Chapter 1169 Quietly Arriving at Ye County

On February 19, Tang Wang Huangfu Chaobo suddenly led the Guards headquarters to leave the royal capital Luoyang and march eastward. This news was quickly learned by spies from various countries, and then quickly spread back to their home countries. In just the past two days, all the princes and states in the world knew the news that King Tang had moved to Guandong. Qi State was shocked three times a day. After receiving the news, King Cao Cao of Qi immediately ordered the four counties adjacent to Tang State to mobilize urgently to prepare for war at any time. Elite soldiers, horses, and supplies from the other counties also began to assemble. When the order is given, we will go to support.

However, what everyone found strange was that after the Guards arrived at Chenliu, they did not continue to advance eastward. Instead, they rested in Chenliu for a day and then continued to advance eastward the next day. While the army was advancing eastward, A group of thousands of soldiers and horses quietly left the main group of soldiers and horses and headed north to Yanjin. Then this group of soldiers and horses crossed the river in Yanjin and entered Wei County. However, at this time, the eyes of spies from various countries were focused on most of the soldiers and horses of the Tang Dynasty Guards, and no one noticed this thousand-man army of soldiers and horses at all.

A few days later, the Guards and the Qianniu Battalion escorted Wang Jia to the outside of Changyi City. After receiving the news, the civil and military officials of Shanyang County rushed to the camp outside the city to pay their respects. Who knew that when Shanyang Prefect Pang Shanmin led the county magistrate Liu Yixun and the captain When Li Ling, the commander of Canglang Camp, Anyuan General Meng Gang, and his deputy Liu Yi rushed to the camp outside the city, they only saw Huangfu Chaobo's royal flag and a guard of honor, while Huangfu Chaobo himself and Gao Shun's The trapped camp has disappeared.

Seeing that the throne was empty, but standing next to it were military advisor Guo Jia, generals of the Guards, and General Xu Rong of the Thousand Niu Army, Pang Shanmin did not react for a long time.

Seeing the expressions of the Pangshan people, Guo Jia smiled and said: "Prefect Pang need not be surprised. The king has already gone to Wei County for inspection under the escort of General Gao Shun and the trapped camp. Now only the king's flag and the guard of honor are here."

"Then the king's eastward tour..." Pang Shanmin asked;

"The king has two purposes for this eastward tour. The first is to inspect the situation in various states and counties, and successfully select suitable soldiers from the military camps in various places to expand the Guards. The second is to confuse the Qi State in the east and think that Tuberose To cover up the war with Wu King Sun Ce," Guo Jia explained with a smile;

"It is now the end of February. In the next few days, the king will not appear in or outside Changyi City in the name of being sick. He only needs to hide it for a few days. After the spring plowing is over, Tuberose and King Wu will Then they will launch an attack on Donghai County of Qi State."

Everyone quietly realized this, and Guo Jia looked at Meng Gang and Liu Yi and said: "Two generals, in the next few days, the three lieutenants from the East, South, and West will enter the camp to select soldiers."

Meng Gang said: "Don't worry, military advisor. The soldiers have already been prepared. We have made some rough selections first and are just waiting for the three lieutenants to go."

"Haha... It's up to you to arrange this matter yourself!"

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Just when Guo Jia met with people from Shanyang County, there was a huge military camp a few miles northeast of Yecheng, the seat of Wei County in Hebei Province. That was where the main camp of Longxiang Camp was located. A total of 20,000 troops are stationed inside. No, now there are two schools of cavalry. According to the order of the Tang Dynasty King years ago, the number of white horse Yiyi followers under the command of General Pingbei, the commander of Longxiang Camp, and Zhao Yun, Marquis of Xiguanting, has increased from the original five thousand. Expanded to 10,000 people. After receiving the king's order from Luoyang, Zhao Yun spent less than two months recruiting all the five thousand Baima Yi.

In the camp, Zhao Yun, who was dressed in military uniform, was riding on his Zhaoye Jade Lion, holding a gun in one hand and looking with satisfaction at the 10,000 white horse Yi Cong who were training intensely on the school field. It was no wonder that Zhao Yun was dissatisfied. In just two months from receiving the king's order to now, Zhao Yun had already completed the replenishment of all 10,000 white horse Yi Cong, and now these 10,000 White Horse Yi Cong had begun to achieve combat strength.

The reason why it happened so quickly is thanks to Gongsun Zan. The Yan army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Jieqiao. Zhao Yun and Hua Xiong were unable to rescue him, so Gongsunzan's army was almost destroyed. However, afterwards, Zhao Yun led the army to gather around Jieqiao. Thousands of white horse rebels were defeated.

However, Gongsun Zan seemed to have forgotten these defeated troops afterwards, and never mentioned asking the Tang State to return these soldiers. These loyal followers stayed in Wei County.

After being disappointed, most of the Yi Cong soldiers were unwilling to return to Youzhou. If Gongsun Fan had not been responsible for re-recruiting and training Baima Yi Cong, hundreds of Yi Cong soldiers who were most loyal to Gongsun's family returned to Youzhou, and the rest of the Yi Cong soldiers would have returned to Youzhou. The troops continued to stay in Wei County, but this time, Huangfu Chaobo happened to order Zhao Yun to expand the White Horse Yi Cong, so he was able to recruit all five thousand Yi Cong so smoothly.

After a month of retraining, although the current 10,000 white horse righteous followers have not reached the level of the original 5,000 righteous followers, they are still enough to deal with 20,000 ordinary cavalry. If they train for another three to five months, Zhao Yun believed that these 10,000 white horses could be pulled out of Yi Cong, and he was not afraid even if he faced Yuan Shao's army of 20,000 to 30,000 cavalry.

At this moment, a horseman rushed out from the distant town of Ye County and headed straight for the camp. A moment later, the envoy arrived outside the camp, showed a token to the soldiers guarding the camp, and said: "By the order of the prefect, , please come to the city to see General Pingbei!"

After a while, the envoy was brought to Zhao Yun and saw the person in the prefect's mansion. Zhao Yun knew this person. He was the commander of the personal guards around the prefect Shiyi. So he said, "What do you want, Lord Prefect?"

The man looked at the soldiers around him and said, "General, please take a moment to speak!"

Zhao Yun nodded and waved to the guards around him. Everyone retreated twenty steps away, and seeing that there was no one else around Zhao Yun, the man said, "General, the king has arrived in Weijun and is now in the prefect's mansion."

"Huh?!" Zhao Yun was startled and whispered, "Didn't they say a few days ago that the king's procession had already gone to Changyi? Why did it suddenly appear in Ye County?"

"This, I don't know either. I just know that this morning, the general of the expedition led the Xianzhen Camp to escort General Pang into the city. When they arrived at the prefect's mansion, the prefect came out to greet them and found that the king was standing next to General Pang, still dressed as a personal guard. Then the prefect ordered me to go out of the city to invite the general to discuss matters in the city."

Zhao Yun thought about it for a while, and then thought of what he said before that the Tang army was going to move to attract the attention of Qi State. He immediately understood that Gao Shun's Xianzhen Camp must have come in the name of escorting Pang Tong to Weijun, and then hid the king in the Xianzhen Camp, definitely to deceive the spies from other countries. Thinking of this, Zhao Yun immediately called all the generals in the camp and told them to continue training the soldiers. He immediately assembled his own 1,000 guards, picked up 100 cavalry, and followed the envoy of the Weijun prefect out of the camp.

Zhao Yun was the commander of an army. According to the regulations, he had 1,000 guards. Huangfu Chaobo originally arranged 100 iron wall camps, but Zhao Yun considered that he had white horse volunteers, so he asked Huangfu Chaobo to change all the guards into white horse volunteers, so that it would be convenient for fighting at ordinary times. Thinking of Zhao Yun's strong combat power, and the white horse volunteers were originally a special type of soldiers, Huangfu Chaobo agreed to Zhao Yun's request.

Now Zhao Yun's 1,000 guards are all white horse volunteers, and they are all the most elite volunteers, which is the most elite kind of volunteers that Huangfu Chaobo saw in Gongsun Zan's hands when he was in Youzhou.