The heavy officer laughed loudly when he heard this, and the atmosphere suddenly eased a little. [26nbsp;] The father of the king said: "King Qin, according to the intelligence, the enemy's troops have basically been assembled, and they will send troops when they are waiting for the materials to arrive. Since the King of Qin burned their supplies last time, the enemy's materials are now very cautious in transporting and storing them. It is estimated that two or three thousand defenders will be left in the end. The King of Qin needs to prepare in advance to attack the city."
Xu Sancai nodded and said, "Uncle Wang, don't worry, I plan to take the method of capturing Qingtiengcheng. The residents of Xiaoyue City hate An Jiguo's occupying army. After taking Xiaoyue City, I believe that it can be stable soon. Since there is still time, we will prepare separately. Qingtiengcheng will be handed over to you. Master Gu will also stay in Qingtiengcheng, and I will take Zhang Meng and Dali away."
Next, the preparations for the war were discussed, including the Wangfu organizing the villages and towns to strengthen the walls and clear the fields to avoid looting the soldiers of Anjiguo; organizing nearby villages and towns to hide; and preparing more sandbags and rolling wood and stones, and blocking the city gates with sandbags if necessary; of course, a large amount of drinking water and food should be stored; and the organization of light and strong assistance in the division of tasks such as defending the city and rescue.
Later, Xu Sancai took Zhang Meng and Zhang Dali to the agricultural reclamation army. There were two major roads from Xiaoyuecheng to Qingticheng, one near and one far away, and the shortest road was close to Yueshan. The other road needed to detour nearly a hundred miles, which was the road from several towns to two county towns.
There are still small roads several miles away. The roads sometimes need to pass through the woods and sometimes pass by the farmland, which is relatively rugged and narrow. The enemy troops need to carry siege equipment, food and grass and other supplies, so they will naturally choose the main road. Xu Sancai chose the nearest road between Xiaoyue City and Qingtie City. He asked the Agricultural Reclamation Army to dig a section of the road that was several miles long and was full of pits.
The reason why Xu Sancai chose this road was that he needed to pass through a forest bypassing the trail, and it was very close to the hillside of the mountain. He asked the Agricultural Reclamation Army to prepare a large number of rocks on the top of the mountain, and also asked the Agricultural Reclamation Army to cut down some branches and hide in the bushes beside the trail. The 600 archers of the Agricultural Reclamation Army prepared the arches with grease.
On the other road, Xu Sancai also sent hundreds of agricultural reclamation troops to destroy the road surface. However, the way to destroy the road was to dig several large holes several miles apart, so he did this to delay the advance of the enemy troops. The roads on both sides passed by the villages had been transferred in advance, so he was not afraid of the enemy's harassment and retaliation.
Xu Sancai left two thousand agricultural reclamation troops on the hillside, and the remaining more than one thousand agricultural reclamation troops and more than one thousand cavalry scattered around Xiaoyue City to wait for signals to attack Xiaoyue City. Zhang Dali led 200 selected soldiers to sneak into Xiaoyue City to wait first, while he stayed on the mountain to command the ambushing agricultural reclamation troops.
It took four days for An Jiguo's troops and supplies to gather in Xiaoyue City. Then, An Jiguo's troops set out in two groups to Qingtieng City. Xu Sancai chose the ambush position to be dozens of miles away from Qingtieng City. The commander of this team of soldiers was An Jiguo's second-ranked general, who was over fifty years old. If he was in his martial arts and military merits, he would probably be the number one person in the military.
The general had a rich experience in marching and combat. The army was opened by two thousand cavalry, followed by infantry, followed by material transport teams and escort soldiers. The transport team was one thousand infantry, and one thousand cavalry was finally over. The general's central army formed by the infantry in the middle had its own escort cavalry team of 100 people.
The large army arrived at the destroyed avenue. The cavalry of the front army stopped and immediately sent someone to report to the general. The general asked the troops to stop. He went to the front to check and sent two teams of cavalry scouts to investigate. Ten minutes later, the scout returned and reported that the ground several miles ahead of the general was destroyed.
The general was furious when he heard the report, then he laughed at the sky and said, "You see, the Great Qin State has been scared by us. Haha, it's so naive. Can these children's tricks stop our army?"
After saying that, the general asked his personal soldiers for a map and soon found the path close to the main road. He immediately ordered the troops to rest on the spot for a while. The first battalion of infantry dispersed the alert and sent two teams of scouts to investigate the path. More than half an hour later, the scout returned and reported that although the ground of the path was narrow and rugged, the transport vehicle could barely drive past and no trace of people was found.
The general immediately ordered the troops to turn around and go on a small road from the fork behind a mile. Although the troops would prepare a small number of small shovels, they were not only limited in number, but also half smaller than ordinary shovels. If they used such shovels to fill the big pits on the road, it would probably take at least several days. With those big pits, the troops' baggage could not pass at all, so they had to choose to detour.
The enemy troops turned back and entered the path in a mighty manner. The general asked ten scouts to search hundreds of meters in front of the troops to advance, and then the large troops were the ones. However, the path was narrow and could barely pass through the transport vehicle. The troops lasted for several miles and were much slower.
One hour later, the large enemy troops arrived at the ambushed area of Xu Sancai and the 2,000 rural reclamation troops. He chose the end of the forest. There was a landslide there, and a bare mountain nearly a hundred meters wide appeared in the forest. When the cavalry of the enemy's vanguard troops passed that section of the road, he immediately ordered the rural reclamation soldiers to push the prepared big stones from the mountain.
A large number of stones fell from the sky, killing hundreds of enemy troops on the path below the hillside. Stones of all sizes killed the path below. While pushing down the stones, Xu Sancai ordered the archers to ignite the grease-painted bows and arrows and shoot them into the forest where the enemy troops are located below.
Six hundred archers who had been prepared were spread apart several miles away on the mountain. The fired bows fell into the forest below, immediately igniting the forest. It was spring, and the gentle breeze kept blowing, which immediately made the fire prosperous, and soon turned into a raging fire that spread more than ten miles, surrounding the enemy's troops in a sea of fire.
Due to the narrow road, the vehicles of the transport team could not turn around quickly. Hundreds of large vehicles completely stuck the road, and the troops in front could not retreat from the original road. The front of the road was blocked by a large number of stones, and there were stones constantly rolling down and they could not pass. The only road was the forest, the fire forest.
The archers on the top of the mountain were still shooting a large number of rockets, and the forest fire had spread for more than ten miles. The general judged the situation in the shortest time and immediately ordered the troops to give up their supplies, escape through the mountains and forests, and strive to preserve the troops to the greatest extent.