Chapter 763: Kong Rong Surrenders
Kong Rong also knew that it was not that the quality of the soldiers in Qingzhou was not good. You know, after hundreds of thousands of Qingzhou Yellow Turbans were under the rule of Cao Cao, they were indeed trained into the world-famous elite division - Qingzhou soldiers. It can be seen that Qingzhou is not without elite soldiers, but he is indeed as General Andong said, not good at military affairs.
Recalling that at the end of last year, Chenliu Prefect Zhang Miao surrendered the county, and the two brothers and their generals were all reused.
Thinking of this, Kong Rong stood up, faced the west, bowed respectfully, and stood up for a long time before saying to Pang Shanmin: "General Andong's words awakened the dreamer. Wen Ju voluntarily followed General Andong's tail wing, reported to the court, and went down to the people."
Pang Shanmin laughed and said: "Wen Jugong is indeed a great talent with the world in mind. The general said that Wen Jugong would definitely understand his meaning, and it was true."
"According to General Andong's intention, what should we do now?" Kong Rong had agreed to surrender to Huangfu Chaobo, and after putting down the burden in his heart, he immediately asked Pang Shanmin.
Seeing this, Pang Shanmin explained Huangfu Chaobo's arrangements to him in detail one by one. The two of them summoned all the officials and staff under Kong Rong and discussed all the details carefully. It can be said that although Kong Rong was not good at military affairs, his personality charm was good. His people did not object to joining Huangfu Chaobo. On the contrary, many people breathed a sigh of relief.
According to Huangfu Chaobo's plan, Beihai only needed to defend the city tightly, and the war in Qingzhou would be left to Meng Gang's army. After the discussion, Pang Shanmin then returned to Shuanghe City, and Meng Gang immediately led the two schools of soldiers to quietly set off.
A few days later, Meng Gang's two schools of soldiers arrived in Dong'anping City, while strengthening the city defense, and preparing to meet Wang Zifu's army in Linzi City.
As expected, on the tenth day of May, Xiahou Yuan's army attacked Linzi. In just a few days, Xiahou Yuan's army broke into Linzi City, and Qingzhou Mu Jiao He and Donglai Taishou Cai Yuan both died in the chaos.
Because of Kong Rong's reminder in advance, Wang Zifu, the deputy lieutenant of Beihai State, led nearly 5,000 remnants of Beihai State to retreat in a hurry. With the help of Meng Gang's army in Dong'anping City, they crossed the Zibo River and entered Dong'anping City to defend the city.
After Cao Cao's army entered Linzi City, they suffered heavy losses due to the desperate resistance of Jiao He and Cai Yuan's army. So Xiahou Yuan was busy stabilizing the situation in Linzi City while consolidating the territory north of the Zibo River.
Because of the large loss of troops, coupled with the stabilization of the existing territory, and considering that the troops of Qingzhou were as weak as ever, Xiahou Yuan's deputy general Jia Da led 5,000 Yanzhou troops and 10,000 Qingzhou Long troops to attack Dong'anping.
On the 16th, Jia Da led his troops to cross the Zibo River and attack Dong'anping. When Jia Da's army was crossing the river, it was attacked by Meng Gang's army halfway across the river. The 5,000 Yanzhou troops lost 2,000, and nearly half of the 10,000 Qingzhou surrendered. Jia Da led his troops to retreat to Linzi in embarrassment.
After being repelled by Meng Gang, Xiahou Yuan discovered that Huangfu Chaobo's army had intervened. Seeing this, Man Pang suggested that Xiahou Yuan stop advancing southward and instead consolidate the territory north of Zibo River. At present, half of the cities in Qingzhou have been taken over by Cao Cao.
As expected by Man Pang, on the third day after Jia Da's army was repelled, Xiahou Yuan received news that warships of the Sizhou navy appeared in Zibo River and Judian Lake. If the army crossed the Zibo River, it would basically be a one-way trip.
Hearing this news, Xiahou Yuan couldn't help but secretly congratulate himself for stopping quickly. If the army crossed the Zibo River, it would be a meat bun hitting a dog.
After repelling Cao Cao's army, Meng Gang arranged to strengthen the defense of Dong'anping County while sending people to gather the defeated soldiers of Qi, Beihai and Donglai. At the same time, in the name of Andong General's Mansion, Shouguang, Yiguo, Guangxian and Linqu were taken over.
Then, Meng Gang selected 10,000 soldiers from the nearly 10,000 soldiers who had been defeated in Qingzhou and soldiers from various counties and prefectures based on the 10,000-man battle camp, and reorganized them into four schools of war horses. He was appointed as the Canglang Camp by Huangfu Chaobo, with Meng Gang as the commander and Han Xian as the deputy commander. The Canglang Camp had five schools of soldiers and horses, including 20,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry. As for the cavalry, they were mobilized from various cities in Sizhou.
At the same time,
after receiving the news that Cao Cao had captured Linzi, Huangfu Chaobo wrote to the court, reprimanding Cao Cao, the governor of Yanzhou, for ignoring the court's decree, sending troops to attack Qingzhou, and killing Jiao He, the governor of Qingzhou. At the same time, Huangfu Chaobo submitted a petition to recommend Kong Rong, the prime minister of Beihai, as the governor of Qingzhou.
With Wang Yue's help, and Guo and Li in Chang'an City who were happy to see the endless fighting among the princes of Guandong, they immediately agreed to Huangfu Chaobo's recommendation. A few days later, the court officially issued an order to reprimand Cao Cao, and at the same time, the court issued an order to agree to Kong Rong as the governor of Qingzhou.
In June, Kong Rong took office as the governor of Qingzhou. As soon as he took office, he immediately appointed Lou Gui as the prime minister of Beihai, Wu Anguo as the lieutenant of Beihai, Wang Xiu as the governor of Donglai, and Zong Bao as the lieutenant of Donglai.
For a time, the world was in an uproar. Everyone knew that Lou Gui was Huangfu Chaobo's confidant and had joined him when Huangfu Chaobo was the magistrate of Changsha County. He played an irreplaceable role in Huangfu Chaobo's rise. It can be said that if Huang Zhong is the undisputed number one among Huangfu Chaobo's military commanders, then Lou Gui is the number one among his advisers.
Although in recent years, Lou Gui is no longer as good as before, offering advice to Huangfu Chaobo from time to time, but he always appears in places where Huangfu Chaobo is in urgent need.
After pacifying Hedong, Lou Gui was the first governor of Hedong appointed by Huangfu Chaobo. But now he was appointed as the prime minister of Beihai by Kong Rong. Doesn't it mean that after Zhang Miao, the governor of Chenliu, another group of princes who had been among the 18 princes who had fought against Dong Zhuo have defected to Huangfu Chaobo?
If we add the Zhangyang Army in Henei that was destroyed by Huangfu Chaobo, there are now three vassal states that have been annexed by Huangfu Chaobo.
The sun in Yanzhou in June is scorching, but the Yanzhou governor's mansion is as cold as the coldest days of the year. In his study, General Fenwei, the governor of Yanzhou, Cao Cao, has smashed a lot of things and killed two maids who broke into the study without any sense.
Not only that, half an hour has passed, and there are bursts of roars from time to time in the study. The reason is that Cao Cao has received news from the court in Chang'an. General Andong Huangfu Chaobo reported him for recklessly using weapons and killing important officials of the court. The emperor actually issued an order to reprimand him and appointed Kong Rong as the new Qingzhou governor.
Now everyone in the world knows that Kong Rong of Beihai, Han Fu of Jizhou, and Zhang Miao of Chenliu, who has directly surrendered to Huangfu Chaobo, are all under the command of Huangfu Chaobo. Now appointing Kong Rong as the governor of Qingzhou is no different from Huangfu Chaobo directly controlling Qingzhou.
I worked so hard to get half of Qingzhou, but Huangfu Chaobo got half of Qingzhou just by talking.