"Lord." Bu Er strode into the tent. During the days when Li Xiang was recuperating, he was responsible for taking care of the battlefield outside and counting the number of Xiliang soldiers killed in the battle. He took out a piece of paper full of words and gave it to Li
Prime Minister: "This is the casualty statistics of our army. The number of enemy casualties has not yet been calculated. Our army has captured approximately 420,000 war horses."
"The number of captured Qiang soldiers was 130,000, and the rest of the Qiang soldiers either died on the battlefield or fled with the fleeing tribal troops.
There are currently over 100,000 Xianbei troops still resisting..."
Li Xiang listened patiently to Bu Er's report, which included the number of Xiliang soldiers killed in the battle and various supplies obtained.
It took half an hour to report before the general report was completed.
"God is kind and kind. Let's first send a few people to ask the Xianbei people if they are willing to surrender. If they surrender, we can keep them. Now we need prisoners. If they are unwilling to surrender, then let them
It can no longer be separated from this land." After listening to Bu Er's report, Li Xiang already had an idea in his mind, so he said to Bu Er: "After a period of rest, the army will march directly to the Holy Land of Balong Lake.
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Li Xiang, who was seriously injured but had not yet recovered, had not given up the idea of conquering the small grassland.
"Those wounded soldiers still have supplies, which can be brought back to Liangzhou by Zhang Qingyun. We must strike while the iron is hot. The major tribes in the grassland are now in chaos. No one can integrate these tribes and occupy the Qiang holy land.
Radiating to other surrounding tribes.”
"If we retreat now, the battle we fought this year will be in vain. The Qiang people still have a lot of power to mobilize, but they just lack a person who can integrate them!"
Li Xiang's words were carefully considered: "We have captured Baron Lake once before and ruled nearly ten million Qiang tribes. The people over there have been killed by me. Now it is best to manage them."
They can’t miss this opportunity!”
"I still have a group of 10,000 Xiliang cavalry around the grassland over there. They carry a large number of cattle and sheep. The army can also get supplies from them after arriving there!"
The Xiliang army was in a food and grass crisis because their grain and grass were burned. Even with the large amount of grain and grass brought by Zhang Qingyun, the Xiliang army would at most be able to get out of the grassland.
To continue fighting, we need more food and fodder!
Bu Er listened and said respectfully: "My lord, these will be completed soon. Please also ask my lord to return to Liangzhou with General Manager Zhang Qingyun!"
This was the first time he had seen Mr. Li suffer such a serious injury. What Mr. Li needs now is protection and a stable environment to heal his wounds, instead of continuing to fight on the grassland and continue to fight in this land that does not belong to them in Xiliang.
superior.
Even though this place has been conquered by them now, it is still full of all kinds of dangers, and now the major forces do not know the news that Li Xiang was seriously injured.
If the major forces knew that Li Xiang was seriously injured, they would definitely send out their masters. The spiritual support of Xiliang is Li Xiang!
Li Xiang, who was seriously injured, was their best target and their biggest opportunity. He was a being who could single-handedly kill the Grand Master.
If Prime Minister Li is killed or injured more seriously, it will be good news for all the major forces.
At that time, it will not only be a matter of one or two forces attacking Prime Minister Li, but also the emperor and the major princes who are afraid of the world being unstable. They will send their own masters to take action!
So Li Xiang's best choice now is to follow the army back to Xiliang, which is the base camp of Xiliang, with hundreds of thousands of Xiliang troops, and more than five grand masters!
Even if the emperor comes out in force, there is nothing they can do against Xiliang. At worst, they will go to the dark world or other worlds. As long as the lord is still there, Xiliang will be rebuilt.
Li Xiang glanced at Bu Er: "I will follow Mr. Zhang back, and the Xiliang cavalry will be left to you."
Now the number of troops that the Xiliang Army can mobilize is pitiful, not to mention the cavalry. The Xiliang Iron Cavalry only has less than 8,000 people left to mobilize, and more than 13,000 people are still seriously injured.
The rest have died heroically.
There are only 1,300 people left in the Flying Bear Army, and less than 300 people can continue to fight. In this battle, Li Xiang and the Xiliang Cavalry suffered heavy losses.
However, Xiliang has achieved their goal. In the coming days, the smallest piece of grassland will no longer be a problem for Xiliang. It will become a new grain and meat base for Xiliang.
However, on this small grassland, there is still an enemy waiting for Xiliang to deal with. The Xianbei people are watching the battle between Xiliang and the Qiang people on the side, and they still have a large number of troops in their hands.
This is currently the biggest enemy of the Xiliang army on the grassland!
"The general will obey your orders!"
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Li Xiang followed Zhang Qingyun and led the army to retreat slowly. The besieged nearly 100,000 Xianbei cavalry finally chose to surrender. They had no other choice, either to die in the siege of the Xiliang army or to surrender to the Xiliang army.
They chose to surrender, which was best. Although the army was now very short of available men, these Xianbei cavalry became the transport personnel of the Xiliang army.
They were responsible for carrying various supplies, carrying the wounded, and driving horses.
This huge team moved slowly on the grassland, and they walked towards Liangzhou bit by bit.
At the same time, the news that the Xianbei people were defeated by the Xiliang army soon spread throughout the grasslands and to the Central Plains.
The gun tribes on the grassland couldn't believe this news, but when they saw the warriors of their tribe who had escaped from the battlefield, they listened to these warriors telling the news themselves.
The civilians of the Qiang tribe were a little at a loss because they knew that if the army was defeated, the small grassland would become the world of the Xiliang army.
Especially those tribes around Lake Balong, they personally experienced the massacre of Xiliang army and felt the brutality of Xiliang army.
Some tribes who were close to the Xiliang army were already happy at this time. They seemed to have seen what the king would look like after his arrival, but they did not dare to show it now because the surrounding tribes and the deserters from the battlefield had returned.
At this time, the strength is greatly increased!
Now there are two paths in front of the major tribes of the Qiang people. One is to quietly wait on the grassland to surrender when the Xiliang army arrives, and the other is to follow Wang Ting northward. Wang Ting is also the tribe of the great Chanyu of the Qiang people.
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If they go north, they will reach the edge of the barren mountains!
This is a decision that can only be made by the big tribes. Small tribes and medium-sized tribes are quietly waiting on the small grasslands for the arrival of the Xiliang army. At the same time, they have also formed alliances with each other, always paying attention to the things of the big tribes.
They did not believe that the big tribes would not plunder them before leaving. Now all the big tribes were short of cattle, sheep, and food. It was essential for the big tribes to move food and grass.
If there is no food and grass, they can only snatch the food and grass from the surrounding small and medium-sized tribes!
Everyone was wary of each other, but when the large Qiang tribe received news that the Xiliang army was approaching Balong Lake, the large tribe began to plunder the smaller tribes.
They need to obtain a large amount of food and grass before the entire group can move to the barren mountains!
A chaotic war began. The Qiang warriors were brothers before, but now they became enemies fighting each other. The fighting between them was more cruel and cruel than the fighting on the battlefield!
If you can't defeat them on the battlefield, you can still run or escape, but the fighting between tribes makes it impossible for them to run or escape. Their families and relatives are here.
Once they escape, their children and their women will die under the sword of others.
So they won't run!
A month later, when Bu Er led a 100,000-strong Xiliang army to the Holy Land of Balong Lake, what he saw was a mess all over the place, and a large number of Qiang tribesmen saw the Xiliang battle flag.
As if they have seen a savior, they can't wait to show their loyalty, can't wait to show their strength and value!
They had had enough of the plundering of the big tribes and the fighting with the big tribes. Most of their warriors died not in the war with Xiliang, but in the fighting with these big tribes.
The Balong Lake Holy Land, with a population of nearly 10 million, has less than 6 million people left at this time. About 2 million people migrated north with other tribes, and more than 2 million people died in this chaos.
During the war.
When Bu Er received the news, he was a little confused. He did not expect that the Qiang people would be so cruel to his own people.
But thanks to the cruelty of those big tribes, otherwise he would not have been able to conquer these Qiang people in such a short period of time. He only had 100,000 troops in his hands. If these people united to fight, it would be difficult for him to destroy them.
On the seventh day after Step 2 arrived at Balong Lake, a group of Xiliang cavalry came back from the north carrying a large number of cattle and sheep.
This is the 10,000 Xiliang cavalry left behind before Li Xiang left. They carried millions of cattle and sheep to the north. Since then, they have been grazing in the northern region, and at the same time sent out scouts to collect disturbances on the grasslands.
When they learned that the Xiliang army had returned to the Holy Land of Balong Lake again, they couldn't wait to rush back with millions of cattle and sheep.
When Bu Er was still worried about the food and fodder of the major tribes, when he saw the cattle and sheep driving back, his sorrow disappeared instantly.
There is no shortage of grain and grass in Xiliang, but it will take at least three months to transport grain and grass from Liangzhou to the Holy Land of Balong Lake. Now the major tribes are in short supply of grain and grass, and there are not even a few cattle and sheep left.
If the food crisis cannot be solved in time, a large number of people will die due to food shortage. The small grassland they want is a small grassland with a rich population, not a dead grassland.
These Qiang people are just like the grassland people in the Qingxi grassland they conquered back then. As long as they follow Xiliang for a period of time, they can recruit soldiers from these people!
Even if these people have double-minded intentions, it is not impossible to drag them to the battlefield to serve as cannon fodder!
These Qiang warriors are natural cavalry. Half of the cavalry units currently being trained in the southwest are prairie people from the Qingxi grassland. They are more suitable for life on horseback than the Dagan people!
The role of cavalry in the Xiliang army is getting stronger and stronger. If you want to conquer the grasslands and the Central Plains, you need a large number of cannon fodder cavalry. The soldiers of Xiliang headquarters are the absolute main force. They need a large amount of cannon fodder to attract firepower for them!
Therefore, these Qiang civilians and Qiang warriors are very important. Keep as many as you can.
Even if they are wolves, Xiliang is a tiger or a tiger in its prime. With a tiger group under his command, his strength will only become stronger and stronger. No matter how strong the wolf is, they still have to lower their heads when facing the tiger. !
Under the hands of tigers, these prairie wolves will be respectful, always rushing to the front, and always showing their worth.
Things without value have no need to exist!
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"Nearly two million warriors were defeated by the Xiliang army like this?" Chief Tuoba looked stunned and said in disbelief: "Even if there are two million sheep, if the Xiliang army kills them, half of them will be killed no matter what. Moon!
It had only been four or five days since the war started, and the Qiang army was already defeated?"'
He really didn't understand, because he only received the time for the real decisive battle between the two sides a few days ago, but within a few days of the war, he received the news that the Qiang and Murong clan armies had been defeated!
"The problem lies with the King of Xiliang!" An old man present said: "The deterrent power of King Li Xiang of Xiliang on the battlefield is too strong. If we fight against him in the future, we still hope that the generals and Patriarch, you can hide your identity and don’t expose it easily.”
"The main responsibility for the defeat of the Qiang army lies with the Qiang Chanyu. Even though he was killed by the King of Xiliang, he actually ordered his own tribe's army to retreat. This is the main reason for the defeat of the Qiang army!" The old man continued The analysis said: "The Qiang Shanyu tribal army is part of the Qiang army, with a number of up to 300,000. Their retreat from the battlefield has a great impact on the entire battlefield!"
"Well!" Chief Tuoba bit his lip: "It seems we have to have a serious talk with the Murong clan. The next target of Xiliang is very likely to be them."
"Maybe we don't need to look for them, they will come to us on their own." The old man smiled and said to the Tuoba chief: "The Murong clan should be worried now. They lost 500,000 people on the battlefield over there, and they still have to face With the threat from the Xiliang army, it’s time for us Xianbei people to unite!"
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The small grassland has undergone earth-shaking changes due to the Battle of Hailar Lake. The Qiang people, the former overlords of the small grassland, are either running away with their heads in their hands or surrendering on the spot!
The Xianbei people also began to merge after this war. If they continue to divide, they are likely to become the next Qiang people!
