Chapter 729 Sending Troops to Support
After reading Hua Xiong's letter, Huangfu Chaobo breathed a sigh of relief. The reaction of the Sima family was not what Huangfu Chaobo expected, but it was unexpected.
What was expected was that the Sima family would definitely not die, but what was unexpected was that Sima Yi would leave for this reason. But that's fine, if he really comes to Luoyang, Huangfu Chaobo will still have to struggle with how to deal with this rebellious boy.
Now that he is going to harm others, Huangfu Chaobo is what he wants, but he just doesn’t know where this young tiger will go. Is the difficulty the same as that of Lao Cao’s family? In today's game, Lao Cao's two strategists, Xi Zhicai, have gone to Ye Laixiang, but there is still no news about Guo Langzi. It is estimated that Sima Yi will go to him to fill the gap of this top strategist.
After receiving the news from Hanoi, both Huangfu Chaobo and Xu Shu breathed a sigh of relief. Hua Xiong's Baotao camp could finally be vacated. In this way, the army sent to Hebei could be easily arranged.
Afterwards, Huangfu Chaobo ordered the rest of the people to be summoned overnight to discuss sending troops. After deliberation in the middle of the night, a decision was finally made. Jizhou's reinforcements sent Huang Zhong to lead the Tiger and Ben cavalry for emergency support. In fact, Jizhou did not lack soldiers and horses, but only lacked generals who could fight Yuan Shao's army.
There is only one general in Han Fu's army, Zhang He, and Yuan Shao's army will definitely be stretched thin if he assembles the army. Therefore, in addition to the cavalry, Huang Zhong also has two generals, Wang Ran and Wang Yong, to fight together, although they cannot compete with them. Compared with Huang Zhong's generals, they are still comparable to Tian Yu and Huang Xu. Compared with Zhang He, they are only slightly inferior, so it should still be able to alleviate the situation where Han Fu has soldiers but no generals.
In the later stage, once Hua Xiong's troops and horses are integrated with the Hanoi troops and horses, Hua Xiong's Xiliang cavalry will be transferred to Yecheng, which should be enough to deal with Yuan Shao's troops and horses.
Of course, for Yuan Shao's attack this time, everyone's idea was just to block it. As for regaining the city, Sizhou's army was now more than capable. The result of Xu Shu's discussion with everyone was to assist Han Fu's army in establishing a defense line in Xiangguo, Renxian, Jingxian, Guangzong, Ganling and Lingxian.
In this way, with Zhang He in charge of Guangzong, he can basically take care of both the east and west sides. If he could train those 20,000 cavalry, then the problem would be simpler. You know, Yuan Shaojun's cavalry is not very good now.
After discussing Han Fu's matter, Huangfu Chaobo brought up the Xuzhou matter.
This is another headache. Xuzhou is really far away. After much deliberation, there was only one way, to mobilize troops from Hekou City. Of course, in addition to the war barracks at Hekou, it would be best if Kong Rong also sent two or three more troops. Of course, another strategy is to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao, sending troops from Luoyang to attack Dongjun and Jiyin, forcing Cao Cao to return his troops.
In fact, for everyone, there is another thought that has not been expressed, and that is the weather. It is already the twelfth lunar month. The weather this year is really strange. At this time, it has entered the twelfth lunar month, except for Youzhou, Bingzhou and Liangzhou, it has begun to rain. Outside of the snow, heavy snow has not fallen anywhere in Dahan.
According to Lou Gui, who is proficient in divination, there will be several heavy snowfalls in the twelfth lunar month. If nothing goes wrong, the earliest snowfall will fall in the past two days. However, he once again said that even if there was a few snowfalls in the twelfth lunar month, it would still not be enough to alleviate the drought in the states in the Central Plains of Han Dynasty next year. Therefore, it is basically a foregone conclusion that grain production will decrease in several states in the Central Plains next year.
After listening to Lou Gui's words, everyone in Sizhou became nervous again. Now Sizhou's food reserves are only enough for the army for one year. If there is another war next year, there will probably be a shortage of food. However, the entire Hanoi has been included. Under the rule, according to Hua Xiong, his gains are still considerable and should be able to fill some vacancies.
After the discussion, Huang Zhong led the Huben cavalry to set off overnight, boarded the ship from Luoyang South Gate Pier, and arrived at Hanoi Port along the waterway. Then, one person and three horses rushed directly to Yecheng, and after communicating with Han Fu, they went to various places battlefield. Of course, Min Chun also returned to Jizhou with the army. Seeing his expression of gratitude,
Huangfu Chaobo couldn't help but sigh, no matter how incompetent Han Fu was, he still had such loyal subordinates, which was Jizhou's blessing.
At noon the next day, Xuzhou's messenger for help arrived in Luoyang. As everyone expected, they hoped to send reinforcements together with Kong Rong, and to coerce Cao Cao from behind to return.
Huangfu Chaobo did not refuse, and ordered Zhao Yun and Xu Shu in front of the messenger to lead Baima Yicong to Kaifeng to join Guo Daxian's war camp and send troops to Chenliu. Then after joining Zhang Miao's army, they decided on the direction of attack.
At the same time, he also sent an order to Meng Gang in Hekou City, asking him to lead the Hekou War Barracks and send troops to Xuzhou together with Kong Rong's army. Not only that, he also suggested that after Meng Gang arrived at Langya County, he would join the army of Tuberose before marching towards Tan County.
In this way, all the armies have been arranged, and they are just waiting for the final result.
As Lou Gui expected, it started to snow in Jizhou on the night when Huang Zhong led the Hu and Ben cavalry to Yecheng. After Huang Zhong led Wang Ran and Wang Yong to visit Han Fu, he did not stay much longer and led the troops by himself. Four thousand Huben cavalry rushed to Ganling City, the seat of Qinghe Kingdom. Wang Ran and Wang Yong each led 500 Huben cavalry as personal guards and were sent to Jingxian and Guangzong respectively to assist the local defenders in defending the city.
In this way, there will be generals from all directions who are capable of balancing Yuan Shao's army.
With this heavy snowfall, Yuan Shaojun's offensive slowed down significantly. After several generals arrived, they stepped up their efforts to fortify the city and wait for the next battle.
In the battlefield of Xuzhou, although Cao Cao's army was unstoppable, Tao Qian had already led his army to retreat to Tan County, defending the city and waiting for reinforcements. After several attacks, Cao Cao's army failed to capture the city. At this time, it had begun to snow in Xuzhou. Cao Cao had no choice but to order the generals to discuss the army's actions.
A few days later, the 20,000 troops led by Meng Gang and Zong Yu and the 10,000 troops led by Ye Laixiang arrived in the northwest of Tan County. The 30,000 troops were arranged by Ye Laixiang, the local snake, and they led the army all the way and finally arrived at the city of Tan County, the seat of Donghai, at the fastest speed.
After settling the army, Meng Gang and Zong Yu ordered the deputy general to stay in the camp, and the two of them went into the city with Ye Laixiang to meet Tao Qian.
Tao Qian, who received the news, was happy to meet the two generals and Ye Laixiang at the governor's mansion. The 30,000-strong army did not bring much food with them because they were a light army and marched fast. Upon hearing the news, Tao Qian waved his hand and gave 100,000 dan of food to the three men without saying a word.