In South Vietnam, on the banks of the Dong River, where the dense forests on both sides of the river are intertwined, a flock of birds flutter their wings in the air, not daring to fall into the forest below.

"Ah Tu Gu, the Qin army is almost here."

Motazhu, the leader of the hornet, walked into the glade with an excited face and said loudly to the tiger-striped strong man sitting on the ground.

Ah Tugu's closed eyes suddenly opened, revealing bloodshot eyes, and the tiger stripes on his face looked a little distorted.

"Very good, when the Qin army starts to cross the river, we will kill it together, kill all the Qin people here, and let the water of the Dongjiang River be stained red with the blood of the Qin people! If the Qin people dare to slaughter the Yellow Dog Department, I will let them repay it with their heads! ”

With Ah Tugu's order, the entire forest was full of figures jumping.

Agus, the king of Nanyue, did not take the initiative to attack the Qin army, but asked Ah Tugu to set a trap in Yue to deal with the Qin army that took the initiative to send him to the door.

As the weather cools down, the jungle enters the dry season with little rain.

The Qin army was really as Agus expected, they came.

The Dongjiang River, which runs through the Yue in a north-south direction, is exactly where the trap of the Yue people lies.

……

In the vanguard of the Qin army, the main general Cao Shen sat on a short horse and was led forward by short soldiers.

As the horse's hooves moved, Cao Shen pursed his lips and looked down at the map in his hand.

"Five miles ahead is the narrowest part of the Dongjiang River, and it is also the place where the water flow is the gentliest, which is just right for us to cross the river."

This time, the Qin army started the war of conquering South Vietnam, and their field battle song, which had penetrated deep into South Vietnam, naturally started to be the pioneer. Advance all the way to the terrain explored during the last in-depth trip into South Vietnam, opening up a safe passage for the follow-up troops.

Because he had been here before, Cao Shen knew a little about the situation of this Dongjiang ferry.

"The jungles on both sides of this bank are dense, and it would be bad if the Yue people hid in the mountains and forests and attacked when our army crossed the river."

Cao Shen squinted his eyes.

Half-crossed.

This kind of thing is not uncommon in the conquest of the Central Plains countries, and it is also a key tactic in the art of war.

Especially before Cao Shen accompanied the general on the Northern Expedition, Zhao Tuo used counter-tactics to induce the Huns to attack the Qin army in the middle of the crossing, thus causing casualties to the Hun cavalry.

Cao Shen saw it in his eyes and remembered it in his heart, and he often read the art of war, so he would naturally take this into account when crossing the river this time.

He looked up and saw that the terrain was still relatively open.

"The whole army paused its advance and rested in place. Another 200 men were sent to the front ferry to explore the five miles around the two banks. ”

Cao Shen knew very well that the reason why the general asked him to lead this forward army instead of sending Fan Xu to lead the army was because he was more stable and cautious than Fan Xu.

Ahead was an important place to cross the river, and he was afraid that the scouts would be too small to detect the danger, so he simply increased his men by two hundred to investigate it carefully.

As it turned out, Cao Shen's caution played a big role.

The Qin army included many Minyue vassals, and these Minyue people were very familiar with the actions of their old enemies, the South Vietnamese, and there were often wars between the two countries.

With the help of these Minyue people, the Qin army scouts really found traces of the South Vietnamese ambush in the dense forests on both sides of the Dongjiang crossing, and instantly detonated the bomb.

Seeing that the ambush was discovered by the Qin army, the leader of the Tiger Tribe, A Tugu, was furious and simply launched an attack on the vanguard of the Qin army.

Cao Shen was very cautious, ordered the army to form a defensive position, and released the cloud-piercing arrows to signal to the rear army that there were Yue people in ambush here.

With the Qin army prepared, the South Vietnamese lost the first-mover advantage in ambushes, and their own weapons and equipment were far from the Qin, so they retreated like a tide in the mountains and forests after a short confrontation.

Cao Shen did not pursue, let alone cross the river in a hurry, but only set up camp on the bank of the Dongjiang River, and waited until the rear army arrived, everything was based on stability.

After receiving the news from the striker that he was ambushed by the Yueren, the main general Zhao Tuo issued a new order.

The Qin army did not cross the Dongjiang River and began to divide its forces.

Subsequently, nearly 100,000 Qin troops were divided into five divisions, and according to the information provided by the South Vietnamese prisoners, they carried out a large-scale sweep of the South Vietnamese strongholds on the east side of the Dongjiang River.

The posture made by the Qin army this time was completely different from the previous attack on Minyue.

Before, whether it was the Qin general Feng Wuxue or Zhao Tuo, their tactics of conquering Fujian were to choose to take the Minyue royal city directly and occupy the important hub of the Yue people as soon as possible, so as to catch the Minyue people by surprise.

The core tactic of the Qin army to conquer Fujian was to capture the thief and capture the king first, take the royal city of Minyue, and capture the noble leaders of Minyue to force the Minyue tribes to surrender.

This time, the Qin army went west to South Vietnam, but as soon as it changed the practice of rushing directly to its capital when it conquered Fujian, it immediately entered a state of cleaning after encountering an ambush by the Yue.

Looking at the appearance of the Qin army, it turned out that all the South Vietnamese village strongholds east of the Dongjiang River would be uprooted one by one before crossing the river.

This tactic is equivalent to the Qin army giving up the possibility of a quick victory and choosing one area after another to occupy.

Whether it is the Yue people or the Qin people, they can see what the next step of this tactic is.

After the Qin army cleared the South Vietnamese strongholds east of the Dongjiang River and ensured the security of the rear, they would cross the Dongjiang River and attack, further encroaching on the vast land between the Beijiang and Dongjiang rivers.

After encroaching on the area again, the Qin army would cross the Beijiang River and invade the land near the Xijiang River.

This method of warfare was very slow, and it would take at least several years for the Qin people to take over the entire territory of South Vietnam.

But on the other hand, this style of play is very stable, and it can uproot almost all the power of the South Vietnamese in this land.

This is the exchange of time for space, that is, the cannibalization tactic is also.

What frightened the South Vietnamese was that the Qin army really had such ability.

Because Minyue and Dongou were attached to the Qin state, the Qin army had a large number of Yue vassals.

These Yue people are familiar with the tactics and tactics of the South Vietnamese tribes, and their combat effectiveness in the mountains and forests is not inferior to that of the South Vietnamese, coupled with the support of the Qin army, all kinds of equipment and weapons far surpass the South Vietnamese people, so that the South Vietnamese tribes lost their original advantage in jungle warfare in the face of the Qin army.

At this time, it was also the time when the rice was ripe, and if the South Vietnamese abandoned their villages, they would fall into a situation where they would have no food to eat, after all, in addition to the sturdy warriors, there were also a large number of old and weak women and children in each village.

These Nanyue tribes, perhaps in order to survive, chose to surrender to the Qin state.

Or they rebelled and were killed by the Qin, and the rice in their fields became the rations of the Qin army.

It was a battle of conquest.

Those who surrender to Qin live, those who oppose Qin die, there is no other choice.

Under such circumstances, the Nanyue villages in the area east of the Dongjiang River were uprooted by the Qin army one after another.

The news reached the west.

The leader of the Tiger Tribe, A Tu Gu, was very angry and led his people to fight with the Qin army several times.

However, because of the gap in equipment and the fact that there were Vietnamese vassal troops in the Qin army, the South Vietnamese did not get any benefits, and could only watch the Qin army clean up this area.

This is not the war that the South Vietnamese imagined.

They originally thought that the Qin army's attack this time would be the same as the attack on Minyue, and they would directly march towards Panyu, the royal city of Nanyue.

Therefore, the tactics of the South Vietnamese were to lure the enemy deeper, lure the Qin army across the Dongjiang River, and make the Qin army's supply line lengthened, while ambushing the Qin army's army with various traps, and at the same time going around the back to cut off the Qin army's logistics, so that they starved to death in the jungle.

As soon as the war started, the Qin army turned into a cannibalization and sweeping tactic, making all kinds of traps and methods arranged by the South Vietnamese on the west side of the Dongjiang River useless, and they could only watch their compatriots on the other side of the river being eliminated by the Qin army little by little.

In this case, by the middle of November, the king of Nanyue, Agus, who was sitting in the rear, couldn't help it.

"We can't let the Qin people go on like this, otherwise our land will be seized by them piece by piece. At that time, my kingdom will be owned by the Qin people! ”

Agus angrily left Panyu, the royal city of Nanyue, and came to the vicinity of the Dongjiang River with all the warriors he had gathered, preparing to counterattack the Qin army and prevent the Qin people from encroaching on the land of South Vietnam.

When the intelligence of the appearance of the king of Nanyue was sent to the tent of the Qin army marshal.

Li Shiqi was overjoyed, and smiled at Zhao Tuo: "General, Jiaolong is out of the hole!" ”

(End of chapter)