Chapter 961: Lu Bu's Army Marches West

Huangfu Chaobo did not wait too long, and several people were quickly led by his guards to the study.

"Greetings to the general!" Several people bowed to Huangfu Chaobo and saluted;

"No courtesy, everyone, please sit down!" Huangfu Chaobo waved his hand and asked a few people to sit down aside. He also asked people to bring the tea that had been prepared. He took a sip and then said slowly: "Bingzhou's What's the situation? General Shi will tell you in detail first."

After hearing this, Shi A quickly stood up, saluted, and replied: "The general has not accepted the order!"

As he spoke, he walked slowly to the map of Bingzhou hanging on the wall, picked up a long wooden pole, and explained to Huangfu Chaobo in detail the situation of Bingzhou in the past six months while facing the map.

As expected by everyone in the Anton Army, after capturing Dai County and establishing trade relations with Yuan Shao's army, Lu Bu's army withdrew its main force to Bingzhou. While exchanging war horses for a large amount of grain, grass and weapons, Lu Bu's army reorganized the army and prepared to send troops to the west. In this way, all counties in Bingzhou were brought under the control of the State Mufu.

Beginning in June this year, Lu Bu dispatched 30,000 cavalry and 50,000 infantry to Dingxiang. It only took less than twenty days for Lu Bu to take all five cities in Dingxiang County under his control. However, news from Bingzhou said that Lu Bu had lost interest in attacking the other counties because the situation in these cities was so serious. It's too bad.

Take the newly occupied five cities of Dingxiang as an example. Each city has a population of only about 5,000. Even after Chen Gong later ordered to add all the captured alien populations to the five cities, the total population of the entire five cities of Dingxiang was only about 5,000. There were less than 60,000 people, and there were very few other supplies, which made Lu Bu very depressed. The situation of such a county is worse than that of any county under his rule in Taiyuan.

However, there are nine counties in Bingzhou, but Lu Bu currently only controls five counties, and there are still four counties that he has not yet controlled. You must know that these are the lost territories of the Han Dynasty. If they can be fully controlled, it will be of great benefit to Lu Bu's reputation. Especially for scribes like Chen Gong, the temptation is even greater.

Moreover, controlling more territory is a dream for any prince, but for this guy Lu Bu, he doesn't care about internal affairs at all, so he really has no interest in this kind of mosquito leg meat.

He was originally very interested when he sent troops to Dingxiang, but after seeing the situation in Dingxiang, he lost interest. Then he handed over the task of sending troops to Yunzhong to Hou Cheng and Song Xian, and ordered Qin Yi to As military advisor, Cao Xing and Li Feng were deputy generals, leading 20,000 cavalry and 30,000 infantry to attack Yunzhong.

However, he himself, Zhang Liao and Chen Gong led 10,000 Bingzhou wolf cavalry and 20,000 infantry back to Taiyuan. Later, Lu Bu ordered Xue Lan to be the prefect of Dingxiang, and Wang He to be the captain of Dingxiang. They would lead 5,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry to garrison Dingxiang.

In his opinion, an army of 50,000 was completely capable of capturing the three counties west of Dingxiang. Not only him, but also Chen Gong thought it would not be difficult, so they did not make any objections. However, Zhang Liao cautiously mentioned it, but it was almost Most NPCs basically don't take the players' power into consideration. Of course, Huangfu Chaobo is not regarded as a foreign force in everyone's mind, but as a prince like them.

There are eleven cities in Yunzhong County, which are also under the control of the Zahu army. Under the attack of Lu Bu's 50,000 elite troops, the miscellaneous Hu army in Yunzhong quickly melted and disintegrated like snowdrifts under the scorching sun. Within two months, Lu Bu's army occupied the entire territory of Yunzhong. As Lu Bu had expected, the situation in Yunzhong was also very bad, and it could even be said that it was even worse than the situation in Dingxiang.

The total population of the eleven counties is less than 50,000. If all the captive miscellaneous people are included under the rule, the number will barely reach 100,000. Calculated on average, the population of each county in Yunzhong County is even. Less than 10,000 people.

At this time, Lu Bu had already returned to Taiyuan. After receiving the news, he immediately ordered Qin Yi to be the prefect of Yunzhong and Song Xian to be the captain of Yunzhong. They would lead 10,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry to garrison in Yunzhong. And Hou Cheng commanded the remaining soldiers and horses,

Continue to send troops to Wuyuan.

"Judging from the time, Hou Cheng's 35,000 troops should have arrived at Chuyuan City by now. It is estimated that the two armies should have started fighting." Shi A thought for a while and then added to Huangfu Chaobo.

Huangfu Chaobo nodded and asked: "How many troops and horses have Zhao Zilong and others deployed in total in Chuyuan?"

Shi A looked at the information in his hand and said: "There are a total of 20,000 troops, including 5,000 cavalry and 15,000 infantry. Among them, the Shuofang army has 5,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry. There are six thousand infantry, three thousand cavalry, and the other two county magistrates each have two thousand infantry."

"Lü Bu's army will definitely not be able to capture the city, but he has fifteen thousand cavalry. Will he bypass Feiyang and break into Wuyuan?" Huangfu Chaobo looked at Guo Jiaji and said;

Pang Tong had been to Feiyang, so he was very familiar with the situation there. After listening to Huangfu Chaobo's words, he shook his head and said: "The location of Feiyang is very good, with Yinshan Mountain in the north and the river in the south. When we were there, , It is still just a middle town, it is already established. Now it has been upgraded to the city level, so I guess it is almost the same as the pass. "

"Moreover, it is now October, and it will snow in Bingzhou soon. If Hou Cheng dares to send the cavalry into Wuyuan territory, if it suddenly snows, the fifteen thousand cavalry may never return. No, Hou Cheng doesn’t dare to bear the consequences.”

After listening to Pang Tong's words, Huangfu Chaobo also recalled the terrain around Fuyang. It was indeed the case. You know, it was he who recommended Zhao Zilong to upgrade Fuyang to the city level.

"If we can defeat Hou Cheng's army this time, will Lu Bu agree to the ownership of Wuyuan and Shuofang counties?" Thinking of this, he looked at Pang Tong and others and said;

Pang Tong shook his head: "My lord, this is not the first time you have dealt with Wen Hou. You should know Wen Hou's character. If you don't hurt him once and for all, he will not give up easily!"

Huangfu Chaobo also felt that Pang Tong's words made sense. Lu Bu was that kind of person. Originally, Wuyuan and Shuofang counties were like Yunzhong and Dingxiang. They were very bad counties, so he did not have a strong control over these counties. So once the attack on Fuyuan was frustrated, as long as the knight and Zhao Zilong gave Lu Bu a step so that he could get off the stage, and then find someone willing to speak for them in Lu Bu's forces, the matter would be solved in nine out of ten cases.

"How can we make Lu Bu feel sad but not angry? How can we strike the right balance?" Huangfu Chaobo asked again.