Xuande

Chapter 355 Expressing Loyalty and Promoting Harmony

"Xian Ling Qiang, Baima Qiang, and Shen Lang Qiang, disregarding the court's favor and justice, violently launched troubles, harassed states and counties, and plundered property. The crime is extremely heinous, and heaven does not tolerate it. Treacherous, get rid of violence and make peace!"

Liu Bei issued an expedition order to the entire army.

The Liangzhou army will leave the border and launch a strong attack on the Xianling Qiang, Baima Qiang, and Shenlang Qiang camps to let them know that they will have to pay for their mistakes!
These three tribes never thought that they would encounter such an ending before the Liangzhou iron cavalry arrived in front of them to start the slaughter.

It was cold and windy, and they huddled in the tent to cook meat and cook meat. They lived through the cold winter, looking forward to the warmth of spring and the blossoming of flowers in the coming year, so that they could have a better life.

Of course, if the men who went on the expedition could loot more food, daily necessities, and Han Chinese as slaves for them, then their lives would definitely be better.

They are in a semi-nomadic and semi-settled state, so they can grow food, but because of inadequate farming techniques and climate problems, the food grown is not enough.

The sheep they grazed and raised also became less fat because of the bitter cold.

Their leaders demanded higher and higher taxes from them.

All of these have directed the direction of solving the problem to war and plunder. If there is no capture brought back from the war, they will be hungry.

If there are seizures and slaves to sell for money, this winter will be very easy to survive.

They fantasized like this, fantasized, fantasized... Then Liu Bei led the Liangzhou iron cavalry to roar, crushing their fantasies.

The Liangzhou iron cavalry was divided into three groups, Liu Yong's group, Liu Sheng's group, Liu Bei personally led the group, with Pang De and Xu Huang as the vanguard, attacked the three major tribes like a storm, like a broken bamboo, and wiped out the three major Qiang people. Horde torn to shreds.

The three major tribes tried their best to resist, but the coalition formed by the elite was unable to compete in front of the cavalry of the Han army, let alone the unprepared unlucky ones left behind.

The flimsy resistance was quickly smashed by the flashing ring-shoulders of the Han army cavalry. Everyone was running in a panic. The pursuit of the terrible cavalry of the knife.

But on this freezing day, even if they could escape, how could they survive in such a harsh environment?
Nature has never been merciless.

In the last month of the fourth year of Zhongping, Liu Bei led [-] Han cavalry to wipe out the three tribes of the Qiang people outside the Great Wall and won a complete victory.

However, their population is obviously not as large as that of the Xianbei people. Liu Bei wiped out the three tribes, and only captured 3 or 1 people. Adding the previous 15 Qiang soldiers, the total was less than [-].

Among them, Xianling Qiang has the largest number of people. Neither Baima Qiang nor Shenlang Qiang has a large population. They are not powerful enough to become a henchman of Liangzhou Prefecture.

During the seizures in the war, Liu Bei was a little surprised that he seized a relatively large amount of grains. After Jia Xu's explanation, Liu Bei these were the food crops accumulated by the Qiang tribes for agricultural production.

They can also carry out agricultural production, but the technology is not good, and the soil is not fertile enough, so agricultural production is not enough to feed them, and they still have to rely on their old skills to avoid starvation.

Moreover, according to statistics, it can be determined that the exploitation of these tribes is also very serious. The grain is mainly concentrated in the camp of the headman, piling up like a mountain, and ordinary herdsmen lack grain savings.

In addition, the scale of their respective tribes' grazing is very large.

Horses are second, and sheep are the most. The number of three tribes plus one sheep exceeds one million.

For Liu Bei, this was a considerable amount of seizure, which directly made Liu Bei decide to set up a pasture directly under the jurisdiction of the Liangzhou prefecture in the old places of the Shenlang Qiang and Baima Qiang.

The establishment of a large number of pastures gave Liu Bei enough confidence to provide more meat to the army and improve the treatment of the army. By the way, the price of meat was reduced as much as possible, and the people of Liangzhou had more opportunities to eat meat.

And the large-scale animal husbandry industry can also provide a sufficient number of war horses for the Liangzhou government.

After this battle, the number of horses controlled by the livestock farms directly controlled by the Liangzhou state government has exceeded 40.

This will become Liu Bei's confidence to further recruit soldiers and train more cavalry in Liangzhou.

Liu Bei originally brought [-] troops to Liangzhou, with a scale of ten battalions. Later, he recruited local troops from Liangzhou to four battalions, and the total strength exceeded [-].

This army has been able to form a huge deterrent to Liangzhou and surrounding forces, and its military strength can basically meet the number needed for combat and maintaining stability.

Liu Bei only planned to expand the army to fifteen battalions in a short time, and then he did not plan to continue recruiting more soldiers.

For one thing, Liangzhou couldn't afford a large army.

Secondly, Liu Bei intends to conduct officer-style education for these soldiers, imparting enough knowledge to them as officers need to know, and treating them as the backbone of his future expansion of the army.

They need to be able to read and write, master the skills of reading and writing, and carry out preliminary military education to master a series of knowledge in the process of marching and fighting.

Those who learn well are rewarded, and those who do not learn well are punished.

As long as the foundation is laid and they are trained to be excellent grassroots officers, it will not be difficult to expand the army in the future.

Moreover, there are many official horse farms in the Liangzhou area, and a large number of war horses obtained through confiscation can be equipped for the army to train extremely powerful assault cavalry.

In order to deal with the Xiongnu, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty trained three powerful cavalry units, the sudden cavalry from Youzhou, the cavalry from Bingzhou, and the big horses from Liangzhou.

Now that Liangzhou is in disrepair, Liu Bei is very emotional, and decides to use his own financial resources to regain the prestige of Liangzhou Malaysia, so that Liangzhou's official martial arts will be full again.

Because the seizures were large and the results were great, when Liu Bei triumphed, it was already the beginning of the fifth year of Zhongping. After the victory of this battle, the external environment of Liangzhou has greatly improved.

What's more interesting is that after Shaodang Qiang learned that Liu Bei had successfully quelled the three Qiang tribes, he took the initiative to send someone to contact Liu Bei, saying that they could call them together in such matters in the future.

They also hate these robbers who come to rob at every turn. They have no structure at all. They don’t want to live a good life. , to maintain peace and tranquility around Liangzhou.

Together with Shaodang Qiang, there were 36 representatives of Qiang tribes who came to show loyalty to Liu Bei and promote harmony, and they all lived in the area west of Jincheng County and Longxi County.

Shaodang Qiang has a population of over 20 and is the most powerful among the major Qiang tribes around Liangzhou.

Together with 36 other Qiang tribes, they publicly stated their position and stood together with the Liangzhou government to maintain the peace and tranquility around Liangzhou. This basically represents the attitude of the entire Qiang tribe, and it is also true for the Qiang people of other tribes who have not expressed their views. A big deterrent.

Liu Bei was very happy to meet them, drink with them, and made a public agreement that they would not invade each other and help each other, and the Qiang people would try their best to follow Liu Bei's instructions and assist Liu Bei in all military operations he needed.

After the public agreement ended, the person who initiated this operation was relieved.

When he learned that the three tribes of Lingqiang, Baimaqiang and Shenlangqiang invaded Longxi County, he was very frightened.

He scolded the people of these three tribes for being sick in their heads, and it was not good to provoke anyone, but he insisted on provoking Liu Bei.

There are more than 30 people in the two major tribes of the Xianbei people, and they were still cleaned up by Liu Bei. Did they not know what happened to the 30 Xianbei people or what?
Liu Bei is such a fierce man with abundant martial arts virtues, I don't even have time to confess, how dare you provoke him?

Are you sick?
And Naduo was even more worried that Liu Bei would adjust his policy towards them because of the change in Liu Bei's views on all Qiang people due to this rebellion, so Naduo was very anxious.

Finally, under the suggestion of his subordinates, Naduo united with the 36 Qiang tribes who had a good relationship with Shaodang Qiang to convey goodwill to Liu Bei, hoping to maintain the relationship with Liu Bei and not change.

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PS: The most painful thing in the world is to control my diet... In order to ease my pain, I will add another chapter angrily!
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