Dahan first prince

Chapter 418 The Tranquility Before the Storm

"The visitor is not kind..."

In the afternoon of the next day, in the north of Mayi City.

Looking at the huge banners of the Huns erected one after another about twenty miles outside the city, Jin She could not help but smile wryly on his serious face.

As a hero who has not been absent from any war since the Han Dynasty, Jin She is very familiar with these banners standing outside the city.

——The big golden banner of Zhelan Department!
——The big sheep head of the Aries Department!
——The longbow and big flag on the upper floor!
——The big ax of the Jinshan Department!
as well as······
"Yinglong Ban..."

"Should it be King Zuo Xian?"

Leisurely murmured, causing the soldiers on the side to rush forward and bow their hands.

"A few days ago, Chang'an came to report: The Xiongnu Shanyu's headquarters and the Youxian King's tribe are all in Henan, and they seem to want to attack the Yuezhi;"

"Shan Yu's headquarters and King Youxian's department are absent, whoever dares to use Yinglong as a banner will undoubtedly become King Zuoxian."

Hearing this, Jin She only nodded indifferently, her eyes were still fixed on the outside of the city.

Watching tens of thousands of Hun cavalry come from the direction of Wuzhou Sai to a position thirty miles outside the city, and immediately began to set up camp, Jin She did not show the slightest fear on his face.

"Dare to camp..."

"You bully me, the Han family has no horse..."

There was another sigh between the wry smiles, and Jin She smiled easily, and withdrew his attention from outside the city.

——Whether it is the past practice or the posture of the Huns outside the city, it shows that there is still a long time before the battle begins.

According to the past habits of the Huns, after arriving outside a city and starting to set up camp, the Huns often rest for a day or two;

Of course, the 'repairing' here is not entirely sleeping, but the combatants recharging their energy, and the slave tribes cutting down trees to make simple siege equipment on the spot.

To put it more bluntly, it is climbing the wall ladder.

During this period, the Huns may try to steal city gates and dig walls, but both sides know that the possibility of success in these crooked ways is no less than buying lottery tickets in later generations.

——After all, paper tigers like Yunzhong are not everywhere;
After a day or two like this, the Huns' siege equipment was ready, and the combatants were all refreshed before the battle officially began.

In other words: Jin She still has at least the last one or two days to complete the finishing work of 'consolidating the Mayi defense line'.

In fact, Jin She doesn't need one or two days at all...
"Your Majesty;"

"In recent days, the soldiers in the city clearly have a lot of leisure time. Why didn't the lords send soldiers out of the city to clear the fields with a strong wall?"

Just as he was about to walk down the wall, he heard a suspicious question from the guards around him, causing Jin She to turn his head leisurely;
After seeing the top of the city, one after another looked at him with fear and anxiety, Jin She thought about it for a while, and then grinned.

"It's just a savage, why do you need to fortify the wall and clear the wild?"

"——If you have the strong and thick walls of Mayi, you will have to climb the ladder of the wall, and the barbarian cavalry can ride up the horse?"

Deliberately raising his voice higher, making sure that the soldiers around him heard his voice, Jin She stepped forward with a relaxed smile, hugged the soldier, and walked down the wall.

"Eh, Your Majesty?"

"General Li complained of illness, but it has been a few days?"

"Your Majesty won't send someone to ask?"

Seeing that the soldier asked another question, Jin She's expression froze suddenly!
After a while, I saw Jin She patted the soldier's shoulder with a slight smile, and his brows were full of ease and freehand brushwork.

"It's okay~"

"General Li was born in a noble family, perhaps he was spoiled and spoiled since he was a child, and he couldn't bear the hardships of being in the army;"

"With a certain relative in the town, Ma Yi can't make any mistakes, and he is not missing him, so he can send a son of a hero."

Pretending to howl casually, Jin She's mind drifted out of the city involuntarily.

As for the murmurs of the soldiers around him, such as "I have heard for a long time that Li sent the general's tiger son, it turns out that it is nothing more than mediocre", but Jin She didn't listen to a word.

"Strong walls and clear fields..."

"Hey!"

"If the grass and trees outside the city are all cut down and burned by someone, how can the siege of Mayi be achieved..."

Thinking to himself, he dragged the curious soldier down the wall, and Jin She issued several orders that had already been prepared to the entire city of Mayi in the first place;
——All wells in the city must be guarded by soldiers at [-] hours a day!

Except for officers above the rank of Quhou, no one is allowed to come within five steps of the water source!

The water for the common people in the city will be distributed by the soldiers; the water for the soldiers in the army will be drawn by the cook himself!
——All food donated by the local 'people' in Mayi must not be eaten!
Except for the military rations distributed by the military kitchen, no food obtained from any other channels is allowed!
In the end, an injunction with great wartime characteristics was promulgated in Mayi City.

——No one is allowed to step out of the room unless Taiwei Xinwu Hou Jinshe himself ordered it!
Including the thousands of soldiers stationed in Mayi before...

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In the city of Mayi, Jin She had already settled in the joy of "the fish has entered the urn", and did not forget to make a final confession, so as to prevent Mayi from being attacked from the "inside" by the Huns like Yunzhong;
But in the Xiongnu camp [-] miles north of Mayi City, Ji Porridge's brows were tightly knit together.

"Is there no other way?"

Looking in front of him, the Han merchants who came here in a hurry, couldn't help but bring a little sternness in their tone of voice.

But seeing the Han merchant hearing the words, he shook his head full of sorrow and sighed, and his tone of voice was full of grievances.

"It's not a small incompetence, it's really the Taiwei Jin She who has ruled Ma Yi to a watertight..."

"Nowadays, in Mayi City, not to mention those 'old friends' I know, even ordinary people can't leave their homes at all."

"The water source and arsenal in the city were completely surrounded by soldiers from Guanzhong. Even the original soldiers of Mayi were strictly prohibited from leaving the camp."

"This Mayi, I'm afraid it's too small to help Tu She..."

Following the Han merchant's low and mournful tone, everyone in the tent couldn't help feeling a little melancholy;
Bursts of dread appeared on the tense and maudun face.

"Sir need not say so;"

"When Mayi is defeated, the army will continue to move south. Mister will also have a lot of opportunities to serve the Great Chanyu."

With a word of indifference, he waved his hand casually to signal the Han merchant to back down, so he put his hand under his chin and thought secretly.

Almost at the moment when the Han merchants left the king's tent, the Aries King, Loufan King and other Xiongnu nobles in the tent also began to communicate in a hurry.

"How can this be good?"

"If there is no way to break open the city gate, wouldn't the warriors go to Mayi City to die and fill up the tall city wall with their lives?"

Hearing Aries King's complaint, Lou Fan King didn't rush to agree, but turned his head slowly, and took two steps forward cautiously.

"Tu extravagance;"

"Ma Yi, it is already impossible to break through from the inside."

"I'm afraid Tu She will have to decide what to do next..."

After saying a word in a low voice, King Loufan lowered his head, expressing his submission to Shuanji Porridge.

The troika, Zhelan, Baiyang, and Loufan, all of which were "imperially sealed" by Maodun himself, are theoretically on an equal footing;
Especially when these three ministries are dispatched at the same time and are fighting together, the leaders of these three ministries have equal command power.

In the past few years, relying on the extremely brave Zhelan people, the superb archery Lou Fanren, and the "riding and archery" Aries, Shan Yuting has repeatedly defeated the opponents who were originally difficult to defeat, or in other words, were originally difficult to defeat. Enemies that take some effort.

So on weekdays, although the three chiefs do not obey each other, they can often cooperate sincerely on the battlefield, and the chiefs of each ministry can barely be regarded as equals in private.

But when it came to the power-holders in the headquarters, such as Tongda Jizhou and even Tongda Maodun, King Loufan had to be more careful and prudent than those two fellows.

There is no other reason.

——The Loufan tribe used to be a subordinate tribe of Donghu!
In the epic decisive battle between the Huns and the Donghu people to determine the ownership of the grassland, the only backbone force of the Donghu side was the Loufan Department at that time;
In that battle, the only one that could cause the Huns to suffer heavy casualties was the Lou Fan Department.

Although later, with the defeat of the Donghu King, Lou Fanren also surrendered to the Xiongnu Shanyu——Shuanglu Maodun, but for this "Donghu remnants" that had caused heavy losses to him, the Shanyu Ting headquarters still There is no small resentment.

Especially under the premise that Mao Dun personally took the lead, the hostility of Shan Yuting's headquarters against Lou Fan's department has only increased in the past few years!

Although Zhelan and Baiyang are also the surrendered tribes that first fought against the main tribe of the Xiongnu and then surrendered after the defeat, they are older after all;
And compared to more than ten years ago, Lou Annoyance who "sworn a bloody battle" for King Donghu, the historical stains of Zhelan and Aries are not so deep, and the process of surrendering to the Xiongnu headquarters is relatively straightforward.

Based on the combination of these reasons, in order to ensure the reproduction of the tribe, as the contemporary King of Loufan, Zhebie can only follow the perspective of King Zuoxian, and hope that through this "Prince of the Huns", he can change the tribe of Loufan. Future fate, and status in the Huns.

Obviously, Lou Wang Zhebie's intentions were also clear to him;

Hearing Zhebie's request for instructions, Ji Ji Porridge did not forget to give Zhebie a slight nod, then frowned again, and slowly stood up from the animal skin throne.

"The one who controls the strings of the Huns, the worst thing is to attack the city;"

"But what the Han people are best at is precisely defending the city."

"Today's Mayi is already guarded by tens of thousands of Han troops, and it is no longer possible to break through it through other methods."

"If they can't enter the city, then the warriors can only shoot at the Han people on the wall outside the city."

"The bows and arrows of my big Huns are not as far as the Han people, and the Han people stand on the city wall, condescending;"

"We don't even have any advantage when shooting against each other..."

With an inexplicably low tone, he put the current situation in front of everyone in the tent, and there was also a little strength quietly on his face.

"This time going south, my father's will is to beat the little emperor of the Han people on the grounds of Anton's matter;"

"Before, I had no intention of attacking Mayi. I only planned to surround Yunzhong and cause the Han people to suffer some losses."

"But now, Yunzhong has been breached, but the main force of the Han people has reached Mayi; if we retreat here, the Han people will think that we are afraid."

"I came here with the purpose of supporting the plow, and I shouldered the mission of beating the Han people. If I leave behind the reputation of 'the wise king of the left, fearing the main force of the Han people' under the city of Mayi, then I have failed to live up to the support of the plow." The painted letter is heavy."

"So Mayi must fight."

"Even if there is no way to break through, the Han people must suffer."

Man Man resolutely put on the attitude of "we must fight", and his sharp eyes slowly swept over the faces of everyone in the tent;
After everyone bowed their heads in confusion, expressing that they were "willing to be ordered", the sharpness in Ji Porridge's eyes eased a little.

"Tomorrow, let the slaves make wooden ladders, be sure to hurry up!"

"The day after tomorrow, there must be two hundred wooden ladders to climb up the city wall of Mayi!"

"In the first three days, let the slaves rush up, even if they can't kill the Han people on the city wall, they must make them feel tired;"

"As for the warriors of Zhelan, Baiyang, Loufan, and Jinshan, they will take turns to draw their bows outside the city."

"After five days, if the Han people are exhausted, try to break through Mayi!"

"If there is no hope of breaking Mayi, then going back to the grassland will not be considered a failure to support the plow and Gutu..."

With the low and forceful tone of Ji Porridge, the Xiongnu's established strategy for the Mayi battle was finalized.

——Let the slaves make ladders first, and then carry the ladders they made, and rush to Mayi as cannon fodder;

Several other main players, Wanqi, shot cold arrows outside the city;

Wait until the guards of the Han army in the city are almost tired, and then try to attack the city. If they can't attack, it's not too late to leave.

Perhaps in the eyes of later generations, and even contemporary Han people, such a brief "siege plan" by the Huns may be a bit of a joke;

But this is a true portrayal of the nomads facing the Han city before they had firearms.

In addition to using slaves and cannon fodder to consume the defenders' physical strength, and waiting for an opportunity to shoot sniper arrows, the cavalry of the Huns had nothing to do with the city walls...
After the order was issued, all the chiefs followed the order and left the king's tent in order;
In the next day, the subordinates of these leaders will repair before the battle.

When the battle officially starts, these tribes, especially the Loufan tribe with superb shooting skills, will surely shine in the battle!

It's just that no one expected that even the cavalry archers in Loufan who were known for their "superior shooting skills" in the grassland still left at least a quarter of their troops under the city of Mayi a few days later. public.

Even the "condor shooters" who were only a few dozen people around him were powerless to fight back under the continuous super-long-distance crossbow firing of the Han people...
(End of this chapter)