Chapter 496: Outwitting Xiangping

At the beginning, Lu Bu formulated the nomadic policy, and those Han veterans married many women of various ethnic groups in the grassland, gave birth to a large number of children, and now they have all grown up and joined the army to serve the country.

The original ideals of Lu Bu, Gao Shun, Jia Xu and others have also become a reality, and many Han people have grown up on horseback since childhood, the same can ride and shoot, and the same rough personality.

Since the day of its establishment, his 13th Cavalry Division has replaced training with actual combat, fighting everywhere on the grassland, and the northeast has also left their footprints.

Gao Qi once took these wolf cubs of his to chase and kill the rest of the people for thousands of miles, all the way to the Great Xing'an Mountains.

The same was done to the Goguryeo people, and even the Samhan region at the southern tip of the peninsula left their footprints.

After the Han army arrived at the city of Xiangping, they immediately surrounded the city, but did not rush to attack the city, but besieged it but did not attack.

Lü Kang ordered Gao Qi's 13th Cavalry Division and Wenpin's Special Operations Division to attack separately and capture Goguryiseong, the county governor of Xuansu County, and Pyongyang, the county governor of Lelang County, respectively, cutting off Gongsun Yuan's wings, and finally attacking Xiangping City, so as to completely annihilate them.

Gao Qi took the initiative to ask Ying to go to Lelang, because they were familiar with the path of the 13th Division, and they didn't need a guide.

The final outcome was also unexpected, Le Lang and Xuansu only had a small part of the Liaodong defenders, and as soon as the Han army arrived, they did not dare to confront the army of the Celestial Empire.

Gao Qi's 13th Division also recovered many Han soldiers who fought guerrillas in the mountains and forests of Lelang, and Lu Kang rewarded them all, and recruited these loyal and righteous men who were originally only local garrison brigades into the Rongyi Division, and turned them into the trump card main force in the regular army.

So far, in the entire land of Liaodong, except for Xiangping City, which is occupied by Gongsun Yuan, there is no city or pond that is not under the jurisdiction of the central government of the Han Empire.

Xu Shu also got in touch with the undercover agents of the Intelligence Department who broke into Gongsun Yuan's interior, obtained detailed information in the city, and learned that the original Liaodong County Taishou Gongsun Gong was not killed by Gongsun Yuan, but was placed under house arrest in his own mansion.

Gongsun Yuan still thinks about family affection, after all, Gongsun Gong raised him after Gongsun Kang's death, and he has never treated him badly.

Xu Shu ordered the undercover agents of the Intelligence Department to get in touch with Gongsun Gong and instigate Gongsun Gong to plot a coup d'état to dismantle Gongsun Yuan's subordinates from the inside out.

The undercover agent of the Ministry of Intelligence personally came forward to get in touch with some of Gongsun Yuan's subordinates, bribed them with heavy bribes, and issued them with an exoneration document signed by the crown prince Lu Kang, as long as they cooperated with the Han army and rebelled against Gongsun Yuan, they could not be blamed in the past.

The news of the loss of Xuansu County and Lelang County had already reached the city, and everyone in the city was already panicking, especially those Wuhuan and Xianbei tribal leaders, who knew the Han army's cruel methods to these foreign rebels.

If they are defeated and captured, the best outcome is to be reduced to slavery, and the same is true for their wives and children.

So they secretly connected with each other, planning to open the city and break through, at this time in Xiangping City, these cavalry of different races still combined with 30,000 or 40,000 people, accounting for half of the defenders.

However, Xiangping City is Gongsun Yuan's lair after all, and it has been in business for a long time, and the careful thoughts of the leaders of the alien race have long been reported to Gongsun Yuan.

Gongsun Yuan wanted to gather these foreign leaders and capture them in a net to eliminate future troubles forever.

After the undercover agent of the Han army learned about it, he deliberately leaked it to the leaders of the alien race, and the two sides immediately turned their faces and fought.

For a time, the guns and cannons in Xiangping City were loud, and the flames soared into the sky.

The leaders of the alien race had no intention of fighting, they only wanted to break through the city, and after they gathered, they immediately attacked the north and east gates of Xiangping City, intending to escape from Xiangping.

In the end, Gongsun Yuan's Liaodong Army naturally obeyed Gongsun Yuan's military orders and suppressed these alien troops.

After all, Gongsun Gong is a hero who has been the lord of Liaodong for several years, although he is disabled, but his mind is very clear, he does not want to sink with his nephew, and he can't bear to see his father and brother have worked hard to run the family foundation for many years in a flash.

Through some of his subordinates, who were still loyal to him, he took control of the West City Gate, and then quietly opened the city gate and released the agreed signal to contact the Han army outside the city.

The Han army outside the city had already been waiting for the signal in the city to be issued, and when they saw the west gate open, it was the agreed signal, and the seventh and eleventh divisions immediately set off and rushed into the city.

Gongsun Gong's subordinates wrapped white strips of cloth around their left arms and led the Han army to attack various important strongholds in the city.

The two sides who were fighting suddenly found that many Han officers and soldiers wearing black military uniforms appeared in the streets and alleys, and they immediately dispersed in a hurry, hugging their heads and running away.

At this time, Gongsun Yuan only remembered to break through, he didn't expect that his uncle, who had been under house arrest for a long time, would still have so much energy to collude with the Han army and stab him in the back.

However, at this time, Xiangping City has been surrounded by the Han army, even if the city gates on all sides are opened, the troops in the city can not rush out, all the city gates are covered by the artillery fire of the Han army, except for the west city gate, the remaining three city gates as long as someone goes out of the city, it is a shelling.

A large number of rebels had to surrender to the Han army in the city, and they laid down their arms and lined up in a long line to rush out of the West Gate under the supervision of the Han army.

This time Gongsun Yuan had no chance to escape, although he repeated his old tricks and disguised himself as an ordinary soldier, he was recognized by Gongsun Gong's subordinates and was held in solitary custody by the Han army.

After dawn, the whole city of Xiangping was recovered, and all the rebels were killed or surrendered, and none of them escaped the net.

The Han army, under the leadership of Gongsun Gong's subordinates, searched the streets and alleys of the city, and arrested all the rebels who hid in the people's homes and tried to get through the customs in a foolish way.

In this battle, about 20,000 rebels were killed, most of them died in their civil strife, and only a small number of people were wiped out against the Han army.

An army of 20,000 people loyal to Gongsun Gong revolted on the battlefield and helped the Han army capture Xiangping, but was pardoned by Lü Kang and accepted the reorganization after the war.

There were also more than 70,000 rebels, including Gongsun Yuan's subordinates and the remaining foreign troops, who became prisoners and ended up as slaves like the previous captives, to contribute to the digging of the Suez Canal.

However, the long road from the icy Liaodong to the extremely hot Middle East, whether it is a journey full of hardships and dangers or climate change with a huge temperature difference, will take half of the lives of this slave army.

Along the way, the thousands of pits where these eastern slaves are buried can be seen everywhere, and this is still under the premise that the Han army treats them in a more humane way, just need them to measure every step of this 10,000-mile long march with their own feet.

Gongsun Yuan and the Gongsun clan of Gongsun Yuan were put in a prison car and sent to Chang'an, where they were to be publicly tried and dealt with by Lü Bu and the central government.