In the battle of unification, after the Qin State destroyed the Chu State, it was the Yihu Song who led the Baiyue people to resist at that time.

More than 50,000 Qin troops have been along the Xiangshui of Changsha County southward, once attacked the area of Lishui (later Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region), faced with the primeval forest full of mosquitoes and the long rainy season, 50,000 people did not encounter the army of the Baiyue people at all, so the battle of 10,000 people or even more than 3,000 people basically did not, and what they encountered was the elusive guerrilla of the Baiyue people.

Under the frequent attacks of Baiyue, 50,000 people need to be vigilant all the time, so that the spirit is tense and the body is tired, and the continuous attacks under the 50,000 people have killed and injured thousands, and more because of the unaccustomed water and soil and the infectious cold caused by the continuous rainy season, and when they returned to the relatively well-developed Nanjun, the 50,000 people were intact and no more than 20,000 were left behind, and more than 30,000 people were left in the wild primeval forest.

The Qin army could accept the force to fight and die, but it could not accept that the enemy died of illness without even seeing the enemy a few times. After that battle, the Qin military was once full of fear of going south, so they stopped their footsteps to go south, and later because of the short-term vacancy in the army, the Baiyue people went north to see through and lost Qianzhong County, and even Nan County, Lujiang County, and Changsha County also had a large number of Baiyue people to inhabit.

In the face of the failure of the first southern invasion, the first emperor was naturally furious, and the psychology of the military's fear of going south was even more angry, and after removing several courtiers, he planned a new southern invasion, so there was the emergence of the southern Xinjiang army.

The population of Baiyue people is actually very small compared to the population of China, about only about 1 million people, and it is estimated that the number of young and strong people will not exceed 200,000. When the Qin army first marched south, they used sneak attack tactics and did not suffer many casualties, but left more than 60,000 people in the battle with Lü Zhe in Nanjun, and only about 30,000 people from the Minyue side fled back.

Nanjun was developed in the hands of the Chu State for hundreds of years, and it was also developed for more than 100 years after it was conquered by the Qin State, but looking at the large number of primeval forests in the Nanjun County, it can be seen that its development process is not very good, but in some ways Nanjun is much better than the more southern areas.

The Qin State has mastered Nanjun for more than 100 years. Xianyang Center has a lot of classics on the topography, customs and customs of Nanjun, Sima Xin has read the relevant classics of Nanjun before leading the army to the south, and he does not dare to say anything about the geography and customs of Nanjun, but he also has a general understanding.

Since the Central Plains Legion was ordered by the center to send a test all the way, how could it not investigate? They came to the conclusion that they would not go through the forest area of Nanjun and go straight to the Nanjun Governor's Mansion, so that they would not be in the same situation as when the Qin army first went south.

The plan is there, and the corresponding rain gear is also prepared, but there are often quite a lot of accidents in the plan, they have just stepped into the boundary of Nanjun, and a sudden heavy rain still makes Sima Xin's subordinates recruited.

The 150,000-strong army lost more than 10,000 in the battle with the defenders of Nanjun, and more than 30,000 people fell ill, so it can be said that it lost one-third of its combat strength before the actual battle began. It can really be said that it is a disadvantage.

In the absence of medicinal materials, Sima Xin did not have a good way to treat the diseases on the soldiers, so he could only adopt a strategy of isolation to prevent the spread of the disease. There were no sick soldiers in the army, because a large number of robes were sick and vomited and diarrhea and people were panicked, so you can imagine what kind of blow the morale of the army will suffer.

Faced with the unfavorable situation of sending out the army, Sima Xin has sent three letters in a row to implore the temporary withdrawal of the army, Xu Yan's reply has not yet been delivered to Sima Xin's hands, and Sima Xin can only send some people back to Nanyang County to collect medicinal materials.

If Sima Xin wanted to start the war early before the snow fell in Nanjun, what he hoped most now was that Lu Zhe could keep the original state that he could not shrink from. It is better for the two sides to just be at peace and face off from afar, waiting for the arrival of the snow season.

However, things always backfired, and the scouts sent by Sima Xin to keep an eye on Ye County and Yan County reported that the enemy troops in the two counties had moved, and from all indications, it was judged that preparations were being made to go north of the city.

Sima Xin was already mentally prepared to let people pull the corpses of the soldiers who died of birth and illness out of the camp and burn them, but when it really happened, he couldn't help but sigh for a while. The number of soldiers he had at his disposal now was only ninety thousand. And if Lu Zhe is well prepared, at least he can transfer the army, which should be about 150,000 people. In normal times, he would have been confident that he would be able to win with 90,000 to fight 150,000 in the wilderness, but because of the epidemic in the army, his own army was unstable, so it was difficult to say.

It was learned that Lu Zhejun had signs of going north. Sima Xin ordered Shao Ai, Zhou Xing, Li Heng and other partial generals to be responsible for leading people to consolidate the camp.

When there were more than 100,000 people, the Qin army camp was never connected together, and according to the custom, 30,000 people would form a village and then connect it by a road, so as to prevent the situation of horses stepping on the joint camp or burning the company camp.

Borrowed from Nanjun, he likes to dig large trenches. During this period, Sima Xin also ordered people to dig two trenches in front of the southern part of the barracks, one was 300 steps away from the barracks, and the other was only 150 steps away.

The best shooting distance for a crossbowman at three hundred paces, one hundred and fifty steps is the farthest shooting distance for an archer, and the storage of the two trenches can maximize the killing of the crossbowmen, which is what Sima Xin thought of digging a trench in front of the city in Nanjun.

On the third day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, after leaving 10,000 garrisons in Yan County, Lu Zhe personally led an army of 90,000 to the north, and after gathering Mei Kai, Zhou Wen, Diaoding, Ji Bu, Yifeng and others in Ye County, the combined army of 130,000 approached the Qin army camp ten miles away and set up camp on the fourth day of the month.

Among the 130,000 troops, counting the 15,000 soldiers from behind Cangwu County, Lu Zhe had a total of 45,000 soldiers in his hands, the rest of the nearly 50,000 were guest troops, and the remaining 35,000 were auxiliary troops.

Before leaving, Lu Zhe also got a report from Gongwei, Gongwei set off from Hengshan County on September 23, and calculated that the time should also be along Huaishui to conquer Suixian County, Nanyang County, which did not have many Qin troops, according to Lu Zhe's estimation, Gongwei should have arrived less than thirty miles away from Huyang now?

When he realized that the Qin army would move south, that is, four months ago, the battle plan discussed by Lu Zhe and several henchmen was not complicated, and it had been agreed that once the communist commander received Lu Zhe's order, he would attack all the way to the northwest, first take Suixian in Nanyang County as the first bridgehead, and then force Huyang (about fifty miles east of Xinye during the Three Kingdoms period) to cut off the back road of the Qin army, and finally lead the army to turn south for a two-sided attack.

From Hengshan County all the way to the northwest, there are only two county seats in Nanyang County, but there are many villages in the countryside, and it is impossible to march secretly, so it is the best plan to capture these two counties and then blockade. Lu Zhe is in Nanjun, the co-lieutenant entered Nanyang County, the two are too far apart to communicate in time, Lu Zhe's estimation that the co-lieutenant should be more than 30 miles southeast of Huyang County is not accurate, the co-lieutenant has actually taken Huyang County, which is empty.

The most difficult thing to do was how to block the news, he entrusted Xu Zhi, who had more than 2,000 cavalry in his headquarters, to blockade the maximum extent, and then led 60,000 troops to turn to the southwest non-stop.

If Lü Zhe had not gone north before October 4, it would most likely have caused the lieutenant to have detoured behind Sima Xin and become a lone army in Nanyang County.

When Lu Zhe led an army of 130,000 troops to camp at a distance of ten miles from Sima Xin's department, the lieutenant had already approached Sima Xin's department about fifty miles from the northeast, which was actually a day's distance according to the distance of the foot.

Sima Xin found that Lu Zhe's attention was completely attracted when he led the army north, and gave the communist lieutenant enough opportunity to attack from behind. However, Lu Zhe was still in a state of loss of contact with the co-lieutenant, one was not clear that his hesitation almost made the co-lieutenant a lone soldier deep behind the enemy, and the other was full of excitement thinking that the Qin army was attacking Ye County and preparing to come from behind the enemy army.

It may seem absurd that two forces are fifty miles apart and are in a state of disconnection, but it is true. The lieutenant is to achieve the effect of a surprise attack, and it is destined to be an early warning line within ten miles even if the scout is released. Fortunately, Lu Zhe went north in time, otherwise the consequences would really be unpredictable.

When Lu Zhe was stationed ten miles away from the Qin army, Sima Xin immediately learned of this information.

Although there were many sick and demoralized people in the camp, Sima Xin still pointed out the soldiers and horses of the four schools, and ordered Li Heng to be the main general in front of the formation, and the general Shao Ai was the deputy general in front of the formation, and the left and right wings each sent 10,000 troops to harass the enemy army and set up camp in front.

When garrisoning, it is necessary to set aside the necessary troops to guard the Quartet to prevent enemy attacks, which is already a common practice in Chinese military history, and when the Qin army has not moved, Lü Zhe has already asked the troops to prepare.

From a distance, he saw that the gates of the left and right wings of the Qin army were opened, and the soldiers who were pressed by the black pressure rushed out, although it was impossible to judge how many troops the Qin army would send for the time being, Lu Zhe steadily led some 30,000 soldiers who had been prepared for a long time to slowly advance in the sound of the mighty war drums.

Of the 30,000 soldiers, 10,000 were in the vine armor, 6,000 were in the shield, 4,000 were in the leather armor, 4,000 were the spearmen, and the rest were bed crossbows, cart crossbows, and crossbowmen.

Nanjun's troops did not frequently drill the formation, they could only put on a boxy military formation, they advanced for three miles and then stopped, Mei Kai, who commanded the crossbowmen, shouted to order the crossbowmen to restrain the troops to line up, and Su Lie, who commanded the shield-wielding Pu sword soldiers and spearmen, also shouted for the soldiers to line up in formation.

The Qin army's formation will always be accompanied by the sound of horns, and the formation of the army is very fast because it is too skilled. After the yamen lined up the formation, it was found that the enemy army had about 30,000 troops on guard, and the main general in front of the formation saw that he had lost the opportunity and had to send someone back to ask Sima Xin, the commander of the army.

Sima Xin's reply was to press forward five miles, and the two armies were separated by two miles to see what the enemy would do.

Li Heng naturally obeyed the order, and after he joined forces with Shao Ai, the Qin army's formation was placed in a rectangular formation in the convergence, and it was slowly advancing...... (To be continued......)