Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 84 Night Attack
When the starlight fades away, it is the darkest hour of the day.

If we use the words of later generations, this is because of the characteristics and laws of the earth's atmosphere on the reflection and scattering of sunlight...so it is called the darkness before dawn.

But for the Qin people, this is called the night of killing people with a dark moon and a high wind!

Li Shang patted a few messengers around him, and then saw them groping in the dark and quietly disappearing from his sight.

Niu X... Li Shang tsk-tsk praised, then took off the ring knife on his waist, led the soldiers behind him, bent forward and tiptoed forward.

squeak...

The gate of the village was opened by the Qin soldiers who had climbed over the wall. With a wave of Li Shang's hand, the Yue people behind him poured into the Ouyue people's stronghold like a tide.

It has been repeatedly explained through the translator before the war, beheading is the same as capturing a strong man, and rewards are a thousand dollars, but those who catch alive will get an additional half liter of wine and two crocodile meat as rewards;
Two strong women captured alive can be equal to one man. This is mainly because Ouyue people have many matrilineal clans, and women also have good fighting power;
Children can be exchanged for [-] renminbi each, and healthy elderly people can be exchanged for [-] renminbi;

In case of resistance, kill without mercy!

Therefore, the Yue people in this raid were brave and brave, and they formed a team of five. Those who walked in front held ropes, and those who walked behind either drew bows and arrows, or held short spears and shields.

In mountain raids, spears and halberds can't play their due role at all.

When the Yue people rushed in bravely, they only saw the naked Ouyue people lying around the bonfire in the city.

Because of the 'lemming' behavior of the Ouyue people before, there are many boys and girls in the whole ethnic group, and many Ouyue men hug left and right, looking miserable.

To Li Shang's astonishment, the Yue people bravely rushed inward without any surprise, raised their dark and wide soles high, and then fell down silently.

These days of training have given these Yue people a certain degree of organization and discipline.

In the past, Yue Ren Yong Zhuang, who entered first, had already scattered in a mess to plunder women and property.

But now they are in order, the Yue people who entered first bravely tiptoed towards the inside of the city wall, turning a blind eye to the Ouyue people who were sleeping dead pigs beside them, and handed over these people to the comrades who entered later.

One of the reasons for this was that Li Shang swung his whip well, and he beat him to death after trying to persuade him for the third time to no avail!
Secondly, it is because of the Qin law that those who ascend first will make collective merit. As long as they can win this battle, they will not only get rewards, but those who perform well can even get a first-class title!
At the beginning, the Yue people did not know what a title was. They valued the monthly distribution of food and half taels.

It wasn't until seeing that the former patriarch was awarded the position of Yueren ruler and the title of 'Shangzao', the title suddenly became something they dreamed of.

Everyone has the instinct to yearn for a better life. The Yue people may not really understand what a title is, but there were proud and arrogant patriarchs in the past, and they also want to have it!
Thus, Li Shang's hard life began.

'Lieutenant, I caught a pheasant, how many ranks can I have? '

"Captain, if I give you a basket of coconuts, how many levels of title can you have?"

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In this regard, after Li Shang consulted Ren Xiao, he promulgated new regulations in the Yueqi camp.

Those who dare to communicate in Vietnamese in private in the military camp will be punished with ten lashes; those who report will be rewarded with a piece of fresh fish;
So, looking at this group of subordinates whose daily communication mainly relies on gestures, Li Shang heaved a sigh of relief and couldn't help sighing:
Ginger, still old rua!

Suddenly, there were several barks from the camp, followed by a series of reprimands!
"No, it was discovered!"

Li Shang raised the ring sword and suddenly blew the copper whistle in his mouth. Anyway, he had already broken into the door, so he changed from a sneak attack to a strong attack!
The Ouyue people who were sleeping woke up amidst the stern barking of dogs. Before they could see what happened, they were spinning around for a while, and their hands and feet were tightly bound with ropes.

Inside the city wall, the sound of shouting and killing was mixed with the sound of the impact of weapons and the screams of dying.

In a short time, a hundred Qin soldiers with helmets and armor appeared at the gate of the city wall.

This was the Nanhai County soldiers who were in charge of holding down the formation on the periphery. One of the generals did not wait for Li Shang to say anything, and immediately led his team to the place where the shouts of killing sounded.

For this group of experienced veterans, this is just a small scene!
Li Shang glanced around. Under his repeated reprimands and the threat of the contingent system, the Yue people around him bravely and methodically grabbed the captives, occasionally swarmed up, and cut up one or two stubborn resisters on the spot.

To the naked Ouyue women, they were treated equally without discrimination, and no one dared to commit violence in public.

Li Shang nodded, and ran to the place where the battle was fierce with the Yue ruler and his entourage.

As soon as he arrived, he saw hundreds of Yue people with broken hair and tattoos surrounded by a huge altar.

On the altar about ten feet high, stood an Ouyue woman wearing leopard skin, holding a bronze ax in one hand, and a stone knife with a jade handle in the other, with a frog tattooed on her face.

Li Shang knew that the tattoo on the face of the Ouyue woman was exactly one of the Yue people, the frog tribe's totem.

According to Ziying's research, the frog family is a branch of Yue people that is good at making rice. The reason is that rice is afraid of drought and waterlogging, while frogs are more sensitive to drought and flooding. The frog is a totem, praying for good weather.

In an instant, Li Shang understood why most of the Yue tribes around Panyu surrendered, but this group of Ouyue people still attacked the Qin people frequently.

This is because most of the fertile land around Panyu was snatched from the Frog Department.

"Tell her that it's still too late to surrender. In the name of Yueqi Captain, I can guarantee that I will put down my weapon to avoid death!"

Li Shang shouted loudly, and the Yueren Junchang and several translators around him translated his words.

But following the murmur of the female leader of the Ouyue people, the corners of the mouth of the Yueren monarch twitched, and the veins popped out on his forehead.

An interpreter from Qin approached Li Shang and whispered, "She said that she is the granddaughter of Song Song, Lord Xi Ou. ..."

Before the translator could finish speaking, the hundred general shook the copper bell in his hand, and a hundred Qin soldiers in iron armor put their daggers on the shields and began to step forward according to the frequency of the copper bell.

Suddenly, there were sharp shouts from the Ouyue people, and then, the Ouyue people who were forced to shrink inward by the Qin soldiers threw away their stone axes and short sticks one after another.

"Surrender, we surrender!" The sharp shouting turned into a stumbling Qin Yu.

Seeing this, the female leader of the Ouyue people let out a piercing laugh, and then suddenly turned the bronze ax upside down, cutting off half of her own neck.

ps: For information about Xiou people and Luoyue people, if you are interested, you can take a look at the "Textual Research of the Ancient Luoyue Fangguo" written by Mr. Liang Tingwang.

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