After the heavy rain, the grassland exudes the fragrance of green grass. Hailar, the pearl of the small grassland, has been occupied by the Xiliang army from the south.
The Xiliang army set up white tents on the edge of Hailar Lake, known as the Pearl of the Grassland. The end of the tents could not be seen at a glance.
The giant wolf that is Xiliang's battle flag is flying high in the sky, announcing that this area belongs to the Xiliang army.
Xiliang soldiers who have been traveling for several months can take a bath by the lake and clean their armor and weapons.
The cattle and sheep that were driven here ate the fertile water and grass leisurely. They were the food for the Xiliang army to move.
Xiliang soldiers must take good care of these rations. There are many people in the army who were herdsmen before.
Those who joined the Xiliang army were not only the Xiliang headquarters and Dagan people, but also many herdsmen from the Qingxi grassland. They regarded themselves as Xiliang people.
They felt that living under the rule of the Xiliang headquarters was far better than on the grasslands. Among the Xiliang army, they could eat well and drink well, and their families could also live a prosperous life.
They no longer have to rely on the sky for food on the prairie like before. Once there is heavy snow, their father and mother will have to walk out of the tent and go to the cold snow to fend for themselves.
In the end, all you could see were piles of white bones, without even a bit of meat. On that prairie, there were not only them humans, but also various beasts living on the prairie.
Once those wild beasts have nothing to eat, they come in groups looking for herdsmen, trying to hunt down the cattle and sheep that the herdsmen have kept in captivity, or directly kill the herdsmen for their meat.
In the past, many people were killed by wolves in the prairie every year, so they cherished their current abundant life and were very satisfied with their current living conditions.
For this reason, those herdsmen with strong bodies will join the Xiliang army. The bodies they have trained on the grasslands and the strength they have developed in fighting with nature make them much stronger than some Dagan people. Big advantage.
In addition to this attack on the grassland, the herdsmen who know the grassland best are the herdsmen from the grassland. The environment of the grassland is indeed much better than that of the small grassland, but the Qingxi grassland is not better than this. In winter, The cold over there is more severe than here.
Therefore, this time we attacked the grassland and brought in a large number of herdsmen. With these people here, even if something happened on the grassland, there would be a way to deal with it.
Just like driving these cattle and sheep, no one is more skilled than these herdsmen from the prairie. They are just like the people on the grassland, driving the cattle and sheep in a group without losing any of them.
"General Qi, there is news from the scouts that there are more and more people in the surrounding grasslands." A soldier who ordered the order said in front of Fuji: "The other party also has a large army dispatched from the Balong Lake."
"Well, you go down and rest!" Bu Er asked the soldiers to go down and rest, looking at the sand table. The other generals also looked at the sand table. The area they were in was a rare low-lying area on the grassland.
Although there are lush grass and abundant water here, once they engage in battle, they will be at the bottom, and the opponent's cavalry can attack them from high places.
"They just want to eat us in one bite!" Bu Er didn't have the slightest worry on his face. Instead, he chuckled and said, "Their appetite is not that big."
The deputy commander of the Eighth Army said: "General, shouldn't it be time for us to build defenses?"
"There is no need to rush and let the soldiers rest for two days. It will take the other side about ten days and a half to encircle them at the latest. What we have to do now is to rest and give them a false signal!
If you build defenses too early, doesn't that tell them that we know your plans?
The road behind must be full of prairie troops now."
Bu Er was not worried at all, but was very much looking forward to the opponent's sneak attack. He also had a large number of light cavalry and heavy cavalry in his hands.
Just as Bu Er said, the Qiang army on the small grassland is gathering towards Hailar. In order to prevent the Xiliang army along the way from supporting the Xiliang army on the Hailar side, the Tulu tribe even launched a counterattack
, trying to use the war at the Exchange to dissuade the Seventh Legion from going to support Hyrule.
They didn't know that there was a huge trap over there in Hailar. Although the trap was set by the small prairie people themselves, the Xiliang army created a huge trap to attract the Qiang army.
Only by attracting the main Qiang army on the frontal battlefield can they create more opportunities for their lord.
Time passed little by little, and no big war broke out on the grassland, and no battlefield broke out to determine the outcome, so the eyes of the major forces slowly dispersed from the grassland.
However, if something big happens here on the grassland, their eyes will turn around immediately. They have already lost trace of the Xiliang Third Army.
The small grassland is said to be small because compared with the large grassland, the vast small grassland is so vast that even if you put 100,000 troops in, if no one follows, they will lose their traces.
Without a guide, it's easy to get lost inside.
So they guessed that Li Xiang probably lost his way on the grassland.
Otherwise, with the character of King Li Xiang of Xiliang, he would have already killed the Qiang people, instead of letting the Qiang people constantly snipe at their two armies.
The two armies of Xiliang are advancing very slowly, so the major forces believe that they will take over by themselves after the Xiliang army continues to stay on the grassland for a month or two.
There is only a limited time for fighting on the grassland. If you don't retreat in time after autumn, and wait until the cold winter, at that time, the Xiliang army can be defeated by the cold winter without the tribes on the small grassland taking action.
However, the goal of the Xiliang army has been achieved. They made the northern expedition this year and asked a large tribe on the small grassland to gather their own tribe. Instead of going out to graze, they could only continue to consume their own cattle and sheep, making them very miserable this winter.
At that time, as long as the Xiliang army cooperates with the armies from other regions, the vitality of the grassland tribes will be severely damaged.
This is the purpose that all the major forces guessed after the Xiliang army advanced north.
If he really wanted to have a life-and-death showdown with the grassland tribes, then why didn't Xiliang King Li Xiang command the Chinese army himself? He could lead the Chinese army directly to Barong Lake, the land of the Qiang people.
While countless people were speculating on where Li Xiang was, Li Xiang had already arrived 500 miles away from Balong Lake, and he had already come into contact with the Xiliang light cavalry who were exploring here.
After receiving news from the light cavalry, the army stationed around Lake Baron moved south. Following the army southward was a great master.
The Xianbei army did not participate in the battle. They have been wandering outside the battle between the two sides, like a gang of hungry wolves looking for weaknesses in the Xiliang army.
If they really can't find a flaw, they can also put some pressure on the Xiliang army on the side. After all, once the Qiang army retreats, the Xianbei army will definitely come to help.
They will not let the Xiliang army destroy the Qiang army.
"What a hungry wolf!" After reading the news, Li Xiang said to the master of Ji Mo: "There is only one great master in Baron Lake now. We have been on this grassland for a month and a half.
, it’s time to give the opponent a hard blow!”
"Leave that great master to me!" The Demon Sect Master said confidently: "I can kill him!"
As the top Grand Master in the world, holding a weapon inherited from the Ji Mo Sect for thousands of years, he still has confidence in facing a Qiang Grand Master.
"Kill them together, and you won't give him a chance to escape!" Li Xiang is a young man and does not need to talk about martial arts: "Lest he joins forces with another grand master after running away, then it will be difficult for the two of us to kill them.
Yes, so let’s go together!”
"Young people don't respect martial ethics!" The leader of Jimo Sect laughed: "Then let's go together!"
"By the way, when do you plan to take action?"
Li Xiang looked at the sky and then at the news. The opponent was now close to Hylar, which meant that within the next eight to ten days, the opponent would launch an attack on the Xiliang army in Hylar.
Xiliang Tieji and the 3,000 Fei Xiong Army led by Li Xiang are still 500 miles away from the Balong Lake. 500 miles is a two-day journey for them, and this is still under the condition of slowing down.
So they have about ten days to prepare, which is enough.
"Ten days later, we are now on our way to Baron Lake, which is 200 miles away."
Don't get too close within 100 miles of Lake Baron. If you get too close, you will be discovered by the opponent's Grand Master. The consciousness of the Grand Master is not an ordinary language. They can detect the enemy hundreds of miles away.
Therefore, it is better to stay farther away. For them, two hundred miles is at most half the night. When they decide to launch an attack, they can first slowly approach the opponent's surroundings and then launch the attack.
"Kill less people this time!" The leader of the Ji Mo Sect said suddenly. Now these soldiers from Xiliang headquarters are filled with strong evil spirits, and countless small tribes were wiped out by them along the way.
No humans or animals left!
"How many did we kill!" Whenever Li Xiang thought of the civilians who were massacred, he felt angry in his heart. Although his current behavior was exactly the same as that of the Qiang people back then, he was taking revenge.
After those Qiang people did something like that, they had to be prepared to bear the consequences.
But when he saw the eyes of the leader of the Extreme Demon Sect, Li Xiang bit his lip: "I will stop after killing their senior officials!"
The leader of the Extreme Demon Sect nodded and sighed: "There must be a price to pay for what they did, but the civilians at the bottom are still somewhat innocent, so there is no need to kill them all.
We can let them herd sheep and horses for us, and then let their women marry those common people. As long as you tell them that you can get the status of Xiliang by marrying a Xiliang commoner, then those women will definitely compete to marry Xiliang
Civilians, and the men of their own ethnic group will disappear little by little, and eventually they will be assimilated, and the entire ethnic group will disappear in the long river of history."
"But you must remember that you must control the blade in your own hands, and you must not let these people obtain any weapons or any training methods!"
Li Xiang also laughed when he heard this: "I thought you old boy had a kind heart, but I didn't think about how to exterminate them.
Don't worry, I will make the Qiang disappear within a hundred years if I learn from the mistakes of the Daqian Dynasty!"
The Daqian Dynasty used this strategy to deal with the prairie people on the prairie. Unfortunately, the civil servants and the emperor of the Daqian Dynasty did so for the so-called face.
It gave those grassland people the opportunity to hold swords, gave those grassland people the opportunity to practice, and laid the foundation for the current precarious situation of the Daqian Dynasty.
If they had resolutely implemented this policy from the beginning and massacred all the prairie royal families and high-ranking nobles on the prairie, where would the current disaster be?
Without the commotion on the prairie, would the demon clan in the south and the dragon clan in the East China Sea dare to cause commotion?
Since Li Xiang has decided to capture the small grassland, he has already made preparations. No matter what the policy is, it must be implemented.
If anyone dares to stop him from implementing it, then I'm sorry, Xiliang is not the Daqian Dynasty.
The emperor of the Daqian Dynasty had supreme power, but there were still many people who held him hostage internally. He could implement a certain system as he wished, but the consequences of this would affect the stability of the dynasty.
So when doing certain things, these emperors need to think carefully before doing it. Unlike them, Li Xiang can do whatever he wants.
The troops in his hands often obey him completely, and he basically doesn't trust any of his civilian officials except Zhang Qingyun.
So he set up various systems just to monitor those civil servants.
If those civil servants served him conscientiously in their positions, he could give them large amounts of gold, silver, and jewels, and he could even give them the official positions they wanted.
But if someone dared to use these things to threaten him or do certain things, he would beat that person down without hesitation. There are many literati in the world.
Even if there is no one to do it, there are still civil servants trained by Xiliang Headquarters. They may not be as good as those before, but as long as they can stabilize the place, it will be fine.
Li Xiang doesn't need them to achieve great results.
"My Xiliang is different from the Daqian Dynasty." Li Xiang said proudly: "After I unify the small grassland, my territory should be called a small kingdom."
"Why do you want to be the king?" Jimo Sect Master joked: "Do you want to confirm the title of King of Xiliang?"
"No!" Li Xiang sighed with some emotion: "I just feel a little emotional. When I left the imperial capital, I was like a lost dog. Now the emperor has to be afraid of me. Chance has changed people too much."
"Okay, let's not talk about this. Let's prepare for a barbecue tonight!''
The spiritual consciousness of the two great masters can be spread throughout the surrounding area for hundreds of miles. As long as the other party's people are close, they can sense it in advance.
