Chapter 252: Snow Mountain Tour
Just when Cao Cao thought that the next few days would completely become a stage for scouts to come and go, the Liangzhou cavalry seemed to surround the entire Qi County at an unimaginable speed as if the wind from the desert, and tens of thousands of horses were wandering outside the city.
For several days in a row, Cao Cao seemed to feel that the general of the Liangzhou army was talking to him.
The scouts were killed fifty miles away, and the scouts who fled back accurately told Cao Cao that the enemy's traces appeared fifty miles away, and this time it was not the scouts, but the entire Liangzhou infantry cavalry.
The grain conscription team was robbed 30 miles away from the county seat of Qi. At first, when Cao Cao heard this word, he thought that he had heard the wrong word or that his subordinates had used the wrong word, but he did not hear it wrong, and his subordinates did not say it wrong, on the way to the return of the grain collection team, five or six hundred Liangzhou cavalry swept through their line in the wind, and the flag officer was stabbed to death by a bone spear, and the team was shot over by a feather arrow, only the cowardly team deputy fell to the ground, which allowed their grain collection team to come back alive, but ...... When more than 80 Cao Jun, who had no clothes and armor and were shirtless and wearing calf nose pants, returned to the city, the eldest girl and the little daughter-in-law of Manqi County greeted them in the middle of the road, and watched them enter the barracks, and the face of the entire Cao army was lost.
The soldiers who fled back dictated that there was a Qiang man wearing a lion's head and a bright silver general armor in the Liangzhou army who attacked them, and that he was the flag officer who killed the Cao army, and then shouted the Qiang language that the Cao army did not understand, and tied the Cao Ziqi of the grain collection team around his neck as a cloak.
This was a robbery, only a few people were killed in the hundred-person grain collection team, except for the seven or eight people who escaped by luck, the rest of the Cao army was forced to strip off their armor by rusty ring knives and bone spears, and they didn't even let go of the linen robe and cloth inside, not to mention their knives, bows, and spears, all of which were plundered clean!
Naturally, their grain trucks were no exception.
If it weren't for the fact that these people were indeed Qiang, Cao Cao would almost think that the enemy who led the troops to besiege him would be Jiang Jin, this was simply a group of bandits! It's better to kill people than to kill people, it's better to take them all the clothes and weapons to the ground, without any martial arts, what kind of general is this?
If this is Jiang Jin's soldier, Cao Cao has nothing to be angry about, it's a big deal to write a letter to Yan Bei and scold him, although he is a bit idiotic, but he can somehow spill the anger in his heart.
But this is not Jiang Jin's soldiers, those Qiang soldiers are like soil buns, they have never seen anything, but they have to touch and see anything in their eyes, not to mention that they have not seen anything in the Central Plains, even if this thing has already appeared in Liangzhou, most of them still haven't seen it!
Fighting with them can be said to make Cao's soldiers miserable. Can't fight, this is one of them, these Qiang soldiers have no tactics and do not pay attention to battle formations, scattered soldiers everywhere even make people unclear about their army structure, sometimes a team of 100 people, sometimes a team of dozens of people, and sometimes a team of more than 200 people than Cao Jun a tun. As soon as the two sides exchanged troops, the Qiang soldiers roared everywhere to attack and defend each other, and after the battle, a whistle was called, and the people and horses neighed everywhere and dispersed cleanly.
At most, a team of 100 people of the Cao Army was besieged by nearly 1,000 cavalry, how could this battle be fought?
This feeling is as if they are not fighting in Peiguo in the Central Plains, but are alone in Liangzhou.
In fact, where is Ma Chao's soldiers, there is only one school captain department under his hands, led by Ma Tie is all the combat power of his Ma family's army, most of them are Han children or Qiang and Han mixed blood like Ma Chao, in the past, they were all active in Liangzhou Longxi and Sili Fufeng area, from school captains to military commanders, and the armor is also close to the Han Dynasty style of the Western Regions, but those real Qiang people are different.
They are not the Hu people who have the mercenary tradition of the Han Dynasty such as Huangzhong Yicong and Tu Gehu, but the Qiang people of the Snow Mountains, where is there any establishment, from the leader of the big tribe to the leader of the small tribe, and then the leader of the small tribe to the warriors beside him, these warriors are in charge of dozens or hundreds of Qiang soldiers in the tribe, and the establishment is extremely primitive, and it is even possible that the warrior who led the troops in this battle is Li Bo, and next time he will be replaced by Chen Da because Li Bo is not brave enough to fight...... Anyway, the tribal warriors don't have more money, food, and rank, and they can't tell the difference between Ma Chao and Ma Chao.
These Qiang people are all Ma Chao's children.
This is probably the luck of the times, a defeat made Ma Chao escape into the snow mountain, become the son-in-law of the Qiang people, not to mention, the various tribes were also connected by him, and the Liangzhou people in the Han land communicated with each other, he used his influence to seek benefits for the three Qiang tribes, and the three Qiang tribes also became his influence in Liangzhou, and then, just like opening the door to a new world, the Qiang people who have lived in the snow mountains for generations can't wait to see the outside world.
The relationship between Ma Chao and the Qiang people is not superior, but a friend, and if you want to just bring out the relationship between the Qiang people and Ma Chao into the Central Plains, it may be a snow mountain tour group.
Although it is thousands of miles away, everything along the way is extremely new to the Qiang people, visiting places they have never been to, eating things they have never eaten, and grabbing things they have never seen.
It's more comfortable than being alive on a snowy mountain!
Ma Chao's task is to tell these Qiang leaders which people belong to the Yan clan and cannot be robbed; Which people are the enemies of the Yan clan, grab them casually; Then Ma Chao basically doesn't have to worry about other things, he just needs to be the tour guide of the Snow Mountain tour group, and these Qiang people will do the rest by themselves.
The unruly Ma Chao had a satisfied smile on his face when facing the Qiang people, it seems that the Qiang people are indeed doing a good job!
In just three days, the Qiang tribes got nineteen Cao army flags, more than 900 Qiang people wrapped in sackcloth under fur jackets, the vast majority of them had two sets, and many long-haired wild horses were saddled and wore mighty skins as their chests. Even the iron armor was obtained by them with dozens of pairs...... Ma Chao is not short of these, if he wants to, as General Fubo, he can submit a battle report to Handan at any time to ask for the baggage used by the ten thousand troops.
But his Qiang brothers have done all these things well, and now they don't even need to urge Xu Huang in Xuzhou to send grain and grass to Peiguo as soon as possible.
In just three days, they intercepted all the grain teams in the entire Qi County, which was more than 28,000 stone of grain, enough for his subordinates to eat until next month!
Now the Qiang people who have never seen the world can like Cao Cao, but whenever they see the banner of Cao Zi in the field, they are excited, and there is no one more popular than Cao Cao!
General Cao is a well-known good man in Qi County!