In the early morning of the beginning of summer, a light rain fell in the sky of Jinglongquan Mansion on the Bohai Sea.

This is not a good phenomenon for the right route army of the tribal coalition army in the Shangjing area. The beginning of summer also means the end of the long winter in the Bohai region, and although spring came late, it finally came. While the earth warmed up and the glacier thawed, it also meant that the spring flood came, the river rose, the swamp was restored, and the right-wing coalition army in Beijing also lost the most difficult time to evacuate. If you want to leave, you will have to wait until September or October. This also means that in the long next half a year, they can only confront the Qin army to the end.

However, the arrival of Lixia was excellent news for Qin Jun.

At the beginning of summer, the Central Plains has ended spring and entered summer, but for the Bohai Sea, especially the northern part of the Bohai Sea, this has just ended the long winter and has begun to enter spring. Spring is blooming, ice and snow are melting, which means that the soldiers of the Qin army who have been cats for a winter on the Bohai battlefield finally don't have to face the staple food made of various fish in pots all day long. In winter, it was difficult to transport supplies in the rear, and most of the food of the Qin army was actually self-sufficient and supplied on the spot. Although Bohai agriculture is still good, it has already declined after several years of war. However, the land of the Bohai Sea also has a characteristic, that is, it was originally a fishing and hunting place, and the people used to be a semi-agricultural and semi-fishing and hunting tribe, and the fishing and hunting resources here were very rich.

The Qin army has extremely advanced fishing skills and fishing tools. Even in the cold winter months, it is possible to fish under the ice. Beneath those large lakes and huge glaciers, the Qin army dedicated a fishing team. With the big nets they brought from the rear. The daily harvest is amazing. The fishing team of the Ninth Legion, which set a single-net fishing record last year. With a huge fishing net 700 zhang long, in the Meituo River, it took nine hours to smash the ice and open a hole, and caught a full 150,000 catties of fish in one net, and with the huge net of the big mesh, under the guidance of the experienced mackerel head, he caught more than 20,000 big fish of more than five catties at one time.

Arguably. It was the abundant fishing and hunting resources in the Bohai Sea region that made it less difficult for the Qin army to garrison in the Bohai Sea.

In layman's terms, the land of the Bohai Sea, especially in the northern region, is really good to beat roe seed scoop fish, here, food is not the biggest difficulty, the only thing that restricts the troops is the cold, cold protection and how to march and fight in low temperature weather is the biggest difficulty. Fortunately, the Qin army has vigorously developed cotton planting in recent years. The soldiers of the Qin army were equipped with many cotton leather robes, making even the soldiers from the land of Jianghuai. It also protects against the cold. Especially in this winter, those tribal armies couldn't shrink out, so that the Qin army also spent another winter safely.

Now, the spring has returned to the earth, and the soldiers of the Qin army who have eaten the fish for a winter are happy, and with the thawing of the rivers and the arrival of the spring flood, the sailor supply ship that has not been seen for half a year has finally appeared in front of everyone again.

On the pier of the Heishui River at the edge of Delhi Town, Li Jing is leading the soldiers stationed in the city to stand on the dock and wait for the dock of the sailor fleet. After unloading the supplies, this fleet will carry more than 30,000 tribal troops of the newly formed 22nd Army Corps composed of Li Jing and the 22nd Army Corps, as well as 50,000 Janissaries composed of Li Jing's Sixth Guards Army, plus the Marine Corps of the Navy Division and the Marine Division, a total of 100,000 personnel, and together they will go down the Heishui River to the rear lair of the Heishui tribe in the north.

The Heishui Tribal Alliance, there are nine tribes below, namely the Heishui Division, the Tieli Division, the Fu Pinch Division, the Yuexi Division, the Yulou Division, the Simu Division, the Diao Division, and the Moyu Division.

From the Yulou and Tieli tribes in the area of Mae Tuo Lake to the northernmost and later Sakhalin islands, the Heishui tribal alliance has a huge territory, but it has always been a fishing and hunting householder, and the alliance is very loose. Moreover, the biggest difference between the Heishui tribe and the Bohai people, and even the Khitan, Murowei, Xi and others, is that they are the only tribal alliance in the north with braided hair. Their outward attire is very different from that of other tribes, with their hair braided, boar teeth tied on it, leather hats on their heads, and pheasant feathers, which is significantly different from other tribes.

This is a tribe that insists on fishing and hunting, fierce and savage, but there is a great weakness, that is, although they can be a soldier for the whole people, they live in the harsh northeast region, and the population has not been large. Compared with the Bohai country, which has been established for more than 200 years, the Sumo people of the same tribe have actively studied the culture of the Central Plains and switched to farming, and now accommodates all ethnic groups and has more than 600,000 households, including slaves and monks, and has a population of nearly 5 million, the population of the nine major tribes of the Heishui tribe together is less than 1 million.

Now that all the members of the Heishui tribe have mobilized to wage war with the Bohai people, almost 200,000 young and strong people have been conscripted to the Bohai front, and their rear is extremely empty. It can be said that apart from some women and children, there is no army at all in the rear of the Blackwater Alliance.

They never imagined that when they fought all the way to Shangjing, one day, someone would be able to copy their back road.

Li Jing likes to be surprised, and they can't imagine that by now, Li Jing has conquered almost all the three tribes of the Heishui Alliance, Tieli, Fu, and Yulou on the border between the Bohai Sea and Heishui. Li Jing initially conquered the garrisons behind Shangjingfu, then lured them down and asked the tribes to persuade their people to surrender, and eventually, Li Jing brought all three tribes over.

Now, Li Jing takes the 22nd Army Corps, composed of 30,000 soldiers from the three major tribes, as the pioneer, and then takes his own Praetorian Guard Legion and does not take those difficult roads. Instead, he took a battleship directly and went down the river in the wide black water. Li Jing didn't need to conquer all the tribal villages in the deep forests and mountains one by one, all Li Jing needed to do was to follow the Heishui River and capture the large settlements of several tribes, especially the Dadu Governor's Mansion of the Heishui Tribe.

The Heishui River valley at the time of the spring flood was dangerous, full of erupting spring flood rising rivers and countless swamp traps, but for the Qin army, they had countless warships. The spring floods caused the river to rise sharply. On the contrary, it can make their warships more and more like fish in water. They could move as fast as they could, far beyond the imagination of the tribesmen, who had lived in the region for thousands of years and had never encountered such an adversary.

"Does the king think this move is feasible?" Gongsun Lan looked at those who had already changed into neat red Qin army robes, holding standard Qin army swords and spears, but their heads were shaved one by one, but there was still a small handful of hair on the back of their heads. The tribal soldiers who formed a long, thin braid, tied with several colored ribbons, and tied with wild hunting teeth, always felt a little uncomfortable, "These braided wild boars are always uncomfortable to look at, are these people reliable?" ”

"It's just their tribal custom, and as long as it can be used by us, we don't have to worry about it for the time being. When we have established a firm rule here in the future, we can also decree that no tribe should be left behind. Give them orders to keep their braids and not their heads. Keep your head without braids, and naturally there will be no one left. ”

Li Jing called the four army commanders Zhang Zimian, Lin Wei, Wang Chong, and Li Cunxiao.

"I will take 50,000 people from the Sixth Guards Army, as well as 100,000 people from the 22nd Legion, the Water Division and the Tiger Shark Legion to raid the hometown of the Blackwater Tribe, and the four of you will stay with the remaining 150,000 people. If my expectations are correct, after we send the news of the killing of the old nest of the Heishui tribe back to Zhongjing, the commander of the right army coalition and the governor of the Heishui Alliance, Agu Lang, will definitely not be able to sit still anymore, if our judgment is not bad, then Agu Lang will definitely lead the army of the Heishui tribe to leave Shangjing and try to return to the tribe. I need you to hold your line and hold them back. At that time, they will have no home to return to, and Shangjing will be recovered by us again, and then this right-wing army will collapse without a fight. ”

"Your Highness, please rest assured, as long as they dare to leave the turtle shell in Shangjing, we will let them be wiped out by the river in one fell swoop, and we will not let any of them go." Li Cunxiao said loudly.

"No!" Li Jing shook his head, "Just stop them and don't let them return, you don't have to fight with them." What we need to do is to lure them out of the cave first, and then take advantage of the situation to recover Shangjing and other places. Then surround the right army under the town of Delhi in Tieli Province, and when I have broken their lair, we will come again to persuade them to surrender. ”

"King Qin plans to watch them, but I'm afraid it will be difficult?" Wang Chongdao.

"As long as our plan is successful, and then this right-wing army will lose its nest and its garrison in Shangjing, and will be trapped under the town of Delhi, what do you think they can do except surrender?"

In the drizzle, Li Jing bid farewell to the generals and boarded the battleship with Gongsun Lan, Megan and Julie. Several women insisted on staying, saying that they would return to the middle school. Li Jing was also helpless, but thinking about it, there should be no accidents with 100,000 soldiers and horses on this trip, so he agreed. Anyway, Li Jing also planned to attack all the way down the black water, and then go directly to the sea and return to the Central Plains from the sea.

On the same day, Li Jing led 100,000 soldiers and horses, boarded the fleet of sailors, went down the Songhua River, went out of Tieli Mansion, entered Huaiyuan Mansion, and then out of Huaiyuan, and from there entered Heilongjiang.

Led by the 30,000 pigtailed soldiers, the tribal villages and market towns along the coast and on some tributaries were hit.

Li Jing's order was simple, either surrender or perish.

Those who refused to submit were beheaded and the chiefs of the tribes were killed, and all the men and women of the tribes were taken prisoner and used as slaves. Those who surrendered were also temporarily left the village and taken to temporary dock market towns established along the Heihe River in Heilongjiang. Men over the age of fifteen and under sixty were temporarily transferred to the 22nd Army Corps. Li Jing didn't really need these soldiers, doing so was just a draw from the Blackwater Tribal Alliance. Without men, the backbone of these tribes would be removed, and it would be much easier for them to be sent to take over the work.

In this attack down the river, the tribal resistance was still strong at first, but after Li Jing deliberately connived at the bloody suppression and slaughter of his fellow clans by the Braided Army of the 22nd Legion, the others who heard the news and saw the fierce side of the Qin army, and they were already extremely weak, and there were not many soldiers left behind in the small and large tribal villages at home, and they all surrendered honestly. Li Jing had long expected this, the Blackwater Alliance was a barbaric and backward fishing and hunting tribe, and it was useless to blindly talk to them about benevolence, righteousness and morality. Only after showing them the strength of the strong will they know that they are afraid.

The further downstream he went, the more soldiers of the Braided Legion became, and when Li Jing reached the center of the Blackwater Tribe. At the time of the Boli Prefecture of the Black Water Governorate. Li Jing's pigtail army has reached 80,000 people. This pigtail army can be regarded as more of a boy scout, because the young and strong have been requisitioned early, and there are very few old people, and most of the people left in the village are old men over sixty, and Li Jing is too lazy to take those people away. As a result, there are basically no teenagers over the age of fifteen, and the braided soldiers who are unwilling to show their merits simply brought all the teenagers over the age of ten, Li Jing looked at those teenagers, maybe it was the reason for the special environment. These teenagers are very strong, far beyond their peers in the Central Plains, even a ten-year-old child can ride a horse and shoot arrows. In the end, Li Jing brought all these teenagers with him. He had a new idea, which was to bring these young Tatar people back to the Central Plains, give them a new type of education in the Qin Domain, and then let them return to the Tatar in the future as the vanguard of his rule over the Northeast Tatar region.

Boli Prefecture was the seat of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of the Yan Dynasty, and the leader of the Heishui Tribal Alliance was named the Metropolitan Governor at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty. The establishment of the Metropolitan Governorate, and then the nine tribes of the Blackwater Tribal Alliance as the state assassins. In order to set up a state, the rule of fetters was implemented. In the past few hundred years, Boli Prefecture has been the center of the Black Water Department, and it is also the center of the entire alliance, it is a relatively prosperous place, with a city with a circumference of eight miles of mountains and stones, although this is only the scale of a small county town in the Central Plains, but in the Bohai Sea, this is the most prosperous and lively city within a radius of thousands of miles, and there are tens of thousands of people in the city at the most lively time.

When Li Jing arrived at the city, the city of Boli, which was built on the south bank of the confluence of the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers, had already opened its gates and lowered the suspension bridge. As early as three days ago, before the arrival of the Qin army, the vanguard of the 22nd Legion's braided army scouts had infiltrated the city, and then suddenly attacked in the middle of the night, taking control of the city that was only guarded by 300 tribal warriors.

After resting in Boli City for three days, Li Jing left behind a detachment of a detachment and a compartment of the Tiger Shark Regiment of the Marine Corps, and a corps of 5,000 pigtails to garrison the place. Then Li Jing led his troops to continue down the river.

Along the way, Li Jing's army conquered the Heishui tribes one by one, and the pigtail army entered the landing of each department in advance, spreading all kinds of news about how powerful the Qin army was, and so on, and the tribes had no resistance, and often Li Jing's army only attacked a few market towns along the coast, and the rest of the tribes and towns farther away took the initiative to ask for surrender. In the face of the arrival of an unprecedented army, they were terrified and trembled, and many believed the rumors, believing that the tribal warriors who went out on the expedition had died in the Bohai Sea, otherwise, how could the Qin army in distant Middle-earth have been killed all the way here?

You must know that they have struggled with the Bohai Sea for hundreds of years and thousands of years, and in the past, the Bohai people have never fought in this far northeast.

In July, Li Jing's fleet arrived at the mouth of the sea loaded with 150,000 men, boys, girls, and young women from the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th legions of the Qin Army's Praetorian Guard Legion, the Marine Corps Tiger Shark Legion, and the 22nd, 23rd, and 24th Legions of the Braided Legion.

Of the nine major tribes of Heishui, Li Jing has conquered eight along the way, and the last one is on the cave island on the sea east of the estuary, which is the Sakhalin Island in later generations. The Cave Doctrine guards a huge island, but its strength is extremely small, with a combined population of only more than 50,000 people, and few tribal warriors, most of whom have been conscripted into the Bohai Sea. Li Jing only sent a few detachments to land with marines from several places, and it only took half a month for the entire cave department on the island to completely surrender to Li Jing.

In August, the huge fleet of sailors set sail again, and after a year and a half, Li Jing finally set off to return to the Central Plains. When he came, he brought with him 200,000 warriors and 100,000 people. When he returned, he also took 300,000 people with him, but among them, there were 200,000 men, women, and children from the Black Water Piercing. This time, Li Jing can be said to have taken away all the last seedlings in the Black Water Department. As long as he can successfully surround and persuade Agulang's Blackwater tribe army to surrender, the entire Blackwater Department will be under his control from now on and completely surrender to him.

"The territory of the Heishui Basin is so far away from the Central Plains, is it worth going to great lengths to take him?"

On the deck of the Sirius's flagship, Meghan asked. In her opinion, this place was too remote and remote, and the climate was so cold, it was simply a primitive world. It's too expensive to run here.

"This place is worth having, don't think that this place is barbaric and primitive and backward, but here is the most fertile black soil, although it is a little cold, but we have cotton, we have coal, and there is plenty of wood here, so it is not a problem to protect against the cold. As long as you can conquer the indigenous tribes here, remove some of them, and then immigrate to Shibian, and have official auspices to develop, believe me, this will turn from a bitter cold land to a golden land, a granary outside the border. And running this place is not just about that. Our center of gravity is in the east, in Hebei, Shandong, and now we are developing Liaodong, which is also a barrier for Hebei. And the conquest and development of the Yan Dynasty, in fact, is also for the strategic security of the entire Qin Domain. Only when the Northeast is safe, can the whole of Hebei become our core area, and Yanjing can become a real base camp. Only then can we advance to the west and south without worry, expand the territory, and lay a great foundation for future generations! ”

Although Megan didn't understand everything, she still nodded and said: "Since this is the case, then you approve some money, and our sailor will build a sailor base here to firmly guard the mouth of the black water." ”

"Well, I'm planning to build a main base in Vladivostok and station a fleet, and then set up an forward base here at the mouth of the Black Water and station a detachment. After you go back, draw up a form for me that you need, whether it is personnel, materials, money, food, etc., I will give you priority. Li Jing looked at her high bulging belly, "It seems that the child can't wait to return to the Central Plains to regenerate, it is estimated that he will have to give birth halfway, do you just stay here to give birth." ”

Megan refused without hesitation, "Born at sea at sea, born at sea, born at sea, this child will definitely be a naval marshal in the future!" (To be continued......)