The follow-up troops of the coalition army naturally knew from the communication equipment that the situation of the besieged coalition was critical. The coalition generals kept urging the troops to step up cleaning the road and open a passage to rescue the trapped coalition. Now the first batch of troops of the Beihai coalition have been basically eliminated by the Qin Dynasty, and even the Daxia Kingdom surrendered to the Qin Dynasty. If the second batch of coalition forces are annihilated again, the coalition forces will definitely be unable to resist the Qin Dynasty's offensive.
Although the follow-up troops of the coalition tried to open a passage, the big trees on the road were more than a hug and weighed thousands of pounds. Even ordinary war sects could not move alone. To move these big trees away, they still needed to brave the rain of arrows from the Qin army. Moreover, these coalitions were all cavalry, and there were no shields in standard equipment, so they looked very embarrassed when facing the attack of bows and arrows.
The follow-up troops of the coalition were progressing slowly, and the trapped coalition was no longer able to hold on. Although the coalition general knew that the follow-up reinforcements were coming, the morale of the army was in chaos and the troops were trapped under the siege of the Qin Dynasty. Especially the bows and arrows shot from the woods on both sides and the continuous attack magic made the soldiers of the coalition dare not gather together, let alone arrange troops.
The direct surrender of hundreds and thousands of trapped coalition forces made the morale of the trapped coalition forces even worse. Except for the ones in the rear who were trying to break out of the Qin siege, the remaining coalition forces had lost their effective command and fought on their own. To be precise, they fled. After losing the possibility of escape, they had no choice but to choose to surrender.
Surrender is like an infectious disease. Once it appears, it will spread rapidly throughout the battlefield. Large areas of coalition forces are surrendering. The Qin and Daxia troops have more tasks to gather surrendered. The coalition forces in the rear know that the follow-up troops have arrived and have a lucky chance of being rescued, but they even organized hundreds of thousands of troops to charge backwards.
Although the pressure on the battlefield is now concentrated on the three million Qin elites who cut off the coalition forces, hundreds of thousands of coalition forces who tried to break through have no chance of winning against the two million Qin elites. However, after spending more than three hours and paying tens of thousands of casualties, the follow-up troops of the coalition forces have basically cleaned up the trees on the road.
When Xu Sancai saw that the trapped coalition had basically no combat, he immediately ordered the Daqin troops in the woods on both sides and the Daxia troops on the front to charge. As long as he seized the time to solve the trapped coalition, the Daqin could mobilize troops and encircle and annihilate the subsequent troops of the coalition. The eight million coalition forces were wiped out, and the remaining coalition forces were only a few million, so the ending could naturally be imagined.
Xu Sancai was personally commanding and blocking the battle of the subsequent coalition forces. Although the number of coalition forces was three times more than that of intercepting the Qin army, due to terrain restrictions, the road could not be formed at all. In order to quickly rescue the trapped coalition forces, the commanders of the subsequent coalition forces not only allowed the coalition forces to launch frontal attacks from the road, but also allowed the troops behind to encircle them from the woods in two groups.
However, the subsequent coalition troops selected cavalry units, so they naturally had to give up war horses when they entered the woods. Moreover, in the dense woods, long chopping weapons were also restricted, so the cavalry had always adhered to the principle of not entering the forest. But now the coalition commander no longer cared about so many, letting these coalition cavalry dismount into the woods.
There were originally ambushing Qin troops in the woods, but the task of these Qin troops was to attack the coalition forces on the avenue, and the formation direction was naturally to face the avenue. It was found that the subsequent coalition forces were about to enter the woods, and the Qin army was also quickly adjusting the formation, but it was difficult for enough troops to complete the formation. They could only block and slowly retreat deep into the woods.
When the Qin army attacked from the rear, it divided the millions of coalition forces in the rear. Now the coalition forces in the encirclement are still fighting stubbornly, and only hundreds of thousands remain. Xu San asked all the troops to quickly resolve the trapped coalition forces. The Qin hindering army on the avenue did not resist, but retreated while resisting to avoid attacking the coalition forces deep into the woods on both sides.
When the blocking Qin army retreated for more than 20 miles, the coalition forces in the encirclement were basically resolved. However, Xu Sancai still did not rush to counterattack, but asked the blocking troops to continue to retreat and distributed millions of elite troops to go from the back of the forest to the rear of the coalition. When the coalition forces penetrated more than 40 miles into the forest, he ordered the fire temple mage to go out and ignited the forest where the coalition forces were located.
It is naturally a matter of pediatrics to ignite trees with the flames of the mage. In the blink of an eye, the entire forest turned into a sea of fire. In order to encircle and attack the Qin army, nearly two million of the subsequent coalition forces entered the woods on both sides of the avenue, while the remaining millions of coalition forces advanced forward on the avenue.
At this time, a fire broke out in the woods on both sides, and the coalition forces entering the woods were naturally immediately trapped in danger. The armor on the cavalry was very heavy, and it was relatively difficult to walk, and it was deeply trapped in the dense forest. The flames of the woods spread rapidly, so it was naturally extremely difficult to escape from the woods. The nearest path to escape was the avenue in the middle of the woods.
But the road was just without flames. The thick smoke from the fire in the woods had already covered the central road. The coalition forces gradually had difficulty breathing, let alone combat effectiveness, so they could only retreat in a hurry. However, the Qin army was not in a hurry to attack head-on. The Qin army blocked and retreated layer by layer, which took more than three hours to advance the last twenty miles.
These three hours have bought enough time for the Qin army's detoured troops. Although it takes more than 300 miles to bypass the forest to encircle the coalition's retreat, it only takes about three hours for the elite cavalry. When the fire ignited, the coalition forces had already entered the range of the forest. At this time, the Qin army only had to wait outside the fire to escape the coalition forces.
Although some coalition forces escaped from the sea of fire, their formations were scattered and they had no intention of fighting. Moreover, under the smoke and fire, their own combat power was almost gone. The coalition forces had already pieced together, and they all fled their lives at this time. It was impossible for them to organize counterattacks. In order to escape first, there was even crowding and conflict between them.
The coalition forces that fled from the sea of fire basically chose to surrender directly. In their current state, even if they wanted to resist, they would just die in vain. Some coalition forces rushed out of the sea of fire from the front, but their fate was like the coalition forces in the rear, and immediately became prisoners of the Qin army.
The losses of the Daxia troops were very small, and the casualties of the Qin army blocking troops reached hundreds of thousands. If the marshal of the Daxia was a little unwilling to surrender at the beginning, he was completely convinced at this time. The Daqi troops wiped out eight million coalition forces with less than one million casualties, which was unique in the entire chaotic continent.
After this battle, the North Sea coalition was only millions left, and they were unable to resist the expansion of the Qin Dynasty. The Qin regular army had completely solved the coalition forces at the border, and Xu Sancai had ordered the Qin regular army to advance north along the border of tens of thousands of miles. The North Sea coalition could not stop the Qin Dynasty and immediately retreated and assembled towards the Zhou Dynasty.
This allowed the Qin troops to advance thousands of miles without any obstacles in the days ahead, which was advancing thousands of miles south along the tens of thousands of miles long border. Hundreds of countries were annexed by the Qin, including nine large countries participating in the coalition. The Qin still annexed the territory and army of these countries without bloodshed.
More than half of the armies of these large countries have joined the coalition forces, and the remaining armies are at most hundreds of thousands. These countries naturally have no choice but to surrender. The number, strength and equipment of medium-sized countries are much worse, so they are naturally even more powerless to resist. The expansion of the Qin Dynasty is unstoppable.
After the annexation of these countries, the Qin army grew stronger again. In one month, the Qin army advanced to the border of the Great Zhou, and the coalition forces gathered in the Great Zhou this time. The Northern Line troops reorganized by the Qin Dynasty had more than 30 million regular troops and more than 6 million elite troops.
The Qin troops have achieved great results on the northern front, but the Ximen coalition on the western front and the Nangong coalition on the southern front have also been assembled. Although the Qin army urgently recruited a large number of troops to add to the border, the number of troops is not weaker than that of the coalition forces, the combat effectiveness and training degree of the supplementary troops are not helpless. The coalition and subsequent troops are gathering to rush.
The Qin Dynasty adopted a full defensive move on both the western and southern fronts. Because the border city was reinforced, it would not be lost for a while. What Xu Sancai was worried that the coalition forces would also bypass the border city to attack the internal county town of Daqin. But he had no more solutions now, so he could only step up the offensive on the northern front. As long as the power of the Beihai family was completely annexed, the territory and military strength of the Qin Dynasty would not be weaker than that of the coalition forces.
The North Sea coalition was continuously annihilated, losing more than 20 million troops, and then reorganized, and the new coalition forces gathered were inferior to the Qin's troops. However, they lost their military strength and their morale was at a disadvantage. The coalition forces could only huddle in the Great Zhou territory to defend comprehensively. Moreover, in order to avoid the Qin Dynasty going deeper into the border city, the coalition forces had to be allocated to the internal county town just in case.
After the Qin troops advanced to the Great Peripheral Frontier, Xu Sancai let 20 million regular troops and 3 million elite troops confront the Great Peripheral Frontier, while the rest continued to advance south from the east and west sides of the Great Peripheral Frontier. The new North Sea coalition all hid in the Great Peripheral Frontier, and other countries were unable to resist, so naturally they chose to surrender to the Great Peripheral Frontier.
In this way, the coalition forces were completely in a dilemma: defending the Great Zhou to the death, all the surrounding countries were lost. Even if the Great Zhou defended its territory, it would inevitably be completely surrounded by the Great Qin. But if the Great Qin army was prevented from expanding, not to mention that the coalition forces are at an absolute disadvantage now, and the front line is tens of thousands of miles long, even if they want to rescue, it is too late.
The Great Zhou could only order the coalition forces to huddle in the territory of the Great Zhou and seek help from the Beihai family. The Beihai family asked the other two superpowers to organize new coalition forces as soon as possible, and contacted the two major families of Ximen and Nangong, so that the coalition forces on both sides could attack Daqin quickly and force the Daqin North Line troops to go to the borders in the other two directions to provide reinforcements, reducing the pressure on the battlefield on the North Line.