The Young and Vigorous Eighth Prince

He couldn't believe it was true. His 200,000-strong army was wiped out so easily. How was this possible? He thought he had heard it wrong, and that the intelligence transmitted from the front was wrong.

But after he verified it from multiple sources and found out it was true, he was completely dumbfounded and a sense of fear surged in his heart.

He never imagined that the Indian Army and the Great Xia Army were so powerful, with an army of 200,000 men, and he also had an army of 200,000 men on his side.

Moreover, according to reason, the army under Jiang Fan's command should not exceed 50,000, or 70,000 or 80,000. So why did they annihilate their 200,000-strong army?

Just as he was shocked, some news came back that almost frightened him to death. The four important cities where he had emptied his troops actually fell at the same time overnight.

The 300,000 troops he sent to take over and protect the city hadn't arrived yet, and the four cities had already changed hands! How is this possible?!

Only then did he react. He was afraid that Jiang Fan had already known the situation on his side, and had been looking for an opportunity when he was in a state of confusion.

He foolishly thought that everything was under his control, but he didn't expect Jiang Fan to use blitzkrieg tactics and didn't give him a chance to react.

Faced with the capture of four important cities, Netani's first thought after coming to his senses was to take the four cities back. Otherwise, he would lose his food and water supply, and at least half of the places in the future would have problems with water and food.

Fortunately, the 300,000 troops he sent out to guard were not far from the four cities and could arrive there in just one day.

He immediately issued an order for 300,000 troops to retake the four cities. This was a good opportunity to take them back while the enemy had not yet gained a firm foothold.

According to his estimation, the enemy forces in the four cities now do not exceed 25,000 people in each city. If his 300,000 troops are divided into four groups, each group will have nearly 80,000 people. There is still hope to recapture the four cities.

Moreover, he immediately transferred 300,000 troops from the rear, so that they could fight a decisive battle with Jiang Fan's Great Xia Army in these four cities.

He already understood Jiang Fan's intention, which was to cut off his resource supply and defeat him bit by bit in terms of resources. The battle for control of the four cities would be the key to this battle.

If he were to transfer all 600,000 people here, it would be 200,000 against 600,000, and the advantage would be in his hands.

When he thought of this, his depressed mood improved a lot, and he secretly cursed Jiang Fan in his heart for being an idiot for actually thinking of seizing four cities to cut off his resource supply.

Doesn't this give him a chance for a major battle? He was still worried that Jiang Fan would disperse his forces. Now in a major battle, 200,000 versus 600,000, a three-fold advantage, he was afraid that he would not be able to destroy Jiang Fan and his coalition forces.

Just when he was full of confidence, Jiang Fan's four armies had already been divided into four cities.

At the same time, the Persian Empire's advance 300,000 troops had rushed to the four cities, sending 75,000 men to each city.

They arrived faster than Jiang Fan and others, and reached the four cities almost a day earlier. The 75,000 people immediately launched an attack on the four cities.

The defending armies faced a Persian Empire with a force three times their own, and they managed to hold on to the four cities firmly.

However, the enemy's artillery fire was very fierce, causing many casualties to the defenders of the four cities. The two sides fought fiercely for a day and a night.

Both sides suffered losses, but the losses on the Persian Empire were much heavier. After all, in terms of weapons and equipment, although the weapons of the Persian Empire were advanced, they were still no match for the Great Xia Army.

Gatling and Maxim alone made the Persian army that attacked the city be reaped like wheat. They attacked the city for a day and a night, but they couldn't even climb the city wall.

However, faced with Netani's order to capture the city, they had to wage a fierce siege without caring about casualties.

However, while they were attacking the city, the Daxia army sent out hot air balloons to launch a surprise attack. The army was thrown into chaos and was almost defeated by the army defending the city.

However, the walls also collapsed under the bombardment of the Persian army. Originally, after the walls collapsed, the Persian army thought they had found a way to attack the city.

But who would have thought that as soon as their men reached the collapsed area, they were directly repelled by the heavy firepower in the city. The 300,000 Persian troops in the four cities lost nearly 130,000 people, but gained nothing.

It’s not that they don’t want to capture the four cities, it’s just that the firepower of the Great Xia Army is too strong, so strong that they are almost psychologically traumatized.

In desperation, they could only choose to rest and wait for the arrival of the next 300,000 troops before attacking the city.

But on the night when they were resting, the four armies led by Jiang Fan also arrived outside the four cities. After receiving the news that the enemy army had failed in its siege and was resting.

That night, Jiang Fan's four armies ambushed the Persian Empire's army outside the four cities. First, they launched a surprise attack from the air, which directly threw the enemy into chaos.

Immediately, the army launched a charge on the enemy's camp, and the Daxia and Tianzhu armies in the four cities saw this and immediately launched a counterattack.

With their assistance, the Persian troops who were resting in the four cities were immediately beaten into a daze, and the Persian army was completely defeated within less than an hour of fighting.

Then, it was a one-sided pursuit and slaughter. The army in the four cities, plus the army that came to support, a force of nearly 50,000 people, slaughtered the remaining enemy troops one-sidedly.

The four cities launched attacks almost one after another, with no more than an hour's difference in time.

The battle lasted for several hours, and the 300,000 troops of the Persian Empire were almost wiped out, with less than 40,000 people escaping. About 10,000 people escaped from each city.

The 40,000 men finally joined together and rushed to the 300,000-man army that came to support them from the rear. The four cities won a great victory and managed to hold on to the four cities.

However, the four cities also lost a lot of people, with an average loss of about 10,000 people in each city. In other words, Jiang Fan lost 40,000 of the 200,000 troops he brought from Tianzhu and Daxia.

Among them, the Indian Army suffered the greatest losses, over 30,000, while the Great Xia Army lost nearly 10,000.

Such a loss made Jiang Fan feel a little uncomfortable. The Hebrews' weapons and equipment were advanced, but it also caused him great casualties.

In the past, such casualties would have been impossible.

This also made Su Fan more determined to exterminate the Hebrew people. If the Hebrew people were allowed to continue to develop, the price he would pay to exterminate them would be even greater.

The Tianzhu army suffered even more severe losses because its combat effectiveness was inferior to that of the Daxia army. However, the remaining Tianzhu soldiers were all veterans and their combat effectiveness increased exponentially.