Chapter 1321: Pacificating Henan
Huangfu Chaobo only paid a little attention to the movements of other princes in the world, and then once again set his sights on the Hetao area.
After several days of fighting, Zahu's vigor has been almost completely exhausted by Xu Huang. Every attack makes people feel that the city's defense can be captured with more strength, but every attack In the end, everything failed.
The failed attacks one after another caused the morale and strength of the coalition forces to continue to decrease. When they finally discovered that something was wrong, the number of soldiers in the coalition army that could actually participate in the war was less than 30,000, and the camp was still full of nearly 30,000 soldiers. Thirty thousand injured soldiers can be said to be in mourning all over the country.
In Baitu City, Xu Huang was reporting today's war situation to Huangfu Chaobo in the small hall. After the report, Xu Huang continued: "Your Majesty, Wei will feel that the time for counterattack is ripe."
Huangfu Chaobo raised his eyebrows and said, "When will the general plan to arrange a counterattack?"
"At five o'clock tomorrow, the army will directly attack the coalition camp."
"How many troops?"
"Twenty thousand cavalry plus Yuan Rong crossbowmen equipped with war horses can follow closely behind. The remaining troops and horses can be temporarily unused. After the battle situation is basically determined, the infantry army will be sent to the city to take over, while the cavalry will continue to pursue the remaining troops. The mixed soldiers and horses captured the cities of Hetao in one fell swoop, but Hetao can be defeated in one battle." Xu Huang replied with a calm expression;
Huangfu Chaobo nodded, turned to look at Guo Jiadao: "When will the soldiers from the three schools transferred from Henan arrive?"
Guo Jia replied: "The army has already set off, but it will take ten days at the earliest to reach Fushi."
As early as a few days ago, when Huangfu Chaobo and Guo Jia were discussing, they felt that the number of combat barracks in Shangjun was not sufficient. At that time, troops from Shuofang and Wuyuan would need to be dispatched from Shangjun, which would make the troop strength even more stretched. After several discussions, it was decided to transfer several school soldiers from the war barracks in various counties in Henan to join the war barracks in Shangjun to strengthen the strength of the war barracks.
Therefore, one school of combat soldiers from each of the four military camps in Luoyang, Hanoi, Hongnong, and Chenliu counties was dispatched to Shangjun to be on standby. Together with the original four school combatants in Shangjun, two more newly recruited combat soldiers were recruited. , a total of 50,000 soldiers from ten schools will be reorganized. By then, these soldiers, together with Huangfu Chaobo's Guards, will be the main force of the Tang Army's northward crossing of the Yellow River.
It is now June and July. Like Bingzhou, winter comes early in Hetao. We will wait for the arrival of the army to reorganize and then stabilize the cities. After all this work, it is estimated that it will be October. If we send troops to Shuofang by then, If it happens to snow, it might be even more difficult then.
After pondering for a moment, Huangfu Chaobo ordered: "The general's request is accepted. After the Hetao cities are pacified as soon as possible, the army will need to be repaired. As for sending troops to Shuofang, we will make a decision next year."
"General, take your orders!" Xu Huang said with clasped fists, and then turned and left, heading to the military camp in the city to prepare for a night attack.
That night, 30,000 Tang army cavalry, led by Xu Huang, launched a thunderous attack on the Zahu coalition camp. Just as Xu Huang expected, the camp was full of disabled people and morale was low. The coalition camp was attacked by the Tang army. After that, it only lasted for a quarter of an hour before it fell apart and became a mess.
An hour later, Huangfu Chaobo, who received Xu Huang's reply, ordered the following 20,000 infantry to come towards the coalition camp. By the time they arrived at the camp, it was already dark, but the war was almost over. The entire camp It was like a Shura hell, with broken arms and limbs of miscellaneous Hu soldiers everywhere. Groups of miscellaneous Hu soldiers were gathered together by the Tang army's cavalry.
Lu Zhong commanded the Iron Eagle warriors and 10,000 Shangjun warriors to quickly take over the prisoners in the camp and his own wounded soldiers. The cavalry captain at the head led his subordinate cavalry in pursuit toward the northeast. According to him, After the 30,000 cavalry defeated the Zahu coalition forces in the camp, Xu Huang ordered the troops to divide into two groups and chase the remaining two armies of Zahu soldiers and horses that broke through to the northeast and northwest.
When Huangfu Chaobo arrived at the camp under the protection of the trapped camp,
Lu Zhong is already doing the cleanup work after the war. Seeing Huangfu Chaobo coming, Lu Zhong hurriedly came to see him: "General, I will pay my respects to the king."
"General Lu, please get up! Have the casualties and harvests been accounted for?" Huangfu Chaobo stretched out his hand to help him, and then asked Lu Zhong;
"Back to your Majesty, the detailed situation has not yet come out, but the preliminary situation has come out. Our army lost more than 2,000 people, of which more than 1,000 were killed or seriously injured, and the rest were minor injuries. The Zahu coalition suffered about 10,000 casualties and 40,000 prisoners. There are not even ten thousand people who can escape. There are more than 50,000 horses and countless cattle and sheep in the camp." Lu Zhong replied with a smile;
"Where are General Xu Huang and the cavalry army?"
"Thousands of cavalry from the Zahu coalition fled. General Xu Huang has divided his troops into two groups and pursued them separately."
"Well, send the order to transport all the prisoners, harvested cattle, sheep, horses, and supplies back to Baitu City. After the incident here, General Lu will lead an army of 20,000 to provide backup for General Xu, and pacify the Hetao Zahu as soon as possible. "
"The last general takes the order!" Lu Zhong was overjoyed and quickly clasped his fists to take the order.
The 20,000-strong army had been busy all day long before transporting all the supplies, wounded, and prisoners back to Baitu City. After the army rested for a day, Lu Zhong led the 20,000-strong army early the next morning and marched towards the Pingding San in the northeast. Go in the direction of the city.
On the afternoon of the day when Lu Zhong's army set out, Xu Huang sent someone to report back that the army followed closely behind the defeated soldiers and had already recovered the three cities of Pingding, Zhenlin and Guangyan this morning. After that, Xu Huang arranged two thousand soldiers to guard the three cities, and then joined Lu Zhong's troops and headed towards Meiji City, where the Xiongnu royal court was located.
In the next few days, Xu Huang reported victory almost every day. On the fifth day after defeating the coalition forces, Xu Huang captured Meiji City. Xu Huang killed the Xiongnu Chanyu Huchuquan in battle and captured the Xiongnu general Xupu Gutouhou.
Almost at the same time, another army that was pursuing also reported back that Hu Yandu led the army to pursue the Lushui Hu, captured the big city and the big city fort, and all the Lushui Hu tribes surrendered.
On the tenth day, Xu Huang's army captured Shanan City and captured the last city occupied by foreign races within the Hetao area. The entire Hetao Henan area was finally captured, and all foreign races in Henan surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.
At this time, the 20,000 soldiers sent by Henan had also arrived at Baitu City, so Huangfu Chaobo ordered Xu Huang to leave Lu Zhong and other generals to guard the cities in Shannan, while Xu Huang led the Shangjun War Camp back to Baitu City and began to prepare to reorganize the Shangjun War Camp. After a series of battles, Xu Huang's ability had been recognized by the generals of the Tang army, so Huangfu Chaobo decided to build a new battalion of soldiers, with Xu Huang as the commander, to reorganize the troops while preparing to send troops north of the Yellow River next year.