While Mooney decided to rush to Govinns, the Kincherdi cavalry besieging Govins was pinned down at both ends of the city, busy with the resettlement of tens of thousands of refugees, and at the same time beware of the Pavens coalition army leaving the city, unable to continue to pursue the Baili Yanshui army along the river.

So within a few days, Bailiyan divided his troops into three routes and attacked three places in a row, sweeping away more than 40,000 people from the Central Plains.

When they returned to Govins, the situation outside the city was changing, and the Jinxuedi people brought in war fangs and prepared for a strong attack on the city.

"Brother Sikong, when did the battle fang outside the city appear?"

"Two days ago, during the day, but the last general has already made the north gate and the west gate buried with mounds of stones, and the Jinxuedi people will not be able to break through the gate by land in a short time, and the general will not want to take it for his own use."

Bai Liyan shook his head:

"War fangs are masters by nature, and they will not easily follow strangers, which is really difficult to tame. I'm just thinking about how I can hold off the Jinxuedi people and keep them from attacking the city in a short period of time. ”

"I'm afraid it's very difficult, Parvens is a small city, it can be easily attacked with wooden ladders and collapsed cars, and the last general estimates that in less than two days at most, the Jinxuedi people will attack the city."

Not necessarily. Brother Sikong, you see, there are tens of thousands of refugees outside the city, plus the enemy army has 1340,000 people, and Pavens is the only small city nearby, and most of the grain and grass are obtained by our army, what do they eat! ”

"The general means to rob his grain?"

"Definitely. Brother Sikong knew that the Thunder King had set up a 'competition for food and food' plan when he attacked Beihai. ”

"Remember, the general wants to follow suit?"

"You think, this Parvens is the only small city nearby, and the grain and grass that can be eaten fall into the pockets of our army, and the other grain and grass are transferred from the vicinity to prevent our army from looting, or poisoning, or entering the official warehouse. If you want to transport it from the rear, it will still take some time.

Therefore, our army can take advantage of the fact that its cavalry is pinning down Pavens, and plunder and burn all the villages and grain along the river, and drive its people away. With so many tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of mouths, they all need to eat the grain and grass of the enemy army outside the city, and they have no food and grass in such a short period of time, so they resolutely dare not easily launch an attack on the city. ”

At that time, the Thunder Heavenly King forced the Jin army to retreat to Guangxin, trying to use the 300,000 mouths of the Jin army to eat up the grain of Guangxin and Dingyang, so as to cause the Xian army and the Jin army to fight among themselves, and then starve to death.

In order to prevent the coalition forces from intercepting grain, Jin Xuedi transported the surplus grain and grass to the small city, and poisoned the grain and grass collected and stored in the village, leaving the common people with less rations. Once the food is burned and the safe grain storage in the villages along the river downstream is exhausted, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people will have no food to eat out of thin air, and the food in the region will be reduced, and there will be a high probability of famine.

Of course, the Jinxuedi people could be transported from the rear, but a large number of horses and unicorns were pumped to Qianyue Mountain and Derangi, and the animal power and transportation capacity in the rear was seriously insufficient, and it would take at least a few days or even ten days to complete the mobilization, and it was too late!

After making up his mind, when the warship moved the Central Plains people to the city, Baili Yan returned to the ship without stopping and went down the Bedmis River.

Less than two hours after the convoy left Govins, Mooney hurried to the camp outside Patins, ascended to the lookout and asked the general:

"What's the situation with Govins!"

"Your Excellency, the northerners are stepping up preparations for war, and several collapses at the east gate have been repaired."

"How many defenders are there?"

"Twenty or thirty thousand, and sixty or seventy thousand Central Plains people who came from the exile, about 100,000."

"Then why didn't I see their trolls, their trolls?"

"I just left two hours ago, and went down the river to Bedmis."

"What!" Mooney was furious when he heard the news: "Why are you pursuing! ”

"The northerners have stepped up preparations for war in the city, armed a large number of Central Plains people in a short period of time, and launched a night attack all night in recent days, in case our army is divided into troops to chase, the subordinates are worried that our cavalry will be subject to refugees under the city, and it will be difficult to let go of fighting with them."

"Stupid, stupid!" Mooney was furious: "Immediately take 20,000 people to chase me, go quickly!" ”

"Yes, Your Excellency!"

At this time, it was too late to chase, Bailiyan went down the river very fast, and soon after leaving Pagens, he released 500 cavalry from the ship, and set fire to it at the same time by land and water, attacking 14 villages within four days, burning 16 grain hoards, covering a population of more than 80,000 people.

When the news reached the camp, Mooney was furious:

"These rats are really hateful, Norenga!"

"What do you command?"

"When can we storm the city?"

"We can storm the city this afternoon, but ......"

"But what?"

"We have less than five days left on our rations, and we may not be able to take Govinns in five days. Now one can only hope that the navy will be able to rush from Bograt to Palmins to deliver supplies. ”

"It's too late!" Mooney said in a deep voice: "The northerners left the sailors in Govins, and their warships are seriously short of sailors, and I have ordered the sailors to come from Boglath to intercept the northerners, and they did not bring grain and grass when they came, and now they are in a dilemma. Either the fleet would immediately return to deliver food, or it would have to pursue the northerners' naval army. ”

"Then we can only transfer grain and grass from other villages on the one hand, and at the same time transfer grain and grass from the nearest city of Leske, as far as the current capacity of our army, most of the unicorns are transferring grain and grass to the army west of Yasai Falls, and Leske's transportation capacity is seriously insufficient, and it will take seven or eight days to arrive at the earliest."

"Then transfer grain to the surrounding villages, move the horses to Leske to transport grain, and at the same time give me a siege of the city, at all costs!"

"Yes, Your Excellency!"

Soon after the siege began, it was quickly met with a strong counterattack by the allied forces with gunpowder and oil, and the losses were extremely heavy.

At the same time, three days later, the Mooney camp had 80,000 more mouths, and the rations transported nearby could no longer meet the livelihood of nearly 200,000 people, and each person could only share one meal a day, and the siege was forced to be suspended.

On the same day that the coalition ships left the mouth of the Bedmis River and sailed towards the Waterfall River, they were intercepted head-on by the Kinsordi sailors.

"My lord, there are at least more than 300 enemy ships, all of them are fully loaded!"

Jiang Jie said nervously, Bai Liyan was secretly surprised in her heart, and her face was still calm:

"I see it."

"The enemy is outnumbered, how can our army respond?"

Bailiyan glanced at the sky, just after noon, there was no abnormality.

"How far away is the enemy ship?"

"Less than thirty miles."

"What's the wind right now?"

"The northwest wind, if we face each other, the enemy will come from the west and the wind will be favorable, and the enemy will not be good for me."

"Measure the depth of the water!"

"Ahh Jiang Jie was surprised.

"Don't be stunned, measure the depth of the water for me!"

"Yes!"

When he was young, Jiang Jie put down the rope with the lead ingot and measured the depth of the water:

"Lord Qiqi, the depth of the water where my ship is located is about one zhang and four feet, and it is estimated that the depth near the center of the river is about two zhang to two and a half zhang."

Bai Liyan twisted her short beard and looked at both sides of the strait, thought for a moment and said:

"Order, sixty two-thousand-stone ships dismantle and transfer bed crossbows and cargo to other ships, face the sides of the ships along the river, and line up horizontally, with a distance of ten steps from the end to the end, and thirty steps from the north and south banks to the shore, and lay down the anchor and sink themselves."

Jiang Jie was taken aback when he heard the news:

"My lord, before a battle was fought, he sank sixty warships, which is too embarrassing for his own majesty!"

"Go quickly, it's too late to take you!"

"Oh......"

The competition for water warfare is not only technology and military strength, but also the contention of water surface space, it is the dry season, because the south is located in a high latitude area, the snow melt and freeze the snow in the snow-capped mountains, so the dry water is more than the dry water in the north, the average narrowing of the riverbed is more than 40 percent, and the river surface that should have been more than four miles wide is now less than three miles.