Chapter 1093 Dark Clouds Stepping on Snow
Guo Tuben was from Yingchuan, Yuzhou. After taking refuge with Yuan Shao, he was not the most outstanding among Yuan Shao's advisers. Although Yuan Shao accepted Xu You's suggestion and planned to ambush Gongsun Zan, he defeated Gongsun Zan in the end. In the end, Yuan Shaojun's cavalry was defeated due to the sudden intervention of the two cavalry units of Zhao Yun and Hua Xiong. Almost half of the tens of thousands of cavalry accumulated in the past two years were lost.
Therefore, Guo Tu advocated going north to buy war horses from the Xianbei people. Who knew that with his early travel experience, Guo Tu finally got through the twists and turns of the relationship and ended up with Ju Luohou, a general under the Xianbei master Kebi Neng. During the conversation with Ju Luohou, Guo Tu suddenly came up with the idea of using the Xianbei people to weaken Lu Bu and Gongsun Zan. As soon as this idea appeared, he got out of control. After thinking carefully for a night, Guo Tu Tu then hurriedly bought war horses and rushed back to Nanpi, reporting this idea to Yuan Shao.
What made Guo Tu happy was that the Yuan family had no contact with the Xianbei people. However, before buying the war horses, because they were not directly adjacent to the Xianbei people, Yuan Shao did not disclose this news to Guo Tu. When he learned about it, After hearing Guo Tu's idea, Yuan Shao informed Guo Tu of this information. What made Guo Tu even more happy was that the Marquis Juluo whom he was familiar with was a close confidant of Kirby Neng's subordinates, and the person with whom the Yuan family was connected turned out to be Fu Luohan, Bu Dugen's brother. In this way, the two major tribes in central Xianbei were confident of persuasion. Coupled with Suli, who had a serious feud with Gongsunzan, Guo Tu was even more confident.
After careful discussions with Yuan Shao, Guo Tu secretly went to the grassland again. After more than a month of running around, he finally persuaded the three Xianbei adults to promote this grand coalition of Xianbei's southern invasion. As a result, Guo Tu also officially entered Yuan Shao's core power circle.
After Guo Tu returned to Nanpi, Yuan Shao summoned a group of counselors to announce the matter to everyone. At this time, the rest of the people knew that this time the Xianbei tribes jointly sent troops to invade the south, it was actually Guo Tu who facilitated it. In response to this, Yuan Shaojun's counselors had different reactions. Some were hating and scolding, while others were envious and jealous. Guo Tu didn't care about this. For him, the weight in his lord's heart was the most important. As for the reaction of his colleagues, he didn't value it that much.
Seeing Guo Tu's triumphant look, Feng Ji took a step forward and said: "My lord, the Tang army is going to send troops north to resist Xianbei. It's okay if they go by water. If they want to go to Hebei, we will definitely not let them pass, otherwise It’s not good for the Lord’s cause.”
"No," Xu You heard this and came out to object. This year's war against Gongsun Zan was advocated by him, but the result was unsatisfactory. Now that Guo Tu's plan has been completed, Xu You decided not to object anymore, but He hoped to get some credit from the middle, so after hearing Feng Ji's words, Xu You immediately realized that his opportunity had come, so he immediately stood up to object.
"The Tang army went north to resist Xianbei's invasion from the south. It was the righteousness of the world. My lord Qi Ke sent troops to stop them. In view of this, my lord not only could not stop them, but also provided convenience for them to rush to Youzhou as soon as possible. In this way, they The more fierce the fighting is, the greater the losses will be, which will be more beneficial to the Lord’s subsequent great cause.”
"Yes," Guo Tu also said, "Ziyuan's words are reasonable. The more fiercely the Xianbei people fight against the Yan, Tang and Zhao armies, the more heavy the casualties will be, and the more advantageous it will be for our Wei army."
Yuan Shao also smiled and said: "Well, what he said makes sense, so he sent people to announce that we support the Tang army in going north to fight against Xianbei. If the Yan and Zhao armies need it, although we, the Wei Dynasty, have few cavalry, we are willing to send tens of thousands of elite cavalry." Rush to Youzhou to help fight!"
When all the counselors heard this, they all laughed.
After everyone's laughter subsided, Yuan Shao waved his hand and said: "Since none of our neighbors are free,
Then we will seize the time to reorganize the troops and train the cavalry to prepare for the next troop dispatch! "
"No!" everyone responded in unison;
At the end of August, the Tang government in Luoyang issued a notice that the Xianbei army was invading southward. The Tang army would send about 20,000 of its most elite guards and white horse Yi Cong to Youzhou to resist the invasion of the Xianbei army.
Two days later, the Duke of Wei also came out to speak, meaning that he supported the Duke of Tang's army in marching north to fight against the Hu people. The places in Jizhou would not only not block the Tang army, but would instead provide food and grass supplies for the Tang army. He also said that although the Wei army's cavalry was not as elite as the Tang army and the Yan army, if the Duke of Yan needed it, the Wei army would definitely send all of its numerous cavalry to Youzhou to help fight the Xianbei attack. This means that we are ready and can send troops to support at any time. As for whether they will go, it depends on whether Duke Yan is broad-minded enough.
As soon as Yuan Shaojun opened his mouth to speak, Guo Jia found Huangfu Chaobo and expressed his guess. This time the Xianbei people jointly sent troops to annex the two states, Yuan Shao must have been the one who persuaded him. However, at this time, Huangfu Chaobo could no longer care about this. Xianbei scouts had already appeared more than two hundred miles northwest of Yisun Town in the new territory. According to the rules, the Xianbei army was already far away from Yisun Town. It is no more than three hundred miles, which means that the distance from Longhua City will not be more than five hundred miles. If the cavalry travels quickly, it will only be two days' journey.
Although the personnel and materials of Yisun Town and Siyonghe Town have been successfully withdrawn to Longhua, and all the personnel in the camp outside Chifeng City and the nearly 2,000 horses they captured have also returned to Longhua, but there is still no news about Hu Yandu and his party, who Huangfu Chaobo is most concerned about. Under the escort of 500 cavalrymen, about 300 of them left Chifeng and went deep into the grassland. The scouts sent by Huangfu Chaobo to Chifeng were not able to find them in the first time. In desperation, they had to send people to the deep grassland to look for them, and the large group of people returned to Longhua first.
Just when Huangfu Chaobo was worried about Hu Yanda and his party, they were caught in the pursuit of the Xianbei vanguard.
A few days ago, Huyenda encountered a group of more than 300 subordinates and 500 cavalrymen who entered the grassland again. This time, they went for the horse king. After three days of tracking, they finally surrounded the horse king in a valley, which was more than 300 miles away from Chifeng. Then after a day, Huyenda finally surrounded this group of horse kings, which were all black except for the pure white mane below the ankles.
This is the best horse king. It has a special name, called Wuyun Taxue, and it also has a name called Taxue Wuzhui. If these two names are not familiar, then it has another name that has been passed down through the ages: Wuzhui horse.
This horse king was accidentally discovered by Huyenda's subordinates when they were looking for another yellow-brown horse king. After discovering it, Huyenda immediately gave up the yellow-brown horse and turned his target to it. After nearly a thousand people spent several days, they finally captured this BMW. But at this time, Huyanda found that they had been discovered by the Xianbei scouts. After killing dozens of Xianbei scouts, Huyanda found that there were more and more Xianbei cavalry around him, and their levels were getting higher and higher. In the end, he even found a team of palace cavalry. At this time, Huyanda realized that something was wrong, so the group began to escape.