In the late June of the 35th year of Qin Shi Huang, the Qin army garrison in Nanye County, Yuzhang County (Nankang, Jiangxi) went around in a circle, and Heifu and his subordinates who returned from Hengpu Pass rested here.

Nanye County has a good climate, not as hot as Lingnan, Heifu can comfortably eat melons in the shade of a tree, while looking at the map drawn during the first felling.

At this time, there was an earth-shattering cheer outside, which provoked several short-range guards to look forward to it.

"How many times has this been?"

Heifu didn't look up either, and asked Lu Jia, the secretary who helped him sort out the documents and books.

"The seventh."

Lu Jia said helplessly: "Since the beginning of this month, Mei Kai has been with the 'Violent Tiger' of the prince seven times!" ”

It turned out that after Heifu subdued Mei's, Mei was taken to Lingbei as a hostage. Freedom has been restored, but this guy is still hard-mouthed and quite unconvinced, often saying that in the huge Qin camp, no one can fight with him.

Dongmen Leopard couldn't stand this, and immediately became furious, and after a strong request, Heifu agreed and let them fight.

Without a blade, with bare hands, it is a horn fight rather than a sword, and there will be no situation where Mei Kai injured Dongmen Leopard, or Dongmen Leopard stabbed Mei Kai to death and broke the covenant.

Mei Kai is only in her twenties, fierce and full of confidence. And Dongmen Leopard is nearly forty years old, and he can be his father according to his age, but the fact is that after a few combinations, Mei Kai was thrown to the ground by Dongmen Leopard!

Things happened too fast, Mei Kai didn't know how he lost, he felt that it was a coincidence, so he challenged again and again, Dongmen Leopard was also idle when he didn't fight, so he gladly responded to the battle, and the two of them went all the way to fight, Dongmen is worthy of being a warrior who can cut big crocodiles, Mei Kai has been defeated repeatedly, and now it is the seventh time......

A few times ago, Heifu went to see it in person, both of them were brave generals, like two fierce tigers and leopards, you came and went, tearing and colliding with each other, stepping on the loess in the field, and the soldiers were desperately shouting for the Dongmen leopard on the side.

Qin Lu is only allowed to fight in public and not privately, and there are very few fights in the camp, at most they quarrel, and there are often soldiers who scold and fight in groups, but they dare not touch the other party.

"Bingqiu" is all the rage in Xianyang and Nanjun, but there is not much play in the Southern Expeditionary Army, and the only lively thing that the soldiers can watch is the drama of comparing the high and low levels of martial arts.

"Hearing the soldiers shouting so happily, it's probably because the Dongmen Leopard has won again."

Heifu shook his head, unconcerned, and continued to get busy with the case.

But unlike before, this time, not long after the cheers rang out, Dongmen Leopard and Mei Kai came to Heifu together, Dongmen Leopard's face was colorful, and Mei Kai's nose was blue and swollen, unusual, twisted and pinched.

Heifu frowned: "Let the doctor treat him well, Ah Leopard, you too, next time, start lightly!" People who don't know still think that I treat Mei Junchang harshly. ”

Everyone saw that in the past half a month, Mei Li had been beaten repeatedly, and she looked as if she had been tortured and abused, and she immediately laughed.

Mei Kai bowed down with a flushed face: "Junhou! Mei Kai is obedient, in the Qin army, if there are warriors, Mei Kai is not as good, don't humiliate me anymore! ”

It's really the sun rising, the iron tree is blooming, Mei Hong, who has always had a hard mouth and an iron head, actually bowed his head and obeyed, and Heifu put down the map: "Really convinced?" ”

"Convincing!" Mei Hong has no temper at all, she has played seven games in a month, and she has lost all seven games, doesn't she have to admit defeat?

This is an unexpected joy, Heifu is happy, although there are no seven captures and seven verticals, but there are seven beatings and convincing: "I asked you something, and you can answer it well?" ”

"But if Mei Kai knows, he must tell the prince everything!"

What Heifu wants to ask Mei Kai is naturally the matter of Lingnan Zhuyue, although the Qin army once went deep into Lingnan, but the understanding of them is still only scratching the surface.

The Art of War: Know yourself and know your opponent, you will not be defeated in a hundred battles, you will know your opponent without knowing your opponent, and you will win and lose. Since you are a general of the Southern Expedition, you must carefully understand your enemies, and you must understand the reality of the enemy, its distribution, and even its customs and preferences.

Only with this can we divide and utilize them, and at the same time carry out the strategy of "attacking the heart" while attacking the military.

Mei Hong's tribe belongs to Yangyue, originally lived in the south of Yuzhang, more than a hundred years ago, Chu Ling Yin Wu Qi migrated to the king, the wave of development of Jiangnan, Mei was defeated, had to retreat to Lingnan, so far there have been several generations, the understanding of this group of neighbors, naturally far better than the Qin people.

It doesn't matter if it's a conversation, in May's narrative, Heff discovers a startling fact.

"What do you say, the more people believe, and the clam god?"

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The world was created by the Thunder King, and Bu Luotuo is the grandfather of the Yue people, which is the creation myth of the Yue people in Lingnan.

Among them, the Thunder King is in charge of the upper realm, the Bulota is in the middle realm, and the Jiaolong (crocodile) is in the lower realm. Later, when all things on the earth were magnificent and mankind was prosperous, Bulota consulted with the Thunder King and divided the heavens and the earth into 12 kingdoms.

Mei Kai high-speed Heifu: "The twelve departments of Lingnan gave birth to twelve kings, and each department is different. A Jiao becomes a cow, a hornet pattern, a sound like a frog, a sound like a sheep, and a fish becomes a Jiao...... There was once a sheep man who came to Mei's house, and that's what he said. ”

According to the myth passed down by the Wu people from generation to generation, the Lingnan Zhuyue have the same ancestor and the same origin, divided into 12 tribes, and the sign of distinction is that the animal gods and goddesses are different.

Among them, the country that believes in frogs is located in the Liujiang River basin in Xiou, and there is also the Gui country upstream from the water, which believes in the ox god.

The region named Nanyue by the Qin people was inhabited by five tribes: the Buffalo Department occupied the Xijiang River, the Wasp Department occupied the Dongjiang River, the Sheep Department controlled Panyu, the Jiao Department lived on the coast, and the Snake Department hid in the jungle swamps.

Further west, Luo Yue has a bird department, a snake department, and a fish department, but they all belong to Luo Jun.

Then there's Takebe, who was defeated by the clam god Theou in the centuries-old melee and migrated to the mountains to the northwest, and now has a new name: Yoro, whose leader calls himself the "Bamboo King".

There were only ten of them, and the other two, probably swallowed up in the melee, were completely wiped out.

After Mei Li finished speaking, Heifu understood that the beliefs of the Yue people were very similar to the "Luoa God" worshipped by trolls in a certain game.

Think about it carefully, living in a group, building a dry bar, headhunting, bloodthirsty, tattoos, witches, except for not drinking demon spirits and not repairing pyramids, Yue people are really like trolls.

"Which god do you believe in?" This is probably the way of communication between the Yue people of two different tribes after they meet, the same god means the same race, different gods, and they have to watch out for each other.

"If it were me, I would definitely believe in the clam god......"

Heifu muttered secretly, he felt that he seemed to have found the reason why Zhao Tuo could live a hundred years in history......

According to Mai Kai, either because of the gods, or because of the territory and hunting grounds, the five tribes of South Vietnam went their own way, often hunting and killing each other, and Mai also had a feud with them.

After hearing this, Heifu couldn't help but sigh:

"Let this group of Yue people with different beliefs and contradictions unify with the outside world, General Tu can do this, and he is really unjust!"

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Lu Jia's evaluation of Heifu is: "Afraid of things, scheming." "This kind of commander-in-chief pays the most attention to the temple calculations before the war, and after understanding the situation of the Yue people in Lingnan, he can start to formulate a strategy.

South Vietnam is the later generation of Guangdong, the terrain is high in the north and low in the south, the rivers originate from the mountains on three sides, run into the sea, according to the different routes, the main rivers of South Vietnam have three:

The Beijiang River, the Dongjiang River, the Xijiang River, and finally the three rivers converge in Panyu, forming Guangzhou Bay.

Beijiang was controlled by the Mei clan and is now part of the Qin army. The five departments of South Vietnam, the buffalo department resides in the Xijiang River, the hornet department resides in the Dongjiang River, and the sheep department resides in Panyu, and these three departments are planting rice for a living. The Jiaobu was located in the Chaoshan area of the later generations, and until the Tang Dynasty, it was famous for its crocodiles, and the snakes were scattered in the jungle.

The strategic goal of the Qin army was to control Panyu, which had formed a city, to gain a firm foothold there, and the waterways leading to Panyu should also be brought under control. Therefore, in the last war, there were irreconcilable contradictions with the Qin army, that is, the buffalo department, the sheep department, and the hornet department were killed by Jia He, and his son wanted revenge, so he chased and attacked the Qin army stationed in Longchuan, Dongjiang, which led to the fall and disappearance of Xiao Tao.

The second expedition planned by Heifu this time is also strategically the same.

"Attacking South Vietnam is nothing more than two roads, crossing the five mountains, going out of the three passes, going down the Beijiang River, you can go to Panyu, followed by sending troops from Guilin, passing through Cangwu, breaking the buffalo department, and meeting the main force in Panyu."

Heifu outlined the leader, and looked at Lixian, Wu Rui, Dongmen Leopard, and Lu Jia in the tent: "What is the strategy of the second and third sons, they can speak freely." ”

Lixian first reported: "Junhou, let me first talk about the mistake of the last expedition to Yue, that General Jia only took the land route, from Changsha, Yuzhang sent troops to travel hundreds of miles, food and clothing, into the land, the bridge and over the ridge, the boat and into the water, there is no big road, the army through the deep forest bushes, many pit vipers and beasts in the forest, in the summer and summer, malaria and cholera disease breed, there was no army to take the blade, the dead and wounded have been numerous. Even if they arrived in Panyu, after the Yue people escaped into the forest, the grain of tens of thousands of troops could not be sustained. ”

Climate, transportation, and food are the three major problems in front of us.

Chen Wujiao's herbal medicine for various tropical diseases can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, so he can only choose winter when he enters the army.

As for transportation and food, in addition to Heifu's beloved local tuntian, Wu Rui also thought of an idea:

"How about land and water? Ship ships in Guilin and Huangxi Pass respectively, and when the water is large, you can avoid the dense forest, until Panyu, and the grain and straw are the same, and you can transport them to Huangxi Pass or Guilin by manpower, mules and horses, and you can go down the river to supply the army. ”

Li Xian shook his head: "Although it is good to advance by land and water, but there is a difficulty, the Yue people are good at boat warfare, the Panyu water network is vertical and horizontal, near the sea, last time it was so, the Qin army captured Panyu, but the Yue people took the boat like a horse, came and went quickly, harassed our army, and it was difficult to control it." ”

At present, Panyu, where all the currents converge, is a water city, if there is no excellent boat master, even if it is captured, it will not be able to hold it, this is the lesson of the last war

"The Qin army also has a boat division."

Heifu said: "When Ben Hou was in Jiaodong, he spent several years to build the most powerful building ship, which could cross the East China Sea to defeat the Kou, and now the boat division has also been transferred to Huiji County by His Majesty's order......

"Huiji is too far away."

Lexian said: "The prince should know that the south is not as good as the north, and in summer and autumn, the wind is blowing and the waves are monstrous. It is impossible for the boat master to go directly from Huiji to Panyu, so he has to stop several times in the middle, and in these 3,000 miles of sea route, there are only two Jingang ports that can dock ships for supplies! ”

"I know."

Heifu bowed: "One is Donou, and the other is Dongzhi City in Minyue!" ”

Then the problem is clear, if you want to capture and hold South Vietnam, you need to defeat the water power of the Viet Nak, which requires the help of the boat division. But if the boatmaster wants to come south, he needs a port with a moderate distance. However, Min Yue, who was able to dispatch 10,000 young and strong, was unruly, and until now, he was unwilling to submit to the Qin Dynasty.

"Therefore, if you want to collect South Vietnam, you must first seize Minyue!"

Heifu got up and agreed on the tone for this army, it was still early for winter, just so that the people and soldiers transferred from the Central Plains would gather and train in Wuchang, and after the winter, they would rotate with the veterans who had been guarding in Lingbei for several years, and only when they were familiar with the climate could they march into the army.

During this period, he happened to use the Zhou Division under the command of Ren Huan, as well as Yin Tong's Eastern Route Army, to take Minyue first......

But if you want to break Minyue, where should you start?

Everyone made suggestions and expressed their opinions, but at this moment, someone broke the curtain and broke in despite the short soldiers!

"Ji Ying?"

The meeting was forced to be interrupted, looking at the person who was pressed by Mulberry at the door, although he had a beard, but that thin monkey-like appearance, it was not Ji Ying, who else could it be?

"Aren't you in Nanchang, why did you come here?"

Hefu let the dutiful men go.

"Pavilion Chief!"

Ji Ying looked excited, and he didn't care about etiquette, so he walked up quickly and told him a good news:

"Xiao Tao is back! He's alive! ”

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PS: Chapter 2 is around 11 o'clock.