Chapter 721: Expedition
"This time the Yue people rebelled, and the Changsha county guard and the chief of the Great Mansion, together wrote to the emperor to ask the emperor to attack Baiyue in order to completely subdue the Yue people. The emperor had the intention of capturing Baiyue before, and now that the war in Hexi and Haidong is peaceful, he will definitely agree. Wait until Baiyue is laid, and the eldest concubine will be crowned a marquis with merit, and Brother Feng will also be the son of the prince in the future! ”
In the Feng mansion in Xianyang, Li Yuzheng, the son of Tingwei, was full of smiles and complimented Feng Jing, who was sitting on the side of the card table.
Wang He, the son of Prime Minister Zuo, punched out a second cylinder and echoed: "Yes, Brother Feng is now a Zhonglang cavalry general, and he has won the emperor's cronies. ”
"Touch one."
Feng Jing shook his head while touching the cards and said: "For my family, the feudal marquis is still secondary, and the main thing is that you can go home after playing Baiyue is the best." He has been in Yuedi for eight years, and every year he sends a letter saying that he wants to come back, let alone a marquis, I am afraid that if he is demoted to a knight in exchange for a chance to return to Xianyang, my family will probably nod his head and agree. ”
Li Yu and Wang He looked at each other and said in surprise: "Yue Di is so terrible? In order to come back, the eldest chief was even willing to demote the lord. ”
Feng Jing played a 50,000 card after touching the card, and said with a smile: "It's terrible, my family said in the letter that Yue Di is not a place for people." I heard that there are generals in the army who have been hit by the water Gu of Yuedi, and in the arrows that are pulled out, you can see insects crawling, wriggling one by one! ”
"Hiss......"
Everyone couldn't help but gasp, and felt that their stomachs were a little uncomfortable.
The official joint letter of Changsha County Shoutu Sui and the chief of the Great Concubine, Feng Wuxue, was in March of the 31st year of Qin Shi Huang.
The content of it is probably that the Baiyue in the south was not stable, and repeatedly induced the Yue people under the rule of Qin to rebel.
Among them, Xi Oujun translated the Song Dynasty, and was the most daring, sending people to infiltrate the Cangwu area under the jurisdiction of Changsha County, instigating the local Vietnamese to rebel, and killing dozens of Qin troops stationed there.
As for the chief Feng Wuxue, it is said in the book that since Dongou returned to the Qin State, the Minyue people were very unhappy, and often sent troops into the territory of Dongou to plunder and kill the people of Donou.
Although the Minyue people did not attack the Qin army, Dongou Jun Su Shao had already asked Feng Wuxuan for help several times.
After the surrender of Dongou was surrendered, it existed in the form of a vassal state, and the Yue people of Dongou were also the subjects of Qin in legal theory, and would pay local specialties to the Qin government as taxes.
Therefore, the behavior of the Minyue people is tantamount to plundering and killing the people of Qin!
As soon as the book was announced in the court, it immediately caused an uproar.
The Qin army broke the Xiongnu and Donghu in the north, swallowed the Yue clan in the west, flattened the sea in the east, and subdued the southwest Yi in the south.
From the emperor and the minister, to the low-level common people and the heads of the Qian, all of them have a sense of pride and arrogance in their hearts, believing that the Qin State is the largest country in the world and the real invincible overlord.
Under such circumstances, a group of Yue barbarians in the south actually dared to attack the Qin garrison and capture the surrendered Dongou people, which was simply a slap in the face of the emperor.
The whole court seems to have returned to the great court meeting in the 26th year of Qin Shi Huang, where many generals and ministers spoke together and asked for the conquest of Baiyue.
"The people of Baiyue, intruding on my Great Qin border and killing the people of my Qin State, what do you think should be done?"
The First Emperor sat on the emperor's couch and asked this question calmly in front of his ministers.
"Your Majesty, I'm willing to lead the troops, sweep away Baiyue, and lay down a big territory for Your Majesty!"
Not long after returning from the west, Qiang was the first to speak, looking extremely excited.
Zhao Tuo's Northern Expedition and Wang Li's Western Expedition two battles, Qiang Qi followed as a deputy general, and did not make any great achievements, he always felt that he was deliberately suppressed by Zhao Tuo and Wang Li, and his heart was very unfair, so he wished to be able to go out as the main general this time.
Except for Kaiqiang, although the other generals did not invite themselves to lead the troops, they all agreed to launch the battle of Baiyue.
Not only did they want to start a war so that their sons and nephews could go to the battlefield to make meritorious contributions and be promoted, but more importantly, these veterans saw that the emperor had ambitions for this war.
Five years ago, the emperor had the intention of sending an army of 500,000 to capture Baiyue, but at that time, he was generously stated by the Marquis of Wugong and used Henan and Hexi as temptations to divert the strategic goals of Qin.
Now that the Great Qin Quartet is barbarian, except for Baiyue, all the others have been subdued, and it is of course a sure thing to conquer that large piece of land in the south.
These things, as the first general of the Qin State, Zhao Tuo is also very clear.
His face was calm, and he sighed secretly in his heart.
It's time to come, it's still coming.
Zhao Tuo postponed the Qin army's capture of Baiyue for five years, but in the end he could not avoid it.
This time, he had no reason to stop it.
One is that the Yue people took the initiative to invade the border of Qin, killed the Qin soldiers, and also harassed Dongou who returned to Qin, this is Baiyue's first move, how could Qin not fight back?
Launching the war to conquer Vietnam is politically correct at this time, and there is a problem with who opposes it.
The other is that the Quartet of Qin State really has no targets for conquest, and even if Zhao Tuo wants to lead away the troubles again, he can't find a target to borrow.
Zhangye County in the west had just been established, the Qin officials were not in place, the local Yueshi people had not yet returned to their hearts, roads and other facilities had not been built, and logistics could not keep up, so it was impossible for the Qin army to expedition to Wusun and the Western Regions.
On the contrary, Yuedi in the south has been operated by Feng Wuxue and Tu Sui for several years, and the situation is not bad.
In recent years, they have built several roads in Yuedi to allow the Qin army to march quickly and transport grain.
At the same time, the Qin army trained a building boat division in the east of the river, which could go down the coast and attack Minyue with the army, and could also be used as a logistics transportation.
The cooperation of sea and land greatly reduced the difficulty of the Qin army's conquest.
At the same time, because Feng Wuxuan surrendered Don'ou, the strength of the Yue people dropped greatly. And with the Dongou Yue people as guides, after the Qin army entered the southern jungle, they would not fall into a situation like getting lost.
On the whole, the Qin army's expedition to Baiyue at this time was much more advantageous than the historical expedition that immediately launched a large army to the south after unifying the world.
"Feng Wuxuan's title is the eldest concubine, higher than Tu Sui, and he has been in Yuedi for many years. This time, the Lord will be the only one. Lao Feng fought and inherited Wang Qian's style of play, which was quite calm, and he should not make rash mistakes. With him in charge, it's not a big problem. ”
Zhao Tuo thought that he had a bottom here, and his face was slightly soothed.
Feng Wuxue is still quite reliable.
At this moment, the First Emperor saw that many generals and ministers were in favor of the conquest of Baiyue, and although Zhao Tuo, the Marquis of Wugong, and Wang Ben, the Taiwei, were silent, they did not speak out against it in the court, and their faces showed a satisfied look.
The First Emperor had long had the intention of conquering the land of Baiyue, and every time he saw that there was such a large empty place in the south of the map of Qin, he felt like there were countless ants crawling in his heart, as if he saw countless Yue people in the south kneeling on the ground, begging him to rule.
Therefore, the first emperor asked Tu Sui to offer the strategy of attacking Yue, which was to prepare for the attack on Baiyue.
This time, the Yue people took the initiative to harass the border of Qin and attacked and killed the Qin army, and it was when he fell asleep that he handed him a pillow and gave him an excuse to start a war.
This battle must be fought.
The First Emperor made a decision on the spot.
"Baiyue barbarians, killing my people of Great Qin, insulting the kingdom, the crime cannot be punished."
"I should send an army of 200,000, with the chief Feng Wuxuan as the main general, and conquer Baiyue in the south!"
(End of chapter)