Bandagu, which means the town of rice fields, is the largest settlement in Xiou, where thousands of people live. There is also the largest place to worship ancestors, every time the ancestor announces the birthday of Luotuo, the Ouyue people within a radius of hundreds of miles will gather here, beat the bronze drum carved with frog patterns, celebrate this festival, drink rice wine, and dance for three days and three nights!

But now, Bandagu is empty, and the Ouyue people help the old and the young, leaving their railing bamboo building. They killed livestock and dried them and hung them on their shoulders, carrying bows and arrows on their backs and grain on the other shoulder.

As for the "trophies" obtained by headhunting in the past ten years: the human skulls of Bai Sensen! It can only be buried in front of the house.

Thousands of people left the village one after another, standing on the hills outside the village, reluctant to look back at the land.

"Tebo."

Looking at the settlement where he grew up, the Ouren boy Adagu had tears in his eyes: "Do we really want to leave like this?" ”

"Gotta go."

The chief translator of the Xi'ou Jun called on the Song to be resolute: "The Qin people have leveled the villages of seven or eight Ou people in the north, killed the men who resisted, and turned the women and children into slaves. Although the Thunder King and the Frog God appeared and rained down to delay them, it was only a matter of time before they found Bandagu. ”

Adagu muttered, "Leopards and wolves attack the village, and the Ou people can repel them outside the wall, how can they back down before they have a fight?" ”

Yi Hu Song shook his head: "The army of the Qin people is denser than the leaves of the Yu Forest!" There are more stones than in Lixi, fighting in the village, in the dam, the Ou people can't win, a year ago, the destruction of Guibu is an example, according to the people who escaped, the seven or eight resisting villages, the longest time, only lasted a day. ”

Thanks to the continuous mountains and vast mountainous areas in the land of Xiou, the Qin army, which had just arrived, could not march quickly at all.

"But Tebo, you also said that the determination of the Ou people to resist is stronger than that of 100,000 mountains!"

The strong-blooded Adaghu was not afraid of battle or death, but he was ashamed to flee without looking back.

"The determination to resist alone can't defeat the Qin people."

Yihu Song patted his son, and was about to continue, but there was an old man on crutches on the side, who walked closer with the support of his children and grandchildren, pointed at Yihu Song and scolded:

"Yi Hu Song, we have said a long time ago that you have angered a bloodthirsty beast, and you have brought disaster to Ouyue!"

"That's right."

Yihu Song did not shy away from this at all, it was his act of killing the Qin envoy that directly triggered the war.

"If you surrender like the Yue people north of the mountains, the Qin people will let me go, the ruler, and the old men, but they will let all the Ou people wear shackles and work day and night in the fields with sweet bamboo, and the Ouyue people will forever lose their freedom, lose their land and water, and become the Qin people's subordinate concubines!"

He said proudly: "If you resist, the Ou people may die in battle, die**, but they can win souls!" The Ou people who lose their souls will definitely be abandoned by the ancestral spirit and by Braltar! ”

"Yes!" Adagu and the young Ou people should be reconciled.

"Can resistance win?"

Du Lao shook his head, extremely pessimistic, they had already heard from the fleeing people, the Qin people's swords were extremely sharp, the Qin people's armor was harder than crocodile skin, the Qin people's crossbow machine was accurate and ruthless, they were still riding tall horses, the chariot rolled and rumbled, and when marching, it was neat like a person, with the Ou people's backward weapons and loose arrays, there was no way to resist at all.

Yi Hu Song said: "There are often giant elephants in the forest, its fangs are long and sharp, its fur is thick and hard, it is extremely powerful, it can easily trample the Ou people to death, the Qin people are like such beasts. ”

"If you fight it head-on, you will definitely not be able to defeat it, Adaghu, what is the way of elephant hunting of the Ou people?"

Adagu remembered the trick his father had told him: "Hide yourself, keep it bleeding and above all, be patient!" ”

"That's right, the beast is on a rampage, but as far as I know, they can only march in the dam, and they all walk around the mountains and forests, but the Ou people are different, we can not only grow rice, but also the best hunters in the mountains and forests."

Almost every Xiou person present has been hunting since he was a teenager, generally using arrows and sometimes traps, and surviving in the dense forest is a piece of cake for them, and there are many hiding places in the vast mountains and forests with a radius of thousands of kilometers.

Yi Hu Song said his plan: "Come with me, go into the reckless jungle, enter the 100,000 mountains, like hunting elephants, lay traps, haunt the night, and constantly release poisonous arrows, so that this beast will be injured, make this beast sick, and when it is tired, give it a fatal blow!" ”

Yi Hu Song persuaded his people that when the Xiou people retreated into the forest, a huge flame rose into the air, and the village of Bandagu was burned by him with his own hands, and he wanted to burn every house and grain here, and the Qin people got nothing from this, only ashes!

In the midst of the monstrous fire, Adagu knelt down with Yihu Song and made an oath to the illusion of the ancestral spirit jumping in the fire.

"Bulota is above, the Ou people will come back sooner or later and retake their homeland!"

……

Ten days later, the base camp of the Qin army, which was named "Guilin", the general Tu Sui received a report from the forward: the heel army had occupied Bandagu, although it had been burned to the ground, and no Ou people were found, only human and animal footprints leading to the forest.

"Congratulations to the General!"

Several lieutenants from Guanzhong have stood up to Tu Sui to congratulate, this time the southern expedition to Baiyue, Xi'ou is the main target of attack, now the army is only two months, it has been more than ten in Juyi, captured tens of thousands of Yue people, and captured the capital of Xi'ou, opening up hundreds of miles for Daqin, in their opinion, it is really a big victory!

In addition to Xi'ou not daring to resist and fleeing in a hurry, in Nanyue and Dong'ou, the Qin army also made frequent successes. General Jia in the middle of the road has beheaded hundreds of the Mei clan, opened up the Meiling Road, and is about to join another Qin army in Nanyue, Yin Tong on the east road also talks with Dongou , Dongou is willing to surrender to Qin, the only condition is to ask Qin to help them fight against the feuding Minyue people......

Under the impact of a series of good news, some people optimistically estimate that before the summer, the Baiyue area can be easily pacified.

However, Tu Sui, the commander of the three armies, did not see any joy at all, but stared at the fragile supply lines between the Qin army's strongholds on the huge map, worried.

He is also a general, who has been guarding Changsha for many years, and knows that the most difficult thing is not to fight head-on with the Ouyue people, but to avoid the other party without fighting!

The Ou people do not have a city and a capital, they are located between the valleys and the bamboos, so this war is no longer like the Central Plains, limited to fighting for cities and land, but about attacking people!

Only by defeating the forces of Xiou in one fell swoop can the war be quickly ended, and now that they have fled into the mountains and forests, it is a little difficult......

It seems that this war will drag on for a long time, from quickly annihilating the enemy, to slowly establishing strongholds, and then finding ways to encircle and suppress.

But Tu Sui still believed that he could win this battle in the two years that he promised Qin Shi Huang!

The only thing to worry about is ......

Tu Sui looked out the window, the scenery of Guilin is very good, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, even in Layue, there is no snow, but here, there are more terrible things than frost and snow......

Malaria! Epidemic disease!

"In a few days, spring will begin."

If in the north, a warm spring is expected, but in Lingnan, the beginning of spring means an endless rainy season, and when miasma and plague are rampant, and 200,000 soldiers become moldy and sick in the high temperature and rainy season, this group of lieutenants from Guanzhong may not be so optimistic......

……

While Tu Sui in Lingnan was worried about the beginning of spring, Heifu in Jiaodong, the northern country, was overjoyed by the arrival of spring.

As the wind and snow stopped, the port thawed, and the ships in Jiaodong were able to go to sea again......

Not only the warships and grain ships, but in Heifu's plan, there is a force in Qidi that has been marginalized for a long time, and it can also come in handy!

In the thirty-third year of Qin Shi Huang, the month of Meng Chun (January), on the first day of the new year, after getting the permission of Qin Shi Huang, Heifu convened the big businessmen from Jiaodong, Linzi, Jibei, Langya, and the entire Qi land to gather together and hold a meeting in Jimo......

Hearing that Chen Ping came to report that more than a dozen businessmen were waiting, Heifu got up and said secretly in his heart:

"Xibaqing, South Tangyu, North Wushi......

"There are already three major merchants in the world, only the east side is missing, and I don't know who is the best in this group of merchants in the land?"