Daqin Engineering Corps

If sometimes you can't react as fast as you can handle... This is a common thing on the battlefield, especially against the Huns who come and go like the wind.

As I said before, the Xiongnu will cooperate in the battle like wolf county hunting.

For example, the front attracts the firepower of the Qin army, and the left, right and rear suddenly attack at the same time.

If the countries in the Central Plains implement this tactic, they need to use the banner to command, while the Huns rely entirely on instinct or it can also be said to be "heart-to-heart".

At this time, the Qin army is often unable to react in time and at the same time cannot force back the enemies in four directions at the same time, so the Qin army will suffer heavy casualties when the arrow rain comes from all directions.

But the army led by Wang Ben was a mixed formation of infantry and cavalry, a combination of far and near, and a combination of speed and slowness.

Infantry has long range, but slow speed.

Cavalry have short range but are fast.

Usually, when confronted head-on, they would use the crossbows of the infantry to face the enemy, and if they were not able to respond in time, they would use the cavalry to keep the Huns out of range.

The Shenwu army is not an ordinary cavalry army, especially the cavalry army led by Jiang. They even put rattan armor on their horses for protection.

They hardly have to worry about their own safety and feel free to shoot arrows at the enemy.

If there's anything to worry about, it's that you don't ride well enough to fall off your horse in battle.

This situation really happened, and there were quite a few. After a battle, dozens of people fell off their horses and were injured.

This was rarely the case when fighting against the Chu army before. The reason is that the Xiongnu's riding skills are superb and their speed is very fast. If the Shenwu army wants to catch up with them and fight with them, they have to speed up, so the probability of falling off their horses increases exponentially. .

But even so, the Shenwu Army let the Huns see the power of the rattan armor.

The arrows of the Xiongnu bounced off the Shenwu army as if they were shot against an iron wall, and the rider was unscathed, even if they hit the head and face... The rattan armor has a mask.

However, the Qin army used sharper new iron arrows, and the Xiongnu fell wherever they went.

In fact, this is just a small point. The main function of the Shenwu Army is not to hurt the enemy, but to act as a moving shield to block the front and prevent the Huns from approaching the Qin army's infantry.

Then after the pawns reacted, as soon as Wang Ben's flag was fired, the Shenwu army distanced itself from the enemy cavalry, and then the pawns flew in batches of crossbow arrows again, and the crossbow arrows were mixed with arrows that could scare the Huns. The iron crossbow arrows that shattered the liver and gallbladder...

The Xiongnu had never seen such a style of play. After several charges, not only failed to force the three thousand Qin army back, but suffered heavy casualties and corpses strewn across the field.

So of course it was impossible to attack the defense line of the Walled City, let alone rescue Maodun.

Chapter 3

So the weapons and equipment are not all about advanced or long-range equipment.

An army, especially an army going to the battlefield, should consider the combination of various firepower, even in modern hot weapon warfare:

There are sniper rifles, medium-range assault rifles, and short-range submachine guns for long-range rifles, supplemented by machine guns.

Anti-tank weapons have long-range missiles, medium-range anti-tank guns, and short-range rocket launchers...

Once there is a gap in any range, it is easy for the enemy to grasp this weakness and take advantage of it.

For example, there is no effective anti-tank weapon at 300 meters, and the enemy can assault and fight at this distance.

Although the battles in ancient times were different, the principles were the same.

The infantry and cavalry should be combined with each other, and the crossbow and arrows should be complementary, instead of one-sided emphasis on defense like the Roman army.

After the more than [-] cavalry of the Xiongnu were forced to retreat by Wang Ben and could not attack the city, Maodun and the [-] cavalry who broke into the city defense suddenly found that they were planning to encircle the Qin army but were instead surrounded by the Qin army...

There is one in each of the Qin army's strongholds, isn't it a circle of encirclement if they are connected with each other?

Mao Dun's army threw itself into the trap.

Fortunately, Modu has been cautious not to go too deep into the hinterland, so he immediately ordered to abandon the attack and break through from Jiazhai.

This is where Mouton is astute.

Wherever it enters, it protrudes from... Jiazhai is the farthest from Yunzhong City, the easiest to enter and of course the easiest to protrude.

Breaking through is the most taboo to hit here and there.

This is easy to understand.

If the Qin army wanted to use these five villages as support points to form an encirclement circle, then all five villages would need troops to garrison them, otherwise there would be weaknesses.

So the total strength of the Qin army used to surround Maodun was [-], and Maodun was also [-].

If Mao Dun hits here and there, it will be a five-thousand-five-thousand game.

But if Mao Dun concentrates his forces to attack only one village, it will be five thousand against one thousand, and it is not impossible to break through.

But even though Mao Dun was shrewd and reacted strangely, it was still a bad move.

The Qin army lined up in the city wall and then pushed down the wooden fence. It took more than a hundred steps to shoot the bow and crossbow to both sides, and the two city walls could extend to the middle area, covering almost the entire area.

The Xiongnu cavalry rushed to the center, and was immediately shot down by crossbow arrows intertwined with two wings.

If this is the only way, then the Huns may still break out.

After all, the shooting speed of the crossbow arrows is limited, but the cavalry of the Huns come and go like the wind, and most of the casualties of the crossbow arrows can be rushed out.

The problem is that the sharp weapon used by the Qin army to stop the Huns is not just crossbow arrows...

Shen Bing specially prepared arrows for the Xiongnu.

This kind of cable arrow is fired by a three-bow bed crossbow.

The three-bow bed crossbow is mainly used to shoot iron crossbow arrows, but of course such a useful thing is not only used to shoot iron crossbow arrows.

The range of its iron crossbow arrows is only more than a hundred steps, but if it is replaced with lighter cable arrows, it can reach more than two hundred steps.

Cable arrows are made of iron.

Shen Bing made it almost like building an anchor.

The arrow body is made of wood, with wooden feathers added to the tail.

Wooden feathers are necessary so that the arrow will remain balanced and head forward when fired.

Then attach a hemp rope the thickness of a thumb to the tail.

After the bow is fired, the cable arrow will throw the "anchor" on the head two hundred steps away.

The anchor is an interesting thing, its unique shape will make it point down and obliquely plunge into the ground once it is dragged, and the more it grabs, the tighter it is.

It goes without saying why Shen Bing used it here.

As long as this rope is tripped by a running horse...not to mention the horse itself will be tripped, and the anchor at the other end will grab the ground, because there is still a section of arrow body and the anchor is inserted obliquely into the ground, so it It will also stand at a certain height, and even at the end of the walled city, it can be artificially raised and lowered to adjust the height.

The result is a perfect tripping rope.

Each city has 1000 people, and every 1000 people is equipped with ten three-bow bed crossbows. Ten three-bow bed crossbows can pull out ten tripping ropes with one salvo.

And it was just a volley, and it was still a city... The two cities fired at the open space in the middle at the same time, but after a cup of tea, countless tripping ropes were pulled between the two cities like a spider web.

Those Xiongnu cavalry who were breaking out of the siege couldn't dodge in time, and were tripped by the horse rope one after another.

So there was a burst of horse neighing and people shouting, but the Huns were already in a mess without Qin Jun's action... Falling off a high-speed horse is no joke, even if they don't die, they may only have half their lives left.

At this time, the Qin army fired a few more waves of crossbow arrows, and amidst the screams of the Huns, there was a bloody storm in the middle area.

Mao Dun couldn't help being shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly received the follow-up breakout team, and shouted at the same time:

"The Qin people are hateful, this is clearly a trap, we fell for it!"

If Shen Bing heard this, he would probably laugh out loud on the spot.

The bandits like the Huns actually call others hateful?

Blame others for laying traps?

At that moment, Mao Dun seemed to understand that it would be difficult to escape this time.

Because if this is the case here, I am afraid that there will be tripping ropes in other places, so the cavalry army will be completely trapped within the line of defense.

Without the slightest hesitation, Mouton ordered:

"Dismount and fight!"

The Xiongnu responded, dismounted one after another and gathered together to rush out of the defense line under the leadership of Mao Dun.

Shen Bing on the other side also got the news.

Jiazhai was located two kilometers away, and Shen Bing could only see that there were many horses gathering in that area and fighting fiercely, but he could not see the specific battle situation.

However, it is still very easy for Wuzhai to achieve information connection. Jiazhai puts up a banner, and then it is passed on from village to village, and then someone will naturally interpret it.

Ren reported:

"General, the Huns dismount and continue to break through!"

Shen Bing couldn't help secretly applauding.

Secretly thought that the Xiongnu deserved to be the king of the grassland, and knew that at this time the only way to survive was to dismount and fight on foot.

Otherwise, if you continue to rush east and west on horseback, you will not be able to get out of this trap.

On the other hand, if they dismounted and fought on foot, and their 5000 men concentrated their forces to force their way into a certain place, they would not be able to do anything to them.

But even so, the Huns had to be stripped of their skin.

This is true.

The Huns were divided into two factions, one with 2000 men stormed the city, and the other with [-] remnants took advantage of the momentum to break through.

Storming the walled city is fake, the real purpose is to attract firepower to cover friendly forces to break through.

Because the Xiongnu are good at horse fighting but not good at foot fighting, many of them don't even have shields. It would be foolish to want to capture the fortified city guarded by the Qin army.

However, the Qin army had to respond, because the city wall was full of gaps and could easily be used by the enemy.

Then another Huns were able to break through.

This is almost a gecko's tail-docking escape, otherwise the army would swarm to break through from the middle, and they would be shot and killed mercilessly by crossbow arrows.

If Shen Bing knew that Modun, the future Shanyu, was leading this Xiongnu, he would do everything possible to trap him in it.

Chapter 3: The Winner Is King

Less than a thousand Huns who were trapped in the defense line of the walled city broke out.

Among them, Maodun was also injured by crossbow arrows. If the guards did not take him out of the battlefield desperately and there were horses outside the city to support him, Maodun, the sage king of Zuo, would have died here.

The Xiongnu suffered a total of more than 300 casualties, while the Qin army had only [-] casualties.

An unexpected surprise was that after the Xiongnu dismounted and broke through the siege, they left more than [-] war horses in the city...

This is a high-quality Xiongnu war horse. Usually, Qin people have to exchange tens of catties of tin, copper and other metals in exchange for one horse when they trade at the border, and the horses they get in exchange are still inferior Xiongnu horses.

Even so, if these Xiongnu bad horses were transported to the Central Plains, they could still fetch a good price.

Of course, Shen Bing won't sell these horses. He was worried that there would be no horses for the expansion of the Shenwu Army, but he didn't expect the Huns to send them to him.

In addition, the Qin army captured more than a thousand Huns.

The capture of the Huns was rare.

This is not to say that the Huns are brave and good at fighting... In fact, the Huns are really brave and good at fighting, but they don't have the concept of "rather to be broken than to be whole". Will choose to surrender.

The reason why it is said that there are not many Xiongnu captives is because the Huns have committed all kinds of crimes such as burning, killing and looting for many years, and all countries in the Central Plains hate them deeply, so there are usually no survivors on the battlefield.

Even the northern soldiers led by Li Mu were like this.

The Xiongnu also knew this, which in turn made them dare not surrender... Anyway, they are all dead, so they might as well fight on the battlefield.

The more than 1000 Huns who were captured this time were trapped in the defense line of the city wall, and they were really terrified.

After Shen Bing visited the Jiazhai battlefield, he understood why these Huns chose to surrender:

The corpses were piled up like a mountain between the two cities of A and B. There were people and horses, and they fell in a pool of blood in various postures, and each of them had a few crossbow arrows stuck in their bodies.

Some of the wounded were still alive, and while struggling, they looked around in horror... The Huns' will to survive was so strong that many of the wounded were still struggling to crawl outside the city wall, as if trying to do their best. Strength breaks out.

However this obviously won't work.

Soon, a soldier of the Qin Army stepped forward and grabbed his hair, and wiped his neck with the bronze sword back and forth a few times, and a head that was still screaming in pain was cut off.

Shen Bing was extremely uncomfortable with this scene, but he knew that it could not be changed.