A few days later, the navy arrived outside the West Mountain, and the surrounding land of the West Mountain was now occupied by the coalition forces. The Jin Xuedi people tried to fill the swamp and repeated the old trick, and the Soviet side ordered the people to strictly guard the swamp, and ordered the craftsmen to build dozens of larger stone artillery carts, the number of which is still increasing, which are used to fire oil and gunpowder barrels to attack the enemy soldiers who enter the firing range 200 steps away, so that they cannot rely on the camp of the coalition army outside the West Mountain.

The two brothers who guarded the West Mountain were still Gongliangxiu and Gongliangwen, and Bailiyan returned with a full load, and the two went out of the camp to greet each other:

"Yan Gongzi had a hard time this trip, but was he in danger?"

If Gongliang Xiu pointed out, Bailiyan said truthfully:

"It's not a secret, on the way back, I was pursued by more than 100,000 people of Jin Xuedi's army by land and water, but there was no battle, and there was no danger."

"It seems that what the second uncle said is true, his master will indeed disappear last month and chase after Yan Gongzi."

According to Gongliang Cultivator, not long after the departure of the Baili Yanshui Army, there was a hidden abnormality in the enemy camp south of Delangi. Gongliangwen judged that Mooney might have secretly fled and transferred troops from elsewhere to chase Bailiyan, so he sent a letter to Xishan to ask what Su Fangyi meant. Now the sum of the two basically confirms Gongliangwen's speculation.

Came to the camp with the two cousins, and the large camp left by the Jin Xuedi people made the coalition army take a big advantage in vain.

Gongliang Song ordered people to prepare wine and meat to wash the dust for Baili Yan:

"Young Master Yan, how was this trip?"

"Due to the small number of ships, a large amount of grain and grass could not be taken away, so this time we only got 150,000 stone of grain and grass, more than 1,000 stone of dried meat, cured meat, and bacon, more than 200 cattle, sheep and horses, 2,300 stone of salt, more than 10,000 stone of coal, three ships of herbs, and a number of cloth, grease, and several ships of iron and bronze. In addition, he also accidentally seized a large ship and obtained more than 3,000 stones of wine, which was an unexpected gain. ”

"The grain and grass are only 150,000 stones!" Gongliang Xiu said worriedly: "It's barely enough to spend more than a month." There must be more boats for our army to drive, otherwise once the Jinxuedi people move to the villages on the shore and burn the grain and grass, our army will not be able to rely on the plunder along the river, and will be forced to go deep into its hinterland by land, which will be extremely disadvantageous to our army. ”

"What the major general said is extremely true." Bai Liyan nodded in agreement, and then said: "Our army's grain and grass are only enough for half a year at the moment, and it will take forty or fifty days to go back and forth every time, and it will take forty or fifty days to go smoothly. This time, our soldiers had fewer ships and more ships, and they were worried about losing money, so they had to lead the fleet back.

To tell the truth, Jin Xuedi built a wharf water village in Boglath, and the next westward expansion will be extremely difficult. ”

"Oh, but here!" Gongliang Xiu spread out the map and pointed to Bograt.

"Exactly here."

"How many enemy soldiers are there?"

"Sixteen or seven thousand, of which there are about seventy thousand sailors."

"Can the river be detoured here?" Gongliang Xiu asked, pointing to the river south of Boglath.

"But yes, I personally surveyed the field, and the river was narrow, barely allowing three medium-sized ships to pass side by side, and only two large ships, so it was extremely difficult for the fleet to turn around, and it was very easy for the infantry to block the river and block the north-south road."

"But boats and clippers can still sail west."

As soon as Gongliang Xiu said a word, Bai Liyan heard the meaning, and he hurriedly asked:

"What does the Major General mean?"

"It is true that the narrow waterway makes it difficult for our troops to pass, but the enemy's assembly this time is full of large ships, and its passage is also difficult. Our army can take advantage of the fact that its naval forces are gathering in Bograt, order the naval army to go south to other waterways, and then choose the farthest waterway from Boglath to move westward, and let the big ships cruise back and forth from the east and west of the river, lingering and maneuvering with it, so that its infantry and navy will not have the opportunity to close the river, and at the same time let people take small boats and clippers to sail westward.

In this way, if the enemy's naval forces need to go upstream, our army can take advantage of the convenience of the fast boats and small boats to enter the big river before its arrival, and continue to plunder the ships in the Fudi River, and then use the fast boats to transport sailors and replenish the plundered ships, so that our naval army can succeed. ”

"I see, this is the way to attack the west with a sound from the east to the west, and the soldiers are fast and fast."

"Exactly, Yan Gongzi can lead the large ships of the navy to continue to maneuver in the upstream water network, restricting the entry and exit of his warships with the narrowness of the river, and at the same time using small boats to move westward, which will catch him off guard."

The chances of war are all equal, and under the same conditions, there are advantages and disadvantages, and the realistic and objective conditions will not change qualitatively because of the strength or weakness of the enemy or the enemy.

The river is narrow, and the movement of large boats is restricted, but small boats can come and go freely. At the same time, the narrower channel limits the flow to the greatest extent, which means that whoever occupies the water surface area and the two sections of the narrow channel first has the initiative.

All in all, when space resources are scarce, whoever controls more space and more nodes will eventually have the initiative, just like in the game of Go.

This time, Bailiyan won more than 300 small boats, each of which can seat six or seven people, even if it is only organized by the lightest four-person combat group, more than 300 boats can hold 1,000 people, and more than 20 fast boats can hold dozens of people.

Gongliang Xiu explained the plan in detail, and Bailiyan then continued to repair in Xishan for three days to replenish the sailors for loading and unloading materials.

In order to boost morale, Bailiyan took out 70,000 silver coins and 20,000 gold coins from the looted gold and silver coins, and Su Fangyi gave priority to rewarding the soldiers of the coalition army in the name of the royal guest.

Three days later, the navy army went south to Delangi, and Bailiyan withdrew more than 70 warships left behind in the West River back to the headquarters for readjustment.

Up to now, the coalition forces have a total of 191 boats of various types, carrying more than 35,000 sailors, including nearly 8,000 oarsmen. Sixty percent of the new water replenishers came from the coalition forces, all of whom were better water-based, and forty percent were new subjects who had been screened and accustomed to water.

Taking advantage of the clear weather in the flooded mountain pass, Gongliangwen rammed two lines of a word wall on one side of the Delangi mountain pass to the north of the Delangi mountain pass, the wall is one zhang high and eight or nine miles long, and it is still being heightened and strengthened to resist the offensive from the south.

At the same time, as the wounded and dead of the coalition army recovered one after another, the strength of the coalition army was restored, and the training of the new annexed people was strengthened, and a large number of Central Plains thieves were secretly cleaned up.

The strong system of secret executions and arrest measures, which greatly avoided the adverse effects of public arrests and interrogations, was not only supported by the Gongliang clan, but also strongly approved by Su Fangyi. So much so that a few years later, Yuke was restructured and the first professional spy agency was established to secretly arrest rebels and separatists.

After the coalition forces issued a pacification order, Gongliangwen's rectification and training of the Central Plains people was still not very smooth. People have their own aspirations, and not all the people of the Central Plains are willing to work hard.

There are all kinds of people in the world, divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the timid and afraid of death are all filled with them, which has had a great impact on the formation and training of the new vassals.

These people can't be forced or used, and they are not stronger than the vassal states of the Central Plains to recruit the people's strength to fill the army, and the common people are at least fighting for their own country and land, and under the encouragement of military merits, they are desperately shedding blood for meritorious service. Even if there is dissatisfaction, before the two armies are engaged, they usually do not defect and fight back.

And these Central Plains people, without a clear sense of belonging to civilization, send them to the battlefield, and anything can happen. Therefore, it is impossible to force them to fight with their troops, and the slightest carelessness may bring serious consequences to their own side.

Therefore, those who did not want to join the army could only be organized and assigned manual labor such as building houses, transportation, and farming.

Of course, there are still many ways to cure you.

But all the men who are unwilling to kill with their lives will be reduced after returning to the Central Plains, and the current rations will be given priority to those who use their lives.

The world is both fair and unfair, and it depends on how to fight.

In addition, more than 100,000 women in the army are gradually exposed over time, such as pregnancy and uncontrollable physiological needs.

Most of the women are married men, and there are many widows, even women who have been ruined by Jin Xuedi, these women have a low status, because the Jin Xuedi people exercise the right of first night to the women of the Central Plains, so these women are all incomplete, and their status in the village is extremely low and even miserable.

In the special period, people want to be great, and they have lived today, I don't know if there will be tomorrow, whether it is the coalition army or the new annexes, there are many men and women in secret, which brings pregnancy problems.

There are prostitute camps in all countries in the Central Plains, mainly to restrain military discipline and reward the three armies, and to avoid arson in wartime and cause bad effects.

On this matter, Bailiyan, Gongliangwen and Su Fangyi have the same opinions, loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and cannot be too strict, but they cannot be left alone, in addition, they can also promote national identity and enhance belonging and loyalty.

After a few days of repairs by the navy, Bailiyan led 100 ships and marched north and west with full soldiers.

More than 100 barbarian warships that had previously been entrenched in the lower reaches of the West River to the lower reaches of the Belon River were still entrenched in the lower reaches, and during the absence of the main force of Bailiyan, they tried to attack the coalition fleet against the current to help the Jinxue Dibu army on the west bank cross the river, but they were defeated by the royal passenger fleet, lost several warships, and captured a prisoner.

This time, Bailiyan docked at the West River, and this naval army of less than 100 warships was still stranded downstream, still not dying, and continued to stay in the downstream Belen River to cruise, not knowing how to flee west to join the main force of its naval army.

Bai Liyan ignored it and led the fleet to continue westward, and the subordinate fleet that stayed behind in the West River had more than 90 warships, which was enough to balance the upper and lower reaches of the West River.

The boat went west for a few days, entered the Birdmis River, which ran north-south, parallel to the west of the Yalts Falls River for nearly 140 miles, and could go to Lake Bograte through the Birdmis River.

There are not many Jinxuedi villages on both sides of the Bodmis River, and the further south you go, the closer you get to the Central Plains villages, there are not many targets for plundering.

Even so, many fishing boats and boats were hijacked along the way, driven by the coalition forces. At the same time, after discovering that the coalition navy had diverted its route, the scouts of the Jinxuedi people recruited 20,000 or 30,000 light cavalry to follow within two days.

The news of Bailiyan's entry into Bedmis reached the Bogratat water camp, which initially puzzled Mooney.

He knew very well that the upstream west inlet channel was narrow, and it was very conducive to filling in the earth to seal the river, or to seal the river by shipwrecks. Hundreds of warships enter the small river, unless they enter the lake and the big river, it is a problem to turn around, once the road of advance and retreat is cut off, hundreds of warships are turtles in the urn, and it is difficult to escape at all.

(End of chapter)