At this time, Baili Yan led his troops back to the horse pistol, killed the city wall of the previous attack, and annihilated all the 3,000 defenders.

The battle was quite ingenious, and Jin Xuedi kept the people in the city for the convenience of guarding, while they guarded the head of the city and outside the city. It is said that this is a low-level mistake that should not be made, in fact, the people of Jin Xuedi did not expect that Bai Liyan would kill a horse pistol at any time, and there is no problem for them to be so armed, after all, a group of enraged mobs and a group of silent lambs have different management difficulties.

But if Bailiyan takes advantage of the situation to kill the horse pistol, their deployment will undoubtedly be fatal.

The crossbow is the easiest long-range weapon to master, and recruits can basically master it in three days of training, and they can use it proficiently in ten days, and they can accurately shoot targets within a certain distance in one month.

Bailiyan successively captured more than 1,000 crossbows and a large number of crossbow arrows, which were temporarily used by Fang Liang's troops to attack the barbarian army's garrison outside the city during the day in a dense formation.

Even if the rest of the people were armed with shields and iron pickaxes, they had to all be dispatched, and with the superiority of strength and momentum, they would be shocked and crushed by the Jinxuedi people, and they would be surrounded on all sides and annihilated.

In this battle, the veterans of the Xian army almost suffered casualties, and more than 100 people under Tian Peng's department killed extremely fiercely, which was shocking, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a mad killing to break the enemy's courage. As for Feng Ming's department, one-third of the casualties were inflicted, and the rest of the Xinding suffered more than 800 casualties.

More than 5,000 weapons were seized, of which more than 2,000 were discarded by Kong Hua and Qian Xiasheng, and were seized by Jin Xuedi, and now they were obtained by Bailiyan again.

Breaking through the city wall for the second time, Bailiyan did not recruit rebels as always, only let Fang Liang and Tian Peng recruit people who knew the roots, and then moved away the grain and grass and other materials as much as possible, and then threw off thousands of people, left the 15th day rations, burned the excess grain and grass, and rerouted to the northeast to continue to escape, so that thousands of people became the burden of the Jinxuedi people.

When Jin Xuedi people returned to the second city wall, Qian Xiasheng, Kong Hua, Jiang Gui, Wu Qun, Xiong Hu and others had already fled south, and they broke through the city wall without much effort. Then he sent troops south to pursue more than 7,000 people under Kong Hua's department, mistakenly thinking that Bailiyan was also on this road.

Unexpectedly, a few days later, the leading party came to report that the first city wall had been attacked twice, and the Jin Xuedi people were furious, and at this time, the news that the pursuit had suffered a counterattack and was frustrated in the south made the situation tricky.

After a few days, it snowed heavily in the sky, and Bailiyan had been marching for nearly ten days.

"My lord, let's walk thirty or forty miles every day now, it's not a matter of walking all the time, sooner or later we will be caught by Jin Xuedi!"

"Jiang Jie is right, you still have to choose a place to repair as soon as possible, otherwise you will be dragged down." Sikong Nan agreed.

Bailiyan stretched out her hand to bake the charcoal fire, looking down at the map.

Although the map is quite detailed, the level of mapping is too bad, and it is impossible to judge the specific terrain and landform, so it is impossible to choose a favorable location to station.

"At present, the surrounding terrain is not conducive to the short-term repair of our army, and most of the surrounding areas are open plains, which are very easy to expose. I was thinking that two days to the north, there was a Womas Lake, and to the east of the lake was the Punida Mountains, and to the north of the Womas Lake and the Punida Mountains there were woods, and there might be an open space between the three places. If we can get there, there are mountains, waters, and forests, and our army can repair there. ”

"Then why not?" Lu Gao, whose condition has improved greatly, still struggles to speak, and his voice is very low.

"According to their map, two hundred miles northeast of Lake Walmas, there is a city being built on their central supply line. The distance is too close, and our army is operating here, and the slightest accident will be discovered by it.

However, there must be life in the dangerous land, and if they can hide it, the Jinxuedi people will never think that our army will be repaired under their noses. If we can survive this winter to next spring, our army will be able to ease this breath, step up internal integration, train new soldiers, and continue to deal with them. ”

"Then what are you waiting for, the brothers have been going and stopping for months, fighting and killing these days, and they have long wanted to rest and recuperate."

Bai Yiyi vomited quickly, and Su Hong said without a straight face:

"That's right, those newcomers have been staring at the girls like wolves and tigers, if they don't open the meat, they won't be suffocated."

Hearing the news, Sikong Nan Zhengse said:

"Don't talk about cool words, and don't see if those women are willing!"

"There is no precedent for this matter for the time being!" Bai Liyan supported Sikong Nan's meaning, and then said: "Taking a woman with the army is already a big taboo, if you conceive a child and give birth to a baby again, how to march will have to be defeated." ”

At present, the army is small and 10,000 people, there are more than 800 women, nearly 100 prisoners, 1,780 wounded, more than 7,000 soldiers, more than 2,000 Xian troops, nearly 5,000 horses and unicorns, and a large group of people.

"Since you have unanimously agreed to the repair, who has any objection to turning north tomorrow and heading towards Lake Walmas?" Everyone shook their heads, no one objected, and Bai Liyan asked Jiang Jie: "Jiang Jie, how many hemostatic powders do we have." ”

"Less than 800 bottles, and the recent casualties have been very high, and more than 1,000 bottles have been used. With the current casualties, more than 200 bottles have to be used. The bandages have long since run out, and now they are used with strips of rags and even leggings. ”

"This matter is waiting for the spring, and I will find a way to get some trauma medicine. At the moment, it is still important to save people, but our old soldiers still have to leave some hemostatic powder for urgent use, and leave 300 bottles for the headquarters, and the remaining hemostatic powder will also be saved. I'll see if there are any hemostatic drugs in the herbs, and before spring, let's make do with it like this. ”

Each member of the Southern Expeditionary Army was equipped with a recommended first-aid kit, which contained a gourd of hemostatic powder, two rolls of bandages, two stacks of gauze, and two pieces of hemostatic cotton.

After the defeat of Duhui in the first battle, Bailiyan carried more than 2,000 first-aid kits with the army, and used more than 200 bottles of hemostatic powder on the way south.

Finalizing the march route with the generals, Bailiyan asked Su Hong to inform Fang Liang, Tian Peng, and Feng Ming one by one.

Feng Ming's reaction to Bai Liyan and the others' secret decisions was quite intense, especially after the last battle, Fang Liang expanded to two thousand people, Feng Ming did not make up for one, and suffered one-third of the casualties, for this matter Feng Ming made a fuss for a few days, everyone ignored it, put it aside and treated it coldly, and even after recovering from the wounded in the future, Bai Liyan planned not to return to the building, gradually weakening its influence.

The amount of food of Tian Peng and others is really not small, and if there are no four catties of refined grain and half a catty of meat every day, they will never let Baili Yan pass through the door.

The next day, the team diverted north, and after three days of travel, arrived at Walmas Lake, a day later than expected. To the east of Lake Womas is the Punida Mountains, which are about a thousand meters above the ground level and the total elevation is unknown.

There is a small flat land between the two places, about three miles wide from east to west, the north is a forest, or a primeval forest, climb to the top of Punida Mountain, you can see that the forest covers from west to east, stretching for hundreds of kilometers without seeing the head. Everything you see from the top of the mountain is extremely open.

Bailiyan immediately set up a lookout post on the top of the mountain. It was still a little difficult for the Jinxuedi people who were building the fortress in the northeast to touch it from the forest.

A few days after camping, the snow fell heavier and heavier, and the Jin Xuedi people frantically searched for the traces of Bailiyan, but they never succeeded, so they continued to chase Kong Hua, Jiang Gui, Qian Xiasheng and others.

At the end of December of that year, at the beginning of January of 631 in the Shengyuan Dynasty, the Jin Xuedi people did not go well in suppressing bandits on the western route, and Kong Hua, Jiang Gui, Qian Xiasheng and others continued to flee aimlessly with the remnants, and occasionally they could bite back, so that the auxiliary legions, which were already average in combat power, suffered considerable losses.

When the news came back to Po Song City, the Governor of Po Song Province, Kabias, and the Governor of Po Song City, Gudapa, convened a meeting of subordinate officials in the Municipal Palace to discuss the plan to suppress bandits after the beginning of spring.

After the meeting ended, Kabias and Gudapa conversed in the hallway outside the closed door:

"Kabias, it has been said privately that the vanished untouchable rebels are very different from what they used to be, they have learned to line up and fight together, they are extremely cruel, and they have used a crossbow that they have never seen before, and they have killed more than eight or nine thousand of us, and the legions of Etis should be sent to exterminate them."

Gudapa's worries seemed innocuous to Kabias, who disagreed:

"There's no need to make a fuss, they're just a rabble that has just learned to walk, and it's not long before they themselves will break up and split, and we can break them individually. Patience is needed now, as long as they wait for two months, they themselves will become a pile of vulnerable and broken communities, with no combat power to speak of. ”

"But their tactics have never been seen before, and they have killed eight or nine thousand of us, and no untouchable rebel army has ever been able to kill nine thousand of us in less than a month, which is unusual."

Gudapa tried to convince Kabias to mobilize an entire auxiliary regiment to wipe out the rebels, but Kabias refused

The two parted unhappily, and Gudapa returned to the administrative office and saw Cheeks, who had escaped:

"Your Excellency, has the meeting been approved?"

"It's passed, but Kabias won't mobilize the main force of the auxiliary legion to deal with them, and I have a hunch that it will make things worse." Gudappa complained.

"They are completely different from the rebels of the past, they are extremely well equipped, they are extremely skilled in martial arts, and they are more like an army."

"Is there any weapon that captured them, or is it that strange crossbow?"

"I'm sorry Executive, but so far only the remaining crossbow arrows have been found, and nothing else of value has been seized."

"There were no bodies left?"

"The bodies were stripped naked, and it was difficult to distinguish them from other untouchables. But there were very few corpses with stab marks and wounds, and there were many of them, and it was certain that they were battle-hardened warriors. Perhaps it was Qin Zida's rebels who launched this attack, they had been entrenched for a long time and were able to smelt iron. ”

"This is impossible, according to the information from the insider, Qin Zida's rabble has not left half an inch at all, and they are only seven or eight hundred people, as well as hundreds of women and children, they simply have the ability to launch such a big attack and kill more than eight or nine thousand of us."

Gudappa dismissed Cheeks' speculation, and then changed his tune and said:

"Okay, before the beginning of spring, the Municipal Palace will reorganize a new army of 10,000 people, and you will take your people from the barracks to the military academy to accept the reorganization, and after the beginning of spring, you will be added to the newly built auxiliary corps."

"Yes, my lord!"

The Jinxuedi have killed more than 9,000 people in the past month, and they are anxious to reorganize the new army to replenish the forces of Po Song Province.