That night, Huo Guang's 5,000 people lived directly in the Qiang camp full of corpses, and their food was also the cattle and sheep of these Qiang people. Early the next morning, the sky was getting brighter, and the five thousand horsemen were already in full formation, each cavalry standing in front of his horse, holding the reins in one hand and a white cloth in the other.

Huo Guang also held a cloth in his hand, standing in front of the five thousand soldiers, Huo Guang's expression was solemn, and then he said loudly. "From now on, no one is allowed to remove this mask without my orders. Now, take it with you. ”

After Huo Guang finished speaking, he first put the cloth on his mouth and nose, and then tied it to the back of his head with his backhand. The cloth was two palms wide and wrapped from the bottom of the eyes to the neck up, and soon all five thousand people did so, and at last all of them had only one pair of eyes exposed.

After doing all this, Huo Guang looked at the strange knight in iron armor not far from him, and nodded slightly at the knight. As if receiving Huo Guang's order, the knight, who couldn't see his face, walked quickly in front of Huo Guang. Then for the first time, he carefully placed the black iron box on his back on the ground.

The black iron box looks so intricately made that it even looks like it's all in one place on the outside. In the curious eyes of everyone, this knight, who even wore iron armor on his fingers, pressed heavily on an inconspicuous position in the pitch-black iron box, and then one side of the iron box opened automatically.

After the iron box was opened, a smaller silver box made of sterling silver was revealed, and a delicate lock on top of the silver box looked like the kind of lock, which could only be opened by adjusting a few brackets to a pre-set position. The knight in iron quickly fiddled with the bracket, because it was too small, and others didn't see how he got it, and finally only heard the sound of the bracket crashing, and then the silver box was also opened.

A vial made of pure gold in the Silver Chest is held in place by a bracket that works so that no matter how the box shakes, it will not affect the vial made of pure gold.

"Let's get started." Huo Guang looked at the vial made of pure gold and was a little dazzling under the reflection of the morning glow, and then said to the ironclad knight.

The Iron Knight didn't reply, but the heavy iron helmet shook up and down a few times, as if nodding. Then I saw the ironclad knight draw a dagger under the saddle, if you look closely, you will find that the ironclad knight's saddle is also special, and there are more than 20 daggers densely inserted under the horse, and the base of the saddle is more like a sword box.

Everyone wondered what would happen next, but they vaguely guessed that maybe this was the real purpose of their trip. In the eyes of everyone's curiosity and expectation, the ironclad knight thrust his dagger into the thigh of a yak that had been killed, and then pulled a huge wound that was still gushing out of blood appeared on the yak's leg.

After doing all this, the Iron Knight carefully picked up the vial made of pure gold, and then uncorked it even more carefully, and poured the mouth of the bottle against the wound on the yak's leg.

A green viscous liquid dripped down the mouth of the bottle, and after only a few drops of green liquid flowed out, the Iron Knight reinserted the vial, and then put it back into the original two boxes.

"Get on the horse and go to the next place." When the ironclad knight put the box back on his back, Huo Guang immediately ordered.

In a moment, the five thousand cavalry left the Qiang camp strewn with corpses. There was a dead silence in the camp, because of the Qiang people's living habits, even after a few days, there was no one in this Qiang camp, and no one knew that a Qiang camp of seven or eight thousand people had disappeared.

Just a large number of people and animals died, and many wild wolves appeared around the camp at night smelling blood. One by one, the wolves lit up their green eyes in the dark night, and the camp became a paradise for the wolves in the neighborhood.

Not only the wolves, but also the vultures that are constantly circling in the sky, a large number of vultures appear in this camp every day, and as time passes, the human and animal corpses in the camp have gradually been eaten and only piles of white bones remain.

Wolves and vultures have eaten up the camp, and naturally hunt for other places. Only occasionally wolves or vultures hovering in the sky died inexplicably, and as they flowed, more animals on the grassland appeared this inexplicable death, and finally three hundred miles west of this slaughtered Qiang camp, another Qiang camp of thousands of people also had this inexplicable death of livestock, and finally even people began to die......

Huo Guang's army marched south along the periphery of the Qiang nomadic area, and one by one large or small tribes were slaughtered and exterminated by Huo Guang along the way, and an unprecedented plague began from the southernmost part of the Qiang nomadic area, and quickly spread to the depth of the Qiang people. And this plague has become more and more intense as Huo Guang continues to move.......

"What day is today?" Huo Guang asked Huo Da beside him, they couldn't determine the specific location they were now, and they could only roughly guess where they were based on the direction of the sun.

"Back to the Hou Ye, it has been the thirteenth day since I entered the Qiang realm." Huo Da is almost forty years old, but even among this group of young men in their twenties, his physical strength is still not bad at all.

"It's the thirteenth...... I don't know if Li Ling has found Qiang Wangcheng? The confrontation between Dongfang Shuo and Du Song Ruozan must be very tragic, right? Huo Guang muttered to himself, and now both he and the five thousand cavalry still have masks on their faces. Such a group of cavalrymen with white masks looked extremely strange on the plateau.

Under the Longdi Pass, Du Song Ruozan rode on a horse and stared at the pass built by the mountain, with a trace of doubt in his eyes.

This is already the fifth day that Du Song Ruozan's soldiers have been in Longdi, except for the tentative battle when they first arrived in Longdi five days ago, Du Song Ruozan has not sent a single soldier to the pass in the past five days, and Dongfang Shuo has also closed the pass tightly, and he can't see the slightest movement. It seems that the two sides are going to go on like this.

Today, Du Song Ruozan is once again under the city, and it is destined that this peaceful situation will be broken.

Dongfang Shuo stood on top of the Guan Tower, and his eyes had already seen Du Song Ruozan in the Qiang army. It's not that Dongfang Shuo knows him, but Du Song Ruozan is too special, in a group of barbarians, Du Song Ruozan, who is dressed in a big-sleeved Confucian robe, is too conspicuous.

Du Song Ruozan did not give the order to attack the city, but stepped forward alone and walked to the front of the Qiang army.

"In the Lower Qiang Dalun Dusong Ruozan, Your Excellency is the Han Hou Huoguang of Anyang? In the next long time to admire the name of Anyang Hou, now that we meet here, Anyang Hou is willing to come forward to see it? Du Song Ruozan said on horseback to Guan Lou.

Du Song Ruozan's pure Chinese made a lot of commotion on the Guan Lou, and this was also much unexpected by Dongfang Shuo. Even if Du Song Ruozan knew the Han language, Dongfang Shuo would not believe that he would speak so fluently, and even just listening to him would think that he was a Han Chinese.

After Dongfang Shuo was briefly surprised, he whispered a few words to a lieutenant beside him. Then the lieutenant shouted to Guan downstairs at the top of his throat: "My Hou Ye said, Hou Ye has prepared wine and food on the Guan Tower, as long as Da Lun can go up to Guan Lou, Hou Ye is willing to get drunk with Da Lun." ”

"The Marquis of Anyang asked a soldier to pass the word, but he didn't dare to talk directly to his subordinates, it would be a violation of etiquette, right?" Du Song Ruozan tilted his head and said with a disdainful smile on his face.

Dongfang Shuo continued to say a word in the captain's ear, and then the captain continued to reply: "Hou Ye said that his words and deeds with Huang Yue represent His Majesty the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, if you want to talk to Hou Ye directly, let your leader come." ”

The smile on Du Song Ruozan's face froze instantly, he glanced at the upper floor, didn't say anything more, turned around and returned to the army. When Du Song Ruozan returned to the army, the cavalry army of the Qiang people was unexpectedly separated from the middle, and a group of infantry armed with huge wooden shields appeared behind the cavalry, and behind the infantry there were siege equipment such as ladders and chariots.

"This ......" Dongfang Shuo also looked incredulous when he saw these things. Looking at those wooden shields, ladders and other things, it is obvious that they have not been created for a long time.

It turned out that Du Song Ruozan had not been idle in the past few days, and he asked his Qiang people to cut wood and make equipment on the spot. Of course, the culprit of all this is actually Huo Guang, because the rapid popularization of paper has made the dissemination of knowledge fast and cheap. And it just so happened that the Qiang people had another person like Du Song Ruozan, like some siege equipment that did not have too much technical content, which had long been mastered by Du Song Ruozan.

The Qiang people are good at war, especially on horseback, but that doesn't mean they're useless when they dismount. Similarly, because they are flexible and explosive, they are not weak as infantry siege cities.

"Anointing oil, use it quickly. The archers were withdrawn first. When Dongfang Shuo saw those huge wooden shields, he knew that he had made a mistake this time, and he didn't calculate that Du Song Ruozan would do this.

At this time, the only thing that can restrain these wooden shields and rushing cars is the anointing oil, and the archers who have been assembled for a long time are useless, and at this time, a salvo of bows and arrows is just a waste of arrows, and it cannot cause much substantial damage to the Qiang people with wooden shields.

Anointing oil is the oil of later generations, which has been used as a strategic material to defend the city during this period, and there are some here in Dongfang Shuo, but not too much. Fortunately, Du Song Ruozan is only a temporary and hastily built siege equipment, so it shouldn't be too much.

When the Qiang people held large shields, carried ladders and rushing carts and came towards the gate step by step, buckets of anointing oil were also carried to the city tower, and piles of firewood were also ignited.

The Qiang people pressed forward step by step, and the pots of anointing oil were lifted by the soldiers, and the indescribable strange smell emitted by the natural oil wafted on the Guan Lou, but Dongfang Shuo did not give the order to dump the anointing oil for a long time. Because he knew that if he used a little bit of this thing, he would use a little less, and Du Song Ruozan could make a steady stream of wooden siege equipment, so he had to wait for the Qiang people to get close before dumping it as much as possible, and make the most use of the anointing oil.