Just when the coalition forces swept away the ministers who were not convinced, Pang Hong worked with Yadan to pacify the Qiang people; And Yang Qian, who used to be the king of Baiqing, has also successfully infiltrated Yinping, actively contacting his old subordinates and collecting intelligence.

If so, half a month later, on the 20th of summer and August, the coalition army had almost no major losses, and returned with a full load, which caused the Qiang people inside and outside the debate to be shaken, and they were even more obedient.

As the saying goes, good things come in pairs, day and night, Yang Wan also returned with information about Yinping.

In the office, Yang was dusty, but he was full of energy, and he talked endlessly about what he had seen and heard before and after the trip.

He was originally a Di person, and he was talking about Di people, so there were often a lot of Di people slang mixed in his words, Jiang Wei was very confused when he heard it, and after Ma Chao explained it himself, he knew the background and the current situation.

Originally, Yinping County was formerly known as the Guanghan Subject State and belonged to the rule of Yizhou. The subject state is an administrative division set up by the Han court to settle the Xiongnu, Qiang, Yi and other minority ethnic groups that belong to it, and after the imperial court demarcates the geographical scope for it, it gives it the policy of "national customs" unchanged, and sets up officials, who are filled by Han people or leaders of Hu and Qiang.

A few years ago, when Cao Cao conquered Zhanglu, he changed the subject country of Guanghan to Yinping County, and governed Yinping City, which is still in use today.

But whether it is called a subject country of Guanghan or Yinping County, it has always been a paradise for the Baima people, and occasionally there are Qiang people who are subjugated to the Di people, and very few Han people have set foot in it.

Two years ago, in the battle of Xia Debate, the strong end of the White Horse people made contributions to Cao Wei, and Cao Cao handed over Yinping to his jurisdiction after the war.

The Di people were similar to the Qiang people, they were scattered and did not have a unified royal power.

But the strong end is cruel, and scheming, through Cao Wei Yuwei to spread the party, the conquest is not subordinate, in the past two years has been the whole territory of Yinping to be submissive, but also took advantage of the civil strife in Wudu to participate in the wolf and Qiang people, repeatedly sent troops to loot, and the prestige became more and more incomparable.

According to the news obtained by Yang Wan, the strong end lives in Yinping as the city, and has more than 20,000 people who control the line, especially the elite cavalry team under his command, which is more than 1,000 people, and has received the full support of Cao Wei.

Yang Wan also introduced that after the defeat of the four great kings including him, Agui, Lei Ding, and Dou Mao, part of the old department was moved into the interior, and some were scattered, and now they are under the rule of Qiangduan, and they are scattered in Nanyin, Hengling, Shunyin, and Xundi, and they have to endure harsh exploitation every year, and their lives are extremely difficult.

They welcomed the imperial court's imminent march to attack the strong ends, and agreed that once the mighty general Ma Chao sent troops, the ministries would definitely raise troops to respond and fight against the strong ends.

After getting these news, Ma Chao, Jiang Wei, and Ma Dai were naturally overjoyed, and after some summing, they all thought that the soldiers were fast, so they set it on the first day of September two days later, and the newly victorious coalition army smashed Yinping with lightning speed, and at the same time contacted the old departments of the four kings to respond to the momentum.

The decision has been made, and everyone immediately takes their own responsibilities and acts separately.

At this time, in Yinping City, five hundred miles south of Xiabian, in a low, seeping, dark house, a big man with a stubbly beard and dull eyes sat in front of the bed without saying a word, but silently drank the last sip of wine in the bottle, and threw it to the ground with a crisp crashing sound.

When a ray of sunlight leaked through the window of the wooden grid, it happened to be sprinkled on the face of the big man, if there was a Qiang person here, he should be able to recognize this person as Muba.

However, on the day of the Battle of Lüyang, the Arden army was facing a flank attack from the front and back, and was about to be defeated under the city of Lüyang.

Only Mu Ba had escaped death several times before, and he reacted very quickly, and chose to flee on horseback before the defenders closed together, without the slightest hesitation. Although the army was completely annihilated, he escaped intact.

But he did not dare to return to his territory—he knew that his opponents would not give him time to gather his goods; He didn't dare to run for his life to go to Wei - after all, he had committed a lot of crimes for the Disaster Heaven and Water Gang last year, and now he was a key criminal publicly arrested by the Wei court, and there was only one way to die if he went there.

After thinking about it, he finally chose to try his luck with Yin Ping Qiangduan.

Although there are many blood feuds between the Wudu Qiang people and the Baima Di people, but Luoyang City has played the banner of "crusading against the strong end", in Mu Ba's opinion, he has made a meritorious report, and the strong end may take him in for the sake of this?

So he climbed mountains and waded through rivers, slept in the open air, sneaked all the way, and it took Kankan several days to arrive in Yinping, and explained in detail the collusion of the Wudu Qiang people with the Han people to prepare to crusade against Yinping.

He thought that he would be reused, but the uncertain strong man just said noncommittally, "I know", and sent someone to take him to this low hut to live, although he did not worry about eating and drinking, but there were soldiers patrolling outside the door, and there was no freedom, apparently under house arrest.

"But he doesn't believe me......"

Mu Ba sat on the bed, drunk, speechless for a long time, finally let out a long sigh, and lay back on the messy couch.

Looking at his expression, he was very depressed, and after a while, under the numbness of the wine, he was snoring, and he was about to slowly fall asleep.

At this moment, the door of the room was suddenly pushed open, and with the light open, a big man walked in, and said in a low voice: "My king let you pass." ”

Mu Ba got up with a grunt and recognized the person as one of Qiangduan's guards.

"The King... Did the king believe me? ”

"You'll know when you go." The big man was expressionless and walked straight back.

After half a month, Muba finally walked out of the house.

The sky was high and the clouds were light, and the peaks turned around, and he stretched out his arms widely, and his eyes looked around.

As far as the eye can see, you can see a yellow-brown stone house along the steep hill slope, high or low, and there are many bunkers in between, and the momentum is extraordinary.

"Yin Ping said that it was a city, but it was better to say that it was a walled fort. If they want to attack, they are afraid that they will not collapse their teeth! ”

For some reason, Mu Ba's mood suddenly brightened, and he pulled his steps to catch up with the big man in front of him.

Along the way, but see that most of the stone houses in the city are connected to each other, and the outer walls built with pebbles and flakes are mottled, and the lanes in the wall are vertical and horizontal, like a labyrinth.

After walking for about half a cup of tea, turning over half a hillside, and passing through three stone houses, Muba finally came to the residence of King Qiangduan.

The light of the stone house was impenetrable, dark and unsightly, but in his ears he could clearly hear several people discussing things.

He entered such a dim place from the light, only to feel that it was pitch black in front of him, and was about to make careful adjustments, when he suddenly heard the sound of deliberation paused, and there was silence for a moment, and then a cool and majestic voice came from above.

"Muba, you're here."

Mu Ba heard the voice of the strong end at this time, hurriedly took two steps forward, bowed down and said, "Qiang Muba, meet the king." ”

At this time, his vision recovered slightly, and he took the opportunity to look at one or two with his spare eyes, but he saw that Qiang Duan was showing his arms, in the main position, and there was a man sitting on his left and right, looking like he was in his thirties, and they were all staring at him at the door at the moment.

Mu Ba's heart jumped, and he hurriedly lowered his head and made a respectful appearance.

Qiang Duan expressed satisfaction with his respect, and then answered softly, and then stretched out his hand and pointed to the man on his right, and said:

"His name is Fu Jian, he originally lived near the left side of Luoyang in Wudu, and he just took his clansmen to me yesterday, and he also brought the movement of your Wudu Qiang people...... Muba, you're right, the Qiang people in Wudu really colluded with the Han people, and they had already sent troops to fight at this time. ”

Fu Jian bowed slightly, and said, "Yes, there are thousands of people, and there are also the battle flags of the Ma family, I'm afraid that in a few days, I will step into the Yin Ping Realm." ”

The enemy is present, but for some reason, Mu Ba is very happy in his heart, and he hurriedly said: "King, you see that my Mu Ba is not wrong!" ”

Qiang Duan pinched his beard, his eyes burning: "I heard that you are brave and strategic, but tell me, how to break the enemy's situation?" ”

Mu Ba knew that he was teaching himself, and suddenly his spirit was shocked, and he said loudly: "The king doesn't have to be afraid, Yinping City is built on the mountainside, easy to defend and difficult to attack, thousands of warriors will hold here for a few days, Ma Chao They will definitely have no choice but to retreat after eating up the grain and grass!" ”

Qiang Duan smiled noncommittally and said: "Although Yinping is strong, the walled city is located on the mountainside, and it is easy to be cut off from the water source, not to mention that Ma Chao has experienced a hundred battles, I heard that there is a resourceful young general among the Han people, how could he not think of this?" ”

"It's Jiang Wei's house!" Muba slammed the ground and let out a long breath.

"What's more, not long after I unified the White Horse, there are still many people who surrender on the surface, but they disagree with me in their hearts. Yinping City is located in the center of my territory, if they are allowed to enter, these surrounding tribes will not have to rebel? ”

When Qiang Duan said this, his face suddenly sank, and he said fiercely: "-So the top priority is to destroy them all before they step into the Yin Peace!" ”

At this time, another big man beside Qiang Duan shouted in a hoarse voice: "Great King, I will immediately go and gather the warriors of the clan. ”

"Wait-" Qiang Duan waved his hand to stop him, and said, "Ma Chao is not trivial after all. Fu Shuang, you gather all the warriors in your clan, and remember, every family must send troops! Two days later, I rushed to Baishui to set up a formation to stop Ma Chao! ”

The man named Fu Shuang replied "yes" and got up to leave.

Mu Ba didn't expect that the white horse king was so strong, and he was still full of confidence in the face of the famous Ma Chao, and he couldn't help but admire it at the moment, and he didn't have the mouth to praise it.

Qiang Duan turned a deaf ear to these beautiful words, and only swept his gaze to Mu Ba's face, as if asking: "You said that those Han people are all from Shu?" What do you know about them? ”

Mu Ba was stunned for a moment, and then replied: "Ma Chao surrendered to Shu, those Han people must be from Shu, and they can't be wrong." One of them was a leader named Jiang Wei, who was originally a border general of the Wei State, but for some reason he voted for the Shu State again......"

He babbled about what he had seen and heard, and when he heard it, he slowly bowed his head and said:

"Last month, I sent someone to greet Cao Zhen, the new governor of Guanzhong in Wei, and presented a BMW to him. My envoy brought back news that Liangzhou of Wei was not at peace, and that the governor of Cao was packing up his troops and horses and preparing to march west to Liangzhou this month to fight the rebellion. If the news is true, then Cao Dadudu's soldiers and horses should have arrived in Tianshui and Longnan at this time, and they are not far from Wudu......"

Speaking of this person, he suddenly turned his gaze to Mu Ba's puzzled face, and said in a tone that could not be refused:

"Since you are so clear about the affairs of the Han people, you will run on my behalf and go to Tianshui and Longnan to find the governor of Cao Dadu, only to say that I am dragging the people of Shu in Baishui, and ask him to come to help me quickly and break the Shu thieves together!"

Mu Ba suddenly heard the word "Tianshui", and a shadow suddenly surged in his heart, and his face sank - the picture of the fiasco under the city of Shangqi last year is still vivid, and he himself was wanted and arrested by Wei because of this, and asked him to go to Wei to find Cao Zhen, which is really to catch ducks on the shelves - it is too difficult for a strong man.

What's more, he felt that Qiangduan was just a mere person, and Cao Dadu, the governor of the family, was a valuable person, so how could Baba rush to the rescue? I was afraid that the reinforcements were not invited, but he was stabbed by someone and killed to vent his anger.

But in the face of the domineering gaze, Mu Ba did not dare to disobey, so he had to say nothing and pause in the moment.

Qiang Duan seemed to know what he was thinking, and slowly took out a small seal from his arms, threw it in front of him, and said: "This is the royal seal given to me by Wei State, and it is also a token. ”

After a pause, he said: "Also, in the battle of the next debate, I fought side by side with Governor Cao, so he will definitely come to save me, you just have to rest assured!" ”

Mu Ba's mood recovered slightly, and he bent down to pick up the small seal.

The voice above sounded again: "Go, when I defeat Ma Chao, Wudu will be yours." ”

Mu Ba gritted his teeth, as if he had made a final decision, he put the small seal in his arms, bowed, and turned to leave.

When his figure disappeared completely, Fu Jian said worriedly: "Mu Ba lost the battle and saved his master and escaped, he is really a villain, isn't the king afraid that he has two hearts?" ”

Qiang Duan sneered: "He is a wild dog without a home, although the world is big, there is no place for him." Now that I am willing to give him a bite to eat, what can he do but be obedient? ”

Fu Jian knew that he was reasonable, so he didn't refute anymore, but just sighed softly.

There is one sentence he wants to say, but he can't say anything - this Muba also has a big size in Wudu, which is famous, and it is the broom star is also......