In the thirty-fourth year of Qin Shi Huang, in late May, in the Xiou area, which Tu Sui reported that "it will be able to be pacified within the year", downstream from the water, the Qin army garrison named "Cangwu", on the top of the camp watchtower, the soldiers were looking at the rainy weather with their eyebrows down.

"Why doesn't it rain?"

A 500 master from Guanzhong only felt that his body was about to become moldy, so he asked his subordinates: "Chen Ying, is it like this in the south?" ”

Asked by the five hundred masters, centurion Chen Ying hurriedly responded: "Lord, this Lingnan climate is very different from Huainan, in my hometown Donghai County, although there is rain in May and June, it will rain for seven or eight days at most. But this Lingnan, which is more humid and hot than Jianghuai, has been intermittently for a month, and it has no intention of stopping. ”

The five hundred lords shook their heads and sighed: "In the past, there were seven kingdoms, six in the north, and Chu in the south. ”

"Hearing is better than seeing."

Chen Ying smiled and responded, yes, only when he was forcibly conscripted into the army and came to Lingnan to defend it, did he know that the legend of his hometown talking about the change of color in the south was true......

His family lives in Dongyang County, Hai County, and is a typical Eastern Chu person, ten years ago, Wang Jian destroyed Chu, and the army surrounded Shouchun. Chen Ying and the children of the county were transferred to the rescue, but they never thought that they were intercepted by a Qin official named "Heifu" halfway, and they were all captured, and then forced Chen Ying, the oldest and most loyal in the group, to lead the way for the Qin army.

Soon after, Shouchun was broken, the state of Chu perished, and Dongyang also became a county under the rule of Donghai County of Qin.

Ten years later, Chen Ying is also in his forties, although the labor and taxes are heavy, the world is not peaceful, but this has nothing to do with Chen Ying, do things honestly, eat Lulu, only occasionally heard that the "black man" who had made him prosperous official luck, one after another meritorious service, fight the Huns, put down the rebellion, only one step away from being a marquis......

Chen Ying took this incident as an anecdote, and went home to tell his mother that the wise old lady who had told him to spare his life and not to die for the dying Chu State, but stopped the needlework he was doing, and asked Chen Ying to take leave and go to Jiaodong to visit the old man.

Chen Ying was not happy to be a licking dog, he said: "Mother, how can there be a reason to go to meet people when they hear that they are rich and noble? What's the difference between that and a smelly fly? Besides, he doesn't necessarily remember me, running all the way, wouldn't it be embarrassing to say that he didn't know who Chen Ying was? ”

"It's not about getting rich, it's about the days to come."

Although Chen's mother is illiterate, she also has unusual insight, she analyzed Chen Ying that although she stayed at home, she also heard that there were people in the distance who rebelled. At present, in Dongyang County, the conflict between the government and the young man is intensifying, and a large number of people have begun to secretly flow to the mountains and forests, just to escape the harsh government of the government. And the government also arrested and killed one by one against this group of people, and showed no mercy.

She always felt that if it continued like this, the world would be chaotic sooner or later, I heard that Jiaodong was peaceful, if Chen Ying could go to Jiaodong to meet the black man, or he could find a way to stay as a guest and take his family over, even if he couldn't, if something happened in the future, he could use his name to scare people.

Chen Ying still didn't listen to his mother in the end, but after two months, he regretted it!

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In the thirty-third year of Qin Shi Huang, he decided to march south, and the main object of conscription was the people of Sanchu, and Chen Ying of Dongyang County was also pushed out, as an official, escorting soldiers to the front.

Chen Ying regretted it, if he listened to his mother's words and ran to Jiaodong, wouldn't he be able to avoid this catastrophe?

But now, the knife is on the neck of the whole family, and he can only take the order hard.

I heard that I was going to Lingnan, and the people who were conscripted in Dongyang County were afraid, so they dragged their families and fled a lot that night, and after being arrested by the government, the whole family became prisoners, and the man directly wore shackles and continued on the road!

When they were sent off, the families of the soldiers were all dressed in linen and filial piety and sent to the gate of the city, and the mourning was endless......

What they sang was a funeral song that was very popular in Chudi, "The Conjuring"

"The soul is back! The South can't stop there.

The carving theme is black teeth, and the flesh is worshipped, and the bones are used as the ......"

In the eyes of the Central Plains, the Chu people have lived in the southern township of the country, but in the hearts of this group of typical southerners, Lingnan is also an extremely terrifying region.

They heard that the Yue people there had patterns carved on their foreheads, had black teeth, liked to cut off people's heads, used human flesh as sacrifices, offered to evil gods, and ground human bones and brain marrow into pulp to feed their children......

In addition to the barbarians, there are countless monsters in the south, where poisonous snakes are clustered like grass, large scavenging foxes are everywhere, and male snakes have nine heads, but they come and go quickly, and they like to eat people's hearts and livers the most.

In such a terrible place, even if you are dead, your soul can't go to it, let alone a living person? According to these impressions, Dongyang people think that people who go to Lingnan will die for a lifetime!

Under this fear of death, along the way, the escape continued, the Chu people would rather run into the rivers to be rogues than go to the south to die, Chen Ying and their county recruited a thousand people, and when they arrived in Hengshan County, there were only seven or eight hundred left......

The leader and the five hundred lords were beheaded by Zhulian, but if they went down, it was not good to kill them again, so they sent a Qin official to take care of them, and they were sandwiched between the two Guanzhong soldiers during the march, and the escape stopped.

At this time, Chen Ying had another thought, he hoped that his army would be sent to Yuzhang, which was beaten down by Heifu, and its old departments were all over the place, Chen Ying remembered that there was a person named Ji Ying back then, who liked to chat with him when he had nothing to do, and now he is also an official, right? If you can meet him, you may be able to ask him to help you.

What made Chen Ying desperate was that the army drove directly to Changsha County, and as an auxiliary soldier, he went south with Tu Sui to Xiou......

It took more than three months to walk from Eastern Chu to Southern Chu, which shows the vastness of Chu, during this period, the food accent is quite familiar, which can slightly soothe the frightened hearts of the Chu soldiers.

When I first arrived in Changsha County, it was already autumn and winter, and there was no war, but I was arranged to dig a river - the front-line supervisor Yu Shi Lu decided to build a canal here to solve the problem of logistics and supply.

The canal is not long, dozens of miles, but the heavy construction period, or tired a lot of people, when the waterway is through, the Qin officials are happy to report to Qin Shi Huang the good news of the successful navigation of the first grain ship in the Lingqu, but no one mentions, on both sides of the canal, there have been thousands of graves, the dead are all Chu people......

After spending half a year to open up the spiritual canal, the soldiers and people did not have to rest for too long, and the next thing was an unprecedented expedition!

A hundred years ago, Wu Qi developed Yangyue, but also stopped at Wuling, the mysterious and unknown land in Lingnan, very few Central Plains people set foot in ......

But with the order of Qin Shi Huang, the 80,000 army crossed the mountains and mountains, and officially entered the land of Baiyue.

At the beginning, the war went beyond imagination, and everywhere the Qin army went, there were frequent successes, and the people of Xiou seemed to be frightened and gave up their settlements, but they also burned everything that could not be taken away: houses, livestock, rice fields, and what was left for the Qin army was a field of ashes and polluted water.

According to the thinking of the Central Plains, gaining land is victory, and the Qin army happily took over all the Pingba areas abandoned by the Yue people and re-established the camp.

Tu Sui did not even listen to the dissuasion, separated the 80,000 army, and held the main road, while Guilin, where he was stationed, fell into emptiness......

It is said that Tu Sui also did all kinds of evil deeds in Guilin, such as destroying the sacrificial shrine of the Ou people, and throwing the cliff coffins that only the elders of the tribe were entitled to enjoy from the mountain, and the bones were scattered all over the ground.

Tu Sui has undoubtedly become the most hated person of the Ou people.

After the spring, the grain was tight, and the Xiou people who wanted to return to Pingba to farm finally couldn't hold it back, and they rushed out of the mountains and forests like a tide to launch an attack on Guilin. But he fell for Tu Sui's strategy - this is an ambush to lure the enemy into the urn, and the tempting bait is Tu Sui himself!

In the bloody battle of Guilin, the Qin army passed through the Lingqu, and the reinforcements who quickly arrived at the front line surrounded the Ou people and scattered them, but the Ou people relied on their familiarity with the terrain and still found a way to retreat.

After the shooting of the Song Dynasty, most of the Ou people retreated into the mountains and forests again, and many of the Ou people, led by the weak "Du Lao", surrendered to the Qin army.

The territory controlled by the Qin people was further expanded, and the troops were completely dispersed, and Chen Ying and them were sent to Cangwu downstream from the water to station, which is the main road to South Vietnam, and it is said that there, two armies of tens of thousands of people have also driven the South Vietnamese who have the habit of cannibalism into the deep mountains and old forests, and arrived at the coast of the South China Sea.

Seeing that the situation was very good, General Tu Sui announced with satisfaction: "Xiou has been decided!" ”

He decided that he would end this war within 34 years of Qin Shi Huang!

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Chen Ying listened to the five hundred lords about these things.

In person, Chen Ying didn't express anything, just said that he really hoped to finish the fight and go home soon.

"Home?"

The five hundred lords just smiled, the meaning was unclear, which made Chen Ying have a bad premonition.

When he returned to the camp, he squatted in the damp wooden hut, eating raw rice that had been chewed for several days because he could not find dry firewood, and was depressed at the thought of the laughter of the five hundred lords.

"Even after the battle, I am afraid that we will not be able to return home easily."

Chen Ying was not sure about this matter, and he didn't dare to talk nonsense, when the meal arrived, the soldiers came over to eat one after another, during which no one spoke, the atmosphere was gloomy, and in this humid and hot ghost weather, they didn't even have the strength to chat.

After going south, the Qin army has been reorganized several times, and Chen Ying has a hundred men under him, and now there are only seventy left.

Ten of the 30 people who died were attacked by Ouyue while standing guard and patrolling, and were wounded by their bamboo arrows. The arrows were either poisonous or sticky dung, and most of them died, and they died miserably, with festering skin and protruding eyes.

Twenty more people fell on the road or in the camp because they could not adapt to the hot climate of Lingnan in the summer, or they were infested by poisonous insects, snakes and ants everywhere......

Of the 70 people who survived, more than a dozen were sick and could not eat hot food or drink boiling water, and they would collapse at some point.

As far as Chen Ying knows, there are 3,000 Cangwu garrisons, and several of them are in a similar situation, the attrition continues, and Qin has only half of the combat effectiveness!

And the attacks from the forest, are becoming more and more frequent, it seems that the death of the leader, did not reduce the determination of the Ouyue people to resist to the end, in the face of this way of attack, the Qin army except to close the camp and defend, but there is no good way, they are not like the victors, but like the remnants of the army trapped in the lonely city.

"Dongou has been decided? We are not fighting the same battle as General Na Tu! ”

Listening to the sighs and sighs of the villagers, Chen Ying chewed the rice with difficulty, raised his head, looked at the continuous rain outside, and there was some despair in his eyes.

In his opinion, this war can never end within this year, it is like this damp and hot rain, continuous indefinitely!