After surveying the scene, Bai Liyan avoided the road, plunged into the nearby woods and continued to march westward, walked for two days and found a village inhabited by the Central Plains, but the patrol team disappeared, and the maintenance team took the auxiliary soldiers of the Jin Xuedi people to search for suspicious villagers in the village, and Bai Liyan realized that the corpses found two days ago were the local auxiliary soldiers of the Jin Xuedi people, and they were led elsewhere for unknown reasons to be killed by the partners.

In order to monitor and suppress the descendants of the Central Plains, the Jin Xuedi people built castles between several villages and small cities, and stationed 1,000 or 1,005 auxiliary soldiers, riding crossbows and mixed formations, relying on the population of the surrounding Jin Xuedi people's small cities to deter the Central Plains descendants.

In the main passes, auxiliary legionnaires are stationed, forming a ruling model with the small city as the core and the maintenance team, auxiliary soldiers, and auxiliary corps as the backbone.

There are more than 5 million Jinxuedi people in the entire Posong Province, and the descendants of the Central Plains are only one-tenth of them, and the large and small cities prohibit the vast majority of the Central Plains people from entering, thus forming a situation in which the absolute majority is overhanded and the absolute minority is ruled by the absolute minority.

Auxiliary patrol is an important deterrent means to maintain local law and order on weekdays, as little as two or three hundred, as many as four or five hundred, generally few people will take the initiative to ambush them, but this time unfortunately they were bumped into by Bailiyan, because the body of the companion has not yet been found, the Jin Xuedi people have no way of knowing the scale and means of the attack.

"General, there are only more than a thousand white-haired thieves in the village, shall we do it?" Su Hong suggested.

"No, they will expand the search area, and if we reveal our whereabouts, we will likely be besieged by them.

In my opinion, our army will retreat into the forest for the time being, find a place to camp, and then after dark, you will lead one or two hundred people into the village, and touch a few of them quietly first. Touch a few today, touch a few tomorrow, and give him a few stuffy sticks every once in a while, so that they will lose a handful of people unconsciously. ”

"Hehe, I think it's good to pay attention to this, and I'll go and choose someone in the end."

"Remember, do it if you are sure, withdraw if you are not sure, and it is best not to expose it."

"The last general understands!"

Baili Yan fell and quickly retreated into the forest, set up camp in the back mountain, Su Hong entered the village that night, touched eight people at once, and touched eleven the next day, and then acted silently for several days, Jin Xuedi people were furious, crazy all over the world to search, and their eyes quickly turned to the forest in the east.

On this day, the sky was dark, and Bailiyan inspected the trap being laid:

"Chief, what are we doing digging so many traps for days?" Fang Liang asked puzzled.

"A few days ago, we touched 19 of them, and in the past two days, the strength of the village has increased to 2,000, and most of them are going into the forest to search the mountains. Although there are many of us, we can't confront them, and after digging and trapping, we will immediately evacuate north and go to their stronghold. Their stronghold was weak at this time, and they could be captured with a single blow. ”

"But the traps can't kill them all."

"You can't kill them, but you can anger them, and make them misjudge that there is a group of men entrenched near this forest."

From the day Su Hong attacked, Bailiyan set up thousands of traps everywhere in the forest, evacuated it, inserted a wooden stick into it, and opened the mechanism. Although not all of them can work, as long as they kill and injure dozens of him, one or two hundred people, it is enough to make Jin Xuedi's people search all over the mountains and fields and drag on for a while.

Quickly eliminated the traces of camping, disguised as the illusion of hundreds of people settling down and moving, Bai Liyan quickly moved north with his men and horses. Half a day later, under the guidance of the maintenance team, the Jinxuedi people quickly entered the mountain, and soon encountered various traps on the ground and ground, killing and wounding dozens of people.

That night, Bai Liyan led his troops to a small road fifteen miles east of the Jin Xuedi stronghold, and a very strange city fortress was faintly visible in the telescope. The fortress was not large, and at most it could hide three to five thousand people, and if there were horses, there might be fewer soldiers.

The perimeter of the fortress is a stone wall made of bricks, more than two zhang high, and the center of the brick wall resembles a castle.

The castle is built around a rooftop that is more than 10 meters high, with an area of more than 100 square meters, a fire stove and crossbowmen looking back and forth.

With the Central Plains region of the Tusai is no longer above the level of a building, its defense function is all-round, once a large number of archers are deployed, almost from high to low coverage, the control surface is huge, unless it is under the city wall, there are not too many dead angles in the field of vision.

Not to mention that the regular army of the Central Plains fought hard, and the surrounding descendants of the Central Plains had no ability to shake such a small castle.

"General, shall we fight or not?" Su Hong was already eager to try, and he couldn't wait to get rid of the castle.

"I just rushed here, and the wall is so high, it is completely different from the shape of the Central Plains City Fortress, we don't know the reality inside, and it is not cost-effective to fight now. You first have people go over and find out. I pondered that their troops had been transferred to nearby villages, and there wouldn't be too many people in them. If you want to fight, you have to plan carefully before fighting, in case you bite a hard bone and break your teeth, it will not be good. ”

Bailiyan is worried that he is not familiar with the place, and the exotic customs will not be able to protect any moths. Those who went out to investigate were also veterans of the Xian Army, and Bailiyan didn't dare to let the raw hands fly solo.

After agreeing with Su Hong, Bai Liyan returned to the camp, and Tian Peng was eating fried noodles and dried meat, which could feed three adults for one person, and the consumption was extremely amazing. Chow mein is a dry food fried with wheat flour and barley flour and salt, and it is easy to eat after mixing it with water to form a dumpling.

Since the Jinxuedi people do not eat rice, wheat, oats, and barley are all ground into flour and made into cakes between steamed bread and bread, which are more than half an inch thick and more than one palm wide, and one person is full of two tubes, so the seized rations are all powdered.

Bringing Tian Peng and Fang Liang together, Bai Liyan said:

"I figured that there wouldn't be too many defenders in the castle, about a few hundred. So ......"

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Tian Peng said in a thick voice:

"Then what are you waiting for, if you kill it and cut it down, it's over."

Bai Liyan didn't mind his recklessness, and instead continued:

"There are a lot of us, but it doesn't help if we can't get into the castle. I have asked people to go to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, as long as there is an opportunity, tonight Tian Peng will take the lead, Fang Liang ......"

"Of course, there is no ambiguity in killing the white-haired thief!"

Tian Peng croaked, not at all because he interrupted Bai Liyan's speech, and he was a little polite.

At the next moment, Bai Liyan continued with the unfinished words:

"Brother Fang Liang will pick two hundred new soldiers from his command, and I will pick two hundred new soldiers and one hundred old soldiers from Su Hong's command, if the number of enemies changes, you can send a few more people."

"Then why don't you go out together, wouldn't the odds be greater?" Fang Liang was puzzled.

"There are 4,000 people in our army here, and the people of Jin Xuedi have not yet noticed the traces of our army, and they do not know the details of our army. To deal with the defenders of several hundred people, it is easy to attract the main force of the Jinxuedi people to besiege our army.

Moreover, there is a beacon tower in the castle, and if our army attacks the castle, they will inevitably send out a warning signal, so it is necessary to arrange another division of men and horses to divert the attention of the Jinxuedi people to cover the direction of our army's main force.

Therefore, after the castle was laid, our army immediately returned to yesterday's location by the same route, so that the Jin Xuedi people who searched the mountains today were bound to rush back to the castle in the starry night to rescue. They never imagined that our army would turn back to the place they had already searched, and that it would be safer. ”

"The leader's mind is unpredictable."

Fang Liang was respectful, but Bai Liyan disagreed:

"It's not that I'm unpredictable, it's that you've been alienated from the Central Plains and don't know the depths."

The wisdom of the Central Plains civilization is actually far above the Jin Xuedi people, and the iron tools of the Jin Xuedi people are more popular and developed than the Central Plains, and they have animal resources that the Central Plains do not have to serve their wars, resulting in fundamental changes in the form of warfare and technical means.

At the height of the moon, the two groups of scouts sent returned to the camp, and Su Hong inquired about the details, and then reported the situation to Bailiyan:

"General, this brick and stone wall is really very high, more than two feet high, and there is no place to put your feet around. There are two gates, east and west, and the iron fence is used, and there is no moat or moat, so you can only find a way to open the iron fence to enter. ”

"How many defenders are there?" Bai Liyan asked.

"About 100 people were found on the city, if it is according to the rules of our Central Plains Army, even if the garrison is empty, how can the garrison have 400 people."

"Then count it as five hundred, and we will add another hundred and send seven hundred to kill them."

"But how do you get in? Even if you quietly enter the city, if you want to open the iron fence, it is impossible not to have the slightest movement, if there are fewer people, it will not be used, and if there are more people, it may be exposed in advance and planted inside. ”

The castle's guard is centered on the central tower, and the city wall is the outer warning area, even if a few sentries are touched on the city wall, the view of the central guard area of the central tower still covers the city wall at 360 degrees.

But it is impossible to kill the central tower warning area first, so the Central Plains is accustomed to climbing over the wall to enter the city, first killing individual sentries at the head of the city, and opening the gap to deal with the castle of the Jinxuedi people, which is useless

After thinking for a while, Baili Yan came up with a plan:

"Su Hong, find three or five people from the old pawn who can throw flying stones, sneak me to the city, and then look at the city, smash one or two of them to death, and then run away."

"General, isn't this a scareless snake, what use can it be?"

"Do you think that if you are guarding the castle in the rear with four or five hundred men, and your brothers are plotting against the untouchables, do you think you can give up?"

"Of course not, I'll have to kill him immediately."

"That's right. You find a few people, sneak me outside the west gate, smash me with flying stones, and run away if you don't come out, you continue to find a way to smash them. I pondered that most of these people would not take the descendants of the Central Plains in their eyes, and most of them would come out to take revenge on you, and as long as they came out of the West Gate, we would kill them through the West Gate. ”

"But what if you don't come out?"

"I will take the men to wait outside the east gate, and if the west gate is not opened, there will be many more defenders at the west gate than at the east gate, and their attention will be focused on the west gate, so I will climb over the wall through the east gate and go in. When the defenders of the west gate were attracted to the east gate, Fang Liang and Tianpeng climbed over the wall from the west of the city to attack. ”

"Well, the last general will go and arrange it immediately."

In fact, this is like attacking the police, in the rear where law and order are relatively calm, sporadic attacks on the police are bound to cause a strong backlash from the police. What's more, where are the policemen of Jin Xuedi, they are simply wolves, and a few chaotic people take advantage of the darkness to provoke them, and they must be severely punished.

After agreeing with Su Hong, Bailiyan informed Fang Liang and Tian Peng of the plan, and the group attacked in the starry night, two miles away from the castle, the soldiers were divided into east and west, Fang Liang and Tian Peng led 700 people to detour to the west gate, and Bailiyan detoured to the east gate, hiding in the shadows.