At the same time, Bai Liyan inspected Tian Peng and Fang Liang's new attached army, and after the javelin was transported, Tian Peng's miners' battalion and Fang Liang's headquarters were used as the team to draw new attached army wrens to form a javelin battalion of more than 4,000 people, and placed them in a secluded place to practice javelin throwing.

The improved javelin, with two pointed ends and a thick middle, is similar in appearance to the modern sports javelin, and it is all a woman craftsman in the valley, who sharpens it one by one and polishes it with a needle.

Bai Liyan has always ignored one thing before, the human body in the agricultural era is much stronger than modern people, and the strength is much greater. A hundred catties of stone locks can be taken by young and strong farmers who are full of food and drink, and modern people may have to lie down with a bag of rice.

Nowadays, the unimproved javelin can easily be thrown by an ordinary farmer for thirty or forty meters, a distance far beyond the level of a third-class athlete, and it is only a projection of a relatively straight trajectory, and the high-throw arc throw will be farther.

Of course, the farther the javelin throwing distance, the worse the accuracy, the accuracy of the large elevation angle and high throwing trajectory to kill a single target can be completely ignored, throwing more than four to five times, the human arm strength is rapidly decaying, and the actual combat significance of the javelin is gone, which is also the main reason for the early elimination of the javelin.

Therefore, in order to ensure more accurate killing, a straight throwing trajectory with a small elevation angle is usually adopted, so that the practical throwing distance of the javelin is only twenty or thirty meters.

It is too far away, the ballistic flight time is too long, it is completely predictable to the naked eye, and the enemy can loosen the array, diluting to evade the threat of the Javelin. In addition, the javelin is limited by the distance of action, which limits the size of the formation, and the density of a throw is far less than that of the bow and arrow, so the lethality of the javelin is huge, but the practicality is not as good as the bow and crossbow.

Once the cavalry and infantry are the first to attack, or even completely exposed to the enemy's bow and arrow cover, the javelinmen in front of the formation will undoubtedly face a buffer distance of forty or fifty meters.

Of course, the actual tactical application is not static, and the javelin certainly has its fatal shortcomings, and the current shortage of bows and crossbows in the coalition forces can be a means of surprise.

Using the improved javelin, he threw at a high elevation angle, and with Tian Peng's amazing arm strength, he threw 74 steps at a time, about 100 meters, which made the Olympic record unattainable, and it was comparable to a huge killing weapon like a strong bow.

Tian Peng is just a case, there are only a handful of people who can throw this distance, the vast majority of people are only sixty or seventy meters, there are many eighty meters, and there is even no shortage of people who throw ninety meters, almost all of them are athletes, modern society is almost unimaginable physique, but there is also a premise, you must be full of food and strength.

On April 11, Bailiyan took the time to go to Kelownas, where more than 250,000 people and more than a million stone of cargo needed to be transferred, and the ships needed to be transported in three batches.

Less than half a day after the front foot arrived in Kelownas, Su Hong hurriedly rode his horse, the reason for which was that the Jinxuedi people had been active on the east bank of his defense area two days earlier, and they were intensively moving on the widest part of the river in his defense area:

"General, two days ago, the strength of the Jin Xuedi people in Amandor increased sharply, and the last general observed that there was fraud for two days, and he must report to the general in person."

Su Hong pointed to the map and said quickly, Bai Liyan's eyes fell on Armando, and he couldn't help but be equally puzzled, he asked:

"How many people do you have here?"

"There are only 4,000 people, but the river is nearly a mile wide, and if you cross the river from here, even if you build a bridge with pontoons, it will take at least two days to build a pontoon bridge, and other means are even slower. And the last general could mobilize 40,000 men from nearby to come to the aid in one day, and the cavalry of Baihe could definitely not cross such a wide river in half a day, unless they had the help of a naval army. ”

"But if it's an elite division, one or two thousand people rowing across the river can also make your four thousand new annexed troops jump with chickens and dogs, but judging from the situation, it doesn't have enough time to cross tens of thousands of horses in a small boat in a short time in one location."

"The last general thinks the same, even if he uses a small boat, he will plant seven or eight people at a time, and for the sake of safety, he will also carry three or five people, and one of them will have to give up one boatman, so that only three or four people can go ashore in a boat, and even if there are a thousand small boats, they can only lead three or four thousand people ashore at a time.

Our troops are guarding the shore and have plenty of time to pour fat and water and set fires, and it will be difficult for them to get ashore. Now detected by our troops, it is more difficult to open the landing gap from here. Therefore, at this time, the sudden increase in troops on the east coast is afraid that there is something unknown to our army. ”

"Well, you're right, maybe there was an unexpected factor that our army didn't expect. In addition to the increase in troops on the east coast, is there anything else unusual? ”

"Yes, they are logging on the other side of the river, perhaps to build more rafts, and it is unknown whether they are forced to cross."

"But no matter how many rafts there are, as long as our army burns off the beachhead, how can they land on the shore."

The coalition forces were equipped with large quantities of oil and sulfur to burn off the beachhead passages, and even if the Jinxuedi people rushed ashore, the first thing they faced was the attack of fire, poison gas, and gunpowder, unless they could fly over the river more than a mile wide in an instant.

After thinking about it for a long time, Bailiyan still had no clue, and then Jiang Jie came to report:

"Lord Qiyu, General Jiao Muhua's scout has arrived."

"You know what's going on."

"The enemy forces on the east bank of Yabulisa are massing in large numbers."

"Isn't Yabulisa the widest part of the Norlanton River, where are the Jinxuedi people gathered and what are they doing! Let people in. ”

"No!"

Located next to the Norlanton River, Yabulissa was formerly a large village of the Kinshidi people, with a simple dock for small and medium-sized boats.

Although it is the best choice for landing, but the river is as wide as one and a half miles, even if the pontoon bridge is smooth, it will take three days, now it is the rising water, the flow speed is accelerating, the pontoon bridge is bound to be affected, Jiao Muhua in Yabulisa only 3,000 troops, it is precisely because it is unlikely to erect pontoon bridges to cross the river here.

After careful questioning of the people who came over, the situation was roughly the same as that of Su Hong, and the Jinxuedi people had gathered more than 30,000 soldiers and horses on the east bank, totaling more than 60,000, and they were all the widest in the entire section of the Dolandon River.

"It's weird, isn't Mooney crazy, with such fanfare in the two places, aren't you afraid that we will prepare early?"

"My lord, could it be that they transferred the civilian army from elsewhere, pretending to be the main army to confuse our army?"

Jiang Jie guessed, and Su Hong nodded in agreement:

"Brother Jiang Jie makes sense, the Jin Xuedi people have not been idle for a winter, maybe they have expanded the civilian army and transferred to pretend to be the main army to deceive us."

Bai Liyan was skeptical, and did not rush to a hasty conclusion:

"It's possible, but have you ever thought about it, if Mooney wants to make a feint, why not choose the narrowest river where it is easy to build bridges, even if it is Manibasa, which was shelled last time, it is easier to come than in Armando and Yabulisa. Doesn't it seem abnormal to do the opposite? ”

At this time, Jiang Jie took over and said:

"What the Lord means is that it is both a feint attack and a main attack, and the Jinxuedi people have a way to cross the river from the widest point in a short time. If our army mistakenly thinks that it is a feint, our army will be tricked, and if we mobilize troops and horses to intercept it, the Jinxuedi people will cross the river at other places at the same time as Armando and Yabulisa, and our army will be caught off guard. ”

"Isn't it like? Otherwise, how can we explain that they are so fanfare for our army to see. Whether or not our army sends reinforcements, it will dilute the strength of our army in this 150-mile-long defensive line. If Mooney crosses the entire line, instead of breaking through alone, then the key defensive places of our army will be vulnerable due to the movement of troops, and the key defensive places will be entangled by them due to the concentration of troops. ”

At this time, Su Hong said:

"But there are two things that can't be solved if we want to go all out. First, our army set fire to the shore with fat water, why did they land on the shore? Second, if they want to force their way through, they must cross at least six or seven thousand people at each point at a time, so that they can hold the beachhead in the key defensive areas of our army and wait for reinforcements, and they must also be rapid reinforcements. As soon as reinforcements arrived by our troops, they were completely driven back into the river. ”

"Fat water can block the river beach, but not the west bank of one hundred and fifty miles long, and the Jin Xuedi people are gearing up on the opposite bank, but they may also land on the north and south flanks of our army's holding position, bypassing our army's defensive line, and most of them will go downstream along the river, bypassing the front for several miles, so that they will land on the shore faster than our army's infantry army.

As for how to cross the river, it is difficult to figure out for a while, but since it is so exciting, there must be a mystery that has not yet been known, and it should not be underestimated. Jiang Jie, go and get Bai He for me. ”

"Yes!"

The Duolanton River stretches for hundreds of miles from north to south, and Bailiyan confronts each other for one hundred and fifty miles along the middle reaches, and the upper and lower reaches have been patrolled by cavalry.

Unless you bypass Dolandon and head further south upstream, or downstream to cross the river. Even if it was so successful, it would be impossible for Mooney's nearly 200,000 men and horses to rush to the river crossing site in a short time without being discovered by the coalition forces. The coalition forces will use cavalry and pack horses to quickly transfer men and horses to destroy their vanguard landing force, so they can only find a breakthrough in the middle and force the landing.

When Bai He entered the house when he was young, Bai Liyan asked:

"Bai He, has there been any abnormality in the cavalry of the Jinxuedi people recently?"

"General Qiyu, no anomalies were found. Still east of Manibasa, it has not moved. ”

"How many old and weak women and children and baggage are still in Montina?"

"In addition to our army's rations, there are about 120,000 stone of grain, grass, salt, gunpowder, sulfur, and saltpeter, more than 70,000 cowhides, sheepskins, and cashmere antelope skins, and some war fangs have not been transferred, and all the transfers have been completed."

"In this case, you first drive the pack horse to Montina, and hand it over to Lu Gao, so that he can load away all the rest of the baggage, and burn all the that cannot be loaded before leaving. Then you will transfer all the cavalry from all over the country to the Jiaomuhua defense area, cover all its troops to retreat north to the Suhong defense area, and after all the Jiaomuhua is transferred, immediately lead the cavalry back to Kelownas, take the pack horses, and attack to the northwest. ”

"But in this way, it is equivalent to giving up the southern flank to the Jin Xuedi people in advance, and the Jin Xuedi cavalry can kill the Suhong defense area within two days, so that the army retreats north, and their cavalry is behind them."

"You don't have to worry about this, I have my own arrangements, you get on the road immediately, the sooner the better."

"The last will obey."

After explaining clearly with Bai He, Bai Liyan turned to Su Hong:

"Su Hong, after Jiao Muhua led the army to withdraw into your defense area, repair for a day to collect troops and horses, and evacuate from south to north one by one, and withdraw to Kelownas, and the whole army must not retreat together."

"The Last Will Do Duty"

……

"Jiang Jie."

"The subordinates are here."

"You immediately send someone to order Jiao Muhua, and after Bai He led his troops to arrive, the whole line retreated at the same time and retreated to the Suhong defense area. In addition, Lu Gao made preparations for retreating north, and Tian Peng and Fang Liang immediately entered Montina to assist in the evacuation. ”

"Subordinates obey!"

After explaining clearly to the three of them, Bai Liyan followed Su Hong to the west bank of Armando and arrived at the shore around noon on April 12. Compared with yesterday, Jin Xuedi was cutting wood, and today he is more brazen, undisguised in front of the coalition forces, tying up rafts and preparing to cross the river.