After everything was ready, Shen Bing sent his troops to the city.
At this time, it seems that the military strength is somewhat stretched:
There are a total of 14,000 troops, 3,000 are used to dig nirvana in Hequ Village, 5,000 are cavalry used to garrison Yunzhong City, and five troops are sent out to garrison the city walled area, each with more than 1,000 men, so there are only 1,000 troops in the city. There were only a thousand people left to take advantage of the machine.
If there were any other troops, it would be Shen Bing's personal guards of a thousand people.
Shen Bing estimated that the Xiongnu would not do anything to Yunzhong City, because Shen Bing's land enclosure plan was more cautious, which was to start from Yunzhong County and march westward along the Yellow River for five miles... Set up strongholds every other mile, and surrounded them. The land is only over 5,000 acres. (Note: In Qin Dynasty, one square mile = 375 acres)
Shen Bing did not erect the enclosure.
Because if the enclosure is south or north, it is not convenient for irrigation on the one hand, and there is insufficient troops on the other hand.
What's more important is that this directly blocked the Huns' access to the Central Plains, which forced the Huns to clear these walled cities that were stuck on the main transportation routes.
In other words, what Shen Bing did actually partially opened up the Huns' road to Yanmen County, and the Huns could still go south to plunder.
It's just that Yunzhong County will become a thorn in the back of the Xiongnu and may cut off their retreat at any time.
Under this situation, Shen Bing believed that the Xiongnu could at most leave some troops to contain or prevent Yunzhong County from doing this.
However, what Shen Bing didn't expect was that the Xiongnu exceeded his expectations this time.
At this time, Touman Chanyu was leading the Xiongnu.
Touman is not actually a name. It means "ten thousand" in both Mongolian and Turkic languages, that is, "to rule over ten thousand" and "a general who leads an army of ten thousand."
It should be more of a military rank, but the Xiongnu were mostly scattered in small tribes at the beginning. A general who could lead an army of 10,000 was already very impressive, so he took this name, and then became more and more powerful, and finally became the first generation of the Xiongnu. At.
At this time, Touman Chanyu was very excited about retaking the Hetao area.
Although the Xiongnu had strong soldiers and horses and looted everywhere, in fact, every family had sutras that were difficult to recite, and Touman Chanyu was no exception.
The Xiongnu were located in the northern grasslands. "At that time, Donghu was strong and Yuezhi was prosperous."
Donghu in the east once defeated the Xiongnu and was known as the "two hundred thousand people who control the strings", which put strong pressure on the Xiongnu.
To the west, the Yueshi used terrain to block their westward advance, and to the south were the powerful Central Plains countries. Especially before, Li Mu was in the north, preventing the Xiongnu from advancing...
The way of life of the Huns was very simple. One was to live in the water and grass, and the other was to plunder everywhere.
If the climate was good and everyone had enough food and clothing, the Xiongnu would not choose the latter.
The problem is that cold currents often disrupt production in the north. For example, this year, the cold and long-lasting weather froze to death countless cattle and sheep.
Seeing that the herdsmen were so hungry that they had to use their war horses to satisfy their hunger, Touman Shanyu habitually looked elsewhere.
Touman Chanyu first looked to the west.
Although the Yueshi in the Western Regions were strong, they were not as strong as those in the East Hu and the Central Plains. Especially Touman did not dare to take a step further after suffering heavy losses at the hands of Li Mu for several years.
However, at this moment, a detective came to report:
"Chanyu, I heard that Li Mu is dead."
Touman Shanyu was stunned for a moment, and then asked in surprise:
"Li Mu is dead? Is it true? How did he die?"
In ancient times, the flow of information was slow, especially between the Central Plains and the Xiongnu... On the one hand, this was because there was not much communication between the Central Plains and the Huns, and on the other hand, the Huns were located in the north, and they usually spent the winter hiding in their camps during the cold winter.
So when Touman Chanyu heard the news, it was already several months after Li Mu's death.
Tan Ma replied:
"It is said that he died on the battlefield and was killed by the Qin people!"
This is of course not true. Li Mu died at the hands of King Zhao.
But among the Xiongnu, it was difficult for them to imagine that a hero like Li Mu would be killed by his own king.
So when it was passed down by word of mouth, it was taken for granted and changed to a more believable one of being killed by the enemy on the battlefield.
However, Touman Shanyu replied without thinking:
"This is impossible. Is there anyone in the Central Plains who can kill Li Mu on the battlefield?"
So for a long time Touman Chanyu didn't take this information seriously. He just thought it was a rumor and kept dispatching troops to punish the general's plan to march westward.
Until there were more and more rumors on the border that Li Mu was dead and the Northland was deserted, so Touman Chanyu sent several teams to the Northland to investigate.
After this investigation, I found out that this "rumor" was true, and the Northland, which was originally a strong military force, had turned into an empty city.
So Touman Shanyu quickly transferred his troops from the west to the south.
This is also one of the reasons why the Xiongnu offensive was delayed.
On the other hand, Touman Shanyu still had doubts about Li Mu's death.
In fact, it was not entirely because he had doubts about Li Mu, but because he was unfamiliar with the Qin army, so he acted cautiously.
Touman Chanyu’s thoughts are as follows:
Li Mu was able to defeat the Xiongnu, but the Qin army defeated Li Mu and even destroyed Zhao. Does that mean that the Qin army now occupying the north is more powerful than Li Mu?
If the Qin army was more powerful than Li Mu, how could the Xiongnu defeat Qin?
So the Xiongnu entered Hetao tentatively at first, and even restrained themselves, fearing to offend Qin and give themselves a good look.
It wasn't until Shen Bing tightened the defense line and concentrated all the people in Yunzhong County that Touman Shanyu dared to enter Hetao with confidence.
In a way, Shen Bing's shrinking of the defense line encouraged the Xiongnu.
Because Touman Shanyu then thought:
Why did the Qin army abandon the Hetao and why did they shrink their defense line?
The reason may be insufficient troops.
As a result, after further investigation, it turned out that the Qin army stationed in Yunzhong County was no more than 10,000 people.
At this time, Man Shanyu confidently and boldly mobilized his troops to prepare to go south to plunder.
Touman Chanyu has a habit of always trying his best to know more about his opponent before fighting.
This time is no exception.
But after getting to know his opponent, he was surprised...
The Qin general named Shen Bing actually made great achievements in the annihilation of Zhao, Wei, Chu and other wars in more than half a year, and he was quite famous in the Central Plains and was praised by many.
Touman Shanyu was puzzled by this:
"If this Qin general had such merit, why did he only lead more than 10,000 troops to garrison Yunzhong City?"
The subordinate replied:
"Perhaps this is just false information spread by the Central Plains people, hoping that we will be fooled."
Touman Shanyu thought for a while, then nodded and said:
"You're right, people from the Central Plains are always trying to be mysterious."
It's no wonder that Touman Chanyu thinks so. He has been deceived countless times by Li Mu before.
Because I have been fooled over and over again, I can’t believe anything now.
When Shen Bing sent a thousand-man team out of the city to build a walled city, Touman Chanyu became even more convinced of this.
He laughed and said:
"What does Shen Bing mean by a divine general?"
"The total strength of their troops is no more than 10,000, but they still have to leave the city."
"Not only will it leave the city, it will also be divided into five parts."