"Han Xin, is this your idea or the general's idea?" After hesitating for a long time, Hu Kuan put down his hand and spoke up half of the sugarcane.

"Brother Hu, this is my own idea!" Han Xin answered carefully.

"Do you know that Taiyi Divine Thunder is your brother's most secret item, and no one can use it without his secret order?"

"I know, but now the river canals are almost completed, and it is very troublesome to transport them back. And if I don't kill the local tyrant Yi Xusong, the country bumpkin, this time, I'm afraid the war will take one or two years to end. Now the soldiers are not adapted to the local conditions and the country is getting sick. The longer the time is, the more serious the casualties of my Daqin soldiers will be. And you see, there are bumps of mosquito bites everywhere, and some of them have begun to become suppurated..."

Han Xin lifted his clothes and exposed the skin on his waist and back. Sure enough, he saw dense bumps and measles everywhere on his body, and many of them had really begun to change color and become suppurative.

Hu Kuan looked at the bumps biting from mosquitoes of the same size on his exposed arms, and his skin was twisted and tangled like bitter gourd.

As the chief official of the Ling Canal, although the canals are basically completed, as long as the war does not end, he will station in Ling Canal for inspection and repair to prevent the canal from being blocked by mud and stones or the dam collapse. In other words, if Xiou cannot be conquered quickly, he will also have to stay here to endure the bites of mosquitoes all year round. Several craftsmen and craftsmen sent by the Academy of Sciences this time could no longer withstand being sent to Yuechengling for rest. One of them was even dying and did not know whether they could survive. Moreover, the civilians who built the canal were not accustomed to the local conditions and could not withstand the bites of mosquitoes, snakes and ants. Many casualties and injuries over the past year were also killed and injured. At least hundreds of corpses were buried under the river embankments on both sides of the Ling Canal.

"Brother Hu, Cheng or Bucheng, please give me a message, so I can report back to the general!" Looking at Hu Kuan's entangled look, Han Xin said helplessly after tidying up his clothes.

Hu Kuan tried hard to dig the bumps on his arms. The more he looked at them, the more he thought the bumps biting by these mosquitoes became more itchy. It seemed that it was so itchy that it was generally unbearable in the bone marrow. And he had to dig his skin to make it feel better. However, according to past experience, once these bumps were broken, it would become purulent in a few days, and the skin would begin to ulcerate. Many civilians and prisoners on the construction site finally had their skin ulcers to the point of death, and they were all tall and had no cure before they died.

"If I promise to take out gunpowder to deal with Yi Xusong, then the Marquis asks you that you must plead for me!" After silently digging his arms for a long time, Hu Kuan finally forced himself to stop, and then stared at Han Xin and spoke.

"Really? Haha, don't worry, Brother Hu. If my brother asks you, you will push it on me by yourself, and say that I and the soldiers forced to open the warehouse and snatch the gunpowder!" Han Xin jumped up happily and nodded repeatedly, his mouth almost cracked to the back of his head.

"That's good. You'll report back to the general. At that time, I'll arrange for craftsmen to dress up and send Taiyi Shenlei to the military camp. Remember, all the process has nothing to do with me, and no matter what wins or loses, it has nothing to do with the Academy of Sciences!"

"That's right, Brother Hu, please put your heart on your belly button. As long as you use Taiyi Shenlei to kill Yiyu Song, the general will completely conquer Lingnan at most two months. We can all return to Xianyang early to eat delicious food and drink spicy food. At that time, I will definitely invite Brother Hu to Quyuan to play some little ladies, so as not to feed mosquitoes every day in this ghost place where birds do not shit!" Han Xin was excited and lit his head like a chicken pecking at rice.

"You have to keep your word. Brother Hu, I haven't seen a woman for more than a year. Then I will have seven little ladies to serve you. Don't be reluctant to spend money!" Hu Kuan instantly smiled.

"Brother Hu, don't worry, you will be satisfied by the time. I will go back to the military camp to report to the general and say goodbye!" Han Xin couldn't wait to say goodbye, and rode his horse straight to the front-line military camp in excitement.

"These bastards, I hope they can really blow these bastards to death this time. I've had enough of this ghost place!"

Hu Kuan continued to dig out of his shed while gnawing the sugarcane, and asked the guards to ask Shi Lu and several craftsmen in charge of blasting in the Academy of Sciences to discuss.

Between the mountains and ridges at the junction of the Qin army and the Xiou tribe, the Qin army, which had calmed down for several days, began to move again.

Tens of thousands of troops were dispatched one after another, and they began to approach the place where the Xiou tribe was hiding along the large and small ravines.

Two days later, tens of thousands of Qin troops were also advancing along a river valley in the other direction. Judging from the situation, they wanted to attack both sides. Moreover, the Qin army shouted loudly during the attack and captured the Song Dynasty. The huge momentum shook the area within a radius of dozens of miles. Not only did the Xiou tribe who had just been hiding for a few days began to become nervous again, but the wild beasts all over the mountains were frightened and ran around everywhere, roaring constantly among the ridges and gullies, and even clashed with the Yue tribe and even the Qin army. The rumbling screams of fighting were heard throughout the mountains.

The Qin army came fiercely. Yi Xu Song knew that tens of thousands of people under his command could not resist, so he could only continue to retreat into the deep mountains and valleys while harassing. After two days of pursuing, Yi Xu Song led hundreds of tribes to retreat into a canyon.

After arriving here, the Qin army also encountered great trouble, because both sides of the canyon were cliffs and a surging river in the middle. The Yue people of the Xiou tribe jumped along the huge rocks on the river bank and the vines on the edge of the cliff, jumping and swinging, and soon fled into the canyon. The Qin army with full armor could not catch up at all, and could only watch the Yue people running and laughing loudly.

"General, here is called Monkey Valley, which is easy to defend but difficult to attack. The Song Dynasty must have tried to use the same trick again, so we can't retreat!" A commander led several local surrendered Yue tribes to report.

"It's okay, this time I want him to escape in. Where is the Chief Han?" Wang Ben turned around looking for Han Xin indifferently.

"General, I am here!" Han Xin came over with a ragged straw hat from a bunch of science craftsmen who also put on makeup and became a Yue people.

"The next thing is left to you. This time, we have to use a 100,000 army to drive Yi Xusong to here. If he is allowed to escape, it will inevitably take more trouble. We must succeed in one go!" Wang Ben patted Han Xin's shoulder and told him.

"Don't worry, General, I will take people to the ridges on both sides of the canyon and observe them with a telescope. As long as I find the place where Yi Xusong is hiding, I will definitely be able to kill him!"

"Well, go ahead, I'm waiting for your good news!"

"Here~" Han Xin bowed and turned around, and soon led a group of craftsmen from the Academy of Sciences under the escort of a group of imperial guards, carrying the prepared gunpowder and leads along the cliffs on both sides, and quickly disappeared on the top of the cliff.

Half an hour later, Han Xin and a group of craftsmen had already reached the ridge above the inner side of the canyon, hid near an exposed cliff and observed in the valley with a telescope.

The valley is not big, with cliffs on both sides, but at the end of the canyon there is a waterfall that hangs down from a cliff seven or eight feet high, and rumbles into a pool below. Under the impact of the huge water flow, the mist in the canyon rolls and waves splash. Hundreds of Yue people in tattered clothes and headscarves gathered around the pool to drink and rest, and were still talking and laughing loudly, as if they did not take the Qin army outside into consideration at all.

This is not because these Yue people are easy and high-profile, but because the Qin army really can't attack. Jumping stones and swinging are not the skillful skills of the Qin army. They will fall into the river and drown. This terrain has been encountered countless times. Every time, many people are killed or injured and then have to retreat. Moreover, even if some of them flexibly rushed into the canyon, they were greeted by Yue people. Basically, they die as much as they enter, and even if they can escape, they are lucky. Therefore, after several times, the Qin army will stop when they encounter this terrain, and the Yue people have also figured out the habits of the Qin army through constant battles.

As for attacking from the ridges on both sides of the canyon, it is also very difficult, because these Yue tribes are all monkeys, crossing mountains and ridges as if walking on flat ground. Once they find a large number of Qin troops appearing on the ridge, they will climb up the cliffs and escape quickly. Basically, they will be lost every time. Therefore, the Qin army does not do such thankless things now.

After Han Xin finished observing, he handed the telescope in his hand to Hu Kuan, who was dressed up as a Yue man next to him.

"Brother Hu, the big man sitting by the pool with his bare chest and breasts exposed is Yi Yu Song. How can you blow him to death?" Han Xin pointed at Yi Yu Song's position and asked in a low voice.

"Well, the distance is a bit far, almost thirty feet. We don't have such great arm strength to throw the Taiyi Divine Thunder over, and there is a pool over there. If it falls into the water, the leads may be extinguished... Come, come and take a look..." After Hu Kuan finished reading it, he handed the telescope to several craftsmen responsible for blasting around him and observed it.

"It's indeed a bit far away. It would be great if I could go around the pool!" a craftsman said after reading it.

"No, there is no way to go on the ridge. If you want to go around it, it will be dark for at least an hour. And once these barbarians find out, they will inevitably climb and get away. The hard work will be in vain for a few days!" Han Xin shook his head.

"Then I can only find a way to get these Yuemans to get closer to us from the pool, which is about ten feet away..."

“I’m afraid it’s not easy…”
Chapter completed!