Looking back at the fluttering flags in his camp, watching the soldiers coming and going, Zhang Ze's nephew, Zhang Ran could not hide his excitement...
The general of an army, one word, thousands of people will follow, etc. These thoughts stimulated Zhang Ran, making him secrete a lot more adrenaline than usual, his heartbeat accelerated, and the blood rushed to his head, which made him feel faint.
Zhang Ran felt a little dizzy.
Of course, what made Zhang Ran feel even more happy was the capture of Fangling in front of him...
The sound of some footsteps was heard, and Zhang Ran looked back and saw that it was the Yi people who would join the queue.
"Thank you for your hard work, General..." Jique learned the etiquette of the Han people and greeted Zhang Ran with his arms raised, but the gesture of the salute was a bit awkward.
Jique is in his forties. He is shorter and has darker skin. He has a beard on his chin, which is messy and tangled together. His small eyes reveal a kind of fanaticism and greed, a fanaticism for war and wealth.
and greed.
Zhang Ze still has some reputation among the Yi people, so this time he naturally encouraged some Yi people to join the rebellion. These Yi people generally stay in the villages and rarely go out of the mountains.
Take a look at the world, and after Zhang Zeyi advocated it, some people felt that if they followed Zhang Ze, everything would be good if they won, and they wouldn't necessarily suffer losses if they lost. When the situation turns bad, they would retreat to the mountains.
Is it possible that Han people can still enter the mountains?
"Thank you for your hard work, chief..." Zhang Ran also bowed his hand and said, "How is it? How are the wooden tools and other equipment for siege being prepared?"
Jique smiled proudly and said, "No problem! There are trees in the surrounding mountains, but it will take some effort to cut them down and pull them over... But it will only take a day or two!"
Zhang Ran nodded, then turned to look at Fangling City Wall and said: "If the siege equipment arrives, it will be the end of these guys! Hahahaha!"
Jique also laughed.
The two laughed for a while, and Zhang Ran said to Jique: "There is still good news... No, there are three good news..."
"General, please tell me..." Jique said in slightly awkward Chinese, "Well, are you giving me some advice?"
"Hahaha, you and I don't have to be so polite..." Zhang Ran said with a smile, "The first good news is that Longyou is in chaos...Xiqiang has rebelled again. Qiaoqi, they have to deal with Longyou first before they can use their hands free.
Come and cause trouble for us... Hahaha, by then we may have already made Hanzhong a monolith, and it will be too late for the Hussars to come again!"
"Hahaha, it is indeed good news..." Jique also smiled, "So, what about the second good news?"
Zhang Ran's eyebrows were flying, and he said gesticulating, "The second good news is that our people have returned from Jingxiang. General Cao Mengde is gathering troops and will give us support and response from the side! By then, the Hussars will be hard to take care of.
, things are difficult to defend, and destruction may be around the corner!』
"Oh!" Although Jique didn't know Cao Cao's specific reinforcements and the so-called geographical location, he still felt good about hearing that it was beneficial to him, and he was so happy that he showed his eight big teeth.
He threw his head up and laughed hahaha.
"The third good news!" Zhang Ran stretched out his third finger, and then said in a very contemptuous tone, "Originally, Sichuan and Shu were also a threat to us, but now... Hahahaha, do you know?
Did you know that among Sichuan and Sichuan, Zhuge Liang was actually sent! A junior in his twenties! Hahahahaha! I want soldiers but no soldiers, I want money but no money, and I don’t have much courage. It is said that I can’t even defeat ordinary soldiers! Such a thing
A general is coming to attack Yangping Pass, hahahaha! What does this mean?"
"What does it mean?" Jique was obviously a very qualified admonisher and asked the question at the right time.
Zhang Ran put his hands on his hips and tilted his chin, "This shows that no one in Sichuan and Sichuan wants to attack Hanzhong! Xu Yuanzhi! Hahaha, this Xu Yuanzhi also has treacherous intentions! Otherwise, he wouldn't just send a weak scholar like Zhuge Liang here."
Be the commander-in-chief and lead the troops to attack Yangping! People from Sichuan and Shu don’t want to come either! If this isn’t good news, what is it?”
"So, Fangling... Hahaha, Fangling is hopeless!" Zhang Ran pointed to the city of Fangling in front of him, "Now only Huang Quan is left to resist... As long as we take down Fangling, it will be a great cause."
Can become!"
Zhang Ran looked up to the sky and laughed, Ji Que also showed his eyebrows. The two of them stood outside the city and pointed, as if they could defeat Fangling in one fell swoop in the next moment, and capture Huang Quan as if they were flipping their hands...
……(^.^)YYa……
A Qiang man hurriedly walked into the large tent of Beigong.
"My lord, the Han troops have not come to Daze..."
Beigong asked slowly: "They didn't come? Then where are they now?"
"Our people received news that the Han people are still near Guzang, but they have not come here or towards Jile..."
Beigong thought for a while and then said to his attendants: "Go and summon the heads of various departments to come to my place to discuss matters."
Not long after, the leaders of each department arrived, and a group of people suddenly gathered around the originally deserted tent.
Beigong suddenly seemed to have thought of something, but before he could think clearly, he was interrupted by a Qiang leader, "Noble Beigong, what on earth is this Han man doing? Is it possible that he is preparing to hide in Guzang?"
, not moving?』
"There are good fields all around Guzang, so of course these Han people would not want to part with them!"
"That's not right. After all, the Han people can only defend the city. If we go there during the wheat harvest, will they come out to fight, or will they watch us snatch the wheat?"
"That's true. So what do the Han people think?"
"How could I possibly know the Han people's intentions..."
Chattering, a group of people are talking randomly, neither taking responsibility for their words, nor really coming up with any ideas. Anyway, they are just purely expressing their opinions, just like squatting together in the village chatting.
Middle-aged and elderly people with short-lived parents.
Because young people can't stand still and always have to do something.
Currently, most of the people in the big tent are middle-aged and elderly. Even if you want to become the leader of a tribe, it is not an easy task. It requires a certain amount of experience and a certain accumulation of contacts. And these
, are not something that an ordinary Qiang young man can have.
But these Qiang-headed people who have reached a certain age are inevitably a bit cunning in some aspects. In the Central Plains of China, they would be called peasant cunning, but in the nomadic Qiang people, they are herdsmen.
Style of cunning.
"cough!"
Beigong coughed, then looked at everyone with a sullen face.
Everyone stopped from the chaotic discussion, and then looked at Beigong.
"Han people... Han people have never seen us as human beings..." Beigong slowly looked at each person and said slowly one by one, "They say we are cunning, lazy, stupid, and they want us to do this."
, to do that, they wanted our cattle, sheep, skins, and even robbed our wives and daughters... We escaped, we hid in the mountains, and then the Han people chased us, we hid in the desert, and then the Han people chased us...
…』
"We have no money, and the Han people want us to use cattle as payment, sheep as payment, and everything else... When they are happy, they come to us to eat and drink from us. When they are unhappy, they come to us to cut us off."
The heads are used as war merits..." Beigong said slowly, "We want to be reasonable, but there is no place to be reasonable. We also want to be a good person, live a good life, live under the sky, die under the sky, and live peacefully.
Such a life... But who made us become like this, holding knives, bows, and guns? Who is it? The Han people! All Han people deserve to die! They burned our pastures and ravaged our land for the sake of war.
The people wantonly humiliate and oppress, deceive and massacre, what should we do? What should we do?!"
"Revenge when you have a grudge, complain when you have a grudge!"
"The blood debt owed by the Han people must be repaid now!"
"eye for eye!"
There was another burst of chaotic roars.
Beigong nodded and waited for everyone's voices to slowly calm down before continuing: "Now the Han people do not dare to come out and do not dare to move in the village. It is for two reasons... First, the Han people are here
Waiting for reinforcements...Secondly, what conspiracy are the Han people doing..."
"No matter which reason it is, we can't wait here any longer..." Beigong stood up, "We have to take action first, pull the Han people out from under Guzang City, and then let them expose themselves
The weakness is like exposing the heart of a cow or sheep... and then stabbing it... fatally!』
"Oh ho ho ho!"
"Yes, one knife kills!"
"Send the order and prepare to go out!" Beigong shouted loudly, "Let the Han people know that this place belongs to us forever! The Qiang people will be victorious!"
……(^o^)/(^o^)/(^o^)/……
On the other side, after Zhang Liao finished his patrol mission and walked into the Guzang lobby, he found that in addition to the original Jia Xu and Jiang Yin, he also saw a familiar face, Ma Heng.
Zhang Liao stepped forward, grabbed Ma Heng, and patted his arm twice, "Hahaha, I knew you were coming two days ago... but I was still thinking about when to send someone out to pick you up, but you arrived by yourself."
...Hahaha, how was it? How was the situation on the road?』
Ma Heng first greeted Zhang Liao, then turned to Jia Xu and said: "I am explaining to the envoy..."
Jia Xu nodded, "Wen Yuan will sit down first and let's listen together."
"...It's as expected..." Ma Heng pointed on the map, "Beigong sent people to contact the Qiang people on the south side of the Qilian Mountains... According to our observation, some Qiang people have gradually
They left their pasture and moved toward the Qilian Mountains..."
"Most of these people are the remnants of the Xianling Qiang and Baima Qiang, as well as some horse thieves from Liangzhou and the Western Regions... I also pretended to be a group of horse thieves, and after spending a few days among them, I found that they actually had no subordinates.
, and there is no fixed command..." Ma Heng said, "It cannot be ruled out that they are just the vanguard, and the people behind them have not yet appeared..."
"The specific location is probably here... According to my and Yang Changshi's inference, these people are Beigong's hidden methods..." Ma Heng clicked on the map, and then said, "Or maybe they are allies of the alliance..."
』
Jia Xu nodded and said: "It's a covenant, the old covenant...the Korean covenant, Ma Shoucheng's covenant...the Xiqiang League..."
"Western Qiang League?" Zhang Liao asked.
Jia Xu nodded, "The Qiang people divide things. The Eastern Qiang are close to the Han, and the Western Qiang... Most of them are in this area, and here... Very early on, these Qiang people had an agreement. If a family is in trouble,
, help from all directions..."
"Don't think this sentence sounds empty... but it is a foundation that has supported the Xiqiang for so many years..." Jia Xu smiled, "Without this sentence, the Xiqiang would have been like the Huns a hundred years ago.
They were driven away... It's a pity that the Qiang people didn't know it at all. They chose the wrong leader at the beginning, and the rest..."
Jia Xu sighed slightly, "Tell me about Yang Changshi's arrangements over there..."
"What Yang Changshi means..." Ma Heng pointed to the map, "These people should gather in the north of the West Sea, then leave Linqiang, go to Xiping, and circle Jincheng... As the saying goes, sinking sand and breaking water, attacking halfway across the river.
...Wait until they are half way through, then send out troops to surround them and annihilate them, then they can be defeated!"
"In addition..." Ma Heng said, "This time, on the south side of the Qilian Mountains, because the Lord sent Buddhist monks to preach, there were also differences... Some people thought that the previous covenant should be followed, while others felt that it should be
...How do you say? Protect their "karma"? That's probably what it means. I don't want to participate in this matter, so it may be a bit difficult to catch them all..."
The southern part of the Qilian Mountains is the snowy area. The area is really too huge. Up to now, the Qiang people control places such as Xiping Po Qiang and Tubo. However, in the northern part of the snowy area near the Qilian Mountains,
There are also small tribes scattered everywhere, and only missionaries go there.
So this time is a crisis...
There are risks and opportunities.
"There are only two directions here in Beigong, one is to attack Zhangye, and the other is to attack here," Jia Xu finally concluded, "If they don't move, it will be difficult for us to deal with it... Therefore, as long as they move, their goal
It will be exposed..."
"We station troops here just to tell them not to come here...so the most likely direction for them to attack is here...to divert us away, and then make it difficult for us to start and end..."
……(` Dis’)……
On the horizon is the Qilian Mountains, shrouded in the night, like a giant sleeping, looking mysterious and solemn.
Beigong sat on the horseback, looking out, like a statue, motionless.
A Qiang cavalry galloped over, panting.
"Your Excellency! We have contacted the people from Xianling Qiang... They said they have arrived at the West Sea and are gathering to prepare to cross the Qilian Mountains..."
Beigong opened his eyes suddenly, "Okay!"
"There are not many Han troops in Zhangye," Beigong said loudly, "and there are still our people in the city... So now, as long as Zhangye is captured... the ones who are anxious should be the Han people... They are coming from Guzang."
Come out, and then attack from both sides... Hahaha... Send the order, Tianming, attack! Capture the city of Dandan first!"
……(*≧∪≦)……
Delete Dan City.
At the street entrance in the city, materials and baggage that could not be taken away were piled in one place.
"Has everyone left?" asked the military leader guarding the city, "Shout again in the alley!"
Xiedan is a small city. It is very small. From the east to the west of the city, it is less than a mile. It has one street from east to west and a few small alleys from north to south. The city wall is also less than two feet of earth wall. On the surface, it is
Because the blue bricks could not be replenished, yellow adobe was exposed in some places. There were no suspension bridges and moats, and the fortifications were very crude.
It would not be difficult for the Qiang people to capture such a small city even if they did not have siege equipment.
Therefore, it is naturally the best choice to abandon the city and go to a larger city.
But not everyone is willing to leave.
After the soldiers dispersed again and went to the city to search, they found some people here and there...
"Third Master..." Junhou was stunned, "Third Master! Didn't you already leave yesterday?!"
The third uncle sighed, "His baby, I couldn't bear to let him go, he came back halfway..."
"No! Hi!" The Marquis slapped his thigh directly, "What are you! Hi! What are you doing when you come back! Come on! Here are some people! Where is the carriage? Let's hitch another one..."
"He's wow..." The third uncle took a step forward, "No need! There's really no need... I've been here since I was a child... This is my root. At this age, it's useless to leave... You guys
Let's go, don't worry about us, really, I'm serious..."
"Third Master!" The military lord was anxious, "No, you have to listen to me..."
The third uncle raised his eyebrows and said, "What? Who do you listen to? Huh? When your father comes, he will call me "big brother". How dare your grandson ask me to listen to you? I'm against you! What are you doing? Why are you staring at me? Hurry up.
Get out! Are you going to burn this? Where’s the fire? Bring it over! I’ll help you burn it, you guys...get out of here, get out of here!"
"Third uncle..."
The military prince was still waiting to persuade him, but he saw a scout rushing towards him. Before he arrived, the voice came first, "Come here! The Qiang people are coming! Fifty miles, fifty miles!"
"Quick! You guys go quickly!" The third uncle gave Junhou a shove, "Listen to me! Go quickly! Otherwise these kids will be killed by you!"
The Junhou's eyes turned red, he lay on the ground and kowtowed to the Third Master, then stood up, with the veins on his neck exposed, and shouted: "Let's go!"
The third uncle stood at the intersection of the street, watching the Marquis and his men heading towards Jiuquan. He smiled slightly and waved his hands to rush out...
Beigong was on horseback. He looked up and saw the black smoke that suddenly rose from the city of Xiedan. He was stunned for a moment, and then he understood. Suddenly a anger rose in his chest. Although he said that Xiedan City had not been captured yet, Beigong
Gong has subconsciously added everything in Delan City to his own account. Now he sees someone destroying "his" property, how can he not be angry?
"Send the order! The first two tribes should catch up to me! Kill all the Han people who have escaped!" Beigong shouted loudly, and then pointed at Jiedan City, "The rest of the people, hurry into the city and put out the fire!"
