Zhang Liao led 10,000 cavalry and charged into a Qiang tribe.
"You can survive by surrendering."
These days, the people hiding in the city feel a little more at ease, but they don't dare to leave the city.
But the Qiang people outside the city are really on tenterhooks, unable to eat or sleep well.
The Han army really wants to massacre Liangzhou, and they, the people outside the city, are the most dangerous.
These days, people in the tribe escape every day and hide in the city.
The leader of the tribe doesn’t care anymore.
He also sent his son away early.
If the tribe had not had too many people and the surrounding cities did not allow them to enter, they would have hid in the city together with the entire tribe.
Many of the surrounding cities are overcrowded. Compared with cities in other states, most of the cities in Liangzhou are smaller in scale, and even the city walls are five or six feet shorter.
"Surrender, surrender..."
Facing an army of ten thousand cavalry, this Qiang tribe, with a total population of only more than 500 people, immediately knelt on the ground and raised their hands.
Zhang Liao kidnapped the entire tribe's population, but a group of cavalry took them back directly to Chencang.
He himself led a large force and continued to find the next target.
On the first day, three tribesmen were brought back to Chencang by Zhang Liao.
Most people surrender directly, but when attacking, they will inevitably be injured.
Zhang Liao's march route was still irregular.
Today he is in Anding, tomorrow he is in Tianshui, and he is only attacking tribes outside the city. Compared with the previous times when he went to various cities to preach, he is now more difficult to control on the roadside.
Even Zhang Liao himself doesn't know where his next target will be.
On the first day, Zhang Liao added two thousand people to the Han population.
The next day, Zhang Liao destroyed four tribes and added 3,000 people to the Han population.
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In just five days, more than ten tribes in the three northern counties of Tianshui and Anping were destroyed by Zhang Liao. All the men, women, and children in the tribes were transferred to Chencang, as well as the cattle and sheep of their tribes.
Only an empty camp was left.
Those who died accidentally had their bodies disposed of.
Ma Teng sent hundreds of scouts to the three counties, so he naturally knew what happened in the past few days.
But he couldn't stop it.
Not only Ma Teng knew about it, but other tribes were not blind either. They also sent people to investigate.
At first, some leaders of large tribes sent people to ask Ma Teng if there was any way to stop the Han army.
But later, it turned into questioning.
They could not allow the Han army to destroy tribes at will in Liangzhou.
If nothing is done to stop it, Han cavalry will eventually appear in their tribe one day.
As far as the strength of the Han cavalry is currently displayed, none of the Qiang tribes in Liangzhou can defeat the Han cavalry alone. They must join forces.
What's more, some of the warriors in their tribe are now here with Ma Teng.
Ma Teng held on for three more days. Finally, when the tribal leaders appeared in front of him, he couldn't hold on any longer.
"Don't worry, everyone, I will send troops today."
Facing the aggressive leaders of various tribes, Ma Teng did not dare to offend them all.
If he really wants to make these tribal leaders unhappy, they will raise their arms and say that 20,000 of the 50,000 soldiers under his command will be deducted immediately.
"I'm going with the general," said the leader of a tribe.
"I'm going with you."
More than a dozen tribal leaders are all going to set off with Ma Teng.
They were afraid of Ma Teng, so they just pretended to deal with the Han army, but in the end they did nothing.
Ma Teng said: "Okay, let's go together."
Not all of the 50,000-strong army were cavalry, but 30,000 of them were infantry.
Ma Teng asked Ma and Pang De to take 10,000 infantry each to Tianshui and Beidi.
Ma Teng and his tribal leaders took the remaining troops to Anding County to meet Ma Chao.
In terms of cavalry, Ma Teng still has the advantage.
However, of his 20,000 cavalry, only 5,000 were actually controlled by Ma Teng. The real commanders of the rest were the tribal leaders of the Qiang people.
Zhang Liao also received the news immediately.
But when you should take action, you still have to take action.
Zhang Liao did not stop just because Ma Teng arrived in Anding County. Every day he led his cavalry army across the three counties, killing all the tribes outside the city in the three counties.
Ma Teng had absolutely no way to defeat the Han army.
We were all cavalry, coming and going like the wind. By the time Ma Teng received the news and arrived with a large group of cavalry, Zhang Liao had already left with his men and horses.
Before Zhang Liao took action, he sent more than a dozen teams to spread out to investigate in various places to prevent Ma Teng from waiting and being caught by him.
In Anding County, Ma Teng looked at the dozen tribal leaders in front of him and said helplessly: "What should we do now?"
He arrived in Anding for three days, but within these three days, some tribes in the three northern counties of Tianshui and Anding were still destroyed by the Han army, and all their populations were sent away.
On two occasions, when Ma Teng received the news, he happened to be close and immediately led his troops to pursue the Han army.
But the Han army did not fight with him at all. They dispersed the captured cattle and sheep and only took away the people.
Ma Teng couldn't catch up even if he wanted to.
"If you want to say that it's useless to stay here, then kill them out. The Han army can come to Liangzhou, why can't we go to Chang'an," the candidate said.
"Yes, we can't be led by the Han army."
Another tribal leader said.
Ma Teng sneered and said, "If we really go to Chang'an, not many of us here will be able to come back."
Chang'an is no longer the original Chang'an.
If there is no change, Ma Teng will never attack Chang'an easily.
The situation here in Liangzhou is obviously different from that in Chang'an.
The Han army sent out cavalry, but they came and went without a trace on the border of Liangzhou. They were helpless.
But when they went to Chang'an, they couldn't do this.
There are only a few roads, and Wang Ding only needs to send a few large armies to block their way or cut off their retreat.
The candidate said: "Instead of going to Chang'an, we will go to Chencang and block the path of the Han cavalry."
Ma Teng said: "Okay, then go and guard outside Chencang."
He doesn't think this is a good idea.
But Ma Teng couldn't think of any other better way.
Twenty thousand cavalry were dispatched, and more than a dozen tribal leaders also went together.
They have been holding this breath for too long, and everyone wants to decide the outcome with the Han army.
Ma Chao was the vanguard, leading three thousand cavalry, starting from Anding and attacking Chencang.
By the time Ma Chao arrived outside Chencang, Zhang Liao had already taken the lead and returned to Chencang with today's spoils - two thousand Qiang men and women.
He was not in a hurry to deal with Ma Chao.
The opponents are also cavalry and cannot threaten Chen Cang's safety.
Standing on the city wall, Zhang Liao could see the road behind Ma Chao and the billowing dust coming from it.