Demon of the Three Kingdoms

"Chun pleads guilty to Lord Sikong!" Cao Chun just rushed out of the Xiliang army formation with a few personal soldiers, and immediately pleaded guilty to Cao Cao as soon as he returned to the prefect's mansion.

"Zihe, get up, today you asked for orders to attack and damaged many soldiers, are you guilty?"

"Purely guilty, Lord Sikong please punish."

"Our army is upright and the two armies are facing each other. When employing people, remember your mistakes first, and punish the Xiliang army in the future." Cao Cao waved his hand, indicating that Cao Chun can get up.

"Thank you, Lord Sikong!"

"Zihe, I was waiting on the tower to watch the battle just now, and I didn't watch it very carefully. Tell us about the situation in the army formation. Why did our army lose so quickly?" The battle situation, the specific situation needs to be explained by Cao Chun to everyone.

"My lord, after I led more than a hundred cavalry into the formation of the Xiliang army, the cavalry of the Xiliang army came up to meet them. The Xiliang cavalry was on equal footing with our army's cavalry."

"Well, Zihe continued."

"After purely testing the strength of the cavalry of the Xiliang Army, I tried to return to Chang'an with my subordinates, but encountered difficult infantry."

"Tough infantry?"

"Exactly! When Chun led the cavalry and tried to break out of the encirclement, a group of dead men with their upper body naked blocked our army horse with their bodies, dragged the cavalry off the horse, or sniped our army horse with their bodies or spears."

"What? Sniping with the body?" Cao Cao was stunned for a moment. Although every wealthy family in the Three Kingdoms would raise dead soldiers for their use, it was unheard of to engage in military battles on a large scale.It is basically the upper limit for a wealthy family to raise more than a hundred dead soldiers. Could it be that Ma Teng threw the dead soldiers into battle all at once?

"My lord, the dead soldiers General Cao talked about are not the dead soldiers we generally think of. They are slaves of the Xiliang Army!" Wei Duan stood up after hearing Cao Chun's description.Explain to Cao Cao.

"Slaves?"

"Exactly. My lord, what General Lu said is true. Xiliang Ma Teng and Han Sui refer to the laws of the countries in the Western Regions to select troops, replenish the army with slaves, and use money as military salary, so that the Qiang people will serve them."

"Is this the slave army?"

"My lord, every time the Xiliang army conquers a city, it will open its treasury and divide the contents of the treasury equally as a reward for the slave army."

"I see!" Cao Cao nodded.The slave army of the Xiliang Army is indeed a novelty.

"Xiu Fu, is each soldier in Xiliang responsible for distributing military funds to their slave army?" Lu Rui listened to Wei Duan's introduction, and he had a measure in his mind. Xiliang's regular army is equivalent to European knights, and the so-called slaves The army is equivalent to slaves serving knights in Europe.

"What General Lu said is true, every Xiliang sergeant on the register will be in charge of commanding four to six slave troops, and the Xiliang sergeant will be responsible for the military resources of the slave army. As long as it is obtained from looting, it can be distributed to his own slave army. So many Qiang people and people from the Western Regions are willing to die for the Xiliang Army."

"Xiufu, can't my big man's policy of appeasing the people not win the hearts of the Qiang people? Are they willing to serve the Xiliang army? Not our army?" Sima Lang was very puzzled after hearing Wei Duan's words.Could it be that a good farming life is nothing but a life of fighting and killing every day.The slave army is still willing to hand over their lives to the Xiliang army?

"Sima joins the army, you don't know about it. The Qiang people and the foreigners near Xiliang are basically good at riding and shooting, good at hunting, and they are barbarians. Most of them don't like farming life. The less Sinicized Qiang people are willing to accept Sinicized life, but they are a minority after all, and many Qiang people like the life of war and conquest." Wei Duan cupped his hands and bowed to Sima Lang.

"Boda, the Qiang people believe in the strong since they were young. The Qiang people who survived hunting can have meat every season. The Qiang people fight everywhere for the slave army and can keep meat for a month. If they are ordinary Han people, they can have meat for more than a month. Huh?" Lu Rui smiled, a wealthy family like Sima Lang naturally doesn't know the life of the poor.

The productivity of the big man is not very developed, especially in the era of war, the common people can't fill their stomachs, and it is common to eat by changing their sons and eating tree bark.Therefore, in Sima Lang's eyes, being a farming farmer of an aristocratic family is a very good thing, at least they will not starve to death.

Among the Qiang people, those who can survive are warriors. As long as they are willing to fight, they will have meat to eat. Why should they be exploited Han peasants?

"This...?" Sima Lang was stunned, speechless.

"Lord Sikong, what General Lu said is reasonable. All the babies of the Qiang people are abandoned in the wild or outside the house. It is up to the heavens to choose. Only the strong can stay and raise them. Although this method is cruel, it has also cultivated the fierce Qiang people. The slave army can eat meat, for our Han people fear that there will be no meat for a year. If I were a Qiang, I would also be willing to serve as a slave army.”

"According to what Xiufu said, the Qiang people cannot be used by our army?"

"Master Sikong, this statement is wrong! Our army can still let the Qiang people be used by our army." Guo Jia cupped his hands and stood up.

"Oh? What's Feng Xiao's opinion?" Cao Cao's eyes lit up when he heard that foreigners could be used by him. If there were people from other races to enrich his army, then he would have another bargaining chip to unify the world.

"My lord, just now Xiufu also said that the Qiang people also took the initiative to Sinicize and submit to the people who were taught by me. This shows that there are still foreigners who are willing to serve the Han people."

"Speak carefully, Feng Xiao!"

"Yes, Lord Sikong!"

"Your Excellency is familiar with history books, and you should know that Dou Xian and Dou Gu pacified the Southern Huns. Our army can imitate their methods to subdue the Qiang people and use them for our army."

"The method of flattening the Huns in the South?"

"Moving the tribe inward, cultivating farming, and withdrawing troops with a lot of money is the strategy to pacify the southern Xiongnu. Our army can also use this method to subdue the Qiang people."

Inward migration means to move foreigners into a city dominated by Han culture, spend one generation or even three generations to sinicize the foreigners, identify with Han culture, and become Han people.

Civilizing farming is to let foreigners change their lives and ways of life, put down their weapon-based life of killing, read and write, and live the farming life of the Han people, no longer taking killing as the main theme of life.

Receiving troops with a lot of money is to give foreigners extremely high material treatment, earn them into the army of the big man, and use the army composed of foreigners to deal with the resisting foreigners.This has something in common with the recruitment of slaves by the Xiliang Army, and it is also the source of later generations using barbarians to control barbarians.

"Well, Bufan, what do you think?" Cao Cao glanced at Lu Rui. Since Lu Rui understood the reason why the Xiliang slave army was formed, Cao Cao also wanted to hear Lu Rui's opinion.

"My lord, my subordinates believe that the strategy of pacifying the Huns in the south is indeed a good strategy to pacify the foreign tribes. If your lord subdues the Qiang people as an army, you can directly send your army south to attack Xichuan, and the recovery of the great Han is just around the corner." The wisdom of the ancients is extraordinary, especially Using barbarians to control barbarians is a coup in the strategy, and of course Lu Rui will use it.

"Okay, Fengxiao, Fanfan, I decided to send the two of you to Liangzhou, pay a lot of money, and persuade the Qiang people who are willing to serve our army to raid the rear wing of the Xiliang army."

"Yes, my lord!"

"The rest of the generals and I will be stationed in Chang'an, let the Xiliang army see how powerful our Yanzhou army is!"

"No!" (to be continued...)

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