Chapter 1212 Gongsun Zan Is Defeated Again
Just when Tian Yu led a large army to force the eldest son to enter the city, Huangfu Chaobo had arrived in Huai County. In the prefect's mansion, Huangfu Chaobo, Guo Jia and Hanoi Prefect Shu Zhao were sitting in the hall to discuss matters.
Huangfu Chaobo looked at Shu Zhao and said, "Shu Aiqing, is there any battle report from the front?"
Shu Zhao quickly stood up and responded: "Back to your Majesty, there is no report yet. The battle report in Shangdang was a day ago. General Tian Yu and General Lu Zhong have captured Gaopingguan and Xuushi County. According to their strategy, they are planning to attack in the early morning of this morning. Reinforcements were sent to raid Changzi City, but the battle report has not been received yet. "
"Where's Tianjingguan?"
"In terms of Tianjing Pass, General Dong Fang's headquarters has merged with General Huang Wudie's headquarters. Considering the steepness of Tianjing Pass and the unclear situation on the Shangdang side, in order to avoid unnecessary losses, the two generals did not Arrange the army to attack with all strength, so in terms of progress..." At this point, Shu Zhao stopped and did not say any more.
Huangfu Chaobo waved his hand: "What they did is right. Since they can surrender without fighting, why should they use the lives of the soldiers to fill the gap? At worst, it will only take two days at night. Isn't it just a loss of some money and food? It's better than letting It is better for the soldiers to lose their lives.”
"Your Majesty is merciful!" Everyone immediately praised in unison;
"Okay, no need to say this, I just think this Feilu is too slow." Huangfu Chaobo said with some boredom;
Everyone else couldn't help but sweat profusely after hearing this. Although they were slandering in their hearts, they didn't show it on their faces. It was Guo Jia who stood up and said: "Actually, this is good. You know, it will take more than two days at the fastest for Zhao Guo's intelligence to be sent from Jinyang to the eldest son. These two days are exactly what we need Time to take advantage.”
There was no reason why Guo Jia didn't come forward to speak. After all, he was the indirect person in charge of the Shadow Guard, and all the information was handed over to him. In fact, Shi A also carried several carrier pigeons with him when he followed the army. However, this kind of temporary carrier pigeon had a disadvantage, that is, it could only send pigeon messages to Luoyang, and then forward them to Huai County or other places from Luoyang. County and city, rather than direct transmission between any two places, so the information transmission is slightly inconvenient.
While several people were talking, the person in charge of the Hanoi Shadow Guard reported outside the hall: "Your Majesty, Luoyang has sent the latest battle report to the Shangdang today!"
"Send it up!"
Soon, the pigeon message from Luoyang was picked up by Dian Wei from outside. Huangfu Chaobo took it over and looked at it, and said with a smile: "Good news, Tian Yu's army annihilated Zhao Jun Hao Meng's 6,000 troops early this morning." The army, Lu Zhongzhen, killed the Zhao army general Hao Meng. Now there are only 5,000 county soldiers and Zhang Yang's 1,000 bodyguard cavalry left in the eldest son's city. Now Tian Yu's army has already attacked the eldest son."
"Very good!"
Everyone present cheered loudly after hearing this. There were only 12,000 people in the eldest son city. This time, 6,000 people were annihilated outside the city. There were only 5,000 county soldiers left in the eldest son city. This was a great threat to the subsequent siege. A very good news.
"Now I hope to be able to capture the eldest son as soon as possible, and then I can safely go south to support the Tianjingguan army heading north. Otherwise, there will not be enough room to move based on the small town of Huns." Guo Jia said at the side;
Everyone present nodded in agreement, and Huangfu Chaobo was silent. Yes, if the eldest son did not capture it, Shangdang's war would not go so smoothly, but now that's all it can do.
When Huangfu Chaobo was about to speak, he suddenly found that Hao Zhao standing next to him was hesitant to speak, so he said, "If you have anything to say, just say it!"
"Your Majesty, I do have an idea, but I don't know if it's feasible." Hao Zhao heard this and said: "Since General Tian has wiped out Hao Meng's 6,000-strong army, which means that no reinforcements have arrived at Tianjing Pass, we might as well pass on the intelligence Send it to the army in front of Tianjing Pass and ask General Huang and others to publicize this matter to the defenders in the pass. No matter what the result is, it can still destroy the morale of the defenders. "
"Pah!" After hearing this, Guo Jia clapped his hands and laughed, "Yes, this plan is feasible.
Your Majesty, please quickly order the two generals Huang and Dong to implement it. "
Huangfu Chaobo thought about it, and it was indeed the case. It was already the third day. If the defenders knew that the Xuans had been captured and Shangdang had lost more than half of their troops, no matter what, it would be absolutely fatal to the morale of the defenders. At that time, when our own army appears behind Tianjing Pass, Tianjing Pass will probably be knocked down in one blow.
When they looked at Hao Zhao and the others, they saw that several young generals were eager to try. They didn't understand their thoughts, so they said: "Okay, in that case, I will send the four of you to the Tianjingguan Army to listen to the order. The king’s order was handed over to Generals Huang and Dong, so that they could act conveniently!”
The four people were overjoyed and hurriedly came out to respond: "I obey the king's order!"
After accepting the royal order written by Huangfu Chaobo and the pigeon letter from Luoyang, Huangfu Chaobo quickly asked Dianwei to send a hundred soldiers from the Iron Wall Battalion to escort the four people to Tianjing Pass overnight.
Watching the four people leave, Huangfu Chaobo asked again: "Is there any news from King Yan? Also, what is the situation with Zilong and the Black Mountain Army?"
In the past few days, Huangfu Chaobo was either on the boat or on the road, so he didn't know the news from Youzhou at all. But I didn't expect that there was no news coming back at all.
In fact, at this time, Gongsun Zan was once again at the end of his rope.
When he learned that his retreat was blocked, Gongsun Zan knew that he had fallen into the trap of the Wei army again, so he made a prompt decision, abandoned the infantry that was besieging the city, led 20,000 white horse volunteers to protect himself and his three sworn brothers, and broke out in the direction of Youzhou.
But at this time, Guo Yuan would never allow Gongsun Zan to retreat so easily. Along the way, there were obstacles in front and pursuers behind. During the journey from Wangdu to Youzhou, Gongsun Zan's 20,000 white horse volunteers lost more than 5,000 cavalry. However, this was not the end. Nearly 100,000 Wei troops followed Gongsun Zan and directly attacked Youzhou. In order to support Gongsun Zan, Zhuo County Governor Tian Kai had to gather the Zhuo County army to block the Wei army. But how could the hastily assembled army resist the well-prepared Wei army?
At the same time, Xin Ping, the governor of Hejian, sent a 50,000-man army led by Hejian Duwei Ma Yan to attack Zhuo County from the east. Under the attack of more than 100,000 troops from two routes, Tian Kai led the army to fight left and right, and successively lost Beixincheng, Fanyang and Gu'an. Finally, he had no choice but to retreat to Zhuo County, the county seat. Fortunately, Gongsun Zan finally withdrew to Liangxiang City, Bei'an, Taoshui River, after losing soldiers and generals.
Just at this time, the 40,000 cavalry coalition led by Huang Xu finally arrived in Zhuo County. After crossing Taoshui from Yangxiang, they directly threatened the retreat of the Wei army. Faced with the threat of tens of thousands of cavalry, the Wei army gave up the siege of Zhuo County and retreated to Fangcheng and the front line of defense.
At this point, Gongsun Zan's war against Wei State once again ended in failure. This time, Gongsun Zan lost more than 100,000 troops, and only two cities, Zhuo County and Liangxiang, were left in Zhuo County, the most prosperous county in Youzhou. It can be said that he lost the rice instead of the chicken.