The new annexed army and the new battalion trained by the Xian army before gave Jin Xuedi a long memory, and they all thought that as long as they were new annexes, they would be the division of tigers and wolves in a blink of an eye after being trained by the coalition army.

As everyone knows, Bailiyan used to take its essence from its dross, almost all unfavorable factors were put aside, and among the tens of thousands of people, only the capable fighters were gathered as a disciple, and a new battalion was founded.

Even if it is Gongliangwen, only 30,000 people have barely trained 30,000 people from a dozen men to respond to emergencies, and the others will not be able to engage in brutal combat in a short time, otherwise with the ability of the coalition army, if there are 100,000 soldiers with firm fighting spirit in their hands, they will definitely rely on the gunpowder in their hands to defeat the enemy in front of them.

At present, the enemy soldiers only chased 10,000 cavalry, which must have miscalculated the situation and overestimated the combat strength of the coalition army, coupled with Gongliangwen's stubborn defense of the Delangi Pass, which greatly shocked the Jin Xuedi army and created an illusion that it did not dare to withdraw easily.

At present, the people of the barbarian army on the east bank eat horses and feed, and after Bailiyan severely damaged his naval army, they have become tired, and they continue to drag on for a month or two, and the Jinxuedi people east of Posong Province have to run out of food.

The fleet continued to go down the river for thirty miles, and overnight put the infantry ashore, temporarily controlled by Sikong Nan and Yuke, and avoided hiding in the nearby mountains. At dawn, the fleet once again went upstream, and the 10,000 cavalry that had been chasing yesterday continued to follow the fleet back the same way.

The speed of the counter-current is only half of the downstream, or even one-third, and the Central Plains warships have more masts and better sail performance, so if they are not in a hurry, the Central Plains Navy will not paddle with manpower.

Manpower paddling has great drawbacks, although it offsets the impact of headwinds on speed, but increases the cost of manpower and occupies the combat staff. And the larger the hull, the more oarsmen are needed. In peacetime, there was no problem, and a large number of oarsmen were confined to their cabins during the war, exerting great physical strength and being weak in the event of a surprise attack.

At the same time, the oarsman must coordinate with the left and right oarsmen, and improper operation will cancel out the directional control of the stern rudder, so with the advancement of technology, the larger the hull, the fewer the oars.

When the two belligerents on the surface of the water meet the sideboard, they first cross the oars with the side side and break all the oars, so that not only will the ship lose most of its power, but also may kill all the oarsmen on one side because of the broken oars, so the history of the oars will be replaced by larger sailing ships in the middle of the development.

At present, the hull is relatively small, and the size is only one or two thousand stones, more than three thousand stones, or even five thousand stones, which are already super-large ships, such as the 30,000 stone "heavenly boat" pulled back by Changsun Guo, it is impossible to use oars, they are all sails.

But it is undeniable that it is not true that a sailboat with a relatively small size is not as good as a paddle boat.

In the case of a favorable wind in a day, the inland river sails against the current for up to 80 or 90 miles, if it is not smooth or unwinded, it may only be 30 miles, and if it is smooth and smooth, it can travel more than 2 or 300 miles in a day and night, or even more.

The oars boat can still sail 120 or 30 miles a day against the water and wind, and Baili Yan lets the sailors take turns to shift two, three, or even four shifts, and one day against the water can travel 150 or 60 miles, or even more. If the oarboat is paddled with the river and the wind, it means that the light boat in Li Bai's poem has crossed the ten thousand mountains, and there is no problem to travel hundreds of miles a day.

It was already dusk when the fleet reached Drangi again, and the cavalry of Nakikas arrived at the camp on the east bank before Bailiyan, and the commander of the pursuing fleet returned to the camp to resume his order:

"Chief Qiqi, no anomalies have been found in the enemy ship."

"They didn't dock?"

"Our army went north along the river, and when they arrived at the West Mountain of Cupigong, they were blocked by mountains and forests, and they could not continue to go deeper, and the scouts sent did not go deep into the mountains for more than ten miles until dawn, and they could not continue to follow up, so it is not clear whether the northerners docked and stopped their boats."

In fact, there was no docking for hundreds of miles, and Nakikas asked this most likely because he did not know how to sail and did not have basic navigational knowledge.

If the ship does not have a wharf, it will definitely not dare to dock easily. Not to mention that it is easy to hit the reef, the water depth of the river bank is very shallow, and it is impossible for ships to dock, and large ships will never be able to dock unless there is a deep wharf to dock.

Therefore, large boats are close to shallow waters, put down small boats to carry people to land, or jump ship to swim and land.

Bailiyan naturally did not stop the boat, in the past month, he had already figured out the water situation of the West River, and he was very familiar with the water conditions on both sides of the strait, and secondly, there were Jin Xuedi people on the west bank who were secretly whistled scouts, and the boat was stopped and landed, and the fire on the ship did not move, which was bound to expose the mystery.

So I had to get as close to the shallow water as possible, and let the soldiers swim and land while sailing. The river is two or three miles wide at night, and even if the naked eye can see the lights on the boat, how can it see the situation on the shore.

Less than half of the coalition soldiers and new subjects knew water, but that was not to say they couldn't swim. Most of the farmers and fishermen who were born in the water network countryside know how to use water, especially many people live a life of half-farming and half-fishing, swimming is an important skill, the difference is the depth of the water and the length of time you hold your breath.

Most of the soldiers of the coalition army were not equipped with armor, but only carried weapons with them, and most of them had no possibility of drowning. Of course, there were sporadic incidents of unfortunate drowning last night, but they were only isolated cases, and most of them landed on the beach unharmed.

Nakikas listened to the report of the head of the regiment, and the doubts in his heart were still difficult to dispel:

"Other than that, nothing else has been discovered?"

"I learned from our army in Xishan that a few days ago, our army's southward sailors encountered the northerners' sailors, and they turned around and fled as soon as they fought, and the northerners captured two large ships and sank several ships. His subordinates speculated whether the northerners would be brewing a water war in order to annihilate our naval army. ”

"How many troops does Cartenson still have?"

"More than 70,000 people, more than 40,000 people are still trapped in Xishan and cannot be contacted."

"In other words, there are only 30,000 people outside the West Mountain?"

"It should be."

Nakikas knew that Cartonson's 40,000 men were trapped in the West Mountain, but Cartenson did not ask Nakikas for help.

The first is that Cartenson wants to save face, and the second is that although the coalition army has tens of thousands of people in the West Mountain, there are only 20,000 or 30,000 people who really have weapons, and even fewer are equipped with armor, and the equipment is inferior, which is not enough to pose a deadly threat, and once it is attacked into the mountain by several times the enemy, it will be powerless. There were still 30,000 soldiers and horses outside the western mountain, and Nakikas did not receive an order from Temir at the first time, so he did not send reinforcements.

Just as Nakikas was hesitating, the off-the-books soldiers reported to the account:

"Your Excellency, the Commander of the Temir Legion Messenger has arrived."

"Oh, please!"

When the messenger entered the account, he did not bring any letters:

"Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, our army has lost on the Eastern Front, and His Excellency the Commander of the Legion is critically ill."

"What!" Nakikas was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "The legion commander is wounded!" ”

"No, it was drowned by more than 40,000 people in our army by flooding, and the commander of the regiment was so angry that he vomited blood and fainted unconscious."

"This ......" Nakikas was stunned, and just about to get up, he sat on the stool again, and his mood plummeted: "Didn't Your Excellency prepare in advance, why did you fall for the tricks of the northerners!" ”

"Alas......" the messenger sighed helplessly: "Our army took advantage of the release of the water and slaughtered into the valley, but we never expected that the northerners would be able to discharge the water twice in two days, so that the soldiers and horses in the valley were completely annihilated. At present, nearly 30,000 people are trapped in the mountains northeast of Khubigon and it is difficult to break through, the commander of the army is unconscious, and the camp is now leaderless. ”

"How many soldiers and horses are there in the battalion, why can't you break through?"

"The rest of the soldiers and horses have been allocated to the navy, and there are only more than 30,000 people left in the big camp at the moment, and the northerners will control all the mountain paths leading to the outside of the mountain, and the big camp will not be able to enter the mountain after two strong attacks."

After the flooding of the Soviet side, 40,000 troops arrived at the valley mouth, and from the valley mouth to the north and south wings of the mountains, they cut off the retreat of the Jin Xuedi people in the mountains from behind, so that they were surrounded in the barren mountains and mountains within a radius of dozens of miles, and they had to run out of food in a day or two, and they had to starve to death after three days, and the situation was far more severe than the situation of the Cartenson army trapped in the west mountain.

Nakikas had a cold sweat on his back at this time, he knew the strategy of the Central Plains very well, but the Qianyue Mountain had fought a lot of battles with the wind, and the Jin Xuedi people had defeated the Central Plains Coalition Army with their overwhelming military strength, including himself, and he had never taken the Central Plains Coalition Army in his eyes.

Now the successive defeats have made Nakikas realize that the terrible part of the Central Plains army is not their army, let alone their strategy, but the division of the Central Plains is the most terrible, and the strength of the divided Central Plains army is still so tenacious. Once the Central Plains is reunified, it will undoubtedly be a huge disaster for the Jinxuedi people.

From a few thousand people at the beginning, to tens of thousands of people, they can be killed to the point that they lose their armor and collapse into an army, which is fortunate that the Central Plains people have never gone deep alone, if they train an elite army of tens of thousands of people, carrying sufficient horses and grain and grass. The logistical problem was solved, and it drove straight south to the mainland, and attacked and harassed for a long time with the current tactics, with unimaginable consequences.

With a blushing face, Nakikas made a decision that he would regret for the rest of his life:

"Someone, order the headquarters to pull out the camp immediately."

"Yes!"

Nakikas decided to quickly reinforce the Outer Lake to rescue the Honor Corps trapped in the mountainous area.

At the same time, the abnormal situation on the east coast attracted Jiang Jie's attention, and the news was quickly sent to Bailiyan:

"Your Excellency, your Excellency, the enemy soldiers on the east coast are leaving the camp."

"Out of the camp, how many people?"

"Look at the firelight, there must be tens of thousands."

Bailiyan quickly got out of the cabin and came to the deck, took out his binoculars and looked at the east bank, judging from the speed of the firelight's movement, it was almost certain that they were all cavalry.

"It's weird, is this going to reinforce the outer lake or the western mountain?"

"What should I do now, my lord?"

"Send a fast boat down the river, if the fire is getting farther away, it is to go to the outer lake, if the fire does not change, it is to go to the West Mountain. Just go! ”

"No!"

It was impossible for tens of thousands of cavalry to march along the river and through the woods, so to go to Xishan and Waihu, they all had to pass through the main road northeast of the east bank, and Bailiyan could not grasp the reinforcement intention for a while.