Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 305

The first official siege of the Huns ended in disastrous defeat.

Touman Chanyu's big tent is naturally the most magnificent place in the entire camp. The whole big tent is divided into two parts, the front and the back. The back is Touman's resting place, and the front is divided into a temporary meeting hall.

At this time, although the patriarchs of the major tribes of the Xiongnu gathered together, the atmosphere was somewhat depressed.

In the siege operation in the morning, the pots of hot water not only poured the Huns cavalry down from the logs, but also thoroughly poured the confidence of these Huns chiefs.

Facing the impregnable Jiuyuan City, these warriors across the grassland really couldn't think of any way to break it.

"Could it be that there are so many talented people in my great Huns that no one can break through a small Jiuyuan City?" Looking at the dejected patriarchs, Touman Shanyu was extremely angry.

However, facing Touman's questioning, each patriarch deliberately avoided Touman's gaze, not daring to look at him.

"Shan Yu, you must avenge me. I have pity that tens of thousands of warriors and millions of cattle and horses are gone." At this time, King Youguli couldn't sit still when he saw this scene.

If the major tribes give up this action because Jiuyuan City is difficult to conquer, then his tribe will have no hope of revenge.

With the few thousand troops left in his hands, it was not enough for the Qin army to rush forward.

"This Chanyu will definitely seek justice for you!" Although he was a little displeased with King Youguli crying miserably at this moment, he still had to do what he had to do to save face.

If he gave up going south because of such a little difficulty, it would have a huge impact on his prestige in the grassland.

"Last winter, there was little snow, and the pastures turned green slowly. Up to now, many pastures are still yellow, and many livestock have starved to death due to lack of pastures.

The warriors on our grasslands couldn't get enough to eat because of the starvation of the livestock, and the old warriors could only eat some leftovers.

However, right in the south! "Speaking of this, Touman continued to speak, flicking his fingers to the south.

"Our warriors are hungry, but the Qin State in the south has inexhaustible food and beautiful female slaves.

As long as we pull out the city in front of us, without the cowardly Qin people in the city, they will definitely be no match for the scimitars of my Hun warriors.

The entire Qin people are our prey, their food is our ration, and their wives and daughters are our slaves.

At that time, all tribes can rely on these to survive the famine. "

"Conquer Jiuyuan and go south to herd horses!"

"Conquer Jiuyuan and go south to herd horses!"

"Conquer Jiuyuan and go south to herd horses!"

……

A burst of voices echoed in the big tent.

Seeing that the morale of the clan lords had been mobilized again, Touman Shanyu continued.

"I heard that there is a man in the south called Gongshu Pan, who can build a ladder and attack a city. Does anyone know that?"

However, Touman Chanyu was doomed to be disappointed. The patriarchs of a large tent looked at each other and looked at each other. No one knew who Shanyu was talking about.

"Shan Yu, who is this Gongshu Ban? We can send people to sneak into the Qin State and capture him to make ladders for us." It was Wei Erge, the Zuo Dadu of the Huns who spoke.

"Ben Shanyu didn't know where this person was. He was mentioned by the merchants who went to the royal court earlier." Touman said regretfully.

To say that the Xiongnu at this time was really isolated from the world, and they didn't even know that Gongshu Pan had passed away for hundreds of years.

For a moment, the entire big tent fell into silence again.

At this moment, a voice came from the corner of the big tent: "Master, if we put two logs together and nail some smaller sticks in the middle, then we Hun warriors can step on them directly Did you climb up with these sticks?"

In a word, all the bigwigs of the Huns were immediately brought into contemplation.

"And, in this way, the two logs will certainly not roll."

The one who spoke was still Touman Chanyu's prince - Mo Dun.

……

Mao Dun's proposal was quickly implemented again.

Due to the increased difficulty, Touman gave the craftsmen three or two days to build the ladder invented by Prince Modun this time.

And Mao Dun is also very concerned about this matter. After all, his proposal has been shown in front of the heads of the clan lords once at the meeting, making the clan lords remember their wisdom.

If his "creative invention" can successfully help the Huns take Jiuyuan City.

It will definitely be able to greatly improve his status in the eyes of the Huns' major patriarchs.

It will also be of great help to him in inheriting the position of Grand Chanyu in the future.

Therefore, in the past two days, Maodun spent almost every day with these master craftsmen accompanying the army. He not only personally asked about every link of the "Ladder" manufacturing process, but even directly participated in the manufacturing process.

"If these logs are thinner, can they support the weight of the soldiers without breaking?"

Looking at the thick log, Mao Dun asked.

"It should be possible. I'll thin the log later." Hearing Modu's words, these craftsmen immediately understood what Modu meant, and immediately began to thin these primitive ladders.

To say that cutting the logs thinner is indeed more conducive to the siege of the city. For the original thick logs, it takes a lot of effort just to erect the logs and put them on the city wall.

……

Not to mention the rapid progress of the Huns' ladder manufacturing technology.

Ziying on this side, after several days and nights of long-distance raids, has already seen the shadow of Head Manchester City from a distance.

Touman City is located at the foot of Yin Mountain. The mountain springs flowing down from the mountain converge into a stream that surrounds the entire Touman City, providing water for the people and livestock of the Huns.

With the water source flowing down from the Yinshan Mountains, these directly controlled areas of Touman Chanyu are one of the few areas that are less affected by drought.

Touman City is said to be a city. Compared with the rest of the Xiongnu tribes, it is just an extra wooden wall, and the formal meaning is greater than the symbolic meaning.

After all, for the Huns, because of their habit of chasing water and grass, they might go to another pasture one day.

Ziying's [-] cavalrymen hid in a forest at the foot of Yinshan Mountain, watching Touman City in the distance.

In order to prevent being discovered by the Huns before they found out the enemy's reality, all four thousand war horses were bitten to prevent them from making a sound.

Herding livestock requires grasslands rather than forests, so it is relatively safe for Ziying's team to hide in this forest.

Since they had to graze livestock, the Huns naturally wouldn't stay in Touman City.

Ziying ordered someone to climb a tall tree, observed from noon to dusk, and got a general idea of ​​the current scale of Touman City.

If the area of ​​Touman City is only three times that of Youguli King's court, based on the size of Youguli King's court, Touman City has at least 6 to [-] people. .
(End of this chapter)