Bandagu means the town of rice fields. It is the largest settlement in Xiou, with thousands of people living here. It also has the largest place for worshiping ancestors. Whenever the ancestor announces Luo Tuo’s birthday, within a radius of several hundred miles,
Ouyue people from all over the country will gather here, beat the bronze drums with frog patterns, celebrate this festival, drink rice wine, and dance for three days and three nights!
But now, there is no one in Bandagu. The Ouyue people help the old and the young and leave their bamboo buildings with railings. They kill livestock and dry it into dried meat, hang it on their shoulders, carry bows and arrows on their backs, and carry them on the other shoulder.
cereals.
As for the "trophies" obtained by headhunters in the past ten years: white human skulls! They can only be buried in front of their homes.
Thousands of people left the village one after another and stood on the hills outside the village, reluctant to look back at this land.
"Tebo."
Looking at the settlement where he grew up, Adagu, a young man from Ou, had tears in his eyes: "Are we really going to leave like this?"
"Must go."
The Lord of Xi'ou, Chang Yi, appealed to the Song Dynasty for a resolute attitude: "The Qin people have flattened seven or eight Ou villages in the north, killed the resisting men, and turned the women and children into slaves. Although the King of Thunder and the Frog God appeared and surrendered,
The rain has delayed them, but it will be a matter of time before they find Bandagu."
Adagu muttered: "Leopards and wolves are attacking the village. The Ou people can fight them off outside the wall. How can they give in before a battle?"
Translator Xu Song shook his head: "The Qin army is thicker than the leaves of Yulin! There are more stones than the stones in Li River. Fighting in villages and dams, the Ou people cannot win. A year ago, the Gui tribe
Destruction is an example. According to those who escaped, the seven or eight villages that resisted could only hold out for one day at the longest."
Thanks to the vast mountains in Xiou, the Qin army, which had just arrived, was unable to march quickly.
"But Tebo, you also said that the Ou people's determination to resist is stronger than a hundred thousand mountains!"
The strong-blooded Adagu was not afraid of fighting or death, but he felt ashamed for running away without looking back.
"You can't defeat the Qin people just by having the determination to resist."
Yi Xusong patted his son and was about to continue talking, but an old man on crutches stood nearby. With the support of his children and grandchildren, he walked close, pointed at Yi Xusong and cursed:
"Yi Xusong, we have said before that you angered a bloodthirsty beast and brought disaster to Ouyue!"
"That's right."
The translator Song did not shy away from this at all. It was his act of killing the Qin envoy that directly triggered the war.
"If they surrender like the Yue people north of the mountains, the Qin people will let me, the ruler, and the old men go, but they will make all the Ou people wear shackles and live in the fields growing sweet bamboos.
If they work day and night, the Ouyue people will forever lose their freedom, land and water, and become the concubines of the Qin people!"
He proudly said: "If we resist, the Ou people may die in the battle, but they will win their souls! The Ou people who lose their souls will definitely be abandoned by their ancestors and Buluotuo."
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"Yes!" Adagu and a group of young people from Ou responded.
"Can you win by resisting?"
Du Lao shook his head and was extremely pessimistic. They had heard from the people who escaped that the Qin people's swords were extremely sharp, the Qin people's armor was harder than crocodile skin, the Qin people's crossbows were accurate and ruthless, and they also rode
The tall horses and chariots rolled and rumbled, and they marched as neatly as one person. With the Ou people's backward weapons and loose array, there was no way to resist.
The translator Song Que said: "There are giant elephants often in the forest. Its tusks are long and sharp, its fur is thick and hard, and it is very strong. It can easily trample the people of Ou to death. The people of Qin are like such beasts."
"If you fight it head-on, you will definitely not be able to defeat it. Adagu, what is the Ou people's way of hunting elephants?"
Adagu remembered the tips his father told him: "Hide yourself, keep letting it hurt and bleed, and most importantly, be patient!"
"Yes, that beast is rampaging, but as far as I know, they can only march in the dam and walk around the mountains and forests when they encounter it. But the Ou people are different. We can not only grow rice, but we are also the best hunters in the mountains and forests.
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Almost every Xiou person present has been hunting since they were more than ten years old. They usually use arrows and sometimes traps. Surviving in the dense forest is a piece of cake for them, and the vast mountain forests with a radius of thousands of kilometers are
, there are many hiding places.
The translator Xu Song revealed his plan: "Come with me, enter the vast jungle, enter the mountains of 100,000 mountains, set traps like hunting elephants, go out at night, and keep releasing poisonous arrows to injure the beast and let the beast be injured."
The beast is sick, wait until it is exhausted, and then give it a fatal blow!"
Yi Xusong persuaded his people. When the Xiou people retreated into the forest, huge flames rose into the sky, and Bandagu's village was burned down by him. He wanted to burn every house and every particle here.
Food, what the Qin people got from this was only ashes!
In the raging fire, Adagu knelt down with Yi Xusong and made an oath to the phantom of the ancestors jumping in the fire.
"By the way, Buluotuo, the Ou people will come back sooner or later and take back their homeland!"
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Ten days later, at the base camp of the Qin army named "Guilin", General Tu Sui received a report from the vanguard: the Hei army had occupied Bandagu. Although it had been burned to a white ground, no Ou people were found, and only the road leading to Bandagu was found.
Footprints of humans and animals in the forest.
"Congratulations General!"
Several captains from Guanzhong stood up to congratulate Tu Sui. In this southern expedition to Baiyue, Xiou was the main target of the attack. It had only been two months since the troops were sent out, but they had gathered more than ten towns and captured tens of thousands of Yue people.
Seizing the city of Xiou and opening up hundreds of miles of territory for the Qin Dynasty, in their eyes, it was a great victory!
In addition to Xi'ou who did not dare to resist and fled in panic, in South Vietnam and Dong'ou, the Qin army also reported frequent successes. General Jia in the middle road had beheaded hundreds of Yangyue Mei clan, opened up the Meiling Road, and was about to fight with another army.
The Qin army met in South Vietnam, and Yin Tong on the east road also held talks with Dong Ou. Dong Ou was willing to surrender to Qin. The only condition was that Qin would help them fight against the feudal Minyue people...
Under the impact of a series of good news, some people optimistically estimate that the Baiyue area can be easily pacified before summer.
However, Tu Sui, the commander-in-chief of the three armies, showed no joy at all. Instead, he stared at the fragile supply lines between the various strongholds of the Qin army on the huge map, feeling worried.
He is also a veteran general who has been guarding Changsha for many years. He knows that the most difficult thing is not to fight the Ouyue people head-on, but to avoid fighting them!
The Ou people do not have cities and towns, they are located between valleys and bamboos. Therefore, this war is not limited to fighting for cities and land like in the Central Plains, but is about attacking people!
Only by defeating Xiou's armed forces in one fell swoop can the war be quickly ended. Now that they have escaped into the dangerous mountains and forests, it is a bit difficult...
It seems that this war is going to drag on for a long time. It has changed from quickly annihilating the enemy to slowly establishing a stronghold and then finding ways to encircle and suppress it.
But Tu Sui still believed that he could achieve complete victory in this battle within the two years promised to Qin Shihuang!
The only thing worth worrying about is...
Tu Sui looked out the window. The scenery in Guilin was very good, with beautiful mountains and rivers. There was no snow even in the twelfth lunar month, but here, there was something scarier than frost and snow...
Miasma! Epidemic!
"In a few days, spring will begin."
In the northern country, warm spring is something to look forward to, but in Lingnan, the beginning of spring means the endless rainy season. When miasma and epidemics are rampant, two hundred thousand soldiers become moldy and sick in the high temperature and rainy season. This group of soldiers from Guanzhong
I am afraid that the captain will not be so optimistic...
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While Tu Sui in Lingnan is worried about the beginning of spring, Heifu in Jiaodong in the north is overjoyed for the arrival of spring.
As the wind and snow subsided and the port thawed, Jiaodong's ships were able to go to sea again...
Not only warships and food ships, but also a force that has been marginalized for a long time in Heifu's plan can also come in handy!
In the thirty-third year of the First Emperor of Qin, on the first day of the month of Mengchun (January), with the permission of the First Emperor of Qin, Heifu summoned all the big merchants from Jiaodong, Linzi, Jibei, Langya, and the whole Qi region to gather together for a meeting in Jimo.
…
Hearing that Chen Ping came to report that more than a dozen merchants were waiting, Hei Fu stood up and thought to himself:
"Xibaqing, Nantangnu, Beiwushi...
"There are already three major merchants in the world. The only one missing is the east. I wonder who among these merchants from all over the world is the best?"
