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After Mao Dun learned of the fiasco of King Zuo Xian, he did not get angry with King Zuo Xian's envoy, but instead sat in his seat in a dejected manner. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info, please search for products & books to see the most complete and fastest updates

Because this fiasco of King Zuo Xian is not without a trace. On the contrary, Mao Dun knew very well that he was the real ruler of the Great Qin Empire in the south, which was younger than him, and he had already had his own calculations.

It can be said that this time the Great Qin Empire sent troops to reinforce Donghu, which led to the crushing defeat of the Huns, which was not the fault of others, on the contrary, it was the greater responsibility of his adventure.

Because a few days before the battle broke out, he sent an envoy to the Great Qin Empire to extort some benefits from Zhang Jiashi, but the other party cried about the rudeness of the Great Qin Empire to him and the Xiongnu.

Mao Dun did not make a decision immediately, not because he was afraid of the Great Qin Empire and Zhang Jiashi, on the contrary, he believed that Zhang Jiashi was trying to provoke the Xiongnu, hoping to allow the Xiongnu to launch a fierce attack on the Great Wall area if they were not fully prepared, and use a solid defense system and corresponding deployment to kill the Xiongnu with a living force.

It can be said that Mao Dun's carelessness or Mao Dun did not expect that the Great Qin Empire would take the initiative to attack at such a time, which became the biggest disaster for the Xiongnu to lose a lot of troops this time.

However, after thinking about such a thing, Mao Dun couldn't say it to anyone else, so he could only let his uncle's envoy return to the location of King Zuoxian's tribe.

And Maudun then waved off his henchmen, and he had to calm down and think about how he should deal with such a situation.

Mao Dun knew that if he blamed Zhang Jiashi and King Zuo Xian for all the mistakes he thought he thought, he would inevitably arouse the revenge of the Huns. Besides, in the Battle of Yinshan in Hetao more than ten years ago, the profound damage brought by the Great Qin Empire to the Xiongnu is also not something that can be forgotten in just a dozen years.

It can be said that under such a premise, he only needs to tell some "facts", and he will inevitably get the support of many tribal leaders, thus driving the overall will of the Huns to fight.

Merely. Such a situation is not an easy thing for Maudun to make a decision. After all, Mao Dun knew that the Xiongnu were not ready for a full-scale decisive battle with the Great Qin Empire, and right now, the Xiongnu's Zuoxian Wang Department had suffered heavy losses, even if they sent troops to take revenge, I am afraid that they would be strategically seized by the Great Qin Empire.

If Zuo Xian's royal department is defeated again in this battle, it will be lost. Mao Dun did not think that the Xiongnu would suffer much less losses than the Battle of Yinshan in Hetao.

Besides, if he forced his uncle, who was not very peaceful, to jump over the wall. Then for the Xiongnu, it was undoubtedly a very heavy impact.

It can be said that it is obviously not a good way to pass the buck to everything.

But Maudon is also unable to take all this responsibility on himself, because it is clearly a kind of self-weakening of authority alone.

Mao Dun knew very well that although in the past few years, under his leadership, the power of the Xiongnu has expanded very rapidly, and he is alone in the hearts of more and more Xiongnu people. Prestige is getting heavier.

If he took all the blame on himself at this time, Mao Dun knew very well that the increasing prestige generated by many of the things he had done in the past few years would inevitably be greatly hit, and he might even return to the heavy blow that his father Tou Mandan suffered after the Battle of Yinshan in Hetao.

This is not a situation that Maudun is willing to face. But for Maudun. It is not impossible for me to find a compromise in this dilemma.

After pondering for a while, Maudon decided to take this situation as a procrastination.

Because Mao Dun knew very well that it was not a very good idea to delay this kind of information in such a situation, because God knows if King Zuo Xian would have any way to get some information that he should not know.

Maudun thought about it for a while. A decision was made.

He summoned a few henchmen, and then said to these people: "You go and kill the person who sent the envoy to Great Qin. Be clean. ”

These henchmen didn't know why Maudon did this. But for them, they don't feel much when they have such an order.

So, at the behest of Maudun, the Hun envoys who were treated favorably by Maudun during this period of time were besieged by wolves during a hunt. In the end, even the body could not be found.

Dividing line

The calmness of the Xiongnu made Zhang Jiashi, who was not easy to live in Shuangyueyi, very strange. According to reason, even if Mao Dun would not ask the Great Qin Empire for a small envoy, he would express his gratitude for the fiasco of King Zuoxian.

However, for a long time after the two armies of Sujiao and Yujian returned to their original defense areas, the Huns did not show any performance, which really could not surprise Zhang Jiashi.

Zhang Jiashi always felt that Mao Dun was so calm, maybe a very big conspiracy was brewing. As for what this conspiracy is, only God knows.

But in any case, Zhang Jiashi did not reduce the defensive strength of the border areas, especially for the areas bordering the Xiongnu, Zhang Jiashi stationed heavy troops at the same time, but also carried out the corresponding armament improvement plan.

Because even if the Huns really can't bear not to invade the Great Qin Empire this year, but for Zhang Jiashi, next year or the year after, the Huns will definitely find a place to return, if they don't make corresponding preparations during this period of time, then if there is any big mess at that time, Zhang Jiashi can't find a place to cry.

Before that, or after ordering Su Jiao and Yujian to lead the army to reinforce Donghu for a period of time, Zhang Jiashi consulted with Chen Ping and prepared three countermeasures.

The first response was that once the Xiongnu showed signs of sending troops south, the army of the Great Qin Empire would quickly seize several mutual market areas that had been negotiated with the Xiongnu.

This method was not mainly to deal with the invasion of the Huns, but mainly to plunder the corresponding materials hoarded by the Huns in these mutual markets.

After all, these mutual markets have been established for several years, and have become important areas for official and private trade between the two sides.

The amount of materials hoarded by the two sides in these areas is not a few, if the Huns hoard the materials in these areas and plunder, although it will not be able to make the Huns hurt their muscles and bones, but Zhang Jiashi can imagine that Mao Dun will inevitably be very sad about the loss of these materials.

It can be said that Zhang Jiashi hopes to pass this step of the plan. to disrupt the offensive plans of the Huns.

However, how much impact this practice will have on the war is only unknown in Zhang's opinion.

Of course, Zhang Jiashi himself knows one thing very well, that is, if there is no need, these Huns in the mutual market should not use too drastic means to deal with them. After all, it's about the face of the country.

After all, it is not a very generous thing to order the hoarding of the Huns to be plundered. If these Huns are also killed, it will also be a big blow to the prestige of the Great Qin Empire.

So Zhang Jiashi before giving such an order. It also added that the Huns who were captured in these mutual markets, as long as they did not take too drastic measures to deal with them in the capture, it was not a bad thing for the Great Qin Empire.

Although Zhang Jiashi also thinks that face is very metaphysical, if a country does not even have "face", then waiting for the foreign policy of the Great Qin Empire must have a very profound impact.

The second countermeasure was Zhang Jiashi's order to be behind the Great Wall. In particular, in areas where a road-level road was built, a mysterious track that was said to have been said in later generations was installed.

As for why it is very mysterious, because the speculation of these tracks in later generations is completely out of reality.

Recently, in the mountainous area of Nanyang, Henan Province, I was surprised to find an ancient "rail railway". According to carbon-14 determination, it is a legacy of the Qin Dynasty more than 2,200 years ago. The principle is no different from that of modern railways, it is still a double line, except that it is not pulled by a steam locomotive, but by horsepower. Experts are amazed that there were such advanced transportation facilities in ancient China 2,200 years ago. It will be a bigger discovery than the terracotta warriors.

Now the railroad is not cast in iron. Rather, it is rolled rails. Qin Shi Huang's "rail railway" was certainly not cast in iron, but laid with wood. The wood used for the track is hard and has been treated with anti-corrosion, and it is still intact today. However, the sleepers have rotted and have obviously not been treated with anticorrosiveness, and the material is not as hard as the tracks. But you can also see the general appearance of it.

The roadbed is rammed very strongly, and the sleepers are laid on the roadbed. Experts believe that the material of sleepers is relatively soft, not only to reduce the amount of work, but also not only to open up a wide range of wood sources, but to consciously choose. The softer sleepers can be closely combined with the rammed very hard roadbed, so that the track is smooth, and the car can travel quickly and smoothly on it.

The mystery lies in the speculation of these experts: the opinion of the experts is. These railways must also have special stations with timber filling between the station sleepers. The horses are well fed and rested here. As soon as you need it, you can put it in the car and you can go non-stop. At the next station, the horses can gradually slow down and stop, as the sleepers are already filled and leveled. Swap into another well-fed and well-rested horse and continue galloping. In this way, very fast speeds can be achieved. Due to the use of rails, the friction is greatly reduced, so the horse can also pull a lot of goods at once.

Experts believe that this is the most economical way to use horsepower, or an extremely efficient one. The accepted speed should be at least 600 kilometers per day and night, some people think 700 kilometers. That's more than double the speed of an eight-hundred-mile expedited one. It is no wonder that Qin Shi Huang was able to effectively manage a vast empire without dividing the feuds. And often hundreds of thousands of people at every turn.

Zhang Jiashi said that these experts have driven cars without these tracks, if according to their imagination, these carriages can not brake at all under high-speed galloping, if it is out of the downhill road, maybe there will be a scene of carriages will accelerate forward, directly hit the tragedy of horses, spill goods or something or pediatrics

As for what, "since the sleepers are already filled and leveled, the horse can gradually slow down and stop." Zhang Jiashi also said hehe, because this kind of design does not help the horse to slow down

After corresponding explanations, Zhang Jiashi got the way to use this kind of rails, that is, these rails are not carriage lanes, but a special passage for trolleys. Moreover, the road builders of the Great Qin Empire were not idiots, because in areas with large undulating terrain, this kind of rail road was more of a pit thing, because even if it was pushed by manpower, these rail roads were difficult to control on the downhill and uphill slopes.

But there is no denying that these tracks are of great use in the plains.

And it is also the third response plan carried out by Zhang Jiashi, armored train, or armored carriage.

That's right, Zhang Jiashi made the armored carriage drum out and used it on this kind of track.

This kind of armored carriage needs to be pulled by four war horses, and during the battle, the driver will drive the horses away, and then let the personnel of these armored carriages stay in place to fight.

Such a situation is a bit stupid, but there is no doubt that the defense capabilities of these armored carriages are relatively strong. Without a certain level of destruction, these armored carriages were still able to play an adequate role.

Moreover, on this double-layer armored carriage that imitated the four-wheeled carriage of Western Europe in later generations, the upper layer was equipped with two crossbows with a firing angle of 240 degrees each, showing a circular fan-shaped striking surface, and when these crossbows were not in use, they could face the front and rear of the carriage one after the other.

That is, as long as the wagons were able to respond to enemy attacks in a horizontal column, the crossbows of these wagons would be able to fire at the same position.

On the lower floor, there are groups of six Qin crossbowmen or strong archers to fight, using the sharp weapons in their hands to carry out effective long-range strikes against the enemy.

Of course, an armored carriage did not play much role, but as long as it was possible for the Huns to break through easily, Zhang Jiashi would build three tracks on each side of these gallops, and each track was equipped with an average of four or six armored carriages.

This also greatly enhances the important role played by these tracks at the level of warfare.

But the fly in the ointment is that the speed of these armored carriages is slow, even if it is pulled by four horses, because of many factors, Zhang Jiashi finally had to stipulate the upper limit of the speed of these carriages.

After all, Zhang Jiashi doesn't want these expensive defense systems to have car accidents again and again before they play their due role.

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