Xuande

Chapter 354
In this battle, in addition to the main generals, the middle-level officers also made a lot of contributions.

Fanda's nephew Tuolida bumped into Cheng Pu while charging, Cheng Pu fought with him, and finally hacked him to death with a knife and chopped off his head.

Another nephew of Fanda, Youcheng, was targeted by Yan Xing when he was fleeing. Yan Xing rushed over with his own guard cavalry and stabbed him to death with a spear.

Gao Feng, the son of Xu Heduo, was very brave. During the battle, he unfortunately faced Cao Ren and Cao Chun alone, but he fought hard with them for more than ten rounds without losing the victory.

As a result, Cao Ren didn't talk about martial arts, and took out his crossbow and shot Gao Feng in the chest. After spraying his face, Gao Feng died in battle.

Xu Heduo's brave general Ta Xin fought fiercely with Liu Bei's trusted general Liu Yong. The two men and the cavalry guards fought bloody battles. In the end, Liu Yong injured his arm and beheaded Ta Xin under the cover of his personal guards.

In addition, Chige's eldest son and second son were besieged and killed by ordinary soldiers of the Han army during the battle.

Chige's younger brother was shot to death by a Han cavalry crossbow.

An ordinary cavalryman of the Han army stabbed Xu Heduo's cousin to death during the battle.

A large number of generals and officers of the Qiang army died in battle, and many officers and soldiers of the Han army were captured.

In this battle, the main force of the Qiang army was completely annihilated. Nearly 4000 people were beheaded by the Han army, and about 8000 people were captured. More than 6 horses of various types were captured, and more than 15 sheep were captured.

Not a lot of them were seized. The invading Qiang people were not as poor as Liu Bei imagined before the war. From this, Liu Bei judged that the reason why they invaded Longxi County was not only the need to survive the cold winter, but also the selfish desires of the leaders. important factor.

Ethnic groups such as the Qiang and Xianbei also have a strong divide between the rich and the poor and class consciousness. Leaders can always have the largest number of cattle, sheep and horses, and they don’t feel much about eating meat and drinking every day.

But for the low-level herdsmen, it is not so easy for them to eat meat and drink. If they really want to kill the cattle, sheep and horses to eat meat, they have no way to make up for it.

The leaders would not be merciful to use their own cattle and sheep to help the herdsmen. They must fight for more supplies with their lives.

It's just that they didn't expect to hit the iron plate this time.

Liu Bei was not surprised by the relatively easy victory in this battle.

Jia Xu was not surprised because she was used to it.

But Xun You was more surprised.

"Although our army has a great advantage in equipment, the Qiang people were wiped out so quickly. I still didn't expect it. It has only been one and a half years since the Junhou guarded Liangzhou. If the Qiang people are so easy to defeat, why did they go before Will there be a Qiang Rebellion that lasts for a hundred years?"

Xun You expressed his feelings to Liu Bei in this way.

For this question, Liu Bei already had his own answer.

"The answer is right in front of you, because the big man was seriously ill, a very serious illness, and he didn't get better from the beginning of his illness. Today, even to the point where he is dying of illness, corrupt officials are rampant, and they are extorting money from the people and surrendering foreigners. , the officials forced the people to rebel, and this disaster happened.

Still, have you noticed?Gongda, these Qiang people don't have unified military uniforms, uniform weapons, or even a decent military formation. If the Han army maintains a standard military formation, even if there are millions of Qiang people, they are just chickens and dogs. How can they be scattered? Soldiers against the army formation? "

"Is it the big man's own problem?"

Xun You took a deep breath and sighed again and again: "This...what the hell is going on?"

Liu Bei shook his head slowly.

"Since the resurgence of Guangwu, the military of the Han Dynasty has not been as good as before. The establishment and training of the army are not as good as before. With the rise of Confucianism, Luoyang worships Confucianism, and Yanwu cultivates literature. Don't care about the training of generals.

Lack of skilled soldiers, lack of generals who can command a large corps, dispatching school lieutenants and Zhonglang will become commanders in case of trouble, the imperial court has almost lost the ability to command a large number of troops to coordinate the forces of the four parties to launch an overall war, and can only fight with a small army Combat in a small area, lacking a global vision! "

Xun You didn't quite understand some of Liu Bei's words, but he could understand a little bit what Liu Bei wanted to express.

"Your Majesty, what do you mean to say that since Guangwu Zhongxing, the imperial court lacks talents who can decide the world in one battle, right?"

"You could say the same."

Liu Bei said with emotion: "After Guangwu Zhongxing, especially after Emperor Xiaozhang, the big Han lacked large-scale battles. Everything wanted to be carried out in a limited area with the least force, not to fight as a whole, not to fight the war of destroying the country. , only to fight for the restoration of law and order, if this kind of law and order war is fought too much, the martial virtue of the great man will weaken."

"Public Security War..."

Xun You muttered a few words, raised his head and looked at Liu Bei: "Your Majesty, do you think this kind of public security warfare cannot always be fought?"

"That's natural. For example, Duan Jiong, one of Liangzhou's Sanming, fought 180 battles in one year at most. 180 battles! One battle every two days, what kind of war is this?"

Liu Bei sneered and said: "The ancients have always admired the accomplishment of one battle, but I don't know when it started, our generals only thought of muddling along, just destroying the enemy in front of them, and didn't care about hidden dangers. The rebellion was extinguished here. , I got up again over there, tired of running, but I never get tired of it!
Among them, how many of them are because they want to embezzle military expenditures and support the bandits, I am afraid that only the parties themselves know clearly, but in my opinion, once a war starts, it must not stop until it achieves its goal. The consumption is exchanged for the greatest results, so that the war is meaningful! "

Xun You was quite enlightened by Liu Bei's words, and suddenly felt that some problems that he couldn't figure out in the past had been figured out.

At the same time, he also feels that Liu Bei's understanding of world affairs is really thorough and his perspective is very wonderful. No wonder he can accomplish so many great things.

I heard that Liu Bei was born in a humble family, and even grew up as a weaver of mats and shoes. He only studied with Lu Zhi at the age of 15, but it took only 11 years to go from a humble person to the status of an important figure in the Han Empire.

Some people always say that this is his fate, but Xun You thinks that Liu Bei's intelligence and alertness are also very important.

Of course, this does not prevent Xun You from thinking that Liu Bei is a genius, a genius who can gain insight into the world and find out the key to the problem.

With such a genius, what kind of things can be done in the future?

Xun You couldn't predict it, but for the first time he felt that there was an existence called "Hope" in his future.

The battle of Lintao ended with the complete victory of the Han army. The Qiang allied forces were wiped out by the Han army, and the three leaders of the Qiang allied forces were all finished. One of them died in the hands of Pound, and the other two died in the hands of Zhang. flying hands.

When Zhang Fei knew that he had killed two Qiang leaders in one go, he couldn't contain his joy.

Then, he got the embrace of Liu Bei, whom he had always dreamed of.

"You are indeed the person I trust, Yide, you have grown up, and I am proud of you!"

To Zhang Fei, Liu Bei's praise and acknowledgment are like the sounds of nature, and it is something that can really make him feel happy.

Satisfied, Zhang Fei didn't say anything, just waiting for Liu Bei's next arrangement.

There is no doubt about what to do next.

The Qiang people wanted to plunder Longxi County, and it was not without paying a price. Liangzhou happened to be short of people, a lot of strong labor, and there would never be too much human resources in this area.

They need to pay for what they did!
(End of this chapter)