Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 95 Iron Qiang Alliance

Liangzhou Qianghu does not refer to those big soldiers under Dong Zhuo.Dong Zhuo's subordinates also consisted of a small number of Qianghu, Xiongnu, Tuge and other alien races, but these alien races were finally incorporated into the Han army for many years. Although they sometimes did not obey the orders of superior officers, they still had the minimum discipline and obedience.

Worst of all, they are also a group of guys with the earliest prototypes of mercenaries, and they have room to be controlled and bought.But the real Liangzhou Qianghu are different. Strictly speaking, they are a group of unorganized and undisciplined bandits.Moreover, he is also a very powerful professional bandit.

The Liangzhou Qianghu who came this time is actually the Iron Qiang League of the Qianghu General League.The Iron Qiang Alliance was a big force in Liangzhou and even the entire late Han Dynasty. It ruled Dunhuang, south of the Western Regions, and thousands of miles away from the Congling Mountains. There are more than [-] species of Qiang Hu.Han Sui, Han Wenyue, is the current leader of the Iron Qiang League. If he showed his name in Kansai, he could exchange hundreds of copper coins.

There have been two major alliances in the Northwest in history, and each time it was earth-shattering and shocked the whole country.The first alliance of tribes in the northwest was when King Wu defeated Zhou. The tribes in the northwest joined forces with Zhou to defeat Zhou. The reason for the alliance of ministries was that King You played with the feudal lords, and the tribes in the northwest united to form a "dog army", attacked Gaojing, and the Western Zhou Dynasty was destroyed.Those Han Chinese who regarded themselves as civilized in China, the state of etiquette highly praised by Confucius, was the "Xiqiang" for success and "Xiqiang" for failure.

As for why the third alliance of various ministries appeared in the Xizhou area, the situation is more complicated.

The west of the Guanzhong Plain and the east of the West Sea (now Qinghai Lake) have been the place where the Qiang people have thrived since ancient times.Since the founding of the Han Dynasty, in order to prevent the invasion of the "Qiang League" again, the imperial court has implemented the following policies on the Qiang and Hu.On the one hand, the division and disintegration and military strikes made them allies; on the other hand, the Qiang people's land was embezzled in the form of military and civilian settlements, forcing them to move inward or far away from the frontier.

In this way, there are three benefits: first, it can solve the border troubles; second, it can enrich the population in the west; third, the Huns and Xianbei in the north have invaded successively, while the people in the northwest are fierce and wild, and the Qiang Hu who moved inward can just be used to fight and defend the border. .Therefore, starting from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the imperial court set up Ling Jusai (northwest of Yongdeng, Gansu Province today) and set up Qiang Xiaowei; later, Jincheng County (the county is Jincheng, now Lanzhou) and Poqiang, Yunxian, and Anzhou were added. Yi, Heguan, Fanghan, Baishi, Linqiang and other counties successfully merged the important gathering places of the Qiang people into the territory of the Han Dynasty; organized the Qiang Hu who moved inward into the army, and formed the "Yicong Qiang" and "Yicong Qiang" Hu' participated in the frontier war in the northwest.As a result, the power of Qiang and Hu was greatly weakened, and there was no longer a situation where hundreds of departments echoed each other from afar.

During the new dynasty, the pseudo-emperor Mang tried to add Vega to the world, restore the old system of the Zhou Dynasty, and included the West Sea in the fantasy of "the peace of the four seas".For this purpose, he wanted to completely eliminate the potential forces of Qianghu in the west.So he ordered the addition of Xihai County (east of Qinghai) in order to further devour the living space of the Qiang people.

But as the saying goes, things must be turned against each other. In the fifth year of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (AD 2000), Wang Mang added [-] new laws, "The offenders will be exiled to Xihai to garrison fields." As a result, tens of thousands of criminals came to Xihai County to garrison fields.Due to the influx of so many Han people at once, by the next year, all the Qiang land in Xihai had been occupied by the border guards, and the original owners of the land—more than [-] Qiang people lost their homes.They retreated to danger, unable to make a living, could not bear it anymore, and finally took the risk—Qiang chieftain Pang Tian and Fu Fan led the tribe to expel Cheng Shui, the prefect of Xihai, out of the country.Since then, the conflict between the Qiang and Hu people in the west and the Han people has deepened day by day, and finally reached the point where it cannot be controlled.

Wang Mang is very happy, and he only wants to achieve what he wants by relying on an ideal system, and failure is inevitable.However, it is a pity that after the defeat of Wang Mang and the revival of Guangwu, the imperial court's policy towards the Qiang people still did not improve.Although the imperial court withdrew from the West Sea, the number of soldiers, civilians, and farmers in the two counties of Longxi and Jincheng continued unabated. As a result, the land that originally belonged to the Qiang people in that area was robbed by the Han people and soldiers on the border.In addition, the frontier officials discriminated against Qianghu. They plundered a lot of people's wealth, and there were even records of secretly abducting Qianghu as slaves...

In the nearly 200 years since ZTE, the Qianghu and Han people in the Hequ area have always hated each other, and the situation is like fire and water. There are bloody vendettas every year, and countless turmoils.The imperial court sent troops to suppress no less than a thousand times, beheaded no less than 20 Qianghu heads, and cost billions of dollars.However, rebellion incidents are still emerging one after another, and the Qianghu's rebellious heart is inexhaustible and inexhaustible.

This is the reason for the formation of the third "Iron Qiang Alliance". The purpose is very simple, which is to kill the Han people and rebel.A real man was born between heaven and earth, so there is absolutely no reason for him to be bullied and slaughtered.Life and death are the same way, it is better to die more heroically.Therefore, the Xizhou Qianghu can be regarded as the product of the real government's oppression of the people and ethnic conflicts. Their history is full of long and tragic history.

However, at this time the Iron Qiang League has nothing to do with Han Sui's old man.In the first year of Zhongping (AD [-]), the "Yellow Turban Rebellion" broke out, the Central Plains and other places were chaotic and dilapidated, and the imperial court had no time to look around.In December of that year, various species of Qiang and Hu in Liangzhou moved upon hearing the news, and the Qiang and Qiang in Beidi County rebelled first. Boyu, Li Wenhou and more than [-] leaders of the Qiang and Hu tribes held a meeting of the whole Hequ tribe on the bank of the West Sea (Qinghai Lake).At this meeting, all the people drank the water of the West Sea together to declare the alliance to the world, and together they raised troops against the Han.This new military alliance formed by the Qiang and Hu from various tribes in the northwest was thus formed.

As for why it is called the "Iron Qiang League" this time, it is because all the Qiang and Hu cavalry in the Northwest like to use long iron spears of more than two feet in the front of the formation.Therefore, Beigong Boyu, who was jointly elected as the leader of the alliance, officially named the alliance "Iron Qiang League".

It's a pity that these stupid guys who only know how to use iron guns can fight their lives on the battlefield, but it's too bad to really work together to rebel.After the establishment of the Iron Qiang League, it experienced several internal factional struggles.The leader changed again and again, and today Han Sui is the fourth leader.

Han Sui, whose real name is Han Yue, served as governor of Liangzhou, and he and Bian Yun, the former magistrate of Xin'an County, were both famous Han people in Jincheng County.After the Iron Qiang League raised its troops, it fell into Jincheng, coerced Han and Bian to join the alliance together, and was responsible for the important military affairs of the alliance.Han Yue and Bian Yun were afraid that their real names would be wanted by the court and implicate their families, so they concealed their identities and changed their appearances——Han Yue changed his name to 'Han Sui', and Bian Yun changed his name to 'Bian Zhang'. "

This old man Han Sui was already very famous in the first year of Zhongping.When he entered Luoyang to handle official affairs, General He Jin had heard his name for a long time and met him specially. He persuaded He Jin to kill the eunuchs, but He Jin did not listen.Mr. Han Sui expected that the capital would be in turmoil, so he asked for the return of Liangzhou.

After the Tie Qiang League had two brainy guys, Mr. Han Sui and Bian Zhang, they finally stopped being a group of brave and foolish mobs, and their power grew rapidly.In the battle against the imperial court's conquest and suppression army, Han Sui repeatedly made military exploits - the left chariot general Huang Fusong once defeated hundreds of thousands of yellow scarves, beheaded Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao, but Han Sui defeated all such powerful figures.Later, there was a strange phenomenon from the sky, a shooting star was like fire, more than ten feet long, illuminating Han Sui's camp, and the horses neighed.Dong Zhuocai decisively dispatched troops to defeat Han Sui.After this battle, Dong Zhuo, the butcher, was feared by the court. After several battles, Dong Zhuo finally entered Beijing to cause chaos in Luoyang.

It's a pity that Dong Zhuo got his wish and was lit a sky lantern and became the brightest star in the night sky.

Just before Dong Zhuo was lit with sky lanterns, he also knew the importance of keeping his hometown in Liangzhou.As the principle that the butt determines the head began to work, Dong Zhuo no longer adopted the strategy of conquering the Iron Qiang League at one time.

Han Sui is a sinister and wise man, and everyone in Guanxi calls him "the nine bends of the Yellow River", which is a mockery of his deep city, vicious and cunning, and his mind and stomach are like the nine bends of the Yellow River, with seven twists and turns.The poor Qiang people didn't think about it carefully, how could this guy work so hard when he was coerced by the Qiang people to join the alliance?All he thought was to use the power of Qiang Hu to realize his ulterior ambition.

In fact, this is indeed the case. Once Han Sui gained a firm foothold in the alliance, he immediately bit back.In the third year of Zhongping (AD [-]), Han Sui invited Bianzhang, Beigong Boyu, and Li Wenhou to discuss matters, poisoned three of them to death, and annexed them.Later, Ma Teng, another Xizhou lord, killed Geng Bi, the governor of Liangzhou, and defected to him.

Ma Teng is a mixed Qiang and Han, so he has a large body, a different face and nose, and looks the same as the Qiang people.When he was young, he sold wood for a living, and later met a stranger in Zhangshan, so he learned martial arts that are extraordinary and refined.The Iron Qiang League raised troops in the West Sea, so Ma Teng joined the army, and later served as Sima under Geng Bi, the governor of Liangzhou, with his military exploits.At that time, Geng Bi indulged Cheng Qiu, a small official, to engage in treacherous profits, while Ma Teng was upright and virtuous, so he often clashed with these two.In the fourth year of Zhongyuan, Geng Bi, the governor of Liangzhou, sent troops to attack Han Sui.When the troops marched to Didao, Ma Teng launched a mutiny, first killed Cheng Qiu, then Geng Bi, and then defected to Han Sui.
Before Dong Zhuo became the brightest star in the night sky, he had already flirted with Han Sui and Ma Teng. Although he didn't formally recruit them, he let their subordinates go deep into the Sansuke.When Liu Xie conspired for a series of schemes, he didn't take this force into account at all, because in history, although these two people were stationed in Mei County, they just took a cold-eyed attitude towards the turmoil in Chang'an, and never shot.

However, this time, for what reason, they are about to start to move around?Now that there are internal and external troubles in the city of Chang'an, and there is a tendency for the mountain to rain and wind to fill the building, why do they want to make another storm?
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