Chapter 710: Making a Plan
In the evening, the news from Zhao Yun arrived almost at the same time as the news from Luoyang and Hanoi.
Things have reached the worst level that Huangfu Chaobo expected. Just as Huangfu Chaobo thought, all Hanoi families headed by the Sima family got involved. After receiving the news from Hedong, many aristocratic families rose up against Huangfu Chaobo and quickly captured Jiguan, completely blocking the way for Sizhou's army to return to Hanoi.
Not only that, the family's army, which had been prepared for a long time, quickly returned to prepare to attack Huai County after occupying Jiguan. Unfortunately, they had bad luck. When they were attacking Jiguan, a group of shadows secretly arrived at Jiguan, preparing to enter Hedong through Chijing from Jiguan. Who knew that they happened to encounter the Sima family and captured Jiguan.
They did not die together with the defenders, but when they saw that nothing could be done, they quickly evacuated, and at the same time issued a flying flood warning to Luoyang and Huai County.
The Shadow Guards who evacuated from Jiguan quickly entered Dongyuan County through the Chi Path. Along the way, they withdrew all the guards along the way to Dongyuan, not only everywhere east of Dongyuan, but also after getting Lengkou After the news of the loss, they will advise General Dongyuan to withdraw all the troops and horses between Dongyuan and Lengkou, and concentrate them all in Dongyuan City.
Because Dongyuan is close to the Haoqing River, a tributary of the Yellow River. Although the river is not big, there is still no problem in supplying some grain and grass to Dongyuan City through here. Therefore, after receiving the news that Dongyuan was here, Xu Shu immediately ordered the Dongyuan garrison to defend the city to cut off the connection between Hedong and Hanoi.
After receiving the shadow warning, Zhu Jun, the prefect of Hanoi, saw the opportunity and quickly transferred the army from the military camp outside Huai County into the city, closed the gate of Huai County, and sent an order to Hanoi Port to strengthen defense.
Within a few days, only Chaoge, Danyinshu City and Hanoi Port east of Huai County in Hanoi were still under the control of Huangfu Chaobo, while the other cities west of Huai County rebelled. Moreover, the cities east of Huai County are poorly guarded. Once the aristocratic family's army marches eastward, the counties and cities will be able to attack almost overnight.
The news from Hanoi broke Huangfu Chaobo's last fantasy. Now, there is only one last way left, which is to go north across Fenshui and return to Luoyang by boat from Hejin. However, there is still more than a hundred miles in between. The road, this will be a road paved with blood.
Huangfu Chaobo couldn't imagine that when he returned to Luoyang, of the 120,000 troops, a total of 150,000 people, he didn't know how many would be left. One hundred thousand? Eighty thousand? Or fifty or sixty thousand? Or even less?
After receiving the news of the rebellion of the Hanoi family, Huangfu Chaobo immediately sent people to recruit Sima Lang and other children of the family, but the accounts were empty. The children of the family had already disappeared without a trace, and they disappeared with them. There is also Hanoi's army of about 5,000 people. It seemed that they had gotten the news a long time ago, and then found a reason to leave the camp and run away.
At the same time, Xu Shu and others who stayed in Luoyang also sent suggestions, which coincided with Pang Tong's idea. The army went north to Hejin and returned to Luoyang from Heshui. For this reason, Xu Shu generals Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin have already transferred the naval forces to Hongnong. At the same time, they also asked Pan Feng, the naval general of Yizhou, for help, and asked him to send another navy to support, with a total of 15,000 naval forces. The army has already gone to Hongnong and is on standby. Huangfu Chaobo only needs to confirm it before he can go north to Hejin to meet the army.
"Now that it has been determined that there is only one way to go, then go on with determination, no matter what the result is."
Huangfu Chaobo looked at Pang Tong and said calmly;
Pang Tong felt his heart tremble after hearing this, and said, "Don't worry, general, we will get this debt back."
Nodding, Huangfu Chaobo stopped talking, but looked to the west, where he still had 30,000 soldiers, but. . .
Pang Tong said: "General, since you have decided to retreat, you can send someone to tell General Zhao and let them make arrangements early. Let someone tell him that the final destination of the army is Pishi. If possible, wouldn't General Zhao's two cavalry units return?" There are nearly 20,000 horses, but some soldiers are brought back to the camp and then retreat with the army. Some other soldiers are even asked to disperse and evacuate directly to Pishi. Of course, this destination can only be used by officers above the camp commander. Knowing that, they led some soldiers to disperse and retreat to Pishi.
As for those seriously injured soldiers. . . "
At this point, Pang Tong also stopped and did not continue talking, but everyone present knew what he meant.
Huangfu Chaobo listened, nodded, and said to Dian Wei: "Give General Zhao an order, just say it according to the military advisor's wishes, and then ask General Zhao to tell the seriously injured soldiers, just say... Just say that I am ashamed of them. But please rest assured that I will definitely avenge them, and I will take good care of their wives, children, and children.”
"General, take your orders!" Dian Wei bowed solemnly after hearing this, and then prepared to go out and make arrangements.
"Wait a minute," Huangfu Chaobo said suddenly, "Lao Dian, take all the horses in the camp and ask General Zhao to bring back as many people as possible..."
Dian Wei was stunned for a moment, then realized what he was doing, nodded and left.
Looking at Dian Wei's leaving figure, Huangfu Chaobo pondered for a moment and then said: "Shi Yuan, prepare to retreat!"
Pang Tong nodded and walked towards the map of Hedong spread on the table. Explaining his plan to Huangfu Chaobo, how many troops and horses can be retained in this retreat depends on how long it can be hidden from Xu Rong.
So, Pang Tong's plan is that starting from tomorrow, after the Suzhi army breaks through and Zhao Yun leads his troops back, he will immediately send troops up the Sushui River to intensify the investigation of Lengkou. At the same time, he will send people to collect food and grass from the surrounding territories, pretending to raise food and grass for the army to attack Lengkou. In fact, there is still enough food and grass for the army in the camp for half a month, which can fully support the army to withdraw to Pishi.
In addition, the soldiers of Suzhi's army who are dispersed and withdrawing must also pretend to go to Wenshi to join. Moreover, the guards of Wen County must also take action, that is, to build a floating bridge on the side of the Sushui River, pretending that the guards want to cross the river and join the army. At the same time, they continue to accumulate food and grass in Wenxi, and pretend to continuously strengthen the defense of Wenxi County.
In addition, a floating bridge was built on the Sushui River near the southeast gate of Wenxi, and a more solid camp was built on the other side of the Sushui River to give Xu Rong an illusion that the Sizhou Army wanted to use Wenxi County and the camp on the river bank as a base to attack Lengkou Town and try to open up Chijing to return to Hanoi.
After hearing Pang Tong's words, Huangfu Chaobo wondered, "Can Xu Rong be deceived in this way?"
Pang Tong shook his head and said, "It's possible, it's possible, and it's possible that he won't. Of course, even if he is fooled, it can only delay him for three to five days at most, and what we have to do is to buy this time so that the army can smoothly withdraw to Pi's. Do your best and leave it to fate!"