Chapter 671 Yuan Shao's Goal

Huangfu Chaobo nodded noncommittally, and then turned his eyes to Zhao Yun and Tian Yu next to him.

Zhao Yun thought thoughtfully and said: "My lord, in my opinion, Yuan Shaojun's target is the Black Mountain Army and not Hanzhou Mu. As for the reason, I don't know, I just feel that way."

Afterwards, Tian Yu also stood up, first saluted Huangfu Chaobo, and then said: "What the two generals said is true, but the last general also believes that the possibility of Yuan Shao's army attacking Wei County is not very high."

As he spoke, he pointed at the map of Jizhou and spoke slowly. Although Yuan Shao currently occupies most of Jizhou, there are three counties in the Bohai Sea, Anping River, and several cities in the Zhongshan Kingdom. Therefore, around Yuan Shao's forces, there are Liu Yu of Youzhou to the north, Jiaohe of Qingzhou to the south, the Black Mountain Army occupying the two counties of Zhongshan and Changshan to the northwest, and Han Fu of Jizhou to the southwest.

In Tian Yu's opinion, Yuan Shao's first move was probably not the most powerful Han Fu, but one of Zhang Yan and Jiao He. However, due to the current situation, it is not certain who his target is.

After hearing Tian Yu's words, Huangfu Chaobo also nodded. He was worthy of being a talent who could reach the rank of governor of Bingzhou. His eyesight was much better than that of Zhao Yun and Huang Xu.

Then, he turned his eyes to Zhang An, Dian Wei and others who were standing aside. When they saw Huangfu Chaobo's eyes, they all shook their heads in panic.

Seeing this situation, Huangfu Chaobo also knew that he couldn't count on them. So, he turned his eyes towards Pang Tong.

After coughing slightly, Pang Tong stood up and walked slowly to the front of the map. Following the words of the previous people, Yuan Shaojun's situation was carefully analyzed.

At the end, he said with certainty: "The target of Yuan Shaojun's battle this time must be Zhongshan and Changshan. Only after these two countries are fully controlled, will the plain north of the river be considered, and finally Han Fu. "

Then, he analyzed to everyone why Yuan Shao arranged this.

The weakest of these three areas should be the plains, but attacking early and late will not make much difference. But the Montenegrin Army is different. After the previous battle in Luoyang, the Montenegrin Army can be said to have been severely weakened. If it weren't for Yuan Shao's own self-importance, he would have led a large army to capture the two countries. But now that the internal situation has stabilized, the Montenegro Army has not yet been able to recover, so it is now time to send troops.

After occupying Zhongshan and Changshan, Yuan Shao only needs to have people guard the exits of the Taihang Mountains to trap the Black Mountain Army in the mountains, without having to defend everywhere like now. With dozens of counties in these two countries, it only takes one to two years for Yuan Shao's military strength to increase a lot.

At that time, if we send troops to the plains, we only need to guard the ports along the river, and there is no need for the Qingzhou army to cross the river to fight. After another year and a half, the strength of Yuan Shao and Han Fu's families would be completely different. When the war starts again, Yuan Shao will not be able to defeat Sizhou's army.

Moreover, Yuan Shao was well-known in the Han Dynasty. Once he was ready to deal with Han Fu, he would definitely take some measures to contain Huangfu Chaobo's Sizhou army.

Pang Tong's razor-sharp analysis made all the generals present suddenly realize. Huangfu Chaobo also sighed in his heart. He was indeed a top strategist. Although it was not the first time he heard him analyze intelligence, every time he heard him analyze intelligence, he felt like he was standing tall. It feels like it is a pity that Feng Chu died too early in history, otherwise the Shu Han would not have been trapped in Shu and never set foot in the Central Plains again.

After listening to Pang Tong's words, Huangfu Chaobo suddenly remembered something. Changshan Zhending, there were more than ten thousand Zhao Yun's clansmen in Zhaojia Town.

So, he turned to Zhao Yun and said: "Zilong, it seems that we must persuade your tribe to move to Luoyang this time."

Zhao Yun also nodded slightly and said: "The general understands that after the army returns this time, he will return to Zhending and move his people to Luoyang."

"In fact, this time our army returns to Luoyang, we don't have to go by water. It just so happens that we have harvested a large number of horses this time, and our Sizhou has an agreement with Han Jizhou to exchange our horses for food. This time we return, we just have more than one man and many horses, so we will take a direct detour.

Then just escort your family members back. Pang Tong said from the side;

After hearing this, Huangfu Chaobo's eyes lit up. Yes, there are more than 10,000 troops returning to Luoyang this time. If there are one person and three horses, they can just send 10,000 to 20,000 horses to Han Fu. He immediately made a decision and asked Huang Xu and others to prepare the horses for the return journey.

After the affairs in Jizhou were arranged, Huangfu Chaobo mentioned the newly created territories and unified arrangements.

After several discussions, Huangfu Chaobo decided to transfer some soldiers and some prisoners from Longhua to build the territory at the intersection of the Yisun River and the Luan River.

Of course, since it is built at the same time, the personnel arrangements in several territories need to be comprehensively considered. After several discussions, they decided that Huang Xu would stay in Longhua, while Chengde would be handed over to Tian Yu, Zhang An would go to Shangban, and Meng Yuan would go to Shuangluan.

Among the several territories, the most important one is Chengde. This place needs to be upgraded to the level of a small town as soon as possible, while Shangban and Shuangluan can reach the level of a large town in the short term.

As the territory expands, the number of troops will increase. Huangfu Chaobo has always struggled with this issue. Originally, Longhua had enough soldiers and horses, with a total population of only tens of thousands, but the soldiers and horses included 10,000 combat soldiers and 10,000 defenders, including one cavalry. school.

Now that several more territories have been added, the military strength is bound to increase. After repeated discussions, it was decided to only increase the number of garrison troops by 2,000 and ordinary cavalry by 3,000 for the time being. Even so, the number of troops around Longhua reached 15,000, including 8,000 cavalry.

Fortunately, this time there are 30,000 captives and hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep, but the current food and grass are still insufficient, so it is estimated that Longhua can only find ways to stabilize the situation in the next one or two years. Fortunately, among the current territories, the real defense focus is still in the north of Longhua, unlike the original, where a territory is isolated on the edge of the grassland.

After spending a lot of time to deal with some government affairs, Huangfu Chaobo let everyone leave.

Huangfu Chaobo lowered his head to look at the documents for a while, and when he looked up inadvertently, he found that Huang Xu was still standing in the room. He didn't know what was going on, but he didn't say anything and stood there all the time.

Seeing Huangfu Chaobo looking up, Huang Xu stepped forward and said, "Nephew has something to ask uncle to decide!"

Looking at Huang Xu's appearance, Huangfu Chaobo couldn't help but be interested, and said, "Oh, what's the matter? You didn't mention it when we were discussing just now. It seems that it shouldn't be a public matter. Now there are only the two of us, uncle and nephew, here. If you have anything, just say it."