Chapter 1064: Youzhou Situation

The dock of Changshan Island City had already begun to expand when Huangfu Chaobo left. According to the speed, it should only take three to five days. If there is no delay, it should be completed in these two days.

Now that the affairs in Qingzhou have been basically dealt with, Huangfu Chaobo will consider going north to Youzhou. Now that it is July, he must arrange the affairs in Youzhou as soon as possible. Once the time drags on for too long, Gongsun Zan will still I don’t know what happened again.

Now the Tang Army has assembled about 30,000 sailors from six schools in the waters of Qingzhou. Together with nearly 100 merchant ships and sand ships, it can transport nearly 100,000 people to Youzhou at one time. The 30,000 sailors could still go there a year ago. Youzhou transports people three to four times. In this way, most of the relocated people can be transported to Youzhou before the year.

Of the 600,000 people, about 50,000 will be placed in the two bases of Changshan Island City and Yuzhou Mountain City, and the remaining 550,000 will be sent to Youzhou. However, Huangfu Chaobo will be sent to Youzhou within a month. We have already received a joint petition from Meng Yi, Ma Xuan and Huang Xu. Although Longhua needs population, it is still very stressful to resettle these 600,000 people. The main reason is that this area is originally crisscrossed by mountains and hills. There are not many places suitable for building a city. Except for the five places that have been occupied so far, the rest of the slightly flatter places are occupied by player lords. Moreover, these places are indeed not big. Basically, they are as large as the sky in the middle town. .

Currently, among the five towns in the Longhua area, Longhua City has reached its limit. It is basically impossible to increase the population. Then there are only the other four towns, and among the remaining four, Chengde can accommodate 100,000 to 80,000 people. Plus Shuangluan and Xiabancheng can also accommodate 60,000 to 80,000 people. Plus Luanping City can also accommodate 50,000 people. Sixty thousand people, plus some territories under each city. Calculated in this way, the Longhua area can accommodate up to 500,000 to 550,000 people. At this rate, there are still nearly 100,000 people without room. Ready for placement.

Some people may say, why not build a few more cities? Then we have to talk about the terrain issues around Longhua. The Yanshan Mountains that traverse the north of Youzhou are about a thousand miles long from east to west and about four to five hundred miles wide from north to south at its widest point. The cities of Longhua are located in this widest section. Among the five cities today, except for Chengde, Shuangluan and Xiabancheng, which are relatively close to each other, the remaining Longhua City and Luanping City are nearly a hundred miles away from these three cities.

Longhua is more than a hundred miles to the north on the grassland, while Luanping City is further to the west. About one hundred and fifty miles to the northwest, we reach another place suitable for building a city, which is Fengping City in reality. Ning, and about a hundred miles to the southwest are the two counties of Huanxi and Guangping. If you go east, you will reach Gongsunzan's territory only a few dozen miles east of Xiaban City. So now the Tang Army's territory in the north of Youzhou has basically been limited to this area.

Of course, there is no way out. Go all the way north, more than 150 miles north of Longhua, which is the actual location of the paddock. It is also a very suitable place for building a city, but it is less than a hundred miles away from the Bashang Grassland. Here, the Xianbei cavalry will arrive in an instant. Unless Huangfu Chaobo is determined to march to the grassland, it is better not to provoke the Xianbei people now. After all, his main energy now is still in the Central Plains.

After thinking about it, Huangfu Chaobo finally stopped at Leting. If he was the most trusted among all allies, it was Zhou Wen. Since he could not accommodate so many people on his territory, he would It might not be a bad idea to arrange it in Leting.

Firstly, it can strengthen the strength of the allies. Secondly, if Gongsun Zan cannot hold on any longer and returns to Youbeiping, the three families should still be able to block him to the west of Youbeiping. In this way, they can at least keep themselves from Youzhou. The territory's outlet to the sea. No matter how hard it is, we must protect Liaoxi. In this way, we can keep the source of our war horses. Otherwise, even if we have a large number of war horses outside the customs, we will not be able to transport them to the Central Plains, and we can only hope and sigh.

In Shuanghe City County Government Office, after Huangfu Chaobo made his thoughts clear to Guo Jiayi,

Waiting quietly for his answer.

After hearing this, Guo Jia did not speak immediately. Instead, he stood in front of the map of Youzhou, thinking quietly, and was speechless for a long time. After the war broke out in Qingzhou, everyone under Huangfu Chaobo had already begun to consider the arrangements for the cities of Longhua. Later, Gongsun Zan was defeated at Jieqiao, which made everyone see that he was strong on the outside and capable on the inside, so Guo Jia and others have been Considering this aspect, Huangfu Chaobo now proposes to enhance the strength of his allies in order to preserve western Liaoning.

Protecting Western Liaoning is Huangfu Chaobo's last bottom line. If Western Liaoning cannot be preserved, then the cavalry of the Tang Army will eventually decline. You know, the cavalry under Huangfu Chaobo can now run rampant in the Central Plains, but the damage is also It's not small. Even if every battle is a winner, some horses are damaged. As a result, the Tang Army replaces a huge number of horses every year.

If Liaoxi is lost, within a year or two, the Tang army's cavalry advantage will no longer exist, and then it will have to be like other princes, only fighting for infantry. Compared with war horses, human losses are more difficult to replace. Xiang knows that Yuan Shao is so powerful, but every time he faces Huangfu Chaobo's army, he cannot achieve full success. Why? Because of the cavalry, Huangfu Chaobo's cavalry was strong enough. Although Yuan Shao's army was strong enough, he had to act cautiously in the face of the threat of Huangfu Chaobo's cavalry.

This time, Yuan Shao tried his best to annihilate Gongsun Zan's tens of thousands of elite cavalry, in order to maintain an advantage over Gongsun Zan's army in subsequent wars.

After a long time, Guo Jia slowly said: "In addition to increasing the power of Leting, the lord needs to take a two-pronged approach to persuade Gongsun Zan to guard his retreat."

Huangfu Chaobo was speechless. How could it be possible? Gongsun Zan now doesn't even listen to his own brothers, let alone my ally. Moreover, after a big defeat, if I ask him to guard his retreat, he will probably drive me out directly.

Guo Jia looked at Huangfu Chaobo's expression and smiled and said: "The lord must think that Gongsun Bogui will definitely not listen to the advice?"

Huangfu Chaobo nodded, quietly waiting for Guo Jia to reveal the mystery.

Guo Jia said calmly: "In fact, the lord does not need to persuade Gongsun Bogui, but persuade Gongsun Yue and Gongsun Fan. With the relationship between the lord and the two of them, this matter should not be difficult."