Bailiyan only sent a small force to attack the southern flank, and the main force continued to defend the two gaps in the northern flank and the center of the river. The Jin Xuedi people changed their previous rampage, and only a dozen or more than 20 warships entered the gap for dozens of paces at a time, attacking the coalition forces with ship-borne bed crossbows and archers, while their large sailors were waiting on the outside of the gap, responding to the retreat of the enemy ships that rushed into the gap at any time, and did not dare to rush into the gap to fight with the coalition forces in a big way three days ago.

Around noon, Jin Xuedi's people gained a firm foothold in the shipwreck on the south flank, and the offensive in the two gaps in the north flank and the center of the river intensified, and Bailiyan immediately decided:

"Jiang Jie, give the order to attack from the shore."

"Yes, my lord!"

The battle horn sounded, the crossbow on the south bank bed was killed, the crossbow arrows condescendingly fired a volley of fire, and all the salvos were hit, and the gunpowder arrows and oil arrows were either blown up or burned, and the enemy ships on the southern flank were caught off guard.

The enemy ships tried to return fire, but found that the firing angle was far below the altitude of the coalition forces, and after several volleys, the enemy ships decisively sent small boats ashore. The coalition forces quickly jumped on their horses and walked away.

When the enemy ships on the south flank were all concerned about the south bank and the sunken ship, barrels of oil with black oil splashes on the west side of the south bank spread rapidly under the impetus of the river and flowed to the enemy ships on the south flank downstream.

For a short time, the river was filled with fire, and half of the river was instantly plunged into a sea of fire, and the billowing black smoke and the raging fire quickly burned towards the enemy ships on the southern flank.

Seeing Ji Cheng, Jiang Jie was overjoyed:

"There was a blockade in front and a fire after that, and the enemy ship couldn't run away this time! My lord, this plan is really clever. ”

Bai Liyan smiled lightly and shook her head:

"Hehe, which is the general's clever calculation, if it is the Central Plains princes' naval army, they will definitely not make such a clumsy mistake."

"What do you mean by that, my lord?"

"Our army has repeatedly set fire to the river with fat water, and the people of Jinxuedi should be vigilant. Even if the wind direction and water are favorable to it, our army should be on guard against unfavorable circumstances. Moreover, during the water war, the land is often a blind spot, so the princes and navy of the Central Plains have clear orders, and there must be eyeliner on the shore.

Now that his infantry and cavalry are all restrained by Pavins, and his naval army has not sent scouts to land, is this not his negligence! ”

"But the Lord didn't reconnoiter the South Shore last night, how do you know if there are scouts on it, and let people go ashore categorically?"

"It's very simple. Previously, the general had ordered the scouts to secretly go ashore, and only sporadically found that a few Jinxuedi people had been active, and after being killed by our army, they have not been active. The night before, there was a boat repairer Jin Xuedi who escaped from the north shore by diving, and last night they sneaked in a small boat from the south wing to spy on the wreck, but they did not dive from the shore. Later, when our army went ashore, we found no trace of the Jinxuedi people, so it was concluded that they did not send scouts on land. ”

"But if one hundred secrets are sparse and discovered by their hidden piles, won't our army be in danger today?"

"If they find our troops landing, they will fight back last night, and then they will flee on horseback. And when the southern flank finds traces of our army, most of them will think that our army has also set up an ambush on the northern flank, or there are other ambushes, and today they will definitely not rashly attack, and they will definitely move to the strong shore to be on guard.

So at the moment when the air is dry, the autumn grass is dry and yellow, and the weeds on both sides of the bank are overgrown, wouldn't it be better to put two fires on the shore and burn tens of millions of his people!

Moreover, they have suffered a loss on the shore today, and they will be moved to the shore tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, and then they will be given a fire, and then it will be considered complete. ”

"Oh...... The subordinates understood, the adults couldn't make a plan, first to lure the snake out of the hole, and then to throw bricks and lead the jade. If this becomes the first plan, the second plan will become a serial plan! ”

After more than three years of fighting with the Jin Xuedi people, Bai Liyan is quite familiar with the commander and tactics of the Jin Xuedi people, and when he found that the commander of the enemy naval army is not a powerful role, he has the confidence to fight.

At this time, the fire spread to the south flank, dozens of enemy ships in the east, west, and south could not advance or retreat, and could only flee to the north, but they were blocked by their own congested warships, and the scene was extremely chaotic for a while.

Seeing this chaos, Baili Yan sighed:

"Alas......"

Jiang Jie was puzzled and hurriedly asked:

"Why do you sigh?"

"It's child's play! will not fight, and the life of the soldier is really a big disadvantage of the country. Jin Xuedi people are stronger than the infantry army, although they have good generals, but only a few are pitiful, coupled with its huge military strength, the ability of the generals of the army is uneven, even if there are good generals and famous commanders, how can the generals under them be all rabble.

The commanders of the divisions in the Central Plains in the north are all elite generals, but most of the middle and lower-level commanders under their command are vulnerable. It's just that because it has animal power that the Central Plains does not have, such as unicorn horses, war fangs, and flying eagle beasts, its combat weakness has still been covered, and once it competes fairly with the coalition forces, especially the middle and lower-level generals, it will definitely lose.

And it is extremely bad at water warfare, it cannot form an army in a short time, and it is dominated by mediocre people, so it can not be defeated. ”

"My lord's subordinates understand, he has a body of martial arts and bravery, but he has no talents in the army."

"Exactly. Among the upper-level commanders of the military attaches of the Central Plains princes, six became nobles or cronies, and four became middle- and lower-level civilian generals. Fifty percent of the middle-level military attachés were nobles and fifty percent were commoners, while the lower-level military attachés were two percent of nobles and eighty percent of commoners. In this way, even if most of the middle-level and high-level generals are nobles with mediocre ability, there is still a place for civilian military attachés.

The Jin Xuedi people implement the aristocratic system from top to bottom, from the commander to the middle and low-level military attachés, almost all of them are nobles, no matter what their ability is, as long as they can have the power of Kong Wu, they are all military attachés. This has seriously hindered the promotion channels of good talents, resulting in the higher the rank of military attachés, the more mediocre people with ability. Therefore, although its national strength is strong, its people are weak.

The order was given, and each team concentrated its forces to attack in an orderly manner, and could not be pursued three miles away! ”

"No!"

The Jinxuedi people generally practice the hereditary system of aristocracy, and all fields of military, politics, and economy are inseparable from the aristocracy, and the talent flow and promotion mechanism is extremely poor.

Of course, the same is true of the Central Plains aristocracy. However, the difference is that the aristocratic system of the Central Plains allows the promotion of commoners, and the Central Plains does not completely block the flow of classes, but this class flow is poor and slow, but it can adapt to the production relations of the early bronze agrarian society.

The Jinxuedi people nominally established a unified and complete feudal system, but the coronation system of their religion greatly restricted the upward mobility of the common class.

According to the religious logic of the Jinxuedi people, the aristocratic system with the Moon God King Brundor's family as the core is a lineage of all generations, and the bloodline is pure and sacred, which cannot be defiled or violated, which means that the flow of the commoner class to the noble class is completely blocked.

Since the bloodline of the nuclear family is sacred and inviolable, it is obvious that the commoners, as pariahs, have a dirty bloodline, and naturally cannot be accepted by the noble bloodline, and even if they need to be recognized and honored by the church, it undoubtedly restricts the flow of classes.

The long-term top-down aristocracy has the advantage that the core power ruling group is closer, there is a religious balance, and there is rarely a kind of usurper with a different surname that the prince and the prince will be peaceful, and the world is invincible.

The evil result is that the aristocracy of the ruling class is seriously degenerated and corrupted, even though there is a large group, its talent density is very small, and the army is controlled by the aristocracy, and the middle and high talents of the army rely on the nobility to send officers. In the long run, even though he selected a group of good generals, the level of middle and lower-level generals was seriously distorted.

Of course, the Jinxuedi people are not completely useless, in order to improve the ability of officers and commanders, the Jinxuedi people have opened professional military schools to train noble generals and civilian lower-level officers.

At the same time, military academies for soldiers have been set up all over the country, which are very large in scale and spread throughout the country, and are used to train elite troops and lower-level officers at the grassroots level, and are also responsible for the overall training of new recruits.

However, the degeneration and autocratic power of aristocracy led to too few aristocratic generals and talents, and lower-level civilian officers, even if they were capable, could not hold important positions.

In addition, Jin Xuedi civilization and writing have congenital defects, resulting in their thinking efficiency is not high, the overall intellectual level is slightly lower than that of the Central Plains, and the density and probability of giving birth to outstanding talents are also lower. Their dependence on animal resources has also exacerbated their abandonment of more intellectual factors.

Based on the above two systems, the Jin Xuedi people organized the army into a legion, and sent troops in a group of two or three hundred thousand, and all the legions were based on the family system to establish a top-down personal dependency relationship with the legion.

Due to the poor ability of the middle and lower ranks, the Jinshedi rarely split the legions of hundreds of thousands into several separate battles. Even if the troops are divided, the quality of their equipment is far better than that of the Central Plains coalition army, and the probability of winning by brutal assault is greatly increased, coupled with the absolute advantage of animal resources, which greatly covers up this drawback.

In previous years, in the battles of Qianyue Mountain, as soon as the barbarian king died, the Jin Xuedi people would retreat, and the reason for this was that the death of the barbarian king was of course a great blow to morale, and more importantly, there was no core ruler who could restrain the legions, and the dragons were naturally going to retreat without a leader.

At this time, the fire on the water surface was blazing with gunsmoke, and the coalition army was full of energy, dispatching 40 warships to kill from the two gaps in the north flank and the center of the river, and the sound of explosions and shouts of killing was heard one after another, and the barbarian warships were rampage and chaotic, and there were countless floating corpses on the river.

The battle lasted until the middle of the night, and after burning, sinking, and losing more than 80 warships to the capture, the Jinxuedi people abandoned their armor and fled westward in panic.

"Lord Qiqi, our army has captured nearly 30 enemy ships, sunk, burned, crashed in, and severely damaged more than 50 ships, and about eight or nine thousand enemy soldiers abandoned their ships and fled to the north and south banks, do you set fire to them!" Jiang Jie suggested:

"No, the enemy's defeated troops have just come ashore, and they are still not far from the river, and they are very vigilant, and after the defeat of their naval army, the ships are not enough to hold the eight or nine thousand men who have fled ashore, and they cannot escape, so they must be stationed on the shore.

It is better to wait for it to repair and slacken, and it will not be too late for our army to set fire again. Collect the troops now, treat our wounded first, and immediately repair and salvage the warship tomorrow after repairing. ”

"Yes!"

Including yesterday, the Jinxuedi people lost more than 130 warships, and today the losses are particularly large, and many of them abandoned ships and fled for their lives. The remaining 1780 warships could not hold the sailors who abandoned yesterday and fled today, so they could only be stationed on the shore, and they could not escape.

On the contrary, they were in a hurry, and without waiting for the fire to ignite, these sailors might continue to flee westward along the damp area of the river beach, which was not conducive to arson. The coalition forces had just fought a fierce battle and were unable to intercept these fleeing sailors, so it was better to let them go ashore and flee to the lush inland areas to repair.

After explaining clearly to Jiang Jie, Bai Liyan walked off the deck and returned to the bedroom to sleep with her head covered.