After five days of forced march, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Divisions of the Daxia Army arrived at the designated battlefield.
This was a mountainous area with a road running from Ephesus to Melekhim.
The commander of the First Division, Yu Dingshan, led an army of 10,000 to ambush on both sides of the official road. The commander of the Second Division, Yu Dinghe, led an army of 10,000 to block the east side of the road, and the commander of the Third Division, Lu Linfeng, led an army of 10,000 to the west end of the road.
The information from the Tianji Pavilion has been delivered, and the city of Ephesus has sent out an army of 100,000!
The mission of their three divisions was to wipe out the 100,000 troops in the mountains, and the remaining 90,000 troops would cross the valley. They would reach the city of Ephesus in two days.
At dawn, as the last piece of intelligence from the Tianji Pavilion arrived, Yu Dingshan issued combat orders to his three brigade commanders.
Soon, this order reached the ears of the soldiers in platoons.
Daxia had been peaceful for many years, and these veterans had not fought a serious war for a long time. At this time, they were all extremely excited, their eyes were wide open, and they held the semi-automatic rifles in their hands even tighter.
With the sound of horse hooves, one hundred thousand cavalrymen in black armor came into their sight.
Yu Dingshan raised the telescope and looked carefully. He frowned slightly. These soldiers had guns on their backs!
The retired emperor had fought a war with an invader named Alexander the Great in the Maurya Kingdom. When the expedition order was issued, the retired emperor also wrote an assessment of the enemy's firepower.
He said that the enemies the expeditionary force encountered had cannons. Although their power was not as strong as that of the Daxia cannons, they were deadly enough!
He also said that the enemies he saw at that time did not have guns...but the enemies that appeared in his sight now were clearly carrying guns.
It seems that the enemy's weapons have also developed by leaps and bounds in the past two or three years, but I don't know what stage their guns have reached.
"Pass the order down, everyone be careful, the enemy has guns, try to minimize casualties later!"
"Prepare...attack...!"
With Yu Dingshan's order, the army that was rushing forward like a long snake was suddenly attacked fiercely.
Ten thousand men of the First Division were lying in ambush in the mountains, and the semi-automatic rifles in their hands made crisp sounds of "bang bang bang bang..." Countless birds in the forest were startled, and miserable howls suddenly came from the camp of 100,000 enemy troops.
“￥%#@…”
Some people were screaming, some were yelling, some were shot and fell off their horses, and some were terrified and rolled off their horses to avoid the first round of shooting from the First Division.
In panic, they crawled on the ground using their horses as shields. They also took off the guns on their backs and blindly launched an attack into the mountains and forests!
“Bang…bang…bang…”
The enemy's gunfire also rang out at this moment. Yu Dingshan had been watching through the telescope and he grinned - the enemy's guns, at least in terms of shooting speed, could not be compared with Daxia's semi-automatic rifles.
It should still be at the level of a rifle, but it is still enough to threaten the lives of Daxia soldiers.
This is a battle without suspense.
The First Division, with only 10,000 men, launched an attack from both sides of the official road. Under the dense hail of bullets from semi-automatic rifles, the 100,000 enemy troops only held out for an incense stick of time before being defeated.
They never dreamed that there would be such a powerful army. They should have been invincible in this land!
But the comrades around him fell one by one, and they didn't even know who the enemy was before they fell asleep in this nameless mountain.
The number of one hundred thousand people dropped sharply to ten thousand!
The long snake-like team turned into a long snake-like corpse!
The corpses of people and horses were mixed together, and the ground was flowing with bright red blood that had not yet cooled.
The remaining 10,000 people began to flee in panic.
Some went forward and some went backward, as if their commander had also died, and they had become headless flies, running from one net to another.
There are the second and third divisions in front and behind, and the first division on the left and right. This is a network!
An hour later, the net was collected and all 100,000 enemy troops were wiped out!
But Yu Dingshan, the commander of the First Division who was the main fighter in this battle, did not have much joy on his face, because more than 320 people of the First Division died and more than 200 were injured!
The army regrouped.
The three division commanders met.
"The enemy's guns are deadly!" Yu Dingshan said with a serious expression, "We are on an expedition. Every death is one less soldier!"
"We still don't know how far we are from the place the Emperor mentioned, and we don't know how many battles we will have to fight!"
"If we lose one or two thousand men in every battle... we'll probably have to replenish our troops from among our entourage."
"The other issue is ammunition. Although we've brought enough ammunition, we still don't know how long this battle will last. If it lasts two or three years... we'll eventually run out of ammunition!"
The commander of the Third Division, Lu Linfeng, frowned and said, "But the war must be fought after all. There's nothing we can do about it."
"Well," Yu Dingshan nodded, "It's not that we shouldn't fight, but we should fight meaningfully."
"Let's go. After we take Ephesus, we need to discuss the options for the next battle with the commander."
The sun had just risen, and in this nameless mountain area, an army of 30,000 people was marching westward along the official road.
At the same time, the defenders of Mirata, who had been besieged for eight days, finally collapsed.
He did not wait for reinforcements, but waited for the news that the reinforcements were completely wiped out.
Then he found that the whole city was surrounded.
Another morning, the Milata city defender Xisuoya simply opened the city gate and surrendered to Peng Yuyan with a white flag.
Peng Yuyan smiled, and the sunlight shining brightly on her weather-beaten face.
She led an army of 10,000 into the city of Mileta and came to the city garrison.
Then the two began to communicate -
“@#￥%…”
“#￥&*…”
Unable to communicate, the two began to use gestures.
The gesture seemed to work. Xisuoya brought Peng Yuyan to the granary in Milaita City. He opened the door of the granary, and Peng Yuyan harvested a full warehouse of grain.
He also opened the door of the treasury, but Peng Yuyan did not take a penny - this thing is now a burden to carry.
The next day, Peng Yuyan brought Sisoeas with him, and the 300,000-strong army broke camp and left the city of Mileta and headed towards the city of Ephesus.
Peng Yuyan got a carriage, which was quite exquisite. It was probably the carriage of the old city guard.
The two of them sat in the carriage and began to communicate with each other through gestures. Peng Yuyan did not show any impatience, but Xisuoya was nervous and anxious.
He couldn't figure out where these people, who didn't speak the same language, came from or where they were going.
No, the army was marching towards the city of Ephesus. They must be going to attack the city of Ephesus!
But they didn't leave anyone to guard the city of Mileta...so their purpose doesn't seem to be to occupy these cities. What exactly is their purpose?
There were 200,000 defenders in Ephesus, 100,000 of whom were wiped out on the way by this strange army. So has that army arrived at Ephesus now?
Does the city of Ephesus still exist?
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