The river north of Echeng is more than ten miles wide, at a glance, you can't even see the outline of the land on the north bank, the evening breeze blows up the sparkling waves, the river tide beats on the embankment of the wharf and retreats back lonely, and there are some looming sandbanks floating in the center of the river.

These sandbanks of different sizes are called "Ezhu", a Jiazi ago, also in autumn and winter, Qu Yuan was exiled to the south of the Yangtze River by the mediocre King of Chu, and came here.

Dr. Sanlu with Gao Guanbo stood on the pier of Echeng and looked back at Yingdu, lamenting, leaving a poem of "taking Ezhu and looking back, the wind of autumn and winter......

But now, if Qu Yuan is resurrected and stands in the same place, I am afraid that he can no longer bear to look back, because the ships of the Chu State have fled, and the tall Qin warships are full of soldiers and set foot in the south of the Yangtze River.

Echeng stands on the riverside, in Heifu's view, this city is slightly larger than the county seat of Anlu, there are five gates, each in the name of the direction, but the west corner of the door, called the Linjin gate, the north of the river.

At present, because Ejun has fled south with his own arms, Echeng no longer resists, the gate of Imjin is open, and some local fathers and elders come out to kneel to welcome the Qin army, although this side is divided into "Southern Chu", but its language and customs are not much different from Anlu and Yicheng across the river.

Therefore, when he took over the city with his troops, Heifu did not feel the unkindness and hatred of the people in Chen County, and the men, women, and children in the city were still wary of them, and when they heard An Lubing's accent, they were not too afraid.

In the years before Qin and Chu went to war, the exchanges between the two sides were very frequent, Heifu remembered that when he was the pavilion chief, among the first three robbers caught, two of them were from Echeng, and there was also a child who followed the Qin tomb robber Fa Ruoao's tomb, and he was also a person from Dishaxian near Echeng.

Li You was also very satisfied with the attitude of everyone in the city, and smiled at Heifu: "It seems that what the county guard said, the method of governing the south of the Chu River with the people of the southern county can indeed be tried." ”

He believed that instead of sending officials from Xianyang and the Central Plains who were not satisfied with water and soil and did not understand the language to make county orders, it would be better to choose the local people of Nanjun who had recognized the laws and decrees of the Qin State and made meritorious contributions in the war as officials, so as to reduce the resistance of the Chu people in Jiangnan and put the administration on the right track as soon as possible.

Li You also joked that Heifu could consider that when the war was over, he would go to Xianyang for a few years, and wait for the Jiangnan region to set up a county, and he might be able to become a county lieutenant......

He made military merits as five doctors, entered Xianyang as an official, and then went out to be the county lieutenant of the marginal county, and boiled his qualifications to 2,000 stone county guards...... Although now that the Six Kingdoms have been wiped out one after another, there are more people who have made meritorious contributions, and the five doctors are not as valuable as before, and they may have to be above the right chief to be the county lieutenant, but the promotion path of the senior officers of the Qin State is almost like this.

Just when Li You thought that if the towns in the south of the Yangtze River fell from the wind, he would be able to take all the southern parts of the Chu River before the beginning of spring, but a military report from Dongting shattered his idea.

Seeing Li You's frowns, Heifu said secretly: "It's probably because the division of Bashu on the West Road has been blocked......

This time, the Qin State slightly took the southern part of the Chu State, and used a total of three troops: the Zhou Division, the Nanjun Soldiers, and the Bashu Soldiers.

When Wei Tu Sui set out from Jiangling, his hundreds of ships were carrying more than 10,000 soldiers from Bashu, passing through Yunmeng, entering Dongting Lake, disembarking at the mouth of the Xiangjiang River, and under the leadership of Bajun Wei, attacking Changsha and Qingyang, that is, Hunan in later generations.

Then the empty ship continued to move eastward, arriving at the river between Yicheng and Echeng to destroy the Ejun Boat Division, before carrying the soldiers of Nanjun to cross the river, Li You's target was Echeng, and more than 100 miles to the south, the largest copper mine in the world: Tonglu Mountain!

I never thought that it was going smoothly here, but there was no news from the Bashu soldiers.

Heifu said meaningfully: "The Chu State has been operating Changsha and Qingyang for a long time, and the Qu family has also killed the envoy who went to surrender, and it looks like he is not dying, I am afraid that there will be a tough battle over there." ”

Chu has been developing Hunan for a long time, as early as the late Spring and Autumn Period, Changsha, which is rich in millet rice, is an important granary of Chu. Time into the Warring States Period, Wu Qi Xiang Chu period, and the south and barbaric Yue, then there are Dongting, Cangwu, almost the entire Hunan into the territory of Chu, so far there are 60 years.

After the battle of Yan Ying, many Yingdu people fled to Changsha, where they re-established the city, and because Qingyang and Changsha were given to the Qu family as county dukes, the Qu family was Qu Yuan, and he had always been anti-Qin, so the Chu people there were the most fierce resistance to Qin.

Sure enough, Li You sneered and slapped the silk letter and said: "Lieutenant Ba Jun was hindered by the absence of false passes, and the rest of the month was fruitless, and the Qu family was all soldiers, singing Qu Yuan's "National Mourning" and "Lamentation" on the bank of the Miluo River. The Bashu soldiers were struggling, so they could only ask me for help, hoping that after I took Echeng, I could go over to support and destroy the Qu clan together. ”

Hefu asked, "What does the captain think?" To aid or not to help? ”

"The Qu clan has thousands of soldiers, and it is the largest feudal monarch in the south of the Chu State, of course we have to go to the aid and annihilate it!"

Although Li You was dissatisfied with the Bashu soldiers, he did not dare to spoil the overall situation, and planned to send people to seize Tonglu Mountain first, and after controlling the mineral deposits there, he would capture Shaxian and go along the riverside to reinforce it.

After hearing about his plan, Heifu's heart moved, and he asked: "Du Wei is going to Changsha, what about Fan, Ai, and Gandi south of Jiujiang?" ”

These places are the Jiangxi of later generations, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Jiangxi is the territory of the Yangyue people, and the Chu State only has a few small towns on the riverside. It was not until Wu Qi that "the south collects Yangyue, and the north and Chen Cai", it is from then on, the state of Chu controlled Jiangxi, and went deep to the end of the Ganjiang River, and built the "Limen Stopper" at the northern foot of the five mountains, facing each other across the mountain from Baiyue, which became the extreme south of the Chu State and even the seven countries of the crown belt of China. This will look like the Amazon rainforest......

Although it has also experienced more than 100 years of operation, the development of Jiangxi, not to mention compared with Jiangdong, even Changsha is much inferior, Chu only has a few feudal lords there, gathered in four or five counties, maintaining point-like rule, 90% of the area, is still the territory of the Yue people.

Li You was ordered to take over the land south of the Yangtze River, and Jiangxi was naturally within his target, although at the moment, it was obviously more important to go to Changsha to eliminate the Qu clan first, but it could not be ignored......

When Li Youzheng was hesitating, Heifu took the opportunity to volunteer: "The subordinates are willing to share their worries for the captain and lead the troops east!" ”

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When Heifu returned to his troops, they had already completed the robbery of the treasure house of Ejun, and Ji Ying was shouting at everyone to move the bronzes out of Ejun's mansion one by one.

"County Lieutenant, although the treasury of this Ejun is not as good as the Shouchun Chu Palace, it is not the same as the general feudal monarch, his mansion is built like a palace, and the gold (bronze) is everywhere, not only in good condition, but also big!"

After that, he pointed to the Dongmen Leopard who was carrying a big tripod with a few soldiers and said: "According to the instructions of the county lieutenant, the large ceremonial vessels are left to the captains, and the rest are distributed to the county lieutenants. ”

"This is natural, Ejun is rich and known as the Chu State."

Heifu picked up a copper knot that fell on the ground, and found that there were more than ten lines of wrong gold inscriptions on it, it turned out that this was the boat festival and car festival issued by the king of Chu to the king of E, stipulating that the car and boat of the king of Ejun passed in the territory of Chu, and basically did not need to pay taxes, which was a great preferential treatment. In addition, E Jun controls the mining of Tonglu Mountain, which is the reason why he is so rich.

It's a pity that all this, the Ejun who fled in a hurry didn't have time to take it away, and they all cheapened the Nanjun soldiers.

Heifu said secretly: "I said why did Li Duwei let Qingyang Qu not fight, and he wanted to fight this Ejun, probably because he felt that Ejun had more oil and water to fish, poor Duwei of Bashu, just gnawed on the hard bones without meat......"

With the deepening of the war, the mentality of the Qin army also changed, at first they just went to the land of the title, but after Shouchun tasted the sweetness, the Qin soldiers found that by robbing the nobles of the Chu State, the income seemed to be no less than the reward of the King of Qin.

Most of the things in the palace of Chu were sent to Xianyang, but the treasure troves of the feudal lords in various places were cheaper for the soldiers, and after this battle alone, Heifu felt that his property was twenty or thirty more eridium, and the bronze, gold, silver and jewelry obtained by Li You were converted into more than one hundred eridium......

Even Tu Sui, the captain of the boat division, also got a share of exquisite bronze ware worth dozens of eridium, and the boat division specially left a fleet to transport these trophies back to Nanjun.

"War money." Heifu couldn't help but sigh: "It's really good." ”

"Brother, is this allowed?"

A timid voice came from beside him, but it was Heifu's younger brother who was shocked, and he also put on Qin Jun's soap suit and armor. Shocked that he had graduated from the school last fall, and when Heifu returned, he was just in time for him to marry the Yan lady, and then he met the battle of Jiangnan.

is no longer the surprise of the disciples, plus he has been "separated" from the black husband, there is no exemption from military service and cohabitants should not be levied at the same time, plus the black man wants to take him to gild, so he let him enlist in the army, made a book, shocked while holding a pen to record these shocking belongings, while feeling uneasy, the boy learned to follow the rules in the school, or the first time to see this kind of scene.

"When the water is clear, there are no fish."

Heifu said lightly and comforted him: "Besides, the feudal monarch of the Chu State who rebelled against the Qin State is not within the protection of the law, and his private property is partly attributed to the merits, and the rest is distributed to the soldiers to comfort the pain of the war, what's wrong?" ”

However, before the time came to wallow in the rest of the property, Heifu asked the military officials to come to him for a small meeting after they had moved the treasury of the Ejun Mansion.

"Du Wei's plan has changed, no longer going east, but going to turn around and help the Bashu soldiers fight Qingyang and Changsha. He ordered me to continue downstream with the Lou Boat Division and capture Jiangxi. ”

"Where is Jiangxi?" Dongmen Leopard and the others looked at each other, and Heifu said that it was okay, and the name of this place had not yet appeared.

"It is Fan, Ai, Yugan and other places south of the Yangtze River."

"Is there only one chance of An Lu?" Lixian asked with concern, although Heifu brought out 1,500 people this time, and even Xiao Tao made a 500 master, it was still not enough.

"There are 500 people in Yan County, 500 county soldiers, 500 people in Jingling, plus An Lu soldiers, a total of 3,000 people, all of which are at my disposal."

Heifu took out the tiger talisman that Li You handed him over, and said with a smile: "From now on, I will be the 'Sima of the Other Division'!" ”

The subordinate officers of the commander have a military horse, the rank ratio is 600 stones, among which the other leaders and subordinates are called other division Sima, the number of soldiers led by them is appropriate at any time, not fixed, the status is between the commander and the commander, often as the commander of the partial division.

When everyone heard this, they knew that Heifu had been promoted again, so they bowed down together and congratulated him.

Heifu took the initiative to ask for help this time, sharing his worries for Li You, and also took the opportunity to ask for the person he liked.

The three five hundred lords are Gong Ao of Yan County, and this son has officially become the five hundred lords by virtue of his military exploits. There is also Jing Lingwei Shi Anpu, who had a good relationship with Heifu when he was the pavilion chief. In the end, it was the Manchu from Yingxian County, and the battle of Chu, he stayed in Nanjun and didn't get involved, and this time he finally followed.

With these old acquaintances as subordinates, Heifu is very confident in capturing Jiangxi.

Although the territory of Jiangxi is large, it is still a wild place, 3,000 people are completely enough, the Chu State feudal monarch there is also poor, and there are many Yue tribes, I am afraid that there is not much oil and water to fish, it is an errand that everyone avoids, but ......

"Although there are not many troops, this is also the first time I have led the army alone!"

This is what Heifu is pursuing, although it is not bad to follow Li You, but he prefers to lead the troops alone, which is not only his own experience, but also a rare qualification.

"In this way, I don't have to share the work with my boss, and everything during this period is up to me!"

In the words of later generations, it is better to be the head of a chicken than a phoenix tail!

Besides, although in the eyes of Li You and everyone, Heifu went just to fight a few small counties and subdue several Yue tribes, but thousands of years later, the narrative of this military operation may become......

"Hefu has laid down a province!"

Or "Kaigan Hero Heifu!" “

"The people of Jiangxi will remember me, maybe they will make me a sculpture, or name a main road 'Heifu Road'." Heifu thought to himself......