I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 400 The First Battle
Just like this war, it was destined to be fought long before both sides made any moves—the first battle broke out outside the city of Mayi, as expected by the whole world.

But according to most people's expectations, the time when the first battle broke out should have been the early morning of the third day the Huns arrived in Mayi, or the midnight of the second night.

This has something to do with the habits of the Huns when they went out to fight.

——According to the custom, when the Huns tried to start a war, they would be the first to shoot a Ming Dy by Shan Yu himself.

This is a tradition handed down from the period of Maodun Shanyu, who killed his father by Ming Di, and it has always been like this.

After Shanyu shot the Mingdi, Shan Yuting and the heads of the Xiongnu tribes, Xiao Wang, could roughly infer the enemy they were about to attack from the direction in which the Mingdi was shot.

For example, in the past, the Xiongnu Zuoxian King Suodun Maodun Mingdi killed his father by shooting his own Mingdi at the center of the camp - Touman Chanyu's large tent;

Another example is at the end of the Qin Dynasty and the beginning of the Han Dynasty, in the decisive battle to determine the ownership of the grassland overlord, Maodun Shanyu resolutely called out and went north, and then annihilated the Donghu regime that had ruled the grassland for hundreds of years, and became the new overlord of the grassland.

For another example, later, the successor of Maodun Shanyu: the old Shangji Porridge Shanyu, just shot Mingdi to the west, and the Huns fought with the Yuezhi people in the Hexi Corridor.

Until the Yuezhi people moved westward to the Western Regions, and even continued westward to the west of Dawan, the Xiongnu Shan Yuting was still looking for the whereabouts of these "remnants".

And this year, the Right Wise King of the Xiongnu, Suoda Yizhixie, followed the Mingdi shot southward by the military minister Shanyu, and appeared outside Mayi City.

As for why the first battle often took place in the early morning of the third day when the Huns arrived on the battlefield, or in the middle of the night of the second day, it was because the Huns, as nomads, naturally did not have the ability to attack the city in a short time. stronghold ability.

If they were facing the Donghu people or the Yuezhi people, who were also nomadic peoples, the Huns would certainly be able to rush towards the enemy without stopping, taking advantage of the tail of large-scale maneuvers.

However, when faced with the Han army, especially the Han army that was huddled within the city, and could not bypass the city in front of them, the Huns would inevitably choose to camp fifteen miles away from the city. .

There are three reasons for camping.

One: Since it is a city, no matter how big or small the city is, there is a high probability that the Huns will not be able to capture it in a short time;

Since it is impossible to capture the city on the day of arrival at the battlefield, or within three or two days, the Huns must set up camp for the purpose of preparing siege equipment, or resting the cavalry groups that have traveled long distances. Preparations before the city.

After all, compared with slaves cutting down trees to make siege equipment, and being exposed to the detection range of the Han people, and letting the cavalry sleep on the ground, it is obviously safer to have a camp to accommodate, and it also makes the Huns feel more at ease.

Second: In the offensive and defensive battle of the city, because the offensive and defensive sides are too clear, it is easy for the defenders in the city to fight to the death and fight back from the city.

Under such circumstances, if the Huns did not have a gathering point to retreat, they would easily be caught off guard and scattered by the Han infantry rushing out of the city.

Therefore, in order to make the cavalry feel confident and have a gathering point where they can instinctively retreat, the Huns often camped outside the city to be attacked before attacking the city.

——Even if it is a scribbled circle surrounded by branches, the symbolic "camp" is something that the Huns have never forgotten.

Third: During the invasion process of the Huns, and even every nomadic people, a material transfer station and temporary storage point are very necessary.

After so many years of 'communication', the Han and Hungarian sides know each other's habits and habits, not to mention knowing everything, at least they know everything.

The Huns knew how many meals the Han people ate a day, at what time, and what they would eat;
The soldiers of the Han family also knew how the Xiongnu and northern barbarians on the opposite side came to the border from their pastures, what purpose they hoped to achieve, and what they wanted to bring back.

Speaking of this battle, even if the Han Dynasty did not know who the specific opponent was, they could still predict what the Huns were focusing on early on.

--food;
- salt tea;
- cloth;
——People.

In addition to the above four necessities that the Huns desperately needed, or commodities that they desperately wanted to resell for huge profits, if there was anything that could make the Huns shine, it would be all kinds of precious metals.

So to put it bluntly: the camps set up by the Huns near the battlefield will only be used for repairs by the Huns cavalry before the outbreak of war.

From the moment the war broke out, the Huns' camp was the gathering point to avoid the collapse after the defeat and allow the cavalry groups to reunite.

Of course, this does not mean that the Huns stopped resting in the camp after the war broke out;

It's just that compared with the exquisite Han people, the Huns are really used to using the sky as their quilt and the ground as their seat.

Lead the horse to find a shallow pit three or five paces long and wide, put it on the horse's belly, and handle it in one night.

As for the end of the war, the camp of the Huns will directly become a storage point for captured prisoners of war, looted civilians, and all kinds of looted materials.

Combining all the above, it is not difficult to draw a conclusion: in most cases, the Huns hope that there will be a "truce period" of about two days after arriving on the battlefield.

In these two days, the Huns can complete the work of setting up the camp, and prepare the crude siege equipment, and then start to attack the city.

Naturally, when the default truce period of these two days was taken away by Zhidu without a word, Yi Zhixie's mood was of course not so beautiful...
"Zhidu..."

"Humph!"

"The so-called minion of the country, the general who conquers the battle;"

"Let's see how sharp the minions of the Han people are!"

Standing about ten miles outside the north gate of Mayi, looking at the mess outside Mayi, Yi Zhixie gritted his teeth with a sullen expression, and secretly cursed the elders of the Zhidu clan.

And in the area where Yi Zhixie's eyes were fixed, about five miles wide and thirty to fifty miles long - the main battlefield of the next battle, there were more than a hundred Zhelan rangers lying diagonally.

Some of these Zhelan warriors who died heroically had their throats blocked by the arrow feathers of the Han people, or were unlucky enough to be shot in vulnerable parts such as eyes and ears;
Some were shot in non-critical places such as arms and legs, but fell off the horse due to severe pain, and were lying on the ground, moaning and wailing weakly.

Of course, there were also two most unlucky hapless guys, which made Yi Zhixie so annoyed that he didn't dare to approach Mayi any more, and dared not set foot within three hundred steps of Mayi.

——Those two people are the centurions of the Zhelan Department;
Even if you don't know the traditions of the Zhelan tribe, it is not difficult to judge these two people just by the clothes on their bodies that obviously use more materials, and the steed that still lingers not far from the two of them, unwilling to leave for a long time. Absolutely no ordinary Zhelan leader.

Of these two, one lost his entire left arm and most of his left shoulder, and his left half of his face was covered with blood, lying on his back, his eyes were wide open, but he was just dying;
The other person's head is in a different place - the body lying on the ground tightly on the ground, and the head that has gone to nowhere was reminded by Yi Zhixie's hoarse cry and under the staring gaze. The huge 'arrow' thick as a thigh exploded into blood foam.

"Bed Crossbow..."

"Vicious Zhidu, in order to shoot and kill the warriors of the Zhelan tribe, he even used the bed crossbow used to defend the city..."

Clenching his teeth, Yi Zhixie's complexion changed for a while, and he stared viciously at the head of Mayi City, the huge bed crossbow with its tip raised high, as if it was about to be thrown out at any time, and it was indescribably weird.

This man can fight?
Who would throw a bed at a scout?
This is like in later generations, who would bombard frogmen with close-in defense?

Knowing that you Han people are rich and arrogant, you don't want to bombard people with beds, right?

You must know that a bed crossbow is one foot five in thickness and more than two feet long!
The Huns who were bombarded to death by such a crossbow were not even half as tall as the length of this crossbow...
"Send the order down."

"Anyone who is within five hundred steps of Mayi, no matter if it is a leader of ten men, a leader of a hundred men, or a general of a thousand men;"

"Even King Zhelan, King Aries, King Loufan, and even Ben Tushe must wear exactly the same costumes as the warriors in this department!"

"Tell King Zhelan, King Aries, and King Loufan: If you don't want the corpses to be taken back to the grassland by your subordinates and inherit all your property, you should honestly hide those BMWs!"

"If you really want to ride those horses to provoke the Han people, don't blame Ben Tushe for not reminding them."

Yi Zhixie, who had finally calmed down after cursing at the north city wall of Mayi for a long time, issued the command of 'counter-sniper operation' immediately.

After all, Zhidu on the opposite side is a wonderful thing who can use a bed crossbow to bombard the scout vanguard.

If there is any idiot who wears exotic clothes that can tell whether he is rich or expensive at a glance, and rides a horse that is available to ordinary people in the grassland, the ghost knows that in this war, the highest-level nobles of the Xiongnu who died under the city of Mayi will be killed in the battle. What an appalling height.

After explaining the "anti-sniper operation" order, Yi Zhixie, who still couldn't look away from the north wall of Mayi, frowned again suddenly.

——Izhixie was very embarrassed.

Today's first battle, the chain reaction triggered by the first collision made Yi Zhixie very embarrassed.

Today, in fact, nothing unbelievable happened—the Zhelan tribe arrived at the battlefield first, patrolled around the battlefield according to the management, and squeezed the Han army's detection range back to Mayi City, plus the limit of the line of sight at the head of Mayi City.

According to the usual practice, the next step is for the Huns cavalry to patrol outside Mayi to ensure that the camp behind them is set up safely and the siege equipment is ready.

Then, it is logical to start the siege.

But today, when the Zhelan cavalry who arrived at the battlefield first were patrolling the battlefield, the gate of Mayi was actually opened!

Before the Zhelan scout vanguard could react, a burst of arrow feathers covered the sky and covered the sun, scaring off the Zhelan main force who were planning to take the opportunity to attack the city;

It's just that the main force was scared off, and the vanguard scouts, who were only three or five miles away from the city wall of Mayi, had no time to withdraw.

——If you withdraw, you will be stabbed into a hedgehog by the perfectly curved volley of the Han people;

If you don't retreat, you will only be entangled by the Han infantry pouring out of the city, or even fall into siege.

The language description is so complicated, in fact, it is just a matter of thirty or fifty breaths.

——The city gate of Mayi was wide open, and the Zhelan cavalry were stunned for a moment. Just as they were about to attack the city, they found that the sky was suddenly dark;
The main force reacted and scrambled to retreat, but the vanguard scouts were stunned for a moment because they were already within the range of the Han people's long-range strikes.

It was at this moment that the sound of 'Bang! ''state! There was a loud noise like thunder, and a bed crossbow was struck by a huge wooden hammer, "Whoosh! With a sound, he rushed down to the city of Mayi.

As for the Han Chinese infantry that rushed out of Mayi, they did not seek to fight with the Zhelan people as expected by the Zhelan people. Instead, they returned to Mayi silently after going out of the city to form an array. .

What are the Han people doing?
When all that happened, almost every Zhelan person was thinking: what are the Han people doing?
Even at this moment, Yi Zhixie is the only one among the Xiongnu nobles outside Mayi who can see through the intentions of the Han people...
"For the sake of dozens of Zhelan warriors, I am willing to deploy tens of thousands of troops and venture out of the city."

"With the help of the bed crossbow, I achieved my goal, and found that I couldn't catch up with the Zhelan people's main force, so I retreated back into the city without hesitation, and didn't even cut off the head—not even struggling for a moment."

"So decisive..."

Recalling the battle process heard from King Zhelan just now, and recreating the whole process in his mind, Yi Zhixie's expression sank again.

The Han people in Mayi are not easy to deal with.

This was the first sentence that appeared in Yi Zhixie's mind.

As for the second sentence...
"Even if the Han people dared to go out of the city in such a large scale during the day, they might not be able to launch attacks in the middle of the night."

"The order goes on: Whether it is a logging slave or a craftsman who makes siege equipment, he must return to the camp before sunset."

"In the direction of Mayi, send twice as many troops to investigate during the day, but you must never approach the area within five miles of Mayi;"

"After sunset, double the daytime basis to ensure the safety of my camp."

His gaze was fixed on Mayi. Although he only saw a section of the gray city wall, Yi Zhixie always felt that a pair of eagle-like sharp eyes were staring at him directly at the top of the gray city wall.

But this kind of feeling didn't make Yi Zhixie fall into the abyss, but gave birth to a kind of expectation of "meeting the same kind" or "meeting the opponent".

Instinctively issuing combat orders and completing the strategic deployment, Yi Zhixie's eyes were once again locked on the outside of the north city wall of Mayi.

And there, it was exactly as Yi Zhixie expected: Zhidu, the prefect of the Hanyan Gate, was also squinting, looking at the hundreds of figures thousands of miles away.

"Izhixie..."

"Crazy Izhixie..."

"Hey······"

"Ah, the royal family of the Suzan clan..."

(End of this chapter)