The small border town of Fuping City seems extremely busy because of Huo Guang's arrival. The 30,000 people make the small town look particularly fierce. Since Huo Guang's orders, many people from Chang'an, Bashu and other places have gathered in this small town one after another.

When Huo Guang arrived in Fuping, he had already set out from Langjuxu Mountain ten days later, and the time left for him was less than fifty days. Huo Tang, Lu Shu and others had already arrived in Fuping two days ago, and various news was still gathering here.

"We don't have much time left, so I'll talk about it and bring all the things you have sorted out." Huo Guang walked into Fuping County Government and said to Huo Tang and Lu Shu who had been waiting for a long time, and kept walking towards the lobby of the county government government.

The Fuping County Government has been transformed into a temporary headquarters. A huge sand table in the lobby has been completed. More than a dozen clerks are constantly busy organizing and summarizing the news gathered from all over the place, and then passing the news one by one. The lobby is full of paper flying sounds and is busy.

This small border town far away from the war was actually shrouded in a tense atmosphere brought by the war.

"Let me talk about the situation where Your Majesty is." Huo Guang and his generals walked to the sand table and asked.

Huo Tang and Dongfang Shuo followed Huo Guang from left to right, and Huo Tang was always in charge of the intelligence. Although Huo Guang was impeached for Huo Tang's intervention in military affairs, Huo Guang still let Huo Tang meet in Fuping without hesitation, and she still plays an important role next to Huo Guang.

"The main cavalry of the Xiongnu Shanyu Wuwei is about 130,000, and has been confronting His Majesty's 150,000 troops on the front line of Langjuxu Mountain for several days. His Majesty appointed Lu Bode and Gongsun He as the left and right vanguard generals. The two sides have had several tentative confrontations, but the number of troops invested has not exceeded 50,000." Huo Tang picked up a letter and briefly explained the recent situation of Emperor Wu of Han in the northern part of the desert.

"It seems that as the Marquis said, Wu Wei is going to trap the 150,000 army in the grassland and wait for the arrival of winter." Dongfang Shuo said with some concern.

"I'm afraid Zhao Ponu of Hexi was also trapped by the Right King, right?" Huo Guang's eyes fell on the place called the snowy area in the southwest of Longxi and the sandbank, but what he said was the situation in Hexi.

"Zhao Ponu attacked several times, and the Right Xianwang avoided fighting. After Zhao Ponu returned to the army, the Right Xianwang's army approached the second county of Wuwei again. It was like a gangrene with bones that could not be beaten or shaken." Huo Tang continued to tell the situation in Hexi, and everything here was as Huo Guang expected.

"Damn... this is definitely not the style of the Huns..." Huo Guang smashed the sand table with a punch. This rogue but very effective tactic was not the style of the Huns at all, but it was this simplest method, which made the two most powerful legions of the Han Dynasty unable to move.

"It's up to us. How have you investigated the news about the Qiang people?" Huo Guang's eyes have been placed on the Qiang people's position on the sand table from the beginning.

"Mr. Marquis, you have to thank Aunt Sima this time!" Suddenly Huo Tang said a strange sentence, not only did he not answer Huo Guang's question, but instead mentioned Zhuo Wenjun.

"Huh? What does it mean?" Huo Guang turned around and looked at Huo Tang in confusion.

Huo Tang looked at the crowd behind him and nodded at a middle-aged man in his forties. Then the middle-aged man quickly lowered his head and went forward to pay homage to Huo Guang.

"The villain Zhuo Junchen of Shu County has met the Marquis of Anyang!" The middle-aged man was wearing a brocade robe and saw that he was a rich man. He called himself Zhuo Junchen of Shu County. Huo Guang seemed to understand something.

"Is Zhuo Wangsun yours?"

"Go back to the marquis, he is my father!" Zhuo Junchen replied respectfully.

"Oh? Since it's my family, I'll get up and say something!" Huo Guang suddenly realized that Zhuo Junchen was Zhuo Wenjun's younger brother. The Zhuo family was a wealthy businessman in Shu County. He used to be the richest man in Shu County. His family had thousands of servants. The largest gathering places of the Qiang people were also close to Shu County. I think the Zhuo family must have business dealings with the Qiang people. Perhaps the one who knows the Qiang people best is the Zhuo family in Shu County.

"Mr. Xie, since he received a letter from his younger sister, the villain rushed to Fuping without stopping. If you know the Qiang people, I am afraid that the officials of the Daxing Order are not as good as our Zhuo family." Zhuo Junchen stood up excitedly and said as if he was seeking credit.

Huo Guang called him his family, which made Zhuo Junchen particularly excited. Although the Zhuo family had a great wealth for generations and had a good personal relationship with Shu County officials, the merchants were merchants after all, and it was difficult to get into the eyes of the real high-level imperial officials. Originally, although Zhuo Wenjun, Sima Xiangru, had few contacts with the Zhuo family in Shu County after he arrived in Chang'an. When Zhuo Junchen suddenly received a letter from his sister, when he learned that his sister was actually being respected by the elder Huo Guang, the Marquis of Anyang, was in full swing, with Zhuo Junchen's merchant's keen eyes, he knew that his family had reached a higher level.

"Let's talk about the past slowly. Now the military situation is urgent to tell me all the news you know about the Qiang people." Huo Guang's affection for Zhuo Wenjun was naturally speechless. He also loved Zhuo Wenjun's younger brother a little. In front of Zhuo Junchen, Huo Guang did not call himself this marquis but called himself me.

"Yes..." Zhuo Junchen nodded quickly. As long as he put on Huo Guang's line, he would have many opportunities in the future.

"If you want to talk about the Qiang people, they were barbarians like savages more than ten years ago. They lived in this narrow area, and the vast area behind them was called the snowy area. It is rumored that it is close to the sky, and snow-covered people are difficult to survive for many years, and the air is thin and it is even more difficult to cross the birds. However, there were Qiang people who crossed this snowy area, and the Dian Kingdom went down from here. So in fact, although the Qiang people occupied a vast land, they actually did not have many places to survive." Zhuo Junchen pointed to the sand table and gestured at the southwest and northwest, and then pointed from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the Dian Kingdom in the south, which is the Yunnan region in later generations.

"Snowland..." Huo Guang murmured, he was naturally familiar with this name. In later generations, he was called the last pure land on the earth. In this era, it was still a place where there was no development and no one living. There may be only extremely rare primitive humans.

"The Marquis also knows the Snowland?" Zhuo Junchen asked Huo Guang curiously. He knew the Snowland from the Qiang people.

"Stop it without you," Huo Guang shook his head and said thoughtfully.

"Yes, the Qiang people originally had forty or fifty tribes of all sizes. Although these tribes have the same customs, they are not subordinate to each other and have few exchanges. However... Since a Qiang people named Cangyang Liangyuan suddenly rose up five years ago, they have unified all these Qiang tribes with force or personal charm in just five years. It is said that his subordinates had a powerful general named Mangbruzhi, who was the number one warrior of the Qiang people and had the courage of ten thousand men. Now it is this Mangbruzhi who attacked Longxi." Zhuo Junchen continued. He did know the Qiang people very well, especially the upper nobles of the Qiang people.

"Kangyang Ryohara? Mangbrouzhi? Can so many tribes be unified in five years? I heard that the Zhuo family is an iron smelting family. Your transactions with the Qiang people are not mainly iron tools, right?" Huo Guang muttered the name of the Qiang people's leader in a low voice, and suddenly looked at Zhuo Junchen with a bad look.

"This... the villain did sell some iron tools to the Qiang people, but I didn't know they would invade the great man at that time! And as the Qiang people gradually unify, they rarely bought iron tools from us. In the past two years, more of the transactions were cloth, brocade and other items." Zhuo Junchen shrank his head and said a little embarrassedly.

In this era, the landlords and powerful people were very powerful. Most of them set up workshops to make iron tools and other objects. Even Huo Guang himself had iron tools and workshops, which was simply unforbidden.

"Their 100,000 troops advanced eastward. How many Qiang people left on this plateau?" Huo Guang did not worry too much about Zhuo Junchen's iron tools sold to Qiang people, but asked the question he was most concerned about.

The rise of the Qiang people is a historical necessity. Without the Zhuo family in Shu County, there would be other families selling iron tools to the Qiang people. It would be meaningless to pursue these things again at this time.

"Their living customs are similar to those of the Huns, and the 100,000 cavalry is not a small number for the Qiang people. It probably accounts for seven or eight out of ten of them." Zhuo Junchen continued to answer Huo Guang.

"Did Cangyangliang enter Longxi? Do you know where his royal court is?" Huo Guang asked again.

"Cangyang Ryohara did not leave the plateau, and this time the only one who attacked Longxi was Mangbrozhi." This time the answer to Huo Guang was not Zhuo Junchen but Huo Tang. Although the Han Dynasty had almost no understanding of the Qiang people, with the beginning of the war, some basic information was still more or less mastered. At least who was the head coach of the Qiang people attacking Longxi already knew.

"The Qiang people also live nomadic people and do not have a fixed settlement. The royal court... The Qiang people have not yet established the establishment, nor the so-called royal court. Hey, it's not right... I remembered something." Zhuo Junchen subconsciously answered Huo Guang, but when he talked about the Qiang people's royal court, he seemed to suddenly recall something.

This time, not only Huo Guang, but everyone looked at Zhuo Junchen curiously, which made him a little embarrassed. He knew that he had lost his composure just now. Then he quickly said: "Two years ago, I met a Qiang nobleman in Chengdu. This man is very special. Not only did he wear Han costumes, but his etiquette and behavior are exactly the same as that of the Han people. If it weren't for his appearance and skin color, it would even make people think that he was a great Han scholar. At that time, he mentioned to me that the Qiang people were preparing for the establishment, and their leader Cangyang Ryohara was also planning to be king, and he also said that he would build a royal city in Jishi Mountain. If what this person said was true, then there might be their royal city here..."

Zhuo Junchen recalled that it was just a small matter. If the Qiang nobleman hadn't been too special, Zhuo Junchen might have forgotten it. Finally, he circled a thousand miles west of Shu County. There was Jishi Mountain. Although it was called Shan, it was actually a small mountain range with seven or eight hundred miles across.

Everyone's eyes looked at the direction of Jishi Mountain on the sand table, and it seemed that everyone had seen the dawn. As long as they could find the Qiang people's royal city, capture or kill Cangyang Liangyuan alive, the 100,000 Qiang people who attacked Longxi had to retreat to the plateau.

"Report... Marquis... Longxi urgently reported..." Just as everyone was waiting for Huo Guang to make a decision, a hurrying voice came from outside the county government.

A cavalry, covered in messy and dusty body, ran into the lobby of the county government and knelt down to Huo Guang and said, "Marty, two days ago, the Qiang man Dalun ordered the digging of the Wei River, and the water flooded Shangqi. Hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled outside Shangqi City and the soldiers and civilians in Shangqi City were killed and injured... Now there is a land of ​​the country within a radius of hundreds of miles in Shangqi... General Gongsun Ao has also committed suicide to his country..."

"Ah..." Zhuo Junchen couldn't help but scream, and the others were pale, as if the whole world had become dark.

"What is the name of the Qiang nobleman you are talking about? What is the Qiang Dalun for? Who is this Dalun?" Huo Guang stared at Zhuo Junchen, and an invisible murderous aura burst out in his eyes.

Zhuo Junchen was sweating coldly on his forehead, his voice was a little frightened, and he said intermittently: "Then...that man was called Du Song Ruozan...The Qiang people's Dalun is similar to the prime minister of the Han Dynasty...The Dalun is Du Song Ruozan..."
Chapter completed!