Chapter 234
When Zhuo Bufan and Qingsong Laodao arrived at the battlefield, they saw Li Xiang in the army of the prairie people, commanding the cavalry of the prairie people to retreat.
The two sides seemed to have turned hostility into friendship. A few first-class experts from the grasslands followed Li Xiang, looking like a henchman, making the two of them really not sure what happened.
The 100,000-strong army of the prairie people went south. This is 100,000 cavalry, not 100,000 infantry. For this reason, Zhuo Bufan also prepared a lot of things to resist the cavalry, but now it seems that the things he prepared are useless. !
Two people came to the side of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and after the commander of the guards learned about the situation, his eyes almost didn't fall out. Li Xiang, who is usually the talker, actually convinced the grassland people. !
The five million grassland people in Qingxi Grassland will go to the embrace of Xiliang, which means that Xiliang will have at least 100,000 more grassland cavalrymen and a huge pasture.
The number of cavalry such as Xiliang Iron Cavalry is not very large. The system is upgraded to heavy armored cavalry, that is, Templar Knight.
The main structure of the Xiliang cavalry is the Xiliang light cavalry, the Xiliang cavalry archer, and the armored cavalry, these will become the main force of the Xiliang cavalry, and the number cannot be determined for the time being.
The price of recruiting cavalry is a bit too high. It is destined that there will not be too many cavalry in Xiliang. Now the supply of food and grass has become more and more heavy for Xiliang.
The five million people in the grasslands are five million mouths. They also need food, which must come from Li Xiang!
There is no sufficient food reserve, Li Xiang does not The number of Xiliang cavalry will be further increased to maintain the current 5,500 Xiliang iron cavalry, 2,000 Xiliang scout cavalry, 6,000 Xiliang light cavalry army, plus the 2,000 cavalry of each of the five major Legions, 23,000. The 1,500 cavalry is all the cavalry in Xiliang at present.
As long as the people from the prairie take refuge, there will be at least 50,000 cavalrymen, as long as they operate properly. This is what Li Xiang thinks at the moment.
Not everyone can join the army. The army has a very high status in Xiliang. The generals in the army can directly mobilize local troops and yamen personnel. This is the right granted to the army by Li Xiang.
Such a huge power brings many hidden dangers. As long as there are soldiers from the Xiliang headquarters, Li Xiang is not afraid of troubles. This is a special product under special circumstances.
The total number of non-headquarters soldiers cannot exceed the sum of Xiliang headquarters soldiers. He needs to ensure that the Xiliang headquarters soldiers have the same battle strength to crush non-headquarters soldiers, and the number is equal.
His experience told him that, except for the soldiers of the headquarters of Xiliang, no one could make him truly trust.
Li Xiang asked the steppe cavalry to return and brought the old man of the clan over. Behind the Qingxi Fortress was a vast plain. There was no who lived here, and there was no other reason than the threat of the steppe people.
Even if the prairie people follow Daqing, the people on one side of the border don't trust the Qingxi prairie people on the other side. That's why there is this Qingxi fortress.
Qingxi Prairie people also... ...
Don't want to cause trouble, when winter comes, they will drive their cattle and sheep south to a warmer place in the south place.
This is how the Qingxi Grassland is now five million people. At first, these tribes are only a few thousand people. I don't know how much it has cost to develop it!
Li Xiang arranged Well, these tribes retreated. Looking up, it was already afternoon, and the troops led by Zhuo Bufan in the distance had rushed to the battlefield.
Seeing that there are no prairie people around, Zhuo Bufan and his party dared to trot their horses to Li Xiang's side.
"Wang, are the grassland people so soft?" Zhuo Bufan wanted to call City Lord, but he thought of the current territory of Xiliang, plus Qingxi grassland, there are no kings in Dagan who have Li Xiang. With a large territory, he followed the others and called the King of Xiliang.
They are now relying on Xiliang, and it doesn't matter if they call the king. The situation of the Jiuyuan Palace is a bit embarrassing at this time. While they have already taken refuge in Xiliang City, they still maintain the title of Jiuyuan Palace, which is very embarrassing. .
Zhuo Bufan needs to find a way to break the game!
Li Xiang said proudly: "They are in a bad situation at this time, they dare not fight with us, and they have to avoid the other side. Due to the oppression of the grasslands, I just suggested that they take refuge in, and these people would come over.
In a few days, they will send over the elderly and some women who have just given birth!”
Qingsong Laodao heard something, and solemnly said to Li Xiang: "It should be the prairie that oppresses them!
The Qingxi prairie is a buffer between you and the prairie. Now This buffer land falls into your hands, and what you will face next is the attack of the prairie!
Near the Qingxi grassland is the Qing tribe, one of the seven tribes of the grassland. The population of about 40 million is seven times that of the younger brother in the northwest. If necessary, they can form several millions of cavalry!
Aren't you afraid?"
"several millions of cavalry!" Li Xiang smiled and looked towards Qingsong: "Where millions of cavalry pass, barren, but there seems to be no place for them to arrange so many cavalry except the prairie!
Even if I kill him, Qingxi Fortress is in my hands. I will put tens of thousands of crossbows on him, and then dig a deep hole in front of me. If I want to kill him, fill the hole for me first, and then pass the crossbow array. , crossbow and arrow formation, to deal with this kind of light cavalry, you only need to know the direction of the opponent.
We in Xiliang have some ways to deal with it. The most terrifying part of the cavalry is his mobility. It's not suitable for them. They don't have much armor. They are likely to have been killed by long-range attacks before they rush to the front of the formation, which poses little threat to the infantry formations that have already formed.
On the grasslands, they are very mobile, but to the Qingxi Fortress, the range of twenty or thirty miles between the two mountain ranges can be completely blocked if I want.
In such a small area They are not our opponents, so don't worry!"
Li Xiang explained his understanding, Zhuo Bufan carefully recorded it on the side, behind him...
The eyes of a group of generals are shining, they are not from generals, military books are a kind of books that are hard to get in this era.
After Zhuo Bufan digested it, he had some questions: "King, what is the exact usage of light cavalry?" The use of cavalry is only to continue to rush forward and attack the enemy army.
"Light cavalry, their advantage lies in speed, which is what I call mobility, they can quickly reach the designated location, come and go like the wind, as long as the opponent has no cavalry, it is impossible to block one that just wants to run. The light cavalry, which is also the characteristics of light cavalry.
You should know that when I fought the first battle with Jiuyuan City, I led the heavy cavalry to fight for nearly a thousand miles, bypassing the heavy army of Jiuyuan City and cutting off their logistics. Supply line, this is the job of light cavalry. At that time, I had no light cavalry and had to bring heavy cavalry to do it!
This is the use of avoiding frontal confrontation..."
Li Xiang On the battle horse, I shared my experience with soldiers and some insights in the military book. Zhuo Bufan and his party felt the spring, and Li Xiang's words made them suddenly realize.
They were a little puzzled, and they also got answers in a question and answer.
The whole group did not disperse until the night. After setting up the tent, the entire group had a heated discussion in the tent. Most of these generals who were monks in the middle of the road finally met a general who was born in the general door and won many battles in the West. King Liang explained some tactics, and they were naturally actively absorbing nutrients.
Following Xiliang, they knew very well that King Xiliang was a restless master, and following a restless master, of course they had to learn more ways of fighting.
The generals were studying, and the soldiers were not idle either. After the rear transport team delivered the supplies, they took the army to the mountain range on both sides to cut down trees.
Li Xiang will not arrange those prairie people to several counties in Jiuyuan County for the time being. He is afraid that the big Gan people will not accept them, and the two sides will have conflicts. He plans to build a city without a city wall behind the fortress. , let the steppe people live.
The mountain range on both sides has a lot of stone and wood, there will be a transport team and a 50,000 Taiyuan army, and a lot of materials will be piled up on the grass on the second day.
According to the news from the grassland, about half a month later, the elderly and women from all over the grassland will come, and they will have a month to arrange accommodation.
In the cold winter, it is not enough to live in a tent alone. The cold wind can blow even people. What Li Xiang wants to build is a kind of connected house, row by row, one house can live in For the next family, there is also a small place where the fire can be boiled.
The material is made of wood and stone. The rear construction team arrives with a thousand builders, and the construction of the house begins.
At the same time, Qingxi Fortress is also preparing to expand, which is the same as the existence of Zhenbei City on the prairie. It is like a nail inserted into the grassland. Qingxi Prairie and Northwest Land, you need to pass through Zhenbei City if you want to come in and go out!
Chat with Zhuo Bufan and his party...
It took 5-6 days, and I still have this After several military exercises on the sand table, these generals went back and digested themselves, and they felt something from Li Xiang.
After the crowd left, Qingsong Laodao sat on the side of the tent and drank tea: "Aren't you afraid that some of them will spread what you said? No matter how different a person is, there are still some Find the track!"
Li Xiang took a sip of tea and said, "I am fighting against the enemy, and I have only strategic deployments. The battlefield is changing rapidly, and no one can know what will happen next."
Qingsong Laodao nodded, he is not here today to talk about this, but mainly because of the problem of the grassland people: "Most grassland people are like wolves, now you Strong, he is weak, he will take refuge with you, in the future when you are weak, he will rush up to bite.
It took thousands of years to tame them, you Do you have any plans in your heart?"
Seeing the ferocity of the prairie people, even Qingsong, a cultivator, could hardly have a favorable impression of the prairie people.
Li Xiang laughed when he heard Qingsong's words: "Prairie people can betray Dagan because they have kept too many things!
Daoist priest, you should also Find it! Most of the people who betrayed on the grasslands were nomadic tribesmen, and those who lived in the cities did not betray many people.
The nomadic tribes have war horses and weapons. It is the armed forces that they can betray Dagan.
I have already thought about it, when these prairie people come over, they will gradually change their living habits, no need for nomadic land in the northwest, and some places will be given to them Farming.
If you want to change a nation, you must first change their habits!”
In fact, what Li Xiang wants to say is that the grassland is such a good agricultural land, take it Grazing is too wasteful, it is better to cultivate farmland for farmers.
When the northwest and Qingxi grasslands are turned into farmland, Xiliang will no longer worry about food and grass, and can recruit Xiliang cavalry whose strength far exceeds that of the grassland cavalry.
Dagan failed to tame the prairie people because they left too many things for the prairie people. If Li Xiang, he would move the people on the prairie to the south, or turn the prairie into a Jiangnan land.
Before, Dagan did not use cold rice seeds. Xiliang has them. He can turn the grassland into farmland!
After taking the Qingxi grassland, he is not afraid of the prairie. Side, give him some time and let him recruit more troops.
If there are 100,000 Xiliang iron cavalry and 200,000 Xiliang light cavalry under his command, Li Xiang has the courage to rush to the prairie and kill a wave!
All kinds of war machines are against each other. The cavalry is very restrained, but that is when the cavalry takes the initiative to charge. When the cavalry does not want to fight with you, you can only guard, and the initiative is on the other side.
To deal with cavalry, you have to be cavalry!
"You know what you have in mind!" Qingsong Laodao heard Li Xiang's words, and the people in the prairie city appeared in his eyes, who died tragically in ominous The beast group, in the hands of the prairie...
People's hands: "If you fight with the prairie, you must leave the army, and there is no military spirit to suppress, and the prairie expert will take action against you. !"
"I will be in the army, you can rest assured!" Li Xiang smiled: "Daoist priest, what are you planning to go back?"
Qingsong moved his finger a few times. : "The day after tomorrow!"
A little fellow will come over the day after tomorrow, and Qingsong will go back with him to break through to the Second Stage of the Eastern Cultivation Pyramid. Qingsong has to go back to the mountain gate to solve some things.
On the Qingxi Grassland, when Li Anlan, who had not yet gone south, heard that the Qingxi Grassland was going to take refuge in Xiliang, she was dumbfounded!
These grassland people should not be Do you want to fight Xiliang?
How could Xiliang take in these people? These prairie people just betrayed Dagan!
He couldn't figure it out, but he didn't dare to stay on the prairie any longer. He had to hurry up and go south. , back to Dagan.
There is no place for them in Xiliang.
The camp is half-built, and the elderly people and women on the prairie side come here one after another. Once in winter, they would go to the south to escape the cold, where there are warm houses and places to store cattle and sheep. , unfortunately, these are all gone because of the war.
Many old people thought they wanted to be like their ancestors, and when they couldn't sleep in the cold winter, Xiliang accepted them.
These people came in ox carts, with a lot of cowskins and sheepskins on them to make the beds.
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