Chapter 1188: End of Inspection
After leaving Lujiang County, Huangfu Chaobo patrolled the remaining counties non-stop. Although he also wanted to carefully inspect the newly occupied counties, intelligence showed that the fighter planes were getting closer and closer.
Not only in the direction of Bingzhou in the north, Lu Bu has led the cavalry into the grassland north of Yinshan Mountain. According to the news sent back by the player cavalry and lords who traveled with him, Lu Bu led 50,000 cavalry and about 5,000 players and their cavalry from Dai Jun set out and entered the range of Danhan Mountain. Then he annihilated three Xianbei tribes within a range of more than 200 miles around Danhan Mountain and killed nearly 10,000 Xianbei people.
Afterwards, the army swept all the way to the west. It can be said that the gods killed the gods and the Buddhas killed the Buddhas. Wherever they passed, there was almost no grass. All the Xianbei people, big and small, were killed at once, and all the cattle, sheep and horses were plundered. Empty. In just one month, they had wiped out all the Xianbei tribes within more than two hundred miles north of Daijun.
After receiving the news, all other Xianbei tribes moved more than a hundred miles north, leaving no Xianbei tribe within nearly three hundred miles north of Dai County.
In less than a month, Lu Bu's army has reached the grassland north of Yanmen. At this rate, if Lu Bu wants to achieve his goal, it should take less than four months. In other words, Lu Bu The army will return to Bingzhou in late August or early September.
At this time, the battle report from Dunhuang County in the west also came over. The governor of Dunhuang was far less powerful than Huangfu Chaobo expected. Under Ma Chao's attack, the army only lasted for more than twenty days before being defeated. Dunhuang County, which was severely defeated and subsequently lost most of its elite troops, only lasted less than two months before being defeated by Ma Chao's army.
Now Ma Chao has begun to prepare to lead his army back to Wuwei, and Ma Teng, who is in Wuwei City, has also begun to make preparations. After Ma Chao returns, he will go to the little emperor of Chang'an and ask himself to be the King of Liang.
If everything goes well, once Ma Teng is crowned king, Han Sui will definitely ask him to send troops. The two coalition armies will definitely send troops eastward, and a war between the three major princes in Guanzhong is about to break out.
When receiving these two pieces of news, Huangfu Chaobo happened to return to Shu County after completing his inspection tour in Xunyang. Several people immediately realized that fighter planes were about to arrive, and they would arrive almost at the same time from both directions. After seeing the two pieces of news, both Pang Tong and Guo Jia suggested to Huangfu Chaobo that they should end their inspection as soon as possible and return to Luoyang to prepare for war. However, they could not agree on whether to target Guanzhong or Bingzhou. .
Huangfu Chaobo had no choice but to put this issue aside for the time being, and then hurried to Qiaojun under the escort of the Guards. In any case, it was only June. He had already ordered Hedong and Hanoi counties to start secret preparations years ago. Now, Almost every day, food and weapons are flowing into the two counties. As long as the food and weapons are ready, the mobilization of troops and horses will be much simpler.
Qiaojun, as the place where Cao Cao started, Huangfu Chaobo was also very careful, so the officials and generals he arranged were also carefully considered.
The troika of Qiao County are the prefect Cheng Huan, the chief historian Chen Rong and the captain Zang Quan. Cheng Huan and Chen Rong are both old officials and are among the best among the counties in the Tang Dynasty in terms of ability and skill. In particular, Cheng Huan started as a minor official in Jizhou Governor's Office, and gradually gained promotion. After joining Huangfu Chaobo with Han Fu, he even served as the prefect of Wei County.
As for Captain Zangquan, he is Zangba's younger brother, and his abilities are not comparable to Zhiling's. As for the war camp, Qiaojun's war camp was Zhenwu Camp, which had a standard establishment of 25,000 soldiers and horses from five schools with four steps and one cavalry. Its commander was Huangfu Li, the clan brother of Huangfu Chaobo. When Huangfu Li was young, he followed Huangfu Song to fight in all directions. As early as the Yellow Turban Rebellion, he was already a lieutenant colonel in the army, commanding thousands of elites, and the deputy general Guan Hai was a fierce general.
In addition, behind Qiaojun are Huang Zhong’s 40,000 elite troops, so regarding Qiaojun’s situation,
Huangfu Chaobo can be said to have taken great pains.
In fact, it was not just Qiao County, but also the several counties that were taken from Cao Cao. Huangfu Chaobo almost broke his head when thinking about it. A lot of thought was put into not only the arrangements of officials, but also the arrangements of troops and the people. You know, it took several months just to reorganize the troops and horses, but the benefits can be seen. Now among the newly attached counties, a large number of people have been relocated and a large number of people have been added along with the mobilization of troops and horses. The families of the soldiers have allowed people in each county to mix and mingle, and now the people's hearts in the newly attached counties have basically stabilized.
Huangfu Chaobo believes that in one or two years, the people in these counties will be able to return home. By then, if there is another war, the people's support for the Tang army should not be bad.
In today's Tang Kingdom, the people's recognition of the kingdom is led by the five counties of Sizhou, followed by Yanzhou Chenliu, Yuzhou Runan Yingchuan and Yanbei counties. This is also the main reason why Huangfu Chaobo is unwilling to start a war in the east. One of the reasons is that these counties were originally newly attached. If they are allowed to become the front line of the battlefield again, it will be very detrimental to the people's attachment.
To the north of Qiaojun is Peiguo. Although there are only a few cities, Huangfu Chaobo's troop arrangement is not bad. The post-war camp is Zangba's Guangwu Camp. Although there are only three schools of infantry, Zangba's 10,000 The Taishan Army is also one of the special arms, which is stronger than the ordinary infantry of the war camp.
Further north is Shanyang County, where the Canglang Battalion led by Meng Gang is responsible for garrisoning. Although there are only two infantry and one cavalry, a total of three schools of soldiers and horses, the Jiyin County behind it is where Xu Rong of the Qianniu Army is located. Xu Rong personally leads the Qianniu Battalion, three infantry and one cavalry, a total of four schools of soldiers, to garrison. The distance between the two counties is not too far, and the infantry can arrive in just a few days.
Further north is Chenliu County, where Zhang He's Hubu Battalion is stationed. Unlike other counties, Zhang He's Hubu Battalion is not stationed in the county city by him, but is handed over to the deputy general of the Hubu Battalion, Min Chun, to lead a school of infantry to garrison in the county city. The main general Zhang He, however, leads three schools of infantry and one school of cavalry to garrison in Puyang City, forming a tight defense line with Jiyin and Shanyang counties. Moreover, among the three schools of infantry led by Zhang He, 10,000 infantrymen are special soldiers - Daji soldiers.
In this way, the defense of the eastern line of the Tang Kingdom basically constitutes a complete defense chain. From Zhang He in the north to Kong Xin in the south, they will enable the Tang army to launch the war on the western line with confidence.
Even though Huangfu Chaobo inspected quickly all the way, he did not finish the inspection of the counties in the Central Plains until the beginning of August. He originally planned to go to several islands for another inspection, but the current situation made him dare not leave Sizhou easily. After finishing the inspection of Puyang, he hurried back to Luoyang under the escort of the guards. As early as last month, the two special forces of the Iron Eagle Sharp Soldiers and the Yuanrong Crossbow Soldiers who went to the counties of Yanzhou at the beginning of the year to select soldiers had already selected their soldiers and returned to Luoyang, and Hu Yandu, who went to Yanbei County to select soldiers, was also on his way back to the Central Plains.