Chapter 498: The Great Parade of Arms
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Wang Yu held an alliance in Gaotang, aiming to eliminate the military disaster, but in fact it did not have much effect, even the Qingzhou army itself, this period of time did not stop.
Long before the alliance, Zhangjaw's 5,000 soldiers and horses had already attacked Langya, and Zang Ba retreated step by step, so that he could only shrink into the mountains around Kaiyang to survive.
The day after the alliance, Xu Huang and Xu He, the newly appointed assassin of Yanzhou appointed by Wang Yu, crossed the army to the south, and after a short rest in Licheng, they drove straight into Jibei and attacked Jibei. In three days, he forcibly traveled nearly 200 miles, conquered Lu County, which had been occupied by the remnants of the Yellow Turbans in Qingzhou for a long time, and completely annihilated more than 10,000 people of Sima Ju's old army entrenched here, and shocked Yanzhou.
With the power of this great victory, Xu He took advantage of the situation to launch a soothing, and in almost a month, more than 3,000 people had been surrendered sporadically.
These people are the kind of people who have been holding knives for too long and are unwilling to pick up hoes again, but with more than a year of experience, they have realized the gap between their miscellaneous army and the Qingzhou army, and they no longer have the initial unruliness.
According to the plan, these people will be organized into an army, as a supplement to the mountain army, and after passing the training, they will be officially integrated into the mountain army. The remnants of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans who were later surrendered will also do the same.
The general's estimate came to the conclusion that after order was fully restored in Jibei and Lujun, the size of Xu Huang's Taishan army was likely to exceed the expanded Imperial Forest Army, reaching more than 15,000 people, ranking first among the hussar armies!
Of course, the process will be lengthy. The Battle of Fenggao was a rout battle, the number of enemies destroyed was limited, and the Yellow Turban Army that fled from Mount Tai had a total of about 50,000 people. After the Great Escape, almost 30,000 people finally fled to Lujun and Jibei, and the rest either died on the road or killed each other, or fled without knowing where to go. Some of them were co-opted by the surrounding princes.
Unless the most prestigious leader dies and the remnants of the party go their own way, this force is also quite threatening. But after losing the unified command, these people can only become fat in the mouths of the princes.
Liu Bei's Baiwei personal guard was formed by using that acquisition, if it wasn't for Wang Yuyin, his personal army might have become stronger earlier than in history, and then became famous all over the world.
Cao Cao was not idle. He has never relaxed the envelopment of the yellow scarves in Jibei and Lujun. It's just that the latter does not have a unified system, and it is very time-consuming and labor-intensive to wrap up, so with his wrist. It also failed to solve the problem quickly and formed the Qingzhou Army in history.
Of course, his efforts are not without effect, and the addition of thousands of soldiers is also a good help for Cao Jun in the second year of early peace.
Wang Yu hadn't used any brains against these people, because he knew. There is no need for that, Xu He, who is stationed in Juping, has not been idle. He was also one of the big leaders of the Yellow Turban in Qingzhou, with his back to the big tree in Qingzhou, and he lived a very nourishing life in Juping. Received by him, there was an endless stream of people who came to him in desperation.
In the Battle of Yuanshan, at least sixty percent of the 8,000 troops he took out in one go were recruited later. Many of his own old brethren picked up hoes again. Or become a political officer.
Xu Huang's clean-up activities in Jibei and Lu County will definitely achieve the greatest results. But it is inevitable that others will pick up some cheapness, which is helpless.
However, the biggest effect of Xu Huang's military action was to deter Yanzhou, Xuzhou, Yuzhou, and Huainan.
Xu Huang came out of Mount Tai, and Cao Cao was the saddest.
The geographical location of Jibei and Lujun is very delicate, here is the exit connecting Yan and Xu, so it moves, except for a few large water berths in Rencheng and Dongping, there is almost no danger at all. The eastern counties of Yanzhou, including Jibei and Lu County, were originally under the jurisdiction of Liu Dai.
After Liu Dai's death, Cao Cao did not have time to fully take over, and the Hebei War was divided, and then he was too late to protect himself, of course, he had no heart to compete with Wang Yu for these territories.
As soon as he heard the news of Xu Huang's westward advance, he decisively ordered a large number of people from the three counties of Dongping, Shanyang, and Rencheng to move westward, opening up a barren land that could be used for buffering between the two forces.
This is also a helpless thing, after all, the main general who led the troops out of Mount Tai was Xu Huang, who was known for his speed in using troops, if he did not give up the eastern counties that had no danger to defend, Cao Cao could only choose between sending troops to counterattack and relying on the long and flawed defense line.
And Lu County borders Peiguo in Yuzhou in the south, Pengcheng and the East China Sea in the southeast, and there is no natural danger to stop it, with Xu Huang's rapid posture of marching into the army, as long as he is in Lu County, Xuzhou's Donghai, Pengcheng, Xiapi, Yuzhou's Peiguo, Liangguo, and even Qian County are under the threat of his soldiers.
The princes in this range, before using troops, had to take Xu Huang's existence into consideration.
After the news of Xu Huang's troops spread, Lu Su lost no time in bringing Huainan and Xuzhou together to start a new round of tripartite negotiations. Yuan Shu, who had always maintained a tough attitude, had to bow his head and began to make concessions, and the negotiations really entered the stage of substantive consultations.
Therefore, behind successful diplomacy, there must be the support of military force. Before, there were only 5,000 people with open jaws, even with Lu Su's ability, they couldn't stop Yuan Shu's lion from opening his mouth.
Compared with the Central Plains, which is full of smoke, the role of the alliance is more obvious in Hebei.
Although Gongsun Chan put on an aggressive posture, he was not in a hurry to act. He built the capital of Yi, although it was to threaten Jixian and Zhongshan at the same time, but he was not influenced by Wang Yu and planned to build a prosperous city within his jurisdiction.
Liu Yu was very jealous of Gongsun Zhan, and was shocked in Gaotang, and he just forbears for a while, and the border between the two sides has been kept very intact, but there is no danger of large-scale conflict.
And Zhang Yan suddenly got the land of the three counties, and it was in the spring, just the relocation and Tuntian made him anxious, so he had to go to Gaotang in person for this reason, and borrowed dozens of experienced internal affairs officials from Tuntian from Wang Yu, which was barely supported.
With the help of Liu Yu, he brought about half of the troops back to Bingzhou, and then accepted Yuan Tan, who had voted for his family.
At the moment when the world is in turmoil, and traditional morality is ignored, Gao Gan's move seems to be out of place. It's not irrational. In case of Wang Yu's attack because of this, the senior cadres who only had a small half of the state really had no hope of resisting, but since he had decided so, no one could put forward any meaning.
Of course, after all, the Yuan clan has a huge latent power, a hundred-legged insect, and he is not stiff when he dies, and he can't say that there is no benefit at all in doing this.
But the strength dictates, although the senior cadres have affection. can take revenge on Qingzhou or something, but there is no way to talk about it for a while, and he can only lick his wounds silently.
With Xu Huang suppressing Jibei and Lu County; Huainan and Xuzhou were pulled back to the negotiating table; suddenly appeared in the west of Qian County, and Liu Bei, who had some momentum because of the surrender of Yuan Shao's old subordinate Zhou Ang, was still very weak; In the end, Cao Cao's army completed the process of shifting the center of gravity to the west. The Nanyang Raider was officially launched, and the war in the Central Plains seemed to have a tendency to come to an end.
However, at this moment, an astonishing news once again shook the world's heads dizzy.
On February 13, the main force of the Qingzhou Army suddenly launched a military operation! These include the expanded Yulin Army, which has reached 12,000 in number, 4,000 Swift Wind Light Cavalry, and 800 Flame Heavy Cavalry as Wang Yu's own army. In addition, a huge naval army composed of 100 warships, more than 800 transport ships, and 50,000 people in the Guanning Department called the Chengguan Brigade, which is actually an auxiliary army!
The huge team left Gaotang. Go up the river and go westward!
Previously, Wang Yu only dispatched two generals to guide the situation in the Central Plains, but now. This large main force, led by Wang Yu himself, made a sudden move. It made the princes all tremble and palpitate.
As soon as the army reached Liaocheng, the messenger sent by Shan Jing, who was closest to it and reacted the fastest, arrived. Wang Yu personally received the other party, but the answer he gave could not satisfy Shan Jing.
Touring new territories? You just won half of the champion Hou of Jizhou, and you are not the Qin Shi Huang who unified the world, so you have nothing to learn from others to inspect which territory?
However, the envoy didn't dare to question him face to face, don't look at this young overlord's kindness, but his thunderous and thunderous methods were not ordinarily terrifying.
cut off the heads of 20,000 Hu cavalry together, piled them up into a Jingguan, and put Yuan Shao's head on the top, this kind of terrible thing, even Huo Huqi back then was beyond the reach of the dust, I am afraid that only Bai Qi, the head of the four famous generals of the Warring States Period, could be compared.
Questioning this kind of person in person, are you tired of it?
The messenger of Shan Jing returned in a huff, and quickly reported to the river. By the time Gongsun Chan received the news, the army of Qingzhou had already passed the Cangting Ferry.
Shan Jing's urgent report was reprimanded by Gongsun Zhan: The two families are allies, what are others willing to do, and they need our help, they will naturally be informed, if you don't need it, what are you doing to catch up? In case someone misunderstands and targets the territory of the ally, where will Lao Tzu's face go? Who is responsible for the damage to reputation?
When the Qingzhou army arrived in Dunqiu, Zhang Yan also reacted.
In fact, the Montenegrin Army received the news much earlier than this, but Zhang Yan has not reacted. After the hussars arrived at Dunqiu, someone in the Montenegrin army finally couldn't bear it anymore and reminded Zhang Yan.
Zhang Yan scolded this person: "If you have that spare time to care about others, it is better to care more about yourself!" Since going down the mountain, Lao Tzu has not even slept steadily, when did he wake up one day and not lose hundreds of hairs? Lao Tzu is not old, this is all sad and tired! The three counties are busy like this, do you still have the heart to think about other things? ”
"Besides, these three counties were taken by the Wang Hussar on his own initiative, can they still be snatched back as soon as they turn around? Do you think that Wang Hussar is as faceless and skinless as your Sun Qing? Hurry up and get out of here, go and understand the tuntian arrangements in Xiangguo and worry about the rest! ”
Gongsun Zhan and Zhang Yan were very calm, and Liu Yu breathed a long sigh of relief after receiving the news. For him, the farther away Wang Yu was, the better it would be, and when he received the news that the Qingzhou army had arrived in Baima, but still did not stop, he was so excited that he almost set up a banquet.
He was glad, but someone felt extremely panicked.
The white horse was west of Puyang, and after the center of gravity of Cao Cao's army shifted westward, the center of Dongjun was no longer the Qiuqiu, which had once been used as a place of governance, but Puyang.
Puyang City was built on the bank of the river, across the river, you can clearly see the overwhelming momentum of the hussars marching. Xiahou Chun and Cheng Yu, who stayed in Puyang, were terrified, for fear that the destination of the hussars would be Puyang.
If this is the case, how can the remaining troops of 5,000 people be able to resist it?
With apprehension and fear, Cheng Yu sent an envoy to the enemy formation, intending to find out the other party's movements.
However, his envoy was intercepted by the navy before he even crossed the river. To the surprise of the envoy, Tai Shici suddenly became the commander of the navy, and it turned out that the captain named Gong Tian and a black-faced man became his deputy.
To the envoy of Yanzhou, Tai Shici was extremely impatient, he snorted coldly, and said: "Where my hussars are going, can it also be controlled by Xiahoudun and Cheng Yu?" You just have to take a sentence back and tell them: If you don't accept it, you will come to fight, otherwise you will honestly be a shrinking turtle in the city, don't be like the lost dog, afraid and reluctant to run, face is earned by yourself, relying on others to give, useless! ”