Five hundred thousand Qin troops are marching south to Baiyue. Can they move quickly?
Zhao Tuo stared blankly at the First Emperor on the imperial couch.
The good news is that the emperor is not satisfied with his suggestion and Zhao Tuo doesn't have to go to that ghost place in Baiyue.
Bad news, the history of Qin may have to go back to its original path.
As in the original history, the First Emperor came up with the idea of conquering Baiyue in the south with an army of 500,000 and quickly attacking and occupying it.
Zhao Tuo guessed that he most likely thought that six years was too slow.
Six years.
Six years are too slow for you?
You can't wait for six years?
First Emperor, do you know that your army of 500,000 people who wanted to attack Baiyue quickly was killed by the Yue people until hundreds of thousands of them were bleeding and lying dead? Even the generals were killed by the Yue people.
In the end, it's up to me, Lao Zhao and Ren Xiao, to clean up the mess for you.
You think six years is too slow. In fact, if you use your quick attack method, you will have endless troubles. You may not be able to win it in ten years.
Precisely because he knew the original history, Zhao Tuo knew that an army of 500,000 people pressing down on the border would only encourage the Yue people of various tribes to unite and jointly fight against the Qin people, causing the Qin army to fall into an endless jungle.
That's why he came up with the strategy of dividing the Yue people and defeating them one by one. Although this strategy took a long time, it didn't require too many troops. If he attacked steadily and gradually encroached, the chance of success would be far better than that of a large army marching south.
Zhao Tuo felt a little disappointed inside.
Since the unification of the world, he has been favored by the emperor. He first dissuaded Li Si from trying to kill the three kings, and then relied on his foresight to make a big splash in discussing the emperor's title and the system of counties and counties.
Later, he discouraged the casting of gold figures, made suggestions, wrote books with the same text, unified currency, papermaking and a series of other things.
The First Emperor did not say that he was obedient to Zhao Tuo, but he also obeyed his words, which made Zhao Tuo actually feel a little proud.
One person often even thinks that if the emperor could always listen to him, then the outcome of the death of the second generation of the Qin Dynasty could be changed by him and he would not embark on the original path of destruction.
But now, regarding the Baiyue matter, Zhao Tuo was suddenly awakened by the First Emperor's attitude towards his strategy.
The First Emperor was a man with strong opinions.
He had listened to Zhao Tuo before because what Zhao Tuo said was to suit him. Even if he tried to dissuade him from casting gold figures, he would still have money to transfer it.
Now the First Emperor wanted to conquer Baiyue quickly, and Zhao Tuo's strategy didn't suit him, so he naturally abandoned it.
The heart of a single man becomes increasingly arrogant.
Zhao Tuo was silent, realizing the description in that famous poem handed down from generation to generation.
At this time, as the First Emperor declined Zhao Tuo's proposal, countless people in the hall had different expressions.
The emperor actually abandoned Zhao Tuo's strategy.
Surprise flashed in Li Si's eyes, but he didn't say a word.
Wang Ben, Xin Wu and other veteran generals sighed secretly.
Judging from their military literacy, they knew that Zhao Tuo's fighting style was the royal way of a military strategist. But looking at the emperor's appearance, they wisely chose to shut up.
Among the remaining generals, some stood up excitedly.
"The people of Baiyue are a barbarian country. If I lead an army of 500,000 people to the south, I will be able to conquer the land of Baiyue within three years to repay your Majesty!"
Qiang Yu spoke loudly, turned his head and glanced at Zhao Tuo proudly.
He was of Qiang origin, but he looked down upon the barbarian Baiyue in the south. In his opinion, it would not be easy for an army of half a million to conquer a group of barbarians who didn't even have a stomach.
Qiang Xu opened his mouth, and several other Qin generals responded, patting their chests and saying that if they led an army of 500,000 people to conquer Baiyue in the south, they would surely be able to pacify it easily.
Even Tu Sui, who had been intimidated by Zhao Tuo before, saw the generals competing for the lead and couldn't help but stand up and start fighting.
In front of everyone, he revealed his plan to conquer Baiyue in the south.
"If I were to lead an army of five hundred thousand soldiers to the south, I should divide it into five armies. One army would guard the ridge of Tancheng, one army would guard the fortress of Jiuyi, one army would be at the capital of Panyu, one army would guard the border of Nanye, and one army would be left behind.
The water... the army gathered, followed the trend southward, and pushed across Baiyue!"
Tu Sui's voice was majestic and his tone was heroic.
Compared with the situation where Qiang Yu and others clamored for a southern expedition but did not even know the situation in Baiyue, Tu Sui had obviously made preparations.
On the way back from Qidi, he had already set his sights on Baiyue's military exploits, gathering intelligence and thinking about plans. If Zhao Tuo hadn't used Baiyue's hardships to scare him that day, Tu Sui would have written the letter himself.
Now that the First Emperor had made it clear that he wanted to conquer Baiyue, and with all the generals competing for such military success, he ignored what Zhao Tuo said and hurriedly stepped forward to offer his own strategy for pacifying Yue.
After finishing speaking, Tu Sui looked at Zhao Tuo and grinned.
Brother Zhao, I have to come.
Zhao Tuo looked helpless.
Sure enough, if he remembered correctly, Tu Sui was the main general in the conquest of Baiyue in history, and his strategy was to lead the army to attack separately and fight against Dong Ou, Min Yue, Nan Yue and Xi Ou at the same time.
An army of 500,000 people moved south at the same time. The offensive was so fierce that all the people of Baiyue fled into the jungle and attacked the Qin army day and night. In the end, the Qin people were unable to support themselves, their food routes were cut off, and even Tu Sui himself was killed on the ground.
Zhao Tuo knew the final result of Tu Sui's strategy.
But Qin Shihuang didn’t know.
The current First Emperor only felt that Tu Sui's strategy of all-out war was in line with his wishes.
That’s it!
With the force of thunder, an army of 500,000 people marched heavily on the territory, engaging in all-out war and annihilating Baiyue!
Let the territory of Great Qin be exhausted from the south to the north, and let all the Yue people be Qin's ministers and concubines!
Only in this way can the majesty of Qin be shown and the tyranny of his emperor be revealed.
As Zhao Tuo said, to deal with the Baiyue barbarians, we have to engage in alienation and division like we dealt with the six kingdoms of Shandong, and to make friends with distant and close enemies, and to use ships to attack from the sea. It would be too high to look down on those barbarians.
The First Emperor still liked to push things in the same direction.
He looked at Tu Sui with satisfaction. It seemed that this veteran was well prepared and his strategy was far better than the others.
"If Tu Sui and Feng Wuze cooperate with each other, maybe within two years, we can capture the land of Baiyue and make the territory of Great Qin completely exhausted from the south to the north."
The First Emperor glanced at Zhao Tuo again and shook his head secretly.
Zhao Tuo bit his lip. Looking at the emperor's expression, he knew that he liked Tu Sui very much.
This is normal. This is the strategy chosen by monarchs and ministers in history.
Even if time and space change, people are still the same people. Faced with the same situation, they will naturally tend to make the same choice.
"In this case, the only way to prevent war is to use war."
Zhao Tuo sighed in his heart.
If there was any possibility of dissuasion, he wouldn't want to say this.
But now that he saw that the emperor had abandoned his advice and was about to embark on the same old path of eternal destruction, he knew that he could no longer endure it.
Just when the First Emperor was about to speak, Zhao Tuo spoke up.
"I, Zhao Tuo, died to report to Your Majesty. The reason why I believe that Baiyue cannot be attacked quickly and that we need to attack it slowly is because to the current Qin Dynasty, Baiyue is just a scabies disease."
"Our Great Qin still has strong enemies on its side, and that is our Qin's innermost danger!"
"Therefore, I believe that we should delay the attack on Baiyue. Our Qin Dynasty's top priority is to gather a large army and defeat the close enemy in the north first!"
Zhao Tuo's voice was high and his eyes were full of madness.
The First Emperor wanted a new conquest target to satisfy his desire to conquer.
The generals who were bound by the military merit and title system wanted a war that would bring them military merit and title.
One year after the world was at peace.
From the emperor and many Qin generals to countless soldiers who longed for titles and promotions.
They all long for a war.
The situation cannot be stopped.
Zhao Tuo also figured out that he wanted to bring the war that was supposed to be launched several years later to the stage of history in advance.