The negotiation ended early in the morning, and Bai Liyan took Jiang Jie and others to hunt in the nearby forest, and the temperature soared at noon, making people feel like falling into a furnace.

"My lord, why is it hotter today than yesterday?"

"The weather was unusual, nothing to fuss."

"This ghost weather, I only see clouds and no rain, it's really a hell."

Baili Yan roasted the hare, and looked up at the sky outside the forest, the clouds were very thick, and the sun was vicious and strange, but it just didn't rain.

While thinking about it, an old man came to report:

"General, the enemy general has set up camp halfway up the mountain."

"Oh yes, keep watching."

"Yes!"

After the old man left, Jiang Jie said again:

"My lord, it's cool on the mountain, why don't we camp on the mountain too."

"You said Mount Yablia?"

"Where else could it be?"

Bai Liyan was silent for a moment, and immediately said:

"Yes, on the mountain, up the mountain! Jiang Jie, let everyone eat and drink enough, move to the foot of Yablia Mountain, and prepare to climb the mountain in the afternoon! ”

"Hah, mountaineering! This mountain looks quite steep, can you climb it? ”

"Noto, Yablia means, the closest place to the fairyland. Ben asked the people of the Central Plains that fairyland refers to the rainbow that can be seen from the top of the mountain and can see the rainbow of Lake Worth. Therefore, it should be able to be registered. ”

Mount Yablia is steep from afar, much slower up closer, especially on the sunny side to the west, and easy to climb.

Loaded with roasted prey, they got on their horses and ate as they walked, and went to the foot of the Yablian mountains. The north of the mountain is relatively steep, Jiang Jie is indeed not mistaken, it is not easy to climb. Shanxi is much slower, and there are mountain roads left by people when climbing.

There were four hundred and fifty people left at the foot of the mountain, Bailiyan took Jiang Jie and other fifty people to climb the mountain, Jiang Jie was young and vigorous, and he didn't know how important it was, and he took three steps and made two steps to climb the mountain.

"This mountain is high, it's easy to climb too fast, and it's easier to walk slowly."

Jiang Jie disagreed:

"My lord, I have climbed countless mountains before, and this mountain should be able to be climbed quickly."

"The highest mountain in Cupigon is only more than 300 zhang, this mountain has to be more than 700 zhang, where is more than 300 zhang mountain can be compared. Sit down and take a break, drink water, catch your breath and go. ”

"Oh......"

Mountaineering is not walking, a 2,000-meter mountain is not a 600-meter mountain, and walkers do not need to resist the earth's gravity, nor do they feel weak because oxygen has become thinner. Mountaineering consumes almost five times as much physical strength as walking, and climbing too fast not only consumes physical energy, but also easily causes physiological attacks.

When resting, a strange fragrance is faint and pleasant, which makes people feel refreshed:

"My lord, what do you ask?"

Jiang Jie tried hard to inhale the air, looking for the source of the aroma, Bailiyan carefully distinguished, and also smelled a strange smell that made the mouth relish:

"It's weird, what's so weird."

Secretly said in his heart, Bailiyan mobilized everyone to find the source of the fragrance, and finally found some flowering plants under the light spot through a leaf:

"Well, that's what it tastes like."

Jiang Jie affirmed, Bailiyan took a closer look at the flowers, the flowers bloomed symmetrically with six petals, the diameter was like a one-yuan coin, light purple, and the stamens were pink, I had never seen it, but the fragrance was fragrant, and the smell was familiar, but I really couldn't think of where I had smelled it.

Looking at the stems and leaves following the flowers, the fruits have already borne fruit, and the fruits are not large, like rhubarb rice, and are purple. The stems and leaves are nothing special. Seeing the ground, Bailiyan took out a dagger, brushed aside the soil, and went about two inches deeper, and suddenly became overjoyed:

"I said, why is the taste so familiar, it turns out to be pine wax."

Jiang Jie said at this time:

"What the adult said is really right, and the subordinates also remembered that this smell is the smell of pine grass."

Pine grass is a unique spice of Jinxuedi people, its roots are larger, perennial herbaceous plants, how to shou wu general, dried and sliced, put into food to boil, the taste is spicy and unique.

Its stems, leaves, and flowers have a light smell and are slightly sweet, which can be made into sachets, and the seeds can be used as medicine. Because it is more suitable for tropical breeding in nature, the growth cycle of the cold zone is longer, and it takes three years for a fist-sized pine wax grass, and the yield is not very large after artificial domestication, and the price is maintained all year round.

"My lord, let's just pick them all!"

"I'm not busy, it's not too late to pick again when I go down the mountain, let's go up the mountain quickly."

"No!"

Make a mark, and the group continues to climb the mountain. As the altitude increases, the temperature decreases rapidly, and it is already dusk when you reach the summit. The water vapor on the top of the mountain is filled with a sea of clouds, and the afterglow of the setting sun shines through the clouds, exuding a charming red halo, which is intoxicating. The temperature dropped below freezing, making people shiver uncontrollably.

"It's cold, sir."

"It's good to be cold, it's good to be cold and hot, but I didn't expect that there is a cave on the top of the mountain."

Although the summit is uneven, it is the size of three football fields, and there is no vegetation, and there are occasional slow-growing shrubs. Seeing all the terrain in his eyes, Baili Yan went down the mountain.

"Let's go, go down the mountain and find a place to warm up."

"It took a lot of effort for the boss, and after climbing for a long time, I just stayed for a while and left."

"It's going to snow on the mountain at night, so you plan to freeze into ice and wait for 10,000 years. Hurry down the mountain and find a place to start the fire before it gets dark. ”

"Oh......"

At the top of the high mountain, the temperature at night is below zero, Xianguo is located in Beihai without snow in all seasons, only the temperature is low in winter, there is snowfall on the top of Miaotian Mountain, and the temperature remains below zero.

In the past dynasties, the Xian kings ordered people to carry water up the mountain to freeze into ice, and then transported back to the Lingling Ice Cellar in a huge wooden box made of Nanmu, which was extremely laborious and costly. The altitude of the Abria Mountains is not inferior to that of the Miao Tian Shan Mountains, and snow and freezing at night are all high probability events.

Settle down before dark, and the temperature on the mountain plummets after nightfall, and everyone gathers firewood to keep warm, and the cold is still hard to get rid of.

Jiang Jie roasted the rabbit meat at noon and asked:

"My lord, what are we going up the mountain for?"

"The weather has been abnormal recently, and General Ben is begging God for help."

"Adults often say that there are no ghosts and gods in the sky, so let's ask God for help."

"You don't understand this, after eating, let people go to the guard, so as not to attack by fierce beasts at night."

"Oh......"

Bailiyan originally planned to rain frequently in May and June, and the artillery on the east bank of Manibasa could not be used, so the sailors broke through the pontoon bridge in one fell swoop, cut off the passage on both sides of the mooney, and the coalition forces crossed the river to occupy the east bank.

Now that it has been raining for a long time, the plan has come to naught. Now that the weather is extremely hot, Bailiyan can't tell whether it will work or not, after all, meteorology is still a probability event.

The next day, the group collected the plants and fruits of the pine wax grass, and then went down to the woods at the bottom of the mountain. Mooney sent a message to reopen negotiations, but Bailiyan refused, which further aggravated Mooney's suspicions.

"So calm, I'm pressing step by step, what chance can he have to turn defeat into victory!"

"Your Excellency, this may mean that he is ignorant of our every move, which is why he is self-righteous." Norrengar Road.

"No, if it rains now, his composure is entirely justified, and he can wait for the navy to return, cross a group of men and horses to land on the east bank, and then advance by land and water, and cut off our pontoon bridge in Manibasa, so as to seize our great mouth.

In this way, they will be able to occupy the east bank smoothly, and at the same time transport all the troops and population of Kelownas to the east bank, so that we are trapped between the Norlanton River and the Casgat River, and they will gain a huge initiative.

But now that it is not raining, and the earth-shaking fire has no weakness, it will be difficult for their naval army to break through the pontoon bridge, and in this case, he can still be calm and composed, which is not normal at all. ”

"Maybe he's waiting for the rain."

"With the current weather, it is difficult to see a drop of rain in ten days and half a month, and Yabuk's reinforcements will have already arrived."

"But they shouldn't have known that Yabuk was on his way, so they thought they were right."

"No, do you really think they don't know? They don't know Yabuk, but they must know that we're waiting for reinforcements. When the armistice peace talks were designed, it was to buy time for the transfer of Yabuk reinforcements from Temir, and Bai Liyan agreed to the armistice, but he was also waiting for the rain, and he was also delaying time. But what he didn't expect was that this year's rainy season would not come and disrupt his plans.

But now it seems that I still underestimated him, and he may have wanted to use Kelownas as a backing force to transport away the old and weak women and children of Casgat with a naval army, so that the hands and feet of the northerners of Casgat could fight me. And Temir, because of the absence of Yabuk, will encounter a greater threat, which may be his plan. ”

There are more than 200,000 troops in the Soviet Union and Gongliang Cultural Department, mainly veterans of the coalition army, supplemented by the new annexed army of Posong Province, and the combat power is far above the Baili Yan people.

After Temir withdrew Yabuk, the number of troops was less than 300,000, and the Honor Regiment lost more than half of it after two years of attrition, and some of the soldiers in their hands were recruits and auxiliaries, and their combat effectiveness was comparable to that of the coalition army at best, but their strategy was inferior to Gongliangwen, let alone Su Fangyi. If it weren't for the shoulder-mounted sky-shaking fire, Temir would never be an opponent of Gongliangwen.

Thinking of this, Mooney suddenly found that the transfer of Yabuk reinforcements would undoubtedly give the Eastern Front coalition forces a chance to break through to Temir. Once Kelownas is at a stalemate, it is highly likely that the coalition forces will open the gap from the Eastern Front.

"I really can't underestimate Bailiyan, we must find a way to transfer the northerners of Kelownas out to fight in the field to solve them."

"I'm afraid it's impossible." "They know very well what they are capable of, and they are no match for us when they fight head-on. So trenches were dug in Kelownas in an attempt to delay the offensive of our troops. Therefore, the plan we set before was to promise them to withdraw safely, but they could only take the waterway, so that they could be deceived by the navy.

At that time, our army's pontoon bridge at Manibassa will have no worries, and the defenders on both sides of the strait can be transferred in number, and with the men and horses of Yabuk, our army will be more than half the northerners of Kelownas, and they will definitely be defeated.

But now their navy is moving westward, and when Yabuk arrives, most of their navy will also return to Kelownas, and when the time comes, they will jump over the river to the east bank with their navy, and then cut off the Manibasa pontoon bridge, forming a confrontation across the bank, then we will transfer Yabuuk over, isn't it equivalent to doing it all in vain? ”

"Yes, time and opportunity are precious, if you can transfer them out of Kelownas, even if only a part of them."

"Aren't there 50,000 men fifty miles away, and if they kill this part, they will only have 120,000 troops in Kelowna, and more than 200,000 old, weak, sick and disabled."

"But it's still too much, 120,000 and hundreds of ships, enough to jump over the east coast, block us on the west coast, and maybe they will take away the earth-shattering fire of Manibarsa. It is necessary to find a way to bring out their main force, but with what means. It is not enough to arouse Bailiyan's suspicions, but also to lure them over. ”

After thinking for a moment, Mooney came up with a way to get the best of both worlds, not to arouse Bailiyan's suspicions, but also to bring in the brilliant attention of the main force of the coalition forces of Kelownas.