I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 403 Flying Fox Army

'That' group of people.

For Zhou Yafu's statement, Liu Sheng only found it funny for a while.

——For a war that both the enemy and the enemy are well aware of, and it is almost a "war" in nature, Liu Sheng certainly made more than one-handed preparations.

In Mayi, there is the main army led by Zhidu and Cheng Buzhi, who are responsible for touching the Huns, so that they can show their muscles and show their teeth to the Huns, and at the same time feel the foundation of the Huns and the relationship between the Han and the Huns. Combat power gap.

In places other than Mayi, Liu Sheng's arrangement can be said to be fully prepared.

Mayi is located near the northern wall of the Dai Dynasty and the actual border line between Han and Hungary, but it is also located in the southern half of Yanmen County;

At the same time, Mayi was located hundreds of miles south of the Great Wall of Qin, guarding the only gap in the Great Wall of Zhao.

Behind Mayi is the hinterland of Dai State: Taiyuan County.

In other words, as long as Mayi is lost, the only gap in Zhao Great Wall will be unimpeded for the Huns.

Going south from Mayi, crossing the Great Wall of Zhao, plundering Taiyuan County in the hinterland of Dai Kingdom, and even continuing southward, the Huns will have a smooth journey and will never encounter too strong obstacles.

Therefore, in order to ensure that in the worst case scenario, that is, when all the troops are defeated in Mayi, or even the entire army is wiped out, the Huns will still be kept in the north of Taiyuan County, Liu Sheng specially mobilized his brother Liu Pengzu's Zhao Guo soldiers and horses to It is temporarily stationed in Loufan County, which faces Mayi across the Zhao Great Wall from north to south.

With this support army, Zhi Dujin can go out of the city to cover up and kill, or even chase and kill without any worries when the battle situation is optimistic, without worrying about defensive loopholes in Mayi behind him;

The retreat can also be made under unfavorable conditions, such as abandoning Mayi, or even retreating to the south, and handing over the task of dealing with the Huns to the second line of defense: the Zhao army in Loufan County.

In addition to this Zhao army to prevent the Huns from expanding their victories, Liu Sheng naturally did not forget the soldiers and horses of Yan.

——As the saying goes: Yan Zhao has many generous and tragic people, and Qi Lu has many chivalrous and righteous people.

When it comes to the army specifically, Yanzhao has more heroic men, while Qilu has more thorns who fight on their own.

For Yan and Zhao Bingma, whether it is the Han Dynasty today or the Chinese dynasties that will change in the future, they have never weakened the slightest attention.

——At the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, the name of Zhang Fei from Yan could be described as thunderous, and the courage of Chang Shan (from Zhao) Zhao Zilong was even more unparalleled in the world;
In the later Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties, and even Song and Ming Dynasties, Beifu soldiers were always an important part of the army.

And in this battle, Liu Sheng also issued an edict to mobilize the Yan State's border defense troops—part of which was temporarily stationed in the area handed over from Yan to Dai in order to ensure that nothing would go wrong.

Once something goes wrong in Mayi, not to mention that there are too many troops, at least they can rush to Mayi as soon as possible to stop the line of defense as soon as possible, so that the Huns will not be like wolves into a flock of sheep and poison the northern border of Han Dynasty.

To the south of Mayi, there is Zhao Guobing in Loufan County;
To the east of Mayi, there are soldiers of Yan State who are temporarily stationed on the Yan-Dai border;
In the northwest direction, Liu Sheng did not forget to send an imperial edict to Yunzhong, reminding the nail inserted deep into the heart of the Huns: Mayi is about to fight, pay attention to your side, don't be destroyed again.

Perhaps on the bright side, Yunzhong County, or Yunzhong City, which was instructed by Liu Sheng to "guard the city gate", could not provide any help to Mayi's Zhidu army at all;

But in fact, as long as you spread out the map, observe the geographical relationship between Mayi and Yunzhong, and think about it a little bit, it is not difficult to find: Yunzhong City is located in the northwest of Mayi and deeply inserted into the hinterland of the grassland. However, as long as the "city gate is not lost" under the attack of the Huns, the Huns outside Mayi can already exert tremendous pressure.

——The gap in the Great Wall of Zhao where Mayi is located is the notch where the Great Wall of Zhao goes south;

If Zhao Changcheng is a bowl, then Mayi is the mud that holds the bottom of the bowl.

And Yunzhong is located in the northwest of Mayi, on the map, it is at the upper left of the 'Bowl'.

Understand this, the problem is simple.

When the Huns came to attack Mayi, they must have come from north to south;

But after arriving outside Mayi City, the location of Yunzhong City will also be diagonally behind the Huns.

Although they are hundreds of miles apart and separated by mountains, this lack of security is often fatal on the battlefield.

Let me give you a very simple example: you are fighting with one person, and the two of them are facing each other face to face, just like that;
At the same time, one of your partners is fighting the opponent's partner in the position behind you to the right.

As a result, you and your opponent were in the middle of a fight, and your partner howled, "I can't beat it~ slip away", and left you and left.

Then you look at the opponent in front of you, and you don't dare to let your gaze and sight shift for a moment;

At the same time, you can always feel that behind you on the right, a big man who is obviously hostile to you is looking at you full of jokes.

Just standing there, motionless, not even intending to join the fight;
But just standing like this is enough to make you want to retreat, no longer thinking about killing the opponent in front of you, but thinking about how to escape from the double-team of these two people.

The relationship between Yunzhong and Mayi is roughly like this.

Therefore, on the surface, Zhi always brought a main force to engage in a battle-like city offensive and defensive battle with the Huns in Mayi, but in fact, under Liu Sheng's meticulous care and arrangement, Liu Sheng used the army On the surrounded ring, try to have a close contest with the Huns.

The result of this contest is not too important to Liu Sheng and even the Han Dynasty - as long as there is no tragedy;

What is really important is that through this contest, the Han Dynasty will clearly understand to what extent its own power has developed, and roughly what position it is in compared with the Huns.

With these in place, we can formulate targeted development plans and chase the Xiongnu northward, which is no longer an elusive dream, or even a fantasy...
"You have to strive..."

"Si Yuyan, please don't disappoint the late Emperor..."

"Don't let me down..."

If it was ventriloquism, Liu Sheng finally let out another long sigh, and dropped the chess piece in his hand heavily.

In this game of chess, Liu Sheng lost.

The loss was terrible, just from the side of the eye, he lost no less than twenty eyes.

But Liu Sheng didn't care.

If you lose a game of chess, you won't die.

——At least not here in Liu Sheng.

And in the place where people will die, Liu Sheng really doesn't want to lose...
"His Majesty······"

"—I'm fine."

"--continue."

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"If Your Majesty is worried..."

"—I said it's okay!"

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Daibei, Mayi.

Almost under the watchful eyes of the entire known world, the Battle of Mayi finally officially started at the end of the first year of Han Emperor Sheng.

There are not too many bells and whistles, and there is no popular conspiracy track.

The Huns came over in such a mighty manner, honestly put the long ladder on the city wall, and then let the muscular men of the Zhelan tribe rush to the top of the city screaming;

As for the Lou Fanren and the Baiyang people, they each carry two kinds of bows that are obviously different and clearly have the cultural characteristics of their own tribes, waiting for an opportunity to provide fire support for the Zhelan people who are attacking the city.

On the other hand, the Han Dynasty also proceeded step by step—first using throwing objects such as rolling logs, stones, and gold soup to consume a lot of the cannon fodder slaves of the Huns;
When the Xiongnu sent elite troops: the Zhelan tribe attacked the city, the Han army in Mayi became more serious and serious.

The bed crossbow meat grinder at 150 paces, the rhubarb crossbow at [-] paces for sniping, bow and arrow volley throwing at [-] paces, crossbow machine flat shooting at [-] paces, and all kinds of defensive throwing within [-] paces things.

The two sides fought step by step in this way, and the Huns naturally did not get any deviation.

——Defending the city is the ancestral skill of the Han people, and even the entire Chinese nation!
But siege has always been the weakness of nomads.

In history, it was not until the appearance of firearms that nomads, with the help of firearms and led by that generation of arrogance, had the ability to conquer cities and land.

Before that, when nomads attacked cities, especially the strong cities of the Chinese farming civilization, they often had to use some unscrupulous methods.

What, buy the traitors in the city, and secretly open the city gate in the middle of the night~
Start digging tunnels from outside the city, dig all the way into the city, and then secretly open the city gate in the middle of the night~
Or pretend to be a merchant, first cheat the cost, and then seize the door and break the city.

In the final analysis, it is actually a sentence: As a nation on horseback, the Huns have no good way at all to break through the gates of the Han city.

On the other hand, the Han people have already had countermeasures against the nomads' unscrupulous methods.

——Sealing the city gates during wartime, and directly blocking the city gates when necessary, has long been the norm on the Han-Hungarian border;
As for merchants, especially those who appeared near the side wall, the supervision of the Han Dynasty was even more staggering, not to mention the physical supervision during the war.

As for burrowing, it is already difficult to escape the attention of the Han people - dig a hole three or five steps inside the city wall, put a large pottery vat in the pit, let the pottery vat and the soil fit closely, and send People squat in the tank all day long;
In this way, as long as the Huns dig the soil outside the city wall, or dig the foot of the wall, or destroy the city wall, the originally inaudible sound will become a very clear sound, in the "monitoring cylinder" located inside the city wall sounded.

With detection and prevention, even if the burrow can still be dug through in the end, it will be difficult to obtain any decent takeover.

——People know that you are digging a hole, and they are still waiting for you at the entrance of the hole. When you probe, your whole body will be locked by 'infrared rays'!
Rather than dying so uselessly, it would be better to die on the way to charge and attack the city wall!
After being disgraced by the Han army, especially the Han army under the command of Zhidu and expanded by the Northern Army for many years, and even the proficient ability to defend the city honed through hundreds of battles, the Huns also began to learn smart .

The siege only shoots slave cannon fodder to consume the physical strength and arrows of the defenders of the Han army;
All Zhelan weaving was withdrawn to the camp for repair;

The Baiyang and Lou Fan were outside the city wall, wandering back and forth in a direction parallel to the city wall, and from time to time shot towards the top of the Mayi wall and inside the city wall.

After making such a 'correction' to the combat method, the casualties of the Huns were reduced by more than half.

Except for a few unlucky ghosts who were shot by the bed crossbow and the rhubarb crossbow, the cavalry archers of the two huge groups of Aries and Lou Fan can rely on their vigorous posture to avoid open and hidden arrows on the battlefield, and they all have to walk with their tails full. down the battlefield.

Only in this way, it seems that the Huns did not come to capture Mayi, but to pretend to attack Mayi, so as to hold back the Han army in Mayi city and stop supporting other places.

After discovering this, Right Wise King Yi Zhixie said that he was very annoyed and wanted to make some changes urgently;
But after experiencing the huge casualties at the beginning of the war, Zhelan, Loufan, and Aries also began to make their own plans.

——For this battle, the Han people were fully prepared, and it was another city offensive and defensive battle in which the Xiongnu side attacked and the Han people defended;
To put it bluntly, unless some lucky accident happens, there is a high probability that Mayi will not be able to attack.

In this way, the problem before the tribunal is very simple.

Mayi can't be broken;

The Han people in the city also put on a rogue posture that they can't get out of the city if they are killed, and if they can't kill me, I will win;

In this case, what is the big guy trying to do?
It's not the warriors of the tribe who died co-authored, and the power of the tribe was not consumed, but what they got in the end was just a symbolic 'subsidy' that Shan Yuting chatted better than me?
Therefore, for the first time in the history of nomads, foreign laborers appeared in the war between the Han and Hungarians by such a coincidence.

The Zhelan people are better, most of them are lunatics who are often in a state of madness, and their brains are too big to think too much, only thinking about the word 'dry'.

The Aries are completely screwed.

From the "returning horse shooting" that the Aries people are famous for - first pretending to be defeated, luring the enemy to pursue them, and then suddenly turning around and shooting arrows on the way of "escape", we can already see that this tribe can be called an "ancestral tradition". Chicken thief'.

Now being led by Yi Zhixie to beat him to death in Mayi, the Aries will naturally not be caught without a fight.

——Throw it~
——Wouldn’t it be better to just shoot the arrow?

——Who knows who will be hit or not, and who will be killed?

——Anyway, they are all blocked by the city wall...
Lou's annoying mentality is similar to that of an Aries, but he doesn't dare to go too far like an Aries, but he has more informal instructions like 'life is more important' and 'life is more important' in private.

After fighting like this for three to five days, Yi Zhixie couldn't take it anymore.

"Humph!"

"What troika, they are basically three lowly businessmen who only think about their own interests!"

With a roar, Yi Zhixie's expression froze suddenly before he could utter the words.

Not far away, a Han cavalry was approaching, arrogantly stopped a hundred steps away from the Xiongnu camp, and thrust a big tiger banner into the soil.

"The Right Wise King of the Huns face to face!"

"Captain Han Feihu, Zhang Xu from Yan, ask the right sage king of the Xiongnu how he is!"

"Tu She came here to work hard, General Zhang wanted to invite a banquet, and drink three bottles with Tu She!"

"But looking at it now, I'm afraid General Zhang can only sprinkle those three bottles of wine on the head on the top of the Jingguan!"

(End of this chapter)