Three Kingdoms

In the simple thinking of the Qiang people, it is difficult to understand why there is such an unreasonable thing, and it is not clear why they are required to pay various fees, even if the fees seem so reasonable or unreasonable, abrupt or Not obtrusive.

But in fact, this kind of thing is not just for the Huangyang tribe or the Qiang people themselves, but the powerful will do this when facing all vulnerable groups. Just like the Eight-Nation Allied Forces defeated Braided Qing, Braided Qing did not need the consent of the people across the country to sign the treaty and start paying protection fees and various fees to the foreigners. Even in later generations, it will be the same.

In the final analysis, it is not a problem of the contract, nor a problem of the Eight-Nation Alliance, but if you are weak, you will be beaten. If you want not to be beaten, you must become stronger!

There are many ways to become stronger, but joining a mob is obviously not one of them that is effective...

The point is that the mob often doesn’t think so themselves.

In July of the fifth year of Taixing, the Longyou Qiang people gathered again to rebel.

When the news came, it immediately caused an uproar in Guanzhong. Everyone's attention was focused on Longyou. Some people began to say that they had expected this incident, and others began to say that some people had been in Longyou before. Some practices are unfair and so on.

Of course, these discussions were just a foreshadowing. More people remained silent and did not make any sound. They just stared at the Hussars General's Mansion with their small eyes, staring at Fei Qian's next move.

Fei Qian went to Zuo Fengyi. After receiving the latest information, he didn't say a word. He just picked up a pen and wrote the word "war" behind the information, and asked Kuai Ma to take the letter back.

The children of the Guanzhong gentry clan looked at each other for a while.

Although there is a high probability that the hussars will still fight head-on, being so direct, without even foreplay, does make these people feel a little painful.

Are you really not afraid that Longyou will be in chaos from now on?

And then fell into the embarrassing situation of Emperor Ling of Han Dynasty?

In particular, many local officials in Longyou have been arrested and are now in a relatively unstable state. Is fighting under such circumstances really a good choice?

What if instability arises and spreads to the surrounding areas, leading to something like that, will the Cavalry General not even consider it?

In the yamen hall of General Hussar's mansion.

This battle is no small matter. If Longyou falls, Guanzhong will be affected... Wei Duan stood on one side, quickly glanced at Pang Tong, and then said, if Longyou is lost and the lord's great cause is harmed, it will be a big deal...

Pang Tong smiled slightly, with a hint of frost on his dark face. "Wei Shenlu, how do you know that our Longyou army will be defeated?" Is Zhang Ziyuan vulnerable, or is Jia Wenhe short-sighted?

Wei Duan waved his hands repeatedly and said with a wry smile: "Pang Lingjun, that's not what I meant." The hussars, soldiers, generals, and commanders are all brave and brave. This is a public opinion, but... it's just that as the saying goes, the battle in Hexi is among the Qiang and Hu. If the Eastern and Western Qiang are to unite...it's better to be cautious, to be more cautious...

Wei Duan was full of nonsense from beginning to end. He expressed his concerns, but he didn't offer any suggestions. Although she looks like a little daughter-in-law who is being bullied with a sad face, she is actually sitting firmly on the Diaoyutai. If Zhang Liao and Jia Xu win, then Wei Duan is not wrong in saying something to take precautions. If Zhang Liao and Jia Xu fail, What Wei Duan says now will be the basis for settling accounts in the future.

Pang Tong laughed twice at Wei Duan, then turned his eyes to the others and said loudly, "Do you still have any unfinished ideas?"

The expressions of the officials present were a little solemn, and no one responded for a while.

Pang Tong stood up and sent orders to all places to prepare for war in accordance with the orders of the hussar!

Everyone looked at each other, finally lowered their heads and responded.

A single Qiang tribe is worthless in the eyes of everyone present. But if there are too many Qiang tribes making trouble, it will be difficult. Just like in later generations, when it is sporadic, it looks like a fart, but if there are too many farts, it becomes poisonous gas when connected in one place, and the faces of officials above and below will turn green.

Especially the children of the gentry clan in Guanzhong, their memories of the Qiang rebellion are actually very fresh.

In the Han Dynasty, the Western Qiang issue was a very prominent social issue in the Hexi region. This issue was prominent not only because of the complex ethnic composition of Hexi, but also because the Han Dynasty promoted Hexi as a border control policy. key areas.

That is, the experimental field...

If you look at history from the perspective of future generations, you will generally have a feeling of superiority. Watching some big figure or little lolita in history, uh, little minions, do this or that thing, a kind of The onlookers' sense of superiority will rise in their hearts to some extent.

However, for those who live in history, everything is unknown. They cannot know what the future will be like, nor do they know whether what they are doing now is in line with future changes, so various disagreements will inevitably arise. It's not because they are stupid or because they are benzene, it's just that they can't see clearly the fog of the future.

Just like no one in future generations would have expected that a new crown could pull off Yingjiang's underwear and expose the black hair under her buttocks. Otherwise, at the beginning of the 21st century, many people still thought that Yingjiang was a sharp-tongued person. Li, with shiny hair on his head, looks like a born free gentleman...

So in 20 years, we can laugh at those people who lived in the early 2000s, saying they were all idiots and fools?

Obviously biased.

The same was true in the Han Dynasty.

In the Han Dynasty, there were two attitudes and methods towards dealing with the Hu people. One was to expel some of the main forces of the Hu people, such as the Xiongnu; the other was to seal some of the main forces of the Hu people in remote areas, such as This is the case for the Qiang people.

The Xiongnu was one experimental field, and the Xiqiang was another experimental field. Unfortunately, most of the crops in the two experimental fields in the Han Dynasty were not grown well.

Expelling the Xiongnu was a thankless task. The expulsion was barely successful, but the benefits were taken away by Xianbei. The Han Dynasty did not control the desert.

Here in Xiqiang, because the life style of the Qiang people actually had a lot of integration with the Chinese before the Qin Dynasty, the Qiang people are different from the Huns. Although animal husbandry is still the main aspect of the Qiang people, the proportion of agriculture is obviously is increasing.

As the Qiang people gradually enter farming, the increase in the proportion of the agricultural economy will inevitably cause the livestock industry to lose part of their pastures, prompting herdsmen to move to new areas. The requirements for agricultural production conditions will also make farmers inevitably pursue more fertile areas. Easy to cultivate land.

The Han Dynasty's strict defense and even obvious favoritism when solving problems made the Qiang people unable to express their emotions and demands, which naturally led to the Qiang people's resentment and injustice.

First, the Ling Qiang asked the Han Dynasty to allow them to cross the Huangshui River north, and drove away the land where the people did not have livestock. In other words, seeing that no one had any grass growing in those lands, they asked for grazing for the Qiang people, but they were rejected by the Han people. The Xianling Qiang later attacked cities, killed officials, occupied land by force, and used warfare to achieve their goals. This was the Xianling Qiang rebellion.

If we say that the policies and wars against the Xiongnu and the Western Qiang in the early Han Dynasty still had some flavor of safeguarding national sovereignty and protecting territorial peace, but after the Eastern Han Dynasty, various inappropriate policies and means were used to isolate and rule the Qiang people. Corrupt local officials and various exorbitant taxes are discriminatory and oppressive to a large extent.

Because during the Eastern Han Dynasty, some Qiang people could no longer be regarded as foreigners. Before Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, some Qiang people had been moved to the interior by the Han Dynasty to guard the Han people. It was precisely because the Qiang people continued to move inland that there were also The Eastern and Western Qiang are divided into those who live in Anding, Beidi, Shangjun, and Xihe, and those who live in Longxi, Hanyang, and beyond the Great Wall of Jincheng are called the Western Qiang.

Because the Qiang people have not been completely domesticated, and they are not like ordinary Han people who will break out when they can no longer survive, so they are labored by the powerful and right officials, and they accumulate sorrows and grievances. Seeing invasion, poverty, boredom, and rebellion, those who belong to them may be controlled by the right hand of a powerful person, or they may be defeated by the diligence of a servant. When the weather is clear, the person will be angry and thinking about misfortune; if the leather is temporarily moving, it will be like a hawk frightening the birds.

When Pang Tong and others were preparing to fight, although the Xiqiang people in Hexi were the first to cause rebellion, in fact, most Qiang people were not born vicious and would disturb others even if they had nothing to do. Basically, they were just like ordinary people. They suffered the loss because they wanted to find a place to reason but found that there was nowhere to reason. They could only make a fuss in the hope that someone would hear their voice.

Therefore, it is also very important for Beigong and other leaders to appease the tribal leaders and ordinary Qiang people. If this battle is defeated, not only will there be no way to get an explanation, but there will also be a problem of whether the head is still on the head. At the same time, these Qiang people will definitely be forced to move to the mountainous areas to avoid the retaliatory harm of the Han people. The tragic days are coming again. When the young men and women are gone, what will happen to the old, young, women and children at home? Are they running around like jackals, being slaughtered by others?

The ordinary Qiang people who were agitated were young, angry, and full of momentum. That was because the ordinary Qiang people just wanted to express their grievances, protect their land, their families, and protect whatever was in their hearts. Hope, but for the Qiang head people, especially some of the larger Qiang head people, their thoughts are not so simple. They think more about their own lives and interests.

The yellow sheep-headed man jumped up and shouted angrily: Why don't you speak? We were able to fight bloody battles with the Han people in the court, why can't we fight bloody battles with the three-color Han people today? Is it possible that if I obediently pay the money this time, there will be no next time? Someone comes today and wants to charge us land fees. Tomorrow someone else will come and charge us grassland fees. What happens next? Are you willing to have your cattle and sheep that you have worked so hard to raise just be dragged away by the Han people one by one? Where is your blood? Where has your courage gone?

The more the yellow sheep-headed man talked, the more annoyed he became. He suddenly pulled out the sword from his waist and chopped it on the carpet in front of him. He was deeply immersed in it. Who wants to quit? speak out!

The atmosphere in the big tent suddenly became tense.

With this posture, who can say anything about quitting?

They were afraid that they would be chopped down if they opened their mouths, so some people did not speak, but turned to look at Beigong.

Beigong and the Yellow Sheep-Headed Man actually swung from side to side within a period of time. It's just that the two people's hesitations are different, but now, their interests overlap to some extent, and they have naturally reached a consensus.

For the Yellow Sheep-headed man, the purpose is more to eliminate excessive taxes and miscellaneous fees, especially the death of Zeng Dahu, which makes him uneasy and wonders if he will be implicated for this...

As for Bei Gong, what he fears is that after his outer circle of forces are eliminated, it will be his turn next. Instead of sitting back and waiting for death, it is better to strike first...

But on the surface, they both seem to be speaking out for the future of the Qiang people...

good! This is the warrior of our Qiang people! Beigong said loudly, we have been fighting with the Han people for hundreds of years, and we have lost and won, but we have never backed down! Our opposition to the three-color Han people this time is also for our own sons and for the future of our Qiang people! The warriors of our past fought for us! Our current warriors are fighting for our future descendants!

Beigong stood up and pulled out his sword. This battle is not for me alone, nor for any of you here. It is for our future, the future of all of us Qiang people. !

Therefore, this battle must be won! If anyone backs down in this battle, I will never show mercy and I will kill them without mercy!

……(^w^)……

On the other side, the Ding Ling people also confirmed Cao Jun's military operations in northern Youzhou through various methods. This made them feel the crisis coming, and then launched a more ferocious attack.

If Cao Jun is allowed to successfully recover various parts of Youzhou, eliminate or integrate the remnants of Gongsun, and drive them out of Youzhou area, then no matter how hard Ding Ling people put in effort, they may not be able to capture Youzhou. After all, attacking a city and seizing a pass is different from fighting in the grassland and desert. The more people defending the city, the harder it is to fight.

Although Gongsun Du has repeatedly stated that he still has people in Youzhou and can even contact some people from Liaodong to come over, the leader of the Ding Ling people believes that the Han people are Han people. Who knows whether these people will change their minds, and they still have to rely on themselves.

The Ding Ling people gathered together and began to attack fiercely. The leader Ding Ling gathered the news from various ministries and determined that Cao Jun's troops were not as large as they had shown before. This made some Ding Ling people who had been deceived by Cao Jun become furious and continued all day long. He talked about Cao Jun's shamelessness and wished that he would drag Cao Jun up and down and kill them all in the next moment.

Compared with the Han people who wore the tricolor flag, the Ding Ling people did not value Cao Jun more. This is not to say that the Ding Ling people think that Cao Jun has no combat effectiveness, but compared with the power of the Han cavalry on the grassland, Cao Jun is naturally a lower level opponent.

There are no Han people with the tricolor flag in Youzhou now, so what are you afraid of?

After Ding Ling saw through Cao Hong's suspicious tactics, Cao Hong's limited troops were unable to withstand the men and horses surging down like a tide. In addition, some counties in northern Youzhou were almost exhausted in terms of city defense and reserves. Seven or eighty-eight, especially at the beginning, some important passes in Youbei were not in the hands of Cao's army, which made it very difficult for Cao Hong to defend. He had to abandon some counties he had just acquired and withdraw his troops.

The Ding Ling people quickly captured some counties in the northern part of Youzhou, including Yuyang, and opened up the communication lines between western and eastern Liaoning, and rescued Gongsun Kang who was on the verge of death. However, Liu Yimo was captured by Cao's army and did not know whether he was alive or dead. …

In Yuyang City.

This time, we have a total of 50,000 troops... The leader of the Ding Ling people looked around and said in a deep voice, currently, according to our estimates, there are at most more than 3,000 Han troops left in Cao's army in Jixian. Tomorrow, we will gather all our forces and launch an all-out attack. The main direction of attack will be Jixian. As long as we capture it, northern Youzhou will basically be ours.

The commander-in-chief glanced at Gongsun Du slightly, because a lot of the internal information of the Han Dynasty came from Gongsun Du. Including these geographical mountains and rivers, important towns and passes, etc., it is basically all information provided by Gongsun Du.

It is precisely because of this that Gongsun Du's status in Ding Ling's army has been somewhat improved.

From a dispensable dog to a somewhat useful dog.

At this moment, Gongsun Du showed his six-toothed smile to cater to the gaze of the leader Ding Ling, just like he would do it even if the leader Ding Ling asked him to stick his butt out at the next moment.

Of course, Gongsun Du suffered a lot of losses in this military operation, and it can even be said that the losses were quite large, so Gongsun Du coughed lightly, saluted to the leader Ding Ling, and then said to the other leaders Ding Ling with a smile. : Once Jixian is taken, you can consider whether to divide your troops and go south, or continue to go south together... To the south of Jixian, there are Anci, Yongnu, Quanzhou and other counties to the east, and to the west there are Liangxiang, Zhuoxian, Fangcheng, etc. Wait, they are all good places...

Just my personal suggestion, after we finish attacking Jixian County, it would be better to divide our troops and give each person a county seat... Gongsun Du smiled, after all, it is July now. If we attack them one by one, it will be too slow. Wait until we reach the later ones. By that time, Cao Jun might have finished harvesting the surrounding crops, so...

Uh-huh! Marquis Gudu arranged it well, how about letting you arrange everything?

Commander Ding Ling suddenly coughed. Gongsun Du's expression immediately changed, and then he assumed a more humble posture and lay on the ground, saying that he did not dare.

The leaders Ding Ling in the big tent looked at each other one after another, and then laughed.

We’ll talk about the rest later! Leader Ding Ling said in a deep voice, right now, we want to capture Jixian County first! Everyone, go back and make preparations immediately. Tomorrow morning, we will march together!