Dongdongdongdong! Dongdongdongdongdong!

The hanging bell hanging in front of the Xuanshi Hall of Weiyang Palace was ringed by the guards.

Then, the war drum hanging on the northern palace of Jianzhang Palace was also beaten by the guards.

Dongdongdongdong... Dongdongdongdong...

"What's the situation?" Huo Guang, the commander of Fengche, who was on duty, led his men to the city tower of Jianzhang Palace and asked hurriedly.

"The north is warned!" said the captain guarding the city tower, pointing to the north sky.

Huo Guang turned his head and saw a wolf smoke in the north sky that had already flowed straight into the air. Even if it was at least dozens of miles apart, the wolf smoke was still clearly visible!

"Immediately notify all the two thousand stones in Beijing, the marquis!" Huo Guang's expression sterned and immediately ordered: "I will report to Your Majesty now!"

The wolf smoke comes, and the war begins!

And there is a warning that an enemy is actively attacking the territory of the empire and attacking the important imperial towns!

Since Yuanfeng, Chang'an has not seen wolf smoke for almost twenty years.

In the past twenty years, only the Han army has ever fought against others, and no enemy has dared to take the initiative on a large scale.

Although, there were signs of this matter, the Han court was also ready.

But when this moment really came, Huo Guang felt so stuffy in his chest!

It’s like going out to visit relatives during festivals, but I was slapped on my face, which hurts so much that I was so embarrassed!

Even though Huo Guang's cultivation was already good enough, he still felt full of anger!

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Thousands of miles away, Li Guangli stood on the wall of the gate and looked into the distant world.

The fields outside the mountain and mausoleum are densely packed, and countless people are coming!

The number of these people is simply inestimable.

Thousands?

Or tens of thousands?

They either rode horses, held bronze weapons, wore iron armor, leather armor, or barefoot, held wooden sticks, stone hammers, or even nothing, wore tattered sheepskin clothes, yelling and mixed in crowds.

"This is the Qiang Rebellion!" Li Guangli sighed: "For hundreds of years, the Qiang Rebellion has continued!"

This was the first time Li Guangli saw the legendary Qiang Rebellion with his own eyes.

When he took office as General Ershi, the thorns among the Qiang people were basically driven out of Hexi by the Han army with butchers' knives and horse hooves.

Only a few remaining remains were hiding in the mountains, with only tens of thousands of people. Li Guangli took them to train troops and took only a few years to completely eliminate the Qiang people who were exhausted from food and clothing and had already been attacked by the Han army.

The captured population was taken back to Hexi, built bridges and paved roads, or used as laborers on the side walls.

The honest, loyal, reliable people were identified in this process, and then they were dispersed and distributed to the Shu Qiang tribes like Gu Qiang and Qu Qiang, which had a relatively high degree of sinicization.

The rest are regarded as "beasts" and are cruelly consumed in the construction of city blocks and roads.

Therefore, Li Guangli had almost never seen the Qiang Rebellion.

But he had heard of the Qiang Rebellion that once made people feel terrified in Hexi.

That was the terrible disaster of the Huns, second only to the white disaster and the locust plague.

The Qiang people, who were more than 100,000 or even hundreds of thousands, were not afraid of life and death, and they rushed over and swept across the Hexi pastures, eating, killing, snatching, and burning everything they saw.

It was not until the main force of the Huns arrived that they fled in all directions and retreated into the mountains, leaving only the vast land and countless dead bodies.

Looking at it now, just because of the momentum and number of people, Li Guangli knew that the destructive power of the Qiang Rebellion was not exaggerated by the Huns.

If they are allowed to break through the side wall and enter the world behind the side wall.

Li Guangli knew that countless families and countless villages would be turned into ashes!

Therefore, as a general, his duty should be to block all these guys from the side wall, and even when they approach the side wall, he would take the initiative to attack and disperse them.

but……

Li Guangli looked west and looked at the other end of the mountains and rivers. He held his hand tightly, and then issued an order: "Tell me that the order is: If there is no order, the military law will be chaotic!"

This order means that the main force of the Han army has lost the ability to take the initiative and can only defend passively.

This is to lure the Huns to bite the hook and create fighter jets for the Luntai Battle.

Only in this way can Li Guangli achieve a great victory, a great victory on the corpses of the Huns, rather than playing house with the Qiang people, Yuezhi people, and Yuezhi people, which is not considered a victory at all!

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Chang'an, Jianzhang Palace, Penglai Pavilion.

"Yinghou, General Ying Yang is here!"

Surrounded by more than ten generals, Zhang Yue walked into the main hall of Penglai Pavilion wearing armor and a long sword tied with his waist.

"Zhang Yingyang..."

"Meet Zhang Yingyang..."

"Yeyang is fine..."

Countless court officials stood up one after another and bowed to Zhang Yue.

Zhang Yue nodded slightly to show his response, but he walked straight to the opposite of Prime Minister Liu Quqi, bowed and said, "Good Prime Minister!"

"Hello Yingyang!" Liu Quqi stood up with a dark expression and replied with a bow. He was in a very bad mood, but then he thought of Li Guangli, who was far away in Hexi. Thinking about the future news of the Hexi victory spread to Chang'an, he became excited again!

"As long as you can win this battle..." Liu Quqi thought to himself: "Whenever...huh..."

At that time, he could, as the prime minister, drive the so-called General Ying Yang and his generals to the south of the desert or exil to Nanyue as the prime minister!

Let them stay away from Chang'an, struggle and wander outside.

Liu Quqi is still confident in this.

After all, he climbed to his current position by relying on his wrist.

Zhang Yue sat down with a smile, and then, behind him and on both sides, filled with generals.

More than a dozen people were wearing crimson armor and red robes, but they were basically generals of the chief lieutenant and the lieutenant. They were indeed a bit eye-catching in this hall where the troop prince started with two thousand stones.

But no one dares to underestimate it.

All fools know that among these people, after a while, they will probably all be 2,000 stones as the base, and the nobles above Guanneihou!

And he is a noble who holds military power and has military achievements!

"Prime Minister..." Zhang Yue sat down and asked, "Has the situation in Hexi been transmitted back?"

Liu Quqi shook his head and said, "General Ershi's envoy is probably still on the road now. It will take at least three or five days to arrive in Chang'an and report to Your Majesty the specific situation on the front line!"

Zhang Yue listened and nodded thoughtfully.

In my mind, the situation about Hexi and the things I have heard of in the past emerged one by one, and gradually outlined the basic landform, geography and the approximate location of the main rivers, rivers, cities and fortresses in the Hexi region today.

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The capital of Kucha, Yancheng.

A piece of silk cloth was pulled apart and the map drawn on it was displayed in front of people.

"The Han Dynasty has three passes, which are the concerns of our Huns!" Li Ling stood in front of this map and talked happily: "The Luntai Pass in the Western Regions, the Successful City of Heshuo, and the Guanglu Pass in the Wuyuan!"

Luntai is a by-product of Li Guang's defeat of Dayuan.

The Sujiang City is located outside Yinshan Mountain, northwest of Gaoque Pass, blocking the city block at the boundary between the Yellow River and the grassland.

Guanglu Pass is the eternal pain point in the hearts of the Huns!

Ershanyu died at this fortress and died with him under the fortress city, including thousands of Hun cavalry, including more than a dozen core clans of the four major clans!

It is precisely for this reason that the Huns have not yet dared to approach this fortress located outside Shuofang County and Wuyuan County.

Under the current situation, especially after the Han army once again sealed Langjuxu Mountain, the mentality of the Huns was basically nothing to do with the latter two.

Because it is impossible to threaten the two fortresses in the short term, let alone take revenge.

This Luntai alone was like a thorn stuck in their throats.

Especially the nobles who were afraid of the ancestors, each stared at the Han Dynasty fortress located outside the North Western Regions Road, stuck south of Kucha, and standing by river valleys and lakes.

Everyone knows that as long as this fortress exists for one day, the connection between the Han people and the countries in the Western Regions will not be cut off!

Over the years, relying on the Luntai Fortress, the Han Dynasty used merchants and envoys to hook up with nobles and kings from various countries in the Western Regions, and cultivated batches of pro-Han factions.

Now among the countries in the Western Regions, the power of pro-Huns is equal to that of pro-Han!

This was based on the fact that the Huns were stationed in the Oasis Basin in the northern Western Regions.

Without the suppression of King Rizhu's army, no one dared to imagine what would have happened?

Even so, now, the two countries of Loulan and Dayuan have turned against each other and become the periphery directly controlled by the Han Dynasty.

Like Wusun, there are many forces that are flirting with the Han people and even graciously.
To be continued...