Xuande

Chapter 300 Xianbei Invasion
Liangzhou, on April 21st in the fourth year of Zhongping, there was an urgent report from Zhangye County and Jiuquan County, saying that Xianbei cavalry invaded and plundered the border areas, causing serious losses.

The guards of the two counties tried their best to resist, and the defense could only be maintained at a few key cities. They wept blood and asked for support.

Liu Bei was furious when he heard the words, and summoned his subordinates to discuss, and judged based on the information, that the intruders this time were Zhijian Luoluo, one of the Western Xianbei masters, and his subordinates.

He has harassed Liangzhou's border counties many times in the past, and it can be said that he has committed many crimes. When Liangzhou was in chaos this time, this guy did not move. After Liu Bei ruled Liangzhou and Liangzhou was stable, he came.

Liu Bei has not yet started the industrial layout in Jiuquan County and Zhangye County, and has not yet stretched out his hand, but as a Liangzhou shepherd, he has the responsibility to guard the land. If these bastards dare to invade their own territory, they are slapping themselves in the face. They cleaned it up, and it will be a question mark whether his government orders will work in Liangzhou in the future.

If he wanted to do great things in Liangzhou, he had to prove one thing.

He is the strongest!

He does not allow anyone or anything that challenges his authority to appear in Liangzhou.

"Since he dared to invade Liangzhou, he must be ready for my head to be chopped off and built into a Jingguan. If so, then I will satisfy his request!"

Liu Bei's eyes were full of ferociousness, and Yan Wen, Yan Zhong and others beside him, who were full of murderous aura, were not at ease.

But they all knew that Liu Bei was really angry.

If the master who was killed out of the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood gets angry, I can't guarantee that they can do anything.

Liu Bei quickly made a decision that Bie Jia Yan Zhong would stay in Hanyang County and handle daily government affairs on his behalf, and he would personally lead the army to attack.

After some mobilization, Liu Bei prepared to dispatch five battalions of cavalry to attack with him.

The master led the attack with him, Wu Jie was engaged in Liu Sheng, Wu Ping was engaged in Pang De, Wu Rui was engaged in Xu Huang's three generals to attack with him, joined the army in charge of Shu Zuo Jia Xu followed him to attack, Gai Xun, the prefect of Hanyang County, temporarily led the state capital Wude Engage, follow him to attack.

This is Liu Bei's second military operation since he took office as Liangzhou Mu. Everyone has some experience, so they won't be in a hurry.

Zhen Yan, who was in charge of the finance department, and Yin Da, who was in charge of the warehousing department, were ordered to prepare for the logistics. They quickly allocated the military rations that Liu Bei had brought and stored. , led the army to attack.

At that time, the Xianbei cavalry plundered and looted in Jiuquan and Zhangye counties respectively, and did a lot of evil. Because of the large number of people, many places in the two counties were destroyed, some powerful manors were also destroyed, and the people suffered heavy losses.

Some of the survivors hid in the city and resisted desperately to survive. Relying on their rich experience in frontier survival, the Xianbei cavalry could not break through the city for a while.

The remaining part of the survivors took refuge in the manors of famous tycoons, and joined forces with the big tycoons to defend themselves and carry out a certain degree of resistance, which prevented the Xianbei cavalry from easily obtaining a large amount of supplies.

At this time, Liangzhou's "advantage" as a border area is reflected.

These places are often invaded by Qiang people, Xianbei people and other tribes. There are also many Han Chinese bandits. knife.

Ordinary aggression does not really make it difficult for them to survive. On the contrary, there is a possibility of being successfully counterattacked by them. If there were not too many Xianbei people who came this time, and there was no warning for a while, the Jiuquan people and Zhangye people would not be beaten immediately. So he asked Liu Bei for help.

According to the reports from the two counties, the state preliminarily judged that the number of Xianbei cavalry who invaded was about [-] or more, not a small number, and it should be a large-scale looting operation.

But if you really want to say it, it’s still that sentence.

The Han army was dissatisfied with their pay, and they were invincible with full pay.

The Han army is not full, and the full stomach is invincible.

With full pay and a full stomach, the Han army is invincible.

The Xianbei may be better than the cavalry of the Han army in horsemanship, but neither the weapons they use, the protective gear they wear, nor their techniques and tactics are as sophisticated as the Han army.

The weapon forging technology of the Han Empire far surpassed that of the nomads in the north during this period. Since the rise of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the nomads have not posed any major threat to the Han Empire.

As long as the soldiers of the Han army are fed, clothed and well-equipped with weapons, they can basically win every battle against nomadic cavalry.

Unless there is a big problem within the Han Empire, and the nomadic side has a genius leader who is very good at fighting, taking advantage of the number.

Such as sandalwood locust tree.

During the heyday of sandalwood and locust trees, there were 20 people who controlled strings, and they traveled thousands of miles from east to west. At that time, the Han Empire really dreamed of going back to the Wenjing era. It was very helpless to be ridiculed by the mighty Xiongnu Empire. .

Even wanting to get married was rejected by Tan Shihuai.

But now Tan Shihuai is dead, and the unified Xianbei no longer exists. His son Helian was shot to death by an arrow from the common people who were good at archery on the Han border. The Xianbei Empire that once posed a huge threat to the Han Empire has already collapsed.

The Xianbei force that threatened Liangzhou was the western Xianbei during the Tanshihuai period. After Tanshihuai's death, the western Xianbei rebelled against the Danhanshan Xianbei royal court and developed independently. Although it still has a certain scale, its strength is far inferior to that of Tanshihuai back then. .

This time, 1 people were dispatched to the south to plunder. It is estimated that they want to fight a wave of autumn wind, and there is no purpose of all-out war.

But this is also intolerable to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei attaches great importance to weapons and protective gear when fighting wars. Even if the production capacity of armor and vests in Liangzhou is not high enough to fully cover the cavalry and horses of the Han army, he will concentrate all forging production capacity to give priority to providing protective gear for the army and soldiers. Prioritize the protection of the vital points of the horse and war horse.

Therefore, the soldiers under Liu Bei's command are very willing to fight to the death for Liu Bei.

That is the meat tank of the classical era.

After the cavalry of the Han army entered Zhangye County, they quickly detected that the main force of the Xianbei people was in the area of ​​Zhangye County. He took Pang De as the vanguard and led the army to rush forward.

On the seventh day of May, Pound's vanguard encountered a ranger from Xianbei, and the encounter began. Three thousand Han troops surrounded and wiped out the Xianbei ranger of more than 500 people. Only a few Xianbei cavalry saw that the situation was not good. Slip away, it can be said that the eyes and ears are sharp.

In this small encounter, Cao Ren, who served under Pound's command, made a lot of contributions. With his bravery, he defeated five or six Xianbei cavalry in a row, and his performance was outstanding.

On the eighth day of May, Pioneer discovered that about [-] people from Xianbei's main force were approaching the main force of the Han army. Obviously having received the news, Pang De immediately informed Liu Bei of this and led his army to approach Liu Bei.

Liu Bei found it funny that more than 5000 people dared to fight against him with 5000 people. Is it because these Xianbei people have not been beaten up by the Han army for a long time, that's why they are so arrogant?

This is true. Since Tan Shihuai was beaten, Xianbei people have been really arrogant. Although Xianbei split into civil wars after Tan Shihuai's death, the Northern Expedition that defeated tens of thousands of cavalry of the Han army was still serious. Make them proud to this day.

For Liu Bei's view, Jia Xu, who was in charge of the military affairs, agreed.

"In the past, I heard some businessmen talk about it. In the eyes of many Xianbei people, maybe their failure was not because of the Han army. Their failure was because Tanshihuai died, not because the Han army defeated Tanshihuai. So They are not afraid of the Han army."

Liu Bei sneered.

"In this case, I will make them fear the Han army again."

(End of this chapter)