Chapter 1385 Meeting at Yanmen (Part 1)
"Three Kingdoms Online Game: Princes Struggle for Hegemony ()"
In Yanmen Pass, Huangfu Chaobo was also gathering people to discuss matters. At this time, in Yanmen Pass, except for Huangfu Jianshou who stayed in Jinyang City, all the other generals of the Tang Army who went to Zhao Kingdom appeared here. Not only that, all the famous surrendered generals of Zhao State, headed by Zhang Liao, also followed Huangfu Chaobo to Yanmen Pass.
Huangfu Chaobo was sitting on the main seat, with a group of generals sitting below, but there was one person standing in the middle. It was General Anyi Tian Yu. He was asking Huangfu Chaobo for forgiveness because he returned to Huangfu Chaobo on his orders. He came to the aid of Shangjun, but even the tail of Lu Qi's army was not able to catch up. When he led 20,000 cavalry and rushed back to Shangjun, all he saw were a few empty cities.
There was no way. By the time Huangfu Chaobo discovered the whereabouts of Lu's army, it was already a few days too late. When he sent someone to order Tian Yu to lead his army back to Shangjun, a few more days had passed. Although Tian Yu led the army after receiving the order, Twenty thousand cavalry rushed back day and night, but still failed to catch up with Lu Bu.
Because Huangfu Chaobo's order only asked Tian Yu to drive Lu Lingqi's troops out of Shangjun, after seeing that Lu's army had passed Sheyanze and entered the desert, although Tian Yu was unwilling to do so, he still did not continue the pursuit. .
Fortunately, the 10,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry led by Li Ling arrived at Sheyan City after receiving orders from Taiyuan. Tian Yu ordered Li Ling to lead his troops to station in Sheyan City to prevent the Lu tribe from attacking. The army left and returned. And he himself led 20,000 cavalry back to Kucha City.
After entering Qiuci, Tian Yu ordered to mobilize soldiers, horses, and food from Baitu, Pingding, and Meiji to go south to regain control of Qiuci and Fushi cities. At the same time, he quickly apologized to Huangfu Chaobo.
Although he knew that the escape of Lu Lingqi's army had little to do with him, Tian Yu still felt uneasy. Fortunately, a few days later, soldiers, horses, and food supplies from various cities arrived one after another. After regaining control of the cities, Huangfu Chao Bo also sent him a message asking him to go to Yanmen Pass.
After arranging the defense of several city passes, Tian Yu followed the order and led 20,000 cavalry to go north again to Yanmen Pass to meet Huangfu Chaobo.
At this time, Tian Yu stood at Huangfu Chaobo and apologized: "Please forgive me, Your Majesty. I was incompetent and failed to rush back to Shangjun in time, which allowed the remnants of the Lu bandits to escape. I also asked the three cities of Fushi, Qiuci and Sheyan to almost All emptied."
Tian Yu's words made everyone present hesitate. Lu Lingqi's actions really made the generals of the Tang Army feel a bit slapped in the face. His own army had just wiped out the Zhao State, but the remnants of the Zhao Army turned their backs and destroyed several of their cities. After being evacuated, although there are only tens of thousands of people in the several cities together, you must know that Fushi City is the county seat of Shangjun.
Not only was it a county town, but it was also a city that had just been brought under the rule of the Tang State. This made all the generals of the Tang army feel ashamed.
"Well, the matter is over here, and the generals don't need to worry too much about this. The main reason why I have called you here this time is to discuss how to arrange the defense of Bingzhou. Everyone knows that although Bingzhou is now The territory of the Tang Dynasty is not stable." Huangfu Chaobo didn't want to say anything more about this, so he changed the subject with a wave of his hand.
Having said this, Huangfu Chaobo nodded to Gao Shun next to him. Soon, Gao Shun laid out a map of Bingzhou and placed it in front of everyone.
"I believe you all know that after several years of recuperation, the Xianbei people in the north are ready to move again. Many Xianbei tribes have appeared on the grasslands at the northern foot of Yinshan Mountain. I believe it won't be long before the central Xianbei and western Xianbei The army will appear."
"As for our Tang army, after several months of fighting, we have suffered huge losses in terms of cavalry and war horses." At this point, Huangfu Chaobo glared at Huang Xu who was standing aside. Huang Xu was so frightened that he quickly shrank his head and went to He took another step back.
You know, he originally led 40,000 cavalry to help, but now he only has more than 15,000 left. It can be said that the loss is huge.
Tens of thousands of war horses were lost. How could Huangfu Chaobo not be angry?
"It can be said that in the next few years, our soldiers and horses in the Tang Dynasty will basically focus on defense against the foreign tribes. Not only that, the Wei army in the east has taken control of the three western counties of Youzhou. In other words, the connection between Wei and the foreign tribes has been opened. With Hebei's strength, there will definitely be a large expansion of cavalry in the future, which is another bad news for us. "
"Gu Zeng discussed with General Pingbei that if we want to defend the counties in the northern part of Bingzhou, we must maintain at least 50,000 to 80,000 cavalry. However, in other areas of the Central Plains, if the number of cavalry is reduced, our country's advantage over other countries will be lost. A lot will be lost, so if you generals have any good ideas about this matter, you can speak freely."
After speaking, Huangfu Chaobo looked at everyone in the room.
"Your Majesty, in addition to the Xianbei army in the north and the Wei army in the east, I feel that the remnants of the Lu army in the west also need to pay more attention. Although they are separated by the desert, we must prevent them from suddenly leading their troops to attack the cities in Shangjun." Seeing Huangfu Chaobo Without pursuing the previous affairs in Zhucheng, Tian Yu felt a little more at ease, so he spoke first;
"Yes, but is there anything else?" Huangfu Chaobo nodded and looked at the others.
Among the people present, apart from Zhao Yun and Tian Yu, only Zhang Liao and Fa Zheng could say something. However, Huangfu Chaobo saw that Zhang Liao had no intention of speaking when he saw him looking at him. He understood that he had just surrendered and obviously did not want to show too much at this time, so he did not insist any more and cast his eyes on Fa Zheng.
Seeing Huangfu Chaobo looking at him, the young and vigorous Fa Zheng was refreshed. He knew that his chance to show himself had come. In fact, he had already had some ideas in his mind about the situation he needed to face after the occupation of Bingzhou, but he had never perfected it, so he did not write to Huangfu Chaobo.
Now that he had the opportunity to meet Huangfu Chaobo, and the surrounding situation was basically clear, Fa Zheng decided to take this opportunity to tell Huangfu Chaobo his thoughts in detail.
"Report to the king!" Fa Zheng stood up and saluted Huangfu Chaobo: "I have some immature ideas that I want to tell the king."
"Just say it!" Huangfu Chaobo nodded and motioned Fa Zheng to continue.
"Bingzhou is one of the nine states. In the middle of the Yuanfeng reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Bingzhou Provincial Governorate was established. It was one of the thirteen states, and governed nine counties, including Taiyuan, Shangdang, Xihe, Yunzhong, Dingxiang, Yanmen, Shuofang, Wuyuan, and Shangjun. However, since the end of the Han Dynasty, foreign races have been rampant, and only Taiyuan, Shangdang, Xihe, and Yanmen counties are truly under the jurisdiction of Bingzhou."
"The other five counties, such as Yunzhong, Dingxiang, Shuofang, Wuyuan, and Shangjun, were successively occupied by foreign races, and were only occupied by the State of Zhao in recent years. Now the king has led a great army to destroy Zhao in Jinyang, and our country has added these nine counties, but King Lu Bu of Zhao is cruel, and now nine out of ten houses in the nine counties of Bingzhou are empty, and people's lives are in poverty."