"Zhao Tuo? Zhao Diren? ”

Listening to Heifu, there were five hundred people who joined their expeditionary force with more than a dozen ships, and several five hundred lords under Heifu came to the spirit, and when he heard that Zhao Tuo was from Hengshan County, the hometown of Zhao State, Heifu's younger brother was shocked and asked: "Could it be that he is related to the Zhao royal family?" ”

In the past three years, he has been a disciple in the school, and he has not only learned the law, but also gained a lot of knowledge.

Heifu's friend when he was the pavilion chief, Shi Anpu, the lieutenant of Jingling County, shook his head and said: "Zhao Di is called Zhao, there are not 10,000 but thousands, how can they all be related to the royal family, even if they have a relationship, I am afraid that they are far away, otherwise how to achieve the five hundred masters of the Qin army." ”

However, he was curious about how a Zhao man from Hengshan County in the north got mixed with the southern Zhou division of the Qin army.

Heifu said: "It should be the rich family of the Zhao family, he himself said that his parents died at the hands of the traitor Guo Kai, so he has no nostalgia for the Zhao State, after the Qin army broke Zhao, Nasu won the Jue, Tu Duwei built a boat division in Zhang, He, he started from the tun chief, and was promoted to five hundred lords in a few years. ”

Zhao Tuo claimed to be slightly younger than Heifu, who was about 16 years old when Wang Jian killed Zhao six years ago.

"So this man really lived for more than a hundred years......

Heifu felt that his scalp was numb just thinking about it, he was more than a hundred years old, and he was still in a hot place like South Vietnam, it was really a person, maybe it was the food of Guangdong that has been replenishing people since ancient times.

No matter how lonely he is, he has also heard the name of "Zhao Tuo, King of Nanyue", alas, the "Kaijiang Hero" of this plane met the "Kaiyue Hero" in history, which Heifu did not expect.

Heifu guessed that in a few years, the reason why Qin Shi Huang wanted to send Tu Sui and Zhao Tuo, these "people of the building boat", as the main force to fight Baiyue, was because in the impression of the northerners, the south was the water and the ze, and only the people of the building boat could play. Although the water network in the south is indeed staggered, but the two Guangxi are more primeval forests, and the sailors will also transport grain well, and after going deeper, it will not be of much use, which may also be an imaginary misunderstanding of the Central Plains people in these years.

But no matter how developed they are in the future, everyone is now a small Qin official, a southbound cadre appointed by Qin Shi Huang. However, Zhao Tuo, a person who can become the king of a state in the future, must have the ability, Tu Sui really left a right-hand man for Heifu, with this person to help, why can't he beat Jiangxi?

Tu Sui asked Heifu to take Zhao Tuo as his subordinate, but in fact, Zhao Tuo and his dozen or so ships of all sizes were only in charge of their transportation and grain transshipment, and the two sides were only considered temporary partners, and they still had to rely on their own "descendants" to fight.

At this time, Heifu looked at everyone's bowls, all of them were normal rice and soup fish, but the plate of Dongmen Leopard was different, it was very disgusting, eyeball-like things, sticky after cooking......

"What is this?" Heifu looked disgusted and asked with a frown.

"It's a tuó."

Ji Ying was the first to reply: "Ah Bao heard from one of his relatives that eating this thing can give birth to a son, so he asked the soldier who hunted the big ray on the boat next to him for some. ”

Last year, when Dongmen Leopard rushed to the battlefield with Heifu, his wife was pregnant again, but when he came back, he saw that he still gave birth to a daughter, so Dongmen Leopard now has 3,000 gold, Ji Ying joked every day that if anyone marries his daughter, he will inherit the family property of the official doctor Leopard in the future, and he will definitely make a fortune.

"What does it smell like?" Heifu asked him curiously.

Dongmen Leopard raised his head lovelessly and said: "A smell of earth, the entrance will be rotten." ”

Heifu was speechless, so he could only pat Dongmen Leopard and send him a word.

"Hard-working people, the sky is worth it!"

……

The next day, the fleet officially entered Peng Lize.

Peng, Daya; That is to say, this depression lake is like a big gourd scoop, which desecrates the river and Ganshui water systems.

At the beginning, the lake was calm and calm, and the boat was sailing in it, as if sailing on a bronze mirror.

But the good weather came and went quickly, not long after the journey, suddenly a north wind blew on the lake, the wind and clouds changed color in a flash, the waves crashed on the shore, the performance of the ship in these years, the navigation technology was very poor, did not dare to rush in the bad weather, hurriedly docked in the nearby Xunyi (now Jiujiang), tied the cable.

A shower of rain and dark clouds drifted by, and the next day, the sky cleared again, and Heifu and his three thousand men happened to transfer to the dozen or so ships under Zhao Tuo's management, and continued to move forward.

After they sailed deep into Peng Likou, looking around, there was no boundary, it was really "sailing into the mirror", compared with this vast water surface, the hundreds of warships under Tu Sui were like a school of small fish floating in the water.

Heifu now knows that Peng Lize is not quite the same as Poyang Lake in later generations, the main body of the lake is in the north of the river, and it is long from east to west and short from north to south.

"The Great Lonely Mountain has arrived." The old shipkeeper of the pilot told them loudly.

Heifu and the others were blowing the lake breeze on the deck, and sure enough, they saw a mountain peak in the lake, looking at it from ten miles away, surrounded by the endless lake, but there was a blue peak towering alone, up to the clouds, as if floating on the water.

When they got closer, they found that on this lonely mountain, there were cracked rocks and all kinds of caves, strange shapes, bright and moist colors, and they were not quite different from other stones. There is another boulder that is not next to the main peak, and it rises majestically from the ground, about a hundred feet high, and there are red vines and green vines on it, like a screen inlaid with precious stones.

Zhao Tuo bowed: "Sure enough, it is lonely in the lake, and the four worlds are misty." ”

Then he sighed to Heifu: "If I hadn't come to the south, I wouldn't have seen these wonders." ”

It can be heard that this young Qin official, who is slightly younger than Heifu, seems to have a longing full of curiosity about everything.

The lakes and mountains of Yunmengze and Peng Lize are indeed a wonder for a Zhao people, and Heifu secretly sneered: "I am afraid that you will have to go to the coast of the South China Sea in the future, when you stand on the edge of the tropical rainforest at the mouth of the Pearl River, looking at the vast sea, the waves rushing onto the beach, I don't know how to feel......

By noon, when they had arrived at a confluence of rivers and lakes, they saw that it was as clear as if it were a clear place, Peng Lize was muddy, and the water that flowed into the lake was extremely clear......

Zhao Tuo opened a map drawn by Tu Sui to investigate the waterway, and pointed to this place: "This is the mouth of the lake, Ganshui, Fuhe, Xinjiang, Rao, and Xiushui all flow into the Nanjiang River (Poyang Lake), and the Nanjiang River enters Peng Lize from here." ”

Heifu suddenly realized that if he turned south at this turn, he would enter Poyang Lake in the future. But at present, Poyang Lake has not yet taken shape, only a narrow water area in the north-south direction, called "Nanjiang", every spring when the water rises, it is connected with Peng Lize, becomes a larger lake, and now the autumn and winter water shrinks, then most of the area is yellow grass and white reeds, open as a plain.

Peng Lize's water is very turbid, and every time they want to draw river water, they need to clarify it and drink it after a night. The water of the Nanjiang River is very clear, the clear pond rises far away, the green wave is condensed, and the confluence of Peng Lize is like being divided by a rope ruler, not confused.

Looking at this, Zhao Tuo seemed to have some thoughts: "The flow of the rivers, the north is injected into Peng Lize, and the place where the Hukou is lost, if a small yi can be set up here to control the choke channel, then the entry and exit of Yuzhang thousands of miles can be controlled!" ”

"Zhao Tuo's vision is quite accurate."

Heifu glanced at the future king of Nanyue, who had studied geography and knew that the province of Akalin was surrounded by mountains in the east and west, and that the Yangtze River through Poyang Lake was the most convenient way to enter and exit.

So Heifu smiled and said: "When we capture the entire territory of Yuzhang, how about setting up a garrison here?" ”

The boat was quite fast, and two hours after crossing the mouth of the lake, they had approached their destination, Chuyi Pengze on the south bank of Peng Lize......

Looking from afar, I saw that this town is a typical waterside town, the city is two miles away from the water, and there is a small pier on the shore. Suddenly, seeing a huge fleet appear on the water, the Chu people on the shore immediately fled, but before escaping, they did not forget to burn down the wooden dock.

Seeing that there was a raging fire on the dock, Heifu asked Zhao Tuo In this case, he didn't know the depth of the water on the shore, how to moor?

"Sima can only reach the shore in a small boat."

Zhao Tuo smiled disapprenosingly: "But I'm afraid we will have to renovate the dock later, otherwise we will have nowhere to moor." ”

With countless paddles, centipede-like boats were lowered to the water, each of which could seat fifty people, but fortunately, most of Heifu's soldiers had been boats, and began to row towards the shore following the number of the ship's men.

Fortunately, there were not many guards under Peng Zejun, so he didn't dare to send someone to stop him, and as the oars rose and fell, dozens of long boats boarded the ship smoothly.

The first batch of 500 leopards from the east gate who landed on the shore had already lined up the phalanx, and the soldiers were holding shields and swords, vigilantly looking at the closed gate of Xiaoyi, and after the Lixian, Gongao, Anpu, Man, and Xiaotao in the rear landed one after another, they moved forward in turn, and it took half an hour to form a phalanx of 3,000 people on the shore, and then they followed the front finger of the Heifu military flag, accompanied by the beating of the waist drum, and walked towards the city with neat steps!

Some people watched at the head of Pengzeyi City, and saw that the river was full of Qin warships, all of which opened their hard sails, like a cloud covering the lake, boundless, and there were tens of thousands of people on board. And the three thousand Wuben who landed were neatly arrayed and violent, and they seemed to be just the vanguard of this army, and they couldn't help but shudder.

Hef's men stopped a mile from the city, leaving a thousand men on guard, while the rest went to cut down trees, or go back to the shore to fetch the tents and other things for camping, and Hefu had assigned them the task the previous day, so it was in good order.

Heifu made up his mind: "Tu Sui will not bluff for me for long, and he will leave soon, so he will attack the city early tomorrow morning, and within two days, he will take this city!" ”

His original plan was to make the city tremble, so that it would be easy to attack, but he did not expect that when it was about to fall in the evening, the camp outside the city had not yet been erected, but the city suddenly burst into flames, and there was a chaos. Then the city quickly erected a banner, and the people on it shouted that they wanted to surrender to the Qin army, and said that they would send people out to negotiate the surrender......

Heifu's men looked at each other, and couldn't help but think of the battle of Kuiyang that made them famous.

"Could it be a swindle?" The five hundred lords were a little worried, seeing that it was about to get dark, and the army entered the city at this moment, what if they were ambushed.

"Whether it's true or not, let the surrendered people go out of the city to see."

Heifu was not vain, he sat down on the mat, asked Ji Ying to shout, and asked the city to send people out quickly.

In a short time, a scholar of about thirty fell from the rope, descended the city wall less than two feet high, and was escorted to Heifu by Gongao.

Ten steps apart, the man raised the bloody head in his hand and said:

"Xu Shu and Peng Ze Xu, they have killed Peng Zejun and welcome the Great Qin King!"