If the Central Plains Navy is not a cold season, the sailors on the ship do not wear shoes, only a pair of cloth shoes on the waist, so that it is convenient for the ship to walk and disembark from the ship, if you wear shoes, a little wind and rain wet the deck, the wet shoes are extremely unfavorable for walking, and may slip and fall down at any time, the Jin Xuedi sailors are all on the cloth boots to board the ship to fight, so it is the first defeat for a while.

Secondly, its sailors, like land warfare, did not know the danger of water warfare at all, and rushed to the deck in droves, fearing that the ship would sink and drown in the cabin. It is better to put on armor and a shield on your head, or to squeeze on the deck at the risk of being covered by a rain of arrows, and then wait for the ship's board to board the ship.

As a result, they were killed by the bows and arrows and javelins of the allied navy, and even had gunpowder and alcohol within a dozen paces of approaching, and dozens or hundreds of people crowded on the deck of the ship, which was tantamount to killing themselves.

The most criticized thing is that its sailors wear the cowhide armor used by the army. Although this kind of cowhide armor is already light armor, it has a weight of 20 catties, and if you count weapons and personal belongings, you can't die if you plant it in water.

On the other hand, the Central Plains Navy is generally only equipped with bamboo armor, wood armor, or rattan armor and wooden rattan cards, and the light boat navy is not even equipped with armor, a single coat, a sword on the waist, and it is very convenient to get on the boat and enter the water.

When he led the boat back to the Xishan River section, the Jin Xuedi people stationed on the east bank had disappeared, and Bailiyan left several warships here to patrol back and forth to prevent the Jin Xuedi people on the west bank from smuggling in rafts to transport troops. After questioning, I learned that the defenders of the east coast were on the shore where they had withdrawn this morning, and the situation was unknown.

Baili Yan twisted her short beard thoughtfully, and Sikong Nan said at this time:

"General, did the Soviet division get it?"

"Probably so."

"Then our army should immediately load grain and grass soldiers from Delangi, and land here to attack from behind."

"However, the Jinxuedi people are attacking very fiercely at the Delangi Pass, and Liangwen may not be able to draw many troops and horses, and only the newly trained subjects can be drawn. Our army has limited ships and rafts, and it is difficult to predict the outcome of the rash letting the new vassals fight. ”

Mooney's offensive in Derangi was rapid, and today it was raining continuously, and the effect of the gunpowder became worse after being damp, and most of them became dud bombs that could not be used, causing a large number of casualties to Gongliangwen, and it was difficult for the coalition army to draw out another 10,000 or 20,000 people, otherwise the gap would have to be topped by the new vassals, but the Central Plains thieves in this batch of new vassals have not yet been cleared, and the various forces inside still exist, and it is difficult to ensure their combat effectiveness.

After thinking about it, Jiang Jie said:

"My lord, didn't our army capture the enemy's uniforms before, let's change it to deceive its army, only lead a small number of soldiers and horses, and kill them by surprise."

When Sikong Nan heard the news, his eyes bulged out in shock:

"How is this possible, what do we look like, what kind of barbarian army is like, how can we deceive them like this."

Bai Liyan thought that it seemed that there was really no such possibility, with the current makeup technology, it was obviously impossible to ask another person with a completely different skin color to make up as another race, and do things to deceive the door and make money. Thinking of this, Bai Liyan asked:

"Jiang Jie, what do you think?"

"Lord Hui, Delangi has a plaster, our army can paste the plaster on the head, and then attack the enemy at night, and it will definitely not be able to see through it."

"Shhh...... This one...... It seems to work, it does! ”

To say that the biggest difficulty in impersonating Jin Xuedi people is their hair, Jin Xuedi people's skin is golden, after nightfall, the light source is insufficient, and there is no significant difference with the Central Plains people, even in the dim firelight, the difference between golden skin and yellow skin is not big, the most significant thing is still the hair and facial contours of the two.

There are large areas of open plaster plaster in Derangi, and dyeing hair with plaster paste is a means of camouflage. As long as they could get close to the gate of their large camp, the suddenness of the attack would be achieved.

Bai Liyan finally decided to give it a try, and immediately led the fleet north to Delangi.

Gong Liangwen has fought countless battles in his life, and it is the first time in his life that he has encountered a fierce opponent in front of him. The width of the Delangi Pass is now less than eight miles, and the forces of both sides cannot be unfolded, whether it is offensive or defensive, abandoning the equipment of the coalition army and the new recruits of the Jinxuedi people, the generals of the Jinxuedi people are on a par with Gongliangwen, and they have been fighting for more than 20 days, and neither side has taken advantage.

Bailiyan went upstream, took a boat back to Delangi, and when he saw Gongliangwen, it was early in the morning, and Jin Xuedi launched an offensive before dawn, and the fierce battle tended to be stalemate, and the victory or defeat was difficult to solve.

Bai Liyan stood on the top of the hill and looked at the battlefield, and he couldn't see any way to crack it, but there was one thing that surprised him very much, and it was more or less one of the reasons why Gongliangwen was invincible in many battles. Bai Liyan quickly thought that it must have been the Jin Xuedi people who captured the telescope of the coalition army and threw it into the battle array.

The advent of telescopes has not only changed the field of vision, but also the layout of the army. Because people's horizons have been broadened, the original layout will no longer be limited by the subjective vision of the main general, but more reflect the objective real situation.

Judging from the enemy's recent deployment situation, Bailiyan can almost conclude that the enemy must be a long-range prospect.

It is very difficult to explain the intention with Gongliangwen:

"It's hard to drain 10,000 coalition troops. At present, there are more than 30,000 wounded and dead in the wounded camp alone, and 10,000 people must be left on guard on each side of the Waterfall River and the West River, and the mountain pass here can use less than 60,000 troops at the moment, but the opposite side is attacked by 200,000 or 300,000 people day and night, and it is extremely difficult for 50,000 or 60,000 people to guard this place day and night. ”

"Then how about transferring 10,000 soldiers and horses on the banks of the Waterfall River to the next level, and letting the new vassals temporarily replenish the Waterfall River?"

"That's fine, but the banks of the Waterfall River are much higher than the river, and if the Jinxuedi people climb up, they can still go ashore. Among these new vassals are Central Plains thieves, and if they are not careful, they may take advantage of it. ”

"Then draw 4,000 men from the west bank of the river, fill in the waterfall river, and then have the new vassals fill in the two sides to monitor each other. I will also order the warships to patrol the river day and night in case anything happens to the west river, so that it should be foolproof. ”

There are only more than 70,000 people in the coalition army out of the valley this time, and the others are Fang Liang and Bai He's new subordinate army and the new battalion, and Bailiyan has to train more than 10,000 people, Gongliangwen can actually use less than 90,000 people at hand, plus the 30,000 new vassals who have been newly trained recently, it is only 120,000. Delangi fought fiercely for more than 20 days, with nearly 50,000 casualties, and the loss was extremely great, which was not as good as the results of the Su Fangyi's battle in a big flood.

What worries Bai Liyan the most is the increasing attrition of the old soldiers of the coalition army, which has brought great instability to the army structure.

The number of the Central Plains Civilians was already equal to the coalition army, or even more, and in the future, the coalition army was fighting less and less, and the ranks were getting bigger and bigger, and it was very easy to be held hostage by the new annexed people's army. If there is no sufficient number of coalition forces to suppress the formation, the new annexed army trained by the coalition army will become a wild horse that has escaped.

Previously, there were 300,000 people of the Xian army and the coalition army, and the 20,000 or 30,000 new annexed troops in the central valley were still stable, and now there are more than 200,000 men, women and children of the new annexed people in Delangi, which is more than the local coalition army. If not properly handled, the consequences can be unimaginable.

In the future, in the face of both soft and hard forces of the Jin Xuedi people, if the new vassals secretly collude with them, it is also possible to rebel against the coalition forces.

Because their cultural identity with the Central Plains has been purged and diluted, this instability will undoubtedly exacerbate the danger of the coalition forces themselves with the addition of three or four generations of Central Plains people.

After negotiating with Gongliangwen, Bailiyan transferred Fang Liang and Tian Peng back, these two people, together with Bai He, had been fighting under Gongliangwen before, and the casualties were not small, the establishment had basically been disabled, and it was impossible to clean it up.

Bailiyan only took 2,000 of them as the backbone, and the rest continued to be left behind by the commander of Baihe, and temporarily transferred 8,000 people from the new vassals to supplement the two people, 10,000 veterans of the coalition army, and Bailiyan withdrew more than 30 warships from the upper reaches of the West River and added them to the headquarters of the navy, with a total of 31,200 soldiers and horses.

Obviously, it is impossible for more than 30,000 people to take boats, of which there are more than 7,000 sailors alone and more than 4,000 oarsmen, and even if they are full, they can carry more than 20,000 people.

Jin Xuedi warships are used for loading on weekdays, and the full configuration needs to be loaded with the crew's living supplies and supplies, even if all the light loading is fully abandoned, due to the extremely unreasonable space design of the warship, it is the limit to double the number of personnel, and it has to be crowded on the deck, considering safety, the cabin can be loaded with six or seven percent at most, not more.

With Sikong Nan, Jiang Jie and others, Bailiyan decided to disembark the 4,000 sailors, so that 10,000 coalition troops and 3,000 new vassals could be transported to the mountains and forests in the lower reaches of the Xihe River to hide, and then the remaining soldiers and horses would be transported away on the night of the second day and transported in two batches.

The officers boarded the boat that night, sailed at midnight on the second day, and arrived at the lower reaches of the West River at dark the next day. At the same time, the sudden transfer of thirty warships upstream made Nakicas, who was stationed on the east bank of the Drangelisi River, suspicious.

The coalition army had nearly 120 warships, 50 of which had been patrolling the river upstream, and nearly 70 of which had traveled between Xishan and Delangi, and the sudden transfer of 30 warships from the upper reaches of the river immediately caused Nakikas to worry, so he quickly sent cavalry down the river to chase Bailiyan's fleet all the way to Xishan, until the mountains and ravines blocked the way of the cavalry.

At this time, Jiang Jie looked at the cavalry on the shore who was not pursuing and said:

"My lord, I'm afraid the people of Jin Xuedi are suspicious."

"Well, most likely. Derangi suddenly had thirty more ships, and they must have been suspicious, but they only had more than 10,000 men, and it was estimated that they would not dare to withdraw their troops from the east bank of the Delangisi River in a big way. ”

"But if we withdraw our troops and backfill Xishan, I am afraid the consequences will be unimaginable." Sikong Nan worried.

Bai Liyan smiled and said:

"No, Brother Sikong, you have forgotten, their grain and grass in the camp outside the West Mountain is only enough to support one month, and there are seventy or eighty thousand recruits from the Jinxuedi people who have crossed the river before, and their grain and grass can only be transported from the camp stationed on the east bank of the outer lake.

At present, our army has completely cut off the waterway for them to advance and retreat from east to west, and the Jinxuedi people on the east bank do not have enough food and grass. If the troops and horses on the east bank of the Drangi refill the western hills, it will not help to change the current predicament, and the return may be defeated by our troops landing on the Drangisi River and crushing the defenders on the east bank. ”

"The new subjects of Kede Langi are useless, how can we defeat them." Sikong Nan hit the nail on the head and said.

"Hehe, but how did they know that Dranki's new subjects are useless. Brother Sikong did not see that there were only 10,000 cavalry pursuing our army this time, if the enemy on the east bank of the Delangisi River knew that the new vassals were temporarily unusable, how could they only send 10,000 men to pursue our army. It is very likely that they have not yet figured out the details of our army, so they do not dare to leave easily. In addition, our naval army cruised on the river and had gunpowder in hand, so it was extremely convenient to cross the river and attack them. ”