Xiaoqi

"Hahaha!"

With a burst of hearty laughter coming into the carriage, Li Li managed to break free from the arms of the third daughter, got up and jumped off the carriage.

"Li Xian, when I heard your loud laughter, I knew you must have hunted a beast, otherwise you wouldn't be so happy! Hehehe!"

"Brother, you're really right! Look, the two wolves, the little brother's skills are pretty good! Hahaha!"

Li Xian laughed and came down from the mountain, ran to Li Li, and waved to the soldiers behind him to carry over the wolf he had hunted.

Li Li looked at the two six-foot-long gray wolves, and laughed loudly: "Brother Siam, let someone clean up the wolf fur and teeth and send them to the county guard's mansion. Brother, I was just thinking about winter." Well, it’s time to buy a few animal skin cloaks for your sister-in-law, so as not to freeze them. Now that you have these two high-quality wolf skins, the cloak is ready. The wolf teeth can be polished and made into ornaments, presumably your sister-in-law I will definitely like it. Hehehe!"

Li Xian laughed out loud when he heard the words, winked at Li Li mischievously, and said in a low voice, "Brother, I have three sister-in-laws, and two wolf skins may not be enough. Does the elder brother want to favor one over the other? Hehehe!"

Hearing this, Li Li scolded with a smile: "You are a big kid, you are very thoughtful, why do you want to fight against injustice? There are so many generals in the army, who doesn't have a few good wolf skins in their hands, so don't worry about it!"

"Uh! What the eldest brother said is very true. As far as my younger brother knows, Commander Dian Wei still has a few high-quality tiger skins in his hand, and Huan Fei has more animal skins in his hand, including wolf skins, bear skins, and tiger skins. As long as the eldest brother shows his tone, they will definitely deliver it in person. Hehehe!" Li Xian said with a smile after being slightly stunned.

"Da da da!"

Just as Li Li was talking to his younger brother Li Xian, there was a rush of horseshoes coming from far and near, and in an instant, the figure of a soldier of the county government appeared in Li Li's sight.

"Bang!" The soldiers rushed to Li Li, quickly got off their horses, and hurriedly reported: "My lord, Li Xuan, the governor of the county, ordered my lord to return to the city as soon as possible!"

"Oh, what's the matter?" Li Li asked slightly surprised.

Hearing the words, the soldiers glanced around, and replied in a low voice: "My lord, the Xiutu tribe of the Qiang people captured Zhangye County ten days ago with [-] string-controlling people in the clan. Now the entire county of Zhangye has fallen, and Xiutu's former army has tens of thousands of people. Yu Zhan rode a day ago to Chen Bing on the western border of Wuwei County, and it seems that he is about to take advantage of the victory and attack our county."

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Chapter 1

On the west border of Wuwei County, beside the Qingyuan River.

Li Li personally led more than 2 war horses, marched hurriedly for a day and night, arrived at the east bank of Qingyuan River in the evening, and set up camp.

During this western expedition, Li Lizheng dispatched the four battalions of Huxiao, Longxiang, Wuwei, and Jinyiwei to march out, and left Qinglong, Pegasus, and infantry in Guzang City to guard all the passes in the county.

Huan Fei was still the vanguard commander of the front army, Li Li personally led the Longxiang Battalion and Jinyiwei of the Chinese Army, and the Wuwei Battalion was the rear army, escorting the military supplies.

Qingyuan River is not a big river, the river is only five feet wide, and it coincides with a severe drought, the river can barely submerge the knees, there is no hindrance to the cavalry's attack, and it is completely possible to cross the river on horseback.

In addition, the Qingyuan River itself is not a fixed river. Whenever there is a flood, the river will change its course and its name will change accordingly.The current Qingyuan River is the name taken by Zhangye Qianghu.

The five western counties to the west of the Qingyuan River have a slightly different terrain from the hinterland of Liangzhou. It is located on a plateau, interlaced with mountains, hills and high mountains, and bordered by deserts in the northwest.

Half a month ago, among the five counties in the west of Liangzhou, only Zhangye County was still in the hands of the Han people, and the other counties were all occupied by Qianghu.

However, within half a month, the situation turned sharply, and Zhangye County was captured by the Xiutu tribe entrenched in Zhangye's territory.

So far, Zhangye County, Zhangye Dependent State, Juyan Dependent State, Jiuquan, and Dunhuang five counties in the west of Liangzhou have all fallen into barbarian territories.It was encroached and occupied by the Xiaoyue clan, the Xiutu tribe of the Qiang people, and the remnant tribes of the Northern Huns. Hundreds of thousands of Han people were reduced to barbarian slaves and suffered from slavery.

The Xiutu tribe who invaded Zhangye and Koubian Wuwei this time were originally descendants of the Shaodang Qiang. More than ten thousand years ago, there were only more than 5 people who controlled the strings, and the whole clan was less than [-].

Before the Xiliang Rebellion, the Xiutu tribe gathered in Xiutu County and the Zhangye vassal state under the rule of Wuwei County, and the Xiutu tribe also got its name because it thrived in the Xiutu Wasteland.

After the Liangzhou Rebellion broke out, the Xiutu tribe, because they lived in a corner, not only did not participate in the Qiang riots, but instead recruited scattered small tribes and defeated Qiang tribes from various tribes, and plundered tens of thousands of Han people.

After the rebellion ended, the Xiutu tribe was afraid of encroachment by other large tribes, so they took the initiative to avoid their edge, evacuated from the Xiutu wasteland, and moved to the Zhangye vassal state.

As a result, the Xiutu Wasteland was completely abandoned, and the once prosperous Xiutu City was dilapidated. It was not until Li Li recovered the counties of Wuwei that it gradually regained its vitality.

The Xiutu tribe who moved to the subordinate state of Zhangye has cultivated and lived for many years, and the strength of the tribe has developed and grown in a blowout manner.

Today, the Xiutu tribe has become the third largest tribe among the five major Qiang tribes in Liangzhou, second only to the Longxi Qiang and Jincheng Qiang, and surpasses the Xianling Qiang entrenched in Beidi County. It has more than 3 households and a population of ten. There are more than [-] people, and there are more than [-] people in the clan who control strings.In addition, the tribe also has more than [-] Han slaves. The tribe gradually became stronger and faintly became the most powerful tribe among the five counties in the west of Liangzhou.

During the two years when Dong Zhuo was in charge of the court alone, the situation in Liangzhou was delicate, and many princes confronted each other and contained each other.And the five counties in the west seem to be separated from Liangzhou, and the barbarians are rampant, encroaching on the counties and counties.However, during this period, the various barbarian tribes did not take any drastic actions, and they all accumulated strength to wait for changes in time.

Four months ago, when Li Li took office as the prefect of Wuwei, one stone stirred up a thousand waves, causing the delicate situation in Liangzhou to shatter in an instant, and wars broke out frequently.

During the fierce battles between Li Lili's army and Han Sui, Ma Teng and the Babu, the Xiutu tribe, who had been secretly developing the tribe's strength, took advantage of the situation and swept the entire territory of Zhangye in just two months.

Immediately, while Li Li and the Han Ma army were fighting against Dongshan Pass, the Xiutu tribe once again invaded Zhangye County.Captured Zhangye City in one fell swoop, defeated several tribal forces of the Xiaoyue clan, and captured the entire county of Zhangye.

After repeated victories, the Xiutu king Diandang of the Xiutu tribe was ambitious and high-spirited, trying to send troops to annex Wuwei County in one fell swoop, cut off Liangzhou in the middle, and separate the six western counties to form a country of his own.

Once Wuwei County is occupied, it means that the Xiutu tribe will occupy the western half of Liangzhou, and then they only need to send troops to wipe out Jiuquan, Juyan and other tribes in Dunhuang County, and they can occupy most of Liangzhou, and even defeat Han Sui and Ma. Teng, who unified all the Qiang tribes in Liangzhou, threatened Jingzhao Chang'an, and looked down on the Central Plains.

As for Li Li, who occupied Wuwei County, Dian Dang, king of Xiutu, did not take him seriously, let alone be afraid of Han Sui, Ma Teng and other Xiliang princes.

In the eyes of Dian Dang, the warriors of the Xiutu tribe are invincible and invincible. They can sweep the Zhangye vassal state and the two counties of Zhangye County in just three months. Why fear the princes of Xiliang.

Today's Xiutu Wang Dian Dang is so arrogant that he regards the princes of Liangzhou as nothing, and looks down on the world.

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Thirty miles away on the west bank of the Qingyuan River, in Huangshaling, [-] Xiutu former troops led by Prince Xiutu, Dianzhen, are currently stationed. Hundreds of miles away, there is also an army of [-] troops led by King Xiutu himself.

Dianzhen is the eldest son of Diandang, the king of Xiutu, and the prince of the Xiutu tribe. He is brave and good at fighting.

During the attack on Zhangye County, he led the former army all the way to attack the city and pull out the stronghold, and he was unstoppable.

This time when sending troops to Wuwei County, Dian Zhen still led the former army to send troops first, marching three hundred miles a day, and rushed to the border of Wuwei.

However, now that Wuwei County was right in front of him, Dianzhen set up camp on the west bank of Qingyuan River and stopped for two consecutive days.

It was these two days that made Li Li, the prefect of Wuwei, quickly mobilize his war cavalry, and ran overnight to Qingyuan River to resist Xiutu's cavalry.

On the west bank of the Qingyuan River, the Xiutu Camp.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Prince Xiutu Dianzhen and his deputy Dian Wuxia are arguing fiercely, and the topic of the quarrel is whether to withdraw the army.

Dian Wuxia is Dian Zhen's half-sister, and also the deputy commander of the former army, second only to Dian Zhen.

It stands to reason that there is no need for siblings to quarrel.

Dianzhen is the eldest prince of the Xiutu tribe. The other younger brothers are still young and do not pose a threat to his crown prince status at all.Although Dian Wuxia is a former deputy commander of the army, she is a female stream after all, and has no qualifications to take over the throne at all.

What's more, Dianzhen is still her brother, and it's only natural for her sister to obey her brother's words.

So why should the two argue.

However, this is not the case.

Dian Wuxia is no ordinary person, her status and prestige in the Xiutu tribe is no less than that of Prince Dianzhen.No matter in terms of martial arts or strategy, she is not inferior to her elder brother Dianzhen, or even worse.Just because she is a girl, born of a blond-haired and blue-eyed maidservant from the Western Regions, her reputation is not obvious.Otherwise, I am afraid that there will be no big prince Dian Zhen, and the person who leads the army will definitely be her, not Dian Zhen.

In front of the commander-in-chief, Dian Zhen looked distressedly at his younger sister Dian Wuxia who was standing in front of him, who was as tall as him, and said helplessly: "Wuxia, my good sister, my father will lead the army to the camp tomorrow, and Our army stayed here for a few days, stopped moving forward, and did not launch any offensive. Once the father blames the king, how do you ask your brother to explain to the father?