Daqin Engineers

There is a saying: "I can't bear to let my children get caught up with the wolf." Shen Bing used himself as a bait to draw out the main force of the Huns.

Otherwise, it is almost impossible to severely damage the Huns with the Xiongnu's tactics like guerrilla warfare, which is to "turn into pieces and pieces into pieces" at any time.

It was Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who wanted to send an army to look for the main force of the Xiongnu in the desert but often returned without success.

At this time, why not let the Xiongnu throw themselves into the net?

In the beginning, the Huns made relatively few harassing offenses.

This is clever, because they know that harassing offenses doesn't make much sense when the Qin army is closer to Yunzhong County.

For example, the main force of the Qin Army marched fifty miles a day, even if the Qin Army's crossbow arrows were exhausted, the Qin Army could easily get supplements from Yunzhong County.

The next day it was more difficult to replenish a hundred miles forward, and the more difficult it was to replenish the further forward, the Xiongnu's offensive gradually increased with this rhythm.

Sometimes even Shen Bing felt that the harassing offensive of the Huns was very good. They always attacked the Qin army from all directions in a team of 200 or 300 horses. This team attacked and the team came up again. The next wave made Qin Jun tired of coping.

The reason why a team of two or three hundred riders is because this number is neither too dense nor too weak.

If it is too dense, the Qin army's pawns will come over with a crossbow and will cause them heavy casualties.

If the firepower is too weak, the Qin army can completely ignore it and only use a shield to cover it or even use the superior cavalry to counterattack.

Two or three hundred horses are just right, and the Xiongnu cavalry is always very precise on the edge of the range of the Qin Army’s crossbow arrows. Once they find that the Qin Army has been "provocative" and desperately counterattack with the crossbow arrows, they will quickly withdraw to the range. outside.

Sometimes Shen Bing is very surprised why the Huns cavalry can always control the distance between the enemy and ourselves.

At first, Shen Bing replied that this was experience, and Wang Ben's explanation made Shen Bing understand that this was not the case.

Wang Ben said:

"That's because the Huns know the distance of their bows and arrows!"

Shen Bing suddenly realized.

The Huns don't even know the length units of "step" and "li", nor do they know what mathematics is. It is said that they don't even know how to record the year. They just watch the grass dry and green for a year.

Nearly primitive, they naturally do not have any ranging methods.

But the simplest distance measurement is the bow and arrow in the hand, and everyone is very accurate because they know how far they can shoot.

Only need to know this distance, you can probably calculate the range of Qin Jun Qiang's crossbow, and then can walk accurately on the edge of its range.

It can be said that the Qin army's attack on the Xiongnu has no way.

Because they always rushed into the range of the strong crossbow and fired a few arrows and then quickly retreated. Although Qin's range is long and it has been improved by Shen Bing to be able to march and fight, it is still difficult to kill the Xiongnu accurately... Sometimes it can grasp its route, but because the team is small and scattered, there are not many results.

As a result, the crossbow arrows have been reduced.

On the other hand, the Huns continued to attack the supply team after the main force, which made Shen Bing had to divide his troops to protect...

Of course, this was pretended by Shen Bing.

Even in order to convince the Huns, Shen Bing also sacrificed several teams of supplies from time to time.

Somewhat dissatisfied with Fusu, he frowned and protested to Shen Bing:

"General, just waste some supplies."

"Those labors that can transport supplies...They are my Daqin citizens and fight for our army."

"How can I make them die unjustly at the hands of the Huns?"

Shen Bing replied:

"Our military strategy is to preserve the strength to be the main force of the Huns."

"If you want to ensure that the supply is not lost, you can only use the'Fireball'."

"How do you think you should choose?"

In fact, Shen Bing was also helpless.

Because the "Thunderbolt Fireball" is used as a secret weapon to deal with the main force of the Huns, it will ruin the plan if it is used easily.

So either don't think about the main force of the Huns, or wait for the Huns to take the bait... You can only choose one of the two.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows to take the former.

But this is contrary to the principle of "ruling the world with benevolence and justice" that Fusu had learned since childhood, so Fusu could only sigh and stop talking.

Shen Bing added another sentence:

"This is war."

"If you want to explain the war in a benevolent way, the son is afraid that it will be difficult for him to achieve his wish in his life.

Fu Su nodded silently.

He also gradually understood this truth.

Because if you take "benevolence and righteousness" seriously, you can win the world. What is the reason why the Huns who dedicated themselves to burning and looting have survived and are still so powerful?

Where do they talk about benevolence and morality?

If you talk about benevolence and justice with the Xiongnu, what is the difference between it and seeking the skin with a tiger?

With the facts before us, what else can Fusu argue?!

In addition to the supply team, Shen Bing also showed a lack of crossbow arrows in tactics.

To put it simply, it is the strategy of "increasing troops and reducing stoves"... In the first few days, the Qin army used crossbow arrows to shoot, and the Xiongnu cavalry counterattacked as soon as they entered range.

After that, he slowly became conservative, and in the end he even only used shields and cavalry to prevent the Huns from harassing them without using crossbows.

In fact, the Qin Army's crossbow arrows are far from enough.

The reason is that Shen Bing made the soldiers pay attention to the recycling of crossbow arrows and even the arrows shot by the Xiongnu along the way... Crossbow arrows are different from bows. Bows and arrows are made of feathers, which require higher feathers.

The main reason is that the bow and arrow's trajectory bends and the flight distance in the air is longer and is greatly affected by wind and air resistance.

If the feathers are not good, it is easy to affect the accuracy and range of the arrow shot. The best arrow should be the Xiongnu's carved ling arrow. The countries in the Central Plains mainly use the Yanling arrow.

This is also one of the reasons why the Huns rode farther.

Therefore, bow and arrow arrows are generally unusable after they have been used...the feathers are loose and messy, and even if they can be shot, they cannot be targeted because of excessive resistance and no damage.

The ballistic trajectory of the crossbow is not affected by the air, and the requirements for the arrow feathers are low. Therefore, there are cheap wood feathers and iron feathers, and they can be launched even without arrow feathers... Just add a little burr to the tail or wrap a short section Linen will do.

This is done to increase the drag of the tail when flying in the air.

With greater tail drag, it can maintain the forward flight attitude without rolling in the air.

Therefore, the crossbow arrows are completely reusable, and even the arrows shot by the Xiongnu can be collected for simple processing. For example, they can be cut into the size of the crossbow arrows to increase the resistance at the end, and they can be used immediately.

Of course, there will be some quality problems with such a reform, especially the bronze arrow used by the Xiongnu is more brittle and easy to break after one use, but it is better than not as a backup crossbow, especially for the harassment of the Xiongnu.

So the various signs on the surface look like the Qin Army's crossbow arrows are not strong enough, but in fact, the Qin Army's crossbow arrows are still very sufficient, at least it is not a problem to fight the main force of the Xiongnu.