The Battle of Lie Shui was officially launched half a month after Zhao Xing arrived in Zhengyang City. At this time, it was exactly three months since Zhao Zhenbang made drastic training for the new Liaodong army. {Book friends uploaded and updated}

The battlefield situation at that time was that the Liaodong New Army completely controlled the north of the Lishui River. The Heishan Army crossed the Daling alone and cut off the retreat of the Mahan and Chen Han people, forming a north-south attack on hundreds of thousands of Yanzhou natives. There were two ways in front of the Mahan and Chen Han people. One was to squeeze east into the sphere of influence of the Wuhu people, and the other was to jump west into the sea to feed the fish.

Apart from these two paths, the rest is to unite and fight to the end and strive for the last living space.

Unfortunately, although the Yanzhou Peninsula has been rich in troubled people and thugs since ancient times, there have been no truly strategic military strategists and strategists. Therefore, these tribes that are accustomed to internal strife have become a group of mobs when facing a life-and-death crisis. They all started from the perspective of benefiting their tribes and then made completely different choices.

Facing a powerful opponent, they do not think about how to unite and resist to the end, but instead want to use other tribes with ulterior motives, which determines the fate of Mahan and Chen Han being completely eliminated.

Among the tribes of all sizes, some chose to break into the territories of the northeast corner to survive; some chose to send envoys to beg for mercy, and they expressed their willingness to accept all the conditions of the Han army as long as they were not exterminated; some dead and hard tribes chose to fight to the end and never retreat.

Zhao Zhenbang and Zhang Yan had long expected this behavior of the Mahans and Chens. They also knew that military deterrence alone could not successfully resolve this war on the string. (_--) Since we had to fight, we must use the awareness of a lion fighting against a rabbit to completely solve the problem in the shortest time.

The new Liaodong army had all replaced new weapons and equipment and military uniforms more than a month ago, and then carried out adaptive training. Now the entire army has been completely renewed. Although it has not yet forged a military soul in the battle between iron and blood, it is definitely competent for the current combat mission.

Zhao Zhenbang specially formulated a combat plan called the "Hundred Regiments War" to fully utilize the command capabilities of the first-level regiment officers, and lined up the eight divisions and forty regiments of the Liaodong Army on the north bank of the river. The distance between them can be supported, and the specific combat process is organized by each regiment. This greatly reduces the pressure on the command agencies of the two-level military divisions, enhances the flexibility and mobility of defensive operations, and also takes the opportunity to allow the forty young Xiaohu regiment commanders to be fully trained.

The Yanqing Army, which followed closely behind the Black Mountain Army, had a worse overall quality and combat effectiveness than the Liaodong Army. Half of the 30,000 soldiers of this unit were selected from the remaining Liaodong surrendered soldiers selected by Zhao Zhenbang at that time, and the other half were recruited from the Han children who moved to the Northeast.

The number of Yanqing Army was not as large as that of the Liaodong Army, and the training level of soldiers was not as high as that of the Liaodong Army. Even generals at all levels were not as powerful as those of the Liaodong Army. This caused two troops formed by the front and back, and the gap became a little big after three months.

Fortunately, Zhang Yan did not really ask Dian Man to lead the army to charge forward this time, and only assigned Yanqing Army an easy task of guarding prisoners of war and transporting materials, so they would not encounter any major casualties or setbacks.

After Zhao Zhenbang and Zhang Yan set the last time to launch a joint attack, they began to take action in full swing. They first incited the small tribes who were willing to surrender unconditionally and escaped from the control of the Second Korean tribe chief alliance. They took advantage of the favorable opportunity of changing defense with the tribes at night and hid in the Dandan Daling, and were then captured by the Yanqing army and transferred to the rear.

Next, Zhao Zhenbang and Jia Mu specially selected some eloquent people from the Bianhan who had already become naturalized. They stood on the top of the mountain and shouted non-far to Mahan not far away. The Chenhans kept shouting. The content of these Bianhans' shouting was mainly aimed at those who intend to enter the terrifying territory. By exaggerating the terrifying combat power of the Han army, they completely destroyed their already unstable beliefs, causing these people to flee the battlefield desperately and break into the area where the terrifying people live.

After doing these preparatory work, the nearly 300,000 Mahan and Chenhan natives who had originally gathered on the south bank of Lieshui were only about 12,000.

The rest were those who were ready to go to the end and uncompromising. With no success in persuading and persuading surrender, the Black Mountain Army finally used firearms that had never been used on a large scale, rushed down from the mountains with an absolutely fierce offensive, turning all the local natives who were blocking their troops into corpses.

Seeing the Black Mountain Army killing all directions across the river, Zhao Zhenbang wanted to lead the team to cross the river and kill the generals, but was held tightly by several Shadow Team members responsible for protecting him. Zhao Zhenbang had no choice but to entrust Guo Huai to command the army to cross the river to fight.

Seeing the dense troops across the river crossing the river, the indigenous soldiers on the river naturally wanted to rush up to attack halfway, but the big ships cruising on the waters were fully fired, and the means of killing people was even more powerful than the devils who rushed down from the Shanda Ridge.

After all the soldiers of the Liaodong Army set foot on the south bank of the Lioshui River, the battle entered the final hand-to-hand combat stage.

The Liaodong soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding swords and shields were in front, and there were attacking soldiers holding long halberds and spears next to them, followed by military crossbowmen and long bowmen, and there were firearm troops that could provide long-range fire support. The soldiers of the Liaodong Army were not without killing people. After the battle was bloody, they began to act fiercely, only trying to kill more enemies. As a result, the battlefield became a Shura Field and the Hall of Yama everywhere.

The war lasted for three days and three nights. With the joint strangulation of 70,000 Heishan Army and Liaodong Army, the 120,000 Mahan and Chenhan natives who were defending the south bank of Lishui were slaughtered. For this reason, the Heishan Army paid the price of 4,000 casualties, while the Liaodong Army paid the price of 10,000 casualties.

Fortunately, the number of soldiers who died on the battlefield was not very large, and the total number was less than 3,000. The rest were injured and temporarily lost their combat capabilities. With the current medical treatment level of the Heishan Army and the Liaodong Army, more than 80% of these injured soldiers can return to the battlefield.

Zhao Zhenbang and Zhang Yan finally gathered again on the south bank of Lieshui. He shouted at Zhang Yan excitedly: "Old Zhang, my troops have killed no fewer enemies this time than the Black Mountain Army!"

Zhang Yan nodded and said with admiration: "I really didn't expect that the Liaodong Army would have such combat power and fighting spirit in just three months. I didn't say anything about this battle, so I, Old Zhang, was convinced!"

At this moment, Liaodong Army Deputy General Guo Huai walked to Zhao Zhenbang and whispered: "Now the battlefield is full of corpses. If it is not handled in time, it may cause an epidemic."

Zhao Zhenbang nodded, and then ordered loudly: "Select our brothers' bodies and be buried alive. Throw the rest of the bodies into the liu water and rushed into the East China Sea to feed the turtle!"


Chapter completed!