Sikong Nan led the headquarters of the Leopard Tao Battalion 1,000 elite cavalry from the north and south to outflank, blocking the way for the baggage team to escape, Baili Yan personally led the headquarters of the Xiao cavalry battalion horizontal three columns scattered in a word, slowly approaching from east to west, when the enemy reached 400 steps, Baili Yanqin led 20 guards, urging the horse to move forward 250 steps away from the enemy, but waiting for the Black Turban Army to move.

The military is different from the horse thief, and the horse thief was caught off guard by Bailiyan because he didn't expect Bailiyan (Wei Xian) to see through them and pretend to be a merchant traveler to wander the rivers and lakes.

When the field of vision on the plain is wide, regardless of the visual obstruction caused by the undulation of the terrain, the enemy soldiers can be seen from three to five miles away, and the naked eye can identify large group targets from twenty miles away. Once an army encounters an enemy attack, an army with excellent combat training and excellent psychological quality can organize effective countermeasures in a short period of time and launch a defensive or offensive formation.

Especially against cavalry, there are many measures to deal with cavalry nowadays, light cavalry raids are often not dominant, infantry are accompanied by carriages, and the vehicles of the baggage battalion have the function of obstruction.

Surrounded by the Bailiyan cavalry on three sides, the heavy guards of the Black Turban Army relied on the vehicles to organize the people to resist the impact, and it was almost impossible to deal with an army with firm will and experienced tactics in the last way to deal with horse thieves.

I saw that the black turban army was cowering behind the baggage vehicles, with spears, hooks and sickles in front, short blades in the back, and scattered crossbowmen waiting for them.

Lu Gao watched the battle from the sidelines, and saw that the Black Turban Army had already formed a formation, and Bailiyan was about to rush hard, so he asked puzzledly:

"General Wei, our army has lost the opportunity to surprise the attack, and we must not retreat from the strong attack at this time."

Bai Liyan was calm and composed, and disagreed with Lu Gao's worries:

"General Lu, and I'm optimistic about how General Sikong will break the formation."

Lu Gao was puzzled and asked again:

"There are only a thousand people under Sikong Nan's command, and it is child's play to divide into five hundred and one teams to rush from the north and south."

Bai Liyan ignored it and continued to wait.

After a few moments, the Sikong Nan part of the station sprinted with all its strength from the north and south directions, each soldier dragging a thin hemp rope more than two feet long in his hand, and a fist-sized porcelain jar was tied to the other end of the hemp rope.

The porcelain jar was filled with alcohol and coal tar, and one end was suffocated with a cloth-wrapped cork, and the rope was thrown before engaging the enemy, and the porcelain jar filled with alcohol and coal tar was thrown out forcefully, and it could be thrown as far as fifty or sixty paces away.

Before this expedition, each soldier was equipped with a cloth bag, which contained a porcelain jar of alcohol coal tar and a porcelain jar of pine oil. When charging, one person uses mixed fuel, and one uses pine oil.

The fluidity, contamination and permeability of alcohol are strong, and the ignition point is low, but the calorific value is also low, the combustion time is not long, and the combustion support is poor, and the advantages of coal tar are the disadvantages of alcohol, and the disadvantages are the opposite.

The pine oil has a high ignition point, poor fluidity, general contamination, poor permeability, and the advantage is that the calorific value is high, difficult to extinguish, the combination of the two, the moment the porcelain bottle is broken, or falls on the carriage and horse, or the miscellaneous is on the ground, under the rapid diffusion of alcohol, it penetrates into the front edge of the black turban army array, as long as a fire, it can burn a large piece.

The purpose of the traditional robbery of the grain route is to cut off the supply of grain and grass to the enemy's camp, so as to force the main force of the enemy army to retreat for the purpose, so the looting of the grain route must be arson and looting hand-to-hand combat.

Bailiyan intended to harass the local looting population, before the naval army was not put into battle, the scale of each attack could not be too large, and the number of people taken away could not be too many, but to frequent looting, gradually feeding the enemy's human resources, not to destroy the local logistics and transport, forcing the Black Turban Army to withdraw as the primary purpose.

Sikong Nan's 1,000 men attacked from the north and south, and suddenly turned sharply to the west forty paces away from the Black Turban Army's defense line, and the porcelain jars in the hands of the soldiers rained down on the baggage vehicles, and some of them fell to the ground and quickly dispersed.

Alcohol has the property of dissolving grease, and pine oil and coal tar are mixed with the liquid of alcohol, flowing around along the ground.

The few crossbowmen of the Black Turban Army shot a burst of fire, sporadically shooting down some horses and soldiers, but they could not stop Sikong Nan from doing whatever he wanted, and a thousand cavalry Lu threw the porcelain jars and gathered westward one after another.

"Passing the book will order!" Baili Yan ordered: "The Xiaocai battalion will raise fire, attack on all fronts, and burn the north and south!" ”

"No!"

Su Hong received the order, rhythmically blowing a bull's horn, and at the same time waving the flag to the sky, and from time to time there were heralds shuttling back and forth, shouting the order to raise fire and charge.

The soldiers of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion took out a bamboo tube half a foot long and short with the thickness of their arm, uncovered the lid of the bamboo tube, and inserted it into it with a fire fold they carried with them, and wisps of white smoke came out under the breeze. The air poured into the barrel under the straddle charge, and the flames quickly ignited at the smoking outlet, and the faster the speed, the larger the fire.

The infantry of the heavy guards made up the majority, and the crossbowmen were very few, and the arrows fired were as weak as shooting stars.

The Xiao cavalry battalion attacked on all fronts, wiping the black turban army defense line all the way, not entangled at all, the fire in his hand was thrown into the air like a fairy scattered flowers, and fell on the alcohol-contaminated baggage cart and instantly ignited the fire.

The heavy vehicles on the north and south sides were on fire, and the Black Turban Army was busy fighting the fire and fell into chaos at the same time.

In less than a moment, the fire spread rapidly and became a prairie fire.

Alcohol is not like grease, the flame of grease can be extinguished with feet and clothes, but alcohol is burned wherever it flows, and it is difficult to extinguish without sand and water.

Seeing that the fire could not be controlled, the black turban army overturned the burning baggage vehicles and fled.

Then Baili Yan killed a Tongjia from west to east from the gap on the west side, Sikong Nan gathered men and horses in the north, and when the Baili Yan Xiao cavalry battalion passed through the enemy formation, Sikong Nan fought back from north to south again, and so on repeatedly rushed and killed several times, and the Black Turban Army's baggage battalion suffered heavy casualties and collapsed.

Under several threats and persuasions, nearly 10,000 people surrendered all the baggage battalions, and finally counted the battlefield, annihilating a total of 327 Black Turban Army, capturing more than 1,300 soldiers, plundering more than 8,000 people, and almost burning the baggage.

"Su Hong, there are a few casualties in the Xiao Cavalry Battalion and the Leopard Tao Battalion." Bai Liyan asked.

"General, thirty-one people were killed and eighty-six wounded in the cavalry battalion. General Sikong lost thirty-nine men and wounded seventy-one. ”

"The dead soldiers on both sides were buried separately on the spot, including the prisoners, and the wounded were immediately rescued."

"No!"

Each person in Baili Yanjun is equipped with bandages, as well as Baili Yan's own hemostatic and anti-inflammatory powder, which can stop bleeding and reduce inflammation after external application, and it is difficult to treat the wound injury caused by mechanical blade injuries with this treatment measure alone, and the lack of experienced military doctors, as well as advanced treatment methods restrict medical technology, and it is difficult to carry out large-scale surgical treatment measures.

At the beginning of the period, Lu Gao watched on the eastern slope and saw that the Black Turban Army was scattered, so he led the men and horses of the Longwu battalion to capture the prisoners. Bai Liyan urged him to step forward, and saw that he was still inspecting the burned baggage vehicle, and his face was full of surprise.

"What did General Lu find?"

"General Wei, this fire shouldn't have been lit by pine oil, the last general smelled a smell of wine, could it be that the wine burned it?"

"Yes, the rice wine, rice wine, and fruit wine that are often drunk in the wine store can't be burned, only the essence of the wine can be burned."

Rice wine, rice wine, and fruit wine have an alcohol content of seven or eight to more than ten degrees, and they can't be burned at all. Lu Gao was born in the forbidden army, and he had seen the liquor that Liang Guo bought as a tribute, but the alcohol content was only more than 30 degrees, and no one had ever tried to ignite the liquor, just because the alcohol content was too low to burn it.

The alcohol purity of this equipment is above 70 degrees, and it is all stock transported from a deserted village, and it will catch fire at one point, which can be set on fire and disinfected, and the price is not cheap. In addition to the distillation of alcohol and grain, fruits, and wine, the cost of porcelain is not low nowadays.

The clay is too rammed, the tire wall is too thin to burn up, the damage rate is extremely high, the tire wall is too thick to throw on the mud and the grain bag is not broken, it is difficult to achieve the effect. Only the ceramics are fragile, but the price is not free, a fist-sized clay pot, the cost of firing in the kiln of Chenling is more than 100 yuan, and you can buy several catties of refined white rice.

The reason is that the firing process is backward, the yield of kaolin is not high, and firewood needs to be cut and chopped manually, which leads to high fire consumption and labor costs, and finally calculates to a single porcelain jar, and the price is ridiculously high.

This kind of tactics can only deal with ordinary baggage battalions, and it is difficult to deal with the formation of the whole formation, especially the army with complete bows and crossbows, which is also the reason why Bailiyan specializes in fighting the logistics baggage battalions of the Black Turban Army.

Leaving behind the basic rations, Bailiyan took nearly 10,000 prisoners and returned to the east bank of the Yongxing River four days later.

On December 17, the Baili Yan army came out of Ruitian again, attacked Malone County at night, killed the guard general Zhang Su, captured more than 20 officials such as the pseudo county guard, plundered 20,000 people, burned and destroyed Malone County, and burned and plundered all the empty land within a radius of 20 miles from Malone County.

On the twenty-fourth day of December, Anliang of Songtao City found that the news of coal reached the Lingling, Antai Hou Jitong stayed awake all night, the second day, the twenty-fifth day of December, the Xian army passed the good news again, the Baili Yan army conquered the highland Hagiting, destroyed two copper mines, killed five hundred defenders, captured six thousand people's husbands and Dingkou, and returned with a complete victory.

"General Dian Kun, where is Wei Xian now?" Ji Tong asked anxiously.

"It should have just returned to the Yongxing River camp, what does Master Hou command?"

"You go to the Yongxing River camp in person, ask Wei Xian to come over, and Benhou will go to meet King Xian."

"This ...... Hou Ye really wants to give 1.5 million stone grain and grass for nothing! ”

"Of course you can't give it in vain, Ben Hou went to see King Xian for this matter, you go and invite him first, don't talk to him about the Anliang Coal Mine for the time being."

"No."

Ji Tong felt more and more that this bet was a trap for Bailiyan, who should have known that there was coal underground in Anliang, and deliberately lured him into the trap. In this way, 1.5 million stones, grain and grass and 50,000 war horses were really given away for nothing.