Chapter 1032: Battle of Changyi
After this battle, although the two families got dozens of cities in the two counties, the population was reduced by more than half, and the cities without supplies were just a mess. And although the cities were occupied, they fought with powerful players in the two counties, especially Tuberose. Although they got Donglai County, they should not think about stabilizing the two counties within one or two years.
The war in Qingzhou can be said to have come to an end for the time being. Cao Cao's army has focused on stabilizing the situation. Hundreds of thousands of troops are distributed in the cities of Beihai. It is impossible to return to Yanzhou for the time being. Huangfu Chaobo does not want to invest too much energy in Qingzhou, but only orders the people of Qingzhou to speed up the migration of the people.
Another thing is that as the counties in various places fell into the hands of the two princes, the activity range of the 20,000 cavalry in Qingzhou became smaller and smaller. After repeated consideration, Huangfu Chaobo decided to transfer the 20,000 cavalry back to Yanzhou, and still by land.
The reason for this arrangement is that these cavalrymen are no longer useful in Qingzhou, and secondly, the water route has not been arranged yet. There are about 30,000 war horses for 20,000 cavalrymen, and it would be more troublesome to take the water route. It would be faster to go directly through Qingzhou to Yanzhou.
Another point is that there are more than 100,000 garrisons in the two cities. In addition to a part of them being transferred to Longhua, Huangfu Chaobo is going to send a fleet to transport 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers and horses back to Yanzhou to participate in the war of Cao Cao's army.
The battle in Changyi has been going on for more than ten days, but the expeditionary army still has not made a big breakthrough. After getting the intelligence from Qingzhou, Huangfu Chaobo simply announced a few days of rest and then called everyone together to discuss matters.
Sitting in the first seat, Huangfu Chaobo said: "The war in Qingzhou has come to an end for the time being, and the next war will be in Yanzhou."
"My lord, Weijun also needs to pay attention to the movements of Yuan Shao's army. This time, Gongsun Zan's army was defeated, and almost all of the 50,000 elite soldiers were lost. They are almost unable to attack Yuan Shao's army. Yuan Shao's army is likely to turn around and attack Weijun." Lu Su said;
Huangfu Chaobo nodded and replied: "The affairs of Weijun have been handed over to Shi Yuan and Gong Yu. With the two of them in charge of Weijun, together with Zhao Yun and Hua Xiong, they should be able to stop the attack of Yuan Shao's army. Moreover, there is no sign that Yuan Shao's army has moved westward in a big way. I have ordered to carefully monitor the direction of Jizhou. We can't let the situation where Cao Cao's army has assembled hundreds of thousands of troops in Qingzhou and we are completely unaware of it."
When Shi A heard this, sweat dripped down his back and he quickly stepped out to agree.
Seeing Shi A's look, Huangfu Chaobo also knew that he couldn't ask too much of the Shadow Guard, but he still had to give him some necessary warnings. He just glanced at him lightly and didn't say anything more. He turned his gaze to the rest of the people in the tent.
Seeing this, Guo Jia hurriedly stepped out and said, "My lord, the current plan is to end the war in Yanzhou as soon as possible. Judging from our current situation, we still have a lot to do. The four newly occupied counties, Qiao County, Pei State, Liang State and Jiyin County, all need to be stabilized as soon as possible, and the troops in each county need to be trained. In addition, Longhua will have 600,000 new people, and it will take time to digest and stabilize. It is estimated that it will be good enough to settle them all in the second half of the year. If Shanyang County is added, it should be able to be stabilized. If there are more, it will be too much to chew."
Seeing that Guo Jia was hesitant to speak, Huangfu Chaobo knew that he had something to say. The strength of Cao Cao's army was actually not weak. His original strategy was a bit arrogant, and he really needed time to digest the increase of four or five counties at once.
However, it seems that Guo Jia wants him to give up the attack on Changyi, but Huangfu Chaobo is unwilling to give up. There are tens of thousands of Cao Cao's most elite Qingzhou soldiers and tiger and leopard cavalry in Changyi City. If Huangfu Chaobo does not take this opportunity to get as much information as possible from them, he will be unwilling.
You know, there are already 20,000 cavalry on the way, and it is estimated that it will take only four or five days to arrive, and the flood season of the river has ended.
Zhou Tai's Hengjiang Camp and Pan Feng's Fubo Camp have already started to rush to Qingzhou yesterday morning. They will escort 60,000 garrison infantry back to Yanzhou, which will take about ten days. In this way, he will have enough troops to attack Changyi, and then he will start to recuperate and consolidate his territory after taking Changyi.
But in this way, the war will take at least 20 days to a month to end, so Weijun must prepare for the worst. Once Yuan Shao's army moves west to Weijun, Pang Tong, Zhao Yun and others must resist for one to two months before Huangfu Chaobo's support army can arrive.
Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo asked Duguba and Dugutian: "How are the tunnels prepared?"
Duguba said: "According to the lord's order, I have dug ten tunnels, but it will take about ten days to reach the city, so..."
"It doesn't matter. Tunnels are just one of the means of attacking the city. If it works, it will be the best. If it doesn't, there is no way. We have to try it to know. Besides, Dingtao and Qiao County were lost because of the tunnels. Cao Cao's army will definitely be prepared. So I don't have too much hope on the tunnels. Ten days later, the reinforcements will arrive, and the tunnels may really work." Huangfu Chaobo waved his hand;
It was just as he expected. With the lessons learned from the two county cities of Dingtao and Qiao County, Cao Cao's army had indeed been prepared. Within the entire city wall, Cao Cao arranged soldiers to bury their ears in the ground every few dozen steps. He arranged soldiers to listen in day and night every day, and did not dare to relax at all.
When Huangfu Chaobo summoned the generals to discuss matters, Cao Cao was also summoning everyone to discuss matters. Although the news of the end of the war in Qingzhou had not yet been reported, Xiahou Yuan had arranged for the army to watch over the Zhengdong Army in Shuanghe City, and then divided the troops to attack the rest of the cities, and the news that the Zhengdong Army had cut off the firewood and moved the craftsmen and the people away, Xiahou Yuan had arranged for the messenger to send it out, and it was delivered to Changyi this afternoon.
After receiving the news, Cao Cao locked himself in the study and thought quietly for an afternoon. He didn't even care about the war on the top of the city until it got dark. After the war ended, Cao Cao ordered to summon everyone to discuss matters.
After everyone was seated, Cao Cao handed the news he received in the afternoon to everyone for reading: "Everyone, we lost four counties, but in return we got a messy Beihai." Cao Cao smiled bitterly and continued, "It seems that Huangfu Chaobo and I are born to be incompatible. Since the battle with Huangfu Chaobo, I have not had a good time in his hands."