In January, the Jin Xuedi people continued to attack the city and plunder the Qianyue Mountain, and at the same time, the Black Turban Army also launched its largest offensive since the uprising, crossing the Sishui River from the north and south flanks, and approaching the Sun Kingdom itself.

In February, when the temperature rose in Po Song Province and the snow melted, the Jinxuedi people strengthened the strength of the fortresses in various places, increasing the number of defenders of 5,000 to 10,000 and the garrison of 8,000 to 15,000, and setting up beacons along the way to guard against the siege of the rebels.

The hundred-mile swallow turtle retreated in the forest on the bank of the Womas Lake to recuperate, recuperate, train and prepare for war, and some characteristics of the descendants of the Central Plains have more and more exposed their weaknesses in repeated defeats.

As the saying goes, what suits oneself is the best, and the cultivation of a nation's civilization is the natural selection of civilization evolution, which has both its accident and its inevitability, and is the most suitable path for the development of one's own nation, which is deeply rooted in the bone marrow.

The sense of belonging to civilization is undoubtedly the most powerful weapon for uniting an ethnic group, and once the originality of civilization is lost, the national group will disintegrate, the nation will disintegrate into a group, and the group will disintegrate into a tribe.

Under the tyrannical rule of the Jinxuedi, the tribe once again disintegrated into mountains and gangs, and finally became a ragtag of Sasha, with no national cohesion at all, and it was not an overnight thing to forge a whole-flesh system.

At the same time as the training, Bailiyan organized hundreds of veterans from the headquarters to start a molten iron furnace in the camp, melt the iron pickaxe into molten iron, and forge horizontal knives and spears, which also quickly consumed a small amount of coal, but there were still more than 2,000 people without weapons, and armor was even more luxurious.

The temperature is rising day by day, and some details that were not obvious are gradually being revealed.

The ragged uniforms, chain mail, and secondary armor of the Xian army were exposed, and various news began to spread in the camp. Fang Liang and many of his subordinates knew the origin of the Xian army, and the news that had leaked out in the past few months had already spread, but there were still many people who did not believe it. After all, in their opinion, it was almost an impossible task to come from the north, thousands of miles away, to the control area of the Jinxuedi people.

On the second day of the third month, there was still enough food for two months, but the salt was not enough, and the food was tasteless, and some people began to talk about it.

"My lord, why don't you go out and fight." Jiang Jie said.

"How to fight, the Jin Xuedi people have strengthened their troops, we have thousands of new soldiers, and the weapons and armor are rudimentary, and if we attack rashly, we will inevitably suffer heavy casualties. I pondered, I have to find the weakness to practice my hands first. ”

"But we are in the wild, surrounded by strong enemies, and there is no place for us to practice."

"There are no within three hundred miles around, but there are four or five hundred miles away, look here!" Bailiyan pointed to the map of the Jinxuedi people and said: "Posong Province has a vast area, I am afraid that it is no less than Xianguo, there are forty or fifty small towns and nearly six hundred villages in the east and periphery of the province, and the population of the small towns ranges from tens of thousands, seven or eighty thousand.

However, the Jinxuedi people of Posong Province, whose main population lives in the core of Posong City and Dachengchi, more than half of the Central Plains descendants in the province are concentrated in the outermost part of the eastern part of Posong Province, relying on the small cities on the periphery to build barriers to facilitate their rule.

At present, their forces are scattered all over the city fortresses and mines under construction, and there are less than 100,000 people guarding Posong Province, and 40,000 of them are still chasing our army everywhere. If you can get close to their outer dominion, you can get a lot of things. ”

The ruling system of the Jinxuedi people was more complete than that of the Central Plains, and the administrative districts were divided into three levels: province, city or city, county or city fortress, with the consuls, executives, and administrators being the third-class officials.

The population of one of its natural administrative villages ranges from 5,000 to 6,000 to 7,800,000, and the natural villages are attached to small towns, forming an administrative district with a population of 300,000 or 400,000.

Compared with a village in the Central Plains, there are only one or two thousand people, and a village of Jinxuedi is equivalent to a small county town in the Central Plains, which shows its large population.

Because the two provinces outside the Guanxi Province faced the threat of the northern and Central Plains descendants, and at the same time, during the peacetime period of the Jinxuedi people, they maintained hundreds of thousands of regular main army corps outside the Guan, so the standing auxiliary corps of the provinces in the Guanwai Province was far inferior to that of the Guanwai Province. The main army is equivalent to the border army, most of which are concentrated outside the pass, so there are not many main army troops in the pass, and the main army is almost empty after the war.

Because the Jinxuedi people have unicorns to solve the logistics problem, the Jinxuedi people can free up more manpower to engage in agriculture, handicrafts, military production, and can also free up more manpower to participate in the war, so the standing army of the Jinxuedi people cannot be compared with the Central Plains in equal amounts, because there are no unicorns in the Central Plains to solve the transportation problem.

As a result, there are 150,000 permanent auxiliary regiments in each province outside the Guan, and the auxiliary soldiers are supported by themselves according to the local finances. These auxiliary legions and auxiliary soldiers are scattered in the mines and the settlements of the descendants of the Central Plains to drive and suppress them at any time, so the auxiliary forces of each province outside the Guanxi are about 200,000, while the troops in the Guanai are very small.

There are only two provinces of Songdia and Posong outside the Guan, with a population of more than 10 million, and a large land area, not to mention twice the land of Xianguo, and hundreds of thousands of auxiliary troops are scattered everywhere, which is difficult to assemble in a short time, which creates favorable conditions for Bailiyan's next move.

"They are now busy building outlying cities for immigration, and after the beginning of spring, they are also responsible for transporting supplies, grain and grass to the front line, and the forces that can be used to encircle and suppress us are extremely limited, so the area outside the border is weaker, which is conducive to our army. Go and let the generals come and take the matter. ”

"Yes!"

The biggest drawback of the Central Plains People's Rebellion was undoubtedly the blind pursuit of expanding the ranks and pulling the mountain, while ignoring the quality and speed of action, as well as the organization and discipline, and the membership structure had different evil intentions, the organizational system was chaotic and disorderly, and it was unable to exercise stable and effective leadership, let alone how much combat effectiveness it could have.

Even if they are well-equipped, in the face of the legions of the Jinxuedi people, they are still a group of loose lambs.

After several months of rectification, Bailiyan only compiled more than 4,800 new soldiers, Fang Liang and Sikong Nan 2,000 people, and Su Hong led the new battalion with 2,000 people.

Different from Fang Liang and Sikong Nan's 2,000 people, Bai Liyan transferred 200 of the 400 Xianjun soldiers under Fang Liang's department to supplement Su Hong's new battalion. In this way, Su Hong's new battalion had 600 Xianjun veterans to maintain the organization of the new battalion.

Most of Fang Liang's men and horses went south with the Xian army last year, and they had seen the strength of the Xian army, and after several months of repair and training, the middle and low veteran officers of the Xian army who were added to it had already mastered the right to speak, and they could suppress Xinding, and their morale and organization were much higher than Su Hong's new battalion.

The rest of the Xinding equipment was seriously insufficient, and the provisional formation was continued by Lu Gao and Bai He's veterans to supplement Fang Liang and Su Hong's departments. Feng Ming still only had more than 800 people, and Bai Liyan neither replenished nor reduced his staff. Tian Peng placed an army alone, still more than 100 people.

These descendants can kill people and cross the goods with their momentary bravery, but they still have a long way to go to fight on the battlefield, and they don't see any blood, don't kill some people, and they can be scared to pee their pants when they see a big scene.

After the meeting ended, Bai Liyan found Feng Ming to test his attitude, and when he heard that he was going to a distant gate, Feng Ming refused, and asked for weapons when he opened his mouth, and if he didn't give it, he wouldn't talk about anything. Baili Yan expected that he would have such an attitude and would definitely not agree.

So the next day, Bai Liyan led Fang Liang, Su Hong, and Tian Peng to leave the camp on horseback, and Lu Gao, Jiang Jie, Bai He, Sikong Nan, and the veterans of the Xian Army stayed in the camp to continue to train Xinding and watch Feng Ming and the prisoners.

Originally, he didn't plan to take Tian Peng to attack, just because of his simple brain, Feng Ming was very close to him, Bai Liyan was worried that Feng Ming would take advantage of his absence to make some small moves, and more than 100 people under Shan Tian Peng, Lu Gao, Jiang Jie, Bai He and others would have a very hard time coping.

Sikong Nan is resourceful, Jiang Jie has a lot of eyes, although he is not as good as Su Fangxin, Su Fangyi, Zhao Anling and others, it is more than enough to deal with Jin Xuedi and Feng Ming.

The camp was less than 500 miles to the eastern outskirts of Posongcheng Province, and in order to avoid the main road, Bailiyan chose to march west along the forest, exploring and marching.

Four thousand people, two thousand people rode horses, two thousand people walked, Tian Peng and others wore heavy armor, and Bailiyan also got some horses for them, and brought three hundred horses to carry the accompanying grain and grass. After traveling less than sixty miles in a day, on the sixth day he walked out of the forest and into the plains.

Looking at the corpse of the Jin Xuedi people on the ground, Bai Liyan couldn't help but be confused.

Along the way, more than 300 corpses of Jinxuedi soldiers were found one after another, and the armor, weapons, money, and food were all stripped away, and the sweep was very thorough. Most of the lethal methods were blade wounds, and only sporadic wounds from arrows, indicating that the group of Jinxuedi soldiers were killed in melee hand-to-hand combat.

But the strength of the ambush obviously cannot be a lone group of men, it should be a battalion of five hundred or a thousand people, so the rebel army attacking this Jinxuedi team will have more than two thousand people, at least Bai Liyan does not believe that there are any characters in the rebel army who can win more with less, and can calmly clean up the corpses of their own people.

"Fang Liang, how many rebels are there in Posong Province?" Bai Liyan asked.

"I don't know, but there must be rebels, and the most powerful is Qin Zida, who claims to have 50,000 people."

"Fifty thousand!" Bai Liyan didn't believe it at all: "Do you really believe that there are 50,000 people?" ”

"There are no 50,000, 20,000 must be there. Last year, there was a lot of trouble, and the white-haired thieves dispatched 50,000 or 60,000 people to encircle and suppress it, but they never found their lair. In addition, the other rebels are all in a group, all claiming to have thousands of people, and this time they should have done it together. ”

Bai Liyan found that Fang Liang's speech was logically inconsistent, not that he was lying, but a group of rebels of thousands of people, did they still need to join forces with other mountains to annihilate the auxiliary soldiers who only had hundreds or thousands of people? That's too vulnerable.

Unless it is an auxiliary soldier who cooperates to annihilate thousands of people, it may be necessary to unite several groups of people to commit a crime together, and it is impossible to leave only more than 300 corpses along the way for more than ten miles.

The only explanation can only be that the partnership is because each of them has very few troops, so they need to cooperate in the crime.

Moreover, after the partnership, they chased for more than ten miles in a row, sparsely pulling a large area, neither setting up a decent ambush, nor seeking to encircle, but like robbing a house, seizing the opportunity to pounce, without any battle plan, purely bandit-style robbery.

If there were thousands or even tens of thousands of armed people scattered everywhere, the total number would be 70,000 or 80,000, and the second-generation people of Posong Province were more than 400,000 people, tens of thousands of first-generation people, and more than 100,000 third- and fourth-generation people, and they could produce 70,000 or 80,000 armed forces, and they could still survive until now, and the Jinxuedi people would have been heavily encircled and suppressed by heavy troops, and it would not be the current situation.

According to this estimate, the tens of thousands of people in Fang Liang's mouth are probably only one percent, that is, a few hundred, and a group of thousands of people will dare to rob their homes and houses at best, one or two hundred, otherwise the tens of thousands of rebels, how to solve the problem of eating, drinking, and Lazar, they will have to drag their families and mouths, which is not conducive to fighting Tibet and running away at all.

In this way, the so-called rebels who participated in this crime had seven or eight groups of people and more than 2,000 soldiers, and this was a normal balance of forces.