Chapter 649: Arrow Towers Surrounding the Camp
"Pengju, do you have any good plans?" Han Shizhong asked with a little anticipation, looking at the young man he discovered.
"At this moment, it is impossible to stop the other side!" The young general Yue Fei shook his head.
"Are we just going to waste our time like this?" Pei Yuanqing, who had a hot temper, was a little distressed.
He was planning to show off his skills, but he didn't expect to encounter such a tricky situation here. Even he understood how tricky it was.
Set up camp on the opposite side, first be in a defensive position, weaken the burden of the old, weak and sick on the army, and then perform blood sacrifices to increase strength.
Their rash attack on the city would inevitably lead to a full-scale counterattack from the other side. The other side obviously wanted to save their people, so they did not launch a blood sacrifice for a long time and only carefully defended the camp.
Once the pressure they put on the other party is too great, the other party will definitely turn the table over and take extreme measures to destroy themselves as a whole.
"In that case, we can only strengthen our army's advantages first!" Han Shizhong said after a moment of silence. "I plan to move the camp five miles away from the Northern Xiongnu camp."
"Isn't it too close? And with the interference from the enemy, our army may not be able to complete it. The enemy may rush out quickly with a surprise attack! " Qin Yuliang said hesitantly.
"Since we have to relocate, why don't we build a camp directly in an area of one mile? Then we can use war machines to eliminate the opponent's defensive advantage!" Yue Fei thought for a moment and then suggested directly.
"One mile?" Han Shizhong was a little surprised, and the others were even more confused.
"Well, since we want to move, let's face the other party directly!" Yue Fei replied affirmatively.
Han Shizhong lowered his head and thought for a while, then nodded silently. It seemed to be true. There was really not much difference between five miles and one mile.
On the contrary, it can effectively curb the advantage of the opponent's cavalry and bring out the advantage of their infantry.
"In that case, let's do this. Once the enemy leaves the camp, they will lose their defensive advantage, and our army will have a greater chance of winning!" Han Shizhong finally made the decision.
For the Northern Huns, there is a difference between fighting a desperate battle when being attacked and taking the initiative to attack.
If the Northern Huns really chose to leave the camp for a decisive battle, they would not have started the blood sacrifice in advance while still having hope.
By the time we annihilate the Northern Huns who have left the camp to fight, even if they start a blood sacrifice again, there will be no carrier, and even a blood sacrifice will not cause much trouble.
And if the other party took the initiative to perform a blood sacrifice, the Northern Huns might have been in civil strife before they even arrived.
After agreeing on a plan, Han Shizhong and his army marched forward the next day, and came directly to a place one mile outside the Northern Xiongnu. Upon receiving the news, the Northern Xiongnu immediately went into a state of war alert.
Then, by the time the Northern Huns were on alert, the Han army had already begun to happily set up camp.
Correspondingly, the Northern Huns in the defensive camp also breathed a sigh of relief. They didn't care what the Han army did now. As long as the other side did not attack forcefully, they would just wait and see. As long as they could delay until their main force returned to defend, then everything would be fine.
It is true that they were disgusted by the Han army's behavior of building camps, but no one thought it was wrong because they were not good at defending cities.
Setting up a camp has been the most familiar thing for them for thousands of years.
As for city defense, that is usually what the Central Plains is best at.
They, the Northern Huns , and even all nomadic peoples, are better at fighting in the wild.
So much so that when the height of the buildings on the Han side had exceeded that of their camp, they had not yet realized the seriousness of the problem, but were instead anxiously waiting for the army to return to defend.
As we all know, the significance of things like city walls is to attack from high up and attack from low down. The height can provide a wider field of vision and a wider range of attack.
Fortunately, the Northern Huns' camp was built near the forest. The Han Dynasty might not be able to build such a large camp.
But this is understandable. In order to survive and avoid the severe cold, the Northern Huns lived either on the edge of the forest or on the edge of the mountains.
For this era, water supply in winter is not a problem, snow and other things can be collected and used as water. The only thing that is important is making fire, which is why they choose to live near various forests.
Otherwise, with their lifestyle of chasing water and grass for a living, they would have starved to death in this cold land long ago.
This is not their native prairie, but a desert ice field further north than the prairie. The space for them to survive is too small.
In such places, there is naturally no shortage of wild mountains and forests. No matter what is lacking, there will be no shortage of trees. Let alone cutting down hundreds of thousands of logs, even if there are millions of logs, it will not have much impact. In a few decades, there will be a forest again.
After all, even with the terrifying collection speed of modern times, there are still various forests that remain safe and sound.
The camp built by the Han Dynasty was a bit weird. The soldiers could still build an ordinary camp, but they were at a loss if they wanted to directly build something similar to a camp.
Even a few soldiers who were carpenters were forced to become the commander-in-chief in setting up the camp.
Fortunately, with the help of powerful flying bricks, countless wooden carpenter's tools were produced with the manual operation of several warriors with internal energy out of their bodies.
As for strength, it is not a problem at all under the unreasonable bug of Wen Yang.
I have no idea what mortise and tenon structure is.
Just nail it in. Wooden nails can be used as iron nails after being cured by internal temperature.
Under this powerful operation, Han Shizhong and his men had the idea of establishing an encirclement and locking the Northern Huns in the circle, turning the war directly into a tower defense campaign.
Anyway, they may not build a camp, but there are plenty of soldiers who can make things like crossbows.
Even if it was a very crude crossbow, as long as the number of them was sufficient, it would not be a problem to destroy the Northern Huns' camp.
The Han army's large-scale move did scare the Northern Huns, but they did nothing. They strengthened their vigilance and remained on guard.
For them, the best thing to do was to keep the troops in place, and the Northern Huns, who thought they were smart, did the same.
Some people who were worried even asked people to strengthen the camp, but they never thought that the Han Dynasty would directly surround them with arrow towers.
Compared with the Northern Huns, the Han Dynasty had an easy time.
Are you kidding? If they build a thousand arrow towers, they can directly bombard the Northern Huns.
Later, after Han Shizhong saw through the Northern Huns' intentions , he immediately sent the soldiers who were used for defense to cut trees.
The soldiers who were making the templates were making the wooden boards, and those who were warming the boards continued to warm them, and the entire camp was built rapidly.
Dozens or even hundreds of arrow towers rose from the ground. Even though the Northern Huns realized something was wrong at this time, they still did not move.
Thousands of years of nomadic life have left them with no sense of belonging to the camp.
In their opinion, they could simply abandon the camp and retreat to avoid the range of the arrow tower. The Han Dynasty was just doing useless work.
