After making a plan, Lu Gao led the army to the southwest fifteen miles to hide, and Baili Yan took Jiang Jie and more than ten old soldiers to the snow mountains to explore the terrain.

The height of the snow-capped mountain is nearly 1,000 meters, and the slope on the south side facing the road is not large, which is conducive to the accumulation of heavy snow.

"Jiang Jie, go and call Tian Peng to me."

"No!"

Half an hour later, Tian Peng came panting and stepping on the snow:

"Chief, what do you command?"

Bai Liyan pointed to the hill on the side of the road facing the south side of the mountain and said:

"See the woods on the mountain?"

"See, you're going to cut down a tree."

"It's all cut off."

Tian Peng was taken aback:

"So many, how long will it take to cut it for what year and month."

"I don't care, you take the miners' battalion, just cut it for me, the more you cut, the better, just put the trees down on the spot. You are only given five days, and the more you can cut in five days, the better. ”

"Okay, let's start today?"

"Let's start today."

Patches of mountain forests are not conducive to snow avalanches, and the lighter the mountains, the more conducive to the snow rolling, and the felled trees will form secondary injuries under the impact of avalanches.

The miners' battalion was temporarily led by Bai He, but most of the miners were still convinced that Tian Peng had to be mobilized if they wanted to mobilize the miners. In between logging, Bailiyan climbed the mountain to find the best blasting point, and accidentally found a crystal clear and full of fruits, like goose down blooming ice velvet flowers.

"It's so rare, it's actually an ice velvet flower that has already borne fruit!"

Baili Yan cautiously leaned down and carefully observed the ice velvet flowers that had already blossomed and borne fruit.

"Jiang Jie, give me a dagger!"

"Oh!"

Taking Jiang Jie's dagger, Bailiyan carefully peeled off the thick snow, used the dagger to pluck away the frozen soil around the ice velvet plant, and dug down more than one foot and three inches before taking out all the huge roots of the plant.

Holding the ice velvet flower in her hand, Bailiyan said with emotion:

"It's so rare, legend has it that the people of Jin Xuedi worshipped this medicine as a sacred object, and they didn't expect it to be so effortless."

Jiang Jie said at this time:

"General, can this medicine still bring the dead back to life?"

Bai Liyan shook his head:

"It's not just a resurrection of the dead, this medicine is dedicated to treating the disease of malignant diseases, and the terminally ill often take it, which can save life for several years, and is regarded as the treasure of the moon god by the Jin Xuedi people. The most rare thing is that this medicine only bears fruit once in three years, the first round of fruit is only two grains, the second round of fruit is three, the third time is five grains, the fourth time is eight grains, and even the classics record that the most one has thirty-eight fruits, and the age is less than forty years. The plant in front of me bears seventeen grains, the color is black, and the fruit is ripe, to say the least, it is twenty years old.

Let's go, look again, there must be more nearby! ”

"No!"

Icevelvet flower, a plant with rhizomes like cocoon, perennial grass root plant, the longest survival period is 55 years, and the extreme case is more than 60 years.

Its root system is developed, thick and strong as cocoon white, is the main edible part, flowers, stems, leaves are secondary, its winter fruit, winter flowering, flowers such as goose down, crystal clear, diameter with the increase of plant age and increase.

It is commonly between three and four centimeters in diameter and grows at low and medium altitudes without pollution. The black color of the fruit is ripe, because of its unknown special biological elements, it is not yet artificially cultivated, and it is subject to this, and its wild population is not much.

Prior to this, the Central Plains only learned about the existence of this medicine in the south through the seizure of the classics of the Jin Xuedi people and a small amount of dried ice velvet flowers. Because it has the miraculous effect of resurrecting the dead, the price of an ice velvet flower in the Central Plains can be as high as a thousand gold, far more precious than ginseng and Ganoderma lucidum, which can be called a genius treasure in reality.

Searching the whole mountain, six ice velvet flowers were found one after another, three of which have already borne fruit and mature, and the other three have not seen fruit. A total of 7 plants were collected, and 41 fruits were collected. A few years later, after the continuous exploration of Baili Yan, it was finally successfully planted in the Miaotian Mountain of Xianguo, and the miraculous zero-degree germination and growth mechanism of ice velvet flower was discovered.

The fruit of the ice velvet flower will take root and sprout only when the temperature is maintained at zero degrees for several days in winter, in fact, it is extremely difficult to maintain a constant temperature of zero degrees for several days in nature, and the fruit of the ice velvet flower wants to reproduce naturally, which is undoubtedly a small probability of accidental events.

A few years later, it was found that ice velvet contains nearly 100 kinds of powerful and efficient anti-cancer and anti-cancer substances, which have a strong effect on cardiovascular diseases and thrombosis.

A few days later, more than 70 percent of the trees on the southern slope were cut down, and the snow became heavier and heavier, and the snow quickly buried the felled trees, as if nothing had happened. At the same time, Lu Gao went to the river, fifty miles to the southwest, to secretly cut down timber and build camps and rafts in case of emergency.

Bailiyan excavated two caves in two-thirds of the mountain, one hiding, one was a shallow blasting point, and the two were 50 steps away from each other, with 120 catties of gunpowder. Bai Liyan personally squatted in the hiding hole to grasp the opportunity to blast.

On this day, the scouts discovered the garrison seventy miles to the east and began to pull out the camp, and drove west along the gallop road, Bailiyan ordered Lu Gao to retreat thirty miles south to avoid the detection of the Jinxuedi people, and the two armies were less than fifteen miles apart recently.

The Jinxuedi people adopted station-style security measures, both divided the auxiliary escort forces into several groups, each group was guarded in different sections along the line, and the groups were separated by a certain distance, and the middle distance was responsible for the escort forces.

This kind of security measures are closely mobilized by each group according to the progress of the escort, because it is like a military station, Bailiyan is used to calling it a station-style escort.

Jiang Jie lay at the entrance of the cave and couldn't stop looking down, and he couldn't help but get anxious when he didn't see the prisoner pass through:

"My lord, three groups of 50,000 people have passed in five days, why haven't the captives arrived yet?"

"Don't worry, it's only more than 200 miles in five days, I think I should be able to see the first captive tomorrow, and I will be able to pass through here the day after tomorrow."

"But we'll have to wait until the day after tomorrow, right?"

"Pretty much, it depends on where they parked. If it is beneficial to our army, maybe we will be able to start the day after tomorrow, how many days can our rations last? ”

"It's only four days, and if you don't do it within four days, you'll starve."

"You kid used to be hungry."

Bai Liyan said half-jokingly, Jiang Jie nodded:

"When Gongsun Yue was in charge, many people starved to death in the village, and after Yongxing City Tuntian, the adults implemented the new policy, and the life in the village was barely subsisting, and I don't know what happened now."

"As long as the king continues to implement the new policy, life will only get better day by day. If there is no accident, the military warehouse in Jiekang should be able to have four or five million stone of military rations available, and other warehouses will also increase, and various localities will gradually reduce taxes and reduce some field rents to restore people's livelihood. ”

Bai Liyan is worried about the new policy of Yongxing City, all his efforts are poured into the large land, and he must struggle to go back alive.

The next day, the snow covered the sun and the wind did not stop, and the telescope was soaked in water vapor for too long in my arms, and it was frozen with a layer of frost, which was very laborious to see. But faintly you can still see the long line as long as a coiling dragon, lifeless and lifeless. He had traveled less than thirty miles in one day, and had traveled very slowly, setting up camp twenty miles east of the pass.

"My lord, they don't seem to have many pioneers."

"They are the Honor Corps, the veterans of the main army of the Jinxuedi people who have made meritorious contributions and retired from the front line, and the number will not be too many. The most are disabled, which should be at the back of the entire escort line. ”

The Jinxuedi people have an extremely complete military reserve system, and its sophistication is astounding.

According to Figos, the Jinxuedi people established academies specializing in the study of the civilization of the Central Plains, espionage agencies to domesticate the Fan, and military and political offices similar to military academies to train officers and soldiers.

Veterans who survived the battlefield have the opportunity to be transferred back to their homeland. These veterans were transferred back to the rear to enter the military and political offices, or they served as middle and lower-level military attachés to lead new recruits to reorganize the system, and then go to the front again in the following year.

Therefore, the number of these veterans will not be too much, and with the large number of prisoners escorted along the way, the veterans of the Honor Regiment of every 2,000 are scattered and diluted in the ranks of 5,000 captives, and very few can be gathered in a short time, and the threat is much smaller.

After nightfall, by observing the campfire, Bailiyan drew up a preliminary battle plan:

"Jiang Jie, you see, the mountain pass where our army is located is here, forty miles west of the mountain pass there is one of their auxiliary guard groups, with 50,000 people, and twenty miles east is the Jinxuedi Honor Regiment, with about 30,000 people. About twenty miles to the east, a faint glow of fire was faintly visible, and judging from this, it should be another group of troops moving with the army, and the number should be 50,000.

In this way, there is a distance of 60 miles between the two military stations west of the mountain pass and the east of the mountain, and there are about 30,000 people in the vanguard of the Jinxuedi people in the 60 miles, a number of escort veterans, and 350,000 prisoners. If we go further east, the strength of the Jinxuedi will become weak, and their next military station to the east is now eighty miles away from our army. ”

"So my lord wants to take the opportunity tomorrow to wait for the Jin Xuedi people to pass through, and our army will attack the middle of the army station group with an avalanche, and when the heavy snow cuts off the east and west, our army will attack its eastern flank again, but is this so?" Jiang Jie replied.

"Hehe, the son can be taught, that's right. Temporarily cutting off the pioneers of the Honor Regiment on the western flank will help our army capture the eastern flank and rescue more prisoners first. ”

"Then what if the vanguard of the Honor Corps of the West Wing attacked me in a roundabout way through the south or the north side?"

"Tomorrow's avalanche, there will be avalanches on both sides of the mountain, and the Jinxuedi people will definitely not make a detour from the north, but only from the south side of the road. Because the south side of the gallop is a forest plain and the north side is a hilly forest, it will be more difficult on the north side than on the south side, whether on horseback or on foot.

Therefore, the general had instructed Lu Gao to come and join the troops, and ordered Bai He and Tian Peng's 500 people to ambush in the hills and forests on the northwest side of the mountain pass in advance, and wait for the Jin Xuedi honor regiment to bypass the snow slope and go south around the snow slope to reinforce, Bai He and Tian Peng took the opportunity to kill from the north of the hill forest and attack behind their reinforcements and horses, and we also took the opportunity to go down the mountain and open the way with gunpowder. ”

For this ambush, Bai Liyan took out almost all the family funds, prepared more than 300 catties of gunpowder, packed them in fist-sized clay pots, added iron slag and stones to enhance the power of the fragments, blocked the exit with cloth strips, inserted the fuse, and ignited the fuse when it was thrown to explode.