The Qiang soldiers camp outside the city. The chief of the besieged city heard the defeated soldiers from Youjie's troops, and Youjie died. Nearly half of the Qiang soldiers were lost and unable to fight again. The remnants had withdrawn from the Western Mountains to the camp. He did not understand that three times the strength could not surround the Han army with less than a hundred people. These Han troops were suddenly attacked, and those who were short of clothing and food should be able to deal with them. How could this be the result?

He couldn't figure it out, but at this time there was no time for him to think about the reasons for his defeat. He immediately ordered two hundred Qiang soldiers to be transferred to chase and kill the escaped Han people. He could not die a general himself, but he did not even capture or kill a Han official.

Fortunately, Yang Qing and the others were fast, and thanks to Yan Hong’s familiarity with the path, everyone finally got around the city before the Qiang people chased him.

When he returned to the county town, everyone's tense hearts finally relaxed. Yan Hong immediately ordered someone to take Huang Yueying and the returning soldiers to rest. He had to go to the city to meet with the Ma County Ma to discuss the matter of defending the city. Yang Qing thanked Yan Hong for his kindness to ask him to go to the inn to rest, but he came to the city with him.

Today, the Qiang soldiers besieged the city almost launched an attack at the same time as the Youjie tribe. Fortunately, the soldiers defending the city wanted to fight bloody and fought hard, and finally repelled the Qiang people's first wave of offensive today. At present, the Qiang people retreated back to the camp and licked their wounds, and the Han army guarding the city also took this gap to treat the wounded soldiers, build the city walls, and replenish supplies.

"Ma County Ma, how many people are there in our army now?" Yan Hong went to the city and found Ma Qi.

"Ming Court, more than half of the two hundred soldiers were injured and half of the young and strong soldiers, and more than two hundred people were lost." Ma Qi sighed with his blood-filled eyes: "Fortunately, more than two hundred people were added to the people's strong last night, otherwise the city would be difficult to defend today."

Yang Qing, who was standing aside, asked, "When will reinforcements arrive?"

"Return to the chief clerk, and no soldiers sent out to seek help came back. They were either killed or had not yet rushed out of the Qiang people's blockade."

Yang Qing felt powerless when he heard this and sighed: "Oh, let's do a good job of defense first to ensure the city is not lost. Then I can only hope that Chen Fujun and the reinforcements from the court can come soon. County Ma, go down and rest first, here will be guarded by Yan Mingting."

The Ma County Ma Weir had a messy hair and a haggard face. He seemed to have not slept much last night. Although Yang Qing and the others were nervous on the mountain and had experienced a battle, they were not like soldiers fighting one after another. After returning to the city, they used food again, so their physical strength was still good at this time.

Ma County Ma did not refuse and went down the city to find a place to rest. Yang Qing looked around the soldiers and civilians guarding the city and couldn't help but shake his head in his heart. Now, including Huang Xing and others who came back from the mountain in the city, there are only more than a hundred soldiers. Although the people and the brave men have received certain military training, they are not as good as the official army that can't be compared with the Qiang people outside the city. Although hundreds of casualties were killed or killed, there were still about a thousand people. In this way, it would be extremely difficult to defend the city under their repeated attacks.

Just as Yang Qing was thinking about his plan to defend the city, the Qiang people's camp sounded anxiously. Yan Hong thought that the Qiang people were going to attack the city again, so he hurriedly ran out of the city gate tower to look around.

"It shouldn't be an attacking city. The sound of the attack drums is not like this. I think the Qiang people are going to retreat." After yesterday's battle, Yang Qing roughly knew what the sound of the golden drums of the Qiang soldiers' attack and retreat were like.

"What the chief clerk said is reasonable." Yan Hong also reacted after panic: "Look, there seems to be chaos in the enemy camp."

Woo, woo, woo, a high drum sound came. Yan Hong was ecstatic when he heard the drum sound. He grabbed Yang Qing's sleeve and shouted: "This is our drum sound, reinforcements have arrived." As soon as he finished speaking, a red flag appeared in front of everyone, with a big Chinese character written on it.

On the familiar official road, Yang Qing was still walking with the carriage and Zhuge Qiao next to each other. However, there were only more than 30 people who had passed by, but only a dozen people returned to Chengdu at this moment. Chen Da in front and Huang Xing behind were expressionless, with a gloomy face. Almost no one spoke along the way. The entire convoy was extremely quiet, with only the sound of squeaking ruts and the sound of horse hooves. Yang Qing rode on the horse and couldn't help but recall the scene of the arrival of reinforcements yesterday.

Wenshan County was adjacent to Shu County in the east, Qiang County in the west, Yinping County in the north, and Hanjia County in the south. In addition to the west and north, Ma Qi sent envoys to Shu County. Hanjia County sent envoys to ask for help, of course, there was no need to say much about asking for help from this county. Although he asked for help from three places, the county soldiers led by Wenshan Prefect Chen Zhen, the prefect of Wenshan. Wenshan County had few Han people and many barbarians. Since the founding of the Han Dynasty, it has changed and changed. Liu Zhang did not set up a county here and was established as the northern commander of Shu County. After the first emperor decided to Shu, Chen Zhen, a native of Nanyang, was appointed as the northern commander of Chen Xiaoqi. Later, the Wenshan County system was reorganized, and Chen Zhen was transformed into the prefect of Wenshan.

The land where the Qiang people in Wenshan County live is barren and it is not suitable to plant grains. Only barley is suitable for planting. Therefore, when it is cold and frozen, the people of the barbarians will always harass and rob the places. However, this time the momentum is much greater than before. Therefore, Chen Zhen was not panicked when he first heard that the Qiang people came to attack. He sent people to inquire about the situation, while dispatching troops to dispatch soldiers and generals. After the army in the county was assembled, he suddenly went around to the main flank of the Qiang soldiers in Mianqi County to hide. After dark, he sent troops to attack the Qiang army and captured countless deaths. After Mianqi County was lifted, he rushed to Du'an County to rescue the siege.

Yesterday, Chen Zhen sent more than 300 cavalry to attack the enemy formation, and then he was pushed forward with infantry. The Qiang people rushed to the battle and caught off guard. They were immediately defeated by the Han army at the city. The Qiang people could not resist it, suffered heavy casualties, and suffered heavy losses. Finally, they ran around and fled to their own lives.

Du'an's surveillance means that the Qiang Rebellion was initially quelled. After Chen Zhen entered the county town, he first sent people to rescue the wounded and appease the people, and then went to greet Yang Qing and Huang Yueying. In this way, Yang Qing had a good impression of him. This was the measure that an official who cared about the people should take. Last night, he talked with Chen Zhen for a long time, and during which he specifically told the contributions of the officials, civilians and soldiers of Du'an County, and asked him to do a good job of pension and aftermath.

Yang Qing and others refused Chen Zhen and Yan Hong's intention to stay for a few more days. They rested in the city for a night, leaving two seriously injured guards, and they left their farewell early the next morning. Chen Zhen did not force it. There were too many final things for the Qiang people to deal with this rebellion. They left the city and sent them to the Shili Post Pavilion, and both sides said goodbye.

"Mingzhi, why don't you stay at home for a few more days? How about recuperation?" Zhuge Liang saw Yang Qing coming in, put down the pen in his hand, looked up and said with concern.

This was the third day after Yang Qing returned to Chengdu. On the day he returned to the city, Huang Yueying and others were taken home by the people sent by Zhuge Liang as soon as they arrived at the city gate. He naturally wanted to go to the Prime Minister's Mansion to report his experience in Du'an County to Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang had already received a report from Chen Zhen yesterday. Although the Qiang people's rebellion was quite powerful, Wenshan County was enough to deal with it. Therefore, he just asked the Shu County prefect Yang Hong to send reinforcements to assist in defense. However, the reinforcements from Shu County had not yet entered Wenshan County, and today he had received military reports that the Qiang people had been defeated.

Although his wife and children have returned to the city safely, after listening to Yang Qing's detailed report, Zhuge Liang had to feel a little scared and said goodbye in his heart. Fortunately, there were the heroic fighting of the soldiers and Yang Qing's tricks, otherwise the result would be nothing more than that. So he not only praised Yang Qing, but also specially thanked Yang Qing for saving Zhuge Guo's life, and caringly gave Yang Qing a few days off to let him rest at home.

The wound on Yang Qing's belly was not deep, and now it had scars. He thought of an urgent matter, so he came to meet Zhuge Liang today.

"Xie Cheng is concerned, and it's okay after two days of rest." Yang Qing sat down and bowed and replied.

Zhuge Liang nodded: "It's fine if you don't have any trouble. Then what's wrong with you here today?"

Yang Qing said: "Prime Minister, after this trip to Du'an County, Qing has already known the benefits of the Dawei, which is actually the origin of the agricultural industry in Shu. Therefore, the barbarians in Wenshan County also covet this dam. This time, the Qiang life was in chaos, not only because of the unbearable cold weather, but also came for Du'an Wei. Therefore, Qing thought that the safety of this dam was related to the agricultural production in Shu, so we must be careful."

Zhuge Liang also knew this and agreed, "It's true." Now the court still followed Cheng Ce during the period of Emperor Ling to take charge of maintaining the Dawei, Dushui, the official of the Wenshan Prefect, to take charge of maintaining the Dawei. Now it seems that this system may not be able to protect the Dawei. Zhuge Liang knew that Yang Qing must have a solution, so he continued to ask, "What's the trick in Mingzhi?"

Yang Qing replied: "Qing thought it would be better for the maintenance of the Dawei to be directly responsible for the court, so that the court can directly take charge of the Dawei for flood control and irrigation."

Zhuge Liang pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "This strategy is feasible. In this way, a special dam official must be set up to take charge of this matter."

"What the Prime Minister said is very much. The dam official thought that he should use Du'an County Magistrate to be used as the magistrate of Du'an, and he also needed to requisition thousands of Dingkou to specialize in maintenance. This can not only prevent barbarian invasion, but also serve as a mobile force in the county to be dispatched at any time." The dam official system was set up by Zhuge Liang's food transportation after the Northern Expedition in history, and he felt that the important lifeline of Dujiangyan was more and more. At this time, Yang Qing proposed to set it up in advance because of the Qiang Rebellion, so he naturally wanted to better play the irrigation role of this dam on the Chengdu Plain.

Zhuge Liang understood Yang Qing's concern in his heart and said with a smile: "Good. In addition, when will the Dawei be repaired every year? How to repair it? All these have to be set. In this way, this dam will be worry-free."

"The Prime Minister's plan is far-reaching, but it is better to be a Qing Dynasty. Yan Hong, the magistrate of Du'an County, knew about the yin matters, so he could ask him to draw a specific statement on Chen Zhifu's decision.

"Yes." Zhuge Liang agreed that Yang Qing also reported to him the performance of Yan Hong, the magistrate of Du'an County, during the rebellion of the Qiang people, that this person was a talented person and could be given important tasks in the future.

When Yang Qing saw that Zhuge Liang had agreed to what he had submitted, he immediately wanted to leave. However, Zhuge Liang handed him the bamboo slips he had just read and invited him to discuss how to reply. Yang Qing thought it was a letter written by the county officials to Zhuge Liang, but he was surprised when he saw that it was a letter from the Wei people.

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