"Strategist! Those mountains don't know how to do it, why do you have to ...... it yourself," Zhang Liao said urgently.

At this time, Zhang Liao and Chen Gong were stationed in a valley in Luling County, near Guiyang County in Jingzhou.

Not far away is the station of the Shanyue people - now the number of Shanyue people is no less than 100,000!

The normal Shanyue tribe will not gather so many people, this is the youth and strength of dozens of large and small Shanyue tribes condensed with the three major tribes in the south of Luling County and the depths of the mountains as the core.

Not only Lugang County, but also some of the Sanyue of Guiyang County are also here......

Of course, the "map" is the map of the Han Dynasty, and the barbarians in the south of Guilin and Luling are not divided according to the map of the Han Dynasty.

However, it is true that there are two barbarians in the east and west, and there is a faint meaning of holding together separately.

Genealogically speaking, the barbarians on this side of Luling County are the ancient Yue people when they are looking for their roots, so they are called "Shanyue", and the barbarians in Guiyang and the south of Lingling in Jingzhou are "Jing Man", that is, the aborigines of Chu before the Chu people came here.

Although other countries also contemptuously call the Chu State "Chu Barbarian", but the Chu State from the royal family to the nobility, mostly out of the Zhuan lineage, in the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Western Zhou countries at war, stop and stop and finally take root in today's Jingbei area, the Zhou Dynasty also recognized its feudal status, and the original indigenous people here are "Jing Man".

As for further west, from the southwest of Lingling County to the south of Wuling County, the barbarians are "Wuxi Barbarians", the barbarians in the southwest of Wuling County plus the south of Yizhou are called "Nanzhong Barbarians", and Meng Shu, who plays the heaviest role in the romance, is the strongest tribal leader in Nanzhong Man.

The ancestors of Wuxi Man and Nanzhongman are all descendants of the Ba people, and the Ba people and Yue people are also the biggest constraints to the development of Chu from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period......

As for Jingman, in the development of the Chu State, it has been almost assimilated, and the remaining tribes have also approached the Ba people in terms of culture and customs.

Even under the unified regime of the Han Dynasty, these "barbarians" still exist, often after a long period of peace, chaos and chaos, killing tens of thousands of people, and then being able to settle down again for a period of time.

If roughly arranged, from Bashu to Jiangdong, the barbarians in the south can be regarded as three groups from west to east - Nanzhongman, Wuxi Man, and Shanyue.

The barbarian tribes fought each other more than when they bravely rushed out to attack the Han counties, and after the Ba State was destroyed by the Qin State, the Southern Barbarians were never unified again, but ...... It is true that it is relatively easier to be friendly between the Shanyue tribes and the Wuxi barbarians.

Chen Gong is to lure the Shanyue people through coercion and profit, and collectively rush to the west, even if Shanyue and Wuxi Man fight, it is also beneficial to the General's Mansion, as long as they can take advantage of the barbarians have no time to take care of him, send troops to the Jingnan area, the Third Route Army has already succeeded most of it.

As for the defense forces of the four counties of Jingnan......

In Chen Palace, it seems to be negligible at all, if it weren't for the mountains in the south, the combined strength of the four counties of Jingnan would not be as good as half of that of Nanjun or Nanyang County!

However, now that Chen Gong finally reluctantly reconciled Shanyue and was about to advance westward, the other party put forward a new condition, that is, he hoped that Chen Gong could command them to fight......

Nominally as allies, the General's Mansion should reduce their casualties and send "wise men" to assist them.

But in fact, everyone knows that this is to make Chen Gong a "hostage"!

Zhang Liao fiercely opposed Chen Gong's visit at this time, because of the relationship in the past, Zhang Liao was more accustomed to calling Chen Gong "military advisor".

"No, I'm the one who sent the troops to the south, this is the risk I should take, and we're lucky compared to what we expected." Chen Gong said.

With food and fists, persuade the Shanyue tribe to make up the youth and march westward, at least the first step of Chen Gong has been completed.

"But...... The military advisors, those Shanyue people, especially the people of the snake cultivation tribe, were originally unattached, but they were afraid that the military advisor would go, but it made them think that the general's mansion showed weakness and gave them the confidence to rebel. Zhang Liao persuaded him.

It's okay to say that Shanyue is just for "happy cooperation", but who can be sure that these Shanyue people are not for revenge, so they first pulled Chen Gong to worship the sky?

It is very dangerous to use food to bring together the mountains and the mountains, which could not be gathered together, and if you are not careful, you may have to overturn.

The Yue people worship the snake, and the Ba people worship the tiger.

Most of the tribes of the ancient Yue people are named after snakes, and they have the habit of tattooing snakes, especially the barbarians who have used Yue Ji to "turn into barbarians", and their bodies are basically snake war patterns.

This is also the best way to distinguish the ancient Yue people from the Shanyue, and the "pseudo-Shanyue" inhabited by the Han people, those who are also called Zhangjiagou and Lijiazhai, do not need to think about it to know that it is the Han people who go up the mountain......

The three major tribes that now have "Yue Ji" are all named after the legendary snakes, namely the snake cultivator, the hooked snake and the singing snake.

Among them, the people of the snake cultivation tribe were the most hostile to the Han family, and when they first came into contact, they almost had a fierce conflict.

It's just that after the negotiations, the people of the snake cultivation department seem to have great enthusiasm for westward expansion, and even take the initiative to "help" the General's Mansion and contact other Shanyue tribes!

In contrast, the two parts of the Singing Snake and the Hooked Snake are more like being lured successfully and mixed in......

"It is dangerous to gather a large number of young people in the mountains, but after all, they still have women, children, and children left in the mountains, and we are worried that they will fight back, so why don't they worry about us taking a salary from the bottom of the kettle?

As for the snake cultivators...... Although there is a conspiracy, in this case, I must go to this trip myself, so that the other tribes will not be bewitched by it! Wen Yuan, now Zhong Da is taking the trap camp and responding around, after I go to the Shanyue people, this southern route army will be handed over to you. Chen Gong said calmly.

At the same time, in the Shanyue garrison, the patriarch of the snake cultivation tribe and three headhunters were plotting something in a separate camp - this camp was still the "military supplies" provided by the General's Mansion.

100,000, for the entire Jiangdong "Shanyue", is just a small number, when the Eastern Wu conquered the Shanyue, but casually fought to get tens of thousands of soldiers, in the early and middle of the Three Kingdoms, it seems to be the inexhaustible "barracks" of the Eastern Wu.

However, most of the Shanyue in Jiangdong actually have nothing to do with the ancient Yue people, just farmers go up the mountain, and even Yan Baihu claims to be Shanyue when he occupies the mountain!

And for the real Guyue tribe, that is, these Guyue people in the south of Luling, these 100,000 people are already more than eighty percent of the young and strong......

In other words, Jia Xu is here, let him be a hostage?

It is estimated that Jia Xu will withdraw the army overnight, and then look back and dig all the way to move all the old and young left in the tribes of Luling County back to Yuzhang County, and those who are unwilling to move will put on a rope and become a slave and take it away, and those who have to resist on the rope will never have to leave......

After that, as long as the walls of several county towns in the south of Yuzhang are cleared, the city is defended, and a few waves of backlash can be blocked - in the case of preparation, it is almost impossible for the Shanyue people to break the city.

In this way, the westward march of the Southern Route Army may not be possible, but the most stubborn part of Shanyue, which is really culturally different from Han people, can definitely be solved completely!

Of course, Chen Gong is not Jia Xu, and he was able to "coax" the Shanyue people out so much, thanks to the previous Gao Shun and Chen Gong on behalf of the General's Mansion, and all kinds of trustworthy actions in Luling County, which were replaced by Dongwu...... I'm afraid that people won't believe it.

In this case, the General's Mansion will not accept it, and its reputation will be overdrawn in this kind of place.

"Patriarch, will the Han people come?" Yu Tong asked the patriarch who was the leader.

Just looking at their appearance, except for their rougher skin and thick joints because they often fight, there is no essential difference between these people and the Han people, after all, no matter how remote the ancient Yue people are, they have already mixed the blood of the "Han people".

It's just that the dress is a little weirder, it's all animal skin shoulders and small leather pants, even if the people in the city and the world are not very "serious", but in the Central Plains, it is still rare to see such a non-mainstream, tattoos can be seen on large pieces of bare skin...... Or rather, war paint.

The headhunter named "Yutong" also has an exaggerated horn necklace on his chest, and his shoulders and shorts are also decorated with various horn products.

On the side, who looked more rugged, he said, "What if you don't come? It's a big deal to kill it directly! There are insidious cavalry on the plains, insidious walls and bows and arrows in the cities, but here ...... It is a battlefield protected by our ancestors! Could it be that the brave Guyue warriors are still no match for those Han people? ”

The language of the ancient Yue people seems to be somewhat monotonous, which leads to the abuse of the word "insidious".

On the shoulders of Pikan, a cloak was added, but only waist-length, with a dense mane on it.

"Have you forgotten our purpose? If it weren't for those insidious Han Chinese, we wouldn't have been able to gather so many warriors to reclaim the glory of our ancestors. Tao Guang, the third headhunter, retorted at this time.

Among the four, judging from their figures, Tao Guang and the patriarch were "thinner".

Among them, Tao Guang is a woman, in addition to the open shoulders on her upper body, she is also wrapped in a piece of animal skin on her chest.

From a woman's point of view, Tao Guang is very strong......

It can also be seen from the surname that Tao Guang is not a traditional "hunter" in the tribe.

After the establishment of the Fuxi clan, the tribes basically had the habit of taking surnames, but the surnames of non-agricultural civilizations were not stable, and most of them still followed the previous naming rules, and they were often changed during transmission......

For example, the surname 兕 and the surname 豨 represent their father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, who independently hunted rhinoceros and wild boars, and the surname Tao ...... It means that her family should be a pottery burner in the tribe!

The more the ancient Yue tribe is closed, the more this point is retained, and the ancient Yue tribe with the surname Han is basically closer to the north and often interacts with the Han people.

The history of the ancient Yue people, since the beginning of Xia, from a grandson of Dayu, began to have a "Yue country" as a feudal country, although according to the Eastern Han Dynasty, or according to the etiquette system, the ancient Yue people are not "Zhuxia", but said that it is the descendants of Yan and Huang, but there is no problem at all.

The ancient Yue people were closest to the era of Zhuxia, and it should be the most powerful Yue country in the Spring and Autumn Period, especially the years when Gou Jian defeated Wu and made Yue the most prosperous, and also encouraged cultivation and actively communicated with the Central Plains countries......

At that time, the level of agriculture in the Yue Kingdom was no worse than that of other vassal states.

However, in the early Warring States period, the aristocratic class of the Yue State itself was chaotic, and there was a continuous civil strife of "the Yue people killed their kings three times", and finally the land east of the Jiangdong was seized by the Chu State - after that, if they wanted to cultivate and had no land, they could only shrink in the mountainous Huiji area and fight guerrilla warfare with the Chu State.

At this point, the Yue people missed the best opportunity to transform farming, and were finally completely destroyed by the Qin State.

At the end of Qin, the Yue nobles also led the Yue people, participated in the Qin, and when the Chu and Han wars, they also stood on the side and succeeded, and supported Liu Bang from the beginning, so they retained the feudal state of Ouyue, and later when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, King Ou took the initiative to attach the whole country and moved to Jianghuai, but there was always a part of it, in the form of a tribe, and it was not completely integrated into the Han Dynasty.

Ba is actually a similar experience, and Ba also participated in the war, is one of the first feudal states certified by the Zhou Dynasty, theoretically also "Zhuxia", but because of geographical reasons, development is blocked, first by Chu was forced to move west to the current Ba County area, and finally was destroyed by Qin.

The Ba people, who were not completely transformed into an agricultural civilization, continued to move southward and became the current "Nanzhong Barbarian".

As for why the level of civilization is "degrading" so quickly?

In fact, it is not a degradation, after all, it was still a slave society in the Spring and Autumn Period, and the popularization of iron tools in the Warring States Period began to transform from a slave society to a feudal society, and it was a complete transformation in the Han Dynasty, and at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the existence of "slaves" themselves did not disappear!

In fact, even if it were replaced by the Central Plains countries in the Spring and Autumn Period, if the "countrymen" of any country, that is, the people living in the cities, and the nobles in the opposition, were wiped out, the remaining wild people would quickly return to the tribal era, not to mention the environmentally isolated Yue and Pakistan countries.

Under the slave society, even if the aristocracy packaged itself as civilized, it had nothing to do with the vast majority of the people at the bottom.

Whether it is the nobles of the Yue Kingdom or the King of Dongou or the Dongou King, they represent the "top level of civilization" among the Yue people, but the bottom layer abandoned by them has never been in contact with civilization from the beginning.

When Xuan Yuan heard Tao Guang scolding him so facelessly, he immediately glared and said, "You mean I'm insidious?" ”

"No, I mean you're stupid." Tao Guang pouted.

"Isn't it insidious...... "Isn't it sinister" Feng Yuan calmed down a little, but then corrected: "It's not okay to be stupid!" ”

"Okay, if the Han people really don't dare to come, we will find other ways to delay...... At the same time, the matter of contacting the various tribes of Wuxi should also be stepped up. Patriarch Wangkong interrupted at this time.

"Patriarch...... The tribes over there in Wuxi were already at odds with us, so why not take this opportunity to destroy them directly? Feng Yuan asked fiercely.

"Don't forget our true purpose! If they dare to cause chaos, they will naturally be destroyed, but they can't let the Han people watch the excitement in the back! ”

"So...... Patriarch, you want to invite the Han people to come here to ......" Xuan Yuan looked at the patriarch in some surprise.

I saw that the patriarch's face was full of confidence and said, "That's right! I'm going to wit him! At this moment, the feather decoration on the patriarch's body became more vivid.