The air is filled with the smell of dampness, and even with good incense, it is difficult to cover this lingering musty smell.

Most of the land of Baiyue belongs to undeveloped places, with many rainforests and mountains, and most of the local people live by fishing and hunting. In the spring and summer rainy season, the jungle is humid, and the slightest movement can make it uncomfortable.

This also made Zhao Tuo feel very uncomfortable, every year at this time, the knife wound he suffered when he was young would be faintly painful, making him unable to sleep at night and unable to eat. Only by smoking it with wormwood can the pain be slightly reduced.

Although Zhao Tuo is a Qin general, but not a Qin person, he was born in Zhending County, Hengshan County, Zhao, and his father has been a general of the Zhao army for several generations, and he is an out-and-out Zhao person.

When he was a teenager, Zhao Tuo was resolute and brave, strong in martial arts, and won the favor of the first emperor. At the age of nineteen, he was given the escort of the sword to accompany the first emperor on patrol, and was the captain of Yulin. The Yulin Army is an elite division dominated by the children of the good family of the Qin State, and Zhao Tuo can be awarded the title of captain as a Zhao person, which shows the love of the First Emperor for him.

Sure enough, two years later, Zhao Tuo, who was only twenty-one years old, was appointed deputy marshal of the Southern Expeditionary Army and became one of the most powerful generals in the empire. When the First Emperor issued this appointment, the court was in an uproar, and there had never been a general who took on such a heavy responsibility at such a young age in the history of the Qin State.

In the face of the discussion of the ministers, the First Emperor turned a blind eye. The reason why he is so fortunate to Zhao Tuo is that on the one hand, he knows that he is a rare talent, and the deeper reason is that the first emperor saw his shadow in Zhao Tuo.

When he was young, Qin Wangzheng liked fencing, and he always longed to become a monarch like King Zhao Wuling, who "combined the master of the Ming and the good generals". After that, he had to give up the unrealistic ideas of his youth and concentrate on staying in the palace and becoming a successful monarch and emperor. Although he now owns the whole world, he still has some regrets in his heart.

And Zhao Tuo's appearance in disguised satisfaction of his desire for military merit, he wanted to realize his young dream through Zhao Tuo, so Zhao Tuo was promoted to the deputy marshal of the 500,000 Southern Expeditionary Army, which was fortunate to move the Manchu ministers.

Facts have also proved that the vision of the first emperor is not bad, Zhao Tuo has always fulfilled his duties as a general, and he took the lead in every battle, and set an example for the soldiers. Tu Sui, the original commander of the Southern Expeditionary Army, provoked a fierce resistance of the Yue people against the Qin State because of his wanton massacre of the locals, and he himself was killed by a poisoned arrow in an ambush.

Subsequently, the Yue people took advantage of Tu Sui's death to counterattack, and for a time they beat the Qin army back again and again, and suffered heavy losses. At this time, it was also Zhao Tuo who stood up and took over the overall situation of the Southern Expeditionary Army, killed decisively, and quickly gathered the scattered main forces of the Qin army to counterattack. Only then did it narrowly stabilize the situation in South Vietnam and repel the counterattack of the Vietnamese. Later Emperor Shi sent Ren Huan as the commander-in-chief, and re-led the reinforcements to the south to meet with Zhao Tuo, after ten years of operation, this completely pacified Lingnan.

In all fairness, Zhao Tuo is not a person who does not know how to repay his kindness, he is extremely grateful to the first emperor for his kindness, as long as Yingzheng gives an order, he will definitely do anything without hesitation, even if it costs his life.

It's a pity that his loyalty is only to Yingzheng alone, not to the entire Great Qin. Except for Ren Huan, he didn't like other Qin people, and his feelings for Qin were even more impossible.

His father, a lieutenant under Li Mu, was killed by the Northern Qin army in the Battle of Handan, and his mother also died in the chaos. He never told anyone about his background, including his father's hustle. Everyone thought he was just an orphan, an orphan who had lost his home in the war.

After getting the weight of the First Emperor, Zhao Tuo once buried the hatred of the Qin State in his heart deeply, and the soldier died as a confidant, he was determined to be loyal to the First Emperor and the Qin State, in order to repay the First Emperor for his respect. But the sudden death of the First Emperor made him lose his allegiance, and Ren Huan's dying words made him even more dazed.

He has been hesitating and watching, at the critical juncture of the Qin Empire's survival, he chose to remain silent with 400,000 heavy troops in his hands, and gave up the empire that had brought him glory and glory and brought ruin. After getting the news of the Julu fiasco, he judged that the main force of the Qin State had been lost, and it was only a matter of time before the country was destroyed. So in accordance with Ren Huan's will, he closed the customs and cut off the road, and built three lines of defense in the north to gather troops to defend himself.

In Ren Huan's will, "Panyu bears mountain risks and obstructs the South China Sea" mainly refers to the five mountains lying in the northern part of Lingnan to isolate Chu. Panyu leans on the mountains and borders the sea, controls the five mountains in the north, and chokes the three rivers in the near direction, which is the key point of attack and defense in Lingnan. In order to prevent the war in the north from extending to the south, Zhao Tuo strengthened his control over Lingnan and strictly sealed the four passes of Wuling - Hengpu Pass, Yupu Pass, Yangshan Pass, and Huangxi Pass, thus cutting off the four new roads connecting Lingnan with Chu. At the same time, three lines of defense were built to guard Panyu: Lechang Yirenhua and Nanxiong defense lines, Yingde Qingyuan defense lines, and Shimen fortress defense lines.

The northern army wanted to attack South Vietnam beyond the five ridges, and it would not be possible to reach Panyu without breaking through these three lines of defense. At the same time, if the people of Lingnan wanted to return to the north, it was almost impossible without Zhao Tuo's warrant. This move also cut off the people's desire to return to the north, so they had to let go of their hometown and concentrate on running Lingnan.

In recent years, Zhao Tuo has been diligent in repairing internal affairs, using the advanced technology of the Central Plains to extensively repair water conservancy and build iron tools, and on the other hand, he has sent troops to attack the surrounding hostile forces. He destroyed four small countries and expanded his territory a lot.

At the beginning of the year, Minyue secretly executed more than 20 Chu people who had sneaked into Minyue and wanted to return to their hometown. When the news came, the Chu people in Lingnan suddenly boiled, and they all shouted to avenge their comrades. This was originally a trivial matter, if Zhao Tuo ignored it, the Chu people would be quiet in a few days at most, but Zhao Tuo was not willing to calm things down.

He had long looked down on the Minyue Kingdom in the northeast, but he was just suffering from starting a war without a reasonable excuse, and this was a perfect opportunity. Zhao Tuo sent an envoy to accuse the king of Minyue and asked him to come to Panyu in person to make amends.

The king of Minyue is the descendant of the overlord Goujian in the late Spring and Autumn Period, and then crossed by the Chu State, and the Yue clan was exiled to Baiyue, and many people used advanced technology to become local leaders, and the king of Minyue was one of the most successful.

When the first emperor's southern expeditionary army went south, the king of Minyue knew that the Qin state was powerful and could not be resisted by him, so he wisely chose to surrender the whole country. The first emperor Longxin Dayue, actually did not deprive him of his rule over the locals, but rewarded him heavily, although Minyue County was set up in the land of Minyue for officials and soldiers, but the privileges of the Minyue King were not completely deprived, as if it became a country within a country.

The power of the Later Qin State shrank rapidly, and the king of Minyue took the opportunity to oppose Qin and become the lord of Minyue again. He was originally a descendant of the Spring and Autumn Overlord Gou Jian, and he thought very highly of himself, and he couldn't look down on Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, who was born in grass, and let him go to Panyu in person to apologize, which was simply impossible.

Zhao Tuo used this as an excuse to raise troops, and with the general Xingju as the general, he commanded 70,000 troops to attack Minyue in the north. The South Vietnamese army from the regular army of the Qin army could not be compared with these native armies, the South Vietnamese army was like a bamboo, and soon captured the capital of Minyue, and the king of Minyue fled into the mountains and forests and continued to resist stubbornly.

The great victory in the Minyue War also made Zhao Tuo feel very good, and he swept away the haze caused by the pain a few days ago, and held a banquet to invite his courtiers and subordinates, and Panyu City was full of joy for a while.

At the banquet, a civil official in a Qin suit stood up and held up the wine lord, smiled at Zhao Tuo on the seat and said loudly; "Our Yue army is so mighty, it has captured the Minyue Kingdom in just one month, which is really the credit of your king. You must know that my 450,000 elite soldiers in South Vietnam are strong enough to make the world look sideways, this king of Minyue does not know whether he is alive or dead, and he dares to come and tease the beard of the king, he really deserves it, and he is innocent of death! ”

Zhao Tuo laughed and said to the left and right with joy; "Well said, come on, reward."

The civil official was overjoyed, and took the bounty and thanked him loudly; "More of the king's reward." Seeing that Zhao Tuo was in such a good mood today, the other people in the hall stood up and congratulated one after another. For a while, the flattering words were endless, but Zhao Tuo didn't feel disgusted at all, but was very willing to listen, and everyone who said well was rewarded without hesitation.

As he gets older and indulges in lust for many years, Zhao Tuo is no longer the heroic and upright young general he was back then. He was thirty-six years old, his original straight posture was gradually becoming rickety, and the tense muscles of his body had been replaced by loose fat.

Wine and power are really something that makes it easy to sink into it, and once you get used to it, the original life will be completely replaced. After Ren Huan's death, Zhao Tuo became the first person in Lingnan, holding heavy troops and commanding thousands of miles, he became the king of Lingnan, and everyone's life and death were nothing more than his words.

Five years ago, Zhao Tuo thought only of becoming a famous general of the Qin State, repaying the first emperor with loyalty and merit. Leave a name in history and become a famous general like Bai Qi and Wang Qian.

But now he can no longer be willing to be a courtier, and the taste of "standing above ten thousand people, killing all one person" is really deep in it, and it is impossible to give up. He is now quite only if he can become a hero and command the world.

It's not that he didn't want to compete in the Central Plains and win the world, but reason made him give up this unrealistic idea.

Although he has a heavy army, he is one of the largest military forces in the world, and the Xiongnu Maodun in his heyday is known as "the south is strong and the north is strong". But he also has his fatal weakness, which is weak logistics and unstable foundations.

Although Lingnan has been pacified, it is sparsely populated, and there are many uninhabited places. The number of Vietnamese people who had been killed or wounded in the brutal war of ten years was reduced to less than 500,000. In order to consolidate Qin's rule in Lingnan, Ren Huan wrote to persuade the First Emperor to move 500,000 immigrants from the Central Plains, which has become the main part of the population of Lingnan today.

South Vietnam was a deformed country, with an army of 450,000 men and a population of less than a million, with far more men than women. That's why Zhao Tuo will continue to plunder the population and women of neighboring countries through wars to maintain the continuity of South Vietnam.

At that time, the logistics supply of the South Vietnamese army was almost completely dependent on the Qin State, and Zhao Tuo was cut off from the Qin Dynasty, so naturally he did not have these supplies, and could only rely on his own cultivation to barely survive. Although Zhao Tuo overhauled internal affairs and made great achievements, he could only maintain the supply of the army in the homeland. If you are fighting in a situation, it will be extremely difficult.

For example, in this attack on Minyue, Zhao Tuo only sent 70,000 troops. This was not because he did not have any available troops at hand, but because the fragile supplies of South Vietnam could not support the expedition of the large army, and 70,000 was already the limit.

The shackles of supplies also doomed South Vietnam to become a country that could only be defended, and could not participate in the battle for hegemony in the Central Plains.

Of course, there is a more important reason, and that is the instability of people's hearts. The road home has been cut off, so these Central Plains people will follow Zhao Tuo's orders and rely on him to survive in this strange place. However, once the camp is pulled out and goes north to compete for hegemony in the Central Plains, God knows whether these soldiers will disperse in a hurry after returning to the Central Plains, and even respond to the attack of the homeland.

Although the Southern Expeditionary Army was numbered 600,000 troops, in fact, excluding the dead and wounded, it was only 450,000, of which only 30% were the real Qin people, and the Chu people were the majority. It is not easy for Zhao Tuo to stabilize the morale of the army, and it is still very good for his army to fight ethnic minorities, but how they will react to the Chu army and the Qin army, only God knows.

Therefore, Zhao Tuo gave up the desire to be the emperor and fight for hegemony, and An An became his king of Nanyue.

Dozens of spirits were drunk, Rao is Zhao Tuo was very interested, and he couldn't help but feel a little fluttery, and the two palace maids took great effort to help the bloated Zhao Tuo into the palace, one went to report to the queen, and the other wiped Zhao Tuo's body with water.

Zhao Tuo woke up in a daze, only to feel that his mouth was dry, and he saw a Miaoman's body in front of him panting and fiddling with himself, and his chest suddenly burned with lust. He turned around and pressed the girl on his body, and stripped off his clothes and turned over.

The king of Nanyue was willing to come to pamper him, and the palace maid was naturally willing in every way, so she only symbolically broke free slightly, and then closed her eyes and let Zhao Tuo fiddle.

The sound of ecstasy from the tent was blood-pumping, and Zhao Tuo panted and struggled to gallop across the girl's body, with beads of sweat on his head, and his heart was indeed extremely happy. In a trance, it seemed to go back to the time when he was strong and strong, riding a horse and galloping on the grassland, his heart was full of ambition and strength.

Finally, at the moment of eruption, Zhao Tuo only felt that his mind was blank, and then a deep tiredness came up. He rolled over and lay down, suddenly realizing that this was his true self now, his tired body, and his lack of energy.

Just as Zhao Tuo was about to fall asleep, a little eunuch's anxious shout came from outside the door.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." The little eunuch shouted a few times, and seeing that Zhao Tuo still didn't respond, he raised his voice and still shouted.

Zhao Tuo, who didn't want to pay attention to it, was furious for a short time, and roared angrily: "Didn't you see the widow sleeping, do you want to die?" ”

The little eunuch outside the door knelt down with a thud and kowtowed vigorously; "The king spares his life, it's really an urgent military situation, the military situation is urgent, General Wu asked me to wake you up no matter what, otherwise it will be too late."

Zhao Tuo regained some reason at this time, "Get in." ”

The eunuch crawled into the hall with his head down, not daring to look up at the two naked men and women on the bed. Zhao Tuo was accustomed to it, and waited viciously for the eunuch to say; "You'd better pray that the news you bring is enough for the Central Plains, otherwise the widow will definitely kill you."

The eunuch trembled with fright; "Back to ...... Back to Your Majesty, Guilin reported urgently, and a large army invaded south. ”

Zhao Tuo was full of excitement, suddenly sobered up, and said in shock; "You say there is a large army going south, who is it? But Chu Jun? ”

Several thoughts suddenly flashed in my heart, and the northern border of Nanyue was only the Chu State, the Shu State and the Linjiang State. The power of the king of Linjiang is weak, he Zhao Tuo will be thankful if he does not go to Linjiang, if he dares to attack South Vietnam, it can only be said that he has lost his mind. As for Shu, it is even more impossible. In this way, there is only Xiang Yu's Chu State, although Zhao Tuo has never fought with Xiang Yu, he is like thunder about his great name, and he is really a little afraid of the strength of Chu State.

It's just that I really can't figure out what reason Xiang Yu has to beat himself, and there is no reason at all.

Seeing the eunuch shake his head, he said; "It's not Chu Jun." Zhao Tuo's heart that had been hanging for a long time was put down.

It's good if it's not Xiang Yu, now the person he fears the most is nothing more than Xiang Yu, as long as it's not him, others are just chickens and dogs, and they are vulnerable.

But Zhao Tuo didn't have time to be happy for long, and the eunuch's words made him fall off the ground in an instant.

"Great King, it's not the Chu State, it's the Qin State, the Qin State."

Zhao Tuo's eyes widened, and he shouted out in disbelief; "What?"

"Are you sure it's the Qin State? How can it be? ”

The eunuch just lowered his head, and said with an urn; "Back to Your Majesty, General Wu just sent someone to let the servants say these words to Your Majesty, and he said that Your Majesty will definitely come in person. Just after saying these few words, the other minions really don't know. ”

Zhao Tuo was silent for a long time and waved his hand, "You did the right thing, you go down first and go to the treasury to receive a reward of ten gold." ”

Although the eunuch received the reward, his expression was complicated, and he could not see the joy of receiving the bounty.

Because he is also a Qin person, when he heard the word "Qin", his heart almost jumped out of his chest.

Suddenly, he wanted to shout, to let everyone know that they weren't rootless duckweeds, they weren't lonely ghosts with lost souls.

Because the Qin State is still there, and the Great Qin is still there!

PS: It's two hundred chapters, a little joy, a little achievement, a little emotion. This book is planned to have one and a half volumes, about 400,000 words, and should be completed before the Chinese New Year.

This is the first book in Jiangnan, a little immature, a little hurried, and many of the settings are not very reasonable, it can be regarded as an attempt, trying a new way of writing a time-traveling novel. The next book will be wonderful and unusual.

Praise and criticism, right and wrong, floating clouds, bad writing, everyone laughs, don't take it to heart.