"In this case, we can only enter a small force. Well, it is not impossible to have a larger number, but are you sure you can be so accurate?" Xu You suddenly realized.
"I don't know whether it's precise or not, but we can try it out in a time-consuming manner. Ten days should be about the same, and it may be easier due to the heavy snow cover. By the way, we can also set up our camp during this time." Xun
Chen lowered his head and said slightly gloomily.
"Just pretend that you are disgusting with the Northern Huns. Let's see the opponent's reaction first, whether he will start attacking violently, or whether he will hold back and wait for the opportunity." Xu You touched his beard and said.
"As long as there is nothing wrong with my mind, this is just a small-scale test. Then we will see whether we should be on guard or think of other ways." The judge said with some thought. He already had a certain design, but there were still many mistakes and omissions in it.
"Now it depends on how we build the camp and on what basis?" Xun Chen said while looking at the review team and Xu You.
"How about building a two thousand-acre camp?" Shen Pei thought for a while and looked up at the two of them.
"This takes a lot of time and requires a lot of manpower." Xu You roughly calculated that it would take a lot of manpower to build such a large camp. It is estimated that two thousand people would be needed to build the camp alone.
Ten days.
"Don't worry about these things. Build the camp and plan at the same time. Don't miss both ends." Xun Chen said with a smile.
Yuan Tan, Gao Lan, and Ji Ling looked at the three civil servants with sinister smiles opposite them with confused expressions, unable to understand at all.
Everyone agreed that the next day they would carry more than 20,000 people on oxen and horses and kill directly to a place one mile in front of the Northern Huns camp. At that time, the Northern Huns who received the news directly entered a state of war alert.
However, the Northern Huns, who were on abnormal alert, waited until it was dark, but still did not wait for the attack of the Han army. It was not until the reconnaissance cavalry came to report that the Han army began to set up camp on the spot that the Northern Xiongnu tribesmen breathed a sigh of relief.
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The Northern Huns who originally wanted to use war eagles to send messages to the tribesmen in the south were extinguished by the violent storm and snow. Using war horses to send messages was not much different from seeking death in such a harsh climate.
In the wind and snow of Western Siberia, as long as you lose your way, even if you have war horses and reserves, you will basically be dead. Therefore, the Northern Huns tribe can only send a certain number of warriors south as much as possible, and do their best to obey fate.
Of course, this terrible snowstorm is not entirely due to natural causes. Half of it is caused by Xu You, Shen Pei, Xun Chen and others who took advantage of the situation. But the worst part is that now the Han army has also been affected by this level of snowstorm.
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Even if they want to destroy the snow cloud that affects a state, there is no good way. In today's true sense, those who forcefully change the weather of a state against the weather cannot do it by their own abilities.
Obviously, Shen Pei and the others have no good way to deal with this snow cloud now. They can only leave one person to weaken the snowfall and strong wind within their camp. It is too nonsense to forcefully stop it.
One of the remaining two people directed the construction of the camp, and the other took Wang Mo, Zhu Han, Tao Sheng and others to cut down the trees, and then transported them back to build the camp.
A camp of 2,400 acres, including the timber for paving and raising the ground, requires about 150,000 trees. It is estimated that the forest of five to six square kilometers will be cut down as soon as it is finished.
Fortunately, in this era, there are far more trees than people. There are barren mountains and wild forests everywhere. If there is any shortage, there will be no shortage of trees. So let alone cutting down 150,000 pieces of pine and fir, you can cut down millions of roots and no one will care.
, looking back more than ten years later, there was another forest.
However, even with the support of inner energy, there are not enough high-quality tools in this era, and one person cannot cut down a hundred trees in a day. If one person only cuts down fifty trees without transporting them back, it is not a big problem.
But adding that they have to be transported back, it becomes more complicated. I estimate that they can only harvest ten to twenty trees in one day, so the tree cutter brought more than 2,000 people to cut down the trees. It is estimated that they can be cut down in seven or eight days.
Trees are needed.
It is said that it did not take so long originally, but more trees were cut down, and the transportation distance was longer. Originally, the Northern Huns stationed themselves in this place not far from the forest to make it easier to spend the winter.
For this era, water supply is not a problem in winter. The snow and other things fall and are collected, and the fire turns into natural and pollution-free drinking water. Only making fire is very important.
This is also the reason why the camp of the Northern Xiongnu is not too far from the boreal coniferous forest, but this also makes it easier for Xun Chen and others to use local materials to build their camp.
Xu You transported the wood back, while Xun Chen led three thousand people to saw the tree into the boards he needed. Of course, except for the soldiers who were real carpenters, the work was considered normal at the beginning, and the others were just messing around.
Fortunately, Xun Chen was not particular about it. No matter how bad the wooden piles were, or how problematic the wooden boards were, he would just start building at the previously planned place.
What's the mortise and tenon structure? It's nonsense. If it doesn't work, just add nails. If there are no iron nails, then there are no wooden nails. Temperature curing strengthens the internal structure of wooden nails. Tens of thousands of people continue to strengthen the temperature curing just to create the materials they want.
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As for why it is necessary to warm up the flammability, of course it is to facilitate heating on snowy days. It is not easy to make a fire in the winter. It is easy to burn, and it can make life easier.
The Han army's camp construction area covering an area of about 2,400 acres really shocked the remaining tribesmen of the Northern Huns. However, under the current circumstances, the Northern Huns were indeed unable to move further north, and the Northern Huns also
They are not stupid, their women, children, old and weak, under the current circumstances, once they advance northward, it is very likely, no, it should definitely create a loophole during the march!
In the current situation where the Han army is face to face with the Northern Xiongnu, once a flaw of that level appears, it will be almost fatal to the current Northern Xiongnu.
Therefore, the most correct choice for the current Northern Huns is to stand still and strengthen their alert. This is what the Northern Huns, who think they are very smart, did.
The two sides could not meet for more than five miles, but due to the wind and snow, the Northern Huns could not see clearly what the Han army was doing, and they could not send too many scouts to investigate. They could only observe from a distance, and relied on the vague influence to estimate what the Han army was doing.
The army is building a camp.
Xun Chen was much calmer. When the Northern Huns did not directly launch a counterattack on the first day, Xun Chen understood what this group of Northern Huns were thinking, and immediately brought over the soldiers who were originally used to defend the camp.
Make the wood needed for the camp.
The soldiers who made the wooden boards made the wooden boards, and the soldiers who warmed the wooden boards and various materials continued to warm them. The entire camp was quickly built under the current circumstances.
