The last time he participated in the big war, it was a bloody battle with the Romans in West Asia, and in the first battle of Mosul, even the Rong 1st Division was reduced by nearly half, and the tragedy of the Mosul meat grinder can be imagined.

After returning to China, he naturally gave priority to being replenished with soldiers, and this time he acted as the main force to exterminate Gongsun Yuan's rebels.

After the three brigades were full, there were 16,000 people, and with the marksmanship of the officers and men of the 1st Division, they did not dare to say that one was ten, and they were not a problem with one enemy and three.

Therefore, Gongsun Qian's forward army of 30,000 really couldn't shake the defense of Rong Yi's division, and even Huang Zhong didn't even send the third brigade as a reserve to the front line, and only two brigades withstood Gongsun Qian's attack.

Gongsun Yuan's Chinese army soon reached the front line, and saw that the forward troops suffered heavy casualties, but could not break through the Han defense line, which made Gongsun Yuan furious.

Although in the end, he remembered the love of the same clan and did not really kill Gongsun Qian, but he was also rewarded with a leather whip.

Gongsun Yuan sent the main force of the Liaodong Army of the Chinese army of 30,000 men to continue to attack the Han position, and also sent the twenty mortars given to him by Cao Pi to the front line.

In addition, he let 20,000 Xianbei cavalry bypass far from the two wings, and he planned to annihilate the first division of Rong, so as to increase the morale of his own army.

Seeing that the Liaodong Army still had mortars, the Han artillery suddenly came to the spirit, and the artillery of the two sides carried out a confrontation, and the mortar battalion of the Han Army had thirty mortars, which were more numerous than the enemy, the caliber was larger than the enemy, and the range and power also exceeded that of the Liaodong Army.

Therefore, there was no suspense about the result of the shooting, and in an hour's effort, the artillery of the Han army made all the artillery of the Liaodong Army dumb.

The Liaodong Army could only rush into the Han army's position without artillery cover.

The power and range of the breech-loading rifle have once again been verified, even if most of the Chinese troops of the Liaodong Army are light armored cavalry, wearing light armor, they cannot stop the power of the bullet.

The Xianbei cavalry, which was attacking from both flanks, encountered the 3rd Brigade, which had been in battle for a long time, and the 20,000 Xianbei cavalry were unable to break through the defense of 5,000 people.

After holding out until dark, the troops of the 6th Division and the Beiting Division quietly entered the position of the 1st Rongyi Division to supplement and strengthen the defense of the 1st Rongyi Division.

Sure enough, the next day Gongsun Yuan launched a larger attack, and he sent his most elite 10,000 men, 10,000 elite infantry armed with muskets and grenades.

If it weren't for the reinforcements of the 6th Division and the Beiting Army, maybe it would have really broken through the defense line of the 1st Rong Division.

In the afternoon, the outflanked Han cavalry finally launched an attack, and the special operations division, the ninth cavalry division, and the eleventh cavalry division surrounded Gongsun Yuan's army from three directions.

The mortar units of the three divisions took the lead in the attack, and the sudden blow made Gongsun Yuan's army a little confused, and they did not know from which direction the enemy was attacking.

Under the leadership of division commander Wen Ping, the special operations division resolutely implemented the tactics formulated by Lü Kang and Xu Shu before the war, "capture the thief and capture the king first", implement the tactic of beheading, and directly break through Gongsun Yuan's Chinese army, striving to take Gongsun Yuan first.

To this day, the special operations division still adheres to their fine traditions, and its individual combat ability is extremely strong, surpassing the ordinary Han army in both shooting and hand-to-hand combat, and even more so than these Liaodong troops.

They took the squad as a unit and struggled to advance in the direction of the Chinese army of the Liaodong Army, and Gongsun Yuan's Liaodong Wang Honor Guard was more conspicuous.

Sniper with a rifle at a distance, a grenade to clear the way at a medium distance, and a bayonet or horizontal knife after being close.

The special operations division advanced most obviously and most rapidly in the three directions surrounding the Liaodong Army, and although the Liaodong Army was several times larger than them, it could not be stopped at all.

Gongsun Yuan could already hear the slogan shouted by the Han army, "Capture Gongsun Yuan alive, the prince will have a heavy reward!" ”

It was Lu Kang, the prince of the Han Dynasty, who personally led the army, Lu Kang has made remarkable achievements in recent years, and he is already very famous, everyone calls Lu Kang the little god of war, and compares him with his son Lu Bu.

However, after all, Gongsun Yuan was a famous general, and he was relatively calm when encountering things, and he also saw that his Liaodong Army was not the opponent of the Han army, and it was impossible for him to occupy Youzhou.

He decisively chose to break through, and used the most effective trick to break through, which was to take off his royal robe, put on the uniform of the ordinary Liaodong Army, mix in the chaotic army, and break through in the direction of Liaodong County.

After all, the Liaodong Army was dominated by cavalry, and the number of people was indeed several times more than that of the Han army that surrounded them, so the Han army couldn't intercept it if it really wanted to.

It was really because the Liaodong Army did not have the fighting spirit of the army, its personal combat strength was poor, and it did not cooperate with each other, so that the bold Lu Kang took advantage, otherwise there would be a reason for an army of two or three hundred thousand to be surrounded by seventy or eighty thousand people.

Even so, the Han army wiped out at least 40,000 rebels in this battle, and captured as many as 100,000 prisoners, including the Liaodong army that voluntarily surrendered, including many Xianbei and Wuhuan people.

Lü Kang was unceremonious to these captured Liaodong troops, whether they were Han Chinese or people of other races, all of them were reduced to slaves and handed over to the care of the two divisions of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate.

The excavation of the Suez Canal coincided with the employment of people, and the appearance of these 100,000 free laborers would not be polite to Lu Bu and the central government.

Lu Kang did not rush to pursue Gongsun Yuan, who had broken through and escaped, but patiently waited for the meeting of the 11th and 12th divisions of the National Defense Army.

He even requisitioned the 7th Division and the 13th Cavalry Division of the National Defense Army stationed in Bingzhou and Qingzhou, and was sure to wipe out Gongsun Yuan's troops.

Zhang Yang's Sixth Division made outstanding achievements in the early campaign, and the casualties were also very large, Lu Kang asked them to return to Youzhou to rest, and they did not participate in the later battles, and the two divisions in Beiting were also arranged.

In late July, all the troops involved in the counterinsurgency were assembled in Changli, the county of Liaodong, with a total of eight divisions, and the total number of troops was equal to that of the remaining Liaodong Army.

The counterinsurgents built pontoon bridges from the lower reaches of the Daling River, quickly crossed the river, and pointed their troops directly at Xiangping.

Gongsun Yuan had already gathered the remnants of his troops in Xiangping, intending to hold on to Xiangping and fight to the death with the Han army.

Some of his subordinates persuaded him to wage guerrilla warfare with the Han army, fortify the walls and clear the wilderness, and take advantage of the favorable conditions of his hometown and familiarity with the terrain to deal with the Han army.

However, Gongsun Yuan had already been discouraged by the Han army, especially when he heard that the Han army had transferred another cavalry division from the grassland, and he had lost confidence in his cavalry superiority.

The grassland cavalry division that Gongsun Yuan was afraid of was transferred by Lu Kang to participate in the battle, and the commander of the 13th Cavalry Division stationed in Bingzhou was the prince Lu Kang's small and sworn friend.

Gao Qi has created too many firsts, he is the first of the second generation of this batch of famous generals to be admitted to the military academy, the first to become a brigade commander, the first to become a division commander, and the first to become the commander of a military region.

His 13th Cavalry Division is the last cavalry division established in the sequence of the National Defense Force, and the source of troops is mainly the nomadic Han people in the northern steppes and the children of the Xiongnu and Wuhuan people who joined the Han nationality, and there are even many Han people and mixed blood of various ethnic groups.

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