Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 411 Bei Qu's Helplessness

  Nature is amazing because it can create many amazing things.

  For example, the Beiqu camp in front of Fuluo and the black-robed old man. A curved river and a raised mountain formed a complete defense system.

   "It used to be a market in front of it, the only one in this northern region," Yu Fuluo pointed to the flat ground with thatched sheds in front of the Beiqu camp from a distance, and said, "But it has been temporarily closed now."

  The old man in black robe said: "The market is open, Yier. If there is something wrong here, it can be reopened."

  Yu Fuluo ignored the meaning of the black-robed old man's words, but pointed to the small hill behind the market, across the Xinshui River, and said: "There are bed crossbows on the mountain, and the number is no less than ten."

  The old man in black robe was stunned upon hearing this.

  The bed crossbow is too technical, and not anyone can play with it. Like the catapult, it belongs to the category of advanced machinery in the Han Dynasty, and it is a sharp weapon for attacking and defending cities. The most important thing is that bed crossbows and catapults are not used to target infantry, but are used to target siege equipment. Ordinary crashes or something, a crossbow gun or stone bullet is almost useless.

  The old man in black robe reacted quickly, chuckled, and said, "Don't be afraid. Although the bed crossbow is strong, it's nothing to worry about if it loses its precision."

Yu Fuluo glanced at the black-robed old man, and said: "There was a Qiang man here as a guest before, and he gave a demonstration. The target was a hundred feet away, and he hit all five shots." Of course, it may not be a hundred feet away, but the Qiang people may not know how to count. Therefore, there may be some moisture in this distance, but it is true that all five rounds are hit, and there is no problem at all.

  Yu Fuluo said it very simply, but the old man in black robe suddenly opened his eyes wide, and hit the target within a hundred feet, which means that the bed crossbow on this mountain has a fairly good accuracy within a hundred feet? Even with a discount, based on fifty feet, it is quite a scary figure.

  The old man in black robe set his eyes on the top of the mountain in the distance, searching hard, as if he was trying to find a little bit of cold light hidden on the mountain.

  Crossbow throwing stones has great lethality, and the blow to morale is even more terrible. If it is not precise enough, it can be used as psychological comfort for soldiers, but if Yu Fuluo's words are not false now, it will be quite troublesome.

The Hu people themselves are not very good at attacking fortifications. If it was just an ordinary wooden camp, it would be fine, but now it has obviously become a wooden-soil structure, and a trench has been opened outside to introduce the Xinshui River. It looks like a small city, plus the bed crossbow...

   Yu Fuluo stopped talking. He didn't want to hit Beiqu, it was too hard to hit.

The current Beiqu seems to be covered with a hard shell, and it is also covered with thorns. With these bed crossbows, the siege equipment cannot enter the Beiqu camp at all, it is equivalent to hitting hard with flesh and blood. Then even if it is pried open, the hands must be bloody.

The old man in black robe looked at it for a long time, but he couldn't find any obvious flaws in the Beiqu camp, so he finally gave up the idea of ​​prying open the hard shell, and said: "In this way, Shanyu can send people to cruise and stop their transportation. Is it feasible?" This is also a helpless move, after all, the original plan was to take advantage of the situation and then take advantage of the situation. Attacking is too difficult, so the only option is to cut off its connection with Pingyang.

  Yu Fuluo smiled and said, "It's naturally possible."

  Now there are only four to five thousand people under Yu Fuluo. It is not impossible to take a strong attack, but it is too difficult and the loss is too great to be worthwhile.

  But if you chase the transport convoy in the wild and cut off the grain road, there is still no big problem. Therefore, Yu Fuluo no longer refuses, and agrees very readily.

  The old man in black robe turned the horse's head, and before leaving, he took a last look at the Beiqu camp, sighing in his heart, it really is a good place!

  It's a pity that there are a pair of good branches and leaves, but no roots...

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  On the hilltop of the Beiqu camp, there are not only ten bed crossbows as Yu Fuluo said, but twenty-five!

  Of course, the best accuracy is only at the very beginning, the five sets assembled from the core components brought from Xiangyang, and the rest, just try to shoot, but it is not guaranteed to be accurate...

  Ma Yan stood on the top of the hill, frowning as he watched the small group of people in the distance go away.

  Although the distance is far away, it can be roughly distinguished that they should be the Huns, and there are some Han soldiers in black robes.

  Yesterday, the powerful Qiang man Linagu sent a Qiang man, saying that the tribe members who were grazing outside recently found a group of Han people in black robes appearing in the Southern Huns...

  Ma Yan saw it with his own eyes today.

  Although Ma Yan didn't know which aspect the black-robed man who suddenly appeared belonged to, Ma Yan knew that this was not a good thing. Ma Yan is really not worried that these people will rashly attack the camp, not only the ballistas around him, but the "S" structure of the Beiqu camp makes it extremely difficult to launch the entire attack unless a large number of soldiers and horses follow the Xinshui Attack on both sides of the river at the same time, otherwise Mayan can pass the pontoon bridge that has been erected, and put the cavalry into the attack on the enemy's back at any time.

  There is nothing wrong with defending, but to attack...

  Although the number of the Southern Huns is not enough to counterattack the royal court of the Huns, it is still a big force in this piece of land, and it is not so easy to deal with.

  Yesterday, after receiving the report from Linagu, Ma Yan sent someone to send some cloth to thank him, and at the same time, he also inquired about the tone of the Qiang people.

The result was similar to Mayan’s expectations. The Qiang people didn’t like the Southern Huns dominating here. Most of them thought that the Huns should go back to the Yinshan Mountains because they shouldn’t come here and invade their pastures. Let these Qiang people and the Huns really fight on a large scale, and the Qiang people are not willing to fight easily.

These Xiongnu come and go like the wind, without enough cavalry, don't even think about taking advantage of it. Ma Yan doesn't have a lot of troops now, especially the cavalry of the Han people. Although now there are some horses, strengthen this aspect training, but the cavalry team could not be formed for a while.

Although there are a few Hu people recruited, they are still Hu people after all. If they really want to fight against the wind and take advantage of it, these Hu people recruited are probably faster than anyone else, but they have to overcome difficulties. Difficult, but not necessarily reliable.

Therefore, what Ma Yan can do now is to squat inside the hard shell of the Beiqu camp, optimistic about Fei's hidden family here. It can only be sent to Pingyang to report the letter, but there is no way to stop it, which is somewhat helpless.

  Ma Yan looked east, where is the direction of Pingyang County, how is the progress now?

Although Beiqu is the territory of the barbarians, surrounded by barbarians of all sizes, it is not as dangerous as imagined. One is because Beiqu is the only market that has been set up in recent years. I also need it very much; the second is that here are just blooming branches and leaves of trees, and the roots are still in Handi, or in Feiqian...

   Why did Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, and Zhuge Liang remain loyal to Liu Bei all their lives?

because…

   It is written in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and it is also written in the official history...

   Records of the Three Kingdoms: "The former Lord and the two (Guan and Zhang) slept in the same bed, En Ruo brothers..."

   Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms·Shu Book Six: "The First Lord slept with Yun... Secretly dispatched Yun to recruit hundreds of people..."

   In the Romance, it is said: "... Treat Kong Ming as a teacher, eat at the same table, and sleep at the same bed..."

  (end of this chapter)