Wanpeng's current wave is different from the previous one where Guo Si brought dozens of iron knights and only recruited men from Liangzhou. Wanpeng brought a whole legion of Xiliang iron cavalry, with supplies, formal equipment, and reserve weapons.
, he even brought a double copy of his armor, and the whole legion was armed to the teeth and ready for war.
It has to be said that Liu Bei's side has indeed accumulated a lot of war preparation supplies. Otherwise, even if Li You wanted to redress the cavalry in the Western Regions, he would not be able to get so much of the best equipment.
Of course, for the Qiang people, the more important point is that this legion is willing to recruit Qiang people to fight with them. Needless to say, the result is that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry has been hanging around in Xiliang for so long that the Qiang people have no idea about their origins.
Got the mark of hanging out with the Xiliang cavalry.
Naturally, a large group of Qiang people, armed with weapons, dry food, and war horses, went to join the Xiliang cavalry. Then many of the Qiang tribe's horses were used in this way, and they were not enough. The Qiang people who had no horses behind them went to join the Xiliang cavalry, and found that Wanpeng even
The infantry were also withdrawn, and more people followed.
It got even more confusing at the end. Those who started to go were still young and strong. Later, I found that this wave of Xiliang cavalry was really open to all comers. It seemed that all men, women and children were welcome. Some tribal chiefs of the Qiang people thought for a moment. There were so many people.
They all followed, just move the tribe away and follow them. Anyway, they live in pursuit of water and grass, catch up with the cattle, sheep, mules and horses, and run away with the Xiliang cavalry.
With such a big move, Cao Cao was certainly not blind. It was also from this moment that Miles Yu successfully verified the correctness of the west of the Western Regions as a bridgehead, which led to the later move of Cao Cao's family background to the west of the Western Regions.
Of course, when it comes to this, I have to say again that Cao Cao actually doesn't care much about the Qiang people. Their fighting ability is poor, their farming skills are poor, they can't collect much tax a year, and they often fight everywhere, which makes Liangzhou often in chaos.
Even if the Qiang King Ma Chao restrains them, Cao Cao would like someone to get rid of these Qiang people.
After all, there are still many places in Liangzhou that can be farmed. If those who can't farm run away, and those who will farm will move there, there will be tax revenue there in the future. Therefore, Cao Cao simply turned a blind eye to Wanpeng's approach.
, these scum are of no use anyway, you might as well get rid of them, there are so many people you can’t hide, you might as well let me follow them to see the situation.
Therefore, Wanpeng successfully poached many Qiang people in Liangzhou. The number was so huge. Well, to put it simply, Ma Chao's Qiang King's bodyguards all ran away with the Xiliang cavalry. The general situation of the Xiqiang people can be seen.
By the way, Ma Chao's Qiang King Guards are said to be the elites carefully selected from among the two hundred thousand Qiang people, and they fought with Ma Chao on the snowy night west to Mobei, and later defeated thousands of them.
Charged hundreds of thousands of Xianbei, and finally succeeded in destroying the elite units of the Xianbei Chinese Army.
These people withstood the biting cold of the snowy night in Mobei, and then under the leadership of Ma Chao, they attacked the main formation of Xi Xianbei. When they left Liangzhou, they were eight thousand strong, and more than five thousand were lost. They successfully created a path for Cao Cao to annihilate Xi Xianbei.
Chance.
Although not long after that, Lu Bu, who had thousands of years of faith, led him into the battle and killed hundreds of people as bastards, but he fought a war that was almost impossible to win, and finally won.
The carefully selected Qiang cavalry, after gaining the sublimation of their will, successfully entered the elite level under the leadership of Ma Chao.
This is also why Ma Chao later lied to Sun Ce during the Battle of Northern Xinjiang, saying that Cao Cao only had Xiliang cavalry under his command, and he only had two thousand or so.
What Ma Chao was talking about at the time was this Qiang King Guards, a double-talented super-elite cavalry with excellent quality and experience. However, the willpower was fine when facing other legions, but it would naturally fail when facing the Xiliang cavalry.
It has a weak morale, but overall it is considered a very top-notch cavalry fighting unit.
After all, there are not many dual-talented cavalry even in the four major empires. Even Ma Chao has to admit that these soldiers are very good.
Therefore, after the Battle of Northern Xinjiang ended, Ma Chao sent his remaining 2,000-odd Qiang King escort troops back to Xiqiang and asked them to train on the spot, because in addition to his official position in the Han Dynasty, Ma Chao also had a Qiang identity.
King, so as long as the Qiang people are not too excessive, no one will care about recruiting Qiang people into an army. What's more, Ma Chao is planning to train a guard army of six to seven thousand Qiang kings.
Cao Cao believed that there was no need to pay for it himself and the Qiang people would provide for the Qiang King's guard by themselves, so there was nothing to say. If you want to train, you can train. Anyway, I will just put Zhang Xiu's army in Chencang for training.
By the way, after Zhang Xiu's regiment was moved to Chencang, many Qiang people moved from Longxi to Chencang and asked Zhang Xiu to take him in. However, Zhang Xiu righteously rejected this proposal, and then the Qiang people who migrated formed a new group in Chencang.
of large tribes.
As Cao Cao estimated at the time, the large tribe formed by the Qiang people in Chencang was not as big as Ma Chao, and Ma Chao himself was also a big-hearted guy. There were more than two million Qiang people, and hundreds of thousands of them went to Chencang. Ma Chao was not at all
Didn't take it seriously.
In short, Lao Cao successfully tested Ma Chao and Zhang Xiu, and he was very satisfied with the responses of both parties. They are both good generals who can be entrusted with important tasks.
So later on, Cao Cao didn't care much about the issue of King Ma Chao Qiang's escort, and allowed Ma Chao to do whatever he wanted. He even gave Ma Chao more than a thousand strong three-arrow archers that Zhu Jun had no choice but to disband due to the explosion in military expenses, to appease Ma Chao.
Of course, Ma Chao had no idea what Cao Cao meant, but he was still satisfied that Cao Cao sent him more than a thousand elite Han troops, and both parties were happy.
Ma Chao brought his Qiang King Guards back to Xiqiang to train troops. The Xiqiang tribe gathered together members and selected tribal warriors to give Ma Chao's Qiang King Guards a round number, and then began to train with the more than two thousand elites.
These are what happened when Wan Peng didn't come. After Wan Peng came, the Qiang King's guard army, not to mention the newly trained elite soldiers, even the elite soldiers who had attacked Xianbei's main formation with Ma Chao, all went to follow Xi
Liang Tieqi got mixed up.
The Qiang King and so on can help the Qiang people solve many problems, but the Xiliang Iron Cavalry can solve many problems. The reason why it was born and its power and invincibility impressed the Qiang people deeply, so they stayed in Wanpeng and started recruiting people in Liangzhou.
At that time, many of the Qiang King's guards were ready to move.
How should I put it? In Ma Chao's eyes, his Qiang King's bodyguards were the warriors he selected from hundreds of thousands of young Qiang people.
In fact, the time flow is like this. The Qiang people were beaten to their knees by the Xiliang cavalry. They envied the strength of the Xiliang cavalry and volunteered to become auxiliaries of the Xiliang cavalry. Then they were taken to Luoyang. After Dong Zhuo died, Guo Si and Li
Due to lack of food, Jue and others dispersed the hundreds of thousands of Qiang auxiliary troops.
Li Jue, Guo Si and others left next, and Ma Chao chose the strongest young man among the Qiang people to join him in the Western Xianbei invasion.
It can be said that the eight thousand young men selected by Ma Chao at the beginning, or the eight thousand young men who dared to follow Ma Chao to fight Xianbei, basically, well, almost 7,900 of the eight thousand people were all
He served as an auxiliary soldier for the Xiliang Cavalry back then.
So fundamentally speaking, there is a problem with the origin of Ma Chao's Qiang King Guards. As a result, Wanpeng started recruiting troops in Liangzhou, and the Qiang King Guards began to run away. What kind of Qiang King Guards are they?
OK, how powerful...
Most of the veterans of the Qiang King's Guard Army who were in their early 2,000s had served as auxiliary soldiers of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. After confirming that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was really here to recruit Qiang Cavalry, everyone calculated the supplies of the Qiang King's Guard Army.
All the baggage was brought to join the Xiliang Cavalry.
What to do with the Qiang King? It’s so refreshing to work with the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.
While the cavalry was fighting, we were chasing after Lu Bu.
In the battle to defend Luoyang, under the leadership of the powerful Xiliang cavalry, the Qiang cavalry even took a bite out of Lu Bu's personal guards. Although they suffered heavy losses, they won if they won. Lu Bu, who was dragging him to the sky, also surrendered to them. After that, Chang'an
In the counterattack, it was Lu Bu again, who directly defeated Chang'an.
Later, the Qiang cavalry were disbanded, and then the disbanded Qiang cavalry became the Qiang King's guard. It was quite easy to defeat Xianbei, but they met Lu Bu again and were directly killed by Lu Bu...
So the King of Qiang and so on, no Xiliang cavalry can fight at all, not to mention that we are the auxiliary soldiers of the Xiliang cavalry. It is only our obligation to join the Qiang King’s escort army. Now we plan to fight with the Xiliang cavalry. Do you think so?
Something like that.
Needless to say, the Qiang King's escort army, led by the veterans who trained them, joined the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.
To put it simply, all the elite members of Ma Chao's headquarters were promoted to auxiliary soldiers of the Xiliang Cavalry. This news made the chief of the Qiang tribe almost collapse.
Ma Chao asked them to select people to help train the soldiers, but when the soldiers were finally ready to take shape, the Xiliang cavalry picked the peaches. The Qiang tribal chief thought about it twice and decided that they should also run away...
In short, the situation is like this. About 60,000 to 70,000 young men ran away with the Xiliang cavalry, and the tribe of about 200,000 people also followed, so that now the whole Xiqiang people's hearts are floating.
The chiefs of each tribe were wondering whether they should run together.
Fortunately, Wanpeng didn't give tribal chiefs like the Xiqiang too much time to think. After Li Yuan discovered that the Qiang people he rolled seemed to have some illegal products, he ran away decisively. Although he didn't know whose elite they were, anyway, since
If they are Qiang people, they must be auxiliary soldiers of the cavalry.
However, in order to avoid any mentally retarded people from stirring up trouble, after Wan Peng confirmed that the veterans of the Qiang King's escort army had double talents and super elite fighting power, Li Yuan directly stopped recruiting troops and started to go to the Western Regions with these Qiang people who had already been recruited.
