The clipper chased down the river for two hours, and rowed back to the fleet in the middle of the night:

"My lord, the enemy fire is getting farther and farther away, and it should be the outer lake to go."

"Outer Lake?"

Baili Yan frowned and was suspicious, this could also be a trick by Jin Xuedi's people. It is not impossible to go north first, and then go back to the original road during the day to pounce on the West Mountain.

Thinking of this, he said:

"Is it possible that the Jinxuedi people will first go north, and then turn back to the original way during the day and rush to the West Mountain?"

"It's possible." Jiang Jie affirmed, and then said: "But it doesn't have to be like this, you can secretly discredit the march to the north, and wait until tomorrow daylight to pounce on the West Mountain." Tonight, such a mobilization was discovered by our army, unless Jin Xuedi expected that our army would not be able to see through its deception. But after several battles, the Jinxuedi people on the east coast have no such strategy. Therefore, his subordinates judged that if he walked in such a hurry, most likely he would not design to pounce on the West Mountain, but to go straight to the outer lake. ”

"Well, the analysis makes sense, they just ran to the outer lake. Seeing that they were in such a hurry, Mr. Su must have inflicted heavy losses on them at the outer lake, otherwise the cavalry by the river would not have made such a hasty overnight move. However, our army should not be careless, and immediately notify all ships that they will go north tomorrow, and all ships must keep an eye on the east coast, and report any abnormalities immediately. ”

"Yes, my lord!"

If you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, even if it is a small possibility, it may be destroyed.

The next day, the fleet headed north along the river. As the rainy season entered in the south, the speed of the river increased significantly, and the fleet arrived at the Xishan section of the river before dusk, and sailed for 30 miles until dark, and connected with Sikong Nan. The personnel were launched, and Bailiyan and Jiang Jie landed on the shore on a raft.

"There was something unusual last night today." Bai Liyan asked.

"There are no anomalies, and no enemy soldiers have been found to be deep, and the last general has sent a team of 100 people to infiltrate the West Mountain to contact the Soviet division."

"What is the situation of the enemy camp outside Xishan?"

"The three camps have all shrunk to the west camp, with more than 10,000 men and horses stationed, and more than 20,000 people are still rushing to the caves on the periphery of the back mountain to compete for the top of the mountain, and the specific situation is still unclear."

"In this way, there are only more than 10,000 people in the western camp of the barbarian army, which is really a godsend!"

Bailiyan originally thought that after the West Mountain was sealed, the Jin Xuedi people should retreat to the periphery of the back mountain, so that they could concentrate their forces to defend the pass and strictly prevent the landing and sneak attack by the coalition forces, and at the same time rescue the trapped soldiers and horses in the West Mountain. Now dividing the 30,000 horses outside the mountain into two is undoubtedly a taboo for soldiers.

The enemy will deploy in this way, most of them relying on the coalition navy to divide into two routes, and the sailors are not enough to threaten the land, and at the same time, they are worried that the large battalion outside the west mountain will lose their grain and grass.

If all the turtles retreated into the mountains, the grain and grass hoarded in their camps would have to be carried, and what they lacked most was time and manpower, and they could not spare their hands to move the grain, grass and materials in operation, and they did not want to transfer troops south from the east bank of the Delangisi River, so they had to make this decision to divide the troops. But apparently they didn't expect the coalition forces to secretly cross Chen Cang here in order to sneak attack him.

Sikong Nan explained in detail, and Bai Liyan immediately said to Jiang Jie:

"You return to Drangi with your ships overnight, and return thirty ships upstream, lest the enemy south of Drangi be suspicious and force their way across the West River. Then he led the rest of the ships to carry grain, grass, weapons, herbs and gunpowder, and transported them to Xishan to wait for our army to respond. ”

"Subordinates obey!"

The overall situation has been decided, Bailiyan is now most worried not about the enemy of Cupigon, but the Mooney Recruit Corps south of Derangi, although it is blocked on the west bank, and the news on the east bank cannot be delivered in a short time, but the strategy of the main general cannot be underestimated, and there are suddenly thirty fewer boats upstream, although it is only two days, it is difficult to say that it can be hidden from him.

With Jiang Jie's careful instructions, he returned to the fleet in the second half of the night and returned to Drangi against the current overnight.

Baili Yan ordered Fang Liang to send more than 5,000 people to change into Jin Xuedi military uniforms, of which 2,000 were equipped with auxiliary soldiers cowhide armor to take the lead, and the rest of the people all removed their hair buns, pasted their heads with gypsum water, dyed their hair white, and traveled for more than ten miles overnight, and hid into the mountains again before dawn.

Originally, he wanted Lu Gao to lead the army with him, but after he was injured in the lungs, his recovery has not been good, and his physical strength is not as good as before, this time he has to go over the mountains and mountains, instead of riding a horse, Bai Liyan is worried that he will not be able to bear it, so he continues to leave him in Delangi to take care of military resources.

The rain has made the barbarian army trapped in the mountains more and more passive, the coalition army has blocked the key pass, occupying all the surrounding mountains leading to the outside world, and the Jinxuedi people must fight for them one by one, and the dripping rain makes it more and more difficult to attack the mountain, and the arrival of the rain, although the simple black powder weapons have become not very easy to use, but the geographical advantage makes the coalition forces occupy the absolute initiative.

When Jiang Jie and his fleet arrived at Derangi, thirty ships continued southward to join the twenty warships patrolling the upper reaches of the West River, and the news was soon sent to the tent of the regiment commander Mooney:

"Commander Qiqi, the thirty warships that went north the day before yesterday have just returned." The chief said quickly.

"It's back! Just now? Mooney was suspicious.

"Yes, just now. The subordinates suspected that it must be the sailors of the Temir Legion that were routed by the coalition forces again. ”

"Let's go, let's see!"

Leaving the tent and riding to the river, the river was full of warships, and Mooni ordered the province of Po Song to transfer a bed crossbow to try to attack the 200-step civil war ships along the coast, but with little success, and the coalition forces did not dock at all.

The western section of the river south of the Derangi Pass was wider, more than two li at its narrowest point, and five li at its widest point, which could not pose a real threat to the warships. So craftsmen were sent to build trebuchets, but the effect and range were far inferior to those of the trebuchets with a range of two or three miles, and the firing efficiency was low, and it was useless without pain or itching.

Pulling out his binoculars, Mooney carefully observed every passing ship on the river, showing no sign of a water battle.

Of course, the Kincherdi had never waged a decent water battle, and Mooney had no way of knowing what remnants of the battle would remain after the water battle. But at least the most basic combat momentum and the state of the troops are obvious.

There was not the slightest damage to the hull, and it did not look like it had passed through a major battle, but it would be presumptuous to say that Temir's navy was vulnerable and left no harm to the coalition forces at all.

"It's not right!"

"Your Excellency, what's wrong?" The subordinate asked.

"The northerner warships did not fight, their soldiers were all alive and well, and there was no fighting state, and these thirty ships were definitely not going to participate in the battle."

"That will be Yabuk forcibly crossing the West River, and the northerners will transfer boats to block it."

"No way. Its 50 warships patrol here, and our army's more than 200,000 soldiers and horses are still unable to cross the river, let alone more than 70 boats downstream, how can Yabuk and 200,000 recruits cross the river. I suspect that something big must have happened on the east coast downstream, and the northerners are most likely transferring ships and transporting troops north! ”

"But there are more than 200,000 of our army in the east and west of Kechu Bigon, plus more than 100,000 on the east bank of Delangi, our army has at least more than 300,000 people in the east, and there are only dozens of boats, how many people can be transported in two days!"

"This is the key, the troops they transported away will definitely not be much, since there are not many, then why do they need to transport troops, it can only show that this mere tens of thousands of people are enough to completely change the situation of the war in the east, and something big must have happened to Cupigon. This is a bad situation, because we are cut off by them and cannot be connected from end to end, and it will be difficult for news from the other side of the strait to reach this side in a short time. ”

At this moment, an unprecedented sense of powerlessness came to his heart, and Mooney felt a faint sense of ominousness, he really couldn't understand what happened to Temir in Cupigon, allowing the coalition to transport tens of thousands of people to change the entire situation of the battle.

Thoughts flew in my head, and the rain became heavier and heavier. After thinking for a moment, Mooney said in a deep voice:

"At all costs, immediately send people across the river, go to the Nakikas camp to inquire about the situation, send a warning to Cartonson, quickly transfer the Yabuk camp in the lower reaches of the West River, transfer the previous 100,000 recruits back, transfer 100,000 recruits from our headquarters, one person with two war horses, go south to reinforce the Khubigon, first go to the Khubigong camp on the west mountain, if there is nothing to do, immediately rush to the Temir camp, the sooner the better.

In addition, the Delangi Pass offensive continued to be intensified, day and night. No matter how many casualties you have, take advantage of the rainy season to kill and wound as many enemy troops as possible and consume them! ”

"Yes, Your Excellency."

From the south of Delangi to the upper reaches of the West River to Chubigon, 100,000 people, one man and two horses will travel for three days at the earliest, not counting the erection of pontoon bridges, even if they set off at this time, it will take at least six or seven days to reach the West Mountain.

Time is fair, it is not only the enemy who is nervous, there is not much time left for Bailiyan, he must discredit the march to repair during the day to avoid exposure, just crossing a dozen miles of mountain roads, enough for him to spend an entire night.

Until the third night after landing, more than 20,000 people walked out of the deep mountains and old forests, at this time there were still more than 20 miles away from the camp outside the west mountain of the Jinxuedi people, but the sky was already bright, and the army hiberned in the mountains again, and stayed until nightfall, which was already the fourth night.

"General, the scout has come to report, the enemy army in the large camp outside the West Mountain was suddenly on alert this afternoon, and it seems that they have detected our army."

Sikong Nan detailed what the scouts had seen, and Bai Liyan hesitated for a moment and asked:

"Did it start this afternoon, or was it already on guard?"

"It was around the time of Shen this afternoon, and the vigilance on the side facing the West River was especially strengthened."

"That's weird, is it really exposed? How can we not rush to this day sooner or later? ”

"General, are you still attacking the enemy camp as originally planned?"

"Can the strength of the Western Battalion be increased?"

"There has been no increase in scouts, but if the enemy is prepared, there must be an ambush."

"But why don't you see reinforcements from the south? If the enemy is prepared, and he still has 780,000 new troops on the east bank of the Drangisi River, and 20,000 or 30,000 are transferred, our army will be very passive, but there are no reinforcements from the south. ”

"Will the enemy cavalry that left the east bank of Dranky that night, and without the knowledge of our troops, turn back here and secretly ambush me?"

"That's fifty or sixty thousand people, unless they divide their troops halfway, one goes to the outer lake, and the other comes to the west mountain. Even so, the horses could not be hidden, unless they came on foot in half a way.

Besides, the scouts have been staring here for two days, and today there is a sudden movement, but there is no increase in troops, so it must be that there is no increase in troops, but part of the troops is transferred from the periphery of the West Mountain to ambush our army! ”

"Then is our army fighting or retreating?"

"Fight!" Bai Liyan immediately decided: "If it is prepared, it can only be to defend our army." If we do not act tonight, the enemy will surely increase its forces here from the east bank of the Drangisy River tomorrow or the day after, and our army will have no chance at all.

In this way, the southeast of this place is 20 miles away from the enemy's western camp, and it is also 20 miles away from the outer periphery of the northeast back mountain. However, from this point on, it is necessary to cross the mountains and mountains for 20 miles, march overnight and repair again tomorrow, and after finding out the enemy's situation, go down the mountain at night and launch an attack. ”

The Twenty-Mile Mountain Road is not a two-hour road, it is 20,000 people brave the wind and rain, smearing and climbing over several roadless mountains, the road is muddy and slippery, the environment is extremely treacherous, and it is difficult to ensure the speed and efficiency of the journey.