Chapter 1133: The Remnants of the Zhong Family

Huangfu Chaobo's plan to drink 300 glasses of wine did not come true in the end, which made Pang Tong frustrated because Xu Shu's words made both of them lose interest in drinking: "The old general is still seriously ill, and we seem to be drinking too much." No disrespect!"

Both of them are leaders in the world, and they are very clear about Huangfu Song's help from Huangfu Chaobo. It can be said that it is precisely because Huangfu Song, Zhu Jun, and Lu Zhi are based in Luoyang that Huangfu Chaobo has developed in recent years. It can be said that the situation is calm. Now Lu Zhi has passed away, and Huangfu Song is also dying soon. Among the three famous generals in the Han Dynasty, only Zhu Jun is left.

As for the other old men in the Tang Army, Cai Yong is only in charge of Luoyang Academy. Han Fu, Kong Rong and Kong Niao also spend time in the academy all day long. Fortunately, the four of them are rarely involved in political affairs. Nowadays, all aspects of the Tang Army are on track. They only need to calm down and develop for a few years, and their strength will definitely reach a higher level.

Huangfu Chaobo, who returned to Luoyang, was once again surrounded by a lot of government affairs. After handling the government affairs every day, he went to Huangfu Jianshou's house and guarded Huangfu Song with everyone. After that long day, Huangfusong's condition deteriorated again. Although he still woke up every one or two days, the time each time was very short, and he fell into a coma again. Everyone knows that this time, Huangfu Song has really reached the point where his fuel is exhausted.

In the past few days, the situation of the Xianbei's southward invasion, which had merged with the two states, was gradually sorted out and appeared on Huangfu Chaobo's desk. It happened that he and Guo Jia were indifferent, except for the two Xianbei forces of Yanbei and Lulong. Except for the soldiers and horses being repelled, the rest of the Xianbei army withdrew from the Han's range before and after the heavy snow fell and returned to the grassland.

However, the situation of each ministry is different. The two armies of Putou and Qianman in Xianbei in the west were originally reluctant to send troops. They only sent troops to Shuofang and Wuyuan out of desperation, so their fighting spirit was not strong. , so they were delayed for too long in several castles in the Yinshan Mountains. Although they finally invaded Bingzhou, the two counties that bought time transferred all the population and materials. In the end, the two armies were between the two counties. I ran around in a big circle without being able to catch much, and finally returned to the grassland before the heavy snow fell.

On the contrary, the two armies of Bu Dugen and Kebi Neng successfully invaded the territory of the Han Dynasty. However, facing the strong resistance of the Yan Army and the Zhao Army, the two armies only gained some benefits in a few counties on the border, but never achieved anything. They were able to enter the hinterland, but in the end they had no choice but to retreat to the grassland. It can be said that this round of Xianbei's southward invasion ended with a bang.

If the biggest losses were probably suffered by Gongsun Zan and Lu Bu, especially Lu Bu, Yunzhong and Daijun were almost wiped out by Xianbei, and Gongsun Zan's Shanggu was almost completely looted. Although Lu Long also fought It was very dilapidated, but fortunately, the three coalition forces recovered a lot of things in the end, and it was basically almost even.

As for Shuofang and Wuyuan counties, the losses were not very great. They just spent some money to relocate people and build territories.

On the contrary, Huangfu Chaobo's Tang army made a huge profit in this battle. The more than 100,000 horses of all levels and more than 100,000 Xianbei prisoners were enough to make Meng Yi and others in Yanbei County smile, not to mention There are also mountains of supplies.

There is another person who has also made a lot of money, and that is Zhou Qiang. Taking advantage of the Xianbei people's southern invasion, he not only recovered the Wuhuan Palace, but also captured three cities. Now he is confidently starting to prepare for next spring. Then launched an attack on the Liaodong vassal state.

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While Huangfu Chaobo was busy with political affairs, in the southernmost Lujiang County and Shu County of the Tang Army's territory, in the prefect's mansion, the prefect Zuo Yucheng was summoning the chief officials of Lujiang County and the two chief generals of Xuanwu Camp to discuss matters.

Lujiang County came under the control of the Tang Army last year. Subsequently, Huangfu Chaobo appointed Zuo Chengzu as the prefect and Lu Ling as the county magistrate. Huangfu Jianshou's eldest son Huangfuren was also transferred to the county captain. In addition, Kong Xin, Kong Min's nephew, was appointed as the commander-in-chief of Xuanwu Camp, the war camp.

Wu Anguo was transferred to deputy general of Xuanwu Camp.

Thanks to their efforts, Lujiang has now recovered well. However, this time, Zuo Chengzu summoned everyone to discuss matters, not for the political affairs of Lujiang, but because he discovered a cancerous tumor in the mountains to the west of Lujiang. After more than a year, After careful investigation, the situation in this place was finally understood, so Zuo Chengzu immediately gathered everyone to discuss how to deal with this serious problem.

In fact, as early as when he first took over Shu County, the seat of Lujiang County, Zuo Chengzu learned from Zhang He that the remnants of the Zhong family's puppet dynasty had once fled westward with a large group of soldiers. Later, he was busy with the government affairs of Lujiang County, plus Lujiang has been under the rule of Yuan Shu for a long time, and there are still many people who sympathize with Yuan Shu, whether from aristocratic families or from the countryside. Therefore, stabilizing the situation in Lujiang is the top priority of his governor's office. Therefore, even after knowing the news, Zuo The Prime Minister only had a brief discussion with Lu Ling and Kong Xin, and then sent people to quietly investigate the matter, absolutely not daring to do it in a big way.

Now after almost a year of full-scale stabilization, although Lujiang is not completely restored, it is basically in the hands of the Tang Army. Therefore, in September this year, several people began to arrange personnel to fully explore the whereabouts of this remnant army. , after all-out searches by Xuanwu Camp and Shadow Guard, someone finally discovered this place in the mountains in the west.

You don't know until you see it. It's shocking. No one would have thought that there were tens of thousands of people hiding in these mountains. There were also a large number of elite imperial guards of Yuan Shu's army. When Yuan Shu's army was defeated, there was a rumor that General Ji Ling led tens of thousands of elite imperial guards to escort the pseudo-crown prince Yuan Yao and a group of officials' families to escape. It seems that these people should be them.

Zuo Chengzu, who got the news, immediately sent people to invite the main officers of the Tang army in Shu County to discuss how to deal with the remnants of the pseudo-dynasty hidden in the mountains.

It is necessary to eliminate them, but they are deep in the mountains, and it is not so easy to eliminate them, so how to eliminate them is a big problem.

At the beginning, everyone present felt that Zuo Chengzu was making a fuss. Didn't hundreds of thousands of Yuan Shu's troops trapped in Shouchun City be captured in the end? Now there are only tens of thousands of people. Can they still make a big wave?

But when everyone learned about the situation in the mountains, they fell silent. The difficulty of traveling between the mountains was far beyond everyone's expectations. The most important thing was that if they could not be completely wiped out here, once they broke through and escaped, there would be endless troubles.