When Ashoka rushed here with his vanguard army, he was also shocked by the scene in front of him.
During this period of time, he had been sending spies over to investigate, but the information these people brought back was nothing more than the merchant army quarrying stones and building houses and other messy things.
Originally, he thought that the merchant army knew that they could not win, so they planned to extract some resources and then retreat.
Unexpectedly, they built such a strong barrier.
After calming his breathing for a while, Ashoka immediately ordered a troop of ten thousand people to charge forward.
This army is all heavily armored, and half of it still looks like an army.
If placed on other battlefields, they would definitely be invincible, but placed here, they are just a bunch of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
When they just rushed to the barrier, the traps around them were immediately activated, and a large number of war horses and elephants fell down one after another.
They are heavily armored and their movements are extremely inconvenient. If they fall into a trap, they will only die.
Ashoka, who was watching the battle from a distance, couldn't help but widen his eyes. He really didn't expect that in just a few days, the merchant army could build such a strong barrier and set up so many traps.
I don't know whether he was blinded by anger or what happened, but King Ashoka actually ordered two troops of ten thousand men to charge together.
With the previous lessons learned, these two armies did not follow the old path before, but climbed up the hillside from the side.
But when they were about to reach the top of the mountain, they suddenly discovered that most of the strongholds had been cut off from the hillside.
They have no way to continue going up now and can only go back the way they came.
But they had already climbed halfway up the mountain, and they were all exposed within the range of the Merchant Army's crossbows.
In the next moment, thousands of arrows were fired, and two men of ten thousand men were shot down the valley, killing countless people.
King Asoka's eyes widened immediately. Although he had conquered countless countries, he had never fought such a battle.
In this way, the enemy relies on strong barriers for defense. Only a small number of people are needed, and with the help of secret passages, they can destroy their three-man army in a short period of time.
If the battle continues like this, it will turn into a fueling tactic, and his army will probably be wasted here.
After adjusting his breathing slightly, Ashoka tried his best to calm down. Then he reluctantly looked at the barrier in front of him, and immediately ordered the entire army to retreat.
The merchant army responsible for the defense on the barrier also did not expect such a result. Many of them were local savages and had never fought a large-scale war.
Moreover, they had a deep-seated fear of the Mauryan army, but when they started fighting today, they discovered that the other side was just a bunch of paper tigers.
Nearly 30,000 people were killed or injured in such a short period of time, and the rest fled.
The fear of the Maurya Dynasty disappeared in their hearts, and they even wanted to rush down and fight with them.
Dai Qisi, who was standing on the high platform, had long expected such a result. From the beginning to the end, he never left here or even issued an order.
It was just that at the beginning of the war, everyone was ordered to defend the enemy according to the methods they had practiced before.