On the third day, Mooney again sent someone to lobby Bailiyan to resume negotiations, but Bailiyan again refused. ∮

"My lord, do you have any purpose in continuing to drag it out like this?"

"Why, it's only been three days, you can't wait."

"My subordinates are worried that it will be bad for our army if it drags on for a long time."

"Hehe, wait a few more days to support Mooney, he will only be more anxious than we are. I figured that if he were to be transferred from the Eastern Front, it would be a few days before he arrived. We're too early to get out of their trap. ”

"Hands-on? Do you want to use soldiers? ”

"Not only do you have to use soldiers, but you also have to find a way to defeat them all at once."

"I'm afraid it can't be, the new annex army is weak, if it is a field battle, how can it defeat them, not to mention that they still have reinforcements."

"They have reinforcements, and we have them, but our reinforcements may not necessarily come, so we must set up a perfect strategy, we can advance and retreat, and we can't cut off the back road all at once."

"Your Excellency wouldn't want to expect General Sikong Nan to come to the aid by boat, would you?"

"Don't ask too much, it's useless to say it now, and you'll know then."

"Oh......"

Mooney is counting on the return of the coalition navy to defeat the coalition army under the city of Kelonas with the superiority of troops, and then counterattack Sikong Nan, so that Bailiyan is also very clear. The key sticking point is Kelownas, and the coalition forces will not leave Kelownas easily.

But to annihilate more of the Kinsherdi, it would be a double-edged sword to draw Mooney's forces to Abria with the main forces of the coalition forces in Kelownas. If the operation is not done properly, not only can it not be hit hard, but it may also cause the entire army to be annihilated, which is also the dilemma of Bailiyan, he must think of a perfect strategy to be able to retreat with his whole body.

The temperature was still hot that day, there was no sign of rain, the clouds were getting thicker and thicker, and Bai Liyan felt more and more sure, but without full certainty, he didn't dare to take risks easily.

Early in the morning of the fourth day, when the sky was just dawning, the camp was noisy and noisy, Bailiyan walked out of the camp tent and looked around, and everyone gathered together to discuss something.

"Jiang Jie, Jiang Jie!"

"In adults!"

Jiang Jie hurriedly came over, with a happy face, and Bai Liyan hurriedly asked:

"What's going on, so noisy."

"Lord Qiqi, early in the morning the horses under the mountain were frightened and broke free from the reins and ran, and the old man went to chase after him, and found a newly dead black panther in the forest down the mountain, as well as two wild boars and several deer. Many wild animals escaped from the woods, and the old soldiers were discussing hunting. ”

Bailiyan was confused when she heard the news, and then came to the camp, and found a black panther, two wild boars, and five deer lying on the ground, all of which had blood stains on their heads, as if they had hit something and died, or fainted.

"That's all?"

"Maybe there is." Jiang Jie said, eager to go hunting.

Bai Liyan thought for a while and said:

"Let's go, follow me down the mountain and have a look."

"No!"

When the people came to the bottom of the mountain, it was clearly visible that there were still wild animals running around, as if there was a common enemy, and the wild animals and herbivores that were usually natural enemies of each other were mixed together, and they were vying for their lives.

took out the binoculars and looked westward, but there was no forest fire, and Bai Liyan realized in a blink of an eye that it was an earthquake:

"Quick, it's an earthquake, everyone immediately go down the mountain, run to the north and run in the open field, no horseback riding!"

"Ahh

Jiang Jie's reaction was not in a hurry, Bai Liyan said hurriedly:

"Go, evacuate north, quick."

"No......"

Animals' biological systems are sharper and more developed than humans, and the infrasound waves emitted by underground movements before an earthquake are imperceptible to humans, but animals can easily sense the threat coming.

In fact, people can also perceive that when infrasound comes, there will be palpitations, dizziness and nausea in serious cases, but people's rational logic and first cognition have overcome the instinct of biological nature. The first reaction to the inexplicable discomfort is a physical illness or the discomfort caused by exertion, thus negating the instinctive warning of natural disasters.

The signs of the earthquake became more apparent, and hundreds of people rushed down the mountain, threatening to kill themselves.

About four minutes later, there was a loud bang, the ground trembled slightly, as if it had hit a one-ton aviation, a column of skyrocketing smoke rose from the west of Abria, the ground suddenly trembled violently, the sound of crackling and roaring was endless, the boulders and trees on the mountain rolled down and fell countless times, and the camp that was still there just now was swallowed up in the landslide in a blink of an eye.

Jiang Jie shouted as he ran:

"My lord, this is the rumored heaven and earth shaking the earth!"

"Almost, if it happened by the sea, maybe you could see the river overturning the sea."

The group sped out of the mountains and fled to the open meadows north of Abria, and Munill was not so lucky. The earthquake was unaware of the earthquake, and when it was too late for the earthquake to intensify, the boulder layer on the mountain tumbled and collapsed, quickly engulfing the camp, causing many casualties.

"Your Excellency, why is there a movement at this time?"

Norenga asked inexplicably, and Mooney looked dejected:

"How do I know, you go and ask the high priest, only the moon god knows."

The two led their troops all the way south, and in the end only 476 of the 500 people who accompanied them remained, and the remaining 24 were nowhere to be found, and most of them had been killed.

The earthquake was unprecedentedly powerful, lasting more than two minutes, and the epicenter west of Abria was filled with smoke and smoke, as if the world was apocalyptic.

Jiang Jie was out of breath, but chattered:

"My lord, this is the sky falling, the sky won't really fall......"

"The sky is falling, there is a tall man on top, what are you anxious about. Go and count the people. ”

"No!"

Bai Liyan's psychology was also strange at this time, and he became more and more convinced that the recent series of abnormal weather geological disasters had a huge correlation with the solar eclipse on April 18, otherwise it would be impossible to explain all the anomalies that had happened recently.

Just over ten minutes after the main shock, aftershocks followed, and the infrasound waves at the epicenter of the epicenter made people palpitate and dizzy, nausea, and want to vomit, which can't help but remind people of some kind of high-energy weapon. The aftershocks shook back and forth for more than ten waves, lasting for more than two quarters of an hour, and the ground cracked countless cracks, deep and shallow, wide and narrow, and the frightened horses either died or fled, as if the end of the world.

At this time, the aftershocks stopped for a while, and Bai Liyan hurriedly asked:

"Jiang Jie, how are everyone!"

"The people are there, but the horses are mostly gone."

"Go, let someone find a few horses, go to Su Hong and have a look!"

"Yes!"

The epicenter is dozens of miles west of Yablia and more than 100 miles away from Suhong's camp, which is not too close, but it is not too far. The magnitude of the main earthquake in the early morning is not eight but seven, and the earthquake is felt strongly within a radius of three or four hundred miles.

The aftershocks continued intermittently, and out of more than 500 horses, only more than 180 were recovered.

Just after the hour, there was a loud bang in the direction of Worth Lake, followed by the sound of water, visible to the naked eye two miles away, and the waves of water over the lake rolled like boiling water. The lake is disappearing at a rate that is visible to the naked eye, and the shore is exposed with deep and shallow silt.

"My lord, the lake, the lake!"

Jiang Jie was stunned, and Bai Liyan was also unbelievable:

"Let's go, go over and have a look!"

"My lord, it is rumored that there will be youkai underground during the earthquake, so the lake water is not drunk by youkai!"

Jiang Jie was open-mouthed, as if ghosts and monsters were not the same thing.

Bailiyan ignored it and walked to the shore of Worth Lake, only to find that Worth Lake had cracked a huge crack in the ground from the east of it, like an unfathomable abyss, and the lake water poured into the abyss to form a waterfall, rolling and rumbling.

"Oh my God, this is a youkai running out of the ground!"

Jiang Jie was surprised, Bai Liyan's eyes were weird, and he suddenly thought of it:

"Hehaha, God help me!"

Jiang Jie was puzzled and hurriedly asked:

"My lord, when will God help me wait?"

"You see, as far as the eye can see of this abyss, the width of the place is less than four zhang, and the narrow place must also be one zhang and a zhang, from west to east to split for several miles, do you think the two armies can confront each other with this?"

"The subordinates are stupid, I don't know what the adults mean."

"If you don't understand, let's go and look east."

"Yes!"

Walk along the fissure to the east, and out of the eight miles, the fissure narrows and goes deep into the grove to the east. At this time, Mooney was still in shock, and the death and injury of his subordinates made him feel inexplicably ominous.

"Norunga, send someone to the west to see where Bailiyan is, don't run away."

"Yes, Your Excellency!"

Mooney's fear that the earthquake would scare Bailiyan away and thus ruin his plans resulted in him breathing a sigh of relief:

"Your Excellency, the northerners are north of Lake Worth, and Lake Worth is moving because of the earth, and a big crack has opened from west to east, and the water in the lake is almost dry, and they are by the lake."

Norenga said quickly, and Muni suddenly felt incredulous:

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

"But most of our horses are dead or fleeing, so it's better to be careful at this time."

"Are you worried about them doing it? Hmph, don't worry, Bailiyan won't do this. Go, lead me the horse. ”

"Yes!"

When the group came to the lake, Bailiyan had returned to the shore of Worth Lake from the east, and the lake was almost dry, but there was still a lot of water at the bottom of the lake, which was replenished by the waterway formed by the underground water system. Bai Liyan and the others had already entered the lake, and they seemed to have picked up a treasure, and they were very busy.

"Damn the guys, they must have picked up the treasure of Lake Worth!"

Norenga said without thinking, and Mooney looked down, he really couldn't see what treasures could be in the dark mud. It was even rumored that all the magical legends of Worth Lake were disillusioned after seeing this ugly silt.

"Get off your horse and go over and have a look."

"Yes!"

Everyone dismounted and entered the lake, and stones and rocks appeared under their feet one after another, the colors were white and yellow, and purple and green, etc., colorful, some transparent, and some mottled and ugly.

"My lord, what is the use of these stones, they are neither crystals nor gems, they don't seem to be valuable."

"These are not measured by gold and silver, go, call some more people down, but everything that has color, give Ben will pick up more, the more the better!"

"Oh......"

After the lake is emptied, the various colored stones on the lake bed attract the attention of Bailiyan. Upon closer examination, it was found that it was "scheelite", which is tungsten ore containing molybdenum.

Tungsten scheelite is a very easily recognizable tungsten ore variety, the quality is light brown, light yellow, light purple, orange, etc., the color is such as grease luster, glass texture, the crystal particles are coarse, just like the natural crystallization of yellow rock sugar, one grain is inlaid together, and jade and other ores are quite different.

Worth Lake is like a huge ore specimen bank, all kinds of minerals are scattered everywhere in different forms, tungsten element not only exists in the form of scheelite carbunes, such as wolframite, calcium tungsten, iron tungsten, copper tungsten and other different forms are distributed everywhere.

In addition, tungsten ore has the saying of "associated mine museum". Where tungsten ore exists, there are dozens of other minerals that accompany it. What Bailiyan collects is these mineral specimens that he or may not know.

[Note] The protagonist had a mother who was a professor of geology and minerals in his previous life.,Words and deeds taught a lot of work.。

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