Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 301 Ziying's Plan

Chapter 301 Ziying's Plan

In order to carry out the next plan smoothly, the only way Ziying can think of is horseshoes and stirrups.

At that time, Ziying used the convenience of supervising the construction of the imperial tomb to build a batch of horseshoes and stirrups during the expedition. According to Ziying's original plan, they would wait until the later stage of the war, when the Huns were completely defeated, and then use them in long-range pursuit.

At all times, it is best to be able to minimize the vitality of the Huns in the First World War, to the point where they will not be able to slow down for 20 years.

In this way, even if there is an inevitable chaos in the Central Plains, the Xiongnu will be powerless to take the opportunity to invade south.

After all, there are Da Yuezhi and Donghu on the east and west sides of the Xiongnu. Once the Huns are weak to a certain extent, these two old opponents will never let go of this opportunity to make trouble.

At that time, the first task of the Xiongnu is to keep their pastures under the encroachment of the Da Yuezhi and Donghu, so naturally they are not in the mood to go south.

As for the Dayue Clan and Donghu, with the cake of the Huns at that time, there should be no intention of going south before the cake is divided.

In this way, not only can the results of the battle be maximized and the grasslands plunged into turmoil again, but also the damage caused by the exposure of horseshoes and stirrups can be minimized.

After all, the structure of these two things is too simple.

It is so simple that an experienced craftsman will understand the principle after a few glances.

But if everything goes according to Ziying's expectations, and the grassland is in chaos, the various ethnic groups who lack smelting technology may have no time to upgrade their armaments.

However, Touman Shanyu's plan to gather such a huge army was aborted due to the affairs of the tribal leaders of the Touman City Conference, and a three-year-old child would not believe it if he said that he had no idea.

At this time, Ziying took King Youguli's old lair, no matter where Touman's original target was at such a short distance, Ziying and Meng Tian have successfully attracted the hatred to Jiuyuan City.

Ziying had no choice but to temporarily change his original plan and let Horseshoe appear in advance to complete his goal.

However, the horseshoes and stirrups made by Ziying in a haste cannot be compared with those of later generations. The most obvious point is that Ziying's horseshoes and stirrups are made of bronze.

Although Qin State also has cast iron technology, but it is extremely primitive, compared with the six eastern countries, but Qin State's bronze technology has reached the pinnacle in this era.

Compared with the iron swords cast by the current technology of the six eastern countries, the bronze sword of Qin State is not inferior in the slightest.

Although Ziying has many more mature methods of iron smelting in his mind, it is no problem to smelt steel if there is enough time, but the time from the decision to the official expedition is so tight that Ziying can only rush This batch of horseshoes and stirrups was smelted with Qin's mature bronze technology.

It should be said that this horse shoeing is a technical job in later generations, but today Ziying really does not have so much time to train such a group of skilled workers.

Fortunately, King Youguli's royal court contributed [-] horses to Ziying. These are all excellent grassland war horses. Except for the old, weak and immature ponies, none of them are weaker than the Qin army. war horse.

A certain amount of horse damage was within Ziying's tolerance.

"Mr. Chang'an, this is?" Meng Tian asked with some doubts after watching the process of nailing the horseshoe.

"There is a thick cuticle on the horse's hoof, just like the nails on your fingers, but much thicker than the nails. As long as the nails are not too long, the horse won't feel much." Ziying explained.

"Is this to protect the hooves?"

A piece of bronze was nailed on the horse's hoof, as if putting shoes on the horse's hoof. Naturally, Meng Tian's first reaction was to think that this was to protect the horse's hoof.

"Well, with this, the damage of war horses due to hoof injuries should be reduced by nine out of ten." Ziying looked at Meng Tian and said calmly.

"This... this..." Meng Tian, ​​who was born in a family of generals, naturally understood the shock brought by Ziying's words.

China originally did not produce horses, but after a war, the damage to war horses can reach three to four out of ten, and a large part of them are damaged due to horseshoe injuries. To expand.

This is also one of the reasons why the cavalry has been difficult to prosper in Qin, and it is really costly.

If it is really possible to reduce the loss of war horses in long-distance raids by eight or nine out of ten, then the effect will be absolutely subversive.

In this way, long-distance and long-distance cavalry raids became possible.

Long-distance raid!
Persist for three months!
Thinking of this, Ziying's series of actions before and after immediately became coherent.

"Your Majesty Chang'an, you can't do this!" Meng Tian immediately wanted to stop Ziying's behavior.

It is true that the grassland is a completely unfamiliar territory for Daqin, and no one knows what will happen if they go deep into the grassland.

Some captured Huns mentioned that there were even gods living deep in the steppes.

Meng Tian was really worried about letting Ziying go.

"It's okay, the grassland is not as scary as imagined, and I still have some confidence in returning safely." Ziying said with a smile.

"Mr. Chang'an, we can defend the city. With these livestock, the city is rich in food and grass. If the Huns are not good at attacking the city, we can delay it until winter comes. The unprepared Huns will naturally retreat." Meng Tian continued to suggest .

This time, the various ethnic groups in Touman just wanted to go south to plunder food because of the severe drought last winter.

This kind of action usually runs away after the looting, and can also rely on the looted food and grass supplies, so naturally the cattle, sheep and livestock carried for supplies will not be too many.

After a long delay, if Jiuyuan is still not captured in winter, they will naturally retreat due to insufficient food and grass.

"But I don't have time." Ziying said with a long sigh: "And my goal is not to let the Xiongnu retreat safely. I can't make them go back intact after traveling all the way."

As soon as Ziying said this, Meng Tian immediately remembered the South Vietnam incident that Ziying mentioned in Xianyang.

Meng Tian understood Ziying's attitude towards the Xiongnu, because the nomads in the north were a huge threat to farming civilization.

Even the previous Zhou Dynasty was forced to move east because of the dog army's attack on Haojing.

The former Zhao State also spared no effort to attack the Huns and built the Great Wall for defense.

Although Meng Tian's ideas are not as radical as Ziying's, he doesn't like the Huns either.

"Since Mr. Chang'an decided to do so, Meng Tian can only wish Jun Shang the victory in Jiuyuan City!" Meng Tian looked at Ziying with a determined face and said helplessly, "I don't know when Your Majesty is going to set off."

"The Xiongnu army will arrive in four days at the earliest. I am going to let the cavalry familiarize themselves with the new equipment and set off in two days." Ziying replied.

(End of this chapter)

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