And the Xiwan barbarian army appeared in Qiongshui County three days later.

Probably Yinlu Khan's death in battle completely angered Jinlu Khan.

The number of the barbarian army that came this time was as high as 30,000, and Fang Xiaoyue also noticed the presence of a powerful person in the barbarian army.

Most likely, it was the high priest who came.

Thinking about it, it doesn't matter to Jin Luhan whether Yinlu Khan dies or not, but he loses face.

What's more, before and after, the Xiwan barbarians suffered a bloody blow in front of Qiongshui County.

The actual battle losses alone exceeded 7,000.

The Xiwan barbarians are not as numerous as Daze Kingdom.

As I said before, the entire Xiwan barbarian tribe together has a population of only 500,000.

This time we sent out more than 100,000 troops, which can be said to be an all-out effort.

He lost more than 7,000 horses in such a small county. No matter how well-trained Jin Luhan was, he probably wouldn't be able to bear it.

Of course, in this way, the pressure on the provincial capital of Luyuan Province will probably be reduced a lot.

After all, Jinlu Khan must have lost more than the 7,000 troops in Qiongshui County when he fought all the way, and the total number of troops lost must be at least tens of thousands.

The Xiwan barbarians had previously divided their troops to raid prefectures and county towns in various places. This part had at least 30,000 cavalry.

Now that another 30,000 troops have been sent out, the barbarian army remaining near the provincial capital of Luyuan Province will only have 30,000 cavalry left at most.

It can be said that if the Northwest Army in the provincial capital of Luyuan Province had not suffered much losses before, it would be very difficult for 30,000 cavalry to trap the provincial capital.

"Dividing troops is a taboo!"

Seeing the mighty tide of cavalry rushing toward Qiongshui County, Fang Xiaoyue couldn't help but sigh.

In fact, before the barbarian army appeared, he received a letter from the Ministry of War.

Reinforcements from Dahe Province have already set off, and the Ministry of War ordered Qiongshui County to prepare as much food and grass as possible to receive the arrival of the army.

Therefore, reinforcements from Dahe Province will arrive in Qiongshui County in a week at most.

According to Fang Xiaoyue's calculation, the number of reinforcements in Dahe Province should be around 30,000.

This is normal. There is no frontier army like the Northwest Army in Dahe Province. They dispatch county soldiers from each county.

It is impossible to remove all the county soldiers, no matter what, the number must be left to maintain local order.

However, if those 30,000 county soldiers collided with the barbarian army, the fate could be imagined.

As a result, Fang Xiaoyue also felt a little headache.

However, after the 30,000 barbarian cavalry arrived in Qiongshui County, they did not attack the city directly. Instead, they set up camp. At the same time, they sent a large number of cavalry to fly everywhere, cut down trees and build siege equipment.

Obviously, after experiencing several failures, the Xiwan barbarians also knew that this small county town was a tough one. They did not plan to attack the city directly, but prepared to attack slowly and steadily.

Anyway, the county town is surrounded by flat areas. Under the inspection of the barbarian cavalry, the people in the county town have no chance to escape.

Of course, Fang Xiaoyue had also made plans to destroy the city before. Most of the cellars of every household in the county were opened, forming an underground passage throughout the county.

Once the city is broken, he will let the county soldiers hide underground while he leads the Taoist soldiers to fight guerrillas.

In fact, at noon the next day, the county seat of Qiongshui County was destroyed.

After a day's work, the barbarian army built thousands of wooden ladders. After reaching the city wall with the arrows fired by the archers, thousands of wooden ladders were put up together on the city wall. Together with the dense arrows fired at them,

The county soldiers could not arrive at all and had to retreat in advance.

The barbarian army then passed through the city wall, and thousands of cavalry attacked the second city wall from all directions.

I have to say that from a tactical point of view, the barbarian army was much stronger this time than before.

Under the fierce attack of the barbarians, the second city wall only lasted for half an hour before falling.

On the contrary, the county soldiers hiding in the ruins persisted for a long time, but because there were too many incoming barbarian soldiers, the county soldiers were unable to kill them. In the end, they were exhausted and had to withdraw into the previously connected underground passage.

But the barbarian army did not give up. Even when the sky turned dusk, they continued to pursue the underground passage.

Of course, at this time, the commander of the barbarian army may have rarely experienced street fighting and made a wrong decision.

If it were Fang Xiaoyue, facing such an underground passage, he would definitely choose to deal with it with thick smoke or water.

Since Qiongshui County's previous preparations were extremely thorough, the pursuit of the barbarian soldiers in the underground passage was not smooth.

Not only do they have to face various traps, but they also have to be wary of spears thrust from both sides of the passage from time to time.

What was even more frightening was that after nightfall, hundreds of fire points broke out, and a fire quickly spread throughout the county.

No way, the commander of the barbarian army has too little experience in this area.

If it is a field battle, they have extremely rich experience.

But when it came to siege warfare and street fighting, their experience was extremely lacking.

They ignored the wheat straw, grain, and wood piled up everywhere in the county, as well as the faint smell of kerosene from these things.

Therefore, when the fire spread to the entire county, the barbarian army suffered huge losses.

At this time, Fang Xiaoyue had already led Taoist soldiers and county soldiers through the underground passage into the wild fields outside the county town.

No way, as the fire spread throughout the city, no one could stay even in the underground passages.

In fact, Fang Xiaoyue didn't quite agree with the fire attack plan before.

After all, in his opinion, after the fire horse raid, those barbarians should have learned to be smart. How could they ignore the smell of wheat straw, grain, wood and kerosene that filled the city.

But the truth slapped him in the face.

Perhaps the opponent's commander was inexperienced enough, or perhaps he neglected this point in the fierce battle. In short, when the fire spread, Fang Xiaoyue felt a burning pain on his face.

No way, the fire attack plan was proposed by my cousin Zhang Yuanming.

Zhang Yuanming has always shown that he is not very smart, a bit reckless, straight and so on.

But this time the fire attack was successful.

Of course, since the fire attack was successful, the barbarians would not have an easy time next.

"kill!"

Fang Xiaoyue saw a group of elite cavalry escaping from the city on foot in a hurry, mixed with many high-ranking barbarian generals wearing fine armor, so she naturally knew that she was waiting for a big fish.

Following his order, Zhang Yuanming led Taoist and county soldiers and rushed over on war horses.

In fact, even if it suffered a fire attack, the losses of the entire barbarian army were not huge.

After all, Qiongshui County is small and cannot accommodate 30,000 cavalry.

Therefore, whether it was the previous siege or subsequent street fighting, etc., the total number of troops invested by the barbarian army was only five or six thousand.

There are more than 3,000 cavalry outside the city waiting for reinforcements and refueling at any time.

More cavalry were resting in the camp in the distance.

To put it bluntly, it is impossible for any commander to smash all 30,000 cavalry on a small county town, even if the small county town has shown enough toughness before.

In fact, according to the plan of the commander of this barbarian army, the 20,000 cavalry who stayed in the camp to rest will set off early tomorrow morning and go straight to Dahe Province to snipe the incoming reinforcements from Daze Country.

This was a decision made by Jinlu Khan based on the intelligence received, and the executioner was his other brother Tongdas Khan.

As a result, even if the fire burned the city, there were still more than 2,000 cavalry who hurriedly withdrew from the north and south gates.

Of course, due to panic, there were only about 500 elite cavalry on foot who escaped from the north city gate.

Some cavalrymen jumped directly from the city wall. If they fell, they would not die. At most, their legs would be protruded, but they would not be burned to death by the fire.

These Xiwan barbarians were more afraid of fire than Fang Xiaoyue expected.

This is not surprising, fires rarely occur on the grasslands, and most of the largest fires are bonfires lit by themselves.

And the sea of ​​​​fire spreading across the city like this is a mysterious and unknown existence in their opinion.

Therefore they will be more fearful.

In any case, when Zhang Yuanming took the lead and led the men to kill them, the elite cavalry calmed down and rushed forward one after another, trying to resist the impact of the horses with their flesh and blood.

Of course, such a move is undoubtedly useless.

No matter how strong a warrior is, when faced with the impact of a war horse weighing more than 600 kilograms, he will be like a piece of rag being knocked out and completely dead before he hits the ground.

Of course, more barbarian warriors were killed by scimitars before being hit by their horses.

But at this moment, Fang Xiaoyue appeared next to Zhang Yuanming in advance, and struck out with a sword light, dispersing the incoming black mist.

The moment the black mist was cut through, a middle-aged man in black robe among the barbarian warriors couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood.

That was one of the priests who followed Tongdas Khan this time.

In fact, when she saw this group of barbarian warriors withdrawing from the city gate, Fang Xiaoyue discovered Tongdas Khan mixed in and the high priest and several priests who were guarding him.

Fang Xiaoyue didn't know much about the so-called high priests and priests, but when he saw one of them throwing a ball of black mist at Zhang Yuanming, he took action.

Next, he slashed towards Copper Das Khan with another ray of sword light.

There is no doubt that if you want to defeat the barbarian army, directly killing their leader is the fastest way.
To be continued...