Chapter 634 Return
According to the calculation, the county of Xi'anyang alone allowed Huangfu Chaobo to harvest more than 32,000 horses, including more than 800 fine horses, more than 3,000 good horses, more than 8,000 war horses, and nearly 20,000 other ordinary riding horses and nags, especially about 1,000 stallions.
These horses were what Huangfu Chaobo was in urgent need of. In addition to the more than 7,000 horses Huangfu Chaobo brought from Luoyang and the 4,000 horses brought from the island by the Great Wall Corps, Huangfu Chaobo now has more than 23,000 horses in Xi'anyang that can be used to equip soldiers.
Even if he brings back 10,000 horses to Luoyang and gives 2,000 to Lao Du and Lao Du respectively, there will be nearly 10,000 horses above the level of war horses left in Xi'anyang. Calculated as three horses per person, 3,000 cavalry can be formed. In addition, the other four families each have 2,000 to 3,000 cavalry. In this way, the entire Jiuyuan and Shuofang counties have more than 12,000 cavalry, which is a very strong guarantee for their control of the two counties.
In the next few days, even Huangfu Chaobo was busy. The first thing was to arrange the number of soldiers to stay. After repeated discussions, several people decided to arrange 6,000 soldiers in Xi'an, including 3,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry.
For infantry, there were 1,000 sword and shield soldiers, 1,000 spearmen and 1,000 crossbowmen, based on the original tribe soldiers of the Great Wall Corps, and some supplemented by ordinary people and captives. For cavalry, the 1,000 cavalry of the Great Wall Corps was expanded to 2,000 ordinary light cavalry, plus 1,000 cavalry led by Hao Jian, a total of 3,000 cavalry.
The generals were busy recruiting and training soldiers, while Meng Yi led the officials selected from the tribe to recruit captives and arrange the construction of various parts of the county. In addition, all the 20,000 tribesmen who had not yet moved out were moved out and temporarily settled in the county. After things here were settled, they would gradually move to Luoyang to settle down.
After everyone moved out, Meng Ping personally pressed a mechanism that had been set up long ago, and then these islands slowly sank to the bottom of the lake under the gaze of everyone with a "rumbling" sound.
The soldiers in the city were busy reorganizing, but Huangfu Chaobo's thousands of personal guards, under the command of various generals, were working non-stop to eliminate banditry from the county town to Wujiahe Town.
After being busy for several days, Huangfu Chaobo finally arranged the affairs of Xi'anyang properly. The remaining personnel and the situation of the troops had been arranged properly. The defense and repair of the county town had been done almost perfectly, and the cleaning in the city was also proceeding step by step.
Speaking of the cleaning and rectification in the city, Huangfu Chaobo felt very helpless. He found that since he took over Luoyang, he seemed to have been doing this demolition and reconstruction work, Luoyang was like this, Hongnong was like this, and now it was like this when he came to Bingzhou. Seeing that the things in Bingzhou had been basically arranged, Huangfu Chaobo began to plan to return to Luoyang. After all, he had been out for several months.
However, just when Huangfu Chaobo was about to return, Zhao Zilong sent another message. He had decided not to wait any longer, because after Huangfu Chaobo occupied Xi'anyang, the enthusiasm among players for recovering the border cities of the Han Dynasty became even higher. More and more lord players and alliance players were rubbing their hands and setting their sights on the cities in various places.
As far as Zhao Zilong knew, in the past one or two months, there would be wars in several counties. The first two counties were easily controlled by the players, which greatly encouraged the confidence of the players. Everyone felt that it was not difficult to capture a border city.
As Zhao Zilong knew, Wu Yu of Liangzhou was in contact with Ma Teng, ready to give up the current county and set his sights on Jiuquan County west of Zhangye. This news made Zhao Zilong and the Zilong Club even more anxious, so after discussion, they decided to draw 4,000 infantry from the Ping County garrison, plus the newly surrendered 1,000 Wuheng cavalry, a total of 5,000 troops, plus 2,000 civilians and 5,000 players, and head north to Jiuyuan in the near future. However, their target was not Chengyi next to Xi'anyang, but Linwo County, the easternmost county north of the Yellow River in Wuyuan County.
Hearing this news, Huangfu Chaobo was very surprised.
He had already occupied Xi'anyang, but Zhao Zilong chose to go far away instead of attacking Chengyi. Instead, he ran to Linwo, the easternmost county. What kind of logic is this?
After hearing this, Pang Tong nodded thoughtfully, and then said: "General, Zhao Zilong's intention is very great!"
Huangfu Chaobo was stunned after hearing this, and asked: "Why did Shiyuan say this?"
"General, please look," Pang Tong stood up and walked to the front of the Wuyuan map, holding a wine pot in one hand and pointing to the map with the other hand, saying: "According to the general's idea, the best place for Zhao Zilong to attack is Chengyi County, which is closest to my Xi'anyang, but according to the general's agreement with them, there will be two more county magistrates, Lao Du and Xiao Jiejie, coming to Wuyuan later, so their county will eventually continue to live in the east next to the two cities, right?"
Huangfu Chaobo nodded after hearing this. His initial idea was indeed like this. Only by operating in this way can everyone truly take care of each other and move forward step by step.
"But general, look again, isn't the county magistrate Zhao Zilong's county Qi located in the middle of your county?" Pang Tong smiled and said: "In this way, if he controls other county towns in the future, won't his territory Qi be divided into several places?"
After hearing this, Huangfu Chaobo was stunned again, and followed Pang Tong's gaze. Yes, it seems that Zhao Zilong also saw this and thought of attacking the county town in Linwo instead of Chengyi. However, fortunately, his original plan was to let Zhao Zilong control Wuyuan County, not Lao Du and the others. After all, Zhao Zilong's foundation is relatively sufficient. Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo was relieved and said, "Okay, I will reply to Zhao Zilong and let him do it according to his own ideas. Let Shegan and Hao Jian also prepare and lead the cavalry to support them. They also need 1,000 war horses and 1,000 good horses, so let Shegan and them take them together." Huangfu Chaobo said the following words to Meng Yi, the county magistrate of Xi'anyang next to him. After Huangfu Chaobo and the others left, Meng Yi would become the highest officer of Xi'anyang, and all matters would be based on him. Of course, Shi A's Shadow Guard would also leave a few people here to facilitate their contact with Luoyang.
On April 18, Huangfu Chaobo finally set off and began to return to Luoyang. The only ones who will return with them are the Xianzhen Camp and the Iron Eagle Warriors. These 2,000 people will ride three to four horses each and return by land to Pijin Port in Hedong, and then be escorted back to Luoyang by the navy. Zhao Cen will lead the Yuanrong Crossbowmen to escort more than 20,000 survivors of the Great Wall Legion, and take a boat from Xi'an to the south and return to Luoyang by water.