Quickly evacuated the bridgehead men and horses from the battlefield, Bailiyan transferred crossbowmen, applied bows and crossbow arrows to the routed soldiers gathered together, and then assassinated them with pikemen, avoiding hand-to-hand combat as much as possible. The two armies fought fiercely until dark, and the battle was over.

"Our army won a big victory in this battle, why is the general unhappy?"

Su Hong was very happy, but Bai Liyan said in a deep voice with a blue face:

"How many dead and wounded our troops."

"More than 1,400 people were killed in the battle, and more than 2,200 others were seriously injured, and many new soldiers were seriously injured due to lack of armor, and some serious injuries may not last more than two days."

"Where's the old man in the headquarters?"

"More than 120 wounded, all minor wounds, but still 25 people were killed." When the words fell, Su Hong's face suddenly showed a little loss.

"Go, get me Tian Peng!"

"No!"

When he was young, Tian Peng came, and there was still no repentance on his face.

"Chief, you're looking for me."

"How many casualties have you men?"

"Uh......"

Tian Peng's eyes rolled, and he didn't know how to deal with it for a while, Bai Liyan said at this time:

"If you don't say it, Ben will tell you in the future. Of the more than 1,600 people in your battalion, 227 were killed and 351 wounded in the battle today. Because of your recklessness, more than 1,000 brothers were killed and wounded in today's battle, and they all fell on the beachhead, you know! ”

"But, don't we also kill 10,000, thousands, that's enough!"

Tian Pengqiang dared to contradict the reason, but in exchange for Bailiyan's head and face:

"Fart! If it's you, wouldn't you be happy! ”

"Aren't we alive and well?"

"You really think Ben won't dare kill you!"

"I ......" Tian Peng was startled, cold sweat broke out on his back, and he quickly admitted his mistake: "I know it's not okay to be wrong!" ”

"Is it useful to know that it is wrong, do you know that so many brothers have been killed and injured today, and you will not be able to change it in the future. Hundreds of thousands of Jin Xuedi people outside, if we die one more, they will have to die a few, and if we die one less, they will die a few more, for your momentary pleasure, so many brothers have been killed, one sentence knows that it is wrong, can you bring the brothers back to life! ”

"Can't ......"

"From today onwards, let me go down as a leader, when to remember it for a long time, and when to transfer it again."

"Oh......"

drove Tian Peng away, and Su Hong on the side knew that Bailiyan was angry, and he didn't dare to intercede for Tian Peng rashly, so he said carefully:

"General, directly demoted from the captain to the head soldier, the punishment is too heavy."

"You know what!" Baili Yan sneered: "Just because Tian Peng disrespects the order, our army has suffered more than 1,000 casualties for no reason, and 3,000 fewer enemies have been annihilated. ”

"What the general said is extremely true, but Tian Peng has a high prestige in the miners' battalion after all, and they all listen to him, and rashly remove him, for fear that they will not accept it."

"The miners' battalion will be directly under the command of this general from now on, who is not satisfied, you can try! Let the battalions step up to clean up the battlefield, and all the captured weapons and armor will be transported back to the valley! ”

"The last general obeys!"

While Bailiyan was annoyed by more than 1,000 casualties, Etis, east of the Outer Lake, was angry at the death of more than 14,000 people in a battle.

"It's a shame, a great shame!" Etis angrily banged on the table and cursed hysterically: "Twenty thousand people were killed by eight thousand rabble, traitors who didn't even have armor, and they couldn't form an army, who can sue me, what happened on this day, how did it happen!" ”

"Your Excellency Commander ......" said the regimental commander carefully: "De Mono and Axon have both been killed in battle, and the defeat of our army is by no means the cowardice of the soldiers, but the cunning of the northerners, which caused our army to suffer heavy losses under surprise, and many soldiers were driven into the lake and drowned, not on the battlefield."

According to the reports of the surviving warriors, they set fire to the wild boars, used them to break through our lines, set fire to the tents and baggage, and charged the line with ropes tied with horses, causing our troops to inflict heavy casualties from the very beginning. ”

"Don't always tell me how cunning the northerners are, this is insulting yourselves, and your stupidity, do you understand! Use your brains to destroy them! ”

"Your Excellency, Commander, they have limited forces, we just need to take them step by step, force them to fight and occupy the consumption of troops, or force them to retreat into the valley, and then our army will deploy our forces and wipe them out, but no matter which strategy is adopted, it will take time, and we can't fight quickly, otherwise it will be easy to fall into their trap."

"How long will that take? Ten days and twenty days, or a month! Etis asked.

"It depends on how far the road to the valley is. And we can look for the entrance into the mountain from other directions. In addition, our army has brimstone and saltpeter, and they are stationed in the forest between the high mountains on both sides, which is not conducive to the spread of smoke, and we can drive them away with fire and brimstone, or even burn them to death! ”

"Very well, immediately repair the pontoons, and burn them with fire and smoke poison!"

"Yes!"

The day after the defeat, the Jinxuedi crossed the outer lake again, but this time only landed on the shore, and more than a hundred rafts loaded with crossbowmen and honeycomb crossbows leaned against the shore and waited for them, while repairing the pontoon bridge from the east bank.

Two days later, the pontoon bridge was repaired, and camped at the head of the bridge to the west bank, and it took half a day to temporarily build a solid wooden fence. On the second day of the siege and the construction of the city, instead of seeing the Jin Xuedi people increase their troops, they sent 3,000 people to line up and go straight to the Bailiyan camp.

Bailiyan frowned and observed for a long time, and all he saw in the telescope were archers, as well as some wine barrels, Su Hong wondered:

"General, there are few people who are bullying us, and three thousand people dare to come over and call for battle!"

"There are strange things in it, and all battalions are ordered to prepare for battle, and they are not allowed to attack without authorization!"

"Why don't you let the hills on both sides greet them with rolling logs and stones!"

"No, once the location is exposed, it won't work anymore, go and give the order."

"The last general obeys!"

At a young time, the battle trumpets sounded, and the battalions lined up, and the crossbowmen lined up. When the Jinxuedi approached a mile, they suddenly stopped advancing.

"Chief, why didn't they leave? Is there any bow and arrow that can shoot a mile away? ”

Fang Liang asked puzzledly, Baili Yan was suspicious. To be sure, it is not by the means of a bow and arrow to kill oneself, and there is no bow and arrow in the world that can shoot a mile away, let alone hit a target a mile away:

"There is something strange about the situation, which makes the brethren more vigilant."

"Got it!"

At the time of the stalemate, the archers of Jin Xuedi opened their bows and arrows, and planted torches on the ground, and the arrows were also different, wrapped in thumb-thick strips of cloth, which were soaked in grease and wrapped in saltpeter powder, and after ignition, a volley of projectiles flew seventy or eighty paces away, or landed on the top of the canopy, or shot at the trunk and branches, and some fell directly into the ground and inserted into the soil.

Seeing this scene, Bai Liyan suddenly realized:

"They're going to attack with fire!"

"What then, the camp is surrounded by woods!"

Fang Liang said anxiously, a little flustered, Su Hong took over:

"General, let me take two thousand men and horses, kill them on their backs, and see how they still light the fire!"

Bai Liyan thought about it again, since Su Hong could think of it, could Jin Xuedi people not know the reason for sending three thousand archers to send them to death?

"Do not be reckless, let the brethren be prepared to retreat."

"General, they only have 3,000 people, and it will be easy to defeat them." Su Hong asked for battle again.

"Listen to the order, prepare to retreat!"

"Alas... The last will obey! ”

Bai Liyan didn't believe that the Jin Xuedi people would be stupid enough to use only three thousand archers to set fire to death, and the mystery must be in the unopened wooden wine barrel next to them.

In a moment, a fire broke out in the woods in front of the camp, and the archers quickly opened the lid of the barrel, revealing the yellow sulphur powder, and dragged it into the fire and threw torches. In the next moment, more than a dozen wisps of yellow smoke rose into the air, accompanied by a choking pungent smell that spread rapidly.

Baili Yanguan yellow smoke dispersed, and before he could smell the smell, he knew that it was the sulfur burned by the Jinxuedi people. Because of the limited technical conditions at present, the possibility of other minerals and synthetics except sulfur is almost zero.

"Bastard, it's brimstone. Su Hong, blow the trumpet of retreat, quick! ”

"Yes!"

The toxic smoke produced by sulfur is mainly sulfur dioxide gas, which invades the respiratory tract and eye mucous membranes to form sulfuric acid and sulfurous acid, causing respiratory burns, pulmonary edema, vocal cord spasm, resulting in suffocation and poisoning death.

Due to the limitations of the terrain, the poisonous smoke of sulfur is silted between the valleys by the mountains on both sides, and it is difficult to spread. After the Jin Xuedi people released the poisonous smoke, they quickly retreated to the lake, and Bailiyan fled even more embarrassed, thousands of people withdrew from the camp in a panic, losing their armor all the way, and fled until they fled under the cofferdam before stopping.

"Su Hong, have all the brothers on the mountain withdrawn!"

Su Hong panted and said:

"Withdraw, all retreat into the mountains! General, let's flood them with water. ”

"No, after the poisonous smoke settles tomorrow, we will camp thirty miles east of the cofferdam, and we will not break the embankment until they cross the outer lake in a big way."

"But what if they don't cross the outer lake?"

"Absolutely not. The cofferdam is fifty miles away from the exit of the outer lake, the camp of our army is ten miles away from the exit, and tomorrow the camp is thirty miles east of the cofferdam, and it is twenty miles away from the exit.

They will have to take every inch of us, eat us an inch, they will enter an inch, and then send the archers out again to release the poison. Only in this way, if they are led into the valley, our army will be able to drown them with a single release of water! ”

The next day, as Bailiyan expected, camped thirty miles east of the cofferdam, and the Jinxuedi people set fire to release poisonous smoke again, and Bailiyan retreated step by step, and camped twenty miles east of the cofferdam for the second time. At this time, it was thirty miles away from the exit of the outer lake.

"Your Excellency, the rebels have fled into the valley for thirty miles, and continue to send archers to drive them away, and it is very likely that they will encounter the rebels to fight back.

The subordinate's suggestion was immediately rejected by Ettis:

"No, send scouts up the hills at once, I need to know a more detailed report from the valley."

"Will tomorrow's drive continue?"

"Send an additional 2,000 men to reinforce them, camp on the spot and confront them, and wait until the situation ahead is clear, and then march in."

Etis was worried that the road into the valley would be too smooth, and he would not be attacked by the rolling logs on both sides, which was most likely the trick of Bailiyan, so he tried to penetrate the valley to find out the terrain.