General Qin

Qin State Nanjun, Yidao (now Yidu City, Hubei Province).

It was also called Yiling in later generations.

The autumn is crisp, and the wind blows through the mountains and forests, rolling up a fallen leaf and flying in the air.

click.

The sound of dead branches being crushed by footsteps sounded, adding a different kind of desolation to the autumn scene of withered trees.

"Junwei, the two thousand soldiers of our South County have assembled."

Cao Shi Gongao, the left soldier of Nanjun, reported to the man beside him with a heavy voice.

"Um."

Li You nodded imperceptibly.

He looked at the forest in the distance that was dying in the autumn, with a trace of hatred in his eyes.

Yi Road Mountain Forest.

He, Li You, fell to the ground again.

In the first half of the year, Li You was ordered by Qin Wangzheng to come to Nanjun as a county captain, and was responsible for crusading the tribe of Yi people in the mountains who rebelled against Qin and surrendered to Chu during the battle of destroying Chu.

It was just before the spring plowing. In order not to delay the farming season, Li You immediately summoned the soldiers of the army after arriving in Nanjun to launch a war against the barbarians in the mountains, and prepared to finish the barbarians so that they could plow the fields.

Facing the barbarians hiding in the mountains, Li You decided to use surprise tactics to go deep into the forest and attack several tribes who had already found out the place.

This is used to intimidate the rest of the barbarian tribes, and finally achieve the effect of making these barbarians surrender.

At the beginning, things were indeed as Li You expected. Led by the Yidao county lieutenant and local soldiers who knew the situation of the barbarians, the Qin army successfully wiped out two small tribes of barbarians and achieved certain results.

After defeating the two small tribes, the Yidao County Captain asked Li You to lead his army out of the forest first to prevent the Yi people from counterattacking. At the same time, he could also gather the 2,000 conscripts who fell behind, and then look for opportunities to launch a new offensive.

But Li You was dazzled by the short-term victory. After successfully raiding two small tribes in succession, he didn't pay attention to these unarmored and ragged barbarians at all.

"The barbarians are vulnerable to a single blow. As the art of war says, 'Soldiers are more expensive than long-term'. Now I am preemptive and caught them by surprise. I should take this opportunity to expand the results of the battle and completely break up the resistance of these barbarians."

"If we retreat from the mountains at this time, we will give the barbarians time to react and prepare them. It will be troublesome if we want to take them down later. And the spring plowing is coming, how can we waste precious time."

Li You thought about it himself, and rejected Yidao County Captain's proposal to withdraw from the forest, and planned to attack several tribes in one go.

Facing the attack of the Qin army, many barbarians in this forest quickly reacted and united with each other. They began to use the unique tactics in the forest to counterattack the Qin army.

These barbarians have no armor, and their weapons are very simple. In a frontal battle, five barbarians may not necessarily be a fully armed opponent of Qin soldiers.

But the Yi people run freely in the mountains and forests, they are flexible and fast, and their movements are elusive.

Suddenly some barbarians came out from the grass, and sometimes stood above the trees. They used poisoned bows and arrows to attack the Qin army from a long distance, and used various traps in the forest to cause trouble.

Li You, who lacked combat experience in the mountains, was soon stunned. He wanted to fight back, but his Qin soldiers couldn't even touch the Yi people's bodies, so they were shot and killed from a long distance.

Under such circumstances, the Qin army suffered heavy losses and was almost in danger of collapse.

Fortunately, Li You also had the fierce general Gong Ao under his command, as well as the Yidao county captain and other locals to assist him, and he fought and left. In addition, two thousand Qin soldiers from the forest came to support them, which made the Yi people afraid and dare not pursue them.

In the end, the Qin army escaped from the forest in embarrassment, preventing Li You from becoming the first county lieutenant captured by barbarians.

If Li You was really captured by the barbarians, his reputation would be ruined, and even his future would be in darkness. Even his old father would find it difficult to help him up again.

This is luck among misfortunes.

Although the Qin army escaped, they lost 300 of the 1,000 soldiers who entered the mountain.

This loss was not enough to remove Li You from his position, but it also made Nanjun Sheriff Teng very angry, and warned Li You not to start a war against the barbarians in a short time.

Li You was ashamed and ashamed. Facing the admonition words of the sheriff, he was obedient and did not dare to say a word.

What made him feel ashamed and regretful the most was that after he came out of the mountains, he received a letter from Li Si from Xianyang.

Do not enter the forest!

Li Si said in the letter that he specially invited a veteran of the battlefield to advise him on Li You's conquest of the barbarians.

The veteran said that the Yi people occupy the advantage of the mountains and forests, and the Qin army will lose its advantage in the forest, and it is easy to be attacked by the Yi people. It is better to lure the enemy out and annihilate them in the wilderness.

"I don't know if this veteran is Meng Wu or Wang Ben, but the words in the letter are really good words. If I could have read this letter sooner, An Neng would have suffered such a disastrous defeat!"

Li You sighed, he had just experienced a disastrous defeat in the mountains and forests, he was deeply touched by what was said in the letter, and admired the veteran's keen eyesight.

Although it was a disastrous defeat, it was nothing compared to what happened in the previous battle against Chu, and it did not discourage Li You.

He has long been used to failure, he has been defeated and fought repeatedly, and he is still full of fighting spirit, and he still has the intention of launching an attack again.

It's just that after a presumptuous attack, it was basically impossible to lure the barbarians out of the mountains. In addition, the spring plowing began, and the recruited soldiers were ordered to disband and go back to the fields. Li You could only let go of the anxiety in his heart With fighting spirit, wait again.

After this wait, it will be after the autumn harvest.

It was also time for him, Li You, to implement the plan to destroy the barbarians after serious thinking for several months.

"The Yi people live in the mountains and forests, and they are good at using the cover of the trees to attack. Once our army enters the forest, it will be difficult to deal with them."

"Since that's the case, then I will burn the entire mountain forest with one fire!"

"Burn all of you barbarians to death. Even if you don't burn to death, without the cover of these mountains and forests, could it be that you can still resist the conquest of my army!"

Roaring in his heart, Li You glanced at the autumn forest in front of him again.

There are dead branches all over the ground, and fallen leaves are flying every now and then. Once the fire is put down, it will definitely burn more and more.

"Gong Ao!"

"For this county lieutenant, set fire to the mountain!"

With a loud roar, Li You let out the depression that had accumulated in his heart for half a year.

"only."

Gong Ao responded, and commanded the soldiers to start lighting fires around with torches.

The trees that lose moisture in autumn and the thick fallen leaves on the forest floor are the best nourishment for the fire.

The flame swallowed and spit out, and the burning leaves drifted to the depths of the forest in the autumn wind, sweeping towards the four directions.

After half an hour.

The entire mountain forest was enveloped in flames, thick smoke spewed into the sky, and countless animals screamed and fled to the surroundings...

At the foot of the mountain, Li You looked at the burning mountain of flames ahead.

His face was expressionless, but his eyes were full of excitement.

"The land of barbarians, so what if it burns out!"

"I want to burn, mountain by mountain, until you barbarians surrender, until you barbarians surrender!"

"This big fire will help Li You take off!"

In the scorching air, Li You clenched his hands excitedly, and he turned his head to look in the direction of Xianyang.

"My lord, I will not disappoint you."

"Princess."

...

In the majestic Qin Palace.

The girl was wearing a red dress, which set off her fairer skin.

She walked into a palace and shouted excitedly to Fusu in the palace: "Brother, I heard that my father is going to discuss the merits of the generals who exterminated the dynasty at the court meeting today. make it?"

Fusu put down the bamboo slips in his hand, and looked up at the excited girl.

He shook his head and said, "It's hard to say."

The girl wrinkled her nose and muttered: "This is the achievement of destroying a country. It destroyed a Dai country, and captured the fleeing King Yan by the way. Destroyed a country, captured two kings, and defeated a hundred thousand Hu soldiers. Let him be promoted to a noble title?"

Fu Su smiled and said: "It is said that it is a country of Dai, but in fact it is only a county. You can see that Teng Jun, the governor of Nanjun today, led his troops to destroy South Korea and captured the King of Han. But his title was only granted to the right Geng. , it has not even reached the level of excellence. Although South Korea is a little smaller, it is still stronger than Dai, and Teng Jun's achievements are no less than those of Zhao Jun this time."

"As for the king of Yan, the land of Yan has long been occupied, and his value is not that great, not as good as Yandan in the past. Even the reward offered by his father to him was only two hundred gold. As for the matter of breaking the Hu soldiers, it is said that the beheading is only ten thousand. , if you want to be promoted to Dashangzao, I'm afraid it's a little bit reluctant to add all of these together."

Hearing this, the girl was immediately unhappy, her beautiful eyebrows frowned, and she muttered: "It's not fair, if you can't be promoted to a higher level for such a great contribution, how can you convince the public? I heard that there was a It's called Lao Ai..."

Fusu's face darkened, he reached out and tapped the girl's forehead, and said, "Don't talk nonsense, can you mention that name?"

Seeing the girl shut up cleverly, Fusu said: "But don't worry, I just looked at it according to common sense just now. But as you said, it is impossible for the father to not reward this great achievement of destroying the dynasty, otherwise An Neng Raise your spirits."

Speaking of this, Fusu took a meaningful look at Ying Yinman and said, "The final reward depends on the father's will."

Ying Yinman understood, her eyes brightened, and she said happily, "That must be all right. I heard a word from my father and king before. Judging from this, I will definitely not treat that person badly."

Fusu's curiosity was aroused instead, and he asked, "What did the father say?"

The corners of Ying Yinman's mouth raised slightly, she lowered her voice, pretended to be Qin Wangzheng, and said, "Zhao Tuo, the widow's love."