Chapter 742: Ambush Battle

"Where has the Eastern Earth Allied Forces reached?"

At this moment, it was exactly noon.

The soldiers were sitting in the woods eating Roasted Flour and drinking water from the stream.

Chang Wei arrived at the highest point of Fengming Mountain, holding a Telescope, and looked toward the overlapping hills ahead.

In such complex terrain, he believed he could fight a beautiful ambush.

In this way, he would have to rely on the flexibility of the Infantry to annihilate this army first.

Once it came to attacking the city, he could then slowly wait for the rear army to arrive.

"Reporting to the General, they are still about sixty li away from Fengming Mountain; it is estimated they will not arrive here until tomorrow afternoon," said the Koryo guide responsible for leading the way.

The people of Koryo felt deep hatred toward the Eastern Japanese.

Because the Eastern Japanese had invaded Koryo several times, burning, killing, looting, and committing every evil.

They had even carried out massacres in coastal Koryo cities.

These matters, passed from one to ten and ten to a hundred, had long since spread among the Koryo people.

Therefore, the Eastern Earth Allied Forces, including the Eastern Japanese, entered Koryo.

The Koryo commoners were quite active in acting as eyes and ears, constantly sending in the movements of the Eastern Japanese army.

This meant the movements of the Eastern Earth Allied Forces were entirely within their grasp.

"Qin Shan, Lv Chang, Guan Tong, deploy your soldiers along the ridges on both sides, and let's have an ambush tomorrow!" Chang Wei shouted.

The Fengming Mountain trail was the only path to Qingbo Bridge.

The remnants of the Koryo army had passed through Qingbo Bridge from here to flee to Ancheng.

If the Eastern Earth Allied Forces wanted to continue their pursuit, they had to take this route.

"Yes, General," the three replied in unison upon hearing this.

They rested for a night.

The next morning, the guide sent the latest intelligence again.

The eighty thousand Eastern Earth Allied Forces had finished their meal and continued toward Fengming Mountain.

After waiting for another two hours, a long procession entered the Fengming Mountain trail.

This procession was composed of a mix of Shizu Army and Dongying Army.

Because the soldiers at the front of this army were tall, while the soldiers at the back were short.

The tall ones were clearly Shizu soldiers, while the short ones were the Dongying soldiers.

Among the people, there was another name for Dongying, which was the Wa Kingdom.

Wa is the same as the 'wa' in winter melon, meaning short.

Therefore, the generals of the Prince's Personal Army instantly distinguished the two.

After the Eastern Earth Allied Forces entered Fengming Mountain, Chang Wei did not launch an attack immediately.

Instead, he waited quietly for this procession to walk into the center of the ambush circle.

And in order to avoid exposing the Prince's Personal Army.

He specifically had the soldiers ambush on the rear ridges rather than the front foothills.

He only sent out a small number of soldiers to be responsible for reconnaissance.

It seemed that after entering Koryo, the war had proceeded unusually smoothly, and the generals of the Eastern Earth Allied Forces were not on guard against the forests on either side at all.

After all, to them, the Koryo army ran as soon as they saw them; it was impossible for them to ambush them.

After waiting for half an hour, the entire Eastern Earth Allied Forces had entered the ambush circle.

At this time, the soldiers of the Prince's Personal Army, under the orders of their generals, crept from the rear ridges toward the foothills.

Although they did not bring Artillery or Howitzers.

But for this ambush, they carried a large number of Hand Grenades.

Upon reaching the foot of the mountain, the soldiers responsible for throwing the Grenades took them out and gripped the pull-cords.

Other soldiers aimed their Rifled Muskets at the Eastern Earth Allied Forces soldiers on the trail.

"Fire!" Once ready, Chang Wei, located at the front of the ambush circle, gave the order.

The soldiers threw the Hand Grenades in their hands one after another.

The Eastern Earth Allied Forces soldiers who were marching suddenly discovered a patch of black shadows flying out from the woods on both sides.

Before they could react, these black shadows landed in their midst.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The sound of explosions echoed through the mountain forest.

The entire trail was covered in thick smoke and firelight.

In the shockwave of the explosions, many Eastern Earth Allied Forces soldiers were blown away directly; soil, clothing fragments, and severed limbs splattered everywhere, and blood stained the trail red.

Suddenly suffering an attack, the Eastern Earth Allied Forces soldiers were stunned.

They had come all the way, fighting Koryo soldiers like fighting rabbits, never having suffered fierce resistance, let alone an ambush.

Furthermore, the Koryo army only had a small amount of old firearms, mostly just swords and blades.

These sudden explosions could not possibly be the work of the Koryo army.

Some Shizu generals who had clashed with the Prince's Personal Army reacted instantly, "This is Yan Wang's troops!"

Realizing this, the Shizu generals and soldiers not only failed to calm down but became even more terrified.

They were very clear about the prowess of Yan Wang's troops.

Being ambushed in such a narrow mountain trail, this time they would die with no place to be buried.

At the same time, the Dongying Army at the back of the procession was also in complete chaos.

Wave after wave of Hand Grenades flew toward the mountain path, and the Dongying soldiers crowded together became the best targets.

In just a few breaths, the ground was covered with the corpses of Dongying soldiers.

"Baka-yaro!"

In the midst of the chaos, the Dongying general responsible for commanding the vanguard, Xiaochuan Xize, cursed incessantly.

He was a member of the Xiaochuan family, one of the six great families of Dongying.

In the vanguard army, he was responsible for commanding fifty thousand Dongying soldiers.

After occupying the Koryo royal capital, he received news that the remnants of the Koryo Army had fled north, crossed Qingbo Bridge, and headed toward Ancheng.

So he immediately decided to continue the pursuit northward, to wipe out the Koryo Army in one go and completely occupy Koryo, including the territories Koryo had encroached upon from Dayan.

But he had not expected to suffer an ambush here.

The fire-arms that fell from the sky, which looked like sticks but could explode, made him realize instantly that these were the troops of Yan Wang of Dayan.

Because Dongying had been keeping a close watch on the internal strife in Dayan, they were aware that Yan Wang's troops possessed this kind of convenient and powerful fire-arm.

"Why, why would Yan Wang's troops appear in Koryo? Isn't Koryo an enemy of Yan Wang?" Xiaochuan Xize was filled with confusion.

But the urgent battle situation left him no time to think.

Under the bombardment of the stick-like weapons, the Dongying Army suffered heavy losses instantly.

What was important was that they had no obstacles in the mountain path to hide behind.

They could only continue to suffer casualties.

Seeing that he was about to fall at Fengming Mountain, he grabbed a Dongying general and roared, "Order the soldiers to charge into the forests on both sides!"

However, the Dongying Army had already fallen into chaos; only a few generals received the order, and some Dongying soldiers let out shouts of "Banzai!" as they charged into the woods.

Yet, just as they reached the edge of the woods, they suddenly saw countless flashes of fire erupting from the dark forest.

Bullets flew toward them like raindrops.

"Puchi, puchi..." The Bullets punched one bloody hole after another into the bodies of the Dongying soldiers.

The Dongying soldiers fell one after another into pools of blood.

Suffering from Hand Grenade attacks and simultaneous fire-arm fire.

The Eastern Earth Allied Forces in the mountain path became increasingly unable to resist.

An hour passed, and the sound of gunfire and explosions in the mountain path gradually subsided.

At this time, the sun sank in the west, the red light of the setting sun shrouded the mountain forest, and the entire mountain path turned a deep crimson against the backdrop of blood and light.

Then, the soldiers of the Prince's Personal Army walked out of the forest, holding Rifled Muskets equipped with Bayonets.