Chapter 657: Yellow Turbans of Qingzhou
Wu Anguo entered the meeting hall and walked quickly towards Huangfu Chaobo, who was in charge in the middle. He stepped forward and saluted: "General, I will pay my respects to my lord!"
"General Wu'an, please rise!" Huangfu Chaobo nodded and signaled;
"My lord, I am here to ask my lord to send troops to Beihai to rescue Prime Minister Kong..." Wu Anguo did not stand up, but bowed to Huangfu Chaobo again;
"I already know the general's intention. Please sit down, general. The dispatch of troops has been basically decided with everyone, but some details still need to be discussed carefully. It happens that the general is from Beihai. He understands the situation and joins the discussion." Huangfu Chaobo nodded and said;
When Wu Anguo heard that his lord decided to send troops, he happily sat aside so that others could ask about the situation in Beihai. And in order to let everyone better understand the situation in Beihai, Huangfu Chaobo specially sent someone to invite the messenger for help from Beihai and asked him to introduce the situation in Beihai in detail.
According to the messenger, Juxian County in Beihai has been besieged by the Yellow Turban Army for many days. Fortunately, the county seat is strong. In addition, although the new Guowei Zongyu is not as strong as Wu'an Guo, he is not a mediocre general. The soldiers were also trained well by him. However, the tens of thousands of county soldiers can still defend the city within the high-walled city. If they need to go out of the city to defeat the Yellow Turban Army, they are somewhat powerless.
After sending the messenger out, Huangfu Chaobo and others started talking about how many troops should be sent, how to reach Beihai, and other issues.
As for the issue of sending troops, the reason why it was decided quickly was mainly due to several considerations. One was that Kong Rong was indeed a good person. He not only gave Luoyang hundreds of thousands of money and food, but also thousands of soldiers and civilians. More importantly, He gave himself a general. Just for Wu Anguo, Huangfu Chaobo should lend a hand to support him.
The second is that Huangfu Chaobo's current trade route from Leting to Luoyang lacks a reliable transfer station. If possible, after this rescue, Tian Feng and others meant that it would be best if they could borrow a port in Qingzhou But that's it. Of course, the security of this port must be guaranteed. Another thing is that Huangfu Chaobo is jealous of the population of the Yellow Turban Army. You must know that Cao Cao surrendered hundreds of thousands of Dingkou from the Yellow Turban Army a few months ago.
With the population of these Yellow Turbans alone, Cao Cao organized tens of thousands of Qingzhou soldiers. Luoyang and Hongnong are now sparsely populated. If the population of one million can be reduced to three to five million, it can basically fill the population of nearly ten counties.
After deliberation for a long time, the candidates and troops for the battle were finally decided. This time, because of concerns about the port and the relationship with Kong Rong in the later period, Huangfu Chaobo decided to go to the battle in person. Wu Anguo would definitely accompany him. The leading generals were Zhao Yun, Zuo Xiao, and Xu Shu. The soldiers and horses are Huangfu Chaobo's personal barracks. Zhao Yun's Baima Yicong and a school of ordinary soldiers commanded by Zuo Xiao have a total of 13,000 troops. As for the other soldiers and horses of Longxiang camp, they are left in Luoyang under the command of another deputy general Wang Yong. .
Considering that Zhang Zan and Zhang Yi are both from Qingzhou, Zhang Zan has been arranged to go to Laoting, Liaoxi, and will go to Qingzhou on this trip. For the next step of the layout discussed by Huangfu Chaobo and everyone, Huangfu Chaobo decided to take Zhang Yi with him. Qingzhou.
As for the dispatch of the army, Jiang Qin led a naval force from the waterway directly to Liao City, Le'an State, and then the cavalry marched directly from Le'an to Juxian County. The navy marched along the coast towards the North Sea. Of course, Zuo Xiao and 5,000 war horses returned to the ship to go to the North Sea. As for the cavalry, considering that the horses stayed on the ship for a long time, it would take some time to recover. In case they arrived in the North Sea At that time, they had to participate in the war as soon as they landed, so the cavalry had to take a break.
With Wu Anguo and Kong Rong's messengers leading the way, both armies did not need to worry about getting lost. Now that it was determined, with Huangfu Chaobo's order, the troops and horses were ready to go.
However, before setting off, Huangfu Chaobo received another good news. After nearly half a year of development, Leting Town was finally upgraded to a small town.
It is also a county-level city. Once the city has been upgraded, the attached buildings must also be upgraded. Therefore, after Zhou Wen was promoted to the county seat, the first thing he did was to upgrade the port and naval camp to the intermediate level.
On September 30, after handing over the affairs of Sizhou to Tian Feng, Huang Zhong and others, Huangfu Chaobo led the troops and generals on the expedition to Pingjin Port. The army would board the ship here and then go down the river to Qingzhou. .
Ten days later, the fleet arrived at Liaocheng County in Le'an State, Qingzhou, where more than 8,000 cavalry and their horses were unloaded. The fleet docked at a place that Kong Rong had already contacted after receiving the news. Small port. After all the cavalry disembarked, the fleet headed south along the coastline, preparing to transport the five thousand soldiers on board to the Beihai Kingdom. Then the five thousand soldiers would disembark at the border of Duchang, and under the leadership of the Beihai County soldiers, they would go to the theater. Joined most of the cavalry around the county.
It was only more than two hundred miles from Liao County to Ju County. If the cavalry was fast, they could arrive there in one day. However, after disembarking, Zhao Yun did not agree to let the cavalry rush to Ju County quickly. Instead, he asked the soldiers and horses to rest for half a day to recover. After a while, he slowly headed towards Ju County. Although Wu Anguo was anxious, he also knew that haste leads to waste, so he could only watch quietly and worry.
Two days later, the eight thousand cavalry army arrived twenty miles northeast of Jixian County and hid in a dense forest. While sending someone to contact the soldiers from the Zuo Campus, he was preparing to understand the situation in Jixian County and then decide how to act.
Wu Anguo first entered the city of Ju County and contacted Kong Rong and others in the city. After Wu Anguo contacted the city, he was ready to give a fatal blow from behind when the Yellow Turban Army attacked the city.
What Huangfu Chaobo didn't expect was that Wu Anguo didn't wait, but two acquaintances came first-Yue Lai Xiang and Huang Chao Hegemony. For players, it is easy to know the location of Huangfu Chaobo's army, so Huangfu Chaobo quickly invited the two people. The purpose of the two coming here is only one-population, both of them are interested in the Yellow Turban Army's nearly one million population.
The army of the domineering royal family has captured the two counties of Suicheng and Zhanchan in Xuantu County of Liaodong Gongsun Du, but unfortunately, due to too few troops and no cavalry, they dare not go too deep inland. Now it happens that the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou have a large population, and they hope to cooperate with Huangfu Chaobo to capture a part of the population, even if it is tens of thousands of people, they can also increase thousands to more than ten thousand soldiers. In this way, the remaining population will be sent to Liaodong. I believe that with the ability of Taishi Ci and Sun Qian, they can definitely gain a foothold in Xuantu.
So although the general Taishi Ci was far away in Liaodong, the domineering royal family still brought military advisor Sun Qian and two thousand soldiers from the three thousand troops left in the city to join Huangfu Chaobo.