Chapter 1688: Building a camp
"In this case, we can only enter a small army. Well, it's not impossible to have a larger number, but are you sure it can be so accurate?" Xu You suddenly realized.
"I don't know whether the essence is accurate, but we can spend time trying it out. It should be almost done ten days, and it may be easier to cover it up with heavy snow. And we can also arrange our camp during this period." Xun Chen said with a slightly gloomy look down.
"Just treat it as disgusting the Northern Huns. Let's see if the other party's reaction is to start attacking violently, or to endure and suppress and wait for the opportunity." Xu You touched his beard and said.
"As long as your mind is fine, it will be a small-scale test. Then, see if the situation is alert or think of other solutions." Shen Pei said with a little thought. He already had a certain design, but there are many mistakes and omissions.
"It depends on how we build the camp now. What is the basis for construction?" Xun Chen looked at Shenpei and Xu You and said.
"How about building a camp of two thousand acres?" Shen Pei thought for a while and looked up at the two of them.
"This takes a lot of time and requires a lot of manpower." Xu You roughly calculated that there is not a small amount of manpower required to build such a large camp. It is estimated that two thousand people will work for ten days just by repairing the camp.
"Don't care about these things. You can plan while building a camp, and you will be fine at both ends." Xun Chen said with a smile.
Yuan Tan, Gao Lan and Ji Ling looked at the three civil officials opposite each other with a ignorant smile, completely unable to understand.
Everyone agreed that the next day, the cattle and horses would be pulled and more than 20,000 people would be killed directly one mile in front of the Northern Huns camp. The Northern Huns who received the news were directly in a state of war alert.
However, the Northern Huns, who were in an abnormally alert state, waited left and right, and when it was dark, they still did not wait for the attack from the Han army. It was not until the reconnaissance came to report that the Han army began to set up camp on the spot, and the Northern Huns were relieved.
The Northern Huns, who originally wanted the War Eagle to send a message to inform the people of the South, could only extinguish the idea because of the strong storm and blizzard. They also used war horses to send a message to it, and there was no big difference between seeking death in such a harsh climate.
In the wind and snow of Western Siberia, as long as you lose your direction, even if you have war horses and reserves, you will basically have a dead end. Therefore, the Northern Hun tribes can only send a certain number of soldiers to the south as much as possible, which is considered as giving way to the will of destiny.
Of course, this terrible wind and snow is not entirely a natural cause. Half of it was caused by Xu You, Shen Pei, Xun Chen and others, but the bad thing is that the Han army is now affected by this level of wind and snow.
Even Shen Pei and theirs had no good way to destroy this snow cloud that affected a state. When today, people who really forcefully change the weather in a state against the weather in the sky did not achieve it by their own ability.
It is obvious that there is no good way for them to face this snow cloud now. It is too nonsense to leave one person to weaken the snowfall and strong winds in their camp. It is really nonsense to force it to stop it.
Two people were left to direct the construction of the camp, and the other took Wang Mo, Zhu Han, Tao Sheng and others to cut down the trees. After cutting down, they were transported back to build the camp.
A camp of 2,400 acres, including the wood that has been raised on the ground, requires almost 150,000 trees. It is estimated that the forest of five or six square kilometers will be cut down as soon as it is finished.
Fortunately, in this era, there are far more trees than people, and there are barren mountains and forests everywhere. There will be no trees without anything. So let alone cutting down pine and fir trees that are 150,000 yuan in timber, no one will care if you cut down millions of them. Looking back, there is another forest after more than ten years.
However, even with the support of internal energy, there are not enough high-quality tools in this era, and a person can't cut 100 trees a day. If a person only cuts 50 trees but does not transport them back, it will not be a big problem.
But if we had to transport it back, we were quite confused. We thought that we could only get ten to twenty trees a day, so the cutters took more than 2,000 people to cut down the trees. It was estimated that we could cut down the needed trees in seven or eight days.
It didn't take so long, but the number of trees cut down makes the transportation distance farther. Originally, the Northern Huns were stationed in this place not far from the forest to facilitate wintering.
For this era, water sources in winter are not a problem. When snow falls and collects them, the fire is transformed into natural pollution-free drinking water. Only making fire is very important.
This is also why the camps of the Northern Xiongnu are not too far from the cold coniferous forests, but this is just cheap. Xun Chen and others use local materials to build their camps.
Xu You transported the wood back, while Xun Chen took three thousand people to saw the trees into the boards he needed. Of course, at the beginning, except for the real carpenter-born soldiers who did the work, the rest were purely messy.
Fortunately, Xun Chen didn't care. No matter how bad the sawed wooden stakes were or how big the wooden boards were, he started to build them in the previously planned place.
What kind of mortise and tenon structure is nonsense? If you don’t have any, just put nails on it. If there are no iron nails, can you not even have wooden nails? The internal structure of wooden nails is strengthened and strengthened continuously. Isn’t it just to create the materials he wants?
As for why it is necessary to warm and flammable, of course it is to make it easier to keep warm on snowy days. It is not easy to make a fire in the middle of winter. It is easy to burn and can be easier to live.
The construction scope of the Han army's camp covering an area of about 2,400 acres did indeed scare the remaining tribesmen of the Northern Huns. However, under the current circumstances, the Northern Huns are indeed unable to move northwards, and the Northern Huns are not fools. Their women, young, old and weak are likely to advance northwards under the current circumstances. No, they will definitely form flaws during the march!
When the current Han army has faced with the Northern Huns, if that degree of flaw appears, it will be almost fatal to the current Northern Huns.
Therefore, for the current Northern Huns, the most correct choice is to keep their troops in check and strengthen their vigilance, and the Northern Huns, who think they are very smart, also did this.
The two sides gathered for only five miles, but due to the wind and snow, the Northern Huns could not see clearly what the Han army was doing, and they could not send too many reconnaissance cavalry to investigate. They could only observe from a distance. Based on the vague influence, it was estimated that the Han army was carrying out camp construction.
Xun Chen was much calmer. When the Northern Huns did not launch a counterattack directly on the first day, Xun Chen understood what this group of Northern Huns thought, and immediately brought the soldiers originally used to defend the camp to make the wood needed for the camp.
Chapter completed!