Chapter 1018: The Situation in Bingzhou
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Normal order had long been restored in Dingtao City. Now there are only more than 10,000 guards, thousands of guards and thousands of wounded soldiers defending the city. After Cao Cao's army retreated, Zhang and Huang Wudie's two armies began to sweep the cities of Jiyin from the south and the north. In order to prevent the situation where the strong city could not be attacked for a long time, Huangfu Chaobo also specially assigned the Dugu brothers' Digging Army to accompany the two brothers.
However, Huangfu Chaobo and others believed that the Digging Army should not be used to attack these counties. Basically, there are less than 2,000 soldiers defending the counties under the jurisdiction of Jiyin, and hundreds of them are newly recruited soldiers. Under Cao Cao's rule today, except for several important county cities where elite soldiers are stationed, most of the county cities are stationed with newly recruited soldiers.
After the two armies left, Huangfu Chaobo was not able to rest. Since Shi A had established the Shadow Guard contact point in Dingtao, pigeons from all over the country began to be sent in a steady stream, especially the government affairs in Luoyang. Xu Shu and others could not handle it and immediately sent it to Huangfu Chaobo through pigeons.
After handling the government affairs that day, when Huangfu Chaobo was preparing to rest, his player communicator rang. When he opened it, it was Zhao Zilong. Huangfu Chaobo felt very strange that Zhao Zilong was looking for him at this time, and quickly connected the communication.
As soon as he connected, Zhao Zilong said: "Boss, I can finally connect to your communication."
"What, is there something wrong? No, didn't Lu Bu go to trouble you? This is not his character?" Huangfu Chaobo felt strange and said;
"How is it possible." Zhao Zilong smiled bitterly: "We just had a big fight, almost half a month, and Lu Bu's army retreated yesterday."
Then, he began to report to Huangfu Chaobo about the situation during this period of time.
Lu Bu's army started to set out after the beginning of spring. Fortunately, spring came late in Bingzhou. The snow did not begin to melt until mid-spring. When Lu Bu led his army to Yuancheng, it was already March 16.
After Lu Bu's army arrived, they rested for a day and then began to attack Yuan. Fortunately, with nearly a year of preparation time, Yuancheng has become an ordinary small city, at least the defense level of the city wall has reached the level of a medium city. In addition, the army defeated Lu Bu's army again in previous years, so the soldiers were not afraid of Lu Bu's personal arrival.
After more than ten days of fighting, Lu Bu's army still failed to capture Yuan. After more than ten days of continuous attack, the army was already quite exhausted, and many soldiers were lost. The heavy snow had just melted, and the roads were muddy and difficult to travel, resulting in difficulties in the supply of food for the army. In desperation, Lu Bu had to lead the army to retreat ten miles to camp. Prepare to wait for the weather to improve slightly, and after the baggage is transported, the army will attack again.
Zhao Zilong took advantage of this opportunity to find Huangfu Chaobo,
wanting to ask him for an idea.
Originally, Zhao Zilong hoped that Huangfu Chaobo could help as a lobbyist, but as soon as he said it, Huangfu Chaobo denied it. The relationship between Lv Bu's army and the Eastern Expedition Army was not so good, and the two would have a war sooner or later. Chen Gong and others were already somewhat wary of the Eastern Expedition Army. If Huangfu Chaobo came forward, it might be counterproductive.
According to Guo Jia and others, it would be best for them to let the knight come forward. After all, everyone knows that the knight went to Bingzhou because of Huangfu Chaobo. It is natural that the relationship between the two sides is not good. In this way, it should be able to reduce some of the vigilance of Lv Bu's army.
It is the same for Zhao Zilong and others. Don't show too good a relationship with the Eastern Expedition Army, and then show your willingness to bow to Lv Bu's army. There is also a way to send people to bribe Wei Xu and other trusted generals of Lv Bu to help persuade Lv Bu. With so many approaches, it should still be successful.
After hearing Huangfu Chaobo's words, Zhao Zilong seemed to be confused, but soon understood his meaning and nodded. Then Zhao Zilong asked about the current situation of Huangfu Chaobo's army, and then ended the communication.
After the communication ended, Zhao Zilong quickly gathered several knights and relayed Huangfu Chaobo's words, and several people also felt that it made sense. Originally, everything was going step by step. The reason why Zhao Zilong was asked to find Huangfu Chaobo was to hope that he could find Lu Bu through him. Now, after hearing Huangfu Chaobo's words, he simply gave up this motive.
The matter of making friends with Wei Xu had already been operated in previous years. Now the news from Taiyuan is that Wei Xu is rushing to Lu Bu's army in the name of escorting food and grass. The person sent by the knight promised Wei Xu that he only needed his help to make this happen. In addition to the large amount of money and goods sent before the New Year, there would be a thank-you fee after the success. So Wei Xu was very concerned about this matter. In his opinion, it didn't matter whether Wuyuan and Shuofang counties returned to Lu Bu's rule. Lu Bu didn't care about these territories. He just needed to pay the taxes due to Bingzhou on time every month.
You know, although Wuyuan and Shuofang counties have returned to the Han Dynasty, they did not submit taxes to the Bingzhou Governor's Office, but directly absorbed them together with the taxes of the court. This is what Lu Bu cares about the most.
Just like the two counties of Yunzhong and Dingxiang recovered before the New Year, there are only tens of thousands of people in a county, which is not as large as a county in Taiyuan. Therefore, Lu Bu has no interest in these places. The most important reason why he personally went to Wuyuan this time is that he can't save face.
This is also the reason why Wei Xu dared to absorb so much wealth from the knights and promised them something. So after getting the promise from the knights, Wei Xu couldn't wait to set off with the baggage team that transported food and grass to the direction of Yunzhong.
A few days later, Wei Xu rushed to Lu Bu's army. After learning that Lu Bu himself had no choice but to retreat, Wei Xu knew that his chance had come. After handing the baggage team to the camp logistics officer, Wei Xu went to the central army tent to ask for an audience with Lu Bu.
"General!" When Wei Xu saw Lu Bu, Lu Bu was still furious, but this attack on the city was not something that he, Lu Bu, or the cavalry could do.
Lu Bu was known as the best in the world, and his cavalry was also unparalleled in the world, but the cavalry could not run to the top of the city wall. After Lu Bu attacked the city wall, he certainly killed people everywhere, but facing the focus of thousands of crossbowmen, he fled back from the top of the city in a mess.
Seeing Wei Xu coming, Lu Bu felt very strange and asked, "Why are you here?"
"General, I heard that the war was not going well, so I kept thinking about a question and felt very puzzled, so I decided to come and see, and I would like to ask you to tell me about it." Wei Xu said;
"What's the matter?" Lu Bu felt strange, why did you come to ask him when you didn't just ask Chen Gong, but because Wei Xu was his brother-in-law, he patiently asked;
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