Shortly after the establishment of the Haotian Army, it received its first mission.

Liaodong County Taishou, Gongsun Du, who had been in possession of the Liaodong Peninsula for more than ten years, died of illness as early as the previous year, and his eldest son Gongsun Kang inherited the title and official position of Gongsun Du.

After Gongsun Kang succeeded to the throne, the Goguryeo people, who had been suppressed by Gongsun Du by force, immediately rebelled openly, declared independence, and no longer obeyed the orders of the Han people.

Gongsun Kang, who had just succeeded to the throne, was eager to show himself, and despite the obstruction of his younger brother Gongsun Gong, he personally led his troops to fight against the Goguryeo king Baku, who had established himself as king.

It's a pity that he, who has never had military talent, once again exposed his shortcomings, was defeated repeatedly, and in the end, he was even taken away by the Goguryeo people.

As a last resort, he could only write to the central government in Chang'an to indicate the current situation, in fact, the Ministry of Intelligence had already passed the news of his defeat to Lu Bu, and Lu Bu was just waiting for him to take the initiative to open his mouth.

Gongsun Kang's defeat weakened his strength, and Lu Bu would not stop him.

Since Gongsun Kang opened his mouth and asked for support from the Central Army, Lu Bu naturally couldn't pretend not to know anymore, he wrote back to appease Gongsun Kang and promised him to send troops as soon as possible.

Lu Bu gave this great opportunity to train the army to the Haotian Army, which had just become an army, and he directly issued a military order to Ma Chao and asked him to lead the troops to the expedition to test the combat strength of the Haotian Army after it became an army?

After all, the Haotian Army has been equipped with a lot of new weapons, and it has not yet been tested in actual combat, and two-thirds of the officers and soldiers in the Haotian Army have not participated in actual combat.

After Ma Chao received the military order, he set out from Yuli City, and he took Chen Zhi's second division and the artillery regiment of the Haotian Army on the road together.

Although Chen Zhi's second division was an infantry division, it was on horseback, and its mobility was as strong as that of cavalry troops, but the transportation of the artillery regiment was delayed for some time, after all, the artillery trucks were still very heavy.

Ma Chao's arrangement was to rush to Liangcheng first, and then join up with Wenpin's third division and attack Goguryeo with the strength of two divisions, which should be enough in his mind.

At that time, from Liaodong County to Dunhuang County, the central government built a top-level post road running through the east and west.

The asphalt road is wide and smooth, thousands of miles of road, and there are a large number of post stations and maintenance personnel along the way.

Trees are also planted on both sides of the post road to protect against wind and sand.

Ma Chao came to Youzhou for the first time, but when Chen was a military school, he practiced in Youzhou's Bingzhou Army after graduation.

The current Youzhou assassin is still Yan Rou, and the Central Army stationed in Youzhou is Fan Chou's 14th Division, and the 5th Cavalry Division that has just returned from the Western Regions.

In the military order that Lu Bu gave to Ma Chao, he was allowed to mobilize the garrison of Youzhou to cooperate with the battle when necessary.

However, Ma Chao is also a face-loving person, and he is now commanding the most elite and powerful troops of the Han Empire, and if he wants others to help, it will be too faceless.

However, he was not brutal, he listened to Sima Yi's advice, and after arriving in Liaodong, he asked Gongsun Kang to provide him with a guide and map familiar with the situation in Goguryeo, as well as the Liaodong army that had been fighting against Goguryeo for many years.

Gongsun Kang looked forward to the stars and the moon, and finally looked forward to the reinforcements of Chang'an, and was excited.

I also heard that the Central Army was the most powerful army newly established, and the leading generals Ma Chao and Sima Yi were even more famous.

The requirements put forward by Ma Chao were naturally fully satisfied, not only providing a large number of guides and maps, but also letting his younger brother Gongsun Gong lead the 30,000 most elite Liaodong Army to cooperate with Ma Chao's Haotian Army to fight.

In fact, the Liaodong Army is already a new army that has received new training, and some officers have also graduated from the Central Military Academy, and even the crossbows are equipped with a lot, and their combat effectiveness is actually only stronger than that of the Goguryeo people.

At that time, Xuansu County had been occupied by the Goguryeo people, so Ma Chao dispatched a large army from Xiangping with great fanfare, claiming to take back Xuansu County.

Sima Yi took Chen Zhi's second division mixed with Gongsun Gong's 30,000 Liaodong Army, marched along the road from Xiangping to Xuansu County, and went to attack Gaoju Licheng, the county governor of Xuansu County.

Ma Chao took the third division of Wenpin, led by the guide of the Liaodong Army, detoured to Anping City, and went all the way to the northeast along the riverside along the Mazishui, that is, the Yalu River.

The Goguryeo people fell for Ma Chao's plan to attack the east and west, and concentrated the main force of the army in Xuansu County, ready to teach these arrogant Central Plains Han people a lesson.

Therefore, Ma Chao did not encounter many Goguryeo troops along the way, and he ignored those small cities at all and walked around the city.

Follow your guide's instructions and head east along Mazisu to reach Ji'an, the capital of Goguryeo.

Ma Chao admired Professor Lü Bu's blitzkrieg the most, and his cavalry ran even faster than the Goguryeo messengers who spotted their whereabouts along the way.

There's no way not to be happy, who let them ride all of Wusun's horses!

Ma Chao's army arrived outside Ji'an in the middle of the night, the gates closed and the drawbridge hanging high.

Ma Chao asked people to send a letter to the king of Goguryeo, asking him to open the city and surrender, otherwise the city would be broken and the chickens and dogs would not be left.

The king of Goguryeo, named Pegu, heard that the Han army had suddenly killed outside the city of Ji'an, and he was so frightened that he was unable to possess his body.

Hurriedly convened the ministers of civil and military affairs to discuss countermeasures, some people clamored to defend the city, and some suggested that the army in Xuansu County should be transferred back to fight to the death with the Han army.

Transferring back the main force is far away and the water does not quench the thirst of the near, but let him defend the city, there are only 5,000 palace guards in the city, and I don't know how many Han troops there are outside the city!

Just when he hesitated, Ma Chao had no patience to wait for him.

Seeing that there was no reply from the city, he rushed to the city with cavalry, piled up explosives outside the city gates, and then detonated them.

The new explosives were even more powerful, and a small mushroom cloud rose up, not only blowing open the city gate, but also nearly blowing up the city gate hole.

With a wave of his hand, the whole army swarmed in from the blasted city gate, killing every Goguryeo soldier he saw like a wolf and a tiger.

Although the defenders in the city are relatively elite palace guards, they are still equipped with broadswords, spears, bows and arrows, while the Haotian army is already all Ma's rifles and copper-shelled bullets, and the two sides are completely incomparable.

The low walls of the Goguryeo royal palace did not require explosives or ladders at all, and they could be climbed by a human ladder.

The king of Goguryeo, Baego, had nowhere to escape, so he had to be captured, and at the same time, he also captured a lot of princes and ministers, and was holding a meeting to study countermeasures!

After the city was broken, Ma Chao allowed his officers and soldiers to plunder as much as they wanted, but they were not allowed to rape women, and all the captured booty was distributed according to the military regulations of the Central Army, and there were clerks who recorded military exploits.

All Goguryeo people, young and old, were taken into slavery, and those who resisted were killed.

Ji'an City is also a big city, there are more than 100,000 people in the city, all of them are tied with their hands and used as slaves, even if they are princes and ministers, and palace maids are all slaves.

Mazishui was the name given to the Yalu River during the Han Dynasty

(End of chapter)