On the third day of crossing the border and leaving Posong City, the cavalry had just stepped into the Song, and bad news followed:

"What, Dranky is lost, how did he lose it!" Mooney asked the messenger in disbelief.

"Your Excellency, the northerners have crossed the swamp south of Drangi and attacked from behind."

"How is this possible, the swamp south of Dranky is not frozen, how can they live in the swamp!"

"It is said that the northerners walked through the swamp on a wooden plank."

"Are the defenders blind, the northerners pave the road in the swamp for more than ten miles, it will take at least a few days, and no one will see it!"

"Your Excellency, they didn't pave the way, but stepped on the planks under everyone's feet, and crossed the swamp very easily."

Not all swamps freeze and freeze in winter, and some swamps continue to emit heat due to geothermal heat and the fermentation chemistry inherent to the swamp, while maintaining the natural shape of the swamp in the winter.

Bailiyan, Mooney, and Temir have successively investigated the swamp, and the difference in cognition ultimately determines the difference in thinking.

The water content of the swamp south of Delangi is very high, but after the water level of the West River and the waterfall falls in the autumn, the water supply in the swamp decreases, and the water level of the swamp falls accordingly.

The springs are warm and there are sulphur-yellow sediments nearby, and it is certain that there are underground thermal resources in the ground of the Dronge. After the water level recedes in winter, the swamp is affected by geothermal heat and hydrothermal springs, and does not experience a general freeze.

After covering with snow, the water level drops in winter, and most areas of the swamp become sticky instead of watery in spring and summer, so you can pass through the swamp by fixing wooden planks or leather on the soles of your feet to reduce the pressure on the surface of your feet.

After Temir withdrew his troops from the West Mountain, the east and west banks of the lower reaches of the West River were all owned by the coalition forces, and they were able to cross the West River by warship, and the coalition forces were able to reach the Derangi Marsh and launch an attack across the swamp.

The loss of Deranki was not the worst, the worst thing was that the West River and the Waterfall River were not completely frozen, only a thin ice less than a finger thick, which broke immediately under the collision of the warship.

After the defenders were driven across the West River, they were on the east bank, all the grain and grass were on the west bank of Delangi, and another 50,000 people had just crossed the waterfall pontoon bridge and rushed to Delangi on the way to reinforcements, but they were blocked by the coalition forces at the same time at the Derangi Mountain, and the coalition warships cut off the waterfall pontoon bridge again, and more than 100,000 people were divided into two by the coalition army.

Even though his anger burned and his heart was broken, it was true that he had three heads and six arms, and he was already lacking in skills at this time.

"I really didn't expect it, they knew that the West River and the Waterfall River would not be frozen, and they were more familiar with our land than us, such an opponent is simply terrifying!"

"Your Excellency, more than 100,000 people have been cut off from retreat, and they can't eat enough, please make a quick decision." The Messenger said.

"How many troops do you have in the hands of the Commander of the Temir Army?"

"There are less than 50,000, and the rest are wounded soldiers transferred from all over the country."

"So, the only people who can use it nearby are Nakikas and Yabuk."

"It should be, but the two chiefs are now confronting the northerners near Noranza, and the casualties are very great, and if they withdraw at this time, I am afraid the consequences will be unimaginable."

"Of course I know this, the northerners are waiting for Nakikas and Yabuk to return to rescue the trapped hundred thousand people. But the problem is that even if we withdraw our troops now, we will not have the naval army to defeat the northerners' warships to cross the river nearby, and we will have to make a detour to cross the West River farther away.

But now that the elite cavalry has been lost, and most of the rest have been brought here by me, Nakikas and Yabuk have less than 20,000 auxiliary cavalry, and now the heavy snow is closing the road, and it will take at least seven or eight days to make a detour to the east bank of the West River, and after seven or eight days, the soldiers and horses on the east bank of the West River will have already starved to death, and this is not counting the two days that you have come to report the news. ”

When the messenger heard the news, his face was as dead as death, and the cold sweat on his forehead dripped to the ground from time to time, condensing into frost.

Mooney's face was blue and helpless, and the worst result would be that all the soldiers and horses trapped on the east bank of the West River would starve to death, even if they fled south and fled back to Posong Province by detour, it would take at least seven or eight days on the road, and they would have starved to death in the ice and snow without eating or drinking for seven or eight days.

Just when there was nothing to do, the cronies came in and reported:

"Commander of the Legion, the Commander of the Temir Legion, the messenger urgently asks for an audience."

"Huh?" Mooney was puzzled and hurriedly asked the messenger in the account, "Do you know that Temir sent other messengers after you?" ”

"I don't know." The Messenger categorically denies it.

After a moment's thought, Mooney asked in a displeased tone:

"What's the matter, two people in one day to deliver news."

"Your Excellency, this is a handwritten letter from the commander of the Temir Legion, the northerners suddenly asked for a truce, and each side gave way to open the way, so that the other side could pass safely."

Mooney was taken aback when he heard the news, and hurriedly took the letter and opened it to read it carefully.

According to the letter, coalition forces are now providing more than 100,000 people trapped on the east bank of the West River and south of the Derangi Pass with a full meal a day, and have halted their attacks. At the same time, Temir was asked to stop the attack on the Gongliang Ministry of Culture, the two armies opened their own roads, and the coalition forces would allow the trapped Jinxuedi people to retreat westward, and at the same time, the Jinxuedi people would ensure the safety of the Gongliang Ministry of Culture's northward retreat, and if there was no reply within ten days, the coalition forces would immediately cut off the supply.

Reading through the whole letter, Mooney was furious, struggled to crumple the letter into a ball and threw it on the ground, and roared:

"Rampant, simply rampant!"

Then the messenger said:

"The commander of the Temir regiment suggested that the conditions of the northerners should be agreed, otherwise more than 100,000 people of our army will starve to death."

"Of course I know that this is their trap, and they are now powerless to rescue the more than 200,000 people trapped in Noranza, so they want to threaten the lives of our fighters to make us compromise! And we were helpless and could only grovel to their terms. ”

Bailiyan knew very well that after evacuating Pavens, while Chubigon's coalition forces were unable to hold on to the West Mountain, they trapped more than 100,000 Jinxuedi people, and they also had to send troops south to rescue Gongliangwen in the Nolanza area, and the only advantage was that Gongliangwen plundered a lot of grain and grass along the way, which was enough to hold on. And the trapped Jinxuedi people had all the food and grass obtained by the coalition forces, and it was very easy to trap them.

But it would be very troublesome to rescue Gongliangwen, and the coalition forces would have to pay at least tens of thousands or even 100,000 people, so the gains outweighed the losses, and an armistice was undoubtedly the best policy, and Mooney had to accept it.

"Okay, it's okay to have a truce, but our people have to withdraw first!"

"But the messenger of the northerners said that they will only release our people if we release their people first."

"These cunning scoundrels!" Mooney scolded: "It's not fair, this is our land!" ”

"They said we had no faith, so they told us to let us go first, and they would keep their promise!"

"Alright then, I agree to an armistice, but only in Po Song Province, not including Sundia, this is our bottom line, I will personally reply to Temir now, and it must be delivered within three days!"

"Yes!"

There is no word "Xinyi" in Jin Xuedi culture, and their definition is "pedantic and ignorant obedience to conformist rules", of course, in a narrow sense, this seems to be true, many times "Xinyi" seems to be indeed pedantic and ignorant.

However, in a broad sense, "faithfulness" is the minimum moral scale, and there may be high and low, but the minimum bottom line of being a person is to be observed.

On the contrary, Mooney agreed to a truce, in a sense that he was realizing that what they were doing was greed and brutality without a bottom line.

Giving the letter to the messenger, Mooney continued to urge the army west into Sondia, and the vanguard of the cavalry reached seven days later a hundred and fifty miles east of the Dorandon River, and the news reached Montina, and Bailiyan found Bai He:

"What is the general's order to summon the last general?"

"There's something I want you to do right away."

Bai Liyan took out a letter and handed it to Bai He, who hurriedly asked:

"General, this is?"

"Reinforcements from Po Song Province have arrived, and you yourself go to the enemy camp and deliver this letter to its commander, Muni Yar Queika."

Bai He was shocked when he heard the news:

"Let the last general do such things again!"

"What, you're not going?"

Bailiyan's tone was displeased, and Bai He was busy with excuses:

"No, no, it's not okay for the last general to go. But the last general really doesn't understand, the last time he sent a letter, he wiped out 100,000 people, and the general, you sent a letter this time, and you won't wipe out 100,000 of them again. ”

"Almost, as long as he comes, and doesn't leave some corpses, of course he won't know how powerful General Ben is.

Now the Soviet army division should reach an armistice with the Jinxuedi people, but it will definitely not sit idly by and watch our army's 500,000 or 600,000 men grow bigger next year, so it will definitely not stop the armistice, and it is bound to inflict heavy losses on our army before the beginning of spring. Therefore, this time, our army must hit him hard, and then completely clean him up after the beginning of spring. ”

"Ha, truce, how did the general know that the Soviet division and the Jinxuedi people were in a truce?"

"First, the general has already instructed Jiang Jie to send a letter to the Soviet Army. Second, the enemy's vanguard cavalry stopped at a distance of 150 miles, instead of reaching the river directly, obviously trying to give our army an illusion in order to paralyze our army, and then to deal a good deal with our army while exploring the truth and waiting for its infantry to arrive, so as to deal a fatal blow to our army.

Therefore, after the vanguard cavalry arrived, they would not attack our army for a short time, and they were bound to use the excuse of armistice, wait for the infantry to arrive, and then launch a strong attack together.

But before that, it must find a way to deceive our army, crossing the Dolandon before its infantry arrives, and at the same time preventing our army from fighting back. So Ben would have had to stabilize them before they fell into the trap. ”

"Oh...... It turned out that the general knew that he was cheating, and he didn't act kindly. ”

"Humph!" Bai Liyan sneered: "Its design has long been expected by the general, how can he be allowed to get an axe in front of me." ”

Baili Yan expected that Mooni would secretly prepare in the name of a truce, and under the pretext of ensuring the safe retreat of the trapped Jinxuedi, they would confront each other at the Dolandon River, and when the armies and horses of the two sides in Posong Province safely withdrew to the rear, the news reached Sondia, and Mooney's infantry should also arrive, and a surprise attack on Montina at that time was a high probability event.

(End of chapter)