Chapter 35: Change
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After Zhang Liang gave up Xiang Yu that day, he passed by Han Xin's army, and Han Xin's army was less than ten miles away from Zhang Liang in the most recent time. In the scouts of Han Xin's army, which was densely packed for dozens of miles, Zhang Liang and more than ten attendants were able not to be discovered, and their luck could only be explained by good luck.
Zhang Liang and his entourage returned to Huiji County without danger all the way. At this time, the weapons and ordnance that Zhao Gang had delivered to Xiang Liang had just been unloaded in Huiji Wu County, and supplies were underway.
With the fall of Xinchu, the capture of Xiang Liang, and the unknown life and death of Xiang Yu, if there is any force in this world that can challenge Daqin, then it can only be Ziying and Zhao Tuo who are far away in Lingnan.
As the right-hand man of the general Xiang Liang, Zhang Liang is still very marketable in Huiji. And since Zhang Liang gave up Xiang Yu, it is naturally impossible to say that he escaped from the battle array. The arrival of Zhao Gang and his entourage gave Zhang Liang a reason to receive weapons and talk about cooperation with South Vietnam by the way.
When the Xiang clan in Huiji County left, Zhang Liang repeatedly told the story of Xiang Liang being captured by the Qin army, the annihilation of the 300,000 army, and Xiang Yu's being surrounded by the Qin army.
The surprise and shock in Zhao Gang's heart were naturally self-evident. As Zhao Guang's confidant, Zhao Gang knew very well how the fall of Chu and the capture of Xiang Liang would have a significant impact on South Vietnam. More importantly, these South Vietnamese sides did not receive any information.
If it is really as Zhang Liang said, after Qin Emperor Hu Hai pacified Chudi, the next step will be to lead hundreds of thousands of troops directly along the Qin-Chu Yuechi Road to cross the Wuling Mountains and go south, at most it will only take more than a month, and hundreds of thousands of Qin troops will be in Nanhai County.
This is not the most critical thing, the most critical thing is that because of the tsunami in July, South Vietnam's vitality was greatly damaged, and nearly 1,000 boats of various types were scattered on the shore by the waves, and countless South Vietnamese people were displaced.
The Baiyue barbarians, who were originally moved by Zhao Guang to follow the South Vietnamese Qin army from Bashu, also changed their original intentions because of a tsunami. The reason is simple, because of a rare tsunami, the whole of South Vietnam has a rare famine for more than ten years.
As a result of the inflow of seawater, one-third of the land in the three counties of the South China Sea was soaked into saline-alkali land, and the grain that was about to be harvested was basically lost.
After the tsunami, it was rainy for more than 20 days, sometimes heavy and sometimes small. The Pearl River flooded, including the southern Qin capital city of Panyu, several cities were flooded, the city wall of Panyu should be the strongest of the six cities in the three counties, even so the southern city wall also collapsed entirely, with heavy casualties. And the rest, like Boluo on the edge of the Pearl River, is the whole city has become a depression.
Because Sihui is located in the upper reaches of the Pearl River and is not on the edge of the Pearl River, it is the shallowest disaster among the three cities.
More than 20 days of continuous rain have turned the entire county of South Vietnam into the country of Hongze. Two-thirds of the land was still growing ripe grain, which also rotted in the continuous rain.
Even though the people of South Vietnam are desperately trying to harvest it, the rain-soaked grain will rot or sprout directly within a few days.
Just starving all over the dike cannot describe the tragic scene when Zhao Gang left South Vietnam.
Since the first emperor pacified Nanyue four years ago, in the first two years, a large amount of grain was sent from the two counties of Bashu into the three counties of Nanyue through the Ling Canal every year.
The Qin people, who migrated in large numbers, brought with them the technology of farming, smelting, and weaving. Gradually let South Vietnam keep up with the pace of the Central Plains civilization.
However, a piece of soil does not mean that it will be able to grow grain when it is reclaimed, or that even if the land that was originally reclaimed can grow grain, the yield will not be high, and the fertile land will become a high-quality fertile land after at least one season, two seasons or even several seasons of cultivation. This is where the ripe field comes in.
In addition, hundreds of thousands of Qin troops were stationed in South Vietnam, although these soldiers also participated in the cultivation in the two years after the pacification of South Vietnam, but they could not change the current situation of South Vietnam's barrenness.
Under these circumstances, it is unlikely that South Vietnam would have had much food stockpiles at all. This is also why after Ziying ascended the throne, he was ambitious to go north to capture Bashu.
Because the two counties of Bashu have two official warehouses in Daqin. In addition, the Sichuan Basin is the granary of Daqin.
It's a pity that a sudden tsunami made all the ideas of Ziying and Zhao Tuo become a dream overnight; However, it was also because of a tsunami that the prestige of the Son of Huhai was fulfilled.
After all, it is not as good as heaven. That's fate.
South Vietnam suffered from famine, if in previous years with the back of the two counties of Bashu, with Daqin as the backing, although this tsunami will cause some casualties, but it will definitely not cause great chaos in South Vietnam, after all, whether it is from Bashu or from the vicinity of Xianyang, the current situation in South Vietnam can be solved within two months.
However, after the disappearance of Ziying, Hu Hai deliberately ordered the two counties of Bashu to tighten the supply to South Vietnam, whether it was food, weapons, copper and iron, etc., without the emperor's edict, naturally no one would dare to use it privately.
The disaster occurred when the child had just ascended the throne for only a few days. South Vietnam has broken away from Daqin, and the news that Ziying is the emperor has spread, even if you want to ask for food from Daqin at this time, it is too late, and Daqin will obviously not help his enemies.
At this time, South Vietnam could only rely on itself.
Fortunately, after the tsunami and rain, the temperature in South Vietnam has been very low, although it is not cold, but it does not freeze to death. It was this kind of weather that allowed Ziying and the more than a million soldiers and civilians of South Vietnam to escape and prevent a large-scale plague epidemic.
And the reason why Zhao Gang would lead dozens of ships to transport weapons to Huiji under such circumstances is not only because the two parties had agreed before, but more importantly, South Vietnam needs Chu Xiang as a barrier at this time to block Daqin's anger and win time.
When Zhao Gang left South Vietnam, the continuous rainy weather in South Vietnam had just begun, and at that time, South Vietnam did not produce much chaos except for a large number of disaster victims.
After hearing the news from Zhang Liang, Zhao Gang, who was shocked, couldn't sit still any longer, and after hurriedly completing the supply, he directly turned the ship around and returned to South Vietnam. And Zhang Liang, the commander of Xiang Liang, who knew the situation of the Qin army, also returned to South Vietnam at the invitation of Zhao Gang.
It's just that after going out for more than two months this time, Zhao Gang himself has no bottom in his heart about what South Vietnam has become now.
Glancing at the skinny Zhang Liang, Zhao Gang hugged his fists slightly and said, "Yes, Mr. Zhang, we have arrived in South Vietnam." Zhao Gang said, looking at the blue and white land that was getting closer and closer in front of him, and his heart suddenly throbbed a little for some reason in addition to excitement.
As Zhao Gang spoke, dozens of building boats began to slowly enter the mouth of the Pearl River and go up the river along the Pearl River. It only takes a maximum of one hour to enter the fishing port of Panyu.
It was only from the moment the boat entered the sea level near the mouth of the Pearl River that floating corpses drifting in the sea began to be found on the sea surface one after another. Each building ship has scooped up floating corpses for inspection. However, the results made Zhao Gang's heart sink more and more.
Some of the decomposed, shapeless floating corpses, most of them did not have many scars on their bodies, and even if they did, they were produced by collisions in the water after death. The floating corpses were apparently drowned in the water, and most of them were civilians in burlap robes. And in this season, it can still rot to this extent in the icy seawater, and it is clear that it has been soaked in water for a long time.
However, there are still some floating corpses, but they are injured by weapons, and there are arrows and only sword wounds. Obviously, they were thrown into the Pearl River after death and floated down smoothly, and most of the floating corpses were within one or twenty days, although they were somewhat decomposed, but they could still have a rough appearance. Many of them were wearing armor. The armor of the Qin army.
Zhao Gang, who was originally shocked and thought that the Qin army in the north had come south to enter the South China Sea, soon discovered that the crossbow arrows on the bodies of these dead soldiers were not only the crossbow arrows of the Qin army's standard, but also some rough feather arrows that were obviously made improvly.
These rough feather arrows are absolutely impossible to appear in the weapons of the Qin army, and the Qin army has never used them. But the fact that the Qin army has not used it does not mean that others do not use it, for example, Baiyue barbarians.
Zhao Gang, who thought of this, was suddenly anxious.
The situation in front of him is already very clear, in the nearly two months since he left South Vietnam, some bad things must have happened in South Vietnam.
Under Zhao Gang's urging, the speed of the building ship was greatly accelerated.
After entering the Pearl River estuary, more and more floating corpses appeared on the surface of the Pearl River, and many floating corpses were hung by the grass or branches on the shore and eventually piled up together, forming a huge corpse mass.
Although the floating corpses could not block the entire river, they still seriously affected the speed of the fleet.
"General Zhao, why are there so many floating corpses? But has the Huhai army already reached the South China Sea? ”
Zhao Gang, who was worried, suddenly heard an eager voice in his ears. Looking for prestige, who is Zhang Liang?
When the fleet entered the sea near the Pearl River, Zhang Liang returned to the cabin to recuperate, after all, he was about to meet the Southern Qin Emperor, and Zhang Liang didn't want to be rude. It's just that the noise of the Qin soldiers in the fleet is caused by more and more floating corpses, how could Zhang Liang, who is in the cabin, not hear it.
It's just that after coming out, Zhang Liang was immediately shocked by the floating corpses floating on the river. An ominous premonition appeared in Zhang Liang's heart. With so many floating corpses, and many of them were Qin soldiers wearing armor, his first reaction was naturally that the Huhai army had arrived in the South China Sea.
"Probably not!" Zhao Gang shook his head.
"That's good, that's good!" Zhang Liang breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Zhao Gang's words.
"Sir, something may happen in the South China Sea! I'm going to be careful! Zhao Gang looked at the countless corpses floating on the river, and said in a deep voice.
The heart that Zhang Liang had just put down instantly hung high again, and Zhao Gang was surprised.
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