I Am Going To Fight From West To East

"Ma City Lord, I don't know how many people there are in the city" Li Xiang refreshed after a half-day rest, sitting by the oven, the warmth of the fire radiated from the oven, making people feel very Comfortable.

Outside, even if you wear thick clothes and animal skins, but your hands are cold, it's better to use weapons directly.

Since Ma Zhenjiang was captured by Xiliang, he began to convene at dawn to do as Li Xiang said, prepare food and drink for the soldiers of Xiliang, he dared not move What kind of caution, such as poisoning in food and the like.

Will there be some special talents in the army?

The soldiers on the city wall all surrendered and were pressed by the soldiers of Xiliang to the barracks to clean up. One of the four barracks in the city was complete, with corpses everywhere, weapons and armors scattered on the ground, Coagulated blood.

Let these soldiers, who usually bully the ordinary person in the city, feel frightened. The elites in the city are all ruthless who have fought with the Qiang people, but now they all collapsed in this place and died tragically in the west. In the hands of cool soldiers.

More than 20,000 people, only less than 5,000 people survived, and 15,000 people died overnight!

Four Directions City gate was killed by soldiers of Xiliang There were soldiers patrolling the city wall and Xiliang scouts outside. Li Xiang didn't want to let the news of the Qiang fortress being shot down by himself spread out.

Zhuqiang Fortress is the gateway of Zhangye County in the northeast. Now this portal has been taken down by him. Behind the Zuqiang Fortress are a lot of small towns and small towns, all the way to the six counties in Zhangye County. A county, black liquid county!

Black liquid county is named after a black liquid that can burn. This black is indestructible in the presence of water. It is an important urban defense tool for the Ma Family and is often used to attack City soldiers!

There are about 20,000 troops stationed in Black Liquid County, and there are also a large number of important military towns around Black Liquid County, because there are abundant mines around Black Liquid County, and these military towns are Ma Family's arsenal has about 70,000 garrisoned troops, plus the number of people who can be mobilized, 100,000 elite soldiers can be mobilized.

At the same time, there are few mountainous terrains in Zhangye County, so it is not suitable for large-scale cavalry operations!

Li Xiang had already made plans before he came to encircle the points and fight for reinforcements. Live in black liquid county and eat reinforcements from all sides.

However, this requires a large number of troops. If you rely on the 30,000 horses in your hand, it will not be to surround and fight for reinforcements, but to send meat! He sent scouts to give orders to the rear, and the whole army moved forward.

The army marched forward in the snow, which was a very risky behavior for Xiliang, which was why he ordered the army behind him to come after he stopped Qiang.

Leaving Sanshuihu means that the Xiliang army will lose its logistical supplies. Only after winning the Qiang fortress can he dare to transfer the Xiliang army to this fortress.

He already thinks that the food and grass in the city is enough for the 100,000-strong army of Xiliang for three months. They captured Zhangye County!

In addition, there will be reinforcements coming from behind the Xiliang army, and the troops in the dark world have returned to the northwest and are heading south at this time.

In the Northwest, because of the tragic battle of the Seventh Army in Dan Liang Province, they began to recruit troops on a large scale, and the Northwest fell into a frenzy of enlistment. Many people who had not joined the army for various reasons before, immediately into the army.

People in the northwest are not afraid of death, what they are afraid of is what will happen to their families after death!

The perfect and generous pension policy of the Xiliang army has made countless people feel happy, To die on the battlefield, the idea of ​​getting a sum of money for the family, but unfortunately without a little martial power, they are not even qualified to go to the battlefield.

At the beginning of spring, Li Xiang predicted that there will be 600,000 troops in Xiliang Province, including 200,000 Xiliang headquarters, 300,000 Seventh Army regiments, 100,000 Eighth Legions, The mission of the ninth Legion is to guard the Qingxi grassland.

The eighth Legion is here to guard the captured city!

Ma Zhenjiang respectfully said, "Go back to the Provincial Governor, there are 230,000 people in the Qiang Fortress!"

Ma Zhenjiang is sincerely respectful this time,

he thought that when the army of Xiliang entered the city, it would burn, kill and loot like the soldiers he remembered breaking into the city, as long as it was not pleasing to the eye Draw the knife towards each other.

But when he saw it in the city, the soldiers of Xiliang were performing their respective duties. The soldiers who should rest went to the arranged places to rest, the patrols should be patrolling, and at the same time, a group of soldiers cleaned the snow off the ground, allowing the whole city Road traffic has gotten better.

Just when he came back, the soldiers of Xiliang will rebuild the house that was destroyed in the battle yesterday, because the war affected the enemy, so that the owner inside can return home.

These soldiers are very skilled in construction, and the houses they build are more beautiful and stronger than other houses.

Ma Zhenjiang has never seen such an army. When the Ma Family army broke other cities, they basically let the soldiers burn and kill for a period of time. Basically, where the soldiers used to go, they left behind. Just a piece of scorched earth.

"230,000!" Li Xiang took a sip from the teacup: "It seems that the population of Liang Province is quite large, wait a minute, please go and tell those civilians, this paragraph If you don’t have food, you can go to the granary to buy it from the soldiers of Xiliang!”

“Provincial Governor, don’t worry, they won’t go out!” Ma Zhenjiang knows himself very well Civilians under the rule: "Basically, each of them will have food for 3-4 months in their homes. Don't worry, adults!"

"It seems that this place is very rich, and they can buy so much food! "Now that the Daqian Dynasty is raging with wars and food prices are soaring, Li Xiang can sometimes exchange one boat of grain for three boats of civilians.

When the Xiliang transport ships are not transporting large troops, they often go to war-torn places to transport civilians. Of course, they are ordinary transport ships.

Ma Zhenjiang smiled bitterly: "There is no other way. Since more than 20 years ago, Liang Province has been caught in the quagmire of war, and the battle between the Three Great Families, Qiang, Xianbei and other races has not happened. Rebellion.

In the past 20 years, this city has suffered 48 wars, of which 15 were initiated by the Han Family, and the remaining 33 were by the Qiang people from Wuwei County. The Qiang fortress.

There was a time when the city was besieged for three months, and the food in the city was short, so the corpses were eaten, and the reinforcements arrived and drove the Qiang people away.”

Said Zhanma Zhenjiang laughed: "However, those are all summer or autumn days, and they were attacked this winter, but it was the first time I blocked Qiang City, and I never thought of attacking in winter."

Li Xiang laughed: "If you are unexpected, you are not prepared for it. If you are prepared, if I want to kill the city, I will have to lose a lot of people!"

"If you are surprised, you are not prepared for it!" Ma Zhenjiang After pondering over this sentence, there is no such thing as a war, but no one has simplified a tactic into just eight words, and eight words can sum up a tactic.

Ma Zhenjiang looked at Li Xiang's young face and felt that something was really incomparable: "I have been taught, I don't know Mr. Provincial Governor, do you have any other orders?"

Li Xiang glanced at the snowflakes that were still falling outside: "I want the details of the soldiers and horses in Black Liquid County, will you give them?"

Ma Zhenjiang complexion stiffened: "This, this. .."

He belongs to the Ma Family, and the black liquid county is an important arsenal for the Ma Family. The Ma Family's Fang Family business is inseparable from the arsenal in the black liquid county.

"I don't want to say it, don't force it!" Li Xiang knows the cohesion of a family. A Great Family may have some unfairness and some scum, but it is more about maintaining the family, not saying loyalty Such words, but interests, everyone in the family is related to interests.

When the family is strong, they will live better, and when the family is down, their life will be worse day by day.

Ma Zhenjiang can achieve this position, without the support of his family, it is impossible!

"Prepare more food, find some people who can cook from the city, Let them go to each camp!" Li Xiang did not force Ma Zhenjiang: "I also bought some live poultry and sent them to the military camp. In the next seven days, I want my soldiers to eat meat every day!"

Near the grasslands, there are naturally a lot of live poultry, livestock, etc. in the city, but most of these will not be killed until the New Year, when the Xiliang army will arrive soon, Li Xiang must let the soldiers eat better .

Hearing Li Xiang's words, Ma Zhenjiang's brow was a little embarrassed. There are many live animals and livestock in the city, but it is not simple to let those people take out these things, but when I think of the Xiliang army 's blade.

The soldiers of Xiliang are currently doing very well, and they are both sides with the public.

These soldiers each have several lives in their hands, daoist they are angry, and the whole city may no longer exist.

Think about what happened in the military camp. There are only 5,000 people left from the 20,000 people. Among them, more than 3,000 survived because they went out without being in the military camp. The only ones who really survived in the camp were not. To 2,000 people, of which the main force has not come back to his senses, and has been immersed in that massacre.

"Yes!" Ma Zhenjiang lowered his head.

"Report!" A Xiliang scout walked in from the outside: "My lord, the scout team found a huge pasture more than ten miles away from the fortress. The people inside attacked us. The 230 people inside were all beheaded, and more than 1,300 cattle and 40,000 sheep were harvested. According to the calculation of the scout team, if we continue a little further north, there should be more pastures!"

"Well done, go to investigate immediately, if there are too many enemies, I will allow you to mobilize the Xiliang Iron Cavalry!" Li Xiang's mood improved instantly because Ma Zhenjiang refused to provide information.

Let's just say, how could there be no cattle and sheep in the land of Liang Province, all of which are close to the grasslands, and the Qiang, Xianbei and other ethnic groups are nomads.

Ma Zhenjiang held a moment of silence for several Great Families in the city. Ordinary people also have pastures, as well as cattle and sheep, but those people have already brought their cattle and sheep to the farther south for storage. When winter comes, every year, They will drive the cattle and sheep to the south. They do not have much manpower and material resources to prepare too much food and grass for the cattle and sheep, and they also do not have the financial resources to build a pasture for the cattle and sheep to live in in the cold winter.

These civilians are grouped together, and each household sends one person to the south to guard each year. Generally, there are about 3,000 guards. The rest are waiting in the city for the next spring.

And the people of the Great Family, don't want to be so troublesome, they set up a ranch outside, there are seven ranches in total, hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep, and one ranch has more than 5,000 horses, five More than 100 qualified horses.

Thinking of the unfortunate family members in the city, Ma Zhenjiang doesn't know why he feels very happy, after all, he is no longer the unlucky person alone.

"Bring in the cattle and sheep!" Li Xiang said to Ma Zhenjiang: "There is no need for poultry or livestock in the city!"

On the second day of entering the city, Shenjiying and Sanji Wan guard infantry arrived, and more snowflakes floated in the sky.

The snow on the ground was already half a meter deep, the deepest in previous years, when everything fell into silence in Liang Province.

Xiliang soldiers from the northwest land, they are clothed in thick cloak, with gloves made of ominous beast in their hands, and all their boots are made of ominous beast leather.

This means that nothing in Xiliang consumes gold and silver. The raw materials are obtained by hunting ominous beasts in the northwestern land. The people who sew are women from the headquarters of Xiliang. They do not need wages, they only need to eat If you need money, of course, go to the government to explain the reason, and you can get enough money.

Most of the Xiliang headquarters are self-produced and sold. For them, there is basically no cost except for materials. In Li Yi's words, the things used by soldiers in the Xiliang headquarters are everything. Use the best available.

Most of the good things in Xiliang are also used by the headquarters of Xiliang. It is not as good as the equipment on their body, any soldier's clothing or weapons. If it is on the Dagan side, the cost price is all. It is more than 80 taels, and at least one set must be sold for more than 100 taels, but when it is made, there should not be many people buying it.

Would people who can spend 100 taels buy weapons and equipment buy this set of soldiers from the headquarters of Xiliang?

And people who can wear this set of clothes do not have enough money to buy it. It is impossible for Dagan to generally equip such a suit. It is too expensive, and there are a lot of ominous beast fur in Xiliang, and artificial is also Xiliang. The headquarters completed it by itself, and it was basically the stuff of the Xiliang headquarters itself. It didn't take any money to make the soldiers of the headquarters wear such a set.

Driving the war horse on the front line on the road, if you feel cold, take a sip of the beast blood wine.

In such cold weather, if there is still a scout to investigate, it is to go with the other party

In the middle of the army, the army is pulling a truckload of food, ominous beast meat, and animal blood and wine, The soldiers of the Xiliang headquarters are good at drinking, but they are very measured. They know when to get drunk and when to drink a little to warm up!

In the pure white snow, a long black dragon rushes towards the Qiang fortress. In a frenzy in the fortress, the smell of beef and sheep is everywhere, and the smell of wafting, boiled and grilled meat.