As for the people of Liangzhou? What is that? Can we eat it? Thinking of this, Geng Bi looked Ma Teng up and down and said with a sneer. "Ah, I remember now, Ma Teng, although you are a descendant of General Fu Bo Ma Yuan, your mother is a Qiang girl that your father robbed. You really are a daughter of the Qiang people! You have inherited so many Qiang genes, and yet you still care about these traitors???" "you……" Ma Teng was furious. He didn't expect that the governor could not win the argument and actually put a big hat on him. If he defended himself now, he would really be defending a traitor, which was inherently politically incorrect. "Don't say anything, I have made up my mind! We must take advantage of this perfect opportunity when the rebel army is in chaos and has not yet elected a new leader, to summon all the men of Xiliang who are still loyal to the empire and take back Liangzhou!!!" Geng Bi suddenly drew out his ring-handled sword and let out a long roar towards the sky. "All soldiers! Follow me to support the Han Dynasty! Kill the traitors!!!" The author says: Author's words: 2400 monthly tickets plus more~
Chapter 157: Chaos in the World Seeing Geng Bi so determined to make achievements, Ma Teng's heart was completely dead. She was sure that Liangzhou was completely finished. She took her three children, Ma Chao, Ma Xiu and Ma Tie, to pack their luggage and prepare for retreat. These three children were only one-quarter Qiang blood. Although they still looked like Qiang people, their skin color was much lighter. His mother's color was dark purple, which was passed down to him as violet, and by Ma Chao's generation, it was a light purple that was almost snow-white. In December of the third year of Zhongping, the Liangzhou bandit leader Bian Zhang died of illness. In February of the fourth year of Zhongping, the last loyalists in Liangzhou took action immediately after the snow melted, and took advantage of the internal strife of the rebels to launch an attack. At the beginning, they did recapture several cities with great momentum, but the Han army, lacking food supplies, could only plunder the "rebels", that is, the food of the local people. Geng Bi even forcibly requisitioned food from the people and wealthy families for military use. He was bent on making achievements, but he angered the people and lost the support of the people in some of the occupied areas. In March of the fourth year of Zhongping, Geng Bi, who had just arrived, appointed several of his most trusted relatives to govern and suppress the newly conquered land. As a result, these people all had the common problem of Han local officials: I am a temporary official anyway, I will not stay here for long, what's the use of governing well? It's not my family, I might as well make a fortune during my term of office and leave. All these things intensified the conflicts in Liangzhou. Many of the last loyalists in Liangzhou were extremely disappointed with the actions of the new governor. Oh, why are we fighting on the front line while you are making money in the rear, right? However, the Liangzhou rebels kept coming to stir up trouble and persuade them to surrender, and finally in April, a mutiny broke out. Wang Guo, a native of Didao, led more than one-third of the loyalists and directly defected to the Liangzhou rebels, mutinying on the spot. The remaining two-thirds were also passive and lazy, and were not willing to fight to the death. Some of them surrendered on the spot, while others simply ran away in the chaos. As one side gained strength while the other side lost strength, this group of new rebels launched a surprise attack at night, killing the Liangzhou governor Geng Bi and all his officials, and even captured the last county of the Han Dynasty in Liangzhou: Hanyang County. At this point, the entire Liangzhou was separated from the rule of the Han Dynasty. As Geng Bi's second-in-command, Ma Teng, who served as the military commander, watched everything that happened coldly. At this moment, she was convinced that the Han Dynasty was probably really going to be finished. Without hesitation, she took her daughter and troops and immediately jumped to the rebel side. The speed was so fast that it could be called a seamless transition. The loyalists in Liangzhou also turned into rebels. At this point, the Liangzhou faction ushered in a reorganization of power. Ma Teng, who had expected this, became one of the largest rebel forces in Liangzhou. He joined forces with the original rebel leader Han Sui and nominated Wang Guo, who killed Liangzhou Governor Geng Bi, as the new leader of the rebels. He led all these rednecks to make Liangzhou great again! All this happened so quickly that when Dong Zhuo received news of the mutiny and had just crossed the Long Mountains to provide support, he heard that the entire Hanyang County had fallen. How can this be called a fall? This is the f*cking surrender of the entire county! Now, the people of Liangzhou under Dong Zhuo became the last loyalists. Seeing the entire Liangzhou fall, the remaining Han people in Liangzhou had no choice but to come and join Dong Zhuo. For a time, Dong Zhuo became the last signboard of Liangzhou. She protected a large number of Liangzhou fellow villagers who were unwilling to live in the occupied area, and once again retreated to Guanzhong. The power of Zuo Fufeng, which she guarded, also expanded dramatically. The Yellow Turban Rebellion was the first domino to fall in the collapse of the late Han Dynasty. The second part is the Liangzhou Rebellion. The third piece is the independence of Southern Xiongnu. The fourth was the Xianbei invasion, but fortunately this chain reaction was cut off by Liu Zhuang. And now, the fifth domino has fallen, with the entire territory of Liangzhou being occupied, and the sixth domino has collapsed. Although Youzhou is the richest of the three border states, it also maintains a large number of border troops, resulting in huge expenses. Food from Jizhou and Qingzhou cannot be transported in, and the Han emperor keeps sending men from Youzhou to Liangzhou to fight...
The people of Youzhou were already very angry at the inhumane actions of the imperial court. Now that they discovered that the imperial court had no way to deal with the independent Liangzhou, many ambitious people began to stir, convinced of Luoyang's weakness. Subsequently, the largest rebellion since the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out in Youzhou! Originally, Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun wanted to inherit the name of Yellow Turbans, but considering that the sisters Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang not only surrendered but also became concubines of other people, it was too shameful, so they only called themselves the great virtuous teacher and his disciples, and started the second major rebellion in Youzhou. Zhang Ju called himself the Son of Heaven, and Zhang Chun called himself the General Mi Tian and King Anding, claiming that they would replace the Han Dynasty. Now, the Han Dynasty not only had to send troops to Guanzhong to confront the Liangzhou bandits, but also had to send troops to Youzhou to fight the Youzhou rebels. The battle line had expanded from one to two, making Luoyang's already tight fiscal expenditure even worse. The bigger trouble was that everyone could see clearly the weakness of the Han emperor: Liu Hong even dragged out the rebellion in Liang Province from the winter of the first year of Zhongping to the spring of the fourth year of Zhongping. In less than three years, he was still unable to defeat the Liangzhou people. And now Youzhou has also rebelled. Liu Hong not only has to fight Liangzhou, but also Youzhou. Fighting on two fronts? Does he have the strength to do so? When your battle line increases from one to two, then the time for the third battle line to appear is not far away. ------------------------------------- Liu Zhuang stayed in Hedong, watching the unpredictable situation, and began to frantically accumulate strength, making final preparations for the impending doomsday. During this period, he also recruited corvée labor near Jiexiu, reinforced Jiexiu City, and guarded the north gate of Hedong tightly. He spent the entire year training his own 1,000 Han cavalry and 1,000 Xianbei troops. After such a long period of training, these Han cavalrymen have at least three professional levels, which makes them already quite elite. In the autumn of the fourth year of Zhongping, Liuzhuang's military farming system ushered in the second wave of bumper harvests, also with more than 12 million shi of grain. Since the implementation of the military farming system, a stock of 24 million shi of grain has been produced in two years. This gave Liuzhuang enough confidence and it launched the second military exercise after the autumn harvest, and trained enthusiastically for a whole winter. The aristocratic families were not idle either. Scholar Liu Zhuang, who followed suit, conducted winter military exercises to enhance the combat capabilities of his own troops. At the same time, he also began to select elite troops to form the core combat force of his own family. Liu Zhuang completely stopped provoking them. After thinking about it carefully, I was fighting with the aristocratic families for population. The ultimate purpose of land was to support the army. But now the noble families are helping me to raise troops, and at the same time obeying orders and following deployments, so let it be. By the time of spring plowing in the fifth year of Zhongping, Liu Zhuang's troops had been completely formed. As for the peasant soldiers, the soldiers provided by the military households under the military-field system have been expanded into ten battalions, each with 2,500 people, including 2,000 infantry, armed according to Liuzhuang standards. The first person in each squad holds a ring-handled sword, a shield, and carries two bags of ten javelins. The second person held a halberd, the third person held a infantry spear, and the fourth person held a battle spear. These three people had ring-handled swords on their waists as secondary weapons, and carried military crossbows and two bags of crossbow arrows as long-range weapons. The last person was holding a bow and arrow for cover, with a ring-handled sword on his waist as a secondary weapon, ready for hand-to-hand combat at any time. The five hundred cavalrymen were all assault cavalry. It was impossible for these Han peasants who changed their careers to horse riding and archery in three years. They could just rely on the high-bridge saddles and iron stirrups to launch waves of devastating light cavalry charges, and leave the horse riding and archery work to the cavalry camps. As for armor, among the ten battalions, only the two elite battalions of Baima and Julu were fully equipped with iron armor. The two thousand infantrymen were all fully armed elite soldiers. The remaining eight battalions had no armor. Instead of distributing the armor evenly among the ten battalions, it would be better to concentrate the armament on two battalions for a central breakthrough. Not only that, the two thousand guards directly under his command were almost formed. The one thousand Han army veterans were becoming increasingly brave. Half of the adopted children were old enough to go to the battlefield. Moreover, because they were personally educated by Liu Zhuang in their childhood, they were all extremely loyal. Now, out of the one thousand personal soldiers, six hundred could be sent to the battlefield. More than seventy selected Han children completed the final talisman surgery one after another this winter, and became Thunder Warriors with a height of at least two meters and four. Together with the fifty surrendered Yellow Turban Army, the number of Thunder Warriors under his command reached one hundred and twenty. All of them rode special tall horses, all wore two layers of armor, and even the front half of the horses, including the head and neck, were covered with thick iron armor, making them terrifying semi-armored cavalry. What's even more terrifying is that these 120 people are all Yulin cavalry like Lu Bu. They are the most terrifying of Liu Zhuang, charging into battle with their sharp spears. While the military sector was making great strides, Liu Zhuang also did not lag behind in the agricultural sector. Based on modern knowledge, he taught the military and farmers how to resist drought and conserve moisture, and demonstrated how to restore and improve soil fertility: that is to rotate crop varieties. Don't plant only one crop in a field. Instead, plant a round of soybeans in the gaps to restore soil fertility. He clearly proposed that the principles of agricultural production should vary according to time, place, and crop variety, and should not be uniform. At the same time, he also selected some Confucian scholars who were proficient in languages from aristocratic families, who were responsible for predicting the weather and immediately notifying the people whether it would be sunny, rainy, frosty or freezing, so that they could make preparations in advance to avoid damage to the crops. Ordinary aristocratic families would not bother to do this. I have studied poetry and books for more than ten years and became a Confucian scholar specializing in modern or ancient Chinese predictions. But you don't let me predict military and national affairs, or predict whether the farmers' land will be frozen tomorrow? Fortunately, Liu Zhuang was a prefect. He had the power to create a new official position that was specifically responsible for predicting the weather for farmland. The rank and salary were not low, which made these arrogant Confucian scholars reluctantly accept it. Okay, at least it's a not low official position, I'll do it. In terms of business, Liuzhuang was also carrying out reforms. Once a war broke out, the soldiers and farmers would have to be paid when they left the land to serve. The salaries of the two thousand professional soldiers who were constantly training and fighting were also a considerable expense. Although they could be paid with food, it was still a considerable figure. Liu Zhuang was also carrying out reforms in business. He extended the trading period, provided more welfare policies for merchants, and earned commercial taxes from merchants in a steady stream.
At the same time, he built a huge wooden house on a tributary of the Laishui River and quietly carried out reforms. The Han Dynasty had long mastered the technology of hydraulic forging iron. He used this as a template and added the power source of hydraulic forging iron to the looms, and he added a total of 108 looms. Thanks to the efforts of many craftsmen, a total of 108 looms were connected in parallel, and all the shuttles rotated together. No human power could move such a huge machine, but only a pulley set and the turbulent water flow of the Laishui River were needed to power this huge machine. As long as it was turned on and one or two skilled weavers controlled it, 108 pieces of cloth could be woven at the same time, which was a hundred times more efficient than usual! The cloth woven in this way is no different from that woven on a loom. Liu Zhuang wiped the sweat from his forehead and breathed a sigh of relief. He successfully reduced the labor cost of weaving by more than a hundred times. Not only were these people freed up to work in other positions, but he could also sell this excess output of cloth to the market and earn military funds. Chapter 158: Abolish Shi and Establish Mu January 188, the fifth year of the Zhongping reign (January 1, 16 AD) Liu Zhuang and his family spent another quiet and peaceful New Year. Liu Yu and Liu Yao are already one year and three months old, and can already call simple words like dad and mom. Liu Zhuang couldn't let go of his two children, and he also held Diao Chan in his arms attentively to make sure she didn't feel left out. The little girl is thirteen years old this year, and she is becoming more and more beautiful. The childish cuteness on her face is gradually disappearing, replaced by endless charm and seduction. A pair of alluring scarlet eyes, like two gorgeous rubies, were inlaid on her gorgeous face. The upturned corners of her eyes made her look even more charming. When Liu Zhuang's wives saw Diao Chan's face, they would hold their breath and marvel at the unparalleled beauty of this little girl. Not only that, her delicate figure also began to develop, with increasingly round buttocks. She sat directly on Liu Zhuang's legs through the thin silk clothes, and her slender breasts rubbed against Liu Zhuang's arms. There was a hint of shyness in her eyes when she looked at him, and it was not known whether it was intentional or accidental. On the same day, the second large-scale Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out. Just like Liu Zhuang spent nearly five years to train seventy Thunder Warriors; the remnants of the Yellow Turbans who were defeated by the Han army and scattered in all directions also used this time to complete the training of a new generation of Thunder Warriors. And this time, they learned from the experience of the last failure and did not take the lead. Instead, they remained dormant in the dark. Seeing that the two rebel armies of Ma Teng and Han Sui in Liangzhou and Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun in Youzhou had held back most of the Han army’s manpower, other Yellow Turbans also rose up in rebellion. For a time, Youzhou, Bingzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Xuzhou, Sili, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, and Yizhou once again set off the flames of rebellion! The remnant Yellow Turban army, with the second generation of Thunder Warriors, raised the banner of rebellion against the Han Dynasty!!! Of the Thirteen States of the Han Dynasty at this moment, except for Jiaozhou located at the southern end of the world and Liangzhou occupied by the Red Necks and Qiang people of the Han Dynasty, the remaining eleven states all experienced the outbreak of the Yellow Turban Rebellion of varying scales. However, this time many powerful leaders of the uprising army have changed their names. The problem is still the same. Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang were taken as concubines by Liu Zhuang. It's too cheap. It's too shameful for us brothers to inherit their ambitions. Will we still be able to make a living? We will lose face! Seeing that he had finally waited for the Han Dynasty's rare riot, the Southern Xiongnu Khan also laughed, united the Xiongnu tribes internally, made friends with the Xianbei tribes externally, and headed south to the Central Plains!!! Henan Yin——Luoyang Liu Hong collapsed on his dragon chair, his face thin and pale due to kidney deficiency, full of worry. He looked at the emergency reports and requests for help pouring into Luoyang from every corner of the empire, piling up like a mountain in front of his desk, and he felt numb all over. The eunuch unfolded an extremely precise and detailed map of the Han Dynasty's territory in front of him, and placed yellow chess pieces representing rebellion on the areas where emergency letters had come from. He was shocked to find that the entire Han Dynasty was turning yellow. There was no state without problems, and no county without an outbreak of war. Liu Hong's spirit and will had been completely crushed by the mountains of battle reports and the rebels all over the mountains, and he went into a state of rot. When I indulge in pleasure, the world is in chaos, but when I work hard, the world is still in chaos. Isn't that a waste of my work? I might as well go to the forest I just built and have sex with the naked palace maids! The eunuchs just found a few girls from Yangzhou a few days ago and transported them to the capital. They are quite pretty. The entire Liangzhou was in rebellion, Youzhou broke away and proclaimed itself emperor, and the Hu people in Bingzhou invaded. I was already unable to handle these three issues alone. I couldn't sleep at night because I was worried about dealing with these three issues. But now, not only are the problems in these three places not solved, but the other ten states are all in turmoil! What the hell is this?! I don't want to play anymore! At worst, I can order my brother-in-law, General He Jin, to lead the five battalions of the Northern Army to guard the eight passes that protect Luoyang, and my most trusted eunuch Jian Shuo to lead the eight battalions of the Western Garden to guard Luoyang, and I will retire in Luoyang! Other places are free to do whatever they want! I don't care!!! When faced with a problem that he could not solve, Liu Hong simply went into a state of lethargy, becoming more and more dissolute and pleasure-seeking in the harem. He was depressed for several days until the eunuch reported that a clan relative wanted to see him. Liu Hong yawned, raised his head lifelessly from the woman's belly, and found that the person who wanted to see was his distant cousin Liu Yan, so he nodded and allowed her to enter the back hall. "Ta, ta, ta." Accompanied by the sound of light footsteps, Liu Yan walked into the inner hall of the palace gracefully and solemnly. Looking at her concubine Meiji lying naked on the bed, and the disheveled Han emperor sitting on the two girls' breasts, with his delicate and dignified face, she could only sigh. "Liu Yan, just say whatever you want to say." Liu Hong said weakly as several jade hands stripped off the dragon robe that Liu Hong had hurriedly put on in front of Liu Yan. The two beauties wrapped around the body of the Han emperor like poisonous snakes, leaving obscene lip prints on his tall and thin body. "Your Majesty, I think that the governors and prefects bribed and bought positions, exploited the people, and were alienated by their relatives and friends, which eventually led to the two Yellow Turban Rebellions and unrest in the world! The prefects were officials with a rank of 2,000 dan, while the governors who managed them only had rank of 600 dan, and were simply unable to manage effectively. This is the reason for the unrest in the world."
Liu Yan knelt on the ground and slowly explained the purpose of this trip. "So I think that we should abolish the governors and establish governors, and replace the provincial governors with governors. Let the governors have all the power in the local area, including military power, financial power, and political power, to share your worries and take charge of a region, so as to save the cost of governance. Your Majesty should select those honest and loyal officials in the court to serve as governors of local provinces and counties, so as to stabilize the world." Liu Hong was already annoyed by the Yellow Turban Army everywhere. Should he throw all the power and troubles in the local area to one person to solve? Well, at least in this way, he could use his brain less and have less work burden. "Well, Jun Lang, you are a minister in the court and a relative of the Han Dynasty. Tell me, where do you want to go to share my worries? What kind of governor do you want to be?" Liu Hong was shouting Liu Yan's name and had already entered a state of playing badly. He naturally knew the dangers of the governor, but he no longer cared and had no other choice. "Now the governor of Yizhou, Xi Jian, has been amassing wealth in Yizhou, and greed has become the norm, which has led to the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Shu. I am willing to go to Yizhou to help Your Majesty relieve your worries!" "Okay, then I will grant you the title of governor of Yizhou. Solve the problem of the Yellow Turbans in Yizhou quickly and beautifully. I hope that Yizhou can pay taxes to the central government normally in three months." Liu Hong approved Liu Yan's application with a stroke of his pen. Not only that, he was like a madman, dividing three governors in one go, actually dismembering the Han Empire into four parts - the rebellion in these places is too serious, I can no longer handle it, I will give all the rights of these places to you, you have such great power, can you help me get things done? ? ? When people all over the world found out that Emperor Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty had appointed three governors at once, three local tyrants who occupied one state, they were just dumbfounded. The three of them were: The most remote governor of Yizhou: Liu Yan. The governor of Youzhou, Liu Yu, had a jurisdiction over an area that was claimed to be the emperor. The governor of Yuzhou, an area hardest hit by the second Yellow Turban Rebellion: Huang Wan. Chapter 159: The White Wave Uprising The emperor had his own worries, and the governor had his own worries. Liu Zhuang was so considerate of the people and so compassionate to them, thinking that it would never be his turn to be involved in the Yellow Turban Rebellion. Hedong County was so prosperous, so why did another Yellow Turban Rebellion break out? Was there anyone in Hedong County who would join the Yellow Turbans? But this shit still happened. On February 188, the fifth year of Zhongping (February 2, 13 AD), the remnants of the Yellow Turban Army, including Guo Tai, revolted again in Baibo Valley near Linfen County, Hedong Commandery. However, like other remnants of the Yellow Turban Army, they changed their name: Alas, we are no longer called the Yellow Turbans, we are called the Baibo Army! Not only that, there was another wave of Yellow Turban remnants very close to him: the Black Mountain Army. Their leader was Zhang Yan, the flying man who had one wing chopped off by Zhao Yun after his failed sneak attack on him. He was now active in the Taihang Mountains in the Feihu Xing and Jingxing areas, probably near Guo Huai's hometown of Yangqu. At the same time, an unprecedented bloody war broke out in the Southern Xiongnu: originally, the Southern Xiongnu Khan was going to lead all the orcs south to Guanzhong, or east to Bingzhou, to deal a fatal blow to the dying Han Empire. As a result, the Han army that remained in the Hetao area paid their last loyalty to the Han Empire. Even though the Lieutenant General who protected the Xiongnu had been assassinated by the Xiongnu long ago, even though they had no leader, even though they were isolated and helpless, the Han troops stationed in the Xiongnu showed no fear. One night, they launched an extremely bloody and brutal raid against the Southern Xiongnu, who had seceded from the Han Empire and declared rebellion, leaving corpses everywhere and rivers of blood. Accompanied by the pious and piercing poetry, the Xiongnu and the Han army prayed to Confucius at the same time, causing all kinds of bizarre and cruel spells to sweep across the entire battlefield. Massive and terrifying Confucian energy condensed in mid-air into giant feet of Confucius, roaring down from the sky. Every trampling could crush hundreds of people into meat, causing the mountains to collapse and the earth to crack, and the sky to shake and the clouds to sway. Countless five-colored lasers composed of concentrated flames screamed across the entire battlefield. The blazing fire of Confucianism burned the best soldiers of both sides in half, along with their armor and flesh, turning them into a cruel decoration of this hellish battlefield. There were also countless red suns rising slowly, exploding into clusters of scarlet suns of destruction in the densest center of the battlefield! In the center of the fiery explosion, the deafening sound of the explosion was enough to drown out the war cries of tens of thousands of soldiers and the neighing of tens of thousands of horses. The magic battlefield was extremely fierce, and the frontal battlefield was no less intense. The orcs learned the Confucianism of Confucius and Mencius, and the Han people also learned the war cry of the orcs. A large number of orcs and Han people wearing black iron armor looked up to the sky and shouted WAAAGH at the same time! ! ! Both sides were burning with a strange dark green aura, and they fought fearlessly. The two sides fought more and more fiercely and violently. Both the orcs and the Han people had an unbridled mad laugh on their lips. The repeated "WAAAGH!!!" from both sides seemed like the laughter of two mad gods. In the end, both sides died in the bloodiest and cruelest battle. Not a single body from either side died from being stabbed in the back, not a single body had a fearful look on their faces. All the soldiers on both sides were in bliss and died on the battlefield. No one knows the specific process of how this battle was fought. After the news reached the Central Plains, only the battle report remained: the Han army stationed in the Xiongnu was completely wiped out due to the disadvantage in manpower under the terrifying wave after wave of the green-skinned orcs' charge like a tidal wave, and no one survived. However, they also killed more than 10,000 Xiongnu, in a one-to-one casualty ratio, and achieved a decisive result: in the surprise attack, they killed the Great Khan of the Southern Xiongnu. In an instant, the entire Southern Xiongnu tribe was leaderless and in chaos, and the original plan to move south was shelved. Moving south to fight the Han people was not important, the important thing was to decide who our boss was first. The rules for orcs to decide who is the leader are relatively simple: come on, all tribes gather their troops and fight, and the warlord who survives at the end is the Great Khan!!! In accordance with Han army tradition, Liu Zhuang set up an altar in Anyi, facing northwest, to pay tribute to the Han soldiers stationed in the Xiongnu who died in Hetao. If it were not for their achievements, he would now have to fight against the entire Southern Xiongnu outside and deal with the Baibo rebels inside. Hedong County would have faced a disastrous start at the end of the Han Dynasty.
And now, the brilliant victory of the Han troops stationed in the Xiongnu in killing the Great Chanyu bought him a little breathing time: it was originally agreed that all the Xiongnu would move south, but now, only a part of the Xiongnu, King Xiutu, crossed the Yellow River and attacked Xihe County. What’s going on with the Baibo bandits in Linfen? We must quickly defeat this group of bandits, and then go to Xihe County to fight King Xiutu! If the Yellow Turban Army was a group of weak peasants who had never fought a war and had no organization. The Xianbei people were a group of bandits who had fought in wars but had no organization.