Chapter 191: The Storm in South Vietnam (2)
Ziying was taken away from Xianyang by Zhao Gang on April 16, and in May he boarded a ship and headed south along the coast, spending more than a month to reach Panyu, the seat of Nanhai County.
The boat always went south along the coastline, and it did not withstand much wind and waves along the way. It's just that Ziying, who has never been on a sea boat since he was a child, began to enjoy the sea view that he had never seen in Guanzhong with great interest, and began to get seasick after half a day, and after he vomited all the bitter gall and got used to the bumps and shaking of the sea boat, the road to the south has gone most of the way, and the original magnificent sea view has become extremely boring in the eyes of Ziying.
Fortunately, finally at the beginning of June, Ziying and Zhao Gang finally arrived in Nanhai County. Under the escort of Zhao Gang and others, Ziying finally met the people behind the scenes who had come all the way to invite him to this land of South Vietnam.
This person is the most favored younger brother of the South China Sea general Zhao Tuo, Zhao Guang, who is only eighteen years old. At the same time, Ziying also met Su Yue, the grandson of Su Qin, who was respected by Zhao Guangzun as his teacher, and who had gone north of Yinshan with Meng Chong.
Su Yue, among the hundreds of thousands of people who moved south, arrived in Nanhai County without danger. The learned Su Yue soon stood out among hundreds of thousands of civilians. Zhao Tuo, who was in dire need of talents, was introduced as the shogunate.
The day after Zhao Tuo brought Zhao Guang to Nanhai County, he officially made Su Yue Zhao Guang's teacher. At that time, Zhao Guang was only fifteen years old.
Ziying, Zhao Guang, and Su Yue sped on for a whole day, and no one knew what the three of them were talking about. In the entire South Vietnam, except for Zhao Gang's group, no one knew that Fusu's son and child had arrived in Nanhai County.
Therefore, as soon as Ziying, who appeared in front of people for the first time today, immediately made all Meng Chong and other Meng clan people and more than 100,000 old Qin people collectively lose their voices. Everyone knows that if there is no accident, the child should be in Xianyang.
But as soon as Ziying opened his mouth, there was also the jade pendant he showed to prove his identity, and he told everyone that he was the Ziying who was supposed to be in Xianyang.
All the princes of Great Qin's lineage have a jade pendant that can represent their identity. This jade pendant is made by Shangfang, which is not only priceless but also cannot be counterfeited at all. This is a well-known thing in Xianyang.
The First Emperor was poisoned to death by the Second Hu Hai, Li Si and Zhao Gao, and the words of Fusu were forced to die from the tearful Ziying's mouth, and the effect was naturally different.
After the appearance of Ziying and the repeated shocks of those words, the more than 100,000 old Qin people who originally shared the same hatred and hatred were suddenly split into two sides.
As the heir of the Great Qin Emperor recognized by the whole world, Fusu has an incomparable advantage in the old Qin people. After all, Fusu is almost twenty years older than Hu Hai.
This is an advantage that Hu Hai simply cannot match. At the same time, Fusu was the eldest son of the First Emperor. Although the ancestral system of the Great Qin is a virtuous person who does not stand up, it is obvious that Fusu, who has a good character and a gentle surname, is more popular with the old Qin people.
After all, the hundreds of thousands of old Qin people in South Vietnam had been away from the land of Guanzhong for too long.
In a moment, more than 100,000 Lao Qin people, including a large part of the Meng clan, were inclined to the side of Ziying. There were less than 20,000 people standing on the side of Meng Chong and Hu Hai. There are still more than 20,000 people who are vacillating in the middle, not knowing who to believe.
From the death of the old and frail Ren Huan, to the strong Zhao Tuo, who was sad and critically ill, and then Zhao Guang took out an order from Zhao Tuo, and then to the sudden appearance of the son and son who was supposed to be in Xianyang in South Vietnam, Meng Chong suddenly found that everything seemed to have been premeditated a long time ago.
Whether Ren Huan dies or Zhao Tuo is critically ill, it seems that what he did was for the sake of the child. And if the person behind all this is not Ziying, then there is only one, that is, Zhao Tuo's younger brother Zhao Guang.
Ziying has been in Xianyang since he was a child, and he has no ability or thought of extending his hand to this South Vietnam, and the only possible one is Zhao Guang. And Ziying is obviously just the puppet that Zhao Guang found.
Now Great Qin has been in chaos, and the remnants of the Six Kingdoms have been restored one after another. And if Ziying controls hundreds of thousands of troops to go north at this time, wouldn't it be in line with the wishes of those remnants of the Six Kingdoms?
Originally, it was a war between Great Qin to extinguish the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, but in the end, it would become a dispute between uncles and nephews who were also of the first emperor's bloodline. If the Second Emperor in Xianyang wins, it will be fine, and Great Qin will be able to continue. And if the child who is controlled by Zhao Guang wins, then I am afraid that it will not take Zhao Guang, who has been in power for a few years, to kill the Ying clan and replace it.
All of this, whether there is no chaos, whether it is Ren Huan, Zhao Tuo or Ziying, is actually all a conspiracy. The last beneficiary seems to be only Zhao Guang.
It's just that Zhao Tuo, the general of the South China Sea, really doesn't know about this matter at all?
Meng Chong didn't know.
The army of more than 100,000 people fell apart in an instant, looking at the sinister smile on the face of Su Yue, who was standing behind Zhao Guang, who was white and beardless, Meng Chong knew that even if he surrendered today, he was afraid that he would not be able to escape death.
The tragic battle broke out suddenly without warning.
Under the leadership of Meng Chong, more than 20,000 old Qin infantry soldiers who were finally the emperor suddenly turned around and rushed towards Changsha County. 20,000 people, against an army of nearly 200,000 people, the result speaks for itself.
Except for Meng Chong, who escaped under the sworn protection of more than 100 Meng clansmen, the remaining more than 20,000 old Qin soldiers were slaughtered. The rich smell of blood can be clearly heard even if it is more than ten miles away.
Ziying, after this war, appeared in South Vietnam as the grandson of the first emperor.
The Baiyue barbarians led by Zhao Guang and the soldiers of the Chu State took the lead in paying allegiance to Ziying. Immediately afterwards, the Mong people, who had returned from all over South Vietnam, were again split into two parts. The killing ensued. The incessant slaughter continued for more than a month throughout several counties of South Vietnam.
After slaughtering all the opposing Meng clansmen and the old Qin infantry soldiers, on July 16 of the first year of Great Qin II, the eldest grandson of the first emperor and the late son Fusu Ziying, announced his succession as the second emperor of Great Qin in Nanhai County. On the same day that Ziying succeeded to the throne as emperor, he officially issued a crusade against Hu Hai, the puppet emperor who murdered the first emperor in Guanzhong, and Li Si, the puppet prime minister, and other rebels in several counties of South Vietnam.
As early as June 15, when the Huhai messenger and dozens of guards from Heibingtai arrived at Linchen (later Chongzuo, Guangxi), Zhao Guang's subordinates who received the news, and their bodies were killed.
On the day Ziying succeeded to the throne, while ordering the crusade against Hu Hai, he added Meng Tian as the general and captain of the world's soldiers and horses, Meng Yi as the left prime minister, the dead Ren Huan as the right prime minister, Zhao Tuo as the imperial historian, the marquis of Nanhai, Zhao Guang as the commander of Langzhong, the marquis of Panyu, Su Yue as the court lieutenant, and so on. The small court of South Vietnam also began to take shape for a while, and the weather was abrupt.
Although Meng Tian and Meng Yi are not in South Vietnam at all at the moment, and they have never been in contact with Ziying, Ziying has already been sealed like this. It is precisely because of Ziying's sealing that a group of Meng's people who took refuge in Ziying were overjoyed.
On the 17th day of July in the first year of Daqin II, that is, the day after Ziying issued an edict to several counties in Nanyue to officially claim the title of emperor.
Just when the cadres of the Xiao Qin Dynasty in South Vietnam were rejoicing and preparing to reorganize their armies and prepare to go north to defeat the puppet emperor Huhai, the three counties of Nanhai, Guilin, and Xiangjun, which had been devastated by storms for several days, suddenly encountered a rare hurricane that had never been encountered for hundreds of years.
The power of the storm soared more than 100 times in just two or three hours, and under the landslide and ground cracking, lightning and thunder, a strong hurricane swept from south to north from the sea to the entire land of the three districts of South Vietnam, destroying trees and destroying cities.
Accompanied by a strong hurricane, endless sea water poured into the South China Sea, and combined with the torrential rain, most of the three districts of South Vietnam were turned into a swamp in just a few hours.
In the land of the three counties of Nanyue, more than ten cities were destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of Baiyue barbarians, as well as the migrated Chu people and slave sons, were displaced. Tens of thousands of people died in the floods.
The three counties of Nanyue, which had just passed through the new emperor's accession to the throne and celebrated with the whole world, only spent one day in the joy and longing, and then fell into a state of mourning and wilderness.
The so-called happiness gives birth to sorrow, nothing more than that.
What an irony of fate!
This sudden, rare tropical storm struck like a boulder on the hearts of all ambitious people in several districts of South Vietnam. Displaced people need to be resettled, ruined cities need to be repaired, and more than a third of the boats docked on the docks have been destroyed. And that's not all, the main thing is that after the hurricane stopped, a wave of rumors and panic began to spread among the people of the three districts of South Vietnam.
Ziying ascended the throne without authorization, did not respect the ancestors, did not respect the heavens, and God sent the wrath of the sea god to punish the people of South Vietnam who wanted to do something rebellious.
The rumors started out of nowhere, and by the time Ziying, Zhao Guang and others found out, they had spread throughout Nanhai County, and were rapidly spreading to Guilin and Xiang County.
The lethality of this rumor is invisible, and it is also extremely terrifying. Especially in South Vietnam, where ancient gods are revered. In just one day, thousands of the barbarians in the army had fled from the camp.
Ziying, Zhao Guang and others, who were overwhelmed by the hurricane, launched a new round of manhunting and killing again while providing disaster relief. All the people who spread the rumors were taken and thrown into the camps, the old ones were killed, and the useful ones were sent into slavery in the army.
At the same time, at the instigation of Zhao Guang, Ziying agreed to the proposal of dozens of Baiyue barbarian elders in several counties of Nanyue that once Ziying unified the world, he would allow Baiyue barbarians to become a country of their own and become princes.
Large-scale conscription was carried out at the same time as the killing began, and it was also carried out among the Baiyue barbarians in the three counties of South Vietnam. As long as the building ship was completed, the South Vietnamese army would exhaust the whole army and go north to attack.
…… On August 15 of the first year of Great Qin II, the edict of His Majesty the Second Emperor of Great Qin appeared again in various parts of Guanzhong, which had just been pacified for a short time. It's just that this edict is different from the previous edicts, this is an edict to kill people, and it is to punish the three clans.
The places in Guanzhong, which have just been calmed down, are terrifying!
(To be continued)