Chapter 756: Everyone's Gains and Losses

As the promoter of this war, Cao Cao's army also gained a lot, but did not achieve his original goal. He only got the two counties of Xuzhou, Donghai and Pengcheng. However, he lost Puyang, the county capital of Dongjun, and two cities and a port to the west. The loss of troops and horses reached nearly 40,000 troops, including more than 10,000 special troops of Qingzhou.

However, after this war, Cao Cao's strength increased greatly. First, he got the most prosperous Donghai Kingdom in Xuzhou. With the financial support of Donghai Kingdom, and after a big battle with Sizhou Army, Cao Cao decided that Xiahou Dun and Cao Ren would each train 10,000 heavy infantry, while Cao Cao himself began to train another world-famous strong army-Tiger and Leopard Cavalry.

At the same time, in order to commend Cao Charlie's achievements, Cao Cao ordered Cao Charlie to be appointed as the fourth-rank general of the anti-thief, and led Taishan prefect. At the same time, he agreed that Cao Charlie would select suitable soldiers from the army to replenish the Tiger Guard Army, which had lost more than half of its members.

However, Taishan County is still under the control of Zang Ba, and Cao Cao needs to lead his troops to capture it. For this reason, Cao Cao also specially sent Liu Ye, the new military advisor, to assist him in capturing Taishan County.

Let's look at Yuan Shao's army. Although they launched a large army to attack and wanted to occupy the entire Jizhou area, they did not expect that Han Fu's army only got a dozen counties after desperate resistance. However, although the harvest was a little small, it was still good.

As for Huangfu Chaobo's Sizhou Army, after two major battles in a year, the loss of soldiers and horses was also between 30,000 and 40,000, among which there were thousands of the most elite special troops, which can be said to be a big loss.

The biggest loss was in terms of food and grass. After two major battles in a year, the granaries of Sizhou were almost emptied. Originally, they thought that they would conserve their strength, store food and grass, and train soldiers this year, but in the end, they found that they had worked almost in vain this year.

In fact, it was not really in vain. At least he got a county town, two county towns and a port. Although Puyang was only a county town, it was the fourth largest city among the 80 cities in Yanzhou, second only to the state town Changyi and the county towns Chenliu and Dingtao. It was also one of the top five cities under Cao Cao's rule.

The population of the cities in Dongjun was more than 600,000, of which there were more than 100,000 people in Puyang City, and the other 14 cities had more than 30,000 to 50,000 people, and the least was only about 20,000.

Cao Cao had never thought that Huangfu Chaobo's Sizhou Army would attack Puyang so desperately, and he had never thought that the 5,000 guards around Huangfu Chaobo could actually hold out for an hour under the attack of his 20,000 Qingzhou. In this way, he lost such a big city. If it weren't for the two counties of Donghai and Pengcheng, Cao Cao would feel that he had really lost a lot.

What Huangfu Chaobo didn't know was that he didn't fight in vain in this battle, and there was a big easter egg waiting for him later.

As for Han Fu, the one who suffered the most in the whole war, if he had heard the saying "When you sit at home, disaster comes from the sky", he would definitely agree with it. When the city gate caught fire, the fish in the pond were affected. Before he could react, suddenly more than ten county towns became someone else's.

The one who really had a false alarm was Zhang Miao. When Cao Cao's army suddenly attacked, Zhang Miao was so scared that he almost immediately asked for help from Sizhou. A month later, the several cities of Chenliu that were initially captured by Cao Cao's army were taken back by Zhao Yun and his younger brother Zhang Chao.

On the fifth day of November, the first heavy snow of the fifth year of Chuping had already arrived. In a few days, from the north to Youzhou in the south to Huainan, the entire area north of the Yangtze River in the Han Dynasty was covered with white snow. The heavy snow all over the sky made many people breathe a sigh of relief, including Huangfu Chaobo, because the empty granary made him no longer think of sending troops.

After arranging the defense of Puyang, Huangfu Chaobo returned to Luoyang. Although the war was over, he still had a lot to do, and he was busy with domestic affairs.

Fortunately, when he returned to Luoyang, he received good news. Pang Shanmin and Ma Xuan had returned to Xiangyang. After reading Pang Tong's letter, they had already arrived in Luoyang at the invitation of Huangfu Chaobo. Huangfu Chaobo arranged for them to familiarize themselves with government affairs with Mi Zhu, and then arranged for them to take office after a period of time.

As for Puyang City, Huangfu Chaobo arranged for Huang Zhong's deputy general Wang Ran to lead two schools of Tiger Guard Camp soldiers and two schools of guards, totaling 20,000 troops, to guard it. In addition, Zhou Tai's 5,000 troops were also stationed in Baima Port, and there was also a school of guards stationed to defend Baima Port and Baima City.

On November 25, Huangfu Chaobo was handling government affairs when he suddenly heard someone report that Chenliu prefect Zhang Miao and Duwei Zhang Chao wanted to see him. Huangfu Chaobo saw this and hurried out to greet them in person.

At this time, Huangfu Chaobo had changed back into the ordinary clothes of a marquis, not a military uniform. When he walked out of the general's mansion, er, wrong, it should be "Cangting Marquis' Mansion", the two brothers Zhang Miao and Zhang Chao were already waiting at the gate.

During the more than one month that Huangfu Chaobo was on the expedition, the people who stayed in Luoyang had renovated the original Pingdong General's Mansion for him and renamed it "Cangting Marquis' Mansion". These names were written by old man Lu Zhi himself. When Huangfu Chaobo returned, the mansion had already been completed.

In this regard, Huangfu Chaobo also complained a little. You know, this general's mansion was well renovated when he took over Luoyang a few years ago, which cost Huangfu Chaobo a lot of money. Now it has only been a few years, and it has cost a lot of money to renovate it. It is estimated that it has cost a lot, which makes Huangfu Chaobo feel distressed.

However, after hearing this, several old men gave Huangfu Chaobo a long speech. The implication was that Huangfu Chaobo was now a marquis of the court. Although he was only a marquis of Ting, he could not not use bean buns as dry food. The marquis's mansion was not only about your own business, but also related to the dignity of the court. And so on. . .

Including Huangfu Chaobo's clothes, several old men also talked about it. They said that except for the military uniform he had to wear when he went out to fight, he had to wear official uniform when he returned to Luoyang to handle government affairs. And when meeting with foreign ministers, he should wear marquis's clothes.

Huangfu Chaobo is now too busy to switch on and off, and there are thousands of things waiting for him to sort out. This year, the Sizhou Army won two battles in the end. Huangfu Chaobo himself was promoted to a marquis, so when the end of the year came, his subordinates were also looking at the marquis' mansion eagerly. Now his every move is carefully watched by people.

There is no other reason. Promotion and wealth have been the norm since ancient times. Therefore, Huangfu Chaobo must finalize the promotion of officials and generals before the New Year. Otherwise, who would be willing to charge into battle for you and fight to the death?

The second thing is the rewards for soldiers and the pensions for the disabled and dead. These must also be finalized before the New Year.