Daqin Engineering Corps

He didn't expect that after wasting a lot of talking, he might as well burn it with this fire.

Chapter 382 Trading

Tuoba's troops did not assemble until the ninth day.

Shen Bing guessed that the reason why it took nine days to prepare was because 3000 people is not a small number for the Tuoba clan... the whole family is only tens of thousands of horses, and 3000 people is one-third of the force. Anything can be organized.

On the other hand, these troops were scattered all over the mountainous area, and the transportation in the mountainous area was inconvenient and Tuoba's marching speed was not fast, so it only took nine days.

But they didn't arrive all at once, but in several batches.

The first batch came one day after the accident, and more than a thousand people came. As soon as the thousand people came up, they launched a tentative attack on the Qin army...

They may think that they have more than a thousand people and the Qin army only has more than a thousand people. They may win with a similar number of people, so they look for opportunities on the periphery.

Shen Bing was a little dumbfounded. Let alone 1000 or 1 "savages" armed with crude equipment could not shake the Qin army equipped with "Thunderbolt Fireball". It is ridiculous that these "savages" are so overconfident.

Shen Bing ordered not to use "thunderbolt fireball" and only sent [-] troops to deal with it.

They did this because they were worried that they would beat Tuoba too hard at the beginning, and the subsequent army would not dare to come up.

As expected, only a shower of arrows shot Tuoba back, leaving behind dozens of corpses and several horses.

After that, the Tuoba family didn't dare to trade, and just wandered outside the Qin army's barracks, as if worried that the Qin army would escape with the sheep.

Shen Bing didn't take them seriously, and neither did Qin Jun.

On the contrary, Xiang Liqing and the villagers who moved with him were always nervous.

Shen Bing joked with Xiang Liqing:

"Since you regard me as the messenger of Vulcan, why are you still so nervous?"

Xiang Liqing replied:

"We are willing to fight for Vulcan, but we are not immortal!"

Shen Bing rolled his eyes, Li Qing and his party thought they were protecting Shen Bing!

But when I think about it, that's really the case... Ever since Xiang Liqing and others moved to the Qin Army Barracks, Xiang Liqing brought her more than 300 "warriors" to follow Shen Bing all the time.

At first, Shen Bing thought they were waiting for Shen Bing's order, but now it seems that they are protecting the "Vulcan Messenger".

Shen Bing didn't want to lie to them, so he took out the fire folder and waved it in front of Xiang Liqing, saying:

"In the past few days in our barracks, you should also see that our soldiers can control fire."

Xiang Liqing nodded and replied:

"Yes!"

Shen Bing asked again:

"Can there be many Vulcan envoys?"

Xiang Liqing shook his head:

"only one."

"He will bring light and hope to our tribe!"

Shen Bing said:

"That's it!"

"It's just a fire book, many people in our army have it!"

"If I am the Vulcan messenger, they can be too."

"So neither am I, do you understand?"

Xiang Liqing nodded:

"I understand!"

Shen Bing breathed a sigh of relief:

"Just listen and understand."

This made Shen Bing a little surprised. He originally thought that he had to do some ideological work, but he didn't expect it to be solved so easily.

I don't want to add a sentence to Li Qing:

"But I asked, you made the Huozhangzi for them..."

"Aside from the Vulcan Messenger, who else can make a Fire Book?"

Shen Bing was stunned on the spot, even if he jumped into the Yellow River, he couldn't clean himself up.

After thinking about it, Shen Bing handed over the Huozhangzi and said:

"If that's not the case, I'll give you the fire pocket."

"Don't treat me as a Vulcan envoy from now on..."

Xiang Liqing's eyes widened immediately, with a look of excitement and anticipation, and said excitedly:

"You mean, give it to me?"

Shen Bing nodded:

"Yes! Here you are!"

"In the future, you and I will be clear, do you know that you are clear? I have nothing to do with that Vulcan..."

Nodding repeatedly to Liqing, she replied:

"I know, I understand!"

Then hold out your hands.

Shen Bing put the Huozhangzi in Liqing's hand and said:

"make a deal!"

But soon realized that something was wrong, because Xiang Liqing looked at Huozhezi with a pious expression, she didn't even dare to put her hands together, but knelt down and bowed to Shen Bing holding Huozhezi...

Shen Bing suddenly realized something, and just wanted to snatch the fire booklet back, but he didn't want to shout a few words excitedly holding the fire booklet before Li Qing got up and ran back to the villagers.

Although Shen Bing didn't understand, it was probably given by the Vulcan envoy to the tribe. Then the villagers knelt down and praised it loudly. Afterwards, they took it one by one with a sense of ceremony, and carefully folded the fire Put it in a leather bag and wrap it in several layers.

Xiang Liqing ran back and said to Shen Bing:

"Envoy, don't worry, I will use my life to preserve Shenhuo!"

Shen Bing realized that he had never been so stupid before, he would use Huozhezi to make a deal with Xiang Liqing... Isn't it just looking for trouble?

That's how modern myths come about.

For example, the gods and immortals in the list of gods are likely to be real people.

It's just that in the undeveloped primitive and slave society, they don't have written records, and what someone did is passed on by word of mouth, and it is easy to be exaggerated, deified and passed on from generation to generation.

A few years later, Shen Bing might become some kind of god.

Shen Bing didn't dare to explain any more, because he knew what Xiang Liqing and others had identified, and if he explained it himself, it would be too vague, and he would even be considered "unfathomable".

There are only two things Shen Bing can do:

One is to let Liqing and his subordinates change into the brown uniforms of the Qin army... Although the Hanoi soldiers have spare armor enough to equip the more than [-] people, the Qin law stipulates that no one without a title cannot wear armor, and Shen soldiers can only give up.

Why this is so needless to say.

The dresses of Xiang Liqing and Tuoba's are very similar, to be exact, there is no difference at all.

Shen Bing sometimes does not know how they distinguish between enemy and friend.

Thinking about it later, they used their surnames as tribes, and their allies were all partners who grew up since they were young. Besides, there were only a few hundred people, so it was not difficult to distinguish them.

They can recognize it, but now they are fighting with the Qin army... If the Tuoba clan enters the Qin army's formation and fights hand-to-hand, the Qin army will be in trouble if they cannot identify the enemy and ourselves.

So this is no joke, the costume has to be changed.

At the beginning, Xiang Liqing objected, saying that he was not used to it.

But Shen Bing straightened his face and said:

"This is Vulcan's order, do you want to disobey?"

So Xiang Liqing and the others recognized it, and changed into brown clothes one after another.

It seems that there is nothing wrong with being the messenger of the Vulcan, at least these "savages" are easier to command.

As for the "savages" who put on brown clothes, they are a bit nondescript... let them do as long as Qin Jun can recognize them.

Another thing is to distribute weapons to those savages.

The toy-like bows and arrows were replaced by Qin Jun standard bows, and the wooden spears were replaced by long spears.

Forget about the bronze sword, I guess they won't be able to use it, and they will hurt themselves if they are not careful.

So these "savages" really don't worry.

Chapter 383 The Hunter

The Tuoba clan launched the attack at night.

That's smart.

Shen Bing believed that the Tuoba family knew that Qin Qiangnu's shooting range was much farther than their bows and arrows in the previous tentative attack.

In fact, not only the crossbow, but also the bow and arrow have a longer range.

The bows and arrows used by the Tuoba family and the Li family are similar, and they are both made of hardwood.

Such bows have disadvantages such as insufficient range, weak penetration, poor accuracy, easy damage, and not easy to carry, even with the same pulling force.

Among them, it is not easy to carry because this kind of hardwood bow needs to make the bow body longer if it wants stronger pulling force and toughness.

But the bows in the Central Plains are much better. They are made from Tuo wood or elm wood, and bamboo is also used... The bow made of bamboo is used for those recruits who are unable to open the bow. Anyway, they can’t kill the enemy. Practice your bow.

And the bows of the Central Plains are not just made of wood.

After the bow is made, beef tendons are laid layer by layer to increase its toughness, and finally wrapped with hemp rope.

It is said that a good bow is made of yew wood with strong toughness, and the whole process from start to finish takes two to three years to make.

The mass-produced bows used by the military are less sophisticated and take only a few months to make.

But it's also much better than the hardwood bows used by the Savage.

What surprised Shen Bing was the strength of these "savages".

At the beginning, Shen Bing used bamboo bows for Xiang Li's... Because Shen Bing thought that they should not have much strength, and the 120 Qin Jin bow would be enough.

But I didn't expect that all the "warriors" in Li's family would open their bows very easily.

Shen Bing replaced them with two hundred Qin Jin's ones, and they were still able to drive.

In the end, about 250 people couldn't open it after replacing it with a 100-jin strong bow.

This startled Shen Bing.

You must know that this 250 Qin Jin strong bow is the standard of the Huns and the goal of the Shenwu Army.

After more than two months of strength training, only half of the people in the Shenwu Army can finally open this strong bow, while two-thirds of the people in Xianglishi who have not been trained can open it...

Of course, Xiang Lishi still took advantage of it. They fired their bows on the ground while the Xiongnu and Shenwu Army bowed their backs.

But this is not easy for the "savages" who are undernourished.

Shen Bing thought about it, and felt that this seemed normal.

The party members like Lishi are actually nomads. The difference between them and the Huns is that they nomad in the mountains inside the Great Wall.

The characteristic of nomads is that they have played with bows and arrows since childhood... This is determined by hunting. Animals are usually faster than humans and are extremely alert. Hunting with bows and arrows obviously has a higher success rate.

Therefore, this can be said to be their specialty and talent, and it cannot be caught up by the Shenwu Army after a few months of training the day after tomorrow.

Shen Bing was a little fortunate, fortunately, the bow and arrow in Tuoba's hand was also a rough and primitive hardwood bow, otherwise it would not be so easy to deal with.