Chapter 010: Chasing and Suppressing the King of Xiou
When the news of Tu Sui's accidental death reached Xianyang, Emperor Qin was extremely angry: "A small Xiou tribe actually made me lose Tu Guowei, and I am guilty!" Then an emergency imperial military meeting was convened to discuss the matter of reconquest of Baiyue.
Zhao Gao lost his protégé Tu Sui, his teeth were gritting loudly, and he resolutely demanded that the Xiou tribe of Yihu Song be defeated in one fell swoop, and he must be killed completely.
The conscription edict reached all counties, and soon the Qin Emperor collected 100,000 troops from all over the country, plus the original 200,000, a total of 300,000 troops, and attacked the Yue people again. Ren Huan is the commander-in-chief, and Zhao Tuo is still the deputy general.
Due to the delay in entering the Xiou people's living territory, Ren Huan changed Tu Sui's slaughter policy, and constantly divided and disintegrated the Yue people. Preferential treatment was given to those who surrendered, and the Yue people were appointed to continue to serve as officials, manage their own territories, and be exempted from conscription, military service, and taxes for three years.
The exhausted King of Xiou called on the remnants of Song to lead the remnants into the jungle, resisted stubbornly, refused to surrender, and was determined to get rid of it.
Ren Huan posted a notice, promising a thousand taels of gold to buy the head of the Song Dynasty. A few days passed, and no Yue people came to inform Yi Hu Song's whereabouts. Tu Long didn't have the patience to wait, he walked into Zhao Tuo's tent and took the initiative to ask for help, and pursued Yi Hu Song.
At this time, a thin young man walked outside the tent, with a slashed face and a double knife on his back, and begged: "I am willing to be a guide and take you to find the lair of Yihu Song." The crowd stopped him. Why is this king not allowed to see General Zhao Tuo? The comer asked the guard.
"Our general said that no outsiders will be seen!" The captain of the guard confirmed at a glance that the person who came was Jiuxiong, and he didn't expect that Jiuxiong was really bold, and he dared to send it to the door when he was being arrested everywhere.
"I'm not a translator of Song, even if it is, I can't send sheep into the tiger's mouth!" The comer refused to admit it.
"Brothers, show me!" The guards were on guard, he was the watchman of Shuixin Village, the only survivor of the massacre.
He was taken aback, and hurriedly reported to Zhao Tuo and Slayer Long, describing in detail the appearance of the comer.
Slaying the dragon compared the portrait on the pursuit warrant: "Isn't this the Yihu Song we want to hunt?" God help me! The dragon slayer was secretly delighted, and hurriedly rushed out, drawing his sword and resting it on the shoulder of the comer.
"The general is the dragon slayer, right?" The visitor was unusually calm, "You recognized the wrong person!" ”
"It's you who took Miao Man to slaughter Shuixin Village, and I know you when you burned it to ashes!" The husband also came out to identify him.
"General Tu, don't kill innocents indiscriminately, there are too many people in the world who look alike." Zhao Tuo heard the sound and walked out.
"I don't know what to do, if I really am the translator of Song, you can cut me now." The comer spread his hands and said.
"Yihu Song, don't quibble, if I hadn't gone to the mountains last night, I would have become a ghost under your knife a long time ago." The husband firmly believes that the one who comes is the king of Xiou.
"Hahaha, what credentials do you have?" The visitor sneered, and a breeze blew, revealing a corner of the wizard's magic seal on his waist.
The husband snatched the seal of the law and shook it: "This is the evidence!" And handed the seal to Zhao Tuo.
Zhao Tuo took the seal, recognized it for a long time and didn't recognize it, and whispered to Tu Long: "This seal is the script of the Chu State, can you recognize it?" ”
Tu Long is the son of Tu Sui, after the famous general, he had some research on Chu culture when he was a teenager, and he looked at it for a while: "The Holy Mother of the Nine Heavenly Palace's Law Decree is not the seal of the King of Xiou!" He slowly lowered the sword in his hand.
"I said that I am not translating Song, you just don't believe it, and now this king suddenly doesn't want to help you." The comer was angry, turned his head and was about to leave.
"A good man, I, Zhao Tuo, have always been a man and do things above board. I have this death-free token and documents in my hand, please bring them back to Miao Village, and General Ben is not to blame for the matter of Shuixin Village. Zhao Tuo took out two items from his sleeve.
"Don't pretend, this king won't eat you!" The visitor didn't raise his eyelids, "If you are sincere, you will send someone to Elder Tan of Miao Village." ”
"Hey, you have a kind of, you even came to command our General Zhao, who are you?" The dragon-slayer's fury reigned again, and he slashed his sword across the comer's neck.
"I'll tell you the truth, I'm King Katian!" The person who came revealed the identity of the King of the Nine Bears Katian, and gently flicked away the blade of the sword with his fingers.
"King Katian, I don't know." Qin Jun laughed, "We only know the King of Xiou-"
"Hey, you don't understand, I'm Xiao Zizhang, the future king of Katian. General Zhao Tuo is the future king of South Vietnam! ”
"Then we don't know." Qin Jun laughed even harder, how could they know what would happen thousands of years later!
"Laugh at me, I won't tell you, let's go." Jiuxiong was a little annoyed, thinking that such a famous person as he was laughing at the world.
"Think beautifully, the Qin army camp is not a small teahouse, how can you come and go freely!" Dragon Slayer motioned for the guards to take down the Nine Bears.
Zhao Tuo shouted, did not allow the guards to step forward, and resolved the crisis in time: "Don't be rude, give me a retreat!" ”
"King Katian, General Ben will not stop you from coming and going, when you think about it, come to me Zhao Tuo again, I still respect you as a man."
"Thank you General Zhao, I'll go—" The soles of the nine bears' feet seemed to be greased, and they ran away without a trace.
Zhao Tuo looked at the disappearing figure of the Nine Bears, pondered for a while, and said to Tu Long: "There is General Lao Tu for the matter of educating Miao Man." ”
"Me?"
"Don't you want to avenge your father's murder?"
"Yes!"
"Then act according to my plan and send these two items to Elder Tan. It's time for us to shake hands with the Sanmiao tribe. ”
"No. The last will obey! ”
"Remember, don't disturb the Miao people, otherwise General Ben will ask you!" ……
Jiuxiong came out of Dart Ridge, because he had no magic skills, he could only walk back to Miao Village. As soon as he returned to Miao Village, Elder Tan, Xiye, and Luo Qi had been waiting in front of the village for a long time.
"Lord Wang, you have disappeared for a day, and the pot has exploded in the village." As soon as Luo Qi saw the nine bears, he opened the conversation, "After afternoon tea, more than a dozen Qin soldiers came, led by self-proclaimed dragon slaying ......"
"What did he do, do you know that he is the son of Tu Sui who kills people without blinking?" Nine Bears were so angry that they smoked.
"It's not a good thing you did, now that General Zhao Tuo has extended an olive branch to us, and no longer pursue the matter of Shuixinzhai, it is impossible for us to behead the messenger of peace, right?" Nishino is quick to speak.
"Oh, there are such good people? Zhao Tuo, doesn't he want to be a prince of one side? "Jiuxiong never expected that Zhao Tuo would really turn the war into a jade silk.
"Lord Wang, the old decay is now in a dilemma. If the clansmen are ordered not to oppose the Qin army again, there will be clansmen who are ashamed of their deaths; If we continue to be enemies with the Qin army, we will suffer a catastrophe. "Elder Tan couldn't come up with a good countermeasure for a while.
"When we meet, we smile and enmity. Let's take a look at General Zhao Tuo's actions. Luo Qi said.
"But they are still resisting, who should we help Qin Jun and Xiou?" Nishino: He doesn't know how to be good.
"The first emperor was ambitious, opened up the territory, the people's aspirations, and unification was the trend of the times. The Xiou tribe drank blood and hair, and was still in the primitive society, and should be educated by the Central Plains civilization. Let's help General Zhao Tuo! "Nine bears have the final word.
"Since the prince is determined to help Daqin, then the old decay will obey. For the peace and tranquility of Miao Village, let's go to my house and have a few drinks! Please—" Elder Tan finally had a smile on his face......
Without the attack of the Miao warriors, the Qin army led by Zhao Tuo concentrated all their efforts on dealing with the armed forces of the King of Xiou. Ren Huan was far away in Panyu City, and he handed over the important task of pursuing Yihu Song to Zhao Tuo.
Zhao Tuo selected 20,000 elite soldiers from the Chu team in the Qin army, let Slayer Long lead, and specially advised: "Don't be reckless, don't underestimate the Song Dynasty." "The Dragon Slayer Department marched in the mountains and mountains for a day and a night, killing all the way, encountering large and small resistance, the battle was not fierce, and the Yue armed forces were quickly defeated.
The guide Jiuxiong knew the terrain around Xi'ou well, and he was like a tiger, but the Qin army still did not find the footprints of the king of Xi'ou.
A pool of blood suddenly appeared on the path in the jungle, and Jiuxiong squatted down, dipped his finger in a little, and sniffed it.
With his keen sense of smell, he concluded that Yi Hu Song did not flee far: "General Tu, King Xiou is seriously injured, and he can't run too far, even if he plugs his wings, he can't escape!" ”
"Lord Wang, I've been running with you for so long, won't you fool me again this time?" The dragon slayer came up panting.
"If this king miscalculates again, you can cut out my tongue, and I have nothing to say!"
"General Ben, I'll believe you again."
Xiye and Jiuxiong followed the bloodstains and led the Qin army all the way forward. The army had been walking in the jungle for less than half an hour, and in front of a very hidden cave, the blood stains were gone. It turned out that Song Sanluo was seriously injured in the first battle, the wound was constantly bleeding, and he had to rest for an hour or two every time he went to a place, and he was chased and intercepted by the Qin army all the way, and there was no way out.
Dragon Slayer looked around at the surrounding terrain, the cave was about five or six meters above the ground, condescending, the Qin army was easy to attack, he made a gesture to spread left and right, and the Qin army quickly dispersed.
Nishino, Jiuxiong, and Luo Qi climbed the stone wall with the agility of monkeys and hid on the side of the cave. "Nishino, follow this king into the cave!" Nine Bears shouted.
"King Xiou is not a soft persimmon, you have to go yourself!" Nishino has always been steady, and he won't punch and rush.
"Don't you have Fu Xiqin here?" Jiuxiong turned his head and asked.
"Lord Wang, Fu Xiqin can't fly anymore." Luo Qi picked up the conversation, "My pen is useless as well. ”
"You can do it quietly, come down and help move the trees—" Slayer Long motioned to his men to prepare for battle, these soldiers had fought with the Yue people for three or four years, and knew their tactics and psychology very well.
The dragon slayer ordered the men to pile up trees and firewood several meters high in front of the cave door, and then ignited a fire, and the smoke entered the cave with the wind.