It is not surprising that Shen Bing would have guessed that the Xiongnu would carry out a siege.
Before that, he had learned many Xiongnu tactics from Wang Bai and Lei Hui.
He found that the Xiongnu's tactics actually didn't have so many complicated tricks, such as formations and thirty-six strategies...
When the Xiongnu thought they were weaker than the enemy, they would use the maneuverability of the cavalry to engage in dynamic guerrilla warfare with the enemy, just like the Black Armored Army did against the Chu Cavalry before.
When it is believed that its strength is greater than that of the enemy and it is certain to win, it will penetrate and divide the enemy and encircle and annihilate them.
Therefore, the moment Shen Bing was sure that the Huns underestimated their enemy, he knew that the Huns might use surprise troops to insert themselves into the interior of the walled defense line to engage in a siege.
At this time, the Qin army's stronghold was also suitable for the Xiongnu to divide and encircle.
The reason is that the construction of the walled city has not been completed yet.
If a walled city is built, arrow towers, arrow towers, and even trebuchets, crossbows, etc. should be placed on high places.
Moreover, there are horse pits, horse ropes or traps everywhere between the walls.
At this time, if the enemy cavalry wanted to pass through the two walls, they would have to peel off a layer of skin.
But all this was incomplete at this time, especially when Jia Village only had a wooden fence erected around the perimeter.
At this time, the Huns cavalry could almost come and go freely.
If this is the case, why didn't the Xiongnu cavalry penetrate the defense line and attack the Qin army?
If you just ride your horse in circles outside the city wall and shoot arrows, how many arrows will it take and how long will it take to defeat the 5,000 Qin army?
But it would be different if it penetrated into the walled defense line.
The outward side of the walled city, that is, the side facing the enemy, is more complete. The inward side has not been built in many places because there is not much threat, and even the wooden fence has not been erected.
So the Huns cavalry could take advantage of the situation and attack the walled city.
Among them, the Huns cavalry also has an amazing operation:
They actually galloped past with a lasso, and then threw it on the fence of the city wall... and then pulled down the fence with the strength of ten horses, so the Qin army inside was exposed to their rain of arrows.
This is unimaginable to the Central Plains cavalry: being able to maintain balance on a galloping horse is quite good. The Huns cavalry can also wield a lasso and accurately hit the target...
In fact, this is a matter of practice makes perfect.
The Huns have lived on horseback since they were young. They have been riding horses to herd animals and playing with lassoes since they were sensible. It is not unusual for them to achieve this level after playing for decades.
It was Mao Dun, the Xian King of Zuo, who led this strange force to break into the defense line of the Qin army's walled city.
He had always maintained a cautious mentality, so he did not go too deep into the defense line. Instead, after passing the defense line, he attacked the northernmost village, Jia Village.
Then Moton immediately realized that something was wrong.
As soon as the fence of the walled city was pulled down, what Mao Dun saw was not the enemies fleeing in a panic, but the army that was well prepared and ready.
The front row of these troops held up long poles with rags hanging from them. This made it difficult for Modu to even see them clearly. The arrows shot upward would even be blocked or redirected by these strips of cloth. .
What Mao Dun didn't know was that these long poles were the unique "wolf traps" of the Liang Army.
However, there are few bamboos in the northern grasslands, so the "wolf bamboo" can no longer be replenished here... When the bamboo leaves fall off, they can only be replaced with rags and hemp ropes.
Then, the Qin army even took the initiative to knock down the wooden fence, and then rows of powerful crossbow arrows were fired from the walled city.
If it were just crossbow arrows, that would be enough. Among them, there was an iron crossbow arrow several feet long like a python that flew out with a whistling sound, nailing the entire war horse to the ground on the spot...
Maodun was immediately dumbfounded.
Then Mao Dun immediately knew how powerful this iron crossbow arrow was... If it was just for killing enemies, this iron crossbow arrow did not have much advantage over ordinary crossbow arrows.
Because a big iron crossbow arrow can kill one or two enemies and sometimes miss the target, a small crossbow arrow can also kill one enemy.
So why waste so much iron with iron crossbow arrows?
The reason is that when the iron crossbow arrow is nailed to the ground, it becomes an obstacle. It is difficult for a war horse to cross the obstacle, especially if a war horse is shot down.
Then a row of iron crossbow arrows were shot out, and immediately the Huns' cavalry was unable to run smoothly.
After thinking for a while, Mao Dun ordered to his guards:
"Sound the Dysprosium, call for reinforcements!"
The bodyguard responded and fired three dynamite weapons into the air...
Mingdy is a communication arrow commonly used by the Xiongnu. It is a hollow whistle added to the second half of the arrow. When it is shot into the air, it will make a unique whistling sound.
It is said to be "arrows for communication" because the Huns did not always use arrows to fire arrows.
Adding a whistle will make the weight imbalance difficult to create. The Huns would add a whistle to every arrow when they had enough to eat and had nothing to do.
However, the response he received was two beeps... Two beeps meant that reinforcements were in trouble.
Maodun was a little surprised. King Youxian was leading an attack with 10,000 cavalry on the outside. How could there be any difficulty in reinforcing the troops?
After sending a few people to investigate, they found out that the outer cavalry had also been attacked.
The one who attacked the outer Hun cavalry was none other than the 1,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry troops led by Wang Ben.
Shen Bing's idea was very simple. His target was the Hun cavalry that broke through the city's defense line.
It is easy for these cavalry troops to get in but difficult to get out.
But if we want to trap these intruding Hun cavalry, we must disrupt the 10,000 cavalry attacking from the outside.
So Shen Bing divided the labor:
More than 5,000 soldiers in the five fortresses used the fortresses and terrain to trap the enemies who broke into the defense line, while the army led by Wang Ben was responsible for repelling the outer enemies.
The former is relatively easy, because the two have similar military strength, with both the enemy and ourselves having more than 5,000 people.
The Qin army had the advantage of a walled city and a crossbow, and on the other side was the Yellow River with no way to retreat. It was not difficult to trap the enemy.
It was difficult for the latter, who repeled more than 10,000 cavalry with 3,000 troops.
But it’s actually not difficult.
Because what Shen Bing wanted was to repel rather than defeat.
To repel means to keep it away from the walled area so that the walled city will not be attacked from both sides by the Xiongnu.
And the Qin army has crossbows with a much longer range and faster shooting speed, especially bed crossbows...
Just as Mao Dun thought, the point of the bed crossbow is not to injure the enemy, but to become an obstacle to the cavalry.
And the more than 10,000 Huns cavalry on the periphery had to ride their horses in circles to attack the walled city. Other than that, it was difficult to use any direction.
Wang Ben's three thousand men and horses only needed to use crossbows and bed crossbows to block the source of the Huns' cavalry's circle, and they could force the Huns back.
Therefore, its main force was a thousand infantry, and the two thousand cavalry were just one on the left and one on the right to cover its two wings.
As soon as these thousand foot soldiers entered the shooting range, they pointed their bows and crossbows at the enemy.
Following Wang Ben's order, the crossbow arrows shot toward the circling Huns cavalry.
The Huns' simple leather armor could not block the sharp iron arrows, and pieces fell off the horse's back.
What's even more powerful is the crossbow... there aren't many of them, there are only ten of them out of a thousand foot soldiers.
But ten bed crossbows fired ten iron crossbow arrows at once and nailed them to the ground. It was like erecting a fence and immediately disrupted the formation of the Huns' cavalry.