Chapter 609: Heading North to Bingzhou
Not only Luoyang, but also Hongnong and Henei under the control of Huangfu Chaobo are working hard to cultivate.
Especially in Henei, although Zao Zhi is now a county magistrate, he is still the General of Agriculture appointed by Huangfu Chaobo, so after the New Year, he began to lead the Henei garrison to prepare the fields, waiting for Hua Xiong's 15,000 Bao Tao troops and 5,000 Xiliang cavalry to arrive in Huai County.
Zao Zhi handed over the defense of Huai County to the Bao Tao army, and led 15,000 garrisons to start farming.
Until March 10, the first season of this year's grain planting period ended, the whole game was peaceful, and people who didn't know thought the world was at peace. As a result, as soon as the grain planting ended on the 10th, the game started fighting again that night.
The first to start the war was Xiaobai in Yizhou. After occupying Hanjia, Xiaobai buried his head and dormant for nearly half a year. Who knew that he would take action just after the grain planting ended.
Now everyone knows that his top general is Li Yan, a famous historical general with four dimensions of over 80. Although his reputation was not very good in the later period, his ability was really strong. He could be said to be a real brick, and he could be moved wherever he was needed.
Li Yan led 5,000 troops to attack Tu County on the night of the 10th, and arrived outside Tu County in the early morning of the 11th. Then, he took advantage of the morning when the Yellow Turban Army opened the city gate and suddenly sent troops to seize the city gate. Then the army rushed into the city. The Yellow Turban Army, which was caught off guard, was instantly defeated, and Tu County was captured by Li Yan in just half a day.
Afterwards, Li Yan did not continue to attack, but closed the city gate, strictly guarded and prepared to deal with the counterattack of the Yellow Turban Army.
On the morning of the 11th, the Yellow Turban World suddenly launched an attack on Puwu County controlled by the Black Mountain Army. Since the defeat in Luoyang last year, the strength of the Black Mountain Army has been greatly damaged. Because they were afraid of the attack of the Jizhou Army, the main force withdrew, leaving only some troops to guard the several counties of Changshan State and Zhongshan State that had been occupied.
However, the general Liu Shi, the general of the Yellow Turbans, was not the one who went to the battle this time, but another general, who looked even more powerful than Liu Shi. Later, the players learned that this general was Li Tong, a general under Cao Cao in history.
Perhaps the two had an agreement, Xintianyou also launched an attack on Wangdu.
Not only the players, but also the war between the princes began. The Taishan bandits attacked Xuzhou again. This time their target was still Langya State, and Ye Laixiang once again raised troops to fight.
Lu Bu sent troops to Taiyuan County, and Yuan Shao also set his sights on Qingzhou. Cao Cao was also unwilling to be lonely and set his sights on Shanyang County around him, while Gongsun Yue in Liaodong trained his troops and horses, preparing to drive the dynasty's hegemony back to Qingzhou. And Yuan Shu also ordered Yuan Yi to start preparing to control the war in Yangzhou.
For a time, the whole Han Dynasty was full of smoke, and when intelligence came from all directions, Huangfu Chaobo was stunned.
At this time, a thousand cavalrymen from Longhua had arrived in Luoyang. The leader was Hao Jian, the Wuheng tribe leader who had surrendered with Tian Yu. At this time, he was already the cavalry captain of Huyandu's cavalry. Along with the thousand cavalrymen, there were also three thousand horses, including one thousand good horses and two thousand war horses.
After more than ten days of hard work, the craftsmen's workshops had been working day and night, and finally made 1,500 crossbows, but half of them were only qualified, the other half were good, and only more than a hundred reached the excellent level.
Huang Zhong had also trained their crossbow skills and riding skills to the intermediate level, and under his guidance, Zhao Cen, the deputy general of the Yuanrong crossbow soldiers, was able to skillfully command the soldiers to perform three-stage attacks. As for Gao Shun's Xianzhen Camp, they had also trained their riding skills to the intermediate level.
Seeing this, Huangfu Chaobo decided to set off after the troops and horses rested for three days.
The reason for the three-day rest was that, at Jia Jing's invitation, Nightingale also decided to go to the grassland with them, which made Zhou Wen, who was far away in Liaoxi, envious. Unfortunately, the construction of Leting has reached the final stage. Now only some buildings have not been fully upgraded, and the population is still a little short. It is estimated that it will take at most ten days and a half months to meet the upgrade requirements.
Three days later, on March 14th, after everything was ready,
Huangfu Chaobo handed over all matters of Sizhou to the people who stayed behind, and led the generals and soldiers to board the navy ship outside the south gate of Luoyang.
The companions this time included Dian Wei as the main general and 15 soldiers of the Iron Wall Camp, Gao Shun's Xianzhen Camp {863 people}, Zhao Cen's Yuanrong Crossbowmen {1500 people} and Hao Jian's 1000 cavalry, plus Shi A and ten shadow guards and He Ruolong and his golden eagle, a total of nearly 3,500 people, plus each person was equipped with a good horse and a war horse, a total of more than 7,000 horses.
Of course, the two girls Jia Jing and Pang Tong were also traveling with them.
Starting from Luoyang, they went northeast along the Luoshui River and entered the river, then turned west along the river and went west. After reaching the entrance of the Weishui River, they turned north again, taking the route that the knight led the cavalry a month ago. However, Huangfu Chaobo and his party had a much easier time than the knight, after all, it was spring now and the farming was over.
However, even so, it took more than ten days to get to Guangmu City. The current Guangmu City has long been changed. You can see tracts of fields more than ten miles outside the city.
Although it cannot be compared with the good fields in the original territory of the Luoyang knight, these are fertile lands. It only takes one to two years to meet the requirements of good fields. By then, Guangmu City will basically be able to achieve food self-sufficiency. Of course, if the knight wants to seize the time to expand his territory, he will need to purchase a large amount of food in the next three to five years.
After handing over the 3,000 soldiers to Zhao Cen and several other generals to set up camp outside the city, Huangfu Chaobo led Dian Wei, Jia Jing and the soldiers of the Tiebi Camp into Guangmu City under the leadership of the knight.
Guangmu City is a city on the frontier. If there is a difference from the Central Plains city, the buildings in the city are mostly civil structures, rather than the brick and stone structures that are common in the Central Plains city.
Along the way, the city has been organized in an orderly manner. It can be seen that Fu Xun, a subordinate of the knight, is still very capable. The county town is not big, which is the size of a small city in the Central Plains. It is estimated that at most 30,000 to 50,000 people can live in it. Border cities are not like the Central Plains, and it is not easy to expand the city.
Along the way, the knight introduced the situation of Guangmu to Huangfu Chaobo. Although the allied forces of the miscellaneous Hu were defeated in one battle, the knights had a hard time. First, there were no strategic locations to defend around Guangmu, and they had to prevent the invasion of miscellaneous Hu cavalry at any time. Second, the Han people were different from the Hu people. The Hu people could leave if they couldn't win, but the Han people couldn't. They had farmed here and couldn't leave even if they wanted to.
For this, the knights and others could only buy grain from the Central Plains on the one hand, and on the other hand, they stepped up to build garrisons around Guangmu. Once something happened, the people who were farming outside could hide in the garrisons temporarily and wait for rescue from the soldiers in the city.