The most arrogant in history

Chapter 335 Even if you are far away, you will be killed!

"You little brat!" Ye Kun raised his hand, ready to give Ding Ding a slap.

But Tintin dodged it nimbly.

While Gongsun Erniang was recovering from her injuries, Ye Kun personally visited her morning, noon and night to ask about her well-being.

During this period, He Zhongshu also came up with a plan to build the Great Wall, which consisted of 27 small castles running through the four counties of Hexi.

Ye Kun looked at the map, discussed with everyone, determined the key points, and then ordered the construction to begin.

Such a large project requires a lot of food and supplies, as well as many tools and craftsmen.

The output of cement is far from enough and can only be used where it counts.

But there was plenty of lime, and it played a huge role.

Ye Kun asked the craftsmen to make soup with glutinous rice and mix it with quicklime to use as cement.

Lime has a long calcification process, and the longer it takes, the stronger it becomes. Glutinous rice soup mixed with slaked lime is more effective than cement.

The traditional lime of the Dading Kingdom is made from shells and can also be mixed with glutinous rice soup. It is extremely strong.

It just costs too much.

Glutinous rice was called Jiangmi at that time.

There was no glutinous rice in the four counties of Hexi, and there was a limited supply in Hanzhong, so Ye Kun sent a pigeon to transfer a thousand stones of glutinous rice from Chengdu.

It’s really painful to use white rice to build walls!

A month later, Gongsun Erniang's arrow wound healed.

Ye Kun was also relieved and continued to supervise the construction of the four Hexi counties, while training troops and preparing for war, ready to deal with the Western Xiongnu.

At the end of the year, Yizhou sent a large amount of gunpowder and the latest muskets and cannons.

Ye Kun took a look and found that the level of gun manufacturing has improved recently.

There are also a large number of small handheld telescopes.

Ye Kun upgraded the telescopes for the generals, changing them from single-tube to double-tube, both with a magnification of about eight times.

On the vast grassland or Gobi Desert, with an eight-fold telescope, you can really see thousands of miles away at a glance.

Moreover, important watchtowers are equipped with large telescopes with a magnification of about 15 times, fixed with brackets.

Because the magnification of the telescope is too high, it cannot be hand-held, otherwise the image will shake violently.

He Zhongshu couldn't let go of the telescope, and he bowed to Ye Kun and said with a smile: "Master Ye, we have a telescope. Compared with us, the Xiongnu are just blind."

Ye Kun shook his head:

"The Huns prefer night battles, and our telescopes are not very useful in the dark. You have to remember that the situation on the battlefield changes in an instant, and telescopes, or muskets and artillery alone cannot determine who will win or lose, and cannot change the final outcome of the war."

He Zhongshu clasped his fists and said, "Thank you for your teachings, Master Ye. I will remember it."

Ye Kun calculated the days and ordered He Zhongshu:

"From today on, we will enter the first level combat readiness state. All military units are strictly prohibited from taking any action without authorization and must reorganize and stand by."

Ye Kun was determined to win this attack on the Western Xiongnu.

We dare not say that we have completely defeated the Western Xiongnu, but we must make them surrender or flee far to the north and never harass the four counties of Hexi again.

It's another New Year.

Ye Kun stayed in Hexi and personally commanded the Northern Expedition and Western Expedition.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, the Young Wise King sent a letter by carrier pigeon, announcing the start of the expedition against the Western Xiongnu.

Ye Kun gave the order for the army to extend the battle line and march north.

He Zhongshu and Guan Yong each sent out vanguard troops to search for the main force of the Western Xiongnu.

Ye Kun led the army and came to Red Stone Mountain.

The morale of the vanguard was high. They captured anyone they saw along the way, captured several thousand Western Xiongnu herdsmen, and also shot and killed some Xiongnu stragglers.

Ye Kun ordered that all the captured herdsmen, cattle, sheep and horses be sent to Zhangye and Weiwu for resettlement.

Among them were Han craftsmen who stayed in Jiuquan and Dunhuang to participate in the construction.

Maoquan Chanyu of the Western Xiongnu has dominated the western grasslands for seven or eight years. He has a strong army and does not take the young wise king and Ye Kun seriously.

Upon learning that Ye Kun's army was conducting a dragnet search on the prairie, Chanyu Maoquan became furious and mobilized 50,000 cavalry to fight Ye Kun.

This was exactly what Ye Kun wanted!

The armies of both sides confronted each other on the prairie north of Red Stone Mountain and each deployed their battle formations.

Maoquan Chanyu sent an envoy to question Ye Kun:

"We only know Xiahou Chang, not the King of Hanzhong. Why did you encourage the young virtuous king to fight against me, and then you launched the war without declaring war, and captured and expelled our herdsmen?"

Ye Kun sneered: "You don't know the King of Hanzhong, it's okay, you will know it soon. As for why I fight you, you know it in your heart. Every year you go south to rob and kill people, block the trade route, and plunder my Han people, but you forget that we have a saying in the Han family, if you offend the mighty Han, you will be punished even if you are far away!"

The envoy said angrily: "How are you better than Xiahou Chang? Xiahou Chang has a strong army and horses, but he also treats us, Maoquan Chanyu, with courtesy and sends many beauties and silks every year..."

"Xiahou Chang likes to feed dogs, but I don't."

Ye Kun interrupted the Xiongnu envoy and glared at him, "Tell Chanyu Maoquan that he can either surrender and submit to me, or clean his neck and wait for my knife."

The messenger said proudly: "My Chanyu said the same thing. You either surrender or die."

Tan Bamao was furious: "Come here, cut off the nose, ears and tongue of this bastard, and send him back!"

Ye Kun waved his hand: "No need, let him go. Go back and tell your Chanyu that the decisive battle will be held tomorrow, and life and death will be decided by fate!"

The Hun envoy left in anger.

Zhuge Feng said: "The Xiongnu are a people on horseback. Although they have been on a long march, they are not tired. I estimate that they will come to raid our camp tonight."

"I'm afraid they won't come."

Ye Kun laughed loudly and ordered the entire engineering battalion to follow him behind the first line of defense.

The engineering battalion had a thousand men, all carrying engineering shovels.

Ye Kun personally indicated and said, "Everyone, first use a flat-headed shovel to shovel up a piece of grass. One person behind you will use an engineer shovel to make a small vertical hole below, about one foot deep. Then cover it with grass to cover the small hole."

He Zhongshu didn't understand what he meant.

Ye Kun smiled and said, "It is said that the cavalry on the prairie are most afraid of rabbit holes. If a horse falls into a rabbit hole while running, its leg will be broken. Do you understand?"

He Zhongshu suddenly realized: "This is a small horse trap!"

Ye Kun nodded and said, "The engineering battalion will start digging holes. The soil dug out will be transported back by horse-drawn carts to build the second line of defense. Each hole will be three feet apart horizontally and vertically. Each person will dig fifty holes until they are full."

One thousand engineers can dig a total of 50,000 holes, which is enough.

Zhuge Feng smiled and said, "Since you have such a brilliant plan, we still need to send surprise troops to attack from both sides and drive the enemy in."

Ye Kun nodded and arranged two groups of elite cavalry to ambush on the left and right sides of the camp.

In the middle of the night, the Hun soldiers launched an attack as expected.

In order to deal with Ye Kun's wire mesh defense line, the Huns also made iron forks and iron hooks. The vanguard troops moved forward and used iron forks to clear the wires on the defense line.

Then a large number of cavalry rushed in from the gap in the defense line.

He Zhongshu was in the front and he fired a wave of arrows at random, then pretended to be defeated and retreated.

"Kill, capture Ye Kun alive——"

The Hun soldiers came in a show of force, and a large force arrived shortly afterwards, opening up a battle line and rushing towards Ye Kun's camp.

But before they had gone far, they encountered a horse trap.

The Hun horse in front had its leg broken by a small pit and rolled on the ground, but the horses behind could not stop and kept rushing forward, only to be tripped and fell to the ground as well.

Before they reached the gate of Ye Kun's camp, the Hun soldiers had already been thrown to the ground.

Ye Kun's ambush troops on both sides rushed out together, and arrows rained down!

He Zhongshu led the central army and shouted, "Fire all the arrows with your powerful crossbows until all the arrows are gone!"