"If the Xiongnu go south, they will definitely attack from the four counties of Beidi County, Jiuyuan County, Shangjun County, and Yunzhong County. We can bluff and be suspicious in Shangjun, Jiuyuan, and Beidi County. Then secretly transfer heavy troops to Yunzhong County and lead the Huns to attack! In this way, it is a combination of the virtual and the real, and grasping the initiative in the war. Wang Ben said.

Meng Yi said: "The mobilization of hundreds of thousands of troops is overwhelming, and it is impossible to move secretly!" Scouts on either side are not decorations! ”

"I have a way to secretly mobilize the army and not let the Huns find out." Yan Han said.

Meng Tian's eyes lit up: "What's the best way?" Say it. ”

"First of all, in the name of investigating the Xiongnu spies, all the merchants and hawkers in the four counties were banned from leaving the city for five days. In these five days, the army was mobilized to dig a road in the middle of the border cities of the four counties and the fortresses, supplemented by wooden planks, and covered with earth, so that people and horses could transport grain inside, and the outside could not be seen from the Ben, and cavalry was sent to patrol back and forth on the road. Prevent detection. Yan Han said.

"Such a big project, can it be done in five days?" Meng Yi asked worriedly.

He said: "From Beidi County to Yunzhong County, it is about 2,400 miles, and even if there is a bend in it, according to 2,800 miles, it is 840,000 steps." We dispatched all the infantry and civilians in each border city, 300,000, and asked them to dig nearby, which is enough for five days. ”

Montenegro listened to it and thought to himself, Yan Han in history was a master of digging Yongdao, but he was defeated and surrendered to Xiang Yu when Xiang Yu broke the Yongdao and ran out of food.

Meng Yi said again: "It's still freezing here, and the ground is as hard as a stone, and it can't be dug up at all. ”

The excitement suddenly cooled down again, everyone knows that the frozen soil is harder than stones, how to dig it!

"I have a way!" Montenegro said, and everyone looked at it together! Montenegro continued: "There are still more than forty days before the snow melts, that is, the Xiongnu will attack in April at the earliest. We can use this time to mobilize all the blacksmiths to craft tens of thousands of pickaxes, with which frozen ground can be easily dug up. Montenegro said.

Meng Tian was overjoyed, but still asked worriedly, "What kind of pickaxe are you talking about?" Isn't it complicated to build? We're pressed for time! ”

"I'll leave this matter to me, I'll go to the ironworks now, and I'll be able to try it when it's dark." Montenegro replied.

"Okay, if you can do this well, you and Yan Han will each have a big credit! I'll send Sima to take you there, and the ironworkers will be under your command from today!" Meng Tian said.

Montenegro immediately took his leave and left with Sima. After a while, we will go to the ironworks. This ironwork was large and generally operated with a large army. There are hundreds of craftsmen, who are tinkling horseshoe and arrow clusters.

As soon as Montenegro entered the workshop, he immediately heard a familiar voice: "It's time to eat, it's time to eat." You killers, you have no energy to work, you don't have any energy, go to eat first, and give me some spirit later. The sound was very loud, and the clanging of iron stopped. Montenegro took a look at it and saw a man who was as strong as a cow, with red yellow eyebrows, red phoenix eyes, and a thick beard like a brush, which was Feng Mofeng, an old acquaintance of Nanyang.

"Brother Feng, where do you not meet in life, don't come to harm!" Montenegro shouted with a smile.

Feng Mofeng took a serious look, and when he saw that it was Black Mountain, he grinned, walked over in a few steps, and said: "I said that my eyelids are always jumping so hard today, and my feelings are about to meet an old friend!" ”

"I know you're going to come to the door for nothing, let's go, let's talk while drinking tea in the living room!" Feng Mofeng enthusiastically pulled Montenegro and led the two into the reception room.

Sima Yi arched his hand and said: "Since you two are old friends, I won't say more, pass on the general's military order, and let your iron workshop obey the orders of General Montenegro." I still have something to do, let's go first! ”

"No!" Feng Mofeng bent down and bowed his hand.

"There's no need to worship tea, I'm going to ask you to make something for me, the general is waiting!" As Black Mountain spoke, he drew a thick hole in the middle and a pointed end of the pickaxe on the ground. "When it's done, just put on a wooden handle like a hoe!" The Black Mountain side painting is also explained.

"Although this thing is big, it is simple and rough work, and it is quick to do, and although the horseshoe is small, it is delicate work, and it is much slower to fight. I'll be ready for you in an hour! Feng Mofeng said.

"You're eating now, it's too late for lunch, it's too early for dinner, what's the matter?" Montenegro asked curiously.

"Striking iron is a physical job, so I let the kitchen stew some mutton soup, put some dried vegetables and millet, so that they can pad their stomachs and replenish some energy. Don't say it, two bowls of mutton soup will be alive again! Feng Mofeng said.

"Brother Feng has been promoted again, he is a great doctor, and he is majestic enough to manage these thousands of people!" Montenegro teased.

"It's all thanks to you! Because of the iron horseshoe, I was promoted to two levels in a few months! Feng Mofeng said, "Our Mo family doesn't attach much importance to this, as long as we can do something meaningful." ”

The two chatted for a few words, and when the craftsmen came back after drinking the mutton soup, Feng Mofeng immediately got up and started the pickaxe himself. Montenegro was not idle, came to the woodworking workshop next door and asked about the reserves of wood! And the handle of the pickaxe!

Montenegro suddenly found that the furnace of iron-striking in this era did not have a bellows, and the leather bag was used to supply wind to the furnace. So Montenegro told the carpenter about the idea of making bellows.

The carpenter is also an expert, and Montenegro just explained the appearance, principle, and use, and he drew inferences from each other to understand. said: "What you said is not difficult, I will do it myself immediately, and I will be able to hand it over to you tomorrow." ”

Montenegro replied: "It's useless to hand it over to me, you can hand it over to Feng Mofeng!" You should discuss with each other, and the stove should also be improved, and the furnace should be several times larger. ”

"What do you want to give me?" Feng Mofeng raised his voice, no one saw it, the voice had arrived! In a moment I came in with a pickaxe!

Montenegro seemed to be inseparable from the eight or nine of the later generations, so he asked the carpenter to install a wooden handle. said: "I have an urgent matter to see the general, and you two bellows have a good communication." It will make the iron strike twice as effective with half the effort! ”

Montenegro carried a pickaxe and walked towards the shogunate, and the generals were still discussing.

When everyone saw the Black Mountain pickaxe, they were all skeptical. Meng Tian said: "Doubt a bird, whether it is good or not, we will find out when we go out for an interview!" ”

The people walked towards the gate of the city with pickaxes, and several of them were generals in the army, and the guards called for a large group of servants to drive the pedestrians on the roadside far away.

Montenegro thought to himself that the temperature should be around minus fifteen degrees Celsius, and the soil and water on the ground were frozen together, hard as stones.

Yan Han specially brought a hoe, and first slashed the ground, only to hear a light crisp sound, his hands were numb, but the ground left only a shallow trace. Montenegro handed him the pickaxe. Yan Han picked it up and slashed it the ground, "Porphyry!" "Suddenly, one side of the cross pot will not enter the frozen ground, and if you push forward hard, you will immediately dig out a large piece!

"Effortless with this?" Yan Han said excitedly.

Meng Tian and a few others also took turns to try it! All praise!

"I wonder how long it will take for these tens of thousands of pickaxes to be ready?" Meng Tian asked Montenegro.

"I think that as long as there are enough materials, the speed of production should not be a problem. I'm going to go to the blacksmith and the carpentry workshop now, and let them hurry up and do it. Montenegro replied.

"Montenegro, let's go together, if you have any questions, you can make a decision on the spot," Meng Tian said excitedly.

Montenegro took everyone to the ironworks again. said to Feng Mofeng: "The general wants 50,000 pickaxes in twenty days, can you make them?" ”

Feng Mofeng bowed his hand to the generals and said: "The number is too large, the iron material on my side can only cast 10,000 pieces, if the old weapons and useless Hun scimitars are melted, at most 20,000 pieces, and then transport the iron materials from other places, it will be too late!" ”

Meng Tian pondered for a while and said: "You guys hurry up now, tomorrow send twenty engineers each with a pickaxe to each city along the defense line, let the twenty border city workshops rush to work at the same time, it is estimated that it will be completed in ten days!" I immediately ordered all border cities to immediately plan the excavation line, dig in remote places first, and no outsiders are allowed to approach within two miles on both sides of the line. When it is time to start digging around the city, in the name of checking out the assassins, each city will be placed under martial law for a few days, and they will not be allowed to leave the city or enter the city, and that's it! "Everyone calls it good.

The plan was drawn up that night, and an order was sent to the cities overnight.

It's the fourth watch! The shogunate was still brightly lit, and several generals were still making battle plans.

Meng Tian said: "We have solved the problem of secret troop transfer. But how do you lure the enemy to attack which city? ”

The crowd fell into deep thought. Meng Tian looked at the map and said: "Jiuyuan and Yunzhong have strong city walls, and it is difficult for the Huns to conquer without special siege equipment. We can lead them to attack Tumo City, Tumo City is defeated and retreats to Yunzhong City, Yunzhong City insists until dark and then pretends to be defeated and flees, the Hun army will definitely enter the city and camp, we will have one night to surround Yunzhong City, Daqingshan will come to the rescue with all his strength, and they will have to fight a decisive battle with our army! ”

"Our army can mobilize only 500,000 troops, to besiege Yunzhong City, if the Daqingshan Huns come to the rescue, the belly and back of the enemy, the soldiers are taboo." Xin Sheng said.

"The general means that the enemy's main force is coming to the rescue, we will let go of the south side of Yunzhong City, only block the west and north with heavy troops, and then cut off the east side, learn from Baiqi, 500,000 besiege 400,000 troops." Wang Ben said with a smile. Everyone sees, more than ten miles south of Yunzhong City, the Yellow River just turns around Jiuyuan City, the ice and snow melt in spring, the river water is cold and urgent, people and horses don't even think about crossing the river, as long as the wooden boats on both sides of the river are collected, you can save half of the siege troops!

Everyone was overjoyed and felt that this plan could be achieved! Meng Tian said: "How to lead the Xiongnu to attack Yunzhong, we have to think of a safe way!" The crowd began to ponder again!

Montenegro thought for a while and said, "I have a plan, maybe it can be done!" ”

Everyone looked at it in unison. Meng Tian said: "Let's hear it! ”

"I personally led two thousand elites to dress up as the Huns, detoured to the north of Daqingshan, and set up a card next to the supply line of the Huns, maybe I could catch a few princes or wives who made Toumanshan feel pain. Then when we return, we will deliberately expose it, and lead the man to send people to chase after us, and we will first flee into Tumo City, and the 3,000 defenders of Tumo City will inflict heavy losses on the pursuers. The Huns will send a large army to help, and we will flee into the city of clouds again, and the defenders in the clouds will hit the pursuers again, and the Huns will send a large army to help, we only hold on until the evening, and flee westward while the night is dark. After dark, the Huns will dare to chase and will enter the empty city for the night! And then there's the general's business! The premise is that only 3,000 defenders will be left in Tumo City, and 20,000 in Cloud City will be fine, and the army must secretly move to the periphery of Cloud City in advance. Montenegro spoke his mind.

"Isn't it too dangerous to take people to the back road of the Huns without a card?" Yan Han said.

Meng Tian said: "This plan is feasible, the Black Mountain Department has long learned the Xiongnu language and learned the Huns to wear animal beards, I guarantee that you will not recognize it if you see it." Without these, how many times did they dare to go deep into the steppe? ”

"Actually, I'm not afraid to be discovered, I took people to run deep into the grassland, they don't have horseshoes, and they can't chase them two hundred miles away!" Montenegro said slyly.

They discussed many more details, and until noon the next day, they rested.

Before returning to Daying City, Montenegro reported to Meng Tian in detail on his plan to train his wife battalion as a medical soldier. "In the past, the mortality rate of wounded soldiers was more than 70 percent, and most of them were wound infections," he said. Due to the serious shortage of doctors in the army, wounded soldiers cannot receive the same treatment as generals, and battlefield ambulance is very simple, which can effectively reduce wound infection, and if it can be combined with the knife wound drug treatment of military doctors, the survival rate can be increased to 80 or 90 percent. ”

When Meng Tian heard that the survival rate of wounded soldiers could be nine out of ten, Meng Tian was also moved, and said: "I will first send a hundred military doctors and wives to study in the big camp city, and then the whole army will promote it." What supplies are needed, you write a list to me, and I will ask people to prepare as soon as possible. ”

Montenegro returned to Daying City with 10 military doctors and 100 soldiers and arranged for veterinarians and others to teach them rescue knowledge and skills.

Except for a few people who knew all the plans, everyone else carried out according to military orders, the weather warmed up day by day, and the people sent out also returned, and each had a lot of gains. Montenegro also selected the most elite 2,000 people from more than 10,000 people to focus on training Xiongnu songs, Xiongnu languages, and equipped with the best war horses and weapons. Among the 2,000 people, there are more than 700 Iron Eagle Sharps, and the rest are all Sharps. Everything is ready, just wait for the general's military order.

Spring in the north has finally arrived, and the big river is rushing south with a big block of ice! In the distance, the mountains are still covered with white snow, the willows below the mountains have shown new green, and the grasslands have become vibrant again. Meng Tian settled the army in the three counties of Beidi, Jiuyuan, and Shangjun, and returned to Jiuyuan from the clouds to sit in the three counties. Yunzhong County only sent 20,000 troops to garrison, Yunzhong County is Yanmen County of Zhao State to the south, Jicheng of Yan State is to the southeast, Daqingshan Xiongnu Shan Yu Daying Station is to the east, and Xiongnu Prairie is to the north. When the general Meng Tian withdrew from Yunzhong to Jiuyuan, everyone would feel that Qin did not want to be caught between Zhao and Xiongnu, and it was normal to withdraw from Yunzhong. Envoys from various countries also came to Jiuyuan, and the general also said that as long as the Xiongnu dared to invade the three counties of Shangjun, Jiuyuan, and Beidi, they would definitely kill him without leaving a piece of armor. When an envoy asked about Yunzhong County, Meng Tian only said that Yunzhong was originally given up by Zhao State, not the territory of Qin State. These words soon spread to the Central Plains countries and the Xiongnu Dadan. Everyone thinks it's normal to give up a place where enemies are on three sides.

On April 15 of the seventeenth year of King Qin (230 B.C.), Montenegro took 10,000 light horsemen out of the camp city to practice, and when he returned, it was already dark, and no one knew that when he came back, there were 2,000 elites who had disguised themselves as Hun cavalry and went north. Montenegro took advantage of the night to gallop north. By daybreak, they had reached the depths of the steppe three hundred miles away. The 2,000 people did not hide their traces steadily, lit a fire and cooked, ate and drank enough to take a short rest, and immediately set off to the northeast, and the next day they arrived at a mountain pass 100 miles north of Daqingshan (in the territory of today's Siziwang Banner), set up a camp tent on the side of the road leading to Dadan Yuting in the Daqingshan Xiongnu camp, and checked the pedestrians. This road is the main road for the Xiongnu camp to go north, and there is an endless stream of messengers, tribal leaders, and grain and grass transportation! There are many such checkpoints on this road.

Baturu and Na did not take turns fighting, interrogating passers-by in fluent Hun language. After a few days, I didn't encounter any important people or anything. Baturu came to the big tent, drank a few sips of mare's milk wine, and said: "It's been a few days, and there are no important people passing by, so it's better for us to go directly to the camp of Shan Yu, arrest a few of his wives and children and go back, and save the big delay!" “

"Have you ever fished? We have to be patient, there will always be a big fish on the hook. Montenegro said.

As soon as Montenegro finished speaking, Zhang Jin came in and reported: "The general has a situation!" ”

Montenegro left the tent without saying a word, and saw a team of thousands of people in the distance, escorting a large and gorgeous carriage slowly approaching. This big car is richly decorated, wide and long, and pulled by six large horses, probably for fear of too much bumpy ride. Walking is very slow.

With a wave of Montenegro's hand, the carpenter, Shi Fatzi, and Bai Tao immediately went to prepare.

Soon, the horse team came to the front, and immediately all of them were bright armor, thick shoulders and round waists.

Baturu stopped in the middle of the road and said in pure Hun language: "Stop, which part is it, where are you going?" ”

A centurion-looking man, with a wave of his horsewhip, struck Baturu and scolded: "If you are blind, you dare to stop Da Danyu's carriage." ”

Baturu pretended to be frightened and immediately saluted, saying, "Please forgive me for my sins, but the road ahead is blocked by crumbling rocks!" The carriage could not pass, so it was necessary to make a detour to the left, which was ten miles away. It is up to you to decide which way you can only go on horseback. After saying that, everyone scattered on both sides and bowed to the carriage very respectfully.

The centurion, who had beaten the man, hurriedly turned around and went to the side of the carriage to report the situation ahead. After a while, he came with his horse, commanded the horse, and went around to the right. Montenegro on the side, with a smug look on his face. After all the Hun horses had passed, Montenegro led hundreds of men, far behind, and in the valley in front, the carpenters had already laid out their pockets.

The Huns did not have the slightest suspicion that when the mountains were covered by heavy snow in winter, this road was often walked by them, and it was only in the spring that the snow melted and they approached the road. A thousand horsemen slowly burrowed into the encirclement. With a wave of his hand, Montenegro immediately blocked the exit and opened his bow and arrows, and the rain of arrows from all sides shot down from top to bottom at the same time. The Hun guards did not have the chaos they imagined, but immediately organized to rush forward to kill! They were greeted by a merciless rain of arrows. Two quarters of an hour later, when there were no people and horses, Montenegro waved his hand, and Baturu and Na did not take more than a dozen armor soldiers to take out the three women and a child in the carriage, and Montenegro saw that two slaves and maids were dressed, one was very bewitching and dressed in gorgeous silk, and from head to toe was expensive jewelry, and the other child was also dressed gorgeously, dressed in brocade mink. Baturu said in Xiongnu: "Haha, bring these back and hand them over to Meng Tian, Da Dan Yu's position must be our leader!" ”

Montenegro waved his hand, and shouted loudly in Hun language: "The person has been caught, evacuate quickly!" ”

Responded in Hun language from all sides: "Retreat, retreat!" ”

From the beginning to the end of the entire battle, not a single word was spoken.

Montenegro dropped all his belongings, two thousand people, four bags with captives tied to horses. All the way south.

"If all those people are dead, won't our play be in vain?" Baturu asked Montenegro.

Montenegro smiled and said, "Did you just check under the carriage?" ”

Baturu patted his head and said, "Oops, I forgot!" "Immediately understood!"

When it was dark, the horse team came to a place twenty miles away from Daqing Mountain, swaggered and lit a bonfire to barbecue meat and eat, and feed the horses!

After eating, Montenegro said to Baturu: "You interrogate the two maidservants, and I will climb a high hill and overlook the great green mountains. "At the foot of Daqing Mountain, there is a boundless camp, and countless bonfires are like stars, illuminating the entire sky.

After a while, Baturu also came up and said with a smile: "We have hit a big luck!" That woman is Tou Mandan's favorite wife, named Natoya! The child was Touman's favorite son, named Burenbaya. I guarantee that Touman Da Shan Yu will jump up and chase you desperately! ”