Chapter 963 Adjustment

Huangfu Chaobo did not stay in Shuanghe City for too long. Firstly, Shuanghe City had been established for several years. Secondly, after Xu Rong and Lou Gui arrived in Qingzhou, they adjusted and strengthened the defense many times. With the abilities of the two of them, Shuanghe City's defense has basically reached its extreme.

After two days of patrolling the Shuanghe River and inspecting the entire city and dock building, Huangfu Chaobo led everyone to board the boat again and headed to Qingdao City in the south.

Qingdao City is located at the southernmost tip of Qingzhou, east of Guizhou City and south of Buqi City. Its location is exactly the area of ​​Qingdao City in reality, with Laoshan Mountain to the east, Jiaozhou Bay to the west, and the sea to the south. Only the north can never be reached. The direction of its county seat is connected to the outside world.

After the fleet arrived in Qingdao City, Huangfu Chaobo first walked around the city wall with everyone under the leadership of Meng Yi. Qingdao City is not big, just an ordinary small city. It is six miles long from east to west and five miles wide from north to south. It is divided into four walls. However, the water gate is directly to the west, and the dock and wharf are outside the west wall. Less than a hundred steps outside the south gate is the seaside, only about a few hundred steps to the east is the foot of Laoshan Mountain, but to the north is the official road leading directly to Buqi County.

Because time was too short, Qingdao's city wall had just been built, and the defensive facilities at the top of the city were not fully arranged. After patrolling the city, Huangfu Chaobo and his party, led by Meng Yi, went to the county government to discuss matters.

It has only been more than a year since Qingdao City established the territory. During this period, it has been continuously upgraded, so many facilities are not as complete as ordinary territories. Multi-functional buildings are only built to cope with upgrades. Although now There are only more than 10,000 ordinary people in Qingdao, but the entire city seems relatively chaotic.

Of course, some buildings must be built, such as county offices, military camps, various workshops, etc., which have been built in accordance with the city level requirements. However, when everyone entered, they found that they were all empty. For example, the county government that everyone is entering now, which is the city lord's mansion, is basically an empty shell here now, because Meng Yi basically lives in the military camp, and military control is also implemented in the city. Most of the people in the city are There are no other members of the army or shipyard craftsmen's families.

After everyone was seated, Huangfu Chaobo spoke slowly: "General Meng, when will the city's defense facilities be perfected? Also, County Magistrate Chen, when will Qingdao City enter a state of normal territorial management? "

The county magistrate of Qingdao City was a transferred military general under Huangfu Chaobo, who was the original Yanshi County Magistrate Chen Xiang. Later, when the army controlled the counties in Henan east of Hulao Pass, Huangfu Chaobo transferred him to Guandong County holds the position of county magistrate, but because of his low growth potential, the county magistrate is already the highest-level official position he can achieve. In fact, Huangfu Chaobo still has a few famous general cards in his hand, but there are too many monks and too little food. He must consider the overall situation, so for this A group of warriors who started following him but whose growth potential is really not high can only compensate by attacking from other aspects.

This is the case for Chen Xiang, and the same is true for Zhao Dian, the county magistrate of Shuanghe City. He was originally the magistrate of Ping County. He was transferred to Shuanghe as the county magistrate only when Pangshan people were transferred from Shuanghe. Because the things in the two cities are not actually very complicated, and their security issues can be dealt with by ordinary generals, they do not have particularly capable generals. They are basically warriors trained by Huangfu Chaobo himself.

Now that the chief officials and generals of the two counties in Qingzhou were present, Huangfu Chaobo thought of making some adjustments to the personnel and defense conditions of the two cities.

The county magistrate has already arranged it, so there is no need to change it. As for the candidates for the county captain, Huangfu Chaobo thought about it and thought that anyway, he would have to deploy a school combat barracks to station in the two cities, so it would be better to directly transfer the infantry of the two schools from the Qianniu Army to station, and the leading school captain would also serve as the county captain. That’s it.

Thinking of this, Huangfu Chaobo suddenly remembered that when Xu Rong surrendered, there were still several generals who were in good condition in all aspects. At that time, Xu Rong specially transferred one of them to Meng Yi's Canglang Camp in order to avoid suspicion. So, Huangfu Chaobo quickly opened the information about the generals of the two war camps,

Sure enough, two people were found among several generals.

Therefore, Huangfu Chaobo said: "In order to strengthen the defense of the two cities, I have decided that Liu He, the former captain of Qianniu Camp, will lead five thousand soldiers of his headquarters to station in Shuanghe City. He will also serve as the county captain of Shuanghe City and command The original five thousand garrison troops of Shuanghe City were led by Han Wei, the former captain of Canglang Camp, who stationed five thousand garrison troops in Qingdao City. He also served as the county captain of Qingdao City, and at the same time, he recruited more troops from Qingdao City, no, from various cities in Donglai County. Five thousand garrison troops were dispatched to Qingdao City, and their families moved into Qingdao City together. "

"All the soldiers from the two schools have replaced the crossbow soldiers' big yellow crossbows with two-stone big yellow crossbows. The Qianniu Army and Canglang Army have each replaced 1,500 two-stone big yellow crossbows. Five thousand crossbows have been brought. Wait a moment. The two generals can arrange for someone to take him away."

Xu Rong and Meng Yi immediately stood up and accepted the order.

Huangfu Chaobo nodded, motioned for the two of them to sit down first, and then said: "You should already know that our army's next strategy is to attack Cao Cao's army. The time for dispatching troops is tentatively scheduled for March and April next year. For this reason, the entire Anshan The Eastern Army is preparing for this. After the war in Huainan this year, the general has reached an agreement with Sun Ce, Marquis of Wucheng, and the two families have formed an alliance. When our army sends troops to attack Cao next year, Sun Ce's army will join forces. "

Having said this, Huangfu Chaobo looked in the direction of Xun You and said: "Furthermore, through Lord Xun's efforts, he also formed an alliance with Langya's Guangwu General Ye Laixiang a few days ago. They will also send troops to Xuzhou when they arrive. At that time, there will be three groups of princes attacking Cao Cao."

"However, before I left Luoyang, I had discussed a general strategy with several military advisors. This time, the attack on Cao Cao's army will be a process from west to east, that is to say, Qingzhou will be in a defensive state throughout the war."

After hearing Huangfu Chaobo's words, some people in Qingzhou were happy, and some were disappointed. The happy ones were the civil officials. Since they were on the defensive, the impact on their subordinates would be relatively small. The disappointed ones were the military generals. Not being able to fight meant a reduction in merit. However, everyone knew that the situation in Qingzhou was indeed not suitable as the main battlefield, so they were destined to be bystanders. Although they were helpless, they had to acquiesce.

The expressions of the people in Qingzhou were seen by Huangfu Chaobo one by one, but he did not want to explain more. For some things, he considered the entire Andong Army as a whole. Of course, it would be good if everything could be covered, but it was actually difficult to do so.