Elders say that although the frog god controls the rain, he doesn't like it to rain all the time, so in Ouyue, we often encounter several consecutive sunny days in June.
But in the rainforest with towering ancient trees, there is not much difference between cloudy and sunny. The tall and lush tree crowns block the sunlight, leaving only a few strands leaking to the ground and falling into the gurgling stream.
Snap, the barefoot hunter broke through the waves, quickly crossed the wet ground, jumped into the bushes, and climbed up the moss-covered giant trees with his bare hands, like a nimble leopard.
More than ten feet above the ground, Dagu found a hidden tree for himself. He knew that as long as he hid in the tree crown, the Qin people would not be able to find him.
But every move of the Qin people can be seen clearly by Dagu!
Reach out and grab a lizard that unfortunately passes by, twist its head, and tear open its weak scales. The meat with a strong fishy smell can be chewed by the teeth and swallowed to warm the hungry stomach. This is a simple lunch for a hunter.
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Dagu carefully adjusted his bow and removed the moisture from the duck feather arrows. Heavy rain for days would affect the accuracy of the bow and arrow, but the advantage of duck feathers is that they do not touch water. The disadvantage is that they cannot shoot far.
Raising his head, Dagu looked into the distance, and after silently reciting ten times, there was a rustling sound, the dense bushes were pushed aside, and a group of Qin soldiers with guns and armor appeared in the field of vision.
Unlike Dagu, who regarded the forest as his home, the Qin soldiers moved clumsily. They had to have people holding axes to split the vines and shrubs. A surprised snake or a passing lizard would startle the Qin people and shoot them with crossbows!
"What a waste of good arrows."
Dagu sneered disdainfully and hid himself in the tree canopy again. Attacking now would only reveal his position prematurely.
During the rare rest time before the war, Dagu's mind replayed the scene a few months ago - the scene where Te was cut into pieces by the Qin people!
His father Yi Xusong, the son of the Frog God and the ruler of Ouyue, had died on the battlefield. Under the leadership of the ancestor, he went to the other end of the Rainbow Bridge.
Adagu will never forget the Battle of Guilin three months ago. The Ou people had abandoned Pingba and escaped into the mountains and forests. Although they were all excellent hunters, hunting and gathering alone could not satisfy the huge crowd.
Seeing that food was becoming increasingly scarce, many people wanted to go home and plant rice. In addition, Qin generals destroyed the altars and tombs of the Ou people, which aroused public anger. My father could not resist the voice of the tribesmen asking for war, so he led his troops to attack Guilin, but he did not expect that those belonging to the Qin people were.
Due to trickery, the Ou people's backward weapons were unable to conquer the strong camp, while reinforcements from the Qin army poured in from all directions.
The Ou people were defeated and had no choice but to retreat. After Yi Yu Song Duan was killed, they were killed by the Qin people and did not even have time to recapture their bodies.
In that battle, countless tribesmen were massacred, and Yi Xusong's body was also dislocated. He was humiliatingly beheaded by the Qin people and hung in the camp for public display. Some tribesmen who tried to recapture Yi Xu Song's body secretly stole it at night.
In the past, he was also shot with a crossbow!
This is a trap. The Ou people stopped trying. The atmosphere of failure spread among them. Some timid old people even left the forest with their families to surrender to the Qin army and lead the way for them...
Fortunately, at this critical moment, "Jie Jun", the younger brother of Yixu Song and Dagu's uncle, was elected as the new emperor.
Jie Jun was brave and resourceful. After discussing with the remaining warriors, he decided to stick to the original idea of translating the Song Dynasty and resolutely not to fight the Qin people head-on. Instead, he fought in the vast forests and took advantage of the Yue people's ability to climb mountains and ridges and sail boats.
The strengths of the boat were to use the high mountains and dense forests to deal with the Qin people...
In the past three months, this method of fighting has been surprisingly effective. The people of Ou no longer died in vain, but the people of Qin continued to bleed. Scattering the army around should be the biggest mistake made by Qin generals. Whenever a garrison is stationed, food is needed.
People have already fortified the walls and cleared the country. Even if someone surrenders, it will take several months for the crops to be harvested.
If the food could not be satisfied locally, it had to be transported from the rear. Therefore, the long road opened along the river and the long snake of the Qin army's food team became a good target for an ambush.
In addition to disturbing the grain roads, the Ou people often visited the camps built by the Qin people after they occupied their hometown. They would sneak over there at night, shoot an arrow at the patrollers, cut off their heads, and then escape into the night.
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Relying on this method, Dagu alone chopped off five Qin people's heads and sacrificed them to his father one by one...
Frequent disturbances annoyed the arrogant Qin army. After losing many people, the Qin army began to counterattack. Under the leadership of those traitors Du Lao, they organized thousands of people and entered the forest in groups, trying to find Ou.
Destroy human strongholds.
But the people of Qin didn't know that from the moment they stepped into the forest, they were on the road to death and no return...
In the Battle of Guilin, the Qin people, who were wearing armor and carrying swords and marching in a square formation, looked so powerful that it was impossible to defeat them.
But once they entered the dense forest, these warriors became like toddlers. Their shoes were slippery on the slippery moss. The opaque jungle made it difficult for them to find their way around. The animals flying around attracted them.
His attention and body were dragged down by the heavy armor, and the neat queue in the past became extremely scattered.
The Ou people wandered around this familiar hunting ground, staying silently on the periphery. They made some noise from time to time, attracting the Qin people to run around. After two days of dealing with them, the Qin army, which found nothing, looked like a tired prey...
Unlike in Guilin, the prey and the hunter have changed their identities!
Seeing this group of Qin people sitting and resting by the stream, Dagu took out his bamboo bow.
"Adagu, don't worry, a good hunter knows how to wait for the opportunity..."
My father's words seemed to still be echoing in my ears.
Dagu slowly pulled the strings and aimed at this group of greedy invaders.
"Tebo, I am no longer Adagu, no longer a child. After blood sacrifice to the ancestors, they always tattooed my face, just like the pattern on the frog god..."
In the black facial pattern, there is a pair of eyes burning with revenge and rage.
"Now, my name is Dagu, I am a man and a headhunter!"
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An hour later, the large force of the Qin army that entered the mountains to suppress the attack arrived at the place where the forward was ambushed.
When Zhao Tuo passed by, there were soldiers standing around the tree, and they all looked horrified.
"Everyone give way, everyone give way, Captain Zhao is here!"
Everyone quickly gave way and allowed the great hero who killed Xioujun to translate the Song Dynasty to come forward. It was said that he was also the brother-in-command of a certain feudal official.
Zhao Tuo saw a horrifying scene, but he saw hundreds of corpses of Qin soldiers, stripped of their clothes, and thrown by the stream. The stream was red, and there were scavenging animals cruising in the distance, salivating.
All the corpses were missing their heads, just like the Ou people whose heads were displayed after the Battle of Guilin...
Zhao Tuo knelt down with a frown and turned the man over. A huge centipede crawled out quickly, startling the soldiers, and then they discovered that everyone's hearts had been dug out.
"Ou people really eat human flesh..."
The soldiers of Qin shuddered, but Zhao Tuo, who had been in contact with the Yue people for a long time, and even had a Yue people who were sworn brothers, knew that like the head, the heart and liver were also good things that the Ou people used to make blood sacrifices to their ancestors.
Some people were filled with indignation and asked for advice to pursue them deep into the forest, but Zhao Tuo refused and gave the order calmly.
"Contain the body."
The scavenging beasts have been driven away, but the corpses are still covered with reddish-brown ants with thick knuckles. Compared to the Central Plains, snakes and insects in Lingnan are almost all oversized.
These red ants are like little bees that have not yet grown wings. On their round heads, a pair of square bracket-like tentacles stretch across the front, swinging flexibly. A pair of compound eyes flash with a faint light, and two pincer-like tentacles.
His horizontal jaws, like curved-mouthed tweezers, were gnawing at the Qin soldiers' flesh. Behind his slender waist, there was an oval-shaped belly, which was round and round. The tip of his tail was slightly raised, and he moved left and right in conjunction with the nibbling movements.
Squirming, inside is the fresh flesh and blood of the robes...
Some people couldn't help but vomited out, and the atmosphere was solemn. Rather than revenge, there was more fear, fear of this sight and this land.
Zhao Tuo stood up and looked at the green hell around him with solemn eyes.
Swamps, wetlands, ravines, jungles, etc. provide ideal habitats for snakes and insects, forming a dragnet. In addition to ants, the most annoying ones are giant leech, and the most terrifying ones are poisonous mosquitoes. Anyone bitten by them will
Inevitably, he will be infected with inflammation and die suddenly within a few days.
There were also heavy rains, accompanied by flash floods, disease and miasma adding to the excitement, and Ouyue people appearing and disappearing, secretly firing cold arrows.
Here, the Qin army is like a strong man who is not afraid of ferocious beasts, but has no way to deal with the insects that crawl on him and bite him!
If Tu Sui's idea was to carry out an in-depth massacre and eliminate Ou Yue as soon as possible, I am afraid that before the Ou people are wiped out, the Qin people would have filled the field with corpses!
It seems that this war can not be easily ended by occupying a few dams and killing a few princes...
"withdraw!"
Zhao Tuo made a decisive decision and issued the order to withdraw the troops, which made everyone look relieved.
He recalled what Heifu said many years ago when two semi-illiterates were chatting about "the art of war" after conquering Yuzhang.
"My brother, if you fight with barbarians in the south in the future, you must remember my words."
The words were meaningful, as if Heifu had seen Zhao Tuo's current situation through a long period of time.
"Don't enter the woods!"
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Although the Qin army on the west route occupied a few flat dams, they continued to reduce their numbers due to frequent guerrilla attacks by the Ou people. This fighting method seems to be innate to these jungle peoples.
Hundreds of miles away, in Longchuan Village of South Vietnam, the Central Route Army departing from Yuzhang also faced the same problem. What made the soldiers even more disgusted was that the South Vietnamese here were not only keen on headhunting, but also really cannibalized human flesh.
After using up the strength of the Nine Bulls and Two Tigers, he went deep into the forest and destroyed an empty village. On the bonfire that was still warm, several human hands were roasted, and one of them was chewed until only the bones were left...
"I've had enough of those woods, General!"
After learning that he had lost two hundred people in the campaign but only killed dozens of Yue people, General Jia in the middle roared.
Compared with the Yue people, the jungle itself is a powerful and terrifying enemy. The vast turbulence has set up insurmountable natural barriers. The rolling mountains are full of bushes, vines, and towering trees.
The clouds are inserted into the sky, forming a gloomy and gloomy environment with no sky, high temperatures, scorching heat, and continuous monsoon rains.
Without the protection of this huge jungle, with the strength of the Qin army, it would be easy to destroy the stubborn Yue people!
After thinking about it, General Jia came up with a good idea that he thought was extremely clever:
"Set fire, notify all the armies, and set fire from all directions. This general will burn this thousand-mile dense forest in the south of Lingnan, as well as the Yue people, snakes, insects, rats, and ants inside, to ashes!"
