The King of Xiyue and the military headquarters were naturally shocked when they heard the news of the surprise attack of the Great Qin Kingdom. The Great Qin Kingdom occupied three counties in the inland, and other inland counties in the West Yue Kingdom were almost in a state of unpreparedness. It was impossible for the three or four thousand city guards to defend a county town. [】The Western Yue Kingdom realized the seriousness of the problem and hurriedly recalled the troops sent and carried out large-scale recruitment in the country.
The Xiyue Kingdom now not only needs to mobilize troops to defend their territory, but also regain the occupied counties and cities, and immediately summoned and recalled the troops who reinforced Citizen and Annan Kingdom. Of course, these actions were long ago as Xu Sancai expected. He asked the follow-up troops to take over the newly obtained three counties and led the cavalry troops to immediately set up an ambush from Citizen to Xiyue Kingdom.
Although the 60,000 cavalry selected also suffered casualties during the attack, there were more than 50,000 troops to fight. Xu Sancai had long chosen the ambush site, which was a canyon-shaped road. The specialty of Citizen is iron ore, which has several iron ore in the territory. These mountains are not very high, and the mountains are bare and unobstructed.
The road where Xu Sancai set up the ambush was a road more than 20 meters wide between two hills more than 300 meters high. This section of the road was several miles long. He asked more than 30,000 troops to hide on the mountains on both sides and prepared a large amount of rocks. In front of the road, 20,000 troops were arranged to send troops to array, and the elite troops were responsible for setting up ambush to solve the enemy's investigation and scouts.
Scouts cannot have communication equipment and cannot contact the large army at any time. They can return to report after discovering enemy traces, or shoot arrows to warn. The task of the elite troops is to eliminate enemy scouts on the mountain, provided that those scouts cannot send warning signals. This is an important prerequisite for ambushing, and for this reason, Xu Sancai and Zhang Dali both joined in person.
One of the requirements of the scout troops is speed. They need to explore in front of the army and quickly repay the problem when they find it. Therefore, most of the scouts are cavalry units. There are only two groups of scout teams that go up the mountain to explore, and they are all solved without any accidents. However, Xu Sancai ignored the scouts who were reconnaissance on the road below.
The enemy scouts soon discovered 20,000 cavalry arranged in formation in front of the road. Although the Western Yue Kingdom troops had 40,000, the Great Qin Kingdom cavalry took place in advance and occupied the geographical advantage. The Western Yue troops had only 5,000 cavalry, but the Western Yue general did not dare to be careless at all. They immediately ordered the soldiers to send troops to line up with gun soldiers who specifically deal with the cavalry team.
Since the Great Qin State began to attack the territory of the Western Jue Kingdom, of course, he did not want the troops of the Western Jue Kingdom to return to the rescue. The Western Jue General naturally had no doubt about the intercepting troops that appeared. After the troops were arranged in a charge formation, they began to advance again. In order to avoid being dispersed by the cavalry units, the troops were arranged neatly and closely, and the army filled the entire road in a mighty manner.
When the enemy troops appeared within the range of the cavalry in front of the road, the cavalry in front immediately launched an attack with bows and arrows. Although the enemy's front team also arranged shield soldiers, the best corpse to deal with cavalry was spearmen. The number of shield soldiers was limited. In the dense bows and arrows, the enemy immediately suffered casualties and was immediately blocked from advancing.
At this moment, a sound arrow shot out from the top of the mountain, which was the attack signal sent by Xu Sancai. Suddenly, rocks of all sizes fell like raindrops from the mountains on both sides. The large stones had a diameter of several meters, and the small stones had a diameter of more than one foot. With the help of the mountain, even the warriors could not resist it.
In order to avoid being dispersed by the cavalry, the enemy troops were arranged in a very close formation. At this time, a large number of rocks rolled down from the mountains on both sides, and there was nowhere to hide in this bare area. Moreover, the ambush area of the Great Qin troops stretched for several miles and had covered the entire Western Vietnamese troops, and it was impossible to hide from each other even if they wanted to hide from each other.
The enemy immediately shouted fearfully and howling after being injured, which could definitely be called ghosts and wolves howling. The rockfall on the top of the mountain lasted for nearly ten minutes. After the rockfall was over, the troops of the Qin Kingdom immediately launched a charge, and the cavalry on the mountains and on both sides rushed towards the enemy at the same time.
The soldiers of the Western Yue Kingdom were already injured by more than half of them, and there was no fighting spirit. The fear spread rapidly. Most of the enemy soldiers gave up their resistance and directly chose to surrender. After a general who was fighting stubbornly was killed by Xu Sancai, who was the leader, the enemy's fighting spirit completely collapsed. The only trouble was that half of the more than 20,000 surrendered soldiers were wounded.
The enemy's transport vehicles were basically destroyed by rocks, and the treatment and escort of the injured enemy became a big problem. It was dozens of miles from the ambush to the nearest county town. Although the transportation team was urgently recruited, it still took nearly three days to transport all the injured surrendered troops back to the county town.
Since the enemy basically did not resist, the losses of the Qin army were almost negligible, but Xu Sancai had to leave more than 10,000 soldiers to clean the battlefield and escort the prisoners of war. He and Zhang Dali led a 40,000 army and rushed to the two county towns of Citizen City in two directions.
There were only more than 30,000 troops in Citizen City, guarding four county cities, including 20,000 defenders in the capital, and only 5,000 defenders were stationed in the other three counties. Originally, 40,000 troops from the Xiyue Kingdom helped to defend, but the county cities were temporarily worry-free. Now that the Xiyue Kingdom suddenly evacuated, the Xiyue Kingdom had not had time to re-adjust the defense of the county cities.
Xu Sancai took advantage of the enemy's lockdown and seized two county cities, and cut off the passage between Annan and Xiyue Kingdom. His movements were very fast. The troops of Xiyue Kingdom had just left the two county cities for a day. He set up an ambush at noon. Before dark, the troops arrived at the two county cities. Before attacking the troops of Xiyue Kingdom, he arranged elite troops to sneak into the two county cities in advance. The battle was naturally very smooth, and the two county cities were soon occupied.
In one day, the West Vietnamese Kingdom and the West Railway Kingdom suffered heavy damage. The West Vietnamese Kingdom had already known that 40,000 troops were completely wiped out through the communication equipment. Now the most important force is only 50,000 troops to assist Annan Kingdom. Of course, no mistakes are allowed. The West Vietnamese Kingdom immediately sent a message to the general of the Annan Kingdom Expeditionary Force, informing the news that the West Railway Kingdom Expeditionary Force was annihilated, so that the general would be careful.
The expeditionary forces of the West Vietnamese Kingdom assisted Annan Kingdom were stationed in five county cities to assist in defense. It took a certain amount of time to assemble. When they learned that the other troops had been wiped out, the general naturally did not dare to disperse their troops and retreat on their own. He ordered all the troops to gather in the border town of Annan Kingdom near Xizhi Kingdom, and attempted to lead the army to return through Xizhi Kingdom.