At this time, the Gongliangxiu camp had already made noise, and Gongliangxiu and Gongliangsong had already been on the high platform of the Nanying, closely watching the movement south of the swamp.

"Qi Qi two generals, General Baili has a word that he wants to start troops immediately."

Gongliangsong was surprised when he heard the news, and hurriedly said:

"How can you sail a ship in such fog?"

"I don't know him, you stay here for the time being, I'll go find out."

Gongliangxiu turned around and climbed down the wooden ladder to return to the camp, and more than 200 people accompanied by Bailiyan were leading the horses:

"Yan Gongzi is going to sail a boat?"

"I see that this fog is very large, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to disperse before noon, and at this time, the people of Jin Xuedi will be difficult to detect at least one day. By the time the news reached the base camp of Derangi, it would have been two days later, and our army had already broken through its water village. ”

"It's just that it's foggy, how can you sail?"

"It is only necessary to order three ships to be arranged in the same row, with the slow boat in front and the fast boat behind, fifty or a hundred paces apart, and each boat has a small boat towed at the stern, and the first boat has one person, the second boat has two people, and the third boat has three people, each holding a torch, and the last group of three ships follows the small boat in front, and so on. If it is yawed, the yaw distance can be known by the light of the boat, so that the ship can be easily adjusted. ”

"Oh...... I see. ”

Sailing on a foggy day is actually the same as driving, both are blind driving. A small boat is towed with a cable at the rear of the boat, and the number of torches is used as a signal to facilitate the distance and speed of the boat behind the boat. This method was taught by Chen Feishi back then, which is equivalent to providing fog lights for the ship to facilitate judging the distance ahead.

The horses of the Jin Xuedi people were still very neat, and the sky had just brightened when they came to the shore. After the fog rose, Sikong Nan strengthened his vigilance to prevent a sneak attack.

"General, you're here." Sikong Nan saluted.

"Well, inform the ships to prepare to sail."

"It's such a fog, I'm afraid I'm going to hit it."

Bai Liyan explained Chen Feishi's method in detail, but Sikong Nan was still skeptical:

"This method can be used in wide rivers, and the water level is dropping sharply at the moment, what if it hits the river bank and runs aground?"

"Try to walk in the middle of the river, and set the compass at one block east of the north, so that you can always walk in the middle of the river."

The compass dial produced in Xianguo is engraved with 36 scratches, each of which is ten degrees, and the hundred miles of swallows are called one grid. The lower reaches of the West River are less than 10 degrees north-east, and the fleet sails along the center of the river and follows the compass, and the yaw error in a short distance is limited, and as long as the yaw is repaired in time, it will not run aground.

After the fleet was regrouped, it sailed away from the West Mountain one after another, and the fog did not completely dissipate until noon. By the time the Yabuk garrison on the West Bank found out that the coalition forces had disappeared, it was already two days before the news reached Mooney's camp.

"What, the northerners' boats are gone!"

"Yes, Your Excellency, there is no trace of the coalition navy in the entire West River, and from this point of view, it should be that it took advantage of the fog two days ago to move westward."

Norenga guessed, and Mooney was suspicious:

"It's unbelievable that such a fog can still sail! It's too bad for now, it's been foggy for the past two days, and if the fog continues tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, and suddenly attacks the water village east of Bograt, the consequences will be unimaginable. Norengar! ”

"What do you command?"

"Immediately send someone to ride a thousand-mile horse and take the land route to warn the water village and the cavalry along the coast."

"Yes!"

"In addition, send someone to order the sailors of Behron to immediately go south to assist Yabuk in crossing the river."

"Then our soldiers and horses on the east bank of the Drangisi River are not to force the Drangi together."

"No, the soil of the mountain pass has just been filled in for two days, and the tidal flats are still a mud swamp, and we can't reach it at all. As long as Yabuk crossed the West River and flanked the northerners' camp outside the western mountain, Temir and Nakikas, he could fill the swamp head-on, and then quickly cross the swamp and attack, driving the northerners back to Khubigon in one fell swoop. ”

After a few days of heavy fog, Bailiyan successfully captured a water village in the lower reaches of the Bedmis River by boat, sank more than 20 warships, captured seven ships, and the rest fled, with few casualties among the coalition forces.

At the same time, Yabuk forcibly crossed the West River downstream, but was attacked by Gongliangxiu and Gongliangsong, and failed to land for the first time.

Two days later, he organized a forced crossing again and was defeated again. Hearing the news of the failure of the forced crossing, Mooney transferred 20,000 pontoon garrisons in the lower reaches of the Waterfall River to the Yabuk army in the West River to continue the forced crossing, and successfully crossed the force for the third time. At this time, Bailiyan went down two more water villages, went up the Bedmis River, and ransacked the villages of the Jinxuedi people along the way.

Looking at the group of looting coalition soldiers, Jiang Jie asked puzzledly:

"My lord, aren't we going to the waterfall, why did we counterattack into the Birdmis River at this time?"

"The enemy general has not yet arrived, how can our army move the tiger away from the mountain."

"How do you know where the enemy is?"

Bailiyan smiled lightly, and her face was unfathomable:

"If the enemy is here, how can we allow us to plunder the land so easily."

It has been six or seven days since the departure of the ship, and it is said that Mooney should have arrived at the Navy to take over the command, but the high-level dispatch was delayed, and instead the retreat was advanced, so that the coalition forces had no way to start. Bailiyan couldn't help but suspect that Mooney had never left the base camp from beginning to end, and it was very likely that Mooney was planning an offensive against the coalition forces before the coalition forces launched their plans, and the gains were far greater than the losses caused by the coalition raids.

Thinking of this, Baili Yan said:

"Order all ships to gather their troops as soon as possible, and continue to plunder upriver along Tabodemis."

"My lord, what should be the agreement between our army and General Gongliang?"

"In addition to attacking the Waterfall River, Ben will have another agreement with Gongliangwen, and from the date of the implementation of the plan, Ben will not enter the Waterfall River within ten days, and there will be its own arrangements at that time."

The battlefield is constantly changing, and plans often can't keep up with changes, so it's important to be improvised.

In order to prevent accidents, Bailiyan had an appointment with Gongliangwen before, and took the enemy crossing the river on the west bank of the Xishan West River as a signal, and the naval army did not reach the waters of the Waterfall River Delangi within ten days, and Gongliangwen continued to strengthen the confrontation at the mountain pass. At the same time, oil was dumped on the tidal flats of the Delangi section of the West River to prevent the Jinxuedi people from landing on the east bank of the West River.

The news of the raids of the coalition forces came back to the base camp one after another, and Mooney was not worried but happy:

"Sure enough, I still did it, this time to see how they end."

"Your Excellency, if you want to wait for the poison to occur, it will not take effect until at least the northerners have hoarded grain and grass to eat, and before that, there will be two or three months, what if it is discovered?"

"Humph!" Mooney sneered: "What if you find out, when winter comes, the river is frozen, and their boat is blocked in the West River, and it will be too late to go out and grab it." Even if they are found now, we have poisoned them everywhere they pass, and the more they rob them, the longer the delay will be, and the better it will be for us. ”

The Jinxuedi people usually sow wheat and barley in late March and early April, harvest in mid to early August, plant another crop of winter wheat in late August and early September, and harvest in the following spring.

In the Central Plains, due to latitude and seasonality, wheat is planted in April and May, harvested in August and September, and a crop of winter wheat is planted in winter. Because Xianguo is located in the subtropics, only the two counties of Qiunan and Suidang are suitable for sowing from September to December, harvesting in May and June of the following year, and then planting another season of rice.

The Jinxuedi people planted more than a month earlier than in the Central Plains, because the local temperature was low and the heat accumulation was not enough. The raid of Bailiyan coincided with the wheat storage and milling, so Jin Xuedimin's family had less grain.

Due to the plundering of the previous coalition forces, the province of Po Song implemented the "public ration of grain" system in July. Since all the grain of each household is stored in the grain depot in the village, each person is allocated and paid by the village according to his needs, and all the excess rations are transported to the small town for unified storage.

So Muni ordered the villages on the outskirts of Po Song province to poison more than half of the flour in advance. The villagers received non-toxic flour, and the coalition forces looted all of them, and by the time they ate the poisonous flour one day, most of them were already running out of food and grass.

But it backfired, and just two days later, Bai Liyan asked a garlic smell:

"Jiang Jie, Jiang Jie!"

Jiang Jie heard the news and went down to the cabin and said:

"What's the matter, my lord?"

"What's the smell, you ask?"

"Taste?" Jiang Jie breathed hard, and asked faintly about a smell: "It seems to be a smell." ”

"Go, look for it."

"No!"

Bailiyan knows very well that there is a smell of garlic in the air, there is no garlic in the Central Plains, and there are no spices, animals and plants that can emit garlic flavor among the currently known products in the Central Plains, so there is no describable description of garlic flavor at the moment.

But the Jinxuedi people produce a delicious spice like walnuts, and their shells are cracked open, and there is purple flesh in the shell that resembles orange petals, and when dried and ground into powder, the smell is similar to that of garlic, but the price is high. In the previous looting, only some goods were seized from the homes of wealthy families, very least.

When he was young, Jiang Jie returned to the cabin:

"My lord, the smell has been ascertained, it comes from the stove room behind the cargo hold, and it is the guy who is spreading cakes."

"Can a cake smell like that? Let's go, let's see! ”

When he came to the rear cabin, the man was busy spreading cakes and cooking soup, and when he saw Bailiyan coming, everyone was busy saluting:

"See the general!"

"No courtesy."

Bailiyan looked around, and could see that the porthole was open, but there was still a faint smell of garlic in the room, so he asked the guy:

"Wait a minute, a peculiar smell?"

"I smell it, but I don't know where it came from."

"Have you looked for it all around?"

"I looked for it, but I didn't find any stink."

Bailiyan twisted her short beard and came to the stove to take a closer look.

Different from the Central Plains warship, the Central Plains warship has strong practicality, and there are many winds and waves, in order to avoid fire, the cabin is usually not set up separately Raising stove. The Jin Xuedi naval army was warless all year round, and most of the warships were equipped with metal stoves for cooking on fires.

There is a large amount of flour left on the stove, but the presence of flour on the cabin roof above the stove is obviously abnormal.

Although the roof of the cabin is not very high, you can reach it with one hand, but the light white uniform flour left on the roof obviously does not look like a trace of human contamination.

Seeing this, Bai Liyan asked the guy again:

"The flour on the roof of the cabin is what you're waiting to get on?"

The guy looked at the roof of the cabin and asked the others, and everyone shook their heads:

"It's not."

"That's what you sprayed when you opened the flour bag?"

Bai Liyan asked again, and the guy hurriedly shook his head:

"The flour was all dragged into the rear cabin after the front cabin was opened, and it was placed on the ground, and it could not be reached on the roof of the cabin."

"Then you go on, Ben is here watching."

"Yes!"

The gang continued to be busy, Bai Liyan, after wiping off the white powder on the roof of the cabin with a cloth towel, and Jiang Jie stayed in the cabin while asking and observing.

After a while, Bailiyan found that the smell of garlic was particularly strong as long as the temperature increased, and the smell would become lighter as soon as the temperature dropped. And the white powder that had been wiped off the roof before had floated a layer after a while, but it was obviously not like flour, but something that would volatilize when heated.

The operation of the flour is far away from the stove, and the operation is carried out on the wooden table on the side, on which there are only flat-bottomed pots and stoves, and the rising black smoke and high temperature should bake the flour floating on the cabin roof, and there can be no white substance.