The Nanxiang River originates from the Jiliang Mountains, winds all the way southward, and finally flows into the sea at the southern end of the East Continent. The Nanxiang River is the border between the Western God Kingdom and the Southern God Kingdom in the south.

Although there are natural dangers to guard here, the Nanxiang River Basin is hot and redundant, and the river does not have a freezing period. Many places on both sides of the river are dense forests. The so-called wild and smoky land refers to the lower reaches of the Nanxiang River Basin.

In the middle and upper reaches of the Nanxiang River, there are garrisons guarding it, but there is no such thing as when it reaches the dense forest area.

As usual, spring is coming in less than a month, and at this time, in the forest on the east bank of the Nanxiang River, an army of 100,000 people was traveling through the forest when there was little rain in winter.

"The guide is called Chaman, who is a recruit trained by Lin Haoming. He has lived here since he was a child and was originally a hunter on the edge of the forest.

The special training every winter is very important to travel through the forest. If the army of 100,000 is naturally easily discovered by people, but here, 100,000 people are in the dense forest, no one will notice it.

Before spring, the river water in Nanxiang River is the smoothest. When everyone enters the forest, they can only carry food with them for ten days. Along the way, local materials can be used to supplement some food, and these skills were specially taught by Lin Haoming.

At this time, on the edge of the forest, 100,000 people began to build rafts to cross the river on the spot. If it was other seasons, the water flow of the Nanxiang River could not support such ordinary rafts to cross the river, but there was no problem at this time.

The construction of the raft only took one day. Next, under Lin Haoming's training, the 100,000 army spent only one day crossing the river. Even this day also included crossing the river for a distance. Under Lin Haoming's training, the 100,000 army was definitely not an old-style army. We worked fairly and hard, and we could get opportunities through hard work. This made everyone willing to obey orders and believe in Lin Haoming. Lin Haoming joined some children of the Mian family in some key positions, which made him more control over this army.

According to Lin Haoming's original plan, he would leave Tianzhu City and then take down Shannan County and Nanhai County, thus having enough capital. However, with the emergence of Gulicai, Lin Haoming had to adjust his plan, first take down the two counties in the south, and then compete with Gulicai.

Compared with Nanliang County, although Shannan County is more than twice as large as Nanliang County and Nanhai County, the two counties are relatively barren. Of course, this barrenness is caused by the environment here. A large number of places have not been developed and even many indigenous tribes live. In contrast, because the South God Kingdom is relatively small, it was developed earlier based on the places near the Nanxiang River. For example, Chaman was originally considered an indigenous tribe, but it was gradually assimilated in two hundred years. The West God Kingdom is too large, and the area of ​​the original forest here is much larger than that of the South God Kingdom, so it is much more difficult to assimilate the people here.

The day after crossing the river, Lin Haoming met the indigenous tribe here. After all, many people live here, and no one knows how many tribes are spread in the forest.

Facing a large army of 100,000, although they are all light-fit, it is a catastrophe for marginal tribes with at least dozens of people and at most hundreds of people.

Lin Haoming did not choose to destroy the tribe, but asked Chaman to communicate with them and asked them to work hard to guide them.

The leader of the tribe was obviously a little afraid of Lin Haoming's army and immediately did so.

From the information I received, most of these tribes on the edge were tribes that had resisted the Western God Kingdom. Of course, they had no good feelings for the people in the Southern God Kingdom. In their eyes, they all came from other places to invade them. At present, they were just powerful force to deter them. Lin Haoming also knew this very well, so even if there was a guide, he would not believe it all, and he still sent scouts and maintained the speed of the march.

According to calculations, if you cross the river, if you are fast, you can surround Xiuye ​​City, the second largest city in Shannan County, Xishen Kingdom, in less than five days.

Along the way, Lin Haoming divided the army into three parts, and the vanguard troops rushed straight into Xiuye ​​City along the way, and the central army followed behind them, leaving behind the army that had been specifically responsible for dealing with these tribes, with about 30,000 people, and a 30,000 army was enough to deal with it.

It was said that the vanguard troops arrived in five days, but what made Lin Haoming angry was that when the troops arrived, Xiuyecheng was actually prepared. Although it was finally defeated, the other party was prepared, causing two or three thousand people to be killed and injured on his side, which made Lin Haoming extremely angry.

When the central army entered Xiuye ​​City, Lin Haoming realized that there was a tribe who had secretly sent people to Xiuye ​​City to deliver letters overnight. However, luckily, after sending the letter, there was not much time to prepare, and secondly, it only thought that a certain tribe was going to cause trouble, and did not pay much attention to it. It was only strengthened to take some precautions, so it was taken without any danger. Although the number of people was damaged a little, it was also because many people had not experienced the first battle. I believe that if there was such a thing in the future, so many people would not be killed or injured.

Lin Haoming was absolutely ruthless about that tribe. Since he knew who did it, Lin Haoming immediately sent someone to completely destroy the tribe.

This way of doing so is to establish authority. If these tribes do not establish authority, they will not be so obedient if they are only friendly.

After a day of repair, Lin Haoming's troops were divided into two groups, heading north to Longwei Pass, and heading straight to the county city.

To the east of Longweiguan is Longwei Mountain and to the west is Nanxiang River. Moreover, the water flows in Nanxiang River here is turbulent, so setting up a pass here is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

Lin Haoming ordered the general below to try it, and if he could fight, he would fight if he could not. In the early days, it was more important to attack the enemy. If the Western God Kingdom draws a large army to go south, then block the advance and wait until the army takes down Shannan County.

Based on previous experience in attacking Xiuye ​​City and after surrounding the county city, I found that the county city garrison was still very combat-effective and might have fought with indigenous tribes all year round, so it was not so easy to deal with. Therefore, there was not much expectation for less than 30,000 people to attack Longwei Pass. However, when Lin Haoming did not expect, the news of Longwei Pass being captured came after less than five days of siege.

I went to start from Xiuye ​​City, and went to Longwei Pass and County City to Longwei Pass farther away from Longwei Pass. Unexpectedly, after a few days of surround, I actually took it there, which means that after the army arrived, it took Longwei Pass almost one or two days after it arrived.
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