Chapter 880 Personnel Arrangements in Lujiang County

On April 5, Huang Zhong led the army to attack the county of Wuguo. Wuguo was originally a county in the northeast of Jiangxia County. It was isolated from the northeast corner of Jiangxia County along with Min County and Xiyang County. Because of the barrier of Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain, it has never been closely connected with other cities in Jiangxia.

A few years ago, after Yuan Shu's army took control of Huainan, they took control of the three county towns on the east side of the Tongbai Mountain Range and placed them under the jurisdiction of Lujiang County.

Last year, after Yuan Shu's army lost the southern part of Runan, they sent Le Jiu to Wuguo to use these counties to defend against the attacks of the Andong Army and the Upper Army of Yuzhou. However, after falling into the Andong Army's plan of making a feint to the east and attacking in the west, the army finally crossed the Huai River.

Le had been in the county town of Wuguo for nearly half a year. During this half year, because of the war experience in Runan, Le had known the strength of the Anton Army. Therefore, after arriving in Wuguo, in addition to training soldiers, he also strengthened the defense of the city. Of course, in addition to Wuguo, the situation of the other cities was the same.

So when Huang Zhong led his troops to attack Wuguo, he found that the defense capabilities of a small county town of Wuguo were no less than those of a small county town. Although the scale of the city was still at the county level, its defense capabilities were comparable to those of a small county town.

After arriving at the city of Wuguo, Huang Zhong carefully observed the situation of the city. He did not attack immediately, but proceeded step by step as if he were attacking a large city.

First, he filled the surrounding moat, and then prepared the siege equipment. He attacked step by step. Soldiers from the various camps and schools of the Andong Army and the Yuzhou Army were arranged by him to attack the city in turn. In fact, all the soldiers in the Yuzhou Army were veterans, but there was still a big gap in strength with the rest of the Andong Army. After more than half a year of reorganization and training, they have made considerable progress. However, they have not experienced a big battle and do not have the momentum of the rest of the Andong Army.

This time when attacking Huainan, Huang Zhong was just preparing to use the soldiers of the Yuzhou Army's various battle camps for training. Le Jue in the city of Weiguo also understood Huang Zhong's thoughts, but he could do nothing about it. He only had 15,000 soldiers in total. Although the county city of Weiguo was not big, the Andong Army had more than 100,000 soldiers. If the armies took turns to attack, Le Jue would be stretched to the limit.

Finally, on the morning of the 15th, the county city of Wuguo, which had held out for ten days, was captured. Nearly 8,000 of the 15,000 Yuan Shu troops were killed or wounded, and almost all of the 5,000 defenders were killed or wounded. The army of Huang Zhong suffered more than 20,000 casualties. However, not all of these 20,000 soldiers died in battle. Less than 10,000 of them died, and the rest were injured. In addition, the An Dong army treated them in time, and most of them could basically recover after ten days of rest.

Among the 8,000 Yuan Shu soldiers who died or were seriously injured, more than 2,000 soldiers with minor injuries were treated by the An Dong army, and the remaining 6,000 or 7,000 soldiers were basically lightly injured and could recover after three to five days of rest.

So far, the county city of Wuguo was captured by Huang Zhong, and Le Jiu himself was also injured and captured. Huang Zhong only arranged for someone to treat his wounds, and then detained Le Jiu alone, waiting for Huangfu Chaobo to return before dealing with him.

After the army rested in the county of Wuguo for five days, Huang Zhong ordered Han Xian to lead 10,000 troops to defend Wuguo, and he led Huang Wudie, Wang Ran, Wang Yong and Zhang He and other troops with a total of 60,000 troops to the west to attack Min County. As for Huangfu Chaobo's guards, they were still stationed in the camp by the river, defending Huangfu Chaobo's tent and waiting for Huangfu Chaobo to return.

The attack on Min County was much simpler than that of Wuguo. There were only 4,000 guards. Although they were much stronger than the defenders of Runan Yuzhou, there was still a certain gap with the elite soldiers selected by the Yuzhou army. After more than four days of fighting, Min County was successfully captured.

At this time, they received a report from the camp that Huangfu Chaobo had led his troops back, so Huang Zhong and the others handed over the affairs of Min County to Huang Wudie and others, and then they and Pang Tong rushed back to the camp under the escort of the cavalry.

After listening to Huang Zhong's introduction, Huangfu Chaobo also understood the combat effectiveness of the guards of the Huainan cities of Yuan Shu's army. It seemed that the subsequent battles would not be easy.

Just as he was thinking about the subsequent battles,

Huang Zhong suddenly said: "General, there is still something that needs to be considered early!"

Huangfu Chaobo was stunned and looked at Huang Zhong and said: "What is it?"

"Arrangement of military and political personnel in Lujiang County!" Huang Zhong said;

Originally, as a subordinate, these things were not something he could manage, but fortunately, he had a special relationship with Huangfu Chaobo, and he was not the kind of person who had a strong desire for power, so if he reminded him, it would not be a big problem. In fact, Pang Tong and others also reminded Huangfu Chaobo about this matter, just because Kong Jun's subordinates really didn't have many people to show off, and if they directly transferred people from the Andong Army, it would be too obvious. Just like Huang Zhong and others took so many detours to arrange to Yuzhou, the personnel arrangement in Lujiang was really a headache.

However, the situation is better now. Huangfu Chaobo has already obtained five famous general cards. At least the main general of Lujiang's war camp should be no problem.

Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo suddenly remembered Kong Xin, the nephew of Kong Zhu, who helped him a lot at the beginning. In order to comfort Kong Zhu, he must arrange a better position for him. It happened that after Lujiang County was occupied, Kong Xin could be appointed as the main general of the war camp, killing two birds with one stone. It can confuse the sight of other princes and arrange Kong Zhu.

As for the candidate for the Lujiang prefect, Huangfu Chaobo considered it again and again and decided to appoint Liu Chengzu, one of Kong Rong's staff. After Kong Rong surrendered to Huangfu Chaobo, Liu Chengzu also surrendered with him. Later, he was under Tian Feng's command to assist him in handling political affairs. According to Old Man Tian, ​​Liu Chengzu was indeed talented. He had served as a county magistrate in Beihai for several years, and then entered Kong Rong's state prime minister's office. He was quite talented and was qualified to be the governor of a county.

It happened that Lujiang had just captured a few counties, so Liu Chengzu was transferred here to try. It was easy to say to the outside world, but Liu Chengzu was not famous to begin with. He had only served as a county magistrate and an official in the state prime minister's office. It was said that Kong Rong asked Huangfu Chaobo for him because he knew him and knew his talents.

For the current game, as long as the army is controlled in hand, the post of prefect is not that important. Therefore, in the eyes of others, the Lujiang war camp is controlled by Kong Xin, even if the prefect came from the Andong army, it does not mean anything.

Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo said to Shi Adao: "General Shi, you can send someone to Yangdi and Luoyang to order Liu Chengzu and Kong Xin to come to Huainan as soon as possible."