General Qin

It was getting dark, and it was named the stronghold of Heituba by the Qin army.

The Qin soldiers who had just finished their work carried farm tools back to the fortress surrounded by rammed earth walls while talking and laughing.

Under the order of the general, every time the Qin army occupied a Yue village, they would first build rammed earth walls, dig trenches outside the walls, and then build wooden buildings and other facilities inside.

On some traffic arteries outside the stronghold, the Qin army specially built towering wooden watchtowers, and Qin soldiers stood guard on the watchtowers day and night.

After preparing complete warning and defense measures, the Qin army began to take root here, digging wells, reclaiming nearby Ou people's farmland, and planting wheat crops that grew in winter.

Many Qin soldiers were farmers in the Central Plains before they were recruited. Now they put down their weapons and can be said to be comfortable handling farm tools. During this period, they quickly transformed this former homeland of the Ou people into a farmland for the Qin people.

This is the strategy set by General Zhao Tuo.

Regardless of what those Ou people had in mind or how they ultimately chose, the Qin army would only develop steadily.

Maintaining the status quo.

"Captain Cao, will the Ou people really come out of the mountains?"

Beside a bonfire in the military camp, Mei Rong asked Cao Shen curiously while warming himself.

The son of the clan leader of the Mei clan, after serving as a short-term soldier for the general for more than a year, was now released to practice and serve as the leader of two or five hundred men under Cao Shen, who had just been promoted to the rank of captain.

Of course, he, the leader of two to five hundred, mainly commands the vassal armies of the Mei family. This can be regarded as a man doing his job. His subordinates all obey him and he is very easy to command.

Mei Rong was confused about Cao Shen's judgment.

From the perspective of the Mei family's thinking, when faced with a powerful enemy invasion, if they can't defeat them but don't want to surrender, they can just move. Just like the Mei family moved from Lingbei to Lingnan, there is no need to go head-to-head with the Qin army.

Cao Shen knew that the general valued this Yue boy.

He explained: "These Ou people are different from your Mei family. They have taken root and lived here for generations. They have deep feelings for this land and will not give up easily. The Ou people who joined our army said, Alas Mo's original idea was to lure our army into the mountains and use the forest to ambush us, or he hoped that we would abandon them like General Tu and focus on Luo Yue, so that the Ou people could sneak attack our rear."

"Now we can't be fooled by them. These Ou people are unwilling to give up their homeland and retreat, so there is only one way to regain it. And by cultivating farmland here, we are further tempting them to attack. They will not look at their farmland. If it is occupied by us, it will definitely come!”

Cao Shen's voice was cold.

When the Qin army captured the royal city of Xi'ou and then divided its forces to capture various Ou villages, it was not all without gains.

Among the tribes in Xi'ou, large and small, there are always some people who are greedy for life and afraid of death, or who are reluctant to leave their homeland.

They boldly sent envoys to surrender to the Qin army.

Zhao Tuo accepted. The number of surrenders was not large, but they brought some important information to the Qin army.

The Qin army knew the plan of King Alamo of Xi'ou and the location of the mountains where the people of Ou retreated.

Zhao Tuo did not send troops to pursue him, and still made arrangements according to his previous sound plan.

However, just in case, he sent his general Cao Shen to the stronghold closest to the mountains where the Ou people were.

After Cao Shen led his troops here, he divided his 10,000 men into two groups.

Five thousand of them were led by him and were stationed in Heituba.

Another five thousand people were led by his newly promoted military commander Han Xin and were stationed at Huangtuba more than ten miles away.

The two parts are like horns to each other, taking care of each other.

Cao Shen had his own idea as to why he divided his troops in this way.

If there are tens of thousands of Qin troops in one stronghold, the Ou people may not come, but what if there are only five thousand?

Will the Ou people bite this bait?

Facing the conquest of Yue, which was coming to an end, Cao Shen also wanted to make meritorious deeds.

Facts have proved that Cao Shen's judgment was correct.

On this night, the first quarter moon hung high in the sky, the surrounding stars were sparse, and the night wind howled like a beast.

At a Qin army sentry tower located three miles away from the Heituba stronghold, Qin soldiers who were sitting in a daze on the roof suddenly felt something strange.

There seemed to be something wrong with the sound coming from the night wind.

"what sound?"

Qin Zu hurriedly got up and lay on the edge of the sentry tower, looking towards the mountains and forests in the distance.

Through the faint moonlight, he saw many blurry black shadows.

The black shadow moves vigorously, running and jumping wildly through the mountains and forests like an ape, at extremely fast speeds.

Soon, Pao Ze, who was guarding the watchtower, sounded the alarm.

"It's from Ou!"

At the same time, countless arrows were shot at them.

The Qin soldiers on the sentry tower immediately shrank under the wooden planks. Listening to the bang-dong-dong collision, they quickly picked up the horn around their waist and blew hard.

Accompanying the sound of the horn were the sounds of fighting and screams below the watchtower.

Qin Zu noticed that someone was climbing up the ladder to the sentry tower. He put down the horn and picked up the machete.

"Barbarians, Nai Gong will fight with you!"

In the dark night, Alamo listened to the "woo-woo" horn sound in the distance, and his face became as sinking as water.

Next to him, the old Xioudu named Kuda looked equally unhappy.

He muttered: "The Qin people's sentry wooden building is really troublesome. There are people guarding it up and down. Once we approach, they will blow the horn to notify the Qin people inside the wall. It will be difficult to sneak attack on them."

Alamo said loudly: "This is a tough battle, but our warriors from Ou will definitely win. The Frog God will protect us, croak!"

"Frog God bless you, croak!"

The warriors of the Frog tribe shouted loudly and launched a charge towards the Qin army's barrier in the distance.

Just the sound of the horn from the sentry tower had already alerted the Qin army in the barrier.

When the Ou soldiers rushed to the Qin army's wall, they were greeted by a burst of arrows.

However, because it was dark night, the Qin army's arrows were not very accurate, and the hit rate was very low. Except for a dozen unlucky Ou people who were hit by arrows, the fastest running thousands of warriors had already rushed to the Qin army's wall. Within ten steps.

This was the reason why Alamo launched an attack at night. The dark night directly disabled most of the Qin people's powerful crossbows.

"For our homeland! Charge!"

"Frog God, I will kill these invading Qin people, guagua!"

Forty steps.

Thirty steps.

Twenty steps.

Ten steps.

When the excited Ou people rushed to the Qin army's barrier, the warrior running at the front screamed loudly. The floating soil under his feet collapsed instantly, and he fell into the deep ditch below.

What a big pit!

ah!

Gua!

ah!

The sound of excited charges and shrill screams intertwined, and in just a moment, dozens of Ou warriors fell into the trench dug by the Qin people, and were stabbed into their bodies by the sharpened wood inside.

At this time, the Ou warriors realized that these cunning Qin people actually dug a long trench along the entire rammed earth wall, filled with spike traps, and used wood chips to build floating soil to cover the trench.

trap!

But even now it is impossible for Ou people to give up.

They stepped on the bodies of the tribesmen, threw the ropes with hooks towards the two-foot-high rammed earth wall in front of them, and then each used their own skills to climb up.

At this moment, a sharp spear suddenly poked out of the wall and stabbed a climbing Ou warrior in the stomach, piercing him through.

The spear retracted and retracted into the wall. The Ou warrior screamed and fell down, hitting another Ou warrior on the head.

Scenes like this keep appearing. It turns out that when the Qin people built this rammed earth wall, they deliberately left a hole in the middle for observation and for thrusting weapons out of it.

Because there were guard towers and soldiers patrolling near the Qin army's stronghold, the Ou people's scouts could not get close to the Qin people's stronghold. Therefore, they did not detect the structure of the Qin people's wall and the trench and pit in front of the wall. I suffered a lot in the first confrontation.

Fortunately, there are enough Ou people to launch the offensive tonight, and the corpses of the tribesmen can fill the trenches. The spears poked out of the wall are no longer easy to hit after being prepared.

Finally, some Ou warriors used hooks and ropes to climb up the Qin wall, jumped in and fought with the Qin people inside.

At the same time, behind them, there were dozens of strong warriors singing passionate songs and carrying huge wooden stakes. They wanted to crash the Qin army's walls, rush in, and kill him. Rivers of blood flowed.

On a high platform in the Qin army's stronghold, Qin general Cao Shen stood with his hands behind his back, looking around and taking in the overall situation.

"These Ou people seem to have made up their minds."

Cao Shen smiled faintly, turned around and ordered to the short soldiers beside him: "Set the arrow through the clouds and inform the Korean army."

A moment later, brilliant flames bloomed over the Qin Army's stronghold, and amid the banging explosions, it illuminated the fierce and cruel battlefield below.

King Alamo of Xiou raised his head and looked at the brilliant fireworks in the distance.

He grinned.

For the first time, Alamo felt that Qin Jun was so beautiful.

This is what the Ou people are waiting for tonight.