Chapter 1303 The War Is Over
The war in Hebei also fell into a lull after this cavalry battle. The coalition cavalry was left with only 13,000 to 14,000 people, while the Tang cavalry had a few thousand more, reaching nearly 20,000 people, but basically everyone was injured. The White Horse Volunteers were injured by the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was injured by Yuan Shao's Hebei Cavalry's desperate counterattack. After this battle, the cavalry of both sides was no longer able to attack each other.
In terms of infantry, the Tang army's infantry could only maintain a defensive position and had no ability to launch a counterattack against the cities. The Wei army's infantry also lost the ability to continue attacking because of heavy losses, so the war in Hebei was temporarily stopped when the Tang army lost the three cities of Handan, Liangqi and Weixian.
The war between the two largest princes in the world ended so quickly, which made everyone feel incredible. In fact, if you think about it, you will understand that neither Wei nor Qi had ever expected to defeat the Tang in one battle, so neither of them meant to fight with all their strength. Although Wei State has almost wiped out the Tang Army's cavalry in Hebei, or the entire Tang State's elite cavalry, Wei State itself has also suffered heavy losses. The cavalry accumulated over the past few years has almost been lost, and the hundreds of thousands of troops that went to war have also suffered heavy losses. Wei State has lost the ability to continue attacking Tang State in a short period of time.
As for Qi State, because it has not been able to gain an advantage in its attacks on Tang State, it is basically picking up an advantage this time. Now it has recovered several cities in Shanyang County, which has made the king and ministers of Qi State very satisfied. As for the Lujiang direction, the Wu State troops, who were just playing soy sauce, have not even attacked Anfeng City several times. Seeing that the situation was not good, they have quickly withdrawn to Shouchun with the support of the navy.
However, there are no major battles in various places, but Wei, Qi and Tang State have continued to fight small battles. There are small battles every two or three days, but no major battles have occurred from beginning to end.
Soon it was the end of May. Huangfu Chaobo had returned to Luoyang City. The defense of Jiyin County was handed over to Meng Gang. After reorganizing the more than 20,000 soldiers from the two counties who were withdrawn to Dingtao, he established a new Qianniu Camp, with him temporarily serving as the chief general. However, the Qianniu Army of the Tang Army was temporarily withdrawn. The new Qianniu Camp had a total of 30,000 soldiers, forming a total of six schools of five infantry schools and one cavalry school.
Then Meng Gang ordered Mu Shun to lead a school of infantry to station in Chengshi, and guard Chengshi together with the 6,000 guards in the city. Another deputy general Liu Yi led a school of infantry to station in Chengwu, also commanding the 6,000 guards in the city, and he himself led the remaining 20,000 soldiers and 10,000 guards to defend Dingtao City.
In this way, the three cities became a "品" shape, forming a solid line of defense to prevent the Qi army from continuing to advance westward.
The three Shanyang prefects Pang Shanmin returned to Luoyang with Huangfu Chaobo. Huangfu Chaobo was going to send them to Shangjun, which just made up for the embarrassing situation that there was no one to send in Shangjun.
After returning to Luoyang, Huangfu Chaobo did not deal with the government affairs that had been backlogged for dozens of days at the first time, but met with several people first, that is, the three captives brought back by Pang Tong from Shangjun. If the three players who pacified Shangjun were a big gain for Huangfu Chaobo this year, there was another gain that made Huangfu Chaobo happier than this matter, that is, the three generals captured from Shangjun.
Needless to say, Fa Zheng was a counselor under Liu Bei in the late Eastern Han Dynasty in history, and the grandson of the famous scholar Fa Zhen.
Originally a subordinate of Liu Zhang, he persuaded Liu Zhang to surrender when Liu Bei besieged Chengdu, and then he and Liu Bei advanced to Hanzhong and proposed to behead Cao Cao's general Xiahou Yuan. Fa Zheng was good at making strange plans and was deeply trusted and respected by Liu Bei.
In the 24th year of Jian'an (219 AD), Liu Bei was promoted to King of Hanzhong and appointed Fa Zheng as Shangshu Ling and Hujun General. The following year, Fa Zheng died at the age of 45. Liu Bei was very sad about Fa Zheng's death and cried for several days. He was posthumously named Yi Hou and was the only minister with a posthumous title in Liu Bei's era. Fa Zheng was good at making strange plans and was praised by Chen Shou as comparable to Cheng Yu and Guo Jia under Cao Cao's account.
"Complete Three Kingdoms Literature" has one of his articles.
Huangfu Chaobo has never been immune to such top counselors, so after returning to Luoyang, he couldn't wait to visit Fa Zheng who was invited to Luoyang as a guest. After a long talk with him all night, Fa Zheng readily worshipped Huangfu Chaobo as his master and became a glorious official of the Tang Dynasty.
Later, under Fa Zheng's self-recommendation, Huangfu Chaobo easily recruited Xu Huang and Liu Bao to surrender. In this way, all three generals of Shangjun were under Huangfu Chaobo's command.
Huangfu Chaobo had long coveted Xu Huang. When he captured Yang Feng, he had repeatedly asked Yang Feng whether there was a general named Xu Huang under his command, but was told that there was no such person. Later, when he learned that Xu Huang was actually under the command of the remaining king, Huangfu Chaobo had some crooked thoughts, but for various reasons, he was unable to realize it.
Now, after going around in circles, he finally brought Xu Huang under his command, which made Huangfu Chaobo very happy.
As for Liu Bao, this Xiongnu general, although Huangfu Chaobo was not as eager for talent as Fa Zheng and Xu Huang, he was able to give Huangfu Chaobo an extra special cavalry, which made him very happy.
After successfully collecting the three generals, Huangfu Chaobo put his mind on government affairs and war.
Now the war in Hebei has basically ended. It is said that Lu Bu's 5,000 Bingzhou Wolf Riders have returned to Bingzhou, and Yuan Shao himself has returned to Nanpi. As for the war in Youzhou in the north, it has also ended. Gongsun Zan has lost the entire Zhuo County as expected, and has also lost a lot of soldiers and horses.
The Shanggu prefect Yan Gang has also been missing, but what makes Gongsun Zan's confidants very disappointed is that Gongsun Zan almost ignored Yan Gang's disappearance. When Guo Guan Jing mentioned this matter, he said lightly: "I already know." Then there was no follow-up.
At this time, the war in Shuofang had also ended. The knight was still unable to defend the city north of the Yellow River. As a last resort, he led his remnants across the Yellow River and defended Shuofang City south of the Yellow River. Fortunately, in the past few years, although the knight has been focusing his main energy on Guangmu and Linrong cities, he still did not abandon Shuofang City. At least the city's defense and supplies were relatively good. So when he led thousands of remaining soldiers across the river, he was at least able to barely hold on by relying on the barrier of the river and the defense of the city.