The news of Huo Guang's massacre of the city soon reached Fanyu, and Nanyue was shocked. In an instant, the entire Nanyue shared the same hatred for the enemy, and everyone wanted to go to the front line to kill Huo Guang. However, Huo Guang just asked the army to do a simple rest for a day, and then continued to march towards the next city.

The city of Chang'an is still full of flowers. The war in the south did not affect the prosperity of Chang'an City, but only gave the city more topics of conversation after dinner.

But since Huo Guang went south, the main hall of Weiyang Palace has become more busy than before. The court meeting that was originally once a few days has become a routine every day. The most recent situation occurred when Wei Qing and Huo Qubing went north to fight the northern desert.

"In the autumn of the first year of Yuanding, General Pingnan led his army to capture Zhongsu County, Nanyue. At that time, General Pingnan ordered the city to be massacred to worship the two thousand fallen soldiers in Yangshan Pass. None of the soldiers and civilians in Nanyue in Zhongsu County were alive." Su Wen's ups and downs were echoed in the main hall of Weiyang Palace. This was the second Nanyue victory received by the Han court in half a month.

However, when Huo Guang ordered the city to be massacred, the court suddenly became whispered. Some excited ministers felt that this move was very satisfying, some frowned slightly and felt that Huo Guang's move was a bit too serious, and some people considered whether the massacre had a positive effect or a negative effect on pacifying Nanyue.

Emperor Wu of Han did not express any opinion on this, and then routinely discussed matters between the world with the court officials. Seeing that Emperor Wu of Han did not express any opinion on this, no one discussed the matter of Huo Guang's massacre of the city.

Chang'an City does not know about Huo Guang's specific actions, but in recent days, I have received good news from Huo Guang almost every day.

"In the autumn of the first year of Yuanding, General Pingnan led his army to attack Qingyuan, Nanyue, and fought fiercely for two days to break the Qingyuan City. General Pingnan ordered the city to be massacred for one day, and nine out of ten houses in Qingyuan City were empty." Another good news from Huo Guang, the same slaughtered the city again. Before this, Huo Guang had four or five good news, and without exception, they were all carried out in the form of a massacre. However, these city walls were not as big cities as the earliest Zhongsu and today's Qingyuan, and were small cities ranging from hundreds to thousands.

This time the whispers in the court turned into chaos and noisy. Some people began to be puzzled by Huo Guang's behavior, and some began to question Huo Guang. Some censors even thought about whether to participate in Huo Guang's book. Although Huo Guang was the commander of the Southern Expedition, the purpose of the Han Dynasty's southern expedition was to recover the land of Nanyue and obtain all the people and things. After Huo Guang continued to massacre all the people in Nanyue, there were very few left in Nanyue. What's the use of Nanyue?

Emperor Wu of Han looked at the chaotic court and coughed softly, then naturally led the topic to other places.

Chang'an did not receive any good news from Huo Guang in the following few days. The court officials thought that Huo Guang's habit of massacre of the city should have ended, but half a month later, Huo Guang's good news came again at the court meeting in Weiyang Palace. This time, all the court officials held their breath, wanting to hear whether there was any matter in this good news that Huo Guang ordered the massacre of the city.

"In the autumn of the first year of Yuanding, General Pingnan led a large army to attack Guangning, Nanyue. The Nanyue traitor, General Lu Wuji mobilized 30,000 heavy troops to defend Guanglin. General Pingnan used a trick to lure Lu Wuji out of the city, ambushed and killed in the camp, and then fought fiercely for three days to capture Guangning City." Hearing that the court officials were all focused, the entire Weiyang Palace hall held its breath.

I don’t know if the good news was really over, or if Su Wen took a breath and fell into a brief pause. Just as the court officials were about to let go of their hanging hearts, Su Wen’s voice sounded again: “General Pingnan ordered the city to be massacred for three days. Guangning Nanyue soldiers and civilians were about 70,000, and the remaining one was less than a thousand..."

This time, the Weiyang Palace Hall exploded, and the Han Dynasty's court was like a vegetable market for the first time.

"Butcher...Huo Guang, butcher..."

"What do he want to do? Will he just kill to Fanyu City like this? Then kill all those with two legs on the land of Nanyue?"

"Huo Guang should be summoned to stop the massacre immediately. Did he not consider the attitude of the barbarians from all directions towards our great man in the future?"

"Young and energetic, too young and energetic..."

In the Weiyang Palace hall, except for a few ministers who remained silent, almost everyone criticized Huo Guang. If Huo Guang was in the court at this moment, someone would probably have started to fight him now.

Emperor Wu of Han also frowned slightly as he looked at the excitement below. Su Wen seemed to have noticed the changes in Emperor Wu of Han and quickly shouted loudly: "Sujing...Sujing..."

Su Wen shouted a few times and then gradually calmed down. The court officials all looked at Emperor Wu of Han, but no one could see the expression of Emperor Wu of Han at this moment under the obstruction of the imperial cliff and Su.

"Your Majesty, I think General Pingnan's move is inappropriate. Our Han sacrificed tens of thousands of soldiers and spent a lot of financial and material resources to attack Nanyue. Do you really want to slaughter all the people of Nanyue? Then move south to Nanyue to feed mosquitoes?" Sang Hongyang said out of the line. This was a very formal controversy and put the problem on the table to discuss it.

At this time, the population of Nanyue was at its peak since ancient times, with about one million. However, Huo Guang killed more than 100,000 people in just half a month, and basically one-tenth of Nanyue's population had been killed. If this progress continues, Nanyue will not be able to withstand several massacres of Huo Guang!

The court officials were waiting for Emperor Wu of Han to speak. This kind of massacre war was not without the foreign wars of the Han Dynasty. When fighting the northern Huns, both Wei Qing and Huo Qubing slaughtered many Hun tribes. However, there is an essential difference between the Nanyue and the Huns. First, the Nanyue had never taken the initiative to invade the Han Dynasty and had always been in a relatively weak position. Second, the ruling class of Nanyue for nearly a hundred years was actually the Qin army that was expeditioned to the Southern Expedition. After nearly a hundred years of integration, more than half of the people in Nanyue actually had Han blood and their cultural customs were deeply influenced by the Central Plains culture.

"I mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops to fight south, consuming countless food, grass and supplies. I was not going to make a decision on the expedition to the barbarians of South Vietnam... I will retreat to the court if I have nothing to do today." Emperor Wu of Han did not directly express his opinion on Huo Guang or his behavior, but he clearly expressed his attitude in just one sentence. The last sentence of retreating to the court made the civil and military officials seem to have been turned away!

Since then, the name of Huo Guang's butcher has spread all over the world, and Huo Guang is being talked about in almost everyone. The South Vietnamese country has gone from being in a state of shared hatred of the enemy to panic and despair. Panyu City is shrouded in a bleak cloud. The entire South Vietnam has become panic. Many families have begun to hide in the mountains with their elderly and children. All commercial activities in the city have stopped. Even the tens of thousands of South Vietnamese troops guarding Panyu have no resistance. The soldiers are in panic all day long. The generals are thinking about how to survive. Even the important officials in the country are considering how to protect themselves.

It can be said that before Huo Guang's army arrived, Panyu City was on the verge of collapse...

On a hillside north of Guangning City in South Vietnam, Huo Guang was standing on the top of the mountain and looking at Guangning City with flames not far away. Huo Tang stood behind Huo Guang and held a cowhide umbrella for him. Just as the army captured Guangning, it started to rain lightly in the sky, but the rain that had lasted for a day did not extinguish the fire in Guangning City. When the city was slaughtered that day, Huo Guang also ordered the northern important town of Nanyue to burn it.

Guangning City had 70,000 military and civilians. Even the Han army massacre was carried out for two full days. Even at this moment, there were still sporadic killings in the city. Mixed with rain, the pool of blood in Guangning City had flowed out of the city gate, and the whole land was covered with blood. If the massacre of Zhongsu was a purgatory on earth, then Guangning City was the real hell of the Yellow Springs. Perhaps the real hell of the Yellow Springs is not so terrible...

"Do you regret coming to Nanyue with me?" Huo Guang looked at Guangning City, and there was no change on his face. He seemed to be talking to himself, but his voice just fell into Huo Tang's ears behind him.

Since Zhongsu, Huo Tang has rarely spoken. Although she is still doing her own things, she has become taciturn and just follows Huo Guang silently, and even closes her eyes more often, trying not to see the outside world.

"I don't know...I don't know if you are doing this right?" Huo Tang whispered after a long time, as if he was asking himself, or as if he was questioning Huo Guang.

"I know you have a lot to ask me these days, but I have been holding back and not speaking. Although I have already looked at you differently, I have to admit that I still underestimated you. If you were a man, I would probably be above me! Do you know that when Your Majesty appointed me as General Pingnan that day, I had offered two Pingnan strategies for Your Majesty?" Huo Guang said to himself, and Huo Tang finally opened his eyes and looked at Huo Guang's back. She didn't expect Huo Guang to have such a high evaluation of her, and she also knew that Huo Guang's next words would explain her doubts in recent days.

Huo Tang did not answer, but just waited quietly for Huo Guang to continue, "The first strategy is to kill the rebellious officials of the South Vietnamese and establish a new king. As long as you submit to our great Han, Nanyue will still be Nanyue in the future. The second strategy is to kill the rebellious officials, move north to the rich families of Nanyue, and establish counties, and there will be no Nanyue again."

"Your Majesty chose the second strategy?" Huo Tang finally showed a hint of spirit in his eyes. He asked impatiently. She seemed to have thought of something, but no matter how smart she is, she is still a girl after all, and she cannot reach the heights of Huo Guang and Liu Che. Some of the key points are still unaware of.

"What do you think of these people in the South Vietnamese who think of the people in the Central Plains? When we call them Nanyi, they actually call us Hanman! I wonder if you have ever thought that if Nanyue is strong and the big man is weak, Nanyue will rush to the north, and those who fall under the butcher's knife will be replaced by the people in the Central Plains who are like corpses in this city. Among them are your relatives and friends, even you and me... it is better to be a peaceful dog than to be a troubled person..." Huo Guang seemed to be telling something that had nothing to do with him, but with his words, Huo Tang's expression became more and more relaxed, and his eyes became as firm as before.

"I'm sorry, second brother..." Huo Tang's voice trembled a little, unable to hide his deep self-blame. Then he remembered the various news he had received in recent days and said to Huo Guang with some concern: "I have received a lot of news recently. Now what my second brother did in Nanyue has shocked the world. This matter may have a great impact on second brother's reputation!"

"Are you worried that I will bear this mere infamy?" Huo Guang suddenly turned around and asked Huo Tang with a smile on his face.

Huo Tang wondered why Huo Guang seemed so relaxed at this moment? But he had to persuade him: "My little sister is worried that the matter of Nanyue is the great contribution of the king, and it will also become a place where the king will be attacked and deceived in the future!"

"By the way, Lu Shu met Zhao Guang a few days ago. Didn't that King Cangwu say he wanted to see me? Now we can indeed meet this King Cangwu. If you ask Lu Shu to arrange it, I will go to Guangxin to visit King Cangwu in five days." Huo Guang seemed not worried about carrying the butcher's reputation, nor did he answer Huo Tang's doubts. Instead, he walked towards the mountain, and arranged the meeting with King Cangwu Zhao Guang while walking. Huo Tang followed closely with a cowhide umbrella. After the two walked out several feet, the twelve guards and their personal soldiers walked out from all over the world.
Chapter completed!