Chapter 648: Another Guy Stepped on Dog Shit
Time soon arrived in June of Chuping. After a month of rest, Cao Cao sent out his troops again. He then defeated the Yellow Turban Army with great momentum. Then he led his army to pursue and defeated all the Yellow Turban Army in the Jibei area.
Most of the Yellow Turbans surrendered, and Cao Cao captured more than 200,000 surrendered soldiers and more than 500,000 men and women. Nearly half of the remaining Yellow Turbans fled into Mount Tai. Cao Cao then selected the elite of the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou and formed an army, called the "Qingzhou Army". From then on, Cao Cao's strength was greatly enhanced.
During Cao Cao's defeat of the Yellow Turbans, another terrifying army appeared. There were only more than a thousand people, but each of them was extremely fierce. The leader was a sturdy man, more than eight feet tall, with a waist of ten circumferences, a majestic appearance, and extraordinary courage. It can be said that in several battles with the Yellow Turban Army, this army broke into the Yellow Turban Army several times, killing the Yellow Turban Army that was fighting with it and fleeing in all directions.
Afterwards, the players dug out the details of this army, and it turned out to be another player's army. The player's name was Cao Charlie, and he was also the first player in the game to use the surname Cao. The leader of this army turned out to be Xu Chu, one of Cao Cao's guards in history, and this army was a special army trained by Xu Chu, the "Tiger Guard Army".
After establishing a relationship with Cao Hong, Cao Charlie had been low-key until Cao Cao's campaign against Dong, when he was promoted to the position of Quchang. Then he gradually accumulated merits and was promoted in a series of wars, and a year ago he recruited Xu Chu. Later, he used Cao Hong's relationship to select suitable soldiers from Cao Hong's army and trained them into the Tiger Guard Army.
With Xu Chu and the Tiger Guard Army, Cao Charlie's military exploits soared, and he was promoted from Quchang to Xiaowei in one year. This time, relying on the Yellow Turban War, it is estimated that he is more likely to be promoted to the position of Zhonglang Jiang, which can be said to have the wings to take off.
At the same time, the court heard that Liu Dai died in battle, and changed its attack to appoint Jingzhao Yin Jin Shang as the governor of Yanzhou. Cao Cao met Jin Shang on the way, and Jin Shang fled to Yuan Shu. So Cao Cao led Yanzhou and controlled all the counties in Yanzhou except Chenliu.
Huangfu Chaobo, who received the news of Cao Cao's army, was obviously stunned. He didn't expect that there would be so many player forces or players rising during this period, and they were generally the same surname as historical generals.
In fact, this is also easy to understand. Although other people also have the same surname as historical generals like Huangfu Chaobo, and they also enjoy the conditions for deepening their relationship, but everyone needs to develop step by step, so it was not until the middle of the game that these people really started to exert their strength. Another thing is that these people are different from Huangfu Chaobo.
First, when the Huangfu clan really appeared in the game, their position was very high, which was incomparable to other famous generals when they appeared. Secondly, Huangfu Chaobo had already subdued Huang Zhong in the early stage. Huang Zhong's role in Huangfu Chaobo was undoubtedly huge. If it was just based on the identity of the Huangfu family, Huangfu Chaobo's development would probably be the same as Ma Xiaotiao and Cao Charlie.
Just like the rise of Cao Charlie, if it were not for Xu Chu and the Tiger Guard Army, Cao Charlie might be slightly better than Kun, Ma Xiaotiao and others.
Now Cao Charlie is in high spirits. After being appreciated by Cao Cao, Cao Charlie took the opportunity to let Cao Cao agree that he would lead Xu Chu to select suitable soldiers from the army to expand the Tiger Guard Army.
According to his current official position as the General of the Central Army and Xu Chu as the Colonel, the Tiger Guard Army can be expanded to 5,000 people at most. In addition to the 5,000 ordinary soldiers transferred to him by Cao Cao, he has a total of 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command, which can be said to be strong.
On June 25th, Huangfu Chaobo in Luoyang City received information from Zongheng Tianxia and Shacuolang. The armies of their two families were ready and planned to march into Nanyang in early July.
Huangfu Chaobo, who received the news, first arranged for Chen Jing to use Su Jiao's famous general card for job transfer, and then arranged him as the main general of the Iron Eagle Warrior, while Meng Ping was transferred to the deputy general of his personal guard corps as Dian Wei's deputy. According to Huangfu Chaobo's idea, Meng Ping's strength is enough to serve as the main general of a battalion, but the current conditions do not allow the addition of a new combat battalion, so he can only be used as Dian Wei's deputy general.
Then, Huangfu Chaobo ordered Tian Feng to draft a letter of accusation,
saying that the rear general Yuan Shu disregarded the court's laws, arbitrarily started military affairs, and invaded Luoyang. What's even more infuriating is that after the Nanyang army entered Liang County, they slaughtered the entire county. Pingdong General and Sizhou Mu Huangfu Chaobo decided to send 50,000 troops, claiming to be a 100,000-man army to march into Nanyang, determined to ask the rear general for an explanation for the dead soldiers and civilians.
After the proclamation was issued, the entire Sizhou started to run at high speed like a machine. Although Huangfu Chaobo and everyone discussed the number of troops to be sent out, it was only a few thousand people in the personal guard camp plus 25,000 troops in the Huben camp and 20,000 guards. The total army was less than 50,000, but it was like a 100,000-man army.
Although the tens of thousands of guards in Luoyang were guards, after several adjustments, the number had reached 40,000, of which nearly half were of B-level or above qualifications. Now they are all combat reserve soldiers, and the qualifications and levels of the guards in other cities are slightly higher.
Huangfu Chaobo had two purposes for this battle. One was to coordinate Zongheng Tianxia's attack on Nanyang, and the other purpose was really for himself. Because Yuan Shu's army killed all the soldiers and civilians in Liang County, such behavior did arouse the indignation of the people in Sizhou.
Lu Yan, the magistrate of Liang County, and Ji She, the county lieutenant, were both killed by Yuan Shu's army at that time. Both of them were talents cultivated by Huangfu Chaobo himself. There were dozens of people with them, and now they are all the chief officers of various cities under the jurisdiction of Sizhou. Others were angry about the death of the two, so in order to appease these people, Huangfu Chaobo really needed to go to Nanyang to ask Yuan Shu for an explanation.
In fact, it is not only them. There are also a group of middle-level officers in Huangfu Chaobo's army, who are also a group of talents cultivated by himself. There are also inextricable connections between them. Therefore, this expedition to Nanyang is not so much for the purpose of conquering the world, but in fact, a large part of the reason is to appease the internal emotions. Therefore, whether it is the military such as Pang Tong and Xu Shu, or the civil affairs such as Tian Feng, they all support the dispatch of troops this time.
No matter what the result is, or no matter how much benefit can be gained from Nanyang, at least the attitude of the general's mansion must be shown to the people below.
After the proclamation was issued, the magistrates of Changsha County, Zongheng Tianxia and Luyang County, who killed the wrong wolf, immediately expressed their support, but the governor's office of Yuzhou remained silent. The other governors of Jizhou, Han Fu, and the prefect of Chenliu, Zhang Miao, expressed their concern, saying that the general's actions were indeed inappropriate and someone needed to be held accountable.
At this time, there was another round of chaos in the general's office in Nanyang. After Yuan Shu received the news of the proclamation, he was so angry that he chewed a lot of things.
Afterwards, Yuan Shu ordered to gather all his civil and military officials to discuss how to deal with the offensive of the Sizhou army.