Jiang Jie's eyes were solemn at this time, and he seemed to have something to think:

"My lord, the Fire Bull Formation is so powerful, can it be used to deal with war fangs and fierce beasts?"

Baili Yan twisted her short beard, was silent for a moment and said:

"There should be no problem dealing with the war fangs, but I am afraid it will be a little tricky to deal with the beasts. The Fire Bull Formation can only be used in formation battles, and the fierce beasts are mainly used for back raids, and they are rarely put into battle in formations. ”

The fire bull array against the elephant herd was first seen in the Tang Dynasty King Xuan Ce and Jiang Shiren in their crusade against India, defeating tens of thousands of elephant legions in one fell swoop, and there was a precedent. No matter how brilliant the results are, Bailiyan's consideration is a practical problem.

Due to the improper handling of the fire bull array, it will counterattack itself, and it is impossible for the fire bull to kill all the war elephants, and it is impossible, so they can only use fire and fright to frighten the elephant herd, disrupt the enemy's position, and trample the enemy personnel to death.

As a result, the uncontrolled herd can also rush in any direction, and the party that launched the fire bull must avoid injuring themselves.

Considering that the distance between the two armies is often within the range of one and a half to two arrows within the range of the bow and arrow, the probability that the elephant herd will not rush to the side that launched the fire bull formation after being frightened is almost zero, so how to avoid the enemy war elephant from rushing into themselves after being frightened is a realistic technical problem.

It is not a good idea to use fire belts to isolate and deter elephants, the fire belts must be prepared in advance, and the laying of the fire belts is extremely hasty and there is no time, considering the randomness of the battlefield and the width of the front of the battlefield, which is not entirely determined by human will, such a small action that clearly tells the enemy to set fire.

Of course, gunpowder can be used to intimidate the herd, but it is obviously not a good way to do it, and it will provoke the herd to run wild.

Jiang Jie's suggestion is a good solution, but how to prevent accidental injury to oneself is a tricky problem.

At this time, the pioneer of the herd had already rushed into the enemy camp more than halfway, and seeing that the time was ripe, Bai Liyan immediately decided:

"Order, the army is advancing westward at a constant speed, and it is not allowed to leave the formation without authorization to accelerate the charge, and those who violate the order will be killed!"

"Yes, my lord!"

A majestic and rapid battle horn was deafening, and the dense army slowly advanced westward, with the new vassals accounting for the vast majority, and there was no formation at all, it was purely a dense human formation together, and only a strong blow from the flanks was needed for this rabble to be crushed immediately.

At this time, the herd either died or stopped, or continued to rush and kill frantically, and the Jinxuedi people lost their armor and collapsed, and the land was full of dead and wounded.

The coalition army advanced to the big camp, Bai He, Fang Liang, and Tian Peng each led 15,000 men, attacking and killing from the south, north, and west, sweeping away the remnants of the enemy, and the large array continued to garrison the same place, and built a defensive line with door panels, pallets, and even wooden shields that were temporarily flattened by the damaged ship planks to prevent the cattle from reversing the attack.

At this time, most of the cattle vented their anger and were injured, and most of them collapsed, or died or paralyzed, and a few were still rushing to kill, although the threat was not large, but it was impossible to prevent it.

Jiang Jie looked up at the sky, it was early in the afternoon, and his young face suddenly became a little more dignified, Bai Liyan saw it in his eyes, and asked casually:

"Why, are you feeling sorry for the lives of the enemy?"

"Yes, my lord, 100,000 enemy troops have been wiped out in the blink of an eye, and it's incredible to think about it. 100,000 lives were lost, and the casualties were so heavy. If the countries of the Central Plains use this method in the future, it will undoubtedly aggravate the casualties of the countries of the Central Plains, which will be extremely unfavorable to the world. ”

"Hehe, you're overthinking."

Bai Liyan comforted, Jiang Jie was puzzled:

"Why are you so sure?"

"Let me ask you, how many cows were there in your village more than ten years ago?"

"Three or five, it's not much."

"And how many are there in your county?"

"There won't be more than two hundred."

"Then if it is a county, how many cattle are cultivated, it can withstand several such kills and consumption."

"What my lord means is that the cattle in the Central Plains are expensive, and the gains and losses of rushing to kill with the fire ox array outweigh the losses."

"Exactly, if you think about it, there are generally not many cattle in various countries, and the number of cattle in war-torn small and medium-sized vassal states such as Xianguo is pitiful. Even if a ploughing ox is in Chengping in a good year, it will cost as little as twenty or thirty yuan, and as much as fifty or sixty yuan, and there is no market. If wars are frequent, cattle are more expensive.

And the fire bull array has to be thousands, thousands, tens of thousands of heads in clusters to kill, after the killing, either dead or disabled, in addition to being able to eat its flesh, take its skin and wrap it, can not be used for farming, will completely empty a county of cattle. The ensuing problem will be that farmers will have no cattle to cultivate, and the amount of farmland cultivated will be halved at least and sharply reduced by two-thirds at most.

How much grain and grass taxes will be lost, plus the price of ploughing cattle, a cow a year will be less than two or three hundred yuan, if it is converted into inch silver, which vassal state can be so generous.

Taking a step back, the pros and cons of this fire bull array are extremely difficult to grasp, and the slightest mistake can kill oneself, how can it be easily imitated and used. ”

"It seems that the subordinates are overly worried."

"It's not a bad thing to be diligent in thinking, there are some truths that you don't know, you can't think of, and it's not your fault. The generals were able to use the Fire Ox Formation today, but in the final analysis, the Jin Xuedi people had abundant national strength. If you look at the territory of Lokinas of hundreds of thousands of people, eight or nine out of ten households have ploughing oxen, and if it weren't for the free ploughing cattle, how could this plan be set. ”

There are pros and cons to everything, and the Fire Bull Formation is very powerful, but the economic cost behind it is something that many people can't see.

A ploughing ox can be used for more than 20 years, and if it grows, it can be used for 234 years, and at least 278 acres or even 340 acres can be cultivated in a season.

Based on the average yield of two stones per mu in two seasons a year, at least 120 stone of rice is harvested in a year. Based on the current average price of rice, it is 240 yuan, which is equivalent to ploughing cattle, and 300 or even 400 yuan is gone. This is the loss of one year, 20 years is 3,000 guan, 10,000 first 20 years is the loss of 30 million guan of direct economic potential, and the indirect economic impact will be even greater.

The fire bull array is as little as one or two thousand cattle, and as many as a few thousand, and no one dares to easily launch a fire bull array of tens of thousands without scruples, even if they win a battle, the result will not be happy.

In the era of agriculture, where labor is king, labor determines all productive forces, and the nobility of ploughing cattle is the preciousness of its valuable labor.

The battle lasted until dark, and the coalition forces continued to pursue and kill the rout, capturing thousands of horses one after another, some wounded, some intact, and more horses were injured and frozen to death after being overturned by the fire ox. In addition, 6,000 unicorn horses carrying grain were found from the enemy camp, which could be used by 300,000 people for a month.

"Our army has won a complete victory in this battle and captured countless victories, why are you so unhappy?"

"Jin Xuedi people came with food, and you didn't find a problem?"

"The subordinates are stupid, please make it clear to the adults."

"When our army was besieging the city, there were 2,670,000 men in Kelownas, more than 30,000 enemy ships and sailors downstream, and more than 100,000 enemy soldiers were reinforced this time, totaling more than 400,000, why did they only prepare rations for 300,000 people for one month."

"My lord is saying that the enemy lord will not count the 80,000 women and children of the Central Plains in the city!"

"Isn't it?"

"But perhaps these rations will also feed 400,000 people for more than 20 days, and with the grain and grass carried by their sailors, they will still be eaten."

"Well, to be merciful to one's enemies is to sin against oneself. It's not that Ben will say you, but in all wars, you must think about the worst first. When the Jinxuedi people learned that our army was besieging and not attacking, they had the worst plan to eat people, so in order to shorten the time for raising food, they only transported 300,000 people's rations for one month, which was just enough for more than 6,000 unicorns to be shipped.

Go, send someone to inform Bai He, Fang Liang, and Tian Peng, collect the troops as soon as possible, treat the wounded and wounded of our army, and wait for tomorrow after dawn, reorganize the cavalry to chase. In addition, the gang organized people to slaughter the corpses of war horses and ploughing cattle outside the city to cook meat, and the inedible ones were dried in the city, and the leather was disposed of as soon as possible. ”

"Subordinates obey."

The scattered enemy soldiers had no food and grass, and secondly, there were countless refugees and chaotic people in the surrounding villages, and they had already been looted and burned to scorched earth by the coalition forces, with less than one in ten, and there were no rations in the ice and snow, so they could not survive even three days, and the routed troops could turn into a military disaster at any time, killing their own people in order to survive.

If you continue to let the pursuit go at night, not only will you not be able to continue to expand the results of the battle, but you may also increase your own casualties.

It was the second half of the night when Bai He and the others were taken back, and thousands of cauldrons were set up in the city to cook meat at the same time, and the aroma filled the city. Women and children gathered around the cauldron, staring at the tumbling broth, waiting for the meal to be served, and eating meat was undoubtedly a luxury for the rest of their lives.

The next day, Bailiyan reorganized the cavalry, and the previous 3,000 men expanded to more than 6,700, and more than 2,000 horses were wounded and could not recover, or they were waiting to be slaughtered, or eliminated as pack horses.

Bailiyan is now very wearable, Jin Xuedi has a large number of horse farms, cattle farms large-scale breeding, providing a lot of animal power, even if the war has been fought for so many years, the rear horses are still relatively abundant.

The newly formed cavalry only has more than 1,000 veteran sailors of the coalition army, and the rest are all sailors and new annexed people, and their combat strength is worrying.

continued to chase and kill the rout for two days, and at noon on the third day, Bai He captured the enemy messenger, who was also hard-mouthed and did not open his mouth when he died, but found a personal letter, which was signed by the commander of the recruit corps, Mooney.

After learning that Bailiyan had gathered the Central Plains people and besieged the city of Kelownas, Mooney quickly realized that the coalition army would rapidly expand its territory in Sondia, absorb the Central Plains people, and decisively let Gudappa and Norenga lead the army to retreat to Montina, and let the navy retreat to Conseus.

At the same time, the original people of the two places were expelled and moved to the city, and the north-south land passage of the Kelownas land route was blocked, forcing the coalition forces to be unable to continue to expand the results of the war.

But Mooney would never have expected that Bailiyan would not give him a chance to withdraw his troops at all, so he packed up the new army of Gudappa and Norunga, and almost completely wiped out the army, and was completely unable to hold on to Montina and Conseus.

Now the entire province of Songdia is a huge piece of fat, completely exposed to the minions of Baili Yan, as long as you move your little finger, you can easily gnaw a large piece of meat.