It was also on this day that there was also a battle on the other side of Thorn Ridge.

Yang Yuan had already gotten the news through spies that Reed had gathered 2,000 troops on the border of Thorn Ridge. Before, Yang Yuan was still thinking about whether to negotiate to avoid war, but now with the news from Ying Zihan from Chaoge, Yang Yuan directly gathered the army and took the initiative to attack. At this time, Reed was too late to regret it, so he could only take two thousand troops to fight Yang Yuan.

At the same time, the 1,000 Xuance battalion led by Yang Jian set off from the border of Viscount Merlin's territory and began to attack Viscount Reed's lair. Hunt led a thousand infantry in the back and began to capture various villages and towns, encroaching step by step.

Reed didn't know how to fight at all, he originally wanted to take this opportunity to sneak attack Yang Yuan's army. However, when he arrived at the border of Thorn Ridge, he found that the other party was actually waiting here, which Reed did not expect at this time. And the other party has a record of defeating the cavalry of the Principality of Heilin, and if the war starts, Reed will still be a little drummed in his heart. However, now it seems that the number of opponents is twice as small as his own, and Reed is still confident that he will fight the opponent. So with a wave of his big hand, a thousand people rushed towards Yang Yuan's army formation.

Reid was still a bit clever, and he sent a thousand soldiers, all of whom were newly recruited. There was no training at all, and he sent these people out just to test the combat effectiveness of Yang Yuan's army, and use these people to consume the physical strength and morale of the Macedonian phalanx army. I have to say that his method is still good, Ying Zihan has been from the rebel army at the end of the Qin Dynasty to the Yellow Turban Army at the end of the Han Dynasty in his previous life. The Mongolian iron cavalry of the Yuan Dynasty used this method very skillfully. But what level is the person, the Yellow Turban Army has tens of millions of cannon fodder, and at that time, it will be a qualitative change in quantity, and now these thousand cannon fodder soldiers are not to worry.

Yang Yuan saw the other party's thoughts at the beginning, but Yang Yuan didn't take it to heart. The soldiers in the front row raised these six-meter long guns, and the weapons of the soldiers who rushed over were not so long at all. A few unlucky enemies directly hit the muzzle of the gun and died, and the people behind hurriedly kept a certain distance, and then just looked stupidly and didn't know what to do.

The men sent by Reed to command were also a little confused, their equipment was terrible. It was just an ordinary sword and military uniform, without armor and bows and arrows, otherwise he would not have had nothing to do. Western soldiers don't like to use spears except for cavalry cavalry lances, so they don't even have the opportunity to use spears as javelins, so it's impossible to throw the knife in their hands, right?

It's just that Yang Yuan wanted to end this long battle as soon as possible, so he directly ordered the drums to beat, and then the army formation began to move forward. At this time, these recruits, who had not been in office for a week, immediately panicked, and the few who came to send them to death were directly stabbed to death by a few spears, and then the others fled. Seeing that these guys were escaping faster than the speed they had just rushed over, Yang Yuan was also speechless. However, he ordered to pursue and drive the soldiers away while maintaining their formation. Yang Yuan wants these guys to break through the lineup of Reed's army, and then they can easily defeat each other.

Reed almost vomited blood when he saw this, he originally thought that at least these cannon fodder would have to go up and fight for a while before they were defeated, but they ran away. Of course, he knew that it would take the cooperation of the archers to break the Macedonian phalanx, but many of those peasants were not trained to draw their bows, and they were not good at accuracy and speed, so he simply did not equip them with bows and arrows, so the current result was caused.

Seeing that the other party drove the rout soldiers towards him, Reed immediately ordered: "Quick, you guys hurry out and bring these rout soldiers to the left and right wings." Then gather them in, and kill them while I go to war with the Macedonian phalanx. Hurry up!" Looking at the approaching rout, Reid hoped it was still too late.

Hey, Yang Yuan was a little curious when he saw that most of the rout soldiers were gathered on the two wings, and the other party still had a little ability. However, he did not stop, but quickened the beat of the drum, allowing the soldiers to charge towards the enemy formation. Since you dare to provoke yourself, then stay forever, Yang Yuan thought secretly in his heart.

"Knock knock~, woo~woo," first the dense drums made the soldiers of the entire army increase their pace, and then the sound of the horn made the heavy cavalry attack directly to the two flanks of the enemy army.

The defeated recruits ran away before the battle began, so they did not see the cruelty of the war and the ferocity of the Qin army. So it took a little effort for the men sent by Reed to basically gather these guys again, and just as he was about to take people to support Reed, who was engaged in the battle with the Macedonian Phalanx, he was scattered by the heavy cavalry that rushed over. At this moment, these recruits were completely frightened, and they threw away all the swords, shields, and banners and fled desperately. The heavy cavalry sent a small group to pursue these men, and the other heavy cavalry swooped down on the Reed army, which was engaged with the Macedonian phalanx in the middle.

Yang Yuan was not in a good mood at the moment, although Reed's army was already at a disadvantage, but if he resisted, he could hold out for half an hour. Yang Yuan really didn't expect that a mere lord's army could reach this state, if this was the case, his current army would still have to train well to fight the army of the famous continent, otherwise what awaited him would be a complete defeat.

At this moment, Reid no longer has the vigor he had just had, because his soldiers were being beaten and retreated. At first, a few fierce generals-type men desperately rushed to open a gap, and then the soldiers in the first few rows of the Macedonian phalanx were killed in a close encounter with the Reed army. Reid thought the gap had been opened, but as the soldiers in the back lowered their spears from the shoulders of the soldiers in the front row, the formation resumed. The Reed army, which had just rushed up, was stabbed to death directly.

Reid almost vomited blood, and several of his best men rushed forward with the army to fight to the death, only to have dozens of soldiers killed on the other side. Reed also ordered dozens of archers to release their arrows, but Reed could only order the archers to shoot at the rear of the Macedonian phalanx because of the close encounters in front of them. However, there was little gain, and the guns at the rear of the Macedonian phalanx managed to block most of the arrows, and the rest either missed or missed the vital point. There were a few people who were injured, but none of the lucky ones were shot directly in the eye or in the neck.

The archers don't seem to work, much to Reed's annoyance. However, Yang Yuan helped him solve his worries, and he no longer had to worry about how to break through the Macedonian phalanx, because he should now think about holding his life.

"Boom~," the heavy cavalry was already approaching, and then the flanks violently charged Reed's army, and before they could react, they took the opportunity to escape through the torn hole. The formation of Reed's army was instantly disorganized, and the Macedonian Phalanx launched a direct general attack, and then Reed's army began to rout, and Reed also fled to the rear in the crowd.

But at this time they could not escape at all, and the heavy cavalry was also cavalry, and a chase between wolves and wounded prey ended an hour later. Only a hundred or so of Reed's soldiers did not escape in the end, and the remaining rebels and seriously injured were directly killed on the spot, and the rest of the soldiers who were in the class with Reed were all taken prisoner.

Yang Yuanzheng listened to the report of his subordinates on the results of the battle, a total of more than 700 enemies were killed in this battle (all the prisoners were killed except for some minor injuries after the battle), and more than 1,000 enemies were captured, while the Macedonian phalanx directly killed more than 70 people, seriously wounded more than 100 people, and the heavy cavalry casualties did not exceed 50.

After pressing Reed over, Yang Yuan asked curiously: "I see that you don't know the art of war, why don't you guard against cavalry?" The battlefield is changing rapidly, and many things are unpredictable, but Reed is completely unguarded against his own cavalry, which Yang Yuan is curious about.

Reed didn't speak, and Yang Yuan didn't force him, so he pulled him down. When the time comes, he will be escorted to Chaoge with these captives.

Reed was also bitter in his heart, how could he not guard against the other party's heavy cavalry, but he believed in the combat effectiveness of his army more. His idea was to disrupt the opponent's army formation in one go, and then it would be a melee, and the heavy cavalry could not rush between the two sides. But his idea was too perfect, and he sent his men so that the warriors turned out to be useless...

And Yang Yuan began to deal with the follow-up things while asking people to send the news back to the battlefield to Ying Zihan. He knew that the news here would not be transmitted back for a moment, and Ying Zihan would have to worry for a while.

At this moment, Yang Jian led a thousand cavalry to start a frantic sweep of the remnants of the forces left in the territory of Reed. In order to speed up the process and avoid the Duke of Field's reaction, Yang Jian used extreme methods, the opponents themselves fell to the ground, and the supporters continued to stay in office or were imprisoned depending on the situation. Yang Jian led the cavalry to take charge of the territory, while Hunter took the infantry to accept the territory in the back, reassuring the people while introducing policies.

After Yang Jian took Reed's Shining Gold City, Yang Yuan also packed up the battlefield and arrived at Shining Gold City at night.

The Shining Gold City is also a small city, even smaller than the previous Sand City. The population inside was just over 3,000, and they didn't know what was going on when they watched Yang Jian's army come in, and when Yang Yuan came back with a group of prisoners, they almost rioted. The people killed and imprisoned were all from Reed's domain, and together with the inhabitants of the surrounding villages and towns, they combined six or seven thousand people to pressure the prisoners to be released.

This is something that Yang Yuan and Yang Jian never expected, the two father and son had just met, but they were surrounded by thousands of people in the middle of the night. They didn't know what to do for a while.

"Father, these people are really hateful, now my cavalry is not even as good as infantry in this small city, if only it were outside the city. Yang Jian looked at the excited crowd with torches and said angrily. If he hadn't had time to gather an army, even if his soldiers were cavalry, he could have suppressed these guys with the Qin crossbow in his hand.

"No, I'll take care of this matter. Yang Yuan said suddenly. Even if we can suppress them, what can we do? Can't we kill them all, otherwise these people will still be tormented. This is different from Yang Jian's suppression of Reed's forces, these people represent the voices of almost everyone in Reed's territory, how can Yang Yuan not pay attention to it.

Knowing that these people were here for their relatives, that is, the captured soldiers, Yang Yuan immediately ordered the release of hundreds of "recruits" among the captives captured today, but the rest of the people resolutely refused to let go. Half of the people were now gone, and after Hunter's reinforcements arrived, they had no say at all.

However, Yang Yuan still comforted the people and said that he would give everyone an explanation within three days, so he persuaded everyone to go back.

Then Yang Yuan immediately came up with a few solutions to solve the problem overnight, and then passed the news to Chaoge, this matter still needs Ying Zihan's attention.

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