What is the essence of war? Plunder.

Not to mention the division of kings and the division of justice, the essence of war is one, that is, to plunder and plunder the enemy's resources, these resources include population, food, minerals, money, etc., and then enrich their own pockets, this is war.

In the history of China, there are many emperors who did not understand the essence of war, so they obviously won the war, but they had to send money to the barbarians, the barbarians are getting richer and richer, and China is getting poorer and poorer, it is really strange, what is this kind of war for? Is it just a pure show of force and then a show of grace? If someone kills someone else and gives some money, he thinks that others will be grateful to Dade? This is a dream, if you want to fight, you have to be disabled, and you have to knock the bones and instigate them to suck their blood dry, so they will be afraid, this is war.

Although Lin Bei doesn't like war, he understands the essence of war, so the purpose of this war is quite obvious, and he doesn't want to be hypocritical, the purpose is to plunder the resources and population of those natives, bring these natives' territories under his rule, and rescue some Chinese sons and daughters by the way.

Iron is indeed running out, when the new migration to Wanghai first built a large number of farm tools, consumed most of the iron ore taken, and then developed a steam carriage during this time, and used a lot of iron, now the blacksmith is studying the method of filling steel, the iron is used like flowing water, the inventory of Wanghai City Iron is decreasing day by day, the blacksmith found An Zhongzhi at two ends in three days, so that An Zhongzhi's hair is a few white, An Zhongzhi also cries in front of Lin Bei every day, so that Lin Bei is not happy.

So for the sake of resources, Wanghai City can't wait to start a war, and must rob and rob those natives, even if those natives don't have iron, then they can rob some people back, and when the time comes, they can treat these natives as slaves. Let them go to iron ore.

Although the war was delayed again and again due to various things during this time, Wanghai City never relaxed on the armament, so when Lin Bei gave the order, the war started at an astonishing speed, and the next day, the logging group composed of the people set off. An Zhongzhi is really afraid that there will be too many dreams at night.

The logging group will rush to the vicinity of the mountain range where Lin Bei originally saved the Wang family, Lin Bei will set this place as point A, and will cut down trees at point A to create a wooden road, which leads directly to the place of the natives in the dense forest, where Lin Bei is set as point B, the distance between the two points is nearly 100 miles, and after the wooden road is built, the boatman will build the boat and use the river as the road. Search the surrounding area to find the great tribes of the natives.

One day after the logging group set off, Lin Bei set off with the sergeants and shipbuilders for three days, caught up with the logging group, and also came to point A.

Lin Bei went up the mountain to disperse the snakes and insects, and the lumberjacks cut down the trees, but this time they did not cut down on a large scale. It's just a matter of cutting a path, so it's pretty fast. On the same day, the wooden road was paved directly from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain.

In addition to dispersing snakes and insects, Lin Bei also had to be responsible for the food of these people, and the bison herd in the dense forest suffered, and on this day Lin Bei killed more than forty bison, almost slaughtering a herd of bison. However, these bison are nothing compared to the herds of bison in the dense forest, and in addition, the baby bison were captured and domesticated. Later, it will become livestock or war oxen.

In this battle, Bian Ji also accompanied him, Lin Bei didn't want him to be tired, but Bian Ji insisted, saying that he was a scholar and could give advice when the time came, Lin Bei felt that he was also capable of protecting Bian Ji's safety, so he finally agreed.

In the evening, when the army rested, it rained again, but fortunately the rain was not strong and soon stopped, but the soldiers and men had to bury their pots in the damp trees and keep warm.

"It's annoying." Bian Ji walked out of the camp tent and complained to Lin Bei when he came back.

Lin Bei is very calm, the weather in the tropical forest is like this, it may rain at any time, so you can only pray for light rain, don't pray for no rain.

If it weren't for Lin Bei to be here in town, after the rain, the animals in the forest would be quite active, snakes and insects and the like would be even more difficult to prevent, maybe it would have caused heavy losses to the sergeant before it went deeper, and now Lin Bei's breath deterred that the snakes and insects scattered and fled, and the probability of the sergeant's injury was minimized, which was already quite good.

There was nothing to do overnight, and the next day, the sergeant came to report that more than 100 people were infected with wind and cold last night, these people are not very suitable for life in the dense forest, and they feel weak and weak as soon as they come in.

After Bian Ji heard this, he also felt the danger of Lin Zhan, this just being sick was enough to give people a headache, but those natives did not have this concern.

"You know it's difficult, right?" Lin Bei saw Bian Ji's face and asked with a smile.

"The students already know about it, so it's no wonder that the barbarians are constantly suppressing it."

"So, when you said you were going to go to war in the past, I didn't advocate an immediate war, I just wanted to build the road first, so that the sergeant would not be invaded by illness after a tiring journey, but now the situation is already good, and the master does not need to worry."

"I'm glad I have adults." Bian Ji was really happy, remembering the moment he followed him into the mountain yesterday, he saw snakes and insects running all over the ground, and Bian Ji's scalp was really numb.

When it was almost noon, Lin Bei and Bian Ji got a report from the sergeant, saying that some people had died, and there were three of them, Lin Bei and Bian Ji were shocked.

"There's an enemy attack?" Bian Ji hurriedly asked.

"None."

"But the beast?"

"My lord, I don't know, but according to the people around me, no wild beast dares to come, those three people are cutting down trees, and then they fall to the ground and convuls, and then die, it's very weird, and now the people are a little uneasy."

Lin Bei took a breath, glanced at Bian Ji, and hurriedly got out of the tent and rushed to the place where the incident occurred.

The sergeants had already cordoned off the place, and Lin Bei rushed there, and the sergeants came to report that there was no trace of any note in the vicinity at all, that the natives must not have been, and that the large beasts had not come.

Lin Bei entered in the court, Bian Ji also wanted to enter, Lin Bei shook his head at him, and Bian Ji had to stop: "My lord, be careful in everything." ”

The three dead people were still lying there, and the bodies were not collected, Lin Bei could see the three foaming at the mouth, their eyes widened, they should be very frightened before they died, Lin Bei was a little unbearable, but he had to observe carefully.

"Looking at them like this, it clearly doesn't look like a beast. Is it because the water and soil are not adapted to the sudden epidemic? But why are only the three people sick in this case, but the others have not had an accident? ”

Lin Bei then asked about the situation of the three men, and the sergeants told Lin Bei that the three men were in good health, otherwise they would not have been selected into the logging regiment, and Lin Bei denied the epidemic.

Half a circle around the corpses of the three people. Lin Bei's eyes suddenly swept over a big tree next to him, this tree had been cut off in half, and the bark was white, Lin Bei looked at it for a while, remembered a kind of tree, subconsciously took half a step back, looked at it a few more times, and said that Nima's was originally made by this thing.

This tree is a poisonous tree. It is called poison arrow, the bark is gray, the sap is highly poisonous, and the poison of the cobra is almost the same, as long as the sap is splashed into the wound, it is almost certain to die, Lin Bei was a researcher of the Forestry Bureau in the previous life, so he still knows a lot about this kind of tree. This kind of arrow poison wood is also found in China, and it is generally in Dali. There should also be some in the three countries of Thailand, Burma and Vietnam, but Lin Bei didn't think about it for a while, but he didn't want the people to cut wood, but he came across this kind of tree.

"Found the reason." Lin Bei sighed in his heart, pointed to this arrow poison wood and said, "These three people were poisoned by the sap splashed into the wound of this tree, and this tree is called arrow poison wood. The sap is extremely poisonous. ”

It's actually a tree? The sergeants were stunned, looked at the big tree, and subconsciously took a few steps back, afraid that they thought it was a dryad again.

Bian Ji thought about it for a while, and seemed to think of something. He said slowly: "Could it be the 'Gogong Poison Tree' called by the Yizhou Yi people?" It is said that the tiger and bear were shot into the body by this tree, and they fell to the ground and died, and the people of Youyi smeared their juice on the arrows and shot the tiger and leopard, which was invincible. ”

"That's it." Lin Bei nodded.

"It's good to know it's the tree."

Seeing that the sergeants around him still looked unbelieving and afraid, Bian Ji asked the sergeant to catch a hare, cut a wound, and asked the sergeant to carefully drip the sap into the hare's wound.

"Wang Laicai, tell the soldiers and the people to be careful of this kind of tree, and when they cut down the trees, wrap their hands with cloth, so that there are no wounds, and if they are injured, let these people leave the mountain, so as not to increase unnecessary casualties." Bian Ji gave another order.

Wang Laicai hurriedly responded, and then notified everyone, I heard that the reason was found, the common people first breathed a sigh of relief, and then heard that it was poisoned by the sap of the tree, these common people were a little afraid, fortunately Wang Laicai listened to Bian Ji's words, let these people wrap their hands with cloth, there are no wounds, Lin Bei even showed up to say, touched the arrow poison wood with his body, and told the common people that as long as there is no wound, they will be fine, and the common people will settle down, and then they will be more cautious when cutting wood.

In the evening, the sergeant came to report again, there was nothing wrong this afternoon, but the poison wood found a lot, in addition to the poison wood, the sergeant and the people also found several poisonous rattans and shrubs, fortunately these are not as toxic as the poison wood, the people have been prepared, and there was no accident, but this day only paved more than ten miles of wooden roads, the progress is very slow.

There was no rain at night, Lin Bei had been patrolling around, and he didn't go back until the second half of the night.

A mad rhinoceros rushed into the resting place of the people and the sergeants, because of the surprise, a sergeant was killed, and then the rhinoceros was injured more than a dozen people before being driven away, after Lin Bei got the news, he came up angrily, and immediately pursued and killed the rhinoceros, and chased and killed the rhinoceros for more than ten miles before the rhinoceros was killed, and then dragged back, and then appeased the common people and the sergeants.

On the second day of entering the forest, more than 300 people fell ill, and then they were sent away from Changshan, but fortunately, because it was not an epidemic, the people and sergeants in the north of the forest still felt very safe, so although there were accidents one after another, the morale was still high.

At noon on the second day, Lin Bei saw that Bian Ji's face was a little wrong: "Master, do you think there is something wrong with you?" ”

Bian Ji's face was a little red, and this was not normal, but Bian Ji didn't feel it, "Adult, the student doesn't feel it, with an adult on his side, how can the student be inappropriate?" ”

"I don't think your face is right."

Bian Ji looked at the basin, "Isn't it that you haven't slept well these days?" ”

Lin Bei didn't care about Bian Ji, and ordered the sergeant to summon the military doctor, after the military doctor took the pulse, he said that Bian Ji alternated between cold and hot, yin qi rose, and what yang qi was low and weak, anyway, there were a lot of them, in short, they were sick, and I wouldn't feel it at the beginning of this disease, but once the disease happened, it was really sick, and at that moment Lin Bei directly asked the sergeant to send Bian Ji away.

On this day, the people have already taken advantage of the wooden road, so this day has been paved for fifteen miles, and at the same time, they have also encountered a problem, that is, they have encountered a swamp in the forest, and this swamp is not easy to bypass.

At night, Lin Bei circled around the swamp, and came back to tell Sergeant Sù how to cross the swamp, that is, to cut down the big tree directly, not to go to the branches and leaves, to use the tree as a bridge, this day Lin Bei was also tired enough, he was churning in the mud of the swamp, dragging trees, saving people, testing the depth of the swamp, anyway, he did all the work, and finally when he rested at night, Lin Bei felt as tired as a dog.

Even if Lin Bei was so tired that he was like a dog, on the fourth day, the number of people who fell ill was increasing, and the total number of people was almost 2,000 people getting sick, and at this time, there was still a distance of nearly fifty miles from point B, which was really difficult.

As they went deeper into the dense forest, there were more beasts around, and at night the sergeants had to light torches to drive away the beasts, even if they were so prepared, they still encountered another rhinoceros attack, each rhinoceros was short-sighted, they couldn't see people at all, so sometimes they would rush towards the bright place, their skin was rough and rough, their strength was infinite, and they charged like a tank, and the sergeants couldn't stop it at all.

In addition to the rhinoceros, Lin Bei they also encountered a large herd of bison, I don't know whether it was migration or what, the number of bison reached nearly a thousand, fortunately the bison herd was afraid of fire, the bison herd was frightened by the erection of the torch to deviate from the route, but that kind of momentum made many people dare not sleep all night, including Lin Bei.

Lin Bei had to do everything after running, but his body would not get sick, so on the morning of the fifth day, Lin Bei looked at his body and found that he was a little thin and haggard. (To be continued......)

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