In late February, the Ganshui rushed northward, and the 2,000 Qin army traveled southward.

Heifu sat on his horse, stood by the river, and looked at the long procession, and couldn't help but exhale.

This was the most difficult journey in his previous life and this life.

In later generations, it only took six or seven hours to drive from the north to the south of Jiangxi.

But in this era, it takes at least a month to walk, not only because the journey is more than 1,000 miles, but also because within this 1,000-mile distance, not to mention the city, even the settlement is rare.

There was no flat avenue for the army to walk, the Qin army trekked on the sheep intestine path trampled by people and beasts, and sometimes had to chop trees and thorns to move forward, Heifu specially arranged for Gong Ao to take 500 people to cut trees in front of the road, so the distance walked every day was not long......

"With such a distance between the north and the south, how did the state of Chu rule Shangjiang?" One day when he was tired, Heifu asked his staff Xu Shu.

Shangjiang, the upper reaches of the Ganshui River is also, the state of Chu sealed a county monarch there, and it is said that he only communicates with Shouchun once a year.

Xu Shu said with a smile: "I heard that when the king of Chu mourned the reign, Wu Qi was appointed as Ling Yin, Wu Qi thought that Jing had all the surplus land, and the people who were insufficient, so he moved the nobles of Chu counties to the land of Guangxu in the south of the Yangtze River, which led to many feudal monarchs, and Shangganjun was the farthest one who was sealed. “

These Jiangnan feudal monarchs are far away on the border, and the cost of exchange is too high, so the king of Chu doesn't even bother to collect taxes, and occasionally sends some local novelties as tribute, so Shangganjun, Fanyang Jun, etc. have a high degree of independence, thanks to this sub-feudal system, Chu can spread the land so vast.

Xu Shu said that Shang Ganjun's soldiers did not exceed five hundred, so Heifu was not worried about fighting at all, compared to the weak feudal monarch in front, the long road and the increasingly hot weather were their biggest enemies.

At this time, there was a commotion in the marching ranks, and Ji Ying wiped his sweat and said that a few more soldiers had fainted......

"Pour some light salt water, let his robe be carried forward on a stretcher, and Gong Ao asked people to reply that it would take another ten miles to have a suitable place to camp."

During the month he was stationed in Fanyang, Heifu asked for a lot of supplies from Jiujiang County, one of which was salt, and Zhao Tuo transported a large shipload of salt to Pengze, and then used mules and horses to carry it into the expeditionary force. Hefu had salt dissolved in the water, so that the army would not faint from excessive sweat and lack of salt when marching against the sun.

Even so, a dozen or so people fell every day, and those who could carry their duties and belts, but could not walk, Heifu could only let them stay where they were, set up outposts, and wait for the army to return to the division.

As the sun set in the west, they finally arrived at the place where they had set up, an open field by the water, surrounded on all sides by dense green jungles, with old vines hanging from the ancient trees, and the roars of beasts and birds from time to time.

Heifu asked everyone to camp quickly, although the hot day was about to end, but the night did not let the soldiers look forward to it, because mosquito bites will make them painful, the mosquitoes in Gannan are really big and bite and hurt, and there are all kinds of beetles out of the soil, crawling everywhere, Heifu's most dangerous time is to wake up and find a colorful snake on the marching couch......

After Wu Rui sent the Yue people to show him the way, they said that it was a highly venomous snake, and that a bite would definitely kill him.

Heifu shuddered, but the Yue people were very happy to take the snake away, peeled it and roasted it, the Yue people's recipes were very rich, snakes, insects, rats and ants could be regarded as delicious.

Just when Heifu asked the guards to check the grass near his tent, Xiao Tao came over and said to Heifu seriously: "Sima...... In the woods, someone is watching over us! ”

"Where?"

Xiao Tao took Heifu to the edge of the camp and pointed to the woods more than a hundred paces away, where there were indeed a few figures in the trees.

Heifu immediately became vigilant, and in the past month, they had been attacked several times, all of them by the Yangyue tribe along the Ganshui River.

Compared to Ganyue, Yangyue was more ignorant and bold, and sometimes when the Qin army passed through its tribes, hordes of Yangyue people would haunt them, roaring in an attempt to stop them from advancing. There was even a time when hundreds of Yangyue people, wielding rudimentary weapons, shouted at the opening force that attacked Heifu.

The Qin army was also not polite, all the Yue tribes that showed hostility were wiped out, and then their grain was plundered, and after entering the upper reaches of the Gan River, similar things rarely happened.

Therefore, Heifu thought that the people who peeked at the Qin army in the forest were some scattered Yue people, so he asked Dongmen Leopard to bring more than 100 people over to check and disperse.

Dongmen Leopard and the others went for half an hour, and when the smoke came out of the earthen stove in the evening, a group of people came back, still shouting outside the tent for Heifu to come out and see what they had caught.

"It turns out that it was not the Yue people who spied on the camp, but some long-haired weirdos!" Dongmen Leopard was very excited.

"Weirdos?" Heifu was a little strange, threw down the diary of the Southern Expedition that he was writing, and went out with him.

"Those strange people are black and hairy, and they are huge and powerful, and it took two people to kill them and bring them back."

There was already a group of soldiers in front of Heifu's tent, and they were all amazed, and when they saw Sima coming, they got out of the way.

When Hefu went over to take a look, he was immediately happy.

The thing lying on the ground, its whole body was covered with long black hair, but its face was hairless, and after it died, its mouth was wide open, revealing its sharp canine teeth, its shoulders were broad and round, and its neck and limbs were unusually thick......

What kind of weird person is this, it's obviously an orangutan!

And it is also a very large orangutan, with a body size of nearly two meters......

At this time, Xu Shu and the Ganyue guide who led the way for them also came over, and after taking a look, they couldn't help but say in surprise: "Isn't this a Gan giant?" ”

"Gan giant?" The name is new.

Xu Shu explained: "Sima, this Ganshui originates from Shangjiang, there are many Gan giants in the local area, with long human faces and arms, black bodies and hair, so there is this person, because of the famous water ......"

Heifu suddenly realized, it turns out that the original meaning of "Gan" is like this? However, he didn't expect that in Jiangxi two thousand years ago, there were close relatives of gorillas, and they might be slowly extinct in later generations.

This little episode passed quickly, and Dongmen Leopard tried to skin the "Gan giant" and eat meat, and gave Heifu a bowl, but Heifu refused, he would rather eat domestic animals than strange game, what if he got sick.

He inspected the camp and saw that the soldiers were settled, and then returned to his camp tent, and added the matter of the Gan giant to his marching diary with the anointing oil lamp of Sima Privilege......

After the pen stopped, Heifu was a little worried, the days of marching in the jungle had caused serious physical wear and tear on the soldiers, and the weather was getting hotter day by day, if they stayed in southern Gannan after summer, the hot climate and the diseases that followed would cause a large number of attrition.

"Before the summer, the war must be over!"

……

Fortunately, Shangganjun was very cooperative with Heifu, and when the Qin army arrived in Shanggan Xiaoyi in mid-March after a month and a half of difficult trekking, it had become an empty city.

"Shang Ganjun learned from the Yue people who went south that the general's army was coming, so he fled south with the Yi people." The few remaining people did not want to leave here, so they hid, and after being captured by the Qin army, they told Heifu the truth in an extremely difficult local dialect.

"Run?" Heifu's subordinates looked at each other, in the eyes of everyone, this Shanggan is already the edge of the world, where else can Shangganjun escape?

Xu Shu reminded Heifu: "A hundred miles south of Shangjiang, there is also a Limen Fortress, which is the extreme southern realm of Chu State!" “

So, after resting for a few days in Shanggancheng, Heifu had to take half of his army and rush to Limensai in person.

Limensai is located in the later generation of the Great Yu Ridge, where the terrain is rugged and treacherous, more than ten miles of mountains, only a stone path winds upward.

When they arrived at this small stone pass, which could only be called a "sentry post", out of breath, like Shanggan, Heifu did not see half a figure. The king of Chu is dead, the realm of Chu has been lost, and those Chu people who are unwilling to be ruled by Qin know that they can't resist, and even give up here.

Heifu climbed to the top of the two-zhang pass, which was also the highest point of the Great Yu Ridge, and looking south, he saw only a tropical rainforest that was older and denser than the forest along the way. Towering trees, tangled vines, and lush flowers and plants are intertwined into a green labyrinth of endless forests.

"Where else can they flee?" Heifu looked at Xu Shu.

Xu Shu didn't expect the last feudal monarch of Chu to be so able to run, and arched his hand: "The south of Limen is no longer the realm of Chu State, but the ...... where the Nanyue tribes are located."

"It is said that on the coast of the South China Sea, there is a small town called Chu Ting, which is the place where the merchants of the Chu State traded rhino horn and ivory and jade pearls with the South Vietnamese, and Shang Ganjun may have fled there."

Yes, Heifu knows in his heart that to the south of this ridge is Guangdong.

Shang Ganjun can run to Chu Ting, but Heifu doesn't plan to chase him, his southern expedition ends here.

At this time, Ji Ying, who was investigating on the other side of the pass, shouted: "Sima, there are words here!" “

After Heifu and the others went to the other side of the pass, they found that on the black wall of the pass, there was indeed a dark red blood written in the insects and birds script of the Chu State.

The Qin soldiers couldn't understand it, but they had been on the Chu State for so long and had dealt with the Jianshu of the Chu people for a long time. Hefu could roughly guess what he meant.

This is a sentence that has been very popular in Chu since the demise of the Chu State has become doomed, and it is said that it was said by a Gao Shi Nangong of the Chu State.

In Huaibei, Huainan, Hubei, and Jiangdong, there are people whispering, shouting, and reciting this sentence silently in their hearts.

Now, Heff saw it again.

It's like an unwilling curse.

It's like a mysterious prophecy.

Hefu shook his head and read it out.

"Although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu?"

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