In 236-22 BC1year, Qin, located in the northern border, successively annexed six countries, thus completing the unification of the Central Plains. Qin Shihuang was not satisfied with the existing achievements, so he turned his attention to the unyielding land of Baiyue in the south. Qin Jun is known as the army of tigers and wolves, and its soldiers are invincible. However, Baiyue, a barbarian land in the eyes of Central Plains people, actually made Qin Jun fight for more than ten years, and the situation was extremely tragic.
"Baiyue" land, as its name implies, refers to the areas where wuyue, Yangyue, Nanyue and other Yue tribes live.
Located in the southern coastal areas, covering Shanghai, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Hainan, Guangxi, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, and even parts of modern northern Vietnam. During the Warring States period, Baiyue was underdeveloped. The limited population is distributed in mountainous areas. For Qin Jun, the local area is full of dangerous forests, deadly miasma and cruel beasts. The local aborigines also fought very methodically in the resistance. Baiyue's agriculture was underdeveloped at that time, and it could provide unique natural resources such as ivory, rhinoceros horn, jade and jewelry.
A land trade route originating from India and Myanmar is directly connected with China via Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. Another sea route extends from India-Singapore-Vietnam to Panyu, Guangzhou today. Therefore, Lingnan seems to have no value, but it has great development potential. In 2 19 BC, Qin Shihuang sent an envoy Tu Youyou to attack Lingnan with a great army. Due to the scarcity of local plains, it is not suitable for dispatching troops, so Tu Youyou divided the troops into five roads and stationed them in Gaocheng, Jiuyi, Panyu, Ye Nan and Yugan.
They will face the three strategic directions of Xi 'ou, South Vietnam and Fujian and Vietnam at the same time, and move forward with the trend of strategic encirclement and separate attack. Baiyue tribe was very afraid of this and understood that the number of Qin soldiers far exceeded that of any party. Soon, those tribes that were not established were directly defeated under the pounce of the tiger and wolf division of Qin State. Qin Jun has also achieved absolute dominance in eastern Vietnam and Fujian coastal areas. But further south Vietnam and Xi 'ou, Qin Jun can conquer it easily. Europe is considered to be the most difficult to deal with. At this time, Xi Ou was the most powerful force of Baiyue.
This tribe is still in the stage of all the people being soldiers, and the social productive forces are developing rapidly. Compared with other tribes, Xi 'ou's army is the most effective one. Under the leadership of the leader Yi, they assembled into a rebel army, which was dominated by Ou people and supplemented by local indigenous armed forces. They fought Qin Jun for three years. Under their persistent attacks, the logistics transportation in Qin Jun has become very difficult. This is very fatal for Qin Jun, because it has a large number and can't get enough materials locally.
Apart from a few limited waterways, they can hardly find other safe ways to transport materials. Therefore, the supervisor in charge of supervising the transportation arranged manpower to dig the canal to facilitate the transportation of ships. In this way, Qin Jun can rely on warships to continuously penetrate enemy positions, thus avoiding the embarrassing situation of poor traffic. Moreover, Tu Youyou's troops are mainly the original troops that attacked and destroyed Chu before, and some of them are former Chu soldiers who have been recruited. Despite the disparity in strength, the Xi European army is not defenseless. Besides, under the terrain of Lingnan, it is obviously unrealistic to want to disperse the mighty army to attack.
Fortunately, the weapons that Qin Jun has mastered through the northwest technology input route still have great advantages.
The array tactics practiced in the Central Plains battlefield are also unheard of by opponents in Lingnan area. However, Vae, the leader of Xi 'ou, obviously didn't realize this. He took the initiative to unite the main force of Xi 'ou Army and other dispersed Vietnamese people to resist Qin Jun's invasion.
This tough way finally enabled Qin Jun to break through the western European front with high momentum. Vae was also killed in the rebels. Since then, Xi 'ou people have never stopped resisting and hope to make a comeback. He learned the lesson of the previous failure, gave up the idea of rallying Xi 'ou troops against Qin Jun, and resisted with the idea of guerrilla warfare. To this end, Baiyue people retreated into the mountains and forests, even at the expense of interacting with wild animals. Most people in Qin Jun come from the north and have been living in a relatively dry and cold environment for many years.
Suddenly came to such a hot and humid environment in the south, some people appeared obvious discomfort and began to get sick. With the spread of the plague, Qin Jun's fighting capacity began to decline sharply. Xi Ou's troops fluttered about in the terrain with many rivers and deep valleys, high mountains and dense forests, and repeatedly attacked Qin Jun. As a result, Qin Jun, who went south, hardly dared to take off his armor when he was resting. With the battlefield gradually away from the local major water system, the logistical difficulties in Qin Jun have emerged again. Some temporary strongholds established not long ago quickly lost contact with the outside world because of the attacks of Baiyue people nearby. As long as there is no artificial reinforcement, a small group of Qin Jun's logistics may be completely cut off.
But after the army left, the siege of the local natives will continue. However, in the end, it is not the opposite tribe, such as Europe, that can't hold on first. Because of the long war, their daily life and production have been seriously affected. Qin Jun's damage to the local environment and industry is immeasurable, but Baiyue people lost more in the war. If we can't get rid of Qin Jun as soon as possible, they will face a serious survival crisis. These factors forced the guerrilla masters to take the initiative to go out of the mountain camp and launch a final blow to Qin Jun, which seems to be already weak.
In 2 18 BC, the troops of Xi 'ou people quietly groped for the garrison in Qin Jun at night. Qin Jun soon discovered the anger and quickly organized resistance. However, the embattled soldiers have long been exhausted and unable to form effective resistance to the Xi 'ou tribe, which is ready to go. At this time, Qin Jun has always insisted that a large-scale war can only be brought from the battlefield in the Central Plains. However, this kind of combat mode, which requires the cooperation of various infantry, and even covers the two wings with chariots and cavalry, is difficult to adapt to the narrow battlefield in Lingnan area. Previously, due to the small number of opponents, Qin Jun rarely considered large-scale confrontation. Now I find myself completely useless.
On the contrary, the Baiyue Army, though regarded as militaristic by the Central Plains people, can better carry out surprise attacks in the woodland. It may not be qualified in the northern battlefield, but it can form a continuous charge in Baiyue. Xi Ou and other allied forces defeated Qin Jun in a way that was unacceptable to their opponents. At this point, the first battle of Qin's annexation of Baiyue ended in Qin Jun's fiasco. Qin Jun lost the war despite its absolute superiority in strength and combat capability.