After explaining in detail to Jiang Jie, the warship carrying the horses quickly leaned to the shore, put the horses and people on the shore, and the fleet of five ships was organized into a group, and after cutting the angle of attack, the head and tail were connected with a cable knot to maintain the rigidity between the hulls.

The Jin Xuedi people fled more than 200 miles west into the Bogratat Lake Water Village to re-replenish the boats, and the sailors on land were able to escape back to the water village for a long time, at this time most of the sunken ships that could be salvaged in the water were salvaged out of the water, and those that could not be salvaged could only go with him, and Bailiyan immediately withdrew the cavalry and turned east.

As expected, the Jin Xuedi people took advantage of the numerical advantage, and the smooth wind and water reached more than 300 miles in a day, but they never expected that the speed of the coalition fleet was not slow, and the speed of the coalition fleet was not slow, and the speed was 2560 miles a day, which was originally more than 200 miles, and it would take at least four days to chase at this speed.

Two days later, however, during the night, the Allied warships entered the lower reaches of the Waterfall River, blew up the pontoon bridge with a powder boat, and then sailed upstream, arriving at Drangi at dusk on the third day.

At this time, it was the beginning of October, more than a month had passed since the departure from Xishan, and the Jin Xuedi people launched a fierce offensive in Xishan and Delangi, and the coalition forces suffered great losses.

"General Baili, you go, let this general really wait for a lot of effort!"

Gongliangwen's face was quite unhappy, and the reproach between his words was very strong, Bai Liyan knew that he was wrong, and he was busy making amends:

"If the military plane is delayed and the general suffers losses, Yan Gan should be responsible."

"That's it, I will look at the majesty of your naval army, presumably Yan Gongzi must have won a big victory in the upstream."

"Don't dare, slaughtered the small city of Padvens in the upper reaches of Bodmis, and plundered 670,000 Central Plains people, temporarily guarded by more than 20,000 troops led by Sikong Nan, the governor of Zuodu, and seized 560,000 stones of grain and grass. Originally supposed to rush back to Drangi ten days ago, not wanting to encounter the main force of the enemy's naval army, the enemy was outnumbered, so he was forced to delay for another ten days, fought two tough battles east of Bograth, and captured dozens of ships. ”

Bai Liyan said in detail, Gong Liangwen's cheeks couldn't help twitching, and his face instantly eased a lot.

"Hehaha...... General Baili really deserves his reputation, and this general has a lot of rudeness, and I ask Yan Gongzi to forgive me. ”

Gongliang Wen gave a slight salute, and Baili Yan was busy with his fists and returned the salute:

"If it weren't for General Gongliang maneuvering around here, how could he have made a contribution."

The vassal states fought in conjunction with each other, and there was no unified command and subordinate relationship, and there was no relationship between superiors and subordinates. For example, Bai Liyan delayed the military period for more than 20 days, and the army had already cut off his head to make an example.

On the official position, Baili Yanguan worships the great Sima envoy, and governs the internal history of Su, and is awarded the doctor, which is roughly in the same position as Gongliangwen. Even if there is an unpleasant situation between the two armies, they do not have the right to engage in Bailiyan by military law.

It is commonplace to give a little face and say something unpleasant, such as falling into a well at a critical moment, crossing the river and demolishing bridges and other despicable and obscene methods, before this, there were many countries joining forces, otherwise Gongliangwen would not have been defeated by Wang Yanfei and went south.

Bailiyan's delay of more than 20 days is not worth mentioning at all, not to mention that he has already explained. Of course, this time it was a bit too late.

About 15 days ago, the Jin Xuedi people set up three stone machines two miles south of the mountain pass, carried out a series of bombardments on the rammed earth wall of the mountain pass coalition army, and dispatched a flying eagle beast air attack, and at the same time accelerated to the mountain pass to excavate the earth, and arrived at the earth wall six or seven days ago to attack the city.

The Jinxuedi people on the east bank of the West River, with the cooperation of their naval forces, first built the pontoon bridge over the West River south of the Delangi Pass, and their troops on the east and west banks were mobilized.

At the same time, five attempts were made to erect pontoon bridges to attack Delangi from the east bank of the West River, but twice they were thwarted by Gongliangwen, and three times they were attacked by oil and gunpowder and went bankrupt.

Gong Liangwen elaborated, Baili Yan pointed to the river warship and said:

"Our army now has more than 280 ships, and there are more than 50 ships of 3,000 stones, and they are all empty ships, not counting sailors and oarsmen, and now they can carry more than 60,000 people, and it only takes two times to transport away all the disgraced defenders!"

The more than 280 ships of the coalition army, according to the normal establishment and planting personnel, are categorically unable to fit 780,000 people.

The only way to do this was to take the risk of stuffing people and placing more people on deck, while each large ship carried several small fishing boats, which could be towed behind the large ship and loaded with twenty or thirty people.

Of course, in the event of such a serious overload, the consequences of encountering enemy ships are unimaginable. However, if this is not done, it will be necessary to get the men out in three to four batches, which will seriously delay the time of the naval army, give the enemy time to breathe and transfer troops, and at the same time will make it more difficult to defend the Derangi and increase casualties.

Sometimes you have to strike a balance between timing and risk, achieving the goal and taking risks at the same time, but if you can anticipate the potential risks and plan ahead to eliminate them, this controllable risk is worth it.

Explaining the plan in detail, Gongliang Wen nodded slightly in agreement:

"That being the case, judging from this general, there is no need to attack the east and the west, and attack from the upper and middle reaches of the waterfall river at the same time, and simply attack the west bank of the waterfall directly!"

"The hero sees the same thing, and it is exactly this meaning in the following, the previous time our army had many sailors and few ships and insufficient transportation capacity, so we set up the method of striking the east and attacking the west, and the soldiers were noble and fast. Now that our army has sufficient transportation capacity, there is no need to bother ourselves, and we can concentrate our forces to attack the waterfall river directly. ”

"Okay, Ben will immediately transfer troops to the ship."

"Wait! There is one thing that has to be arranged in advance just in case. ”

"What?" Gongliangwen frowned and hurriedly asked.

"When our troops came, there were enemy ships trailing behind them, and I expected that after our troops entered the Waterfall River and blew up the pontoon bridge, they would most likely hesitate to follow them, so the enemy ships were still more than a day away from Derangi at the latest, and they would arrive in half a day at the earliest. Therefore, after our army left, the general quickly ordered the fat water to be prepared, and when it was close to ten or twenty miles, he poured the fat water into the river and set it on fire, so that it could go down the river, and several clippers would be left below to help dump it, so that his ship could be destroyed in the fire. ”

"That's good, that's it."

Bailiyan and Gongliangwen hit it off, and the fleet docked one after another, built a temporary trestle, and together with the side of the ship and the shore, dispatched troops to ship on horseback, and filled it up before dark that day.

The flotilla left Deranki and sailed more than 160 miles upstream, landing on the west bank of the waterfall by surprise and blowing up the pontoon bridge.

The enemy cavalry on the west bank of the pontoon bridge had 30,000 a month ago, but because Mooney rushed to Parvins and transferred another 10,000, the coalition forces forced the landing by surprise, using the two spears prepared in advance, supplemented by spears and swords, and formed a formation on the shore, and fought fiercely for a day and night, and the coalition forces successfully gained a foothold.

When the battle situation was settled, Bai Liyan immediately led the ship back to Delangi, not far from the river floating wreckage, the fire was still burning, apparently the Jin Xuedi people and sailors pursued to Delangi, and was burned by Gongliangwen's fire. But this time it was mostly a long memory, and there were not many wrecks on the river, so they escaped quite quickly.

When he saw Gong Liangwen, he was very embarrassed by his crooked armor. In fact, I don't need to ask and know that after the landfall landed on the west bank of the waterfall, the news only took half a day to reach the Delangi Pass from the east bank, and the coalition army was less than half, so it must have stormed the mountain pass at any cost.

Riding to the pass, the allied forces were making final preparations for retreat, the wounded were moving food and grass, and the soldiers were piling up hay and firewood from east to west to the pass, pouring oil and gunpowder to stall for time.

At this time, a loud noise was deafening, and a boulder weighing hundreds of catties smashed into the earthen wall, and the ground shook and a huge smoke rose. From time to time, there were eagles throwing stones in the sky, but the density was not comparable to the density of hundreds of them when fighting in the south.

"General Gongliang, how many men and horses still need to be evacuated?"

"There are less than 40,000 people, and more than 7,000 people are transporting the wounded and baggage."

Bailiyan looked up at the sky, it was not yet dusk:

"It's better to evacuate before it gets dark. It was still fifty or sixty miles away from the fleet, and if it was to go after dark, it would take a night to go as fast as possible. If the Jinxuedi people forcibly break through the fire barrier, open a path, and release the tail of the war beast to chase our army or a cavalry, the consequences will be unimaginable. It is better to take advantage of the fact that it is still early and force the march to get on the boat in the first half of the night, and the general will do what he wants. ”

"It makes sense, Ben will immediately order all battalions to set fire to evacuate."

Bailiyan is not worried about the pursuit of the enemy's infantry now, and the last group left behind in Delangi are allied troops, and they can march lightly and forcefully, and they can reach a hundred miles in a day, which is much faster than the well-equipped Jin Xuedi infantry army.

On the contrary, the real threat is the orcs and enemy cavalry, the cavalry is still hindered by two earthen walls and fire barriers, and it is not realistic to break through in a short time, but the orcs can climb over the mountains and mountains. Once over the mountain, its speed is so fast that hundreds of dire wolves come out together to chase a fleeing team, which is almost catastrophic.

The pass was quickly burned by fire, and smoke rose from the banks of the West River at the same time, and the coalition troops trotted up to the convoy and arrived at the river in the first half of the night. Almost as expected, after the Jinxuedi people broke through the earthen wall, they quickly released war beasts, but they were not dire wolves, but saber-toothed tigers.

Previously, Bai Liyan had seen a trap in Xishan and was injured, or was trapped in the corpse of the saber-toothed tiger that was killed, the body size was almost twice that of the Siberian tiger, and it was not a problem to eat the flesh of an adult at all.

Bows and arrows and ordinary strong crossbows are difficult to have any effect, fire attacks or loud noises are still effective against a single tiger, and groups of tigers are infested, even if it is gunpowder, the deterrent effect is not ideal.

Unlike ordinary tigers, saber-toothed tigers seem to be social animals, among them are a tiger, like a wolf, the head tiger often does not take the initiative to attack, but signals to command other lower-ranking saber-toothed tigers to attack, as long as the head tiger is not captured, it is difficult to defeat a group of tigers with simple deterrence and killing.

In the chaos, hundreds of people died in the tiger's mouth, and more than 1,000 people were injured, even if they were scratched by their claws, they were all incisions of one or two centimeters deep and more than ten centimeters.

Bai Liyan even suspected that such a strong tiger could not be subdued by most non-12.7 mm caliber bullets, and ordinary small and medium-caliber bullets did not work at all.

(End of chapter)