In the thirty-fourth year of Qin Shi Huang, in the middle of the month, Nanye County, Yuzhang County (Nankang County, Jiangxi), a Qin army of tens of thousands of people has arrived here.

There were about 40,000 of them, 10,000 Guanzhong soldiers, 10,000 Jiujiang and Donghai soldiers, and 20,000 people recruited from Jiujiang and other counties. Because the road is narrow, it is difficult for carriages and horses to run in parallel, so most of the baggage is carried by the people's shoulders, and the small place of Nanye is crowded.

This army traveled for two whole months before coming here from Jiujiang County.

As Yuzhang, it is also a county in the extreme south of the Qin Dynasty, Nanye County is the only way to attack South Vietnam, and Xiaotao, the lieutenant of Nanye County, also respectfully met the "General Jia" who led the troops.

"Your Majesty and General Tu entrusted Jia with an important responsibility, I heard that Tao County Lieutenant has been stationed here for nine years, and he is familiar with the situation in Wuling, and I hope to give me more advice."

General Jia was originally the commander stationed in Jiujiang County, and now he has tens of thousands of troops, although he speaks politely, but he doesn't care in his heart, and when he talks to Xiao Tao, he finds that he is a stammer, and he is even more contemptuous!

"Subordinate Tao ...... Tao ......"

Xiao Tao is still the same, because there are a lot of things he wants to say in his heart, so he didn't explain it after being stuck for a long time, so he could only ask people to find a stack of papers, which were all the main points of the Southern Expedition written by Xiao Tao in advance and presented them to General Jia.

The fake general took a few glances and sent a map of the main transportation routes of the five mountains, but all the hills explored by the garrison were marked one by one, and even a stream and a trail that was about to be annihilated were not missed.

But this is limited to the area of a hundred miles south of Limen, and further south, there is a blank space.

General Jia took a cursory look at it and put it aside: "Although the map is good, it is not too different from the map presented by those merchants......

The county lieutenant Xiao Tao was even more anxious, and handed over another piece of paper, General Jia looked at it patiently, and found that the above was the information of the Mei clan of the Yangyue tribe.

Xiao Tao wrote everything he knew on paper: there are many tribes in Nanyue, the most northernmost of which is called "Meishi", this branch is said to be after the Yue King Goujian, slowly migrated from Yuzhang to Lingnan, and now occupies the south of Limensai, a long and narrow mountain platform, called Meiling Road. Although the Mei Department was not large, with only 6,000 disciples, it occupied the main transportation routes, and if the Qin army wanted to attack South Vietnam, it had to pass through their territory.

Qin Shang also inquired that because it was a foreign visitor, the Mei clan was very unpopular with the natives of South Vietnam, and often came to hunt heads and cut off a lot of their heads. This makes the Mai clan and the South Vietnamese tribes have a blood feud for generations, and with a little operation, they may be able to win it over......

Xiao Tao said that in the past few years, he has been in contact with Mei Kai, the patriarch of the Mei clan, and if the Qin army can guarantee not to invade the Mei clan and not plunder its subordinates, Mei Kai is willing to get out of the way and let the Qin army pass!

He hoped that this idea would be adopted by General Jia, and in the past few years, Nanye and Mei had a good relationship until General Jia's vanguard arrived, and those arrogant northerners did not listen to Xiao Tao's orders and broke into the holy place where Mei's ancestors worshipped, which broke the relationship between Nanye and Mei.

General Jia frowned: "How did I hear that the strikers who went to explore the road were attacked by those Yue people, seized weapons, stripped off their clothes and armor, and let them return naked?" ”

Now it is the wax moon, although the south is not as cold as the north, thousands of miles of snow, but it is also like late autumn, a little chilly, the group of unlucky soldiers can only use leaves to cover their bodies, shivering to return. This made General Jia feel that he had been insulted.

Xiao Tao could only helplessly explain: For the Yue people, it is already a great generosity to let outsiders who intrude into their land without permission not cut off their heads to worship their ancestors, but let them live alive.

At the moment, as long as General Jia agrees, Xiao Tao can send a translator to negotiate and explain the misunderstanding, and the two parties will get back together......

General Jia scoffed: "It's ridiculous, just a few departments, I don't measure my strength, I dare to offend the heroes of the big state, I should have swept them away, why talk nonsense!" What's more, once the army marches south, if that group of untrustworthy barbarians suddenly repents and strikes at me, won't they suffer the enemy on their backs? ”

He thought that this kind of traffic artery should only be reliable if it was controlled in the hands of the Qin army, so he got up and said: "There is no need to talk about it, the county lieutenant Tao only needs to send a few guides who are familiar with the road and take me tens of thousands of troops to drive away this group of mosquitoes and flies!" ”

Xiao Tao was shocked and hurriedly dissuaded, saying that the Mei clan was familiar with the mountains and valleys, and could gather and disperse at any time, I was afraid that it would not be easy to annihilate them all, and they had 6,000 children, all of whom could hunt with spears and have a certain combat power......

"Six thousand?"

General Jia smiled, the Qin army's invincibility in the past countless years made him full of confidence.

"Tao County Lieutenant should know that this southern expedition is different from the past, in order to arrest people. If you catch a captive, you can also get a military merit. What autumn is not guilty, the more useless it is to this group of barbarians, there are many people in their generation, I can just catch more people! You can also arrive at the coast of South Vietnam as soon as possible and join General Tu's partial division! ”

Xiao Tao was about to reply, but General Jia waved his hand and said:

"Lieutenant Tao doesn't have to say anything, you just need to be optimistic about the grain road and wait for the good news of the general!"

……

"I knew it was going to be like this......"

More than ten days later, when spring was approaching, Nanchang County, the capital of Yuzhang County, the county commander Lixian faced Ji Ying, who had come all the way to deliver Xiao Tao's letter, with a helpless face.

This southern expedition was very moving, and Qin Shi Huang sent a total of 200,000 people, which was similar to the first time to destroy Chu, which already gave Baiyue great respect.

However, the south is sparsely populated, the roads are difficult to navigate, 200,000 people are crowded together, there is no need to fight, and after gnawing the bark of the local grass roots, they themselves are starved to death.

Therefore, the main general Tu Sui divided the 200,000 people into five routes: one army to fortify the ridge of the city, one army to defend the fortress of nine doubts, one army to attack the coast of the South China Sea, one army to go out of the boundary of the southern wilderness, and one army to finish the rest of the dry water......

Among them, Changsha County is the main direction of attack, and the army of Rongcheng and Nine Doubts attacked Xiou, which rebelled against the Qin Dynasty, that is, Guangxi in later generations, which is the West Road.

There was also an army out of the Yang Shan Pass, straight into the South China Sea, trying to divide South Vietnam into two! The first army that went south from Nanye County, Yuzhang, was to join up with the Yangshan Army and sweep the most populous South Vietnamese tribes in Baiyueli. These two armies are counted as the middle lane.

The last road is to assemble in Yugan County, bypass Wuyi Mountain to the east, and enter Dongou East. If you want to set off from Huiji, you will meet on the shore of the Fujian Sea, and then attack Minyue together, this is the east road......

The southern battle line is thousands of miles long, and the three roads in these things nominally belong to Tu Sui, but in fact, they are brothers who go up the mountain and work hard separately.

The western route was personally led by Tu Sui himself, and the people related to the Nanjun Township Party there were only Zhao Tuo, who was originally Tu Sui's old department, but later got very close to Heifu, perhaps because of this, Tu Sui disliked, and this son has been tepid in recent years.

The Eastern Route Army, commanded by Yin Tong, the commander of Yuzhang County, directly mobilized many Yuzhang soldiers and civilians, and stationed in Yugan, which was the territory of the Ganyue people, unlike other Yue people, with a higher degree of civilization, and took refuge in the Qin Dynasty early.

Wu Rui, the county magistrate, was still the brother of Heifu and Zhao Tuo, and Heifu's position was not high at that time, and Wu Rui didn't feel much about it. But now, as soon as he mentions the name of Heifu, those officials who are from the original and look down on the "barbarian" with their nostrils facing the sky must immediately become solemn.

Wu Rui has benefited a lot from this relationship, although he is the chief of Ganyue, but he is not ambiguous at all when he helps Qin officials capture Yue slaves from other tribes.

In addition, Yin Tong relied on Heifu's old department very much, so as far as Li Xian knew, Wu Rui was under Yin Tong, and he was still mixing well, and Ganyue had close contacts with Dongou and had him as a guide, and the progress of the Eastern Route Army was relatively smooth.

But the Middle Route Army passing through Nanye County was different, that General Jia had a large number of cronies under him. Dongmen Leopard, the lieutenant of Luling County, and Xiaotao, the lieutenant of Nanye County, who were ordered to listen to his dispatch, are now speechless at all. Dongmen Leopard wanted to fight for the position of striker, but was arranged to escort the rear army, and Xiao Tao could only be responsible for logistics.

There is nothing wrong with factional disputes, which dynasty and generation, who will let their descendants go and trust outsiders......

But seeing that General Najia insisted on going his own way, after the army went deep into Lingnan, he rashly made enemies and started a war against Meibu, which could have been fought for, Xiao Tao was so anxious that he wrote a letter to Lixian. It is said that this is completely different from the combat strategy of "dividing and disintegrating and breaking each one" in Heifu's secret letter......

After understanding Xiao Tao's situation, Li Xian shook his head and said to Ji Ying: "Last year, we discussed that the most suitable candidate for the Southern Expedition was the pavilion chief, but what about Xiao Tao?" blindly thinks that Baiyue is not easy to fight, but in fact, this is not a question of whether it is good or not, the emperor's decision will not change, if it is not for the pavilion chief to be handsome, it will have to be replaced by someone else. ”

He spread his hands: "It's okay now, Tu Sui is the commander, except for the lieutenant Yin of the Eastern Route Army, who is his own person, and the rest of the deputy generals of the division are also outsiders." In the past, under the command of the pavilion chief, the children of An Lu who were powerful in southern Xinjiang can only look at the baggage, eat the dust, and watch others make meritorious contributions. ”

Ji Ying was a little anxious, after so many years, their group of robes had already become a whole with vital interests, and it was their private agreement to make meritorious contributions together, earn money together, and eat sugar together.

Now that the war is fighting, Dongmen Leopard, Xiao Tao and other brothers are marginalized, and they can't get any benefits at all!

"Now we are like the sons of a little maid, and we are not welcomed."

He burst into foul language, and said tentatively:

"Look, do you want to ask the pavilion chief......

"Don't worry about everything, Pavilion Chief!"

Li Xian said with a blank face: "The pavilion chief is now not only the county guard of Jiaodong, but also the supervisor of the Northern Expedition. I have recently heard that Gongzi Fusu has failed to exterminate the thieves, and the army has been stationed in Haidong for a long time, and there is also a pile of messes waiting for the pavilion chief to clean up. ”

"So what to do."

Ji Ying rolled her eyes, now in this situation, they, the head snakes of Yuzhang, are controlled by others, and they can't help but feel unhappy.

"What's the hurry!"

Li Xian sneered: "Since the generals despise Baiyue, thinking that they can destroy the withering and decaying, and treat the old department of Nanjun slowly, without the strategy of Xiao Tao, then we have no choice but to remain silent!" Without our help, this battle will really go smoothly everywhere? At present, the midwinter season is good, and when spring begins in summer, this group of northerners will know the horrors of the south! ”