The farewell battle of the tiger and leopard cavalry is more like the end of the era of cold weapons, letting the world know that broadswords and spears have been replaced by rifles and artillery.

The Han army calmly carried out a salvo, repeating the harvest of the enemy's lives, and rows of heavily armored cavalry fell to the ground, and their heavy bodies made contact with the ground, making a loud noise.

It was as if the tide of high tide was surging and slammed on the reef viciously, only to be smashed by the hard reef.

In the eyes of many, this is no longer a battle, but a naked slaughter.

In the end, of the 50,000 Wei troops, 30,000 were killed in battle, 20,000 were captured, and all the reinforcements sent to Xiapi were completely annihilated.

Of the 30,000 Wei troops killed in the battle, most of them were cavalry cavalry of tiger and leopard cavalry, and almost no tiger and leopard cavalry surrendered to the Han army, including their commander Cao Zhang, who fell on the way to charge the Han army.

After the war, Zhao Yun, the commander of the Han army, ordered all the Han troops to bury all the soldiers and their beloved horses with their own hands, and gave them the courtesy that their warriors deserved.

As an army, the Haw Par Cavalry ceased to exist, and the name would later only appear in various historical books and biographical accounts.

The destruction of the reinforcements also pronounced the end of Xiahoudun's Tiger Ben Army.

Chen Gong tried his best to speak in Jianye, but only received a perfunctory reply from the monarchs and ministers of Eastern Wu.

Chen Gong saw that at this critical moment, no allies or marriages had any effect, and only realistic interests would decide everything.

The most strategic person in Eastern Wu, Zhou Yu and Chen Gong did not see it, and I heard that Zhou Yu was sick, and he was very sick, and he was unable to deal with military and political affairs at all.

Maybe only Zhou Yu will have that kind of far-sighted vision, but unfortunately, this can only be Chen Gong's good wish.

Eastern Wu did not lend a helping hand, and Wei's own reinforcements were wiped out at Yongqiu, and Xiahoudun's Tiger Ben army became a lone army, isolated and helpless.

With an absolute superiority in troops, the Han army of ten divisions used powerful artillery fire to teach Xiahoudun, who was defending the city, a lesson in how to conduct siege warfare in the era of firearms.

The 100,000 Wei army was not as strong as their huge number, and they only held out for five days in Xiapi City, and when the Tiger Ben army suffered all casualties, the remaining state army simply surrendered in Kaesong.

The arrogant Xiahoudun chose the same choice as Cao Ren, he chose to commit suicide to fulfill his loyalty to Cao Cao from Wei.

Xiahoudun's suicide also marked the official end of the Tiger Legion, the most powerful mobile corps under Cao Cao's account that was born at the time of the Battle of Tiger Prison, and finally the entire army was wiped out, and Cao Cao's dream was not realized after all.

When these heroes and heroes of the year are heroes in the twilight of their lives, and finally say goodbye to this world, their legendary experiences will only become stories to spread among the people.

Lu Bu once again led his Imperial Forest Army, drove his own expedition, came to revisit the old place, and returned to the Tiger Prison Pass, which he himself had also dreamed of.

The majestic fortress is as tall as ever, and only the uneven traces on the city walls bear witness to the great battle of that year.

This time, Lu Bu did not come to guard the pass, but to go out of the pass from here and attack the famous Yingchuan County.

This time, the battle plan was named "Ending" by Zhuge Liang, which was to completely end one of the Three Kingdoms, the now weakest Wei State.

Wei was now in full swing, with Xu Rong attacking Runan from Nanyang, Zhang He attacking Yanzhou from Jizhou, and Xu Huang and Zhao Yun attacking Xiapi and Pengcheng.

Lu Bu personally sent troops to attack Yingchuan County, and Zhu Ling, the captain of Sili, Zhuge Liang, and Xu Shu, deputy chiefs of general staff of the National Defense Forces, were all by his side.

The offensive route to the south this time was also personally chosen by Lu Bu, passing through Yangrenju, passing through Liang County, and going south to Yingchuan.

This route is the route that Sun Jian used to go north alone to pursue Dong Zhuo, and Lu Bu chose this way to show off the demeanor of the ancients.

Scenes from twenty years ago flashed back in Lu Bu's mind like a movie picture, and in the past twenty years, with the flick of a finger, many things have become wrong.

In recent years, several old people in Lu Bu's camp have died one after another, such as Zheng Xuan, Lu Zhi, and Huangfu Song, which made him sigh for a while.

It gave him a sense of urgency, so he tried his best to override public opinion, and he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money and grain and grass to unify the three kingdoms as soon as possible.

Now he has gradually felt that the scientific and technological development of Dahan is close to the ceiling of this era, and many things that he is familiar with cannot be invented and manufactured in this era.

Without steam power, without electricity, large-scale industrialization is a delusion, and airplanes, tanks, and artillery are just a beautiful dream.

He did not consider the artillery he was making now qualified to be called cannons.

So he didn't wait anymore, but was in a hurry to do it, and he also wanted to go to the West in his lifetime to see what the Roman Empire was like in this era.

When he was studying military history, he was familiar with every war between China and foreign countries, whether ancient or modern.

He had studied the Battle of Talas in the Tang Dynasty, and he regretted even more that the same powerful Han did not have the opportunity to fight Rome in the West, and further on, the powerful Great Qin Empire also did not have the opportunity to fight Alexander the Great, who swept the world.

In the Battle of Talas, although the Tang army lost to the Arabs, there were many reasons for it, and the loss was unclear, how could it be willing?

Since he was born at the right time, he didn't want to miss this opportunity, so he strongly agreed to form an alliance with the Empire of Sabbatation, so that he would have the opportunity to fight the Roman Empire in a dignified manner.

If the three kingdoms cannot be reunified, how can he rest assured that he will march west?

So he came, but the specific command no longer needed his involvement, the General Staff had formed a good division of labor, and he just had to watch from the sidelines.

First besieged the county of Yingchuan County, Yang Zhai, and then attracted reinforcements from Yingchuan counties, this is Xu Shu's hometown, and he is naturally familiar with the topography here.

Qian County has no longer been able to send reinforcements, and Yang Zhai can only draw reinforcements from all counties in the county to strengthen Yang Zhai's defense.

However, the reinforcements of these Yingchuan counties are nothing more than state troops, and they are not even as good as the combat effectiveness of the state army.

After the defeat of the two support armies, the reinforcements from the other counties were discouraged.

Seeing that he could no longer attract reinforcements, Xu Shu sent Rong Yi's division to attack the city, and the division commander Huang Zhong was already impatient.

After receiving the order to siege the city, he pushed the cannon to the front, but as a result of a cannonball, a wall collapsed, and there was no need to attack the city, and Yingchuan Taishou surrendered the city.

After capturing Yangzhai, the Rong 1st Division and the 2nd Garrison Division went south to sweep the counties of Yingchuan, and Yuncheng, Jiaxian, Kunyang, Yingyin and other counties all surrendered without spending a single soldier.

This is really the general trend of the Wei State has gone, no one wants to be martyred for it, and no one wants to tie themselves to a big ship that is doomed to sink, which is already full of holes.

Yangdi

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