Agreeing on the route of the march with Gongliangwen, Bailiyan explained the affairs of the Qiubigon Valley, and decided to break through to the north and first defeat the 60,000 auxiliary soldiers who followed behind the Gongliang army.

When they were evacuated from the prisoner of war camps, the Jinxuedi people plundered a large amount of wealth from the south, most of which was gold, silver, silk and luxury goods, and very little could really eat. Gongliangwen also wanted to take them all, but was blocked by Bailiyan.

Now that he has no life, what do he need gold and silver for, it is simply a burden to carry it on his body. However, Bailiyan only took a fancy to the meat of the more than 20,000 unicorns in the camp, as well as the grain, grass and medicinal materials carried by the camp, which could solve the food and clothing of more than 300,000 people for two or three months

However, Gongliangwen is an old and cunning family, and the gang is very bad, so after thinking about it, he decided to use gold, silver and jewelry as bait to set up an ambush, throw it at the ambush site, and wait for 60,000 auxiliary soldiers to follow, and suddenly kill when they loot, and the result is really a big defeat for Jin Xuedi.

At the same time, Temir was furious when he heard the news that more than 200,000 prisoners of war had been taken prisoners:

"These scum in Posong Province, I swear, I'm going to slaughter them! Nakikas! ”

"What do you command?"

"Go, give me a storming of the river at all costs!"

"Are the captured captives still chasing?"

"Of course, I have to chase, concentrate all the cavalry that can be concentrated, including Cartonson's cavalry, chase me and bite the back, and when I mobilize the infantry army, then encircle and annihilate them."

"Yes, Your Excellency."

At the same time that Temir was almost mad by the incompetence of Posong Province, Baili Yan and Gongliangwen routed the pursuers and moved all the way to the northwest, the wounded and the snow affected, and the day was less than forty miles, and on the fourth day, sixty miles behind him had already found the vanguard cavalry of the Jinxuedi Honor Regiment.

At this time, there were still thirty miles away from the meeting place agreed by Lu Gao and Bai He, and Bai Liyan sent an old man to contact, but the result was that Lu Gao and Bai He were surrounded and killed in the valley by the rebellious people.

Bailiyan had to lead people to ride horses to kill and rush forward to relieve the siege, and finally scattered the people's husbands, and also attracted the defenders of Jin Xuedi's people in the outer lake, and defeated them in a fierce battle, Bailiyan took advantage of the situation to pull the men and horses, and drove the 60,000 defenders who were holding the people to besiege the outer lake with more than 25,000 people, and at the same time urged Gongliangwen to move closer to it quickly.

Gongliang Wen was given the advice of Baili Yan, and dug traps along the way to arrange tripwires to delay the pursuit of the vanguard cavalry of the Honor Regiment.

When Etis heard that tens of thousands of "rabble" had come to fight, he didn't even think about it, and immediately sent troops to fight against it. Baili Yan's rate is indeed a rabble, more than half of them are people, there is a serious shortage of weapons, and now they are counting on defeating the defenders of Waihu to seize weapons and retreat to the valley, but after all, it is a hastily assembled team, and after killing two formations, they are defeated, and the casualties are nearly thirty percent.

Secondly, Bailiyan intended to preserve his strength, and secretly instructed the veterans of the Xian Army and the prisoners of war of the princes to shrink back when they rushed to kill, and pushed the newly coerced people to the front as cannon fodder.

However, the good times did not last long, and before Etis could be happy for two days, Gongliangwen arrived with his army and appeared in the woods east of the camp. Etis stood on the watchtower and looked at the countless figures in the woods in astonishment, and his heart sank to the bottom:

"Damn, they're all prisoners of war! Having let go of so many prisoners of war, is Temir crazy? ”

At this time, the head of the regiment on the side was busy and said:

"Your Excellency Commander, our army is surrounded by them on the east, south, and north, and if the prisoners of war attack it, the consequences will be unimaginable!"

"I know that I am not blind, but if they attack, we still have fifty or sixty thousand men and a fortress to resist, and Temir's reinforcements will return soon."

"But according to the commander of the Cartenson Legion, seventy or eighty thousand prisoners of war have entered the valley from the west of Chubigon, and now that the lake is covered with thick ice, if we attack from the lake again, it will be difficult for us to withstand the siege of their two or three hundred thousand, and even if we hit them hard, we will die a terrible death!"

"Then what do you say!" Etis asked rhetorically.

"They should break through immediately while they are not on a firm foothold, so as not to be annihilated by them."

"Are you crazy!" Etis scoffed: "Kabias and Temir must kill me!" Ordered all battalions to hold the fortress, reinforcements will definitely arrive! ”

Rather than the humiliation of defeat, Etis feared fleeing without a fight and becoming a scapegoat for Kabias and Temir. So he ordered to continue to defend the camp on the east bank of the outer lake, waiting for reinforcements to join in.

At the same time, Bai Liyan, who had suffered a "defeat", was ready to attack the city after meeting with Gongliangwen. The cavalry of the Jinxuedi people was useless after entering the woods, and they suffered a big loss from the trap before, and tens of thousands of people did not dare to attack easily, as if they were waiting for the infantry to arrive.

"Young Master Yan, how does Your Excellency Tusai plan to attack?" Gongliangwen put down the binoculars and asked.

"There is a cofferdam to the west, after half a year of reinforcement, now there are five zhang high and eleven zhang wide, the water is innumerable, three days ago I have let people go over the mountain into the valley, ordered people to break the embankment and release the water, wait for the water to pour into the lake, freeze into ice, lift the ground, you can first kill the men and horses from the valley, attack the earth from the west, and then our army attacked, besieged on all sides, can be broken without much effort."

"A good plan is a good plan, but the lake is frozen for three feet, and the cofferdam in the valley will also be frozen."

"Hehe, General Gongliang doesn't know. The temperature in the valley is much higher than outside the valley, the inner lake never freezes in winter, and it is very convenient to grow vegetables. Therefore, even if the cofferdam impounds water, even if it freezes, it is a thin layer of ice on the water surface, and it will never freeze three feet. ”

"When will the water be drained?"

"It's been more than three days, and the water can be drained tonight or tomorrow, and it will freeze in half a day, and people and horses can cross the lake."

From south to north, the Jinxuedi people will be surrounded by an earth wall on the east side of the outer lake between the two mountains, and there is no problem in spring, summer and autumn, the upstream discharges, and the water rushes into the lake, even if the water level rises, only temporarily, the lake will eventually enter the underground water system and swamps, and flow to the nearby swamps and rivers.

But now the lake surface is frozen, the water on the ice surface can not enter the water through the ice surface, infiltrate into the underground water system, it can only discharge flood water to the ground in parallel, and the east of the outer lake is surrounded by an impermeable earth wall, and the soaring water level can not be vented outward, and finally form an external cofferdam, the temperature is low, immediately freeze into the ice surface, and there is a layer of ice below the water surface, the water surface freezes again, the thickness of the ice increases sharply, not only raises the ice surface, but also enhances the safety factor of the lake surface ice, and there is almost no need to worry about ice cracking.

At present, the temperature outside the world is more than minus 20 degrees, and the streams in the wild are all frozen, with a thickness of more than 30 centimeters. The lake water with very poor fluidity, the thickness of the ice surface is more than half a meter, let alone walking, and it is no problem to drive a family car.

Once the flood is discharged upstream, the water level rises sharply and forms ice, and then there is snow, and there is no suspense about climbing the earthen wall from the west side of the ice.

and Gongliangwen made a plan, and the two worked intensively to readjust the deployment. Although they rushed all the way, the casualties were really not small, more than 40,000 people were injured and wounded, and more than 13,000 people were killed in battle.

This batch of intercepted prisoners of war is no better than Su Fangyi's group, only part of this batch is the coalition army and the civilian army, the rest are craftsmen and people, the combat effectiveness is very poor, and the most casualties are people and craftsmen. After the readjustment, it is still extremely reluctant.

One weapon is counted as one, and more than 70,000 people can barely be pieced together, and 30,000 people are left to confront the cavalry that follows, and only more than 40,000 people can be used to attack the city.

This siege was intended to enter the valley to preserve strength, not to annihilate how many enemy troops, so Baili Yan deliberately weakened the defenders of the southern path, concentrated on strengthening the eastern and northern forces, and left a gap for the Jinxuedi people on the east bank of the outer lake.

This kind of tactics of encircling three without one can effectively loosen the enemy's will to hold on and disintegrate morale, forcing the enemy to project his forces to weak points, and at the same time concentrating his superior forces and annihilating his vital forces, so as to avoid a situation in which both sides will be defeated after the group is surrounded and killed.

It was the afternoon of the second day after all the deployments were completed, and Bai Liyan inspected the new battalion. Tian Peng was injured when he acted with Bai He, and in order to seize control, the leader of the people locked the primary target on the head of Tian Peng, the god of killing, and more than a dozen people rushed up, slashing their arms and thighs, and almost cutting off their fingers.

Lu Gao has not recovered well since the battle of Duhui, his physical strength and energy are not as good as before, and he was also injured this time. The chain mail used for too long, the rust was serious, and the damage was much higher than that of the new one, and Lu Gao was caught off guard and cut through the chain mail on his left arm.

Now the only thing that can be used around is Bai He.

"General Bai He, after defeating the barbarian army in the city tomorrow, find sulfur and saltpeter as soon as possible, control them and transfer them secretly, and do not fall into the hands of the Gongliang army."

"The last general understands!"

"In addition, there will be herbs in the enemy's camp, and they will be taken away. As for food, grass and other things, there would have been other arrangements. ”

Although the appearance of Gongliangwen, Gongliangsong, and Gongliangxiu helped a lot, it was not a good thing. There were many Zhiguo people among the prisoners of war, and Gongliangwen was bound to collect the remnants, whether they were Tao Hui's subordinates or Gongliang's subordinates, it was inevitable that an independent army would appear.

On the other hand, Bailiyan, the Xianjun veterans are only a few small 2,000 people, if the base area becomes bigger in the future, Gongliangwen will inevitably share a lot of benefits by virtue of the Zhiguo army in his hands, and Bailiyan now has to take precautions to make trade-offs, in exchange for the current unity, and future political capital.

As he spoke, the camp suddenly became agitated, and the old soldier of the Xian army hurriedly came to report:

"General, the water is out of Taniguchi!"

Bailiyan was overjoyed when she heard the news:

"Let's go, let's see!"

When you come to the nearby mountain, a deafening roar rolls in, and the flood water up to several feet high is unstoppable, pouring down the valley and rushing into the lake. Gongliangwen, Gongliangsong, and Gongliangxiu were all dumbfounded. Seeing Bailiyan appear, Gong Liangwen couldn't help but ask curiously:

"Young Master Yan, this is the throat of land and water, and the soldiers must know the way. Why the barbarian army was flooded by you at the beginning of this year, this is unreasonable. ”

"This is also a major drawback of the barbarian army, which is also the fundamental reason why Zai Xia has been able to maneuver for a long time in his homeland."

"Oh, please also ask General Yan Gongzi to teach you a lesson or two, and Gongliang is willing to hear about it."

"Don't dare, General Gongliang is a senior, how dare Yan say anything to teach."

(End of chapter)