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Wang Ben reacted instantly:

"The general's meaning is..."

Shen Bing replied:

"The Xiongnu still focus on attacking."

"Its defense of the city can prevent our army from easily obtaining the city, and secondly, it can cooperate with the inside and outside, and have both offense and defense."

"So there must be cavalry troops outside the city."

"If our cavalry army rushes to attack rashly, it will only be attacked internally and externally and even the entire army will be wiped out."

"This Maodun... is indeed an opponent that cannot be ignored!"

Hearing what Shen Bing said, Wang Ben didn't dare to say more.

Because what Shen Bing said was right, if the Xiongnu really arranged it like this, let alone [-] cavalry, I am afraid that even [-] cavalry would not be able to attack Wuyuan.

So Shen Bing could only continue to march towards Wuyuan step by step, while Yang Duanhe's troops followed behind and built a city wall every [-] miles all the way to Wuyuan.

Building a city wall every [-] miles is naturally to protect the supply route.

The reason for the hundreds of miles is because infantry can travel fifty miles a day, and if they are divided into two cities and set off, they can be reinforced to any point within a day.

Not to mention the cavalry, which can travel hundreds of miles a day, can be used as mobile reinforcements for quick-response troops.

Therefore, the mode of protecting supplies is:

Use infantry to follow the grain and grass. Once attacked, cavalry reinforcements will be dispatched from the two fortresses immediately. It will take at most half a day to arrive, and the following infantry will also arrive within a day.

Yang Duanhe has 10 soldiers in Hanoi, which is sufficient to do this.

This step-by-step mode, coupled with the "thunderbolt fireball" and the three-bow bed crossbow, made the Xiongnu have no chance to take advantage of it, and the supply line was very safe.

Even the main offensive force led by Shen Bing was not harassed by the Xiongnu... The harassment was only one or two waves at the beginning, and it never appeared again after being repulsed by the Qin army with the new crossbow.

This may be because Morton realized that harassment would not be of much use in this situation...

During the previous Jiuyuan War, the Qin army was short of troops and the supply line was weak, so it was possible to use the Qin army's supply idea.

But now that the Qin army is protecting the supply line with a large number of troops, it can be predicted that the Qin army will not have to worry about supplies, and further harassment will only increase casualties.

A few days later, Shen Bing led his team to Wuyuan.

When I came to the city, I saw that the burned city gate had been repaired. At this time, the gate was closed tightly, and the female wall of the city wall was also raised. Behind them stood rows of Huns holding bows and arrows.

What surprised Shen Bing was that he also saw the shadow of the trebuchet, which seemed to be a new type of counterweight trebuchet.

After thinking about it, Shen Bing didn't think it was strange.

The area around Beidi, including Yanmen County, was originally the territory of Zhao State.

After Shen Bing invented a new type of counterweight trebuchet, one of the countries he attacked was Zhao State.

Those Zhao soldiers and the people who had seen the counterweight trebuchet naturally fled north when they were in danger of subjugation under the attack of the Qin army... Even Zhao Wangjia fled to the north and then moved to Dai.

However, the Xiongnu plundered from north to south, and of course some Zhao soldiers or civilians would be taken away.

Under the threat of death, these Zhao soldiers or common people will tell everything they know.

So...the counterweight trebuchet appeared in the hands of the Huns at the head of Wuyuan City.

Shen Bing even believed that the manipulators of these catapults might be people from the Central Plains.

How ironic and helpless it is to be an enemy of the Central Plains in the hands of the Huns!

But this is war.

Shen Bing didn't think too much, and ordered with a wave of his hand:

"siege!"

Chapter 356 The Siege

What Shen Bing said about besieging a city means besieging without attacking.

Mao Dun is indeed clever, but he still thinks about Shen Bing simply. He thinks that the Qin army, who is good at attacking the city and eager to win a stronghold, will start attacking the city as soon as it arrives in Wuyuan.

In this way, the Qin army is dangerous anyway, because it has to face the attack of Wuyuan City and the Huns cavalry outside the city at the same time.

At that time, the Qin army will be in a dilemma, but the Xiongnu can attack and defend. After a long time, the Qin army will have to retreat.

However, Mao Dun never expected that Shen Bing would besiege and not attack.

The Qin army was divided into four parts, each with 5000 people, all without exception were mixed on foot and cavalry.

Each team guards a city gate, that is, uses crossbows, trebuchets, or even three-bow bed crossbows plus "thunderbolt fireballs" to aim at the gate.

In this way, the Xiongnu in Wuyuan City will be blocked in the city and cannot move, and the Qin army will not attack the city, so they are all useless and can only stand on the top of the city and watch.

Mao Dun outside the city was furious when he saw this situation.

Qin Jun's move put him in a dilemma.

To be exact, the Huns have no way out, because a retreat means that [-] Huns in Wuyuan will be captured...

There is no doubt about this, because the Xiongnu basically did not have to worry about being surrounded since they fought against the Qin army.

The Qin army is mostly infantry, and there are also a few cavalry troops who are not good at riding and shooting. How can they surround the Huns?

If there was a siege, it was also in Yunzhong County, when Mao Dun led his army in the identity of Zuo Xianwang to forcibly break into the city, but was trapped by Shen Bing with arrows.

But that's just a special case.

Fighting on the grassland, if the Qin army wanted to encircle the Xiongnu, it would be a dream. Under this habit, the Xiongnu in Wuyuan City only brought supplies for a few days.

That is to say, after being surrounded for a few days, there will be no food and no surrender.

This was Mao Dun's miscalculation. He only knew how to build city defenses, catapults, and city defense tactics in the Central Plains, but he didn't take into account the supplies in the city.

In fact, even if you want to learn it, you can't learn it.

Because the cities in the Central Plains were killed in order to prevent being besieged by the enemy, they usually stored enough grain for several months or even years, where did Mao Dun go to find that much grain in a short time.

If Wuyuan City is captured, it will repeat the mistakes of Jiuyuan... The Qin army will build a defense line here that the Huns cannot pass.

Then, the Huns in Xitao and Hexi Corridor were surrounded.

But if you attack...

Although the Qin army has been divided into four parts, each part has only 5000 people.

But that is 5000 people with "thunderbolt chariots", as well as new crossbows and three-bow bed crossbows.

Any part is not easily shaken by the Huns tens of thousands of cavalry.

Seeing this situation, Ji Porridge asked from the side:

"Shan Yu, what should we do?"

Mao Dun Shanyu gritted his teeth and ordered:

"Wait!"

Mao Dun held a glimmer of hope, hoping that the Qin army would attack the city when it was ready.

But soon Mouton was disappointed.

Because Mao Dun saw the Qin army's supply team bringing in a truckload of timber.

The forest on the grassland is next to the river with sufficient water, so Yang Duanhe's troops are needed to cut it down.

After the timber arrived, it was not used to make siege equipment, but to build the city... Shen Bing was using defense instead of attack, and planned to spend a long time here with the Xiongnu.

Not only to build the city wall, but Shen Bing also ordered the soldiers to dig horse pits and set up horse traps around the circle.

In the direction of Wuyuan City, there are also in the direction of the grassland.

At this moment, Mao Dun was stunned, he had never seen such a style of play, and never thought that Shen Bing would fight like this.

If it was in the past, of course the cavalry troops in Maodun would not be troubled by such horse-trapping ropes and horse pits... The grassland is so big, the Qin army digs horse pits here and sets up horse ropes, I will go to another place, unless the Qin army It can dig the entire grassland out of the horse pit.

But now, the [-] Huns stationed in Wuyuan City not only failed to play a role, but became a hindrance, so that Mouton could only fight around Wuyuan City. works.

Mouton was right.

What Shen Bing did was "surround the spot to fight for aid".

Modu's idea is good, learn from the Qin army's defense of the city and combine the strengths of the Huns' cavalry army.

But study is to pay tuition...

How could Modu know that the advantage of the Huns cavalry is that they have no place to defend, so no one knows where the main force is, cannot determine where the battlefield is, and therefore cannot prepare in advance.

Failure to prepare in advance meant always facing Hun raids.

But now the Huns have land to defend.

Having a place to defend means determining the position of the main force and determining the battlefield.

Once the battlefield is determined, it is too easy for infantry to deal with cavalry, especially cavalry in this era.

After a while, waiting like this is not an option.

Because it is obvious that the longer they wait, the worse it will be for them: when the Qin army is stuck in a horse pit and there are more and more horse ropes, and after the Qin army's archery tower is built, then there is no need to fight this battle, and the Xiongnu can be said to have lost .

But rushing out like this is obviously not going to work.

Not to mention the "shocking thunder" in the hands of the Qin army, those traps and tripping ropes are enough for the Huns cavalry to drink a pot.

When he was in a dilemma, Ji Porridge said:

"Shan Yu, why don't we let those slaves fill up the horse pit and cut off the bridle?"

Mao Dun's eyes lit up when he heard this suggestion:

"Well said, keep those slaves in the front!"

"Let's dismount and fight!"

Ji Porridge was dumbfounded, he didn't mean it originally, he just said that because he was used to letting the slaves pave the way.

But what he said inspired Mo Dun and let him learn a new tactic, which is to use slaves as shields as weapons to fight against the enemy.

Also, it would be better if the slaves were their own.

After that, the Mongols often did the same. They used the captured people to stand in front of the army, and then rushed to the enemy...even the Mongols used these people to organize an army and use these troops to attack for them.

At this time, Mao Dun did just that.

The reason for "dismounting to fight on foot" is because if the slaves are under the horse and the Hun cavalry is on the horse, they will still become the target of the enemy.

If both the Huns and the slaves were under the horses and mixed with the slaves, the enemy would have nothing to do with them.

Mao Dun made a careful deployment, and he divided the [-] army into three parts of [-] each.

The upper and lower sides are all cavalry battles, but instead of attacking, they use cavalry and shooting to contain the corresponding Qin army, especially the junction of the Qin army, so that they cannot reinforce each other.

The main direction of attack is placed in the west.

The reason why it is west is because it is the farthest from the supply direction of the Qin army.

And if the Qin army in the east wants to reinforce the west, it must either capture Wuyuan or bypass the two wings... This is impossible.

So the Qin army in the west immediately became a lone army.

On the other hand, Maodun ordered the Xiongnu in Wuyuan City to cooperate with the Qin army on the west side...

Chapter 357 Slave

At this time, Shen Bing was on the west side. He knew from the beginning that the west side was the most dangerous, so the main force on the west side also had the most supplies.

However, Shen Bing was not worried that the Huns would attack.

Because he thought that the Xiongnu's general situation was over at this time... the result of reluctantly attacking was heavy casualties and finally lost Wuyuan.

If Mao Dun was smart enough, he should decisively give up the ten thousand Huns in Wuyuan, and transfer the Huns in Hexi to escape before the Qin army closed the encirclement.

But soon Shen Bing found out that he was wrong...