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On November 13 of the first year of the Great Qin II, Hu Hai, who had marched to Chenxian County, Changsha County, received a letter from Zhang Han from Huangxi Pass.

In addition to telling the army about the conquest of Yangshan Pass, the annihilation of the Baiyue barbarians, and the siege of Huangxi Pass, the most important thing is that it gave Hu Hai a detailed account of the current situation in the South China Sea.

These extremely valuable news allowed Hu Hai to finally get first-hand information again after losing the South China Sea news for nearly four months.

A sudden tsunami disrupted Ziying and Zhao Tuo's plan to go north to capture the two counties of Bashu, so that the Baiyue barbarians, who were already united with the Southern Qin because of their interests, separated from the Southern Qin, and at the same time made the Longwei Mansion and the Black Ice Platform Xizuo, which Hu Hai buried in the South China Sea, completely lose contact with Xianyang.

There may be some who survive, but not every detail can directly contact Xianyang, and there are only a few leaders who control the eagle and the pigeon that can contact Xianyang.

This is also the reason why Long Wei and Hei Bingtai, who were originally conscientious, suddenly had no news.

In fact, Zhao Yu didn't know much, at least Ziying and Zhao Tuo already knew the news of the Qin army's large-scale southward movement, but he didn't know. Yangshan Pass is nearly 700 miles away from Nanhai County and Panyu, and the messenger who went to deliver the message by Zhao Tuo has not yet arrived at Yangshan Pass.

Of course, in the current situation where the whole county of the South China Sea is in chaos, one or two messengers may not be able to reach Yangshan Pass at all and be killed by the Baiyue barbarians.

However, Hu Hai only needed to know that the Baiyue barbarians who had surrendered in the South China Sea were in chaos again.

Holding Zhang Han's letter in his hand, Hu Hai was speechless for a long time, and after half a ring, he threw the letter to Zhang Han and walked out of the big tent alone.

The deterioration of the situation in the South China Sea is beyond Huhai's imagination. Even in later generations, with the help of many high-tech rescue methods, a tsunami of Japanese slaves caused tens of thousands of casualties and the displacement of countless people, and it is not clear how many people will be killed in the tsunami in the South China Sea.

At this time, the imperial army attacked, and there were hundreds of barbarians in the South China Sea, and there were several armies of their own to attack. After Ziying and Zhao Tuo got the news, they had only two choices.

The first choice is to make peace with the Baiyue barbarians, and then fight against the imperial army. The second option is to let go of all barriers and surrender. As long as the imperial army arrives, these burning, killing and looting Baiyue barbarians will naturally no longer have any threat, and they can even solve the Baiyue barbarian tribes that are deeply rooted in South Vietnam once and for all.

Ziying and Zhao Tuo surrendered, and the South China Sea meant pacification. With the food support of the imperial court, the people of Lao Qin in the South China Sea can tide over this crisis. It's just that there will be a lot less deaths.

Although Hu Hai really wanted Ziying and Zhao Tuo to choose the second one. But no matter where you look at it, the two will inevitably choose the first path.

Make peace with the Baiyue barbarians. Why did the Baiyue barbarians riot? Grain! Obviously, the prerequisite for peace is food. Saying peace means that Ziying and Zhao Tuo will supply the limited grain supply in the South China Sea to the Baiyue barbarians. In addition to the Baiyue barbarians, there are also more than 200,000 troops of Southern Qin.

Where does the food come from?

can only deduct or even scrape the ordinary people of the South China Sea!

Natural disasters are terrible, and ** are countless times more terrible than natural disasters!

Because of an edict of the first emperor, these old Qin people gave up the stable environment and fertile land in Guanzhong, helped the old and the young to trek through mountains and rivers, and walked thousands of miles with their legs to the South China Sea, and even countless people died on the road before they reached the South China Sea.

In order to guard this South China Sea for Daqin!

"Your Majesty......" Wei Yu didn't know when he came behind Hu Hai!

"Master Taishi, draft edict!" Hu Hai interrupted Wei Yi's words.

"Spread the edict to the two counties of Bashu and the county guards, immediately recruit 100,000 laborers, and ship grain from Route 6 and waterway to the south, fast! The remuneration for labor shall be increased by 20% on the original basis. Spread the edict to Zhanghan, Huangxi Pass must be captured within two days, at any cost! After capturing Huangxi Pass, he ordered Zhang Han to send a message to Zhao Tuo and Ziying, as long as the two of them are willing to lead the army to surrender, I will give him two a lifetime of wealth! ”

"Your Majesty! Baiyue barbarians are capricious, just kill them, Ziying and Zhao Tuo, eat the king's Lu, but the thief's heart is not dead, and it is not a pity to die. If the thieves in Chu are not killed, the ministers of the court and the people of Guanzhong can still understand His Majesty's painstaking efforts, if these two thieves do not kill, why will the people be angry? And the South China Sea is full of old Qin people, and they will definitely not be thieves. At this moment, nearly a million elite soldiers of my Great Qin are in the South China Sea, and Ziying and others will die overnight, why do you need to do this? Think twice, Your Majesty! Wei Yu said urgently.

Chu was pacified, Hu Hai not only did not kill Xiong Xin and Xiang Liang, but also gave high positions one after another, for the sake of Chu and the stability of South Vietnam, Wei Yu did not say anything.

But this time Hu Hai wanted to exempt Ziying and Zhao Tuo from the death penalty again, and Wei Yi really couldn't figure it out.

And at this time, Hu Hai and Wei Yi would never have thought that there was still a fish Zhang Liang who slipped through the net in Chudi, and this fish that slipped through the net also ran to the South China Sea.

"Yes! They are all old Qin people, and they are all old Qin people who were born and died for Great Qin. Hu Hai said.

With a faint word, Wei Yi's body shook suddenly, and then he fell to the ground and sobbed.

"Your Majesty!"

"Hehe, does Aiqing think Ziying and Zhao Tuo will surrender?"

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November 14 of the first year of Great Qin II.

Zhao Tuo, the prime minister of Southern Qin Zuo and Marquis of Nanhai, led an army of 30,000 people and 200,000 barbarians in Baiyue to Huangxi Pass.

When Zhao Tuo arrived, Huangxi Pass was already crumbling under the ferocious attack of Zhang Hanhu's army, and it only took half a day for Huangxi Pass to be broken. However, the arrival of Zhao Tuo's army made Zhang Han's previous efforts wasted.

In the one-day siege of the city, the Tiger Ben army paid the tragic price of more than 3,000 killed and more than 10,000 wounded. This casualty figure is the first major casualty since the formation of the five major legions of the Bashang Battalion. In one battle, nearly 15,000 people lost their combat effectiveness, that is, the Tiger Ben army with a number of 200,000 people could withstand it, and if this number was placed in the four legions of the White Tiger, Qinglong, Vermilion Bird and Xuanwu, which had a total strength of only 100,000 people, it would be enough for them to break their muscles and bones.

Being able to bear it is one thing, and whether you can accept it is another.

Although the Tiger Army is separated from the White Tiger Army, the Xuanwu Army, and the Vermilion Bird Army in the south, northwest, and northwest, the relatively convenient communication allows the Tiger Army to know the achievements of the other four major legions.

This casualty can be said to be the heaviest casualty of the five legions from the Bashang battalion.

Of course, the opponents of the other four major legions and the opponents faced by the Tiger Ben Army at the moment are also different, and they can even be said to be very different.

The Tiger Ben army was not facing the Xiongnu barbarians, not the Baiyue barbarians, nor the Xiangliang Chu army that had not undergone much training and uneven equipment. They were faced with the Qin army, which was equipped with Great Qin-standard weapons and equipment and had gone through countless battles. Maybe in terms of well-equipped, the Southern Qin army is not as good as the Huben army, but they are on the defending side, because of the existence of the Huangxi Pass fortress, they have pulled the two sides to the same starting line.

Siege warfare is different from catch-and-kill and field warfare in the wilderness, and it is already very disadvantageous to the attacker.

In this way, in fact, the gap between the two sides is not that big. The number of the Southern Qin army guarding the pass was much smaller than that of the Tiger Ben army, after all, they only had 40,000 people, while the Tiger Ben army had a full 130,000 people.

However, these 130,000 people can't all be pressed, after all, the Huangxi Pass fortress is facing the city wall of Zhang Han's army and it is a little bigger, and a maximum of 20,000 people are invested in each attack.

Zhao Tuo led the army to come, not to support Huangxi Pass.

The information brought by Zhang Liang was indeed timely enough.

Although he was surprised and disappointed by the chaos in the South China Sea, Zhang Liang knew very well that he had no choice, if Nanqin was destroyed by Hu Hai again, then he Zhang Liang would either be a prisoner, or he would wander the world incognito for a lifetime, and what he had learned in his life would be useless.

Therefore, Zhang Liang naturally racked his brains to help Ziying and Zhao Tuo solve the current chaos in the South China Sea. He even did not hesitate to sacrifice his life and drag his sick body, accompanied by Zhao Gang, to the place where the Baiyue barbarians lived, and persuaded the Baiyue barbarians.

I have to say that no matter what Zhang Liang is, at least his eloquence is excellent.

Ziying's assurance, Zhao Tuo's prestige, a large amount of grain, the threat of the Qin army, and Zhang Liang's eloquence made the Baiyue barbarians near Panyu take the lead in accepting Southern Qin's conditions, and the two sides shook hands and made peace.

The innocent, equally food-deficient, and displaced Lao Qin people were selectively ignored by everyone. Regardless of Ziying or Zhao Tuo, no one has mentioned what the people of the South China Sea should do.

As for the news that Hu Hai's personal expedition of nearly one million troops was about to gather in the South China Sea, except for Ziying, Zhao Tuo, and Zhao Guang in the Southern Qin Dynasty, none of the other courtiers knew about it.

The consequences of people's hearts fluctuating, Zhao Tuo is still clear.

However, many people still guessed something from the sudden change of Zhao Tuo and Ziying and the fact that Zhao Tuo was going to lead the army to leave Panyu, but no one dared to say anything.

After persuading the Baiyue barbarians, he sent several messengers to rush to the five major fortresses urgently, while Zhao Tuo also couldn't wait to transfer 5,000 elites from the defenders of Panyu and more than 100,000 Baiyue barbarians who originally besieged Boluo from Panyu with a large amount of grain, and after arriving at the Shimen Fortress, he transferred 35,000 soldiers from the Shimen Fortress to the north together.

Along the way, there were constantly Baiyue barbarians joining Zhao Tuo's army, and by the time Zhao Tuo arrived at Huangxi Pass, the Baiyue barbarians had reached 200,000 people.

Zhao Tuo is going to lead the army to the Jipu Pass, which will be Hu Hai's personal pass. Zhao Gang, after leaving Huangxi Pass, rushed to Hengpu Pass alone. At the time of life and death, Zhao Tuo obviously would not hand over the fortress that was related to his life to the Montessori generals. Dozens of high-ranking generals of the Meng clan, including Meng Yun, were left in Panyu by Zhao Tuo.

And Panyu is led by Ziying and Zhao Guang, assisted by Su Yue and the newcomer Zhang Liang, so naturally there will be no big problem.

When he was a hundred miles away from Huangxi Pass, Zhao Tuo came across a letter asking for help from Zhao Chen, a member of the Zhao clan, the guard of Huangxi Pass. In a hurry, Zhao Tuo finally arrived when Huangxi Pass was in danger. (To be continued)