"General Manager, we just received the news from the front. The Qiang people actually brought more than half of the tribes around Huanghuang Mountain to surrender to us and begged us to accept them."
When the soldier spoke, the surprise in his words did not disappear, because he never expected that the Qiang people would lead the surrounding tribes to surrender to them.
You must know that they are the murderers who wiped out the main Qiang tribe, driving them from the warmer areas in the south to the surrounding barren mountains, causing them to lose their status as overlords of the small grasslands.
Logically speaking, they and Xiliang should be mortal enemies, and the two sides are incompatible with each other. However, the Qiang tribe was the first to initiate surrender, and also encouraged other surrounding tribes to surrender together.
In order to gain the trust of Xiliang, the army that came to surrender actually put all their weapons aside, as if they had never worried that Xiliang would massacre them.
The Xiliang soldiers who originally wanted to kill them were embarrassed to do so. After all, they had already made preparations, including white flags and weapons.
"The Qiang people are quite smart." Li Yi thought about it and understood why the Qiang people did this. If they were the previous overlords on the grassland, the Qiang people would definitely resist to the death.
But now they are just a struggling race. If they don't want their race to perish, the only way is to surrender like Xiliang, their former enemy and enemy.
Only in this way can they save the lives of their own race. If they want to live better in the behemoth Western Union, the best way is to surrender with the surrounding people.
Xiliang now has a large population, but most of the population has been used to fill up Jiuyuan County. Even in Liangzhou, there are many places where no one is farming, let alone the grasslands on the edge of the barren mountains.
As long as they surrender, the surrounding area still belongs to them, and they can slowly develop here, even if Xiliang moves them to Jiuyuan County or other areas.
The tribes that surrendered with them will definitely follow them. After all, who doesn't want to follow a stronger person?
"Let people accept it." Li Yi said with a smile: "The most sincere clan can do it without spending a single soldier. Most of the surrounding forces are under control. It is very beneficial to the actions accumulated by our army.
And after accepting them, each tribe will draw 1/10 of its troops to form a grassland coalition and let them move with us."
In Li Yi's mind, a plan was quickly formed. He did not evaluate the combat effectiveness of this grassland coalition army. Anyway, they were just following the Xiliang army.
You can act as cannon fodder when necessary.
Originally he was still worried about how to clean up the surrounding tribes, but he didn't want to expose the Xiliang army appearing behind the Xianbei so quickly.
Now we can also use these tribes to send out manpower to block information from those tribes that have not surrendered, while the Xiliang army is responsible for the outermost areas.
Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of what happens.
"yes!"
When Xiliang was on the edge of the barren mountains and accepted the major tribes living here, on the other side, Prime Minister Li was not idle either, facing the Xiliang army on the battlefield.
They were under great pressure. Not long after Li Xiang was crowned king, news came from the Central Plains that the King of Qin would intervene in this war.
This war is no longer a war between Xiliang and the grassland. The scale of the war is expanding bit by bit, and the pressure on Xiliang is also increasing day by day.
Fortunately, they still firmly control the Tongtian River channel and can continuously transport troops and food to the south.
As the commander of this navy, Li Shui has been working day and night recently. On one side, he is responsible for transportation and mobilization, and on the other side, he is constantly ordering the army to block the river.
There is also the Royal First Navy over Daqian, which is the most powerful naval force in the entire Eastern world, or the entire Xuanjie, and there is no room for his negligence.
In his hands is the life of the entire Xiliang army.
However, the huge war pressure was resisted by the Xiliang army. In Jiuyuan County and the entire basin, everything was prosperous and the economy was booming.
Economic trade with the West continued to expand, and large sums of gold and silver flowed from the Western world to Xiliang and into the hands of Prime Minister Li.
These gold and silver soon turned into teams of soldiers ready to go. There was not much time for these soldiers to go to the dark world and slowly upgrade.
After being recruited, they were sent to the south to participate in the upcoming war.
Xiliang's main army is desperately expanding. As the cannon fodder of the Xiliang Army, the Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Legions have once again lowered the conditions for recruiting soldiers.
People who had been prepared for a long time began to join the army frantically. In just one month, these legions expanded to hundreds of thousands of people.
Naturally, all the forces have noticed this. They all see a Xiliang that is expanding crazily. This side of Xuanjie is not an army. The more numbers, the better.
Because this is a world of practitioners, the strong can easily eliminate many weak ones, and the army formed by the practitioners is even more powerful.
Most of the armies of the major forces in the Xuan Realm are formed by low-level practitioners. When they are combined together, the power they exert is no weaker than that of a top powerhouse.
However, this does not mean that the armies formed by ordinary people can compete with the strong, because the strength of the two is no longer on the same level.
Low-level practitioners are wrong. They can resist powerful practitioners. The most important thing is that they also have internal strength and the power to compete with top-level practitioners.
And those ordinary people who have not practiced cultivation do not have this ability, so there are not many armies composed of ordinary people in the Xuanjie. They are really useless.
Only those who are born with divine power or possess other special abilities can carve out their own world among practitioners.
Therefore, the greater the number of armies, the better. If the greater the number of armies, the better. With the capabilities of the Daqian Dynasty, they can easily form an army of hundreds of millions of people.
However, apart from consuming a lot of resources, such an army basically has no effect. Any top cultivator can be easily defeated by the army.
The consequence of the crazy expansion of the Xiliang army is that the quality of the army is declining. Li Xiang no longer cares about this. What he needs now is a large amount of cannon fodder to defend the Xiliang army from harm.
The gold and silver treasures in his treasury were also visibly reduced. He had no choice but to sell a large amount of heavenly materials and earthly treasures in exchange for gold, silver and jewelry.
This also allows people from other forces to see Xiliang's predicament at this time, and some people think that now is a good opportunity...
