When Prince Paqi saw that the Han army was blocking his way, he immediately ordered the whole army to assault, and then secretly took off the conspicuous prince's costume and dressed up as an ordinary soldier.

Although Ma Chao's judgment was correct and blocked the main force of the Goguryeo army that broke through, there were still as many as 60,000 or 70,000 Goguryeo people.

With so many people breaking through at the same time, the scene was very chaotic, although the Haotian Army was equipped with advanced equipment, it was difficult to leave all of them, and there were always fish that slipped through the net.

The Liaodong Army in the other two directions heard the movement and rushed over again, but it was too late.

In the end, 20,000 or 30,000 Goguryeo people escaped from the encirclement, mainly cavalry, including the cunning Prince Paoch.

The rest were either killed or surrendered as prisoners, especially those surrounding peoples who were coerced and lured, and they surrendered voluntarily.

After defeating the main force of the Goguryeo army, the rest was much simpler, and Gongsun Gong's Liaodong army was fully competent.

The Liaodong army swept away some strongholds of the Goguryeo people who had time to escape in the future, and captured many old and weak Goguryeo women and children.

However, a significant number of Goguryeo people abandoned their homeland and fled with the remnants of Prince to the birthplace of the Goguryeo clan further north.

For those bitter cold places further north, Ma Chao is not much interested, so let's leave it to Gongsun Kang to play slowly!

After helping Gongsun Kang expand a large area of territory to the east, he began to prepare for the withdrawal of his troops.

Gongsun Kang occupied most of the land that had been developed by the Goguryeo people, and expanded his territory by more than one-third.

Most of the captives were taken as slaves and taken back to the Beiting Protectorate by Ma Chao, with a total of 150,000 or 60,000 people.

So many slaves can be sold for a good price, in addition to the part handed over to the headquarters of the Central Army, there is also the part that Haotian Army keeps for its own use, and the rest is enough for each Haotian Army soldier who participated in the war to get a large bounty.

Sima Yi was busy compiling his experience in the use of Ma's rifles and field artillery in the course of this operation and handing them over to the General Staff Headquarters.

The technicians of the military factories accompanying the army will also feedback some parameters of the specific use process and the problems found to the factories and R&D centers for future improvements.

In December, Zhang Liao, the assassin of Jingzhou, dispatched the Yangtze River Fleet, which had completed its recuperation and replenished some new forces, to attack Jiangxia County controlled by Eastern Wu to the east.

The Army, on the other hand, closely coordinated with the Navy's actions, and the 6th and 15th Divisions fought side by side, advancing with the Yangtze River Fleet, easily recovering the counties along the Yangtze River.

The fleet advanced until the Han River joins the Yangtze River, and then stopped to rest.

Zhang Liao asked the locals and learned that there was no place name here, only the mouth of the Han River, Zhang Liao felt that the official document was too lengthy, so he named it Hankou.

He asked the navy to send fighting ships and Meng Chong to the north along the Han River, because the Han River did not have enough draft, and the building ships could not enter.

He sent the 15th Division to follow the navy, went up the river, and successively regained Zhangling, Zhongxiang and other counties, and advanced to the periphery of Xiangyang.

Cao Cao's Jingzhou Navy only had a small number of troops stationed in Xiangyang, and when he heard that the Central Navy was coming, it was even more in the shrinking village, how dare he take the lead?

Due to the lack of troops, the 15th Division did not provoke the Wei army in Xiangyang.

Wei sent the general Cao Ren to sit in Xiangyang City, where there were 40,000 infantry and 10,000 naval troops, all of whom were also known as elites.

In February 207, Zhang Liao, who had been re-replenished, resumed the offensive, and the 16th Division and the 3rd Cavalry Division were also transferred from Jingzhou to the Jiangxia front.

The Central Army, which had greatly increased its strength, began to sweep through all parts of Jiangxia, and Yundu, Nanxin, Anlu and other counties were recovered one after another.

In order to preserve its strength, the Soochow Navy took the initiative to cede the Yangtze River waterway in Jiangxia County.

Without the support of the naval army, the infantry of Soochow was not the opponent of the Central Army.

On the eighth day of the first month of March, the Central Army captured the county seat of Jiangxia County.

At this point, Soochow ended its occupation of Jiangxia County, and Jiangxia returned to Jingzhou and returned to the central government.

At this point, only the Wei army entrenched in half of Nanyang County remained in Jingzhou.

With the recovery of Jiangxia, Xiangyang City became an isolated island hanging outside the Wei State, and Nanyang County also became a salient area, surrounded on three sides by the territory of the imperial court.

However, due to the important geographical location of Xiangyang, Cao Cao not only did not give up its plans, but also increased his troops to Xiangyang.

The one who led the army to reinforce Cao Ren was the representative of the Cao family's new generation of heroes and heroes, Cao Cao's adopted son Cao Zhen.

Cao Zhen has studied under Guo Jia since he was a child, learned the way of battle array changes, and followed Xu Chu to learn martial arts, which can be regarded as both civil and military.

He is the most talented in military affairs among Cao Cao's sons and nephews, and is called the Cao family's Qianli Horse by Cao Cao.

In April, Cao Cao, the king of Wei, gradually felt that his health was deteriorating day by day, and feared that after his death, there would be chaos in which his sons would seize the throne, after all, the boss he had valued most had been killed in battle.

After weighing it again and again, he listened to the suggestions of Xun You, Xun Yu and others, and officially canonized his second son Cao Pi as the son of King Wei.

Although Cao Pi was just 20 years old at the time, he had already shown amazing talent.

Both civil and military, familiar with all schools, familiar with the scriptures, and very similar to Cao Cao in all aspects, which is also the main reason why Cao Cao chose him as his son.

Because Cao Cao was deep in his heart, he preferred his fourth son Cao Zhi at that time.

Although Cao Zhi is only sixteen years old, he has long been able to blurt out words, and he is frank and straightforward, informal, and quick-witted.

However, as the prince and prince of a country, it is more important to measure a more comprehensive ability.

In May, the long-dormant prairie set off a bloody storm that had not been seen for a long time.

This time, with the Haotian Army as the leader and Ma Chao as the commander, the Han Army once again launched the Grassland War.

The Han army that participated in the war included the Xianbei Servant Army, the Wuhuan Servant Army, and the Xiongnu Servant Army, plus the 1st Garrison Division and the 2nd Garrison Division of the Beiting Protectorate, as well as the 7th Cavalry Division and the 11th Cavalry Division of the Central Army.

The current Xianbei servant army has expanded to four brigades of 20,000 people, which is as large as the Xiongnu servant army.

And after the test of the past few years, the Xianbei servant army has started to attack the Xianbei of various departments, and it is even more fierce and merciless, after all, the main body of the servant army is from the old department of Helian, and there is a deep blood feud with Kebineng, Budugen and other departments.

However, the three servant armies only replaced their crossbows and grenades, and did not replace their muskets, because their opponents did not have firearms, and Lu Bu felt that it was better to retain their original cavalry and archery skills!

The 50,000 servant army plus the Han army of seven divisions, the army of nearly 200,000, mainly the three divisions of the Haotian army, was divided into three routes: left, center, and right, and swept the entire steppe from west to east with unprecedented strength.

The result of the war is naturally no suspense, the grassland tribes are still in the era of cold weapons, but they encountered the highly firearms Haotian Army, which is completely a one-sided battle scene.