The Wei army has invaded Zhenla and Funan, but the southern barbarians have used the despicable methods of fortified walls and guerrilla warfare, constantly harassing the Wei army in various places, and sometimes the old and weak women and children will kill the lone Wei soldiers from time to time, and every woman and child seems to have become the enemy of the Wei army.

The places that the Wei army hit were basically wild places, with inconvenient transportation, dense primeval forests, and a harsh natural environment.

Although the Wei army had an absolute advantage in terms of strength and far surpassed the armies of the countries of the Indochina Peninsula in terms of equipment, the process of the war made the Wei army feel the hardships and pressures that had never been imagined before the war!

Before the war, the Wei army took into account the possibility of problems with food and grass, and also took into account the fact that the hot climate in the south was not suitable for most of the Wei soldiers born in the north; However, after the Wei army entered Southeast Asia, it was discovered that the harsh battlefield environment and the unusually fierce tenacity of the enemy army were unexpected.

The 300,000 Southern Army of the Wei Army encountered unprecedented stubborn resistance since the Southern Expedition!

The Southern Barbarian Army first fought a fierce battle with the Wei army under the leadership of the Zhenla king Chaoyu Shi, and the Wei army was difficult to step by step, suffered setbacks, lost troops and lost generals, and was unable to enter the territory of the Zhenla people.

In the war, after the Southern Barbarian Army was killed in the Battle of Chaoyushi, it immediately elected Zhu Zhantan, the king of Funan, as the commander, and retreated into the mountains and jungles to continue the battle with the Wei army. The Southern Barbarian Army even did not hesitate to be in the company of wild beasts, did not surrender to the Wei army until death, and constantly carried out sneak attacks on the Wei army troops to cut off the Wei army's grain route.

In a village in Zhenla, Wei Zheng was discussing the matter of marching with the generals, and at this time, Ran Ke walked in angrily, threw a head on the floor, and said: "I'm angry too!" It's really annoying to me! ”

"Ran Ke, what's wrong with you?"

Wei Zheng is very familiar with Ran Ke, so he doesn't stick to these etiquettes, and he doesn't blame him for being so out of shape in the Chinese army.

Ran Ke pointed to the head on the floor and said angrily, "Aren't these damn Southern Barbarians? I have been on the battlefield for more than ten years, and I have never fought such a tricky battle! ”

"Is it the Southern Barbarian who has come down the mountain to sneak attack again? Or were our soldiers killed by the local people? ”

"Both!"

Ran Ke gritted his teeth and said, "Metropolitan Governor, it's not a way to go on like this." We fought a Zhenla with such difficulty, Zhenla, Funan, Tangming and other countries and the Nanban tribes have united, they do not come out to fight to the death with our army, nor do they stick to the walled city, but retreat into the mountains and forests, strong walls and clear wilderness. Our soldiers are often raided by the Southern Barbarians, and many of them are killed at night. They were still sleeping, and the enemy had cut off their heads! ”

"What's even more excessive, it should be the old and weak women and children in these walled cities! When I visited the village, I noticed that several of the soldiers who were patrolling had been killed. What's more, it was directly raided by the local people! ”

Hearing this, all the generals bowed slightly, obviously they all knew these things.

And Geng Ji, who was beside Wei Zheng, even said: "Metropolitan Governor, now almost all the people of the Southern Barbarian countries are soldiers. Our Wei army went deep into Zhenla and Funan, and captured its walled city without much effort, but the people in the walled city were very repulsive to our Wei army, and they would come to raid coldly. ”

"As far as the last general knows, the Southern Barbarians, whether they are old, weak, women or children, are now like crazy! Sometimes, women tempted him by his beauty, and killed our sergeant while he was unprepared. Some of the children also bewitched our soldiers, picked up their knives and stabbed him to death! There are so many such things! It has to be controlled! ”

Wei Zheng's brows tightened, and after a while, he said: "I have already ordered the soldiers to take strict precautions against the Southern Barbarians, not to be left alone, and not to contact the local people casually." ”

"It's not going to work."

Geng Ji said in a deep voice: "The governor of the capital, the southern barbarians are strong and clear, and now almost all the people are soldiers, the situation is the same as the battle of Qin Zheng Baiyue back then, it is the same!" Now it's not just the matter of the southern barbarians hiding in the mountains and fields, or hiding in the walled cities, guerrilla against our Wei army, many soldiers in our army can't stand the hot climate in the south! Our Wei officers and men were not adapted to the hot climate in the south, and plague was rampant among the soldiers, which directly affected the combat effectiveness of our army. Once the war is stalemate, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

Ran Ke also said: "Yes." Dadu Governor, in the past, the Qin soldiers in the land of Baiyue, also had hundreds of thousands of corpses and bloodshed, and the main general of the Qin army, Tu Sui, was also killed by a night attack force of the Baiyue army in the Jiaozhou area, forcing the Qin army to stay in a useless place, and then could not retreat, panic all day long, so that three years did not untie the armor and crossbow, so that the prisoner Lu could not be paid, and the two sides have been in a situation of confrontation! In case the war falls into a tug-of-war, the first to be dragged down will be our Wei army! ”

Hearing this, Wei Zheng felt very helpless.

Wei Zheng had never encountered an enemy like this, and such terrain was really not conducive to the Wei army's operations. The Southern Barbarians were haunted, harassing the Wei army's grain routes from time to time, and attacking the Wei army in small groups, for the Wei army, the most deadly thing was the miasma and the plague prevalent in the army!

Wei Zheng then asked for countermeasures.

Geng Ji sneered and said: "Governor, in my opinion, you might as well implement the three-light policy in the land of the Southern Barbarians, rob the light, kill the light, and burn it all!" Give the Southern Barbarians a bloody lesson! ”

"This ...... Isn't that good? After all, we are here to conquer the land of the Southern Barbarians, and in the future, we will set up the Annam Protectorate here, and if we burn and loot, the impact will not be good, and the people will not be convinced in the future, and it will be even more difficult to make these places obey the governance of the empire! ”

"Don't worry about the Grand Duke. Since the Southern Barbarian is shameless, why should we be polite to him? If you don't accept it, then you will convince him and it hurts him! ”

In the end, Wei Zheng was persuaded by Geng Ji, because he really couldn't think of a better countermeasure.

So under Wei Zheng's order, the Wei army that entered the land of the Southern Barbarians began to burn and loot on a large scale, they killed people regardless of the old, weak, women and children, and burned down the walled houses by the way, forcing the local people to flee into the mountains and forests.

After Zhu Zhantan learned that the Wei army was so ferocious, he was very angry, so he intensified his efforts to deal with the Wei army in the southern barbarian land, or set fire to the mountain, or directly poisoned the water, killing a large number of Wei soldiers.

The Southern Barbarians also sent troops to harass the Wei army from time to time, forcing the Wei army to hold on to the walled city, and only dared to go out to sweep when the army was assembled.

The Southern Barbarians did not have many troops, but the Wei army could not advance into more places, so the battle was stalemate for a while.