Northwest, Liangzhou, Wudu County, xiabiancheng.

This seemingly small city is where Wudu Prefecture is located, and it is also the northern boundary of Qinling Mountains, which stretches across Sichuan and Sichuan. On the East, South and west sides of Xiabian City, there are endless mountains. The only place where the county seat is is a plain. If you go further north, it will be flat.

In recent years, under the leadership of Guan Yu and Cui Jun, the banditry in Liangzhou almost completely subsided, and the disaster of Qiang people, which had plagued the Han Dynasty for more than 100 years, was basically pacified. More than 40% of the Qiang people's tribes had been canonized by Liu He, and moved to the cities or villages of the Han Dynasty, accepted the Enlightenment of the Han Dynasty, and most of the rest joined the trade.

in the tribes that moved to the Han Dynasty, those who learned Chinese quickly, and had the skills of farming, weaving, pottery, forging, or even though they had not learned these skills, had married men and women, married men of Han nationality, and then had registered residence certificates issued by the government, and had been allocated to various states and counties, and received housing, farmland and so on. The same life as Han people.

of course, before all these "good life" took place, that is, in the process of "Enlightenment", all Qiang people had to do their labour in Liangzhou, build walls, official roads and various water conservancy facilities in exchange for daily life, until they could get registered residence and become the people of the Great Han Dynasty.

In just a few years, more than 500000 Qiang people have been assigned to various places such as Ji, you, Bing, Si, Liang and so on. They are engaged in various kinds of work. Of course, there are also many strong people who have been recruited into the army.

Most of these tribal leaders were supported by Guan Yu and others. They accepted Liu He's canonization as an official. If they were trustworthy, they would assist Cui Jun in governing the area. If they were not so reliable, they would naturally receive a title from Luoyang and live in Kyoto like Bu Dugen of Xianbei. Although their power was not as powerful as before, they were comfortable as before The life they dare not imagine makes it difficult for them to have any dissatisfaction.

After all, the vast majority of people are greedy for comfort. If he shows a reluctance to be comfortable now, it's just that he doesn't feel comfortable yet. Settle down with exorbitant tax levies and

, the small tribes of the Xiongnu and the small towns of Hun tribe joined the war. After the war gradually subsided, a lot of wasteland and a lot of construction work attracted millions of Han people to find their chance to settle down. Many of them went to the mountains to make savages, took away their registered residence, and tried to evade the harsh taxes and levies of the court.

As a result, the population of Liangzhou today is nearly twice as large as that of Mateng and hansui.

In this regard, the Han people are naturally happy to see its success, and do not feel that living in the same city with the Hu people is bad.

After all, their cities, houses and roads were all built by Qiang people under the command of craftsmen of the imperial court. A lot of farmland has been reclaimed outside the city, half of which belongs to the reclaimers, the other half belongs to the imperial court, and the government distributes them. To some extent, the Han people enjoy it.

After the population explosion, the number of Liangzhou garrison also increased.

Under the instruction of Liu He, Guan Yu has never stopped recruiting soldiers in Liangzhou in recent years. The Liangzhou Legion has grown to 250000, of which more than 220000 are armed with armour. Only the newly recruited soldiers in about 30 thousand years have never got their own armour.

One hundred and fifty thousand of them were deployed in Jiuquan, Dunhuang, Zhangye, Wuwei and Beidi to guard against new enemies in the north and to frighten the western regions. After all, although the southern Huns had been destroyed, the northern Huns were still on the grassland in the northwest of the Great Han Dynasty, which made the small countries in the western regions scared.

The remaining 100000 people were all set up in Wudu County in case of Liu Yan in Xichuan.

Since Guan Yu and Cui Jun returned to Luoyang, the general in charge of Liangzhou was Pingrong General Zhang Liao.

On this day, Zhang Liao was still practicing martial arts in the school yard. He had a scythe in his hand. It was as flexible as an arm. It was very different from Guan Yu's spring and autumn sword technique.

"Good!" A military general in his twenties and seventies and eighties was caressing and praising him.

"Hoo..." Zhang Liao stood still, breathed out a long breath, and put the scythe on the weapon rack.

"The general's Sabre technique has become more and more perfect. In our Liangzhou army, except general Guan, you are general Zhang, who has the highest martial arts."

As he spoke, the young general handed over a warm wet towel.

Zhang Liao took the towel and wiped his face. He sighed: "Hey, no matter how well you practice this Dao technique, what's the use? Now the land of xichui is so stable. I'm afraid the Yellow hook scythe given by your majesty is going to rust. "

Hearing this, the young general was also dissatisfied: "after hearing the report from the Imperial Envoys, Cao Cao, Liu Bei and Sun Jian had been fighting with his majesty and general Guan for many days outside Hulao pass. General Guan did not take us with him for such a rare opportunity to perform meritorious service. He just took them with him. It's really biased."

Zhang Liao's face sank: "shut up, general Guan is a God and man of the time. How can you slander him with your nonsense? The old thief Liu Yan is not dead, so it's natural that we stay here. Although our general also wants to kill the enemy and make contributions, the imperial court has orders. As soldiers, how can we have resentment and disturb the morale behind us? "The general quickly apologized: "at the end of the general's words, please forgive me."

Zhang Liao just gave up: "well, after dinner, play a knife technique, feel comfortable, go, prepare hot water, the general wants to take a bath."

He was about to turn away when a soldier came running from the outside.

"General Zhang, scouts have emergency military information in return."

On hearing this, Zhang Liao quickly stepped forward and grabbed the urgent goods from the man.

After a few eyes, he looked up and laughed, looking very happy.

"General, what makes you so happy?" The young general was puzzled.

Zhang Liao's tiger eyes were wide open, looking at the distance: "hum, Liu Yan, the old thief, has sent troops. Two days ago, a large army suddenly appeared in Hanzhong, with the banner of "Zhang."

"Zhang Ren, the first general in Sichuan?"

"Yes, it must be him." Zhang Liao seemed eager to try: "in those days, this man killed General Ma Chao, and he almost got it. Later, he fought with general Zhang Yong to a near tie. This son of a concubine became famous by this. Yang Wei, hum, today he is going to take advantage of me Zhang Liao."

"Somebody

"The end will come."

"Herald, half an hour later, raise the bill and discuss business, tell the officers and men, it's time for us to make contributions."

In the city of Nanzheng in Hanzhong, Zhang Ren and Yan Yan are on the tower overlooking the distance. Although it was already night, the outline of the mountains in the distance could still be seen under the starlight.

"General Zhang, I have been waiting for Hanzhong for two days. Why didn't I send troops to attack Wudu?"

Yan Yan stroked his white beard, full of doubts.

Zhang Ren said with a smile: "although Xiabian city is small, it has been run like an iron bucket by Guan Yu and Cui Jun for many years. Besides, on the way to Wudu, the mountain road is very dangerous and easy to ambush. Our army has no superiority in strength. If we take the initiative to attack, we have no chance of winning. "

Yan Yan is also a veteran in the army for half of his life. He immediately heard the voice of his words.

"You mean Want the enemy to attack Hanzhong? But now Guan Yu is not in the army. I'm afraid they will focus on defense and will not attack easily, will they

Zhang Ren shook his head: "if it had been half a month ago, it would have been so, but now it is different."

"Oh? How is it different? "

"Liu He's army has always been based on military achievements. Without military achievements, even the descendants of Liu He, Gao Shun, Guan Yu and others can hardly be in a high position, let alone be recognized by the officers and men in the army. And those who have made military contributions, even the rustic people, even the refugees and beggars, can make great achievements. "

Yan Yan nodded slightly: "well, I have heard about it for a long time. All the officers and men of the enemy are brave and use their lives in battle. There are many reasons for that. "

"Hum..." Zhang Ren sneered: "although this can greatly enhance the morale of soldiers, it also has disadvantages."

"Oh? What's the point? " Yan Yan asked.

"It's very simple. The high morale of the soldiers is due to their eagerness to make contributions. If you are eager to do meritorious service and see the enemy in front of you, why not attack? Although Zhang Liao is not a reckless man, he should act calmly in normal times, but now Luoyang is in the middle of the war. Seeing that everyone else has made great contributions, they can only sit here. Hehe, even if Zhang Liao can bear it, I'm afraid that 100000 Liangzhou soldiers can't bear it.... "

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