As soon as we approached the Little Elm Valley, the terrain suddenly opened up, from the rolling mountain valley to the flat and endless stretch. The Great and Small Elm Valleys are close to the West Sea, the terrain is flat and the land is fertile, and the Qiang people have lived here for hundreds of years.

Unlike the tall, wide, and radius-mile cities of the Han people, most of the Qiang people's settlements were small earthen forts and stone forts, which were based on ethnic groups or families, each with its own territory, and dotted among the large and small elm valleys.

The early Qiang people were also the same as the Xiongnu Xianbei, mainly nomadic, living a life of chasing water and grass, after moving to the big and small elm valleys, the land here is fertile, the products are abundant, and the Qiang people also began to change from nomadic herding to farming, living in the mountains, building stones as rooms, and living a settled life.

Yang Xin suggested to Liu Yin that the Great and Small Valleys were the foundation of the Qiang people, and if they wanted to completely solve the Western Qiang, they must capture the Great and Small Valleys. However, there are hundreds of thousands of Qiang people gathered in the big and small elm valleys, and the Qiang people are a nation where all the people are soldiers, pick up a hoe is a farmer, pick up a bow and arrow is a soldier, the Yongliang government of the Eastern Han Dynasty and Cao Wei also coveted the fertile land of the big and small elm valleys, and sent troops to attack several times, but under the resistance of the Qiang people with the same hatred and hatred, they have never been able to do so.

The purpose of Liu Yin's attack on Xiqiang was not to annex the land of the Qiang people, but to solve Longyou's worries through this means and go all out to deal with the attack of Cao Wei on the eastern front. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary to fight a quick battle, promote peace with war, destroy the living force of the Qiang people, and force them to give up their coveting of the land of Longyou.

According to the information obtained in advance, the Great Valleys were personally controlled by Yao Kehui, the king of Xiqiang, while the Little Valleys were guarded by the eldest prince Yao Yi'an and the second prince Yao Yikang.

According to Yao Yi'an's plan. It is to unleash all the strength of the Qiang people. Stand by in the Little Elm Valley. Annihilate any enemy who comes in. Yao Yikang thought that he should strike first and ambush the incoming enemy halfway. In the end, after some disputes, Yao Yi'an agreed to Yao Yikang's plan, and he personally led 20,000 men to ambush the Shu army halfway.

However, Yao Yikang's own rashness led to the failure of the entire ambush plan, and afterwards he had to lead his troops back to Xiaoyu Valley and join forces with Yao Yi'an, preparing to fight Liu Yin to the death.

For Yao Yikang's failure this time. Yao Yi'an, the eldest brother who opposed his sending troops at the beginning, did not use this to sneer, but said a few words of relief, after all, the enemy is current, Yao Yi'an knows the truth of brothers watching and helping each other, although in order to compete for the position of crown prince, the brothers have been fighting in the dark for a long time.

Yao Yikang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, anyway, Liu Yin's target is Xiaoyu Valley, he will come to attack sooner or later, and when the time comes, the new debts and old accounts will be counted together, and he is not afraid that he will not be able to recover the hidden losses he has suffered.

Said Cao Cao. Cao Cao arrived, and Yao Yikang had just returned to Xiaoyu Valley on the front foot. Before he could sit on his hot buttocks, he heard the report from the sentry horse that the brigade of the Shu army had entered the boundary of Xiaoyu Valley.

"Just in time!" Yao Yi stood up and said to Yao Yi'an: "Brother, this Liu Yin has to make inches, dare to invade Xiaoyu Valley, I have to give him some color to taste today." ”

There are a lot of stone forts in Xiaoyugu, but there is no big village that can rely on its defense, even the two princes of Yao Yi'an and Yao Yikang live, it is just two larger stone forts, not to mention what to defend with danger, to deal with the incoming enemy, the most effective way is to call on all the Qiang people to fight together, with the tactics of the sea of people to drown the opponent.

Yao Yi'an, as the eldest prince and the person in charge of Xiaoyu Valley, slowly stood up and said in a deep voice: "Blow the horn, recruit warriors, and go with me to fight!" ”

"Woo-woo-"

The high-pitched sound of the horn echoed in the boundless land of Xiaoyu Valley, many Qiang people who were preparing for spring plowing in the fields put down their farm tools in confusion and raised their heads, this horn sound is no stranger to them, it is the tightest summoning order, all the Qiang people who heard the order must put down their affairs in their hands in the first time, pick up their weapons, and rush to the assembly place.

The sound of such a horn has not sounded for some years, and its sound means that a strong enemy has invaded Xiaoyu Valley, and all the Qiang people have thrown away their farm tools and rushed back to the earthen fort. There were weapons that everyone had to wear, knives, guns or bows and arrows, and even leather armor. These weapons were all owned by individuals, and when things happened to the tribe, these seemingly honest farmers turned into Qiang warriors and flew into battle to defend against invading enemies.

Such a high-pitched horn sound is also clearly audible to the Shu army that has just entered Xiaoyu Valley, Liu Yin frowned, he can't think that this is the welcome song of the Qiang people, if he guesses correctly, it must be the rallying cry of the Qiang people.

Sure enough, on the horizon ahead, there were small black dots, at first, these black dots were scattered, but soon the black dots converged into a black line, more and more black dots joined the black line, and the black line became thicker and thicker, slowly moving forward, and it didn't take long for Liu Yin to see the Qiang people all over the mountains, gathered together in the sound of the horn that kept blowing, and came head-on.

Just like a Hollywood blockbuster, the kind of overwhelming scenes that come one after another is extremely shocking, and compared with the vast team of the Qiang people, the Shu army of thousands of people is much smaller.

Fu Zhi secretly gasped, and said in some surprise: "Good guy, there are tens of thousands of Qiang soldiers, right?" ”

"There are not seventy or eighty thousand, at least fifty or sixty thousand." The Qiang people are all soldiers, Liu Yin is very clear about this, since he came to the Qiang land, he must inevitably face this problem, although the temporarily recruited Qiang people do not have the combat power of the standing army, but the Qiang people have been fierce since childhood, brave and ruthless, all of them are extraordinary bravery, and the army composed of this group of tigers and wolves is still not to be underestimated.

Liu Yin ordered to form a formation immediately, and discharged a zigzag attack formation with archers as the sharp knives and lancers as the two wings, and the Chinese army was led by Liu Yin's personal guard troops, and the Longxi soldiers of Zhanhong were in charge of the rear of the palace.

Liu Yin is ready to use the archers as the first to start, starting from the weak links of the Qiang people, first tearing a hole, and then using the powerful impact of the lancers, giving full play to the advantage of collective attack power, taking the lead in seizing people, although there are many Qiang people, but they cannot all be put into the battlefield at once, Liu Yin is to take advantage of the overall advantage of the Shu army, form a crushing trend in the local area, and destroy the Qiang people's will to fight. (To be continued.) )