Chapter 725: Retreat to Pi's
"I will obey your orders!" Seeing this, everyone hurriedly took the orders and retreated, each preparing their own troops. Dian Wei personally led a group of Iron Wall Guards and went to Pi's house under the escort of a group of White Horse Volunteers. Although he did not lead the troops these days, he was very clear about the losses of the soldiers. After getting Huangfu Chaobo's permission, he simply went to Pi's house in person.
Fortunately, the officials and generals of Pi's house were self-aware. After learning that it was the tens of thousands of troops of Sizhou Mu, they only discussed for a quarter of an hour before opening the city gate and welcoming Dian Wei and a thousand White Horse Volunteers into the city.
In fact, as early as yesterday, the city had already learned about the news that a large army had crossed the river, but there was no definite news, so it was not completely confirmed. After learning that it was the Sizhou army, the county magistrate and the county lieutenant immediately summoned the wealthy families in the city to discuss matters, and finally decided to open the gate and surrender.
The county of Pi has always been controlled by the four families of Que, Xie, Yao, and Dong. Because they control the northernmost ferry Hejin in the middle and lower reaches of the river, this is also the main route to enter Bingzhou from water to land. For example, Zhou Tai's navy traveled back and forth between Hejin and Luoyang many times, so he was relatively clear about the situation of the Sizhou army.
Because of the developed commerce of Pi, the military force is also sufficient. Among the counties in Hedong, there are already many, as many as 10,000 people. In addition to a part of the navy, they have never listened to Jiang Pei's orders. This time, Anyi sent troops to resist Huangfu Chaobo. Pi was one of the few counties that did not send troops, except for several counties controlled by the Yellow Turban Army. In fact, the idea is that you can make trouble as you like, and I just don't want to get involved.
Who knows, the matter is beyond everyone's expectations. The Sizhou army actually suffered a big loss under the city of Anyi. I thought I had nothing to do, but I didn't expect that in less than two days, the Sizhou army appeared under the city of Pi.
The four heads of the noble families who received the news were scared out of their wits. As the saying goes, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Although the Sizhou army suffered a loss under Anyi City, it was not something that the small Pi County could resist. So without much discussion, the four families and the county magistrate and county lieutenant decided to open the city gate and surrender. At least for this reason, General Pingdong should not deal with them.
Moreover, General Pingdong failed this time, and he would definitely attack Hedong again. They had made contributions by offering the city, and they persuaded General Pingdong to send troops to garrison Pi, thinking that there should be no problem in the future counterattack. So after thinking through these, the four families did not hesitate to open the city and surrender with the county magistrate and county lieutenant.
When the city gate was opened, Dian Wei was also a little stunned, but he quickly reacted. With an order, the White Horse Yicong entered the city immediately, first controlled the east gate of Pi County, and then led the county magistrate and his party to the army station to welcome Huangfu Chaobo to enter Pi.
Seeing the people of the Pi family, Huangfu Chaobo also comforted them, then led his army into the city, took control of all four gates of the county, and sent a school of soldiers to control Hejin Port. After making such arrangements, he was relieved.
Then he ordered Shi A to send a letter to the people in Luoyang to inform them of the army's movements. And let them try to contact the navy and rush to Hejin as soon as possible.
Afterwards, the Sizhou Army settled down in Pi and began to reorganize the army according to Huangfu Chaobo's requirements. The first to be replenished were the soldiers of Huangfu Chaobo's personal guard camp. After more than a month of continuous fighting, many soldiers have been promoted, so it is still easy to replenish these soldiers from more than 50,000 soldiers and more than 10,000 troops of the Pi family.
However, it is not easy to replenish the White Horse Volunteers and the Tuqi in places like the Central Plains. Considering the needs of the war, Huangfu Chaobo instead drew hundreds of soldiers from the Tuqi to replenish the White Horse Volunteers, so that both cavalry have 4,000 horses.
The next step is to replenish the combat battalion, which is a big problem. You know, the war during this period has lost more than 11,000 people. Although a large number of soldiers have reached the requirements of the combat battalion after the war, only more than 8,000 people were added in the end,
making up four schools of soldiers.
The rest of the soldiers were mixed with the 10,000 soldiers of the Pi family, and there were a total of 40,000 guards. After Huangfu Chaobo discussed with Pang Tong and Zhao Yun, they decided to leave 10,000 guards and 5,000 combat soldiers in the Pi family, plus Hu Yandu's 4,000 cavalry, with Su Zhi as the captain and Yang Feng as the deputy captain. The three of them guarded the Pi family and waited for the next expedition to Hedong.
As for the remaining 30,000 guards, Luoyang, Hongjia and Henei counties each arranged 10,000 people. These are veterans after several wars. They only need a few more wars to meet the requirements of combat soldiers.
But in this way, Huangfu Chaobo felt that the generals at hand were a little nervous, but he couldn't make up his mind how to arrange it. He could only wait until he returned to Luoyang and discussed with Xu Shu and Pang Tong before making adjustments.
The army only rested for three days in Pi's family, and Zhou Tai led the three schools of navy to Hejin. Before the navy rested, Huangfu Chaobo couldn't wait to arrange for the army to board the ship and return to Luoyang.
Sitting in the navy camp, watching 50,000 soldiers and more than 20,000 civilian craftsmen boarding the ship in an orderly manner, Huangfu Chaobo was really relieved. Just as he sat down, he saw Xu Shu rushing over. As soon as they met, Xu Shu knelt in front of him and couldn't get up, and apologized to Huangfu Chaobo: "I failed in my duty and almost put the lord in death. I can't atone for my sins even if I die. Please punish me, lord!"
Seeing Xu Shu's haggard expression, Huangfu Chaobo didn't know how heavy the responsibilities he, a military advisor, had been shouldering in recent times. You must know that although this battle was agreed between him and Pang Tong, Pang Tong was a guest, and he was Huangfu Chaobo's nominal military advisor, and he was Huangfu Chaobo's niece-in-law.
While the army was resting in Pishi, Huangfu Chaobo had slowly sobered up and calmed down. He carefully thought about all the situations he knew so far, and found that he had missed one person in his calculations, and it was this person who made him Almost the entire army was wiped out. That person was Sima Yi, who was known as "a man with a wolf-like attitude" and a man known as "a young man with great intelligence and a great strategy." Huangfu Chaobo still remembered that he once saw on the Internet that the president of the current dynasty once said: "Sima Yi is a great person. He has always been said to be bad, but I think he has some skills better than Cao Cao."
Huangfu Chaobo realized that he had forgotten him. Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo slapped himself hard several times. You must know that although Sima Yi is not an adult, isn't Pang Tong next to him also a minor? Pang Tong and Xu Shu didn't know, but Huangfu Chaobo himself should not forget it. Therefore, if there is any responsibility for this matter, the biggest responsibility actually lies with Huangfu Chaobo himself.