Chapter 1186 Lujiang Navy

Just as Lu Bu led his army to set out and prepare to start a bloodbath on the grassland, hundreds of miles to the west of Bingzhou, a war that lasted for more than half a year finally came to an end.

After the unsuccessful attack on Lufu last year, Ma Chao saw that the weather was getting colder and colder and it was about to snow, so he led his troops to retreat and retreated to Anmi and Leqiu, waiting for the weather to get better next year. In early March this year, after receiving the support of 10,000 troops sent by Ma Teng, Ma Chao launched an attack on Lufu City again. After a month of fierce attack, Ma Chao finally broke into Lufu City. Jiuquan Taishou Wu Yu was defeated. His subordinates He Luan and Huang Hua died on the spot. Tens of thousands of troops were all destroyed by Ma Chao. Finally, under the desperate protection of Ma Wan and Qiang Duan, Wu Yu led less than 5,000 cavalry to break through to the west.

Then Ma Chao's army followed closely, and Wu Yu lost his city passes one after another. By mid-May, Jiuquan Governor Wu Yu finally lost the last county town of Shaquan County - Shatou County. Wu Yu finally broke through again under the escort of Ma Wan and Qiang Duan and more than 3,000 cavalrymen, and ran south along the Sule River to the Qilian Mountains. If Qiang Duan was not a Qiang leader from Xiliang and familiar with the situation around Qilian Mountains, Wu Yu would not have had the chance to escape into Qilian Mountains.

On May 28, the eleventh player lord, Jiuquan Governor Wu Yu's forces were broken by Ma Teng's army, becoming the first player lord force to be destroyed in the game. From Wu Yu's self-appointment as Jiuquan Governor two years ago to the destruction of his forces, it was only one year and seven months.

Then, Ma Chao led 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantrymen to attack Dunhuang County. Dunhuang Governor Ma Ai led 10,000 county soldiers to station in Yuanquan City to resist the attack of Ma Chao's army. Facing Ma Chao's strong attack, Dunhuang County's defeat has entered a countdown state.

When receiving the news of Wu Yu's defeat, Huangfu Chaobo was discussing with the people of Lujiang County. It was said to be a discussion, but in fact, the people of Lujiang reported to Huangfu Chaobo on the development since the occupation of Lujiang. What made Huangfu Chaobo feel gratified was that Zuo Chengzu and the people of Lujiang did do a lot of things. In just one or two years, Lujiang County has basically stabilized.

With the internal affairs stable, the next thing to consider is the arrangement of the garrisons. Lujiang County is the southernmost county of the Tang State, and its geographical location is also very good. It is connected to Runan in the north, and the Dabie Mountains and Tongbai Mountains in the east separate it from Jingzhou. In the south is a wide river. The only thing that needs to be defended is Jiujiang County of Wu in the east. Huangfu Chaobo also arranged six infantry and two cavalry in Lujiang, a total of 40,000 combat soldiers. Together with the guards of each city, the entire Lujiang has more than 100,000 troops.

However, although the army was not small, its defense focus was basically in the south. After repeated consideration, Huangfu Chaobo decided to adjust the arrangement of the soldiers.

Ji Ling led his 10,000 heavy infantry and 5,000 cavalry to Anfeng City to defend against possible attacks from Shouchun in the north of Jiujiang. At the same time, it was also to control the Huai River waterway west of Anfeng to prevent the Wu navy from entering the Huai River between Runan and Lujiang, blocking the connection between Runan and Lujiang.

Han Xian, another deputy general of Xuanwu Camp, led a school of war horses to station in Xunyang County, the westernmost part of Lujiang County, to defend against possible attacks from Jingzhou in the west. The main general Kong Xin led three schools of infantry and one school of cavalry to garrison Shu County, the county seat. In this way, the defense of the entire Lujiang was basically assured.

In addition to inspecting the stability of various counties and the deployment of troops and horses, Huangfu Chaobo also had another purpose in coming to Lujiang, which was the naval base of Lujiang County. Lujiang is bordered by the Huai River in the north, the Yangtze River in the south, Pengli Lake in the west, and Chaohu Lake in the east. It can be said that it has a unique advantage in building a navy. I don't know why Yuan Shu didn't build a reasonable navy at the beginning.

Now that the Tang Kingdom has occupied this place, Huangfu Chaobo must not let go of this advantage. At least there should be a navy of the Tang army cruising on the Yangtze River. You know, now on the river, the ships that can travel are the navy of the Tang Kingdom or the ships that the navy agrees to travel.

Now the Lujiang navy is in charge of Zhou Ran, Zhou Tai's younger brother.

Although Huangfu Chaobo wants to have a strong Lujiang navy, personnel may be transferred from other navies, but ships cannot be transferred from other places, because Wu has controlled the waterway from the estuary to Lujiang. If he knew that the Tang Kingdom was going to send warships to Lujiang, he would never let any Tang army's navy pose a threat to him upstream, so Zhou Ran's task is still relatively arduous. He has to re-establish a new navy in Lujiang.

After taking control of Lujiang, Huangfu Chaobo had carefully asked Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin about it. After repeated consideration, he placed the navy base in Congyang.

There are several reasons for this. First, the water surface of Congyang is very complex. It is not as vast as Pengli Lake, and the truth can be seen at a glance. The second is that Congyang is relatively close to the two important towns in the south of Lujiang, Shu County and Juchao. If there is a situation at the navy base, the army supporting from the two cities can arrive in just one day.

After staying in Shu County for a day, Huangfu Chaobo rushed to the navy base in Congyang under the escort of the guards.

Huangfu Chaobo and his party quickly arrived in Congyang. Outside the navy base, Zhou Ran was waiting with a group of officers and generals. Seeing Huangfu Chaobo arrive, he hurried forward to greet: "I, the commander of the Lujiang navy, Zhou Ran, the lieutenant of Hengjiang, kowtow to my king!"

Huangfu Chaobo sat on his horse and quietly accepted the kowtow of Zhou Ran and his subordinates. Then he dismounted, walked to Zhou Ran, stretched out his hand to help him up, and said: "Please stand up, my dear Zhou. I came to Congyang this time. I believe you know why. I wonder what the Lujiang navy is like now?"

"I failed to complete the king's entrustment. It's really..." Zhou Ran said with some shame;

Huangfu Chaobo stretched out his hand and said: "Let's talk about this later. Let's go to the camp first and talk while we look!"

"Yes!" Zhou Ran stood up, stretched out his hand to lead Huangfu Chaobo to the camp, and said: "Your Majesty, please follow me!"

As he walked, Zhou Ran introduced the Congyang Navy Base to Huangfu Chaobo. The Congyang Naval Base is divided into several parts, including the shipbuilding workshop and the naval camp near the lake, and a large military formation on the shore, and then a large wall surrounds all three parts together, almost like the size of a small city.

Walking in the Congyang Naval Base, Huangfu Chaobo listened to Zhou Ran's introduction, while carefully looking at the situation in the base, and was extremely satisfied in his heart. From the beginning of preparing to set up the naval base, it has only been a year and a half. It can be said that from nothing to now, all the facilities are in place. The shipbuilding workshop can already manufacture all ships of the fighting ship and below, and the naval camp has now been completely built. Not only that, he also trained a school of 5,000 naval forces, and the defense of the entire base was the responsibility of a school of infantry dispatched by Shu County.