After the death of Badun, the Wuheng crowd was leaderless, so he publicly promoted Qiu Liju's son Lou Ban to be Shan Yu, and the handsome people stuck to Liucheng.

Gongsun Kang led Liaodong soldiers and horses to chase to Liucheng, but he was not in a hurry to attack. Ordered to set up camp and bury pots to cook.

At night, except for the soldiers who were on vigil, the soldiers of Liaodong slept peacefully, and they did not worry that the Wuheng people still had the courage to attack the camp at night.

The next day, Gongsun Kang led his advisers to observe the terrain of Liucheng.

Lou Ban was on top of the city tower, kidnapped thousands of Han slaves, both men and women, and sent people to threaten Gongsun Kang to withdraw from the army. Otherwise, kill the slaves on the spot.

Gongsun Kang was hard-hearted, and just smiled and said to the Wuheng envoy: "Are there still fewer Han people killed by you Wuheng people?" Even if I retire now, these Han Chinese will eventually die at the hands of you Wuheng people. Why don't I give up small righteousness and take great righteousness, kill you Wuheng people, so that more Han people can save their lives? ”

He also said, "If you use these dirty methods against us, I will order: After the city is broken, there will be no sword for three days!" ”

Lou Ban did not dare to kill these thousands of Han people in the end, but he forced the 100,000 Han slaves in Liucheng to help them defend the city, day and night to carry rolling wood and stones on the city wall, and collect all kinds of dung to boil on the city wall, number: gold juice.

Gongsun Kang didn't want to attack hard at all, what he hated most was to let the soldiers climb the city wall like ants, and capture a city at the cost of several times the death of the number of defenders.

He took the strategists around Liucheng in a circle, and his demeanor was as leisurely as sightseeing.

Back at the camp, everyone gathered in the tent, and Gongsun Kangfa asked, "What do you think?" ”

A master craftsman from the craftsman battalion was the first to speak: "Commander Qiyu, I think that the earthen walls of Liucheng are not strong. No explosives are needed, just with crossbow arrows, a stone thrower can smash down the city walls. ”

This craftsman also had a military rank, so he called himself a lowly position. The artisan battalion accompanying the army was already in essence an ordnance battalion. After Gongsun Kang was ready to go back, he would be restructured and set up an ordnance battalion, a health battalion, and a ballista battalion.

The strategists also nodded one after another, acknowledging the master's point of view, and Gongsun Kang had no choice but to be good. It's just that in private, there is some regret: I don't know when the explosives will be on the battlefield.

On the third day, 50 bed crossbows and 50 stone throwers lined up 300 meters from the city wall. Because Liucheng does not have a crossbow to defend the city, nor does it have a stone thrower, Gongsun Kangcai will bully people to arrange the bed crossbow and stone thrower so close to the city wall.

In front of the bed crossbow and stone throwing machine are iron shields erected by sword and shield soldiers to prevent the Hu people from going out of the city and destroying the machines. Zhao Yun was ready to go, with 10,000 light cavalry waiting for the city to be broken, and chased and killed the Hu people outside the city; The infantrymen carried swords on their backs and crossbows. Today they are the main force of street fighting. Only half of the cavalry entered the city, and it was Tai Shici who led the light cavalry into the city. The heavy cavalry remained outside the city to protect the bed crossbow and the stone thrower, they did not ride horses, and this time they were used as heavy infantry.

Gongsun Kang gave an order, and the bed crossbow and the stone thrower worked together, and in just one round, the city wall was crumbling, and the Wuheng soldiers and Han slaves on the wall were unstable.

After the second round of shooting, the city wall fell down with a "coax". The nearby Hu soldiers were smashed and cried for their fathers and mothers.

Gongsun Kang continued to shoot, and the city walls fell one by one, and the Wuheng soldiers who wanted to rush out were also killed by bed crossbows and stone throwers. It wasn't until the entire city wall collapsed and the defending Hu and Han slaves were far away that Gongsun Kang ordered an attack.

And let people shout: "Surrender and don't kill!" ”

10,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry rushed into the city, and the Wuheng people did not lay down their arms and surrender, but relied on the houses to carry out fierce resistance and desperate fighting. Even many Han Chinese slaves rebelled fiercely along with the Hu.

Gongsun Kang was very angry and ordered: "If there are those who resist, they will all be slaughtered!" It doesn't matter if he's a Hu or a Han! If you don't throw away your weapon at the first time, you will be killed! ”

Originally, he wanted to liberate these 100,000 Han slaves, but he didn't expect them to be addicted to being slaves, could it be that they were also Stockholm patients?

The battle continued from morning to noon, and groups of prisoners were taken out of the city. Lou Ban was also captured.

There was a squad of Wuheng cavalry who fled out of the city, but they were all surrounded and annihilated by Zhao Yun.

After the war, the losses of Liaodong's military horses were counted, and more than 5,000 people were killed and wounded. It can be seen how fierce the resistance of the Wuheng people is.

Gongsun Kang ordered that all the captured Wuheng nobles be killed on the spot, and the old and weak children of ordinary Wuheng people were killed. The young women would be given one to each of the Liaodong soldiers who participated in the battle; When there were not enough women, women were taken out of the Han Chinese slaves and distributed.

As for the 100,000 Han slaves, Gongsun Kang decided not to release any of the young and strong, and let them continue to be slaves. went to build roads for Liaodong and opened mines for three years, which also made them understand who they were.

Gongsun Kang thought that he was still soft-hearted, if it weren't for the 100,000 Han slaves, he didn't enter the city first, but threw fire oil and explosives into the city and burned the city, then the soldiers and horses of Liaodong would not have killed or injured so many people.

In the future, there will be a civil war, because it is a Han Chinese, so it is soft-hearted, or not. Gongsun Kang secretly reminded himself.

Gongsun Kang broke through Liucheng and gained a lot. The Wuheng royal court has been looting for a hundred years, and the accumulated gold, silver and jewelry are piled up. and grain and grass, which was 50,000 stones. From these gains, it is also right not to set fire, otherwise all the fire will be burned.

Gongsun Kang was in Liucheng, and it was confiscated for two days, and the property of ordinary residents was also confiscated. And the captives starved for two days, and did not give them food, lest they should have the strength to flee and resist.

Five days later, the Liaodong Iron Cavalry Division returned to Liaodong. Take all the captives and belongings with them. There was only one empty city left in Liucheng, and there was no one left.

Since then, the Han people in eastern and western Liaodong have been unified, and there is no longer the power of the Wuheng people.

The corpses of the Hu people dug a big pit, threw them into the pit, and buried them. This is to prevent the creation of plagues.

The corpses of the Liaodong Army were burned separately, and each soldier could identify them by the small bamboo plaque he carried. Each person's ashes were individually packed in jars with their names written on them. Ready to hand over to their families.

More than 5,000 lives were gone, and more than 5,000 brothers who fought side by side were gone. Gongsun Kang's heart was also uncomfortable. Although heroes have no tears and no regrets, ruthlessness may not be true heroes.

This time was the largest number of sorties by the Liaodong army, and it was also the largest loss of Liaodong military horses.

Every major battle of the princes of the Central Plains may die tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of soldiers; But Liaodong has not recorded a single death of 5,000 people before.

Gongsun Kang decided to build the Martyrs' Shrine and the Martyrs' Hall, and the Chinese still paid great attention to the name after their deaths. A martyr's cemetery should also be built. It is necessary to erect a monument for the martyrs.

Not only should Liaodong Tieqi be desperate for himself, but also let this person who helped him fight hard firmly believe that his choice was correct when he was dying. Because he died on the battlefield of fighting with other races for the continuation of the Han people.

At the same time, through various ceremonies and publicity, it is also necessary to make others envy this guy who died in battle, and be ready to go forward and continue to work hard for the Gongsun family.

The old Liu family is very slippery, and working hard for the Han and the old Liu family has become a righteousness and a standard to measure a person's morality.

There are two great righteousnesses prepared by Gongsun Kang: one is for the survival of the Han nation, the continuation of the race, and the fight against foreign races; Second, in order to save the people of the Central Plains who are living in dire straits, and in order to let the people live a good life in which everyone has clothes to wear and everyone to eat, it is necessary to stop the war with war, end the warlord secession and warlord melee as soon as possible, and unify the Central Plains as soon as possible.

Under these two righteousness, the soldiers who sacrificed should have no regrets.

The next step is to set up a propaganda department, let professional people formulate various rituals and propaganda, so that the will of the martyrs can be inherited, and they will continue to make their own sacrifices for the liberation of the people of the Central Plains.

An army of faith is the most terrible army. Because they understand what they are fighting for, they can face death directly and without fear, creating one miracle after another.

What Gongsun Kang has to do now is to turn the Liaodong Iron Cavalry into an army of faith.