General Qin

In South Vietnam, on the banks of the Dongjiang River where dense forests intersect on both sides, a group of birds flapped their wings in the air, not daring to fall into the forest below.

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

The leader of the Wasp Tribe, Mo Tazhu, walked into the forest glade with an excited expression and said loudly to the strong tiger-striped man sitting on the ground.

Atu Gu'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 begins to cross the river, we will go up together and kill all the Qin people here, so that the water of the Dongjiang River will be dyed red with the blood of the Qin people! If the Qin people dare to massacre the Yellow Dog Tribe, I will Let them pay with their heads!"

As A Tu Gu's order was issued, the entire forest was full of figures jumping around.

Agus, the king of South Vietnam, did not take the initiative to attack the Qin army. Instead, he asked Atu Gu to set up traps in Yue to deal with the Qin army who came to his door.

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

The Qin army came as Agus expected.

The Dongjiang River, which runs north-south through Yue, is where the Yue people's trap lies.

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In the vanguard of the Qin army, the general Cao Shen sat on a pony 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 place where the Dongjiang River is the narrowest and the current is gentlest. It is suitable for our troops to cross the river."

This time the Qin army started a campaign to conquer South Vietnam. Naturally, their field song, which had penetrated South Vietnam, took the lead and pioneered the way. Advance according to the terrain explored during the last deep dive into South Vietnam to open up a safe passage for the follow-up troops.

Because he had been here before, Cao Shen knew something about the situation at the Dongjiang Ferry.

"There are dense jungles on both sides of the river. If the Yue people hide in the mountains and forests and attack when our army crosses the river, it will be bad."

Cao Shen squinted his eyes.

Strike halfway across.

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

Especially when Cao Shen followed the general in the Northern Expedition, Zhao Tuo used counterintuitive tactics to induce the Huns to attack the Qin army halfway across the border, thus causing damage to the Huns cavalry.

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

He raised his head and glanced around, seeing that the terrain was still relatively open.

"The entire army will stop advancing and rest where they are. Send another two hundred people to the ferry ahead to explore the five miles around both sides of the bank."

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

There was an important river crossing point ahead. He was afraid that the small number of scouts would not detect the danger, so he simply added 200 people to investigate carefully.

Facts have proved that Cao Shen's caution played a big role.

There were many Minyue vassals in the Qin army. These Minyue people were very familiar with the actions of their old enemy the South Vietnamese, and wars often broke out between the two countries.

With the help of these Minyue people, the Qin Army scouts indeed discovered traces of the South Vietnamese ambush in the dense forests on both sides of the Dongjiang Ferry, and detonated the bomb instantly.

The leader of the Tiger Tribe, A Tu Gu, saw that the ambush was discovered by the Qin army. In anger, he simply launched an attack on the Qin army's vanguard.

Cao Shen was very cautious and ordered his troops to form a defensive position and released cloud-piercing arrows to signal to the rear that there was a Vietnamese ambush here.

When the Qin army was well prepared, the South Vietnamese lost the advantage of ambush. In addition, their own weapons and equipment were far behind the Qin people. After a brief confrontation, they withdrew into the mountains and forests like a tide.

Cao Shen neither pursued nor rushed to cross the river. He only set up camp on the bank of the Dongjiang River. When the rear army arrived, everything was focused on stability.

After receiving the news from the forward that they were ambushed by Vietnamese, the commander-in-chief Zhao Tuo issued new instructions.

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

Subsequently, nearly 100,000 Qin troops were divided into five groups. Based on the information provided by the South Vietnamese prisoners, they carried out large-scale sweeps of the Pingba strongholds of the South Vietnamese on the east side of the Dongjiang River.

The posture made by the Qin army this time was completely different from when it attacked Fujian and Yue.

Before, whether it was Qin general Feng Wuze or Zhao Tuo, their tactics for conquering Fujian were to directly attack the Minyue royal city 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's conquest of Fujian was to capture the thieves first and capture the king, capture the Minyue royal city, and arrest the Minyue noble leaders to force the Minyue tribes to surrender.

This time, the Qin army's westward expedition to South Vietnam changed its approach of rushing directly to the capital when it conquered Fujian. After encountering a Vietnamese ambush, it immediately entered a cleaning state.

Judging from the appearance of the Qin army, they actually wanted to clear out all the South Vietnamese village strongholds east of the Dongjiang River before crossing the river.

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

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

After the Qin army clears out the South Vietnamese strongholds east of the Dongjiang River and ensures the security of the rear, they will cross the Dongjiang River to attack and further occupy the vast land between the Beijiang and Dongjiang rivers.

After occupying this area again, the Qin army will cross the Beijiang River and invade the land near the Xijiang River.

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

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

This is exchanging time for space, that is, the cannibalization tactic.

What scares the South Vietnamese is that the Qin army really has such ability.

Because Minyue and Dongou surrendered to Qin, the Qin army had a large number of Yue vassal soldiers.

These Vietnamese people are familiar with the fighting methods 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. In addition, with the support of the Qin army, their various equipment and weapons are far superior to those of the South Vietnamese, so when the South Vietnamese tribes face the Qin army, They lost their original advantage in jungle warfare.

This happens to be the time when rice is ripe. If the South Vietnamese abandon their villages and leave, they will be trapped in a situation where there is no food to eat. After all, in addition to strong warriors, each village also has a large number of old, weak, women and children.

These South Vietnamese tribes may have chosen to surrender to Qin in order to survive.

Or they rose up to resist and were killed by the Qin people, and the rice in their fields became the rations of the Qin army.

This is a battle of conquest.

Those who surrender to Qin will live, and those who oppose Qin will die. There is no other choice.

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

Word spread to the west.

The leader of the tiger tribe, A Tu Gu, was very angry and led his men to fight with the Qin army several times.

However, due to the equipment gap and the fact that the Qin army had Vietnamese vassal troops, the South Vietnamese did not get any benefits and could only watch the Qin army clean up this area.

This was not the war the South Vietnamese imagined.

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

Therefore, the South Vietnamese's tactic was to lure the enemy deep and lure the Qin army across the Dongjiang River. After the Qin army's supply line was stretched, they used various traps to ambush the Qin army while going around to cut off the Qin army's logistics and keep them alive. Starved to death in the jungle.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the war started, the Qin army switched to cannibalizing and sweeping tactics, which made all the traps and methods deployed by the South Vietnamese on the west side of the Dongjiang River useless. They could only watch their compatriots on the other side of the river being cleared away bit by bit by the Qin army. .

Under this situation, by mid-November, the South Vietnamese King Agus, who was sitting in the rear, couldn't help it.

"We cannot let the Qin people continue like this, otherwise our land will be taken away by them piece by piece. By then, my kingdom will be owned by the Qin people!"

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

When the information about the appearance of the King of Nanyue was sent to the Qin army's commander's tent.

Li Shiqi was overjoyed and smiled at Zhao Tuo: "General, the dragon has come out of the cave!"