Without the Lu River (Shiyang River), there would be no Wuwei County.
In the Hexi Corridor, which is densely covered with yellow sand and has an arid climate, people can only thrive by living by the water.
Many tributaries winding down from the Qilian Mountains converge into the Lu River, rushing northward. The Jifan oasis created along the way is the seat of nearly ten counties, including Guzang, Tuoci, Luanniao, Puhuan, and Xuanwei.
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However, the Lu River flows more than 400 miles to the north to form the Xiutu Ze, nourishing a structure similar to a long corridor, which has also become one of the main reasons why the war in Wuwei County is difficult to extinguish.
The nomadic people who live in Mobei and are accustomed to driving cattle and sheep to fight rely on the strategic supply of the water and grass corridor in Lushui, and it is extremely easy to cross the desert and invade the Hexi Corridor.
Since the establishment of Wuwei County in the Former Han Dynasty, such things have never happened before.
As for today, since Liangzhou was no longer owned by the imperial court during the reign of Emperor Ling, everything from the north of Xuanwei County (today's Minqin County) has become a paradise for Qiang and Hu tribes and horse thieves.
Zheng Pu's retinue, Li Tangmang, who acted as the guide for Jiang Wei's army, used to be a bandit in Hexi. The place where he was hiding was not wiped out by the government for more than ten years. It was on the boundary of Xuanwei County. But it was not in the north of Xuanwei.
It is about eighty miles away to the west of Xuanwei City, in the mountain depressions on the east side of Longshou Mountain and Yanzhi Mountain, almost crossing the boundary of Zhangye County.
Due to the unclear jurisdiction of the border between the two counties and the "darkness under the lamp" hiding within the elbows and armpits of the Xuanwei garrison, the government was not aware of it.
After Jiang Wei entered Wuwei County, he successively attacked more than ten families of Qiang and Hu or Hao Youhou, and both men and horses were exhausted.
At that time, Cang Cili, the prefect of Zhangye, was marching to the Yanzhi Corridor. Yang Fu summoned the guards from all counties and mobilized the private soldiers of Hao You and the Qiang and Hu chieftains in an attempt to besiege him. Therefore, Jiang Wei hid in the mountain col here to rest.
All news was sent secretly by Lu Shuihu.
This was one of the reasons why he led the army late to join Zheng Pu and others.
Another reason is that when he first came out of the mountain col, he followed the cautious marching of many cavalry in Hexi and sent more scouts to explore the surrounding situation.
Therefore, after the scouts returned and reported, he led the army north for a day.
Because the news made him panic—Xuanwei County was actually massacred!!
At that time, Jiang Wei couldn't believe it when he heard it.
When he led the army to escape into this mountain col, the flag of Wei was still standing on the wall of Xuanwei County, which also meant that there were soldiers stationed in the city. How could there be a possibility of being massacred?!
And during the Pre-Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established Xuanwei County with Guzang County as the backing because of the need to defend against the Xiongnu.
Xuanwei, as the name suggests, comes from the military power of the Han Dynasty!
The construction of the city cannot be said to be weak.
Even though the people's livelihood in Hexi is in decline now that it belongs to the Wei Kingdom, and the government is unable to afford the maintenance of the city wall, with the garrison of no less than 800 troops in the city, and the young and strong men mobilized to defend the enemy, An Neng was quietly massacred!?
Could it be that the general guarding Xuanwei City against the Wei Dynasty learned that the Hexi Allied Forces were defeated by our Han Dynasty at Lingju Fortress, and he thought that he could not hold on to the city, so he guarded and robbed himself, gathered his subordinates to kill Li Shu, plundered supplies, and went to Xiutize
Escape and become a bandit!
Jiang Wei was so angry that he couldn't bear it. When the military governor came to see him, he changed his mind again.
The massacred city of Xuanwei was filled with the stench of corpses. Even heavy snowfall for several days could not hide it. The Han army could smell it when they were three miles away.
And it attracted countless northwest wolves to come and eat.
He only had a round belly, a bloated body, and was not afraid of people. When the Han cavalry came one by one, he bared his teeth and roared to protect his food.
This also made Jiang Wei furious.
He personally led his bodyguards forward and shot several wolves with bows before making many wolves retreat in fear.
When they got closer to the open city gate, they found that there was almost no place to stand in the huge city.
Countless corpses lay strewn about the city, their internal organs torn out by the wolves and spread all over the place - this was the reason why the stench spread for miles.
After ordering the scouts to be on guard outside, and ordering all the ministers to go into the city in units of tens to search for any survivors who had escaped, Jiang Wei also walked slowly inside under the escort of his own bodyguards.
Just do it and watch.
The look in his eyes was constantly intertwined with anger and sadness.
Because the corpses on the ground include soldiers and young men, all of them with ferocious faces, retaining the expressions of indignation and resistance when they died; there are also old men who are not looking at death, and young women and girls whose clothes were violently torn, and blood stains spilled from their mouths.
There is still a child as tall as a ruler, a baby in swaddling clothes!
The banner against the Wei Dynasty was also found, and the bodies of the general, bodyguards, and slaves were found in the official offices of the city.
It's not a case of guarding and stealing.
Therefore, Jiang Wei also vaguely had an answer in his heart.
Affected by the loss of authority in Liangzhou and the great disturbance in Hexi in the past, the Li people living in Xuanwei City could not bear the disturbance of the war. Many of them moved to Zhangye County or south to Guzang and other counties to become followers of the powerful rightists, or were captured by Xu Miao.
Recruiting servants as tenant farmers.
There are about a thousand households still staying here.
Coupled with the nearly a thousand garrison soldiers, the only ones with the strength to massacre the entire city in one fell swoop were the Qiang and Hu tribes living in Xiutuze.
Moreover, both the guard and the bodyguard died in the official office, which is enough to infer that the people who killed the city must be familiar with the guard, so they could kill him unprepared! The soldiers in the city had no command and were slaughtered one by one.
Furthermore, the Li Shu's cattle, sheep, grain, iron utensils, cooking and drinking utensils, etc. were all looted and taken away, but the five baht coins, slips, and soft objects were scattered all over the ground. Yishen and Qiang Hu often robbed Han families.
It was something that Li Shu people used to take.
However, Xiutuze was very large (according to research, Xiutuze was about 4,000 square kilometers during the Han Dynasty), and there were many Qiang and Hu tribes inhabiting it. Jiang Wei could not guess which tribe was responsible for it, or whether several tribes joined forces to do it.
I asked Li Tangmang, who was familiar with Hexi, and found no answer.
The most disgusting thing is that after exploring the whole city, there is not a single survivor!
Within a radius of ten miles outside the city, there is no one alive!
Jiang Wei, knowing that he could not find out the culprit for the time being, before leading his army to go to Guzang to meet Zheng Pu, he also sent a thousand cavalry to stay in Xuanwei City, busy digging holes to bury the bodies, burning the filth in the city and other things.
Since the men in the army were too late to protect the common people, at least they would not let the common people's bodies become food for the wolves.
The generals of the Han army who had just arrived in Guzang County had their eyes cracked after listening to Jiang Wei's account.
Throughout the ages, those who kill will die!
The killing of innocent people was outraged by both humans and gods, and they vowed to destroy it even though they were thousands of miles away!
Zheng Pu, who had the power of military governor, was very violent.
He asked Fei Yi and Zhuge Qiao to take charge of the affairs of Ange County, and asked Ma Jiangwei to lead the army to the east of Xianmei County to find Yi Jian's prostitute and concubine, so that the small tribes of Lushuihu could find out the news; he also asked Ma Dai's headquarters to rush to the area.
Xiitu County was between Guzang and Xuanwei, and the news was heard in the city; and all the former Wei governors and prefects were summoned, and they were ordered to record the leaders of the Qiang and Hu tribes who were familiar with the Xuanwei city guards one by one.
Books, and then eliminate them one by one to speculate on the most likely ones.
Liao Hua's troops rushed to the Yanzhi Corridor where Cang Ci and Chen Bing, the prefect of Wei Zhangye, did not need to attack it. They could just defend Anli Shu.
After that, he took the governor, Wang Ping and Yan Yu, to Xuanwei City.
