Qinguo South County, Yidao (now Yidu, Hubei Province).

In later generations, it was also called Yiling.

Autumn is crisp, and the wind blows in the mountains and forests, rolling up a fallen leaf and flying in the air.

Click.

The sound of dead branches being trampled by footsteps sounded, adding a different kind of desolation to the autumn scene of withering trees.

"County Lieutenant, the two thousand soldiers of my South County have been assembled."

Nanjun left soldier Cao Gongao, his voice was thick, and he reported to the man beside him.

"Hmm."

Li You nodded imperceptibly.

He looked at the mountains and forests in the distance that were withering in the autumn, and there was a hint of hatred in his eyes.

Yidao mountain forest.

He Li Yu once again broke the halberd.

In the first half of the year, Li You was ordered by the Qin Wangzheng to come to Nanjun as a county lieutenant, responsible for crusading against the Yiren tribe in the mountains who rebelled against Qin and surrendered to Chu in the battle to destroy Chu.

At that time, it was just before the spring ploughing, in order not to delay the agricultural time, Li You immediately gathered the sergeants of the army after arriving in Nanjun to launch a war against the Yi people in the mountains, preparing to finish the Yi people and cultivate the fields.

Facing the Yi people hiding in the mountains, Li You decided to use assault tactics to go deep into the mountains and forests to attack several tribes that had already figured out the place.

In order to intimidate the rest of the Yiren tribes, and finally achieve the effect of making these barbarians surrender.

At the beginning, it was indeed as Li You expected, led by the county lieutenant of Yidao and the local soldiers who knew the situation of Yi, the Qin army successfully exterminated the two small tribes of Yiren and achieved certain results.

After fighting the two small tribes, the county lieutenant of Yidao asked Li Youxian to lead the army to withdraw from the mountains and forests to prevent the Yiren from counterattacking, and at the same time, he could also join the 2,000 conscripts who fell behind, and then find an opportunity to launch a new offensive.

But Li You had been carried away by the short-lived victory, and after successfully raiding two small tribes in a row, he didn't pay any attention to these unarmored and ragged Yiren.

"The Yi people are vulnerable, the art of war is cloudy, 'the soldiers are expensive, not expensive for a long time', I am now preemptive, and they are caught off guard, when we take the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, and completely disperse the resistance of these Yi people."

"If you withdraw from the mountains and forests at this time, give the Yi people time to react and make them prepared, if you want to take them down in the future, it will definitely be troublesome. And spring ploughing is imminent, how can we delay precious time. ”

Li You's own considerations vetoed the proposal of the Yidao County Lieutenant to withdraw from the mountains and forests, and prepared to destroy several tribes in one go.

In the face of the attack of the Qin army, many Yi people in this mountain forest quickly reacted and united with each other, and they began to use the tactics unique to the mountains and forests to counterattack the Qin army.

These Yi people have no armor, and their weapons are also very rudimentary, and they are engaged in a head-to-head battle, and the five Yi people are not necessarily a fully armed Qin pawn opponent.

But the Yi people run freely in the mountains and forests, flexible and fast, and move elusively.

Suddenly, the Yi people came out of the grass, and suddenly stood on top of the trees, and they used poisoned bows and arrows to carry out long-range attacks on the Qin army, and used various traps in the mountains and forests to cause trouble.

Li You, who lacked experience in fighting in the mountains and forests, was soon stunned, and he wanted to fight back, but his subordinate Qin soldiers couldn't even touch the body of the Yi people, so they were shot and killed from a distance.

Under these circumstances, the Qin army suffered heavy losses and was almost in danger of collapse.

Fortunately, Li You's subordinates also had the assistance of the fierce general Gongao, as well as the Yidao County Lieutenant and other locals, and they fought and left, plus the two thousand Qin soldiers under the forest came to support, so that those Yi people were afraid and did not dare to pursue.

In the end, this Qin army escaped from this mountain forest in embarrassment, and did not let Li You become the first county lieutenant to be captured by the Yi people.

If Li You is really captured by the Yiren, his reputation will be ruined, and even his future will be dark, and even his old father will be difficult to help him up.

This is a blessing in misfortune.

Although the Qin army escaped, the 1,000 soldiers who entered the mountains lost 300 men.

This loss did not remove Li You from his position, but it also made the county shou teng of Nanjun very angry, and warned Li You not to start another war against the Yi people in the short term.

Li You was ashamed and ashamed, and in the face of the county guard's admonition, he only promised and did not dare to say anything.

What made him feel most ashamed and regretful was that after he came out of the mountain, he received a letter from Li Si from Xianyang.

Don't go into the woods!

Li Si said in the letter that he specially asked a veteran of the battlefield to give him advice for Li You's conquest of the Yiren.

The veteran said that the Yi people occupy the advantages of the mountains and forests, and the Qin army will lose its advantage in the forest, and it is easy to be attacked by the Yi people, so it is better to lure the enemy out and annihilate in the wilderness.

"I don't know if this veteran is Meng Wu or Wang Ben, what he said in the letter is really a golden and jade good word. If I had seen this letter earlier, An could have had this fiasco! ”

Li You sighed, he had just experienced a fiasco in the mountains and forests, and he was deeply touched by what he said in the letter, admiring the veteran's keen vision.

Although it was a fiasco, it was nothing compared to the previous encounter in the Battle of Huachu, and it did not discourage Li You.

He has long been accustomed to defeat, defeated and defeated, still full of fighting spirit, and still has the mind to attack again.

It's just that after an arrogant attack, it has basically become impossible to lure the people out of the mountains, plus the spring ploughing began, and the recruited soldiers were ordered to be disbanded, and they went back to plough the fields and farm, Li You could only let go of the anxiety and war spirit in his heart and wait again.

And so on, after the autumn harvest.

It was also the time for him, Li You, to think about it for several months, and set a plan to exterminate the enemy.

"Yi people live in mountains and forests, and they are good at using the cover of forests to attack, and it will be difficult for our army to deal with them as soon as they enter the forest."

"In that case, then I will burn the entire mountain forest with a fire!"

"Burn all of you barbarians to death, even if you don't burn to death, without the cover of these mountains and forests, you can't resist the conquest of my army!"

Li You roared in his heart, and he glanced at the autumn mountains and forests in front of him again.

Dead branches are everywhere, fallen leaves are flying, and if a fire goes down, it will definitely burn more and more.

"Gong Ao!"

"To the lieutenant of this county, set fire to the mountain!"

Li You roared loudly and roared out the depression that had been accumulated in his heart for half a year.

"Yui."

Gong Ao answered, and the commanding soldiers began to light around with torches.

Trees that lose water in autumn and the thick leaves on the ground in the forest are the best nutrients for fires.

The tongue of fire swallowed and spat out, and the burning leaves drifted into the depths of the mountains and forests in the autumn wind, sweeping in all directions.

Half an hour later.

The entire mountain forest was shrouded in flames, smoke gushed into the sky, and countless animals screamed and fled in all directions......

At the foot of the mountain, Li You looked at the burning mountain of flames in front of him.

His face was expressionless, but his eyes were full of excitement.

"What if the land of barbarians is burned down!"

"I'm going to burn, mountain by mountain, until you barbarians surrender, until you barbarians surrender!"

"This fire will help me Li You take off!"

In the scorching air, Li You's hands clenched into fists with excitement, and he turned his head to look in the direction of Xianyang.

"My lord, I won't let you down."

"Princess."

……

In the majestic Qin Palace.

The girl was dressed in a red dress, and her skin became fairer and fairer.

She walked into a palace and shouted to Fusu in the hall with an excited expression: "Brother, I heard that my father is going to discuss the merits of those generals who destroyed the dynasty at the court meeting today, and that person will definitely be able to rise to the great throne this time, right?" ”

Fusu put down the slip in his hand and glanced up at the excited girl.

He shook his head and said, "It's hard to say. ”

The girl wrinkled her nose and muttered: "This is the work of destroying the country, destroying a generation of countries, and catching the escaped King Yan by the way." Destroying a country, capturing two kings, and breaking 100,000 Hu soldiers, can't he be promoted to a knighthood? ”

Fusu said with a smile: "It is said that it is a country, but in fact, it is just a county." It can be seen that today's Nanjun County Shou Tengjun, he once led his troops to exterminate Korea, captured the king of Han and returned. But his title was only awarded to the right, and he didn't even reach it. Although South Korea is a little smaller, it is also stronger than Daiguo, and Tengjun's achievements are not smaller than Zhao Jun's this time. ”

"As for that Yan King, Yan Land has long been occupied, and his value is not much, not as good as Yan Dan in the past. Even his father's bounty for him was only two hundred gold. As for the matter of breaking the Hu soldiers, it is said that the beheading is only 10,000 levels, and if you want to rise to the Great Upper Creation, these add up to a bit of reluctance. ”

Hearing this, the girl was immediately unhappy, her beautiful eyebrows wrinkled, and she muttered: "It's not fair, such a big credit, if you can't be promoted to the next level, how can you serve the public, I heard that there was a ...... named Chang Yu before"

Fusu's face darkened, he reached out and knocked the girl's forehead, and said, "Don't talk nonsense, can you mention that name?" ”

Seeing that the girl was smart enough to stop, Fusu said, "But don't worry, I just looked at it according to common sense just now." But as you said, it is impossible for my father to have no reward for this great achievement of destroying the dynasty, otherwise An can lift the morale of the army. ”

Speaking of this, Fusu glanced at Yingyin Yan meaningfully and said, "What the final reward is, it still depends on the father's intentions." ”

Ying Yinyan understood, her eyes lit up, and she said happily: "That must be no problem." I have heard my father say something before, and judging from this, I will not treat that man badly. ”

Fusu's curiosity was hooked instead, and he asked, "What did my father say?" ”

The corners of Yingyinyan's mouth raised slightly, she lowered her voice, pretended to be Qin Wangzheng, and said, "Zhao Tuo, the love of widows." ”

(End of chapter)