Qiang Qin

() Xiang Zhuang waits left and waits right.

It was not until five days later that Mei Juan arrived late.

This tripartite alliance, Wuling's powerful Mei Juan is actually worried about gains and losses. Unlike Xiang Zhuang, who is ambitious and aspiring to restore the country, he does not have enough confidence in defeating Qin again.

After Jingnan was severely beaten by Li Yuan's Qin army, Mei Juan's strength was greatly damaged, and she had to retreat to her old nest, Wuling, to replenish her strength. Mei Juan got a precious chance to breathe.But it is also this delay that makes Meibu look stable, but the situation it is actually facing is not optimistic.

South of Five Ridges.

Zhao Tuo, the king of Nanyue, was getting closer and closer to the northern Qiangqin, which made Mei Juan feel strongly uneasy. He was mixed between the two great powers of Nanyue and Beiqin, and they were hostile to each other. Under such circumstances, once the two powers Really united, Mei Juan has almost no ability to resist.

Where is the way out?

Is it simply like Zhao Tuo, showing his favor to Qin?Still go all out and unite Wuzhu, Xiangzhuang and other anti-Qin forces to try to defeat the Nanyue king Zhao Tuo first, and then block the Qin army going south to the north of the river. The risk of this idea is too great, but it brings The temptation is also extraordinarily attractive.

Separatist regime in the south of the Yangtze River.

It is much stronger than going around in Wuling.

After Mei Juan thought about it, she was finally moved by the temptation.In addition to Du Li's dream of becoming king, it was also because he had already fought a vicious battle with the Qin army, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. Live yourself.

In Yue Wang City, Wu Zhu, Xiang Zhuang, and Mei Juan conspired and reached a consensus on jointly dealing with the Qin army going south and the Nanyue Kingdom. In order to strengthen his own strength, Xiang Zhuang also agreed to disperse his soldiers to various Yue ethnic groups. Among the tribes, help them learn the advanced tactics of the Central Plains, and at the same time, let these Jiangdong children learn from the Baiyue people how to kill opponents in the jungle without anyone noticing.

Jungle battle.

Before the Qin army, Xiang Zhuang began to adapt to the humid and hot climate in the south. For Xiang Zhuang, Mei Juan and others, the jungle was their natural shelter. For Li Yuan, who was aiming to unify the country, conquering the grassland After that, what he needs to face is to conquer the jungle.

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mid March.

General Ding Gong of the Qin Army led a Qin army of more than [-] troops to the south from Kuaiji County, the hometown of Yue State, in an attempt to seize Xianxialing, an important traffic pass between Yuedi and Fujian, but was lured by Wuzhu and Xiangzhuang. Entering the Ling Road, Ding Gong failed to break through several times, and finally his entire army was wiped out in Siming Mountain.

Ding Gong never returned.

Jiang Yu, who was stationed in Wu County, urgently asked the Zhou Yin and Huan Chu troops of the Qin Army stationed in Kuaiji to look for it, but only found out that Ding Gong led the army into the hinterland of Xianxialing, and then disappeared, not even the carrier pigeon used for reporting. .

Jiang Yu knew something was wrong, and was waiting to write to Chang'an urgently to inform the military situation in the south. Suddenly, he received a report from a sergeant that an envoy from Fujian arrived in Kuaiji County, and sent Ding Gong and the head of the Qin army general back, along with the An unprecedented letter.

In this letter, Wu Zhu first showed off his achievements in defeating Ding Gong and the Qin army, and at the same time regarded himself as the king of Yue, and included Mei Juan, Wu Rui, Xiang Zhuang, Zhao Tuo and other southern forces into his name. Xia, who claimed to have [-] generals, and put on a posture of sitting on an equal footing with Li Yuan, said arrogantly in Wu Zhu's letter: "King Wu lives in the north of the great river, and you occupy the south of the great river. It's peaceful."

Jiang Yu was furious after reading the letter.

Wu Zhu only won a small victory, but he was so rampant. With his little strength, he still wanted to separate the country across the river. He was really not afraid that the wind would break his tongue.

Don't say that Li Yuan didn't agree. Like Zhao Tuo and Wu Rui, who are the princes and kings who have dutied early in the morning, who is not more qualified than Wuzhu.

After being angry and angry for a while, Jiang Yu calmed down a little, picked up the letter again, which was made from the skin of an unknown animal, and written in bright red human blood, and read it carefully from beginning to end, and then, He sat down calmly, and began to write neatly on the silk book with his own hand.

Jiang Yu wanted to report the military situation in Jiangdong to Li Yuan. If other generals were stationed in Jiangdong, after reading Wuzhu's challenging letter, he would immediately dispatch troops to attack Fujian. But Jiang Yu was not. With a prudent personality, he discovered something unusual from the lines of Wuzhu.

With unparalleled strength, it is not difficult to wipe out Ding Gong's 3000 people. If Du Li faces the possible revenge of the Qin army, with his strength in Fujian and Yue, he will definitely not be able to resist for a long time.Therefore, in the letter, Wu Zhu drew a tiger's skin to pull the banner, and drew Changsha King Wu Rui, Nanyue King Zhao Tuo and other southern princes one by one into this big game.

If the generals of the Qin army directly launched the battle of crossing the river without distinguishing between three, seven and twenty one, the first to bear the brunt would not be Wu Zhu, the king of Changsha, Wu Rui, and then Wuling Hou Meijuan. The situation in the south will form a situation where local forces from all sides will jointly fight against the invasion of the Qin people.

In this way, there is no one to hide behind, and relying on the favorable terrain of the closure of Fujian, he can reap the benefits of a fisherman, and wait until the two sides are exhausted from fighting, and then come out to clean up the old mountains and rivers. At that time, all the southern factions Has been disabled, and only he has the greatest strength.

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The integration of anti-Qin forces in the south was accelerated.

This made Li Yuan, who received Jiang Yu's letter, recover from the pacification of factional struggles in the imperial court. Internal affairs are the foundation of stability, and the military's suppression of rebel forces is the prerequisite for the establishment of the Qin State.

Compared with the northern border where there are heavy troops gathered, Qin's current strength in the south is relatively weak. Except for the Jiang Yu Division in Jiangdong, which has about [-] people, the rest is only Feng Xuan Division in Jingnan, which has about [-] people. People, this power is not enough to make the Baiyue people bow their heads and surrender, nor can it make the Nanyue King Zhao Tuo, who is wavering in du li and surrender, make a decision.

Great Qin's military center of gravity.

The time has come when we must move south.

And in order not to repeat the situation in which hundreds of thousands of Qin troops were dragged to death in the jungle and deep mountains by Baiyue people, the Qin army must have a clear understanding of the various forces in the south in addition to being under strong military oppression.

Who is the opponent that must be fought?

Who is the target that can win over?And who can keep him neutral for the time being, so that the Southern Expedition Qin Army can avoid the dilemma of encountering too many opponents?At the same time, who can be the chief general of the Southern Expedition Army, and which generals can play a role in the Southern Expedition War? These urgently need to know the military situation, which needs to be gathered from various directions.

In the palace of Prince Shenwu.

A series of orders are being issued, and the battle for the vast area south of the river is about to start. (To be continued.)