Chapter 1042: Arrangements Before Returning to Luoyang

As Guo Jia spoke, he explained to Huangfu Chaobo on the map: "In the opinion of my subordinates, Henan, Hongnong, Hedong, Hanoi and Weijun are combined into one state, Sizhou, Chenliu, Jiyin, Shanyang The five counties of Liang, Liang and Pei were all combined into one state, still called Yanzhou. Yingchuan, Chenguo, Runan, Qiaojun and Lujiang were combined into one state, still called Yuzhou. In this way, the fifteen counties were divided into three states. , the Lord can recommend three governors to manage the civil affairs of the three states, and only needs to equip the three governors with relevant subordinate officials, while the Zhengdong General Mansion only needs to manage the civil affairs of the three states. "

Having said this, Guo Jia sighed with regret and said, "It's a pity that the lord has not opened a palace yet, otherwise there would be no need to report such matters to the court, and the lord can decide on his own."

Huangfu Chaobo shook his head noncommittally, too lazy to pay attention to him, but he was thinking about the feasibility of this operation. It seems that this matter needs to be discussed carefully with Tian Feng and others back in Luoyang. Moreover, the three The candidate for the position of governor must also be carefully considered.

"By the way," Huangfu Chaobo suddenly thought of something and looked at Guo Jiadao: "Does Yuan Shaojun of Jizhou have any new moves?"

Guo Jia shook his head: "The pigeon message that came yesterday said that Yuan Shao's army stopped advancing twenty miles east of Handan and Wei County, and set up a big camp, seemingly waiting for the arrival of follow-up troops. But based on some speculation, Yuan Shao should He is observing the situation of the war in Yanzhou. If our Eastern Expeditionary Army and Cao Cao's army are fighting hard, he will definitely take advantage of the situation. However, based on the current situation, Yuan Shao's army has received news that our army has captured Changyi. After that, if we don’t continue to march into Rencheng, we should retreat soon.”

Huangfu Chaobo nodded. He could actually guess what Yuan Shao was thinking. At present, the biggest threat to him was Gongsunzan from Youzhou, so being able to beat Gongsunzan to the point of paralysis this time already made him I can breathe a long sigh of relief. The loss of tens of thousands of elite cavalry allows Yuan Shao to take the initiative in the war. However, this battle caused him a lot of losses, especially the addition of Zhao Yun's cavalry, which also caused a lot of losses to Yuan Shaojun's cavalry. It's just that what Gongsun Zan lost was the elites and their muscles and bones were injured, while Yuan Shao lost his ordinary cavalry. For the rough-skinned and thick-skinned Jizhou, it was just a flesh wound, not on the same level at all.

If he and Cao Cao continue to fight, Yuan Shao will find an advantage to take advantage of, and he may take the opportunity to pounce on him and take a bite, maybe he can tear a large piece of meat from his body. If there is no advantage to take advantage of, he will not Acting rashly.

The war with Cao Cao's army is over. It seems that it is time for him to return to Luoyang. Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo stood up and said: "Okay, let's do this for now. The war in Yanzhou is basically over. I will prepare to go back tomorrow." Let's return to Luoyang under the escort of the trap camp and the Tiebei camp. Let's return together with Fengxiao. Zijing still needs to stay in Changyi for a while. He can only return to Luoyang after the personnel and troops here are basically in place. "

At this point, Huangfu Chaobo was already too sleepy. He waved his hands to the two of them and said, "You go down and do your work first. I will announce this matter when I gather the generals for discussion in the evening."

"My lord, have a good rest!" After hearing this, the two of them bowed and left.

That night, Huangfu Chaobo summoned the generals to discuss matters and announced that he would return to Luoyang. At the same time, he authorized Lu Su to coordinate the war between various ministries in Changyi. According to Huangfu Chaobo's request, several troops and horses will be sent to Luoyang in the next day. In this time, the Shanyang Kingdom occupied the cities to the west of Rencheng, and then began to enter a defensive state.

At the border, Zhang He's troops will return to Juancheng and Puyang to set up defenses to defend Xiahou Dun's troops, while Huang Wudie and Huangfu Li's two armies will stay in Changyi and join Huang Zhong's troops in Pei to defend Cao Cao's army in Rencheng and Xuzhou counties. Soldiers and horses. After returning to Luoyang, Huangfu Chaobo, Tian Feng and Xu Shu will once again confirm the arrangements for officials and generals in various counties and ministries, and then issue the appointments as soon as possible.

Afterwards, the Zhengdong Army will enter a period of rest and recuperation. Of course, Huang Wudie's armies will continue to defend here until the troops and horses in each county are in place.

They will not withdraw until all the troops are in place.

Unlike the situation of the Eastern Expeditionary Army, Cao Cao in Rencheng was still nervous. On the one hand, he was afraid that the Eastern Expeditionary Army would advance eastward again. Secondly, the war between Xiapi and Sun Ce's army was not over yet, and the armies of both sides were still fighting fiercely under Xiapi City.

After all, the current strength of Sun Ce's army is still not comparable to that of the Eastern Expeditionary Army. For them, they were able to capture more than ten cities of Cao Cao's army in one battle, which was thanks to Cao Cao's army fighting on three sides.

Sun Ce dispatched nearly 100,000 troops from four counties to attack the city and plunder the land. When they arrived at Xiapi City, they were already exhausted. The reason why they were still holding on to attack Xiapi was because they saw that the Eastern Expeditionary Army was still fighting against Cao Cao's army. The battle in Shanyang County attracted most of Cao Cao's attention there. Sun Ce knew that the opportunity could not be missed. Once Cao Cao returned his attention to Xuzhou, he would not have this opportunity, at least not in a short period of time. .

In Ye County, in the Prefect's Mansion, Zhu Hao was also gathering people to discuss matters. In addition to several major officials from Wei County, four people from Zhao Yun, Hua Xiong, Ju and Pang Tong were also included. Several people were sitting in the hall, discussing Yuan Shao's military intelligence.

News from the scouts showed that several armies of Yuan Shao's army had arrived in Wei County, but they stopped advancing and instead set up camp twenty miles away from Handan and Wei County. This location said Whether it was close or not, and whether it was far or not, this move made everyone in the Eastern Expedition Army a little confused, so Zhu Hao called everyone to discuss the matter.

On the main seat, Zhu Hao looked at Ju Su with a confused look on his face and said, "Mr. Ju, what is Yuan Shao's army going to do? Waiting for reinforcements from behind?"

Ju Su was also confused. He was upright. Although he was not as inflexible as Tian Feng, he was not as good at military strategy as Pang Tong and Guo Jia. He could not see clearly about this matter, so he turned to Pang Tong and said, "Did the left military advisor see anything?"

Although Pang Tong was the youngest among these people, his talent was obvious to everyone. So after Ju Su asked the question, the others also looked at him sideways.

"In Tong's opinion, Yuan Shao's army should have the idea of ​​marching westward if there is a profit, and staying put if there is no profit." As he said, Pang Tong walked to the map and pointed to the locations of several large camps set up by Yuan Shao's army; "My Zhengdong Army has fought against Yuan Shao's army for many years. Although it has always been on the defensive, Yuan Shao's army has not been able to win a big victory. Why is this?"