After the flooding, the Jin Xuedi people on the east bank of the outer lake stopped a lot, did not dare to cross the outer lake, stationed troops on the west bank, Bailiyan did not garrison troops on the west bank, the west bank is more than a hundred miles away from the valley, no matter how many troops are too little, once killed, reinforcements in the valley will be a big problem.

So the cofferdam was thickened and raised on the spot, and troops were stationed on the cofferdam, and the road was lowered to block the only way to enter the valley. At the same time, it can be stored at any time, flooding downstream, and it is convenient to attack and defend.

The design cut off the newly killed Central Plains thief, the morale and appearance have been greatly improved, and the people's hearts have been condensed little by little. After the second reorganization and reorganization, the new battalion equipped with captured armor and weapons has become stronger and stronger, and Bailiyan even has the confidence that the new battalion will have at least seventy percent certainty of victory if it competes with the same number.

Thanks to the flooding plan, a lot of saltpeter and sulfur packed in wooden barrels were salvaged on the shore and in the lake, and there were still a lot of black powder that were compatible, which was more than enough to scare and frighten the Jinxuedi people, but it was still a bit wasteful to use it only as a simple throwing gunpowder in large quantities.

Back at the station in the valley, life was orderly, and as many as 1,500 or 600 women were rescued before and after, some of whom were already wives, and some were only 14 or 14 years old, and the encounters were all extremely tragic. Bailiyan arranged for them to do some sewing and feeding work within their capacity to alleviate the logistical pressure.

The old pawns are still a little insufficient, they are the cohesion of the new pawn camp, and the team will continue to expand in the future, and Bailiyan is still worried about the all-pervasive Central Plains thieves.

That night, Bai Liyan summoned Jiang Jie, Bai He, Sikong Nan, Lu Gao, and Jiao Muhua to attend the meeting in a makeshift shack, but Su Hong was unable to attend the meeting because he was stationed at the cofferdam. The core military meeting was still only carried out within the Xian Army, and after it was passed, the new battalion was issued, and Fang Liang, Tian Peng and others were still a little relieved.

"It's June now, and this time I have gathered you to make a long-term plan for our army to hold on in the second half of the year. According to the general's judgment, the Jinxuedi people will besiege our army for a long time, so the exit from the outer lake will not be able to be used in the short term. For the sake of safety, the entrance to the cave in Xishan will not be able to be opened until next month at the earliest.

After the entrance of the West Mountain Cave was repaired, it was temporarily handled by our veterans. Jiao Muhua, the entrance of the West Mountain Cave and the West Mountain are fully entrusted to you to defend, you can be sure. ”

"Please rest assured that the general will not fail in his mission."

"That being the case, Brother Sikong, you are familiar with the tactics of guarding the cave, before the entrance of the West Mountain Cave was opened, there was also Brother Lao Sikong to assist General Jiao Muhua in defending the West Mountain."

"The last will obey."

Sikong Nan was born as a horse thief, and he stayed in the cave all the year round, and when he exterminated the horse thief Huo Xing, Baili Yan almost fell into Sikong Nan's scheme, and Sikong Nan instructed Jiao Muhua to guard the cave, which was not a big problem.

"The entrance of the Xishan Cave is both a way out and a way out for our army, you must be cautious and not disclose it to the new battalion for the time being, Fang Liang, Tian Peng and others are the same. lest there be another Central Plains thief in the camp and cause a catastrophe.

In addition, our army's food and grass can be held out roughly until December to the beginning of the next year, and although there is no need to worry about it at the moment, we must take precautions. After the opening of the Xishan Cave, it is not easy to go out of the valley through this cave in a large way, so as not to be exposed early. Therefore, I don't know what your plan is for the matter of grain and grass. ”

Sikong Nan took over with a short beard and said:

"The grain and grass that our army got in the previous round were flour and dried meat, and there was not a mile of grain, so it was impossible to cultivate land in the open space of the valley. In the end, he thought that if he could get some grain out of the mountains, and plant some wheat and barley in July and August, maybe he would have some harvest before winter. ”

"Brother Sikong is right, this white-haired thief eats flour all day long, and our army can't farm without a grain of grain. In addition, farm tools are also a problem, and if you want to cultivate, you must have farm tools. Bai Hedao.

Baili Yan Si Brew for a moment said:

"I think this matter is feasible, after the mouth of the West Mountain Cave is opened, send the old man out of the mountain to get some grains first, as for the farm tools, for the time being, use the extra weapons to make some charcoal for the time being, and it is not suitable to steal from the village, so it is very easy to arouse the vigilance of the Jinxuedi people.

In addition, there is another matter that must be solved as soon as possible, our army's wound medicine is about to run out, and according to Ben Jiang's understanding, the Jinxuedi people have extremely strict control over wound medicine, and there is almost no wound medicine in the villages of the Central Plains, and there are very few herbal medicines. It can only be obtained from the Jinxuedi cities and villages, so our army can hardly obtain wound medicine.

Therefore, the general decided that after the situation became clear, he would organize the veteran soldiers to supervise the Central Plains people who were familiar with local herbs to go into the mountains to collect herbs and seeds, so that they could be planted by our army in the future. ”

In order to curb the growth of the rebels, Jin Xuedi cut off almost all sources of medicines, and since the south, the Xian army has suffered from a shortage of medicines, which has now become an urgent need.

Wild medicinal materials are still the main source of human domestication of plant medicines before the agricultural era of backward productivity, and the number of wild medicinal materials in the mountains within a radius of two or three hundred miles is quite considerable under the current excellent ecological environment.

The meeting decided on a series of major initiatives, and in view of the public concern about black powder, Bailiyan for the first time vaguely depicted the great changes brought about by the advent of hot weapons a few years later.

In the month after the meeting, Etis, the commander of the legion, transferred 30,000 Central Plains people, filled in all the swamps on the east bank, and built a wall around the lake on the east bank, completely blocking the exit from the east bank, and began a months-long siege.

At the same time, the Moon God King Brenduo was like a bamboo, after breaking through Yuecheng and Yesui at the end of last year, and then breaking Feiyun and Mingzhou in May this year, the coalition army lost all the main cities in the middle line of the southern border. The main force was forced to retreat to Zicheng to hold on, and the last line of defense was close at hand.

In July, the weather is cool in the south, with temperatures of 289 degrees and occasionally above 30 degrees, while the temperature in the valleys and mountains is much lower, only 234 degrees.

After the entrance to the West Mountain Cave was opened, Bailiyan carried out a small blast to collapse the loose stones attached to the roof of the cave.

Although it is said to be blasting, Bailiyan himself has no bottom in his heart, after all, he was a good boy in his previous life, and he never even lit an artillery battle, so it is indeed a little difficult to engage in blasting. But with a scientific attitude and a grasp of the truth, safety is not so far away.

Open the entrance of the cave, Bailiyan organized the old man to go out of the mountain to find out the terrain, and the previous judgment is not big, the west mountain where the cave entrance is located is one hundred and twenty or thirty miles away from the outer administrative region of Posong Province in a straight line from the Jinxuedi people, but the primeval forest is dense, and there is a big river, the river is two to four miles wide, but unexpectedly it is found here that wild medicinal materials are found, it is really a place to find iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it.

Since then, some grain has been harvested, and in late July the grain is cultivated, and in August it is already on a small scale. In view of the limited flat land in the valley, Bailiyan actively cut down trees nearby to use for fuel, equipment and construction, and developed the mountains into terraces for cultivation to increase the area.

If the number of people continues to increase, the hills will undoubtedly be transformed into terraces. But it is undeniable that if all the trees are cut down, it will undoubtedly be a huge disaster for the local ecology.

On the east shore of the Outer Lake, after two months of emergency repairs, the Jin Xuedi people erected an arc-shaped earthen wall one and a half feet high and nearly ten miles long, sealing the entire west of the Outer Lake within the wall, and constantly increasing it.

During this period, Etis was unwilling to fail, and sent scouts into the valley many times, and was captured by the old soldiers of the Xian army many times.

The gypsum and clay found in the valley at the entrance of the Xishan Cave by Bailiyan made a camouflage outer door at the entrance of the Xishan Cave.

At that time, Sikong Nandu was in the cave, and it was also at the entrance of the cave that a stone gate was made of stone and clay as a camouflage. Bailiyan followed this method, not only made a stone gate, but also planted flowers and plants outside, integrated with the mountain, from the outside, no matter how far or near, it is almost difficult to find that there is a stone gate on the mountain.

The collection of herbs proceeded fairly smoothly, and more than 37 kinds of herbs were collected one after another, of which 31 had never been seen, and only six were seen in the classics.

It is worth mentioning that there are two flavors of medicine, which opened the eyes of Bailiyan.

He didn't know that in the inner lake in the valley there were aquatic plants that could stop the bleeding. After the trial, it was generally clear that the algae in the aquatic plants were working, and the millet liquid paste was more effective than the sun-dried powder.

This kind of aquatic plant is called "water sucking blood" in the local area, which means that it is chopped and applied to the wound, and the blood of the wound no longer bleeds as if it was sucked dry, and the hemostatic effect is excellent.

However, this kind of aquatic grass only grows in the water temperature of the water temperature, the temperature is too low to grow, so it mostly grows in the warm summer valley in the local mountains. Bailiyan pondered that if it could be transplanted to Xianguo, with the advancement of medical technology in the future, it should be able to extract more valuable drugs.

The second herb is a rare anesthetic herb that looks like a large chestnut, the size of a ping-pong ball, blue-black, with white flowers, and a blue-black fruit the size of a ping-pong ball under the flower, with a yellowish-white slurry in the fruit, which has a strong sedative effect.

It is a valuable medicine in the local area, often used to relieve pain, and the locals call it Lexian fruit. Baili Yan suspected that it was some kind of poppy-like plant that was addictive, creating pleasure and analgesia.

Lexian fruit likes drought, face yang, and is preliminarily judged to be a plant with strong adaptability, and a few years later, the Lexian fruit cultivated in Xianguo is as big as a fist, which has laid a good foundation for the extraction of anesthetic drugs.

At the same time as ordering people to go into the water to collect water and suck blood, they accidentally discovered that there was a purple sand pit under the inner lake, which contained purple sand.

In October, when the weather turns cooler and the wheat grows more mature, the first snow has just fallen on the Sendake Plateau, and the sky is still sunny in the south, but the temperature is colder.

The rearing of the camp did not go well, the population was too small, the population was too large, and in most cases the baili swallow was still replaced by dried meat. Therefore, for several months, wild animals in captivity were rarely slaughtered, and as many breeding and expansion of the population as possible, especially the loss of 300 or dozens of night boars last time, which had some impact on the wild boar population.

After seeing the grains, Bailiyan knew why the Jinxuedi people rarely ate the whole wheat, or burned oat soup to drink, the reason is actually very simple, even if the wheat of the Jinxuedi people is cooked in water, eating it in the mouth is like chewing wood, and it is difficult to swallow.

Only when it is ground into flour and made into cakes will the taste become much better, which is very different from the wheat grown in the Central Plains. The wheat of the Central Plains was planted in the cold zone of the south, which was extremely unadaptable, and the yield would be sharply reduced, so the Jinxuedi people gave up planting the Central Plains wheat after trying to plant it in the early years.

Soon after the wheat was dried and put into storage, it rained in the sky, and thanks to some geological factors under the inner lake, the temperature in the valley was maintained below 20 degrees, but the old man who came back from outside the west mountain said that snowflakes had already fallen outside the mountain, and the winter in the valley was still relatively warm.