Yan Qiu led the Yan team to attack from Wang Zhong's flank, and the crossbow arrows fired in a volley at close range, causing huge damage to Wang Zhong's team, and soon Wang Zhong's team could not hold on.

Originally, they were at a disadvantage in numbers, and with the advantage of having more soldiers, they were able to fight in a stalemate with the Qin team and the iron team led by Li Ze and Liu Hai, and the appearance of the Yan team became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

When the two armies face each other, the worst result is a rout, and the broken ranks are so disorganized that it is difficult to organize an effective defense, so that the ranks are like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

And Wang Zhong is now facing such a scene, although he fought hard to take Li Ze's heavy punch, and tried his best to get rid of Li Ze's entanglement with bangs. However, he was unable to gather his men to reorganize the defense, and could only flee desperately in the direction of the No. 3 mine under the desperate cover of several personal guards.

Li Ze and Liu Hai wanted to pursue, but were desperately stopped by several of Wang Zhong's personal guards, and after they solved these personal guards, Wang Zhong had already run out of the mouth of the ravine and fled towards the No. 3 mining area without looking back.

The battle soon ended, because it was the first time to participate in such a tragic battle, the soldiers of the Qin team and the iron team were inexperienced, and they were unable to encircle and annihilate Wang Zhong's army, and in the final rout, more than 100 people still escaped with Wang Zhong.

Yan Qiu originally wanted to lead the Yan team to intercept the opponent, but unfortunately due to the lack of equipment, he could only fire a few waves of crossbow arrows at the opponent from a distance, but he did not dare to block the opponent at close range, so that Wang Zhong and his more than 100 soldiers finally escaped.

Before the start of the war, in order to equip the teams participating in the frontal attack, the members of the Yan team replaced their armor and short knives on their bodies, and gave priority equipment to the Qin team and the iron team. And they only had a set of crossbow arrows in their own hands as weapons, and after seeing the previous tragic frontal confrontation, even Li Xian, who had always been bold, did not dare to propose a plan to block the other party head-on.

After the battle, the members of the Qin team and the iron team almost sat down on the ground, although the battle did not last long, but the fierceness of the battle and the high mental tension in the battle made their bodies extremely consumed, and everyone seemed to be out of strength, and they didn't want to get up.

"Hurry up and clean up the battlefield!" Li Ze ordered with a serious face.

"Get up!" Bangs also commanded with a wrinkled face.

When the Qin team and the iron team heard the order, they immediately got up with difficulty, some of them helped the injured team members to do simple treatment, while most of them helped the Yan Qiu team members clean up the battlefield together.

According to post-war statistics, a total of 383 Wang Zhong's troops were annihilated in this ambush battle, and most of the weapons and equipment of Wang Zhong's troops were captured.

The casualties of these three forces of Qin Tian were also very heavy, and in the battle, a total of eighty-two people were killed and one hundred and nine were wounded. It can be said that this is an out-and-out fiasco.

Judging from the problems of reaction in battle, the gap in the personal quality of the team is very obvious, and the psychological quality of the recruits is also worse than that of Wang Zhong's veterans.

Fortunately, through this battle, the overall combat quality of the Qin team and the iron team has finally been qualitatively improved, and they have really seen blood and can be regarded as qualified soldiers. Although Team Yan did not participate in the frontal confrontation, through the final raid and pursuit battle, at least they saw what the real battle was like, and their mental quality was also improved accordingly.

And these are exactly what Qin Tian wants to see, in such a battle that can be said to be won, cultivate his team into a team that can really fight, so that the soldiers can really see blood, so that they can grow up quickly. Qin Tian has always believed that the battlefield will always be the best school for soldiers.

The work of cleaning up the battlefield was carried out very quickly, and in just ten minutes, Yan Qiu and his team collected all the bodies of the fallen soldiers and the captured equipment, and the team quickly left the battlefield.

When the Ma army gathered all the men and horses to rush here, there was only one place left here, and the remains of the soldiers who had been stripped away fell to the ground, mixed with the collapsed bushes and weeds, which looked very miserable.

Ma Jun's face became very ugly, and the five hundred soldiers led by Wang Zhong were one of his main forces, second only to the direct troops he led. And this army of nearly 500 soldiers, now there are only more than 100 people left, and all the rest of the personnel are lost here, how can this not make him angry?

"Wang Zhong, is this how you lead the troops?" Ma Jun was obviously out of anger, his face was very ugly, but his tone became calmer and calmer.

But it was this calm tone that made Wang Zhong dare not breathe, and after hearing this, he immediately knelt down in front of Ma Jun, kowtowed and pleaded: "The villain deserves to die, please punish the adult!"

Ma Jun looked at Wang Zhong who was kneeling in front of him fixedly, and then his anger could no longer be suppressed, he kicked Wang Zhong out and roared loudly: "Who is the other party?"

Wang Zhong was kicked out and fell to the ground on his back, and when he got up, a mouthful of blood spurted out. He quickly crawled over before he had time to wipe it, knelt down in front of Ma Jun again and said, "The villain saw that their leaders were all wearing shackles, if the villain expected it, they should be Qin Tian's group of newcomers." ”

"Qin Tian?" Ma Jun gritted his teeth and viciously jumped out two words, he squinted his eyes and glanced at Wang Zhong, and then said coldly: "Your guilt will be noted for the time being, if you fail to make up for your mistakes in the next battle, then when this battle is over, your head will not need to be kept." Do you understand?"

"The villain understands!" Wang Zhong was overjoyed, he knew that his life had been saved for the time being.

Ma Jun no longer looked at him, but crouched down, pulled an arrow from a corpse and observed it carefully. This is a standard arrow, which is specially used for heavy crossbows, and when Ma Jun saw this arrow, his face became even more iron-blue.

He asked his cronies behind him seemingly casually, "Isn't there any news from Cai Ren's First Brigade yet?"

"Lord Hui, there is no news yet, maybe they are still on the way?" Ma Yi said with some uncertainty.

"On the way, I'm afraid you're already on your way to hell, right?"

"Uh! What do you mean... They... Are they dead?" Ma Yi was really shocked, it was a full five hundred people!

"If it weren't for his death, how could the other party dare to ambush Wang Zhong's troops here? Aren't they afraid that Cai Ren will copy their back path from behind?" Ma Jun was obviously angry at the stupidity of his men.

Ma Yi didn't dare to answer anymore, he also knew what the destruction of Cai Ren's troops and the loss of Wang Zhong's troops meant? At this time, it was best not to touch the brows of Lord Ma Jun again, otherwise he would definitely suffer.

Ma Jun saw that his cronies didn't dare to speak, so he turned his head to look at the raging fire in the distance, and then said: "Order the troops to slowly advance towards the factory area and release all the spies, I want to know if there is an ambush ahead?"

"Yes!" Ma Yi and Wang Zhong immediately responded.

The troops of the Ma army slowly moved out, but the troops marched very slowly, so to speak, step by step, so that on the one hand, they could avoid the ambush of Wang Zhong's troops, and on the other hand, they could also delay the rescue of the factory area, so that the mining alliance and Cai Hezhong's troops would fight more fiercely, and it was best for both of them to die together.

However, the Ma army also understood that this possibility was very small, basically impossible, and if both sides lost more than a third of their manpower, the team would probably collapse.

When Cai Yu finally came out of the mine, they were faced with such a situation, Ma Jun did mobilize manpower to return to the factory, but the progress was extremely slow. For this reason, Cai Yu also asked Ma Jun to express his opinion, but he was reprimanded by Ma Jun.

"If Captain Cai Yu thinks that Ma's marching speed is slow, then he should have come to inform Ma earlier, if you can inform Ma earlier, then it is likely that Wang Zhong's troops will not be ambushed, and we will have already rushed to the factory to suppress the chaos, how can it be like this passive situation now?"

Ma Jun was very unhappy with Cai Yu's opinion, if it weren't for the fact that Cai Yu was still useful, he would definitely break this unknown guy into pieces.

Cai Yu was choked speechless by Ma Jun's words, he also knew that he had been delayed in the mine for too long, but this should be blamed on Ma San's bastard, if it wasn't for Ma San taking the wrong way, how could he have been delayed for so long?

But now it's useless to say anything, Cai Yu can only eat Huanglian dumbly, and he can't say anything about his suffering.

Qin Tian and his troops quickly returned to the No. 1 mining area, they did not stay too much here, but placed some of the more seriously injured in the depths of the mine, and then took the remaining miners of the No. 1 mining area to leave here together, and quietly touched in the direction of the factory.

When they arrived near the factory, they found that it had become a mess, full of chaotic people, and near the town of Cold Springs, a raging fire was ignited, and the fire was mixed with the sound of shouts of battle, which showed that the battle there was very fierce.

By questioning a few coolies who had just been caught, Qin Tiancai learned that it turned out that that there was the location of Cold Spring Town, and that the people of the Mining Alliance were being transferred back from various places with Cai Hezhong, and they were caught in a tragic battle there.

In order to resist the attack of the Former Mining Alliance, Cai Hezhong transferred back the ninth layer of the garrison at the north and south gates, some of which were located in Hanquan Town, and the other part was guarding key areas such as smelters and craftsmen's supervisors.

The Mining Alliance tried to attack the smelter and the craftsman's prison before, but was repelled by the garrison there using a large number of city defense weapons in the factory area, and I heard that the casualties were not small. Only then did they change the direction of their attack and instead engage in a big battle with Cai Hezhong near Cold Spring Town. The battle is still going on, and the outcome is still undecided.

Now Qin Tian had two choices in front of him, one was to go to Cold Spring Town and participate in the great battle between the Mining Alliance and Cai Hezhong, and the other was to attack the smelter and the Craftsman Prison, rescue Tie Zhu and Tie Dan and others, and then help Yan Qiu and them unshackle.

Qin Tian did not hesitate to choose the second path, and the team quietly approached the smelter and the craftsman under the cover of night, only to find that it was indeed heavily guarded.

There are a lot of powerful city defense weapons such as bed crossbows on the wall, which are prepared for the city defense of the north and south portals, and they have just been made, and they have not had time to install them, but they are used here.