The deployment was quickly adjusted, and 20,000 people were transferred to the southeast, and the smear climbed over the mountains and headed straight for the west mountain. By the early morning of the next day, the army arrived at the periphery of the West Mountain, looked north, and the Thumb Peak was faintly visible to the naked eye.

"Brother Sikong, look, that's Thumb Peak!"

"Yes, it's Thumb Peak. In this way, our army traveled less than twenty miles in one night. ”

Thumb Peak is an iconic landmark four miles southwest of Xishan, and is called Thumb Peak by the coalition forces because of its resemblance to a fist and a thumb.

At this time, Sikong Nan stretched out his right arm and moved forward horizontally, clenched his fist and cocked his thumb, and took turns beating his left and right eyes, measuring the distance of three miles.

"This place is more than three miles away from Thumb Peak, and you have to climb two mountains to reach the back mountain."

"Well, now let the brothers fix where they are, and at noon Ben will personally drop people and go to spy on them."

"Yes!"

Skipping eye ranging method is a simple ranging method that uses the principle of similar triangles, with the interpupillary distance of the human eye as the fixed standard and the thumb as the fixed end, to roughly determine the distance between the near and medium targets.

Bai Liyan taught this method in his early years, but he didn't learn much. Sikong Nan is one of the few generals who have mastered this method, and others such as Bai He, Lu Gao and others are not sure how to teach it.

The army was exhausted from climbing mountains and mountains for days, and its legs were swollen as if they were gone. The war was tight, and Bailiyan was unable to prepare leggings for everyone, resulting in days of running, and his feet were extremely strained.

Tian Peng's miners' battalion is equipped with heavy equipment, and two plate axes have to weigh thirty or forty pounds, which is extremely heavy, and they have to take turns to let people carry them on their backs to get on the road, otherwise he alone will not be able to climb three mountains, and he will have to lie down.

The situation of the new subjects is not optimistic, and the tragic war and physical exhaustion have made them feel that their lives are worse than before. At least as obedient slaves, even in the face of humiliation and bullying, they can still survive and live in peace, without having to suffer every day like now, let alone worrying that they will die at any time, so that the morale problem that Bai Liyan is worried about begins to show ominous signs.

"Fang Liang, how is the situation of the new vassals?"

Fang Liang's face was embarrassed and said:

"Is the general going to tell the truth?"

"Well, to be honest."

"It's not a secret, most of the old foundation of the new battalion has been lost, and the morale of these new recruits is low and the training is insufficient, and many people have no intention of fighting, but I am afraid that they will not be able to withstand it."

"If you don't have a living head, of course you won't work hard." Bai Liyan said calmly, and did not deny the current situation: "After all, it is better to die than to live, no one is born to deserve to die." They are all peasants, they are all dragged with their families, they are enslaved and oppressed, and they are forced to rebel and helpless, once they see blood, they see death, they suffer some hardships, and their lives are not as good as before, many people will be timid, they will be afraid, and they will want to be birds and beasts.

But this is not the Central Plains after all, the bandits in the Central Plains can still flee into the mountains and wilderness to support themselves, or surrender to the government, sit in prison for several years, and be beaten as untouchables, but they can still survive. The people of Jin Xuedi are all jackals, where can they let the anti-people live. ”

"But there are private rumors among the new vassals that as long as they surrender, they can still be the same as before, and many people are bewitched and hesitant."

"Hmph, it's just some demagoguery and deception tricks spread by the thieves in the Central Plains at the instigation of the Jin Xuedi people. If it is really re-attached, it will be cleansed by the Jinxuedi people to get rid of future troubles. However, this kind of demagogic remarks have to be guarded against, and the matter will be suppressed for the time being, and when the war is over, it will have its own decision. ”

War is essentially a predatory measure, political plunder, resource plunder, wealth plunder, all for the interests of the ruling group, the party that starts the war, in most cases there is no absolute justice and injustice, whether it is the party that initiates the war, or the party that is invaded, everyone has an excuse to provoke a war, especially in the feudal era, plunder is the main purpose of war.

For example, the most common trick of religious ruling groups is to wage war under the banner of "infidels" and plunder the interests of their ruling group, and it is under the guise of "divine people" that the Jinxuedi people invade the Central Plains to launch a war of land and wealth plunder.

As enslaved obedient people, the rebellion of the Central Plains people was often an unorganized rebellion after being oppressed, and their rebellion was to get rid of slavery and oppression, without a clear purpose and ideological mobilization.

When they are gathered unorganized, they often become a leaderless rabble, and when they are gathered under the organized Central Plains coalition army, their numbers seriously restrict the development of the army, because they have lost the identity and sense of belonging of the Central Plains civilization, and they are full of deep-rooted distrust of the Central Plains people and the Jinxuedi people.

If the Jinxuedi people are just enslaving and squeezing them, the purpose of the Central Plains coalition is obviously more extreme, simply to resist and resist, both horizontal and vertical are death, for the Central Plains people who hope to resist and get rid of enslavement, the coalition's approach is undoubtedly unacceptable to them, and it is even better to be enslaved as obedient people, because at least they can live and not die in the war, and those who have this idea account for the majority.

In the end, everything returned to the essence of war, and in the final analysis, the coalition forces could not bring any substantial benefits to the people of the Central Plains at the moment, and it was clear that death was not the result they wanted.

Talking to them about the country, they are illiterate, and they have no sense of identity and belonging to culture and ethnicity, and tell them justice, it is a fact that the Central Plains coalition army can't defeat the Jinxuedi people, otherwise how would their ancestors be arrested and enslaved.

People are motivated, see the essence through the appearance, and only if they really bring benefits, these Central Plains people who have no sense of cultural identity will give you their lives.

In the morning of trimming, when the sun was in the sky, Bailiyan took people down the mountain. Only over a mountain beam, it was found from the telescope that there was an endless stream of people coming and going on the mountain clearing trail several miles away, the number of people was about three or two thousand, and there were camps on the surrounding hills, and the scale was not large.

Deeper into the east, the main trumpet-shaped hill leading to the outside world at the entrance of the West Mountain Cave is messy with some camp tents, and the troops are all transferred to the mouth of the West Mountain Cave, and the chariots and horses used to transport stones can be seen everywhere in and out of the camp to dump gravel, and it can be seen that the amount of stone after the collapse of the West Mountain Cave is quite large. If there are not many landslides, the rocks can be piled up on the spot, and the amount of landslides is obviously too large when pulled out of the mountain.

About half an hour later, a loud noise was heard from the north, accompanied by the roar of rocks from time to time. Baili Yan followed the prestige, and a thick smoke rose up about three miles away:

"It seems that Jin Xuedi is a dog jumping off the wall in a hurry."

The explosion came from the main peak at the mouth of the West Mountain Cave, and Su Fangyi arranged for 300 people to bring enough water and food to be stationed on the top of the cliff, responsible for blowing up the cave, and it was extremely difficult to attack the top of the mountain from the bottom of the mountain, and it was impossible to climb to the top of the mountain without a rope.

Bailiyan judged that the barbarian army trapped in the West Mountain had been out of food for several days, and was unable to fight again, so he was rushing through the West Mountain Pass regardless of casualties.

At this time, the royal guest in charge of the guard pointed down the mountain and suddenly shouted:

"Look!"

Bailiyan took advantage of the situation and saw that the camp in the forest was in turmoil.

"Hell, it's oil, there's shallow oil here!"

In the distance, the forest was filled with black substance, and it should have been seen before, and the Jinxuedi people were busy covering them with sand, trying to bury the black slime that came out of the ground, and they were extremely afraid of this black slime, and from time to time people were smoked by the hydrogen sulfide gas spewed from the oil.

Bailiyan is almost certain that the black liquid coming out of the ground should be oil, and it is the Xishan that has destroyed the geological stability by man-made bombings of the mountain many times, so that the shallow oil underground is squeezed by the underground movement and spewed out.

This eruption phenomenon is not a stable normal, it is greatly affected by the pressure of the earth's crust, and it has not erupted before, which shows that the surrounding geology is relatively stable, and the pressure in the underground is not enough to frack the surface and spew oil out of the ground, so the sputtering phenomenon may stop at any time.

Thinking of this, Baili Yan thought about it, in this rainy and unpleasant rainy season, if there could be an oil field fire, how spectacular it would be.

After a little observation, Bai Liyan led the team to evacuate quickly, returned to the camp at dusk, and heard that oil had been found outside the West Mountain, Sikong Nan was surprised and delighted:

"General, can you also have the fat water spring of the Central Plains here?"

"Not only can there be fat here, but there are countless fat water hidden in the ground all over the world, and even in the sea there is fat water in the ground, and there will be fat water in Xian country in the future."

"In this way, if a fire is lit, won't the Jinxuedi people in the mountains be wiped out!"

"As the saying goes, when people are unlucky, they drink cold water and stuff their teeth, and when they are lucky, they pick up money when they fall on their heels, this time it is Jin Xuedi who deserves to be unlucky, they must not have seen this thing, they don't know the stakes, and tonight's raid will be successful!

According to my observation, there are only more than 10,000 enemy soldiers in the back mountain, and there should be 20,000 in the west camp outside the mountain, of which 10,000 must be lurking in the shadows. Let the brethren be ready to prepare, and when they have eaten and drunk enough, they will immediately go out. ”

"The last general obeys!"

After dark, the army quickly marched, and it only took an hour to reach the bottom of the mountain, and after crossing the mountain and walking two miles, it was the camp of the Jinxuedi people.

Climbing up the mountain beam, you can see through the telescope that the camp is still busy, and the oil in the ground is still gushing.

"Brother Sikong, you see, the land contaminated with grease and water is a few hundred steps in radius, and once it burns, it will definitely be a sky-high fire."

"Then I will immediately transfer my Xianjun veteran to set fire."

"No, wait until the middle of the night, when the moon rises to mid-heaven, and then the spring will spurt even higher."

The moon does not only affect the tides, but the movement of the earth's crust is also affected by the gravitational pull of the moon, which is the time when the moon has the greatest effect on gravity.

According to Bai Liyan's observation, the gravitational pull of the two natural moons around the planet where he is located at night is much greater than that of the earth's lunar gravity, and even in some seasons in the North Sea region, there will be seawater inflow at the mouth of some river sections, which shows that the impact of the two natural satellites on this planet is great.

During the repair, Bailiyan temporarily rushed to make dozens of rockets, found several allied shooters, explained them in detail, and ordered two Xianjun veterans to lead several people to sneak into the mountain and set fire to the driver.

The Xianjun army had generally seen the divine fire of the Shengyan Heavenly King back then, and it had a great blow to the morale of the army.