"Hold on to the brazier, don't let the fire go out."

Before leaving, Ji Jun told his wife, as the wife of Xi Oujun, she was no different from ordinary Ou Girl, wearing a plain white dress spun of kapok, her face was full of black lines, and the crow's feet at the corners of her eyes appeared, after all, she was already a grandmother.

She didn't say a word, only handed over the bronze sword that she had polished day and night to Jijun, and every drop of sweat dripping on it was a blessing to her husband.

The eldest son of Ji Jun, in the first Qin-Ou War, died in Guilin with his predecessor Xiou Jun Yihu Song, and his daughter-in-law also died of illness on the way to Luo Yue, and the younger pair of children are the same, not only the Qin people will be sick, but the Ou people will also, their average life expectancy is less than thirty years old, when the evil disease comes, everything has to be left to Bu Luotuo.

Under the blow of natural disasters and man-made disasters, the former Jijun who had many sons and daughters, now only has a little grandson left, he is only three years old, lying on his grandmother's back, still asleep, not knowing that a vicious battle that determines the fate of the Ou people is about to begin!

As he walked out of the humble hut, the Ou warriors were saying goodbye to their families, and he saw that young Dagu was standing in front of the house, reluctantly embracing his newlywed wife, despite the jokes of the clansmen. But it was his wife, a strong woman, who pushed her husband away, handed the spear to Dagu, and urged him to join the ranks of the people.

All the men of the Ou people were assembled in the open space outside the village, there were as many as 2,000, and there were no old and weak people in them, all of whom died in the last war, in the long journey. The people in front of them are all young and strong, although after a hard battle baptism, they are already soldiers who have been stained with blood and sacrificed to the ancestral spirit, but in the eyes of Ji Jun, they are still as immature as the buds of pine branches.

"Captain."

Dagu came over and stood in front of Jijun, still a little puzzled, and said:

"A few years ago, wasn't the lesson of the siege of Guilin enough? The city of the Qin people is not so easy to attack, I Tebota ......"

Dagu's voice lowered, it was that battle that killed Dagu's father, the predecessor of Xi'ou Jun Yi Song, and the eldest son of Ji Jun.

At that time, Ji Jun was just an old man, he endured the pain of losing his son, and was ordered to take them to escape under the recommendation of his clansmen, so that Xiou, which was on the verge of destruction, migrated and survived, and finally defeated the strong enemy!

Don't entangle head-on with the Qin people, this is the tactic of the Jun, as long as they escape into the deep mountains and forests, the Qin army can't help them. When the Qin people were protracted for a long time, the soldiers were tired and lost their patience, so they ventured to march westward, and the Ou people attacked with the help of Luo Yue's elephants, and the Qin soldiers were broken.

After the war, less than half of the Ou people survived and returned to the dam where Yushui (Xijiang) and Wenshui (Nanpan River) meet, which is their ancestral land and the place where Buluotuo has been blessed. The establishment of the stockade, the sowing of rice, everything seems to have returned to calm, fire and water rake, men hunting, women weaving and collecting, this has been the same beautiful life for thousands of years......

But before the Ou people had time to enjoy a few harvests, the ships of the Qin people came again, coming and going, leaving countless soldiers and people, with great momentum, stepping on the rhythm of the drums, attacking the villages of the Ou people.

The Ou people knew that they could not confront the Qin people head-on, so they had to give up the rice that had just been planted and retreat to the mountains and forests to live temporarily.

The Qin people occupied this flat and open land, they burned down the Ouren villages, on the ruins, rammed earth to build a round fortress, the Ou people called them "Loutu", like mushrooms that grow after the rain, one by one rose from the ground, blocking the Ou people and their rice fields......

They are like thorns piercing the hearts of Ou people!

In Dagu's opinion, we should adopt the same method as last time, avoid fighting, only need to wait until the rice is ripe, and then gather all the Ou people along the Yushui and Wenshui coasts, and surround the tulou with young and strong, and the women will harvest the rice, and with those grains, they will be able to survive for a long time.

"Dagu, you're getting sluggish, don't you see? This time it's different! ”

Jijun asked Dagu to come to the edge of the cliff, pointed to the yellowing rice fields by the Yushui and said, "You didn't even notice? The Qin people deliberately kept these paddies, just to use them as bait, and the Ou people were like beasts that pounced on them! “

"Do you know how the South Vietnamese were defeated? In order to harvest the grain, he didn't leave for a long time, but he was surrounded by the big ships of the Qin people, and the sheep department and the Jiao department, the two largest tribes, perished together! ”

As a hero who led the Ou people and won the first war, Ji Jun was keenly aware that the commander of the Qin people this time was even more powerful.

The Qin generals have seen the Yue people's dependence on rice, and they can't feed this huge population by relying only on the wild vegetables and beasts in the mountains and forests......

Ji Jun said solemnly: "If you don't collect this batch of rice and then migrate, Qingzhuang may survive, but my grandson, the child in your wife's womb, may all die!" But if you wait until the rice is ripe before going, you will definitely fall into the trap of the Qin people, and their big ships will transport reinforcements over. ”

"Therefore, before the rice is ripe, we must destroy these Qin people's fortresses, and then divide people to guard the riverside and prevent the Qin people from landing on the shore, so that we can finish harvesting the rice with peace of mind, do you understand?"

This remark made Dagu, who was still indulging in the happiness of the newlywed, feel cold, and looked back at his wife, who was still leaning on the door although he drove him away, and nodded heavily: "Junchang, Dagu's sword, listen to your call!" ”

Ji Jun took all the men of the village down the mountain, spent the night at the foot of the mountain, these two days, from the Yushui, warm water upstream scattered Ou people have braved the rain, walk the mountain road to converge, they are also planting rice by the water, but also facing the threat of the Qin people's tulou, all the men together, the number of people is as many as tens of thousands!

This is also the reason why Jijun believes that Yulin's tulou must be uprooted, where there is a lieutenant of the Qin army, commanding 3,000 troops, and commanding more than 10 tulou in the upper and lower reaches of Yushui and Wenshui, each garrison is 500, and the people are 500.

If they are not uprooted, when the flood season is over, the Qin people will continue to transport troops and build buildings, and finally occupy the entire river basin, forcing the Ou people to enter the barren mountains, or go to the Luo people.

Although Luo Yue and Ou Yue have the same ancestor, they have different beliefs, they will not easily distribute food to outsiders, and the greedy Luo Wang also forced the Ou people to submit to him, and even asked for the women of the clan......

As a last resort, Jijun doesn't want to send people under the fence anymore.

He told all the people who came to join him about his plan: "I asked people to go to the Tulou in Bushan and Zhongliu respectively, and after Yu Lin received the notification, he would definitely send people to support, so that there would not be many garrisons in these Tulou!" “

The day before yesterday and yesterday, a team of about 1,000 Qin troops left Tulou and rushed to Bushan, Zhongliu, and Yulin, more than ten miles away, and the defenders of Yulin were already empty.

Although they did not know what the art of war was, they had experience honed in hunting and tribal warfare.

The only worry is whether there will be Qin people downstream to help.

"The rain is heavy, the land route is not easy to walk, and the waterway is not passable, and when they come to it, the tulou has been laid down and demolished!"

The horse is relied on, it is the rainy season at this time, and the water is turbulent, not to mention the boats of the Qin people, even if they are good at boating, even the South Vietnamese who are good at boating, they can't go against the current in this situation!

But the so-called "Xiou Jun" is only the leader of the tribal alliance, although the jun is a war hero, but there are also some tribes who disobey the yin. After waiting for a few days, only more than 10,000 Ou people gathered, relying on this group of people, attacking a few earthen buildings defended by more than 1,000 people, with the crowd outnumbered, even so, the jun did not have the certainty of victory.

The equipment of the Qin people is much better than that of the Ou people.

But you can't help but fight! Time is running out, the flood season is coming to an end, and the time for the attack is today!

In the early morning of the war, Ji Jun personally smeared white soil on the Ouren youths who had no tattoos on their faces, and with the blessings of the monarch and the wizard, even if they died in battle without tattoos, their souls could still cross the rainbow bridge and return to their ancestors.

Looking at this group of children like tender pine leaves, their young faces, Jijun felt a sadness, how many people can survive this war?

But there are some things that are more important than life!

The land of ancestors, as well as the faith and pride of the Ou people!

"The Qin people are the enemies of the Ou people."

Before leaving, Jijun used the maximum volume he could make to tell the people in front of him.

"They have desecrated the land of their ancestors! Kill our rulers, our parents, our brothers, our children. ”

The people present were filled with righteous indignation, and all of them had a deep blood feud with the Qin people.

"They have taken over the rice fields! Burn down our villages, destroy the altars, and they will drive the Ou people away like wild beasts and enslave them like livestock! ”

"Even if it is a boar, forced into a corner by a tiger and leopard, it knows how to resist, let alone a proud Ouren warrior?"

Dagu raised the sword in his hand, and at this moment, he forgot that he was a newlywed groom, and when he resumed the first war, he fought with his life to kill the enemy, just to avenge his father.

"Jun Chang is right, the Qin people hunt the heads of the Ou people, and we also want to hunt the heads of the Qin people!"

Although not as fanatical as the South Vietnamese, the Dongou also had a tradition of headhunting, usually by cutting off the heads of rival tribes or outsiders who trespassed into the hunting grounds without permission during the annual grain sowing or harvest season.

After hunting the head, it is often inserted on a bamboo pole outside the house, and a basket of charcoal is placed under the head, so that the blood of the head drips on the charcoal, and then the charcoal ash is distributed to all households in the village and sown in the field to pray for a good harvest.

This process is called "weeding".

In Dagu's opinion, the Qin people have to cut off the heads of the Ou people every time they finish a battle, and the purpose is probably the same as them, which is also to hunt for the head and pray for blessings!

Jijun raised his hands high: "Like last time!" Kill the Qin people, hunt their heads, bring them back to the stockade, drip the blood in the rice fields, let the grain be harvested, let our children eat their flesh and gain its power! ”

"Out of the grass!"

"Out of the grass!" Tens of thousands of people shouted in unison, and a huge procession set off from various streams and paths, armed with rudimentary weapons, and rushed straight to the dam at the bottom of the mountain.

A quaint ballad was sung from the mouths of this group of barefoot but swift barbarian warriors.

"Do you know who I am?

We are the warriors of Xiou, the true warriors!

When you bleed, the hatred between you and me is gone!

Your soul is welcome to dwell with me, and I will feed you with wine and food, and there will be no more hatred between us. You will also work with our ancestral spirits to protect our people......"

"Guard, land of our ancestors!"

……

"Here we are."

The sound of Acura bursts, standing on the top of the tulou, was ordered to guard Yulin, and the captain Xiaotao, who was hundreds of miles upstream and downstream, immediately gave an order: Let people take a boat and go to Cangwu downstream for help!

Although Xi'ou will take advantage of the flood season to besiege Yulin, this is all expected by Changnanhou, and he sent people to Xiao Tao early to take precautions and arrange countermeasures.

Although the Yue people who flocked to the tulou had almost no armor, and the weapons were also a mixture of copper, stone, and bone, there was no concept of array at all, and it was chaotic.

But Xiao Tao did not despise them at all, on the contrary, he respected these enemies very much.

"If you know what you're fighting for, your army will be strong."

This is a sentence that the Marquis of Changnan said to them, and it is also a metaphor that during the Battle of Fengyang, it was because the Qin soldiers of Nanjun wanted to go home, so they were unstoppable, and they could fight three enemies with one.

And these Ou people in front of him undoubtedly know what they are fighting for at this moment.

In order to drive the invaders out of their homes.

In order to reclaim the land of the ancestors.

In order not to be enslaved, for the sake of their children, to be able to continue to live on this land for generations to come......

So they will fight to the death.

On the other hand, Xiao Tao's soldiers did not have the determination to fight to the death, most of them were farmers from the Central Plains and Jianghuai, and a few were merchants, sons-in-law, craftsmen, and even criminal officials and prisoners. Because of a conscription order, he left his family and traveled thousands of miles to this humid south, overcoming thorns and thorns, suffering from heat and disease, and missing his hometown all the time.

"It's a good day, but what are we doing here?"

This is a question that haunts everyone's mind, and even if Heifu is clever, he can't answer it, land? In the Qin Dynasty, there were still large areas of wasteland waiting to be developed in the Central Plains, but the emperor sent people to Lingnan to fill in, which is really crazy!

There are tens of millions of living beings in the whole world, but those who can understand Qin Shi Huang's southern expedition to Baiyue and regard it as "beneficial for a thousand years" may be the only one who can understand Heifu's ......

Compared to life, the Qin soldiers were not very interested in cutting off the heads of the Yue people, and if it was possible, most of them were willing to stay in the tulou and were unwilling to fight the Yue people.

But now, the guest army and the natives have to fight!

"At least, I know what I'm fighting for." Xiao Tao said secretly.

He is the pavilion chief, and he fights for the sentence "The prince and the general, rather have a kind of" arrogant words!

Xiao Tao's belief in the "pavilion chief" in his heart is no less than the determination of the Ou people to regain the land of their ancestors!

He drew his sword, stumbled, and told everyone on the tulou:

"Fight to the death! If...... If the tulou falls, we will all be eaten by the Ou people, the flesh and bones are the coffin, and the soul cannot return to the hometown! ”

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PS: Out of the grass song, because I couldn't find similar information, I had to copy the "Saidek Bale", the second chapter is at night