There are also some villages in the vicinity, but because of the climate, although it is not very far away from the royal city of the Mauryan Dynasty, Hua's City, it is not very dense.

This situation made it very easy for Han Xin to lead his army around many villages in the dark night, and rushed all the way in the direction that Xiang Yu had guided from the slightly wealthier people of the Peacock Empire.

During this night, Han Xin was on the march, and when it was dawn, he walked more than a hundred miles, but fortunately, the road was quite flat, so it did not cost 30,000 cavalry much physical strength.

When it was almost dawn, Han Xin saw a lush dead forest, so he led his army to rest in the forest, and then sent a small group of scouts to continue to survey the terrain.

In such an unfamiliar environment, Han Xin didn't dare to be too big, otherwise, if he didn't find any city, he would be known by others first, and it would inevitably make his siege war very passive, and the damage would be greatly increased.

For a whole day, 30,000 cavalry were eating and drinking in the woods to make up for sleep, which was forcibly requested by Han Xin, although the strategy he and Xiang Yu thought of was to attract the attention of the people in the royal city of the Peacock Dynasty as quickly as possible, but they couldn't rush this day or two, and the truth that if you wanted to hurry, Han Xin, who had already participated in dozens of battles on behalf of Great Qin, had already understood.

In the evening, the squad of scouts he sent out finally returned, and brought back a piece of news that Han Xin was quite satisfied with, they had found out, less than a hundred miles away from the place where they were resting, there was a city that was still a little larger, and there were still quite a lot of people in that posture, but the walls and guards of the city were not as strong as the important town of Daqin, and it was really a very good opportunity for them to want to raid.

Han Xin knew that the mechanism of this strange dynasty was very likely to be completely different from that of Great Qin, and he couldn't tell whether such a city was similar to a county in Great Qin or a village in Great Qin.

But there is one thing that is definitely easy to use, that is, if there is a large population here, he is very important, and if a city with a large population falls into his hands, he is not afraid that the monarch of the Mauryan Dynasty will not know.

"Hey, it's still thoughtful that the king brought those scholars to the other side of the mountain range in advance, but I don't know how long it will take for them to understand the language of the Mauryan Dynasty......"

When I thought that although the city was full of people from the Peacock Empire, even if I entered it, I still didn't know anything, and talking to them was like playing the harp to the cow, and I wouldn't get any useful news.

In the last letter, Han Xin had already informed Lu Jia that he could first pick some young and strong scholars to send over in case of emergency, and now it seems that his decision at that time was really very correct, and after he attacked this city, these people should be able to enter the city with Xiang Yu, and whether they can understand the language of the Peacock Dynasty in a short period of time will be the top priority for Han Xin and Xiang Yu to get useful information in the first time.

The sun is slowly setting, Han Xin is not in a hurry, as a strange soldier, he must be strange and thorough, he ordered the soldiers to hurry up and have another full meal, because after this time after running for eighty or ninety miles, they may be greeted by a somewhat difficult battle, who knows if there are elephants in this city, how many elephants?

When it was dark, with a gesture from Han Xin, the team set off towards their goal like arrows from the string.

Han Xin didn't know that the Peacock Dynasty he was going to attack was quite different from the mechanism of Great Qin, although Great Qin was also divided into nobles and common people, but not all of this nobles were born, especially in a dynasty like Great Qin that relied on war to win the world, any brave and good warrior can use the opportunity to kill the enemy to become a genuine nobleman, although such a system is not very fair to some extent, but at least it gives the people a chance.

But in the Mauryan Dynasty, the situation was completely reversed, because in this era, the caste system, which was still notorious even after more than 2,000 years, had already begun to be implemented here, and the caste system was completely different from the military merit system of the Great Qin, which divided people from birth into four classes, called Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra.

These four castes, representing the mouth, arms, thighs, and feet of the people, were lowered in rank, and the lowest and most numerous Shudras, the main accusation in the Mauryan Empire was to work and serve people.

In addition, the Mauryan Empire also had caste untouchables, also known as Dalits, which were no different from slaves and livestock, and what was even more strange was that in order to maintain the purity of the upper caste, they strictly forbade people of different castes to intermarry with each other, and once a child was born to a child from different castes, then the child could only be the most miserable kind of person.

In the Peacock Dynasty, such a system has lasted for a long time, and even the people at the lowest level have become numb to it, they can only silently abide by and endure this, but those who are high in their eyes are no different from them in the eyes of the Great Qin cavalry.

Due to the gallop along the way. When Han Xin and the others arrived less than ten miles outside the city that the scout said, it was still not a short time before dawn, Han Xin stopped the army, and did not rush to attack, but decided to observe it himself first to see what kind of existence this city was.

With a few cronies, Han Xin quietly approached the city a mile or two, and the outline of the city appeared in front of him by the moonlight.

What made Han Xin feel a little unbelievable was that this city seemed to be built of thick wood, not completely made of rammed earth and stone like the Great Qin City.

Not to mention how strong such a city can be, even if it is a fire, it will basically burn almost to the ground.

"How backward is this Mauryan Empire?" Han Xin said to himself as he continued to circle around the city.

Soon, Han Xin discovered another feature of this city, that is, on the outskirts of the four corners of the city, all of them have a towering arrow tower, judging by Han Xin's rich battlefield experience, it must be used to observe the enemy army coming from afar.

This discovery made Han Xin glad that he did not let the 30,000 army appear closer to the city, and these few of them may not be conspicuous in the night, and it is very normal that they are not discovered, but if the 30,000 people are coming, the sound of the cavalry alone will have to be heard from a distance.

After observing for a while, Han Xin found that the mystery of this city is not limited to this, although the city is mainly made of wood, but it is also very thick, not as unbearable as Han Xin imagined, and Han Xin also knows that some very thick wood, both strong and tough, is very strong, and a sharp arrow full of bows may not be able to easily penetrate a wood, so from this point of view, this city is not necessarily a single attack.

In addition, in the center of each side of the city wall, there were some small and small holes, which Han Xin could faintly see in the distance, and he racked his brains there for a long time, and finally found that those holes may have been used to shoot arrows from the inside when the enemy army invaded.

After observing for a while, Han Xin's face became solemn, such a city is really not necessarily captured by himself, once these facilities he sees can play a maximum role, this is definitely an easy place to defend and difficult to attack.

"General, the inside of the four arrow towers seems to be empty, before I dared to go to the bottom of the arrow tower to take a look, I found that the stairs up and down the arrow tower are already full of dust, I don't know how long I haven't used it!"

Just as Han Xin was thinking about the strategy, a scout who had just been sent by him to investigate under the city came back and told him the news with a very excited look.

What? All deserted? Could it be that this Peacock Dynasty is really as the king said before, the king is tyrannical and waiting to be revived?

Hearing the news, Han Xin's heart immediately appeared in the heart of what Yinggao said to him before leaving, at that time, of course, Han Xin disagreed, thinking that Yinggao was relieving himself, but now through such a detail, Han Xin found that maybe what Yinggao said is really very reasonable, if it is really that the defenders of this city are very reliable, and all the arrows are guarded by wide-eyed sergeants. Is it likely that you or your team have already been discovered?

"Let's check again, are there any of the four arrow towers that are unguarded?"

Han Xin swallowed a mouthful of saliva carefully, and then gave another order to the previous sergeant.

It turned out that it was exactly the same as what Yinggao told Han Xin before, there was no one in the four arrow towers, and at first glance, no one had gone up for a long time.

After Han Xin got the news, his already low mind came alive again, and at this time, there were still about two hours before dawn, and Han Xin knew that this was back to the time of his performance.

In fact, this city is really a city of considerable scale, it can be said that it is a considerable settlement near the border of the Mauryan Empire, and the village is different from the village, there are two of the highest castes of the Mauryan Dynasty here, and there are only the latter two castes in the ordinary village, for example, the one that Han Xin's three-person team captured at the beginning was a Shudra, and the one captured back for the second time was a Vaishya.

The facilities of this city are indeed very complete, and if the officials here want to protect this city well, if there is a crisis within ten miles, they can see it all, but obviously, this fine tradition has been gradually lost since the late Ashoka period.

In the years when the relics lost to the monarch, because of his tyranny, the focus was not on the military at all, and the north of this city was a number of mountain ranges, and the Mauryan Dynasty itself thought that the enemy would definitely not be able to fight here, so the city lord here also thought that there was no need to guard it all the time, and it cost such a large amount of military expenses, so it was better to save this money and do something cool, right?

At this time, there were less than 10,000 serious soldiers in the city, and these people had long since lost their knowledge of how to fight, and they only relied on their status in the city to eat and drink and enjoy the services of people of the lower castes.

The north wind was cold outside the city, but the city was also crowded with people, the nobles of the Mauryan Empire were immersed in a sea of joy, and the people of the lower castes were toiling, they thought it was just an ordinary day in their lives, but in fact, it was the beginning of a war that turned their perception upside down.

After Han Xin returned to the place where the 30,000 army was stationed, he did not do any pre-war mobilization as before, he just said in a loud voice: "The guards in that city are almost equal to nothing, and within two hours, I will make him the city of Great Qin and the Xiongnu!" ”

After saying this, the 30,000 horses shouted in unison, and then rode their horses one after another, following Han Xin to attack directly in the direction of the city.

Han Xin had already figured out the location of the city gate, and according to his guess, since the guards were so lax, he didn't have to think about anything to enter the city, which might not achieve the effect he wanted, so it was better to start attacking directly from the city gate.

After the discussion between Han Xin and Lu Jia, although the work of opening up the mountain range is still in progress, it is not a big problem for this trebuchet to be taken away by Han Xin.

You know, although it took a long time, the trebuchet can even open the mountains, not to mention a wooden gate that hasn't been repaired for an unknown amount of time.

The reason why Han Xin dared to attack directly from the gate was not only because he found that the guards in the city should be very loose, but also because of the existence of this trebuchet.

Han Shin brought 30,000 people this time. Those are all teams that have fought hard battles, and the 20,000 cavalry are all soldiers who have fought with the Huns outside the Great Wall, and the 10,000 Hun cavalry are basically the soldiers who followed Xiang Yu to destroy Donghu and Yue, but such soldiers, after arriving at the bottom of this city, were also stunned.

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