Chapter 758: Reactions From Various Parties

It turned out that Zhang Miao saw that Huangfu Chaobo was unwilling to take over Chenliu. After staying at the post station for less than half an hour, he led his brother to Luoyang Academy, ready to ask him to persuade Huangfu Chaobo. Unexpectedly, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun were there. So Zhang Miao repeatedly asked the three to persuade Huangfu Chaobo together.

The three veterans were also skeptical about this matter, but they finally confirmed that Zhang Miao was indeed thinking of retreating, so they agreed to Zhang Miao's request. When they were about to leave for the city, Huangfu Chaobo came with his men.

After the three persuaded him, Huangfu Chaobo finally agreed to take over Chenliu, so everyone simply discussed the personnel arrangements of each county in Lu Zhi's study.

After an hour-long discussion, and after obtaining the consent of Zhang Miao and the others, Huangfu Chaobo finally finalized the personnel arrangements.

First of all, Zhang Miao was unwilling to serve as the governor of Chenliu. After repeated consideration, Huangfu Chaobo decided to appoint Zao Ji as the governor of Chenliu, transfer Zhou Cang to Chenliu as the commander, and lead 20,000 soldiers to guard Chenliu.

At the same time, in order to strengthen the defense of Chenliu, Huangfu Chaobo merged the three cities and one port of Puyang into Chenliu County, transferred Zhao Yun's Longxiang Army to guard Chenliu, Zhao Yun led two schools of infantry and Baima Yicong of Longxiang Army to guard Puyang, and deputy general Wang Yong led two schools of soldiers to guard Chenliu to assist Zhou Cang in guarding Chenliu.

And Wei Zi, the original subordinate of Zhang Miao in Chenliu, was appointed as Puyang Ling to assist Zhao Yun's troops in defending against Cao Cao. Another subordinate of Zhang Miao, Liu Yi, was appointed as the deputy commander of Chenliu to assist Zhou Cang.

In addition to these, Zhou Tai's navy was also adjusted. First, one school was arranged to guard Baima Port, and another school was arranged to guard Fenglingdu in Hedong to guard the two ends of the river in Sizhou. As for other ports, a part of the navy was arranged to guard them respectively.

Regarding the personnel arrangements of other counties, Dong Zhao was appointed as the governor of Hongnong, Zhu Fu as the county magistrate of Hongnong, and Zhang Chao as the commander of Hongnong. A new combat battalion was set up in Hongnong, the Xiongqu Battalion, with Huangfu Chaobo's cousin Huangfu Li as the chief general, Guan Hai and Pei Yuanshao as deputy generals, with a total of four schools of combat troops, including three schools of infantry and one school of cavalry.

Huangfu Li and Guan Hai led three schools of combat troops and two schools of guards of cavalry and infantry to station at Qin Hangu Pass to defend against the princes of Guanxi. Pei Yuanshao, another deputy general of the Xiongqu Army, led one school of combat troops and 10,000 guards of Zhang Chao, the commander of Hongnong, to station at Hongnong City as a backup for Hangu Pass.

The governor of Henei was Zhang Miao, Zhang Yi was the county magistrate of Henei, Wu Anguo was still the commander of Henei, and Dong Fang was the deputy commander to assist Wu Anguo. The rest of the personnel and troops remained unchanged for the time being.

Hedong was a newly acquired land, and its personnel and troops had already been arranged properly, so there was no need for changes.

Pang Shanmin replaced Zhang Yi as the county magistrate of Shuanghecheng, and Ma Xuan replaced Zhu Fu as the county magistrate of Xi'anyang, becoming the actual ruler of Xi'anyang.

As for the two veterans Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun, they officially retired to the second line, which also made Huangfu Chaobo feel relieved.

As for Chen Rong, another talent under Zhang Miao, he was arranged by Huangfu Chaobo to be with Tian Feng to assist Tian Feng in handling the daily affairs of the five counties under the jurisdiction of Sizhou.

The sudden Easter egg that fell from the sky made Huangfu Chaobo feel both pain and happiness. The pain was that he had to increase his troops again, and the happiness was that Chenliu had a large amount of money and grain stored. There were three million stones of grain alone, which was enough for the needs of 150,000 troops for a year, and now he could call them up. With these grains, everyone in Sizhou breathed a sigh of relief.

Regarding the adjustment of military strength, the first principle is to first set up the personal guard camp and then the battle camp. After these two elite units are full, consider the arrangement of the guards.

This time, a county was suddenly added.

After Huangfu Chaobo set up the Xiongqu Camp, considering that Xuzhou had basically become the meat in Cao Cao's bowl, the next target must be Qingzhou. Therefore, for the safety of Shuanghe City and Beihai State, everyone discussed and decided to add a school of war camp in Shuanghe City.

Because Henan County is now among the other counties, Huangfu Chaobo decided to reduce the number of guards in the passes of various cities in Henan. However, the number of city passes in Henan is too large, with 20 county towns plus the eight passes of Luoyang, as well as water forts on the south bank of the river, and 20,000 to 40,000 guards must be arranged in Luoyang City.

If you calculate it this way, although it has been reduced again and again, Henan County still has more than 60,000 guards.

Adding the troops of other cities and territories, Huangfu Chaobo finally found that he had 150,000 combat soldiers, nearly 400,000 guards, nearly 30,000 naval forces and 30,000 related personnel. Finally, Huangfu Chaobo found that he had 610,000 soldiers and horses, including nearly 50,000 cavalry.

At this time, the number of people under Huangfu Chaobo's rule was less than six million, and the ratio of soldiers to civilians had exceeded ten to one.

Huangfu Chaobo didn't know how he managed to maintain such a huge army. No wonder old man Tian Feng looked thinner day by day.

Chenliu Zhang Miao's surrender made a lot of glasses fall off in the game. Players were surprised by Huangfu Chaobo's strength. When ordinary players were still fighting for a county, he had reached the point where he could make all the princes surrender.

Not only the players were surprised, but all the princes were also speechless. Those who were far away didn't care, but the forces close by were more afraid of Huangfu Chaobo's strength.

In Yecheng, in the Jizhou Mu Mansion, after receiving the news that Chenliu Zhang Miao offered the entire Chenliu to Huangfu Chaobo, Han Fu locked himself in the room for a whole day. He thought that his son-in-law would attack his allies now, and he was even more uneasy, fearing that the Sizhou army might suddenly appear in Yecheng and force him to surrender. He was struggling with whether to surrender or not?

Who knew that the next day, the news that Zhang Miao was appointed as the governor of Henei spread to Jizhou. At the same time, Zhang Chao was also appointed as the commander, and all the people under Zhang Miao were properly appointed. This news made Han Fu and his subordinates feel relieved. It seems that Zhang Miao was not forced to surrender to Sizhou.

As a result, Han Fu and his subordinates also had the idea of ​​surrendering. The main reason was that Han Fu's domestic affairs ability might be much stronger than Zhang Miao, but his military talent was probably not even half as good as Zhang Miao's. Moreover, Han Fu had a very bad shortcoming, that is, he was easily influenced, so his subordinates felt a little helpless.

However, for now, the people in Jizhou only had a little idea in their hearts, and no one really had many strong ideas.

Unlike Han Fu's ideas, the ideas of the other princes were even more fearful. Such as Yuan Shao, Guo and Li in Guanzhong, Zhang Ji in Nanyang, and Cao Cao in Yanzhou.

At this time, Cao Cao was not only fearful, but also deeply discouraged. He fought hard to lose three cities and gained two counties, while others exchanged a county for more than 20 cities with the casualties of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.