At the end of March, the war orders issued by the Secretariat were sent to the command camp of Wang Ben of Yuechengling, together with the military letters from the Ministry of War. After receiving the imperial edict and military letters, Wang Ben quickly sent messengers to the other four passes of Wuling. At the same time, he arranged for military soldiers to pass on several letters and the orders issued to the heads of several bandit corps who were still in Lingnan, so that they could prepare to assist the Wuling army in launching a formal attack on the Yue tribe.

After receiving Wang Ben's order, the commanders of these bandit corps could only sigh that their beautiful life of making a fortune through robbery was finally over. However, the military orders were difficult to violate, so they could only calm down and return to their subordinates to start building camps for the arrival of the army as a frontier position for the attack.

In mid-April, after Wang Ben received feedback from all messengers, a war to conquer Baiyue in Lingnan officially began after seven or eight years of preparation.

Wang Ben personally led a 100,000 army from Yuechengling and Dupangling to attack Xiou in two groups to ensure the connection between the northern part of Lingnanling and Lingnanling, and at the same time cut off the connection between the Yue tribes such as Xiou and Dongou. The 100,000 civil servants who had completed the river canal started to transport food and grass and weapons along the Xiang River to Li River, so as to ensure the supply of food and grass to the army.

Zhao Tuo led an army of 50,000 out of Qitianling and Mengzhuling to attack Dongou.

Ren Xiao led a 50,000 army out of Dayu Ridge to attack Nanyue.

With the enthusiastic help of several bandit troops who had fought in Lingnan and the Yue tribe for several years, the five armies quickly defeated a large number of Yue tribes, and in less than a month it expanded its control to the core area of ​​the Pearl River Basin.

In mid-May, Ren Xiao's army attacked the junction of Nanyue and Minyue, and attacked Gao Yi's troops together. The entire line of Minyue was defeated, a large number of tribes surrendered, and all Minzhong County were pacified. Then the two armies joined together and continued to attack southward towards Panyu, where the Nanyue Palace was located.

Almost at the same time, the two armies led by Zhao Tuo also formed a siege attack on Dongou. Under the leadership of thousands of bandit corps that had been in trouble for two or three years in the Dongou area, 50,000 troops rushed towards Dongou's old nest like tigers and wolves between the mountains and ridges.

Dongou is a typical mixed-resident ethnic group, mainly composed of the people of the Central Plains and the Yue tribe. Previously, there was a Dongou Kingdom between Kuaiji and Minyue. It was a country established by the second son of Yue King Wujiang, also known as the Dongyue Kingdom. After Wujiang failed to defeat Chu, because he did not designate the heir to the throne during his lifetime, his eldest son Yu established the Minyue Kingdom in Fujian, and his second son Di (Ouyang Zaixun) established the Ouyue Kingdom south of Ouyu Mountain, with Ouyang as the national surname.

But now Dongou is a tribe driven away by Gao Yi from central Fujian, so the composition is even more complicated. Among them are the Dongyue Kingdom, the Minyue people, and a large number of mountain and wild Yue tribes, Zhuang people, Li people, Dai people, Yao people, Miao people and other ethnic minorities in the southeast of later generations were almost all divided from Dongou. Of course, there are many people from the Yue people who escaped during the Qin Dynasty's conquest.

Overall, Dongou is a hybrid of a different ethnic group, with a population of about 300,000 to 400,000. Each tribe has different living habits. Hidden among the mountains and ridges, although the whole of them belongs to the King of Dongyue, it is actually very loose. The only thing that is that it does not want to be conquered by the Qin Dynasty.

However, facing the Qin Dynasty, which had been prepared for ten years, even with the obstruction of mountains and river networks, the loose tribes of Dongyue could not stop them. Zhao Tuo's 50,000 troops and thousands of rogue legions rushed around the valleys and ravines like wild animals. Under the suppression of powerful force, the East Yue tribes of all sizes, all the big and small, began to collapse and disintegrate in an instant, just as Tu Sui said back then, the army crushed like a flood. In less than a month, Zhao Tuo conquered a large area of ​​territory, and divided into three groups to point directly to Cangwu.

Almost at the same time, the 100,000 army led by Wang Ben himself had already broken into the hinterland of Xiou, quickly captured the Li River and then quickly expanded to the Pearl River. With the help of thousands of rogue legions, a large number of Xiou tribes along the way could not resist, surrender or escape.

Facing the Xiou tribe, Wang Ben did not kill innocent people, but instead gathered these Yue tribes and appointed them to continue to govern their respective tribes as the leader of the tribe. Therefore, while these surrendered Yue tribes were afraid of the fierceness of the Qin army, they also reduced a lot of resentment and resistance. In order to speed up the capture of the lands in Lingnan, Wang Ben even asked the chief officers and staff of the army to communicate with these princes and sent envoys to contact and communicate with more Yue tribes. Under the threat of powerful force and the persuasion of the surrendered King envoy, a large number of Yue tribes began to surrender on a large scale.

With the surrender and conquest of several major tribes such as Luo Yue, Ou Yue, Ou Ai, and Ou, one after another, in early May, a large number of areas in the middle and upper reaches of the Pearl River had fallen under the control of the Qin army, and several large armies such as Zhao Tuo and Ren Xiao in the southeast were also constantly reported, and they defeated and surrendered many Yue tribes. The troops pointed directly at the targets they had set. Ren Xiao, the fastest, had crossed the Pearl River and approached Panyu. The Yue tribes in the entire Lingnan area were already panicked, and a large number of Yue tribes began to four.

After scattering, many tribal leaders of the Yue tribe could no longer restrain their tribes. After several years of erosion policy, the process of boiling frogs in warm water had made the Yue tribes in Lingnan gradually get used to small-scale battles with the Qin Dynasty. However, facing the sudden arrival of hundreds of thousands of fierce army, almost all the leaders of the Yue tribes felt despair. In addition, there were news of various preferential treatments and surrenders everywhere, and different opinions began to arise among many Yue tribes with strong resistance, and people's hearts began to slowly disintegrate.

As the five armies entered the hinterland of Lingnan, a large number of boats began to enter the Li River through the Ling Canal, and then began to expand to the Pearl River Basin along the river, continuously replenishing the weapons, grains and medicine to the Qin army. There were even many boats along the Pearl River to go straight to the sea outlet, sending a large amount of supplies to Zhao Tuo and Ren Xiao’s army along the way. When the Qin boats appeared near Cangwu and Panyu, Dongou and many Yue tribes knew that the situation was gone.

The incident of the Qin Dynasty building artificial canals near Yuechengling has been spreading in Lingnan, but all the Yue tribes have no way to stop it. Although there were also Yue tribes who wanted to destroy it, only a few hundred or thousands of people went to attack, which was like a drop in the bucket. Before we could get close, we were beaten up by the gangster army that had already been in Lingnan, not to mention that there were nearly 100,000 Qin troops stationed in Yuechengling and Dupangling. Moreover, the 100,000 civilians and prisoners who built the canal were not easy to mess with. The hoe and shovel in their hands

They are sharper and stronger than the broken swords and guns in the Yue tribe's hands, not to mention the Taiyi divine thunder that opened the mountain and exploded stones. The explosion sound like thunder was almost gone for a whole year. According to the news spread by the Yue tribe who was arrested to help build the canal, the Taiyi divine thunder exploded, like the sky and the earth were shaken like the sky thunder. A mountain would be blown into pieces in an instant. Then, the immortal slave of the left prime minister of Qinghehou of the Qin Dynasty pointed a little, and a wide canal appeared out of thin air...

In this wild and primitive era, once anything is related to gods and immortals, all kinds of statements will immediately deform.

In addition, the word of mouth between different tribes and different groups of people will add various ideas and guesses to their own descriptions. Therefore, even those who have never seen the Taiyi Divine Thunder say that it is like being in the scene when promoting it. It only promotes the Taiyi Divine Thunder a hundred times more terrifying than the Tianyi Thunder. Therefore, during the construction of the Lingqutu, it is actually a great psychological deterrence and spiritual attack on the Yue tribe in Lingnan. Therefore, during the construction of the Lingqutu, many Yue tribes in the south of Yuechengling were either frightened by the explosion of the rumbling Taiyi Divine Thunder, or they rolled and crawled to the Qin army's territory to surrender. When these Yue tribes saw the power of Taiyi God's opening mountains and exploded stones with their own eyes, they were completely tamed.

In fact, now, due to the construction of the Lingqu Canal and the use of explosives, the Yue tribes in the entire Lingnan area have been in a state of extreme chaos. Therefore, the army commanded by Wang Ben easily broke into the Lingnan area, and conquered a large area in less than a month. According to the current situation and the continuous military newspapers, it only takes half a year to conquer Dongou Xiou and other places. Perhaps by the beginning of winter this year, the entire Lingnan area will be completely included in the territory of the Qin Dynasty.

As for places closer to Vietnam in later generations, Wang Ben did not want to continue to get involved, because when he was appointed by the emperor, he took charge of the Five Ridge Army to destroy the Xiang rebels, Wang Ben personally visited Chen Xu. Chen Xu also guessed that the emperor had planned to conquer Lingnan, so he explained to Wang Ben the general situation of the lands in Lingnan. Recovering Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and Yunnan in later generations, basically, even if the task of conquering Lingnan was completely completed, Vietnam would be more primitive and barbaric than Lingnan at this time. Although there were many Vietnamese tribes, according to the current population and national strength of the Qin Dynasty, occupying places like Vietnam was completely thankless. Even if the control of courts in Lingnan was a little overwhelmed.
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