Mythical Qin: I, Gao Yao, will never be a eunuch!

In this carefully planned conspiracy, Yi Xiaochuan and the mysterious man cooperated to deal with Gao Yao. According to the plan, Yi Xiaochuan would transform himself into Zhao Gao, while the mysterious man would be responsible for finding a suitable person to play the role of Meng Yi, so as to fully control the Meng family army. When Qin Shihuang passed away, he would win over Prime Minister Li Si and fully support a certain prince to ascend the throne.

At that time, as long as Yi Xiaochuan holds great power, he only needs to issue an order and find a random reason to mobilize the army to attack the southern border, and he can also take control of the entire northern border army and the 200,000 guards near Xianyang.

By then, at least the troops under direct and indirect control will be more than 500,000, not counting the soldiers loyal to the Qin Dynasty. The total number will not be less than 800,000.

This is also the result of the mysterious man's calculations for Yi Xiaochuan. Yi Xiaochuan is not worried about whether the Qin Dynasty will be destroyed or not. With 800,000 troops attacking the southern border, not to mention whether Gao Yao can make the entire southern border return to their hearts, even if he can, where will the power come from to resist the attack of 800,000 troops?

At the same time, Yi Xiaochuan was not stupid. When he returned from the southern border, he had already sensed Gao Yao's ambitions. When he was in the southern border before, he would ask the servants at the post station about the various situations in the southern border, and he had a certain degree of understanding of it.

In the southern border, Gao Yao actively recruited exiled people, appeased foreigners, built strong cities, carried out commercial trade, and vigorously promoted the vigorous development of agriculture and animal husbandry, and even put road construction on the agenda. There was only one reason behind all these measures: Gao Yao intended to expand his sphere of influence in the southern border.

Since Yi Xiaochuan had insight into this, he could naturally make a reasonable guess about Gao Yao's goals and greater ambitions: Gao Yao's intentions were by no means limited to just the southern border!

At this moment, in the Zhentuo area in the southern border, in the towering dense forest, Gao Yao, with five hundred elite soldiers, was looking far away in the direction of a mountain village in the mountains and forests. Strictly speaking, it might not be accurate to call it a mountain village, and it might be more appropriate to describe it as a "primitive tribe."

This mountain village is quite large and has many residents, more than a thousand people. Surprisingly, the proportion of men is as high as 60%, and women only account for 40%. What is more worth mentioning is that everyone here is a soldier, and everyone has a certain combat ability. Although most of the weapons they use are still in the Stone Age, this tribe has other headaches. They have a wizard-like existence.

In the southern part of the country, people often respectfully call these special people "Shen Suo". This is a unique way of addressing the Nanyue people. In fact, these so-called people who can communicate with the gods are just experts who master some mysterious power and know how to use witchcraft. This phenomenon precisely reflects a distinctive feature of tribal civilization: whenever encountering something that is incomprehensible or difficult to achieve, people will attribute it to the power of the gods without hesitation, and give those with special abilities a high status. The wizards in this tribe are good at voodoo.

Gao Yao was able to know this because of the medical skills granted by the system. When conquering this tribe, the normal process is to send people to negotiate first, explain the interests, and also explain the benefits of surrender. However, this tribe in front of him was quite direct. They directly killed the person Gao Yao sent to recruit them.

After that, there were two consecutive attacks, but they were defeated both times. Each time, the enemy brought special torches that released a special kind of smoke. Once the soldiers smelled it, they would immediately feel weak all over and could not muster any strength at all.

Two rounds of fierce offensives were defeated in bizarre and unpredictable ways! Not only did they fail to achieve the expected victory, but they also lost hundreds of brave and fearless soldiers. What's worse is that all of their sophisticated weapons and equipment fell into the hands of the enemy, becoming a powerful aid in the hands of the enemy. However, the enemy cleverly hid in the mountains and forests, and carefully laid many dangerous traps.

If they rashly adopted a strategy of strong attack, they would inevitably suffer huge casualties and material losses; but if they chose to advance step by step and slowly, they would be helpless against the mysterious poisonous smoke.

As for the tactic of using fire attack, it is even more difficult to implement under such circumstances. After all, not every forest can be easily burned, and the implementation of fire attack also requires the cooperation of time and place to be successful. In the northern region, the climate is extremely dry, especially after entering autumn, the mountains and forests are very easy to ignite, and a raging fire will be caused by the slightest carelessness. But on the contrary, when summer comes, the trees are lush and full of water, even if you try every means to start a fire, it is futile.

In the south, however, the situation is completely different. The sky in the south is humid and hazy, the vegetation is lush and green, and the water source is abundant. If there is a lack of sufficient flammable materials as auxiliary fuel, trying to ignite a large-scale wildfire in such an environment, especially in such a vast rainforest area, is no less difficult than the challenge of splitting mountains and tearing boulders.

Using arrows to attack is simply a futile act in this dense forest. This is not only the reason why the Qin Dynasty had such a hard time attacking Nanyue and suffered heavy casualties, but also the key factor in the subsequent independence of Nanyue. It is precisely because they occupy such a favorable terrain condition,

Even Zhuge Liang, who was as wise as a god, never used the art of fire attack when he fought Meng Huo, except for the time when he burned the rattan armor army. And that time he used this strategy in an open area! If he was in the mountains and forests, he had to rely on kerosene to be effective.

However, if the price paid was too high just for a tribe of just over a thousand people, even Gao Yao would feel heartbroken! After all, such a stubborn tribe could definitely not be conquered, and it was difficult for them to communicate effectively. Even if they were to capture it by force, the losses they would suffer would definitely far outweigh the gains.

When Gao Yao learned of this important news, he did not hesitate at all and immediately led 500 battle-hardened and well-trained elite soldiers to the target location as fast as the wind. The military camp was safely handed over to Cao Shen to guard.