"This is simply murderous and heart-breaking. We wanted to give Lei Gong some face, but did we expect that Lei Gong killed Song Jian with his backhand and gave us a warning to the monkeys. Song Jian is also a big vassal force in Xiliang. The entire It can be said that no powerful family in Xiliang is stronger than Song Jian, but such a powerful force was easily wiped out by Lei Gong." Yan Zhi said helplessly.
"The strength of the Central Plains tycoons has grown too fast. Even the Central Army of the Han Dynasty did not have such an easy time destroying Song Jian! But the Daqian Army did not destroy Song Jian in just a few days. You must know that this is 40,000 A big army, this army alone could have destabilized the entire Xiliang a year ago!"
Bian Li shook his head and said: "Because the Central Plains is also in chaos now. In the past, the reason why the Xiliang army was brave and good at fighting was because the rest of the Han Dynasty was in a state of peace. We, Xiliang, have been in chaos for a hundred years. Even a commoner in Xiliang can use a sword. Killing people, this naturally makes us invincible, but now the Central Plains is constantly facing decisive battles with hundreds of thousands of troops. We have never encountered such a battle once in our lifetime, but it has happened three or four times in the Central Plains in recent years, which makes the Central Plains army's combat effectiveness rapid. Improvement, and the iron-making technology in the Central Plains has grown explosively. Look at Lei Gong's subordinates. They are basically all armored with steel swords, but our Xiliang army is still the same. Facing such steel warriors, what can we do to resist them? The combat effectiveness is natural It’s better to do it!”
They are also very helpless at this point. In their opinion, the combat effectiveness of the Xiliang Army has not declined much, and the combat effectiveness of the Daqian Army is not much better than them. However, Lei Gong is both an artillery and a fully armored force. Their flesh and blood What can I do to resist such a steel warrior! Defeat is naturally inevitable.
"In my opinion, only Lei Gong can really end the turmoil in Xiliang. This is the general trend and we cannot stop it. Lei Gong treats us much better than the noble families in the Central Plains. If we don't know better, I'm afraid Lei Gong will really kill us." If we treat it as an enemy, I'm afraid we won't be treated as well as we are now."
The other people in Xiliang seemed to be weighing the strength of their families. They did not dare to continue to fight against Lei Gong and acted in accordance with Dagan's policy!
Because of the separation of families and the large amount of grain imported from Da Gan to Xiliang, no one thought that food would skyrocket in Xiliang. In order to protect their own family property, these powerful people could only sell grain to Da Gan. At the same time, they also wanted to Leave a good image!
In this way, a large amount of grain flowed out of the entire Xiliang Dynasty. In addition, Daqian also imported 3 million shi of grain to Xiliang. The local grain price in Xiliang fell below 200 yuan for the first time. This was only during the heyday of the Han Dynasty. The price of grain has reached a new level. This price has made the people of Xiliang cheer. They can finally afford to buy grain again!
At the same time, the powerful people in Xiliang are also glad that Lei Gong did not kill them all. Their money, shops, and caravans were all not confiscated. As long as Lei Gong did not lie to them, their wealth will be restored quickly after the Silk Road is opened!
With the strength of the Daqian army, they can be defeated, and naturally they can also be defeated by the Qiang people.
Of course, although the powerful people with such knowledge accounted for the majority, finally some stubborn powerful people closed their own Wubao and clamored to show off to Lei Gong.
The Royal Army was not polite to such die-hards, and asked the Daqian Army to surround the die-hards' forts with artillery, and then attack them with artillery. The die-hards' forts were as fragile as a blank sheet in front of the Daqian Army's artillery. It's like paper and can be broken with a poke. No fort can withstand three rounds of artillery bombardment by the Daqian Army!
After dozens of such die-hards were wiped out, no one in Xiliang dared to go against Lei Gong anymore!
The powerful people in Xiliang surrendered to the power of the artillery of the Daqian Army, and the Qiang in Xiliang became the target that the Imperial Army needed to deal with! But at this time, Zhou Aimin found a way for the Imperial Army to quickly deal with the Qiang people!
In fact, for a united, well-organized, agricultural government, both in terms of resources collected and armed soldiers, it is far stronger than that of the grassland peoples. It is not difficult to conquer the foreign people entrenched in the north, especially Daqian's organizational structure, which transcends the times, even seems to be overkill when dealing with the Qiang people.
Even the problem that it was too difficult for the Han people to manage the ethnic groups outside the Great Wall was solved by Xu Wei, that is, treating the Hu people equally. For example, there were Hu people as governors in the Daqian government, and there were also Zhonglang generals in the army. This was better than any other Policies must be convincing!
The Han people cannot always be extremely powerful. The reason why they were unable to defeat the Qiang people in Xiliang was because they discriminated against the majority and caused trouble for themselves. In addition, Liangzhou is very mountainous and hilly, and it has really reached the point of fighting guerrilla warfare. , so the powerful Han Empire was brought down by the Qiang people!
Xu Wei felt that in order to solve the problem of Xiliang, after much deliberation, he still felt that the Silk Road was the final and only way out.
Only development, and only a community of national destiny shaped by a community of economic interests, can make people forget hatred and embrace development.
Only development can solve all conflicts. Hatred will be shelved because of development. If it is shelved for a long time, it will naturally fade away or even be forgotten.
During the battle with Song Jian, Wang Dang and others captured 30,000 soldiers, more than 20,000 of whom were Qiang soldiers! The Daqian Army has a tradition of transforming Hu soldiers!
Especially when he found that the Qiang people in his hands were all starved and emaciated. It was obvious that the Qiang tribe was not having a good time either!
In Zhou Aimin's opinion, the captured Qiang soldiers in his hands are the best weapon against the Western Qiang!
He first let these Qiang people eat and drink well, but this frightened these Qiang soldiers. There was so much fish and meat. They thought it was Zhou Aimin who arranged a decapitation meal for them, which almost frightened these Qiang soldiers into a riot. .After all, the Han people were not kind to the Qiang, and massacring prisoners of war was too common in Xiliang!
Fortunately, there were many Qiang soldiers in Zhou Aimin's army. With their comfort, the captured Qiang soldiers were convinced that these were ordinary meals, and a riot was stopped! Then Zhou Aimin arranged to join Da Gan. The Eastern Qiang people gave their Western Qiang compatriots a personal account and talked about their lives in Daqian!
"You have your own pasture?" the Xiqiang people asked in disbelief. These Xiqiang soldiers rarely have their own property, let alone pasture.
The Dong Qiang soldier proudly said: "Yes, with the help of Lord Lei, all of us Qiang people got a thousand acres of pasture. I raised 30 cattle, 5 cows, 2 horses! There is also a brick building The house we built makes my family very wealthy even in Daqian!"
But the Western Qiang soldiers immediately exposed the Dong Qiang soldiers' lies and said: "How can 1,000 acres of grassland support so many livestock? Have you ever grazed them?"
The Dongqiang soldier smiled and said: "Don't you know how to stack silage feed here? You don't know how to buy the feed that the animals like to eat. As long as you have these aids, you can raise twice as many animals! Although it will cost more, But the price of wool and mutton is rising, so it’s worth spending the money.”
Then he looked at his companion, gave him the fish meat in his rice bowl and said: "Looking at you, I know that the situation of your tribe is not good!
The Eastern Qiang soldiers grew fat and strong under Daqian's food, but the Xiqiang soldiers were as thin as a bamboo pole! The weight difference between the two was more than double!
The Xiqiang warrior thought that he could have enough to eat here, but his relatives in the tribe had to suffer from hunger. For a moment, he couldn't help feeling sad and shed tears!
The Dongqiang soldier was surprised and said: "Brother, why are you crying when you are so good!"
The Xiqiang warrior cried: "I have enough to eat here, but I don't know if my mother is still alive! In the past two years, the Changshengtian has killed people, either white disasters, droughts, locust plagues, endless disasters. Every time we come here, we have to take away a large number of tribesmen. The population of our tribe has been reduced by half! Originally we wanted to go to Dahan to rob, but we heard that Guanzhong in Dahan is the place with the most severe disasters. Ma Teng and the others have nothing to do with it. We didn’t get it! This time we were all caught by Thunder Lord, and I’m afraid our tribe will perish!”
The Dongqiang soldiers were surprised: "How bad is the situation of your tribe? Why don't we feel much in Bingzhou?"
The Xiqiang warriors looked at the Dongqiang warriors and said with envy: "This is because you have taken refuge with a good leader, and Lei Gong has led you to live a good life!"
The Dongqiang warrior said firmly: You will surrender to us as the ruler. Since we surrendered to the authority, my family can now not only have enough to eat, but also have a brick house with a fireplace. We don’t have to worry about wind and snow, and we can also enter the Han Dynasty at will. There is no need to worry about the exploitation by corrupt officials in the Han Dynasty. Now our cattle and sheep are not handed over to merchants, but are brought to the mainland of the Han Dynasty for sale. Let me tell you a secret. As long as our cattle and sheep enter Jizhou, the price can be increased by five times. And the price of buying grain and cloth in Bingzhou will be 5-10 times lower!"
Then the soldier said angrily: "The reason why our life was so bad in the past was because of corrupt officials and profiteers in the Han Dynasty! Our life would be much better without them!"
The Xiqiang warrior said with envy: "Is this really possible?"
Dong Qiang Zhan said: "Why not! The ruler of our family is the biggest hero in the world, and he does not discriminate against us Qiang people! As long as you join the ruler, you can live like us."
Such conversations were discussed throughout the prisoner-of-war camp. The Xiqiang warriors discovered that their companions were hundreds of times better off than they were, and they began to feel dissatisfied with their tribes!
Then these dissatisfied warriors began to defect to Dagan one after another. After all, Dagan treated them much better than their leader, and everyone knew how to choose.
After these Qiang warriors became Daqian warriors, Wang Dang boosted their morale. Zhou Aimin and Wang Dang integrated all the prisoners into their own army. Then, under the leadership of Wang Dang, Yan Liang and Wen Chou, they fought They attacked the Baima Qiang, Shaodang Qiang, and Di Qiang tribes in three groups. With these Xiqiang warriors leading the way, Wang Dang said they could easily find the Xiqiang tribe, Longxi County, and Jincheng County. The Qiang tribes within a 300-mile radius all They were found by Wang Dang.
These Qiang people are not only sallow and thin, but also have extremely low morale. Under normal circumstances, Wang Dang's enemies cannot withstand Wang Dang's charge, and they have no way to resist, because the tribes Wang Dang conquered not only lack young men , there wasn’t even much food. Even if Wang Dang and the others didn’t go on an expedition, many tribes would be wiped out in this cold winter. So when Wang Dang and the others attacked Xiqiang, many Xiqiang people had no intention of fighting at all and surrendered after a little resistance. , because they knew that the Han people might survive if they surrendered! If they continued to stay in the West Sea, they would definitely die!
Their 30,000-strong army went out and in less than a month swept through hundreds of tribes in Xiqiang, beheaded hundreds of Qiang tribe leaders, and captured hundreds of thousands of Qiang people! The entire Xiqiang tribe leaders were frightened. Regardless of the coming winter, they continue to advance towards the Snowy Mountains with their own tribes. Such tribes are either swallowed up by the wind and snow, or are annexed by local tribes. In short, the entire Snowy Mountains are full of blood this winter!
The Qiang people captured by Daqian were placed in Longxi County by Zhou Aimin. Longxi County had a large amount of land that could be used to control these Qiang people, and the Qiang people were also a half-farming and half-pastoral nation, whether it was grazing or farming. Hands on! For them, the Han's territory is much better than their pasture. Now they not only have enough food to survive this winter, but also get their own cattle, sheep and pasture!
It can be said that these Qiang tribesmen are unprecedentedly satisfied and loyal to Daqian. They will kill whoever Zhou Aimin tells them to kill!