Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 394 The South Vietnam Conspiracy (the second one will be updated later)
On the way back, there was a delay of some time because of the dozen or so soy sauce bottles, and finally returned to Lingling City after half a month.

The first thing Ziying did when he returned to Lingling City was to call Ren Xiao, Shi Lu and others over to learn about the situation during this period of time.

The excavation of Lingqu is very smooth, and it is estimated that it will be opened smoothly in another ten days. At that time, the grain ships coming from the Yangtze River along the river can directly enter the Pearl River system through Lingqu. At that time, the Qin army will never run out of food. worries.

On the South Vietnamese side, although the Qin army was digging canals with such fanfare, the South Vietnamese people had no temper at all in the face of an army of tens of 10 people and the bare hills that were chopped down on both sides.

At most, a few spies took a look from a distance, but they didn't dare to step out of the jungle.

After understanding the situation of his absence, Ziying encouraged the two of them, then took out the roll of cloth from Du Qing from his bosom and handed it to Ren Xiao.

"Let's take a look at this, General Ren."

Ren Xiao took Bubo and looked at it, his eyes widened immediately.

"King Qin, where did this thing come from?" Ren Xiao's body began to tremble uncontrollably as he spoke.

Since he failed to attack South Vietnam for the first time, he has put all his energy on South Vietnam. However, even after so many years of research, he has only roughly deduced the possible locations of several small tribes.

However, the cloth that the King of Qin handed over to him not only contained the locations of several tribes he deduced before, but also included the detailed residences and routes of half of the tribes in South Vietnam.

"Did King Qin go to the rear of Nanyue alone to explore the route in the month since he left?" Ren Xiao thought.

"Where did Gu get this map, General Ren doesn't need to go into it, but Gu can guarantee that every position on this map is true." Ziying said with a smile.

Ren Xiao naturally trusts Ziying's words, not to mention Ziying's reputation as an invincible general, but the positions of the few tribes above that have already been roughly established are not bad at all, and they are better than himself. The inference is more detailed.

"With this map, the capture of Nanyue is just around the corner!" Ren Xiao said excitedly: "Look, King Qin, although the old nests of the Nanyue clan are all hidden in the mountains and forests, except for the Ouluo Kingdom built by the survivors of the old Shu, the rest In order to be close to the water source, it is not far from all rivers.

Now my Great Qin is about to pass through the two rivers of Xiangli and Lijiang. By that time, as long as we go down the river, we can push down most of the tribes. "

After listening to Ren Xiao's words, Ziying nodded lightly. Although there are many tribes in Nanyue, they are all near Yushui (Pearl River) and its tributaries from the map. In fact, Du Qing and the others trade with various tribes. When traveling, they also took a boat to a nearby place, then disembarked and walked into various tribes for trade.

As for the Ouluo Kingdom that Ren Xiao mentioned is not based in the Pearl River Basin, it can only be the next goal.

Although the Ouluo Kingdom is one of Baiyue, it is somewhat different from the rest of the tribes. The difference can be seen simply by the fact that the rest are all clans and clans, but Ouluo claims to be a kingdom.

In the Ouluo Kingdom, the current ruler is Du Pan, who is the one who sent assassins to force his mother and Du Qing to flee from the Central Plains.

Investigating its origin, Ouluo was also built by the survivors after the fall of the Shu Kingdom. Du Pan, the king of Ouluo, always regarded himself as the orthodox Shu Kingdom. The authentic Shu Kingdom's direct descendants, Du Qing and sisters, naturally became Du Pan's thorn in the flesh.

Ziying who now understands his life experience will naturally not let Ouluo Kingdom go.

Another extremely important reason is that Ziying felt a little overwhelmed at the sight of the place occupied by the Ouluo Kingdom.

It is the area around the Red River Plain in northern Vietnam today.

Regardless of the Qin and Han Dynasties or the prosperous Tang Dynasty, even in the early Ming Dynasty, this area in northern Vietnam was the land of China, but later... Ziying's heart aches when he thinks about it.

As the territory of the Chinese nation since ancient times, Ziying will never forgive himself if he loses it in his own hands (well, it’s called losing it if he doesn’t get it).

And the Ziying plan, after it is defeated, must vigorously immigrate here from the Central Plains, and keep this place firmly in check.

"King Qin, please send people to investigate the various paths immediately. Once the path is clear and the canal is dug, we can march." Ren Xiao continued.

Although there are maps, it is still necessary to send spies to investigate what the status of these routes is.

"No need for this. I have already found a guide. They are all people who have been there many times." Ziying went on to say, "The four counties of Changsha, Lujiang, Nanjun, and Hengshan are ordered to call for all small building ships to come here. It will come naturally." That day is the time to pacify South Vietnam."

Although at the steep gate of Lingqu, the narrowest one is only four or five meters wide, most of the building boats that the Qin army is driving in the river at the moment are still small, and there are still a few such giant ships, so it should not be a problem for small building boats to pass , the big deal is to count the fishing boats together.

If the size is not enough, it can only be made up by quantity.

"promise!"

……

More than ten days later, the canal connecting the two major water systems of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River was officially dug, and Qin Ziying personally named it "Lingqu".

And Ziying's conscripted ships from the four counties began to arrive one after another. However, the small ships could carry too few soldiers, far from meeting the needs of hundreds of thousands of troops. Ziying had no choice but to continue to implement Plan B and Plan C. Two supplemental plans.

One is to mobilize the surrounding large and small fishing boats for temporary use, and the other is to give full play to the advantages of large numbers of people and strength, and order the Qin army to cut down trees and bamboo poles on the spot. row, bamboo row.

At the same time, he ordered the Qin army, most of whom were landlubbers, to take turns boarding the ship to start adaptive training these days.

In a blink of an eye, another month passed, and almost all the building boats that could come had arrived, and the fishing boats were almost recruited.

Looking around the Xiangjiang River outside Lingling City, all kinds of boats, big and small, almost filled the entire river, and the most types of them were naturally all kinds of wooden rafts and bamboo rafts that were rushed out.

These two primitive ships even accounted for more than half.

So much so that some later historians jokingly called Ziying's conquest of South Vietnam the "bamboo raft battle".

If it was possible, Ziying didn't want to drop the price like this, but time waits for no one. In order to prevent the South Vietnamese people from realizing it, he already knew their specific location, so he couldn't fight one by one. Attack multiple tribes on one line at the same time.

However, the opponent's choice of Ziying is still different. The voyage is longer or you need to go to other tributaries to sail against the current. Most of them are equipped with building boats and a small number of fishing boats. The closer ones are mainly fishing boats. row as a supplement.

As for the latest one, it can only be haha...

(End of this chapter)