Budugen was taken aback. "If persuasion fails, why not just attack directly? Why did you order an attack, brother? Isn't that redundant..."
Before he could finish speaking, Kui Tou interrupted him.
"Hehe, my foolish brother, it seems we miscalculated this time. Now that I think about it, there's hardly any trace of the Xiongnu around. Perhaps they were driven away to other places by the Han people long ago."
Look at those things on the city wall, deliberately covered with animal hides. Do you know what they are?
Upon hearing this, Budugen turned his head and squinted at the city wall of Shaling.
The city wall is not very tall and looks quite old.
However, there were indeed some animal hides covering some things on top of the city wall.
If you look closely, that thing looks a bit like...
"That's...brother, what's that Han Chinese thing again? I've forgotten its name..."
Kui Tou sighed and rubbed his forehead, "I told you to study more, but you insisted on raising pigs."
"ah?"
"...That thing is a ballista of the Han people. Although the Xiongnu also had such things, their numbers could not have been large. Moreover, like us, they were good at herding but not good at defending cities. Xiongnu living in cities were already rare, let alone Xiongnu using ballistas?"
They learned a lot from the Han court and acquired many valuable items. However, they didn't know how to maintain and care for the crossbows, and they had long since rusted and molded in the cellar.
So, who else could have carried this thing up the city wall but some Hunnic?
Budugen suddenly realized, "So that's how it is. Then they are Han... I understand, brother. I'll go and make arrangements right away!"
Kui Tou then raised the corners of his mouth slightly, looking at Bu Benyi's back with a sinister glint in his eyes.
"I've been in Tanhan Mountain for so many years, and you old fogies have been holding me back for so many years! Bu Benyi, let the Han people... bury you here!"
"I will take good care of your tribe, your daughters, wives, and concubines!"
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