That night, Xian Shan came to Li Mu's tent to ask for a meeting.

"What's wrong with you?" Li Mu looked at Xian Shan in front of him in surprise.

Since the Xiongnu Khan led his army to join the Zhao army in this war, he has always been very low-key. This time, he actually took the initiative to ask for a meeting, which is really unexpected.

Xian Shan smiled humbly and said to Li Mu: "Grandmaster, I think I should know where Yiqubo is."

"Oh?" Li Mu's eyes lit up and he hurriedly said, "Come on!"

Although Li Mu has basically determined that Qubo is in the West Sea, the entire West Sea is also very large. If there is a specific coordinate, it will definitely save a lot of trouble.

Xian Shan took out a piece of sheepskin land that looked quite simple from his arms and placed it in front of Li Mu. Then he pointed to a place on the map that was specially marked with red dots and said, "It's here."

Li Mu observed carefully, and then finally determined that the location of this place was located somewhere in the southeast of the West Sea.

Li Mu thought for a while and said, "Is this map true?"

Xian Shan said: "This map comes from the people around Yiqubo, and it is absolutely true."

Li Mu looked at Xianshan deeply, and then said for a while: "This time, you did a very good job."

Xian Shan bowed and stepped out respectfully.

After determining the place where Yiqubo was located, Li Mu led the Zhao army's cavalry formation to continue to advance westward.

To a certain extent, it was not too bad for Li Mu to escape so far.

As long as he could defeat the coalition forces formed by Yiqubo and Qiang people in one fell swoop, Li Mu could achieve his goal and completely occupy the Hehuang area.

With this excellent horse farm in the Hehuang area, it is obviously very beneficial to the development of the Zhao cavalry.

Although Zhao State now has three major horse farms, Hetao, Monan and Dai County, there is a saying that eggs cannot be placed in the same basket.

Every extra horse farm means that the power of the Zhao cavalry has increased by one point. As the most senior general of the Zhao cavalry, Li Mu naturally enjoyed this.

What's more, there are also contributions to expanding territory.

The nobles of the Zhou Dynasty were always very pioneering and enterprising.

When the Zhou Dynasty was founded, the only ones that could be truly controlled were the Zhong and Chengzhou (Luoyi).

When King Wu of Zhou divided the thousands of countries, the Zhou colonists and princes who went out to expand their territory had to face various barbarians, the Eastern Yi, Northern Hu, Western Rong, Southern Barbarians, and Di people in the Taihang Mountains, etc.

Over the past thousand years, only a few of the thousands of princes were left, and the barbarians at that time were completely destroyed and assimilated by the princes of the Zhou Dynasty.

Although the Zhou emperor was completely no longer the authority of the past, the territory controlled by the princes of the Zhou Dynasty was many times wider than the territory that the Zhou emperor could control back then.

Any advantage has its own disadvantages. The thousand-year war has brought profound suffering to the people on the land of China, but at the same time it has allowed the princes to expand continuously in the wars, radiating the influence of Chinese civilization to an unprecedented level.

Today, Li Mu, who is familiar with history books, will lead the 30,000 cavalry under his command to expand the territory for the Chinese civilization and incorporate another barbaric land into the glory of Chinese civilization!

To a certain extent, Li Mu is even a bit like a devout missionary now, and his missionary targets are the Qiang people in the Hehuang region.

"Why, why do we obviously did not offend you Zhao State, but your Zhao State has traveled through such a long distance to attack us!"

A captured Qiang tribe leader had red eyes and shouted at Li Mu in front of him, looking like he wanted to tear Li Mu to pieces.

Li Mu looked at the Qiang tribe leader in front of him with a calm expression, and then replied after thinking about it.

"Where can you reach the tiger roar, how can you and other sheep live here!"

After saying this, Li Mu waved his hand and signaled his subordinates to take down the patriarch who had cost more than a dozen lives to capture the Zhao army soldiers and behead him.

He also needs this head to hang a stake to show it to the public.

In a civilized world, persuading surrender is a feasible solution, but in such a barbaric place, powerful force is the guarantee to intimidate all sluts.

Li Mu didn't mind killing all the Qiang people he saw or captive them as prisoners.

Since you refuse to surrender, then you should die.

Li Mu was right. For the well-trained and well-equipped Zhao Jun, these Qiang people who were wearing fur and many people were holding stone axes in their hands were indeed no different from sheep.

Many Qiang women and children even had nothing to cover their bodies, and surrounded a fur on their lower body, and their entire upper body was completely exposed to the air.

Even though he was a member of the Hu people, Xian Shan couldn't help but shook his head with emotion when he saw this situation: "The lives of these Qiang people are really hard..."

Next to Xian Shan was Yi Qusheng. This general who was almost the most professional slave-catching general in the Zhao army was naturally accustomed to the situation in front of him. He laughed and said, "These people are all Qiang in the mountains, and they are basically no different from wild beasts. Even their Qiang people don't like them very much."

According to Darwin's theory of evolution, walking out of the mountains and forests and living in the plains is actually a kind of progress for mankind, and these Qiang in the mountains obviously did not do this.

In fact, according to Yiqusheng's knowledge, these mountain Qiang, which eat raw meat and drink blood, were almost the targets of hunting and conquering by all neighbors.

Wusun, Yuezhi and even the Qiang in Huangzhong and the Qianzhi Qiang, which came from the same source, adopted the same attitude as the Zhao army towards these Qiangs in the mountains, hunting and sieging them.

Under such circumstances, it is not easy for these mountain Qiangs to survive tenaciously.

Xian Shan sighed and said, "Is there no possibility of education?"

It can be seen that the Huns' Chanyu was somewhat unbearable.

After all, thousands of human heads were hung all the way on the stakes, and this scene was still very shocking.

Yi Qusheng looked at Xian Shan in surprise: "Why do you have such an idea? As a grassland man, you should know that wild horses are difficult to domesticate, and only foals raised since childhood are more suitable for being companions for life."

Yi Qusheng felt that Xian Shan was not a qualified grassland man, so how could a prairie wolf have sympathy for his prey?

In order to punish the Qiang tribe in the mountains who dared to block the Zhao army's journey, Li Mu used the most primitive conquest rules on the grassland to execute all men and elderly people whose legs were higher than horses, and only women and children could survive.

Yiqiusheng was not surprised at this.

Adult men represent force, that is, the possibility of rebellion, while old men represent wisdom. When both force and wisdom are ruthlessly deprived, what awaits this tribe is extinction and annexation.

In many cases, the bloody rules on the grassland actually imply wisdom, which can allow a tribe to survive for a long time.

After cutting down thousands of heads and slaughtering six mountain Qiang tribes, the entire road on the southern foot of Yinshan was finally completely opened. All mountain Qiangs chose to escape to the north in front of the powerful Zhao people, and the eastern part of the Hehuang area was included in the scope of the Zhao army.

"To be honest, I don't think such an expansion is reliable." Tu Xi said to Yiqiusheng: "Although we have driven away these Qiang in the mountains now, they will definitely return after we leave."

For some reason, Tu Xie always likes to discuss these issues with Yiqiusheng.

Yiqusheng glanced at Tu: "Of course, no one will give up his territory, whether it is a savage or a civilized person. Those who say that a certain place is not important and simply give up are idiots. Remember to stay away from idiots, otherwise they will implicate you when they die.

As for your question, the answer is actually very simple. Just build a city."

Tu Xie widened his eyes: "We want to build a city again?"

"Of course we have to build a city!" Yi Qusheng glanced at Tu in a tone of regret, saying, "If we don't build a city, how can we maintain control over this area? Only by building a city here can there be a logistics base for the continuous slave hunting regiments, and there will be a supply place when the army will go to Hehuang and even the more western regions in the future."

Tu Xie was a little puzzled: "I want to capture slaves again?"

"Of course I have to capture slaves!" Yi Qusheng said angrily: "I found that your head is really hard to turn. How can you clear this area without capturing slaves? How can migrant workers come to build a city?"

Tu Xie smiled and touched his head with a little embarrassed look, saying, "I understand all the great principles of you, but I forgot it after a night's sleep."

Yi Qusheng looked up at the sky and decided not to talk to Tu Xie, the idiot.

However, after hearing this, Xian Shan, who was standing aside, showed a thoughtful expression on his face.

After nearly half a month of march, the cavalry of Zhao State swept across the entire Hehuang area, and the West Sea was already in front of us.

"Have Yiqubo ran away?" Li Mu asked Tu Xie, who had just returned from the reconnaissance mission.

Tu Xie thought about it and replied: "When returning to the Grand Governor, Yiqubo has joined forces with a large number of Qiang tribes, and it seems that he is preparing to fight the Grand Governor here for the last decisive battle."

Li Mu continued to ask: "How many people are there?"

Tu Xie replied: "There are 100,000 people who ask questions from the prisoners I caught."

"100,000 people?" Li Mu's brow jumped slightly, but he quickly felt relieved.

One hundred thousand tribes and one hundred thousand cavalry are not the same.

"Since Yiqubo has not run away, it is really a relief for the governor. If you pass the order, the entire army will speed up and strive to find Yiqubo within three days. We will go home before autumn comes!"

On the other side, Yiqubo, who had already retreated, was also making many promises to the Qiang tribe leader: "As long as we defeat the people of Zhao, we will continue to attack their land eastward. There are plump pastures and warm climates, which can prevent your tribes from being frozen and hungry, and let you live a better life!"
Chapter completed!