Hu Hai has made sufficient psychological preparations for this western expedition to the Indo-China Peninsula.
In later generations, the Japanese army, armed to the teeth with various high-tech weapons, fought for ten years in the primitive jungles of Vietnam against the Vietnamese with primitive equipment at that time, but in the end they had to admit defeat, leaving more than 100,000 casualties.
So today's Great Qin is afraid that it will open this passage, and it is afraid that it will be prepared to pay greater sacrifices and casualties, or even be prepared to retreat to Xiang County in eventual helpless failure.
Because at this time, Hu Hai could not imagine what kind of monsters still existed in today's Great Qin, in this primitive tropical jungle, or what kind of prehistoric alien species survived.
Swamps, poisons, poisonous miasma, wild beasts, primitive jungles, harsh climate, etc. will all be difficulties that the Guilin army needs to face and overcome.
This is why Hu Hai also asked Yu Ziqi to lead the Southern Navy from the sea along the coastline to take the opportunity to find plains to land. After all, although there will be wind and waves at sea, it is obviously much easier than crossing the vast primitive jungle.
But even so, Hu Hai still tried his best to prepare for Feng Jie's Guilin Army for the Western Expedition in the past five years.
After the ancient Dian Kingdom surrendered to the Qin Dynasty, most people lived in Linchen, the county of Xiangjun, Bushan, the county of Guilin, and the two counties of Zhongliu in the territory. These southwestern ethnic groups who have lived in the tropical jungle for generations have special knowledge about surviving in the tropical jungle.
A unique set of skills.
Among Feng Jie's 100,000 troops, there were nearly 200 ancient Dian people who are now Qin people as guides. In other words, for every 500 Qin troops, there would be one ancient Dian person as a guide.
At the same time, these ancient Dian people who lived in the jungles of the southwest were both guides and doctors. In order to survive in the cruel tropical jungle, dealing with all kinds of poisonous insects, beasts, poisonous miasma, etc. were survival skills that the ancient Dian people had to master.
In order to better explore the terrain in the jungle on the south bank of the Lancang River outside Xiangjun and find a safe passage for a large army to pass through, the southwest barbarians suffered no less than 10,000 casualties in five years.
Of course, each of their families has received the best care. This is what Hu Hai promised them, and it must be done.
Although the southwestern barbarians are savage and difficult to tame, once they identify their master, they will also sacrifice everything they have, even their own lives. Five years is enough for the southwestern barbarians to understand everything about the Holy Emperor of Qin.
The tsunami that swept through the three counties of South Vietnam when Ziying was here was also linked to the Emperor Qin's prayer for rain in Xianyang City as early as four years ago.
It was spread all over the Qin Dynasty.
There was a drought in Xianyang, and before the Holy Emperor prayed for rain, the three counties of Ziying and Nanyue, which had already rebelled, encountered a tsunami that had never been encountered in more than a thousand years, causing seawater to flow back. Countless people were displaced and died in the tsunami.
It was precisely because of that tsunami that the southwestern barbarians who had reached certain agreements with Ziying rebelled in order to survive.
But at that time, the Holy Emperor of Qin climbed to the top of Liangshan Mountain to pray for Xianyang and pray for rain for countless people in Guanzhong.
As a result, a heavy downpour came slowly.
There will always be coincidences of one kind or another in the world. However, this kind of coincidence may be said to be a coincidence, but to put it another way, it may be God's will or fate.
It was this kind of providence that allowed the southwestern barbarians to finally accept all the arrangements of the Holy Emperor honestly.
God gave the Holy Emperor a gift, and when he responded to the Holy Emperor's request, he inflicted an unprecedented punishment on those who wanted to betray the Holy Emperor.
Several counties in South Vietnam are stable and can naturally achieve considerable development.
Therefore, in the past five years, the population growth of South Vietnam has exceeded that of the areas north of the Yangtze River.
After all, the living conditions of the barbarians in the southwest were extremely harsh. Precisely because of the harsh living conditions, their physical fitness was much better than that of the people in the Central Plains. They were no less than or even better than the old Qin people in the northwest.
There is a lack of entertainment facilities. Although football has become popular throughout the Qin Dynasty, it is only during the day. With the help of the old Qin people who moved to several counties in South Vietnam, the southwestern barbarians learned farming and weaving. They will not suffer from lack of food and clothing.
The southwest barbarians, after extinguishing the oil lamp at night, seem to be able to do only the things in bed.
In just five years, the population of several counties in the southwest has been on a straight-line rise. The most direct role of the two official warehouses built by Hu Hai in Panyu in Nanhai County and Linchen in Xiangjun County was to ensure that everyone
Everyone can have enough to eat.
At the same time, the Ministry of Household Affairs also adheres to Hu Hai's intention in collecting taxes from the southwest counties. It is just a small and symbolic collection. Life is getting better and better, and there is no longer a lack of food and clothing. Who still wants to embarrass themselves?
Within five years, more than half of Feng Jie's Guilin army were replaced by southwest barbarians who were familiar with the hot and humid climate of the southwest.
Any legion of Great Qin has only one loyal person, and that is His Majesty the Emperor of Great Qin. The most direct impact of these southwestern barbarians who entered the Guilin Army is to spread this loyalty, and ultimately make the southwestern barbarians completely treat it from the bottom of their hearts.
Da Qin creates a sense of belonging.
Of course, time is still short now. I think it will take more than ten years for the new generation of the new southwest counties to grow up in the counties and counties built under the orders of the Emperor of Qin. They will learn the Qin language and understand the glorious culture and culture of the Qin Dynasty.
They will become the strongest supporters of Da Qin in history.
Feng Jie did not ride a horse. Of course, there is no way to ride a horse in the jungle. What's more, the danger of riding a horse is much higher than that of the No. 11 bus. No one knows whether there are people in those low bushes.
Poisonous insects that can kill you.
The entire Guilin army has no cavalry, including all the scouts. Except for the heavy troops who need ox-drawn carts, no one has war horses. Of course, the horses used by the heavy troops are also unique to the southwest counties.
Leaning on thick branches and stepping on the rotten leaves accumulated over the years, I walked forward with one foot deeper and one foot shallower.
All Guilin soldiers wear sheepskin boots that go up to the knees. Although not breathable, they can protect them to the greatest extent from poisonous insects that are not large enough.
The weapons in the hands of each soldier now became a cutting tool. As they walked, they opened up a road that could be used in the future.
This is the most basic request Hu Hai gave to Feng Jie.
The Guilin Army is not required to be able to cross the jungle and find a suitable settlement, but it must at least open up a road to facilitate the second or even third land army's westward expedition.
"General! General!"
Feng Jie's bodyguards stumbled in front of him.
Feng Jie was Hu Hai's personal general, and like Meng Tian, they were the two highest-ranking men in the Qin army.
"What's the decency of being so flustered?" Feng Jie supported his bodyguard and scolded.
The surrounding Guilin soldiers, who were looking at the guard's panicked shouting, chuckled in response, and then continued to chop down shrubs or branches on both sides of the team that would affect the march.
If these things are not cleared away, the heavy baggage troops in the rear will suffer.
The rotten leaves and other things accumulated on the ground were trampled by nearly a hundred thousand troops. Even the mud was probably trampled hard.
"General, Captain Feng Fan is gone!" the guard said with red eyes and choked with sobs.
When Feng Jie heard this, his body shook involuntarily.
Feng Fan is a member of the Feng clan. When Feng Jie was stationed in Aocang and had no usable soldiers, Feng Quji sent the Feng clan members as his team. As Feng Jie's southern expedition began, these Feng clan members
They all also entered Feng Jie's army.
But Feng Fan is Feng Quji's clan brother, the clan brother he is most optimistic about.
During the Spring Festival in the third year of the Second World War, I had a conversation with my old father Feng Quji. After Feng Jie returned to the Guilin Army in the fourth year of the Second World War, he had already called the Feng clan members who were originally scattered among the various armies of the Guilin Army and served as generals at all levels.
He came back and stayed with him as a personal guard.
But for Feng Fan, the youngest and most optimistic clan brother, Feng Quji thought for a while but did not remove his official position. Instead, he applied for promotion to the Ministry of War based on Feng Fan's military achievements and became the captain of the Guilin Army.
In this western expedition, Feng Fan led an army of five thousand as the pioneer.
This is what Feng Fan himself requested.
In the unknown primitive jungle, the soldiers who walk ahead as pathfinders are all used as cannon fodder. Everyone knows this. Feng Fan knows it, and Feng Jie also knows it.
Every soldier in the army was born and raised by his parents. Feng Jie originally wanted the captains of each army to draw lots to decide which army would be the vanguard. However, several captains, including Feng Fan, took the initiative to fight at the same time. In the end, Feng Jie chose
Feng Fan.
Not only because Feng Fan is extremely clever and familiar with the jungle environment, but more importantly, Feng Fan is his clan brother. Many people in the Guilin army know this.
Feng Jie soon saw Feng Fan's body.
It was a swamp that had not been discovered by the army. From any point of view, this swamp was no different from the surrounding ground covered by leaves, but as soon as a person stepped on it, he would be swallowed up by the swamp in an instant.
In the jungle, such swamps hidden under rotten leaves are the biggest threat to the Guilin Army. Because no one knows where this swamp will appear under the ground and when it will break through the leaves above and fall.
If you are lucky, it will collapse as soon as you step on it, so that people around you will have time to rescue. If you are unlucky, if it collapses due to the crowd of people after walking a certain distance, no one who enters the depths of the swamp will survive.
There were dozens of pathfinding soldiers also wearing black armor near Feng Fan. They were all soldiers under Feng Fan's command. Obviously, Feng Fan and others had encountered the most dangerous and terrifying swamp with a relatively hard surface.
Today, dozens of soldiers, including Feng Fan, only have one head exposed outside, but they make no sound. Visible to the naked eye, countless small black insects are constantly going in and out of their seven orifices.
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Beside the swamp, there was a salvaged corpse of a Qin Army soldier. It was like a punctured water bag, shriveled and limp on the ground. Countless insects were densely crawling on him, but he was afraid of the Qin Army soldiers. The torch did not go elsewhere.
The bodies of these soldiers of the Qin Army were all hollowed out by the insects, leaving only a skin! (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!