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Shen Bing said that the siege is to besiege but not attack.

Mouton is indeed clever, but he still thinks about Shen Bing simply. He thinks that Qin Jun, who is good at siege and eager to fight for a stronghold, will begin to attack the city as soon as he arrives in Wuyuan.

In this way, the Qin army was dangerous anyway, because it had to face the attack of Wuyuan City and the Huns outside the city at the same time.

At that time, the Qin army was in a dilemma while the Huns were both offensive and defensive. After a long time, the Qin army had to retreat.

However, Mouton never expected Shen Bing to besiege and not attack.

Qin Jun is divided into four parts, each team of 5,000 people, without exception, they are mixed with walking and riding.

Each team anchored a city gate, that is, aiming at the city gate with a crossbow, a catapult, or even a three-bow bed crossbow with a "thunderbolt of fireball".

As a result, the Xiongnu in Wuyuan City would be blocked and immovable, and the Qin army would not attack the city, so they could only stand on the head of the city and watch them.

Mao Dun outside the city became furious when he saw the situation.

Qin Jun's move put him in a dilemma.

To be precise, there is no way for the Huns to retreat, because once retreat means that 10,000 Huns in Wuyuan will be captured...

There is no doubt about this, because the Xiongnu basically don't have to worry about being surrounded since they fought with the Qin army.

The Qin army is mostly infantry, and there are also a few cavalry troops who are not good at riding and shooting. How can they surround the Xiongnu?

If there was a siege, it was also in Yunzhong County, when Mouton led an army as King Zuo Xian to forcibly broke through the walled city and was trapped by Shen Bing Yi Sujian.

But that is only a special case.

Fighting in the grassland, it would be idiotic if the Qin army wanted to encircle the Xiongnu. Under this habit, the Xiongnu in Wuyuan City only took a few days of supplies.

In other words, if you are surrounded for a few days, you will have to drop without food.

This was Maudun's miscalculation. He only knew how to learn the Central Plains city defense, trebuchet, and city defense tactics, but Bai Mi did not consider the supply of the city.

In fact, even if Mouton wanted to learn this, he couldn't learn it.

Because the city of Central Plains was sieged by the enemy and died, it usually stored enough grain for months or even years. Mao Dun went there to find a lot of grain in a short time.

If Wuyuan City is captured, it will repeat the mistakes of Jiuyuan... The Qin Army will build a line of defense that the Huns cannot pass here.

Then, the Huns in Xitao and Hexi Corridor were surrounded.

But if you attack...

Although Qin Jun has been divided into four parts, each part has only 5,000 people.

But there are five thousand people with "Thunderbolt Chariots", as well as new crossbows and three-bow bed crossbows.

No part of it is easily shaken by the tens of thousands of Huns cavalry.

Seeing this situation, Ji Congee asked from the side:

"Shan Yu, what should I do?"

Maudun Shanyu gritted his teeth and ordered:

"Wait!"

Mouton held a glimmer of hope, hoping that Qin Jun would attack the city when he was ready.

But Mouton soon became disappointed.

Because Mouton saw that the Qin Army's supply team brought trucks and trucks of wood.

The forest side of the grassland is beside the river with sufficient water, so Yang Duanhe's troops are needed to cut down.

After the timber arrived, it was not used to make siege equipment, but to build a walled city... Shen Bing was defensive instead of offensive, and he planned to spend a long time here with the Huns.

Not only was it to build a walled city, the Shen Bing also ordered the soldiers to dig and set up horse pits around them to trip horses.

There are also directions to the direction of Wuyuan City.

After this, Mao Dun was stunned, he had never seen such a style of play, and never thought that Shen Bing would play like this.

If it were in the past, the Cavalry of Maodun would of course not be burdened by these horse-striping slings and horse-trapping pits... The grassland is so big, and the Qin army digs horse pits here to set up horse-strapping slings. I will go to another place, unless Qin Army. Can dig out the horse pit of the entire grassland.

But now, the 10,000 Huns stationed in Wuyuan City not only failed to play a role, but became a bondage, making Maodun only able to fight around Wuyuan City. Therefore, the Qin army trapped horses and smashed horses, and even the city walled. Can work.

Mouton was right.

Shen Bing's move was "encircling the spot to fight for aid."

Mao Dun's idea is good, learning from the Qin army to defend the city and combining the strengths of the Xiongnu cavalry.

But learning is to pay tuition...

Where did Mouton know that the strength of the Xiongnu cavalry is that there is no place to defend, so no one knows where the main force is, and cannot determine where the battlefield is, so they cannot prepare in advance.

Failure to prepare in advance means that you always have to face the Huns' raids.

But now the Huns have land to defend.

Having land to defend means that the location of the main force has been determined and the battlefield has been determined.

Once the battlefield is determined, it is too simple for infantry to deal with cavalry, especially cavalry of this era.

Burton sees that waiting like this is not an option.

Obviously, the more you wait, the worse it will be for them: when the Qin army gets stuck in horse pits and stumbling on more and more horses, and after the arrow tower of the Qin army’s walled city is built, then there is no need to fight the battle. The Xiongnu can be said to have lost .

But rushing out like this obviously doesn't work.

Not to mention the "sky-shattering thunder" in Qin Jun's hands, those trapped horse pits and stumbling horses are enough for the Huns cavalry to drink a pot.

When he was embarrassed, Ji Congee said:

"Shan Yu, why don't we let those slaves fill in the horse pits and cut off the horse slings?"

Mouton's eyes lit up when he heard this suggestion:

"Well said, let those slaves stand in front!"

"We dismount and fight!"

Ji Conge sounded dumbfounded. He didn't mean that originally, he just said that because he was used to let slaves pave the way.

But what he said inspired Mao Dun and taught him a new tactic, which is to use slaves as shields and weapons to fight the enemy.

Moreover, it is better if these slaves are their own.

Afterwards, the Mongols often did the same. They used captured civilians to stand in front of the army, and then rushed towards the enemy... Even the Mongols used these civilians to organize an army and use these army to attack them.

This is what Maoton did at this time.

The reason for "dismounting and fighting" is because if the slave is under the horse and the Huns are on the horse, they will still be the enemy's target.

If the Huns and slaves were under the horse and mixed with slaves, the enemy would have nothing to do with them.

Mouton carefully deployed the army, and he divided the 30,000 army into three parts with 10,000 each.

The upper and lower sides were both cavalry battles, but instead of offensive, they used cavalry and shooting to restrain the corresponding Qin army, especially the joints of the Qin army, so that they could not strengthen each other.

The main attack direction is placed on the west.

The reason why it is west is because it is the furthest away from Qin Army's supply direction.

And if the Qin army on the east wanted to reinforce the west, it would either take Wuyuan or bypass the two wings... this was impossible.

So the Qin army to the west became a lone army for the first time.

On the other hand, Mouton ordered the Xiongnu in Wuyuan City to cooperate with the Qin army on the west side...