One by one, the soldiers of the Wei army were shot to the ground, and no matter how bad the cavalry's marksmanship was, they could always hit three or four shots, not to mention that there were still many snipers.

The cavalry of the 4th Cavalry Division at the other end of the Zhengrong Valley also gradually drove the enemy out of the valley, like a duck.

The bloodiness of the Wei soldiers at the beginning gradually disappeared under the slaughter of this side.

Many Wei troops wanted to surrender, but Ma Chao did not accept it, because Liao Hua's subordinates all followed Liao Hua's rebellion.

Everyone had the blood of their former robes on their hands, and Ma Chao refused to accept their surrender even because he was punished.

In the end, 30,000 cavalry surrounded these Wei infantry in the middle of the battlefield, and harvested their lives with muskets and shots one shot at a time.

Ma Chao was unrelenting, he ordered the artillery battalion to join the battle, he didn't want to waste time on this garbage.

When the shells fell into the crowd, the Wei army completely collapsed, and they fled in all directions, crying out for their lives and so on.

But they were greeted by cold muzzles and merciless bullets, and all the officers and men of the Central Army hated these traitors who betrayed their brothers and siblings.

Even people like Zhao Yun and Hao Zhao who are as calm as they are acquiesced in Ma Chao's approach.

Liao Hua ended his life with a saber in despair, he didn't want to be caught and suffer from a thousand knives.

With the help of mortars, this battle of revenge ended quickly, and there was no longer a standing Wei soldier on the battlefield.

Ma Chao ordered a battalion of subordinates to come forward to clean up the battlefield, and every Wei soldier had to make up for it so that no one would slip through the net.

Sure enough, there was that cunning person who wanted to pretend to be dead and get by, but he was ruthlessly identified and killed with a knife.

Suddenly, in the middle of the battlefield, there was a loud noise in the pile of corpses of the Wei soldiers, but it was the outlaw who pulled the grenade and died with the soldiers of the Central Army who mended his sword.

Ma Chao was furious, and he ordered that he no longer use a knife to check, but to shoot the head with a gun and waste bullets from five zhang away.

Sure enough, there were a few Wei troops with the same idea who were recognized and failed to succeed.

Finally, Zhao Yun led two cavalry divisions to annihilate Liao Hua and his 10,000 infantry, and confirmed that the Wei army was indeed equipped with grenades.

After a simple test, the collected grenades were found to be close to the elastic performance of the black powder grenades equipped by the Central Army at the earliest.

However, the Central Army has now begun to replace the new grenade with a smokeless powder charge, which is more powerful, the charge is more economical, the wooden handle has also been shortened, and the smoke from the explosion is much smaller.

The next development of things was much simpler, Ma Chao sent 2,000 people, disguised as Wei infantry, pretending to be the vanguard of Liaohua, easily deceived the city gate of Juxian, and successfully solved the 2,000 defenders, and also left no prisoners.

Then, the two cavalry divisions rushed to Zhuxian and Tobu Prefecture respectively, and joined the 11th and 12th Divisions, which had long been lying in ambush outside the city and were waiting for help, to attack the city together.

It was effortless for the counties to be captured, because Ma Chao's troops moved too quickly, and the troops of the 11th Cavalry Division rushed directly into the city before the defenders of the counties had time to close the city gates.

The lightning smashed the county government, beheaded the defenders of the counties, and then put the troops of the 12th Division into the city, and annihilated 3,000 defenders together.

The defense of Dongwu County was much more rigorous, and the 4th and 11th Cavalry Divisions could only set up ladders to attack the city step by step.

The defenders put up stubborn resistance with grenades, repeaters, bed crossbows, and trebuchets, and Tobu was the key point on the border between the two countries, and the defense facilities and means were relatively perfect.

They held out until the 11th and 12th Cavalry Divisions joined the siege, the artillery battalions of the four divisions attacked the city together, and the mortar fire suppressed the Wei army defending the city.

Dozens of ladders climbed up the city, hundreds of daredevils climbed the ladders with horizontal knives, and the mortars did not stop bombarding.

Relying on this momentum of risking his life, he attacked the head of the city, repelled the Wei army with hand-to-hand combat, occupied the city gate, and broke the city.

After the city was broken, the whole city was searched, and every soldier of the Wei army was not spared, they were all subordinates of Liao Hua and traitors to the Qingzhou army.

After the conquest of Dongwu, the border between Qingzhou and Xuzhou was completely controlled by the Central Army.

Next, according to the plan made before, Zhao Yun began to recover the entire territory of Langxi County one by one, and at the same time sent Chen Zhi's 11th Division, Lu Dai's 12th Division, and Zang Ba's 13th Division to begin to enter the territory of Taishan County and recover the counties of Taishan County.

When Liao Hua was killed in battle and the news of the loss of Langxi County reached Cao Cao, Guo Jia's army also suffered a big loss in Nanyang.

Since Guo Jia is determined to learn from Zhang Liao and wants to go to the rear of the Central Army to carry out some destruction, he must first streamline the invincibility under his command, and he can't take all the 100,000 troops deep behind the enemy.

He selected 20,000 elite infantry, all on horseback, under the command of Lejin.

In addition, 30,000 light armored cavalry were selected, led by Xiahou Yuan, and these 50,000 people went deep behind enemy lines with him.

The remaining 50,000 people, led by Xiahoudun and Cao Zhang, went to show their faces outside Wanxian County, and Guo Jia asked them to bluff and make sure to give Lu Bu the false impression that the 100,000 troops were outside Wanxian County.

Guo Jia led these 50,000 elites from Xinye and headed west, and he quietly bypassed the county and champion counties along the way.

He wanted to enter Hongnong from Wuguan and go to the hinterland of the Central Army to make a big fuss.

It's a pity to use Lu Bu's words to describe his idea as "the ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny".

Guo Jia's every move was under Lu Bu's control from beginning to end, including his strategy of dividing his troops.

Therefore, his intentions, Lu Bu judged very accurately, and naturally laid a net against him very easily, only waiting for him to drill deeper and deeper to close the net.

However, Guo Jia dared to go so boldly, and naturally he also had his back.

The first was that he sent a large number of scouts a hundred miles away, something the Wei army had never tried before.

Second, he is in the court of Chang'an, and the Central Army also has his own undercover agents and intelligence personnel, perhaps not as large as the Central Army's intelligence department, with a long history.

However, it still has its uniqueness, and there is still a hidden and unique intelligence channel.

It is precisely because of this that Guo Jia also received intelligence from within the Central Army not long after he sent his troops, and he also knew that Lu Bu already knew that he had arrived in Nanyang, and ordered the Central Army in Jizhou and Qingzhou to make some moves.

Although the intelligence did not explain the specific actions of the Central Army, Guo Jia was still able to guess some possible situations, and he was very good at empathy.

He immediately sent someone Pegasus to deliver a letter to Cao Cao, and at the same time released his carrier pigeon, so as to achieve double insurance.

He asked Xiahoudun and Cao Zhang to immediately lead the 50,000 troops to Xuzhou to support the defenders in the direction of Donghai County and Langxi County.

Secondly, he also received information that gave him an early warning, saying that Lu Bu had mobilized the surrounding troops and horses to encircle and suppress him, and had mastered his specific troops.

(End of chapter)