There is a saying that goes, "I can't bear to leave my child and can't trap the wolf." Chen Bing used himself as bait to pull out the main force of the Huns.
Otherwise, it would be almost impossible to severely damage the Huns by using the tactics similar to guerrilla warfare, which is to "break the whole into pieces and turn it into pieces" at any time.
Even Emperor Wu of Han wanted to send troops to search for the main force of the Huns in the desert, but often returned in vain.
Why not use it if the Huns can fall into the trap at this time?
At the beginning, the Huns had few harassing attacks.
This is very clever because they know that harassing attacks were not very meaningful when the Qin army was closer to Yunzhong County.
For example, the main force of the Qin army marched fifty miles a day. Even if the Qin army's crossbow arrows were consumed at this time, the Qin army would easily be supplemented from Yunzhong County.
The next day, it was more difficult to make up supplies by going a hundred miles forward, and the more you went forward, the more difficult it was. The Huns' attack gradually increased with this rhythm.
Sometimes even Shen Bing thought that the Huns' harassing attack was very clever. They always had two hundred cavalry or three hundred cavalry and one team of two hundred cavalry to cooperate with the Qin army from all directions. After this team attacked, the team came up again, and a wave of The next wave made the Qin army exhausted.
The reason why one team has two or three hundred riders is that this number of people will neither be too dense nor too weak.
If it is too dense, the Qin army infantry came with crossbow arrows and they would suffer heavy casualties.
If the firepower is too weak, the Qin army can ignore it and only cover it with shields or even use the advantageous cavalry to counterattack.
Two or three hundred cavalry are just right, and the Hun cavalry always walks on the edge of the Qin army's crossbow arrows with great precision. Once they find that the Qin army is "titled" and fights with crossbow arrows desperately, they will quickly retreat to the range. outside.
Sometimes Shen soldiers wonder why the Hun cavalry can always control the distance between the enemy and us.
At first, Chen Bing said that this was experience, and Wang Ben's explanation made Chen Bing understand that this was not the case.
Wang Ben said:
"That's because the Huns knew the distance of their bows and arrows!"
Chen Bing suddenly realized.
The Huns didn't even know the units of length, such as "steps" and "li", and they didn't know what mathematics was. It is said that they didn't even know the age, but just watched the grass withered and green for a year.
They naturally don't have any distance measurement methods that are almost primitive.
But the simplest distance measurement is the bow and arrow in your hand, and everyone measures it very accurately because they know how far they can shoot.
Just knowing this distance can roughly calculate the range of the Qin army's powerful crossbow, and then accurately swim at the edge of its range.
The Qin army's attack on the Huns can be said to be helpless.
Because they always rushed into the powerful crossbow and shot a few arrows within the range and then retreated quickly. Although the Qin crossbow has a long range and has been improved by sinking troops, it is still difficult to accurately kill the Huns... Even if it is Sometimes I can grasp its route, but because the number of people in a team is not large, it is relatively scattered and there is not much success.
So the crossbow arrows decreased in a row.
On the other hand, the Huns continued to raid supply teams after the main force, which forced Shen soldiers to divide their troops to protect...
Of course, this was made by Shen Bing.
In order to convince the Huns, Shen Bing even sacrificed several teams of supplies from time to time.
Fusu was a little dissatisfied with this, and he frowned and protested to Chen Bing:
"General, it's fine to waste some supplies."
"The labor service that can transport supplies... they are my Daqin people and they fight for our army."
"How can we make them die unjustly at the hands of the Huns?"
Chen Bing replied:
"Our military strategy is to preserve our strength and wait for the main force of the Huns."
"If you want to keep supplies safe, you can only use the 'Pi Lie Fireball'."
"Young Master thought how should I choose?"
In fact, Shen Bing was also a helpless move.
Because the "Pi Li Fireball" is used as a secret weapon to deal with the main force of the Huns, it will ruin the plan if it is easy to use.
So either don’t think about the main force of the Huns, or you have to make up your mind to wait for the Huns to take the bait... Only one of the two can be taken.
Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the former should be taken.
But this is contrary to the great principle of "benevolence and righteousness to govern the world" that Fusu learned since childhood, so Fusu could only sigh and stop talking.
Chen Bing added another sentence:
"This is war."
"If you want to explain the war with the way of benevolence and righteousness, the young master is afraid that it will be difficult for his whole life to achieve his wish."
Fusu nodded silently.
He also gradually understood this truth.
Because if you take "benevolence and righteousness" seriously, you can win the world. What is the reason why the Huns, who are specializing in burning, killing, and plundering, survive and are still so powerful?
Where do they talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality?
If you talk about benevolence and righteousness with the Huns, what is the difference between seeking a skin with a tiger?
The facts are right in front of you, what else can Fusu argue?!
In addition to the supply team, Shen Bing also showed that he lacked crossbow arrows in tactical manner.
Simply put, it is the strategy of "increasing troops and reducing stoves"... In the first few days, the Qin army used crossbow arrows to shoot the Jin, and the Hun cavalry counterattacked as soon as it entered the range.
After that, he gradually became conservative, and in the end he even used only shields and cavalry to stop the harassment of the Huns without using force crossbows.
In fact, the Qin army's crossbow arrows were far from enough.
The reason is that the Shen Bing asked the soldiers to pay attention to recycle the crossbow arrows shot out and even the arrows shot from the Huns along the way... Crossbow arrows are different from bows and arrows. Bow arrows are made of feathers, which have high requirements for feathers.
The main reason is that the bow and arrow trajectory bends in the air and fly for a long distance due to wind and air resistance.
If the feathers are not good, it will easily affect the accuracy of the arrow shooting and range. The best arrow should be the Eagle Feather Arrow of the Huns, while the Central Plains countries mainly use the Geese Feather Arrow.
This is also one of the reasons why the Huns rode farther away.
Therefore, bows and arrows are generally no longer used after being used... The feathers are loose and messy, and even if they can be shot, they have no accurate head or lethality due to excessive resistance.
The straight crossbow ballistics is less affected by the air and the requirements for arrow feathers are low, so there are cheap wooden feathers and iron feathers, and they can be fired without even needing arrow feathers... Just add a little burrs at the tail or wrap them in a small section. Just linen.
This is done to increase the drag of the tail when it flies in the air.
With greater tail resistance, the arrows can be kept flying in front without rolling in the air.
Therefore, crossbow arrows can be completely reused, and even the arrows shot by the Huns are collected for simple processing. For example, the size of the crossbow arrows can be increased to a point of resistance at the tail, and it can be immediately turned into a crossbow arrow.
Of course, there will be some quality problems in this way, especially the bronze arrows used by the Huns are more brittle and easy to fold after use, but it is better than not as a backup crossbow arrow, especially for the harassing attack of the Huns.
Therefore, the Qin army's crossbows were not successful on the surface, but in fact, the Qin army's crossbows were still very sufficient, at least it would be no problem to fight a major battle with the main force of the Huns.