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The Qin army set off on the second day after the plan was set.

The first group consisted of 5,000 people, each of which was 3,000 soldiers and 2,000 cavalry. The team led by the leader and headed towards Jiuyuan.

At this time, Kung can stand alone. Although he has never learned the art of war, he is very familiar with the Huns' tactics and knows how to deal with the Huns' attack.

Shen Bing was more at ease with him as the vanguard, as he didn't understand the formation of the Central Plains...Shen Bing asked Li Jian to cooperate with him.

Shen Bing led the main force of 10,000 to follow closely, and he also accompanied the army with a large amount of supplies and supplies, a considerable part of which were crossbow arrows... In fact, the most consumed was the crossbow arrows. "Fireball" is of course also brought, but a few cars are enough.

When the army was pulled out, the people of Yunzhong County could really be called "Ten Li Xiangshang". There were food and material along the way, and many people were vying to join the army and march with the army.

This was an unprecedented scene, even Fu Su was quite surprised.

Shen Bing thinks there may be two reasons for this.

One of course is that many of the people are from Jiuyuan. Although Yunzhong County has a place to accommodate them, it is certainly better to return to their hometown.

The other is that Shen Bing's subsidy system for soldiers can make it more acceptable... There are subsidies for soldiers who have no worries about clothing and food, and if they can perform meritorious services, there are knighthoods and rewards. Why not?

Of course, this is the same for the Qin army, so the Qin army is always more brave in combat than other countries.

Shen Bing originally planned to let Fusu sit in Yunzhong County. After all, there is no eye for fighting outside, and there are always many dangers.

But Fusu said:

"Father's intention is to let Fusu go through with the general. If Fusu avoids even this battle, how can we be called experience?"

Shen Bing thought about it.

This is not to say that it is an opportunity for experience, but also an opportunity to establish prestige for Fusu...As a young man, he went to battle and led the army to defeat the Huns. What a prestige.

If Fusu was not present, it would be meaningless to win the battle, and even Ying Zheng might think that Fusu was cowardly and disappointed, which would affect the development of Yunzhong County.

So Shen Bing had to bring Fusu, but he added personal guards to protect his safety.

As soon as Qin Jun pulled out, the Xiongnu immediately got news.

In fact, Tou Mandanyu and Mouton didn't go far, instead they brought 30,000 Huns cavalry to station in the Yinshan area to the north.

They were worried that Shen Bing would send troops to block the retreat of the Xiongnu to looting south, so they made preparations here.

As for Jiuyuan, they didn't think Shen Bing was capable of attacking.

So when the spies came to tell Qin Jun to leave the city, Tou Mandan's first reaction was that Qin Jun was finally going to seize the main way.

When I heard that Qin Jun was heading west, he was taken aback:

"Go west? Why does Qin Jun want to go west?"

Mouton looked at the map and said:

"Shan Yu, the Qin army should go west to capture Jiuyuan City."

Touman Shanyu is still puzzled:

"Why do they want to take Jiuyuan City? It's just an empty city!"

Tou Mandan is thinking about the art of war in the Central Plains with the thinking of the Huns.

The nomads are based on interests rather than cities, so they take it for granted that Jiuyuan has nothing.

He didn't know that the Central Plains army focused on defense and benefited from land...if there is land, there will be food, and then there will be people and soldiers.

Although Mouton knew this but didn't know how to explain it for a while, he could only answer:

"Qin Jun occupy the Jiuyuan, or hope to prevent me from the support of the warriors!"

Mouton said that Tou Man Danyu understood...

The geographical location of Jiuyuan is very important. The north of Jiuyuan is Yinshan Mountain and the south is the Yellow River, so as to form a long and narrow corridor to the west that leads directly to the back sleeve.

If the Qin army occupied Jiuyuan, not only would it have the footsteps of the western advancing back cover, but it would also divide the Xiongnu in the Hetao area into two inaccessible to each other.

To be precise, it can be contacted without being divided into two, but the Xiongnu army in the back set needs to bypass the Yin Mountain. The road is several times longer and it is very difficult to travel.

Tou Mandan, who had been fighting in open grasslands for a long time, did not have this habit of looking at the terrain at the beginning. At this time, Mao Dun said that it was really true.

So hurriedly asked:

"How do we deal with this? Our army will not defend the city, and Jiuyuan has no defense!"

Mouton replied:

"Single from Mo Pan, the Qin Army has no more than 20,000 troops, and its strength to attack Jiuyuan is no more than 10,000!"

Touman only thought about it, and asked the spy:

"How did the Qin army march?"

The spies answered:

"Infantry and cavalry go together."

Tou Man Shanyu sighed and said:

"Infantry and cavalry... Our army was defeated in this formation last time."

"The Qin Army's infantry has strong crossbows and rope arrows, and the cavalry wanders around so that our army can't get close."

"More than three thousand people are enough to defeat my ten thousand Jingqi."

"Now that the Qin army is ten thousand, can't it beat my thirty thousand army?"

After thinking for a while, he pointed to the map and replied:

"Look at Shan Yu, Yunzhong County is more than 400 miles away from Jiuyuan."

"At the same time, the Qin army has moved westward all the time...How can we guarantee the supply of crossbow arrows?"

Tou Man Shanyu nodded and said:

"what do you mean……"

In fact, there is no need to think about it at all, it is the tactics used by the Huns: harassment along the way consumes their supplies, and when the Qin army is at the farthest point of the supply, they will fight again.

Shen Bing quickly felt this, because on the second day after leaving the city, there were many Huns cavalry shuttled around, and even had several skirmishes with the Qin Army Rangers.

The Xiongnu looked confident, at least for the Qin cavalry.

This may be because they knew the skills of the Shenwu Army in the last battle, and knew that the Qin Cavalry was not as good as them, so they attacked with confidence when facing the Cavalry.

As for the Qin infantry, they stayed away.

From the very beginning, Shen Bing restrained the cavalry from conflicting with the Xiongnu as much as possible. Once they met the Xiongnu, they would retreat to the range of the infantry crossbow to defend.

So the two armies are fine.

It was not until the evening that the Xiongnu cavalry rushed to attack the Qin army.

The Xiongnu cavalry is worthy of being the king of the grassland. They chose to attack at this time. They actually took into account the factor of the sun... The setting sun, the dazzling sunlight and the slightly dim background, made it impossible for the Qin army to discover the Xiongnu who attacked from the front How many people only saw arrows flying from the sun with a howling sound.

Shen Bing didn't think much, and immediately ordered the infantry to fight back with a strong crossbow.

After a few waves of crossbow arrows passed, the Xiongnu temporarily retreated.

Soon he returned to attack...

Then Shen Bing understood that the Xiongnu did this to consume the Qin army's crossbow arrows.

In other words, the Xiongnu was fighting the Qin army's idea of ​​supplying supplies...The crossbow arrows were consumed so much, and when the Qin army arrived at Jiuyuan, it was almost exhausted, and it was time for the main Xiongnu forces to dispatch.

So Shen Bing knew that the Xiongnu had been in the game.