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After arranging the strategy against the enemy, Shen Bing did two things.

One is to drive the sheep to the plains and rivers to raise them.

This was done out of combat considerations... The Tuoba clan who had lived in the mountains for a long time must be good at fighting in the mountains.

The mountain area is not only unsuitable for Qin army formation, but also unsuitable for strong crossbow shooting... The advantage of strong crossbow is its long range, but its disadvantage is that its trajectory is straight.

Mountain areas often turn here and there, and the enemy is close when they appear, so the advantage of long range is difficult to play.

If the terrain is undulating, the overly flat trajectory of the strong crossbow will not be able to hit the target hiding in a low depression or behind a stone obstacle.

In short, the advantages of crossbows cannot be used, but the disadvantages will be magnified.

On the contrary, the bows and arrows in the hands of the enemy can exploit their strengths and avoid weaknesses.

Shen Bing certainly wouldn't let this happen, so he presupposed the battlefield in the northern plains.

This can also be said to lead the snake out of the hole:

Since you Tuoba's flock of Qin Jun's sheep and want revenge because Qin Jun rescued the village of Lishi, you will naturally come to the plain to find Qin Jun to settle accounts and grab the sheep by the way.

In addition, Shen Bing had preserved his strength and showed only a thousand foot soldiers plus a hundred guards...not afraid that Tuoba would not be fooled.

If there is any problem, the northern Sichuan area is relatively dry because it does not have water conservancy facilities, and there are not many pastures and the quality is not good.

But this is easy to solve, just send some people to the northern mountains to cut the grass and transport it.

Another thing Shen Bing did was to go to the village of Liqing.

Shen Bing brought dozens of healing tapes to Wang Liqing.

The healing belt was precious because the price of the cloth was not low. At this time, the Northland can already be mass-produced with water trucks, and the rest is filled with plant ash, so mass production is extremely cheap.

At this time, Wang Liqing was leading his subordinates to take care of the wounded. Seeing that Shen Bing was wearing a healing belt, he nodded in gratitude and took it.

"I hope you and your villagers can move out of the mountains to the plains!" Shen Bing said while bandaging the villagers: "Because we plan to fight the Tuoba clan there. If you stay here, we cannot help you and yours. Villagers provide protection!"

Wang Liqing just smiled:

"Do you know how many people Tuoba will bring with him again?"

Shen Bing replied indifferently:

"Two thousand, three thousand, or even more?"

Go back to Liqing:

"You have five thousand sheep, which is enough for them to send three thousand people to looting."

"They are determined to win!"

Shen Bing felt relieved when Li Qing said that, he was afraid that there were not many people from the Tuoba clan.

After a pause, Shen Bing asked:

"So, my sheep killed you?"

To Liqing stopped the action in his hand and raised his head, with some apologetic eyes:

"No, you said the opposite!"

"The Tuoba clan has been chasing us. If it weren't for us, they might not have discovered your flock."

Shen Bing smiled and said nothing.

What Wang Liqing didn't know was that there was no question of who harmed who.

If anyone is really harmful, it is going to Liqing to harm the Tuoba clan.

Shen Bing returned to the topic again and asked:

"When will you go to the plain?"

Wang Liqing was silent for a while, then replied:

"We will not go to the plains."

Shen Bing asked somewhat unexpectedly:

"why?"

Wang Liqing got up and answered:

"We cannot survive without the mountain."

"We will go to another place, hoping to attract some Tuoba clan."

Shen Bing understood that Wang Liqing still didn't believe that Shen Bing and his party could defeat the Tuoba clan, so he chose this "divide the forces".

After thinking about it, Shen Bing said:

"Why don't we defeat the Tuoba clan together?"

Without thinking about Liqing, he asked:

"Just us?"

Shen Bing replied:

"Are you scared?"

Wang Liqing turned her head and stared at Shen Bing angrily, clenching her fists as if she wanted to rush up to fight Shen Bing... But in the end she still held back.

"We only have more than 300 warriors, and many of them were injured."

"If we stay, we will face the danger of extermination!"

Wang Liqing was right, she was considering the overall situation...More than 300 people did not have the capital to fight the Tuoba clan.

If she stays in a fight to the death at every turn, her tribe should have been destroyed or annexed long ago.

Shen Bing did not force it.

After all, there is nothing wrong with this approach to Liqing.

Tuoba would definitely come here first, and then hit Qin Jun first, and then...there was no more.

Therefore, Shen Bing is not worried about the safety of Wang Liqing and the villagers, as long as they leave here, they are safe.

just……

Shen Bing glanced at the wounded.

Wang Liqing seemed to understand the meaning of Shen Bing's expression and replied:

"They will stay here."

Shen Bing was not surprised.

Because if they took the wounded away, they couldn't get rid of Tuoba's pursuit, even if the Qin army defeated the Tuoba's.

This is somewhat like the law of the jungle for the survival of the fittest, and the weak will be abandoned for the benefit of the whole.

Shen Bing did not ask to leave these wounded to Qin Jun.

Because Shen Bing knew that if Wang Liqing believed that the Qin Army could not win the Tuoba clan, it would make no difference whether to hand the wounded to Qin Army.

Shen Bing respected Wang Liqing's choice, so he could only walk away silently, and then...

Shen Bing saw a "savage" working hard to make fire.

Shen Bing took out the fire fold and blew it a few times, then lit the haystack in front of him.

Unexpectedly, it was such an inadvertent action that caused the "savage" to scream as if he saw a ghost, and then knelt on his knees and put his hands together and threw his hands on the ground.

Soon everyone knelt down around Shen Bing.

Shen Bing looked suspiciously towards Liqing, and found that she was also kneeling on the ground, staring at the Huo Zhezi in Shen Bing's hand with surprise and confusion on her face.

Shen Bing asked puzzledly:

"Why are they like this?"

Wang Liqing asked in horror:

"You can control the fire?"

"Did Vulcan teach you?"

Shen Bing realized that it was Huo Zhezi who was in the limelight.

It is said that many ethnic minorities worship fire, because fire can solve many problems for them, such as heating, cooking food, lighting, etc.

And it is always difficult for them to get fire, so they always keep the fire burning, this time maybe because of an attack.

As you can imagine, this tribe in Liqing is also one of the primitive tribes that worship fire.

Shen Bing didn't want to explain more. To explain this, he would have to pull paper and saltpeter. I'm afraid it will get messy.

So he only said:

"You wait and go quickly, too late!"

Turning and leaving.

However, before taking a few steps towards Liqing, he caught up from behind.

"We will fight with you!" Wang Liqing said, "They think we should follow the messenger of Vulcan!"

Shen Bing replied with a wry smile.

He didn't expect that he had spent a lot of talking, he might as well burn it.