Hearing that Hei Fu said that one of the 500 people from the Louchuan clan was going to join their expedition with about ten ships, Hei Fu's 500 people became more energetic. When they heard that Zhao Tuo was the hometown of the Zhao Kingdom
Hei Fu's younger brother, who was from Hengshan County, was surprised and asked, "Is it possible that he is related to the royal family of King Zhao?"
He has been a disciple in the school for the past three years. Not only did he learn the laws and regulations, but he also gained a lot of knowledge.
Shi Anpu, a lieutenant of Jingling County who was a good friend of Heifu when he was the director of the pavilion, shook his head and said: "There are not even 10,000 but several thousand people named Zhao in Zhao. How can they all be related to the royal family? Even if they are related, I am afraid that there will be a gap between me and the old man."
It’s too far away, otherwise how can we achieve the Qin army’s five hundred masters?”
However, he was curious about how a Zhao man from Hengshan County in the north managed to get into the Southern Ark Division of the Qin Army.
Heifu said: "It should be the rich family of the distant ancestors of the Zhao family. He himself said that his parents died at the hands of the traitor Guo Kai, so he has no nostalgia for the State of Zhao. After the Qin army defeated Zhao, Nasu got the title, and the butchers were slaughtered in Zhang and Hejian.
As a boat master, he started as the commander of the village and rose to the rank of captain of five hundred in a few years."
Zhao Tuo claimed to be slightly younger than Heifu. He was about 16 years old when Wang Jian destroyed Zhao six years ago.
"So, does this person really live for more than a hundred years..."
Heifu felt his scalp numb just thinking about it. He was over a hundred years old and still lived in a hot place like South Vietnam. He was really lucky. Maybe the food in Guangdong has been nourishing people since ancient times.
No matter how ignorant he is, he has heard of the name "King Zhao Tuo of South Vietnam". Alas, the "Hero of Kai Gan" in this dimension met the "Hero of Kai Yue" in history. This is something Heifu never expected.
Heifu guessed that in a few years, the reason why Qin Shihuang would send Tu Sui and Zhao Tuo as the main force to attack Baiyue was because in the impression of northerners, the south is full of water and marshes, with only buildings.
Only the people on the boat can make the most of it. Although the water network in the south is indeed intertwined, Guangdong and Guangxi are still mostly virgin forests. The navy is only used to transport food. Once it goes deep, it will not be of much use. This may also be an imagination of the Central Plains people these days.
Misunderstanding.
But no matter how prosperous we become in the future, we are all little Qin officials now, cadres appointed by Qin Shihuang to go south. However, people like Zhao Tuo who can become the king of a state in the future must have the ability. Tu Sui is really left to Heifu
I have a right-hand man, and with this person's help, why worry about not being able to conquer Jiangxi?
Tu Sui asked Heifu to treat Zhao Tuo as his subordinate, but in fact, Zhao Tuo and his dozen or so large and small ships were only responsible for their transportation and food transfer.
them.
At this time, Heifu took a look at everyone's bowls. They all had normal rice, rice, soup, and fish. Only Dongmen Leopard's plate was different. It was disgusting, like eyeballs, and it became sticky after being cooked...
…
"What is this?" Hei Fu looked disgusted and asked with a frown.
"It's tuo."
Ji Ying was the first to answer: "A Bao heard from one of his relatives that eating this food can give birth to a son, so he begged for some from the soldiers on the boat next to him who had hunted the giant fox."
Last year, when Dongmen Bao followed Heihu to the battlefield, his wife was pregnant again. However, when he came back, he found that the baby was still a daughter. So Dongmen Bao now had three thousand gold. Ji Ying joked every day that if someone married into his family
My daughter will definitely make a lot of money if she inherits the family property of the official Bao in the future.
"What does it smell like?" Heifu asked him curiously.
Dongmen Baosheng raised his head helplessly and said, "It smells like earth, and it will rot in your mouth."
Heifu was speechless and could only pat Dongmen Bao and give him a message.
"If you work hard, God will not let you down!"
…
The next day, the fleet officially entered Penglize.
Peng means big; Li means gourd. In other words, this lowland lake is like a big gourd and gourd, which combines the rivers, Ganshui and other water systems into one.
At the beginning, the lake was calm and the boat was sailing on it as if it were sailing on a bronze mirror.
But the good weather came and went quickly. Not long after we set off, suddenly a northerly wind blew across the lake. The wind and clouds suddenly changed color, and the waves crashed on the shore. These days, the performance and navigation skills of ships are very poor, so they dare not sail in bad weather.
On the way, he hurriedly stopped at nearby Xunyi (now Jiujiang) and tied the cable.
A sudden rain and dark clouds passed by, and the next day, the sky cleared again. Hei Fu and his three thousand men just transferred to the dozen or so ships under Zhao Tuo's charge and continued their journey.
After they rowed deep into Penglikou, they looked around and saw no bounds. It was like "opening sail into the sky mirror". Compared with the vast water surface, Tu Sui's hundreds of warships were like a group of small fish floating on the water.
In the water.
Only now did Hei Fu realize that Pengli Ze was not quite the same as Poyang Lake in later generations. The main body of the lake was in the north of the Yangtze River, and it was long from east to west and short from north to south.
"Dagushan has arrived." The old piloting boatman loudly told them.
Heifu and others were blowing the lake breeze on the deck. Sure enough, they saw a mountain peak in the lake. Looking from ten miles away, they were surrounded by the boundless lake water, but there was a solitary green peak rising up into the sky, as if floating in the sky.
Same as on the water.
When they got closer, they discovered that there were cracked rocks and various caves on this solitary mountain, with strange shapes and bright and moist colors. They were also different from other stones. There was another huge stone not next to the main peak, tall and majestic.
It rises from the ground, about a hundred feet high, with red vines and green vines hanging on it, like a screen inlaid with gems.
Zhao Tuo nodded: "Sure enough, it is hanging alone in the lake, and the surroundings are dim."
Then he sighed to Heifu: "If I hadn't come to the south, I wouldn't have been able to see these wonders."
It can be heard that this young Qin official, who is slightly younger than Heifu, seems to be full of curiosity about everything.
The lakes and mountains of Yunmengze and Penglize are indeed wonders for a Zhao native. Heifu secretly cursed: "I'm afraid you will have to go to the coast of the South China Sea in the future. When you stand by the tropical rain forest at the Pearl River Estuary
, looking at the vast sea, the waves rushing onto the beach, I don’t know how I feel..."
By noon, when they arrived at the intersection of rivers and lakes, they saw that the Jingwei River was clearly separated. The water in Pengli Lake was murky, but the water flowing into the lake was extremely clear...
Zhao Tuo opened a map that Tu Sui sent someone to check for water channel paintings, pointed to this tunnel and said: "This is where Hukou, Gan River, Fu River, Xin River, Rao River, and Xiu River all flow into the Nanjiang River (Poyang Lake).
, Nanjiang River enters Pengli Ze from here."
Heifu suddenly realized that if he turned south at this turn, he would enter Poyang Lake in later generations. But now, Poyang Lake has not yet taken shape. There is only a narrow water area running from north to south, called "Nanjiang".
Connected, it becomes a larger lake. Now that the water is shrinking in autumn and winter, most of the area is as vast as a plain with yellow grass and white reeds.
The water in Penglize is very turbid. Whenever Heifu and the others want to draw water from the river, it needs to be clarified and they can drink it after a night. The water in Nanjiang River is very clear. The clear pool rises far away and the green waves are pure.
The rulers divide them the same, so there is no confusion.
Looking at this place, Zhao Tuo seemed to have some ideas: "The flow of rivers and streams flows north to Pengli Ze, and Hukou is where it loses. If a small town can be established here to control the waterway, it will open up a land thousands of miles away in Yuzhang."
All entrances and exits can be controlled!”
"Zhao Tuo's vision is quite accurate."
Heifu glanced at the future King of Nanyue. He had at least studied geography and knew that Akarin Province was surrounded by mountains in the east, west and south, and that the most convenient way in and out was to enter the Yangtze River via Poyang Lake.
So Heifu laughed and said, "How about we set up a garrison here when we capture the entire territory of Yuzhang?"
The boat was traveling very fast, and two hours after crossing the lake mouth, they were already close to their destination, Pengze, a Chu city on the south bank of Penglize...
Looking from a distance, I saw that this city is a typical small town by the water. The city is two miles away from the water and there is a small dock on the shore. Suddenly I saw a huge fleet of boats appearing on the water. The Chu people on the shore immediately ran away.
But before escaping, he did not forget to burn down the wooden pier.
Seeing a raging fire burning on the pier, Heifu asked Zhao Tuo how to berth in this situation without knowing the depth of water on the shore.
"Sima can only reach the shore in a small boat."
Zhao Tuo smiled nonchalantly and said: "But I'm afraid the pier will have to be renovated later, otherwise we will have nowhere to anchor."
The centipede-like long boats with countless oars were lowered into the water. Each boat could seat fifty people. Fortunately, most of Heifu's soldiers had been on boats. They followed the chants of the boatmen and started heading towards the shore.
Row while rowing.
Fortunately, there were not many guards under Peng Zejun, so he did not dare to send anyone to stop him. As the paddles rose and fell, dozens of long boats boarded the ship smoothly.
The first batch of 500 Dongmen Leopards to land have already formed a square formation. The soldiers held shields and swords and watched the closed Xiaoyi city gate warily, waiting for Li Xian, Gong Ao and An Pu in the rear.
After Xiaotao and Xiaotao landed one after another, they moved forward one after another. It took half an hour to form a phalanx of three thousand people on the shore, and then followed Heifu's military flag and the beating of waist drums.
, walking towards the city with neat steps!
Someone was watching at the top of Pengzeyi City and saw that the river was full of Qin military ships, all with hard sails spread out, like a cloud covering the lake, boundless. There were probably tens of thousands of people on board. And the 3,000 Wu Ben array landed.
Neat and menacing, they seem to be just the vanguard of this army, and I can't help but feel frightened.
Heifu's soldiers stopped a mile away from the city, leaving a thousand men on guard, while the rest went to cut down trees or return to the shore to get tents and other materials for camping. Heifu assigned them tasks yesterday.
, so it went on in an orderly manner.
Heifu had made up his mind: "Tu Sui won't bluff for me for long, he will leave soon, so he will attack the city early tomorrow morning and we will capture the city within two days!"
His original plan was to fake the power of the tiger and frighten the city, so that it would be easier to attack. However, he did not expect that in the evening, when night was about to fall, before the forts outside the city were set up, the city suddenly burst into flames and chaos broke out. After that, the city
The flags were quickly erected on their heads, and the people on them shouted that they wanted to surrender to the Qin army, and also said that they would send people out to negotiate the surrender...
Heifu's men looked at each other and couldn't help but think of the Battle of Yang that made them famous.
"Could it be a false surrender?" The five hundred lords were a little worried. It was getting dark soon. The army was entering the city at this moment. What if they were ambushed.
"If it is true or false, let the surrendered people go out of the city and have a look."
Hei Fu was not in vain. He sat down on the mat and asked Ji Ying to call out and ask the city to send someone out quickly.
Not long after, a scholar in his thirties climbed down the city wall with a rope less than two feet high, and was escorted by Gong Ao to Hei Fu.
Ten steps away, the scholar raised the bloody head in his hand and said:
"Xu Shu and Peng Ze, the Xu family, have killed Peng Zejun and respectfully welcome the King of Qin!"
