What Shen Bing said about besieging the city is to encircle without attacking.
Maodun was indeed a clever, but he still thought the Shen Bing was simple. He thought that the Qin army, who was good at siege and eager to win a stronghold, would start siege as soon as he arrived at Wuyuan.
In this way, the Qin army is dangerous no matter what, because it has to face the attacks of Wuyuan City and the Hun cavalry outside the city at the same time.
At that time, the Qin army was in a dilemma, but the Huns could attack and defend. After a long time, the Qin army had to retreat.
However, Maodun never expected that the sinking soldiers would surround him and not attack him.
The Qin army was divided into four parts, each team of five thousand people, without exception, all of which were mixed infantry and cavalry.
Each team suppressed a city gate, which means aiming at the city gate with a bow and crossbow, a catapult, or even a three-bow crossbow and a "Pili Fireball".
In this way, the Huns in Wuyuan City would be blocked and unable to move in the city, and the Qin army would not attack the city, so they all had no use of weapons and could only stand on the top of the city and watch.
Mao Dun outside the city was furious when he saw this situation.
Qin Jun's move actually put him in a dilemma.
To be precise, the Huns had no way out, because once they retreated, it meant that the 10,000 Huns in Wuyuan would be captured...
This is undoubtedly because the Huns have basically no need to worry about being surrounded since they fought with the Qin army.
Most of the Qin army was infantry, and there were cavalry soldiers and were not good at cavalry and shooting. How could it surround the Huns?
If there is a siege, it was also in Yunzhong County that Maodun led his army to break into the city as the King of Zuo Xian and was trapped in it by sinking soldiers and hiring arrows.
But that's just a special situation.
It was a dream to fight on the grassland that the Qin army wanted to surround the Huns. Under this habit, the Huns in Wuyuan City only brought supplies for a few days.
In other words, if you are surrounded for a few days, you will have to drop food if you don’t drop.
This was Maodun's miscalculation. He only knew how to learn about the Central Plains' construction of city defense, scattering machines, and defending the city, but he did not take into account the supply in the city.
In fact, even if Maodun wants to learn this, he can't learn it.
Because the Central Plains cities usually store enough food for months or even years to prevent them from being besieged by the enemy, where did Maodun find that much food in a short time?
If Wuyuan City is captured, it will repeat the same mistakes of Jiuyuan... The Qin army will build a line of defense that the Huns cannot cross here.
Then, the Xiongnu in the Xitao and Hexi Corridor were surrounded.
But if you attack...
Although the Qin army has been divided into four parts, each part has only 5,000 people.
But there were five thousand people with the "Pili Chariot", as well as new crossbows and three-bow bed crossbows.
Any part cannot be easily shaken by the tens of thousands of cavalry of the Huns.
Seeing this, Ji Zhu asked:
"Shanyu, what should I do?"
Maodun Shanyu gritted his teeth and ordered:
"wait!"
Maodun held a glimmer of hope, hoping that the Qin army would attack the city when it was ready.
But soon Maodun was disappointed.
Because Maodun saw a truckload of wood from the Qin army's supply team.
The grassland forest is located next to the river with sufficient water, so Yang Duanhe's troops need to cut down.
After the wood was transported, it was not used to make siege equipment, but to build a city... The sinking soldiers used defense instead of attack, and they planned to spend a long time with the Huns.
Not only did they build a city, but they also ordered the soldiers to dig and set up traps and set up horse ropes around them.
There are also directions towards Wuyuan City and towards the grassland.
Maodun was stunned when he came. He had never seen such a fighting style, nor had he ever thought that Shen Bing would fight like this.
If it were in the past, the cavalry of Maodun would not have been burdened by such squat ropes, and they would have been trapped by the trap... The grassland is so big, the Qin army digging the trapped horse pit here to set up the squat ropes, so I will go to another place? Unless the Qin army is in the future It can dig out the entire grassland from a trap.
But now? The 10,000 Huns stationed in Wuyuan City not only failed to play a role, but became a ties, which made Maodun only fight around Wuyuan City? So the Qin army's traps and scoundrels? Can work.
Maodun was right.
Shen Bing's move is to "surround the point and attack support".
Maodun’s idea is good, to learn from the Qin army’s strengths of defending the city and combining it with the Hun cavalry.
But studying requires tuition fees...
How could Maodun know that the strength of the Hun cavalry is that it has no land to defend? Therefore, no one can know where its main force is, and it cannot determine where the battlefield is, so it cannot prepare in advance.
Inability to prepare in advance means that you always have to face the raids of the Huns.
But now the Huns have land to defend.
Having a land to guard means determining the main position and determining the battlefield.
Once the battlefield is determined, it is too easy for infantry to deal with cavalry, especially cavalry of this era.
Maodun saw that it was not a solution to wait like this.
Because it is obvious that the more you wait, the more unfavorable it will be for them: when the Qin army is trapped and there are more and more trips to the horse rope? After the Qin army's arch tower is built, then there will be no need to fight this battle, and the Huns can be said to have lost. .
But just rushing out like this obviously won't work.
Let’s not talk about the “thunderstorm” in the hands of the Qin army, but those who were trapped in horse pits and tripped horses were enough for the Hun cavalry to drink a pot.
When he was in a dilemma, Ji Zhu said:
"Chhanyu? Why don't we let those slaves fill the trapped horse pit and cut off the tripping rope?"
Maodun's eyes lit up as soon as he heard this suggestion:
"Well said? Let those slaves stand in front!"
"We'll get off the horse and fight!"
Ji Zhou was confused when he heard this. He didn't mean that at first. He was just used to letting slaves pave the way, so he said so.
But what he said inspired Maodun and learned a new tactic, which was to fight against the enemy with slaves as shields as weapons.
And? It would be better if these slaves were their own people.
Later, the Mongols often did this, using the captured people to block the army? Then they rushed towards the enemy... Even the Mongols used these people to organize their troops and attacked them with these troops.
That's what Maodun did at this time.
The reason for "off-scene battle" is that if the slaves are under the horse and the Huns cavalry are on the horse, they will still become the enemy's target.
If the Huns and slaves were both under the horse and mixed with slaves? The enemy would have no choice but to use them.
Maodun carefully made some arrangements? He divided the 30,000 army into three parts and ten thousand each.
There are cavalry wars on both sides of the upper and lower sides? But it is not an attack, but a cavalry and shooting restrain the corresponding Qin army, especially the junction of the Qin army, so that they cannot reinforce each other.
The main attack direction is placed in the west.
The reason why it is west is because it is the farthest from the Qin army's supply direction.
Moreover, if the Qin army in the east wants to reinforce the west, they either capture Wuyuan or bypass the two wings... This is impossible.
So the Qin army to the west became an isolated army at the first time.
On the other hand, Maodun ordered the Xiongnu in Wuyuan City to cooperate in attacking the Qin army on the west side...