When Zhuo Bufan and Qingsong Laodao rushed to the battlefield, they saw Li Xiang in the midst of the prairie people's army, commanding the prairie people's cavalry to retreat.
The two sides seemed to have turned their hostility into friendship. Several first-class masters from the prairie people followed Prime Minister Li, acting like a coward, making the two of them really confused as to what was going on.
The 100,000-strong prairie people marched south, but these were 100,000 cavalry, not 100,000 infantry. For this reason, Zhuo Bufan also prepared a lot of things to resist the cavalry, but now it seems that the things he prepared are of no use!
The two people came to the side of the Xiliang cavalry. After the commander of the personal guard learned about the situation, his eyes almost fell out of his eyes. Li Xiang, who was usually the talk stopper, actually convinced the prairie people!
The five million grassland people of the Qingxi Grassland will take refuge in the embrace of Xiliang, which means that Xiliang will have at least 100,000 more grassland cavalry and a huge pasture.
There are not many cavalry like the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. The system has been upgraded to heavy armored cavalry, also known as Templar Knights. Every recruitment price is terrifying, and it is impossible for Prime Minister Li to recruit too many.
The main structure of Xiliang cavalry is Xiliang light cavalry, Xiliang cavalry archers, and armored cavalry. These will become the main force of Xiliang cavalry, and the number cannot be determined yet.
The cost of recruiting cavalry is a bit too high. It is destined that Xiliang will not have many cavalry. Now the supply of food and grass has become increasingly heavy for Xiliang.
Five million prairie people means five million mouths. They also need food, and this must come from Li Xiang!
Without sufficient food reserves, Prime Minister Li will not increase the number of Xiliang cavalry. He will maintain the current number of Xiliang cavalry at 5,500, Xiliang scout cavalry at 2,000, and Xiliang light cavalry at 6,000, plus five legions.
Their respective two thousand cavalry and twenty-three thousand five hundred cavalry are currently all the cavalry in Xiliang.
As long as the grassland people come over to take refuge, if the operation is done properly, there will be at least 50,000 cavalry, and the troops will be refined and the administration simple. This is what Prime Minister Li currently thinks.
Not everyone can join the army. The army has a very high status in Xiliang. Army generals can directly mobilize local troops and Yamen personnel. This is the right granted to the army by Prime Minister Li.
Such huge power brings many hidden dangers. As long as there are soldiers from the Xiliang headquarters, Prime Minister Li is not afraid of trouble. This is a special product under special circumstances.
The total number of non-headquarters soldiers cannot exceed the total number of Xiliang headquarter soldiers. He needs to ensure that the Xiliang headquarter soldiers have the combat power to crush non-headquarters soldiers, and their numbers are equal.
His experience told him that except for the soldiers of Xiliang headquarters, no one could truly trust him.
Li Xiang asked the prairie cavalry to bring the elders of the tribe over when they returned. Behind the Qingxi Fortress was a vast plain. No one lived here. The reason was the threat of the prairie people.
Even if the grassland people follow Daqian, the people on this side of the border do not trust the Qingxi grassland people on the other side. That's why there is this Qingxi Fortress.
People in the Qingxi grassland don't want to cause trouble. When winter comes, they will drive their cattle and sheep south to a warmer place in the south.
This is how the Qingxi Grassland now has five million people. At the beginning, these tribes only had a few thousand people, but it has cost me who knows how much it has cost to grow to this point!
After Li Xiang arranged for the tribes to retreat, he looked up and saw that it was already afternoon. In the distance, troops led by Zhuo Bufan had arrived on the battlefield.
Seeing that there were no grassland people around, Zhuo Bufan and his party dared to gallop to the side of Prime Minister Li.
"King, are the grassland people so submissive?" Zhuo Bufan originally wanted to call the city lord, but he thought that the territory of Xiliang now, plus the Qingxi grassland, and the kings in Daqian were not as big as Prime Minister Li's territory, so he followed the others Call him the King of Xiliang.
They are now taking refuge in Xiliang, and calling them king is nothing. The situation in Jiuyuan Prince's Palace is a bit awkward at this time. They have taken refuge in Xiliang City, and at the same time they still maintain the title of Jiuyuan Prince's Palace, which is very embarrassing.
Zhuo Bufan needs to find a way to break the situation!
Li Xiang said proudly: "They are in a bad situation at the moment. They don't dare to fight with us, and they have to avoid the oppression of the prairie on the other side. I just suggested that they come here to seek refuge, and these people came here to seek refuge."
In a few days, they will send the elders of the clan and some women who have just given birth!"
Qingsong Taoist heard something and solemnly said to Li Xiang: "It should be the prairie that oppresses them!
Qingxi Grassland is a buffer land between you and the prairie. Now that this buffer land falls into your hands, what you will face next is the attack of the prairie!
Close to the Qingxi Grassland is the Qing Tribe, one of the seven major tribes in the grassland. It has a population of about 140 million, which is seven times that of the people in the northwest. If necessary, they can form millions of cavalry!
Aren't you afraid?"
"Millions of cavalry!" Li Xiang smiled and looked at Qingsong: "Wherever the millions of cavalry passed, there was no grass growing, but except for the prairie, there seems to be no place where they can deploy so many cavalry!
Even if they come over, Qingxi Fortress is in hand. I will place tens of thousands of bed crossbows and dig a deep hole in front. If they want to come over, fill the hole first, and then pass through the bed crossbow formation. , crossbow array, to deal with this kind of light cavalry, you only need to know the direction from which the opponent is coming.
We in Xiliang have many ways to deal with it. The most terrifying thing about the cavalry is its mobility. The grassland cavalry is a light cavalry. It is not suitable for them to charge into the formation. Without much armor, they may not have rushed to the front of the formation. It had already been killed by a long-range attack, and it posed little threat to the already formed infantry formation.
They are very mobile on the grassland, but as far as the Qingxi Fortress, the area of 20 to 30 miles between the two mountain ranges can be completely sealed off if I want.
In such a small terrain, they are no match for us, so don’t worry!”
Li Xiang expressed his understanding, while Zhuo Bufan carefully recorded it on the side. The group of generals behind him all had bright eyes. They were not generals. In this era, military books are a rare kind of book.
After Zhuo Bufan digested it, he had some questions: "King, what is the precise usage of light cavalry?"
With the grassland in hand, there will definitely be light cavalry in the army. The only way they can use the cavalry is to rush forward and attack the enemy army.
"Light cavalry, their advantage lies in speed, which is what I call mobility. They can quickly reach the designated place and come and go like the wind. As long as the opponent does not have cavalry, it is impossible to stop a light cavalry who just wants to run. This is also Light cavalry characteristics.
You should know that during the first battle with Jiuyuan City, I led the heavy cavalry to fight nearly a thousand miles, bypassing Jiuyuan City's heavy troops and cutting off their logistics supply lines. This was the job of the light cavalry. I had no light cavalry at the time and could only lead Focus on the cavalry!
This is used to avoid direct confrontation..."
On the horse, Li Xiang expressed his experience of using troops and some insights from his military book. Zhuo Bufan and his group of generals felt the spring, and Li Xiang's words made them suddenly realize.
They had some puzzles in their minds, and they got answers through the questions and answers.
Everyone did not disperse until the night. After setting up the tent, the group had a heated discussion in the tent. Most of them, generals who had become monks on the way, finally met a man who was a general and had won many battles. The King of Xiliang explained some military techniques to them. Nature is actively absorbing nutrients.
Following Xiliang, they knew very well that the King of Xiliang was a restless lord. Following a restless lord, of course they had to learn more ways to fight.
The generals were studying, and their soldiers were not idle either. After the rear transportation team delivered the supplies, they led the army to cut down trees in the mountains on both sides.
Li Xiang will not arrange those grassland people to the counties of Jiuyuan County for the time being. He is afraid that the Daqian people will not accept them and conflicts will break out between the two sides. He plans to build a city without walls behind the fortress for the grassland people to live.
The mountains on both sides have a large amount of stone and wood, and there will be transportation teams and 50,000 Taiyuan troops. A large amount of materials will be piled up on the grassland the next day.
According to the news from the other side of the grassland, elderly people and women from all over the grassland will arrive in about half a month, and they have a month to arrange accommodation.
In the cold winter, just living in a tent is not enough. The cold wind can blow up even people. What Li Xiang wants to build is a kind of connected houses, row by row. One house can accommodate a family and a small A place where you can make a fire and boil water.
The materials were made of wood and stone. The rear construction team arrived with a thousand construction workers and the construction of the house began.
At the same time, the Qingxi Fortress is also preparing to expand. This is just like the existence of Zhenbei City on the prairie. It is like a nail stuck in the grassland. Qingxi City is like a big stone, blocking the Qingxi Prairie and the northwest land. If you want to get in or out, you need to go through Zhenbeicheng!
After chatting with Zhuo Bufan and his party for five or six days and conducting several military exercises on the sand table, these generals went back to digest some of the things they had learned from Li Xiang.
After everyone left, Old Taoist Qingsong sat on the side of the tent and drank tea: "Aren't you afraid that some of them will spread what you said? No matter how changeable a person is, there is still a track to follow!"
Li Xiang picked up the tea and took a sip: "When I face the enemy in battle, I only have strategic deployment. The specific battles are discussed by each department. Marching operations are based on military strength. The battlefield is changing rapidly. No one can know what will happen next. ."
Old Taoist Qingsong nodded. He is not here today to talk about this. It is mainly about the prairie people's problems: "Most prairie people are like wolves. Now if you are strong and he is weak, he will seek refuge with you. When you are weak in the future, he will It will rush up and bite.
Daqian has spent thousands of years but has not been able to tame them, do you have any plans in mind?"
After seeing the ferocity of the grassland people, even the Qingsong of the Taoist cultivators will find it difficult to have a favorable impression of the grassland people.
Li Xiang laughed when he heard Qingsong's words: "The grassland people can betray Daqian because they have retained too many things!
Taoist priest, you must have discovered it too! Most of the people who rebelled on the grasslands were nomadic tribesmen, and not many of the grassland people living in the cities rebelled.
The nomadic tribes have war horses and weapons, which are the weapons they can betray Dagan.
I have already thought about it. When these grassland people come here, their living habits will gradually change, and nomadic herding will be unnecessary. The land in the northwest is vast, and there is plenty of room for them to farm.
If you want to change a nation, you must first change their habits!”
In fact, what Li Xiang wants to say is that the grassland is such a good agricultural land, it is too wasteful to use it for grazing, and it is better to cultivate it for farmers.
When the northwest and Qingxi grasslands are turned into farmland, Xiliang will no longer have to worry about food and grass, and can also recruit Xiliang cavalry who are far more powerful than the grassland cavalry.
Da Qian failed to tame the grassland people because they still left too many things for the grassland people. If Li Xiang were the leader, he would move the people on the grassland south, or turn the grassland into a land south of the Yangtze River.
In the past, Daqian did not use cold rice seeds, but Xiliang did, and he could turn grasslands into farmland!
Take the Qingxi Grassland. He is not afraid of the other side of the grassland. Give him some time to recruit more troops.
If he had 100,000 Xiliang cavalry and 200,000 Xiliang light cavalry, Prime Minister Li would have the guts to rush to the prairie and kill them!
Various war machines have strong restraints on cavalry, but that is only when the cavalry takes the initiative to charge. When the cavalry is unwilling to fight you, you can only defend, and the initiative lies with them.
To deal with cavalry, you have to be cavalry!
"It's good that you know what you are doing!" After hearing what Li Xiang said, Old Taoist Qingsong once again pictured the people in the prairie city who died miserably in the hands of ferocious beasts and in the hands of the prairie people: "If there is a war with the prairie, , you must leave the army, without military soul suppression, the grassland masters will take action against you!"
"I will be among the army, don't worry!" Li Xiang smiled: "Taoist Priest, what are your plans to go back?"
Qingsong moved his fingers a few times: "The day after tomorrow!"
A little guy will come over the day after tomorrow. Qingsong will go back with him and break through to the second level of the Eastern Cultivation Pyramid. Qingsong will have to go back to the mountain gate to solve some things.
On the Qingxi Grassland, Li Anlan, who had not yet gone south, was dumbfounded when he heard that the Qingxi Grassland was about to join Xiliang!
Shouldn't these grassland people want to fight Xiliang?
How could Xiliang take in these people? These grassland people had just betrayed Daqian!
He couldn't figure it out, but he didn't dare to stay on the grassland anymore. He had to seize the time to go south and return to Daqian.
There is no place for them in Xiliang.
The camp was half built, and the old men and women from the other side of the grassland came one after another. In the past, every winter, they would go to the south to escape the cold, where there were warm houses and places to store cattle and sheep. Unfortunately, these were all due to the war. Already gone.
When many old people thought that they would be like their ancestors, sleeping in the cold winter, Xiliang accepted them.
These people came in bullock carts, with a large amount of cattle and sheep skins on top to make beds. The houses built in Xiliang were just houses, without bedding, so they needed to make their own bedding.
