Chapter 290 Baiyue Returns

"This...this...how is this possible..."

"1.3 million Qin troops, 1.3 million Qin troops!"

The leader of the Black Water Tribe collapsed directly to the ground, his face pale, his lips trembling, and he couldn't hide his shock.

That's not 130,000, nor 300,000, but the army of the Qin State of 1.3 million!

The leader of the Blackwater Tribe swore that he had never even heard of such a terrifying enemy lineup in this life, let alone that he was about to face it.

How many people are there in the entire Blackwater Tribe?

But only a mere 400,000.

How many people are there in the entire Vietnamese?

If you die, it will be in the early four million.

The leader of Heishui knew that although the Yue nationality claimed to be all soldiers when the war broke out, it was impossible for the whole people to be soldiers.

Apart from the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, and women, only 700,000 to 800,000 people of the entire southern Xinjiang Yue ethnic group could go to war.

And the vast majority are Vietnamese people who have not experienced much formal training.

Although the Yue nationality is sturdy in folk customs, it cannot compete with the elites of Qin who were eliminated in the unification war of the Central Plains.

And more importantly, the Yue tribes in southern Xinjiang are scattered, and it is impossible to concentrate all the forces.

Otherwise, the leader of Black Water still has the confidence to rely on the dangerous terrain in the southern border to deal with the Qin army, and the Qin army, who can't stand the pain of the southern border and can't get any benefits, can only retreat sadly.

But now, the words of Qin's envoys have directly driven the black water leader into the abyss!

Thinking of the fact that the Blackwater Tribe was about to face millions of elites from the Qin state, and under the powerless resistance, more than 400,000 people were slaughtered by the Qin army.

The leader of the black water felt shivering, and a fear suddenly rose in his heart.

"At this moment, can't the leader make a decision?"

Looking at the leader of the Black Water, who was slumped to the ground with confusion and fear in his eyes, the Qin envoy asked.

However, the Qin envoys did not despise him because of the seemingly incompetent performance of the leader of the Black Water at this time.

Because the Qin envoys knew that this was not because the leader of the Black Water was too incompetent, but because the Qin army, who was about to fully advance into the southern border, was too powerful.

So powerful that when they hear the generals and the number of troops, they can only make these southern border Yue tribes feel unable to resist.

This is no longer the 500,000 Southern Border Legion that the Yue people only had to face.

But after gathering the elites from the northern part of Daqin and the elites from the east, it has a terrifying number of 1.3 million Southern Expedition Corps.

This is not a crime of war, it is really powerless to resist!

"Cough...cough..."

At this moment, an old cough came from behind.

The leader of the black water and the envoy of the Qin state looked over, but found that an old man with a black wooden crutch and wearing a coarse cloth robe came up.

I saw that the old man's body seemed to be rotten, as if he was about to die soon.

But the light radiating from both eyes made Qin envoys feel a shock in their hearts.

"Could it be... this is..."

The Qin envoy thought of a possibility, but he was still a little uncertain.

"Black Water has seen the High Priest!"

"The high priest is seriously ill now, so he should rest in bed, why is he so tired!"

Seeing the old man, the leader of Black Water was shocked, and quickly stepped forward to support the old man, showing respect in his tone and demeanor.

"Now it's about the life and death of the more than four million Yue people in my southern border. Can this old man still sit still as the high priest of the Heishui tribe?"

The old man tapped the ground with his black wooden crutches and said while coughing.

Let the leader of the black water be more careful, for fear that something happened to the old man.

...

"The lower official has seen the high priest!"

Looking at the performance of the leader of the black water and the old man, the Qin envoy finally confirmed his guess.

He also hurriedly bowed to the old man in the coarse cloth robe and said, and he was also extremely respectful.

The situation in the Southern Border is complicated, and the most powerful among the Baiyue tribes in the Southern Border is the tribal leader.

But the most prestigious among these tribes are undoubtedly these priests.

Among them, the high priest has the highest prestige, and can even be called the spiritual leader of the Baiyue ethnic groups in southern Xinjiang.

It is not without reason that these priests attained such high status.

Before the ancient times, the Jiuli clan was expelled from the Central Plains and came to this dangerous place in the southern border where poisonous insects and beasts are teeming.

When they first arrived, the Yue people suffered heavy casualties under various conditions due to their unfamiliarity with the geography of southern Xinjiang.

However, because of the existence of these priests, the Yue people who were expelled from the Central Plains could survive in the southern border.

And it can be passed down from generation to generation, these priests can be said to have contributed.

The reason is that the hands of these sacrificial priests control the techniques of farming, fishing, hunting and medical divination, instructing the Yue people to thrive and live in these 100,000 mountains, and their status is respected from generation to generation.

For such legendary heroes, Qin envoys also respected them very much.

"Envoy Qin, the matter of the surrender of the Yue people in the southern border is of great importance. This old man wants to discuss one or two with the leader of our clan to make a decision!"

"I also asked Qin Envoy to move the car first, but I will not disappoint Qin Envoy...cough...cough..."

The High Priest of Black Water Buluo said weakly, looking like a sunset.

Seeing this situation, the envoy of Qin also sighed, realizing that whether or not the Blackwater Tribe will surrender now depends on this high priest.

Instead, he bowed to the high priest of Heishui: "I hope the high priest can make a wise decision, and the lower official will leave first."

After the envoy of Qin State finished speaking, he slowly retreated, and finally withdrew from the stone house.

"The High Priest..."

The leader of the black water wanted to open his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by the high priest raising his hand.

"Ugh!"

I saw the high priest sighed, then turned to look at the black water leader and said.

The old figure is so crumbling and rotten, and the eyes are so vicissitudes.

"Listen, chief, the old man is about to ride the crane west."

"I hope the leader will listen carefully to every word that the old man said next, and don't let my Blackwater tribe suffer the disaster of genocide!"

Seeing the high priest like this, the leader of Black Water trembled inwardly, his eyes turned red, and he resisted his tears.

The leader of Black Water knew that after today, the high priest is afraid that he will float away!

"Despite your father's teachings, your words and deeds will be remembered by the children!"

At this moment, the leader of Black Water actually knelt down in front of the high priest and kowtowed to the high priest one after another.

His forehead was red, and there was no way to hide the grief in his tone.

No one knew that the child that the high priest had brought back from other tribes, and now the most powerful and prestigious person in the Blackwater Tribe turned out to be a father-son relationship.

In the stone house, the high priest looked at the leader of the black water with a look of relief.

Immediately, the two continued to talk, and from time to time there was a cough after another from the stone house.

But he couldn't hear what the two people in the stone house were talking about.

I only know that after a quarter of an hour, the stone house opened again, and the leader of the black water sent a message that made all the people of the black water people feel that the sky was sinking.

The High Priest of the Blackwater Tribe—Gone!

As soon as the news came out, the eyes of the more than 400,000 members of the entire Blackwater Tribe turned dark, and their hearts were very painful.

The mountains were full of desolate cries as they mourned and bid farewell to their beloved high priest.

At the same time, the leader of Blackwater announced another news.

From now on, all the members of the Heishui tribe and their territories will be incorporated into the Central Plains of China, assist the Qin army to enter the southern border, and accept the unified arrangement and jurisdiction of the Daqin government.

Not only that, after the largest Yue tribe in southern Xinjiang announced its surrender, the attitudes of many other Yue tribes who were originally tough all turned sharply.

One after another, they announced their acceptance of Daqin recruiting, which naturally included the Black Stone Tribe and the Black Snake Tribe, the two southern Xinjiang Yue tribes except the Black Water Tribe.

So far—the army of the Qin State has successively marched into the southern border under the command of General Sima Cuo of the Qin Army!

He succeeded in taking the Baiyue wild land without a single shot, so that the late autumn offensive carefully planned by the generals of the Qin state was stillborn!