Ma Chao sat on the king's throne in the main hall of the Goguryeo palace and looked at the king Pegu, who had been reduced to a prisoner.

"If you want to live, hurry up and write an edict to your army gathered in Xuansu County, so that they can surrender to the Han army, and I can exempt you from the death penalty and punish you for your rebellion."

Bo Gu had already seen Ma Chao's methods, and knew that he could really kill the killer, and he was not as easy to talk as the Han people in the past.

He didn't dare to disobey, and honestly wrote an edict of persuasion in Chinese, Goguryeo only had its own language, not its own writing.

Ma Chao pointed with the whip in his hand, and finally selected the prime minister of the Goguryeo Kingdom and asked him to go to Xuansu County to read the edict and surrender the army.

Unexpectedly, the commander of the Goguryeo army in Xuansu County, their crown prince Paqi, was furious when he heard that the capital city of Ji'an had been breached, and his father and other ministers had become prisoners of the Han army.

He tore up the edict of persuasion written by Bogu himself, killed the prime minister who came to read the edict, proclaimed himself the king of Goguryeo, and swore not to stand with the Han people!

All the generals of the Goguryeo army present, whether they were willing or forced, could only obey their orders and fight the Han army to the death.

He bravely led the army out of the city and took the initiative to attack the troops of Sima Yi and Gongsun Gong as feints.

Sima Yi seemed to have anticipated Baqi's reaction, and when he arrived at the city, he built a standard field camp on the high ground outside the city, with trenches, walled walls, and arrow towers, not like he came to attack the city, but as if he came to defend the city.

Bachi first ascended the throne, he was full of ambition, he had long wanted to succeed to the throne, but his father Bogu couldn't go, this time, it can be regarded as a good opportunity.

He held in his hands the army of the whole of Goguryeo, as well as the vassal armies of the surrounding ethnic groups defeated after Goguryeo became strong, with a total of 100,000 people, which is also the confidence that he dared to tear up the edict.

The Goguryeo army surrounded the Han camp and began an offensive with great fanfare.

It's a pity that they are still in the era of cold weapons, and when they blow the horn of attack, the hoplites are in front, the spearmen are in the middle, and the archers are in the back to attack the camp.

As a result, it was not surprising that Sima Yi showed them what firearms were.

Haotian Army's Ma's rifles and field artillery, these two treasures are the first time to be put into actual combat, and the Goguryeo people hit the iron plate like this.

Sima Yi commanded Chen Zhi's second division to easily resist the Goguryeo attack with the help of standard fortifications.

Gongsun Gong's subordinates are all cavalry, and when they defend, they are useless, and they are still in the era of bows and crossbows!

The range and accuracy of the Mahaloban rifle amazed the Goguryeo people, who had never seen the power of firearms.

The first time I encountered firearms, I encountered such high-end rifles and artillery, and I was baptized.

Five-inch caliber field artillery, firing shells, can easily shoot to a distance of 500 zhang.

Even if it is a Ma's rifle, it can easily shoot the human body at a distance of 400 zhang, and if it is a sniper, this distance can already be used for headshots.

The use of these two new weapons made the distance of engagement on the battlefield suddenly widen to four or five hundred zhang away, and the Goguryeo people were almost put to the ground before they could see what the Han people looked like.

With such a long range, the new mortars of the Han army are a little useless, and the range of the mortars has finally increased to 350 zhang!

Of course, if the enemy charges regardless of casualties or if the Han army deliberately puts the enemy closer, mortars can still be useful.

After all, mortars have a relatively fast rate of fire, and their trajectory is curved, and the most important thing is that they are flexible and mobile, which can accompany the attacks of infantry and cavalry, and it is easier to change positions.

The Goguryeo army was still in the age of complete cold weapons, whether it was infantry or cavalry, the weapons in their hands were broadswords, spears and longbows.

All of them were dressed in light armor, and even the heavy infantry could not stop the bullets of the rifles, and the fragments of the shells were even more deadly.

The most important thing is that they don't know how to deal with an enemy with firearms, they don't know how to disperse formations, and they don't know the basic common sense of bowing their bodies.

So what is presented is a very tragic picture, a large number of Goguryeo soldiers are shot down, begging for a desperate opportunity but can't get it.

The shotguns fired by the new artillery, as soon as they exploded, would plowed a clearing in the dense formation of the Goguryeos.

When the Goguryeo casualties were over, Bachi had already begun to regret it, and he gave the order to withdraw his troops.

Sima Yi was of course keenly aware of this kind of fighter, and he ordered Gongsun Gong's cavalry to attack from the flanks.

The Liaodong cavalry was very angry when they lost to the Goguryeo people under the command of an incompetent commander, and now they have the opportunity to beat the water dogs, and they are very hard working and have won a lot of heads.

Baqi himself was the fastest, and he retracted his entire army back to the city of Goguryi, intending to hold on.

He feels that he still has the advantage in numbers, I can't beat you in the field, can't I defend the city?

The Han army's labor expedition lasted for a long time, whether it was fatigue or food and grass supplies, they would retreat in difficulty, and the Han attack on the Goguryeo people in history ended in this way.

Of course, Sima Yi was not in a hurry at all, he did not attack the city, but just waited for Ma Chao to come and meet him.

When Ma Chao returned from Ji'an, the speed of the march was much slower than when he came, because there were more than 100,000 Goguryeo slaves in the ranks.

And the royal capital of Goguryeo, Ji'an City, has been burned by Ma Chao and turned into scorched earth.

Ma Chao's point of view is that everyone has been arrested, why keep the capital? Is it a memorial for posterity? It's still burned clean, and they have to spend a lot of effort to build it again.

Ma Chao thought that the march of these slaves was too slow, so he sent someone to inform Gongsun Kang and asked him to send someone to escort the slaves.

Gongsun Kang was shocked when he heard that Ma Chao had asked him to send someone to escort the captives.

He didn't expect Ma Chao to take Ji'an City, the capital of Goguryeo, so quickly and capture King Bogu, and he didn't expect that the Han army would directly take hundreds of thousands of Goguryeo people back as slaves.

He hurriedly sent the 20,000 Liaodong troops who stayed in Xiangping, led by him personally, to meet Ma Chao.

He can be regarded as having seen the domineering and ferocious nature of the Central Army towards enemies and foreigners, and he is obedient to the Central Army in his heart.

Since then, when he and Gongsun Gong were in charge of the military and political power in Liaodong, they did not have any second thoughts about the central government and Lu Bu.

After Ma Chao waited for Gongsun Kang to receive manpower, he didn't talk nonsense, couldn't wait to hand over the slaves to them, and immediately waved his army to Xuanwu County.

When he arrived at the battlefield, Baqi and Sima Yi were in a stalemate.

(End of chapter)