The atmosphere was silent for a moment, and when Jiang Jie's eyes wandered away, he suddenly saw a light in the abandoned logs and rafts that had fallen on the river beach.

"General, my subordinates have a plan, maybe it can be used."

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

"Why should our army abandon the raft when we have warships? It is better to take advantage of the darkness to collect the abandoned rafts along the coast and reuse them, and then let people take the raft down the river to seize the boat, so as to kill two birds with one stone. ”

"Huh! Jiang Jie's plan is good. Sikong Nan agreed: "The enemy must be mostly empty ships here, and if our army goes away with a surprise army, we may be able to capture some ships in one fell swoop." ”

When Bailiyan heard the news, she glanced at the abandoned logs and rafts on the shore, and then said:

"Well, it does. But there is one thing you have ever thought that the reason why our army succeeded in seizing the ship was that in addition to the fact that the Jin Xuedi people were not good at water warfare, their oarsmen were all Central Plains citizens. If it has been prepared, the oarsmen of the warships that come to fight this time are most likely to be Jinxuedi. ”

"Then our army can abandon the raft halfway, wade through the water and hide on the bank of the river, wait until the enemy ship sails by, and then find out and strike again."

Jiang Jie explained the plan in detail, and Bai Liyan smiled:

"Hehe, Jiang Jie is getting better and better now, it's not in vain that you have followed Ben Jiang for so many years. That's it, but this attack is very dangerous, and you and Sikong Nan will stay on the ship. Ben will give the royal guest to attack and plunder the enemy ships. ”

Jiang Jie was a young man who was conscripted into the army when the black turban soldiers were in Yongxing River, he was only fourteen years old, and he was picked by Bailiyan at the age of fifteen.

After the industry was broken, the life and death of the logistics battalion were unknown, and the remaining teenagers were difficult to know the life and death. Compared with ordinary soldiers, Bailiyan cherishes these cronies who have been brought up single-handedly.

They have learned far more about military thought than anyone else can learn. In the future, whether you are in the army or politics, their value is immeasurable, and throwing them into war is undoubtedly a huge waste of talent.

After making a detailed plan with the two, Bai Liyan continued to sail the ship north, marking 1560 stranded rafts along the way, and at the same time approaching the royal guests to discuss the hijacking. So after dark that night, 25,600 people dived into the water from the boat one after another, took advantage of the night to touch the shore to collect the rafts scattered along the coast, and went down the river overnight.

At the same time, Temir continued to fill in the outer lake, filling in the middle of the east side of the outer lake with large stones and earth bags to fill in the road 20 zhang wide, and used mammoths and unicorn horses to carry stones and sand, day and night to rush to work, seeing that they were about to reach the west bank in two days, but the 20,000 allied troops on the west bank retreated into the valley without a fight.

"Commander of the Qiqi Army, the northerners on the west bank have suddenly pulled out of camp."

The pro-soldier said quickly, and Temilton was surprised:

"Pull out the camp? Is the news conclusive? ”

"It's true, the sentry saw it with his own eyes."

"Let's go, come with me."

Temir left his tent and hurried to the watchtower at the head of the city on the east bank, holding a telescope that Mooney had captured from the front.

The telescopes produced by Xianguo one after another were eventually sold to the princely armies in the south, not to mention seven or eight hundred, in exchange for a large number of practical benefits for Xianguo, and at the same time greatly enhanced the vision of the coalition forces, which is also the main force of the coalition army has successfully jumped out of the encirclement many times, because it can see far away and get more information in advance, which is the main reason for the smooth escape.

Only by seeing far can we think further.

After all, when the field of vision is greatly extended, the information that can be grasped in advance is far faster than that of the opponent. The Jinshedi also captured dozens of them from the coalition forces, and Temir obtained one of them.

At this time, the gaze extends through the telescope, taking in every move on the West Bank.

"Withdrawing so soon, is there any trick that can't be done?" It occurred to Temir that the retreat of the coalition forces might be the beginning of another intrigues. "Order the scouts, enter the mountain immediately, I need accurate news and intelligence!"

"Yes, Your Excellency."

The attack of the beast soldiers allowed the scouts of the Jin Xuedi people to enter the valley deeper, and the light and dark sentinels set up by the coalition army on the outer mountains no longer dared to go out of the valley to post their guards, so they were forced to concentrate on the mountains near the valley defense area, relying on the trap to continue to hold on, so as to give the Jin Xuedi people an opportunity.

But what is surprising is that, thanks to the unique terrain of Cupigon, the coalition forces rely on the deep mountains and old forests to lay a large number of traps, even though the beasts are extremely stoic over the mountains and mountains, but the deep mountains and old forests are obviously much more dangerous than the plains.

Different from the traps that harm people, in view of the need to recapture the outer positions in the future, when the coalition forces dug traps everywhere, they marked obvious marks, so that their own people could see very clearly at a glance, so as not to fall into the trap by mistake.

But beasts are beasts after all, where can they recognize these, every once in a while, they are planted in the traps set by the coalition forces and seriously injured or killed, and many of them are killed back and forth, which greatly reduces the threat of the camp in the valley.

At this time, Su Fangyi was dispatching and withdrawing troops from the cofferdam, and the defense of Xishan was temporarily handed over to Gongliangxiu and Gongliangsong's cousins.

Su Fangyi is quite relieved of this two sons, and his father, Gongliangyi and Gongliangwen, are wise and wise, and they are not inferior to the Su brothers. And Gongliang cultivates both wisdom and bravery, a rare talent of a general, Gongliang Song's strategy is not good, but his ability to adapt to the battle is quite flexible, and it is commendable that the second son is the same age as Bailiyan, and he can also take charge of himself, which is a rare combination.

The 2,000 people under Su Hong's command, as well as more than 10,000 people from the Yuke and coalition forces, were stationed on the hillsides on the north and south sides of the cofferdam to protect the safety of the cofferdam. After the more than 20,000 troops on the west bank of the outer lake were withdrawn, they moved to the hills on both sides of the cofferdam through the rammed dirt roads on both sides of the cofferdam.

The news of Jin Xuedi's scouts stabbing into the mountains soon spread back to the cofferdam camp:

"Qi Su Division, thirty miles east of our army, we found that there are Jin Xuedi scouts." The scout said quickly.

"Ignore it, continue to strengthen the vigilance for ten miles east of the cofferdam, and be sure not to let the barbarian scouts approach the cofferdam dam."

"No!"

The scout was ordered to go out of the account, and Su Fangyi immediately said to Su Hong:

"General Su Hong, are the gunpowder and wine jars ready?"

"Back to the Soviet division, everything is ready."

"Very good, after the first discharge, attack quickly, give priority to killing the enemy's battle fangs, and be sure to lead the enemy into the valley."

"Yes!"

Su Fangyi secretly looked and investigated, and found that the Jin Xuedi people had built a giant stone machine with a range of more than two miles on the east shore of the outer lake, trying to use mammoth war elephants to tow them to the vicinity of two miles east of the cofferdam, and after occupying the mountains on both sides to eliminate the threat, the stone frame was placed in the valley to bombard the cofferdam to force the cofferdam to collapse by itself, or release water to destroy the mammoth and trebuchet, so as to achieve the purpose of emptying the coalition army's water storage.

Two days later, Temir ordered the lake to be reclaimed and waited for news from the scouts, until the fourth day after the stoppage, when the coalition forces were completely silent and all of them retreated to the cofferdam, which undoubtedly added to Temir's concerns. He was almost certain that there was a trick in the valley, but he couldn't think of any way to plot against him.

This time, he did not intend to send troops through the valley path, but encroached step by step, occupying the mountainsides on both sides of the trail one by one, detouring to the cofferdam through the mountain, and fighting for the top of the hill to avoid the cofferdam drainage, and at the same time only sent a small force of troops and horses to cover the trebuchet, and approached to the east of the cofferdam to destroy the cofferdam, so that it was impossible to plot the infantry army by flooding.

After waiting for several days to no avail, Temir resumed refilling the lake, and within two days the east and west banks were finally opened. Three thousand elite auxiliaries, covering the mammoth, dragged the trebuchet and slowly entered the path.

At the same time, 20,000 veterans of the Honor Regiment on the north and south sides of the trail crossed the mountains and entered the mountains on the north and south flanks of the trail, fighting for the hills leading to the cofferdam one by one from east to west, and marched steadily and steadily, without the arrogance and panic of the previous auxiliary regiments.

Soon after the Jin Xuedi people invaded the outer mountains, Su Fangyi ordered all armies to strictly guard all the mountain positions within ten miles east of the cofferdam.

Su Fangyi knew very well that it was easy to enter the mountains and difficult to attack the mountains, and the outer mountains were all positions that were voluntarily abandoned, and it was extremely easy to capture, but it was extremely difficult to capture the mountains that were firmly controlled by the coalition forces.

Coupled with the power of alcohol and gunpowder, it will be extremely difficult for the Jinxuedi people to capture the mountain with a handle, and the casualties will only be more heavy than those of the coalition forces, and it will be meaningless to fight one by one, so the final focus of the attack is still to break through the cofferdam.

Therefore, before the water in the cofferdam is filled and discharged, the enemy soldiers fighting for the top of the mountain will definitely not rush down the mountain, so the first discharge of water is extremely confusing.

From the west bank of the outer lake to the cofferdam all the way to fifty miles, along the way the woods and ravines are dense, the mammoth pulls the huge trebuchet very slowly, the daily journey is only more than ten miles, the mountain competition in the Jinxuedi people to the east after twenty miles, encountered the coalition army, continuous attack for a day and night, under the fierce resistance of the coalition army, Temir only occupied the two main peaks of the mountain, this is still the result of the coalition army under the initiative to retreat.

However, Temir did not make the battle for the top of the hill his main goal, and before the cofferdam was discharged, another group of men and horses laid siege to the western hill, trying to advance on both sides, forcing the coalition forces to ignore the end.

At this time, the brothers Gongliangxiu and Gongliangsong fought and retreated according to the plan, and did not let the Jinxuedi people take advantage of the slightest, and after paying a heavy price, Cartonsen's army only attacked the fortress on the periphery of Xishan, and was far from being able to attack the cave in Houshan.

On the fourth day of fierce fighting, more than a dozen mammoths took turns to pull several Zoroastrian machines and were blocked fifteen miles east of the cofferdam, because the coalition forces fought and retreated all the way, luring the enemy to go fifteen miles east of the cofferdam and then no longer retreating, and digging trench traps along the way to delay the advance of the barbarian army.

As a result, the 3,000 auxiliaries in the forest trail could not be covered by the two flanks of the hills, and if they continued to advance, they would inevitably become the lone troops of the salient to penetrate deeply, and the coalition forces would not even need to release water to eat the 3,000 men from the hills on both sides.

The assault continued for a day, and by the fifth day a hill had not been captured, much to Temir's annoyance. At the same time, bad news followed:

"Commander of the Legion, the navy has reached the Belen, but there are only a hundred warships."

As soon as the pro-soldier's words fell, Temir's face turned pale, and he asked in a deep voice:

"What's the matter, aren't there more than two hundred warships, why are only half of them left? Could it be that it was taken away by the northerners again! ”

"Yes, yes. The northerners had attacked the convoy a few days earlier, and most of the flotilla was empty, and the troops were seriously insufficient, and more than 50 ships were taken by the northerners and more than 60 were scuttled. ”

"These idiots, rice buckets, are they all pigs!" Temir scolded, and his heart was furious: "Is Yabuk blind, the northerners hijacked the ship under his nose, even if he ran to death, he could also reach the fleet within an hour, why didn't he warn." ”

"It's a raft, according to the navy, the northerners took advantage of the night to sit on a stranded and abandoned raft, and their fleet was in front of General Yabuke in Xihe, and we fell for the evil of the northerners."

"Damn, damn it!"