"We can't retreat!" Little Sabir made a different voice instead, saying: "We can't retreat! We went south from Huchang Pass just to fight the Totem Banner Army in an upright manner!"

"The southern pass of Tiger Road has been cleared by a miracle performed by the God's Beloved! Our country, Baishan, is in great prosperity, why should we retreat?!"

When Little Sabir saw Baoding and King Alatan smiling impeccably, he mustered up the courage to continue: "With a small enemy, besides armor and equipment, isn't the most important thing is morale?"

"The suzerain country has equipped us with these sophisticated armors and weapons, and spent huge sums of money to establish maritime trade routes for us to transport supplies. We are not allowed to escape back to the Tiger Road without firing an arrow!"

"In the past, the Mobei people were not as equipped as the Monan people, their numbers were not as good as the Monan people, and their oasis tribes were not as large as the Monan people. Some of them were just passionate and unwilling to surrender!"

"At that time, the Mobei people fought hard for three years with their flesh and blood! After the war, the Mobei people suffered a total loss of one hundred thousand! Have you forgotten this bloody feud?!"

"Now that the overlord country has created better conditions for us, are we going back as we live longer?! Touch your private parts, are those two things still there?!"

That humiliating history of defeat is an eternal scar for the people of Mobei.

The Mobei people immediately became excited, and everyone started talking at once.

However, generally speaking, there are still two opinions: fighting and retreating.

Those who advocated fighting believed that they should at least fight the Totem Flag Army before retreating.

Those who advocate retreat believe that if the enemy forces are fully pressed, the elites of the Baishan Kingdom may have to cut off their tails if they want to retreat.

At this time, Calm Li opened the door curtain from outside the tent and walked in. He walked up to Bao Ding and whispered: "Our pharmacist has arrived."

Bao Ding didn't know if he was worried about the battle situation in front of him or for other reasons. He just nodded to indicate that he understood.

Jin Yu, who was sitting not far away, saw this scene in his eyes and couldn't help but show a trace of doubt.

Ever since Bao Ding took over the Shennong Medicine Cauldron, pharmacists have been coming to join him.

Several pharmacists had come to help before, and Bao Ding was very welcoming. If he had time, he would even go out to greet them in person and express sufficient respect to them.

This time, Bao Ding just nodded as if nothing had happened?

Bao Ding didn't notice Jin Yu's expression. He turned and looked at King Alatan. The latter nodded and made a gesture of invitation to Bao Ding.

Bao Ding shook his head angrily, and then said loudly: "Everyone, listen to me!"

Bao Ding's voice is now the oracle's sound among the people of Mobei.

As soon as he finished speaking, the noise in the tent suddenly became quiet, and everyone's expectant eyes were all focused on Baoding.

Bao Ding stood up and walked to the middle of the tent, looked around at everyone, and continued: "This battle must be fought!"

After setting this tone, Bao Ding took the wooden pole handed over by Zhao Kang and pointed on the map, saying: "The south exit of Tiger Road is on a gentle slope, and our three camps have a commanding location. The Totem Flag Army launched

If you want to attack, you must attack from your back."

"The topography of the south exit of Laohu Road is in the shape of a bell mouth, wide on the outside and tight on the inside, gradually narrowing from the outside to the inside."

"We will invite a battle again early tomorrow morning. After this battle, no matter what the outcome is, we will retreat to the Tiger Road, forming a formation of ten thousand people, retreating alternately, trying to delay the enemy until we retreat to the newly built Baishang Pass.

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"For the next battle, just follow the "release water from the canal" mentioned before."

Baishanguan is a rebuilt Xiongguan in an area north of the old site of the South Pass of Laohu Road. It adopts the most advanced and mature city-building technology of Baishan Kingdom, and the stones used are directly mined from the nearby mountain walls.

After Bao Ding set the strategic direction, he added two more sentences: "I know that you are worried about being bitten by the enemy's tail after the first battle and having to cut it off to survive. In fact, there is no need to worry about this!"

"If we really get to that point, we need to

When we Mobei people are asked to fight to the death, I believe that none of us will become a deserter!"

"However, if you can protect yourself as much as possible and at the same time severely damage the enemy, why not do it?!"

Bao Ding made a tipping motion and said nonchalantly: "After the battle at the south exit of Tiger Road, we, Shi Zhishui, will fall down and light a fire for them!"

Everyone in the tent was stunned.

King Alatan muttered, then laughed and cursed: "Okay, okay! You prodigal son!"

Jin Yu made a rough estimate with her fingers, feeling a little speechless, and reported a figure: "The current reserves of Baishan Country are about a little over a thousand cans."

"Good fellow, your fire will burn down two hundred thousand taels of gold!"

Since the stone fat water and fire water have been transported to the Han Kingdom through the fleet one after another, in addition to being stored in the internal treasury and the treasury designated by the Ministry of War, a small amount of fire water will also be put into the market and eventually flow into the homes of powerful people.

The process technology for distilling fat water into fire water is quite mature and stable.

The fire water extracted from the stone fat water can basically be controlled under a certain ratio.

Therefore, stone fat water can be converted into fire water.

Therefore, Jin Yu’s estimate is based on market price. Even if the factor of rarity is taken out of consideration, it still has considerable credibility.

It should be noted that the annual tribute paid by Baishan Kingdom to Han Kingdom as usual is only 20,000 taels of gold!

Bao Ding's understatement meant that what was going to be burned was worth ten years of Baishan Kingdom's coins!

The Mobei people in the tent suddenly lost their composure, and all of them hurriedly said no!

The 10,000-person commanders of the Baishan camp, the left camp, and the right camp all expressed their intention to stay and break up the rear for the Baishan Kingdom army.

At this time, if you are responsible for cutting off the rear at the south entrance of Tiger Road, you will basically be swallowed alive by the totem flag army that is chasing after you. You must be mentally prepared to have your designation and military flag revoked!:

Bao Ding stretched out his hand and made a quiet gesture. He waited until the voices in the tent subsided and then said, "I believe that each of you is willing to shed your blood for Mobei."

"But if the problem can be solved with gold, it is not a problem! If the gold is gone, you can make more money! After the stone fat water is burned out, you can mine it again!"

"If you save people and lose the land, everyone and the land will survive; if you save the land and lose the people, everyone will lose the land. If the people are gone, there will be nothing!"

"Besides, didn't the king already agree to it just now?"

When King Alatan saw everyone looking over for confirmation, he nodded angrily and said, "I agree."

Bao Ding paused for a moment, and then made fun of the Golden Horde: "Look at the banner leaders of the Holy Mountain. They live a arrogant and luxurious life, but do they care about the people below them?"

"Everyone saw it in front of the formation today. Their equipment, that is, the Totem Flag Army, is better. The equipment of other tribesmen is not as good as the equipment of the coalition forces of our Selim Banner or Nilek Banner!"

"As long as we win this battle in the end, all our losses can be recovered from the Holy Mountain! Even after the tide has passed. Those ghosts are just greedy for ghost coins. Who knows about gold, silver and jewelry?"

Everyone's expressions relaxed a little, and some laughed.

However, the situation of the war is still confusing, and we still have to wait until the war starts tomorrow before we can roughly see the direction of things.

.......

The next day, early in the morning, the mountains at the southern exit of Laohu Road were shrouded in heavy fog.

Boom!

Boom!

On the gentle slope at the south exit of Tiger Road, groups of soldiers with hard-wearing armor came out of the mist and formed a formation in the open field.

Judging from the several Mobei flags in the formation of these soldiers, it was the elite of the Baishan camp who came out in formation.

There are a total of two phalanxes of ten thousand people standing on the gentle slope, one on the left and one on the right.

The tall bodies of seven or eight trebuchets

The shadow appeared behind the formation. There was not much water vapor on the huge iron-clad wheels. It was obvious that preparations had been made for the battle.

Several huge wedges, almost taller than a man, were driven into the ground and jammed the wheels. The trebuchets stopped one by one, and the gunners were making final inspections before ejection.

Jars of lime water and fire water have been neatly placed on both sides of the trebuchet for easy access.

On the other hand, looking at the bottom of the gentle slope, slaves were already pushing the hay carts and carts out of several simple cart camps that were erected last night. The totem flag troops inside were also fully dressed and arrayed out.

Further away, there were several car camps with totem flags flying, but there was not much movement for the time being.

Judging from those camps alone, there must be thirty to forty thousand soldiers in each car camp. This number is roughly the strength of a totem flag army.

Just a rough count can confirm that there are indeed twelve totem flags under the gentle slope!

Those car camps and square formations have surrounded the gentle slope at the exit of Tiger Road, with a huge force.

Various flags were passed back and forth between the car camps and phalanxes, and the ordering soldiers held the order flags and galloped on their horses.

There are actually three or four trebuchets in these totem flag army formations or camps.

However, it seems that these trebuchets are the private property of each totem flag, and are completely deployed and commanded by the flag army.

In today's battle, it is estimated that the Totem Banner Army has little chance of using their trebuchet.

After all, the range of their trebuchets is not as good as the new type of trebuchets developed by Baishan Kingdom, and since they attack from the bottom of the slope, their range is even worse than that of their opponents.

Rather than showing off one's ugliness, it is better to hide one's clumsiness.

In addition, the war horses collected by the Totem Flag Army from the large and small oasis tribes every year are enough to maintain a scale of 40,000 horses!

If there were any more, the daily consumption and expenses of the cavalry would be as high as one to ten, which even the Golden Horde would find difficult to bear.

Right now, the total number of cavalry gathered under the gentle slope of the south exit of Tiger Road is about 30,000!

The tense and depressing atmosphere before the war naturally overflowed, and even the morning mist in the mountains had to give in.
Chapter completed!