Chapter 239: The Bloody Path
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read_content_up; In this westward expedition to the Indochina Peninsula, Hu Hai had made sufficient psychological preparations. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
In later generations, the Mi Di army, armed to the teeth with various high-tech weapons, fought for ten years against the primitively equipped Vietnamese in the primeval jungle of Vietnam, but finally had to admit defeat, leaving more than 100,000 casualties.
So now Daqin is afraid that he will open up this passage, and he is afraid that he will be prepared to pay greater sacrifices and casualties, and even be prepared to retreat to Xiangjun in the end.
Because at this time, Hu Hai couldn't imagine what kind of monsters still existed in this primitive tropical plain jungle in today's Great Qin, or what kind of prehistoric xenomorphs survived.
Swamps, poisons, poisonous miasma, flood beasts, primeval jungles, harsh climate, etc., will be the difficulties that the Guilin army needs to face and overcome.
This is also why Hu Haihui also asked Yu Ziqi to lead the Southern Navy to take the opportunity to find a plain and land along the coastline by sea. After all, although there will be wind and waves at sea, it is obviously much easier than crossing the vast primeval jungle.
But even so, Hu Hai still tried his best to prepare for Feng Zheng's Guilin army in the past five years.
After the ancient Dian Kingdom surrendered to the Great Qin, most of the people lived in Linchen, the county of Xiangjun, and the county of Guilin, Zhibushan, and Zhongliu counties in the territory. These southwestern races, who have lived in the tropical jungle for generations, have a unique set of collars for surviving in the tropical jungle.
Among Feng Zheng's 100,000 army, there are nearly 200 ancient Dian people and today's Qin people as guides. That is, for every 500 Qin troops, there will be an ancient Dian national as a guide.
At the same time, these ancient Dian people living in the jungle of the southwest were both guides and doctors. In order to survive in the cruel tropical jungle, dealing with all kinds of poisonous insects, fierce beasts, poisonous miasma, etc. are the survival skills that the ancient Dian people must master.
In order to better understand the terrain in the jungle on the south bank of the Lancang River outside Xiangjun and find a safe passage enough for a large army to pass through, the southwest barbarians were in this matter. In five years, there were more than 10,000 casualties.
Of course, each of their families is cared for in the best possible way. This is what Hu Hai promised them, and it must be done.
Although the southwestern barbarians are barbaric and difficult to tame, once they identify their masters, they will also give everything they have, even their own lives. Five years is enough time for the Southwest Barbarians to know everything about the Great Qin Holy Son of Heaven.
And the tsunami that swept through the entire three counties of South Vietnam when Ziying was there was also linked to the Great Qin Holy Son of Heaven in Xianyang City praying for rain as early as four years ago.
It spread all over Daqin.
Xianyang is drought, before the Son of Heaven begs for rain. The three counties of South Vietnam, which had already had a rebellion, suffered a tsunami that had never been encountered in more than a thousand years, causing the sea water to pour in, and countless people were displaced and died in the tsunami.
It was precisely because of that tsunami that the southwestern barbarians, who had already reached some agreements with Ziying, turned against the water in order to survive.
At that time, the Holy Son of Heaven of Great Qin climbed to the top of Liangshan to pray for rain for Xianyang and hundreds of people in Guanzhong.
Outcome. The pouring rain came slowly.
There will always be such and such coincidences in the world, but the lightness of this coincidence is a coincidence, and it is providence or fate to change to another method.
It was this kind of providence that made the Southwest Barbarians finally accept all the arrangements of the Holy Son of Heaven honestly.
When Heaven bestowed upon the Son of Heaven and responded to the Son of Heaven's request, it inflicted a punishment on those who wanted to rebel against the Son of Heaven as never before.
The stability of several counties in South Vietnam will naturally lead to rapid development.
So these five years. South Vietnam's population growth is greater than that of the region north of the Yangtze River.
After all, the living conditions in the Southwest Barbarian Plains are extremely harsh, and it is precisely because of the poor living conditions that the physical fitness is more than one step stronger than that of the people of the Central Plains. The old Qin people in the northwest are not far behind, and even surpassing.
Entertainment measures are scarce, and although football has become popular throughout Daqin now, it was only daytime. With the help of the old Qin people who migrated to several counties in South Vietnam, the southwestern barbarians learned to farm and weave. It will not be in the southwestern barbarians, who lack food and clothing, after extinguishing the oil lamps at night. The only thing I could do seemed to be in bed.
In just five years, the population of several counties in the southwest has been on a straight upward trend. However, the two official warehouses of Panyu and Linchen built by Hu Hai in Nanhai County and Linchen in Xiangjun County are the most direct role of ensuring that everyone can eat enough.
At the same time, the tax collection of the household department on the southwestern counties is also adhering to the meaning of Huhai, but it is only a small amount of symbolic xing. Life is getting better and better, no longer lack of food and clothing, who still thinks about embarrassing themselves?
Within five years, more than half of Feng Zheng's Guilin army was replaced by southwestern barbarians who were familiar with the humid and hot climate of the southwest.
Of any legion of Great Qin, there is only one person who is loyal to him, and that is His Majesty the Great Qin Emperor. And the most direct impact of these southwestern barbarians who entered the Guilin Army was to infect this loyalty, and finally make the southwestern barbarians completely feel a sense of belonging to Daqin from their hearts.
Of course, it's still a short time. I think that in more than ten years, when the new generation of the new southwestern counties grow up in the county schools built by the order of the Great Qin Emperor, learn the Qin language, and understand the glory and history of Great Qin, they will become the most staunch supporters of Great Qin.
Feng Zheng didn't ride a horse, and of course, there was no way to ride a horse in the jungle. What's more, the danger of riding on a horse is much higher than that of the eleventh bus. No one knows if there will be poisonous insects in those low bushes that can kill you.
The entire Guilin army had no cavalry ranks, including all the scouts. Except for the baggage soldiers, who needed oxen and horse-drawn carts, no one had war horses. Of course, the war horses used by the baggage soldiers were also unique to the southwestern counties.
Walking on the thick branches of the tree in the rotting leaves that have accumulated for an unknown number of years, he walked forward one foot deep and one foot shallow.
All the Guilin soldiers wore knee-length sheepskin boots on their feet. Although it is not breathable, it can protect them from poisonous insects that are not large enough to protect them to the greatest extent.
The blades of each soldier have now become tools for cutting, and they are carving out a path that they can use after riddles as they go.
This is the most basic requirement that Hu Hai gave to Feng Zheng.
It was not required that the Guilin army be able to cross the jungle and find suitable settlements, but at least a road should be opened up to facilitate the second or even third land expedition to the west.
"General! General! ā
Feng Zheng's guards in front of him stumbled all the way.
Feng Zai was the great general of Hu Hai's personal title, and like Meng Tian, he was the two highest-ranking people in the Great Qin army.
"What's the system of panicking?" Feng Zai held the guard and said.
The Guilin soldiers who were watching in panic because of the panicked shouts of the guards all chuckled in response, and then continued to cut down the bushes or branches on both sides of the line that affected the march.
If these things are not cleared, the baggage soldiers in the rear will be uncomfortable.
The rotten leaves and the like accumulated on the ground were trampled by nearly 100,000 troops, and even if it was a lump of mud, I am afraid that it would be trampled tightly.
"General, Captain Feng Fan is gone!" The guard choked with red circles in his eyes.
When Feng Zai heard this, his body couldn't help shaking.
Feng Fan is a member of the Feng clan, and when Feng Zheng was stationed in Ao Cang and had no available soldiers, Feng Ji sent the people of the Feng clan to him as a team. With the beginning of Feng Zheng's southern expedition, these Feng clansmen also entered Feng Zheng's army.
And Feng Fan is Feng Ji's brother. He is the most optimistic brother.
After Feng Zheng returned to the Guilin Army in the fourth year of the Second Dynasty, he had already called back the Feng clansmen who were scattered in the various armies of the Guilin Army as generals at all levels, and stayed by his side to act as personal guards.
It's just that for this youngest and most optimistic clan brother Feng Fan, Feng Ji thought about it but did not remove his official position. Instead, according to Feng Fan's military merits, he was promoted to the first rank of the military department and became the captain of the Guilin Army.
In this western expedition, Feng Fan led a 5,000-strong army as the pioneer.
This was requested by Feng Fan himself.
In the unknown primeval jungle, the soldiers who walk in front as pathfinders are all cannon fodder. Everybody knows that. Feng Fan knew, and Feng Zheng also knew.
Every soldier in the army was born and raised by his parents, and Feng Zheng wanted the captains of each army to draw lots to decide which army to explore the way to be the vanguard. However, several captains, including Feng Fan, took the initiative to ask for battle at the same time, and in the end, Feng Zheng still chose Feng Fan.
Not only because Feng Fan is extremely clever and extremely familiar with the jungle environment, but more importantly, Feng Fan is his clansman. Many people in the Guilin army know this.
Feng Zheng soon saw Feng Fan's body.
It was a swamp that had not been discovered by the Great Army. This swamp is no different from the foliage-covered ground around it, but as soon as one steps on it, it will be swallowed up by the swamp in an instant.
In the jungle, such swamps hidden under rotting leaves were the greatest threat to the Guilin army. Because no one knows where this swamp will appear under the ground, and when it will break through the leaves on it and fall.
If you're lucky, you'll sink as soon as you step on it, so that the people around you still have time to come to the rescue. If you are unlucky, if you go a certain distance and collapse because there are many people, then no one who enters the depths of the swamp will survive.
There were also dozens of pathfinder soldiers who were also wearing black armor near Feng Fan, and they were all soldiers under Feng Fan's command. Obviously, Feng Fan and the others just ran into the most dangerous and terrifying swamp with a relatively hard surface.
Now, these dozens of soldiers, including Feng Fan, are only showing their heads outside, but they don't make any noise. Visible to the naked eye, countless tiny black worms were constantly moving in and out of their seven orifices.
Next to the swamp, there was the body of a salvaged Qin soldier. But it was like a punctured water bladder, shriveled and paralyzed on the ground, and countless insects crawled around on him, but he was afraid that the torches of the Qin army's soldiers did not run elsewhere.
The bodies of these Qin soldiers were hollowed out by the worm, and only a skin was left!
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