When Shen Bing and Yang Duanhe were preparing to attack Wuyuan, the straight road started construction.
The reason why straight roads started construction earlier than Chi Dao was that Chen Bing believed that Ying Zheng was out of selfishness or could also be said to be that prophecy...
"The destruction of Qin is Hu." If this prophecy is correct, it means that there will be no problems in the country, and the problem is Hu people abroad.
So in order to make his country firm, it is also to make the immortals refine the "Eternal Life" medicine for him as soon as possible, of course, they have to deal with the Huns in the north first.
Therefore, Ying Zheng was not hesitant to distribute 50,000 workers on the planned Qin straight road.
Ying Zheng divided Qin straight road into eleven sections, each section distributed more than 4,000 workers depending on the situation.
Construction will start at the same time during the 11th period, and more labor will be invested in the later stage, and the construction will be completed within one to two years.
After hearing this, Shen Bing had to sigh at Ying Zheng's big moves, which often took tens of thousands of labor to a big project.
But it doesn't seem surprising to think about it.
As soon as the war ended, the large number of prisoners of war who were worried about using could be converted into labor.
There are also people who violated the Qin law... At this time, the entire Central Plains were from the Qin State, and they would always be used as laborers if they committed anything. In addition, there was a system of continuous seizures, so the laborers could be said to be endless.
Moreover, this is just labor service, and ordinary people also have to serve remote service regularly every year, so the Qin State's major projects came one after another.
But during this period, I don’t know how many people are going to be exhausted and starved to death.
This is actually a flaw of the Legalist system. The ruling class can formulate, change and use laws that are beneficial to themselves at will, and then openly use these laws to exploit the people, making the people suffer under the "evil laws" but unable to resist.
There is a saying that goes, "If you are poor, you will be able to take care of yourself; if you are successful, you will take care of the world."
At this time, Shen Bing could only "maintain his own life" and also needed to "do his best" to do so, so of course he had no time to take care of other things.
With Yang Duanhe in charge of the logistics, Chen Bing was still relatively at ease.
After all, he was a veteran Qin from Xianyang, and he had his own excellence in command.
So Jiuyuantun accumulated food and grass for half a month, and Shen soldiers led their troops to the expedition.
This time, Shen Bing originally planned to raid with cavalry, which means sending three thousand Shenwu troops to take more horses day and night to seize the next stronghold of Wuyuan for two days.
However, the spy rewarded:
"General, we found that the Wuyuan Xiongnu were building the city wall and building the city gate!"
This surprised Chen Bing. This means that the Huns plan to defend the city?
Wang Benqi said:
"Will the Huns build city walls?"
Spy answered:
"But it was built with a large number of slaves, most of which were the people of the Central Plains!"
Wang Ben couldn't help but say "Oh".
Wang Ben didn't feel anything, but Wang Bo's eyes showed anger and he couldn't help but curse:
"The Huns are hateful!"
The Huns had robbed the Central Plains for a long time, and they were not only wealth but also people. These people became slaves when they came to the hands of the Huns, and they were the kind of people who had no freedom of life or even their lives were not in their hands.
Wang Bai had the experience of being a slave in the Huns, so he naturally hated him deeply.
Think about it? Shen Bing ordered the cavalry who had already sent a raid to chase back.
Wang Ben is still a little unwilling to give up? said:
"The General, the Huns may just be bluffing."
"And the Huns are not good at attacking but not defending at this time and are not firmly established? Our three thousand cavalry may not be able to retake Wuyuan."
Chen Bingze shook his head:
"How could the Huns not know whether they are good at attacking or not? So you think they will only defend but not attacking?"
Wang Ben reacted immediately:
“The general means…”
Chen Bing replied:
"The Huns still focus on attack."
"On the one hand, our army can prevent us from getting the city easily, but on the other hand, we can cooperate inside and outside, and both offense and defense."
"There must be cavalry outside the city."
"If my cavalry attacks rashly? It will only be attacked internally and externally or even wiped out by the entire army."
"This Maodun... is indeed an opponent that cannot be ignored!"
Wang Ben didn't dare to say much after hearing Chen Bing said this.
Because Shen Bing was right, if the Huns were really arranged like this? Then let alone three thousand cavalry? I’m afraid that even 30,000 cavalrymen would not be able to capture Wuyuan.
So Shen Bing could only continue to advance to Wuyuan step by step in the joint efforts of infantry and cavalry, while Yang Duanhe's troops followed behind to build a city every hundred miles and extend it to Wuyuan.
A city is built every hundred miles to protect the supply route.
The reason why it is a hundred miles is that the infantry travels fifty miles a day, and they can set out into two cities and villages to reinforce to any point within one day.
Not to mention the cavalry traveling a hundred miles a day? It can be used as a mobile reinforcement for the rapid response force.
So? The mode of protecting supplies is:
Infantry advances with food and grass. Once attacked, cavalry reinforcements will be sent from the two cities as soon as possible. At most, it will only take half a day to arrive, and the subsequent infantry will arrive within one day.
Yang Duanhe has 100,000 Hanoi soldiers? There are sufficient troops to do this.
This step-by-step model, coupled with the "Pi Li Fireball" and the three-bow crossbow, makes the Huns inadvertent? The supply line is very safe.
Even the main force of the offensive led by Chen Bing was not harassed by the Huns... The harassment was only one or two waves in the early stage, and it never appeared again after being repelled by the Qin army with a new crossbow.
This may be because Maodun realizes that harassment will not be of any use in this situation…
Before, the Qin army was short of military strength during the First World War of Jiuyuan. The supply line was fragile? So we could have the idea of supplying the Qin army.
But now the Qin army uses a large amount of troops to protect the supply line. It can be foreseen that the Qin army will not have any worries about supply? The harassment will only increase casualties.
A few days later, Shen Bing led his team to Wuyuan.
When I came to the city, I saw that the burned city gate had been repaired. At this time, the gate was closed. The female wall of the city wall was also tall, and rows of Huns holding bows and arrows stood behind them.
What surprised Chen Bing was that he also saw the shadow of the trench, which seemed to be a new counterweight trench.
After thinking about it, Chen Bing felt it was not surprising.
The northern area, including Yanmen County, was originally the territory of Zhao State.
After Shen Bing invented a new counterweight catapult, one of the countries he attacked was Zhao State.
Those Zhao soldiers and the people who had seen the counterstone-treating machine, naturally fled north when they were worried about losing their country under the attack of the Qin army... Even Zhao Wangjia fled to the north and then moved to Dai Kingdom.
However, the Huns plundered from north to south, and of course they would capture some Zhao soldiers or people.
Under the threat of death, these Zhao soldiers or the people will tell them what they know.
So... the counterweight catapult appeared in the hands of the Huns at Wuyuan City.
Chen Bing even believed that those who manipulated these catapults might be the people of the Central Plains.
What a irony and helplessness it is to be an enemy of the Central Plains in the hands of the Huns!
But this is war.
Chen Bing didn't think much, and waved his hand and ordered: