The already scattered formation became even more chaotic.
Soon, two thousand Han soldiers arrived and, taking advantage of their superior position and weaponry, forced the enemy into a retreat.
Moments later, the Japanese reinforcements responsible for attacking the west retreated, leaving behind three hundred corpses.
This defeat greatly dampened the morale of the Guishan Valley reinforcements.
Seeing this, the leader of the Guishan Valley tribe was extremely annoyed, but he still ordered the other three directions to continue the attack and transferred all the retreating soldiers to the south.
With one less enemy attack, the pressure on the Han troops defending the fortress was greatly reduced, and Shejinlu concentrated the defending troops on the other three sides.
Soon, the soldiers attacking Turtle Valley to the south advanced to within a hundred paces of the camp.
Just as they continued to approach, a horn suddenly sounded, and five hundred archers appeared simultaneously from behind the stockade wall, carrying crossbows issued to the Han army.
With a whistling sound, countless arrows shot out, hurtling straight down from the high ground.
In an instant, the hundreds of soldiers from Guishan Valley who were at the forefront let out miserable groans, were hit by arrows, and rolled down the slope.
A few soldiers from Guishan Valley who managed to rush forward were also pierced by spears that suddenly emerged from inside the fence, and lay on the ground howling in pain.
After more than a year of training, these soldiers of the Han-controlled army had basically mastered some of the tactics of the Han army in attacking cities and defending fortresses. Compared with ordinary Japanese soldiers, these tactics and methods were not much different, if not a complete defeat.
The attack lasted less than 15 minutes. Under the attack of the Han army's crossbows and spears, the soldiers of Guishan Valley suffered heavy losses and retreated in disarray after leaving behind two thousand corpses.
The losses suffered by the Han-controlled army were only around one hundred men.
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