The Jin Xuedi people cut off all the main roads leading to the east, and surrounded the mountains one by one, but they could only be effective for those gangs who were not familiar with the terrain and had no maps at hand, Bailiyan had already surveyed the way to retreat, and jumped out of the encirclement of the Jin Xuedi people with more than 7,000 people, and quickly fled eastward, arriving at the camp in mid-April.

"My lord, this trip has been going for a long time, and everyone is worried about death." Jiang Jie said, looking around at the horse team behind Bailiyan.

"What was the situation at the camp during my absence?"

"The salt has been cut off for more than 30 days, and people are already panicking, and some people are complaining, are you bringing salt back this time?"

"Bring it, it's enough to eat for a while. Let's go, let Lu Gao, Sikong Nan, and Bai He come over to discuss the matter. ”

"No!"

Once upon a time, salt was like a mountain in Xianguo, and Bailiyan never thought that one day there would be a shortage of salt.

After detailing the situation with Lu Gao and others, no one was happy about the grim situation:

"The situation is extremely unfavorable to our army at the moment, these gangs and gangs are difficult to gather, and may even suffer from it, our army is still unable to annex them, this time it has dealt a blow to Jin Xuedi's rule in the periphery of Posong Province, and future prevention will inevitably be exchanged for more severe suppression, so our army's future policy is to preserve strength and recuperate as the first goal, and dispatch a small force of men and horses to disrupt behind enemy lines, so that they will not be at peace."

"But in the long run, our army will be trapped here for a long time, unable to return to the Central Plains, even if it can be entrenched here for a long time, what's the point?" Lu Gao asked, undoubtedly stabbing everyone in the sore spot.

"The Jin Xuedi people invaded the Central Plains in the north this time, and poured all their strength into the whole country to destroy the countries of our Central Plains as the primary goal, if our army can't share the pressure on the Central Plains in the future, the Central Plains may no longer exist! Ladies and gentlemen, the Central Plains is the Central Plains of the Liang State, the Central Plains of the vassal states, and the Central Plains of the Central Plains people in the world.

You have also seen how cruel and violent the Jin Xuedi people are to our Central Plains people, they will not stop if they do not achieve their goal this time, if they don't want their children and grandchildren to become slaves of the country, we should be in the hinterland, and we should do something earth-shattering, only in this way can we be worthy of the dead brothers and thousands of people in the world! ”

The words made the generals awe-inspiring and dispelled the worries in everyone's hearts.

"The general is right, the Jin Xuedi people are like jackals and beasts, if they enter the Central Plains, the current situation of the Black Turban Army is like a bamboo, the Central Plains will be tragically poisoned, and they must not be allowed to break through the southern border and go north to the Central Plains."

Su Hong said firmly, his eyes filled with passionate fighting spirit. At this time, Sikong Nan took over and said:

"If we want to be entrenched here for a long time, we must also have a foundation, and our army is currently small with 13,000 people, and it is extremely inconvenient to move, and it may be difficult to hold on for a long time without a foundation."

"I've considered the matter of the base." Bailiyan spread out the newly seized map, pointed to the Qiubigon Mountain two hundred and eighty miles to the southwest, and said: "This is the Qiubigon Mountain, and the local population means that the eagle has no eyes. This means that even eagles can get lost here, so although it is close to the outer ruling area of Po Song Province, it is inaccessible.

Jin Xuedi has entered the mountain several times to turn it into a fortress, but all of them have been unsuccessful, so he has planned to lead people into it first to find a way, and then discuss the matter of deciding on the foundation, what do you think? ”

"Since it is a place of confusion, will our army be trapped and killed?" Lu Gao said worriedly.

"If you can trap our army, you can also trap the enemy. Our army has a compass, and even more mastered the stargazing method, you can see the sky in and out, and you can rely on yourself. ”

The Qiubigong Mountain is a hundred thousand mountains found by Bailiyan when he passed by on the way back, and it is clearly marked on the map, because it has not been developed, it has attracted the attention of Bailiyan.

After understanding, it was learned that the Jinxuedi people tried to develop the Qiubigon Mountain in the early years, but they gave up several times due to unexplained loss, and they are almost familiar to everyone among the local miners.

After a few days of minor repairs, Bai Liyan inspected the rectification of Xinding. Su Hong and Fang Liang's 2,000 men and horses each are very different from the new Ding who stayed behind, who has killed and who has not killed anyone, who has seen the world and who has not seen the world, after all, there is a world of difference.

As for Tian Peng's people, all the miners of Bailiyan were incorporated into Tian Peng's command, first, he had the greatest strength, his ideas were relatively simple, his brain was simple, and it was not easy to pull the mountain. Secondly, he saw the consequences of falling apart this time, and he had neither the courage nor the heart to pull the mountain by himself.

He is still a reckless man with no opinions, and someone must give him ideas to instigate him in order to succeed, so this kind of person is a big benefit if he uses it well, and if he uses it badly, it is a big harm, especially when he encounters Feng Ming and others, Tian Peng may be abducted.

Feng Ming has always had bad intentions, according to Sikong Nan's report, he tried to approach Figos, Sixen and other prisoners many times, but was blocked by the Xian army, Bai Liyan pondered, this person will be a scourge sooner or later, and he has already thought of a plan in his heart, so that he can be used in the future.

Figos was honest, but the other Jinxuedi people were not so obedient, and several times they tried to escape, but they were discovered by the Xian army.

"Well, you didn't think about running away?"

Bai Liyan looked at Figos and saw a deep jealousy on his face.

"Does it work?"

"Just know it's useless, you'll be grateful for it all today, I promise."

"What do you want to say?"

"I have seen how cruelly you have suppressed our people, how you exploited and oppressed them, how you brutally killed them, and I will make you pay for it, and after that, you will be grateful to me."

Figges was stunned for a moment, his face was indifferent:

"You can't do it, we have far more people than you, your population outside the customs is only more than one-eighth of ours, and we can muster millions of troops at any time."

"Yes, you're right, you do have more people than us, but you forgot something, I'm not a fool to understand!"

"What do you mean?"

"If you really think I'm going to fight you, you're wrong. Did you know that you made a fatal mistake? ”

"What do you mean?"

"You are strong in force, but you are sorely lacking in resourcefulness. I've fought you a few times, and in terms of intelligence, I'm a qualified opponent at best, but not just qualified. In most cases, your victories are won by force, and you lack the resourcefulness to strategize.

And now, your Northern Expedition has transferred all the elite soldiers, so your rear is the biggest Achilles' heel.

You lack a capable commander here, you don't have a well-equipped army, your comfortable life is all from the oppression of slaves, once there are no slaves, your life is no different from the Central Plains, and your common people will rebel in the face of huge military expenditures. ”

In peacetime, the main army and auxiliary regiment of the Jinshedi people were maintained between 300,000 and 500,000 personnel, but in wartime, the rapid expansion of their army personnel required the maintenance of huge military expenditures. Although it is possible to reserve in advance, it is impossible to reserve materials with a relatively limited shelf life indefinitely with the current technology.

When a large amount of material is put into a war with no output, the taxes borne by the common people will increase sharply, and the expenses that can be used for domestic livelihood expenses will fall sharply in inverse proportion.

The net exploitation of slaves was therefore one of the most important sources of sustaining the deformed army of the Kincherdi. Once the slaves were lost, the military expenses of the Jinxuedi people would be transferred more to their own people, which was undoubtedly a disaster.

If the Jinxuedi people attack Qianyue Mountain, there can be substantial benefits, but it can also make up for the balance of military spending, but Qianyue Mountain is sparsely populated, the logistics pressure is huge, the closer to the Central Plains, the more beneficial it is to the coalition army, the more unfavorable it is to the Jinxuedi people, even if there are unicorn horses and other open animal resources, the increase in spatial distance will gradually weaken its advantages, so only the Qianyue Mountain can not bring much actual benefits of the war.

It is nothing more than to take a piece of barren land more than 10,000 miles away from the mainland, and they must attack the hinterland of the Central Plains in order to reap the plundered wealth, and before that, they must pay a greater price for it.

The people of Jin Xuedi imagined that this battle could conquer the vast Central Plains, but in fact it was a pipe dream.

There has never been a foreign nation in history that has been able to conquer a vast land several times that of a country in just a few years, even if the Mongols destroyed the Song Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty destroyed the Ming Dynasty, it took decades.

It is impossible for the Jin Xuedi people to destroy the Central Plains, which has a land area of tens of millions of square kilometers and a population of 300 million or 400 million, in just a few years.

The day after the conversation with Figos ended, Bai Liyan selected fifty veterans under the age of thirty, accompanied by Jiang Jie, took the miner guide, brought enough grain and grass for a month, and rode to Chubigon Mountain.

At the same time, the news of the attack on Blackgill Lake was finally discovered by the Jin Xuedi people who went to pick up the supplies after the beginning of spring, and the news was not sent to Posong City until mid-to-late April.

"Kabias, I just received bad news, we were in the blue camphor tree logging camp in Blackgill Lake, I don't know when we were attacked, and we didn't even get out alive." Gudapa said worriedly, a faint uneasiness floating between his brows.

"It must be those damn pigs who ruined our business!"

"No, it's not like the people of the Central Plains did it, it's more like they were attacked by the army, and it's ......"

Gudapa was about to speak, and Kabias asked unpleasantly:

"And what!"

"The auxiliaries who changed guards found a few broken short wooden sticks in the corner, and the front of the wooden sticks had excellent iron arrowheads, the same kind of weapons used by the group that attacked our construction site last year. I suspect that they are the Central Plains army, and their tactics are completely different from the other rebels, most likely the Central Plains army from the north. ”

"Oh...... My luna, you are out of your mind. Kabias scoffed: "Your Majesty is winning on the front line, how can their army break through Your Majesty's defense line, cross seven or eight thousand miles of no man's land, and come to our ruling area, are their brains, or do you question Your Majesty's ability!" ”

"No, I have never questioned His Majesty's talents. I just want to say that the vanished army of the Northerners should be taken seriously as soon as possible, and they haven't been seen for months, which is not a good sign. ”

"But Your Majesty's war announcement does not mention any news that the northerners' army has been moving south, what do you explain?"

"Maybe a routed northerner army stumbled through our line by mistake."

"Then why didn't they go back to the north, why did they risk starvation, and being discovered by us, to come to our land, don't you think it's all ridiculous. And for hundreds of thousands of years, the armies of the northerners have never appeared in front of us, a thousand years ago, and a thousand years later, the same is true today, unless they flew over. ”

"Okay...... Goodapa compromised, "Even if what you say is right, we should confirm it with Your Majesty, especially the cluster of arrows that we have never seen before." ”

"Just for the sake of a mob and your conjecture, you have to alarm Your Majesty who is far away on the front line, don't you think it's incredible!"

Kabias categorically rejected Gudapa's request, and the attack on Blackgill Lake ended in vain, and he soon requisitioned people from all over the country to go to Blackgill Lake to cut wood. Take a hundred times to read the latest chapters of "Imperial Claw Machine Book House" for free for the first time.