Su Dingfang wiped his imperial gift Shangfang sword with a piece of suede.

This is an imperial sword made by the most famous sword-making master today. It is said that only eighteen fine pieces can be created in a year, each of which is an artifact that is unparalleled in thousands. This is a Shangfang imperial creation exclusively for the emperor.

It is a supreme honor for the ministers to receive a Shangfang Imperial Sword. Especially now that the emperor gives his ministers a Shangshu Knife, he will give him a sacred privilege.

"Xiaofengxiu, do you know what the name of this knife is?"

Xifengxi looked at the knife, "It seems to be a sabre!"

"That's right, this sword is a horse-killing sword, also known as Shangfang's horse-killing sword, created by the imperial craftsman of the palace. What's more precious is that this is given by the emperor. When Your Majesty gave me this sword, he once said that holding this sword can kill below the third rank. You are the prefect of Jimi County, you are the fourth rank, the title is Xu Feng Bo, and the fourth rank."

The blade is like a mirror, extremely bright.

The thin sealed rhinoceros couldn't help but feel numb from the scalp.

"The Grand Marshal, I am willing to be the vanguard of the general manager and to conquer the unjust officials."

"Do you think I can trust you? Will you rebel against the court whenever you have the chance, or even fight back on the battlefield?"

"There is no different mind in the fine seal!"

"Get up, I will give you another chance, but this is the only chance. I will cherish it. If you dare to have any rebellious intentions in the ministry, you will be destroyed by the race and the race, and I will not keep any of them. If you are loyal to the court and the Emperor of Saint Wen Shen and Wu, you can continue to be your prefect of the fourth-rank Jishi County. Maybe you can change from a virtual title to a real title for your merits!"

And the knife is sheathed.

Xifeng and his son finally breathed a sigh of relief. At that moment, Xifeng Xizhen felt that the Qin army general wanted to kill him.

"Xifeng Prefecture. This time, I, Qin, sent troops to Xishan, and the general manager still lacked generals. Why don't you ask Xifeng Prefecture to temporarily serve as the marching Sima of my Xishan marching camp?"

After experiencing this round just now, Xifengxiu did not dare to resist at all and nodded in response.

"Very good. I think the young clan leader of Xifeng is also brave and resourceful, so I appointed the young clan leader as the vanguard of our camp and the warriors of the Xifeng division as the vanguard. Is that good?"

Now Xiaofeng Rhino Fart dares not let anyone go. Although he knew that Su Dingfang wanted to take him hostage and let his son play the striker, he did not dare to object and just nodded.

"Hahaha, Xifeng Prefect is really refreshing. I, Su Lie, just likes cheerful people." Su Dingfang smiled and pulled Xifengxi's father up, and personally loosened them, and patted the footprints on them.

On the other side, Tang Jian was packing up his things and was about to leave, and was about to go back to Chang'an to impeach Su Dingfang, but he heard that Su Dingfang had released the Seifeng father and son again.

"Where is Mr. Tang trying to go? I also want to ask you to stay and serve as the chief secretary of the Pioneer of Secret Seal."

Su Dingfang came in with a smile.

Tang Jian didn't have a good face, "Since I'm going to let go, why did you attack again just now? Isn't this redundant?"

Su Dingfang said, "These Qiang people have always bullied the weak and feared the strong, and respected the strongest. Although they surrendered, they occupied Jiacheng and other places and refused to return it. It is obvious that they are half-hearted. I led my army to attack this city, and I also need to teach him a good lesson and shock him and let him know that the power of my Daqin, do you see, he is already very honest now?"

"But Governor Su isn't afraid that these people will feel resentful?"

"Hmph, do you really think that any of the Qiang Yi really surrendered? No, there will be no one. They surrendered only because they feared the mighty Qin. They had previously relied on the powerful Tubo, but now they were afraid that the Qin Yi would revenge, so they wanted to turn around and submit to the Qin Yi again. But these people never really surrendered. When they have the chance, they would still think of betraying and rebellion. Therefore, for these people, they should use it, but they should also be careful. Here, the court's strategy is to recover the occupied territory in the west of Jiannan, and at the same time go deep into the Xishan Mountains, fight and pull the Qiang Yi of the Xishan Mountains to the court, and set the Qiang Yi of the Xishan Mountains into a county."

"We must slowly detain all these Qiang people, set up rules and tie them up, so that they can no longer escape from the control of the court. In the future, we will have to build roads and cities, station troops and immigrate, and until the Qiang land is completely included in the direct rule. You are a civil servant, and these things should be clearer and clearer than me."

Tang Jian put down the clothes in his hand and sat down again.

"I understand what you said, but I think you are still too reckless in your actions. The Seal Seal Department has clearly surrendered, so there is no need to do this."

"Okay, I won't argue with you about these things. Don't rush back and sue me, it's the same if you want to sue me later. Stay here now. You are more familiar with Xifeng Bulai. If you become his chief minister, you can be considered half a military supervisor. I will send some military officers and soldiers to you, and you can master the Xifeng Department. In this Qiang land in Xishan, if you want to fight against the Qiang people, you have to use their set of tactics."

Su Dingfang had fully felt the difference here as he walked.

First of all, the terrain is too difficult and logistics transportation will be extremely difficult. This time, we are all using goats to transport grain. This is also a method of the Qiang people. The food on the goats can be used to serve the army, and goats are also military food. There are many roads, and even the horses in Shu are difficult to climb, but goats can be as good as walking on flat ground.

Just like the Qiang and Yi soldiers brought by Shen Guang, these people did not wear armor, carried a short bow and a knife, and crossed the mountains as if walking on flat ground, which was very fierce.

In comparison, the Qin army in the Central Plains brought by Su Dingfang was not very suitable for the terrain and climate here, especially the cavalry in the Central Plains, which was difficult to have a place to use.

"I plan to rebuild Jiacheng County here, increase troops and set up military and civilians to control the Minshan Mountains and Minjiang River. Then I regain Wenshan County to the south, and drive the Qiang to the west of Qionglai Mountain. It is west of Wenshan County, east of Qionglai Mountain, and build another city on the main road of Zahe Valley to guard the east of Qionglai Mountain."

The two places chosen by Su Dingfang were both strategic locations and important channels for the Qiang to enter Jiannan.

At the Mi River Valley to the south, the snow in Longshan Mountains is like jade in the north, and Chengdu in the east is like bottom of a well. This place not only controls the key road, but also faces rivers on three sides, but also occupies a highland, which has a subduction force on the Chengdu Plain, which is very important.

A person like Su Dingfang, who has a very strategic vision, suddenly saw that to defend Jiannanxi, the key is to pacify the Qiangs in the West Mountains, and to pacify the Qiangs in the West Mountains, especially to prevent them from being capricious. The key is to protect the mixed river valley in Jiacheng in Pyeongchang County and Wenshan County.

Jiacheng County has been obtained, but Qionglai Shandong is still in the hands of the Qiang people. In fact, this place has been the territory of the Qiang people for several dynasties. It can even be said that the power of the Central Plains dynasty has not expanded to the foot of Qionglai Mountain.

This time, Su Dingfang took a fancy to a key place here. Not only did he take back the original territory of Wenshan County, but he also wanted to take over this Dongpo, which he had never owned before, and stationed troops here to build a city and guard the land.

"Build cities and garrison troops in these two places, our army will be invincible. We can attack and retreat and defend. The rear transports grain reserves, plus the output of military troops, can support our long-term garrison warfare."

The Qionglai Mountain is also the watershed between the Minjiang River and the Dadu River. The upper reaches of the Dadu River originate from the foot of Dajishi Mountain, pass through the Dangxiang Qiang territory, enter the Misang, Chunsang tribes and other tribes, and then head south to merge into the water of the Jinchuan River. The Jinchuan area is the Qiang tribes such as the Dongnu Kingdom.

Going southward is the Dadu River section, going eastward into Shu, and finally into Minjiang River.

To the east of the Dadu River is Qionglai Mountain, and to the west is Daxue Mountain. To the west of the Daxue Mountain is the south of the Shannan where the Yalong River that emerged from Tubo is located.

However, from Qionglai Mountain to Dadu River to Daxue Mountain, this section is also the most difficult and harsh geographical environment. Even a general like Su Dingfang, facing these dangerous mountains, valleys and the vast number of Qiangyi tribes, it can only sigh. If you want to clear this area, it is probably impossible to do it without a decade or twenty years.

So at the beginning, Su Dingfang never thought of fighting to set up a mountain in the west. What he planned was to build a fortress on the banks of the Min River first at the gateway so that he could advance, attack, retreat and defend. Then he slowly planned to build castles along several important river valleys, garrisoned troops and farm. Through this strategy of swallowing, he slowly controlled this area.

Of course, it would be even better if there were tribes like the Seifeng tribe who were willing to surrender to the Qin army.

"I have sent someone to write to the Qinghai Road Governor Feng Xiaoci, asking the Qinghai Road to send troops from the north of Dajishishan to support each other and cooperate with the attack on the Tuoba tribe."

Su Dingfang and Tang Jian’s ideas were actually the same. Among the Qiangs in the West Mountain, Dangxiang was the most powerful. To pacify the West Mountain, Dangxiang must first be pacified. But no one of them thought of directly recruiting Dangxiang to attack other Qiangs, but first attacking Dangxiang.

Otherwise, once Dangxiang is recruited to pacify other small Qiang, the result may be that Dangxiang will become bigger in the West and will be more difficult to control in the future. Therefore, the court must get away from the strong and get along with the weak, and first take the strongest Dangxiang to attack.

But it was not just a direct attack on Dangxiang, but a division within the country, and surrendering the second strongest Seifeng tribe, Dangxiang, first joined forces to destroy the strongest Tuoba tribe. In this way, the Qin army also had helpers, and Dangxiang could also greatly reduce its strength.

"Our army will be divided into three parts next. I will lead an army to station Jiacheng and build a new city here, thinking that the northern line of attack and defense base camp will be launched. General Shen Guang will lead an army south to recruit the supporters, attack the Qiang in the west of Wenshan and the east of Qionglai Mountain, and then build a new city there to station troops and guard the troops."

"You and Xifengbu Lai lead their Xiaofeng troops to 5,000 troops. What's the point of sending me? I'll be able to do it. I'll be able to lead the two generals to one wing, and a total of 8,000 troops will follow you."

This surprised Tang Jian a little. He was just a member of the Ministry of Rites, but now he asked him to lead his troops.

"You are optimistic about the Sei-sealed Bu Lai and are responsible for recruiting the Qiang along the way. This should be your strength. As for commanding troops and fighting, if you have Sei-sealed Bu Lai-sealed Qiang soldiers, you can do whatever you want and fail to do. The two generals will lead our Qin army together. You are responsible for coordination. If there is no dispute, you will listen to Qi Hu Heli's suggestions." Tang Jian understood that he was nominally commander-in-chief, but he was actually responsible for recruiting the Qiang soldiers and coordinating the three generals. The military mainly focuses on Qi Hu Heli's opinions, and does not allow Qi Hu Heli to directly command the troops. It is probably because he is just a Hu general.

"Why doesn't the general manager lead the troops himself?"

"It is even more important for me to sit here. It is pacified the Qiang tribe in the rear, raise and transport grain and grass, and ensure the supply of supplies. It is not easy. I will be in the middle to support and command, rather than be the pioneer in person."

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