At the same time, the Qiang army outside Xi Liang.
The Qiang soldiers got into formation and surrounded the Qiang commander and leader in the middle.
The leader of the Qiang people, Cheliji, stood in the middle of the crowd. His face was dark as he stared at Western Liang, which was still some distance away.
"Chief, we are getting closer and closer to Xi Liang."
"Should we send the Xiongnu cavalry to test the waters?"
The Great Commander of the Western Region, Kebata, bowed to Cheriji.
Cheliji waved his hand.
"Forget it, there's no need for that!"
"My two hundred thousand soldiers will attack together. No matter how capable the Xi Liang soldiers are, they will have to be obedient!"
Hearing this, Ke Batuo could only sigh faintly and agree.
In truth, Kebata did not want Cheliji to attack so recklessly.
They might be able to catch the Xi Liang army off guard, but if the Xi Liang army had a countermeasure, it would be terrible!
Furthermore, Kebata did not believe that a mere twenty thousand soldiers would be able to defeat two hundred thousand Qiang soldiers.
Even if the soldiers were to brag, they wouldn't dare to brag like this!
Ten times the difference, and the enemy did not even have a thousand casualties?
Were the Han people superhuman?
These soldiers were the last two hundred thousand soldiers of the Qiang tribe.
If they were ambushed by the Xi Liang army, it would be too late.
The only Qiang people left behind were the defenseless farmers and peasants!
How could they fight?
Furthermore, the Xianbei and Jie people would charge over without even needing the Xi Liang soldiers.
This charge without any strategy was completely throwing the lives of the Qiang people to the back of their minds!
However, no matter how unwilling Kebata was, he could only follow the chief's decision.
As the commander, he could only listen to the chief's orders. This was an iron law that could not be broken.
However, Cheliji was so angry that he could not care about anything else.
The Qiang tribe had always been very scattered. For this reason, Cheliji had spent a lot of effort to divide the tribe into four regions.
For example, Li Yuanhong's Li Tribe, Yue Ji's Yue Tribe, and Ke Batuo's Ke Ba Tribe.
In the end, all the remaining people from different clans gathered under his command.
It wasn't easy for such a situation to happen, and Cherij hadn't even been in his position for long before this happened.
The Li tribal clan had been wiped out immediately. Yue Ji had been too careless, resulting in his death.
Now, only Ke Batuo's Ke Ba Clan was left, as well as the remnants of the Xiongnu that he had tried so hard to protect.
More than half of the entire clan had been wiped out!
How could Chelij not be furious?
Initially, Cheliji had listened to Kebato's advice and gathered all his tribesmen to defend their own territory.
When Li Yuanhong's Li family was destroyed, Cherij did not receive any information about the army that attacked them.
However, Yue Ji's death had been clearly seen and reported by the spies that Cheliji had sent out.
He would never have thought that only 20,000 cavalrymen would be able to wipe out his army of over 200,000 soldiers in a row!
This time, Cheliji was completely enraged. The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He decided to bring all his soldiers to attack Xiliang.
Cheliji's thoughts were the same as Yue Ji's.
If they did not succeed, they would die trying.
Either they destroyed Xiliang, or the entire Qiang tribe would be wiped out.
Even though Bai Feng felt that this was an extremely undesirable action.
However, to the warlike Qiang people, this was the only way to restore their clan's honor.
More than half of their forces had been wiped out without even fighting the enemy. This was simply trampling on their clan's honor.
Of course, Cheliji had considered the outcome of the battle.
He had carefully investigated why Li Yuanhong and Yue Ji had failed. Most of it was because of the sneak attack.
In fact, Cao Cao was currently in the south and did not have that many soldiers.
At most, they only had 20,000 men. How could they lose when they attacked with 200,000 men?
Soon, the Qiang army was only a few hundred steps away from Xiliang.
Cherij raised his arms and ordered the soldiers to stop marching. Then, he shouted,
"Children! This battle concerns the honor of our people! "
"We need to protect our honor with our lives!"
"There are only 20,000 of these Han people. Use everything you have and take down Xiliang!"
"Once we reach the city, kill all the Han people. Leave no one alive!"
Hearing Cheliji's encouragement, the soldiers felt their blood boil.
In the past few days, they had more or less heard about the destruction of the Li and Yue tribes.
Some of them were angry, but most of them were afraid.
After all, they had wiped out 200,000 soldiers in just a few days!
How many soldiers did these Han people have?
However, after hearing Cheliji's words, they realized that there were only 20,000 soldiers in Xiliang.
In fact, even Cheliji did not know that other than the Xiliang Cavalry that Bai Feng had sent away, there were only 10,000 men in the city.
Now, there were only 5,000 guarding the city.
"Kill!"
Cheliji pulled out his saber and pointed it in the direction of Xiliang.
When the Qiang soldiers saw this, they felt their blood boil. They raised their weapons and charged toward Xiliang.
What they did not know was that in the dense forest behind them, two small groups of cavalry had appeared.
These Bing Province Wolf Cavalry were ready to throw out the wine jars hanging on the sides of their horses at any time.
They stared at the Qiang people in front of them and could not wait to charge forward.
After all, these Bing Province Wolf Cavalry were Cao Cao's troops. Although they had been implanted with Bai Feng's loyalty, they had not changed much.
Therefore, they hated the Qiang people who had committed all kinds of crimes.
However, the order they received was to surround the fleeing enemies and seal off their escape route.
Soon, the Qiang soldiers were getting closer and closer to Xiliang.
500 steps …
400 steps …
300 steps!
"Sir, we're already in range. Should we attack directly?"
Jiang Wei's heart was in his throat.
The Qiang people were so close, but why had Sir not given the order?
If the Qiang people were any closer, they would be in danger at 200 steps!
Jiang Wei could clearly see that the Qiang people were carrying siege ladders and other siege weapons!
"Fire!"
At Bai Feng's order, the soldiers on standby lit their bows and shot at the Qiang soldiers.
It was not that Bai Feng was not anxious, but there were 200,000 Qiang people.
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