Waiting for the moonlight to reach the middle of the sky, Baili Yan crossed her hands on her chest, and walked anxiously back and forth on the mountain beam, Sikong Nan suddenly exclaimed excitedly:

"It's on, general, the enemy camp is on!"

Baili Yan followed the trail and cast his gaze, and the mountain was already full of fire:

"I'm ...... good"

I saw that the camp at the foot of the mountain was filled with fire, and the place where the oil passed fell into a sea of fire, and hundreds of Jinxuedi people were instantly killed in the fire. The oil gushed out an astonishing ten feet, and the ground was no longer spewing black oil, but a bloody mouth spewing red flames.

The men in charge of setting the fire quickly retreated to the mountain, followed by hundreds of pursuers:

"Sikong Nan, let people go down to pick it up!"

"The last general obeys!"

As soon as the words fell, a deafening explosion set off an astonishing wave of anger, and suddenly Bailiyan fell to the ground, not waiting to stabilize his body, followed by two explosions in succession, the oil gushing under the mountain was like a burst of fireworks, and the originally small wellhole was lifted open to the ground by several explosions, and the surging oil poured out.

Bai Liyan quickly realized that the continuous explosion just now must have exploded the wellbore caused by the explosion of hydrogen sulfide, methane, propane and hydride gas accumulated in the underground oil when it encountered an open flame.

At the same time, the two cousins Gongliang Xiu and Gongliang Song woke up from a dream and followed the sound to the lookout on the top of the mountain.

"Cousin, what kind of weapon is that, it can send flames to the sky!"

Gongliangsong asked in surprise, and Gongliangxiu shook his head in confusion:

"I don't know. However, there is an enemy camp stationed outside the mountain, and such a fire may be more than lucky. Could it be that Gongzi Yan did it? ”

"That's gunpowder!"

Gongliangsong said affirmatively, and Gongliangxiu shook his head again:

"Not really. The volcanic forest said that within a radius of several miles, gunpowder has no such arson power, and it is raining now, and the power of gunpowder has been greatly reduced, and it is definitely not the work of gunpowder, it must be an unknown method for us. It's better to wait and talk about it, if Gongziyan does it, there will be a bigger action tonight. ”

When Gongliangxiu and Gongliangsong were talking, Bailiyan led the army to stand on the nearby mountain beam, and watched the fire spread to all sides while burning. This fire alone is enough to destroy everything in the mountain, and whoever occupies the top of the mountain now is the safest.

A sky-high fire quickly attracted a large battalion of barbarians outside the mountain, and the oil flowed quickly in all directions along the ravine. The terrain of Xishan was already low-lying, and the oil with the fire not only flowed into the mountain, but also flowed outside the mountain, burning almost all the passages into the mountain, and the Xiying barbarian army was blocked by the fire, and did not advance but retreated.

At dawn and dusk, the situation was already clear, and the barbarian army in the back mountain was either burned to death, or isolated in various mountains and could not get out.

"Sikong Nan, Fang Liang, Tian Peng."

"The last general!" The three of them said in unison.

Bailiyan pulled out a horizontal knife and pointed out the mountain:

"The enemy army in Xiying has been chaotic and the army's heart has been shaken, you and the royal guests will each lead their own men and horses, and I will kill them and go down the mountain to defeat them."

"Yes!"

The fire blocked most of the access into the mountain, and the sudden explosion and fire burned the barbarian army reinforced by the western camp. Boosted the morale of the coalition army, at this time, he took advantage of the morning and dusk to rush down the mountain to eat some of his men, which could reap the miraculous effect of his surprise.

When he was young, the battle horn sounded, tens of thousands of torches rose out of thin air on the mountain, shouting and killing and roaring one after another, and the momentum was invincible and unstoppable.

When the sound of killing outside the mountain reached the mountain, Gongliangxiu and Gongliangsong were determined:

"Gongziyan really did it, it's really a big deal!"

Gongliangxiu couldn't hide his admiration in his words, and Gongliangsong said at this time:

"It will be a fierce rival in the future!"

Gongliangsong has always been very conflicted in his heart, and he has the intention to kill Bailiyan to get rid of future troubles. However, the reality of the situation does not allow for such a poisonous hand, and getting rid of Bailiyan at this time is obviously a matter of hurting relatives and enemies, and harming others and not benefiting themselves.

At this time, Gongliangxiu said indifferently:

"If this person succeeds in the future, he will be the overlord of the North Sea, as long as he is not an enemy, he will not be an enemy of me."

"But who can say in the future."

"People are born, old, sick and die, even if Bailiyan lives for another forty years, Xianguo is still only Xianguo, and the situation in the Central Plains is still a four-strong struggle between Jin, Zhi, Wei, and Changsun. At present, the national strength of Xianguo is withering, and the people's livelihood is poor, even if Baili Yan Yongxing changes the law, it will not be effective in a short time.

If the counties of Sun Guo are occupied after many years, it will undoubtedly be a heavy burden on the national strength of the Xian State, and without 20 or even 30 years, the Xian State will not be able to recover its vitality, so the Xian State will never compete for hegemony in 20 or 30 years. By that time, Baili Yan was already dying at the end of the tree, so what was there to fear. ”

"But Baili Yan already has gunpowder, and this thing can be used against thousands of troops."

"Therefore, this is the premise, if our country can give up the county of Sun Guo in exchange for gunpowder, my Zhiguo will be very profitable in the future."

"In the final analysis, if you still want to offend the king, it's better to let people steal."

Gongliangsong's proposal made Gongliangxiu regret it very much after a few years, and the reason is very simple, the Changsun Kingdom already has gunpowder, and the Changsun Kingdom has always been a pig, and the family has never been able to hide the treasure, and the secret recipe of gunpowder was stolen by various countries not long after, and the first to get the secret recipe of gunpowder was the Jin Kingdom.

As a result, Gongliangxiu's decision directly led to the passive situation of the Gongliang clan in China a few years later, which almost changed the entire Central Plains pattern.

The sound of killing outside the mountain shook the sky, but Gongliangxiu did not rush to attack the barbarian army trapped in the mountain, the barbarian army that had been without food for several days was now dizzy when standing, let alone climbing the mountain, as long as he waited for another day or two, more than 40,000 people would starve to death in the mountain.

The fierce battle lasted until noon, and the reinforcements of the western camp left behind a large number of corpses and routs, and they abandoned their armor and retreated to the camp in panic.

At the end of the battle, Sikong Nan escorted several captives to see Bailiyan:

"General, this battle is really dangerous! According to the confession of the Jin Xuedi prisoners, they sent a warning message to the army in the afternoon before yesterday, guessing that our army had taken action recently, so they set up an ambush outside the mountain, and if they attacked the night before, most of our army would be calculated by them. ”

"Oh, it's news from the Legion, which Legion. Is it the legion of the Outer Lake, or the legion of the Derangi Pass. ”

"According to the confession, it is the recruit corps from Deranki, and the commander of the corps is Mooney!"

"Drankie?" Bai Liyan was deeply surprised.

There are two roads from Delangi to Xishan, and it takes two or three days to get to the south, not counting the pontoon bridges or rafts to cross the river. In this way, it will take at least another day or even two days, four or five days.

If you detour from the north, you must first cross the outer lake and then go to the west mountain, to say six or seven days, so you can only detour from the south.

But from the calculation of time, it is impossible to arrive in Xishan the day before yesterday, at least today. The only possible possibility was to send men from Mooney's army to smuggle across the West River to warn the Kinkerdi people on the east bank of the Drankie, and then inform the West Mountain.

In this way, it is very likely that Mooney will transfer troops and horses from the camp of the Delangi Pass to make a detour to help the West Mountain, or even send troops directly from the east bank of the Delangi, if the troops are sent from the east bank of the Delangi, the distance in a straight line will only be 123 miles, and if the detour is included, it will be 150 or 60 miles, and the West Mountain will be reached as soon as this afternoon.

"Oh no, Jin Xuedi's reinforcements are coming! Sikong Nan. ”

"The last general!"

"Quickly send someone to ride forward to reconnoiter the situation in the south, and then send someone to the river to meet Jiang Jie, and the army will camp here on the spot."

"Yes!"

According to the plan, it should be that after Bailiyan defeated the barbarian army outside the West Mountain, the coalition army in the valley surrounded and annihilated the remnants of the enemy in the West Mountain, and then opened the cave and transported the grain and grass on the ship into the valley.

Now that things have backfired, the Jinxuedi reinforcements may arrive at any time, leaving no more time for the coalition forces to open the cave to deliver supplies.

At this time, the rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the ground was getting more and more muddy, and the three scouts who had just been sent out ran back with rolling and crawling covered in mud, and Sikong Nan was furious:

"What's the matter, why are you back, your horses!"

"Kai, General Qiqi Sikong, the horse is trapped in the swamp!"

Sikong Nan was skeptical when he heard the news, he knew very well that the people of Jin Xuedi had filled most of the swamps outside Xishan last winter, and there were still many ways to go:

"There are so many roads, how can you walk in the swamp, how long are your eyes."

"Back to General Sikong, the ground is fine, and I will sink into it as I walk. The same is true for other paths. We also walked through the woods, lost three horses in a row, and almost lost our lives. ”

"Hiss......" Sikong Nan seemed to have an understanding, and hurriedly asked: "You mean, this is the case in the south?" ”

"Exactly, the road to the south is muddy, and there are many water network swamps, which are difficult to pass."

After asking the scout in detail, Sikong Nan immediately reported the situation to Bai Liyan:

"There is such a thing!"

"Yes general, according to the scouts, from this south, all the country is Ze, the swamp is covered with a dense network of water, the last general thinks, it must be that the Jinxuedi people filled the swamp improperly last winter, and this rainy season has returned to the tide and seeped water, and the swamp gushed out again."

"Well, that makes sense. The Jinxuedi people are a swamp that was filled in last winter. Under the extreme cold, the swamp is relatively solid, and there is nothing to see in the cold. Now that the weather is warmer, coupled with the rainy season, the foundation is swallowed up by the swamp, and the return of the tide is inevitable, which is really unexpected.

Go, take the soldiers and horses, and follow me to the south to survey the terrain. ”

"No!"

With more than 500 accompanying soldiers, he rode around the camp of Jin Xuedi and came to the south of the West Mountain, and after on-the-spot investigation, as the scout said, the swamp came out of the ground again, and the continuous heavy rain made the water network dense on the ground, not to mention the horses, even if people went down, it was difficult to pass.

"Hehaha, God has eyes......"

Bai Liyan said easily, Sikong Nan was still worried:

"General, this rainy season is also in mid to late May, after May, the Jin Xuedi people are covered with soil again, and after this, our army can do nothing."

"Hmph, it's not that easy. The fat water in the mountains is inexhaustible, and if it is introduced here, it will not be extinguished by arson day and night. Moreover, after May, the weather gradually dries out, and the power of gunpowder increases, and this place will become his burial place. Let's go, go back to the camp, Jiang Jie should also arrive. ”