Chapter 100 The war begins!
With a direction in mind, the troops sent by Anyue marched quickly for half a month and soon picked up several people in a ruined city-state.
Emperor Qian recovered some of his strength and began to call upon some of the hidden forces left behind in his own way.
In the territory of Qian State, which was on the verge of collapse, there actually existed an army of 150,000 elite soldiers.
This elite army of Qian State only obeys the orders of Emperor Qian. Even when Qian State was almost defeated, with corpses piled up like mountains and the people living in misery, they never showed up!
It is difficult for the people of Anyue to comment on this, they can only say that they are a little cautious in their hearts.
An army of 150,000 elite soldiers guarded Emperor Qian. At this moment, Emperor Qian regained his imperial demeanor.
The first target of Qian State's elite army was not the Xu State's army that was looting everywhere in the country, but Qian State's capital.
If you want to fight against the outside world, first make peace with the inside.
As long as the prime minister remains in power, the military morale of the Qian Kingdom will never be united.
Zhao Wanjun originally wanted to follow Emperor Qian to reconquer the capital, but finally gave up the idea.
It's just a fight within Qian State, where people are fighting against each other.
She didn't want to participate, nor did she want to watch.
Even if Anyue spreads the message that they support Emperor Qian in taking power, if the prime minister of Qian State insists on resisting, Anyue's army will help Emperor Qian to quell the rebellion.
This is to put pressure on the prime minister from a distance.
The capital city, which was already not peaceful, became even more tense.
Many officials began to have ulterior motives.
The prime minister's position of power was instantly in jeopardy.
He managed to seize power by secretly sending people to assassinate Emperor Qian, which led to Emperor Qian's disappearance.
At this moment, Emperor Qian appeared and raised his arm to call for action; coupled with An Yue's pressure, the situation in the capital changed in an instant.
Wang Xiangchen was obviously unwilling to surrender.
The elite troops led by Emperor Qian fought a great battle with the rebels in the capital.
On the way, some cavalrymen from the Xu Kingdom discovered the movements of Emperor Qian's army.
But Xuguo chose to sit back and watch the show.
The civil war in Qian is equivalent to wasting combat power.
Why wouldn't they do it?
As for Anyue's reinforcements, the people of Xu Kingdom did not care.
Just a small country that no one has ever heard of.
The so-called elite troops are nothing but ridiculous talk.
After a few rounds of charges by the Xu Kingdom cavalry, I'm afraid these elite soldiers of Anyue will be defeated!
The Xu State cavalry even took this opportunity to speed up the progress of siege and seizure of cities.
They invaded all the way to the heartland of Qian State.
There were even some adventurous cavalrymen from the Xu Kingdom who crossed all the way to the west of the Qian Kingdom and saw the barren land next to Anyue.
Seeing that the wasteland was vast and barren, and that the Anshan territory behind the wasteland was where the Anyue Kingdom was on high alert, he turned back.
Emperor Qian successfully regained power.
Under the prestige of orthodoxy, Wang Xiangchen did not struggle for long before he was stabbed to death by his own confidant.
Compared to the vicious prime minister, the king's subordinates were more willing to believe in the benevolent Emperor Qian.
Backstabbing at this time is still considered a merit and can give you a chance of survival.
If Emperor Qian's army breaks into the palace, it will be useless even if these people chop the prime minister into minced meat!
After Emperor Qian regained power, he did not kill all the rebels immediately.
Instead, they were sent to the pass where the battle with the Asahi State was most intense.
"If the rebel army can return victorious with the heads of the Xu Nation cavalry, I will forgive my past mistakes!"
Emperor Qian set the tone with one word.
Those anxious rebels finally had a glimmer of hope.
It is better to go to the battlefield and fight with the Xu people than to be beheaded directly!
There was no time to restore the royal prestige. Looking at the people who had been tortured and suffered, Emperor Qian was heartbroken.
He has always been kind and benevolent, so how could he bear to see the people suffer such hardships from war?
Emperor Qian was furious, and with a single order, most of Qian's troops were sent to the front line!
Anyue’s army cooperated in a timely manner.
At Ji Xiu's command, Anyue's army and Qian's army swept through the territory at the same time, forcing the Xu cavalry to retreat, and then pressed towards the border!
This war is inevitable, but it cannot be fought within the territory of Qian!
This is a tacit understanding between the two armies that does not require any conversation.
Neither Emperor Qian nor Anyue wants the territory of Qian to be filled with smoke of gunpowder and the mountains and rivers to be stained with blood!
With the joint efforts of both armies, those small wandering cavalry were quickly driven to the border.
Outside the most magnificent border of Qian State, the million-strong army of Xu State was a vast expanse that seemed endless from a distance.
If Xu Kingdom was not unwilling to suffer too many casualties, it could destroy Qian Kingdom in three days with its all-out effort.
Of course, the Xu Kingdom did not want to go to the trouble of destroying the Qian Kingdom.
The goal of Xu State is to transform Qian State from a wealthy country into a poor country, and then develop it into a pig country.
At that time, they were free to take whatever they wanted in Qian Kingdom.
The war is about to start.
In the first battle, Anyue sent out an army of 100,000 to cooperate with Qian's army of 200,000, a total of 300,000 people. They took a vast mountain range as the main battlefield and charged directly.
The Xu Kingdom directly sent out an army of 100,000 well-equipped cavalry.
It seemed that the troops sent by Xu State were only one-third of the troops of An and Qian.
But, they were well-equipped and well-trained cavalry!
The Qian Kingdom has been through war for a long time, and now it can only muster a handful of cavalry.
Not to mention An Yue, they are all infantry.
Anshan is mostly desert, and Anyue Kingdom currently has no ability to train cavalry!
Although the Xu Kingdom seems to have a small number of people, its actual combat power is even more fierce due to the restraint of its troops!
The two armies soon collided with each other.
The shouts and cries of killing shook the earth, countless weapons collided, blood and flesh flew everywhere, and body parts were scattered all over the ground.
After only a short battle, the ground was littered with corpses and blood flowed like a river.
The Xu Kingdom originally thought that this so-called Anyue was an army that would be defeated at the first blow.
As a result, who would have thought that these Anyue soldiers were actually so brave.
Not only was the weapon extremely tough and sharp, but its ferocity also shocked Xu Guo!
The cavalry hacked and killed, and Anyue's soldiers fell to the ground, but those who had not died immediately squirmed and struggled, trying their best to stop their horses.
As soon as the war horses slowed down a little, countless spears and lances stabbed at them, piercing the cavalrymen on their horses, leaving clear bloody holes.
Whenever the cavalry wanted to gather and charge, someone among Anyue's soldiers would throw a small ball.
The ball exploded, sending up lime powder all over the sky.
The war horses either had their eyes burned by the lime powder or lost their sense of direction and dared not charge.
At this time, many Anyue soldiers would rush up with their mouths and noses covered and start hacking indiscriminately.
Of course, cavalry had too much advantage over infantry.
Not to mention that the Xu Kingdom cavalry was well-equipped, had meat for every meal, and each of them was strong and healthy.
Too many soldiers were knocked down by horses, trampled by horses' hooves, and pierced by cavalry spears, becoming cold corpses on the ground.
After a round of fighting, only a few thousand cavalrymen of the Xu Kingdom were injured.
However, more than 20,000 soldiers of Anyue and Qian Kingdom were killed or wounded!
The two sides confronted each other for a while, and then rushed together again.
"kill!"
Both sides were shouting and fighting hard.
Such a great battle lasted for three days.
Anyue and Qianguo sent out a total of 300,000 troops, but only 90,000 were left.
Of the 100,000 elite cavalry sent by Xu State, only more than 30,000 were left.
Twenty-one thousand people for seventy thousand.
This cannot be said to be killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of our own.
This was already a fight that resulted in a complete loss.
The advantages brought by equipment and war horses are so great.
At the rear of the Xu Kingdom, the imperial crown on the head of the Emperor of the Xu Kingdom was inlaid with pearls and jade, and it looked extremely noble.
"I can't sacrifice my excellent cavalry for their lives!"
"Notify the cavalry to retreat, the Asahi Long Snake Army will attack!"
Faced with the loss of cavalry, Emperor Xu was also heartbroken.
He had trained 300,000 cavalrymen over many years, and put all his efforts into training them in order to prevent invasion from larger countries.
In order to fight these two backward small countries, 70,000 troops were lost in one go!
A group of heavily armored soldiers with murderous aura and fierce faces marched out from the Xu Kingdom in a square formation.
On Anyue's side, Ji Xiu clearly felt the peculiarity of this enemy force and quickly replaced the wounded soldiers.
"Tell General Fan on the left line of the army to withdraw and discuss matters with me!"
The battlefield was too large, so each general and deputy general divided the area and led a team to fight the enemy.
Seeing that Anyue's side suffered heavy casualties on the left front, the opponent's armored army was obviously going to take advantage of the victory and enter from the left front.
On the left front, the infantry led by General Fan of Anyuefang had already suffered heavy casualties and were not fit to fight against a heavily armored army.
Someone in front reported:
"Latest breaking news!"
"General Fan led the charge, single-handedly killing dozens of cavalrymen. He died of exhaustion three quarters ago!"
Ji Xiu closed his eyes and sighed, and when he opened his eyes again, his face was full of determination.
"Other generals have their own lines of defense..."
"Then, on top of this palace!"