Seeing the coalition charge, Xu Sancai personally led the elite troops to fight, while ordering the other two Qin troops to launch an attack at the same time. The individual strength of the Qin elite was not weaker than the elite troops of the three major powers. Shangyuan was in the average strength of the coalition forces, so it was no problem to set up a formation to block the coalition forces' charge.
The military theory of the Chaotic Continent is far from comparable to Sun Tzu's Art of War. Xu Sancai taught the basic marching formations to the General of Qin. In his daily training, one of the most important training tasks of the troops was various formation changes and cooperation. Seeing the coalition charge, he immediately asked the elite legion to form a defensive formation.
The morale of the coalition was declining again and then exhausted three times. Originally, the coalition forces were depressed and were composed of multiple national troops. After seeing the encirclement of the Qin Dynasty, the morale of the military was shaken. After the coalition forces were repelled by the Qin elites in a row, they even lost the courage to charge. The generals of the Three Kingdoms had to order the coalition forces to break out in other directions.
Xu Sancai immediately led the elite army to the attack. He took the lead and directly inserted into the coalition army with his troops, and immediately divided the coalition forces from it. At this time, the coalition forces were just determined to break through and escape. The troops that had already lost their fighting intentions were not interested in fighting, so they were naturally unable to resist the full-strength attack of the elite Qin forces.
At this time, the weaknesses of the coalition forces' many national forces were completely exposed. The troops of each country fought on their own and were easily divided by the elite troops of the Qin Dynasty. The generals of the Three Kingdoms had no intention of fighting at this time, but led the troops of their respective countries to break through and escape from the direction that the Qin Dynasty encirclement had not yet closed.
The coalition lost its unified command and was in chaos, and the surrounded coalition forces had no hope of breaking through, so most of them chose to surrender. This was of course the influence of the Qin Dynasty's always preferential treatment of prisoners. Through the deliberate propaganda of Wang Youcai and Chen Dafu, the Qin Dynasty's superior life and behavior of treating prisoners well had spread to various coalition countries, which also made many coalition officers and soldiers choose to surrender.
Xu Sancai led his troops to chase the troops of Da Qi and Da Jin. It was not because he had loopholes in his command. He deliberately left a gap in the encirclement. In this way, the coalition forces had the possibility of escaping, so the generals of the three major powers would naturally not fight to the death. When they were determined to escape, they would inevitably ignore anything, and the abandoned troops would inevitably lose their fighting intention.
Xu Sancai led his troops to chase him, and along the way, the fallen coalition forces continued to become prisoners. The elite troops he led were only less than 300 meters away from the fleeing enemy troops. For the cavalry, this distance was almost negligible. The elite troops he led were chasing him and handed over all the prisoners who fell to the troops behind.
Originally, there were more than 400,000 troops breaking through the Great Qi and Da Jin, but after being chased and fled for more than 40 miles, there were only more than 200,000 people left, and the rest were behind and captured one after another. The troops of the two countries finally fled to their own border towns, but there were only 100,000 defenders in the border towns of the coalition, and they usually closed the four gates. At this time, they hurriedly opened the city gate to meet the coalition.
However, the elite troops of the Qin Dynasty were chasing closely behind the coalition forces. When the coalition forces entered the city, the troops led by Xu Sancai also rushed to the city, and the defending troops had no time to close the city gate. The elite troops of the Qin Dynasty rushed into the city. Although the defending troops made some resistance, they could not stop the pace of the elite troops of the Qin Dynasty.
The elite troops led by Xu Sancai were 400,000, and at this time, the coalition forces were less than 400,000, especially the troops of the Daqi and Dajin, who had no intention of fighting at this time, actually passed through the city and continued to escape from the other side of the border city. The pursuits of the Daqin were blocked by the coalition forces defending the city and finally failed to continue chasing.
The Great Chu troops also escaped from the encirclement, but they were originally behind the coalition forces and could not escape from the gap in the encirclement of the Great Qin. However, the Great Chu General led his troops to break out of the encirclement of the Great Qin regular army, and did not escape to the target border town, but went directly to the west.
However, the Great Chu troops suffered heavy casualties during the breakout, and the subsequent troops did not keep up, with only more than 30,000 elite troops rushing out of the encirclement. A team of regular Qin troops chased for dozens of miles, and the number of troops left in the Great Chu who were able to escape was less than 20,000. The rest of the soldiers who fell behind naturally became prisoners.
The coalition forces surrounded by the Qin troops and could not break through quickly collapsed completely and chose to surrender one after another. The more than one million wounded coalition soldiers became prisoners, and most of the remaining troops of many countries directly chose to surrender. The last three million coalition forces completely collapsed in just half a day, and except for a very small number of them escaped, they were all wiped out by the Qin.
It took nearly a day for the Qin army to clean the battlefield. There were more than 2 million prisoners alone, including more than one million wounded soldiers. In addition, the Qin army was killed and injured and a large number of coalition supplies, the finishing work on the battlefield was naturally very heavy. Fortunately, the Qin army had a huge logistics and transportation force, which allowed all these seemingly arduous tasks to be completed in one day.
Xu Sancai let the troops rest for three days, and then immediately led millions of Qin troops to start expanding west again. The disastrous defeat of the coalition shocked all countries. When the Qin army expanded westward, there were only 300,000 left in the coalition, which naturally could not stop the Qin army from expanding westward. He did not even stop and fled back to his respective countries.
The surrender envoy sent by Xu Sancai was naturally very smooth. With the remaining power of the victory, millions of Qin troops also had an absolute advantage over the army of any country in terms of quantity. The Qin Dynasty's expansion westward pace was unstoppable. In more than twenty days, three major powers and more than twenty medium-sized countries were successively incorporated into the Qin territory.
The Eastern Family and the three major countries were naturally shocked. Although it is difficult to organize enough troops to continue to conquer the Qin Dynasty, they cannot allow the Qin Dynasty to continue to annex more countries. The three major countries took the lead in organizing a new coalition. This time, the coalition included a large number of medium-sized armies, and the coalition brought together 19 million troops.
Although all the three major countries were taking action efficiently and the Eastern family also sent envoys to assist, it took more than fifty days for the coalition forces to organize and assemble the army. During this period, the pace of the expansion of the Qin Dynasty in the west was also running at high speed, and six large countries and dozens of medium-sized countries were included in the bag without bloodshed.
The work of the receiving territory and the incorporation army was running at high speed, while the reorganized Qin regular army reached 18 million, and the elite troops reached 2.8 million. The standards of the regular army of Qin have now reached the high-level combat division, and the elite troops are completely composed of war martial arts above the high-level combat division.
The Qin Dynasty expanded nearly ten thousand miles westward, but it stopped expanding when it was approaching the border of the Great Chu. The Great Chu itself is a superpower. Although the two expeditions caused the Great Chu to lose millions of troops, after the emergency recruitment of the country, the domestic force reached nearly three million. In addition, some of the newly formed coalition forces have already been in place. Now, nearly ten million coalition forces have gathered in the Great Chu.
Although the current military strength of the Qin Dynasty is no less than that of the coalition forces, forcibly siege the city will inevitably bring huge losses. Moreover, the huge territory newly annexed by the Qin Dynasty also took some time to digest. Xu Sancai ordered the Qin army to stop expanding and turn to a defensive situation, mobilized the Agricultural Reclamation Army to strengthen the border city defense, and mobilized a large amount of materials.
Now the Great Qin and Great Chu have become neighboring countries, with six adjacent border cities, and 16 million regular troops have been assigned to six border cities, while elite troops are stationed in county cities behind the border cities. Although there are many coalition forces gathered this time, because a large number of them are collected from medium-sized countries, the army's personal qualities and equipment are obviously slightly inferior.
Moreover, each medium-sized country sent only 100,000 troops, making the coalition more chaotic and difficult to unify command and effectively cooperate. Therefore, the coalition forces adopted a comprehensive defense from the very beginning, only curbing the expansion of the Qin Dynasty's westward expansion, but were no longer able to attack the Qin Dynasty.
Of course, the Eastern Family is unwilling to lose control of the vast territory. However, the Qin Dynasty has grown stronger now, and even if the Eastern Family fully invests in the war to fight against the Qin Dynasty, there is no certainty to win. Unless the Eight Great Temples stop supporting the Qin Dynasty and cooperate fully with the coalition forces, they will be sure to completely eradicate the Qin Dynasty.
The senior executives of the Dongfang family were naturally very angry at the expansion of the Qin Dynasty. They contacted the eight temples and negotiated with the other three major families. Although the three major families also hoped to see the Dongfang family weakened, the growth of the Qin Dynasty threatened their status. The four major families were all controlling the country behind their backs, and their strength seemed to be inferior to that of the Qin Dynasty.
The territory occupied by the Qin Dynasty has reached half of the sphere of influence of the Eastern family. Although the area of the territory is not as large as that of the other three major families, it has complete control over the territory and naturally has stronger national strength. Moreover, Xu Sancai focused on the construction of the territory, and the economy within the territory is developing rapidly, and the army is already the veritable largest force.
Although the Qin Dynasty has not had any conflict with the countries within the sphere of influence of the other three major families so far, if the Qin Dynasty completely occupied the power of the Eastern Family, it would be strong enough to sweep away any country within the sphere of influence of the family. The other three major families naturally do not want a powerful potential enemy, so they changed from attacking the Eastern Family to curbing the development of the Qin Dynasty.
Naturally, the three major families did not want to see a force that surpassed themselves rise. They instead agreed to the Eastern Family to participate in the war, but the premise was that the Eastern Family could not occupy the territory of the Qin Dynasty itself afterwards, and had to return the territory to those surviving kings to prevent new super forces from appearing.
Of course, the Eastern Family needs the consent of the Eight Temples to participate in the war. Otherwise, the mages of the Eight Temples and the Qin army will fight together. Even the temple allows the mages to join the warring sides freely, and the Eastern Family is not sure to win the Qin Dynasty. The Qin Dynasty’s wealth is not less than that of the Eastern Family. Even if it is a competition and consumed, the Qin Dynasty has an absolute advantage.