Chapter 907: Chaos in Chang'an (2)
In the land of Sanfu, near Yongxian, Ma Teng and Han Sui's camps were very wide.
The biggest difference between the cavalry camp and the infantry camp is that the cavalry camp will not all gather together in order to better assemble and set off, but will set aside the traffic arteries as needed, and then disperse the camp, plus there are many Qiang people under Ma Teng and Han Sui, so according to the different affiliations of the Qiang people, large and small camps are divided.
In the early morning of this day, as the morning sun rose, the whole camp suddenly became lively, scrubbing the horses, cooking food, tinkling and mending some utensils, and the complicated sound was accompanied by the white mist emitted by cooking food, which resounded one after another in the entire huge camp.
In the camp, most of the people who walked around and worked here were Qiang people. These Qiang people wore braids and leather robes, and although they were camped in the wilderness, they behaved as if they were familiar with their own dwellings, doing things slowly, laughing and talking from time to time, and even singing happily......
Although the trouble of the Qiang people has always been a huge scar of the Han Dynasty, in Xiliang, it has become a norm for the Qiang and Han people to live together.
It seems that the ambitious Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty incorporated the entire northwest region into the territory of the Han Dynasty, and the Qiang and the Han began to fall in love with each other, and if it were not for the strong opposition of the court ministers, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would have even prepared to develop the Xinjiang region for later generations......
And this area is the area of ethnic minority activities in the west, Liu Che's development has reduced the activity space of the Qiang people, the Qiang people in order to graze to fight for the land cultivated by the Han people, whether it is a large army, or the county officials are difficult to prohibit such a fight with each other, so the Qiang people began to resist, and even in this process, the Qiang people seem to have a little tendency to large tribal alliances, but this tendency eventually aborted.
With the fall of the Xiongnu, the Qiang people did not form any strong alliances in the end, only powerful tribes......
However, after all, it is a nomadic people, and it is the biggest feature to be able to fight and run, and the Qiang people are more accepting of the Han culture than the Huns, so in the past few hundred years, the Qiang people have also become the help or resistance of the Han people many times, especially in the period of Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, it is more obvious, the Qiang and the Han people live together, and they also vassal local heroes fight for Liu Xiu, but they also form an obstacle to the unification of Liu Xiu.
The Qiang people are indeed facing the situation of not being able to survive and rebel, as a nomadic people, let the whole nation give up their old profession and follow the Han people to learn farming, even if the Qiang people are willing to change careers can not be quickly effective, in order to better survive, the Qiang tribe often chooses to rely on the local tyrants, as a strong mercenary army, in order to give full play to the Qiang people's talent to fight and run.
There are too many leaders of large and small Qiang tribes, and there is no unified will, so there has been no kingdom or big alliance, but in the same way, the Han people breaking or subjugating one tribe does not mean subjugating all Qiang tribes, so they cannot find their so-called royal court for a decisive battle as they did with the Xiongnu.
The Qiang did not like the cruel and oppressive rule of the Han officials, but at the same time, many tribes were inseparable from living with the Han people, so the attitude of the Qiang people towards the Han people was also very complicated.
It is often the leader of the Qiang tribe who rebels, but he doesn't know what to do after the rebellion?
There is no concept of imperial power in the Qiang people's heads, nor is there any concept for building a beautiful new life, etc., so they often rebel for the sake of rebellion, follow the general flow, and at the same time will also rely on those big people in Liangzhou who have heads and faces, these people are knowledgeable after all, and they treat the Qiang people under them well, although the Qiang people are not satisfied with the central government, they are very convinced by the local people's big heroes, such as Dong Zhuo, such as Ma Teng, such as Han Sui......
Whoever has money and food will listen to whomever he wants, and whoever can give more benefits will give his life.
Speaking of which, the nature of such a mercenary is not bad, but for Ma Teng and Han Sui, there are some headaches.
In the past few days, the Qiang people who are vassals under their subordinates are like relatives visiting for the New Year's holiday, and waves of people have come out, with wine and meat, gold, silver and jewelry, and run to the small commander of the Qiang people under their command, calling the names of familiar people in a big thorn, and then they will gather together to drink wine and eat meat, singing and dancing......
Military discipline?
Ahem, that thing, under Dong Zhuo's banner, maybe Li Ru created it, in Ma Teng and Han Sui, the two of them are more like larger tribal leaders, with the right to govern, but they don't have complete rule, the Qiang people's troops still belong to their respective Xiaoqiang leaders, so there is no problem in obeying the advance and retreat when you want to fight, but Ma Teng and Han Sui can't control the more subtle things of eating and drinking Lazar like this.
Ma Teng and Han Sui's camp is not far away, and the relationship between these two people is sometimes good and bad, of course, there is a little bit of estrangement, but Xiliang, which one is not like this?
In addition, this time the two of them joined forces here, so these two people are still getting along well at the moment.
"Wenyue, what should I do?" Ma Teng scratched his scalp, very annoyed.
Because of the characteristics of the Qiang people, when Li Guo and others not only sent envoys from the Son of Heaven, but even sent a large number of Qiang people to come, the sharpness of Ma Teng and Han Sui's troops was suddenly suppressed.
According to those Qiang people, everyone is a friend, they are all Xiliang people, everyone has money and food, and everyone has gold and silver treasures, so why bother to fight and give their lives in vain?
You don't have to risk your life to fight, you have money, wine and meat, so there will be that fool who will refuse with righteousness and awe, you have to see blood?
Therefore, the deployment of these Qiang people under Ma Teng and Han Sui completely did not have much desire to fight, at least not as strong as before, just waiting for how to divide the money, food and property......
Han Sui also had a headache, thought for a long time, and suddenly smashed his mouth and said, "...... Shoucheng, what official did you say last time? ”
"I seem to be ...... General Zhengxi ......" Ma Teng grabbed the edict of the Son of Heaven on the table, looked at it, and said, "...... Are you General Zhenxi? ”
Han Sui nodded, then was silent for a while, and suddenly said, "...... I've heard...... Li Zhiran, that kid gave himself the title of general of the chariot cavalry! ”
"Is that really the case?!" Ma Teng's eyes widened.
Han Sui said: "Is this still fake? ”
Ma Teng suddenly stood up, and pointed and scolded: "Li Zhiran, this erection! Take me ...... What did we do?! If you don't teach this kid a lesson, you don't know how good we are! Someone! Blow the trumpet, gather the generals! ”
The horn sounded, and the big and small Qiang heads ran out of their respective camps one after another, and gathered ...... Ma Teng and Han Sui.