Qin Official

"I dare to tell your majesty that Tu Sui's defeat was because he only attacked his land and not his people. He wanted to expand the territory to the north, but he ignored the enemy behind him and cut off his retreat."

Unknowingly, the lights in the hall have been turned on several times, and Qin Shihuang has also finished reading Heifu's memorial...

Heifu first analyzed the gains and losses of the Qin Army's first southern expedition: the Qin Army easily occupied the Pingba area, but the Yue people abandoned their villages, ran back to the mountains and forests, and began a continuous guerrilla war to surround Pingba with mountains and forests. In this case, the scattered Qin army was impaled in various small dams, severely restricting the strength of the troops and falling into a protracted public security war and tug-of-war.

This is a completely different war model from Qin's destruction of the Six Kingdoms. Instead, it is a bit like the security war in North China in later generations...

Therefore, Heifu believes that in terms of overall strategy, Tu Sui's practice of all-out attack and seizing land should be changed. First defend in the west and attack in the east, wait for the Qin army to advance by land and water, conquer Dong Ou and Min Yue, and conquer South Vietnam, then concentrate their efforts to overthrow Xi Ou.

In terms of method, it is what Heifu summed up: "The battle of the heart is the top, and the battle of the soldiers is the bottom."

This war has lasted for two years. Not only the Qin people are suffering losses, but the Yue people are also exhausted. They are eating wild vegetables and fruits in the mountains and forests, and they are not full. They don't even have time to plant rice. There must be many people who hope End the war. The Qin army will continue to bribe the old men and chiefs, shake their will, and make promises after the war.

Anyway, Lingnan was originally the land of the Yue people, so we simply promised them a lot of areas beyond the main transportation routes that the Qin people could not control, whether they were flat dams or mountains and forests! Anyone who is willing to surrender to the Qin Dynasty will be named a "chieftain". He will have his own land, manage his people, rule his troops, inherit his position, rule his place, and be granted the title...

This move may be able to win over some Yue people and chiefs, reducing the potential enemies of the Qin army.

Secondly, it is "attacking people first, attacking the ground first"!

As the name suggests, this sentence means: do not attack and occupy the enemy's land alone, but kill the enemy's people.

At present, Xi'ou is the tribe with the most determined resistance. It is no longer possible for the Qin people and Xi'ou to coexist. Only by annihilating this tribe entirely can other Yue people be deterred from joining!

Things didn't have to be like this. Just like what Heifu did in Haidong, he used merchants to pave the way and spent decades and hundreds of years to subtly integrate Lingnan into the Central Plains. It was only a matter of time that Lingnan gradually became more prosperous, but Tu Sui messed up. …

Now, this has become a war in which one nation conquers another nation. It will be more cruel than the civil war in Zhongxia when Qin destroyed the six kingdoms! Mopping up and the three-guang policy are inevitable.

After all, this time, the Qin people were the most vicious invaders.

To complete these two strategies, Heifu believes that it will take at least three to five years. That would only be the coexistence of Qin and Yue. If you want to completely transform Lingnan into counties, it will take decades or even hundreds of years!

Heifu had already exaggerated the speed many times, but he did not dare to say: "Your Majesty, it actually takes more than a thousand years..."

After reading it, Qin Shihuang did not praise the case, but sneered and criticized:

"It sounds nice, but in my opinion, it's nothing new!"

The so-called war of hearts is actually not much different from Qin's ethnic policy in Bashu and Beidi. It just changed the "jun chief" to "chieftain", that's all.

As for the strategy of attacking people, it was also proposed by Qin Prime Minister Fan Ju many years ago. In the Battle of Changping, the Qin army massacred 400,000 Zhao soldiers. Although it was Bai Qi who gave the order to massacre, the guiding ideology was Fan Ju's strategy of attacking.

Heifu's eloquent memorial contains thousands of words, but in the eyes of Qin Shihuang, it is just old wine in new bottles. The most important thing is that it is a waste of time no matter how you read it!

From what he thought, it would be happiest to just push through...

It's a pity that that strategy has failed.

In the next few days, Qin Shihuang kept Heifu's memorial silent, not knowing whether he agreed or disagreed. The emperor has been thinking about whether there are better candidates and plans, until news comes from the south again...

Qin Shihuang's face suddenly became darker than Hei Fu's.

What on earth happened? To use Heifu’s words to describe it, that is:

"The lower road collapsed!"

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The battle reports arrived within a few days. After the death of Tu Sui, the subsequent situations in southern Xinjiang were put on Qin Shihuang's case one by one. Every one of them was enough to make Qin Shihuang furious!

The Guilin army suffered thousands losses, and the third captain reluctantly contained his army.

Cangwu's army was out of ten, and nearly ten thousand people were buried in the tropical rain forest.

Luo Yue formed an alliance with Xiou and jointly launched a counterattack against the Qin army, causing many Qin army camps to be lost and abandoned.

Something happened over there in South Vietnam. General Jia proposed to burn down the forest, but the Vietnamese who attacked at night responded with their own methods and burned the Panyu camp. After all, compared to the humid rainforest, the dry Qinying is the easiest to light.

At the same time, the Wuling Mei family also harassed them, and the grain team was repeatedly robbed. South Vietnam is not as good as Xiou. There is a newly built Ling Canal that can continuously transport grain and fodder. There are only twists and turns in the Five Ridges. Twenty thousand people cannot go into the forest to hunt to fill their stomachs. For a while, the camp was full of complaints, and there was even a Chu Soldiers rioted due to uneven food distribution...

Although the riot was barely suppressed, the Central Route Army was severely weakened and had no choice but to abandon Panyu and return to Yuzhang...

This retreat does not matter, because there was no time to notify, the three thousand people in Longchuan did not have time to evacuate, causing Sima Xiaotao of another department to be trapped in a foreign land, not knowing whether he was alive or dead!

The west route killed generals and overthrew the army, and the middle route abandoned troops and lost ground. The east route was not bad. Under the coercion of Yin Tong, Dong Ou was willing to surrender, but Wuyi Mountain was difficult to conquer, and the war against Fujian and Yue also reached a stalemate...

The optimistic theory of quick victory in the past few days came to an abrupt end. Anyone who is not stupid can see that it is impossible to resolve this battle within half a year.

The Southern Corps was leaderless and had to be dealt with immediately. Mao Jiao then reiterated the idea of ​​using Heifu as general and quickly moving south to take charge of the situation.

But Qin Shihuang was noncommittal. After being angered by a series of bad news, the emperor seemed to calm down from his impatience. When the ministers were a little panicked, he stabilized himself. After thinking for a long time, Qin Shihuang finally spoke.

But what he was talking about was completely unrelated to the Southern Expedition.

"Qin's military law has always been clear about rewards and punishments. Rewards should not be slowed down, and those who are not rewarded should be doubted. Now those who have made military achievements in the Eastern Expedition will receive high rankings based on their leadership!"

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Jieshi Palace, once shrouded in the haze of the failure of the Southern Expedition, was once again filled with joy. On the tenth day of October, Qin Shihuang announced a reward for the soldiers who fought in the Haidong Expedition!

The one that everyone is most concerned about is naturally the general Fusu. This general was promoted several levels in a row and was worshiped as "Da Shang Zao". For ordinary people, it would be enough to smile crookedly, but Fusu is different. Any title is meaningless to him. Mao Jiao and others will inevitably be disappointed. In their hearts, the best result is to take this opportunity to officially Make Fusu the crown prince.

But Qin Shihuang didn't seem to intend to do this. Fusu still lived in the military camp, but Hu Hai was always by the emperor's side, looking favored. This makes people think about other places...

But Fusu's performance was once again impressive. After he took over Yugui, he said that the victory of the Eastern Expedition was due to the contributions of the soldiers of the three armies and the supervisors, especially after the war ended, more than a thousand soldiers would be stationed in Haidong. Fusu asked for a generous reward for him.

Qin Shihuang agreed, so Yang Duanhe, who died before leaving the army, was worshiped as the "Great Concubine". After all, he was not able to make a marquis, but his son Yang Xiong could directly inherit the title, which could be regarded as comfort to the old general. In the spirit of heaven.

Lieutenant General Ren Xiao was also given the title of Young Master. Qin Shihuang personally met with Ren Xiao. Hearing that he had served as a captain in Kuaiji, he asked him about his views on the war in the south. Afterwards, he praised Ren Xiao as the most powerful general in building ships in Qin and asked him to He unified the Jiaodong Marine Division and was ready to go south at any time...

This move caused the officials to speculate. Is it possible that the emperor is letting Ren Xiao take the lead?

Next, an inconspicuous promotion strengthened their views.

Heifu's disciple, Shi Chenping, the governor of Jiaodong, was promoted to the rank of Zuo Shu chief because he had made meritorious service in crossing the sea several times to supervise grain.

This also means that Chen Ping is already a minister and can no longer be a guest. He must leave Heifu!

Those smart people immediately smelled something strange from this matter.

"I'm afraid this is His Majesty's indirect punishment for Mr. Hei."

After all, even Chen Ping was rewarded, but Hei Fu, who was the supervisor of the army, had no movement at all. Since Hei Fu refused Qin Shihuang's order that day, the emperor had not summoned him once.

Whispers filled the air inside and outside the palace:

"The Jiaodong County Sheriff has really angered His Majesty..."

"This long-standing Sacred Heart seems to have been lost!"

Although there are many people who are gloating about the misfortune, the situation in the south is so corrupted. If we don't send a black man, but just let Ren Xiao go, can it be solved? If there is no success for several years, it will be even more embarrassing...

After Weiyang heard about this, he felt quite aggrieved by his father-in-law Zhong. After all, even he was promoted to "official official", but Heifu did not receive any reward.

Heifu just smiled and asked him to get on the ship quickly and return to Jiaodong with Ren Xiao to prepare for the trip south. Once it snowed and the port was frozen, it would be delayed for several months.

Before Weiyang reluctantly left, Heifu asked his men to buy Yandi's specialties: dried red dates for his nephew to eat on the road. He even pinched a big bright red date and said to Weiyang A meaningful sentence:

"The more painful the slap, the bigger and sweeter the dates will be. You will understand this later."

These words made Weiyang puzzled.

It wasn't until October 11th, when everyone outside thought that Hei Fu was already cold, that Qin Shihuang slowly issued a belated edict, which shocked everyone!

"The edict said: I have heard from the governor of Jiaodong County that the title of marquis is not my intention. I hope that the sea will calm down. As a supervisor, Hei Fu has worked tirelessly to bring food and fodder to Haidong. It is a meritorious service. Now that the sea has calmed down, you can Enjoy the honor of being a lord!"

"In the first month of the thirty-fifth year of the Wei Dynasty, the imperial edict was issued to appoint Heifu of the Jiaodong Shouwei clan as the Marquis of Lun!"

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ps: Lunhou = Guanneihou, whose title is lower than that of other princes and who has no title. Lun, category, also includes the likes of marquises.

Chapter 2 is at 11:30.