Chapter 1007: 1 Words Come True
Huangfu Chaobo held Huang Zhong's pigeon letter in his hand, looking westward toward Luoyang, and fell into deep thought. It is said that before his death, Lu Zhi invited his two sons into the inner room, and the three of them talked for more than an hour. Outsiders did not know what they talked about.
Huangfu Chaobo only knew that after Lu Zhi died, his two sons only guarded his tomb for a month, and then immediately returned to their respective armies. Both Lu Zhong and Lu Ling devoted all their energy to their own affairs, returning to the situation when they first arrived in Luoyang.
In any case, the two Lu brothers should have returned to their hearts now, which made Huangfu Chaobo finally breathe a sigh of relief.
After putting down Huang Zhong's pigeon letter, Huangfu Chaobo picked up Xu Rong's pigeon letter. The news on it made him a little unhappy. Cao Cao's attack direction was indeed placed on Qingzhou, and he had an army of more than 100,000 at once. If he guessed correctly, Cao Cao wanted to use Yanzhou in the west to hold back his main force in Sizhou and attack the two counties of Qingzhou with all his strength. However, he thought that the Yuzhou army had been completely thrown into his arms, and he had more than one trump card in his hand.
Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo ordered: "Come here!"
"General, what do you want?" Immediately, a personal soldier appeared at the door of the tent.
"Please ask a few military advisors to come and discuss matters immediately!"
"Yes!"
Soon, Pang Tong and the other two came to Huangfu Chaobo's tent.
"Greetings, lord!" the three said in unison;
"No need to be polite, the military advisors, please take a look!" Huangfu Chaobo handed the two pigeon letters to the three and said;
The three quickly read the two pigeon letters, Pang Tong smiled and said: "Congratulations, lord, Liang has been conquered, and Cao Hong in Qiao County will not have much time left."
Guo Jia also nodded and smiled: "The three young generals have made a big splash!"
Unlike Pang and Guo's optimism, Lu Su's eyes were cast towards Qingzhou: "Lord, Su is not worried about the situation in Yuzhou, but Qingzhou, why is there no movement in Langya?"
Three Everyone was startled. Guo Jia said, "In fact, I am also worried about this problem. Now the wars in several routes have already begun. The only one that has not made any movement is Langya. If I am not wrong, it is very likely to come true."
At this moment, hurried footsteps sounded in the tent, and then Shi A's hurried voice sounded outside: "Is the lord here?"
The guards outside the tent replied: "The general is discussing with the three military advisors!"
Then, Shi A said outside: "Lord, I have an urgent intelligence report!"
Everyone in the tent looked at each other, and they all saw a trace of uneasiness in each other's eyes. Huangfu Chaobo said: "Come in!"
The curtain was lifted, and Shi A walked in quickly from the outside, looking anxious. He was holding a red pigeon letter in his hand, which was a sign of extreme urgency.
After entering, Shi A winked at Dian Wei, who understood and immediately ordered the guards outside the tent to retreat twenty steps away. Dian Wei let go of the curtain and personally guarded the door.
"My lord, I just received urgent intelligence from Chenliu. Something happened in Qingzhou." Shi A reported to Huangfu Chaobo in a low voice;
Because Huangfu Chaobo went on the expedition with the army, the intelligence of the Eastern Expedition Army was sent directly to Chenliu, and then the cavalry from Chenliu was sent to the army. Generally, it was sent twice a day. If there was urgent intelligence, it would be sent to the army as soon as possible after receiving it. The intelligence about Huang Zhong and the other two that Huangfu Chaobo received just now was the intelligence sent to Chenliu in the morning, which was sent by Chenliu at noon and was probably delivered to the army in the evening.
Generally speaking, the intelligence received in the afternoon and evening is sent by Chenliu early the next morning, and is usually delivered to the army before noon. But now it was delivered after nightfall, which proves that it is indeed extremely urgent intelligence.
Huangfu Chaobo reached out to take the intelligence, opened it and was stunned. Guo Jia just said that he would not let his words come true. The information had been delivered before he finished speaking.
Sure enough, something happened in Qingzhou, and it was exactly the information about Ye Lai Xiang that Huangfu Chaobo was worried about.
Ye Lai Xiang betrayed the alliance.
In the early morning of today, Ye Lai Xiang's 40,000 Langya troops and Cao Chali's 20,000 Taishan troops formed a 60,000-strong coalition army, which suddenly appeared under Qianqu City in Donglai County. Although Meng Gang's Canglang Camp was prepared, facing the sudden attack of the coalition forces, under the fierce attack of Xu Chu's Huwei Camp and Xu Sheng's Tieji Camp, Qianqu City was broken by the coalition forces in just one day.
After losing nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, Meng Gang's army had no choice but to abandon the city and retreat, and the Huwei Camp and Tieji Camp also lost more than half, and the ordinary soldiers of the two armies lost more than 20,000 people.
The reason for such a quick retreat was mainly because the main general Meng Gang was injured by Xu Chu and almost died on the spot. Fortunately, the personal guards of the Tiebi Camp arranged by Huangfu Chaobo fought desperately to rescue him. However, Meng Gang's personal guards were almost wiped out, with most of the fifty Iron Wall Camp personal guards lost, and only more than ten people escorted Meng Gang to evacuate, and none of the 150 ordinary personal guards survived.
Seeing that things were hopeless, Meng Gang ordered the army to retreat. In the end, only 5,000 cavalry and 3,000 infantry successfully retreated to Buqi County, and then Meng Gang fell into a coma.
After the remaining soldiers of the Canglang Camp retreated to Buqi, the captain of the cavalry camp took over the command of the army after Meng Gang fell into a coma. While arranging for Buqi County to strengthen its defense, he sent people to Qingdao City to warn the police, and at the same time wrote a pigeon letter with a brief account of the battle and handed it to the person in charge of the Shadow Guard in Qingdao City, who quickly sent it to Chenliu.
Although the coalition forces of Tuberose and Cao Charlie successfully captured the city of Guizhou and severely damaged Menggang's Canglang Camp, the two armies also suffered heavy losses. More than half of their trump cards, the Tiger Guard Camp and the Iron Ji Camp, were lost. Ordinary soldiers lost about 20,000 people. Such losses also left two people injured, so they did not immediately send out troops to continue the attack. Instead, they stopped in Qiantou City, preparing to wait for the arrival of subsequent troops and horses. Attack.
The sudden counterattack made Huangfu Chaobo a little confused. He didn't expect that Ye Laixiang would really betray him and cooperate with Cao Cao's army.
In Qianqiu City, Ye Laixiang and Cao Charlie were both crying. They had an army of 60,000 and attacked the county town of less than 20,000 people, but they ended up like this. You must know that there are two schools of special troops, and both It is a powerful unit led by famous generals from the Three Kingdoms.
Tuberose looked at Charlie Cao with a wry smile and said: "Brother Charlie, it seems that our follow-up attack must be delayed for a few days. If the follow-up troops and horses do not arrive, my army will be unable to launch another attack."
Charlie Cao also nodded: "The same is true for my army. This is the Tiger Guard led by Xu Zu. Is Huangfu Chaobo's battle camp so strong?"