law.

Wuwu, the young chief of the Qingyang tribe, the old chief of the Qingyang tribe and Zhao Hongrun's father-in-law, Amutu chose to stay in the Sichuan-Luo Alliance and asked his son Wuwu to lead the soldiers of the Qingyang tribe to follow Zhao Hongrun in the crusade against the Wusu tribe.

Zhao Hongrun was really surprised when he saw the Sichuan-Luo coalition soldiers on horseback and carrying bows.

Even he did not expect that half of the 70,000-strong Sichuan-Luoyang coalition army were cavalry, and they were cavalry who were as skilled in bow and horse as the northern Sichuan cavalry.

Therefore, he was very lucky that he came up with the Weichuan trade proposal and won over these tribes. Otherwise, wouldn't he have lost the assistance of tens of thousands of cavalry?

You must know that, like the Yi people in the Chuanluo Alliance, they not only do not resist Wei culture, but are also very keen on learning. Therefore, in a sense, after a few years, the Yi people and the Wei people will actually no longer be

There is a difference, and by that time, the Yi cavalry will actually be equivalent to the local cavalry of Wei. This situation will greatly change the embarrassment of Wei's lack of cavalry.

The Yi people may feel uncomfortable merging the tribal people into the Wei people, but I believe the Yi people will not resist it too much, at least not Lu Balong, who was once a muscular warrior and is now a fat man.

, it is said that they are thinking about letting the clan members take a surname so that they can fully integrate into the aristocracy of Wei State.

Because for now, Lu Balong is very rich, but he cannot become a noble of the Wei State because he is of a foreign origin. But if he changes his surname to the Wei State, although it cannot be said that he can immediately integrate into the Wei State's nobles,

But at least it has reduced a lot of obstacles.

Of course, for things like this, changing Lu Balong himself won't have much effect. It's best to have the emperor of Wei give him a surname. Even if he doesn't give the surname "Zhao", even if he gives him a different name, Lu Balong can be greatly changed.

The image and status of these Sichuan people in the aristocratic circle of Wei State.

Zhao Hongrun was very supportive of this matter, so he hinted to Lu Balong that as long as they did a good job this time, he would not mind going to Chui Gong Hall to argue for them. This made Lu Balong, Meng Liang and other Sheang tribe chiefs greatly shocked.

Excited.

Just looking at their nouveau riche-like attire, we can tell that these Sichuan clan leaders are very yearning for the status of Wei nobles - after all, they are nobles of the host country.

"Report!"

A group of sentries from the Lun tribe returned from a distance, and one of the cavalry came to Lu Balon and whispered a few words in his ear.

Lu Balong frowned, moved his horse closer to Zhao Hongrun, and whispered a few words in Zhao Hongrun's ear, which made Zhao Hongrun frown slightly.

After thinking for a moment, Zhao Hongrun shook his head and said: "Don't go around, just keep moving forward!"

What is it that makes it so mysterious?

It turned out that according to the marching direction of Zhao Hongrun's army, about four miles further forward, there was a tribal garrison that was destroyed by the Wei vanguard army.

After being attacked by the Dangshan Army cavalry and the Sichuan North cavalry, the tribe, which belonged to the Yi or Jie tribe, was in ruins. Except for the charred corpses everywhere, there was no one alive.

A few years ago, Zhao Hongrun would have chosen to evade and try to prevent the Sichuan-Luoyang coalition forces from seeing the violent side of the Wei army. After all, massacring civilians was not really a martial art.

But today, Zhao Hongrun did not mind using this opportunity to make the clan chiefs under his command realize the reality and let them fully understand the consequences of being enemies of the Wei army and the Wei state.

The army passed by the ruins of the tribe silently.

It can be seen that the faces of the clan leaders such as Halegoch are not very good-looking.

In fact, these clan leaders already knew that when they gathered soldiers in Luocheng, the 50,000 northern Sichuan cavalry led by Bosile, following the butcher Sima An, had already gone to the hinterland of Sanchuan to attack the tribes who did not want to surrender to Wei.

The massacre began.

However, hearing about it and seeing it with your own eyes are obviously two different things.

The Sichuan-Luo coalition forces slowly passed by only twenty feet away from the ruins.

From this distance, one can clearly see the scorched corpses scattered all over the ruins of the tribe, as well as the almost skeleton human head that has been eaten by vultures and crows on the flag of the "Dangshan Army" in front of the tribe.

"Quack, quack——"

A few crows rested on the only preserved building in the tribal ruins, a wooden frame that looked like a gate archway.

This kind of building, which is like an archway in Wei culture, is mainly used to distinguish tribes in Sanchuan - each tribe will depict their own tribe's totem sketches on this kind of building, and hang some sheep bones.

Ornaments.

On the gate-like building in front of us, a whole sheep skull hangs in the center.

"The Yi tribe..."

Lu Balong muttered as if he was gloating, arousing Zhao Hongrun's curiosity.

Zhao Hongrun was very special, and Lu Balong could see through the tribe's ethnicity at a glance.

"It's very simple." After hearing Zhao Hongrun's inquiry, Lu Balong explained to Zhao Hongrun in a low voice.

It turns out that although both the Yi and Jie people use sheep skulls as totems, there is a slight difference between the two: the Yi people generally only use the whole sheep skull, while the Jie people will also add the horns of the sheep.

And make a fuss about the ram's horn.

After all, there are many types of sheep on the Sanchuan grassland, and the shapes of the horns of these sheep are different.

As for the sheep skull on the gate in front of us, only the skull can be seen but no horns, so it is obvious that this is a Sheo tribe.

"I see……"

Zhao Hongrun suddenly realized this, and then looked back behind him and looked at the expressions of Halegoh and other Shei tribe chiefs.

Sure enough, these tribal leaders also recognized the ownership of this tribal ruins. Each of them looked very ugly, and their eyes were full of complex expressions such as anger, sadness, and helplessness.

But in the end, these patriarchs either lowered their heads or turned away their eyes without saying a word.

"..."

After taking a deep look at these clan leaders, Zhao Hongrun continued to ride forward.

When he turned his head, Halegoh from the Aries tribe turned his attention to Zhao Hongrun.
To be continued...