Chapter 1179: Winning over the Hearts of the Wuguan Generals

A few days later, Huangfu Chaobo, who was in Lushi County, received the report from Hedong. After carefully reading the content, Huangfu Chaobo finally felt relieved. It seemed that the attack on Shangdang from Hedong was over. It can basically be determined. Now that the location is basically there, it depends on the weather, the people, and the people.

After reading the memorial, Huangfu Chaobo handed it to Guo Jia and Guo Jia. After they both read it carefully, Pang Tong said: "Your Majesty, you can order Zhang Chao to repair the road from Jiangyi to Duanshi via Yicheng. After all, the Duan clan has always had poor connections with the outside world. If we don’t make preparations in advance, we may not be able to make it in time.”

"Well, it's true. The memorials of Zhang Chao and Zhang Chao also mentioned that Duan's road is difficult to walk, but how can we not alarm Bingzhou?" Huangfu Chaobo nodded and asked;

"This is easy. Your Majesty has just finished inspecting Hedong. Officials in various places must have done well and some have done poorly. Your Majesty can send a message to Hedong and praise those who have done well, and punish those who have done poorly. Just scold him and then order him to make improvements. Add in the fact that Duan's road is not easy to walk on and order him to repair the road. In this way, he will be able to deceive others." Guo Jia said with a smile on the side;

Huangfu Chaobo's eyes lit up: "Yes, this is a good idea! Let Fengxiao draft this matter, and then hand it to Gu Yongxi to distribute it to each county. By the way, all the other counties and counties will also be included. Among them, this is also a warning to the corpse-vegetarian!"

"Your Majesty is wise." The two of them praised in unison;

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The reason why Huangfu Chaobo appeared in Lushi County was because of the soldiers and horses from Wuguan. During the Chinese New Year, Huangfu Chaobo met Zhao Rui, who rushed back to Luoyang from Wuguan, in the Luoyang Palace. The subsequent conversation , Huangfu Chaobo learned that among the generals in Wuguan, there seemed to be some signs that their hearts were floating and their military morale was unstable.

In fact, it is true when you think about it. It has been several years since these more than 500 soldiers left Luoyang. Although Chang'an and Luoyang are not far apart, they have never returned to Luoyang once. They have been able to support themselves until now. It’s already commendable.

After thinking about this, Huangfu Chaobo told Zhao Rui that he would inspect various counties and counties after the new year. At that time, he would ask them to transfer dozens of people from Wuguan generals and let them take the mountain path from Wuguan. Lushi County has personally received these people in Lushi. Not only that, after confirming the list of people going to Lu's, Huangfu Chaobo also specially asked all their family members in Luoyang to quietly take a boat to Lu's so that everyone could reunite for a few days.

For ordinary people and their families, it is obviously unrealistic to rush over the mountains and ridges from Lu to Wuguan, but for the elite soldiers in the army, there is no problem, so Huangfu Chaobo ordered When they arrived at Wuguan, all the soldiers who had left Luoyang for several years were extremely happy, and the morale of the generals at all levels was obviously high.

Soon, the list of the first batch of people going to Lushi County was finalized. Later, Zhao Rui sent the list back to Luoyang using carrier pigeons. The family members of the more than fifty generals quietly made preparations in Luoyang, and were sent by navy ships. The ship boarded from the pier outside the south gate of Luoyang and arrived at the pier outside the west gate of Lushi County.

It is now the third day after Huangfu Chaobo arrived in Lu's family. After meeting with a group of generals on the first day, Huangfu Chaobo met all the fifty-one people on the trip alone. After being comforted, he prepared to leave tomorrow. We left Lu by boat, visited Yiyang County, then passed through Xiong'er Mountain and arrived at Luhun Pass, then took Xincheng through Liang County and arrived at Lu County.

As for the Wuguan generals of the Lu family and their families, they would stay with the Lu family for a few days before returning. Huangfu Chaobo believed that after his own comfort one by one, and the reunion with their families, the generals of the Wuguan generals would People's hearts will definitely stabilize. You must know that Wuguan has always been the key choke point between Guandong and Nanyang. Now that it is finally under its control, it certainly cannot be given up easily.

As for the other generals in the pass,

With this trip to Lu's family, Huangfu Chaobo decided that more than 300 Luoyang soldiers from Wuguan would take turns to come to Lu's family to reunite with their families every month, changing one group every month, and each group would have forty or fifty people. In this way, everyone can reunite with their families once a year.

The night before leaving the Lu family, Huangfu Chaobo specially arranged a banquet for a group of generals and their families. As they were in another country, they did not disclose their location, even in front of their relatives. These family members all thought that their relatives were stationed in Lushi.

In a post house in the city, more than fifty generals, led by Fenwei Colonel Ma Jin, brought their families to attend the banquet hosted by Huangfu Chaobo.

After this set of punches, Huangfu Chaobo succeeded in completely calming down the hearts of the generals in Wuguan, and also firmly grasped Wuguan, a world-famous pass, in his hands. However, all this is so close. The little emperor in Chang'an City still knew nothing, and he was still complacent about arranging Zhao Ruibu's magical strokes.

However, Huangfu Chaobo is still not sure when and how to start this secret chess move by placing Zhao Ruibu in Wuguan.

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Early the next morning, Huangfu Chaobo, escorted by the trap camp and the Tiebei camp, boarded the ship on the Luoshui River, and then went down the river to Yiyang. From Lushi to Yiyang, a journey of more than 200 miles, the fleet only spent most of a day, and the group successfully arrived in Yiyang that afternoon.

After staying in Yiyang for one night, they will go to Yuzhou.

Just as Huangfu Chaobo led Guo Jia and Pang Tong into Yiyang County under the escort of his personal soldiers, hundreds of miles to the north, outside the city of Changzicheng, the seat of Shangdang, a middle-aged man in his thirties, dressed in a ranger outfit, carrying a bag, walked towards the city gate in a dusty manner.

This was Shi A who came from Xunshi. After leaving with the large group of people, Shi A had been investigating the situation of the Zhao army around Gaoping Pass and Xunshi. After more than ten days of careful observation, Shi A finally basically figured out the deployment of the Zhao army in Xunshi, Gaodu and several passes in the south.

After sending the troop deployments in several places back to Luoyang via the Shadow Guard's pigeons, Shi A turned north again. Although the Shadow Guard had been developing for several years, for Bingzhou, except for the cities of Gaodu and Xunshi and several passes to their south, the rest of the places were only the administrative centers of various counties and kingdoms. Moreover, among the several administrative centers, only the information about Jinyang was the most detailed, and the situations in other places were not perfect. Since the Tang State had already set its sights on the Zhao State, Shi A decided to take this opportunity to at least find out the situations in the two counties of Shangdang and Taiyuan, so as to prepare for the upcoming war.