Chapter 588
"My lord, you will entrust such an important task to this general, and this general will not fail your lord's high expectations!" The vanguard officer of the Xiliang headquarters, with a solemn face, said to his subordinate soldiers: "So, I I hope everyone, don't lose the chain, and if you are not sure of completing your mission, then raise it as soon as possible, and don't delay the progress of the army when the time comes!"
The camp is full of high-level officers above Hundred-Men Commander , the number of soldiers in the vanguard is 3,000, a total of 30 Hundred-Men Commanders.
"Report!" A soldier rushed in from the outside: "General, there is a letter from Director Li Yi, ordering our army to start operations and clear out the tribes within 200 miles around the passage. Control if you can control it. , don't listen to the controller, kill without mercy."
The Vanguard Officer nodded, said to the Hundred-Men Commanders: "Start action,"
"No!"
Hundred-Men Commanders saluted with cup one fist in the other hand and exited the camp. After a while, the camp was empty.
Every soldier rode a horse, and Xiliang raised a large number of war horses, which were finally brought out in this battle.
Qingxi grassland and small grassland have Xiliang horse grazing places, and the Xiliang animal taming department has mastered the domestication technology of horses in Xuanjie in the early years.
There is no shortage of war horses in Xiliang, especially the kind of horses that can be mounted to fight. There are many here in Xiliang.
I really want to form a cavalry. The number of horse skins in Xiliang is enough to form a million cavalry, but the formation of so many cavalry is an astronomical figure in terms of finance, which may cost more than raising the entire civilian population of Xiliang. more.
Let's not talk about what the war horses eat, the armor and weapons on the Xiliang cavalry, even if they only need raw materials, Xiliang can't supply them.
In addition, Xiliang has better war horses, rather than forming a cavalry that is not useful, Xiliang did not save some materials and money to form the Xiliang headquarters cavalry.
These war horses have also become means of transportation for the soldiers of the headquarters of Xiliang, used to transport weapons and armor. When necessary, they can also lead the soldiers of the headquarters to charge for a short distance.
Not every horse can charge with the soldiers of the headquarters.
In the past, Xiliang rarely dispatched these horses, but in this war this year, Xiliang finally dispatched them.
Soldiers who start from the barren hills, each soldier is matched with a war horse, two horses, and a war horse from the headquarters.
Colleagues also carry a lot of food and grass, forage specially eaten by horses, etc.
Because of the large number of people and horses, the logistical pressure on the road to the barren mountain is very heavy. Everyday all has a lot of grain and grass, which starts from Jiuyuan City and transports it to the barren mountain, but it is only for transporting stones. For the reason, no one has found out yet that Xiliang sent an army from the barren mountain side to the rear of the small grassland.
The Xianbei people on the small grassland would never have thought that Xiliang would go straight behind them from the barren hills, just like someone leading an army across the Qin Province for 8,000 miles and killing them in the Central Plains .
It's hard to believe, and no one will believe this.
But, they never imagined that when Xiliang was mining stones, people would trim a road straight into the back of the prairie.
Soldiers from the headquarters of Xiliang ran recklessly on this vibrant grassland that had just grown green grass.
The tribes here are far away from right and wrong and know very little about the land of the Central Plains. Most of them are the Xianbei and the Qiang people who lived on this grassland before they came.
It's just that the two races, the Xianbei and the Qiang, ran over from the prairie and took away their land. They had no choice but to run around the barren mountains.
Compared to the rest of the prairie, this place looks desolate, but with Mount Huang blocking the cold from the north, it's not impossible to live here.
Their ancestors have survived here for generations. At the same time, they have lost contact with the Central Plains, Xianbei, Qiang and other races, and are in a state of isolation.
They have their own culture and a relatively complete society.
However, their stable small society is facing breaking with the invasion of the Xiliang army and the Qiang defeated.
It has been a day or two for Xiliang to enter this small grassland. No matter how slow these tribes are, they still feel that something is wrong.
In a basin deep inside the barren mountains, there is a stream flowing in from the grassland, forming a lake that is neither too big nor too small, surrounded by continuous high mountains, which tightly surrounds this basin Reality.
In addition to the hot springs with white smoke in the mountains not far away, this basin is like spring all year round.
On the edge of the lake, there are tall buildings made of stone, which are arranged very neatly.
In the middle of the lake, there is a high castle, which is somewhat similar to the fortress of the western world, but it is not exactly the same.
Inside the castle
"Everyone, you are called together to deal with the coming chaos!" A hair grey-white old man, speaking in a blunt voice, said yes. Gathered together, the tribal leaders dressed in sheepskin, cowhide, or animal skins shouted.
The tribal leaders below are not from the same race. Although they live in the same place, their races are different. Before the Xianbei and Qiang people came, there were thousands of people on the small grassland. a tribe.
After they arrived, there were only a few of these tribes left. Other tribes either disappeared in the long river of history, or ran here.
Different tribes and races naturally have different languages, and these tribes have all had contact with the Dagan Dynasty and have learned the Dagan language, so they use the Dagan language as a lingua franca.
"Everyone should pay attention to the fact that many tribes have been disappeared recently. The whole tribe, the whole tribe has been disappeared. Just a few days ago, the people I sent finally found a trace."
Hearing the old man's words, the people below who were still a little noisy suddenly became quiet, looked up at the old man, and were all waiting for the old man to say a word.
The old man paused as he spoke: "This has something to do with the Qiang people!"
"It has something to do with the Qiang people? I said long ago that we should all unite and destroy the Qiang people!" A big man shouted loudly, agitating the surrounding people: "In those days, they drove us here. Look, they have just arrived here and destroyed so many tribes!"
In white haired A youngster next to the old man watched the big man's performance with a cold eye, and many people below were inspired by the big man.
When the Qiang people came over, these tribes wanted to unite to destroy the Qiang people, but in the end, because the strength of the Qiang people was not weak, and the major tribes were not very harmonious, they did not destroy the Qiang people. .