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After everything was prepared, Shen Bing sent troops out of the city.

At this time, it seemed that the army was a little stretched:

A total of 14,000 troops, 3,000 were used to dig nirvana in Hequ Village, and 5,000 were cavalry used to garrison Yunzhong City. Five troops were sent out to garrison the city’s enclosure, each with more than 1,000 people, and only in the city. One thousand people left to borrow maneuvers.

If there is any force, it is Shen Bing's personal guards of 1,000 people.

Shen Bing estimated that the Xiongnu would not do anything to Yunzhong City, because Shen Bing’s plan of enclosure was more cautious, that is, five li westward along the Yellow River with Yunzhong County as a start... The land is no more than 5,000 mu.(Note: Qin Shiyipingli=375 mu)

Shen Bing did not erect the enclosure.

This is because if it is a north-south enclosure, it is not easy to irrigate on the one hand, and on the other hand it has insufficient troops.

What's more important is that this way, the passage for the Huns to enter the Central Plains was directly blocked, which forced the Huns to clear out the fortresses that were stuck on the main roads.

In other words, what Shen Bing did was actually partially letting go of the road from the Xiongnu to Yanmen County, and the Xiongnu could still go south to plunder.

It's just that Yunzhong County will become a thorn behind the Huns at any time.

Under such circumstances, Shen Bing believed that the Huns were at best keeping some of their troops to contain or prevent Yunzhong County from doing so.

However, what Shen Bing did not expect was that the Xiongnu was unexpected this time.

At this time, the leader of the Huns was Tou Man Shanyu.

Touman is actually not a name. It means "ten thousand" in both Mongolian and Turkic languages, which means "to rule over ten thousand" and "general with ten thousand troops."

It should be a military rank, but at the beginning, the Huns were mostly scattered with small tribes. The generals who could lead an army of 10,000 were already very powerful. They took this name, and then became stronger and stronger, and finally became the first generation of the Huns. in.

At this time, Tou Man Shan Yu was excited about retaking the Loop.

Regardless of the strength of the Huns and their looting everywhere, in fact every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite, and Tou Mandan is no exception.

The Xiongnu is located in the northern grassland. "When it was, Donghu was strong and Yueshi was prosperous."

In the east, Donghu once defeated the Xiongnu. He was known as the "200,000 string-controlling man", which caused great pressure on the Xiongnu.

On the west side, the Yue clan blocked its westward advancement by topography, and on the south side are the powerful Central Plains countries. Especially before Li Mu was in the north, which prevented the Xiongnu from advancing...

The life of the Huns is very simple, one is to chase water and weeds and the other is to plunder everywhere.

If the climate is good, everyone has plenty of food and clothing, the Huns would not choose the latter.

The problem is that there are often cold currents in the north that destroy production. For example, this year, the cold and long-lasting weather killed countless cattle and sheep.

Seeing that the herdsmen were so hungry that they wanted to feed their hunger with war horses, Tou Mandan habitually looked elsewhere.

Tou Mandan first looked to the west.

Although the Yueshi of the Western Regions is strong, it has not yet reached the level of Donghu and the Central Plains. In particular, Touman did not dare to cross Leichi for several years after suffering a big loss under Li Mu.

However, at this moment there was a report from Malaysia:

"Shan Yu, I heard that Li Mu is dead."

Touman was stunned for a moment, and then asked in surprise:

"Li Mu is dead? Is it true? How did he die?"

In ancient times, the flow of information was slow, especially between the Central Plains and the Xiongnu... This is because the Central Plains did not communicate much with the Huns.

So Tou Mandan heard the news a few months after Li Mu died.

Tanma answered:

"It is said that he died on the battlefield and was killed by Qin people!"

This is certainly not true, Li Mu died at the hands of King Zhao.

But in the Huns, it is hard for them to imagine that a hero like Li Mu would be killed by their own king.

So when it was passed on by word of mouth, it was changed to a more credible killing by the enemy on the battlefield.

However, Touman replied without even thinking about it:

"It's impossible. There is anyone in Central Plains who can kill Li Mu on the battlefield?"

Therefore, for a long time, Tou Mandan didn't take this information seriously. He only thought it was a rumor, and he kept mobilizing troops to condemn the plan to advance westward.

Until there were more and more legends at the border that Li Mu was dead and the Northland was deserted, so Tou Manyu sent several teams to the Northland to investigate.

It was only under this probe that this "rumor" was true, and the originally strong and powerful Northland had become an empty city.

So Tou Man Shanyu hurriedly transferred his troops from the west to the south.

This is also one of the reasons why the Xiongnu offensive was delayed.

On the other hand, Tou Mandan still has doubts about Li Mu's death.

In fact, it was not entirely because of doubts about Li Mu, but because of feeling strange to Qin Jun, he was cautious.

Touman Shanyu’s idea is this:

Li Mu was able to defeat the Xiongnu, but the Qin army defeated Li Mu and even destroyed the State of Zhao. Does that mean that the Qin army that is now occupying the North is more powerful than Li Mu?

If Qin Jun is more powerful than Li Mu, how can the Huns beat Qin?

Therefore, the Xiongnu's entry into the loop was only tentative at first, and even restrained himself, for fear that he might annoy Qin and treat himself well.

It wasn't until Shen Bing contracted the defense line to concentrate all the people in Yunzhong County, that Touman Danyu dared to enter the Hetao with confidence.

In a way, Shen Bing's shrinking line of defense encouraged the Huns.

Because Tou Man Yu then thought:

Why did Qin Jun want to abandon the loop and shrink the line of defense?

The reason may be insufficient troops.

As a result, as soon as he inquired, it turned out that there were no more than 10,000 Qin troops stationed in Yunzhong County.

From this point of view, Man Shanyu was relieved to mobilize his forces boldly to prepare to looting south.

Tou Mandan has a habit of always trying his best to learn more about his opponent before fighting.

This time is no exception.

It's just that after getting to know the opponent, he was surprised...

The Qin general named Shen Bing actually made great contributions in the battles of the eradication of Zhao, Wei, and Chu in the past six months, and he is still quite famous in the Central Plains and is vying for praise.

Tou Man Tan was puzzled by this:

"If this Qin will have such credit, how can he only bring more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Yunzhong City?"

The subordinate replied:

"Perhaps, this is just false information from the people of the Central Plains, I hope we will be fooled."

Touman thought for a while, nodded and said:

"That's right, the people of Central Plains always play mystery."

It's no wonder that Tou Mandan would think so, he didn't know how many times he had been deceived before in Li Mu's hands.

Because of being fooled over and over, I can't believe anything now.

When Shen Bing sent a team of thousands of people out of the city to build the walled city, Tou Mandan believed this even more firmly.

He laughed and said:

"What Shen Bing said is a god general!"

"Its total strength is no more than 10,000 people, but it has to leave the city."

"It's not just going out of the city, but it will be five parts."

"Isn't this giving us a chance to attack?"