Once there is a gap in any range, it is easy for the enemy to seize this weakness and exploit it.
For example, there are no effective anti-tank weapons at 300 meters, and the enemy can attack and fight at this distance.
Although the battles in ancient times were different, the principles were the same.
Infantry and cavalry must be combined with each other, and crossbows and arrows must be complementary, rather than one-sided emphasis on defense like the Roman army.
After the more than 10,000 Xiongnu cavalry were forced back by Wang Ben and were unable to attack the city, Mao Dun and his 5,000 cavalry who broke into the city suddenly discovered that they had originally intended to surround the Qin army but were now surrounded by the Qin army...
Qin's army has a stronghold every 1 mile. If they are connected to each other, wouldn't they form an encirclement?
However, Mao Dun's army fell into a trap.
Fortunately, Mao Dun had been cautious and did not go too deep into the hinterland, so he immediately ordered to abandon the attack and use Jiazhai to break out.
This is the shrewdness of Maodun.
Wherever you rush in, you stick out...Jiazhai is the farthest from Yunzhong City. It is the easiest to rush in and of course the easiest to push out.
When breaking out of an encirclement, it is most taboo to hit here and rush there.
This is easy to understand.
If the Qin army wants to use these five strongholds as support points to form an encirclement, then all five strongholds need to be garrisoned with troops, otherwise they will have weaknesses.
So the total force of the Qin army used to surround Maodun was five thousand, and Maodun was also five thousand.
If Mao Dun hits here and suddenly there, it will be a game of five thousand against five thousand.
But if Mao Dun concentrated his troops to attack only one village, that would be five thousand against one thousand, so it would not be impossible to break through.
However, even if Mao Dun is shrewd and reacts strangely, he still has a bad move.
The Qin army lined up in the walled city and then pushed down the wooden fence. The bows and crossbows fired more than a hundred steps to both sides. Moreover, the two walled cities could extend to the middle area, almost covering the entire area.
The Xiongnu cavalry rushed towards the center and were immediately shot down by crossbow arrows from both wings.
If this is the case, then the Huns may still be able to break out.
After all, the crossbow arrows had a limited rate of fire and the Huns' cavalry came and went like the wind. Even with the casualties caused by the crossbow arrows, most of them could be eliminated.
The problem is that the weapons used by the Qin army to stop the Xiongnu were not just crossbows...
Shen Bing prepared rope arrows specially for the Xiongnu.
This type of rope arrow is fired from a three-bow bed crossbow.
The three-bow bed crossbow is mainly used to shoot iron crossbow arrows, but of course such a useful thing is not only used to shoot iron crossbow arrows.
The range of its iron crossbow arrows is only more than a hundred steps, but if it is replaced by a lighter rope arrow, it can reach more than two hundred steps.
The arrowheads of the rope arrows are made of iron.
Shen Bing almost made it like a ship anchor.
The arrow body is made of wood, with wooden feathers added to the tail.
Wooden feathers are necessary so that the arrow will maintain balance and keep its head facing forward after being shot.
Then connect a thumb-thick hemp rope to the tail.
After the bow is fired, the rope arrow will throw the "anchor" on the head two hundred paces away.
The anchor is an interesting thing. Its unique shape means that once it is towed, it will be pointed downward and inserted diagonally into the ground, and the anchor will become tighter and tighter.
It goes without saying why Shen Bing used it here.
As long as this rope is tripped by a running horse... the horse itself will be tripped, and the anchor at the other end will catch the ground, because there is still a length of arrow body and the anchor is inserted diagonally into the ground, so it It will also be erected to a certain height, and the height can even be adjusted artificially at this end of the walled city by raising or lowering it.
The result is a perfect tripping rope.
There are a thousand people in each stronghold, and each thousand people are equipped with ten three-bow crossbows. A single volley of ten three-bow crossbows can pull out ten tripping ropes.
And this was just a salvo, and it was a walled city... The two walled cities fired into the open space in the middle at the same time, but during the tea time, countless snagging ropes were opened between the two cities like a spider web.
The Hun cavalry who were breaking through the encirclement were unable to evade and were tripped up by the snagging ropes one after another.
Then there was a burst of horses neighing and people shouting, but without the Qin army taking action, the Huns were already in chaos... Falling off a high-speed horse is no joke. Even if you don't die, you may only have half your life left.
At this time, the Qin army fired several more waves of crossbow arrows, and a bloody storm arose in the middle area amidst the screams of the Xiongnu.
When Mao Dun saw this, he couldn't help being shocked. He quickly stopped the subsequent breakout team and shouted at the same time:
"The Qin people are hateful, this is obviously a trap, we have fallen into the trap!"
If Shen Bing heard this, he would probably laugh out loud on the spot.
How could bandits like the Xiongnu call others hateful?
Do you still blame others for setting a trap?
At that moment, Mo Dun seemed to understand that it would be difficult to escape this time.
Because if this was the case here, there would probably be snagging ropes elsewhere, and the cavalry would be completely trapped within the defense line.
Without any hesitation, Maodun gave the order:
"Dismount and fight on foot!"
The Huns responded, dismounted their horses, gathered together, and rushed out of the defense line under the leadership of Mao Dun.
Shen Bing on the other side also got the news.
Jia Village was located two kilometers away. Shen Bing could only see many horses gathering in that area and fighting fiercely, but he could not see the specific battle situation.
However, it is still very easy for the five villages to achieve information connectivity. Village A raises a banner, and then it is passed from village to village, and then someone will naturally interpret it.
Ren reported:
"General, the Huns dismount and fight on foot to break through!"
Shen Bing couldn't help but secretly praise him.
He secretly thought that the Huns were worthy of being the king of the grasslands, and they knew that the only way to survive at this time was to dismount and fight on foot.
Otherwise, if you continue to ride your horse here and there, you will never get out of this dragnet.
On the other hand, if they dismount and fight on foot, and the five thousand people concentrate their forces to forcefully break into a certain place, the horse rope will not be able to do anything to them.
But even so, the Huns had to be skinned.
This is indeed the case.
The Xiongnu were divided into two groups, one with 2,000 men attacking the walled city, and the other with 2,000 remnants taking advantage of the situation to break through.
It was a sham to storm the walled city; the real purpose was to attract firepower to cover the friendly forces' breakout.
Because the Xiongnu are good at horse fighting but not good at foot fighting, many of them don't even have shields. It would be foolish to try to capture the Qin army's garrison.
However, the Qin army had to respond because the city wall was full of gaps and could easily be exploited by the enemy.
Then another Xiongnu group was able to break through.
This is almost like a gecko's tail-cutting escape. Otherwise, if the army breaks out from the middle in a swarm, they will be mercilessly shot by crossbows.
If Shen Bing knew that the leader of the Huns was Maodun, the future Shanyu, he would probably do everything he could to trap him.