Chastity Layman 2

Chapter 511 Immediately with the knife, I am the only general Qin

Qin Qiong did not abandon Songzhou.

Vassals have the responsibility of guarding the land, and abandoning the land is equivalent to abandoning the seal.

Qin Qiong stood at the top of Songzhou City, with firm eyes, he was standing against the city with his whole body cloaked, not because he was reluctant to part with the fief he had just acquired, but as a courtier of the Tang Dynasty, as a border land feudal lord, he had the responsibility of guarding the land.

Behind him, five hundred Qin family soldiers and horses also vowed to fight to the death.

Songzhou Sima and Jiaochuan county magistrate put Libuli on the bright armor given by Qin Qiong and stood behind him, frowning.Five hundred Balibu Qiang soldiers also prepared for the battle and defended together.

In the city, there are about [-] Qiang people from the Bali tribe.

In addition, there were about [-] Han slaves who originally belonged to the Bailibu. Since the surrender of the Libu, these people were redeemed by Qin Qiong and granted their household registration. They became the first batch of Han Chinese in Songzhou. civil.These Han people who have just been freed are also undergoing training.

The young and strong men were assigned spears, shields, and horizontal knives, and they were practicing hard under the command of Qin Qiong's personal soldiers.Even if it is to practice guns in front of the battle, there will always be some effects. At least one must be able to understand commands, semaphores, etc.

Women, children, and the elderly take on tasks such as cooking and delivering water.

The women, children and children of the Qiang tribe obeyed Balibuli's order and started slaughtering some cattle in advance. Once the siege started, the livestock could not go out of the city to graze, and they would lose weight sooner or later.

Jiacheng was originally a small stockade, but now it has become the seat of Songzhou government. Qin Qiong is too late to repair it. Fortunately, the location of this stockade is relatively dangerous. It is triangular, and the part of the river valley under the mountains in the east is rectangular.

The outer city is adjacent to the lower dam of the river valley to the south of the inner city, and there is a gate connected to the inner city.

The stockade is simple and simple, but it is very important and has a large area.

It is built with rocks, logs, etc., and the wall is more than three feet high.

Although it is not as good as those in the Central Plains where the mortar made of glutinous rice, lime, tung oil, etc. is used to stick joints and joints, and the walls are built with mountain stones or green bricks, but the location of this seemingly simple stockade is well chosen.

Surrounded by mountains and rivers, controlling the river valley.

The terrain on the mountain is dangerous, and the terrain in front of the mountain is narrow, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Qin Qiong had previously relied entirely on surprise attacks, using the gates of Libuli to open the city, otherwise it would be extremely difficult to take the stronghold by force.Later, he inspected the cottage, and felt that the terrain of the cottage was really good. When he came to the location of the cottage, the front river and the mountains behind were extremely dangerous, and the location of the cottage was a very good flat land, so the cottage was a mountain city on the middle of the mountain. Not only is it dangerous and easy to defend, but it can also accommodate many people and livestock, and it can even be used for farming on the mountain.

The flat land with a radius of more than ten miles can last for a long time with the city gate closed.

Another advantage is that on both sides of the valley in the distance under the cottage, there is a large flat valley flat land, which can reclaim many fields to grow food, and the nearby valleys are also good for grazing livestock. It is a rare place in the mountains of the valley that can be self-sufficient, and control the dangers and block the passage.

Qin Qiong originally planned to start reclamation and farmland here, as well as grazing and breeding. By the way, it will benefit from this important transportation area and run border market commerce. Who knows that the plan has not yet been finalized, and the Qiang people have already killed them.

In Songzhou City, small streams flow, and clear rivers pass through the village from east to west, then turn south and flow into the Minjiang River.

"Situ, the forward of the Tuoba tribe, has crossed Minshan Mountain and is heading towards Songzhou."

"How far is it to Gansongling?" Qin Qiong asked Baliburi.

The Gansong Mountain mentioned by Qin Qiong is the state boundary mountain in the west of Songzhou. Because of its high and continuous, it has become a natural geographical boundary. During the Sixteen Kingdoms, it was the boundary between Tuyuhun and Liangzhou.

And because the Bailongjiang River Valley between Dieshan and Minshan is very narrow, the southern part of Dieshan is very limited, so at that time most of Gansong Mountain belonged to Hechuan County in the south.

Gansong Mountain is named after Gansong grass spread all over the mountain.

The Gansong Army in Qianliang of the Sixteen Kingdoms, Gansong County in the Western Qin Dynasty, Gansong County in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Songzhou in the Tang Dynasty all got their names from this mountain.

Thirty miles north of Songzhou City, you can go northwest along the valley of the Yangdong River, a tributary of the Minjiang River. You can walk a hundred miles through the winding mountains, pass Gansong Mountain, enter the west, and reach the bank of the Yellow River along the Baihe River.

Whether it is the Tuoba tribe, the Xifeng tribe, or other Qiang tribes, they all used this path to plunder Songzhou in the past.

This road is located between Minshan Mountain and Gansong Mountain, along the river valley channel, the terrain is relatively easy to walk, and it is precisely because of this road that Songzhou has a very important strategic position in history.

"It's almost there!" Balibuli replied, "Don't worry, Situ. Our Songzhou village is easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as we can't hold on and wait for reinforcements, we don't have to be afraid of them."

Dangxiang Qiang, also known as Miyao, lived nomadicly in the Jishi Mountain, Xiqing Mountain, south of the Bailong River, north of the Zi (Bayan Har Mountain) Mountain, and the upper reaches of the Yellow River and Jinchuan.

The strength is relatively strong. The Dangxiang Qiang people headed by the eight major tribes have hundreds of thousands of people and are also close allies of Tuyuhun.

This time, the two top tribes of Dangxiang Qiang, Tuoba and Xifeng, called on all tribes to send troops to retake Songzhou together.

Faced with such an attack, Libuli thought that he had to abandon the city and flee to Chengdu as soon as possible, or he had no choice but to hold on.

However, Qin Qiong asked Qin Meng to take out a map. After he came to Songzhou, he combined the map of the Ministry of Li and the terrain that Qin Meng and others went to investigate and found out, and redrawn a map.

Gansong Mountain is the barrier to the west of Songzhou, and Gansongling Pass is a narrow and dangerous pass, which must be passed by Dangxiang people coming from the east.

"Qin Meng, you stay in Songzhou, I will go to Gansongling to meet our guests!"

"Baili Sima, would you like to go with Qin?"

Ba Libuli never expected that Qin Qiong would take the initiative to attack when this big soldier was pressing down on him.Taking a deep breath of cold air, Liberi felt a toothache.

"Situ, we have few soldiers, why don't we stand firm and wait for help?"

"Are you afraid of Li Sima? If you are afraid, it's good to stay with Li Sima to help Qin Meng defend Songzhou City together. I'll go myself."

Feeling Qin Meng's murderous eyes next to him, Ba Libuli dared not say anything.After being captured at the beginning, I was deeply grateful to Qin Qiong for not killing him. Later, Qin Qiong was very polite to him and did not slaughter and bully his clan relatives. He was deeply shocked by Qin Qiong's personal charm and the strength of the Tang Dynasty. In the end, Libuli was determined to belong to the imperial court and pledge allegiance to Qin Qiong.

After all, Qin Qiong also asked the imperial court to confer a title of county viscount and county magistrate for him, and sent some of his sons to study in Chang'an, and personally selected a few of his children to stay with him as bodyguards.

It's just that he didn't expect that Tuoba and the fine sealing department reacted so strongly this time, and immediately ordered troops to seize Songzhou.

If it wasn't for Qin Qiong's persistent insistence, he would have wanted to run away.

The Qiang people show no mercy to traitors.

Especially the Tuoba Department, he has attached the Li Department to the Tuoba Department for so many years, and they will not show mercy.

"Situ, the troops of Tuoba and Xifeng are indeed very strong." Baliburi persuaded again.

Qin Qiong just smiled.

"Barbarian." He pointed to the tunnel, "Although Songzhou City is dangerous, if we just sit and wait to die, we will be too passive." Although Qin Qiong had ordered all the tribesmen and horses to be moved to Songzhou City and In Jiaohe City, the strategy of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields was implemented, and the party's invading army was not given the slightest chance to supply livestock and food.

However, when the Qiang people fought, they were almost the same as the Turkic people. They drove cattle and sheep, and marched with the tribe's young and old.

Qin Qiong knew this early on, and at the same time he was also very clear that the imperial court's reinforcements would never arrive soon, the road was long and remote, and the transportation of food and grass was not easy, so even if the imperial court sent troops immediately after receiving the request for aid, they would not be able to arrive for a while. When they come, they can only come with a small number of soldiers.

The Central Plains army marched and fought differently from the nomadic tribes, so it was destined that Qin Qiong could not expect tens of thousands of troops to arrive soon.

Really tens of thousands of troops have come, and the logistics can overwhelm them.

Everything depends on oneself.

"This Baili Gansong River Valley is an ideal ambush battlefield. This terrain is conducive to ambush the enemy on our side with few troops, and to attack the arrogance of the party members. And just like what Bali Sima said, we have few troops now. Weak, but the party has a large number of people, so they will inevitably underestimate the enemy, they will not think that we dare to take the initiative, so this is an opportunity!"

Fighting a war is not just a head-to-head competition of force, it involves many things, especially for the commander, in fact, the decisive victory is outside the battlefield.

It's more of a psychological contest. Whoever can predict the enemy's opportunity and who can catch him by surprise will win half of the battle before it even starts.

Although the Qiang people are tough.

But Qin Qiong is a veteran of many battles.

Even if Li Jing is not old now and shows his power again, Qin Qiong is still one of the most famous generals in the Tang Dynasty.

Against a group of Dangxiang Qiang people, it is impossible for Qin Qiong to lose in momentum.

Li Buli thought about running and defending, but Qin Qiong was thinking about attacking.

"How can such a good opportunity be wasted?"

"Bailibuli is willing to obey Situ's order!" Seeing that Qin Qiong is determined, and that Qin Meng's bull eyes have been staring at him, Bailibuli can only bite the bullet.

"Very well, please transfer Li Sima to a thousand light cavalry to attack with me!"

Qin Qiong transferred 500 of his own troops, including 500 of the [-] who took advantage last time, and the remaining [-] were [-] of the second batch of [-], and a small number of people who were familiar with the terrain of Songzhou Originally, the Han Chinese slaves from the Ministry of Ribes were used as guides.

500 people, all equipped with light knives and fast horses, only brought some dried meat and water, and traveled lightly.

Qin Meng was in charge of staying in Songzhou, and another general, Qin Dahai, was in charge of staying in Jiaohe City. He divided Libuli's two sons into the Baoli tribe and assisted the two generals in staying behind.

(End of this chapter)