Qin Official

Dagu is no longer the young boy who followed his father and could only hunt rabbits a few years ago. He is now an Ou man, a skilled hunter who has been baptized by war and sacrificed with the blood of the Qin people. His own father, and married the most beautiful girl in the village.

He had hunted in the mountains, driving spear points and arrows hard into the boars' thick coats.

He also followed Jie Jun and besieged the Qin army's strongholds in the first war. Although those strongholds were well-defended, they were not without gaps. The Ou people relied on their numerical advantage to harass and besiege day and night. After paying some casualties, they were always able to capture them. . They drove the Qin people out of their ancestral land, hunted their heads, sprinkled their blood on the millet fields to pray for a good harvest, and ate their flesh to gain strength.

But today, although there are more than 10,000 people in Ou, facing these three small earth buildings in front of him, the earth buildings of the Qin army, Dagu felt desperate!

The structure of the Qin army's camp: the barracks are located on the outermost periphery. Now they are completely empty. All the soldiers have withdrawn to the earthen building in the center of the camp.

There are three earth buildings in total, standing next to each other, dozens of steps apart, and within a hundred steps of each, there is an empty space. This was originally a place where Qin soldiers performed martial arts. If the Ou people wanted to attack, they had to cross this hurdle.

"Brother bless you!"

Singing Ou songs loudly, the barefooted Ou people charged towards the earth building. When they came within a hundred steps, the Qin army's crossbows began to exert force.

The first thing to shoot at the Ou people was the crossbow set up on the top wall of the earth building. This crossbow was so powerful that it needed to be kicked open with the force of the feet. It was fired between the shoulders and the body, killing people a hundred steps away!

Dagu charged forward with a spear raised. He only saw something flying quickly in front of him. Before he could react, the tribesmen running beside him were suddenly knocked back and their entire chests were shot through by crossbow arrows. They could not see alive.

Fortunately, more than a thousand Qin troops were scattered in three earth buildings. There were not many people operating the crossbows, and they were extremely slow to cock and lacked accuracy. Although the Ou people were injured, they still rushed fifty steps away...

At this time, a crossbow was also stretched out from the two-story shooting window hole in the wall of the earth building. This was an arm-open crossbow, slightly less powerful, but much more accurate, and more people fell down after being hit by the arrows. Dagu jumped over the corpse in front of him, narrowly avoiding the arrow that passed by his ear. He held up the wooden planks he had picked up from the Qin camp and rushed to the root of the wall in one breath!

Although he had looked at the earth building countless times, it was only after he arrived at its feet that Dagu realized how tall it was: in terms of length units in the Central Plains, it was nearly five feet high! It is oval in shape and is completely enclosed by a round building with no corners.

It is no exaggeration to say that this is the tallest building that Ou people have ever seen. Standing under the wall, you can't help but feel awe.

Dagu felt very uncomfortable because this earth building was being built on the ruins of a former village!

He didn't know that there were four floors inside the wall. There were no windows on the first to second floors. Only small windows were opened on the third and fourth floors. The crossbow arrows on the wall were still extending out, looking down from a high position to kill and injure the enemy. .

The Ou people used bamboo bows and blow arrows to fight back, but it was difficult to hurt the Qin soldiers in the shooting hole. Fortunately, Jie Jun was prepared. The following Ou people came carrying a large bamboo five or six feet high, with the tip held high. The Qin people's attack slowed down slightly, but the arrows and stones from the roof continued to fall, causing the Ou people to have their heads broken and blood flowing.

Taking advantage of this rare gap, Dagu began to think about how to break through this solid wall. He put his hand on the wall and could feel its thickness, which was at least more than ten feet wide.

What's even more outrageous is that the depth of the wall foundation buried in the ground is at least half a foot, and the exposed wall base is made of blocks of stones and granite strips, with a height of more than one foot! It is impossible for Yue people to dig it out!

"Help me!"

Arrows kept whizzing past him or over his head. Dagu shouted for help from his tribe and helped him climb up the wall. Holding in his hand the shovel captured from the dead Qin army during the first war, Hit the rammed earth wall hard!

"when!"

Dagu heard the sound of metal and stone hitting each other in his ears. His right hand felt numb and he almost fell down. When he looked carefully, there was only a small white dot left on the wall, but the shovel in his hand was missing a hole!

Dagu was stunned. They had always felt that the Qin people's copper and iron tools were very easy to use and digging soil was easy, but the wall of this earth building was not damaged?

"Is this an earth wall or a stone wall?"

Dagu felt incredible. They had seen how the Qin army built this place a few months ago. It was nothing more than ordinary rammed earth, and Yue people could do it.

He didn't know that the technology used by the Qin army in building earth walls was the "three combined earth" donated by Hei Fu in the war to destroy Chu more than ten years ago. Nowadays, the Shaofu and Mohists have explored a mature technology. Loess, lime, and sand are mixed in proportion, and stones and bamboo slices are sandwiched in the middle. This is a "bamboo-reinforced earth wall" with a hardness only higher than that of later generations. Reinforced concrete is a little worse.

It is said that the earth buildings in southern Fujian in later generations could not be exploded with explosives. In BC, they were basically unsolvable! In addition, the walls are extremely thick, making it almost impossible to dig a tunnel into the building.

This was the first time Dagu felt desperate today. Seeing that there was no way to dig the wall, the Ou people who had killed and injured nearly a hundred people in the corner retreated. Their target turned to the only flaw in the earth building: the gate!

Because the earth building is like a turtle shell, even if the Ou people stick to the corner, they can't pry it open, so Xiao Tao safely concentrated his hands near the door.

The gate of the earth building was like a city tower. A ditch was dug in front, filled with sharp wood, and protected by a suspension bridge. Even though the Ou people piled their lives on, they crossed the ditch, cut down the suspension bridge, and began to attack the gate.

What Jie Jun thought of was to use fire to burn the gate. The Ou people carried firewood to them and lit the fire again. But unexpectedly, the door frame of the earth building was made of rocks, with water holes set above it. If there was a fire, water could be released to extinguish the fire. It's almost out.

Seeing that there was still no progress from the time the sun first rose to the scorching sun in the sky, Jie Jun became a little anxious and asked the Ou people to risk their lives and use the axes they had captured from the Qin people in the past to chop down the wooden doors against the rain of arrows!

It wasn't until the sun set that the wooden door finally broke open! But what made the people of Ou despair was that the city gate hole inside was already filled with sacks of soil, and dozens of Qin people were holding it up, making it impossible to break in!

Climb up? No, there is nothing to climb on the wall of the earth building. Even if there are agile Ou people who show their ability to go up and down cliffs in the mountains to pick honey and want to throw ropes with hooks, the Qin people above are not blind. , cut it off immediately, even those who were lucky enough to climb into the air were stabbed down by a spear...

Previously, although Xiao Tao's words to encourage the soldiers were stilted, they were not domineering at all, and were completely covered up by the grass songs sung by thousands of people outside. But it aroused the desire of a few thousand people to survive. They died with no intact corpses and were eaten by others. What a terrible way to die! In order to survive, the soldiers and corvees of Qin did not let any flaws appear in the earth building.

Now, Tulou has really become a bastard, and the people of Ou can no longer bite their tongue...

At this point, nearly a thousand corpses of Ou people were lying at the foot of the three earth buildings. Their blood gathered into streams and became a red moat surrounding the yellow earth buildings...

"Commander, we can't fight anymore."

Dagu returned to Jie Jun with blood on his face and attacked the Tulou. This was probably the only wrong decision Jie Jun made after taking over as Lord of Xiou...

"It's time to give up."

Jie Jun sighed. His plan failed. Thousands of tribesmen died in vain, and the Ou people could not wait for the rice in the fields to mature.

They planted the millet in early spring. Even if they couldn't cut it themselves, they couldn't take advantage of the Qin people!

Jie Jun gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "Burn them!"

Since we are going to starve, let’s go together! Jie Jun believes that in the end, the people who are familiar with the local Ou people will win this war!

However, letting the tribesmen disperse and set fire to the rice fields by the river was Jie Jun's second wrong decision today...

When the Ou people left the earth building and set fire to each other, the tribesmen who were standing guard in the distance sent back shocking news:

"Commander, the two Qin armies that left yesterday and the day before yesterday are back!"

Everyone was shocked. This was originally their strategy to lure the Qin army to disperse. Now it seems that the Qin people had long expected that Xiou was going to besiege Tulou, and they were afraid that they would not come, so they specially divided their troops to tempt them?

The two Qin armies each had a thousand men, one in the south and one in the north. Judging from their posture, they wanted to surround the Ou people, but they had a total of 10,000 people...

"Oops!"

Jie Jun felt a palpitation in his heart, and was about to tell the tribesmen who were scattered to burn their fields to leave quickly, but something changed above the Yushui!

Ten large ships, with paddles at the front and giant wheels spinning at the back, are coming upstream from the downstream!

The Qin army's chariots and ships have arrived!

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Although Jie Jun had taken precautions and burned the Qin army dock in Yulin, the ships were not afraid at all and rushed straight to the shore full of river sand. Qin soldiers jumped from above and gathered on the shore. A bird flag was raised.

The commander of that team is called Han Xin...

"Brother is here."

Jie Jun took a breath. He wanted to hunt the Qin people, but unexpectedly, he became a wild beast that fell into a trap.

At this moment, the Qin army carried by vehicles and ships has landed on the shore. After forming a formation for a while, they quickly moved here. The flags of the two Qin divisions in the north and south also appeared on the horizon. Inside the three earthen buildings, the Qin people began to clear them. The roadblocks at the gate are ready to attack the Ou people...

Even so, looking at the number of people, the Qin army was less than half of the Ou people, but Jie Jun immediately gave the order to evacuate!

Except for the end of the first war, after joining the Luo people, 30,000 people launched a surprise attack on the exhausted Qin army of 10,000 who had just passed through the dense forest. All the battles between the Yue people and the Qin army ended in failure. The most exaggerated one The ratio of people is actually ten to one!

Jie Jun let out a long sigh: "Dagu, you are right, but I was wrong. I should not have attacked the Tulou."

Now, as the encirclement of the Qin army is gradually closing, can the Ou people who are scattered everywhere still be able to escape?

"You can go as far as you can, you must go and warn your tribe, as well as the distant tribes in the future!"

In the flash of lightning, Jie Jun made a decision: "Dagu, I will stay behind Duan to block the Qin people for a while, and you can take your tribe back!"

Dagu was shocked: "If you want to stay, it should be me...you are Mr. Xiou..."

"Didn't the last Lord of Xiou, your Tebo translator Song, also leave a post in Guilin and let me take my people to leave first?"

Jie Jun laughed, took off the frog god statue from his neck, and hung it on Dagu...

"Old pine trees will always die, and new pine branches will always grow. I am responsible for my mistakes. From now on, Dagu, you will be the new Lord Xiou! Go back to the village, take your tribe with you, take them Go deep into the mountains, go to the west, and take refuge with King Luo!"

Jie Jun's old wife, whom Jie Jun snatched from another tribe more than 20 years ago, is still in the tribe looking at the brazier and shaking her grandson, waiting for him to return.

But Dagu's wife was also stroking her bulging belly, leaning against the door of the shack, looking forward to it...

"Dagu, Adagu, remember, no matter how many times you go, you must come back, take back the ancestral land, and return to the ancestral spirit!"

Pushing Dagu away who was full of tears, Jiesong pulled out the sword from his waist and led the tribesmen with tattoos on their faces who regarded death in battle as an honor. They lined up in a row and walked towards the Qin army by the river. go.

Weapons, equipment, and this time even numbers were not superior, and they were bound to lose.

But don't be afraid, Xiou people can lose their hearts, but they must win their souls! Ou people who lose their souls will definitely be abandoned by Buluo Tuo!

The Qin people's earthen fortifications were as solid as a rock, but the Xiou people's determination to resist invasion and defend their ancestral land was equally as solid as a rock!

Jie Jun looked at the flag of the Qin army in the distance. It was Han Xin's array, holding up his spear, slowly pressing towards this side.

He raised his sword.

"Let's go, my people!"

Jie Jun smiled: "Go to the other end of the Rainbow Bridge, next to Bulatuo, drink wine again, and tell him today's story, our souls will fly like pine leaves!" u