Chapter 1304 Yan Gang Is Not Dead

In the Luoyang Palace, Huangfu Chaobo summoned Guo Jia and the others, as well as the newly defected Fazheng, on the one hand to summarize the situation of several wars in the Tang Dynasty in the past two months, and on the other hand to arrange matters in the county. .

"Dear dear friends, this time the Kwantung countries jointly attacked. Although the war has ended in the end, it was a rare battle that Gu has lost in recent years. Not only did he lose the city and land, but he also lost one of his men. General. It can be said that we have suffered heavy losses. If you have any suggestions for the follow-up arrangements, please feel free to speak." Huangfu Chaobo sat on the throne and said to the people in the palace;

"However, before that, let Yuan Zhi defeat several battles and explain our losses to everyone in detail, so that everyone can have peace of mind."

Hearing this, Xu Shu quickly stood up and bowed to Huangfu Chaobo, then bowed to the rest of the people, and then said: "Your Majesty, the statistics of the battlefields in Hebei and Yanzhou have been calculated a few days ago. It has been submitted to the king for inspection earlier, but it has not been explained to your lords."

With that said, Xu Shu opened a memorial he carried with him, which was a copy of the memorial he had submitted to Huangfu Chaobo a few days ago, and carefully explained the losses in the two battles to everyone in the palace.

On the battlefield in Hebei, the Tang Army successively invested about 30,000 infantry troops from the three cities of Handan, Wei County and Liangqi. The cavalry included 11,000 Baima Yicong, 5,000 cavalry from Wei County in Yecheng, and 5,000 cavalry from Hanoi. 5,000 county cavalry, 10,000 Huben cavalry from Luoyang, 5,000 cavalry from Henan County from Luoyang, 5,000 cavalry from Hongnong County, 10,000 cavalry from the Guards, plus General Hua Xiong’s 7,000 Xiliang Iron cavalry and one or two thousand cavalry in several cities, a total of 60,000 cavalry.

After less than a month of fighting, there were about 5,000 infantry left, and the cavalry, including the injured, now totaled less than 20,000. In other words, in less than a month, 40,000 cavalry were lost. No one could easily bear such a large number of cavalry.

After hearing Xu Shu's words, everyone present took a long breath of cold air. Forty thousand cavalry is probably not as many as all the cavalry in Qi State combined. Currently, the only princes in the world who can reach this number are the Tang, Wei, Zhao, and Yan kingdoms. .

Pang Tong couldn't help but ask: "What are the losses of the Wei and Zhao coalition forces?"

Xu Shu coughed lightly and then continued: "The intelligence collected so far shows that Wei's loss of soldiers should be about 60,000, and the loss of cavalry is about 20,000, and they have lost more than half of their cavalry. They were all elite cavalrymen from Hebei directly under the command of King Yuan Shao of Wei. As for the Zhao State, the cavalry losses were also around 20,000, especially the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry of King Zhao, which suffered a heavy loss of nearly 10,000. "

After hearing the news, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The loss of 40,000 cavalry was exchanged for the maiming of the elite cavalry of Wei and Zhao. From this aspect, the loss was not very serious.

Another point is that although the cavalry lost 40,000, after the two cavalry battles, the horses were gathered a lot, especially the horses of Cao Xing's tribe and the horses of Yuan Shao's tribe. In the end, they were all gathered by the Tang army, so today's war horses are Still plenty.

"Your Majesty, the current plan is to mobilize a group of cavalry from Yanbei County as soon as possible and replenish all the elite cavalry as soon as possible." Lu Su said quickly;

"Yes, there is no need to delay the replenishment of the cavalry. After the replenishment of several elite cavalry units is completed, it will take some time for training and reorganization, so the sooner the better." Pang Tong said;

Upon hearing this, Huangfu Chaobo nodded, turned to look at Guo Jiadao: "Fengxiao, is there any special situation in Yanbei recently?"

The reason why there is such a question is because after Zhao Zilong and his party broke out from Zhao Jun's attack, they headed towards Yanbei County in the east. However, Huangfu Chaobo has not remembered to talk to them recently because he was busy with the war. I contacted them, so I didn’t even ask them if they had arrived.

Guo Jia shook his head,

Just as he was about to speak, Shi A suddenly asked for an audience outside the palace.

"Quick pass!"

Soon, Shi A entered the palace, saluted Huangfu Chaobo, and said: "Your Majesty, there is news from Yanbei County. Governor Zhao and his party have arrived in Yanbei County. Yesterday, General Huang was already in the northwest of Yisun City. Prefect Zhao and his party were found more than two hundred miles away, and..."

"Oh, they finally arrived at Yanbei, and what?" Huangfu Chaobo asked strangely when he saw Shi A's hesitation;

"Moreover, there is an unexpected person with Governor Zhao and his party, that is General Yan Gang, the Governor of Shanggu of the Yan Kingdom, and his bodyguards." Shi A paused and said with a smile;

"Um!"

"Oh! Yan Gang is not dead?"

Everyone was surprised. The war in Shanggu had ended for more than a month. Everyone thought that Yan Gang might have died in the rebel army. Unexpectedly, he would suddenly appear on the grassland and meet Zhao Zilong and his party. together.

Huangfu Chaobo sat up a little straighter and looked at Shi Adao with interest: "How is the situation of General Yan and his party? Also, has Governor Meng notified King Yan of General Yan's arrival in Yanbei?"

Shi A heard this and smiled bitterly, saying, "I was just about to report this to the king. After General Yan joined forces with General Huang's army, he had received the King of Yan's reaction to the disappearance of the people in Shanggu, so... so General Yan asked General Huang not to tell the people of Yan that he was still alive and had arrived in Yanbei. He wanted to stay in Yanbei for a while before making any decisions."

Huangfu Chaobo was speechless. Gongsun Zan's cold and indifferent character had already made his subordinates lose their hearts. Indeed, you have to know that these are the old men who accompanied Gongsun Zan to start from scratch. Now he is the king of a country, but he alienates these old brothers and trusts those sworn brothers. These are not unbearable for everyone, but Yan Gang's disappearance was just a light "Oh" to deal with it. For Yan Gang, it is indeed unacceptable.

"Then how should the soldiers under General Yan be arranged? General Yan broke out with them, how could they hide it?" Xu Shu asked;

"After General Yan learned the attitude of the King of Yan, General Yan had already made it clear to all his soldiers. Most of the soldiers were unwilling to return to the Yan army, so General Yan planned to let them join the army of Yanbei County. Only a few dozen people still wanted to return to Yan State, but they all swore that they would never reveal the whereabouts of General Yan and his group, so in the end General Yan gave each of them a sum of money and let them leave."