The Jagged Cavalry of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 438 Chapter 437 West Wind (4)

The Liqian people left, and Ma Chao and others temporarily lived in this dilapidated courtyard. To Ma Chao, the Liqian people were mysterious. Yang Fu said that the Liqian people were brave and good at fighting, and they were born warriors, with a radius of tens of miles. No one dared to challenge the Liqian people.

However, Liqian people are sparsely populated. In the huge city of Liqian, it is not bad to be able to find 2000 people.Among them, most of the young and strong Liqian people are away from home. They only go home twice a year, once in summer and once in winter. After a simple rest, they will embark on the journey again once they have a new mission.

The Liqian people don't know how to farm or hunt, they only know how to fight, so they are very poor.But in order to support their families, they found a way out on this land, that is, as mercenaries, whoever has money, they will work for whoever.

Liqian people have grown from more than 100 people at the beginning to nearly 2000 people today. I have to say how difficult their development process is.Because of poverty, few women are willing to marry here. Most of the women obtained by the Liqian people are captured from the battlefield. Women are not only the property of the Liqian people, but also a tool for them to pass on their families.However, due to the rarity of women, among the Liqian people, the status of women is quite high.

If Liqian gave birth to a daughter, then this daughter was equivalent to a tool for them to make money. After making an agreement with other clansmen on the money, they would marry the daughter off and get a lot of money.

All of this, Ma Chao got the information from Yang Fu, and Yang Fu read it from a book recording the ethnic customs of Liangzhou, but in fact, what kind of people are Liqian people? They had never seen it before, and the Liqian man they saw today was also the first time they saw it.

In terms of appearance alone, Liqian people are somewhat different from Han people, and also different from Qiang people and Hu people. They are tall and strong, with dark brown hair and beards, fair complexion, and deep eye sockets. Sunken, with a blue light in his eyes.

In short, this is a person who is different from all races in Liangzhou, and is a relatively independent race.

In addition, Liqian people have always been law-abiding and never rebelled against the court, perhaps because they are grateful to the big man for giving them a place to live.

Moreover, they are keen to arrest the wanted criminals who have been rewarded by the court, and after beheading their heads, they will take these heads to the government to exchange for rewards.In addition, these Liqian people don't have horses, and they use the money they get to make a living, because they don't have such good luck every year to catch fugitives, or they are hired by people in exchange for commissions , they must use what they have to buy food that can be stored.

The night was deep, but Ma Chao couldn't sleep at all. The dilapidation of Liqian City was beyond his imagination. Looking around, it could be regarded as a small town at best, but this palm-sized place became A piece of pure land among horse thieves, no one dares to come here to find trouble, and no one is willing to give their lives for a dilapidated city.

However, Liqian City has become the protector of this land. It is said that Liqian people once had the experience of fighting a thousand horse thieves with a hundred infantry. People fled in embarrassment.

From then on, the horse thieves no longer dared to underestimate the Liqian people, and whenever they passed through Liqian City, they hid far away.

"My lord, are you still not resting?" Seeing that Ma Chao was not asleep, Wang Shuang came over and asked.

"I can't sleep, you go to bed first!" Ma Chao said casually.

Wang Shuang nodded, leaned against a tree and closed his eyes. Not long after, he heard the sound of snoring.

After a while, there was a lot of snoring, and Ma Chao couldn't sleep anymore. He walked outside lightly, trying to walk around the city.

At the same time, in a forest outside Liqian City, several dark and sneaky figures appeared, and one of them pointed to Liqian City and said, "Brother, they have all entered Liqian City, I can see everything clearly." Chu."

The man called Big Brother glanced at Liqian City, and said, "Bad luck! They are actually hiding in the city of those bastards, what a bad luck!"

"Brother, look at how dilapidated this city is. If we launch an attack, it can be taken down in a short while. Moreover, there are only more than 20 people in that group, so there is nothing to be afraid of. I only need to lead 100 people to take that group down." All the heads of the people are dedicated to the elder brother, and as for the belongings they bring, they are all dedicated to the elder brother!" said the black shadow who spoke first.

The man called Big Brother said: "No! This is Liqian City, you must not do anything here!"

"It doesn't matter what Liqian City or other city it is. In short, the goods brought by that group are all in this city. As long as we break through the gate of this city, we will kill the generals and go in, grab the property and leave..."

"Nonsense! This is the territory of the Liqian people, and we must not provoke it! Otherwise, we can't afford to go around!"

As soon as the words fell, the elder brother left the forest, leaving behind a moment of suspicion about where the black shadow was.

"Brother has never been afraid of the sky and the earth, why did he get scared when he got here?"

Another person said: "You came to Liangzhou from other places. You haven't heard of some things. This Liqian people are not easy to mess with. How many of us are there? Only two hundred people. I think there were a group of people who were in harmony with you back then." When people like us marched across Xiliang, there were thousands of people, relying on their numbers, to attack Liqian City, but they were defeated by a hundred Liqian people, and even the leader lost his life From then on, no one dared to think of the Liqian people anymore, and they all kept a respectful distance from the Liqian people. If you have fought with the Liqian people, you will know the methods of the Liqian people. And on the business roads in this area , as long as the caravans are guarded by Liqian people, they can generally get through without incident, why, because the Liqian people are so powerful, they are all brave and good at fighting, and they all count one as ten."

After hearing these words, the man was stunned for a while and asked, "Is what you said true?"

"Of course it's true. If you don't believe it, you can ask other brothers. Oh, yes, I forgot to tell you. The leader who died at the hands of the Liqian people was the grandfather of our eldest brother. Liqian people have blood feuds, but even so, they dare not touch Liqian people."

"So that's the case. It seems that we can only wait until tomorrow daytime, when those people leave Liqian City, before we start!"

Ma Chao in the city would never know what happened outside the city, and he would never know that his group had already been targeted by horse thieves.

Ma Chao and others were well equipped and well trained, but the two carts of gold, silver and jewelry they carried were too eye-catching.During an inadvertent trip, two carts of gold, silver and jewelry were unintentionally exposed, not wanting to be spotted by a horse thief.

This group of horse thieves is from the Heli Mountain. They spread across Zhangye and Jiuquan, and they specialize in attacking caravans passing through the Hexi Corridor. different factions.

After the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Liangzhou has been in turmoil. Many Liangzhou people were forced to move westward. The horse bandits in the Hexi Corridor have always been the most rampant.The leader of the horse thieves in Heli Mountain was surnamed Jiang, named Jiang Chao, who had been bandits here for generations.In addition, the Jiang surname is also a common surname in Liangzhou. It is said that Jiang Chao’s grandfather used to be a lieutenant protecting Qiang before he became a bandit in Heli Mountain, but because of persecution, he fled to Heli Mountain and became a bandit. , and its power gradually grew, but later it was defeated because of the attack on Liqian, and the tribe gradually dispersed.Coupled with the encirclement and suppression by the government, the horse thieves in Heli Mountain fell to the bottom all of a sudden, and Jiang Chaoshi lingered until Jiang Chaoshi. Because of Jiang Chao's unparalleled bravery, he gradually stabilized people's hearts. With the help of the Yellow Turban Rebellion and several rebellions in Liangzhou, Gradually gained a firm foothold in Heli Mountain, and gradually restored the great momentum of his grandfather in the past.

In addition, Jiang Chao is also very good at using relationships. He was originally from the Jiang family in Jicheng. The family brothers Jiang Jiong and Jiang Yue, two people who are used to fighting, expanded their power even more.

However, Jiang Chao has always been at odds with Li Shi, a horse thief located in Nanshan. The two often fight, but no one can do anything to the other.The horse thieves of the Li family and the horse thieves of the Jiang family became the two most powerful horse thieves in the Hexi Corridor, and they also established cottages, both claiming to be kings.

Therefore, in general, caravans passing through the Hexi Corridor must pay protection fees if they want to avoid being robbed. If they are handed over to Li's horse thief, they will be attacked by Jiang's horse thief, and vice versa.Therefore, caravans generally have to pay two protection fees so as not to be attacked.

Of course, there is another way, which is to hire Liqian people as guards, because as long as there are Liqian people, these two groups of horse thieves will not dare to act rashly, and the caravan can pass through the sphere of influence of the horse thieves smoothly.

As a result, the Liqian people's mercenary business boomed, and the orders to pick up the job were all lined up far away.

Ma Chao wandered around the city, and suddenly found that besides them, there were other caravans in the city. He walked around and took a rough inventory. In such a small city, there Fifteen or six caravans were accommodated, and everyone fell asleep leisurely and contentedly, as if they were not worried about foreign intrusion.

However, in Ma Chao's heart, there was a faint worry. So many caravans gathered here, but Liqian people in the city rarely saw them. Aren't the caravans in the city all going to suffer?
(End of this chapter)