The Nanxiang River originates from the Qingliang Mountains, meanders all the way south, and finally flows into the sea at the southern end of the Dongzhou Continent. The Nanxiang River is the southern boundary of the Western Divine Kingdom and the Southern Divine Kingdom.
Although there are natural dangers to be defended here, the climate in the Nanxiang River Basin is hot and excessive, the river has no freezing period, and many places on both sides of the river are dense forests. The so-called barbaric and smoky land refers to the lower reaches of the Nanxiang River.
In the middle and upper reaches of the Nanxiang River, there are garrison guards, but in the dense forest areas there are no guards.
As usual, spring will arrive in less than a month, and at this time, in the forest on the east bank of the Nanxiang River, an army of 100,000 people is passing through the forest following the lack of rain in winter.
"The guide's name is Chaman, he is a recruit trained by Lin Haoming, and he has lived here since he was a child. He was originally a hunter on the edge of the forest.
A very important part of the special training every winter is to travel through the forest. If the 100,000-strong army were elsewhere, they would naturally be easily discovered, but here, no one would notice the 100,000-strong force in the dense forest.
Before the beginning of spring, the water of the Nanxiang River is the gentlest. Everyone can only carry ten days of food rations with them before entering the forest. Along the way, they can supplement some food by collecting local materials, and these skills are also specially taught by Lin Haoming.
At this time, at the edge of the forest, 100,000 people began to use local materials to build rafts to cross the river. In other seasons, the water flow of the Nanxiang River would not be able to support such ordinary rafts to cross the river, but in this season there is no problem.
It only took one day to build the raft. Then, under Lin Haoming's training, it only took one day for the 100,000-strong army to cross the river. This day even included crossing the river and moving forward a certain distance. After Lin Haoming's training,
Next, this army of 100,000 is definitely not an old-style army. It is fair and hard-working, and opportunities can be obtained through hard work, which makes everyone willing to obey orders and believe in Lin Haoming, and Lin Haoming has joined some Mian family children in some key positions. This
This gave him greater control over this army.
According to Lin Haoming's original plan, he was to conquer Nanliang County from Tianzhu City, and then capture Shannan County and Nanhai County, so as to have enough capital. However, with the emergence of ancient materials, Lin Haoming had to adjust his plan and capture the south first.
The two counties will compete with Gulicai again.
Compared with Nanliang County, Shannan County is more prosperous than Nanliang County. Although Shannan County is more than twice the size of Nanliang County and Nanhai County is larger, the two counties are relatively poor. Of course, this poverty is caused by the environment here. A large number of places have not been developed.
There are even many indigenous tribes living there. In contrast, because the Southern God Kingdom is relatively small, the area near the Nanxiang River was originally developed earlier. People like Chaman were originally considered indigenous tribes, but the two
Over a hundred years, they have gradually been assimilated. However, the Western Divine Kingdom is too large, and the area of virgin forest here is much larger than that of the Southern Divine Kingdom, so it is much more difficult to assimilate the people here.
The next day after crossing the river, Lin Haoming met the indigenous tribes here. After all, many people live here. No one knows how many tribes are scattered in the forest.
Facing an army of 100,000 people, even though they were all lightly armed, it was a disaster for the fringe tribes that numbered from dozens to hundreds of people.
Lin Haoming did not choose to destroy the tribe, but asked Chaman to communicate with them and ask them to contribute as guides.
The leader of the tribe was obviously a little afraid of Lin Haoming's army, so he immediately complied.
From the information obtained, most of these tribes on the edge are tribes that have resisted the Western God Kingdom. Of course, for the people of the Southern God Kingdom, they have no good impressions. In their eyes, they are all from other countries.
Invaders came from somewhere, but at the moment, they were only deterred by strong force. Lin Haoming knew this very well, so even if he had a guide, he would not fully believe them, so he still sent out scouts and kept marching at a fast pace.
According to calculations, after crossing the river, if we go quickly, we can surround Xiuye City, the second largest city in Shannan County of the Western God Kingdom, in no more than five days.
Along the way, Lin Haoming divided the army into three parts. The forward troops penetrated Xiuye City all the way, and the Chinese army followed behind. There was also an army behind that was specially responsible for dealing with these tribes. There were about 30,000 people. An army of 30,000 people was enough.
Cope with it.
It was said that they would arrive in five days, and the forward troops did arrive in five days. But what made Lin Haoming a little angry was that when the troops arrived, Xiuye City was actually on guard. Although it was eventually defeated, the opponent was on guard, which made him
There were two to three thousand casualties here, which made Lin Haoming extremely angry.
When the Chinese army entered Xiuye City, Lin Haoming realized that there was actually a tribe that secretly sent people to Xiuye City overnight to deliver the letter. But luckily, after delivering the letter, he didn't have much time to prepare.
Bian only thought that a certain tribe was going to cause trouble, so he didn't pay much attention to it. He only strengthened some defenses and was able to win the victory without any risk. Although the number of casualties was a little higher, this was because many people had not experienced it in the first battle. I believe
If something like this happens again, there won't be so many casualties.
Lin Haoming had no mercy on that tribe. Now that he knew who did it, Lin Haoming immediately sent people over to completely wipe out the tribe.
This approach is also to establish prestige. For these tribes, if there is no prestige and only friendliness, they will not be so obedient.
After a day of repairs, Lin Haoming's troops divided into two groups, heading north all the way to Longwei Pass and heading straight for the county town.
To the east of Longwei Pass is Longwei Mountain and to the west is the Nanxiang River. Moreover, the water flow of the Nanxiang River here is rapid, so setting up a pass here is easy to defend but difficult to attack.
Lin Haoming gave the order to the generals below, just to let them try. If they can defeat them, they will fight. If they cannot defeat them, the more important thing in the early stage is to encircle the points and provide reinforcements. If the Western Divine Kingdom mobilizes its army to go south, then block the advance and wait for the army to take the mountain.
Let’s talk about Nanjun.
Based on the previous experience of attacking Xiuye City, and after surrounding the county city, it was found that the defenders of the county city are still very effective. They may have been fighting with the indigenous tribes all year round and are not that easy to deal with, so the number of soldiers who can be divided is less than 30,000.
The men and horses who attacked Longwei Pass did not have much expectations, but to Lin Haoming's surprise, less than five days after the siege, the news came that Longwei Pass had been captured.
Starting from Xiuye City, we went to Longwei Pass and the county seat was further away from Longwei Pass. I didn’t expect that after being surrounded for several days, we actually captured it. In other words, we captured it in almost a day or two after the army arrived.
Longweiguan.
Only when Lin Haoming received the detailed battle report did he know that it turned out that Chaman had caught a group of indigenous caravans doing business with the Longwei Pass guard on the road, so he pretended to be a caravan and entered the city, and then directly cooperated with others to lock Longwei for a night.
After taking Longweiguan, Lin Haoming also knew that the entire Nanshan County was his.