Accompanied by the sound of "pop-pop-pop" planks falling on the deck, a captain shouted loudly: "The general has an order, ordering us to land ashore and recover Danzhou (Hainan)!"
Accompanied by the sound of armor rubbing against each other, the soldiers of the Wu army disembarked one after another and landed. After arranging and gathering near the coconut trees on the beach, Lu Kai pulled out the long sword hanging on his waist with a clang and said: "
Let’s go!” The waves in the sea are still washing the sand tirelessly.
Bringing some crabs, shells and the like to the beach, even though the sound was a bit loud, it still couldn't cover up Lu Kai's voice and the sound of the iron armor rubbing against each other, making some people want to take a short rest on the beach and find some food.
The birds also stayed away and just kept hovering over this beach, seeming to be very afraid of these "strangers" who had just set foot on this land.
Last night, Zhuge Ke called two generals, Nie You and Lu Kai, and gave them five thousand troops and horses each. He also led five thousand troops himself and left five thousand troops to garrison their base camp. It was these fleets.
If the local Li people took this opportunity to quietly lurk behind them when they went to take over the counties, cutting off their way back, that is, burning the boats, then this person would
Lost a lot,
You can't ask for help from the governor of Jiaozhou, which is only separated by a shallow strait. Not only do you need to transport the food and materials needed for the follow-up army, but you also cut off the army's retreat.
At that time, it will not be so easy for them to go back. Swim back? This is in the sea, not in the rivers of Jiangdong. No matter how good the water quality of Jiangdong Erlang is, it may be difficult to swim across a strait, right?
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Zhuge Ke personally led 5,000 men to capture Zhuya County to govern Tandu and Tortoise County (today's Haikou City), Lu Kai led his troops to capture Zibei (today's Wenchang), Nie You captured Gouzhong (today's Chengmai), and
Zhuge Ke also assigned a task to the five thousand people left behind.
That is to transform this beach into a port, which can berth Wu's warships when storms come. Like the port in Jiaozhou, it can berth larger ships. After all, His Majesty has made up his mind this time.
If this place is to be completely brought under the rule, just like Jiaozhou before, this place will need several ports, which can not only berth large ships, but also use the ancient trees of Quanzhou to build many sea-going ships.
In this way, it will take a lot of manpower and material resources for the five thousand people to stay here to build a decent port. However, as long as the general and the others regain a few more counties, they can use more labor (Li prisoners)
come and help them,
"Li" is his nickname, which is the name of the Li people by the Han people. Before the Western Han Dynasty, they used to use "Luoyue", the Eastern Han Dynasty used "Li", "Man", and the Sui and Tang Dynasties used names such as "Li" and "Liao" to refer to some people in the south.
Ethnic minorities, including the ancient ancestors of the Li people in Hainan Island, later gradually replaced "Li" with "Li".
The Li people call the Han people "Mei", which means "guest". They regard the Han people as their guests and consider themselves indigenous people.
Due to differences in dialects, customs, and regional distribution, the Li nationality has "Ha" (formerly known as "侾"), "Qi" (also known as "Qi"), "Run" (formerly known as "local" Li in Chinese), and "Meifu"
, "Sai" (in the past called "Deto" Li or "Kamo" Li) and other different names, but they generally call themselves "Sai" when communicating with foreign countries. Sai is their inherent clan name.
Most of the Li people migrated from Baiyue (now Jiaozhou and other places) during the Qin and Han Dynasties. The Baiyue people still have customs such as broken hair tattoos, chicken divination, and nest dwellings.
According to the literal meaning, "cutting hair" means cutting off the hair. The meaning of tattoo is the same as today, which is to use paint to tattoo or draw patterns on the body. For the Han people, "the body and skin are affected by the parents", and the skin and hair are both
It is very precious and cannot be destroyed casually, so the "broken hair tattoo" was also the biggest difference between the Han and Yue people at that time.
The "Book of Han" once gave an explanation, saying that the Yue people lived by the water, so they painted images of dragons, snakes and other water gods on their bodies to pray for protection from attacks by water creatures.
Chicken divination, also known as "chicken bone divination", is a divination method used by the ancient Yue people. "Historical Records: The Chronicles of Emperor Xiaowu" records: Yue shamans "revere gods, gods, and ghosts, and use chicken divination." The chicken divination method of the Han people is as follows:
The chicken divination method uses a chicken and a dog to make wishes. After the blessing is completed, the chicken and dog are killed, cooked and sacrificed. Two eye bones are taken out and the holes on them are inspected. If they resemble a human shape, it is auspicious, otherwise it is unlucky.
The Li people of Ganzhou (Hainan) also have "chicken bone divination". After killing the chicken, take two femurs from the chicken and insert them on a small Y-shaped branch. Then insert a small stick into the femoral hole and point the small bamboo stick in the direction of the stick.
To determine good or bad luck, this is similar to the method used by Baiyue people.
Nest house refers to a stilt-style house, which is an architectural style invented by the Baiyue tribe in the south in ancient times. It is a house built above the ground on a wooden (bamboo) column base.
This kind of building uses bamboo and wood as the main building materials. It is mainly a two-story building. The lower floor is for animals and debris, and the upper floor is for people. The stilt-type building can be earthquake-proof.
Nest dwellings have obvious advantages in avoiding hot and humid environments, staying away from pests and beasts, and using local materials. This living form cleverly uses vertical spatial distance as a boundary. It is a creation of humans in the process of adapting to the environment.
Even though the former Zhuya County and Tandu County had been returned to the Han Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there were only a few tile-roofed houses in Tandu County. Only the county government and other government offices had tile-roofed courtyards, and other buildings in the city had tiled houses.
Places that are not the residence of Han people are mostly nests like this. The ten-foot-high earthen city wall that surrounds the entire county proves that this place once had traces of Han rule.
Outside the county town, tribes of various sizes scattered in the rain forest all live in such nests. It is just a wooden fence surrounding the tribes.
According to reliable information obtained by Lu Kai, the Li soldiers and horses in various counties and counties in Danzhou only have at most a thousand people, and some have less than a hundred people. After all, Danzhou (Hainan) and Jiaozhou are separated by the sea, so they are far away from each other.
In this paradise land of disputes in the Central Plains, there is no need to recruit more soldiers for the time being.
After Zhuge Ke led his army through the rain forest and arrived near Tandu County, he casually found a dead tree and sat down, and then ordered the people around him: "Come here, send some scouts to investigate outside the city to see if there is any unusual movement among the Li people!
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Immediately, several scouts stepped forward and saluted: "Promise, I will obey the general's order!"
Half an hour later, the sound of horse hoofbeats sounded all around. When the guards on the left and right saw that they were among their own people, they put away their weapons and asked the scouts to go and report. Zhuge Ke was currently studying Quanzhou (Hainan).
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The scout stepped forward and clasped his fists and said, "General, there are only a thousand or so defenders in Tandu County, and there are no signs of strengthening the security in the city at this moment."
"Haha, this saves me and the others a lot of effort. Come and prepare some wooden blocks and ladders. The army will rest for three hours and then go and take this small Tandu with me!" Zhuge Ke said, stroking his beard.
The sounds of birds chirping and cicadas chirping in the forest are constant. Although they are under the shade of trees, they still cannot completely resist the hot weather in Hainan...