Han Xin also knew that if he should ask for advice, he really had to ask for advice.

Ying Gao once told Han Xin that if he could really learn all of Meng Tian's skills, his ability would be really amazing.

"General, now that we have occupied a city in Seleucus, and let them see the ability of our cavalry after using the formation, the future attack, with the ability of the Seleu monarch Antiochus III, should be stuck in their defensive line, and will not give us such a chance again, how does the general think we should attack in this case?"

This time, he was directly asked by Yinggao to become Han Xin's deputy, although Meng Tian couldn't see it on his face, and he also knew that such a battle as an old Qin man must focus on the overall situation, but in the depths of Meng Tian's heart, there was still a lot of unhappiness, after all, Han Xin was still 108,000 miles away from him in terms of age and seniority, and although Meng Tian did not live in Xianyang City for a long time, he also heard that Yinggao seemed to be very friendly to the old Qin nobles. Such an arrangement had to make him think that this might be another blow from Yinggao to the old Qin nobles.

And after this first battle, not to mention anything else, at least for Han Xin, Meng Tian recognized a lot.

Since hitting the territory of the Xiongnu, Meng Tian almost deliberately did not put forward any constructive ideas, the purpose of which was nothing more than to see Han Xin's ability.

From the moment he suddenly got the news that the enemy had fled, Han Xin's decision-making and performance really did not disappoint Meng Tian, if he was the boss, he might not be able to do better, although because of Antiochus III's quick reaction did not cause a truly devastating blow to the enemy, but this has nothing to do with Han Xin.

To put it simply, this series of operations has made Han Xin a qualified coach in Meng Tian's heart, Meng Tian is such a person, if your ability is strong, then I will obey you, if you don't have any ability, it will definitely be bad.

So, Han Xin proposed to ask him about this matter at this time, and Meng Tian did not reject it at all in his heart.

"Didn't we set off with us this time with some trebuchets and other siege engines? After such a long delay and this battle on the territory of the Huns, I think those trebuchets are about to arrive, right? These are the objects that the Seleucians must have never seen. ”

The meaning of Meng Tian's words is very obvious, that is, it is not suitable to use people to storm the city in front of them, which will only cause a lot of casualties, so the most suitable thing at this time is to use weapons.

"According to the quality of the Seleucid defenders, I am afraid that relying solely on trebuchets will not be able to break through this layer of their defense!" After listening to Meng Tian's words, Han Xin sighed slightly, obviously a little worried about the role that trebuchets could play.

Seeing Han Xin like this, Meng Tian smiled slightly and patiently explained to Han Xin.

"Those trebuchets are indeed unable to completely shake the defense of the Seleuces, but the trebuchets were destroyed by the Seleuces, and we still have open in Xianyang City, and we can make more trebuchets, but if these well-trained cavalry of our Great Qin are killed by the Seleucians, it will be difficult to train them again. Now that the Seleucets are united to defend the city, we naturally want to avoid their edge for the time being, and the best way to avoid the edge is these trebuchets, and when the role of the trebuchet is exhausted, we will naturally have new opportunities. ”

After Han Xin listened to it, he digested Meng Tian's words well, and then nodded with a smile, obviously, Meng Tian's words benefited Han Xin a lot.

Han Xin is indeed a resourceful general, but because his age is still a little short of thirty years old after all, if he conceives a strategy, he must conceive it from the perspective of victory.

Today's words made Han Xin know that sometimes a small step back is actually possible to achieve a better result.

For example, in this battle, if you follow Han Xin's idea in advance, you must send a team of men and horses to attack the city, whether there are casualties or not, you must see how capable the enemy is.

But after Meng Tian said this, Han Xin also thought about it, this time must be the time when the enemy's fighting spirit to defend the city is the highest, at this time to attack with a lifeless trebuchet, even if it can't cause too many casualties to the enemy, it must be able to rub the enemy's sharpness, sharpness This thing, if it has always existed, the combat effectiveness is sometimes almost doubled, but once the sharpness is gone, it may be a thousand miles away.

"What the general said is really very reasonable, we have been in this city for a few days to recuperate, and when the trebuchet and other equipment arrive, it will be regarded as the beginning of our attack!"

After thinking silently for a while, Han Xin said his final decision, this time it was obviously going to be arranged exactly according to what Meng Tian said, although this would delay a few days, but there were still several months left before Yinggao gave them the time to take the Seleuc, and they were not in a hurry in terms of time, and even if they stayed in this city, the oppression brought to the Seleuks was very large, and the army of 300,000 would always be a big deal in this territory.

After making up the plan, Han Xin and Meng Tian were busy arranging it, and Antiochus III, who had returned to his city at this time, kept pacing in the palace, and his face was very bored.

He was thinking about how to crack the tacit cooperation between the Great Qin cavalry in the battle, but he had been thinking about it for a full day, and there was still no good way, he knew that such a combat method would definitely take an unknown amount of practice to be able to train, and the cavalry of Seleuc had not undergone such training, so it was definitely impossible to master it in a short period of time.

"It seems that we can no longer compete head-on with the enemy's cavalry, otherwise, even those 100,000 elite cavalry can exhaust our Seleucian cavalry on the battlefield!"

Finally, in the expectant eyes of many of his generals, Antiochus III said such a very disappointing sentence.

In fact, those generals who participated in this battle with Antiochus III also knew this truth, but they had always hoped that Antiochus III would be able to come up with some ways to crack it, but judging from the current results, even Antiochus III, who was outstanding in their eyes, could not crack those strange formations, which obviously cast a shadow on the war guarding Seleus.

"How's that to be? Our Seleuc cavalry is best at charging head-on with the enemy, and now if we can't compete with the cavalry of Daqin in our own strengths, where will my Seleuc go! ”

As soon as Antiochus III's words fell, a general couldn't help but feel sad, and almost said such a sentence with tears in his eyes.

"Don't panic, since Great Qin dares to attack my Seleuc, doesn't it mean that they are very confident in the combat effectiveness of their cavalry? Isn't it a good thing that we now know what they're good at at a not very painful price? In this case, we have to switch to a different strategy. ”

Antiochus III's words temporarily stabilized the military hearts of the people under his command, he looked at the generals under his command, took a deep breath, and said in a deep voice: "Now behind us are millions of people of Seleus, if our pass is broken, Seleu and millions of people will become slaves of Great Qin, we will never allow such a situation to happen, now Seleu is also considered to be a soldier with enough food, although a head-to-head confrontation can not take advantage, but our purpose is not to kill how many Great Qin's soldiers, Instead, we will guard our Seleuc, so from now on, we will not take the initiative to attack, as long as we hold here, the enemy army is a long journey, if this battle takes a year and a half, the grain and grass consumed by the 300,000 army is not a small amount, and then they will naturally retreat! ”

Although Antiochus III said it very nicely, in the final analysis, it is the same meaning, we can't do anything else, so we can only retreat in the city and not go out.

But after a series of practices, such a statement has also been recognized by the people under his command, everyone knows that going out is death, who dares to go out, right?

According to Antiochus III's prediction, within a few days, Han Xin would continue to attack their place with a large army, but the truth is that a long time has passed, and Han Xin still has not moved.

Antiochus III sent scouts almost every day to find out the news, but almost all of the rewards were that the soldiers of Great Qin rested in the same city where Hu Hai and Zhao Cheng had been before.

While Antiochus III was a little surprised, almost ten days had passed, he finally received a report from his scouts that a large group of men had come out of the city and were coming towards the heart of the Seleucus.

It's just that this time is different from the last time not only are there not so many people coming, but the speed of the march is not very fast, and it is even a bit slow.

In fact, it is true that as Antiochus III received, Great Qin sent troops, and the speed of the march was indeed very slow, but the reason for the slowness was not intentional, but there were a lot of trebuchets in this team.

Since the last time Zhang Kai made two trebuchets and played a very important role in the process of opening the mountain, everyone discovered that this portable trebuchet can play a role in the siege of the city, after the news was transmitted back to Daqin, under the instructions of Yinggao, the trebuchet began to be transformed and mass-produced, the purpose of which is of course to meet the requirements of siege warfare.

Within a year, Zhang Kai and his entire team now lived up to expectations, transforming the trebuchet into a smaller and more portable thing, but the power was undiminished compared to before.

After the successful transformation of the trebuchet, Incepto immediately shipped almost a hundred trebuchets made by Zhang Kai overtime to Fahrenheit.

At that time, Meng Tian and Lu Jia both felt that this thing would not be used for a while, but there was no need to transport it in such a hurry, but this was Yinggao's death order, not only to transport it to Hua's City, but also to learn how to use this trebuchet around Hua's City.

And at this time, Meng Tian finally knew how prescient Yinggao was, as long as the enemy army did not leave the city in siege warfare, cavalry would definitely not play a big role, so trebuchets came in handy at this time.

When it came time to attack Seleucheit, not only were the 100 trebuchets that had been in Fahrenheit City come in handy, but also nearly 200 catapults set off with Han Xin, and these catapults had not yet arrived in Fahrenheit City, and they would still be involved in this attack on Seleuche after they arrived.

At the beginning, because the cavalry of Daqin was the sergeant in the front and the trebuchet in the back, the Seleucians really didn't find any clues.

But when the cavalry of Great Qin arrived not far from the city where the Seleuces were stationed, the trebuchets really revealed their true colors.

"What, Daqin actually brought a hundred unknown siege equipment to my Seleucid realm?"

When Antiochus III learned the news, he was obviously very surprised, because according to common sense, there would be no more equipment for such a long-distance expedition.

Because the siege equipment that appeared in this era was very bulky and inconvenient to carry, and according to Antiochus III's understanding of Great Qin, they did not use any siege equipment when they attacked the Mauryan Dynasty, but now these weapons appear in the territory of Seleu, which is really a bit unreasonable.

However, through subsequent understanding, Antiochus III found that these siege equipment were nothing more than carriages larger than carriages, and they were designed to throw stones from the point of view of construction.

"How can such a small object cause any damage to a city of my Seleuc's size? The people of Great Qin really looked down on my Seleus, and now we want them to see how strong my Seleu city is! ”

After knowing this, Antiochus III breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, such a small trebuchet was really not put in the eyes of Antiochus III, but of course he didn't know that it was these trebuchets, and there were only two of them, that opened up a road to the Mauryan Empire from the mountains of the Western Regions.